Chapter 716: Endure and endure
At the beginning, Yuan Chonghuan didn't think about directly beheading Zhao Dayin.
After all, this Zhao Dayin is the deputy chief soldier of Taomin appointed by the imperial court, and he has made great achievements in the army for decades, and he has a prestige in Taomin and other places.
Although Yuan Chonghuan has the power given by the emperor to unify and control the three governors and five general soldiers of the three sides, and he also has the Shang Fang sword given by the emperor himself, he will not risk the disapproval of the world to easily execute a deputy general soldier.
Therefore, his original idea was to transfer Zhao Dayin, the deputy general soldier and his subordinates, from the Taomin border area to Zhenfan, Gansu, and then let Luo Junjie, the famous general who guarded Zhenfan, change his guard with him.
However, at the end of September, not long after the order of the trilateral governor's palace was issued, Haikou, who had been calm for several years, suddenly sent more than 1,000 troops to attack the border of Hezhou.
And within a few days, Baili Tusi in the Tibetan region of Gannan also sent troops to raid the Taozhou border.
Zhao Dayin immediately led the army to attack, stationed troops on the border, and then asked the prefect of Lintao to write to the trilateral governor's mansion, asking Zhao Dayin, the deputy commander of Taomin, to stay in the place of Taomin.
And Zhao Dayin also asked the trilateral governor's office to take back his order on the grounds that most of the soldiers in his department were Tao Min and returned to his homeland and did not want to go north to Zhenfan.
Yuan Chonghuan had seen a lot of such things when he was in Liaodong, so he naturally knew what was going on.
But in the face of the requests of the local officials and gentry in Taomin, he could only endure it again and again.
Then, after entering October, the hostile situation from northern Cyprus became more and more serious day by day.
Emperor Chongzhen's decree also came to Huamachi, and asked Yuan Chonghuan to lead the troops under the jurisdiction of the trilateral governor's palace to prepare for possible enemies from the north.
Yuan Chonghuan knew how powerful the whip soldiers of the Jin State were after the Jianyu, because he had a lot of dealings with the Jianguo army in Liaodong.
And how bad the Northwest Frontier Military Guard is, Yuan Chonghuan has been here for a year and a half in the three northwest borders, and he knows it in his heart.
He knew that these armies might be more than enough to suppress the uprising of the displaced people, but they were far from fighting against the Jianyu army.
It was also at this time that Yuan Chonghuan once again moved the idea of transferring the proud soldiers and fierce generals under the command of Tao Min's deputy chief soldier to the north.
Jianyu is coming, this is a national war, if Zhao Dayin leads the army to come, then the previous ones will be revealed, and let him fight desperately with Jianyu.
If he is disrespectful and stubborn, then Yuan Chonghuan is ready to do something to him.
People like Yuan Chonghuan can't tolerate someone under his own command who dares not to obey his orders.
However, for Zhao Dayin and his subordinate generals, they are different from Dong Zhiyi and Han Yiliang, who are the chief military officers and superintendents of the army, and their family interests are closely related to their power in the garrison as border army generals.
Since they had already had a feud with Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, now that they had left their hometown of Taomin, it would be difficult to come back, so everyone was reluctant to go north.
And although Zhao Dayin, the deputy commander-in-chief, knew that the consequences of disobeying the order at the juncture of Jianyu's attack were serious, he couldn't stand the clamor of the generals under his command, and finally decided to disobey the yang and the yin, and drag it out.
Therefore, on the one hand, it is necessary to pay for food, and also to allocate a sum of money and settle down in a lump of money.
On the other hand, they dragged it out, and refused to lead the army to leave Taozhou, Hezhou and other places under the pretext that there were police on the pretext.
At this time, Yuan Chonghuan had made up his mind not to kill Zhao Dayin, and his authority as the governor of the three sides would be questioned.
However, in mid-to-late October, although Yuan Chonghuan moved his murderous intentions, he did not do it, because the enemy situation from outside the Saiwai was getting more and more serious.
It was at this time that Lin Dan Khan, who had always thought that Yuan Chonghuan was very powerful, actually abandoned his capital in Monan and fled westward.
This made Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu, Yang Qi, the chief military officer of Dingyu Town, He Huchen, the chief military officer of Ningxia Town, and Zhang Jiamo, the chief military officer of Gansu Town, and other high-ranking officials and fierce generals in the northwest suddenly nervous.
The northwest is barren and has a small population, and although these border towns are also very important, the combined strength of the troops is not as large as that of a Liaodong town.
If Lin Dan Khan jumped over the wall and rushed desperately, the thousands of miles of border from Suzhou to Huamachi would be full of people, and I am afraid that he would not be able to stop the heavy blow of the Mongolian cavalry!
Therefore, whether it is Yuan Chonghuan, who has always been bold, or Mei Zhihuan, who is familiar with the situation in the northwest of Jiuzhen, at this time, he has no heart to think about anything else, and everyone focuses on the first-line areas along the border in the north.
