"I am defeated, and I am willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty!"

Halbara's face was blue and white for a while, he looked at the broken knife in his hand, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a bitter smile, he didn't have the slightest power to fight back in front of the arquebus, it can be said that he was completely defeated by Li Yuntian, and then threw the broken knife in his hand, knelt down on one knee at Li Yuntian, and put his right fist on his chest and said.

"Get up, please!" Hearing this, Li Yuntian threw the arquebus in his hand to the military attache on the side, smiled and helped Harbara up, and said in a deep voice, "From now on, you will be the deputy commander of the cavalry of the Xiaowu Army, responsible for assisting this officer in forming the Liaodong Cavalry Battalion of the Xiaowu Army." ”

"This ......" Halbara was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Li Yuntian in disbelief, never expecting that Li Yuntian would value him so much.

"The Mongol cavalry is invincible on the battlefield, and I believe that you will not disappoint him." Li Yuntian smiled, stretched out his hand and slapped Harbara's chest, and then said in a loud voice to the military attache on the side, "Pass on the military order of this officer, remove the people of the Dayan Department from the prison area and place them in the barracks of the big camp. ”

"In addition, this official is happy to have a good general today, and the whole camp will have dinner in the evening to celebrate." As he spoke, Li Yuntian glanced at the stunned Halbara, smiled and gave the order.

In the face of Li Yuntian's series of overtures, Halbara's mind was drowsy, and he didn't know what to do for a while, feeling like a dream.

Nuo Min looked at the overwhelmed Harbara and bit the corner of his mouth, and then shook his head helplessly: The upright Harbara is not the opponent of Li Yuntian who is deep in the city government at all, and he will definitely be taken in by Li Yuntian for his own use, but this is fine, at least his mother's illness can be well healed.

In the evening, Li Yuntian held a banquet in the reception hall of the Liaodong Zhuque Camp of the Xiaowu Army to entertain the important leaders of the Harbara and the Dayan Department.

Halbara was the leader of the Dayan tribe, and as he submitted to the Daming Dayan tribe and became the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, all the people of the Dayan tribe imprisoned in the prison area have now been placed in the barracks of the big camp, and they will become the military households of the Xiaowu army.

Li Yuntian was very important to Harbara, and specially arranged for him to sit on his lower right, and at the bottom left was Gu Liyu, the chief officer of the Suzaku Battalion, which made Harbara feel flattered.

For Gu Liyu, Halbara is still very respectful, for no other reason, two months ago Gu Liyu led the army to raid the camp of the Mongolian army, and then defeated the Mongolian army with superior troops, so he won the respect of Halbara.

Not only that, Halbara was also impressed by the strict military discipline of the Xiaowu Army, the sergeants of the Xiaowu Army did not kill the captured Mongol soldiers and civilians to ask for merit, and treated the captives well, all of which were unique and impressive.

Like the Jurchens, the Mongols also drank well, and everyone pushed the cups and changed the lamps at the banquet, and the atmosphere was very warm, and at the end of the drinking, several drunken leaders of the Dayan tribe came down and danced the Mongolian dance, which won bursts of applause.

After the banquet, when Li Yuntian returned to his bedroom, heavy snow fell in the sky, and he stood in front of the window and looked at the snowflakes in the sky, his brows furrowed slightly, and he looked preoccupied.

He had received some bad news from Halbara this evening, and according to Halbara, the Mongol Tatar and Warat invasions had mobilized more than 200,000 troops, otherwise a small tribe like the Dayan would not have been recruited for battle.

What particularly made Li Yuntian feel uneasy was that, judging from the information that Halbara had, there were more than 100,000 Tatars and Warats who invaded Liaodong this time, and the Tatar Taishi Arutai did not arrive in Liaodong, and the person who now commanded the Tatar army in Liaodong was Adai Khan of the Tatar Department.

Although the Dayan tribe is now reduced to a small tribe on the grassland, it was founded by the descendants of the Golden Family, so it is related to the tribes commanded by the descendants of the Golden Family, and the news of Harbara came from those relatives.

For Li Yuntian, the most difficult person to deal with in the Tatar Department was not their Adai Khan, but the Taishi Arutai, and the Yongle Emperor's four personal expeditions failed to make Arutai defend himself.

