The meeting in the palace of Lin Dan Khan in Kuku and Tuncheng lasted until night, and Lin Dan Khan, under the advice of Choresi Bunang, Gui Yingcha and the envoy Zhuo Zihu Tuketu, finally decided on a few corresponding strategies.

First, the two of them, Restabu and Gui Yingcha, each with a guard, rushed to the victory fort outside the Datong border overnight, and the victory fort guard explained the situation and asked the border army of Datong Town to rescue.

Although Lin Dan Khan has always made enemies everywhere, since the trade and mutual market with Datong Town through the Rongchang market, the relationship between them is okay, at least it has not really torn its face.

Second, he sent Kunga Odesr, a great lama who had previously preached in Ordos, to Ordos to make peace with the Edos, and appointed the Erechen as Jinong who was in charge of the Ordos tribes instead of the Mongol Great Khan.

Although Jinong's position is extremely noble in the history of southern Mongolia, by this time, the rules on the Mongolian steppe have long been out of order, as long as you have enough strength, you will proclaim yourself the Great Khan, and no one dares to say anything.

As for Deputy Khan Jinong, it has long been not something that the Ordos Ministry can monopolize.

Since Eluchen attaches so much importance to Jinong's position, then at this critical moment, what is the harm in giving him the title of Jinong?

Lin Dan Khan, who had always been very stubborn and wanted to save face, after more than 20 years of experience in the life and death career, now he has really reached the critical juncture of life and death, and he has also learned to bend and stretch, and has begun to become flexible.

The third countermeasure of Lin Dan Khan was to clear the wilderness and order the surrounding departments of Kuku and Tun to gather all the people, horses, livestock, grain and forage into the fortified city of Kuku and Tun.

Although Lin Dan Khan was still frightened and uneasy in his heart, under the current situation, he could only do this first, and then he had to take one step at a time.

In the evening of the next day, a forward cavalry contingent of the Northern Route Army under the command of Huang Taiji had reached a mountain pass in the hilly terrain of the eastern part of the Khara Una Mountain.

And this mountain pass is only more than 30 miles away from the north gate of Kuku and Tun.

Gunchuk Tuying, who had been ordered to be stationed at this mountain pass to guard the Jurchen army, saw the dust formed by the galloping war horses from the north from a distance, so he led his men to flee all the way back to Kuku and Tun.

This Gunchuk Tuying, who was killed before, was not a person and had nothing to do with the Taiji Gunchuk who was the first to join Houjin and then persuaded the Karaqin Department to surrender.

Born from the Borzigit clan, he was originally one of the eight outlying Otok chieftains belonging to Chahar under 30,000 households on the left Mongol flank.

When Lin Dan Khan's palace tent was still set up in Chahanhot, that Gunchuk was already separated from Lin Dan Khan.

When Lin Dan Khan moved westward, he did not follow, but immediately attached himself to Huang Taiji through Korqin's recommendation.

Of course, the Gunchuk who betrayed Lin Dan Khan earlier has long since turned into a handful of dung on the Karaqin steppe.

However, at the moment, the identity of this Gun Chuktuying, who is fleeing from the wind, is not simple.

First of all, he is the second brother-in-law of Lin Dan Khan.

At the same time, he is also one of the ten sumu of the iron lance Konott under the command of Lin Dan Khan.

Although Lin Dan Khan has many problems, it has to be said that he was also an ambitious Mongolian Khan.

Not long after he succeeded to the throne of the Great Khan, he referred to the method of his ancestor Dayan Khan in managing the Mongolian steppe, and unified the men and horses of the various tribes of Chahar into eight Etoks, and then divided Chahar into six solid mountains on the left and right wings in addition to these eight Etoks.

Gushan means 10,000 households, and six solid mountains are 60,000 households.

Of course, this practice is what Dayan Khan did after unifying the Mongolian steppe, and he just used it on the Chahar Ministry himself, and if this is the case, Lin Dan Khan is not a "famous king" in the mouth of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why Lin Dan Khan has all kinds of "perverse acts" and made enemies everywhere in various tricks, but he has always been able to sit firmly on the throne of the Chahar Mongol Khan for nearly 30 years, must have his uniqueness.

And this uniqueness is one of his pioneering achievements in the Mongolian military system.

In addition to the Mongol cavalry of the Huluduo Palace, which was traditionally subordinate to the Great Khan, in order to consolidate his authority and protect his personal safety, Lin Dan Khan recruited elite young knights from the Chahar tribes to create a standing army called the Iron Lance Konotsumu.

One Sumu has three thousand rides, and Lin Dan Khan has selected and trained a total of ten Sumu!

Each Iron Lance Konot Sumu is commanded by the person closest to him and most trusted, known as the Chahar Iron Lance Konot Ten Sumu.

Lin Dan Khan's younger brother Jintu, as well as his two brothers-in-law, Guiyingcha and Gunchuk Tuying, were all one of the ten sumu of the iron lance konot.

In addition, the most incredible thing is that there is only one Huluduo of the Mongol Khans in the past dynasties, and there is only one Huluduo palace guard cavalry, but Lin Dan Khan does not take the usual path.

He married eight Fujin, each of whom was given a different title, so he set up eight Huludo.

Therefore, except for his cronies and attendants, no one knew which Huluduo Lin Dan Khan spent the night in every night.

