"Woo ......"

The turmoil and the continuous party strife are continuous, compared with the instability in the Guan, the land in the north is full of the atmosphere of slaughter.

In spring, the grass is fertile and the water is beautiful, the cattle and sheep herds chew grass and drink water by the river, and not far away is the temporary residence of hundreds of sentinels.

Dressed in thick fur sweaters, they sat on low benches in the camp in a bloated manner, some blowing tribal whistles and others singing loudly.

They look like ordinary herders, no different.

The herd is their source of food, but in their capacity, they cannot slaughter cattle and sheep at will, but can only eat dairy products from cattle and sheep to fill their stomachs.

The amount of this dairy product is not much, and due to the severance of the mutual market, the entire Horqin tribe can only eat some porridge mixed with sorghum (sorghum) and dairy products, or pureed food.

The food doesn't taste good, but at least it fills the stomach.

For these sentinels, this kind of food was a very common meal on weekdays, and they could often eat meat only when they won a battle, or on the day of the end of the month.

A good meal was a rare thing for this sentry stationed on the edge of the Kharavin Mountains.

They did not know that the Ming army had defeated Chahar, so their defense was very lax.

Despite Huang Taiji's reminder, since the Korqin Department was an alliance after all, the various departments did not believe that the Ming army would be able to continue to make a detour north to attack them after defeating Lin Dan Khan.

They did not believe that the Ming army would cross the Haravin Mountains to attack, because in their opinion, the Haravin Mountains were too high and densely forested to be crossed.

Therefore, they placed the vast majority of their forces in the southeastern foothills of the Kharavin Mountains, rather than in the eastern foothills.

As a result, the garrison at the eastern foot was empty, and while the sentry was still singing in the camp, with the fall of a row of trees, a long-sealed post road in the Haravin Mountains was reopened.

In the same way, it was not only the post road that was opened, but also all the obstacles in front of the Ming army......

"It's finally through!"

"Fortunately, this post road was fried by the soil frying method back then, and there were no trees on the road, otherwise I am afraid it would not be so easy to penetrate."

When a row of trees fell and the Ming soldiers began to dig out the roots, Sun Shoufa and Man Gui also laughed and chatted with each other.

Behind them, Zhu Youzhen was looking at the map, and then said:

"According to the news given to us by the Karaqin tribes, as well as the news given to us by some tribes within Horqin, the people stationed in the eastern foothills are basically people from those small tribes."

"We have to let them transfer their troops and horses first, and then report the location of the Oba camp, and we will attack directly at night."

Closing the map, Zhu Youzhen looked at the Jinyi Wei Qianhu behind him, and the other party also said:

"Your Highness, rest assured, there is enough time."

After that, he turned around and asked people to prepare to release carrier pigeons to contact the many small tribes of Horqin who had already communicated with the Ming army in private.

Compared to the Han people who treated the Han as slaves, even craftsmen needed to work five or six hours a day, and were very aware of the construction of the captives, the Mongols did not have strong monitoring of the Han people.

There are many Han Chinese who have fled north in the Horqin tribes, and as long as they have a skill, their status among the tribes will not be lower than that of ordinary Mongols.

Li Ruolian's Beizhen Fusi, although he could not use the Han people to invade Jianyu and obtain their information.

But using the Han Chinese to invade Horqin and win over some small tribes is simply a breeze.

Before this battle started, there were already many ghosts belonging to the Ming army in Horqin.

"As long as the Horqin cavalry at the eastern foot withdraws, we will immediately raid Oba's camp."

"Kill Oba and Horqin, and the dragons will be leaderless, and our army will take the opportunity to control Horqin and move them south to Daning Mansion."

Of course, this path does not refer to moving the Mongols to Guannai, but to move them to places close to the Han people's residences.

Ancient and modern, the reason why the dynasties that did this failed was because of the lack of population, and the Ming Dynasty happened to have too many people at the moment.

The total number of Mongols in Monan, Mobei, and Moxi is only 780,000, and the Mongols in Central Asia are less than 2 million at most.

