Li Yu returned to the camp with nothing but ten taels of silver, promotion made no sense to him, his subordinates were still those people, and the military salary was still not there, and the brothers picked up a lot of people who were half starved to death when they patrolled the border, and it didn't take long to add more than 500 mouths, Li Yu's money was soon spent, and everyone had to cut down on food and clothing, and worked hard together, Li Yu also took the brothers who patrolled the border out to hunt a few times, and got some prey.

Those who were picked up were also reluctant to eat idle meals, and tried to find some work to do when they were relieved, the old and weak women and children helped feed the horses, cook, and sew clothes, and more than 100 young people also participated in Li Yu's team - more than 100 people have horses, and they can keep their horses when they are hungry to death, this is the material for being a good soldier, Li Yu reported to the above, Song Tongyin recognized all the young and strong people who had horses, and all of them were given rations and horse materials, but he told Li Yu that these people could only be regarded as miscellaneous soldiers, and would not be paid military salaries - this was already a great help, Song Tongyin also sent someone to send some white noodles and pork for everyone to celebrate the New Year on the first day of the first month, and also gave Li Yu ten taels of silver for official expenses, which made Li Yu grateful to Song Tongyin.

Bi Lige and Han Dagong came back, the two of them took a big circle between Manhan Mountain and Matou Mountain, and drew a map according to Li Yu's instructions, they said to Li Yu, this area is a place where people can live, if there are enough people, as long as they guard the Cangtou River and the Drinking Horse River, it is not easy for others to break in, it is really not possible There are still a few ravines that can hide in case of danger, but the food is not easy to solve, there is not so much land to cultivate, and there are not many places to graze, where the Matou Mountain is not far from the victory and the tiger's mouth, If only I could get help from Mingguo.

Chen Erzhu and Liu Shishi also came back, and also brought Meng Ke - Meng Ke was about to look for Li Yu after returning to Baita Village, he really regarded Li Yu as his own brother, and immediately followed them when he saw them. Meng Ke was still that virtuous, and when he saw Li Yu, he shouted: "Big boss, aren't you an official in the Ming army?" Why are you getting poorer and poorer, why did you wear a Han cotton robe, and the fur clothes that Derge gave you? ”

"You care about me, that coat has been exchanged for food." Li Yu replied angrily.

"I'm right to say you're a loser, you see that I easily earned dozens of taels of silver by flying out of the grass and grass." Monk said proudly shaking the cloth bag in his hand.

Li Yu ignored him, Meng Ke only then got down to business, in fact, Ordos's business is not easy to do, they formed a gang with a group of guys outside the border of Yansui, and went west to the edge of Gansu Town, and finally made a few deals, when the Yellow River froze, they slipped back to their hometown, and when they went home, they saw that their nest was actually taken out - the Chahar people robbed their Bansheng hometown, Zhao Ji was immediately annoyed and angry, he didn't care who robbed his house, he could rob others, others didn't want to rob him, Zhao Ji took them and Kuku and Tun's habits, He had fought a few battles, but no one took advantage, he estimated that this battle would definitely be fought after the beginning of spring, and there were not enough people on his side, so he left Meng Ke and Borshu in Bansheng, and he and Qiu Xian went to Yansui to invite people.

Meng Ke smiled and said: "Big boss, you already have a lot of people here, when the grass flies back, let's join together and beat him Chahar bastards, anyway, I'm back, I'll follow you." ”

Chen Erzhu also brought back a letter from Batu from Meidai, Batu told Li Yu that they had invited the right-wing troops to Kuku and Tun to rendezvous, and that Suburi Taiji, who lived in the northeast of Karaqin, would also lead his troops to arrive at the beginning of spring, and then Tumut and Karaqin could gather 100,000 troops to fight to the death with Chahar Khan. He shared his belongings and the women in his family among his subordinates, and Batu hoped that Li Yu would come to him as soon as possible and eradicate this demon with him. In addition, Batu also said in the letter that when the Qierji Lama arrived at Meidaizhao, Ulan and Namur were accompanying him, and Ulan had always taken Hadari by his side and took care of him, so that Li Yu should not worry.

