Chapter 52: After the Rain
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In mid-May, Zhai Zhe sent Geng Guang into the Guannei and asked Xiao Zhiyan to hand over a hundred horse thieves to Meng Kang, who would block the caravan that killed Hukou and Heihu Mountain.
The border fortress of the Ming Dynasty has been closed, but for the time being, there is no goods to trade, and the Tumut people of the Tuoketo steppe have to live themselves, and the herders are reluctant to sell too much livestock in exchange for daily necessities.
It was almost June before a heavy rain fell on the Monan grassland.
God seemed to want to make up for all the rain accumulated in the previous months, and it rained heavily for three days, and the Yellow River was turbulent, and no one dared to swim across the river at this time.
Even in such heavy rain, the Hanzhai cavalry did not have idleness.
"Each team is in its place, and the captain is out of the ranks, and he marches by the trumpet, and he must not be impatient or lag behind!"
The rain had just eased somewhat, and on the grassland by the Yellow River, Zuo Ruo jumped up and shouted loudly, and the green tendons on his neck burst out, which was exactly the horse thief who was training Hanzhai.
Zhai Zhe has always been concerned about military training, but frankly speaking, he is an out-and-out rookie, until Zuo Ruo mentioned to him a book "Military Training Minutes", which was written by Qi Jiguang, the military god of the Ming Dynasty.
"Practice the march, practice the queue!" Zuo Ruo not only told Zhai Zhe in detail about the content of the book, but also became Zhai Zhe's helper in training.
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The horn sounded, the horse thieves lined up in two long rows, and as the rhythm of the horn accelerated, the horses of the cavalry were gradually raised, and the formation was still a little scattered, but there was already a rudimentary form of cavalry charging.
Zhai Zhe handed over the horse thief to Zuo Ruo to torture to his heart's content.
The rain slowly began to fall again, the horn of recuperation sounded, and the soaking wet horse thief led the horse into the pine forest not far away.
Zhai Zhe lay on the grass under the pine tree, wiped the rain from his face, and said loudly to Zuo Ruo beside him: "I know that the true meaning of war is to hit the softest part of the opponent with your hardest fist!" ”
"What the big boss said is too clear!" Zuo Ruo praised each other, and the more time he spent with Zhai Zhe, the more he admired this horse thief leader.
"War is fighting, and military training is martial arts! Everything makes sense! Zhai Zhe turned his face sideways, lest the rain drip into his eyes. The grassland in the heavy rain is white, he has been away from Zhangjiakou for more than half a year, and now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, waiting for the Jurchens to come to conquer the Chahar tribe.
"That's exactly what the big boss said!" Zuo Ruo nodded in praise, even if what Zhai Zhe said was wrong, it is estimated that he would have this reaction. After being the general manager of Yulinwei for so many years, Zuo Ruo couldn't imagine that these skills he learned were actually used for the purpose of getting out of the plug.
Zhai Zhe is busy with affairs and can't join training every day, but as long as he is in Hanzhai, he has never been absent. The exhausted horse thieves, who were tortured every day, did not dare to make any more trouble, and even the big boss accompanied them in the rain, and what else could they say.
As soon as the rain stopped, Zhai Zhe took the time to go to Motianling to visit Princess Ulan.
Ge Riletu has been staying in the Hetao grassland, and every seven or eight days he will send people up to the Sky Ridge to report the situation to Princess Ulan.
Every ten days or so, Zhai Zhe also went to Motianling to exchange news with Princess Wulan. The Great Khan of Ombu disappeared from the Tokto steppe after the winter, and even Ulan could not be contacted.
After half a year of adaptation, Ulan has also gotten rid of the loneliness of entering the mountains and forests, and restored the liveliness and heartiness of a Mongolian girl.
"Meet the princess!" Zhai Zhe bent down and saluted.
"I've told you many times, no need to be polite!" Ulan reached out and gently tugged at Zhai Zhe's sleeve, motioning for him to straighten up.
Zhai Zhe's afterglow swept to the guards on duty, but he still insisted on bending down to finish the ceremony.
The two walked up as they talked
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At the top of the 6469 Tianling Ridge, the sky after the rain is exceptionally bright, the sun dispels the fog in the mountains, and the grassy slopes of the Tuoketo grassland rise and fall in front of you.
"Princess!" Zhai Zhe suddenly knelt down on one knee, took a package from his arms, and gently lifted it, revealing a delicate gold headdress, which he had specially asked Ning Sheng to buy back.