Move part of them inward, and then move part of the Han people out, enough to dilute them with the number of people, Zhu Yuanzhang also played this method in the early Ming Dynasty, which is very useful.

What's more, for many Mongolian nobles, as long as Zhu Youzhen is willing to give them the title of Lord Wu, who wants to eat grass and blow sand on the grassland?

"The army was stationed on the mountain road, covered by bushes, so that the herdsmen passing by could not see it."

Zhu Youzhen commanded the army and began to arrange, but it made him return to the time when he was a big soldier.

Also under his arrangement, after the Ming army cleared the roots of the trees, they began to collect bushes to block the post road that had been cleared.

Looking back, the post road built by Zhu Di was only cleaned up by Zhu Youzhen and them.

"In the future, to govern the land of slaves, it is necessary to overhaul the post road......"

Looking at the post road cleared out behind him, Zhu Youzhen nodded secretly, and then began to rest with the army, waiting for the internal response of many small tribes in Horqin.

If they can succeed in their internal response, then the Ming army can abandon the 200 five-pound guns in the army and rush to the Oba camp lightly.

But we still have to wait for the news......

At this moment, Zhu Youzhen was sitting on a stump, he didn't know what was happening in the south, all he had to do was to win this battle and further compress the scope of Jianyu's survival.

After this battle, the next battle against the north will be able to clean up the captives......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked up at the clear blue sky and snow-white white clouds.

After a short time, the carrier pigeons were released, and they fluttered their wings into the sky, and dozens flew towards the east, skimming the grasslands and hills, and finally only a few flew into an earthen city standing on the banks of the Taer River (Nenjiang).

The carrier pigeon flew into a wooden house, which had more than 100 pigeon cages, and hundreds of carrier pigeons rested in the cages and pretended to sleep.

When the pigeon had landed, he skillfully fetched water and food for himself, until the door of the hut was opened half an hour later.

"Squeak......

The creaking door was pushed open, and an emaciated herdsman, dressed in Mongolian costume and with a disheveled head, entered the hut and closed the door to see carrier pigeons foraging for food in a food box.

Seeing this, he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the carrier pigeon, pulled out the letter on the pigeon's leg, and wrote hundreds of words densely on the thumb-sized letter paper (you can go to see the ancient imperial examination cheat sheet).

It was difficult to read with the human eye, so the man walked over to a nearby table and found a single lens similar to a magnifying glass and pointed it at the contents of the letter.

[The warship is ready, just wait for the east wind. In a single place, the wolf is sealed, and there is no ......]

Dense and small characters, if you use a normal small block pen to write, you can't write so many words.

The only way to write such a small book is to write with a pen made of two or three whiskers of a mouse, and if it is written by someone with excellent eyesight, such a thumb-sized piece of paper is enough to write a thousand words......

"It's finally here......"

In front of the hundreds of words that were clearly seen by this person, what blurted out of his mouth was undoubtedly the official words of the Ming Dynasty, and after reading the letter, he immediately folded the letterhead and ate it in his mouth.

After chewing and swallowing, he immediately walked out of the wooden house, and after locking the wooden house, he glanced at the simple wooden houses around him, and walked towards the wooden house in the center of Tucheng.

Compared to an ordinary wooden house, this wooden house can also be said to be a small courtyard, and its gate is guarded by two teams of Mongols dressed in rudimentary chain mail.

When this Han man who spoke the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty tried to enter the courtyard, the two teams of Mongols not only did not stop him, but also gave him a chest hug salute.

When he came to the hall, a Mongolian man as old as fifty years old sat on a tiger skin chair, and his hand was reading the Ming Dynasty's "Three Words and Two Beats".

"Ombutaiji, your wealth has come."

"Huh?" Seeing the Han people walking in and hugging their chests and saying these words, this Embu immediately got up and said, "What do you mean? ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi has already led his troops to the eastern foothills of the Haravin Mountains, and now he only needs Taiji Neng and the tribes below to withdraw the sentinels at the eastern foothills, and by leading the way and leading the troops to Geljurgen City, he can easily take Oba."