Ulan also asked Chen Erzhu to send a letter, the letter was written very simply: You are Baturu, so you must keep your promises, you must do what you promised, my father Khan brought a letter from Ordos, asking me to marry Ordos in the spring, if you don't come, you will never see me again.

Li Yu thought about it, and wrote a letter to Song Tongyin, in which he reported what he had learned, now that the weather has warmed up, the right-wing departments are concentrating on naturalization (the name given by the Wanli Emperor to Kuku and Tun), and Chahar Khan will never let go of the opponent, and will definitely do his best to participate in the battle of naturalization, with his understanding of both sides, even if the right-wing departments make up 100,000 people, they are by no means Chahar's opponents, and the right-wing departments will undoubtedly lose this battle, and the only thing that can help the right-wing departments is the Ming army, if they can be from Datong, Xuanfu and the three towns of Shanxi dispatched elite soldiers to 10,000 people, and suddenly went out to help the war when Chahar and the right-wing departments were fighting, Chahar must have collapsed, and the threat of Chahar to the border wall of the Ming Dynasty was naturally resolved, and stability could be restored outside the Xuanda border. Li Yu wrote here and felt that it was a bit unreliable to let the Ming army out of the customs, so he added that if the Ming army could not get out of the customs, then ask the adults to give me some grain, grass, and arrows, and I would take people to naturalize, one could declare to the right-wing departments that the Ming Dynasty supported them and boost their morale, and the other could directly understand the changes in the war situation and report to the customs in a timely manner, so as not to make mistakes in our army's response.

A few days after the letter was sent to Yanghe, Song Tongyin replied, he praised Li Yu for his calm thinking, and also clearly told Li Yu that it was impossible for the Ming army to go out of the customs, but Li Yu was willing to naturalize him and he also supported, the governor had agreed to allocate them a month's rations, arrows and other ordnance can also be given some, but he could not play the banner of the Ming army, and the Ming government would not give him any documents. Song Tongyin warned Li Yu that he must be cautious, after all, the battle between the Tatars and the Han was an internal matter of the Mongols themselves, and the Ming must not be allowed to fall into it, otherwise there would be endless troubles.

Li Yu was very satisfied, it was not easy for Lord Song to do this, he immediately began to prepare for the trip, this time he was going to take one hundred and fifty people to the expedition, divided into three teams, Wuhai, Buck and Meng Ke each led one team, and the others were left behind by Bi Lige and Han Dagong. In order to make the team look like it, the brothers also racked their brains to design a military flag for themselves, Li Yu excitedly took what he thought was the best design pattern to Song Tongyin, Song Tongyin couldn't cry or laugh, although you are not allowed to play the battle flag of the Ming army, but your military flag also has to be like it, this wolf head is clearly painted as a dog's head - this is what Meng Ke did, Han Dagong's idea of painting the black eagle flag is not bad, but it is painted a bit like a crow, Song Tongyin wants to give Li Yulu a hand, and he personally paints with a pen, his painting skills are good, Soon a black goshawk with teeth and claws and fierce eyes appeared on the screen, Li Yu couldn't help but applaud, Song Tongyin casually dotted the bottom with a red pen a few strokes, and told Li Yu to use this black eagle flag on a red background as your flag, so that you can also get involved with the Ming army.

At the end of the first month, Li Yu set off early in the morning with his three teams of cavalry, Li Yu walked in the front, Liu Shishi proudly danced the brand-new red background black eagle flag in his hand behind him, Chen Erzhu looked at him with envy, and deliberately blew the horn in his hand, this is Chen Erzhu's new errand - marching and fighting must have a military horn, Chen Erzhu was selected as a part-time bugleman, although everyone thinks that his horn is more like shouting cattle, but there is no better blowing than him.

The snow outside the Great Wall has not yet melted, it is still a white snowfield, along the Great Wall around the mountains and mountains, not suitable for farming, grazing, people living here are scarce, and it coincides with the war that the people are almost gone, walking thirty miles without seeing people, the soldiers thought of going home, energetic, tireless gallop in the direction of Kuku and Tun, Li Yu is still very cautious to release scouts, he must ensure the absolute safety of his team, who knows if the Chahar people will suddenly come out of nowhere.

