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He is a member of the Naiman branch of the Chahar tribe. Since Meng Yuan was driven back to the grassland by the Ming army, the Golden Family gradually declined, and the tribes returned to the situation of vendetta against each other for thousands of years in order to compete for pasture, cattle and sheep.

This Chahar tribe is one of the most powerful ones, also known as the "Han Division", which is distributed within a radius of thousands of miles from the north of Xuanfu to the city of Guihua. The Duoyan, Khalkha, Horqin and other tribes adjacent to the Chahar tribe, because they were afraid of the force of the Chahar tribe, have been the leader of the Chahar tribe as the "Great Khan" for decades, and the Chahar Khan also regarded himself as the legitimate successor of Genghis Khan.

The current Chahar Khan's name is Lin Dan, and he is known as "Lin Dan Khan". After he succeeded to the throne at the age of thirteen, he further strengthened the strength of the Chahar tribe by constantly fighting from east to west. Originally, the Ming Dynasty had reached an agreement with Altan Khan of the Tumut tribe, and I agreed to be a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty allowed the Mongols to trade with the Han Chinese in the designated "Rongchang". However, when the Chahar tribe became stronger, the Tumut tribe was driven farther west, and the mutual market was naturally terminated.

Like his ancestors, Lin Dan Khan also dreamed of first unifying the Mongol tribes and then attacking the Ming Dynasty in the south. However, his luck was relatively poor, because at this time, the Jianzhou Jurchens had risen rapidly.

At the beginning, Lin Dan Khan did not take Nurhachi seriously at all, because the Liaodong region was not a grassland, and the Chahar people did not bother to go there to graze, not only did not stop the repeated attacks of the Jianzhou Jurchens on the Horqin, Khalkha and Duoyan tribes, but hoped that the various tribes would kill each other, so as to further consolidate the monopoly position of the Chahar tribe.

Who would have thought that the Jianzhou Jurchens would get bigger and bigger like a snowball, and it only took more than ten years to unify the Jurchen tribes, and then use troops against the Ming Dynasty while constantly harassing the Mongolian tribes. Later, the country name of "Dajin" was established, and Nurhachi claimed to be "the wise Khan of the overlay countries", and the era name was "Mandate of Heaven", as if he was above Lin Dan Khan.

Of course, the arrogant Lin Dan Khan couldn't accept it. In the past ten years, he instructed Korqin, Khalkha and other troops to counterattack Houjin many times, but out of selfishness, his Chahar headquarters cavalry did not directly participate in the battle.

As a result, both the Korqin and Khalkha ministries were repeatedly defeated by Houjin. The Mongols were originally the grass on the wall, and whoever was strong would take refuge in whomever it was. Since the Chahar Ministry could not provide protection, the Horqin, Khalkha and other departments successively returned to Houjin, and the chieftain of the Horqin Department, Zhai Sang, also married his daughter Da Yu'er to Huang Taiji, in an attempt to use the marriage to improve the status of the Horqin Department in Houjin. The Duoyan Department even directly attacked Zunhua under the instigation of Houjin, resulting in the Battle of Zunhua.

Zhu Youzhen already knows some of these things, and he is more concerned about what the situation is outside the Guanwai now. Shi Chunhu told him before that when the Xuanfu eavesdropped on Qiao Zhifa's transaction with Selemo, Selemo had mentioned that "the Naiman Ministry is going to move east", and it was said that this transaction was hidden from Lin Dan Khan, what is going on?

The psychological defenses of Selermo have been breached, so there is no need to hide it anymore. He said with a slight sense of shame: "Lin Dan Khan just led 100,000 elites of the Chahar Department to fight a big battle with Houjin in the Khalkha steppe. ”

"The result?" Zhu Youzhen hurriedly asked.

"Lin Dan Khan was defeated, and he was defeated very badly!" Selemo lamented.

