In just four days and four nights, the messenger who delivered the report and the secret decree did not know how many stagecoaches were tired, and he ran back and forth from Datong to Beijing.

That's not a bad speed.

However, by the time Emperor Chongzhen's secret decree reached the Yamen of Datong, and then to Zu Dashou, Wu Fu, Ding Qirui and others, it was too late.

Let's say that Yongshebu Zinong and Lin Dan Khan's eldest brother-in-law, Gui Yingcha, returned in despair outside the Victory Fort, and the two rushed back overnight in a hurry.

On the way back, the minds of the two people all changed.

From the original position of advocating uniting the Ming army against the Jianyu Jurchens, he was suddenly disappointed and resentful of the Ming army who stood by and watched, and soon turned into support for Lin Dan Khan to immediately abandon Kuku and Tun and move west.

They galloped all night, and at last at dawn they returned to the vicinity of Kuku and Tun.

In the twilight of the sky, they could already see the walls of Kuku and Tun and the red roof of Xiaozhao in Kuku and Tun from a distance.

At this moment, he suddenly waved his hand to stop the horse team behind him, listened carefully, and heard a sudden sound of horses' hooves from the northwest.

A moment later, Gui Ying, who was riding on a horse, stood up with his stirrups and looked in the northwest direction, and soon saw hundreds of cavalry with the top helmets and cotton armor pouring out of a mound in the northwest!

"Damn! This is the Jurchen cavalry! The Jurchens are coming! ”

With a shout from Gui Yingcha, he and the cavalry team behind him also spotted the enemy rushing at high speed in front of him!

The person who came was none other than the vanguard of the Jianyu cavalry commanded by Abatai's two sons, Yue Le and Bolo.

When Huang Taiji led his army to the Wuzhgentala grassland near Erenhot, Lin Dan Khan's younger brother Gutu Taiji fled in despair, and the troops of Doutumen Gushan (his younger brother's ten thousand households), one of the six solid mountains of the Chahar tribe, were leaderless and immediately scattered in all directions.

At the same time, there is another salt lake near Erenhot, the only salt lake in the north of the country, Erennaoer, compared with the poverty of the various tribes in the south of the desert at this time, the people under the command of Gantu Taiji are still a little richer.

Huang Taiji led the army to come, marched for many days, and all the tribes were attached to the wind along the way.

At this time, Huang Taiji had to pretend to be a benevolent monarch in front of the Mongolian tribes, so the accompanying tribes did not find the opportunity to loot and loot.

After coming to the Wuzhigentala grassland, especially after coming to Erenhot, a large number of troops, livestock and wealth looted by Gantu Taiji in Monan in the past two years naturally became the object of competition and plunder by the army under Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji had no choice but to send Abatai to lead the eight Jurchen Niulu under his command and the seven Han Niulu under his son-in-law Li Yongfang, to supervise and lead the troops of Babudaiji, the eldest son of the Chechen Khan of Mobei Khalkha Mongolia, to find a way south and come to Kuku and Tun.

Erenhot is nearly 1,000 miles away from Kuku and Tun, and there is the Gobi Desert in the middle, so it is not easy to travel all the way.

In order to improve the efficiency of the march, Huang Taiji asked Abatai and other troops to advance lightly, not to loot along the way, and to reduce their speed.

It's just that Abatai, the unwilling Belle Ye, can only restrain his son and son-in-law, but he can't restrain the 5,000 people of Babudaiji, the half-annexed but unannexed Chechen Khan.

Therefore, after going south from Erenhot, only Yue Le and Boluo kept in mind the will of Huangtai Jibing's speed, and ran non-stop along the way to find the location of Kuku and Tun.

Abatai and Li Yongfang, on the other hand, could only take the seven Han army Niulu, who could no longer distinguish whether they were Han or Jurchen, and urged Babudaiji's 5,000 men to advance south.

At the pass of the Haravuna Mountain, the vanguard of the Jurchen cavalry that Gunchuk Tutu Ying saw from a distance was the eight Jurchen Niulu led by the two brothers, Yue Le and Bolo, totaling 2,400 people.

The Jurchen forward cavalry of 2,400 people made Kuku and Tuncheng a mess.

In the evening of the next day, when Abatai led the follow-up Mobei cavalry and Han Niulu to Kuku and Tunbeimen, the princes and ministers who had previously advocated westward migration once again gained the upper hand.

They all ran to the temple of the Xiaozhao Lama and begged Lin Dan Khan to accept their advice.

If Lin Dan Khan doesn't agree, that's fine, please allow them to leave on their own with their own men.

These people's demands made Lin Dan Khan very angry.

However, anger is anger, and Lindan Batur, who has been a great khan for more than 20 years, knows that the Chahar of today is not what it used to be.

The eight Etoks attached to Chahar are now gone, and they have either taken refuge in the Houjin State or run to Mobei to set up their own doors.