"When the time comes, according to the example of Hetao, you will at least be an uncle of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Did they really cross the Haravin Mountains?" Ombu was a little incredulous, after all, the Haravin Mountains were all primeval forests, and leading the army through more than 400 miles of primeval forests was not something he could do in his cognition.

However, if the Ming army really did it, then he could also join the Ming Dynasty with an iron heart.

"It's already here." The Han man hugged his chest and saluted, and Embu hesitated for a moment when he heard this, and then said:

"I can let people withdraw for a night, if His Royal Highness the King of Qi can lead the troops to fight the city of Gelezhuergen on behalf of him in one night, then I will help His Royal Highness the King of Qi resist the rebellion of the counterattack in the south."

"Taiji, your decision is extremely wise, I believe that you will soon become an uncle of Daming."

The Han people saluted when they heard this, and then said: "I will take someone to personally search for the traces of His Royal Highness King Qi, and ask Taiji to give me your military order." ”

"Take it." Ombu, who wanted to speculate, immediately untied an iron seal around his waist, which was the official seal of the Ming Dynasty that rewarded the Horqin tribes and Taiji, and Embu also had one.

On weekdays, this seal represents his personal arrival at the front line, and this seal is handed over to the person in front of him, which naturally represents the power to transfer troops.

After receiving the seal, the Han man immediately turned and left, and after taking a horse from the stable, he rushed out of Tucheng with two Mongols and galloped towards the west.

Along the way, he kept using the seal of Embu to change horses in various departments, and only before dark, he ran out for more than 200 miles, holding torches, carrying a full back of arrows, and with this crossbow he began to shoot an arrow every three miles around the Haravin Mountains.

The two Mongols behind him also knew that his identity was the Jinyi guard of the Ming Dynasty, and they did not think it was strange to help the Ming to deal with Korqin.

At a time when the tide of national thought had not yet risen, they did not care at all whether it was the Han Chinese or the Mongols who ruled them.

If it weren't for the fear of being beheaded by the Ming army in the south, many Mongols would even take the initiative to flee south.

Throughout the more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, it was not uncommon for Han people to flee north and Mongols to flee south.

The difference is that most of the Mongols fleeing south need to have guides and referrals, while the Han people will basically be given preferential treatment as long as they flee north and are blacksmiths and carpenters.

Now that their Urad Department has a chance to return to the Ming Dynasty, who is willing to eat sand on the grassland?

Didn't you see what King Qi swept the north to? Stay in the grassland dead end......

"Bang!"

"Beep-"

When the Jinyi guard and two Mongols shot arrows in a col again, unlike dozens of previous misses, after this arrow was fired, a wooden whistle echoed from the col.

"Found it, you go and inform the ministries to prepare to move north and south, and cooperate well with Baylor, I will ask for credit for them."

"Yes!" Hearing Jinyiwei's promise, the two Mongols immediately rode back to all the tribes they had passed along the way, preparing to inform them of their move south and north, avoiding the route of the Ming army.

After the two of them rode away, more than a dozen Ming army horsemen rushed out of the col, and for this Jinyi guard, who had been in Modong for more than two years, seeing Daming's armor and banner was enough to make his nose sour.

He raised his hands and said to the vigilant pond riders:

"Jinyi Weibei Town, Fusi Monan Thousand Households, Horqin Hundred Households, the small flag official of the Urad Department is very useful, and I am here to open the way for His Highness!"

Hearing the familiar words of the Ming Dynasty, the group relaxed their vigilance, but still reconnoitred more than ten miles outside, and at the same time searched Ma Dayong, and then took him through the long post road and came to Zhu Youzhen.

"Jinyi Weibei Town, Fusi Monan Thousand Households, Horqin Hundred Households, Urad Department Small Banner Official Ma Dayong See Your Highness, Your Highness Chitose ......"

When Zhu Youzhen appeared in front of Ma Dayong, Ma Dayong immediately stood up, and his action of not kneeling made Zhu Youzhen nod slightly.

