When the Ming army in Jingyu City was frequently mobilized to prepare, the Tatar barracks stationed in the area of Huling and Dasong Mountain in the field fifty miles west of Jinglu were also busy, and the grain and grass materials delivered from afar were being stored in an orderly manner, and the right general Hudur Khan, who was in charge of logistics, was commanding tens of thousands of officers and soldiers and the Ming people captured along the way to carry materials.

Dayan Khan attached great importance to this matter, and personally led his generals to ride horses to the valley of the west pass of Yehuling to check the arrival and storage of materials, and he knew that the sufficiency of grain and grass was the guarantee of the victory of the army.

Although in the past two months, his own Tatar army has won successive battles, annihilating 80,000 officers and soldiers of the Ming army at the cost of 30,000 people, and has achieved a brilliant victory; In the optimistic mood of the whole army, the bald man kept a clear head. This time he challenged the powerful Ming Empire, even if he saw through the external strength of this empire, but the words of the Han people are good: the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, the owner of a large population, rich land, and a vast territory of the Ming Empire, its strength is far above the Tatars. Although the elimination of the 80,000 Ming army was brilliant, it was far from the point where it could shake the safety of this big tiger.

At the beginning of the army, the slogan shouted by Bald Mengke was to hit the city of Beijing, which meant to destroy the Ming Empire, but in fact, Bald Mengke understood very well in his heart that with his current strength, he could not annex such a huge prey, and his ultimate goal was to use this large-scale attack to force the Ming Dynasty to agree to his own conditions, such as the several major capitals set up by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong must be completely withdrawn, so that he can annex the major tribes in Liaodong and become the real Great Khan of Mengyuan. In addition, it could force the Ming Dynasty to cede the area of Fanzhen Ningxia, open the entrance passage to the south, and at the same time remove the threat of the Hetao area.

And to achieve such a goal, the Ming Empire that needs to be fought has to give in, just like the battle of Tumubao that year, completely crushing and extinguishing the arrogance of the Ming Dynasty, so it is necessary to fight ruthlessly, quickly, and accurately. During the two-month battle, hundreds of thousands of Tatar troops implemented this principle of their own, but unfortunately because of the long supply line, he had to stop several times in order to wait for the supplies to be delivered from the long supply line in the direction of Jiayuguan, which also strengthened his determination to quickly take Ningxia Town as a transit supply station; As long as Ningxia Town is taken, its own army will no longer have the unfavorable constraints of logistical supply, and it can attack the prefectures of Shaanxi nearby, and then threaten Shanxi to the east and approach Beijing.

Although the chaff has not yet been removed, and the barley noodles in his hand can only be said to be chaff noodles, but this is already the best food for the Tatar army at present, and the bald can still be quite satisfied with this mountain of chaff.

"Is that a new shipment of ammunition?" The bald man asked, pointing at the hundreds of wooden boxes stacked in the distance.

General Hudur Khan glanced at it and said, "Dear Great Khan, those are the shells, which have been delivered from the Golden Horde in Ulaanbaatar for a long distance to replenish the ammunition of the Condor cannons in our army. ”

The bald man was not relieved by Hudur Khan's smug expression, but frowned and said, "Why is it like this?" How much ammunition is there? ”

Hudur Khan hurriedly said: "Qi Great Khan, two hundred and thirty boxes of artillery shells, and another hundred boxes are firearms and ammunition on the chariot. ”

"Ten shells in a box, two hundred and thirty boxes are two thousand three hundred shells, how can there be so few? Don't you want at least 5,000 to be shipped from the rear? What's going on? "The bald man said with a cold expression.

Seeing that the bald and fierce expression was wrong, Hudur Khan was really frightened in his heart, and hurriedly said: "That's all the last general received, why is there only so much, then I can only ask the leader of the Bai Lao tribe who is responsible for logistics scheduling and trade negotiations with the Rakshasa country." ”

"Tell him to come to me." He dismounted his horse and stood on a big rock with an unkind face.

After a while, Wen Du Erjiang, the leader of the Bai Lao tribe, hurried over with a deputy, and after saluting, he said, "Respected son of Immortal Heaven, Dayan Khan, the eagle of the grassland, I don't know what to do with me?" ”

The bald man said lightly: "You came from afar and escorted a large amount of grain, grass and ammunition, and you worked hard." ”

"It's not hard, it's my duty to serve the Great Khan." Wen Du and Jiang said humbly.

"Very good, come and tell me how much food, how much ammunition, how much armor, how much grain and grass, how many weapons and tents, and how many herbs and materials I have arrived this time."

Wen Du and Jiang were stunned and said: "Great Khan, don't you have a list of these?" The Great Khan is just a sight to be. ”

The bald man said coldly: "I'm afraid the numbers on the list are a little wrong, obviously I said at the big tent meeting that I want to transport five thousand cannonballs from the Condor cannon, but what I saw just now is only two thousand three hundred, is Ben Khan wrong, or is someone making trouble in it?" ”

Wen Du Erjiang was obedient and hurriedly said: "Respected Great Khan, your gaze is as sharp as a falcon, the amount of ammunition this time is indeed wrong, but there is a reason for it. ”

"What is the reason?" The bald man's voice began to grow cold.

