In a dilapidated tent in the Kuru camp, Li Yu was comfortably wrapped in a thick piece of felt, munching on the sorghum rice that Aunt Naya had specially made for him. As soon as he came back, Aunt Naya took off his open-cut cotton robe and took it to mend it, and Li Yu had to hide here, but fortunately there was a fire in the tent, and it was quite warm.

Udai, the old shaman, and a few of the elders of the tribe were all huddled around the fire, and this was the only decent tent that had been laid down, and before Kuru had returned, Sibel had taken him away, saying that he wanted to discuss something. Wu Dai looked at Li Yu like this, and said that now that he has money in his hand, he has to get some clothes for this kid, Li Yu was happy, and immediately asked for a new dress for everyone, everyone ignored him and continued to discuss their own affairs.

The old shaman resolutely refused to enter the customs, he just didn't trust the people who loved the Xinjueluo family, the family was too cunning and too bad, the battle of Gule Mountain**Hachi's Jianzhou Department defeated the nine coalition forces of Ula, Yehe, Horqin Mongolia, etc., the younger brother of the leader of Ula Mantai Buzhantai was captured, **Hachi raised Buzhantai for three years, and married two daughters and a niece to Buzhantai, and felt that Buzhantai was ripe, so he attacked Mantai, sent spies to kill Mantai and his son, and spread rumors everywhere that Mantai and his son were fighting with the people to kill women, Forced Buzhantai to the position of leader of Ulla. But Hachi never expected that Buzhantai was also bleeding the unyielding blood of the Ula people, and the leader of Buzhantai knew that the poor Ula tribe was too small to defeat the powerful Jianzhou Department, so he received a large number of Varkha people to replenish the population, and also stored food, built weapons, and trained soldiers, so as to wash away the shame of the defeat of the Ula people. In order to deal with the Ula Ministry, the Jianzhou Department first colluded with the Ming army to stop the exchange between the Ming State and us, and cut off our way of exchanging food, cloth and iron tools, but they themselves obtained a large number of sophisticated weapons from the Ming State army, and then bribed the Varkha people to make them betray us at a critical moment. Ula failed, and after the battle of Wujieyan, we could not afford to fall, so we could only struggle to defend the city of Ula, but the ambitious Jianzhou Department did not let us go, and a few years later broke through the city of Ula and completely defeated us. We were not defeated by the force of the Jianzhou Ministry - the Ula people have courage, we are not afraid of a strong enemy, but we were defeated by the shameless cunning of the Jianzhou Department, as well as their backstage - the Ming General Army, it was he who first wielded the butcher's knife and ruthlessly killed our four divisions of Haixi's Yehe, Ula, Hada, and Huifa, so that our strength was greatly weakened, and then supported the Jianzhou Department to beat us. But how did Hachi treat the Ming Kingdom, the Ming Kingdom raised this hungry wolf, and as soon as the Ming General Army died, the wolf who grew strong by drinking the blood of the Zhushen tribes bit his sharp teeth towards the Ming Kingdom. How can such people be trusted, look at today's Ming Kingdom, they were deceived by the sweet words of the people who love the Xinjueluo family, and as a result, they lost a large area of land in Liaodong, isn't this enough to make us sober?

The old shaman said angrily: "Hachi also banned shamanic activities in the Guannai, drove the shaman to farm, become a soldier, and let people believe in Lamaism, this is because he has done too many bad things, he is afraid that the shaman will tell the truth to the descendants of Zhushen, and he is afraid that the mountain gods and river gods that Zhushen believes in will punish him." He will never really believe in Buddhism, and the Buddha advises sentient beings to do good deeds and not to kill, but is he still killing less? He killed Zhu Shen in the past, and now he continues to kill the Han people in Liaodong, he is a demon, how can we be with this kind of person. ”

Everyone didn't speak, they were silent like this, everyone understood what the old shaman said, everyone knew that the people of the Aixin Jueluo family were fierce and cunning, but they also had to consider the practical problem - how the remaining tribes would survive. Udai sighed and whispered, "Let's talk about it when Kuru comes back." ”

