Ten days later, in Tongzhou, near the Beijing Division, the large camp of the Mongol army camped for dozens of miles outside the city, and countless Mongolian rangers came and went to it, while groups of Mongolian cavalry who had returned from looting from the vicinity, with groups of young and strong men and women who had been tied into a bunch, drove herds of pigs and sheep, and returned to the camp triumphantly with a victorious whistle.

At the head of Tongzhou City, tall and sturdy, a fox fur and a big fur, Altan Khan is looking at the results of his subordinates with satisfaction, Altan Khan looks about fifty years old, several scars on his face are twisted back and forth like centipedes, a huge rosacea nose occupies a quarter of the face, and a quarter is covered by a thick beard, and the two triangular eyes, one large and one small, are squeezed into two slits, this dignity, walking on the night road at night is enough to scare people to death, it looks like a bandit leader, not like the overlord of one side.

The yellow-eyed and yellow-bearded Helian Ba has changed into an iron armor, holding the golden Sulu ingot spear, standing beside Altan Khan like a god, I Da pointed at the Mongolian cavalry coming and going from the city with a horsewhip, and said with a smile: "This harvest is really not small, since the capture of Datong, breaking the Juyong Pass, and attacking the Beijing area from Gubeikou, the Ming army has been killed no less than 30,000, and the Ming Dynasty people have been captured more than 100,000. ”

The surrounding generals, in fact, most of them were the leaders of the Mongolian tribes, all of them were happy, nodded yes, and a few guys who were good at patting horses even came to a disgusting fart such as "Great Khan Shenwu, Wencheng Wude, Genghis Khan's great deeds, today is finally reproduced by you", and even Helian Ba not only crooked his mouth when he heard it.

Altan Khan was very useful for these fleshy sycophants. Squinting his eyes, he listened to this with a smile on his face, and waved his hand: "It's a pity that the Han people are cowardly. Since our army entered the Gubeikou, the three battalions outside the capital of the Ming Dynasty retreated without a fight, and all entered the defense of Beijing City, there is no large forest near our Beijing Division, it is not good to cut down trees and attack the city, and our army is cavalry, and it is not my forte. Ladies and gentlemen, what is the best plan for you now? Can you storm the city of Beijing and restore the old capital of my Great Yuan Empire? ”

As soon as these words came out, all the generals looked at each other, and the Mongol cavalry was good at cavalry shooting. Fierce and fast. It comes and goes like the wind in the flat land, but it is not good at attacking cities and passes, especially large cities with high cities and deep pools. It is the current Tongzhou City, if it weren't for the cooperation of the White Lotus Sect insiders and the outside, and deceived the city gate yesterday night, I am afraid that it will not be able to be captured at this time.

Helian Ba, who had not spoken just now, opened his mouth: "Great Khan, the last general thinks." It was difficult to capture the city of Beijing quickly, and our army won a big victory this time. Hit all the way to the heart of the Ming Dynasty, scared the Ming army to shrink into Beijing, did not dare to go out of the city, has greatly increased the prestige of my Mongolia, and now what needs to be considered is the matter of retreating. ”

Altan Khan's face changed slightly: "General Helian, what did you say?" Retirement? ”

Helian Ba lowered his voice: "Please also hold back from the Great Khan, there will be an important military plane to tell you at the end." ”

Altan Khan's brows furrowed, but he still waved his hand, and said to the generals around him: "Let's go to our respective camps to count today's harvest first, and then we will discuss military aircraft in the sweat tent of the big camp outside the city in the evening." ”

As dozens of Mongol generals left the city tower one after another, the city head suddenly became much empty, and Altan Khan's expression became stern: "Helian, what the hell is going on, could it be that Qiu Luan has cut off our retreat from the pass?" ”

Helian Ba shook his head: "That's not true, his 30,000 cavalry only dared to follow far behind along the way, and as soon as the rear guard cavalry of our army attacked several times, he was so frightened that he fled a hundred miles away, and he didn't dare to confront our army head-on." ”

Altan Khan smiled slightly: "Then you said that since he didn't dare to fight, why did he follow like this?" ”

Helian Ba sighed: "With the personality of this guy Qiu Luan, it is his main consideration to fight for merit, last time he was afraid that our army would attack Xuanfu, he was frightened, and he did not hesitate to contact us privately to negotiate, and even transferred the Datong defenders, so that our army entered the customs, after the safety of Xuanfu, he took the cavalry all the way to follow, making a loyal and diligent king, so that as long as Beijing is not lost, the Ming Dynasty will not be finished, and he will be the number one loyal minister in the future." ”

