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Chapter 932: The Discussion of the King's Tent

Go out of the Xifeng Pass to the outside of the Saiwai, go about 300 miles to the northwest direction is Duolun, the so-called "the most abundant and beautiful place of water and grass in the grassland", as for the tribes on the grassland, they all say that this is "the place where the great Bodhisattva nectar is sprinkled". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Every year in July, it is the best time here in Duolun, standing on a hill and looking around, the eyes are boundless green, as if there is a big green carpet on the earth.

And Duolun has an advantage, the terrain is close to the basin, the surrounding height shelters the wind and snow, and it can also rest and recuperate in winter, the water and grass are abundant, the cattle, sheep and livestock are exceptionally fat and strong in this place, there is sufficient water, and the fields can also be cultivated and crops can be planted.

The grassland is thousands of miles, and the area that is really suitable for long-term farming is the Tumochuan and Hetao areas, the old land of the Alta Department, and the other is this Duolun.

There are more than 10,000 Han farmers and almost the same number of men and other ethnic groups in Duolun farming, but this is not that there is anything special here, but the strength of Jizhen and Liao Town has always been very strong, and the combat effectiveness of the Horqin Department is not very strong among the major tribes of the grassland, and the captivity of the population has always been ineffective.

In the past, the herdsmen leisurely drove their cattle and sheep to graze, and the nobles drank and had fun all day long, or rode horses to hunt among the white mountains and black waters in the east, which was a relaxed and comfortable time, but this year was different, the tent of the king of Korqin Khan was stationed with a full 4,000 cavalry, and the atmosphere of tension and slaughter permeated the steppe.

The Horqin Department is fully mobilized, and there can be more than 30,000 horseback warriors, and in the east, from Duolun all the way to the Nèn River, large and small tribes are headed by the Horqin Department, counting the manpower gathered from the alliance, up to 60,000 soldiers can be mobilized, of course, the strength of this battle is difficult to say.

Compared to this number, 4,000 horsemen is nothing, but this season is the busiest time, cattle, sheep and horses need to invest labor to graze and raise, the so-called cavalry are young and strong herdsmen, these herdsmen are the main labor of the family, this time should be busy at home.

At the same time in previous years, Korqin Khan was surrounded by more than 1,000 cavalry guards, and half or even more than half of these 1,000 cavalrymen took their families and their own livestock to graze in turn.

If you don't have enough livestock at this time, the whole family will be frozen and starved in the winter, and if the whole tribe does not put enough labor into production at this time, the strength of the tribe will also weaken, affecting the wealth and power of the nobles.

However, this year, I can't take care of anything, because the pressure from the Naturalization City side is getting stronger and stronger, and on the side of the Duolun base camp, we must also maintain enough strength to deal with it.

Korqin Khan Weng Guodai has long had no interest in hunting and playing, if in the past, this season he would lead his personal guards and soldiers to the Jurchen tribes outside the border wall of Liao Town to plunder, plunder the population, and act wantonly, this is his so-called "hunting".

"Could it be that I don't worship gods and Buddhas, why can my father and ancestors enjoy the wealth and women of the Han people for generations, and when they come to me, the situation is so bad."

Weng Guodai sat on the blanket and said with a gloomy face, the weather was sunny, the sun was just right, and the canopy of the big tent was rolled up to let the sunlight in.

"Don't say that, the Great Khan has nothing to do with the gods and Buddhas, that I am still called a living Buddha by the monks, and it is not that there is such an end, it is those Han people who are greedy for money are too hateful, they occupy the Tumo River, and they have a fancy to the fertile and rich Duolun, however, these things should be caused by Wang Tong, Great Khan, I have an idea, can you let people take gold and silver to buy those eunuchs and ministers in the Han capital, let Wang Tong ......"

"Manggus, if the Han people come to Ben Khan with gold and silver and say bad things about you, will Ben Khan listen to those Han people, or believe you!"

Korqin Khan Weng Guodai glared at the person who spoke a word, and said hatefully, the big man sitting on his left side hurriedly bowed down, and the other Taiji nobles in the tent did not dare to intervene, this Manggusi grew up with Weng Guodai since childhood, and has been Weng Guodai's companion since he was a child, and now he is now a position with ten thousand households, responsible for commanding the elite soldiers and horses of the Horqin Department.

Manggus is not very scheming, but on the battlefield is a fierce general who can rush and fight, I recently heard that it was invited from the Western Regions to worship at home, these monks from the Western Regions know how to know the text, and they are all regarded as think tanks around the ancient nobles of the Gate, and I think that those words just now come from this.

After reprimanding Manggus, Korqin Khan's face was still gloomy, and he shook his head there and said:

"At this time, if the cavalry of various departments is requisitioned, it will inevitably hurt the vitality, but if you don't move, just watch the Han people press over step by step, then the ending is still the same, if you fight, there will be big trouble in the winter, Chahar and the Han people, but staring at our population and territory, now I don't have an idea, fight or not, it's nothing more than early death and late death, is it just waiting here?"

