Ortai was clamoring every day to fight and grab territory, Li Yu brought several high-ranking officials of the Hongbatulu Tent to discuss, and everyone immediately agreed to send troops, everyone understood that it was not a way to always be trapped in the Barbarian Mountains, and if they wanted to survive, they had to fight for more land and pastures and expand a larger territory, but there was a dispute over the specific strategy.

Ortai said excitedly: "We still can't eat enough, and the population and livestock are still increasing, how much grassland can we graze, how much land can be cultivated, we will collapse in this way, the Chahar people occupied Kuku and Tun, and defeated the eastern outpost, but their people are too few, they can't control such a vast territory at all, a large area of land and pasture is waiting for us to take, when will we wait until we don't send troops, waiting for the Chahar people to slow down and fight us?" ”

Li Fugui shook his head and said: "Fengzhou after this war, a large number of people or died or fled, those land, grasslands have been rare, we can't hold it, the Chahar people are much stronger than us, we still go south to control the Matou Mountain line and the Ming Kingdom to rely on each other, and then go west to the Yemachuan area to live and graze, the Chahar people can't get there for a while, and then go west to only some tribes in the west, they are not our opponents, we can develop all the way to the Yellow River." ”

Ortai is a member of the West Sentinel, and as soon as he heard Li Fugui's idea of beating his hometown, he immediately became angry: "Li Fugui, it turns out that you want to attack the idea of the West Sentinel, and the people of the West Sentinel are also Tumut people, you don't fight the Chahar people but beat your own people, what are your intentions?" ”

"There are few people in the West Posts, what are they doing in such a large grassland, those Taiji people in the West Posts don't dare to fight and occupy a large area of land and grassland, what use do you want them to do, it's best if they die." Li Fugui replied unceremoniously.

Ortai was furious, grabbed Li Fugui, the two immediately scuffled together, seeing that the two of them were not talking, Li Huai hurriedly stopped them, he took a pen and dipped it in water on the table and drew it, and said while drawing: "This is the side wall, this is the Barbarian Mountain, separated by the Daomatou Mountain, this is an important stronghold connecting us and the Ming Kingdom, once occupied by the Chahar people, our connection with the Ming Kingdom will be cut off, Nian Feng is right, we must send troops south to occupy this place first, The Yema River west of Matou Mountain is an excellent pasture, we have added a lot of livestock this spring, the Manhan Mountain is almost unbearable, we must find new pasture, it is relatively safe here, we must also get our hands, that is, the tribe of the West Whistle is there, we also have to drive them out, this is a matter of our survival, we must not be polite, Matou Mountain and Yemachuan get our hands, the aid given to us by the Ming Kingdom and the trade market can be guaranteed, we must garrison there for a long time, grazing livestock. ”

"We won't really fight with the West Whistle, they will definitely run away when they see that we are outnumbered, they have so much land and pasture that they can't use, it's really a pity, let's defend them against the Chahars, let's borrow it for the time being," Li Huai saw that Ortai was about to get angry again, smiled at him and said, he continued to draw with a pen, "This is Yanghe Bianwai, here is Kuku and Tun, there are Chahar people in both places, and we are not their opponents yet, so our pace can only cross the Barbarian Mountains to the north, Crossing the Yinma River to the east, the main task is to be vigilant, leaving enough warning time for the Barbarian Mountain, and these two places must be selected to go to the elite. ”

After Li Yu heard what Li Huai said, he looked up at Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji clenched his fists and said: "The soldiers are fought, we can't always hide from the Chahar people, I will take a thousand households to live and graze across the Drinking Horse River, the old and weak women and children are left in the Barbarian Mountain, the Chahar people want to do it, I will eat them if they are few, if there are many of them, I will try to resist for a while and then retreat, send Qiu Xian to the north of the Barbarian Mountain, he is familiar with that area, the habits of Kuku and Tun are not his opponents." ”

Li Yu nodded: "Then prepare to fight, Brother Zhao led the thousand households of Terig to advance to the east of the Yinma River to live and graze, Qiu Xian led his thousand households to live in the north of the Manhan Mountain, the two teams selected horses and men to go, the old and weak women and children to keep the Barbarian Mountain, Wuhai and Bak The entire population of the two thousand households was stationed in Matou Mountain to set up camp and guard, the population of the Thousand Households in Wuerden was stationed in Yemachuan, and the other thousand households stayed in the Barbarian Mountain, I took the personal guard battalion as a mobile force, and responded to the people and horses everywhere at any time, the soldiers were fast and fast, everyone was ready to go. ”

As soon as Li Yu gave the order, all the troops immediately set off, this young army has not yet grown its teeth, but it has begun to show its teeth and claws.

