Chapter 652: Soul Spirit?
Hannaji's father is my favorite iron-backed Taiji, if it weren't for the iron-backed Taiji who died too early, it might not be Huangtaiji's turn to fight for the Khan position. Even if Hannaji once surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, he was not excluded after returning, but held great power, owned a large area of pasture near Guihua City, and had a strong force of 20,000 people under his command.
It's not that Huang Taiji hasn't considered this nephew's attitude, but Han Naji has always been a bit of a drag, and he looks very faced, and there has been a big joke at home recently, and he has no time to come out to take care of things, so he doesn't worry much about him.
Where did you think that at the critical moment, it was actually this muffled person who came out and inserted Hannaji sideways?
Huang Taiji was so angry that he reluctantly raised his hand and pointed at Han Naji: "Han, uncle treats you well......
"But grandma also treats me well," Han Naji smiled at the third lady, and when he saw her riding side by side with Xu Wenchang, he quickly retracted his gaze and said: "Second uncle, Cuojia Dawalpindi has said, you are really not suitable to inherit the Khan throne, in the opinion of the nephew, it is better to let Buta lose Li to be the king of Khan." β
"It's the other way around!" Huang Taiji was furious, waved his hand and said: "Gulge Taiji, Huo'er, order your own soldiers to blow the horn, I want to teach these little bastards who despise me a lesson!" β
Gulgetaiji and Huo'er only looked at each other, and in this situation, it was not a good choice to come hard.
Cui Xiance leaned down and whispered in Huang Taiji's ear: "Lord Taiji, Sanniangzi has an elite team of 10,000 people, and Hannaji has two teams of 10,000 people, adding up to the same as us, there are 30,000 teams, and now you are in discord, if you fight, ......"
That's not it, the strength of the two sides is equal, but the three ladies and the general Hannaji are still alive, but Huang Taiji is lying on the stretcher, and the morale of the soldiers is lower, and there is no advantage at all in the fight.
Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and thought about it, and hated the White Lotus Sect Master who injured him more and more to the bone marrow, and he was so aggrieved in his heart, why didn't you touch Qin Lin's cold hair, but beat me to the point of spitting blood? You and Qin someone, the annihilation is too obvious!
Cui Xiance saw that Huang Taiji was unwilling, so he leaned down and whispered a few words in his ear.
Huang Taiji's eyes lit up, and he said loudly: "Okay! Then bury the old Khan for the time being, and then elect the new Khan to succeed him after ten days and half a month! β
Calculated the time for him to recover from his serious injury and vomiting blood, Huang Taiji was very depressed and pushed the day to a month later.
This condition, the three ladies can still accept it, after all, the two sides are now evenly matched, each has 30,000 troops, and King Weiling and King Weide each occupy one side, and it is not so easy to immediately elect Bu Ta to take over the throne, Huang Taiji can use this time to make waves, and Chief Qin can also transfer troops.
Only poor Altan Khan didn't even have the function of becoming a prop, everyone had their own ghosts, so they buried him casually, Qin Lin tried to shorten the eulogy, and the two Dharma kings also read the scriptures quickly, but Ta Lost was already pestering Xu Wenchang to tell the story, and Huang Taiji was lying on the stretcher and fell asleep!
They each collected their troops and returned to the camp, and the three ladies and the general Hannaji moved the camp to the east of the naturalization city and joined forces.
Qin Lin and King Wei Ling followed the three ladies, while King Wei De entered Huang Taiji's camp, and the two ** kings each supported one side, and the differences have become public.
In Huang Taiji's tent, more than a dozen butter candles as thick as children's arms were lit, and after King Weide pushed the palace through blood with profound internal strength, Huang Taiji's injuries had improved much on the surface, and he was reclining on the Hu bed, his eyes flashing with fierce light.
