At noon on the second day of Huang Taiji, who took the only remaining Jurchen and Mongolian 30,000 horses, broke through from Kuku and Tun to the north, a large number of cavalry led by Zhao Shujiao, Zu Dashou, Cao Wenzhao, and the leader of the Duolun tribe, Hadan Batel, came to Kuku and Tuncheng.

However, at this time, Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft, had already led the army into this Saibei Xiongcheng on the first day.

And the remnants of the Jianlu and Mongol soldiers under Huang Taiji have long disappeared in the snowstorm in the north.

Zhao Shujiao, Zu Dashou, Cao Wenzhao and others gathered enough strength to come, but found that Kuku and Tun had fallen into the hands of the Ming army in Shanxi Town, and the Nu chieftain and his Jianlu and Mongol servant army had also fled further north, and everyone was extremely sorry in their hearts.

It's just that on the grassland in this season, the wind and snow are raging, and the marching is difficult, and the Ming cavalry who can march quickly for 300 miles every day on weekdays is full of energy, and at this time, they can ride their horses every day and run half the distance, which is already very good.

As for continuing to go north to Hanhai to pursue the Jianyu cavalry in this season, despite the severe cold wind and snow, including the Mongolian man Hadan Batel, the leader of the Duolun Tribe, shook his head again and again.

Therefore, although these people feel regretful, they are helpless.

At noon that day, several people were taken into the city by Wang Guoliang, the chief soldier of Shanxi Town, and hurriedly came to meet Pingyang Bo Li Banghua, the military minister of the Ming court.

Several people entered the city and came to Li Banghua's superintendent's courtyard.

Zhao Shujiao and Zu Dashou, two general officers of the economic system with the general's seal, respectively reported to Li Banghua on the battle situation in the direction of Duolunuoer and Datong.

At the same time, in order to make up for the regret of not being able to leave Jianyu in Monan, these newly arrived generals asked the minister of military aircraft of the Ming Dynasty for orders, and were willing to lead the cavalry of various departments to protect Li Banghua, the old minister of military aircraft, and continue to the west to recover the land of Hetao.

Zu Dashou said: "Lord Cabinet! I heard that when the slave chieftain first went south, Lin Dan Khan fled westward, and the nu chieftain also sent a detachment to the west to pursue.

"If you want to come to Ordos, the tribes will inevitably fight hard repeatedly, and today Jianyu will flee north, and its westward division will not be able to stay for a long time.

"After this battle, the strength of the Ordos tribes will be lost, and Lin Dan Khan fled westward, Mo Nan has no owner, and the Lord led tens of thousands of troops to the west, stepping on the ice and crossing the river, or you can take it without a fight! This sincerity is the immortal merit of our generation to guard the frontier! ”

Zu Dashou's statement won the approval of Zhao Shujiao, Cao Wenzhao and others.

Li Banghua listened to the words of these generals of the general army asking for war, and his heart was also excited.

Recovering the Hetao is a long-standing dream for a civil servant like him.

This dream, since the time of Emperor Xiaozong and Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, has become the long-cherished wish of many civil and military generals who are interested in recovering the lost territory of the Ming Dynasty.

When Emperor Jiajing was in power, Zeng Miao, who was the governor of the three sides at the time, sent Emperor Jiajing a "Request for the Restoration of the Hetao" and put forward suggestions and requests for the recovery of the Hetao.

Zeng Miao's idea was approved by Emperor Jiajing, but not by other courtiers.

Because at that time, the southeast coast was facing a serious trouble, the focus of the Ming military was on the southeast, and the leader of the Ordos tribes in the northwest was not weak.

At the same time, the Da Da Khan in the desert south area outside the Datong border has just emerged, and the army is flourishing.

Therefore, although Zeng Mill's proposal was good, it was not able to win the support of the border ministers of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ning, Gu, and Yanzhu towns around the Hetao.

Most of these people maintain the mentality of not seeking merit but seeking no fault, believing that it is better to do more than less, so as not to fail in the use of troops, which will anger the captives and meda, and instead set themselves on fire, causing the Mongols to commit crimes.

However, Zeng Miao's proposal was supported by Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet at the time.

In this way, with the support of Emperor Jiajing and Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet at the time, Zeng Mo mobilized a group of troops and began to launch a complex war.

However, Zeng Mill's approach, because he did not get the full support of other ministers along the border, won first and then lost, and spent two years in vain.

Zeng milled for two years without success, the wind direction of the imperial court changed rapidly, and Emperor Jiajing's mind also changed.

Yan Song, who was bent on driving away Xia Yan and ascending to the throne, took the opportunity to gather a group of courtiers to attack and impeach Zeng Milling and bully the monarch, and pointed the finger at Xia Yan, the first assistant at that time.

As a result, Xia Yan stepped down in the party struggle, and the position of first assistant was replaced by Yan Song.

Zeng Miao, who lost Xia Yan's support, ended up even worse, not only losing his official position and resigning, but also being accused of bullying the monarch by his political enemies Yan Song, Qiu Luan and others, and was finally arrested in Beijing, beheaded and abandoned the city, becoming a victim of the cruel party struggle of the Jiajing Dynasty.

Not long after Zeng Mill was beheaded and abandoned the city, Ha Dahan of the Tumut Department and Jinong of the Ordos Department led the army to commit the border one after another, and Xia Yan, the former head assistant who supported Zeng Milling and Fu set back then, was also beheaded by Emperor Jiajing, who loved to turn over old accounts, in the name of opening a border provocation without permission.