Kuru came back when it was dark, and as soon as he entered the tent he sat down and lit the fire without saying a word. Udai asked him what Sibeile said, but he didn't answer, and the old shaman sneered: "What else can there be, it's nothing more than that he pitied us and let us go to the customs and honestly be their slaves." ”

Kuru raised his head, stared at Li Yu on the side, and said slowly: "What's worse, he wants this child and promised to give us five stone rice." ”

Wu Dai smashed his fist on the ground: "Don't think, the wild man is the child of our Ula people, and the Ula people do not sell their children." Li Yu jumped up in fright, threw himself on Kuru and cried: "Uncle Kulu, Uncle Wudai, Grandpa Shaman, I won't leave, I won't leave you, I'll be with you." ”

Kuru stroked Li Yu, two lines of hot tears couldn't stop falling, and Wu Dai asked, "You agreed?" Kuru nodded sadly. Wu Dai was angry: "Kuru, you are old and confused, the wild man was taken in by you from outside Zhenbei Pass, but he has been here with us for two years, we like him, he also likes us, we have already become a family, no, I can't listen to you about this." ”

The old shaman had tears in his eyes, and said to Kuru: "We are all people who don't want to be the slaves of the Aixin Jueluo family, because we trust you, we fled to you from everywhere to form our small tribe, you must understand that we are all old, and we will not be able to walk in a few years, and only the child of the savage can carry the burden of our tribe in the younger generation, if he leaves, will this tribe you built with one hand still live?" The elders of the tribe also expressed their opposition.

Kuru wiped away a handful of tears, slowly stood up, and spoke in a firm tone: "I have already decided, take everyone into the customs, and if you don't want to go, take some food back to Ula Mountain." He pointed to the outside of the tent and continued: "I and you all got together because we didn't want to succumb to the tyranny of the Aixin Jueluo family, but God won't allow us!" It has been twelve years since the city of Ulla was breached, and how many of us have died because of hunger, cold, and pestilence, and we are now less than two hundred, and there are only thirty or forty young and strong, and we are getting fewer and poorer, and we have no food, no cloth, and no farm tools, and how long can we sustain ourselves. I bring you together and get along like a family, I can't give away all my relatives, I want more people to live. The Great Khan of the Dajin Kingdom is a demon, but he also did a good deed and united the Zhushen people, and the four Beile were right, Zhushen can only survive if they join forces, otherwise the Ming people and the Mongols can kill and enslave us at will, and God can easily destroy us. We went to the customs, with the other Zhushen brothers, to carry through this most difficult time, and to continue the blood of the Ula people. ”

Kuru pulled Li Yu, who was wiping his tears, up and said to him solemnly: "You have grown up, and now you are a warrior who stands up to the sky and the earth, and you can't shed tears casually anymore." That Sibeile likes you, and promises me to treat you well, and also make you a hero of Zhushen, the Ula people in the pass said that this person is eloquent and ambitious, and I also think that this person is extraordinary, and he should be better than him, you go with him, I took you in, but you must not only take care of yourself and ruin you, this tribe is too small and weak, sooner or later it will crush you, you should have a broader world. ”

Having said that, everyone has nothing to say, the reality is cruel, there is still a way to survive in the customs, staying here is the destruction of the tribe, they are too weak, maybe God does not need to destroy them, the surrounding Korqin people and Varkha people will destroy them first. Li Yu had been crying sadly, and the elders accompanied him, trying to comfort him.

When he saw Li Yu two years ago, he was wearing a torn sheepskin jacket and was shrunk into a ball by the wind, and when he saw Kulu driving the ox cart over, he had to help the cart change food, but at that time he was already dizzy with hunger, and he fell down after not being able to push a few steps. Kuru said that this kid was so stupid that he just wanted to eat, and he still had to work with a dead face.