"Since the beginning of the year, the princess has been helping me a lot in the grassland, and the business has also benefited a lot, this jewelry is my gift to the princess!"
It is the norm for Mongolian women to wear jewelry, and their personality dictates that they always like to show the most beautiful places.
"Ahh Ulan exclaimed, then returned to normal, and reached out to take the headdress. As the younger sister of the Great Khan, she once owned many ornaments that were more gorgeous and delicate than this one, but all of them were lost in the war.
"Get up!" Ulan held back his smile and said seriously: "What I have done is for my Tumut Ministry, and on the day the Tumut Ministry revives, you will be rewarded!" ”
Zhai Zhe got up and said in a firm tone: "Don't worry, princess, the Tumut Ministry will definitely be revived!" ”
Ever since I saw Princess Ulan crying in Motianling in March, I have always felt a pity for this Mongolian woman in my heart. He was here because he was a man, but the task of reviving the Tumut tribe fell on a woman. But Ulan apparently didn't think so, as could be seen from the smile she gave herself after crying.
"If the Tumut tribe reoccupies Monan, I will definitely persuade the Great Khan to give you a tribe!" Ulan's smile is like a flower blooming in the prairie.
What a Mongolian woman who loves to laugh! Zhai Zhe lowered his head.
The grassland in spring is the most beautiful, the grassland in summer is the most charming, this is the most vigorous season of the year, livestock need to accumulate fat and meat at this time, and wait until autumn is the time to be strong, so the grassland uses more soldiers in autumn.
But this year things are different.
To the north of the city of Naturalization, Amur led a large group of cavalry to look at the Heihe River in front of him with concern, and he was ordered to clear out the horse thieves hiding in the depths of Daqing Mountain, passing through this place.
The Heihe River flows northeast to southwest, across the area of Guihua City in the Monan grassland, and finally flows to the Yellow River. \u5f
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In the spring rainy season on the 8oth, the water of the Heihe River is surging, the river surface is dozens of zhang wide, even in summer there is a few zhang wide river, now two or three days after the heavy rain, there is only a trickle left, and it seems that the flow may be cut off at any time.
After the defeat of the Tumut tribe last year, not all Tumut tribes chose to surrender, and Liangcheng and Daqingshan hid some Tumut horse thieves, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Chahar herdsmen. After receiving the report, Lin Dan Khan ordered Amur to come and clean it up.
After a week of inspecting Daqingshan, the Amur horse thief was nothing more than the pain of scabies, and an even more terrible drought began to descend on the steppe. A small number of grasslands and pastures have dried up in Tumochuan, and the area of Jining Haizi has shrunk by half compared with previous years. Herdsmen are concentrating on the vicinity of water sources like Jining, Haizi and Daihai for drinking water for cattle, horses and livestock.
Daqingshan is too big, and there are not as many horse thieves as he imagined. Amur had no intention of entanglement with the horse thieves, left his generals, and went to the garrison of Lin Dan Khan's army at the junction of the Modong steppe.
Although there is little rain in the Modong grassland, the drought in the Liaodong and Duoyan grasslands has been alleviated, and it is far less severe than that of the Tumochuan.
When Amur entered the barracks, he hurried his steps.
After Lin Danhan listened to him quietly, his face was full of doubts, and he asked: "I know that there is little rain in Monan this year, but is the drought really as severe as you said?" ”
Amur's face was solemn, and he said: "It's not so strict in front of you, but now that the rainy season has passed, if there is no rain in the next few months, the Chahar tribe is afraid that a catastrophe will befall you." ”
Lin Dan Khan didn't like Amur's tone very much, and rebuked: "Immortal Heaven will not abandon the lord of Mongolia, don't be alarmist. ”
"It has been two years of drought in Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty, and many people have starved to death and rebelled, and now I have Jurchens in the east of Chahar, and there are Tumuts in the west who are not dead, so they have to take precautions. It is better to migrate some tribes to the Hetao grassland, where there is little rain, after all, there is still the water of the Yellow River, and the Tumuts cannot be cheapened. "This is the countermeasure that Amur came up with on the road.
Lin Dan Khan didn't think about it, and said: "I have worked hard to occupy the Monan grassland, and now I have some eyebrows and retreated to the Hetao, not Mongolia."
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Do you laugh at them? The Khalkha and Horqin tribes in Modong have only sent people to worship me, if I leave at this time, wouldn't I let them surrender to the Jurchens, and how could I unify Mongolia? ”
Amur did not dare to say anything more, and withdrew from the sweat tent, but prayed that the immortal heaven would favor the Chahar Mongols and rain nectar from the sky.