Since then, the matter of recovering the Hetao has become an unspeakable taboo in the Jiajing period.

Since then, the border towns in the northwest have also died of the heart of repetition, and there is no intention of enterprising.

Li Banghua knows these past events clearly, and when the generals mention them at this time, they naturally have to act cautiously.

Moreover, at this time, the wind and snow outside the fortress were raging, dripping into ice, and the army was marching and fighting repeatedly, and the injury and illness problems were serious.

And the thieves who have been responsible for encirclement and suppression have returned to northern Shaanxi again, and Yuan Chonghuan, the trilateral governor with a stubborn personality and reckless behavior, has stabbed a big basket in the northwest.

If he leads the army to the west now, oppresses the Ordos tribes, and forces the Ordos tribes to jump over the wall in a hurry, go south to Shaanxi or Guyuan, and then cause Yuan Chonghuan to fight on the north and south fronts, wouldn't it be adding fuel to the fire by doing so!

Hesitating, Li Banghua said to Zu Dashou, Zhao Shujiao and others: "Recovering the Hetao is indeed an immortal achievement!" It is not only the stubborn ambition of your generals, but also the long-cherished wish of the Cabinet Department!

"However, the war in the south of the desert is closed, and there are thousands of things in the naturalization city! The soldiers of all units have been fighting hard for months in the wind and snow, and the camp is full of injuries and diseases, and they urgently need to rest!

"And this matter is important, the royal drive is in Juyong Pass, and everything should depend on the decision of the saint! However, the generals' proposal, the cabinet will report as soon as possible, and it will reach the heavens in a few days, and the ministries can take advantage of this few days to fight and recuperate! ”

Although the generals were interested in going west to recover the Hetao as soon as possible, seeing that the weather outside the city was like this, and the army came from afar, although the morale was very high, they were also exhausted.

Moreover, the army pursued from afar, without any food and grass, and all kinds of realities were in front of them, and it was useless to have a sense of pride.

After Li Banghua met with several generals of the general army, he asked Wang Guoliang, the chief military officer of Shanxi Town, to divide the garrison area in the naturalized city for the cavalry.

The palace of Lin Dan Khan of the Great Mongolian State in Kuku and Tuncheng, that is, the palace of Tiancong Khan of the Great Jin State after Huang Taiji occupied Kuku and Tun, has now naturally become the superintendent of Li Banghua, the old military minister of the Ming Dynasty and the supervisor of Shanxi Thief Suppression.

And a large number of houses and dwellings in the city were naturally filled with officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

When Huang Taiji led the army to evacuate, he left in a hurry, leaving not only a batch of grain, grass and livestock in the city, but also a large number of women and children.

The buildings, including the government offices, temples, shops, and houses in the city, did not have time to set fire to them.

Therefore, after Li Banghua brushed his army into the city, he received a basically complete city from Huang Taiji's hasty breakthrough.

Most of the more than 10,000 old and weak women and children in the city were the families of the Chahar herdsmen who did not have time to go out of the city to keep up when Lin Dan Khan evacuated Kuku and Tun, and a considerable number of them belonged to the wives, daughters and young children of the 30,000 household leaders of the Chahar right wing who were ordered to break off at that time.

Now, with the escape of Huang Taiji's breakthrough, these old and weak women and children of the 30,000 households of the original Chahar right wing, who were mainly women and children, fell into the hands of the Ming army in relative integrity, just like the cities of Kuku and Tun.

Ding Zhuang of these old and weak women and children's families, was first drawn by Lin Dan Khan as a soldier, followed Lin Dan Khan to fight everywhere, and when Huang Taiji came, he was surrendered to Huang Taiji's leaders and once again drew Ding as a soldier, and now most of them died on the battlefield of Xuanda, and the rest of them were lucky not to die, and this time they were coerced by the Jurchens to break through and withdraw together.

Therefore, the rest are women and children, and there is no harm.

Some of these slightly beautiful women were wantonly played with by the Jurchen pigtailed soldiers of the Jin State after the establishment of the captivity, and they were also full of hatred for the Jurchens.

When Li Banghua led the Ming army into the city in a big way, these people were very docile and cooperative.

And Erke Chuhuer, one of the former Chahar right-wing households who surrendered to Li Banghua in the Pingyu Acropolis, and now with a new identity, after following the Ming army back to Kuku and Tun, he also put forward a request to Li Banghua to assign the old and weak women and children of Chahar in the city to himself, but Li Banghua refused.

Li Banghua only agreed to Erke Chuhuer to find his wife and daughter's family.

At the same time, he only agreed that the 2,000 Mongolian cavalry soldiers who followed Erke Chuhuer to surrender to the Ming Dynasty could find their families.

The ownership and disposition of others shall be determined by decree.

Of course, Li Banghua has his own ideas, including the future of the Naturalization City, including the disposal of these women and children in the city, including the resettlement of the young and strong Han people in the Guannei who came with the army, etc., as early as when he led the army to camp troops outside Kuku and Tuncheng, he already had a set of ideas.

At this time, Li Banghua naturally wanted to report to Emperor Chongzhen, who was in Juyong Pass, as soon as possible, and asked the emperor to decide.