Chapter 949 If you don't fight, you can't do it
Meng Guqing has left the Horqin Department for more than ten years, that is, he has not seen his father Wu Keshan for more than ten years, and now seeing his father appear in front of him, Meng Guqing cried: "Father, I am Saren, have you forgotten your favorite daughter Saren?" ”
Saren means moon in Mongolian, and Meng Guqing was Wu Keshan's pearl in the palm of his hand, and his nickname was Saren.
Wu Keshan listened to his daughter's greeting, quickly looked at the woman in Han costume in front of him, and after taking a closer look, he found that it was his daughter Meng Guqing.
"Daughter, why are you here? What are you doing now that you're in chaos? Did the Ming emperor treat you badly? ”
Meng Guqing rode to Wu Keshan's side and cried: "Father, don't fight anymore, you can't beat the Ming army!" ”
Wu Keshan knew that he was defeated today, but the dead duck had a hard mouth and still refused to admit defeat, Wu Keshan gritted his teeth and scolded: "This bastard Ming Dynasty emperor, I still have 100,000 elite soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of Horqin athletes, I won't lose!" ”
Seeing that his father refused to admit it, Meng Guqing persuaded: "Father, His Majesty the Emperor asked his daughter to bring you a message, just now the Ming Army did not take advantage of the victory to pursue it for the sake of you being his father-in-law, if you don't show affection to your father, Your Majesty will no longer leave behind!" ”
Speaking of this, Meng Guqing was afraid that his father would not listen to the advice, so he said in a low voice: "Father, listen to your daughter's advice, you can't beat the Ming army!" Now the Ming army has only come with four divisions and 60,000 people, you must know that there are 80,000 troops in Liaodong, 60,000 in the northwest, and there are more than 400,000 such strong troops in the entire Ming Dynasty. ”
Wu Keshan also knew that his strength was not the opponent of Da Ming at all, but he was really unwilling to lose so badly today!
Meng Guqing saw Wu Keshan bowing his head and was silent, and hurriedly said: "Father, my daughter has learned a truth by His Majesty the Emperor, face is not important, the most important thing is strength, it is no problem to compromise now, and when our strength is enough in the future, we can naturally get it back a thousand times and thousands of times!" ”
Wu Keshan heard his daughter say this, it is also a reason, when Genghis Khan fell, his wife was snatched away, but Genghis Khan endured humiliation and burden, and then didn't he also become a great khan!
Wu Keshan is really higher than the sky and his life is thinner than paper, where can a person like him compare with a character like Genghis Khan?
Wu Keshan already had the intention of surrendering again in his heart, but he didn't know the bottom of the Ming Dynasty emperor, Wu Keshan thought for a while and asked: "Daughter, what did the Ming Dynasty emperor say?" I lead so many people against him, and he can spare me? ”
"Father, His Majesty the Emperor has already said before the daughter comes, as long as the father submits to him, the past will not be blamed, as long as the father supports Ezhe to become the Great Khan of Mongolia, then the father is the master of the Great Khan of Mongolia!"
The Mongolian Taishi was different from the Ming Dynasty's Taishi, who was only an honorary position and was generally awarded to the deceased Shoufu. However, the Mongolian Taishi is indeed a powerful person with great power, and the first of those years was the Taishi, and the power in his hands is not inferior to that of the Mongolian Great Khan.
Wu Keshan's eyes lit up when he heard Meng Guqing say this, Taishi is not bad, he didn't dare to think about the Mongolian Great Khan, Taishi, a position above 10,000 people under one person, was too suitable for him.
"Daughter, did the Ming Dynasty emperor really say that?"
"Father, this is true, Your Majesty did say so to your daughter, and the first thing Your Majesty has to deal with now is the Northwest Junggar Department, so Your Majesty must get your father's help!"
There is no guarantee of security more than interests, Wu Keshan thought about it, although Ezhe is the Great Khan of Mongolia, but the Chahar Department has been weakened, and now it is himself who speaks in Monan, Wu Keshan, the prince of Horqin. If the black-hearted Ming Dynasty emperor wants to quickly integrate Monan Mongolia, he must obtain his own support, so it seems that the Ming Dynasty emperor will definitely not be ruthless to clean himself up.
Wu Keshan looked at the Mongol princes around him, these guys had been broken by the artillery of the Ming army just now, and it was impossible to expect them to charge again. At the same time, Wu Keshan also knows his own problem, that is, although he is the prince of Horqin, he is not the Great Khan of Horqin, and the current Noyan of Horqin is Badali, and Noyan is the meaning of monarch and lord in Mongolian, so now the nominal Khan of Horqin is Badali.
Badali is Horqin Noyan, but the strongest of the four tribes of Horqin is the right-wing Wu Keshan, that is, the Prince of Zhuo Riketu of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, of course, this is related to Wu Keshan's flexible diplomatic skills. The empresses of the successive Manchu emperors were all from Wu Keshan's department, either his sister or his daughter, so it is understandable that the right wing of Horqin has developed and grown.
But now that Wu Keshan has been defeated, and two of his three brothers have also died, Horqin's right flank has suffered heavy losses in the charge just now, and half of the Mongolian cavalry killed are Wu Keshan's subordinates, and now the strength of Horqin's right flank can no longer suppress the opposition within Horqin. Wu Keshan dared to guarantee that as long as this Kuritai conference was over and Badali returned to his own tribe, he would immediately unite with other Mongol princes to crusade against him, which was also no way, the Mongols have always paid attention to strength, and if they don't have strength, they must hand over the rights in their hands.
