The captives had something to eat and gradually quieted down, and several lamas were brought in by the soldiers, who asked for confirmation of Li Yu's identity and his relationship with the Lama of the Silver Buddha Temple, and after receiving a definite answer, the lamas seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and went back satisfied.

Sun Tingyao suddenly jumped in front of Li Yu, and before he could speak, Li Yu pointed at him and ordered: "Sun Boxi, take your people to bury all the corpses on the ground." ”

"Why? I'm a regular army, let Buck lead the people to do it," Sun Tingyao shook his head vigorously, pushed Buck behind him out, and then said to Li Yu with a smile on his face, "Great Commander, I led the troops to fight this battle, beheaded more than a thousand, captured countless enemies, and suffered only forty or fifty self-losses, so such a big military feat should be promoted to one level." ”

You have so much money that you can't spend it in your life, and you don't spend all your days drinking and having fun, but you cry and shout that you want to be a hard-suffering officer, not to mention that it is to fulfill your childhood dream - Li Yu felt that there was something wrong with this guy, so he took off an iron eagle from his chest and said, "Take it, let's enjoy it in two days", shook off this guy and left.

"The governor is really generous." Sun Tingyao was surprised and delighted, carefully rubbed the iron eagle, and carefully wore it on his chest.

Tuba and Tuba bumped into Li Yu as soon as they came back from the capture, and it was too late to dodge, the two smiled and greeted them and saluted, Tuba pretended to be surprised and shouted: "Dajinong, great victory!" Lao Tuba has caught countless raw mouths for you, they are all your personal belongings, let Lao Tuba take care of it for you. ”

"You have left your duties without permission, made dangerous moves, and caused hundreds of casualties, how should this account be calculated? I'll kill you both! Li Yu roared angrily and raised the whip, and Tutu shouted, "Brother-in-law, spare me", he was so frightened that he turned his head and ran, and Tuba quickly covered his head, but the whip did not fall, Li Yu pointed at him with a whip and shouted: "Tuba, you want to fish in troubled waters, take advantage of the chaos to expand your strength, and have your sweet dreams, no one will give it to you." ”

The captives were fed and prostrated at the feet of Li Yu under the leadership of the lama, praying for the mercy of Chechen Baturun, who was willing to serve their masters as slaves for generations. Li Yu looked at the crowd of black pressure, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, the bones of the common people were bent by the nobles, and they lost the courage to straighten their waists and be free people.

"Okay, I'll be your master, then you listen to me, from now on abolish the prostration, and you are no longer allowed to kneel to anyone, understand? Stand up for me, straighten your waist, or get out of here immediately," Li Yu shouted with his whip, and it took a long time for the people to stand up tremblingly, and he continued, "Fengzhou is a free land, and all citizens under my rule are free citizens, no nobles, no slaves, and no one is allowed to bully anyone, this is my rule, and there will be an edict to tell you the truth in the future." This grassland is given back to you, but it no longer belongs to the nobles, but to each and every one of you, and this is your homeland, and I will send some officials to help you, and they will bring livestock, and food, and iron tools, and even weapons, and I command you to live well, and to guard this land. ”

"Merciful Chechen Baturu, may you be auspicious!" The lamas shouted as they heard as if they didn't understand.

"I sent a letter to the Great Commander's Office, suggesting that the Sanbula River should be set up immediately to guard the Thousand Households, and in addition, it should take three days to prepare for the north to enter Khalkha, and by the way, clean up this area again, and drive away anyone who is unwilling to join us." Li Yu whispered to Ma Guangyuan and Terrig beside him.

At the sound of Li Yu's order, the Fengzhou cavalry, the Chahar cavalry, and the mercenaries of the merchant army swarmed out and launched a carpet search for a hundred miles around the Sanbula River—the tribes in this area, led by the Maomingan, Urat and Abahai tribes of Polo Korqin, were subjugated to the Jin State, and they must be uprooted and must not be appeased. Under the thunderous blow of Fengzhou, the nests of large and small tribes were destroyed in one fell swoop, except for a few leaders and nobles who fled, the remnants of the population of about 7,000 people returned to Fengzhou, Meng Ke actually found Wuyunna Hatun, who had been missing for almost two years - another trouble, Wuyunna is the Hatun of Chahar Khan, and the sister of Wulangha's ex-husband Gui Yingcha, this relationship is a bit complicated. Hey, how did Meng Ke hold Wuyunna on the horse and not let go, look at that look seems to have been ambiguous for a long time, this guy has always refused to start a family, but there are rumors of romances, fortunately, Fengzhou is relatively open, no one cares about that bit of, but when did he hook up with Chahar Khan's wife? Li Yu secretly shook his head and made up his mind to stay away from this woman.

