Early the next morning, Li Yu set off with Zhao Ji, Bai Xianzhi, Namur and the guard battalion, the officials and villagers of Fengzhou warmly sent their leaders and children on the expedition, unlike the Ming Kingdom, the poor Fengzhou people hope that their army will go out to fight, a large number of young and strong people go out to fight not only to save food and let the people at home eat more, but also to bring back rich booty, as for relatives may die in battle, of course it will make them sad, but they are not afraid, these years Fengzhou has died fewer people, they have long been numb to life and death.

In addition to the pro-guard battalion and the three battalions of Qiu Xian, Wuhai and Terig, there were also 500 Ming troops of Zhang Chuanjie's first battalion who were actively seeking battle, a total of 2,500 people, Li Yu was the chief general of the pro-guard battalion, Zhao Ji was the commander of the left wing to command the two battalions of Qiu Xian and Wuhai, and Bai Xianzhi was the commander of the right wing to command the two battalions of Zhang Chuanjie and Terig. Each soldier has a double horse or a war horse with a mule, camel and other livestock, and carries three buckets of fried rice and two pots of arrows in addition to his personal weapons.

Chahar's Tuba Jinong came again, during this time the two sides continued to come and go, Chahar Khan was asking for money under the side wall of Xuanfu, and Li Yu was secretly encouraging him on the side, and at the same time threatened him not to make things bigger, let alone extend his black hand to Datong's side, this time the brother-in-law and brother-in-law cooperated well, so that Chahar Khan made a lot of money.

Tuba sent money this time, Li Yu glanced at the silver, and said disdainfully: "The Great Khan will give me a thousand taels?" Did he settle the accounts clearly, how much food and possessions I gave him, is it worth so much money? He made 280,000 taels! ”

"The Great Khan is poor and afraid, and he is reluctant to let go when he sees the silver, Li Yucha will let the Great Khan live a happy life for a few days," Tuba explained in a low voice with a red face, he sighed and said, "Actually, the Great Khan and we both understand that this money will not help Chahar for long, with the current development rate of Tumut, it will not take a few years to surpass Chahar, and sooner or later the Great Khan will give up this grassland to you, so why should you bother with him." ”

Li Yu waved his hand, changed the subject and asked, "How does the Great Khan plan to send troops?" ”

"The Great Khan sent me to bring three thousand strong men with horses to the edge of Jizhen with you, including a thousand armored soldiers, it is not easy for Chahar to show this strength in the current situation, the Great Khan also issued a sweat edict, this time send troops to let my old Tuba listen to you, the Great Khan still trusts you in his heart."

"The Great Khan sent you to watch me work for him, and by the way, I was not wrong, forget it, you can follow me." Li Yu didn't have much to say, Chahar's situation was really bad, continuous conquests and repeated blows of famine and plague, the prestigious Konot ironclad cavalry basically disappeared, and it was considered that Chahar Khan was sincere if he could hand over three thousand strong men to him.

After a day's rest, Fengzhou Iron Cavalry swore an oath to go out on the side of Weining Haizi, Li Yu announced to the soldiers that the Jin State was tyrannical and unkind, ambitious, and not crusade was not enough to settle the world, Karaqin betrayed Mongolia and was willing to take revenge, and the shameless people must be severely punished.

Namur then read out the "Exercise Method" and "Seven Killings Order" sorted out by the officers overnight - Bai Xianzhi made a great effort in this matter, he is an old military affairs, and the shortcomings of the Ming army are the clearest, and the "Exercise Method" and "Seven Killings Order" are basically based on his ideas, referring to the opinions of other officers, and then written by Namur.

Fengzhou's "Gong Remembering Law" stipulates that there are three great merits, and the first merit is to strive for the crisis, and the winner of the defeat is the first merit; Rescuing friendly troops and those who dare to fight in danger is the second merit; Kill through the enemy formation, cut the general and capture the flag for another attack. Major merits are assessed by the Grand Commander's Office, and other military merits are self-evaluated by each post and battalion according to the level of military merit, and finally reported to the Grand Commander's Office for confirmation.