As long as those who are familiar with him know that he doesn't like people kneeling down very much, which also shows that this brocade guard knows him better, and reduces the possibility of others impersonating him.

"How? Which tribes are willing to submit to my Daming? Where is Oba now? What is the strength of the troops? ”

Zhu Youzhen asked three questions in a row, to which Ma Dayong responded:

"At present, the Urad Division, the Ming'an Division, and the Hara Department are all willing to submit, and they have also made way for our army to advance."

"Half a month ago, Huang Taiji reminded Oba that His Highness might attack him by surprise, so he moved to the city of Geljurgen, which is more than 340 miles away from here."

"The city of Geljurgen is a rammed earth city, one zhang three feet high and one zhang wide, with more than 20,000 herdsmen outside the city, more than 3,000 nobles in the city, and more than 9,000 soldiers and horses from the headquarters of Oba."

"If His Highness exterminates Oba, it is estimated that the other tribes are also willing to submit to my Daming, and they are already dissatisfied with Oba's submission to the old slave......"

Ma Dayong briefly described the situation to Zhu Youzhen, but what Zhu Youzhen didn't expect was that Oba was so far away from them.

Obviously, under Huang Taiji's reminder, he took precautions, and Zhu Youzhen had to change his plan to recruit him.

He originally thought that Oba would lead people to nomadism in the eastern foothills, so he wanted the cavalry to finish him directly.

Now it seems that it is still necessary to bring artillery, but the distance of three hundred and forty miles is not a good thing to stretch the baggage line.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen ordered Man Gui:

"Long Xiangwei left soldiers and 100 five-pound cannons to garrison the mountain pass, and the remaining three guards carried the remaining 100 artillery pieces and half of the gunpowder and stone shells, and then carried ten days of military rations, and we will kill the city of Glezhurgen!"

"Yes!" Man Gui immediately responded, and didn't think there was anything wrong with Zhu Youzhen's arrangement, but in the details, he added:

"Your Highness, do you arrange for Long Xiangwei and the people to clear some trees in case someone attacks them?"

"Hmm......" Zhu Youzhen looked around, calculated the time, and really needed to guard against someone attacking.

Although he did not believe that anyone in the Horqin tribes would dare to cut off his grain route, he still had to have the most basic precautions.

So in his order, an hour later, Yulin, Tiance, Xiaocai three guards, more than 16,000 horsemen began to pull 100 five-pound cannons and more than 60 carts of stone bullets and gunpowder, under the guidance of Ma Dayong, marched towards the city of Glezhurgen.

The army galloped on the grassland, and the vast Horqin steppe basically did not give them a safe place to rest, so the army could only take a short break for an hour or two, and then continue to march, while placing the pond far enough.

Fortunately, Ma Da used the seal of Embu to make some small tribes avoid the route of the army, which allowed Zhu Youzhen to forcibly travel more than 260 miles in three days.

By the time they were discovered by the Mongols in the city of Geljurgen, it was already the night of March 28, and the news of the appearance of the Ming army and the attack and killing of the sentinels continued to spread from the west to the city of Geljurgen.

"The Taiji and Ming armies are already less than sixty miles away from our army, do you want to gather your troops and enter the city? Gather the other tribes to fight the enemy? ”

In the civil structure hall of the city of Geljurgen, when a Baylor questioned Oba on the throne, Oba, as the leader of the Korqin League, did not give a direct order, but looked at the person on his left.

In the candlelight, Huang Taiji's fat body appeared in the dim hall, but at this moment he calmly said in Mongolian:

"I only know that the Ming army is coming, don't you see whose banner they are shaving?"

"We ......" Baylor was a little speechless, and only said after a while: "We can't break through their pond cavalry, and we can't see their Chinese army and Daxu ......."

"Where's the quantity?" Huang Taiji frowned, he didn't expect this group of people in Horqin to be so wasteful, even the Ming army and the Chinese army couldn't get close.

"This ......" Baylor's hesitant appearance told Huang Taiji in disguise that he didn't even know the number of the other party.