Under May, the iron cavalry from the Barbarian Mountain suddenly appeared in front of the Chahar people, although the number is not much, but very elite, several small Chahar tribes grazing around the Yinma River encountered a surprise attack, were beaten to the ground, abandoned the baggage, livestock panicked and fled, the Barbarian Mountain Iron Cavalry took advantage of the situation to cross the Yinma River, controlled the pastures on both sides of the Yinma River, and then another Barbarian Mountain Iron Cavalry attacked the tribe of Kuku and Tun Xiling Setaiji, Xiling Setaiji of course will not give up their pastures, Immediately gathered more than 1,000 strong men from his subordinates to launch a counterattack - Xi Lingse surrendered to Chahar when the Chahar people just entered the Tumut River, Chahar Khan did not treat him badly, not only gave him the land and pastures around Kuku and Tuncheng, but also rewarded him with a large number of defeated and captured Tumer tribesmen, Xi Lingse is now strong, and he will never tolerate the thieves of the Barbarian Mountains to grab his territory.

Qiu Xian found that Xi Lingse's strength far exceeded his expectations, and immediately changed his style of play, letting the old and weak men hide in the Barbarian Mountain with cattle, sheep and livestock, and he took more than 300 elite horses from this thousand households to fight on the move, and entangled Xi Lingse to the death, Qiu Xian is a native of Kuku and Tun, familiar with the grass and trees here, his set of horse thief tactics that sometimes disappear without a trace, and sometimes rapid raids make Xi Lingse suffer, Xi Lingse was enraged, he couldn't wait to catch these thieves and tear them apart one by one.

After three days of entanglement between the two sides, Qiu Xian couldn't support it, and retreated to the Barbarian Mountain while fighting, Xi Lingse suffered a loss, of course, he would not let them go, and chased after Qiu Xian, Qiu Xian retreated to the foot of the Barbarian Mountain and suddenly did not retreat, turned around and fought with Xi Lingse, Xi Lingse couldn't ask for this, and immediately took all the men and horses to pounce up, just when Xi Lingse was full of confidence to annihilate Qiu Xian, hundreds of armored cavalry with black eagle flags suddenly appeared behind him - Li Yu had already received Qiu Xian's battle report, and personally led the personal guard battalion to hide under the Barbarian Mountain, Seeing that Qiu Xian was attracted to Xi Lingse, he immediately detoured to Xi Lingse's back and launched a surprise attack.

As soon as Li Yu's personal guard battalion appeared, the whole battle situation was determined, Xi Lingse's miscellaneous soldiers numbered a lot, but there were only more than 300 armored soldiers, and they couldn't fight against the personal guard battalion armed to the teeth and using iron-headed arrows, and they were almost collapsed by the personal guard battalion. Xi Lingse fled under the encirclement of domestic slaves, his subordinates knew that the general situation had gone, and very happily dismounted and surrendered to their own people, the barbarian mountain iron cavalry hit smoothly, chasing Xi Lingse's ass and beating hard, Xi Lingse fled all the way into Kuku and Tuncheng, and a small number of Chahar soldiers stationed in Kuku and Tuncheng defended the city without leaving.

In this battle, the barbarian mountain iron cavalry won a complete victory, Xi Lingse's strong men were almost lost, only about 300 people fled into Kuku and Tun, Li Yu and Qiu Xian took the opportunity to sweep around Kuku and Tun, and swept away more than 2,000 people and more than 3,000 cattle and sheep that Xi Lingse did not withdraw into the city.

Li Yu's battle report reached Yanghe, Zhang Xiao's heart was full of joy, and in front of Song Tongyin, he gritted his teeth and said: "Good fight, Hudun Tuhan, this mad dog is to be beaten hard, and that shameless man Xi Lingse should also be beaten, he was once named Mrs. Zhongyi by my Daming, and he has received many benefits from us, but this guy eats inside and out, and follows Hudun Tuhan to fight for the tiger, and Li Dusi is happy to kill him." ”

After Chahar Khan occupied the east outpost, he sent people to Yanghe and Datong for almost three days, and his tone became harder and harder, claiming that he couldn't live happily anyway, and if Ming Guo didn't give him food to eat, he was going to rob it, and in the second year of the Apocalypse, he sent Gui Yingcha to swear an oath with the envoy of the King of Liaodong Jinglu in Jin, and the 40,000 taels of coins that Ming promised him had never been given according to the number, and he still owed a lot of money, and this money should be made up for him first, which made Zhang Xiao angry, and Liaodong Jingluo promised to swear his, actually asked for a debt to him, the old man had never been blackmailed like this in his life, this demand for food was going to turn the sky upside down, and now Li Yu finally gave him a bad breath.