He believes that the first grade to repay the merit is not only cruel and unkind, but also will bring about the evil consequences of killing the good and risking the merit and the wartime centrifugation, and advocates resolutely abolishing it, and everyone still has differences on this point, and finally discussed and decided to abolish the head of the count, but the head can be collected to report the merit to the imperial court for reward, and the military merit and reward obtained are still distributed according to the Fengzhou method of remembering merit.

The "Seven Killings Order" takes effect in wartime, and those who resist the military order and do not obey the officials will be killed; Those who are greedy for life and fear of death, and abandon their comrades, will be killed; Those who do not listen to orders and retreat before the battle will be killed; Whoever kills the people and rapes the women is killed; Those who destroy people's houses and fields and plunder property shall be killed; Those who enter people's houses without permission and provoke and disturb the people shall be killed.

After Namur finished reading it, the whole army was solemn, and Li Yu raised his head and pointed to the east: "Target Karaqin, go!" ”

In December of the second year of Chongzhen, this is another cold and snowless winter, Fengzhou Iron Cavalry suddenly appeared in the silent and yellow Karaqin grassland, the Karaqin people who have been huddled at home for the winter were stunned, Ming and Chahar were beaten by the Jin country they took refuge in, shrunk their heads, and took care of themselves, and this should be very safe in winter, who will come to the door at this time? But the Fengzhou Black Eagle Banner fluttering on the grassland, the Red Flag of the Ming Army and the ruthless Chahar people's battle flag told them that this was not a dream, and the Karaqin people at this time were the weakest time.

Zhao Ji and Qiu Xian are like fish in water on this grassland, they often visit here when they are horse thieves, and the Karaqin people who use their spare time to do horse thieves have long been scared by them, and Zhao Ji and the little white wolf Qiu Xian are invincible as soon as they show up, not only no one dares to be enemies with them, but there are also a large group of Karaqin people who have done horse thieves to follow behind to help.

The Fengzhou iron cavalry became more and more rampant, a team of cavalry dared to chase the Karaqin people and chase and fight, a sentry cavalry dared to end the other tribe, a large number of Karaqin people and livestock were captured, and the Chahar people who had been following behind were red-eyed, and they chased up with murderous spirit to join the ranks of chasing and killing the Karaqin people.

Li Yu was a little frightened, and ordered Namur to lead a sentry flying tiger cavalry to patrol around, control military discipline, and strictly implement the "Seven Killings Order", Li Yu warned the officers that the rebellion in Karaqin was not committed by the people, but by the leaders, and the people must not be killed or plundered.

However, Li Yu's words caused the officers to laugh for a while, and Terrig explained to Li Yu that the southwest of Karaqin lived the Yongshaobu people with the same roots as Tumut, and this part of the ethnic group had been wiped out with the death of Baiyan Taiji and other leaders in the battle of the Ebula River, and the tribes living in the northeast were the tribes of the Wuliangha Sanwei who moved south, and the rich and livestock in this part of the Karaqin people were those tribal leaders and nobles, but the ordinary people were very poor, and the common people were forced to be horse thieves, so how could they have any livestock and property, The target who wants to kill and ask for a gun can only be a rebellious Karaqin chieftain, who has nothing to do with the poor people who can't get along.

Tuba immediately said that the Chahar people are the best at doing this, and they will immediately drag out and cut down the leaders and nobles who catch the Karaqin leaders, and all the family property will be confiscated, anyway, they are also rebellious, and it is still a disaster to keep them, and this time for Li Yu's face, they will definitely not harm the people.

Li Yu thought for a while and said, "In this case, we will divide part of the collected livestock and property to the people, and release the captured Karaqin people, we have no food to feed them." ”

Tuba was very unhappy, and immediately rose up to object: "Li Yucha, this is a war, you can't be a good person, the population, property and livestock are all our spoils, why should we give them them?" What if those captives are put back and beat us again? ”

"It has to be done! If you want to die, take your booty with you," Li Yu responded coldly to Tuba, and pointed at Namur with his hand, "You go and supervise the execution of military orders by the various departments, except for the war horses, gold and silver, and cattle and sheep for five days, the rest are divided, and tell those prisoners that they will go back and fight with us again, and my Fengzhou army can let them go and catch them back." ”

The Fengzhou army swept the grassland for several days, and the Karaqin people who got the benefits were not afraid of them, and some bold and black-hearted guys also took the initiative to come to the door to report the news, and asked the benevolent and righteous division of Fengzhou to clean up their leader or master, of course, the enthusiastic Fengzhou army was willing to help, and these guys led the way, and when they arrived at the place, they were dragged out and slaughtered on the charge of betraying Mongolia and surrendering to the Jin country, and then everyone happily divided the property and livestock, and there were more and more such businesses, and the Fengzhou army was too busy, He had to subcontract some to the Chahars, and Tuba was so happy that he could not keep his mouth shut when he got the benefits—he did not expect that he would give up some worthless little wealth and make more money.