On the way of the procession, there was a sudden sound of chirping in front of him, Li Yu hurriedly ordered the team to stop, and when he was puzzled, Bagan, who acted as a scout, ran quickly with two horsemen, and the people and horses were getting closer and closer, Li Yu was surprised to recognize one of the small figures, the small figure obviously also saw Li Yu, and shouted from afar: "Uncle Yuzi, go and save Sister Wulan!" Go and save Sister Ulan! ”

Li Yu rushed to meet him, and the little figure quickly threw himself into his arms, Li Yu caressed the child in his arms affectionately, and said happily, "Hadari, you have grown taller again, and your body is stronger than before." He then asked the young man next to him, "Jeddah, you're here too!" Tell me, what's going on with Ulan? ”

Ulan's guard Jida hurriedly said: "Brother Yuzi, Omulun Taiji arrived in Meidaizhao, forced Princess Ulan to marry to Ordos immediately, and also sent his housekeeper Uncle Maohan and his subordinate warrior Botok to escort Princess Ulan to marry, and Lama Erji and Batu Taiji couldn't stop it, Princess Ulan said that only you can save him, let me and Hadari find you, let's go and save Princess Ulan, maybe we can intercept them by the Yellow River." "He is a person who has risen from the board, and he is also used to calling Li Yu like Chen Erzhu and Liu Shishi in the village.

Meng Ke happened to come over, and when he heard Jeddah's words, he immediately shouted: "It's worth it, big boss, your woman is going to be snatched away, I'll help you get it back." ”

Li Yu glanced at Meng Ke, he was a poor bastard, and he didn't think of marrying Ulan, but he did want to be with Ulan, he must not see Ulan, Li Yu said coldly: "Ulan can stay wherever he wants, no one wants to force her, Omulun is her eldest brother, I want to see who dares to do anything to her." ”

"Jeddah, you lead the way, Monk, and follow me with your team of men and horses, and the others will follow." Li Yu rushed out with a wave of his hand, and Meng Ke followed him with people shouting, followed by Jeddah and Hadari. Wuhai and Buck glanced at each other, and immediately shouted to everyone: "Let's keep up, I haven't seen a big show of robbing relatives on the grassland for many years, and we can't miss it!" ”

Li Yu led people to run wildly, when it was dark, they lit torches and continued to run, on the way the horse did not get off, hungry on the horse to eat a few mouthfuls of dry food, sleepy on the horse squinting for a while, when the sky was bright, they finally rushed to the Yellow River, and then sent people around to search, Meng Ke, Jida with people murderous, every person asked if they saw the car of the Shunyi Palace.

Ulan didn't expect her half-brother Omulun to go to Meidai to call for forced marriage, originally her marriage was decided two years ago, Boshuo Ketu Khan wanted to marry her to a major minister of Ordos Jinong Erlinchen, that guy has a lot of people and money, of course, he is not young, nearly sixty years old, this is nothing in the Mongolian ministries, everyone values the family property and the people, it doesn't matter if you are older, the old man died, and then remarried his son and grandson, but Ulan resolutely disagreed, she grew up in Fengzhou River, Since she was a child, she received a sinicization education with her brother Batu, she was reluctant to marry an old man who had never met, Batu secretly tried his best to support her to resist marriage, and this marriage has been delayed, but now it can't be resisted, Boshuo Ketu Khan escaped the Yellow River in one go, he needs the people and money to turn over the book, both of which his old son-in-law has, so Boshuo Ketu Khan began to force marriage, Batu and Ulan couldn't bear it and dragged it, and finally Omulun was also anxious - he also needed the support of the Ordos nobles, So he simply went out in person to force Ulan to marry, and in the end Ulan was dragged into the car, escorted by Omulun's people to Ordos to marry, but the road was not smooth, although Batu was dissatisfied, but he didn't have the courage to openly oppose his father Khan and brother, it was Namur who jumped out, he couldn't marry Ulan himself, but he would never let the old man marry Ulan easily, along the way Namur kept making trouble, just robbing him three or four times, during which he also played tricks such as blocking the road and grabbing horses, Every time, he was beaten by Tobok, Omulun's subordinate, if it weren't for the fact that his father was a powerful Baturu in the East Outpost, Tobok really wanted to kill him with a knife.