"What now? Huangtai Jibel ......"

Faced with the lack of intelligence, Oba could only put his hope on Huang Taiji, because he brought 3,000 horse infantry and 15,000 cavalry with him in this battle.

Huang Taiji arrived in the city of Geljurgen three days ago, and he has been waiting, waiting for the appearance of the Ming army.

He did not think that the main force of the Ming army could cross the Haravin Mountains, in his opinion, the Ming army might attack from the south, and the Haravin Mountains should send a small number of partial divisions to cross it.

As a result, he didn't expect that there was a post road left by Ming Chengzu Zhu Di in the Harawen Mountains, and Zhu Youzhen took advantage of this post road to directly lead the main force over the Haravin Mountains and launched a surprise attack from the west of the Horqin Alliance.

However, in addition to this, what Huang Taiji did not expect was that in the first half of the more than 200 miles from the Haravin Mountains to the city of Geljurgen, none of the tribes reported to Oba.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji glanced at Oba and secretly mocked him for being really a waste, and even Korqin couldn't control it.

But even if Oba is a waste, he is the leader of the Horqin Alliance after all, and Oba with this name is still of a lot of use to Huang Taiji, so he can't give up Oba yet.

Therefore, when the number of Ming troops and the main general did not know who it was, Huang Taiji could only imagine the imaginary enemy as Zhu Youzhen and Man Gui, or Sun Chuanting and Cao Wenzhao, who had never appeared.

After Lin Dan Khan was defeated and fled from Hailaer, the sentinels sent had not yet brought the news, because Huang Taiji had little information in his hands.

However, he knows very well that no matter who leads the troops and how many people there are, in short, the lifeblood of the Ming army is logistics.

For an expedition of nearly 2,000 miles, logistics is particularly important to the Ming army, and what he has to do now is to cut off the logistics of the Ming army and give the Ming army a fiasco!

"I'll now order all the soldiers and horses to make a detour north and go out of the city, you don't have to worry about what I am going to do, take your people with you, and use the sixty iron cannons I brought to defend the city."

"Remember, hold it for at least six days, as long as you can hold it for six days, I can completely annihilate this expeditionary force of the Ming Court!"

Huang Taiji looked at Oba directly, and Oba only felt a little uneasy when he heard this, but he still nodded.

But at this time, the Baylor who had just spoken, said:

"Don't you need to pass it on to the tribes, Baylor and Taiji? Now while the main force of the Ming army has not arrived, we still have a chance. ”

"Communication? Hehe......" Huang Taiji sneered:

"The Ming army killed here from the eastern foothills, more than 200 miles, and more than ten tribes along the way did not report the news, do you think the tribes in the south and north can be trusted?"

"I'm afraid they have all received a lot of promises from the Ming court, if you can't eat a part of the Ming army, or hit the Ming army hard, then even if the Ming army withdraws, you can't keep your position as the leader of the alliance."

Huang Taiji got up, walked to the door with the handle of the knife with one hand, and turned around and explained:

"Remember, keep it for six days, I only need six days!"

After that, Huang Taiji turned and left, and half an hour later, when the Ming army advanced twenty miles again, Huang Taiji led the army to the north.

More than 18,000 Ma Bujun are two-thirds of Huang Taiji's family background, and he must get something from the Ming army in this battle, otherwise they can really only be trapped and die in slaves as Zhu Youzhen imagined.

"Drive!"

The army marched north, and the rumbling hooves of the horses continued, and Huang Taiji, who was on horseback, opened his mouth and ordered:

"Shoot all the Han or Mongols along the way, and don't expose the whereabouts of our army."

"I don't care who the main general of the Ming army is, in short, what I need in this battle is a big victory!"

"Yes!" Gushan Ezhen, Jiala Ezhen and other Jin army generals responded to Huang Taiji and spread the news throughout the army.

The army marched north, and almost at the same time as they turned westward, the Ming army simultaneously arrived at the city of Glejurgen, drinking the Matar River......

(End of chapter)