Luanhe, the old camp of the Qing army.

When Liu Jun led his troops to arrive, Zhang Guodong had already taken the camp, and the more than 1,000 Qing troops left behind in the camp were annihilated in one fell swoop, and none of them escaped.

Across the Luan River, Liu Jun looked at the other side.

"Across the Luan River, in front of us is the Qing Lu who is surrounded by us. The time has come to counterattack, warriors of the Han Empire, let us work together to annihilate these invading Tartars, regain this land, and build it into a beautiful Yanbei Province. ”

Liu Jun said to Liu Chenggong, the imperial guard beside him, "Blow the horn of progress and cross the river!" ”

A full 50,000 Han troops began to cross the river and unexpectedly encircled the Qing army from the northeast.

"The Tartars will be amazed, they will shock us from the sky." Zhang Guodong laughed and said, the vanguard cavalry led by him easily annihilated the Qing army left behind here, and even the little grain and grass they had collected with great difficulty was directly captured. And the news of this battle has not leaked out, at least not yet.

For this operation, Liu Jun not only deceived the Qing army, but even deceived the ministers in the court. From the very beginning, Liu Jun has already made up his mind to give this greedy and shameless Qing army a hard blow, to deal with this kind of robbery while the fire is burning, the more you retreat, the more they will gain an inch, and no matter how much you retreat, it will only make them think that you are weak and can be bullied.

To deal with this kind of enemy, only a fierce counterattack can make them retreat in the face of difficulties.

And through the summary and analysis of various intelligence, Liu Jun is also very confident that he will win this counterattack, his control over the Gyeonggi area is still very strong, the Gyeonggi area has gathered no less than 300,000 elite troops, Liu Jun has enough troops to draw a force to act, without worrying about the instability of the Beijing division.

The Han army fought at home, and had an overall advantage in terms of morale, equipment, supplies, and troops. The Qing army was just a bluff, but in fact there were all kinds of internal instability. The so-called army of hundreds of thousands. No need to fight is already on the verge of collapse.

Such a good opportunity, how could Liu Jun miss it.

For the sake of safety, and in order to better attack the Qing army in one fell swoop, Liu Jun did not directly let Yanbei counterattack on the front line. You can win that kind of counterattack, but it's hard to win them all. Liu Jun has a great appetite, and he wants to completely defeat this Qing army.

In order to paralyze the Qing army, Liu Jun neither let the Han army in Yanbei launch a counterattack, nor did he transfer the soldiers and horses of the Beijing division. Liu Jun didn't even let the officials and people of Beijing know that he had left Beijing, now. Many of the people of Jingshi still think that their emperor is still in the Forbidden Palace.

In fact, a few days ago, Liu Jun had quietly left Beijing, without the guards and the Praetorian Guards, only with a few generals quietly left Beijing, and after arriving in Tianjin, he took a boat to Shanhaiguan.

The 50,000 troops that Liu Jun is now leading are composed of the Han troops in the Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan areas, as well as the troops drawn from Beiyang, Denglai, and Lushun towns, a full 50,000 elites. Stealthy movements.

They took the ancient road of western Liao, the endless ancient road along the Qinglong River, went around to the rear of the Luan River, and then outflanked the Qing army that had penetrated into the Chaohe area.

On the banks of the Tide River.

"Supplies should have arrived yesterday. But it hasn't come yet. Something is not right. Wu Sangui stood in his tent and was restless.

Zu Dashou was dressed in a military robe, and his hand pressed the long knife on his waist, he hadn't untied his armor for a long time. Even in his own battalion, he had to bring at least 200 families with him.

He always felt that something was wrong with them. Suspicion that they are going to betray them.

"There are too many things that are wrong, and the Han army on the Great Wall is calm and does not speak, no matter how provocative. There was no response. And their Tartars themselves were still engaged in infighting, Hauge had already packed his bags, he ordered the 50,000 horses he led to withdraw to Liaoxi, and gave us an order to retreat with us. ”

"But his mother's Duoduo and Azig ordered to continue to hold this place, and even ordered Hauge's two yellow banners and the men and horses of the Menghan army banner to stay, I heard that now the two yellow flags and many Menghan banners have chosen to stay, Hauge is angry to death, and in a fit of anger with his remaining 30,000 people to evacuate immediately. It seems that no one can stop it, damn it, in this way, we will suddenly lose the 30,000 horses of the blue flag. ”

Wu Sangui paced in the tent and muttered, "Something is wrong, something is very wrong." The defenders on the Great Wall reacted too damn calm, and the supplies hadn't arrived for two days, and I always felt like something was going to happen. ”

"What can happen, didn't Duoduo say that his spies have been staring at the Han army on the front line of Guanning and Yanbei, if Liu Jiye really wants to move, it's a big deal that we will retreat then. He Liu Jiye can't fly behind us! ”

Wu Sangui felt uneasy, and he tentatively said to his uncle, "Why don't we withdraw to Liaoxi with Haoge." ”

"Then you might as well say that we surrender Liu Jiye again." Zu Dashou rejected his nephew's proposal, "You know, although Haoge is an auxiliary king, he is only an excluded person in the Qing court, otherwise he would not have come to the west this time." Duoduo and Azig are Dolgon's brothers, and now Dolgon is the one who speaks the most in the Qing court, maybe one day, Dolgon will also usurp the throne and become emperor like Liu Jiye, let's retreat with Hauge now, isn't this self-defeating? ”

Duoduo finally persuaded Hauge to stay, claiming that Liu Jun was just bluffing, and that he would definitely back down, and then they would get the result that the Qing Dynasty wanted, and then retreat.