Moreover, each of them had their own subordinates, all of whom had Zhaisang (meaning prime minister) as the minister, and at the same time had a cavalry of the palace guards led by the Great Khan's own cronies or relatives of Fujin himself.

It was by relying on this once-strong Chahar cavalry that Lin Dan Khan was able to stand tall in the dangerous steppe.

Of course, today's Lin Dan Khan is no longer the Lin Dan Khan of the past, and his ambition has long been exhausted, not to mention, even the elite Chahar Iron Cavalry under his command, that is, the legendary Iron Lance Konot Ten Sumu, is now much worse than before.

Not to mention that the young and strong elites have long been killed in battle, and the morale of the equipment is much worse, and it is not much different from the ordinary grassland herdsmen who have risen up temporarily.

Cornot originally meant Iron Guard.

And the iron lance Konott is a guard wearing iron armor and holding an iron lance.

But now, the cavalry of the Chahar Division, not to mention the rare sight of such a thing as an iron lance, is not much common iron armor now.

This is also the reason why Gunchuk Tuying, one of the ten sumu of the iron lance Konot, fled in front of the vanguard of the Huangtaiji army.

After Gunchuk Tuying fled back to Kuku and Tun to report to Lin Dan Khan, there was a rumor in Kuku and Tun City, and Lin Dan Khan was in a panic, with his ministers and lamas, and came to the temple of the Xiaozhao Lama in the city that is now enshrined in the Golden Buddha of Mahagala overnight, and chanted and prayed to the god of war, the protector of the Mengyuan Empire.

At the same time that Lin Dan Khan panicked and rushed to the hospital, Yong Xie Bujinong led Lin Dan Khan's Chinese army of Wanhu Guiyingcha, and under the escort of the three thousand iron lance Knott knights led by Guiyingcha, he made a detour to Desheng Fort and asked for help from Liu Yingxuan, the deputy general of Datong Town, who was stationed in Desheng Fort at this time.

Desheng Fort is located in the victory pass, which is one of the most important border passes in Datong Town.

Fort Victory is a general, and the general who guards Fort Victory is Li Quan, a student who graduated from the first phase of the Wutang.

Because Li Quan served as a guerrilla in Desheng Fort before he entered the lecture martial arts, and as soon as he graduated from the lecture martial arts, he was promoted to the general of the victory fort by Emperor Chongzhen, so although he is not the old man brought from Liaodong by Zu Dashou, the current chief military officer of Datong Town, Zu Dashou did not move him.

Just a few days ago, the warning decree from the Jingshi court, as well as the report on the situation and the order to prepare for war from the Sun Pavilion Department of the Rehe Town Guard, were sent one after another to the Yamen of the Governor of Datong and the General Military Mansion of Datong Town.

Immediately afterwards, Zu Dashou's henchmen Liu Yingxuan, the deputy general of Datong Town, and Zu Dashou's adopted son guerrilla Zu Kefa, took the newly formed iron cavalry of Datong Town with 2,000 and came to the border pass 80 miles north of Datong to Desheng Fort.

However, when the headquarters of the Restabu and Gui Yingcha came to the outside of the Victory Fort, Liu Yingxuan, Li Quan, and Zu Kefa were hesitating whether to send a team out of the customs and go to the grassland to see what was going on.

Because these days, in the steppe north of Fort Victory, there are constantly herdsmen from the Yongshebu tribe fleeing from the north and asking for refuge in the pass.

Of course, the requests of these herdsmen from the north to take refuge in the customs were categorically rejected by Liu Yingxuan and Zu Kefa, and those who were too close or stranded were also killed or scattered by the officers and soldiers of the Victory Fort with muskets and bows and arrows.

Liu Yingxuan and Zu Kefa are both veterans of Liaodong, and they have heard too much about the tricks of Jianlu and Mongolian Tatars pretending to be refugees to seize the city.

At that time, many cities in Liaodong were taken by Tartar spies who pretended to be refugees and entered the city.

But there are so many refugees, but these people are uneasy and want to find out.

At this time, Restabung and Guiyingcha came to the outside of the Victory Castle.

On behalf of Lin Dan Khan, he managed the affairs of the various ministries of southern Mongolia, whether it was the field outside the mouth of the killing of Hukou, or the newly opened field outside the mouth of victory, but the Resi Ta Nanang had participated in the negotiations on behalf of Lin Dan Khan.

And Gui Yingcha, who is the 10,000 households of the army in the Chahar headquarters, is now also a big man in the southern Mongolian region.

The two of them reported their names to the officers and soldiers guarding the fort, and someone immediately went to spread the word.

Soon, Liu Yingxuan, Li Quan, and Zu Kefa came to the attic of the North Urn City of Fort of Victory, and they met with the two of them, who came to fight horses.

But Restabu and Gui Yingcha hurriedly came to the city to explain their intentions, and Liu Yingxuan and the three of them were taken aback when they heard it.

They didn't expect that the Jianyu army, which was originally far away in Liaodong, would really come to Datong Border!

I didn't expect that Lin Dan Khan, an invincible hero, would ask for help from the Datong official army!

After a brief discussion, the three of them asked Zu Kefa to rush to Datong overnight with a letter from Lin Dan Khan asking for help.

However, the leaders of Gestabu and Guiyingcha camped outside the Victory Fort to rest, while anxiously waiting for a response from the enemy in the past. 19