Eren is the Mongolian word for colorful or colorful. Ｘ

Therefore, Erenhot is a colorful city, or a colorful city, which is actually the Erenhot of later generations.

During the Apocalypse, after Lin Dan Khan led the Chahar Department to move westward, he stayed at the foot of Saihan Mountain near Erennaoer for a period of time.

Erennaoer is a salt lake, which is one of the few places in the prairie where salt can be collected.

Lin Dan Khan, who led the people to move westward, first occupied this salt lake, and then played the banner of the descendants of the golden family with one hand, and controlled the scarce salt on the steppe with the other, thus recovering many small and medium-sized tribes belonging to the 30,000 households of the Mongolian right wing.

Two years later, Lin Dan Khan regained a certain strength, and then led his army south, driving out the king of Shunyi, who had been attached to the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and occupied the magpie's nest and occupied Kuku and Tun.

And the so-called Kuku and Tun here are the Mongolian names for the Dabansheng City built by Altan Khan, that is, the naturalized city given by the Ming Dynasty court.

Since Huang Taiji wanted to conquer Mongolia and become the Great Khan recognized by both the Jurchens and the Mongols, of course he would not use the name given by the Ming Dynasty to call the royal city of the Mongols today.

In the evening of the same day, after deciding to march west as soon as possible, Huang Taiji sent Turai to carry a letter written in both Mongolian and Chinese languages, crossed the Yingjin River, and reached the vicinity of the mountain city of Ulan Hada, and before the defenders of the mountain city could react, they shot at the foot of the mountain city, and then quickly left.

It didn't take long for Burhatu, who was in the mountain city of Ulan Hada, to get a letter sent by Huang Taiji, only to see that the letter read:

"The Emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom personally led a large army to pass through this place, not for Karaqin, but for Chahar! Chahar's hidden Yehe remnants, my feud also!

"If you are willing to conquer Har, my great gold country will be rewarded! If you don't want to enlist, please don't offend each other!

"Today, my Dajin has negotiated peace with the Ming Kingdom, and the Karaqin Ministry has been attached to the Southern Dynasty before, and I have really forgiven it! May I not offend you, and thou shalt not offend me! Otherwise, my Dajin Kingdom will come to Ulan Hada again with 200,000 iron horsemen, and swear to destroy your tribe! ”

Knowing that Huangtai Ji had no way to take his own Ulan Hada Mountain City, Burhatu was overjoyed.

Since the Jurchens retreated in the face of difficulties, of course there was no need for them to follow them to conquer Chahar, and besides, Chahar was originally the co-lord of Tatar Mongolia, especially the co-lord of 30,000 households on the left wing of Mongolia.

As one of the 30,000 households of the Mongolian left-wing, Karaqin did not follow Lin Dan Khan to move west, which is already a betrayal, and if he follows the Jurchens to fight Lin Dan Khan now, it will be shameless.

Of course, for people like Burhatu, I have never considered any face before, but now there are more and more people, and the foundation is getting bigger and bigger.

So Burhatu laughed at Huang Taiji's letter.

Early the next morning, Huang Taiji did not receive any reply from Ulan Hada, knowing that Burhatu had defected to the Southern Dynasty and that it was impossible to follow him from the expedition to Chahar, so he immediately made a decision and assigned the army under his command to the left and right, and quickly pulled out the camp to the west according to the previous deployment.

In fact, since Huang Taiji realized in the summer of the seventh year of the Apocalypse that the Ningjin defense line was difficult to conquer and the Liaoxi Corridor was difficult to pass, his eyes turned to the Mongolian steppe and began to look for a way to detour Mongolia and attack the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.

In his opinion, the place where the Karaqin tribe is stationed is of course the best choice.

If Karaqin can be recovered, then the strategy of detouring and attacking Ming will be half the battle.

However, what surprised him deeply was that not long after the current Emperor Chongzhen of the Southern Dynasty succeeded to the throne, he threw a lot of money and grain and bought the leader of the Karaqin tribe, Burhatu, making Burhatu the king of Guiyi outside the edge of Daming Ji Town.

What surprised him even more was that with the help of the Southern Dynasty army, the Guiyi King Burhatu actually defeated the Eastern Mongolian coalition army gathered by the Horqin people with his own support, and since then he has completely gained a firm foothold in the Xilamulun River Valley.

Now that I have come to Ulan Hada in person, I am even more surprised to find that this Burhatu has quietly built such a fortified city here, making this southward road no longer smooth.

After all, if they go south from this and fight with the Karaqin people, who are not what they used to be, for a long time, then the armies of Liaodong, Jizhen, Xuanfu and even Jingshi of the Southern Dynasty may come to the rescue.