Li Yu didn't dare to be careless at this time, the Fengzhou army set a fire behind the Jin army, he had to beware of the Jin army rushing towards him, the scout's reconnaissance range had been expanded to forty miles, Qiu Xian was also sent to the vicinity of the side wall to investigate the military situation, the Fengzhou army carefully advanced to the side wall according to the plan, and was also ready to run away, the Fengzhou iron cavalry now has enough war horses to do one person and two horses, as long as the enemy can be found in time, Li Yu is sure to slip away, the Chahar people of Tuba are a little troublesome, always follow behind to collect and scrape property, If you can't do it, you can leave them alone.

The Karaqin grassland was turned upside down by the Fengzhou army, and the battle situation in the pass was not clear, which made Li Yu very distressed, and he caught Mongolian deserters on the way, and these guys were also confused, just saying that the Jin army fought smoothly near the Ming Jingshi, and also killed and captured several Ming general soldiers, and the Ming army was so frightened that they didn't dare to go out of the city, and the Jin army has now gone east, they are just some small soldiers, who robbed money and wanted to go home early, and they didn't know how it was.

The Jin army obviously had the upper hand in the pass, Li Yu had to consider the risk of going south, Bai Xianzhi's idea was simple, since he came, he would show his face near the side wall, so that the court would know that we had been here, and it was best to report some military achievements, and we would have something to say to everyone in the future.

Zhao Ji didn't want to take this risk, the closer he got to the side wall, the more dangerous it was, these two thousand five hundred people were the absolute elite of Fengzhou, and the loss of a little bit was a matter of breaking the bones, so it was better to take advantage of the Jin army's lack of reaction, collect some loot, and withdraw the army as soon as possible.

Li Yu was hesitating, Qiu Xian came back, and as soon as he entered the big tent, he shouted excitedly: "Great Commander, fly on the grass, look who I brought back!" ”

Qiu Xian flashed, and two tall and burly men, one old and one young, appeared in front of Li Yu, and the old man smiled and opened his arms to Li Yu: "Erlu, do you remember your Uncle Man Dahai?" ”

"Uncle Man Dahai, Brother Haishan, I really didn't expect to see you here," Li Yu immediately exclaimed in surprise, and then hugged the two together, Li Yu also shouted outside the tent, "Meng Ke, come quickly, Uncle Man Dahai and Brother Haishan are here!" ”

Meng Ke looked outside the tent, and came in with a smile and kicked Haishan on the buttocks: "Stinky boy, don't patronize the big head that hugs me, and me." ”

"A gust of wind, I haven't seen you for so many years, and you're still so bad." Haishan let go of Li Yu and pushed Meng Ke to the ground, and the two of them lay on the ground and laughed.

After a while, everyone sat together and talked, Bai Xianzhi sat for a while and left, still complaining about Li Yu in his heart, what kind of people did this kid make, except for my Lao Bai, who is still a serious person, the others are all Tatars, horse thieves, profiteers, and now there are Jiannu again.

Li Yu asked how Mandahai could go to the territory of the Karaqin people, Mandahai and Haishan couldn't help but sigh, they had a miserable life over the years, after the death of the wise Khan of the Jin State, they hid in the mountains near Yizhou and waited for the chaos of the Jin State, intending to take advantage of the fire to rob, but the newly enthroned Tiancong Khan did not give them this opportunity, and the chaos after the death of the old Khan was quickly controlled, and they were hit hard by these thieves, Mandahai and Haishan couldn't get mixed up, so they had to flee to the Western Liaohe region occupied by the Mongols with their minions and their families, Who would have thought that Tiancong Khan was domineering, and continued to conquer the Mongolian tribes in the west, and the Mongols fled and surrendered, and they were also driven all the way away, and finally barely landed with the help of their Karaqin peers, and Karaqin surrendered to the Jin State again, they had to go into the mountains to hide in Tibet, and even starved to death dozens of people in the frozen belt, and were forced to have a helpless Manda Hai and Haishan and other forty or fifty people out of the mountain, searching for food and clothing for the winter, and the Jin army went south into the customs, and they also quietly followed behind, and the Jin army naturally did not dare to fight, But they were sure to deal with the deserters who returned home with the looted goods, and if they could meet a convoy carrying the goods and there were few escorts, then they would be rich, and just as they were stepping on the outside of the border wall, they met Qiu Xian's sentry who was investigating near the border wall - the methods of the horse thieves were so similar that the two sides could easily feel that there were peers around.