It turned out that at the beginning of this year, when the Ming army was still rushing to build the city of Dalinghe, Lin Dan Khan also sent envoys to Shenyang to write to Huang Taiji, claiming to be "the king of 400,000 Mongols", and calling Huang Taiji "the king of 30,000 people on the waterfront", which was extremely contemptuous. He demanded that the Later Jin immediately relinquish control of the Korqin, Khalkha, and Duoyan tribes, that the Later Jin army not cross the Songling Mountains into the Mongolian steppe, and that Huang Taiji transfer Da Yu'er to him as a concubine.

Huang Taiji was furious and immediately killed the envoy. However, at that time, he was preparing to besiege Dalinghe and Jinzhou, and was unable to spare troops to deal with the Chahar Department for a while.

When Zhu Youzhen personally went to the Daling River and withdrew tens of thousands of border troops to Shanhaiguan, Houjin and the Chahar Department were directly bordered, and this battle was inevitable.

At the beginning of March, Huang Taiji personally led an army of 100,000 troops from the Jurchen Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners to cross the Songling Mountain, and gathered 50,000 elite soldiers from the Horqin, Khalkha and Duoyan tribes, and swore an oath to the heavens on the banks of the Xilamulun River, preparing to attack the Red Mountain, where Lin Dan Khan's royal court was located.

Zhu Youzhen immediately took the map and asked Selemo to point out the battlefield situation for him. When Selemo pointed out the location of the "Red Mountain", Zhu Youzhen suddenly realized: "Oh, this is Chifeng!" Is Lin Dan Khan guarding here? ”

Selemo shook his head and said, "Lin Dan Khan is very arrogant, and he doesn't take Huang Taiji in his eyes at all. He took up 100,000 elite cavalry of the Chahar Department and rushed to the Xilamulun River to fight. ”

Zhu You shook his head again and again after hearing this: "Originally, the army was not as strong as Houjin, and I didn't know how to wait for work, so it's strange to be undefeated!" ”

"His Majesty the Emperor is so right!" "When the 100,000-strong army of the Chahar army arrived on the south bank of the Xilamulun River, the combined forces of the Houjin and the Mongols had already set up camp on the north bank. Originally, according to the opinion of our Naiman chief, Gonchuk Baturu, we should also refuse to camp on the river, rest for one night, and then choose an opportunity to fight the next day according to the enemy's situation. But Lin Dan Khan couldn't listen to it at all, and immediately urged his men and horses to cross the river at night to attack.

The start went very smoothly, and the Jurchens on the opposite side seemed to be frightened, and they did not dare to go out of the camp to meet the enemy, and the 100,000-strong army soon rushed into the camp of Houjin. But when I rushed in, I realized that the camp was empty!

"At this time, fires broke out on all sides, and it turned out that the Jurchens had hidden a large amount of vegetable oil and hay in the camp, and the main force was hiding behind the camp. Have pity on the 100,000 warriors of our Chahar tribe, and 10,000 or 20,000 were burned to death in the fire!

"Seeing that the situation was not good, Lin Dan Khan hurriedly led his troops to retreat, but a Houjin army had already quietly crossed the river during this time, and kept shooting arrows at us from the south bank of the river; The main force of the Eight Banners also came up from behind and sandwiched us on the Xilamulun River and charged to kill us. The warriors of Chahar fought bloodily all night to save Lin Dan Khan from escaping the battlefield, but they were also killed by Houjin more than 50,000 people, and the river was blocked by countless corpses! ”

Zhu Youzhen sighed when he listened. Of course, he didn't feel sorry for Lin Dan Khan, but felt that the Chahar Department, as the most powerful tribe in Mongolia at present, was easily defeated by the Houjin, which shows the prosperity of the Houjin Eight Banners and the cunning of the Huang Taiji's use of troops!

What he was even more worried about was that once the Chahar Department was defeated, the vast grasslands north of Jizhou, Xuanfu and Datong would become a vacuum. Theoretically, the Jurchens could now drive straight from there and cross the Great Wall to attack Jingshi! And the expansion project of the Jingshi is far from being completed...

Suddenly, Shi Chunhu hurriedly broke in and interrupted Zhu Youzhen's contemplation: "Holy Lord, the last general is one step too late, Qiao Yuliang is dead!" ”