Three days later, Lu Xiangsheng finally returned.

In three days, Lu Xiangsheng led 20,000 cavalry to chase and kill day and night, when he was hungry, he immediately ate a bite of Hu Cake, and when he was thirsty, he poured a sip of wine, chased all the way from Yanjing to the territory of Shanxi, and did not even sleep, it is said that at the end of the year, a large number of soldiers fell behind, and Lu Xiangsheng only had more than 2,000 people left, and it was easy to be killed if he chased down.

Looking at Lu Xiangsheng, whose dark circles were almost reaching his nostrils, Chongzhen couldn't bear to blame, besides, the harvest of his pursuit was still good, at least half of the Shatuo people were killed, and the thirteenth Taibao also died nine, and the survivors were... Li Cunxiao, Li Cunqiao, Li Siyuan, Shi Jingsi.

You! The most powerful thing in the Thirteenth Taibao is the four of them, and they only killed nine of them, and Li Keyong himself did not die.

In the past three days, Qin Hao had actually figured out why the Shatuo people were taken down by Li Fuyao, but because he thought about it, he was even more desperate.

Many people feel that the Shatuo people should be an ethnic minority attached to the Tang Dynasty, and the Shatuo people Li Keyong have been completely sinicized, and we are actually like a family, after all, Li Cunqiao later established the Later Tang Dynasty, and historians also habitually regarded the Later Tang Dynasty as a part of the Tang Dynasty.

But after many studies, Qin Hao found that this was pure nonsense.

What is the deep-seated reason behind the invincibility of the Shatuo people? Could it be that they are inherently stronger than other races? Of course not, like Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire, the most fundamental reason for their strength was poverty.

In the era of cold weapons, a rich country and a strong army are actually two different things, most of the invincible armies that have left a name in history are actually poor, and the same is true for the Han people, Yue Fei's Yue family army is powerful, that is because their main component is the refugees who fled in the north, Qi Jiguang's Qi family army is powerful? That's because the Qi family army came from Yiwu, which was the poorest at that time, and so on, blah blah, blah blah.

Because of poverty, so life is not worth much, every day of survival on weekdays is desperate, and when it comes to the battlefield, it is natural to be fearless to die, and the soldiers who can kill people for a piece of bread are far more fierce than the men who have fields and wives at home, and the same is true for the Shatuo people.

The number of Shatuo people is very small, and there is no rich water and grass that can allow them to survive, so at the beginning, the Shatuo people helped the Tubo and the Tang Dynasty to fight, similar in nature to mercenaries, and the Tubo people would give them a piece of grassland as their reward.

So the Shatuo people for more and wider grassland, in the war against the Tang Dynasty won many battles, and then there were more and more grasslands, and finally the Tubo side felt a little unaffordable, so they chose to rely on the debt, Shatuo people were angry and changed the boss, to help the Tang Dynasty fight Tubo, the central government of the Tang Dynasty gave them pasture, food, living materials, etc. as their wages.

This is the history of the Shatuo people, simply put, this is a group of duckweed without roots, who can only earn some food by fighting, whether it is the Tang Dynasty or Tubo, no one treats them as their own.

Coincidentally, it just so happened that there was a talented guy at the end of the Ming Dynasty, called Huang Taiji.

The evolution speed of human beings is actually very fast, from Nurhachi to Huang Taiji in fact, it did not take a long time, but in such a short period of time, Houjin almost evolved from a savage to a civilized person with political power, a program, and a governing thought, and Huang Taiji's greatest contribution to the Manchu Qing Dynasty has never been how many times he attacked the Ming Dynasty and how many things he snatched back, but he established a multi-ethnic regime in the true sense: Qing!

The Qing Dynasty was never simply established by the Jurchens, the Jurchens, men, women, and children together were only more than 200,000 people, and even if they picked peaches, they couldn't take their turn, and the Qing Dynasty regime was different, this regime was composed of Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, and a large number of Liaodong Han people.

The Han people have always been an important part of the Qing regime. Huang Taiji has also made a lot of efforts to achieve this.

Since it is already a union of four families, why not add your Shatuo people? You join me, then from now on you and I are good brothers who break bones and tendons, don't you just want the pasture, to you, where do you like our pasture, we treat everyone equally, regardless of each other, I will never stop your food with a mouthful.

This is the spirit of Huang Taiji! A piece of the Shatuo people's own homeland, a piece of the Shatuo people's roots, this is a condition that Li Keyong can't refuse no matter what, and as long as Huang Taiji can really do it, he Li Keyong will treat him with loyalty far higher than that of the Tang Dynasty.

On the other hand, on the side of Daming... Well, forget it, you can't even tolerate your own people, how can you draw a piece of land for Shatuo people.

Qin Hao and Chongzhen glanced at each other, and began to look through the history books and silently calculated, the total population of the Shatuo people was about more than 100,000 during the Li Keyong period, almost equivalent to half of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, all the people were soldiers, and the strong men were almost between 30,000 and 40,000 people.

Now, this group of people went to the west, obviously planning to go out of Datong and detour to Mongolia to find Huang Taiji, they are also smart, if they go to Liaodong, I believe that with a random holy decree, Gongsun Chan can send Li Keyong's head over, and on the one hand, the west has a large territory and few defenders, which is more conducive to them to exploit loopholes, and secondly, it is also because the northwest is chaotic enough, God still hasn't given Chongzhen rain in the past two years, and the northwest is now a mess.

A group of people looked around the map for a long time, and couldn't guess where these people were now, so they simply used the stupidest method: waiting for the rabbit.

Anyway, if they want to get out of the customs, they can't climb over the Great Wall, then they have to pass through Datong anyway, as long as the Datong defenders watch the gate, this vicious dog should not be able to get out.

"Who is the current Datong commander?"

Chongzhen thought for a while, and immediately replied: "It's Cao Wenzhao, the old Liaodong, and there are still three thousand Guanning iron horsemen under his command." ”

Qin Hao heard that it was Cao Wenzhao, and his heart finally let go of a lot, this Cao Wenzhao is also a peerless general, Datong has a strong army and three thousand Guan Ning Iron Cavalry, with Li Ke using this remnant of the army in his hand now to defeat the general, I am afraid it is really not easier than climbing over the Great Wall.

It's a pity that he just breathed a sigh of relief on his side, and the bad news arrived on the other side.

"Your Majesty."

Looking back, Cao Huachun was standing at the door timidly, revealing half of his head, and his whole body was hidden behind the door, as if he didn't dare to come in.

"You minion, what are you doing behind the door, is there something bad happening? I'm used to it for so many years, so let's hurry up."

"This... Just now, the celebrant received an eight-hundred-mile expedited from Inspector Hong. ”

"Hong Chengchou? What's up. ”

"This... The anti-thieves are powerful, and now the thieves are headed by Gao Yingxiang, the king of what is the king, and they have gathered 200,000 rabble to besiege Taiyuan. ”

“。。。。。。”

"Ah!!!!h

Cao Huachun really deserves to be the person who knows Chongzhen the most in the world, I saw Chongzhen pick up the inkstone on the table and smash it, this strength, if it hits him, you have to smash out the boss's bag.

Qin Hao also sighed deeply, he had already prepared for the great changes in the northwest, but it didn't change sooner or later, but it changed at this time, it seems that this Li Keyong may not be able to keep it.