Just as the dagger was about to pierce Duan Fei's back heart, Alatan suddenly withdrew his hand and condensed the dagger in the air, with a tangled expression on his face, as if he was struggling whether to continue stabbing or not.

Duan Fei didn't seem to notice the situation behind it at all, and after a while, Alatan retracted the dagger into his arms, and Duan Fei put down the official document in his hand, turned around and asked, "Why don't you stab it?" Killing me will not only avenge your people, but may even change the situation on the grassland, why don't you stab me? ”

Alatan rolled his eyes and said, "It's a trap, I'm not so stupid." ”

Duan Fei laughed and said: "You are indeed not stupid, you can see the general trend, if you kill me, you can certainly be happy for a while, but for you Tatars, this is definitely a wrong decision, so you stopped in time, as for finding out that this is a trap, it is something you realize later, isn't it?" ”

Alatan snorted, "You have to say, I already knew that you were cunning and cunning. ”

Duan Fei smiled slightly and said, "You suddenly have a killing intent against me because of the news of a big victory from the north, right?" Your own victory must be based on the defeat of the enemy, for your steppe people, defeat is almost equal to the extermination, if it were not for someone to persuade us Han people can be used to enslave and collect taxes, otherwise Kublai Khan may have killed all our Han people, but our Han people usually do not do this to the defeated, otherwise you will not stand here well, you have already been cut off and sent back to the desert, used to attack your father and brother, this is the information transmitted back from the front, you can see for yourself. ”

Alatan took the information and looked at it carefully, and the information detailed the situation of the conquest of the tribes, the young and middle-aged people of the conquered tribes were captured and put into the vanguard, and their families were left behind, under the control of a small number of soldiers left behind, so that it was exactly the same as the situation after Duan Fei entered the Hetao, the soldiers under the command of Alkhan became more and more sufficient, and the killing and wounding of the local Tatar tribes was reduced as much as possible.

After reading the information, Alatan was silent, and Duan Fei smiled: "Now you are relieved, right?" ”

Alatan still didn't say anything, but took the dagger from his bosom and threw it into the corner of the room with a whoosh.

"My lord, there is an urgent secret letter in the gate, and the adult must open it himself." Someone reported outside the door.

Duan Fei shouted, "Take it in." ”

The secret letter was handed in, Duan Fei looked back at Alatan after checking it, Alatan obediently retreated to the door, Duan Fei opened the secret letter, after scanning it, he frowned slightly, picked up a pen and wrote a reply, sealed it and handed it back to the man: "Send it back to Minister Wang Zuo." ”

The man quickly departed after receiving the letter, and Alatan came back and asked, "What's the matter?" Doesn't seem like good news. ”

Duan Fei replied indifferently: "A little family trouble, it has nothing to do with the overall situation, Alatan, you go and send a message to your uncle, just say let him get ready, the Qincha team sent by the imperial court to reward has arrived at the foot of Helan Mountain, and it will arrive in a few days." ”

After Alatan left, Duan Fei rubbed his temples vigorously, and there was some trouble in his heart, the secret letter was sent by Wang Zuo, and the letter said that the power of Dongchang had spread to the whole country, and recently they launched a big operation, surrounding Putuo Mountain and searching for it, focusing on the four major Tianmen, which was clearly an operation against Tianmen, but fortunately, Tianmen had been moved away after being discovered by Duan Fei, and Dongchang did not gain anything.

Duan Fei summoned Li Hua to ask, Li Hua didn't know anything about it, after all, Dongchang was still a chess piece in the hands of the emperor, Li Hua was not in the capital, anything could happen, although Dongchang did not harvest, but Duan Fei raised his vigilance.

The arrival time of the Qincha was slightly longer than Duan Fei expected, this was because of the sudden fall of winter snow, and the heavy snow delayed the trip, but before the end of November, the Qincha still arrived in Yijinai, and Arthar Robert was officially appointed as the governor of Menggolzin as he wished, Zhengde praised Altha Robert in the holy decree, and encouraged him to continue to contribute to the Ming Dynasty and conquer the entire grassland, and the words made people have endless reverie, although Altha Robert was called the cunning fox of the grassland, but he was also dizzy by fame and fortune, excitedly swore allegiance to the Ming Dynasty and the Zhengdetian Khan in front of the Qincha......

Qin Cha also brought a holy decree to Duan Fei, Duan Fei played the prestige of the Ming Dynasty in this battle, not only successfully recovered the two sets, the root hit the hinterland of the Tatars, the Tatar annihilation of the country is just around the corner, Duan Fei was named the Duke of Pingyu because of his merits, Zhengde hopes that Duan Fei can return to Beijing to complete the marriage before the New Year, of course, this is not a death order, the general will not give the order of the foreign monarch, Zhengde is not Zhao Gou's faint monarch, Duan Fei is not Yue Fei's stubborn mule, it is useless to force.

Duan Fei naturally refused to return to Beijing at such a time, he explained his decision to Qincha, and asked Qincha to bring back a stack of folds written to Zhengde.

Qin Cha was not reluctant, and stayed in the new city named Unity City for two days before returning to Beijing.

Qin Cha was unbearable to the cold weather outside the pass and Sugar Cane returned to the south, but Duan Fei left Xincheng the day after Qin Cha left, only taking more than a hundred Jin Niu Wei and Jiang Hui, Alatan and other entourages with him, braving the wind and snow to go north.