As a result, the Jianyu army detoured through Mongolia to the south of the Ming Kingdom, and attacked its unprepared strategy and tactics by surprise, I am afraid that it will be greatly discounted or even stillborn.

Because of this, Huang Taiji's gaze quickly turned to Lin Dan Khan of Chahar again.

As soon as Lin Dan Khan did not die, the descendants of Genghis Khan's golden family would always be the nominal co-masters of all the Mongolian tribes on the steppe, and he Huang Taiji could not become the master of the entire steppe.

Second, Monan Mongolia is far away from the Datong border, far away from the Ming Dynasty, and Lin Dan Khan and the Southern Dynasty monarchs and ministers are also known to have a feud, attacking Lin Dan Khan will not cause the intervention of the Southern Dynasty.

Moreover, once Lin Dan Khan was destroyed, the possibility of the Jianyu army taking the opportunity to go south and break through the border was much greater.

What's more, there is also the army that is waiting for him in the mouth of the killer.

In this expedition, Huang Taiji did make a bloody investment, and the two yellow flags directly led by his command totaled 170 Jurchen and Han army Niu Lu, and this time he brought out 150 Niu Lu.

And Yue Tuo's inlaid red flag, which followed the expedition, was strengthened and supplemented by the sixty Niu Lu after the Northern Expedition of the Savage Jurchen Tribes, and this time, fifty were also brought out.

Although Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan Banner was split by Huang Taiji, all the forty Niu Lu directly led by him were brought out.

In this way, the banner soldiers belonging to the Eight Banners of Jianyu in the Later Jin Kingdom alone brought out as many as 240 Niulu and 72,000 people, more than half of all the Eight Banners Niulu.

In addition, there were 8,000 cavalry of Khwen Korqin Oba Khan, 5,000 cavalry of Horqin's right flank Beyl Kungol, 7,000 men of Beyler Jaisan of Korqin's left flank, and 5,000 men brought by Babudaiji of the Chechen Khan.

All these cavalry and mounted infantry, together it was close to a hundred thousand men.

For Huang Taiji, with such an army of up to 100,000 all the time, the entire Mongolian steppe would be subjugated to his feet.

And that's exactly what happened.

The main force of the western expedition led by Huang Taiji personally included 70 Niu Lu from the Zhenghuang Banner, 40 Niu Lu from the Zhenglan Banner, plus 5,000 people from Babudaji of the Chechen Khan, and the troops of Oba and Kongol, totaling as many as 51,000 people.

Originally, it was still a two-sided thing, and the large and small tribes such as Uzhumuqin, Abaga, and Sunit heard the wind and took refuge in Huangtaiji, who marched from Hanhai North Road.

The tribes east and south of Hanhai, such as the Wengniut, Balin, and Keshiketeng, also surrendered to the wind, and joined the Jurchen army with a small number of men and horses, driving herds of cattle and sheep.

Only half a month later, the army led by Huang Taiji marched bloodlessly to the Wuzhigentala grassland near Erenhot.

Tutaiji, who was ordered to stay in the area around Erenhot, saw that the situation was not good, so he abandoned his herdsmen, camp tents, cattle, sheep and livestock and other property, and fled all the way to the southwest with only hundreds of cavalry guarding him.

Tutaiji is Lin Dan Khan's half-brother, although he was not born to the same mother, but the two who lost their father since childhood have a good relationship.

Therefore, Tu won the trust of Lin Dan Khan, and after Lin Dan Khan entered the Kuku and Tun cities, that is, the naturalized city, Lin Dan Khan, despite being very poor and embarrassed, still left the only salt-producing salt lake area in the 30,000 households of the Mongolian right wing to Tu Zhumu.

Lin Dan Khan's younger brother Tu lost his territory and fled back to Kuku and Tun in disarrayAt the same time, he was ordered to defend the Yongshebu tribe Jinong Chorestabu in the Dalainuoer area of the Monan East Road for Lin Dan Khan, and was also defeated in a battle by the left army led by the raiding Yue Tuo, Hao Ge and Zaisang.

Yongshebu Jinong, with his thousands of remaining men, fled in a hurry from the shores of Lake Dalenor, and galloped westward.

At noon and evening on the twelfth day of the 12th month of October, Lin Dan Khan's younger brother Tutaiji and Lin Dan Khan, the head of the Jinong Yongshebu tribe who had been personally appointed after they moved westward, fled into Kuku and Tun one after another, bringing a piece of news to Lin Dan Khan, who was only 37 years old but was already a little old, and brought him a deeply shocked news:

Later, Jin Guotiancong Khan Huang Taiji personally led an army of 200,000 troops, divided into two routes, and invaded Chahar! r