"The boss is clever, and he secretly ambushed Li Dusi's chess piece outside the gate, and it really came in handy today, and in the future, Hudun Rabbit wanted to come to Hu, and he had to have some scruples, the boss didn't need to spend a single soldier to restrain the barbarians, even if Kong Ming was alive, he might not have thought of it." Song Tongyin took the opportunity to praise him on the side.

"I've won the award, in fact, there is also your credit here," Zhang Xiao was in a good mood, and replied with a smile, "Li Dusi is very competitive this time, you give him a letter back, just say that the official is very satisfied with him, and the credit is written down for him, let him do a good job, and next year the official will promote him to be a guerrilla." ”

Zhang Yiming, the governor of Datong, was also gloating about Chahar Khan's beating, but he felt that Li Yu was still beaten too lightly, and he should beat this begging person half to death, and he told Ma Shiying, the prefect of Datong, and Qu Jiazhen, the general soldier of Datong, that they must try to encourage Li Yu again, and it is a big deal to give a few more stones of grain, and it is best to let these Tatars and barbarians fight to break the blood.

When Ma Shiying returned to the prefect's yamen, he sent the Barbarian Mountain to Datong's resident trade ambassador Bi Lige, and he told Bi Lige that the governor was very concerned about the Barbarian Mountain, and knew that they were short of food for the war with Chahar, so he had prepared a hundred stone of grain for the next month in advance, which could be handed over to them immediately, and if they fought a few more decent battles, the governor would consider giving them more food.

Qu Jiazhen was also very happy, Zhao Ji sent him more than sixty heads in one breath, he suddenly felt that his waist was stiff, he said to Bi Lige, this time the head and the last time from the grave out of the head are all counted as genuine, five thousand arrows are handed over at one time, the more heads sent in the future, the better, he will definitely buy and sell fairly.

The old capital of Chahar Khan's big tent, Chahar Khan disdainfully threw the war report aside, he didn't want to worry about this little thing at all, he wouldn't take it seriously if Xi Ling Setaiji died, Chahar Khan was full of hatred for Mongolia's Taiji and Noyans, it was these greedy and selfish guys who hindered his great cause of unifying Mongolia, they did not obey the orders of the Great Khan, and united with the Yellow Lama against the Great Khan, and even shamelessly defected to the Jin State, and they and their tribes were beaten as hard as possible.

Chahar Khan didn't want to care about the life or death of those disobedient tribes, but he was very interested in the Humba Tulu who suddenly appeared, and he turned his face and asked a young man beside him: "Is this Li Yu, who is known as Humba Tulu, sneak attack Ben Khan's big tent, seize Ben Khan's big Xu, and defeat Tuba Jinong in Kuku and Tun, and force back Karma Jinong in Xinpingbao?" ”

"It's this person, his black eagle flag with a red background is too conspicuous, and I am familiar with all the people in Chahar." The young man replied.

"Who is he? Yunrong, you give Ben Khan a good talk. ”

"Great Khan, the minister asked the Tumut who surrendered, it is said that this person fled from the Jin Kingdom to Tumut Beach, he is not very old and only in his early twenties, originally outside Kuku and Tuncheng to farm and hunt for a living, when I Chaharxi entered Tumut, this person pulled up a group of Bansheng Han people, Tumert people and horse thieves to take advantage of the situation, and now it has become a force in the Barbarian Mountains."

"Are you saying that this person is a poor man who escaped from the Jin Kingdom, and he is not from a Mongolian noble family at all?" Chahar Khan asked with interest.

"Yes, his honorific title of Humbaturu is also shouted by the Tumut Lama and the people, no Mongolian Khan and Taiji have been sealed, his Baturu honorific title is the Khan of Jinguo, but I heard that he is also very poor in Jinguo, and later offended the nobles of Jinguo, so he had to flee for refuge, this person has not married a wife yet, he must be so poor that he clangs."