"Feed the unfamiliar wolf cubs, I hate Hannaji, this guy dares to go against me!" Huang Taiji cursed viciously, and said, "King Weide, what is your junior brother, who actually turned against Qin and went against me. β
King Weide still relies on Huang Taiji many times, so he is far from being so high up outside in private, and he said slightly apologetically: "I'm really sorry, that old liar was originally sent to deceive the court, but I didn't expect him to turn back halfway and bring you tired of Taiji." β
Cui Xiance hurriedly persuaded: "Lord Taiji, now is not the time to be held responsible, we have to deal with the third lady with all our might-she now has the minister of the Qin Mission and Han Naji to help, so we have to find a way to turn things around!" β
Gulgetaiji said indignantly: "I think it's all the ghost of the minister of the Qincha, the guy Hannaji, who originally didn't help each other, has suddenly changed the direction of the wind since he went to his camp a few times, tsk, did the Qincha pour him [***] soup?" β
That's right, huh...... Huang Taiji's eyes were full of fierceness, and after thinking about it, he said: "Qin someone should not be underestimated, this guy has two brushes, and he is ...... Alas! Cui Xiance, you are Han, do you know what to do to deal with him? β
Everyone felt justified when they heard it, Huang Taiji was worthy of being the son of Alda, and he had inherited a bit of the cruelty and cunning of the grassland hero, no matter what the three ladies were, directly dealing with Qin Lin, the minister of the Qin Mission, was a good strategy to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle.
If Qin Lin, the minister of the Qin Mission, has any trouble, and the three ladies lose their support, can they still fight against Huang Taiji?
Cui Xiance, a Han anniversary, heard Huang Taiji ask a plan, and suddenly had a proud and proud expression, thought about it and replied: "The way is not without ......"
He leaned down to speak, his voice became smaller and smaller, others couldn't hear anything, and Huang Taiji's smile became thicker and thicker.
That night, dozens of horses galloped out of the barracks with Mongolian knights, quietly galloped towards the southeast, and took advantage of the light of the stars and moon to run all night, until dozens of miles away did they light torches.
"Sure enough, something happened!"
After a long time passed by the Mongol knights, someone muttered quietly in the darkness, heard the sound of the rope, shook the dew condensed on his body, and Ma Bin led several lieutenant brothers to crawl out of the waist-high grass.
Braving the humidity in the grass in the middle of the night, withstanding the bites of mosquitoes lurking here, in fact, it is nothing in their military career, because they were originally born in the border army and were selected to be on an errand in Jinyiwei.
Soon they returned to Qin Lin's barracks, where butter candles were also lit, and huge maps were placed on the wide table, and neither Qin Lin nor Xu Wenchang slept.
"The enemy rode dozens of horses, and went to the southeast in the middle of the night, and I was afraid that Huang Taiji had made a move!" Ma Bin's brief and concise report on the situation.
Xu Wenchang's expression was serious: "Did you hear what they said, or caught alive?" β
Ma Binyu said: "All of them were silent, no one spoke, dozens of enemy horsemen galloped away, and we didn't catch them alive." β
Xu Wenchang frowned and pondered.
Mr. Xu didn't blame much, but Ma Bin and a few lieutenant brothers fell into a red face, and followed Chief Qin out of the jam, thinking that he would make meritorious contributions and fight for a wife and son in the future, and everyone would not be left behind.
Qin Lin sensed their thoughts and said with a smile: "It's good to be able to do it like this, Mr. Xu is thinking of a plan, and he doesn't mean to blame you." On the grassland, the days are warm, the nights are cold, and the dew is heavy, so you go down and drink some medicinal wine to warm up your body, and then tell the Huotou army to cook noodles for the brothers to eat. β
After thanking the captains, the brothers retreated, and everyone secretly made up their minds that they would catch alive next time no matter what, otherwise they would be too sorry for Chief Qin's favor.
"Hypocrisy, reckless talent!" When there was no one else in the tent, Xu Wen glanced at Qin Lin.
Qin Lin smiled evilly and touched his ears: "Well, fortunately, you didn't say that I was a big-eared thief." β
Xu Wenchang also smiled, stretched out his finger and pointed to the map: "Sir, please look, they go to the southeast, and when they reach the sea of Xiashui, they can divide the road, to the east is Xuanfu, and to the south is Datong." Hehe, there are masters under Huang Taiji's account, this is a plan to encircle Wei to save Zhao and draw salary from the bottom of the kettle! β
"It seems that Ma Bin and I have to go back and go," Qin Lin touched his chin and pointed his finger at Xuanfu and Datong.
Xu Wenchang was surprised: "It's better for the old man to take a trip......"
Qin Lin shook his head: "It's true that you are very familiar with Xuanda, but the more this is the case, the more your identity will be known, I'm afraid it may not be convenient at that time, and I still have a few killer features here!" β
Xu Wenchang thought about it, he was a bad old man at the beginning, except for Wu Dui and Li Rusong, who knew the goods, others might not be able to see him much, this time he went rashly, but he made a mistake, it was better for Qin Lin to go there in person.