But Hauge scoffed at Duoduo's self-confidence, and without looking back, he mounted his horse and left the Chaohe camp with his 30,000 horses, and retreated northeast.

Duoduo watched Hauge leave without looking back, jumped to his feet angrily, and scolded Hauge's back.

After capturing the old camp of the Qing army in Chengde, Liu Jun led his troops like a nine-headed bird with outstretched wings and swooped south. Along the way, along the river valley, although this has been occupied by the Mongols, is the territory of the Karaqin Banner, but in fact this is not a grassland, full of hills, full of ravines, dense forests, difficult roads.

The history of Karaqin can be traced back to a long time ago, and the distant ancestor of the Karaqin king was Genghis Khan's lord Lemei, who belonged to the Wulianghai clan. Wulianghai clan is a famous surname of the Karaqin ethnic group in modern Mongolia, and it is also an ancient and long-standing clan title in the history of Mongolia. In the ancient historical classics, Wulianghai is also translated as: "Wuliangha", "Wuliangzi", "Wulianghai", "Wulianghan" and so on, although the transliteration words are different, in fact, the content is the same. They are all translations of the word Wulianghai.

In fact, the ancestors of Karaqin were not indigenous people who had lived in Yanbei for generations.

Their ancestors were actually the Oghuz people, who were nomadic in the Eurasian steppes and later in Iran.

Legend has it that the leader of the Oghuz people, Oghuth, had six sons, and each of his six sons had four sons. Twenty-four branches were bred from the sons of Ogus, and the Ha Thorn Chibe was one of them. Later, the Haja tribes migrated to the area south of the Amu Darya River and gradually developed into a powerful tribe, known as the Kipchaks along with some other nomadic tribes in the area, and together they formed a powerful Kipchak tribal alliance.

During the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan, the Khamli and Kipchak tribes in Central Asia were successively attached to the Mongol Empire. Year 1221. When Genghis Khan ordered his youngest son, Tuorexi, to conquer Khorasan (the area south of the Amu Darya River, including present-day Turkmenistan, Iran, northern Afghanistan, etc.), Tuolei recruited the Ha Thorn Chi people living in Kojining into the Mongol army, and they were brave and good at fighting, and they were known as the Kipchak army. Later, these people were brought back to the Mongolian steppe headquarters and ordered to serve in the cowardly army of Genghis Khan's court, and the original Hazhuchi was composed of these people, which is the origin of the ancestors of the Karaqin tribe.

By the time of the Yuan Dynasty, the Kipchak army composed of Karaqin people had numbered as many as 10,000. The Karaqin people of the Yuan Dynasty conquered the east and the west, and made great contributions to the invincibility of the Yuan Dynasty, and stationed in Mobei.

The Ming Dynasty was established, and the Mongols retreated to Mobei. The Karaqin army and their families, as well as the Karaqin herders, gradually developed into a powerful tribe known as the Karaqin tribe, who still lived in the Mobei region at that time.

In the battle of Tumubao, Ming lost hundreds of thousands of elites. After that, he was forced to abandon the previously occupied area of Monan and completely retreated to the south of the Great Wall.

Karaqin later entered the Hetao region with the Asu tribe and became the new ruler of the Hetao. Later, the Oirat division also entered the Loop. After 30 years of chaotic warfare among the Mongol tribes, Dayan Khan finally regained control of the Mongol tribes and officially divided Mongolia into 60,000 households on the left and right flanks. Among them, Ordos, Tumut, and Yongshebu are 30,000 right-wing households, and Chahar, Khalkha, and Uliangha are 30,000 left-wing households.

Later, 30,000 households on the right flank rebelled, and Dayan Khan personally led his troops to crusade against the right flank, and after several major battles, the rebellion was quelled. After the rebellion, Dayan Khan divided the 30,000 households on the right wing to his descendants, and from then on, the Karaqin tribe on the right wing also became the hereditary domain and subjects of the Golden Family.

During this period, the Karaqin tribe had moved out of the Ordos region and was stationed outside the borders of Xuanfu, Zhangjiakou and Dushikou, and gradually went east to the pastoral area of Wuliang Ha Sanwei.

Later, under the leadership of his leader, Duoyanwei of Wuliang Hazhong raised his troops to join the Karaqin tribe and took the leader of the Karaqin tribe as his leader.

