The green hills that stand at the confluence of the South and North Rivers of the Yellow River seem to be a large rock that rises out of the ground, and there is no road at all. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Ga Li Guang led the scout team to the top of the mountain for a day and a half, and from here, the Dabanpo to the north of Qingshan, the narrow alluvial plain formed by the Yellow River to the south of Qingshan, and the Wolf Mountain and River to the west can be seen at a glance.

The alluvial plains to the south of Aoyama are quiet and peaceful, and there are no people in sight.

The Osaka slope to the north of Aoyama is dotted with cattle and sheep, and there are unusually many of them!

The communications officer of the scout team immediately used the walkie-talkie to report the incident to the old camp in the woods.

The commander-in-chief, Yang Ritian, instructed that a permanent observation post be built on the top of the mountain, and that scouts be sent to contact the nomads on the slopes of Osaka.

Ga Li Guang left behind the walkie-talkie, the communication soldier and two soldiers, and led the rest of the men to immediately descend the northern slope of the mountain.

Early the next morning, the observation post on the top of the mountain found that the cattle and sheep on the slopes of Osaka had migrated, and by the evening, almost all the cattle and sheep had entered the two wolf mountains to the north and disappeared.

On the third day, two rafts from Changsheng Township were loaded with supplies and went down the river to deliver supplies to the scouts as originally planned.

On the fourth day, from the east, a mixed cavalry and infantry force of about 1,000 men and horses marched into the Osaka Slope. The cavalry vanguard divided into a dozen squads and searched in all directions.

When this group of men and horses set up camp in the evening, the people of the old camp of the woods voted to join the ironwood camp under the big catalpa tree of the old camp of the woods.

Although the observation post on the top of Qingshanzui Mountain could not see the banner of this group of men and horses, everyone in the Tiemu battalion concluded that this was the soldiers and horses of the Aixin Jin Kingdom.

What worries everyone even more is that there has been no news from Ga Li Guang's scout team and supply raft.

There was also no news of the caravan of the Ironwood Battalion.

When Sun Yi was suppressing bandits in Changsheng Township, the caravan led by Huatoujia came back once, and at that time, Huatoujiao's eyebrows fluttered and said that the people in Dabansheng City were panicking, except for the soaring price of food, other things were very cheap. So the caravan only rested in the old camp in the woods for two days, and set off again on the raft with the capital.

At that time, the news that the caravan brought back from Dabansheng was: because Chahar had plundered Horqin last year, and this year Horqin invited the soldiers and horses of the Aixin Jin Kingdom to take revenge, and Lin Dan Khan of Chahar had led his men and horses to the east to intercept and kill.

Midnight, General Staff.

Sun Yi was confused.

Chahar did not flee west to Qinghai as recorded in the history books, but the men and horses of the Aixin Jin Kingdom went all the way west to the gate of the Wolf Mountain River before Lin Dan Khan.

Sun Yi's confidence in "predicting" history suddenly disappeared.

Sun Yi was a little happy at the same time.

Since Shi Zai does not match the facts, it may not be a fact that Shi Zai's Aixin Jin Emperor Taiji sent a total of 100,000 troops.

According to history, the emperor Taiji of this war recruited dozens of Taiji, including Karaqin, Tumut, Karacherik, Issuta, Zalut, Aohan, Naiman, Alu, Bahrain, Horqin and other tribes in the north and the Mongolian tribes in the north, totaling 100,000 horses.

On April 22, the army crossed the Xing'an Mountains, day and night, and went straight to Lin Dan Khan's residence outside Xuanfu.

Lin Dan Khan was terrified when he heard this, abandoned Xuanfu and fled into Guihua City, threw away his baggage, and drove the rich people and livestock across the Yellow River.

When Huang Taiji found out, he was worried that the oppression would be too tight, but instead ordered the team to slowly advance towards Naturalization City.

On May 23, Huang Taiji divided his troops into two wings, and the left flank was led by Bel Azig as the commander, leading 10,000 troops from Horqin, Zalut, Karaqin, Tumut, and Alu to plunder the Chahar tribesmen in the area outside the border of Datong and Xuanfu; The right wing ordered Jilharang, Yuetuo, Dege, Sakhalian, Dolgon, Duoduo, Hauge and other Beylers to lead 20,000 troops to plunder the people around the Yellow River in the city of Guihua; Huang Taiji and Belle Daishan and Belle Mang Gurtai led the Chinese army.

On May 27, Huang Taiji ordered a pursuit, and the army marched 700 miles in one day, reaching the Wolf Mountain River in the west and Xuanfu in the east.

Lin Dan Khan led his troops to move to Qinghai, with more than 300,000 troops, and seven or eight out of ten people fled on the way.

In later generations, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty finally sat on the throne, there was only one standard official version of the battle in the steppe.

Whether it is the history of their own ethnic group written by the Mongols themselves or the folk history books of the Han people, they are all mentioned in passing and unclear about what happened on the grassland this year.

Holding an oil lamp in his hand, Mo Rigen looked at a map and was speechless for a long time.

This map is based on the map of later generations in Sun Yi's mobile phone, and only the terrain of the mountains is retained, and the cities, rivers, and lakes of later generations are omitted.

The map was drawn on a two-foot square piece of white paper, and the map covered as far east as the Langshan River, as far west as North Korea, as far south as Yan'an, Taiyuan, and Jingshi, and as far north as Lake Baikal.

In later generations, this can only be a very rough topographical map.

However, in the five years of Chongzhen, this is the only high-precision military secret document in the world with correct proportions.