"Okay, the old man and the three ladies will stay here," Xu Wenchang got up from the table and bowed his hand towards Qin Lin: "For the millions of living beings in Han and Meng, and hundreds of people inside and outside the Great Wall, wait for the good news of the chief!" β
Without further ado, Qin Lin hurriedly cleaned up, and when the east side was just showing the white of the fish's belly, he also led Ma Bin, Lu Yuanzhi, Niu Dali and other lieutenants and brothers to leave the barracks, leaving Xu Wenchang, King Weiling, Asha and others in the camp.
The morning breeze is blowing, it is extremely cool, and even blows goosebumps, even if the summer heat of the Beijing division subsides, and the return of the autumn tiger, the grassland is getting cooler and cooler day by day, and the winter is not very far away.
There were also roads on the grassland that were walked by people and horses, and along such roads to the southeast, Qin Lin recognized those brand-new horseshoe prints with his keen eye, making sure that he would not lose his target.
But the strange thing is that after walking in the southeast direction, Qin Lin found that under the new horseshoe prints, there were some newer horseshoe prints superimposed, who could have left them?
Everyone rode carefully selected good horses, and it was one person with two horses, Qin Lin even rode the extraordinary snow treading black horse, and also brought a jade lion that shone at night, the speed was as fast as the wind, and the sun had not yet risen in the middle of the sky and crossed the Heihe River south of Fengzhou.
After a little westward shift, I had a lunch of beef jerky, cheese and yellow cakes, and continued in the direction of the sea of water.
It is a little far from the densely populated Guihua City, Fengzhou, and Tumochuan area, the vast grassland is endless, but sparsely populated, the vast grassland is completely uncultivated virgin land, the path of the ground is very narrow, and many places are covered by grass.
Those wild grasses, the densest place can submerge people's shoulders, accustomed to seeing the grassland that can't even cover people's ankles in later generations, Qin Lin also wondered why he had to wind the grass to see cattle and sheep, and now he knows that if the wind doesn't blow the grass down, let alone cattle and sheep, even camels can hide in this boundless sea of grass.
Galloping all the way, when the sky was dark, I finally saw the sparkling sea of water, surrounded by many Mongolian herdsmen who were stationed in the herds, yurt houses lined up along the lake, herds of cattle and sheep grazing in the sea of grass.
On the east side of the lake, there is an abandoned city, that is the Xuandewei built when the Yan King swept the north, but later the Ming army shrank into the pass, and most of the guards outside the Great Wall were abandoned, and the acropolis was abandoned, and the local Mongolian herdsmen were not willing to live, and it became more and more desolate and dilapidated.
"We have the talisman given by the three ladies, let's find a few Mongolian herdsmen to stay!" Lu Fatzi suggested: "And you can also ask by the way, if there are any people from Huang Taiji who have passed here." β
"I don't think I need to ask," Qin Lin stretched out his hand and pointed towards the abandoned earth city not far away, as the sun set, a group of crows croaked, circling and flying, like a god of death at night.
Everyone galloped over and soon discovered the problem: a little inside the collapsed gate of Tucheng, there were two lying corpses, clearly sent by Huang Taiji to the Mongol envoy.
There were dozens of Mongolian envoys from the Huangtaiji faction, how could two of them suddenly die here? Could it be infighting?
Lu Yuanzhi rolled the saddle and dismounted, walked over and touched the body temperature of the corpse, rolled his eyelids to see, and finally opened his clothes to see if there were any corpse spots, and quickly concluded: "Brother Qin, these two guys have been dead for less than an hour, and there are no scars on the outside, but the ribs have collapsed in a large area, and the internal organs have been cracked, and they have been killed by the combination of rigidity and softness, and the deep internal strength based on femininity and softness, I guess it is...... Well, don't guess, it's the White Lotus Sect Master. β
When Lu Yuanzhi was rummaging with the corpse, there was a soft sound, and a small copper lotus flower rolled out of the arms of one of the corpses.
White Lotus Sect Master? Ma Bin, Niu Dali and the school lieutenants and brothers looked at each other, the factory guard official school and the White Lotus Sect demon were the enemies of life and death, but yesterday the White Lotus Sect Leader obviously had the opportunity but did not attack Qin Lin, it was already very strange, and now he killed two Mongolian envoys and placed them here, which is even more incomprehensible.
"What are the intrigues of the Demon Cult?" The crowd speculated.
