At this time, the situation in Hezhou City, Lin Dan Khan's younger brother Fried Rabbit Taiji and brother-in-law Gun Chuke Tuying, who led the army to the city, already knew.

If it weren't for that, they wouldn't have dared to come and blackmail with only 3,000 Mongol cavalry.

Of course, the demands made by Gunchuk Tuying to the city of Hezhou were not all intimidation, because behind them, far beyond Jishi Pass, there was indeed an army of Lin Dan Khan.

Since Lin Dan Khan led the remnants of the Chahar army of more than 20,000 young and strong, old and weak, and struggled to get rid of the Jurchen and Ming army's pursuers from all walks of life, and rushed into Qinghai, the Qinghai Tumut tribes stationed in the vast area around the West Sea (that is, around Qinghai Lake) quickly divided and collapsed.

One of the most powerful tribes, the leader of the Qinghai Tumut tribe, Huoluo Chitaiji, was unwilling to accept Lin Dan Khan's rule because his people believed in the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism and feared that Lin Dan Khan would force them to convert to the Red Religion, as he had done in Monan.

When Lin Dan Khan sent an envoy to recruit him to leave the Huoluochi tribe, Huoluo Chitaiji soon took his tribal subjects and traveled south to the south of the Mangla River, a tributary of the upper reaches of the Yellow River (south of the Mangla River, a tributary of the upper reaches of the Yellow River).

Dig deeper, in fact, this Huoluo Chitaiji and Lin Dan Khan have a common ancestor.

They are all descendants of Dayan Khan of the Bal Jin clan, and this Huoluo Chitaiji is still a distant uncle who has a paternal blood relationship with Lin Dan Khan.

However, the Mongols in the steppes do not pay much attention to this blood relationship.

For the sake of power and interests, from ancient times to the present, fathers and sons have turned against each other and brothers have become enemies among the upper echelons of the Mongolian aristocracy.

As for this kind of clan relationship that has been separated by generations, in the face of your life-and-death power struggle, no one will care.

After Huoluo Chitaiji moved south to Manglachuan with tens of thousands of Tumut tribes, the largest tribe in the West China Sea, the other small Mongolian tribes stationed around the West Sea were unable to resist Lin Dan Khan's Chahar army.

So, by the end of March of the third year of Chongzhen, there was almost no major war, and these small Mongolian tribes who fled to Qinghai in the war of Dayan Khan to unify the Tatar tribes, and later moved west to Qinghai in the war of Tumut Altan Khan to unify Monan, finally attached to Lin Dan Khan, the great-grandson of Dayan Khan, after hundreds of years.

The annexation of these small tribes in the West Sea and Mongolia also allowed the exhausted Lin Dan Khan's troops to quickly gain a foothold in the grasslands west of the West Sea (Qinghai Lake).

At the beginning of May, Lin Dan Khan led his Eight Great Khruduo, greeted by many small tribes, as in history, to the area south of the mouth of the Buha River that flows eastward into the West Sea, and named this place Chakhanoer (later known as Qinghai Chahanno) as the location of his kha tent.

Immediately after that, Lin Dan Khan formally summoned the leaders of the small tribes of the West Sea Mongolia at the location of the tent of Chakhan Norr Khan, and in the name of the Mongol Great Khan, the Mongolian tribes of the West Sea were designated as eight Etoks, that is, eight thousand households, and ordered them to be subordinate to their own eight Huludo.

At the same time, Lin Dan Khan, in the name of the Great Khan of the Mongols, gave the leader of these eight Etoks the title of Enoyan as the official title of the Northern Yuan.

After doing these things, Lin Dan Khan settled down roughly on the big grass beach in Qinghai.

When Lin Dan Khan left Kuku and Tun led his troops to move west, there were a total of 60,000 households on the left and right wings under his command, plus 10,000 households in the Chinese army, and there were many people and horses, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the soldiers were strong and strong.

But when he finally led his troops to the destination of this westward migration, not only did most of the 30,000 households on his right flank not escape from Kuku and Tun, but even the 10,000 households of the Chinese army, which he relied on the most, were almost completely wiped out in the aftermath battles again and again.

His most trusted Chinese army Wanhu, his eldest brother-in-law Gui Yingcha died on the way to the west, and Bolhu and Sanal Zhai, who were the same as Gui Yingcha, were the generals of the iron lance Konot ten Sumu under Lin Dan Khan, and one led the troops to surrender after a battle.