"That's because, General Petrov of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, who was in charge of negotiations, was unwilling to deliver all the goods, he said that the cattle, sheep and horses we mortgaged were not enough for the price, and this time their prices had risen by thirty percent. This time, the number of shells was insufficient. ”

The bald man said coldly: "You must have rejected him?" ”

"Respected Great Khan, of course I want to refuse, how can I exchange the innocence of my Tatar girls for their shells, and the red-haired ghost temporarily increases the price, which is an unrighteous act, how can I encourage it."

The bald man beckoned, "Come here." ”

Wen Du and Jiang were stunned and said, "What? ”

"Come here, Ben Khan has something to say."

Wen Du and Jiang hurriedly approached a few steps, stretched his neck to listen, and saw a flash of silver light in his bald hand, but saw the blood splashing, splashing into a rain of blood, and then a head flew into the air, and after landing, it rolled down the hill with a grunt. Wen Du and Jiang's headless body fell under the rock.

The surrounding people screamed in horror and exclamations. The bald machete that dripped blood slowly wiped off Wen Du Erjiang's corpse, and said word by word: "At this time, everything needs to make way for war, and it is hateful for the red-haired ghost to take the opportunity to blackmail, but how can we have time to bargain with them, as a plenipotentiary envoy, you are responsible for contacting this matter, but for the sake of a hundred girls, you refused their request, and failed to deliver the materials as planned, it is your dereliction of duty." Since dereliction of duty, cutting off your head is punishment. ”

Everyone was silent, stared at the bald and cold, and pointed to an official who followed Wen Du and Jiang: "You are his deputy?" ”

"The minister is in contact with the deputy envoy Khantier, the Great Khan...... What did the Great Khan command? ”

"From now on, you are the main envoy, immediately return to Ulaanbaatar and ask the envoy of the Grand Duchy to return the remaining shells and ammunition, and escort them to the battlefield immediately, we need more ammunition, you must do all these things for Ben Khan; No matter what you exchange for, what Ben Khan wants is plenty of shells, don't tell Ben Khan anything else, if you can't do it, you will be the second Wendu River. ”

Han Tier hurriedly knelt down to show his obedience, straightened up the bald man, looked into the distance in confusion, gritted his teeth as if he was talking to himself, and seemed to be saying to the people around him: "The red-haired ghost went back on his word and took the opportunity to rob." This account is in Ben Khan's heart, and he first subdued the Ming Kingdom, and Ben Khan will definitely make them pay the price when he turns back. ”

Halfway to the road, I saw a group of people riding back on horseback in front of the mountain pass, dozens of people were snowing, wolves were unbearable, and more than a dozen empty horses were following behind.

"Go and see, what's going on? Could it be that he engaged the Ming army? He turned his head and ordered his eldest son, Tuluborot, who was following him, and Tuluborot immediately called for the dozens of soldiers to come closer, and the dozens of soldiers were all dressed as light horsemen, and they all looked like scout cavalry, who were responsible for finding out the news.

"What's wrong with you?" Turou asked.

"The eldest prince, we were attacked by the Ming army and killed more than a dozen brothers." A scout centurion hurriedly stepped forward to answer.

Tulu was about to ask again, but he heard the bald man say in a deep voice: "You were injured by the firecracker, and you encountered the Ming army's firecracker?" ”

"Great Khan, I was ordered to go to the outskirts of Jinglu to investigate the movements of the Ming army, but I didn't expect that just ten miles out of Yehuling, I was attacked by a team of unknown Ming troops, this group of people all held firearms, firecrackers were very powerful, we didn't have time to react, they were bombed and killed more than a dozen brothers, everyone was shot, desperately fled back."

Twisting his eyebrows into a pimple, he stepped forward and slowly drew his scimitar, and Tuluborot was startled and exclaimed, "Father Khan, they are not guilty. ”

Ignoring the bald man, he reached out and grabbed the scout's centurion's arm, and whispered, "Hold on to your teeth, hold back the pain." ”

The centurion looked a little flustered, but he still gritted his teeth tightly and closed his lips, showing a satisfied look in his bald eyes, holding the centurion's arm in one hand, and holding a scimitar in the other hand to cut away the bleeding place of the upper arm with a sharp tip, the sound of the puff of flesh churning was disgusting, when the wound expanded, the bald man could simply throw away the scimitar, stretched out his fingers to pick in the wound, and in the surprised eyes of everyone, the bald man pulled out the two fingers that penetrated into the wound.

The flesh on the two fingers was blurred, and between the fingers was a blood-stained object.

"Wine." The bald man can be called.

Tulu hurriedly took off the wine sac and came closer, took the wine sac from the bald man, bit off the stopper, poured the liquor in the sac on the centurion's wound, and shouted: "Let the military doctor bandage the wound and use the medicine every day, so that it cannot suppurate." ”

The centurion endured the pain and said, "Obey the orders of the Great Khan." He slowly drenched the liquor on his blood-stained fingers, washed away the blood, and the object in his two fingers was revealed, which was a small black iron bead.