Wu Dai said that when he first saw Li Yu, he thought he was a fool, saying something that everyone couldn't understand a bit like the kind of words spoken by the Han people in Liaodong, and he was half-baked in Mongolian, and he didn't even know where his home was and what relatives he had, but he only knew his ugly name and his own age, which made everyone give the name "Savage". As he spoke, Udai's tears fell again.

This night, everyone spent it in sadness.

At dawn, the people of the tribe sent Li Yu on the road, and Sibeile was very concerned about this matter, and sent someone to pick up Li Yu with food early in the morning. Aunt Naya sent Li Yu the clothes that had been mended and dried overnight; Uncle Kuru packed up his bags for him, and forced the tiger skin to be put into the package, saying that it would be useful for the officials he would see later; Uncle Udai chose for him the strongest horse, and chose the best set of weapons for him; The two children, Hadari and Rabdu, pulled him and refused to let go, and Kuru repeatedly said that everyone had to enter the customs and that they would meet more often in the future, so that the two children stopped crying.

The villagers kept sending him to the gate of the Jin army camp before stopping, and the old shaman once again told him to go to the Jin army to see more and learn less to talk, and to call the old one uncle and uncle, and the young one to call the eldest brother. The old shaman also said that he might not see each other in the future, he would never go to Guannei, he discussed with some old people, he would go back to Wula Mountain tomorrow, never be a slave of the Xinjueluo family, and leave the old bones in the land where his ancestors lived.

Li Yu waved goodbye to everyone, wiped his tears and entered the camp, making the few soldiers who picked up people very strange, how could these people be like life and death.

Li Yu walked near the big tent of the Chinese army, and at a glance saw a group of white-armored soldiers from Turai and Aobai staring at him, and even the two wounded soldiers who came back from Wula Lake were also mixed in, Li Yu just wanted to say hello, but Turai shouted, "Catch him!" Before Li Yu could react, he was thrown to the ground, the iron spear and bull's eye were the most energetic, no matter what Li Yu shouted, he ripped off his clothes, and when Li Yu got up, his whole body, inside and out, was already new, the boots that were torn were replaced with clean riding boots, the old cotton robe was covered with warm cotton armor, and a new cotton hat replaced the broken fur hat worn in the past.

The iron spear circled around him, nodded and said, "What a spirited young man, so that he is worthy of being a white-armored Baya soldier." Bull's eye followed: "What is it to be a soldier, so that you can marry a wife when you return to Shenyang." ”

Turai smiled and said, "The brothers have gathered some clothes for you, don't be too old, it's all a piece of everyone's affection." ”

Ao Bai immediately grabbed the credit: "The hat is new, my mother made it, and I gave it to you." ”

Inside the tent, the Baylors heard the commotion outside, looked at the door for a while, smiled at each other, and then returned to the tent to continue their business.

The development of the situation made the Baylors have to admire the old Khan's vision, Sakhalian urgently sent back the prisoners to confess, Chahar's Lin Dan Hutuketu Khan is ready to withdraw the army, he really can't make up his mind to fight a decisive battle with the Jin army, and his subordinate Khalkha leaders are even more afraid of death, especially Zai Sai Taiji, who was captured by the Jin army, constantly boasting to him about the courage of the Jin army, for fear that Lin Dan Khan will not figure out and push them forward to fight with the Jin army.

Lin Dan Khan hesitated in Geljurgen, he had always been indecisive, and he was even more afraid when he saw the arrival of Mengtu's reinforcements - Mengtu's troops were not strong, but he and his Taiji and Noyan firmly believed that the powerful main force of the Jin army was behind, so Lin Dan Khan sent a reliable and effective Chinese army Iron Lance Konot to the south to reconnoitre, to probe the opponent's reality, but on the other hand, he was preparing to retreat.