No one can figure out what Duan Fei thinks in his heart, at this time, he braved the wind and snow to run to the north, and if he encountered a blizzard, he would be wiped out, but Duan Fei and this more than 100 people were not ordinary people, the weakest was Alatan who grew up in the grassland since he was a child, and it happened that the weather was good in those days and there was no blizzard, and the group was speeding on the road stepped by the messengers, and after a few days, they arrived at the tower and Huang'er Huai, and saw the Tatar tribe who were scattered and guarded there.

Alatan became the most suitable goodwill ambassador in the team, and he asked his people how the Shu army treated them, and if there were any grievances, he directly reported them to Duan Fei, and Duan Fei could help them solve them immediately.

Under the trend of the times, even if Alatan is very unhappy, he can only promote the national policy of the Ming Dynasty for Duan Fei, as long as everyone is obedient, they can live better, the policy of sticks and carrots has been verified by countless people since ancient times, Han Xing They are not vegetarians, and even the fierce Tartars have to be afraid of them, no, Tatar has a legend that there is a guy in the Han army who is more terrifying than death, that guy plays Ling Chi or something is a piece of cake, he likes to cut off something from the target's body the most, He then forcibly gave it to the target, and it is said that he tortured a man alive for 7749 days before he died of exhaustion.

In fact, it has only been less than two months since Han Xing and them went north, who can run around with a tortured prisoner on the road of endless battles, according to Duan Fei's analysis, that person will be tortured for a few days at most, but his ruthless methods and inhumane expression are the key to deterring Tatars.

Nowadays, the situation of the various tribes is very similar to what the Mongols did to the Han people when they ruled the world, each village is controlled by a Mongol, the only difference is that the Han people control these tribes, as well as the Tatars of the Mongol Nationality Department, under their supervision, the Han people who stay behind cannot do too much, which is conducive to the assimilation and control of the Tatars.

Duan Fei continued to patrol the tribes, and finally he also crossed the Wangji River, and then received the news of the great victory in front again, Ah Zhu gathered the forces of counterattack and was defeated by the coalition force composed of two expeditionary forces of the Ming army near Helin, and the most overjoyed thing for Duan Fei was that Ah Zhu was seriously injured and was captured in the defeat!

Hearing the news of Ah Zhu's capture, Duan Fei was overjoyed, but Alatan couldn't help but be gloomy, this time the Tatar is really over, half a year ago, before Ah Zhu convened all the departments to prepare for the southern invasion, he never dreamed that it would be such an ending, all because of the person in front of him, he transformed the firearms of the Ming army, invented grenades and flowering cannons, he was trusted by the Ming Emperor, and he single-handedly promoted the Northern Expedition......

However, Duan Fei's policy of ethnic autonomy also made Alatan very entangled, it turned out to be a good idea, the life of the people of the Menggol Jin tribe has shown a different feeling, in the future, all ethnic groups can trade at will, after living a prosperous life, will anyone fight for the idea of a few people conquering the world?

Duan Fei rushed to Helin with more than 100 people, and met a team of escorts on the way, but there was no figure of Ah Shu, who was an important prisoner and was seriously wounded, and was left in Helin City by the Ming army.

Alatan heard that Ah Zhi was seriously injured, and his mood was very heavy, so everyone hurried to Helin, which was a city two or three times larger than Yiji, and many traces of attack and defense could be seen outside the city of Helin, and the Ming army also paid a lot of price in order to capture this city.

The commander of the expeditionary force went straight into the city, and the Ming army guarding the city gate was overjoyed when they saw the Golden Bull Guard and the Duanzi banner, where they dared to stop it, they welcomed it along the street, and Liu Chen, who stayed in Helin, rushed to greet him when he heard the news.

Duan Fei entered the Dayan Khan Mansion, which originally belonged to Ah Zhu, and after casually asking a few words about the military situation, he immediately asked, "Where is Ah Zhu now?" What is his condition? Take the official for a visit. ”

Liu Chen replied: "My lord, I will take my lord to the place where I am recuperating, he is seriously injured, but after the treatment of the military doctor, the injury is already fine, but he is not in good spirits, and the cold weather has caused his condition to recur, and today he has a cold again, runny nose and cough, which looks quite serious." ”

Liu Chen said as he took Duan Fei to the backyard of the Khan's Mansion, and heard a violent cough from afar, Alatan blurted out a shout, and rushed out from behind Duan Fei quickly, Liu Chen glanced at Alatan in surprise, and saw that Duan Fei didn't make a sound, so he didn't stop him.

The place where Ah Zhi recuperated was actually his original residence, as the most powerful Khan on the grassland, Dayan Khan's mansion was still quite luxurious, but Duan Fei had no intention of appreciating it, and quickly followed Alatan's footsteps and entered the house, and soon he saw an old man lying on the bed and dying.

Ah Zhi is about forty years old, and it is rumored that he is strong and strong, and once knocked down a galloping horse with one punch, but now he is like a dying old man, it seems that injuries and cold have caused great damage to his body, but when Duan Fei saw his death-like eyes, he finally understood that the heavy mental injury was the real reason why he came to this point.

Half a year ago, he was a steppe Khan who tried to recreate the glory of the Great Yuan, but now he has been defeated and imprisoned as a prisoner, even an iron man can't stand such a blow.

Seeing Alatan, Alatan's eyes suddenly reappeared, he grabbed Alatan's arms, and said excitedly: "Alatan, it's great that you're still alive!" ”