Three days later, the Fengzhou army set off to the north, and Meng Ke and Kubai led the cavalry right association as the first echelon, and crossed the big sandy land into Khalkha at a rapid marching speed, and the task was to scare the grass and snakes; Li Yu and Ma Guangyuan led the Flying Tiger Battalion, the Artillery Association, and the left and right battalions of Chahar as the second echelon, and then followed up to meet the first echelon; Terrig did not fight for Ma Guangyuan, and commanded the cavalry Zuo Xie to stay in Sanbula River and wait for orders; Sun Tingyao took the initiative to ask to take on the task of guarding and escorting supplies along the way, but everyone didn't take them seriously, and the cavalry went out to ride in pairs and carry five buckets of fried rice, and each battalion also received some newly minted silver dollars, enough to last for more than a month, and the Fengzhou army was not a Ming army, and it was their capital to survive in extremely harsh conditions.

The cavalry right association all the way without leaving the saddle, day and night marching, eight days to cross the big sand to the lake of Salenor, Salonor in Mongolian means the moon, here close to the big sand, the water and grass are not lush, the so-called lake is only five or six small freshwater Haizi, except for a very small number of people grazing here, a blank silence. The Khalkha merchants who led the way told Meng Ke and Kubai that the lake was originally a large lake, and the abundant water and grass around it attracted several large tribes to live and graze, but in recent years, the rain has been too little, and the big lake has become what it is now, and the population of herding has also run away, but there is no problem for the army to be stationed for a short time.

"No one will pay attention to us if we stay in this hellish place, leave a battalion and wait for the commander, the main force will continue to advance, whoever stops us will hit whoever stops, and it is better to stab Tushetu Khan in the ass." Kubai said after a moment of contemplation.

Monk waved his hand and replied: "It is enough to leave a sentry, and everyone else will go out, and make the noise as loud as possible, and we will have iron horses, horses, and enough rations, as long as we are fast enough, we can fight wherever we want." ”

Say do it, Fengzhou iron cavalry like a whirlwind swept through the southern Khalkha grassland, everywhere it went like a devastation, the Khalkha people were simply confused, the general lack of iron weapons in the northern desert tribe was simply unable to resist the elite iron cavalry, the attacked tribes surrendered one after another - this is an old habit, when encountering a more powerful tribe of the same race, if you can't beat it, you will recognize the new master. However, the luck of the Khalkha people was too good, and the terrifying iron cavalry was very reasonable, not only did not kill and plunder them, but also told the captured chieftains and nobles that they were the troops of Chahar Khan's personal entitlement to the Mongol Dajinong and Chechen Baturu, and that the third people of Shuolei, Gunbu, and Suba called themselves Chechen Khan, Tushetu Khan, and Zasaktu Khan, which was really bold and reckless, so they came here to raise troops to ask what was going on, and if they negotiated well, they could not only get pardon, but also trade with them. These captured chiefs and nobles were ordered to take their men and animals and leave the pastures, and if they wanted to come back and continue grazing, they should persuade the three men who called themselves Khan to come and confess their mistakes to Dajinong quickly, otherwise they would be stripped of their honorific titles and confiscated pastures, men and animals.

Tushetu Khan was shocked when he got the news, everyone knew that Chahar Khan had long wanted to clean up the three of them, but he heard that the Great Khan died in the big grass beach last year, how could there be a big Jinong, and there were thousands of ironclad cavalry as soon as he shot, and there were many of the most terrifying firearms, which he could not afford to provoke. A Khalkha merchant who had done some business for him came to say that Dajinong was the original Tumut Hongbaturu, who was the reincarnation of the famous Altan Khan, and was so brave that even the people of the Jin Kingdom were afraid of him, and he was rich and powerful, and there was a lot of silver piled up in the treasury, tens of thousands of armored soldiers, and countless cattle, sheep and horses.