Like the Tatars, the most difficult person to deal with in the Warat tribe was also their Taishi, named Tuhuan, and several wars broke out between Arutai and Tuhuan for territory, and the two sides were evenly matched.

However, if it had the support of the Mongol Uliangha, the Warat tribe would not be the opponent of the Tatar tribe, so Adai Khan, who was born in the golden family by blood, was the Mongol Han and the emperor of the Northern Yuan, so the Uliangha tribe supported the Tatar tribe.

In Li Yuntian's view, Arutai is a shrewd and cautious person, and he will definitely not care about the battle situation in Liaodong, and the only explanation is that there is something that makes Arutai unable to get out of his body and unable to come to Liaodong.

Looking at the situation in the north as a whole, there is only one thing that can hold Arutai back, and that is Emperor Xuande of the northern expedition, which can explain why Arutai did not come to Liaodong with Adai Khan, and can also explain where the remaining people of the Tatar and Warat tribes went.

Li Yuntian had an ominous premonition, and vaguely felt that something was likely to happen to Emperor Xuande's side, and he hoped that Emperor Xuande would be safe.

"The emperor has a large number of soldiers around him, even if the Tatars and Vallars have any tricks, they can save the day." Lei Ting took a hot bath, came to Li Yuntian's side with her hair scattered, and saw Li Yuntian's solemn expression and knew what he was worried about, so she comforted softly.

"Xianggong is worried about the 200,000 soldiers, if Arutai really has a trick, it is not yet known how many people can withdraw to Shanxi Xingdusi." Li Yuntian turned around and took Lei Ting in his arms, sighed and said.

Li Yuntian was actually not very worried about the safety of Emperor Xuande, there were 30,000 Xiaowu troops beside Emperor Xuande to escort Emperor Xuande from danger, but unfortunately the remaining soldiers were afraid that they would be wiped out, and the Mongolian cavalry would easily break up the formation of the Ming army on the grassland and take their lives.

"It's up to people to make things happen, it's up to heaven to make things happen, Xianggong has done his best, let's see what God's will is now."

Lei Ting leaned her cheek on Li Yuntian's chest, and said faintly, in her opinion, Li Yuntian was too tired, not only to plan the battle situation in Liaodong, but also to pay attention to Emperor Xuande's personal conquest, which made her feel distressed.

"When the snow stops, send someone to meet the Tatar leader, and prepare to exchange prisoners!" Li Yuntian was silent when he heard this, Lei Ting was right, after all, he was just an ordinary man, and some things could only be done to his best, and then he groaned for a while, and looked at the heavy snow outside the window, "The cold winter has come, presumably the captured soldiers are living in difficulty, let's save one of them." ”

"Hmm." Hearing this, Lei Ting also looked at the heavy snow outside the window, it was obvious that the Mongolian army would never treat those Ming prisoners of war as well as the Xiaowu army.

It snowed heavily for a day and a night, and after the snow stopped, Kaihara Castle was covered in white and pure world.

Early in the morning, a horse-drawn plough drove out of the west gate of Kaiyuan City and drove all the way along the main road, leaving two clear snow marks on the snow.

The few people sitting on the plough were military attaches and non-commissioned officers of the Xiaowu Army, and this time they were ordered by Li Yuntian to go to Yinzhou City to negotiate with the Mongol army and discuss the exchange of prisoners.

Yinzhou City is the seat where Tielingwei is located, and it is worth mentioning that Tielingwei in the Xuande period and Tielingwei in the Hongwu period are not the same place.

During the Hongwu period, the seat of Tielingwei was originally east of the Yalu River, but during the Yongle period, it was moved to Yinju City in order to ease the relationship with the Korean Kingdom, and gradually formed a future pattern, and the Joseon Kingdom took advantage of the situation to occupy the area east of the Yalu River in Tielingwei.

The Mongol army in Yinzhou City totaled 40,000, of which 20,000 were from the Warat tribe, the other 20,000 were from the Tatar tribe, and there were thousands of tribesmen who followed the army.

Li Yuntian's conditions for exchanging prisoners of war were very fair, a Mongolian prisoner of war was exchanged for a captured Ming army, and five taels of silver were ransomed for a Ming army, and the officers ranged from ten taels to fifty taels.