In the end, Korqin Khan became more and more angry, picked up the silver bowl in front of him and threw it out, but fortunately there was a thick blanket on the ground, and it didn't have any effect.

However, all the nobles in the tent were all lying on the ground, not daring to make a sound, sitting at the head of Weng Gu, a white-bearded Taiji, wearing a purple satin robe with gold ornaments, looked noble and abnormal, he knelt on the ground for a while, raised his head and said:

"Honorable Great Khan, when the blizzard comes, don't walk towards him, you have to avoid it, the blizzard will eventually stop, the words of the old people are reasonable, the Khan should think carefully!"

Korqin Khan groaned there, still shaking his head with a gloomy face, and said there:

"We can also take out 100,000 troops to fight a decisive battle, and the guards of the Han merchants can gather up to 30,000 at most, why go, if we defeat them, we can even take Guihua City, just like the Altan Ministry......."

"Great Khan, we have enemies in the west, and we also have enemies in the south, if the Xuanfu and Jizhen of the Ming Dynasty send troops like in previous years, we will immediately suffer from the enemy on our backs, and even the king's tent may not be able to be kept, and if we let that Wang Tong lead the troops out, it will far surpass us in terms of troops."

The more the white-bearded nobleman spoke, the more his back straightened, and the nobles in the king's tent all looked cautious, and the expression of Korqin Khan Weng Guodai changed, but in the end, he shook his head there, exhaled and said:

"Without this Duolun, Horqin would not be Horqin......"

"The Great Khan, there is the Great Khan, there are the loyal cavalry and herdsmen of the Great Khan, there is Horqin there, if the Great Khan defends here, there will be no one at that time, and Horqin will really be gone."

The white-bearded nobleman's voice was raised, Dali knelt on the ground, and the king's tent was quiet, although the tribe lived by water and grass, but people and animals needed water to live, the men, women and children of the Horqin tribe, the total number was nearly more than 100,000, and they lived here for several generations, how could they say that they would leave and leave a fundamental place like Duolun, what is the difference between that and the loss of the Naturalization City and Tumo River in the Korqin Department.

Not to mention, if you can't resist the oppression of the naturalized Han merchant group, if a large tribe like the Horqin tribe migrates, how many dependent forces will be centrifugal, and if you really want to migrate, I'm afraid that the Horqin tribe itself may disappear.

However, whether everyone wants to admit it or not, in a few years, the Ming Kingdom seems to have suddenly changed, the original huge but clumsy and cowardly fat sheep suddenly became a bloodthirsty and ferocious hungry tiger with teeth and claws, there is blood there, where is this hungry tiger going to pounce.

It has been a long time since the Horqin Department received news from the west of the Naturalization City, and vaguely knew that the tribes over there had been forced away, plundered, or reduced to vassals, and now it seemed that such a fate was about to befall the Horqin Ministry, and in the face of the merchant group armament, the Horqin Ministry's still had a chance to win.

But there is one thing that everyone is reluctant to mention, who knows if this is the beginning of the Ming Dynasty's war against Horqin, and if the war starts now, the Horqin Department has no chance of winning.

After the silence, everyone's faces became ugly, and the gloom on Korqin Khan's face disappeared a little, and he sighed there and said:

"The enemy is in the west, the desert in the north, the Ming kingdom in the south, and the ...... in the east Isn't the east also fighting? ”

As soon as he said this, the atmosphere of the king's tent was a little lower, Weng Guodai gritted his teeth, reached out and grabbed his saber, and was about to say a few impassioned words, someone whispered:

"Great Khan, the Ming army of Liaozhen pursued and suppressed the Jianzhou Jurchens, but it was not a real fight at all, it was just chasing the story of running a false response, but some Jurchens who were not Jianzhou were exterminated, and now many people over there are attached to Jianzhou......"

Speaking of this, how could the nobles in the king's tent not understand, a few people immediately sneered and said disdainfully:

"If the rabbit is caught, the falcon will be useless, and the Han people over there will understand this."

"Doesn't that mean ......?"

Namangus said in a confused voice, and the king's tent fell silent again.

Coming out of the Longmen Institute in the east of Xuanfu, walking for two days and one night, after the small settlement of Mantaoer thirty miles to the east, there is a Tuweizi here, which is garrisoned by 2,500 soldiers of the Horqin Division, and there are also two neighboring tribes to assist, a total of almost 4,000 men.

After this soil enclosure, you will have to pass through the remaining veins of the Yanshan Mountain Range, and then it will be the eastern grassland in the real sense, but the reason why you can station heavy troops at this soil enclosure is not because this is a gateway to the important place, in fact, if you want to take a detour, it is only two more days away.

The reason why this is an important place is because there is a gold mine here, and many of the materials that the Horqin Department needs every year are purchased through the production of this gold mine.