There were many routes to choose from as the Mongols moved westward, but the ideal place to go was the Golden Horde in the western mountains or the Timurid Empire, which was currently in disarray.

The former, a khanate established by the Mongols, has a greater sense of belonging.

The latter is the twilight empire of the Western Regions.

Regardless of whether the former or the latter, with the strength of the Mongol tribes, it is entirely possible for the dove to occupy the magpie's nest.

It's just that the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.

The Mongolian tribes soon found that although the weather turned cold, the Ming Dynasty had no intention of retreating, but they also had no intention of fighting to the death with the Mongolian tribes, so they left a large army with the Jinge Group Army as the main force and the border army iron cavalry as the auxiliary, wandering outside the pass.

The Ming forces in Hami, Hetao, Xuanfu, and Datong did nothing after they shrunk back, but just tried their best to ensure the logistics of the army that was wandering outside the pass.

The Mongol tribes tried to fight once.

On the contrary, he was shot by a Dongfeng rifle and couldn't take care of himself.

The coalition forces of the various tribes were helpless, so they simply left him alone, and the coalition forces of the various tribes were disbanded, and the leaders of the various tribes led the large armies back to their respective tribes to prepare for the westward migration.

As a result, this Ming army had no discipline, and when a tribe in Mongolia first best prepared to move westward, and when the tribal leader led the tribesmen to move west, this Ming army actually launched an offensive brazenly, but fortunately, the people of this tribe reacted very quickly, and fled to the depths of the steppe under the cover of the iron horse, although the loss was not large, but the westward migration was disrupted.

This happened several times in quick succession.

The strange thing is that the other tribes, as long as they don't move west, even if they are next to this army, no matter how weak you are, this Ming army will be like invisible.

Ignore it.

Unless you take the initiative to attack this Ming army.

The Mongolian tribes finally understood: the Ming Dynasty took such a lot of trouble to prevent the Mongolian tribes from moving west!

How can the prairie Erlang let you be so good!

The leader of the Yekeli tribe, Yismayin, led a large army to defend the tribesmen, preparing to enter the Golden Horde from Yili to the Khan according to the plan, but as soon as the tribe was dispatched, they were blocked by the Ming army in the Hami area.

It was already snowing heavily, and the fighting between the two sides was extremely difficult.

Yismain soon found that he fell into an embarrassing situation: give up moving westward to fight with all your might, the Ming army in the Hami area has retreated back, you take care of the Ming army in the Hami area, prepare to continue to move westward, the Ming army bites up again, let you fight it, don't fight.

And the rest of the Mongolian tribes are the same!

Especially the Ming army wandering on the grassland, with the full support of the Ming border army, plus the main force is the Jinge Group Army, which can fight and retreat if it wants to, without the slightest pressure, interspersed back and forth in the depths of the grassland, and does not give the Mongolian tribes the slightest chance to move west.

Of course, things are far more sinister than they say.

This Ming army has also fallen into a desperate situation many times in the depths of the grassland, after all, after the snow, the logistics are not easy to follow, but fortunately, when the logistics cannot keep up, this Ming army will retreat, and the Ming will also send another army with grain and grass reinforcements and replacement.

And the main force is still the Jingo Army.

It's winter again, and the shelf life of food is relatively long.

At this time, the Mongols found out that they had done something stupid!

In the previous mutual market, they gave Daming a large amount of beef and mutton, and as a result, Daming made these beef and mutton into air-dried beef and mutton, and now it has become the dry food of this Ming army!

The rotation and alternation of troops, the troops in the Hami and Hetao areas were contained, and even the Ming troops of the Liaodong and Northeast Metropolitan Divisions were dispatched, especially the Jurchen soldiers of the Northeast Division, which gave the Mongolian departments a headache.

Speaking of cold, the Northeast is not inferior to Mobei.

Therefore, the adaptability and combat effectiveness of the Jurchen soldiers in winter are no worse than those of the Mongolian iron cavalry.

The Northeast Capital Division is interspersed with several back and forth in the depths of the grassland.

Although a battle was not fought, it frightened all the Mongolian tribes in the places where they passed to give up the idea of moving westward - in the winter, they wanted to move westward on the snowy fields, and they wanted the Jurchen soldiers of the northeast capital to fight, who would dare to do this?

That's basically waiting to be exterminated!

After a lot of tossing, the Mongolian tribes found out in despair that under the operation of the Ming Dynasty, the road for the Mongolian tribes to move west was completely blocked.

Of course, it is said that the people moved westward.

If it is a small range of individuals and families moving west, the Ming Dynasty will not pay attention to it at all.

If the Mongol tribes want to successfully move westward, they must not solve these rogue operations of the Ming Dynasty.

But this is simply not possible.

Forcibly moving west?

It's to die.

Under such circumstances, the Mongol chiefs had to accept the reality and temporarily abandon their westward migration, after which the chiefs of the tribes gathered in his tent under the convening of the Great Khan of Mandulu.

It's not about moving west.

Because everyone can see that the Ming Dynasty did not give the Mongolian tribes a chance to move westward at all.

Actually, there are opportunities.

That is to let a relatively large tribe drag the army that wanders on the steppe, and then the other tribes will lead the tribe from the depths of the steppe, bypassing the Hami and Hetao regions, into the Golden Horde.

But when Mandulu mentioned this, everyone didn't squeak.

Silly!

No matter whose clan drags the Ming army, it means that this clan will be wiped out.

No one made such a sacrifice.

Mandulu also knew that this was impossible, so he quickly gave up this idea and turned to discuss with everyone how to deal with Da Ming in the coming year: what happened this year, and Da Ming has completely torn his face, and there will be a battle of life and death between the two sides!

Even if the Mongolian tribes now bow down and ask for the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, it will not change this outcome.

The wolf ambition of the Ming Dynasty is obvious!

Do not allow the Mongol tribes to move westward.

It is to make the Mongolian ministries another political envoy of the Ming Dynasty, and it cannot be an empty shell of the political envoy!

It was only after the Mongol tribes discussed for a while that they realized how desperate the situation was.

Recently, I just got the news that Daming is about to occupy the territory of Nanzhang in its entirety, and there is no mercy to the Nanzhang royal family, the key is that after the Ming Dynasty made a commotion, he plundered hundreds of millions of taels of gold, silver and materials from Nanzhang.

Guangxi has also launched an offensive against the Phnom Penh Dynasty, and the situation is very good, the Phnom Penh Dynasty is too busy to take care of itself, and it can't manage Nanzhang at all.

In this way, next year Daming will be able to attack Mobei with all his might!

And the Ming Dynasty not only did not lose money in the Indochina Peninsula, but also made a lot of money, plundered a large amount of gold, silver and grain from the Nanzhang Kingdom and transported it back to the Ming Dynasty.

It's kind of ironic.

Because the Mongolian tribes that fought unilaterally, after experiencing the consumption of the long-term tug-of-war with the Ming Dynasty, the economy, materials, and population have been hit hard, and this cold winter will suffer heavy blows, and it will only be more difficult next year.

But the Ming Dynasty, who fought on two fronts, became richer!

The Mongol tribes experienced a sense of oppression that they had never felt before, and the latter said that it was a kind of despair!

A kind of despair that Zhu Di's five expeditions to Mobei did not make the Mongolian tribes feel!

But Zhu Jianji brought it to them!