"Mongolia?" Watching Huang Taiji pointing to the West, the Baylors present had their own thoughts.

"Old eight, do you mean to go to Hetao to attack Lin Dan Khan?" Dai Shan frowned slightly.

Now the Mongolian tribes close to Liaodong have been attached to Dajin, and Lin Dan Khan, who has been the enemy of Jin, has led the Chahar Department to move west to the Hetao area, and can only attack Lin Dan Khan, but Lin Dan Khan's current Guihua City is more than 2,000 miles away from Shengjing, and where can Dajin support the 2,000-mile expedition now?

Huang Taiji shook his head: "I'm not talking about Lin Dan Khan, but Horqin and the others!" ”

Everyone present was stunned, from the Mandate of Heaven, the Horqin tribes took refuge in Dajin, became a subordinate tribe of Dajin, high-level intermarriage, wartime cavalry recruitment, has always behaved very docile, and Dajin is like his own family. Now Dajin has suffered heavy losses and needs the support of the affiliated Mongolian tribes, but he didn't expect Huang Taiji to attack these affiliated tribes!

"Old eight, are you confused, how can you beat Horqin?" Dai Shan couldn't help but say.

"Yes, Great Khan, the Horqin Department is our own people, if you want me to say that if we want to fight, we will go to fight Korea, plunder its population, and rob its food." Azig also shouted.

Zhu Beile spoke one after another, all to persuade Huang Taiji to give up this idea.

Huang Taiji said calmly: "You guys listen to me first!"

Yes, the Horqin Ministry and my Dajin are allies, and my two Fujin are from the Horqin Ministry. But you must know that after all, the Horqin Department is the Horqin Department, a Mongolian, not a Jurchen who built a state. No matter how good our relationship with the Horqin tribes is, it can't be a real family!

When our Dajin country was strong, the Horqin tribes were forced by the situation and had to rely on my Dajin. But right now, I'm discouraged, and I don't know if he will have other thoughts. Not to mention that Tushetu Khan died in Jibei, and 20,000 Mongolian cavalry were annihilated and captured by the Ming army, will the Horqin tribes be resentful of us, and if the Ming court sends someone to lure us, will it betray my Dajin? ”

"After all, the Horqin tribes are an alliance with us, and the two sides have been friends for so many years, they may not be able to throw themselves into the Ming Dynasty." Dai Shan persuaded.

Huang Taiji shook his head: "What I want this time is no longer an alliance, but a complete one." From now on, there will be no more Mongol tribes in the desert steppe, and I want all Mongols to become a member of the Jurchens, to become truly one with the Jurchens, just as Temujin did in the past. ”

At that time, the Mongol tribe was only one tribe on the steppe, and there were many other tribes in the steppe. Temujin swept across the steppe and conquered all the tribes, and from then on there were only Mongols in the desert and north steppes, and the other tribes completely disappeared.

Now Huang Taiji is determined to follow the example of Temujin and truly conquer the entire Mongolian steppe and turn the Mongolian steppe into a Jurchen steppe!

There are millions of Mongols living in the desert north steppe in the south of the desert, and if all the Mongol tribes can be completely conquered, at least 200,000 cavalry can be collected.

With 200,000 iron horsemen, it is not impossible to destroy the Ming Kingdom!

Huang Taiji described his plan in detail, and the summary is to conquer every Mongolian tribe, kill the tribal nobles, organize all Mongolian herdsmen into the Eight Banners, and rely on the mature military system of the Eight Banners to integrate the Mongolian tribes, continue to grow and develop, and realize the annexation of the Mongolian tribes, just like the annexation of the Jurchen tribes of the Yehe tribes.

At present, the Mongol tribes are each conquering a plate of scattered sand, and it is a good time to annex them!

Although the Korean country is better to conquer, but the DPRK is an agricultural country, the Korean people are weak farmers, the annexation of the DPRK can not enhance the strength of the strong, but the Mongols are different, all Mongolian men, can ride horses and shoot arrows, are born warriors, as long as they are purged into an army according to the Eight Banners model, with strict military discipline, a strong army can be built in a short time!

Therefore, in Huang Taiji's view, annexing the Mongolian tribes is the best way to quickly improve the strength of the Eight Banners! Moreover, the cattle and sheep materials of the Mongolian tribes can also solve the current food shortage in Dajin Kingdom.

Moreover, the Horqin Department and the Dajin Kingdom are next to each other, the distance is close and there is no need to travel long distances, it is easier to attack without being detected by the Ming State, if it attacks Korea, it will inevitably fight again with the Ming army stationed in Kuandian Zhenjiang Fort, and it will inevitably alarm the main force of the Ming army in Liaoxi.

