Balihan City is said to be a city, but it is not actually a city in the real sense, at least not at present. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The so-called Balihan City, which is close to the Balihan River, once flourished in the Liao Dynasty, and was regarded as a big commercial city in the north of the Saibei at that time.

However, now more than 500 years have passed since the heyday of the Liao Dynasty, and the city of Balihan has been built and destroyed, and I don't know how many wars and disasters it has experienced.

Today's so-called Balihan City is just a few earthen enclosures that have been abandoned for many years.

Although the city of Balihan has long ceased to be prosperous, the merchants who come and go from the south to the north still follow the inertia of history, passing through here from time to time, and stopping for a while, or going south or north, to carry out trade.

Therefore, although the city in the past has been abandoned into a ruined earthen wall, there are still some Mongolian and Han people, according to the change of seasons, either live here to graze, or operate to make a living.

Of course, since the news of the war came from the grasslands in the north, Balihan, which was not inhabited by many people, was scattered and escaped cleanly.

When the Kundulun Khan Burhatu of Karaqin led his army to Balikhan, it was a ghost town: after years of wind and rain, the town was only left with ruins and broken walls, and occasionally a few straw huts made of earth and stone, and there were no people living in them.

Ever since he heard the news that the left flank Korqin Taiji Zaisang had united with the Ao Han Department and other Eastern Mongolian tribes, collected cavalry, and marched south, the Kundulun Khan Burhatu of the Karaqin Department began to sit on pins and needles.

In the face of the naked comparison of strength, no matter how cunning he Burhatu is, he can only flee south all the way and ask for help from the border army of the Ming Dynasty.

However, he was not able to wait for reinforcements from Rehe Fort or Liaodong Town, neither Delige nor Wang Zhenyuan invited reinforcements.

If it weren't for the large number of bows, arrows, armor and other supplies that Delig had brought back from Rehe Fort, then the messenger he sent out for help would have returned completely empty-handed.

Of course, Burhatu regretted that he had killed Wu Keshan, the eldest son of Korqin Taiji Zhaisang, and Taiji Gunchuk of the Ao Han Department, and if he hadn't killed these two, he would not have even had a chance to make peace at this time.

For the Ming court to send troops to help, Burhatu did not have much hope at the beginning, after all, the previous Ming army paid lip service to the number of times it was too much.

But Burhatu will not sit still, his idea is very simple, that is, all the way south, if your Ming border army does not come to the rescue, I will retreat all the way south to the edge of the Great Wall.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty could not send troops, the west was the newly established Rehe Town Guard, and the east was the newly established Yingzhou Houtunwei Yongchang, once the allied forces led by Horqin crossed the Rehe Fort or threatened the newly established Rongchang, the Ming army in these two places had to send troops.

It was with this idea in mind that Burhatu ignored the advice of Bileg, Delig and Wang Zhenyuan and others, and abandoned the newly built city of Ulan Hada without fighting, and after hearing that the coalition forces of all tribes crossed the Yingjin River and occupied Ulan Hada, and most of the old and weak people left behind by Ulan Hada were killed, he continued to flee south from the original station of the Karaqin Department to the old place of Daningwei, that is, Ningcheng in later generations.

A few days later, when he heard that the allied forces had burned the old camp of Karaqin and continued to pursue it south, Burhatu gave another order, and took thousands of young cavalrymen who were holding their stomachs and tens of thousands of terrified Karaqin herdsmen, with cattle, sheep and horses, and ran to Balihan in one go.

Burhatu believes that when he arrives in Balihan, Cao Wenzhao of Rehebao and Chen Renxi of Liaodong Town will definitely not sit idly by.

Because, Balihan is only 800 miles away from Beijing, and it is less than 400 miles away from Chengde.

If Burhatu continues to move south after arriving in Balihan, or if the coalition forces of the Eastern Mongolian tribes convened by Horqin also arrive at Balihan, it will inevitably cause the Ming Jingshi to be shaken.

In Burhatu's view, at that time, the Ming court will never be indifferent to itself who fled south to this place, or to the coalition forces pursuing here.

Burhatu originally wanted to continue to flee south, but the cavalry of the Karaqin tribes were unwilling to continue south, because more than 100 miles to the south, it was no longer a vast grassland, but a patch of undulating mountains.

The Karaqin tribes have always regarded Monan as their homeland, and now they have the strength to fight a war, but they abandon their homes with abundant water and grass and retreat again and again, which is unacceptable to them.

Under the repeated persuasion of Bileg, Delige, Qinggeltai and Wang Zhenyuan, in order to appease the cavalry under his command and most of the herdsmen who fled south, Burhatu finally decided to stay in Balihan, and at the same time sent envoys to Rehebao and Yingzhou Houtunwei for help.