It was almost to the Yellow River, Na Mu'er simply blocked the middle of the road and cried and made a fuss, Omulun's housekeeper Mao Han sent someone to drive him away, Na Mu'er picked up the whip and beat a few slaves who wanted to drag him away and screamed, Tobok was angry, when will this kid stop making trouble, he couldn't help but pull out the knife, Na Mu'er hurriedly took the knife out of the sheath, the two fought again, Na Mu'er was really desperate this time, the knife went straight to Tobok's vital point, Tobok was in a hurry, and he held Na Mu'er's powerful knife, and flew up and kicked Na Mu'er off the horse, Without waiting for Namur to get up, he put the knife on his neck.

Ulan was shocked, hurriedly took out his bow and arrows, and shouted at Botok: "Botok, if you dare to touch Namur, I will kill you." ”

"Princess, don't worry, I won't kill this kid, wait for him to go back and let his father teach him a lesson," Bottok replied with a sneer, he waved his hand behind him, "Uncle Maohan, you go first, I'll watch this nasty guy." ”

The car started again, Na Mu'er knew that he couldn't stop it, and he cried loudly with his fists, and then there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, Botok looked up casually, there are only our cavalry in this place now, and the sound is quite neat, as if he usually practiced well, the cavalry gradually approached, and Na Mu'er, who was pressed under Botok, suddenly laughed loudly: "Botok, the people who cleaned you up are here, you just wait to be beaten." ”

Li Yu rushed straight to Ulan's car and shouted at Ulan: "Ulan, you tell me, you don't want to leave our Fengzhou River?" ”

"I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to be with you." Ulan shouted excitedly, tears of excitement in her eyes, the person she had been thinking about day and night had finally arrived.

Mao Han stopped Li Yu and asked coldly: "Young man, what are you doing here, this is the convoy where the princess of Boshuo Ketu Khan got married, and you will be severely punished for this." ”

"Uncle, I'm here to rob the marriage, you can tell me how to rob it." Li Yu asked in a low voice embarrassedly.

Mao Han was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing, Botok kicked Na Mu'er away, got on the horse and rushed over angrily, this errand was too unsmooth, first a madman made trouble, and now another fool came, he pointed at Li Yu with the tip of his knife and shouted: "Uncle Mao Han, don't talk nonsense with him, it's not okay not to kill people today, let me kill this kid." As he spoke, he slashed at Li Yu's head.

Li Yu hurriedly parried with a lance, and shouted in his mouth: "Uncle, is a fight like this considered a marriage robbery?" Then I'll do it. ”

As soon as Li Yu's lance danced, Botok immediately felt pressure, he came back from the West Sea with Omulun, and fought with the Ming army, his riding skills and knife skills were very good, and he was also a famous warrior in the various departments of Tumut, but this opponent was too strong, the two of them were about the same, but the opponent's strength and speed of the move far exceeded him, Li Yu's long lance was faster than his short knife moves, stabbing, picking, chopping, and smashing were faster than a while, so that Botok was out of breath, and he was almost powerless to fight back. Botok finally dodged a straight stab, but was swept by Li Yu's backhand, and the lance smashed on Botok's waist, knocking him off his horse.

"Well played! Bottok throws in the towel. Namur jumped and jumped to cheer for Li Yu, and Meng, Jeddah and Hadari shouted "Baturu!" Baturu! Botok got up with a disgraced face, this time he lost face, but he didn't give up, pointed at Li Yu and shouted: "I can't beat you right away, do you dare to get off the horse and fight me?" ”

Li Yu smiled and turned over and dismounted, Botok didn't wait for him to stand firm and pounced, Tobok is a good wrestler, grabbed Li Yu's clothes and made enough strength to give Li Yu a back fall, but Li Yu's person is tall and strong, he can't pull Li Yu at all, but was thrown out by Li Yu heavily, Tobok was not convinced, got up and got up, after being knocked down three or four times, Botok finally deflated, lay on the ground and howled loudly, and refused to get up again, this time everyone present was impressed by Li Yu, and shouted vigorously with Mengke, Jeddah and Hadari" Baturu! Baturu! ”。