The captives also confessed that the Mongolian tribes had a miserable life in recent years, the silver promised by the Ming State was intermittent, there were cold winters and droughts in the grasslands, many livestock died, people and horses could not eat, and the horses of the Chahar cavalry were hungry and thin, and everyone was reluctant to come out to fight. This time they were ordered to go south, and they didn't want to do it at all, so they didn't go to Zhenbei Pass, which is further south, but took a group of subordinates to wander around the hometown of Ula, intending to grab something and go back to recover their lives, but they didn't expect to expose their whereabouts, and they were beaten to the ground. He estimated that as soon as the few people who escaped returned to report, Lin Dan Khan would definitely run away.

The Baylors all felt that Old Khan's gamble was right, Chahar Khan was really a coward, if he had the courage to kill him, I was afraid that it would be the Jin Army who fled. They decided to wait a little longer and see how it went. The good news finally arrived last night, and the men of Menggetu and Old Oba came to report that the Chahars had withdrawn and abandoned a lot of baggage, and the big tent immediately became jubilant, and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. Early this morning, the Baylors had come together to discuss their next move, and Azig had a menacing offer to take the opportunity to hunt down the Chahars, preferably by capturing Chahar Khan, who was indeed a careless man, and all those present looked at him with strange eyes.

Sibeile let him sit down tolerantly, and then analyzed the current situation for everyone: the situation in the Dajin Kingdom is very bad, it can be said that it is facing a crisis, the Jin army after winning two great victories in Liaoshen and Guangning, eliminated a large number of elite Ming troops, and drove the remaining Ming army to Liaoxi, thus gaining a firm foothold in Liaodong, and the external crisis was basically lifted, but also had to face the contradiction between Zhushen and Nikan (Zhushen's name for the Han people), this contradiction soon broke out in Liaodong, and Zhushen and the Han Nikan began to fight for land and food, The old Khan changed the strategy of "raising Nikan" when he was in Feiala, brandished a butcher's knife at Nikan, first killed in Zhenjiang Fort and Jin, Fu, Hai, Gai Prefecture, and then killed in Liaoyang and Shenyang, the result of the massacre was that a large number of Nikan abandoned and fled, so that there was less food, which caused greater chaos in Liaodong, thieves and thieves became more and more rampant, Nikan killed Zhushen by various means, and now Zhushen people did not dare to go out without the city gate. In order to take revenge and solve the food problem, the old Khan changed the strategy of "entrusting Nikan" to "killing Nikan and raising Zhushen", and the action of killing "Wugu Nikan" and checking Nikan's grain that began in the first month of this year is a continuation of this strategy.

Of course, Nikan's disobedience, his unwillingness to hand over the grain, and the despicable means of poisoning and beating him with sticks to kill Zhu Shen must be severely punished. But the problem was that the killing was too heavy, and the Nikan who was farming was scared away, and the land could not grow crops, and Zhushen had to starve. Dajin Guo's start-up family has a weak background, and we have to fight to survive, which makes it difficult for us to move forward. In fact, our food and horse material are insufficient, so the Great Khan took 20,000 people to Zhenbei Pass, but in the end he could only send us 5,000 people, we can't afford to fight a long battle with the Chahars, in the final analysis, or our strength is insufficient, this Great Khan and our four major Baylors know in their hearts, this battle is not worth fighting - the Chahars are all cavalry, if they can't beat it, they will run, and there are many more men and horses than us, On the other hand, if we make a mistake and lose men, it will be bad, we simply cannot afford to lose 5,000 men. ”

Mang Gurtai nodded: "Now we have to count our fingers when we fight, and we won't get anything if we win in the land of Horqin, and we can't afford to lose it." Moreover, Chahar is poorer than us, and he doesn't have much oil and water to win. Our original plan was to fight the Ming Kingdom, and only by fighting the Ming Kingdom would we get a large amount of property, and we would be able to survive the current difficulties, but unfortunately this Chahar Khan disrupted the original plan, and now we have to push it back until after the beginning of spring next year. ”

Sibeile Huang Taiji continued: "So what we have to do now is to withdraw the army as soon as possible, I think the day after tomorrow will withdraw the army as soon as possible, so as to reduce the consumption of grain and grass, and let the army go back early to rest for a while, and prepare for the battle with the Ming army after the beginning of spring, you guys have figured it out now, right?" Old Twelve, you have also participated in national politics, it's time to think about things with your brain, you have to learn more from Zilharang, and he will be much more stable in doing things. He is the son of Shulhaqi, the younger brother of the old Khan's younger brother Shulhaqi, who died in solitary confinement, and the younger brother of the second Bel Amin, who is currently the owner of the blue flag and one of the four major beylers, is not very old but has always been very good at being a man, and now he is one of the eight beylers who co-manage national politics.