Huang Taiji's analysis convinced everyone, and even the most scheming Dai Shan could not raise objections. After all, according to the current situation, it will not take many years for the Eight Banners to be driven out of the Liaohe Plain by the Ming army, and it will only get weaker and weaker.

And according to Huang Taiji's plan, if the Eight Banners can conquer and annex the entire Mongolian steppe, the future Dajin Kingdom will be even more powerful, far better than now!

Soon, the Beylers reached a consensus, and all of them supported Huang Taiji's strategy of attacking the Mongols.

And Huang Taiji restrained his anger and forgave Amundeg for his own plan, and the magnanimity he showed was also an important reason for unanimous support.

In the following time, the entire Eight Banners were put into operation, sending sentinels to block the grassland between Liao and Shen, so that the Ming army would not notice the movement of the Eight Banners Army, and then left half of the army to guard Shengjing, and Huang Taiji personally led the remaining half of the troops to leave Shengjing while it was snowing, and headed to the northwest.

This is the second snow of the year, and it is much heavier than the first, and the snowflakes are falling like goose feathers, and the whole world is covered in ice and snow. 20,000 Eight Banner soldiers, all wearing thick fur coats and armor, walked in the heavy snow.

Horqin Mongolia, east of Zarat department, west of Zarute department, south of Shengjing border wall, north of Heilongjiang province. The east and west ends are 870 miles apart, and the north and south ends are 2,100 miles apart.

The whole Horqin is divided into twenty-four divisions, and there is a common leader, that is, Tushetu Khan, but Tushetu Khan has died in the territory of the Ming Kingdom.

Twenty-four tribes, hundreds of small tribes and thousands of large tribes, are distributed in this vast area of northern Liao, and they do not live together. However, the Horqin tribe has been attached for a long time, and Huang Taiji naturally knows the situation of the Horqin tribe very well, and knows where its main tribes are stationed.

The army walked through the snowy fields, and there was no trace of anyone along the way, and at this time, all the herdsmen would hide in their tents, and no one would come out.

Along the way, he encountered several small tribes, and Azig, Shuto, Abatai and other Beylers each led their own troops, or surrounded them on the periphery, or rushed into the tribe by themselves, and easily overturned these tribes, and none of them escaped.

All the leaders of the tribe were killed, all the adult herdsmen were incorporated into the army, all the horses were taken away, and only the women and children were left in the tribe, and without horses, these old and weak women and children could not report the news.

On the fifth day, several lonely mountains suddenly appeared in front of him, and Huang Taiji knew that his destination had arrived. Under these lonely mountains, there is the Khan Court of the Horqin Tribe, and between the several lonely mountains is a vast flat land, and the streams flowing down the lonely mountains converge into several lakes, but now everything is covered by vast snow.

Huang Taiji did not rush to advance the army, but ordered the army to stop more than 20 miles away from the Horqin Khanting, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners gnawed dried meat on the ice and snow and piled up snow nests to avoid the severe cold of the night.

The winter outside the Seikai is much colder than in the Kannai, and you have to knock it when you pee at night, otherwise you will freeze. Even if the Eight Banners soldiers were physically strong, even if they were wearing thick furs, when the dawn rose, dozens of people froze to death in the snow nest and could never wake up again.

"Kill into the Mongol camp, drink wine, eat meat, and sleep with women!" Huang Taiji walked on the side of the queue, cheering up the Eight Banners.

Although it was not yet dawn, the ground was covered with ice and snow, and they could still distinguish the direction, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners rode horses and marched towards the Mongolian camp. In order to avoid being detected by the Mongols, he dismounted and walked ten miles away from the camp, until he was more than a mile away from the camp, when he heard a burst of dog barking from the camp, and was discovered by the shepherd dogs.

At this moment, the sky is twilight, most of the Mongols are still staying in the warm bed, the wide camp is full of white yurts, and the Eight Banners cavalry gallops between the yurts.

The barking of dogs alerted some of the herders, and then the violent shaking of the ground woke all the herders from their sleep, and one by one the herdsmen rushed out of their yurts with bows and arrows and ran towards the stables. However, at this moment, the Eight Banners cavalry rushed in, feathers and arrows were one after another, and the herdsmen fell into the snow one by one.

The attack was unprepared, and the individual combat strength of the Eight Banners was stronger than that of the Mongols, and the organization and cooperation were much stronger than those of the Mongols, and this battle without suspense soon ended with the victory of the Eight Banners.

After some Mongolian herders were killed, others had to surrender.