It didn't take long for Yuan Chonghuan, who was in Huamachi, to receive the news sent by Chen Qiyu, who was a political participant in Yansui Town, that the Jianyu army, under the personal leadership of the slave chief Huang Taiji, actually broke through the border from the killing of Hukou.
This news shocked everyone in the Governor's Mansion on the three sides of Huamachi, and Yuan Chonghuan was even more anxious and anxious.
Just when Yuan Chonghuan and others were anxiously waiting for the battle situation on all sides in order to make a final decision, on 8 November, He Huchen, the chief soldier of Ningxia, sent news that most of the Chahar troops were asking for help from the border and asked to go to Qinghai by way.
Such a thing had never happened before, and He Huchen, the chief soldier of Ningxia Town, and Qu Shiyun, the superintendent of the army, hurriedly sent people to Huamachi to report the news and ask for instructions on how to handle it.
Yuan Chonghuan, who has always been decisive and decisive to the point of being a little rigid and self-serving, suddenly became indecisive this time, just like Fan Fucui and Zu Dashou.
Yuan Chonghuan weighed the pros and cons and hesitated for a night, and finally made up his mind in the early morning of the ninth day of the first month of November, ready to take a huge risk, let Lin Danhan go, and let him pass.
It's a pity that by the time Yuan Chonghuan made a decision and was personally brought to the Ningxia Acropolis by He Renlong, the general of the Chinese army, Lin Dan Khan, who couldn't afford to wait, had already led a large number of Chahar troops under his command to detour west.
Soon after this news was brought back by He Renlong, Yuan Chonghuan received a secret edict from Emperor Chongzhen, which included instructions to rescue Lin Dan Khan and then unite with Lin Dan Khan against Jianyu.
These two things were put together, which made Yuan Chonghuan annoyed by his previous hesitation.
The day after Yuan Chonghuan received Emperor Chongzhen's secret decree, before he could convey this decree to Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu, he received the news that the Chahar cavalry sent by Zhang Jiamo had appeared south of Yibula Mountain (Yabulai Mountain in the western section of Inner Mongolia).
However, what made him even more annoyed was that the herald he sent had not yet arrived at his destination, and Lin Dan Khan, who had no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground, was chased by Abatai, Li Yongfang, Kongol and Babudaiji, and finally jumped over the wall in a hurry and tore his face with the Ming army, and led tens of thousands of Chahar cavalry to break through the border from the Muyangchuan River valley under the Yibula Mountain.
Muyangchuan is located in the southern edge of the Badain Jaran Desert in the later generations, on both sides of the Muyangchuan River valley area, there are castles built by the Ming army.
The east one is called the Shekigawa River East Fort, and the west one is called the Muyangchuan River West Fort.
If it were left in the past, the Mongol tribes outside the Seychelles would not dare to go south from here, because although the terrain here is flat, the fortresses of the Ming army are all over the place, and the castle is full of artillery.
But this time, Lin Dan Khan, who had been being chased by the army led by Abatai, was really cornered.
Since abandoning Kuku and Tun and leading 30,000 households on the left wing of the Chahar Department to move westward, Lin Dan Khan has fallen into a situation of running for his life.
He thought that after giving Kuku and Tun and the vast area of Monan to Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji would be able to let him go.
He was right, Huang Taiji really didn't use all his strength to pursue him.
But just one Abatai already made him unbearable.
If he had the courage to turn back and fight to the death against the coalition forces pursued by Abatai, the outcome would not be certain.
But Lin Dan Khan, who fled from Kuku and Tun, was really defeated, fleeing all the way, and his troops were also lost all the way, and he didn't have the courage to turn back and fight the pursuing soldiers in a decisive battle.
However, although Lin Dan Khan did not dare to go back to the decisive battle with the Jianyu Jurchen soldiers, he still looked down on the officials and troops of the Ming Dynasty, and in the face of the officials and troops of the Ming Dynasty, he had a mysterious self-confidence.
In his eyes, the Ming army in Datong Town did not dare to go out to aid him because they were afraid of angering the Jurchens, and the Ming army in Ningxia Town did not dare to accept him, and they were also afraid of setting himself on fire.
But when he was cornered, and if he didn't go south to enter the customs and rush to Qinghai through the Daoming Realm, there was only one dead end left, and he didn't care about giving himself another enemy.
Therefore, Lin Dan Khan took the remaining 20,000 or 30,000 horses, turned south at the foot of Yibula Mountain, rushed straight south along the Muyangchuan River Valley, endured the fierce bombardment of the Ming army's generals' artillery, and rushed through the Muyangchuan River Valley, rushed into the Yongchangwei under the jurisdiction of Gansu Town, and then bypassed the Yongchangwei Acropolis where heavy troops gathered, and marched westward along the northern edge of Xiningwei.
Finally, on November 12, they got rid of the encirclement and interception of the Ming army in Gansu Zhen, and entered the vast wind and snow around Qinghai Lake.