Azig gritted his teeth and said: "But this is too cheap Chahar Khan, this guy is timid, but Mingguo gave him silver to strengthen his courage, so he will find us trouble in three days, and he has to clean him up." ”

Huang Taiji nodded: "Of course we have to clean him up, but not now, the wealth of the world is all in the Ming Kingdom, and the Ming Emperor and the imperial court are cowardly and incompetent, this is our primary goal." And if we want to completely subdue the Ming State, we must cut off his two wings, that is, the Mongols of Chahar Khan and the Dongjiang Town of Mao Wenlong, the general soldier of the Ming State, if we don't clean them up, we don't dare to go south easily, and if we want to clean up Mao Wenlong, we have to subdue the North Korea that sheltered him first, so when we ease up, we must first defeat North Korea, and then defeat these two guys one by one. ”

As soon as he mentioned Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town in the Ming Kingdom, it immediately aroused everyone's public indignation, this guy is too bad, he rushed into the territory of Jin Guo in three days and destroyed it, and his group of rabble was not good at fighting, but he was able to make trouble, the men and women of Zhushen killed one by one, and even the honest Aha did not let go, he was more ruthless than locusts, and everywhere he went, the houses were burned, the city walls were picked, the crops were destroyed, and the livestock and property were never let go, and Mao Wenlong was worse than suffering from natural disasters wherever he went. What is even more hateful is that he also seduced those Nikans to flee, leaving large tracts of land wasted, and he also instigated Nikan to use such vicious methods as poisoning wells, selling poisonous food, and hiding in sorghum fields to beat sticks. All the Zhushen hated him, but they couldn't beat him, this guy either went to the sea and escaped, or hid in the mountains in Korea, Jin Guo fought with him for many years, and beat him hard, but he became more and more energetic.

Azig began to scold Mao Wenlong again, and Zilharang, who likes to use his brain, saw that the topic was far away, and immediately asked another question to turn the topic back, what should the Ula people do? You two Baylor don't seem to be on the same page.

Huang Taiji said without hesitation: "They are willing to take all the customs away, and the food on the road will also be given by us, the population of Zhushen is too small, we want men, women and children here, they can do some work in the customs area, even the old people and children can also help watch Nikan, so that they dare not mess around, not to mention that those children will always grow up, and when the time comes, they will be young and strong, and women are better, and they can have more children." ”

Zilharang looked at Mang Gurtai again, and Mang Gurtai glared at him impatiently: "Look at what I'm doing, do you think I don't want a population?" I just thought that this guy Kuru was too rampant back then, and killed a lot of us, so I found this guy to vent my anger. This breath came out, I was comfortable, this guy is also a good hand, he will come if he wants to come. ”

Zilharang smiled in his heart, this third Belle is not much stronger than Azig, he understands everything, but he does things that offend people, but the fourth Belle took the opportunity to be in the limelight.

Sakhalian said: "Someone has to take them away, and Mengetu is coming back, and some of the tattered left by Chahar Khan has to be brought back, and someone has to take care of it, and it's a matter of worrying about the effort and the goodness, who wants to go?" ”

Shuo Tuo immediately answered: "It's still Uncle Seven!" ”

As soon as the two brothers Shuoto and Sakhalian finished speaking, all the people turned their eyes to Abatai, and Abatai went out to smoke his cigarette without saying a word, and Mang Gultai spoke: "I also think it is appropriate to send Abatai, anyway, it will be fine for him to go back." ”