Wu Keshan has been the Prince of Horqin for more than 20 years, so he can just hand over the rights in his hands, so he must struggle. The way the Ming Dynasty emperor gave him under the steps in front of him was a way, taking advantage of this opportunity to make friends with the Ming Dynasty emperor, and then pouring out his hand to clean up the Badali.
Thinking of this, Wu Keshan sighed and asked, "Daughter, my father knows that he is wrong, but can the Ming Dynasty emperor who went to the Ming army camp guarantee my life?" ”
"Please rest assured by my father, His Majesty had already said before my daughter came, and I would have to restrain Ezhe to keep my father's life, so let my father rest assured!"
Wu Keshan smiled bitterly when he heard his daughter say this, this Ming Dynasty emperor is still a real villain, and he can say what he said to contain Ezhe, but the words of the Ming Dynasty emperor still made Wu Keshan feel at ease, after all, he was quite useful to the Ming Dynasty emperor. If the emperor of the Ming Dynasty said some empty words about working together to build Mongolia, Wu Keshan really couldn't believe it, they were all local foxes, who didn't know who was playing this hand!
In order to show his sincerity, Wu Keshan changed the color of the prince's clothes, wore a gray sheepskin coat, rode a horse without reins, and then did not bring a single soldier, and followed his daughter to the Ming army camp to see Emperor Zhu Hongsan.
Wu Keshan entered the camp under the protection of the Ming army, and then knelt in front of Zhu Hong's three tents and said loudly: "Mongolian criminal minister Wu Keshan, meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty!" His daughter Meng Guqing was also very sad when she saw her father bowing his head so much in order to survive, but there was no way, what do you want to do if you defeat it? With Zhu Hongsan's temper, it would be good to spare your life.
After a while, a eunuch came out of the big kung fu tent and said loudly: "Wu Keshan of the Horqin Department is here to see you!" ”
Wu Keshan followed the little eunuch into the big tent, and after entering, he didn't dare to raise his head, and knelt on the ground again to wait for Zhu Hongsan's fate.
Zhu Hongsan saw Wu Keshan and smiled: "Haha, you are also my father-in-law, get up!" ”
Hearing that Zhu Hongsan let himself go, Wu Keshan breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, the little minister was bewitched by the villain this time, and he didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick to fight against the Great Tomorrow Army, and he was to blame for not measuring his strength!" ”
Zhu Hongsan nodded when he heard Wu Keshan say this: "It's good that you know it yourself, originally I was a good person, I have always been a good person, I have always used virtue to convince people, I don't want to use swords and guns, I originally thought that your election of the Great Khan was your own business, but you Mongols attacked me for no reason, which made me very unhappy!" In this way, you Mongol Great Khan don't do any election, I will decide for you, just use Ezhe, do you have any opinions? ”
Wu Keshan said that he had no strength to oppose it if he wanted to, but Wu Keshan still didn't want to bow his head like this: "Your Majesty, the minister can't be the master himself, and he needs to go back and discuss with the various ministries!" ”
Zhu Hongsan was still a little unconvinced when he heard Wu Keshan, and snorted and said, "Do you still want to ask your various Taiji?" Good! Zhao Hu! Take your cavalry and ask those Taiji and Noyan what they think! ”
Zhao Hu was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed out with his fists in his hands, leading his 5,000 Ming cavalry and 10,000 Chahar cavalry, getting on their horses and roaring towards the Mongols five miles away.
After Wu Keshan left, the other Mongolian princes thought that the war was over, and they all put their minds at ease, just now Meng Guqing said very clearly, the Ming Dynasty emperor had forgiven himself, but who knew that the Ming cavalry rushed over again.
The Ming army and the Mongols were only five miles away, the Mongols had just relaxed, many people had already dismounted and rested, and now they saw that they were about to start fighting again and hurriedly got on their horses and prepared for battle. However, the Ming army was in full swing, and the Mongols were in chaos, and this kind of battle had already been predicted that the Mongols would lose before it began.
The Ming army as the vanguard is Zhao Hu's 2,000 heavy cavalry, against the Mongols chaotic light cavalry, this kind of canned heavy cavalry is the natural enemy, a large number of Mongolian cavalry did not get on the horse and died under the iron hooves of the heavy cavalry, that is, the Mongolian people who were far away were prepared, but the follow-up dragoons arrived, a burst of muskets hit them with their heads and rats, coupled with the Chahar cavalry beating drums on the side, 100,000 Mongolian coalition troops broke up one after another, and they could no longer organize effective resistance.
The curtain of the Ming army's big tent was raised, and the battle in the distance could be seen here, Wu Keshan saw that his coalition army was slaughtered by the Ming army like chopping melons and vegetables, and quickly knelt in front of Zhu Hongsan and shouted: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" The sinner knows that he is wrong, and His Majesty agrees to whatever the sinner says, so he will use Ezhe as the Great Khan, and ask Your Majesty to spare me Horqin a way to live! ”
Zhu Hongsan looked at Wu Keshan and scolded: "It's really a cheap species, you can't fight it!" After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he signaled Han Sanqiang to withdraw his troops!
Han Sanqiang passed the order, the banner of the Ming army camp changed, and Zhao Hu saw that the emperor asked him to collect the troops, so he took his cavalry around in a circle and returned to the Ming army camp. In this less than half an hour of impact, the Mongol coalition army lost more than 20,000 people, and now it has really subdued the Mongols.