"I wonder what sincerity my ministry needs to show?" Karaqin Khan asked cautiously.

"I'm afraid it's not enough to be attached in name, I'm going to set up a guard in Xinghe City, I can write to Your Majesty, canonize you as the commander of the guard, from now on, Xinghe City is the land of the Ming Dynasty, and the Karaqin Department is the people of the Ming Dynasty." Hong Chengchou said.

Karaqin Khan hesitated: "Can you follow the old example of the Tumut Ministry, I am willing to be the king of the Ming Dynasty." ”

In the eyes of the Qalaqin Khan, the status of the Karaqin tribe is equivalent to that of the Tumut Ministry, and the Tumut Khan was named the king of Guiyi by the Ming Dynasty, but he only served as a guard commander, which is really a bit cheap......

Hong Chengchou shook his head: "The Khan of the Tumut Department is nominally the King of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact the Tumut Department is still a completely independent Mongolian tribe. Now that your Karaqin tribe has reached the end of its rope, it is completely different from what happened to the Tumut tribe at the beginning, how can you generalize? ”

Karaqin Khan's face changed, and he felt great embarrassment and shame, but the situation forced him to be completely angry.

As Hong Chengchou said, he has come to the end of the road now, and if he does not completely surrender, he will only perish.

"I agree......," Karaqin Khan finally said with difficulty.

Hong Chengchou smiled: "In this case, please go back first, I will send someone Pegasus to send a letter to Your Majesty, and ask Your Majesty to give an order to appease." ”

As the commander in chief of the army, Hong Chengchou said that he did not have the right to negotiate peace privately, and could only report to the emperor and wait for the emperor's decision, which Karaqin Khan also understood.

And Hong Chengchou actually let himself go back directly, without the slightest intention of taking him hostage, and Karaqin Khan's heart was also relaxed.

"Governor Hong is benevolent and righteous, and he has a magnificent bearing, so he doesn't mean to embarrass me." Back in Xinghe City, Qaraqin Khan sighed to his subordinates.

"But Khan, could it be that our Karaqin Department has really become the guard of the Ming Dynasty?" There is a way that subordinates are unwilling.

"So what?" Karaqin Khan said with a smile, he didn't have the kind of embarrassment he showed in the Ming army camp at all.

"The land of Duoyan was also the Ming Dynasty Guard, where are the three guards of Duoyan now? Hasn't it become the Uliangha tribes? Which one is willing to listen to the dispatch of the Ming Dynasty? ”

"The place where Liaodong was founded was also the Ming Dynasty guard at the beginning, and now the Jurchens have not occupied Liaodong, and the Ming State is out of breath!"

"Right now, when my Karaqin Department is in danger, I can only rely on the Ming army to resist the Chahar Department, so I will suffer some grievances for the time being. When he repels the Chahar Department and the Karaqin Department becomes stronger, do you know that we can't be the same as the Liaodong Jurchens? ”

"The Great Khan is as wise as an eagle in the sky! The Ming people were played by the Great Khan. The subordinates praised one after another.

Karaqin Khan rose leisurely.

......

Ming army camp.

"After sending troops for less than ten days, he subdued the Karaqin Department, set up a guard post in Xinghe, opened up hundreds of miles of territory for the imperial court, and Futai was a true hero." Hou Shilu praised.

"Mr. Hou is right." Huang Degong also followed. A red fruit like Hou Shilu can't do it, so he can only echo it casually.

Hong Chengchou shook his head: "You don't have to be excited, I'm just deceiving that Karaqin Khan." ”

"Huh?" Hou Shilu, Huang Degong and others were stunned.

What do you mean? I just said that it was good, to accept the annexation of the Karaqin Department, and to set up a guard in Xinghe City, but it was all about fun?

"The Mongol Tatars have always been afraid of power rather than virtue, and now they are only willing to submit to the end of the road. However, the grassland here is always a foreign land, and it is impossible for our army to garrison and occupy it for a long time. Therefore, even if a guard post is set up here, the Karaqin Department is only nominally annexed, and it is actually of no benefit to our Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, in order to support the Karaqin Ministry, my Ming Dynasty will inevitably have a bad relationship with the powerful Chahar Ministry, which is not in line with the strategy of uniting the Chahar Ministry to resist Jiannu. Therefore, I deliberately pretended to be willing to negotiate peace, and now the Qalaqin Khan must be overjoyed, and naturally he will not guard against our army. If we wait for an opportunity to cross the river and attack, we will definitely be able to take them by surprise and annihilate the Karaqin tribe in one fell swoop.

Only by seizing their horses, cattle and sheep, capturing their herdsmen and herdsmen, and plundering the elites of the Karaqin tribe back into the border wall, can we obtain the greatest benefits. Isn't it much stronger than what peace talks? Hong Chengchou explained in detail.

"Your Excellency is clever!" Hou Shilu praised. The civil officials are too fucking insidious, and as a military general, his brain can't keep up at all, so he can only pat himself casually.

Huang Degong was very excited: "That's how it should be, the Tartar barbarians, only by subduing them, can you know how to fear the Ming Dynasty." ”

Hong Chengchou unfolded the map and began to arrange military affairs.

"General Huang, I have already sent someone to investigate, twenty miles west from here, the river is shallow, and the war horses can easily wade through the water, after the night, you take the cavalry of your headquarters to wrap the horse's hooves in soft cloth, quietly bypass, cross the Angu River at dawn tomorrow morning, and launch an attack on the Mongols outside Xinghe City."

"General Hou, you prepare the cart and planks, and start erecting the pontoon bridge at dawn, and the army will quickly cross the river after dawn."

"The other generals all went back to prepare, leaving the vigil troops, the other soldiers all rested early, and the auxiliary battalions prepared dry food and sent them out. Tomorrow, the army will assemble at three o'clock, do not light a fire or cook, and immediately cross the river to attack after eating dry food! ”

"Yes!" Hou Shilu, Huang Degong and others will hug their fists.

......

There are tens of thousands of accounts in the Karaqin department, more than 100,000 people, and countless cattle, sheep and horses. With such a huge tribe, naturally they can't all stay in Xinghe City, and most of the tribesmen live in the grasslands outside the city.

Because of the attack of the Ming army, the people were very nervous, and the men all gathered and stood on guard day and night, ready to resist the invasion of the Ming army.

However, with the return of Qaraqin Khan from the Ming camp and the news of the peace talks, the Mongols were a little more relaxed.

Belonging to the Ming Dynasty and setting up a guard station sounds a bit humiliating, but for most herdsmen, there is actually no difference, as long as there is no war, as long as the family can survive, it is fine.

Not only ordinary herdsmen, but also Karaqin Khan was a little lax, and he would not have thought that the Ming army would attack. After all, he had already agreed to harsh conditions, was willing to set up a guard in Xinghe City, and promised that the Karaqin Department would become a part of the Ming Dynasty from now on.

At night, because of the preliminary peace talks with the Ming army, his mood became better, and Karaqin Khan drank a jar of Fen wine and lay comfortably on the bed and fell asleep.

It wasn't until the time of Li Min that the sound of fighting suddenly sounded outside the city, and Karaqin Khan woke up in shock.

"Great Khan, the Ming people are coming, and they are attacking the camp outside the city!" Some of his soldiers hurriedly came to report.

Karaqin Khan jumped out of bed, rushed out of the house a few steps, and saw a red spot outside the city, lighting up the sky of Li Minshi, where countless tents were burning.