This is more terrible than Chahar Khan, Tushetu Khan was stunned - he heard about Humba Tulu of Tumut from the Chahar nobles who defected to Khalkha, this guy from a pariah background, has always been arrogant and unreasonable to nobles, not only robbing the nobles' population and pastures, but also driving away and even killing the nobles, he is simply a hungry wolf, how did this kind of person turn into a Mongolian great Jinong, and his strength is so strong, unlucky, he has such a neighbor. The more Tushetu Khan thought about it, the more scared he became, no, he had to pull the other two guys up, Shuo Lei was the first to establish himself as Khan, he and Subadi were just following the trend, and Dajinong should be unlucky to ask for the guilt, and he should be unlucky first, the iron cavalry broke into the door, and the ghost only believed that he was just here to negotiate business, and he must have come to settle accounts.

Tushetu Khan quickly sent a hundred thousand urgent letters for help to Chechen Khan and Zasaktu Khan, clearly telling them that the Mongol Dajinong Xingshi was coming, and none of the three of them could escape, so they could either drive out the Dajinong soldiers and continue to call Khan behind closed doors, or surrender to Dajinong and wear a rebellious hat to accept punishment. Chechen Khan and Zasaktu Khan soon arrived, and the three of them got together to discuss for a while, and they all felt that trade was of course a good thing, but it should also be trade with the Ming Kingdom. Since Dajinong has brought his troops, he will definitely not let them go, so let's prepare for war.

It is not an easy task to recruit troops and horses, the Khalkha population is quite large, there are three or four hundred thousand, but they are only nominally Great Khan, and the population under their direct control is not large, and the others belong to countless tribes of different sizes. At present, the situation is urgent, and they can only transfer troops from the tribe directly under them, and the three of them will do what they say, and each of them will take out their old books to make up 20,000 young horses, and the armored soldiers are even less pitiful, adding up to less than 3,000 people, but this is already all their elite. This Khalkha army went on the road in a hurry, and at this time, more than ten days had passed since the Fengzhou army came to the door, and the three of them were very glad that the other party did not take the opportunity to beat them.

When the Khalkha army arrived at Salenor Lake, they were surprised to find that there were not many men and horses on the other side, no matter how you look at it, there were only four or five thousand people, but the camp seemed to be very tightly guarded, and a trench was dug and a horse rejection pile was set up, as well as a chest-high earthen wall, which seemed to be the Han people's way to deal with cavalry, what was in front of the earthen wall? One by one, things that look like ropes are densely connected in a circle, and there are wooden stakes in the middle to support them, I can't understand it, but the other party wants to challenge Khalkha with such a little person, and he looks down on us too much.

"There are too few of them, maybe they are really here to negotiate business, do you want to send someone to talk to them first?" The more sedate Zasaktu Khan Subadi said, and Tushetu Khan Gunbu agreed.

"Absolutely not, if they come to fight, we send people to ask for their own humiliation, if they really come to talk about business, then they can't go, do business, whoever speaks first will suffer, and only after subduing the opponent can we take advantage." Chechen Khan Shuolei immediately shook his head,

Gunbu and Subadi glanced at each other, and they were a little disappreciative - Shuo Lei was young and vigorous, and he was bold, and there were many nobles who stood up as Khan, and others were quietly hiding at home to get a good time, but he was afraid that outsiders would not know, and he went around proclaiming that he was a Chechen Khan, no wonder Chahar Khan wanted to clean him up, and the matter of establishing himself as a Khan was not over, and he fell out with Jin Guo again, Jin Guo Khan forced him to call himself a minister and pay tribute on the condition of allowing him to trade with Ming State, he promised well on his lips, and he didn't admit it as soon as he turned around, and a big son didn't give Jin Guo, also went to Zhangjiakou in the Ming Kingdom to explore the way privately, and I heard that Jin Guohan also released a word to clean him up, and this troublemaker will drag everyone into the water one day.

Shuo Lei didn't care what others thought, patted his chest and shouted: "We are so strong that one person can trample them to death with one kick, and I will take the lead tomorrow, but I will also have more points of loot." ”

Whatever you want, Gunbu and Subadi remained silent, letting Shuo Lei spit and talk about tomorrow's battle plan.