Altan Khan shook his head: "Helian, last time, Qiu Luan led people to raid the place where we were negotiating, how do you explain this?" ”

Helian Ba Zhengse said: "Regarding this matter, at the beginning, I thought that Qiu Luan was playing ghosts, but then I thought about it carefully, how could a timid guy like Qiu Luan be in danger alone?" The little soldier who entered the tent that day, I just saw before he went out, although he changed his appearance, judging from the move he made, it was clearly a guy named Tianluo in the Jinyi Guard, and it was this person who opposed us in Tiejiazhuang. ”

Altan Khan's face changed: "You mean, Qiu Luan still wants to make peace with us sincerely, and it is Jinyiwei's people who sabotage the peace talks?" However, I heard that Jinyiwei was a secret organization used by the Ming Dynasty emperor to monitor courtiers and generals, if Jinyiwei really found out about the relationship between Qiu Luan and us, how could he continue to lead the army? Even in our grassland, if any tribe is not loyal to me, won't you also help me eradicate this disobedient tribal leader as soon as possible? ”

Helian Ba sighed: "The Han people have a lot of flowers and intestines, not as simple and direct as on our grassland, maybe Jinyiwei does not have the right to take Qiu Luan directly, maybe Emperor Jiajing is afraid that he will make a move in the army, which will provoke a mutiny, maybe now they need Qiu Luan to command the troops to fight against us, so they don't do it for the time being." ”

Altan Khan smiled slightly and patted Helian Ba's shoulder: "Actually, I thought of this problem when I broke through Datong, if Qiu Luan really messed with us, Datong would not be so empty, my Mongolian cavalry is more than 100,000, and all of them bring their own dry food, and they can also plunder everywhere, there is no need to worry about logistics at all, and it is impossible for him to deal with us by closing the door and beating dogs." Fortunately, I didn't go to the negotiation site that day, but led a large army to Datong, if I had known that there was such a thing during the negotiation, I might have hesitated to attack Datong. ”

Helian Ba said with a smile: "This is God bless us Mongols, but the reason for the withdrawal I mentioned just now is not all because Beijing City is difficult to attack, or Qiu Luan led the army to follow, the main reason is still with us." ”

My brow furrowed: "What is the problem here for us?" Now that our army has won successive battles and has come to the city of Beijing, the Ming army is so frightened that it does not dare to fight, will there be a problem? ”

Helian Ba looked at the sergeants in the military camp in the distance who were drinking and having fun, carrying the Han women who had been captured one by one into the yurt, and the whole barracks were full of women's cries and the lewd laughter of the Mongols, and sighed: "Great Khan, look at what our eagles have become now?" How can they fight like this now? ”

Altan Khan shook his head: "After the victory, the warriors will dispose of their spoils at will, this is the rule of our steppe for thousands of years, I am the Great Khan, and it is impossible to change this rule, we do this in the steppe, why do you say now that you can't fight like this?" ”

Helian Ba Zhengse said: "Great Khan, the tribes on the grassland attack each other, there is no danger to defend, if you fight a tribe, basically the battle will be over, and afterwards our warriors will rape and plunder, and you can also stimulate their animal nature, so that they will be more motivated in the next battle." ”

"But now we haven't entered the city of Beijing, all the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty are gathering, in addition to Qiu Luan's way, more than 100,000 troops in Shandong, Henan, and Liaodong have already gone on the road, and the Great Khan knows all this information."

Altan Khan proudly pointed at the large camp outside the city with a horsewhip: "Those guards are old and weak and cannot fight, when they see my Mongolian warriors, they can only stretch out their heads and be stabbed, even if they come to a million, I don't care about it!"

Helian Ba nodded: "Having said that, what if our army has already grabbed enough and doesn't want to fight?" Yesterday when the attack on Tongzhou, Baoding direction to 5,000 Ming troops to try to relieve the siege of Tongzhou, outside the city to pull the capital is to send reinforcements, the result of a few hours, did not defeat this Ming army, in the end we transferred a part of the siege troops, only to the Ming army to repulse, the Great Khan, do you think about why the Ba Xie Department can not even take the 5,000 Ming army infantry? Isn't it because there is no good thing to loot after the siege, so the soldiers have no heart to fight? (To be continued......)