Qin Lin smiled, "I'm afraid it's not a trick, but a warning to us, you see, what is this?" β
In the ground next to the corpse of the Mongol envoy, a small arrow was slanted into the ground, on which was written the Mongolian name of Huang Taiji in gold letters.
This is his order to mobilize his army!
"Sure enough, as I expected, Huang Taiji wants to play a trick of drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle!" Qin Lin beckoned to the brothers: "Let's go quickly, when the Mongolian army in the border area is assembled, there will be big trouble!" β
With a whistle, the officials threw down the two corpses and galloped away.
After a while, the White Lotus Sect Master appeared like a ghost, looked at Qin Lin's back, wrinkled his nose and snorted coldly: Qin someone, it's your love!
The White Lotus Sect went southeast, and the envoy of Huang Taiji, who happened to set off later, also chose the same road, and happened to meet near the sea of Xiashui.
Just as they were about to start a killing spree, the Mongol envoys scattered and fled, these people were better at riding than the masters of the White Lotus Sect from the mainland, and they couldn't catch up.
Annoyed the White Lotus Sect Master, he used his best light skills to chase after him, and finally killed the two envoys on the spot, and searched the corpses, and actually brought the order arrow to mobilize the border army, which immediately attracted attention.
The White Lotus Sect was against the imperial court, and at the same time, the rulers of the Mengyuan Dynasty who were hostile to the wars in vain attempted to provoke wars in all dynasties had remained unchanged since Zhong Mingliang and Du Ke resisted the Yuan.
Expecting that Qin Lin would definitely notice this abandoned earthen city, the White Lotus Sect Leader ordered the sect members to wait more than ten miles away, put the two corpses at the gate of the city, and stuck the arrow on the ground, and then hid.
Realizing that she had done it perfectly this time, the White Lotus Sect Master was secretly proud, and there was no second person at this time, so she revealed a bit of girlish innocence, and said to herself: Hmph, Qin Lin is not stupid after all, but he can also understand the meaning of this sect leader...... Seeing that the two dead Mongolian envoys were not pleasing to the eye, she stretched out her foot and kicked them, and the two corpses of more than 100 catties flew up lightly and smashed on the wall with a bang.
Hey, what is it? Look at the ground under the corpse, there are words written: "If you have a good heart, worship the sect leader's grandmother!"
Thisβthis is ...... He found out! The White Lotus Sect Leader's face was slightly stunned, what kind of heart was clear, like a flirtatious word, and what kind of grandmother was said later, it really made people cry and laugh!
"How did he find out I was here?" The White Lotus Sect Master flew up and performed light skills in the direction where the sect members were hiding, secretly wondering in his heart.
Of course, it's the scent of epiphany!
Qin Lin touched the nose of the meritorious service, the White Lotus Sect Master and the Weide Dharma King were fighting fiercely on the altar, he faintly smelled the aroma of epiphany, and just now he smelled the same smell wafting in the wind, so he knew that the White Lotus Sect Master was hiding nearby.
Although Jin Yiwei has the duty of arresting the White Lotus Cult, at present, the threat of war is imminent, and it is even more urgent to deal with Huang Taiji, and at the same time, Qin Lin is also a little frightened by the White Lotus Sect Master, so he just quietly left a book to joke.
"Hmph, am I that old? Actually calling me grandma, is it tolerable or unbearable! "The White Lotus Sect Master has walked a long way, and the resentment in his heart is difficult to dissolve.
Qin Lin led the crowd to walk along the lake again, and after the people and horses drank water, they rested for a while, and they began to part ways.
Walking along the Yuhe River all the way to the south, is Datong City, stationed with the general of Datong who guards Datong with the seal of the former general of the expedition to the west, as well as the governor of Datong, Niu Dali will go to him.
Go to the southeast, pass Maoerzhuang, dry the horse platform, enter the customs is Shanxi Yang and Wei, is the station of the governor of Xuanda, Qin Lin and Lu Yuanzhi go.
Walking in the direction of due east, entering the customs from Zhangjiakou, it is to hang the seal of the general of Zhenshuo, the general of the town guards the Xuanfu general station, and the governor of Xuanfu is also in the same city, Ma Bin galloped over to inform.
"Remember, you are the messengers sent by the minister of Ben Qin," Qin Lin paused, and his voice was fierce: "And this matter is related to the safety of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians along the Great Wall and the hard-won tribute situation, and everywhere must be vigorous and resolute!" β
"Yes!" Niu Dali and Ma Bin led away.
Drive! Qin Lin rode his horse and rode the dust.
(To be continued)