The elite cavalry Iron Lance Konot, which belonged to the 10,000 households of the Chahar Central Army, was completely lost, leaving only a few thousand people who acted as the vanguard, and followed all the way to Chakhanoor.

Now counting the 30,000 households belonging to the left wing, counting the subordinates belonging to the Eight Great Huluduo, and following Lin Dan Khan to the westward migration to the Chahar Mongols on the Qinghai steppe, men, women and children, nobles, subordinates and slaves, together, there are less than 30,000 people.

However, compared to the loss of a large number of people on the way west, what made Lin Dan Khan, a proud and conceited Mongol Khan, feel unbearable, was the extreme poverty of the Chahar tribe today.

Along the way, except for his three treasures, namely the jade seal brought to the steppe by Emperor Yuan Shun, the golden Buddha of Maha Kala, and the Kangyur written in gold, Lin Dan Khan discarded almost all his wealth, gold and silver, cattle and sheep, cloth, skins, grain, as well as all kinds of gold and silver ceramic utensils and a large number of herdsmen.

So much so that when Lin Dan Khan, with the respect of the Great Khan of Mongolia, summoned the eight new Etok leaders of the Western Sea Mongols in Chakhan Norr, he couldn't even get a decent reward, so he could only give these leaders he hoped to win over an empty Noyan title.

Even, the survival of the 30,000 households of the Chahar headquarters under his command and its eight noble tribes of Huluduo all need the help and support of the eight Otoks of the Western Sea Mongolia.

This situation made Lin Danhan, who had a good face, extremely uncomfortable.

Therefore, in the middle of May, as soon as the reorganization of the Mongolian tribes in the West Sea was completed, Lin Dan Khan immediately personally led an army of 20,000 people who had been scraped together and pulled together, and under the leadership of the previous Haikou tribe, they went all the way east along the edge of the West Sea, that is, Qinghai Lake, and went straight to Xining.

However, the acropolis of Xiningwei was tall and strong, and the head of the city was also equipped with a general's cannon, although the cavalry of Lin Dan Khan was quite numerous, but they could only look at the city and sigh.

Lin Dan Khan sent people into the city with letters, asking the defenders in the city to contribute gold and silver, cattle and sheep, grain and cloth, but Li Hongsi, the hereditary commander of Xining Wei who sat in the city, and Li Zhensheng, who was elected by the Han people in the city as the leader of the urban and rural soldiers, sternly refused.

Not to mention that Li Hongsi, Li Zhensheng and others can't take out these things, even if they can, they won't take them out.

The Musubarian rebellion in the west of the Taomin River has cut off the trade routes and grain routes from the mainland to Xining.

At this time, more than half of the tens of thousands of Han people in Xining were Han refugees who had fled into the city from all over the surrounding areas.

These people have been alone in Xining for half a year, and now every catty of coarse grain, every cattle, sheep and livestock in the city, even every grain of salt and a handful of coarse tea, are rationed according to the number of people in the city.

If the gold and silver cloth were given to Lin Dan Khan, the defenders of Xining would no longer be able to buy livestock from the Fan tribes near and far.

And gave the grain, salt and tea to Lin Dan Khan, and the Han people in the city didn't know how many people would starve to death.

Because, the soldiers and civilians in Xining City have no way of knowing at this time whether the legendary reinforcements of the Trilateral Governor's Mansion will come, and when they will come.

Because of this, Lin Dan Khan's extortion did not succeed, and he felt that it was not cost-effective to attack, so he had to order his subordinates to set up camp outside Xining City to besiege the city, and at the same time sent various Mongolian cavalry to burn and loot in the surrounding area of Xining City.

At the same time, Lin Dan Khan also sent a cavalry to the southwest of Xining City, led by his uncle Gar Mo Jinong and the national teacher Zhuo Erji Hutu Ketu, the national teacher of the Red Sect, to attack and sack the Ta'er Monastery in Huangzhong.

This is because this Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa temple located in Huangzhong is not an ordinary Yellow Sect temple, but a sacred place of Yellow Sect in the entire Qinghai Mongolian region.

On the way to the west, the group of Red Lamas who had been following Lin Dan Khan before and after the saddle did not want Lin Dan Khan to move to Qinghai, because the Yellow Sect had a great influence among the Mongolian tribes in Qinghai, and the main thing to fear was this Ta'er Temple.

However, now, since they came by mistake, and the most powerful Huoluo Chitaiji in the Qinghai Mongolian tribes did not dare to take a look at it, and moved directly south to Manglachuan, these Red Sect lamas naturally would not miss this opportunity to severely damage the Gelug sect.