Chapter 770: Ordos
There is no perfect thing in this world, everything has advantages and disadvantages.
If it weren't for the addition of the Erdos Ministry, relying solely on the morale of the original team, Abatai would probably have desperately advanced westward, caught up with Lin Dan Khan, and defeated Lin Dan Khan.
And if Lin Dan Khan still moved west with the Ordos tribe of the Erdos tribe of the Erling ministers, then the speed would also be slowed down.
Because for the Chahars, when they came to the Hetao, the question of westward migration had been agreed up and down.
But for the cavalry and a large number of troops of the Ordos Department, they were still reluctant to leave the Hetao, which had been stationed for hundreds of years.
The land of the Hetao is 2,000 miles wide, surrounded by the Yellow River in the west, north and east, hundreds of large and small rivers flow into the Yellow River, hundreds of large and small lakes, and the water and grass are abundant and beautiful.
In addition, the desertification and desertification in this era are not as serious as those in later generations, and this piece of fertile land surrounded by the Yellow River for 2,000 miles is the best home that the Ordos Mongols can find today.
Therefore, these people were reluctant to leave, whether they left with Lin Dan Khan or with Jianyu.
Therefore, when the Ordos Jinong Eluchen was forced to take the cavalry as a guide for the Jurchens to pursue Lin Dan Khan, the action was procrastinated, and it was not so efficient.
And this just gave Lin Dan Khan a chance to escape smoothly.
When Lin Dan Khan turned south from the desert area at the eastern foot of Yibula Mountain, passed through the Muyangchuan River valley that dried up in winter, withstood the artillery fire of the Ming army, left a corpse, forced into the border of the Ming Dynasty, and continued to run south to Qinghai, there was no will to pursue, and the Ordos Mongol cavalry, which was seriously lacking in fighting spirit at this time, was unwilling to brave the same intensive artillery fire to attack the Ming border.
After Abatai led the men and horses that had originally pursued Lin Dan Khan to arrive, a large number of Ming troops in Gansu Town had also heard the news and arrived for reinforcements.
Abatai launched only one tentative attack, only to be repelled by Ming artillery fire in the town of Gansu.
At this time, if he wants to make a great contribution and turn his miscellaneous brand Baylor into Abatai, he can only sigh with joy.
Although the Ordos cavalry under the command of Eluchen was unwilling to desperately pursue and kill his compatriots for the sake of the Jurchens, this cavalry was more than 15,000 people, which was comparable to the patchwork coalition army under the command of Abatai.
Therefore, although Abatai was very dissatisfied with the Eluchen, but under the prompting of his son-in-law Li Yongfang and his two sons Yue Le, Bolo and others, he did not dare to tell the Jinong Eluchen of Ordos and the four Taiji under his command.
In late November, the weather in Saibei was getting colder and colder, and the wind and snow were falling one after another, and Abatai led this team of more than 30,000 people, unable to stay in the area of Muyangchuan for a long time.
Since Lin Dan Khan had already gone south from the Ming realm to Qinghai, and they did not want to suffer too many casualties to attack the border city where the Ming army was heavily armed and full of artillery, they wandered back and forth and had to withdraw their troops.
At the beginning of December, Bel Abatai of the Jin State after the establishment of the Jin State, Jinong Exuanchen of Ordos, and Horqin Bel Kongol of the right wing, and Babudaiji of the Chechen Khan Department led this army of more than 30,000 people through the desert, through the wind and snow, and returned to the mouth of the Yellow River north of Beibao in Weizhen, Ningxia.
Here, the Ordos division and the other armies led by Abatai again appeared at odds.
He hoped that the Mongols of the Ordos tribe would continue to keep the Hetao under the rule of the Jurchens, and hoped to return to their respective territories in the Hetao with the men and horses of the Ordos tribe.
However, Abatai, Li Yongfang, and the Jurchen nobles disagreed, believing that the Ordos people did not make any credit to the Jurchens, and that they could only keep their original territory unless they made merit.
And the opportunity to make meritorious service is to follow the Jurchens south to the Ming Dynasty.
The Ordos Ministry wanted to maintain a neutral wait-and-see attitude between the Ming Dynasty and the Jurchens, and although Abatai was a rough man, he could see it clearly.