Morrigan finally spoke, "Lidel, that assumption of yours is wrong. ”

Sun Yiyi told several people in the staff department about the process of the Huang Taiji conquest recorded in the history books as a "hypothesis", and asked them to deduce and try to guess the purpose of the current army that was marching to Osakapo.

Mo Rigen said: "The habit of fighting on the grassland is to divide the left and right wings, which is inconsistent with Lidel's hypothetical love for the new Jin national soldiers in three ways. ”

In Lidel's hypothesis, the right wing is all the soldiers and horses of the Aixin Jin State to conquer the Guihua City, the middle road is the camp of the Aixin Jin State, and the left wing is dominated by the nomads of the Guishun to loot the border of Xuanfu. In fact, the leader of the Aixin Jin Kingdom would not have handed over such a good thing as robbing the livestock population to the nomads. ”

"Moreover, the number of nomads who will send troops together with the new Jin Kingdom will never be very large, so the total number will never be 100,000. This battle was the Horqin family's invitation to the Aixin Jin Kingdom to send troops, and the Horqin family may send more troops. ”

"The Karaqin family was broken up by the Chahar family five years ago, and the Karaqin family, who was bent on revenge, fled to Shenyang with hundreds of people and swore an alliance with the Xinjin country, and this battle will inevitably come with the army, but the number will not be large."

"For the same reason, one of Tumut's Taiji defected to the Aixin Jin Kingdom five years ago, and his troops were moved eastward to Liaodong, and this time, regardless of whether the Tumut Taiji who moved eastward was willing or not, he would definitely send troops to help in the war. Again, there won't be a lot of people. ”

"Except for these three nomads who support the war, the nomads of the other families are only sworn to reconcile with the Aixin Jin Kingdom, not surrendered to the Aixin Jin Kingdom. According to the customs of the grassland, it is certain that the army of Aixin Jin sent an army to show goodwill in the wind, and it is also possible to send Taiji to accompany him. As for sending a large army to help in the war, it is impossible. ”

"Therefore, there must not be 100,000 soldiers and horses in the Aixin Jin Kingdom's crusade against Chahar this time."

"As for this small group of people who have come all the way to Osaka Slope, I can't think of what they want to do."

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References (not related to the plot, skip for uninterested readers)

Windward feast

It is a custom on the grassland to feast on the wind, some people come from afar to send a banquet to show goodwill, and even if they are enemies, they must "see the banquet and dismount".

In the history books revised by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is mentioned that when Emperor Taiji conquered Chahar in the fifth year of Chongzhen, "along the way, the Mongolian tribes of Beile led troops to meet from the edict of the conquest, and the people who came to meet included Karaqin, Tumut, Karacherik, Issuta, Zalut, Ao Han, Naiman, Alu, Bahrain, Korqin and other departments and dozens of Belle from the Mongolian tribes in the north, all of whom offered wine and horses, and Khan set up a feast to treat each other. ”

Later, on April 16, Huang Taiji summoned all the Mongol beylers to "commend the beylers who enthusiastically obeyed the orders, and reprimand those who were sluggish." ……。 And all the beyls were commanded, and they bowed their heads. ”

The history books of the Manchu Qing Dynasty deliberately confuse the two completely different things of sending a banquet to the wind and leading the army to conscription, so as to appear that he was more helpful and Chahar was unjust.

In fact, at that time, even when Lin Dan Khan of Chahar was close to the border wall, the border generals and officials of the Ming Dynasty would solemnly send a banquet to eat in accordance with the customs of the grassland, which was called the windward feast, and the gold and silver were called "windward rewards". Daming sent Chahar a banquet, which also did not mean that he had submitted to Chahar Lindan.

For example, the inscription of the Ming Army, the Xuanda Governor Wang Xiang Qiantang Newspaper, the July 14 of the second year of Chongzhen recorded that on July 7, Lin Dan Khan personally went to the edge of Zhangjiakou, and the Ming sent people to send a banquet to the wind:

"On the 11th day of July in the second year of Chongzhen, according to Wang Jiabin, the deputy chief soldier of the assistant guard, on the 7th day of the first month of this month, according to the chief Xiatian pen writing qi and Daerhan Nayan, the prince's banquet and other items were ready to stop. The lowly public and Fuyi participated in Pang Yonglu...... On the morning of the ninth day of the first month, they sent three people to guard the Min'an University and Tongguan Sarai. ”

Another example, the Tang report on March 1 of the fifth year of Chongzhen of the Ministry of War, according to the question of the eunuch of Xuanzhen under surveillance, and according to the Zhangjiakou Fort garrison Huang Zhong on February 26, Lin Dan Khan arrived near the border wall in that month, and the Ming Dynasty sent a banquet to the wind:

"On the 24th, according to Huang Zhongyu, the garrison of Zhangjiakou, and on the 23rd, according to Chen Yaobao, the chief whistle of the Zhimen, two Fuchen Shen Chatong officials Xu Wanfu and other two, followed two companions to the fort, rode a horse, two mules, two donkeys, three long sentry, one muleman, hired 12 carts, two general officers of the banquet on this road, one mule on the right guard, one long post, six carts to follow, and one chicken, goose, and duck army to the mouth. On this day, according to the general Wang Binyu, according to the Zhangjiakou Fort garrison Huang Zhong's report, the Zhimen Geng Xuewan reported that Wang Shizhong, the general soldier of Fuyi, sent three Fuyi Tao garrisons and other three horsemen to ride the fort official horses, one mule, and eight military trolleys, all of which went to the camp of the chief to give gifts at the end of the day."