The two Mongol garrisons of Yinzhou City were one of the Mansu from the Tatar Asut tribe, and the other was Mudu, the second son of King Wara Anle.

The Asut tribe was a Mongolized Central Asian people who originated in the Caucasus and entered the Sichuan and Mongolian plateaus as a result of the Mongol Empire's westward conquest, and several legions were formed by them in the Yuan Dynasty.

It is worth mentioning that the Tatar Taishi Arutai was the head of the Asuth Division.

As for the Anle King of Warat, it was Emperor Yongle who gave the title of Vulture Polo, the head of the Huite tribe, one of the three major tribes of Warat, in the seventh year of Yongle, and was also entitled along with Mahamu, the head of the Oirat tribe, and Taiping, the head of the Turghut tribe, of which Mahamu was named the king of Shunning, and Taiping was named the king of Xianyi.

Originally, Mansu and Mu both wanted to capture Kaiyuan City, but they didn't expect to suffer a big loss, and they were caught off guard by the Xiaowu army of Kaiyuan City and returned defeated.

Later, the two realized that the Xiaowu army in Kaiyuan City was indeed worthy of being an elite division that had experienced the Jiaozhi war, and it was obviously different from those Ming troops in Liaodong Dusi, not only well-trained but also brave and good at fighting.

Although the Tatars and Warat formed a coalition army, the two sides were not monolithic, and there were complex entanglements of interests inside, so in the face of the Xiaowu army in Kaiyuan City, no one wanted to touch this difficult hard bone, so the two stationed their troops in Yinzhou City to confront the Xiaowu army in Kaiyuan City to prevent the Xiaowu army in Kaiyuan City from supporting the Ming army in Liaoyang City.

After learning of Li Yuntian's prisoner exchange, both Mansu and Mu were immediately moved by such superior conditions, and ordered people to do their best to deal with the prisoner exchange.

First of all, the one-on-one exchange of prisoners made the two take advantage of a big advantage, you must know that one Mongolian soldier on the battlefield is enough to compare with three Ming soldiers.

Secondly, the redemption price offered by Li Yuntian was very attractive, which could make the two of them make a lot of money, which was more cost-effective than killing or selling those Ming prisoners of war into slavery.

It is worth mentioning that the Mongol army did not bring much grain and grass on this labor expedition, and there was no habit of preparing grain and grass, and they usually raised it on the spot while fighting, and the poor and poor areas in Liaodong could not get more supplies, so it was better to sell it if it was a waste of food to keep those prisoners.

Moreover, in the eyes of the barbarian Su and Mu Du, they just temporarily let Li Yuntian use food to raise those prisoners for them first, and when the Mongol army concentrates superior forces to attack the original city in the next year, then the Ming army in the open city will become their prisoners of war again.

In order to take Kaiyuan City, an important military town of the Ming army in northeastern Liaoning, and especially to eliminate the Xiaowu Army, which posed a huge threat to the Mongolian army, the commander of the Mongolian army has decided that the first thing to do next year is to capture Kaiyuan City, sweep away the greatest threat to the Mongolian army from the Ming army in Liaodong, and then attack Liaoyang City, the seat of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, with peace of mind.

Looking at the overall situation, the only thing that the Ming army could pose a threat to the Mongolian army in Liaodong was the Xiaowu army in Kaiyuan City, and the Ming army in several towns, including Liaoyang City, had been frightened by the Mongolian army, and all of them cowered in the city and did not come out, putting on a stubborn posture and waiting for reinforcements in the pass.

Therefore, in the eyes of the commander of the Mongolian army, as long as the Xiaowu army in Kaiyuan City was cleared, then the Mongolian army could free up its hands to break through the towns held by the Ming army one by one.

As for whether those Ming prisoners of war would enhance the strength of the defenders of Kaiyuan City, Mansu and Mu Du were disdainful of this, and the Ming army in Liaodong had long been demoralized and fearful of the Mongol army, so they were not worried that they would cause trouble for the Mongol army to attack Kaiyuan City, and they were not sure that those captives would collapse when the Mongol army attacked the city and disturb the military spirit of the Xiaowu army.