Although Abatai was a concubine in the wild boar skin family and his mother's status was not high, so his status was not high, but he was often proud of himself as a Jurchen, and looked down on not only the Han Chinese, but also the Mongols.
For the Mongolian cavalry of the Ordos Department, he also looked down on a hundred.
However, he still has to follow the consistent practice of their wild boar skin family, and take these Mongols he disdains to pursue Lin Dan Khan and attack the Ming Dynasty.
The purpose was simple, and that was to tie these Mongols firmly to the tail of the Jurchen horses.
Let them have no other way from now on but to accept the rule of the Jurchens and become accomplices and lackeys of the Jurchens.
For example, at present, since the Ordos Department betrayed Lin Dan Khan, and also acted as a guide for the Jurchens, leading the Jurchens to pursue Lin Dan Khan, then they can be regarded as completely offending Lin Dan Khan, and they will have no place on the side of the Mongols in the future.
If they follow them back to Kuku and Tun, go to see Huang Taiji, and then follow the Jurchen army to attack the Ming Dynasty, then on the one hand, it can show his Abatai's contribution to subduing the Ordos tribes, and on the other hand, from now on, it will also break the connection between the Ordos tribes and the Ming Dynasty.
Abatai himself doesn't have so many eyes, but his son-in-law Li Yongfang, his two sons Yue Le and Bolo, who are generals in the army, are not good at stubble.
One day in early December, the strife among Abatai's subordinates had not yet subsided, and he had not made a decision in his own heart.
Although there were various suggestions and choices, he couldn't make up his mind whether he should return to Kuku and Tun in the east and go to Huangtaiji to report his merits, or whether he should take his army on the spot and go south to attack Ningxiawei's Zhenqiang Fort and Zhenbei Fort.
At this time of indecision, Huang Taiji's side of the Tooth Swinging Bull Lu Zhen Zhun Tower, with a Niu Lu Zheng Yellow Flag Jurchen Armored Man, braved the wind and snow and the cold, all the way west, and finally found the mouth of the Abatai garrison.
The news brought by Zhun Ta immediately made Abatai make up his mind.
The young Zhuang factions such as Babu, Yue Le, Bolo and Li Shutai, who had originally advocated going south to attack Ningxiawei nearby, also shut up, while Li Yongfang, Kong Guoer and others, who advocated a safe return to the east immediately, immediately gained the upper hand.
Because of the offensive and defensive situation between the Jurchens and the Ming Dynasty, when they failed to pursue Lin Dan Khan, a shocking reversal had already taken place.
Even the army led by Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji withdrew from the pass in embarrassment, withdrew to Kuku and Tun, what else did they attack Ningxia Wei!
But at this time, the most embarrassing thing was the E-chan.
Although Abatai concealed the news of the defeat of the Huangtaiji army in the Ming Dynasty from all the Jurchen and the middle and lower ranks of the Mongol soldiers, he could not hide it from the Erdos Jinong.
The idea of the Eluchen and the Taiji of the Ordos tribes was simple, that is, to continue their peaceful half-sedentary and semi-nomadic life on the Hetao Plain.
It's a pity that the trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop.
First of all, Lin Dan Khan came to Monan, not only expelled the king of Shunyi from Kuku and Tun, but also abolished the position of Jinong of the Elu ministers, which caused repeated conflicts between the two Mongols who were originally born in the same roots.
Then, the Ming Dynasty also changed its policy towards the Mongolian tribes, although the opening of the border mutual market made the life of the Ordos Department much better, but the trilateral governor's palace continued to distribute the land close to the border wall of the Ming Dynasty and originally belonged to the Houtao area to the Han people who came to open up the wasteland and reclaim the land, which made the Taiji of the Ordos tribes worried.
Now, the Jurchens have come to Monan again, and they not only expelled Lin Dan Khan, but also attacked the Ming Dynasty with the opportunity of the Ming Dynasty in Monan.
If you attack, attack, the Jurchens will teach the Ming Dynasty a lesson, which is also what the Elu ministers and the Taiji of the Ordos tribes under his command are happy to see.
If the Jurchens win, then Mo Nan will be owned by the Dajin Kingdom from now on, and of course the Ordos Ministry will have nothing to say, so if you surrender, you will surrender, and you will have a strong backer from now on.
But unexpectedly, the seemingly powerful Jurchens actually returned from the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which made the Elachen have to reconsider the future of the Ordos people.