This time, the envoy sent not far from Balihan, in the direction of Rehe Fort, met the advance of Cao Wenzhao's department, who was about to go to the hometown of Daningwei to support Burhatu.

Cao Wenzhao and the others were shocked when they heard that Burhatu had fled south to Balihan.

Cao Wenzhao did not know how many cavalry there were in the Eastern Mongolian coalition led by Horqin, and he heard that Burhatu did not even have the courage to fight a battle, and he was also shocked in his heart, and he did not know how many men and horses the Horqin people had gathered.

It wasn't until he led the army to Balihan that Cao Wenzhao got an estimate from Qing Getai, who was in charge of the outlying sentinels, that the coalition army was divided into three routes, totaling about 13,000 cavalry, the middle road was the main force, about 6,000 cavalry, and the east and west roads each had about 3,000 cavalry.

Hearing that the allied forces of all departments had a total of 13,000 cavalry, and the troops were divided into three routes, Cao Wenzhao's heart suddenly felt a lot easier.

After seeing Burhatu, several people introduced each other, saluted, and greeted each other. Cao Wenzhao said to Burhatu: "Great Khan, I heard that the coalition army gathered by the Horqin people this time is about 13,000 people, and the troops are divided into three routes. Karaqin had the strength to fight, why didn't the Great Khan put up the slightest resistance, but only cared about coming all the way south? ”

Seeing Cao Wenzhao with more than 3,000 horsemen to help, the anger that Burhatu had accumulated in his heart for several days had calmed down, and now after listening to Cao Wenzhao's question, he immediately said: "The Horqin people came to seek revenge with the allied forces of all the tribes, although my Karaqin warriors have the strength to fight, but they are not all reckless men.

"You Han people have an idiom called the end of the strong crossbow, and there is another saying called mourning soldiers will win. Now the Horqin people are angry and come to seek revenge, but they can't find my Karaqin people, etc., and they chase all the way south for 600 miles, which is called the end of the strong crossbow.

"And although I, Karaqin, have the strength to fight, but I have also retreated hundreds of miles south, and the warriors are all angry in their hearts, which is called the victory of the mourning soldiers. I wonder what the general thinks? ”

As soon as these words were said, not only Cao Wenzhao, Niu Juming and others were taken aback when they heard this, so they were impressed by Burhatu, but even the people who accompanied the meeting in the Burhatu tent, Bileg, Delige, Qinggeltai and others were dumbfounded, and then they were all convinced of their own Great Khan, and they all admired it, it turned out that the Great Khan had already been confident.

Just as others were amazed, Niu Juming suddenly laughed, applauded, and said while applauding: "High! It's really high! The Great Khan is worthy of being the Great Khan of Karaqin! ”

Although Niu Juming said this, Cao Wenzhao and the others could still see the irony on his face, and Bileg and the others also stared at Niu Juming with an indifferent expression and were silent.

But Burhatu listened to Niu Juming's words, just smiled, didn't care, just heard him say: "This Lord Niu must be the military aircraft man who set up a plan to attack the rear of Horqin, right?" I've admired your name for a long time! It's just that I don't know what Lord Niu thinks about the current situation? ”

Niu Juming was also about to be tired during this time, but he still had to come to help Karaqin, after all, one of the purposes of the emperor who asked him to go to Rehe Fort to pass the decree was to entitle Cao Wenzhao as the envoy of Rehe Town, that is, to ask him to act at the right time and help Cao Wenzhao rescue Karaqin.

However, although his strategy to Cao Wenzhao was a great success, it seems that the Korqin people did not give up their conquest of Karaqin because of the changes in the rear.

This made him feel quite uneasy in his heart, if the Horqin people broke the kettle, regardless of it, did not play cards according to common sense, and were willing to withdraw their troops only if they destroyed Karaqin, then wouldn't his so-called siege of Wei to save Zhao and draw salary from the bottom of the kettle a joke?

He is a person who has been in contact with the emperor, and knows that the current Emperor Chongzhen is not the kind of person who can forget about others when he sees beauty.

If Karaqin was really hit hard and lost its role as a barrier in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, then even if he looked for a number of beauties like Hari Zhula for the emperor, Emperor Chongzhen would not think highly of him because of this.

So Niu Juming, who didn't care about the life or death of the Karaqin people, still dragged his body that was about to be torn apart, and continued to gallop with Cao Wenzhao all the way to rescue Burhatu.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for them to meet the messenger of Burhatu in Balihan.

Everyone in the tent listened to Kundulun Khan Burhatu asking Niu Juming, the military aircraft man of the Ming Dynasty, and they all listened quietly and with bated breath, seeing that Niu Juming was deep in thought, and no one spoke or urged.