Zhao Ji said dissatisfiedly: "Brother Mandahai, didn't we say okay, if you can't get along outside the eastern Liaodong border, you will go to Fengzhou River to find me to fly on the grass, why, you look down on me, you would rather take the men, women and children of the same clan to hide in the mountains and suffer from cold and hunger, than to find me?" ”

"Where can I get to you, the Chahar people are separated in the middle, and when I see that we are Zhushen, I won't kill them with a knife, and besides, I heard that the Chahar people have also occupied the Fengzhou River, where can I find you?" Man Dahai said and turned his head to look at Li Yu and said, "Erlu nephew, I won't tell you, we are cornered, people are also dead, scattered, now there are one hundred and ten men and more than three hundred old and weak women and children, you are now in the climate, are you willing to take us in?" ”

"Uncle, your people are my fellow villagers, don't say who takes in whom, we will live together when you come." Li Yu replied without hesitation.

"Okay, I'll send someone back to the mountains to find all the people, and everyone will do it with you in the future," Man Dahai happily patted Li Yu's shoulder, and then asked seriously, "Erlu, I heard the little white wolf say that the officials of the Ming Kingdom asked you to save their emperor, and we don't want to take care of the affairs of the Ming Kingdom, but if you want to fight the Jianzhou Department, you can't do without us, our Yehe people and Haishan and their Hada people have a blood feud with them, and this revenge must be avenged." ”

Li Yu nodded, told Mandahai and Haishan the truth about the situation in Fengzhou and the relationship with Ming Guo and Chahar, and sighed and said: "Fengzhou's strength is too weak and difficult, so I have to find a way to live between Ming Guo and Chahar, Sibeiler is ambitious, he will wave his sword at us sooner or later, we can only use the power of Ming Guo and Chahar to start in advance to protect ourselves, but our strength is too weak, I haven't thought about how to play." ”

"Brother Erlu, you can't be soft on the Jin country, if you want to fight, you will fight to the death, we have investigated, there is a grain platform of the Jin country on the side of Kara City, there are thousands of cattle and sheep and hundreds of war horses on the pasture, there should be grain and property in the Tucheng, most of the guards are Mongolian miscellaneous ding, Zhushen is less than a hundred, we dare not do it, now there are your men and horses, we put the Kara City to the end, starve to death the **** Jianzhou people." Haishan clenched his fists and cried.

"The situation in Karacheng has been told to us by the Karaqin people, our scouts have always monitored there, but we didn't dare to do it, the Jin army has always fed the war with war, there is grain and grass in the pass to grab, taking Karacheng will not affect the combat strength of the Jin army, but will stimulate them to rush towards us, we are by no means their opponents, and with livestock, baggage can not retreat, I am waiting for a favorable opportunity, I not only want to bring back the cattle of Karacheng, but also to ensure that our people safely withdraw to Fengzhou." Li Yu pondered for a while and said, "That's it, tomorrow Brother Zhao will stay, and I will take Lao Bai to take the personal guard battalion and Zhang Chuanjie's battalion to walk under the side wall, and I will enter the customs to take a look if I have the opportunity, the biggest headache now is that I can't see the shadow of the Ming army outside the pass, we don't know anything about the situation inside the pass, and we don't know what to do next." ”

"That's it, it's really not good to go back and explain to the Ming officials in Datong if you don't show your face near the side wall," Zhao Ji shook his hair and complained, "The Ming army is just a bunch of waste, and they can't think of sending troops to disturb the enemy when they are so empty outside the border, they just know that they hide in their nests and fight a bad battle." ”