In the period of Lin Dan Khan, the Later Jin Dynasty rose and the Ming Dynasty was further weakened, and Lin Dan Khan wanted to annex and unify the southern tribes by force, which led to the annexation of the Southern Jin Dynasty one after another.

Karaqin Department is located in the front line of the right wing of Mongolia, and Lin Dan Khan has always had contradictions, the contradiction between the two sides is about to erupt, the Karaqin Department has been attacked by Lin Dan Khan several times since then, several times Lin Dan Khan transferred more than 100,000 troops, and finally most of the Karaqin tribal army was scattered, part of it fled into the Ming border to hide, and part of it was captured by Lin Dan Khan.

The leaders of the Karaqin Golden Family and their population were left with little to no remnant as most of them were killed and captured in the Chahar annexation war. The tribesmen of the Uliangha people in Karaqin did not participate in the Battle of Aibuha, but were subjugated by the Later Jin under the leadership of Changangzi Seling and Sun Subudi Tabunang, thus preserving their strength, and they soon participated in the Later Jin war against Lin Dan Khan.

Most of the Taiji and tribesmen of the Karaqin Golden Family, who had survived, were incorporated into the Mongolian Eight Banners by the Later Jin and separated. In this way, Seleng and Subudi Tabu continued to use the name of the original suzerain's main department "Karaqin".

The leadership of the Karaqin tribe was completely transferred from the golden family to the hands of the Uliangha people, and the Uliangha people became the new lords of the Karaqin tribe. This also indicates that the new Karaqin tribe is reconstituted by the Uliangha people.

"In this way, these Karaqin people today are no longer the real Karaqin people, and they are no longer the leaders of the Golden Family." Liu Jun was very concerned about the Karaqin Ministry, because his newly established Yanbei Province was now the territory of the Karaqin people.

"Today's Karaqin tribe is actually a Uliangha people."

Wuliangha, in the early Ming Dynasty, was also known as Duoyan Sanwei. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, after the death of the Yuan Dynasty, Mobei Mongolia was divided into three parts, the Uliangha Department, the Wara Department, and the Tatar Department.

No matter how cunning and greedy these Mongols used to be, now, these Mongols are still in decline.

Everywhere Liu Jun's army passed, there was a ruin everywhere, and there were no herdsmen, no tents, cattle and sheep. Mixed between the two major forces of the Han and Qing dynasties, their lives were not easy.

But there is something hateful about the wretched.

These Mongols were also recruited by the Ming in their early years, and paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty to seek mutual markets. But secretly, he often robbed the border and did all kinds of evil.

Afraid of Weihuaide, Liu Jun couldn't help but think of this sentence again.

Fortunately, Liu Jun's dispatch was well prepared, and each soldier brought bags of dry food, including dried meat, fried rice, fried noodles, and even dried food that was easy to preserve, such as light cakes and pot helmets. There were also grain wagons of the baggage battalion in the back, carrying sufficient grain and grass for the whole army.

Otherwise, the desolation of the land now would be a big trouble.

"Your Majesty, Hauge is heading this way with 30,000 soldiers and horses."

A group of light horsemen galloped in, bringing the latest military information.

After receiving this news, Liu Jun was a little surprised, could it be that the Qing army had already discovered their movements.

"It seems that Hauge and Dodor had a quarrel, and the two had a conflict over the matter of advancing and retreating, and finally Hauge ordered a retreat, and Dodor ordered to stay, and finally more than 30,000 people evacuated with Hauge."

When Zhang Guodong heard the news, he couldn't help but be happy, "Your Majesty, what an unexpected gain, Qingyu infighting, Haoge took 30,000 people to break away from most of the department, let's just kill him first." ”

Liu Jun also nodded, this was indeed an unexpected surprise.

Hauge's troops returned the same way they came, and their morale was somewhat low as they withdrew.

Aobai rode a horse and followed Hauge's side, he was the yellow flag, and the acting flag lord Azig ordered him to lead his troops to stay, but in the end Aobai did not stay, he chose to retreat with Hauge. There were not many Yellow Banner men who had chosen the same way as him, and although the Dorgon brothers were now in power, they were not convinced.

"Lord Wang, let's leave like this, is it appropriate?"

"Are we going to stay and pay the bill for that fool's wrong decision at Dord. The longer it drags on, the more disadvantageous we are, and I'm sure that Liu Jiye must have seen our reality clearly, only Duoduo, a fool, refuses to give up like a red-eyed gambler. ”

Ao Bai thought for a moment and asked, "If we leave, won't they be even more disadvantaged?" If Liu Jiye sent troops to fight back, then? ”

Hauge looked ahead and sighed, "If that's really the case, then we still have at least 30,000 horses reserved for the Qing Dynasty." ”

As soon as the words fell, a thunderclap suddenly sounded in the clear sky, resounding through the mountains and echoing in the valley.

Many Qing soldiers raised their heads one after another, "Why did there be thunder on a sunny day?" (To be continued.) )