If the six fortified mountains on the left and right flanks of the Chahar headquarters also fled, then what kind of Mongol co-lord was this Khutuktu Khan of Helin Danbatur?

Lin Dan Khan once again summoned his princes, ministers, Zaisangtaiji, and the great lamas of the national teachers to gather in his palace to discuss.

Moreover, Lin Dan Khan also asked people to put away their three treasures, the jade seal of the Mengyuan Empire, the golden Buddha of Mahagala, and the "Kangyur" (Tripitaka) written in gold.

This meaningful move immediately made the high-ranking Chahar nobles in Kuku and Tuncheng understand Lin Dan Khan's intentions.

If it weren't for the insistence of those Red Sect lamas who were opposed, I'm afraid Lin Dan Khan wouldn't have been able to wait for the news sent by Guiyingcha and would have fled on the way to the west again.

However, the news of Restabu Nang and Gui Yingcha became the last ray of hope for Lin Dan Khan and his national teacher Zhuo Erzi Hutuketu.

If the Ming army came to the rescue, then Lin Dan Khan would be able to hold on, and the national teacher Zhuoerji Hutuktu and his retinue of lamas would be able to persuade the other Chahar nobles to choose to hold on to Kuku and Tun.

However, what Gui Yingcha broke into the city and brought back to them was the news that made them feel desperate: the Ming army in Datong Town did not send troops to help, but wrote a letter asking for a decision!

Lin Dan Khan has dealt with the border town generals of the Ming Dynasty for many years, saying that it is a letter to ask for a decision, but in fact it is a kind of refusal unique to the Ming Dynasty.

Even if he really wrote a letter to ask for a decision, Lin Dan Khan didn't know how far Datong Town was from the Ming Jingshi, but he knew that when the holy decree of the Ming Emperor came, I was afraid that he would have become Huang Taiji's prisoner.

Thinking of the surrender of the 30,000 tribal leaders of the left-wing Mongols to Huangtaiji, Lin Dan Khan felt deeply uneasy about his situation.

Maybe some of the tribal leaders around him will tie himself up and sacrifice the city when the Huangtaiji army is besieging the city!

Just when Lin Dan Khan watched over and over again as the leaders of the various tribes argued in front of him, Gui Yingcha broke through the interception of Bolo and Babu, and rushed into the city from the south gate of Kuku and Tun with the remaining iron lance Konot cavalry!

However, the elite cavalry of the Restabu and his subordinate Yongxieb were stopped outside the east gate of Kuku and Tun by the Jianyu cavalry led by Yue Le.

Yong Xie Bu Jinong led the cavalry under his command to block the impact of the Jurchen iron cavalry for Guiyingcha, but let himself be encircled.

Although the two sides were about the same in number, the cavalry under the command of Yongshebujinon was a tired soldier who had been running for almost a day and a night.

At this time, he encountered the Jianlu cavalry who had been resting for two days outside Kuku and Tuncheng, although they all tried their best to intercept them, but they were not the enemy of the Jianlu cavalry.

After a large number of Mobei cavalry were repulsed by the Chahars on the city wall outside the south gate, gave up the pursuit of Guiyingcha, and returned to the battlefield outside the east gate, Yongshebu Jinong's department was soon encircled.

Half an hour later, Babudaiji, who came from the Chechen Khan Department in Mobei, carried the head of the Khrestabu bag with a spear, and led his team to cheer all the way around the city!

It was Babudaiji, who came from Mobei, who carried the head of the Khrestabu Bag around the city to show off his military exploits, which made Lin Dan Khan finally make up his mind to continue to move westward.

The Mongols in Mobei have already taken refuge in Huang Taiji, and if they go to Mobei by themselves, won't they fall into the net? !

After Gui Yingcha rushed into the city, he immediately came to the palace of Lin Dan Khan, where the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of Chahar are gathered, and reported to Lin Dan Khan about the time before and after going to the border of Datong to knock on the border to ask for help, and everyone learned that the last glimmer of hope was also shattered.

The cheers of the Chechen Khan of Mobei Mongolia outside the city made the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the Chahar Department in the city feel terrified.

In the midst of the chaos of everyone, Gui Yingcha knelt on one knee and touched his chest with his right hand, saluted Lin Dan Khan and said:

"Great Khan! You are a descendant of Genghis Khan! You have Genghis Khan's blood in your veins! Your life is 10,000 times more valuable than the most precious thing in the world! As long as you are alive, you are the only undisputed Great Khan of the Mongolian steppe!

"Now the Jurchen army is swarming from the east and north, and the Ming Kingdom in the south is blocked by mountains, and the only way to move west is to move west! Please Khan make up your mind!

"If you wait for the main force of tens of thousands of troops on the North Road and the East Road to encircle Kuku and Tun, at that time, I am afraid it will be too late to regret it!" 210[.]