On a hill not far away, Li Yu was also holding up his clairvoyance to observe the group's every move, Derge couldn't help it, and snatched the clairvoyant: "Good brother, my brother is a dirt bun, he should also be more knowledgeable, he is too godly, he can see clearly from such a distance, what a good baby, hey, aren't they the three Great Khans, Chechen Khan, Tushetu Khan, and Zasaktu Khan are all together, and they are dying?" ”

"Are you sure it's them?" Ma Guangyuan grabbed Derge, and after receiving an affirmative reply, he asked Li Yu for instructions, "Great Commander, I will immediately order Ding Qiming to open fire, and the transaction will be completed at one time." ”

"No, no one is allowed to act rashly, these three people are treasures, you beat them to death, who do I talk to about business?" Li Yu immediately stopped, turned his face to Derge and said with a smile, "Brother Derge, you are familiar with them, just go back and say hello first, it is best if you don't fight." ”

"Absolutely not," Derge was startled, the Fengzhou army was brought by him, now go back and take a knife first, others are stupid He is not stupid, his eyes rolled and then said, "Brother, you have never done business, you don't know the hardships of doing business, you don't show some strength to scare the other party, you will be bullied everywhere in the future, my brother and Ming Guo and Jin Guo have done business, I feel sad when I think about it, this battle must be fought, and the Khalkha people must be knocked to the ground, and then step on one foot, and then talk about business, the House of Representatives is also this view, After defeating them, we will talk. ”

Li Yu glanced at Derge very strangely, this guy gave away his hometown in order to make a fortune, it seems that there are many such people in Fengzhou, but Ma Guangyuan patted Derge's shoulder and praised: "Lao De is right, first subdue them and then talk, look at their cowardice, there are not many pairs of armor, there are not many swords and spears, even our garrison can trample on them, commander, you go to command the cavalry, leave it to me here, you should take the brothers to practice and earn some military merits." ”

Ma Guangyuan on the road is also a little less confident in the expedition desert, according to his calculations, a soldier and a horse in front, the rear needs to be equipped with five soldiers and two cattle to ensure the supply, this expedition is still too hasty, but the Mongolian soldiers, Zhushen soldiers are the main Fengzhou iron cavalry is too strong, three bowls of hot water soaked fried rice a day can insist that people do not get off the horse day and night march, its hardships and hard work, perseverance far beyond his imagination, the Han soldiers of the Gun Association do not show weakness under the encouragement of their comrades, gritted their teeth and insisted on going to the destination, morale is so what battle can not be won? Ma Guangyuan carefully observed the opponent, in his opinion, the Khalkha soldiers are inferior to the Chahar soldiers, and the Fengzhou army is not at the same level at all, this military merit is not in vain, everyone finally came here, if they don't fight, they will go back, the brothers will definitely be unhappy in their hearts, even if they have to fight in order to maintain morale.

"Okay, let's fight." Li Yu nodded slightly, of course he understood what Ma Guangyuan meant, as long as the army was launched, it could not be easily stopped.

After dark, the envoy sent a letter, the three Khalkha Khans strongly condemned Li Yu's evil deeds of violating the border for no reason, refused to hold talks under the coercion of the soldiers, and at the same time questioned his identity as a great jinong, and ordered him to withdraw from the Khalkha border immediately, otherwise they would meet each other in battle.

Early the next morning, the three Khalkhans gathered their troops in front of the camp, and several armored cavalrymen came out of the opposing camp and trotted all the way to the chaotic team. In front of everyone's eyes, the young officer led by the leader held up something high, a little shaped like a spear, but the spearhead was different, the three sharp blades flashed with cold light, and the round tray below hung a circle of black tassels - it was the Sulu ingot, the Hari Sulu ingot representing the god of war and strength, the Khalkha people were so frightened that they fell to their knees, and the three Khalkha Khans were also a little at a loss.

"The Hari Sulu ingot left by the ancestor Genghis Khan, only the strongest deserve to have it, and the Mongolian Great Khan passed it on to the Great Jinong Chechen Baturu Li Yucha, he is the supreme god of war in the steppe today, if you want to challenge, come here!" Darhan finished aloud, drew an arrow from his sack and threw it on the ground, then walked away.