Seeing the indifferent appearance of the Great Khan, who was standing on the side, Tuba Jinong reminded him: "This person is from a poor background but can gather tens of thousands of fierce people, I heard that when he was in the Jin Kingdom, he also killed the Nanuk Taiji of the Bahrain Department, this person is too dangerous, the Great Khan should have cleaned him up earlier." ”

"Princess Wulangha said that she had seen this man, who was very tall and handsome, but had a Han name, which seemed to be Li Yu," Chahar Khan smiled absentmindedly, "This man is very interesting, and Ben Khan would like to find a chance to meet him." ”

"Great Khan must be careful of this person, this person is said to still have an official position in the Ming Kingdom, maybe it is a nail planted by the Ming State outside the pass." Yun Rong also felt the need to remind the Great Khan.

"If you learn to pedal two boats at a young age, this person must be very smart," Chahar Khan continued to be absent-minded, and after a while he looked at Yun Rong again, and said to himself, "The children who are not from noble families are also great, and Mongolia may have to rely on these people in the future." ”

Tuba glared at Yun Rong fiercely, Yun Rong hurriedly lowered his head, the Great Khan has been completely disappointed in the Mongolian nobles over the years, and began to set his eyes on the children of civilians, this Yun Rong was originally a civilian scholar, and his grandfather was still a dilapidated Ming military household in Chahar, but he was promoted to the big tent by the Great Khan as a secretary, and he intended to reuse him, which caused the dissatisfaction of the Chahar nobles, and everyone joined forces to exclude him, Yun Rong suffered several times, and now he is careful in what he says and does.

Chahar Khan pondered, his mind is still in the Ming country, the Chahar tribes from the West Liao River out of the right wing of the departments continued to fight hard, the loss of men and horses is huge, all the departments are already tired, and lack of food and clothing, without the assistance of the Ming State to survive is a problem, he hated the Ming State, should not have formed an alliance with the Ming State, the Ming State officials were untrustworthy, the promised aid was dragged and not given, and forced him to send troops to fight the Jin State, even after natural disasters and man-made disasters, he could not stay in the poor West Liao River hometown, had to move to the Xuanda border, He didn't want to be an enemy of the Ming State, and just wanted to give his subordinates food from his allies, but the Xuanda officials of the Ming State bombed away his envoy and forced him to return to the Xiliao River to fight to the death with the Jin State.

He raised his head and asked, "What are the movements of the right-wing departments in Ordos?" ”

"Tumut's Boshuo Ketu Khan, Yongshaobu's Baiyan Taiji, and Ordos's Erlinchen Jinong are still gathering their troops, and they have no sign of crossing the Yellow River, but they have frequent movements of men and horses, and they will definitely fight this battle." Yun Rong replied softly.

"A group of waste, half a year has passed since the end of last year, and they have not yet completed the assembly," Chahar Khan said with a sneer, he picked up the battle report and drank to the officials under his tent: "I don't care what barbarian mountain is, if I want to survive, I must have food, silver, grain, cloth, and iron tools, and continue to send people to find them, I don't believe that the Ming court is unreasonable." ”

"Great Khan, the people of the Ming Kingdom are the least trustworthy, Guiying just said 40,000 taels of silver with the Ming State official Wang Zaijin, but as soon as Wang Zaijin left, the other officials did not admit it, they bullied us, they didn't treat us as human beings, and they had to be beaten hard, didn't Altan Khan of Tumut just surround the Jingshi of the Ming State and force the Ming State to agree to negotiate peace?" Tuba screamed again.

"By no means," Yun Rong hurriedly stood up and persuaded, "The Ming Kingdom is too big, their strength is more than a hundred times ours, once the war starts without ten or eight years without a result, can we hold out for that long?" ”

"You cowardly pariah, is it your turn to speak here?" Tuba was furious and pointed at Yun Rong to drink, and several Chahar ministers immediately looked at Yun Rong angrily.

"Pass my Khan edict to Gui Yingcha, let him lead his troops south, go to Yanghe to find the Xuanda governor of the Ming State to ask for a city reward," Chahar Khan waved his hand to stop the ministers, he thought for a while and said, "It's okay to scare the Ming Kingdom, don't be busy with it yet." ”

But Chahar Khan didn't expect that his Khan edict would not reach Guiyingcha, who was killed by the Ming army.