"Huang Taiji, why are you like this? What is there about my Korqin Department to be sorry for you? Looking at Huang Taiji, who walked into the yurt, Korqin Bel Mangus shouted angrily.

Looking at his two Fujin fathers and his father-in-law, Huang Taiji's face showed a trace of shame, but he disappeared.

"Ben Khan heard that not long ago, an envoy from the Horqin Department came to the Ming State, and he wanted to turn his back on Dajin and go to the Ming State, so he had to bring troops to come to the crusade." Huang Tai Ji Road.

"Fart, that's bullshit!" Manggus scolded, "Tushetu Khan led the Horqin warriors to conquer the Ming Kingdom with you, and the 20,000 warriors were gone, and you Huang Taiji not only did not give me an explanation for Horqin, but instead sent troops to attack, Huang Taiji, is your heart all black?" I'll marry you two daughters! ”

Huang Taiji was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "I don't want to do this either, but for the sake of the life and death of the Dajin Kingdom, I have to do this." ”

After speaking, with a wave of his hand, two white-armored soldiers rushed up and dragged Manggus out of the yurt.

"Huang Taiji, what are you going to do with me?" Manggus shouted.

"Spare my life, for the sake of my two daughters, spare me, ah!" The shouting turned into a pleading, and then a scream.

The corners of Huang Taiji's mouth twitched, and he slowly took two steps forward, sat down on a tiger skin mat, and stretched out his hands to roast on the stove.

The thick curtain was lifted, and Hauge walked in: "Amma, the Horqin Mongolian Belle Bebes have all chosen to surrender, all the herdsmen have also given up resistance, the camp has been pacified, what should I do next?" ”

"Kill all the Mongolian Beltaiji heads, distribute their wives and daughters to the meritorious bannermen, and give a part of the cattle and sheep of the leaders to the ordinary herdsmen, and then organize the herdsmen into the Eight Banners." Huang Taiji said lightly.

With Huang Taiji's order, the leaders dressed luxuriously were pulled out of the yurts, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners slashed and killed all of them. There was a commotion among the herdsmen in the camp, but when the Eight Banners soldiers told them in Mongolian that they would give them the cattle and sheep among the leaders, the herdsmen cheered excitedly.

The Mongolian steppe has long been torn apart, and there are often battles between tribes and tribes, and after defeat, the winning side will kill the loser, steal their wives, girls, children, cattle, sheep and horses, and the loser will quickly integrate into the victor's tribe. This has been the rule of the prairie for thousands of years.

In the eyes of ordinary herdsmen, the Jurchens are no different from the Mongols, and the opponents are killed, and the ordinary herdsmen do not feel much, anyway, whoever is in charge is almost the same.

Huang Taiji stayed in this camp for three days, divided the cattle and sheep of the Mongolian leaders, and organized the herdsmen who could ride horses into the Eight Banners. After resting for three days, the herdsmen were retrained, and the army was able to eat and drink well and regain their strength. Huang Taiji gave an order, and the army set off here and killed another Horqin camp a hundred miles away, which was another big tribe.

The news has spread, this time the fight is not as easy as the last time, but in front of the strong Eight Banners, the Mongol soldiers can not resist at all, after a fight, the Eight Banners soldiers invaded this camp, killed the head of the Mongolian nobles, and the Mongol soldiers surrendered one after another.

In the snowy weather, it was known that the Eight Banners were coming, and the Mongolian tribe could not move, so they could only wait for the arrival of the Eight Banners in the camp.

Of course, these Horqin tribes would not sit idly by, and sent a large number of cavalry to inform each other of the alliance, and soon organized a coalition army of more than 30,000 people. So on this reckless snowfield, a big battle started between the Eight Banners and the Mongol soldiers.

Huang Taiji was in command, and Haoge, Azig, Amin and others each led their banners to fight bravely, especially the guard camp commanded by Haoge, which was invincible among the Mongols.

After a morning of fierce fighting, the Horqin coalition army was completely defeated by the Eight Banners, and tens of thousands of cavalry scattered and fled.

In the following time, Huang Taiji divided his troops to attack and attack the Horqin tribes, and it took more than a month to recover more than 20 troops. The heads of all the tribes were killed, and all the herdsmen were incorporated into the Eight Banners Army. The scale of the Eight Banners expanded rapidly, and the number of soldiers controlling the strings reached as many as 50,000.

Huang Taiji ordered that tens of thousands of cattle and sheep should be escorted back to Shengjing to relieve the food shortage in Dajin.

And Huang Taiji himself led the army to start the next expedition, and his goal was the entire eastern Mongolian steppe!

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