In August of the nineteenth year of Wanli, the autumn mood is getting stronger, and the frost forest is dyed.

On the side of the Great Wall south of Yinshan, there are a large number of Hu horses camping here.

Among them, the leader Litu looked at the endless Great Wall and the cannons lined up on the city, sighed, and said to Bibai:

"The progress of firearms is really a fatal blow to those of us who live as nomads, if before, we could have turned the Han people into our slaves, but now it is impossible, we can only cooperate with them, and even have to submit to their nobles!"

"There's no way around it, but at least it's better than making our Mongols slaves of their Han Chinese."

"In this way, we can at least maintain our own customs, otherwise once we become their slaves, if we want to get rid of the status of slaves, we can only accept sinicization and forget our origins!"

As he spoke, he looked at Litu: "Taiji! As they Han people say, now the world is a dispute between the old and the new, whether it is Menghan, Jurchen, Goryeo and others, they will be involved in this battle. ”

"Because the emperor of the Zhu family was badly taught by his teacher! Became the leader of a new party! But he is still the emperor of the entire Ming Dynasty, in the eyes of their Han people, they all say that the country is more righteous than the Ming, he Ming Emperor wants to push the new ceremony, it is easy to make the so-called new ceremony very loud, roll up the big storm, let us people are also swept into it! ”

"The Tumut tribe over there has begun to be bribed by them with huge profits and began to take the initiative to kill people of their own clan, and even followed the expedition to the east and west, and there are thousands of Tumut Mon people buried overseas!"

"Therefore, we also need to be like the Han people, to have our own opinions in this dispute between the old and the new, and we must also recognize the stakes behind this dispute between the old and the new."

"The battle between the old and the new."

"Got us involved?"

The rabbit muttered a few words, then turned to look at Bibai:

"Then please ask the general to tell His Royal Highness King Qing that I, Hetao Mongolia, am willing to submit to His Royal Highness King Qing and be driven by him, but please ask him to crown me as the king of Ningxia, and I will be willing to fight Ningxia for him forever in the future!"

……

"Promise him!"

"In the future, when the time is ripe, the general will reign in the world on behalf of King Qing, so there is no need to compete with him for fame."

After Cao Zideng learned about the conditions of the Li Rabbit from Bibai, he spoke.

He bowed his head and said: "But now that all the soldiers and horses have gathered, it is impossible to be unified, and King Qing should establish himself as a prison country as soon as possible, and grant me an official title, so that I can lead all the soldiers and horses and recruit new soldiers." ”

Cao Zideng glanced at him, and then nodded.

So, on the seventh day of the eighth month of Wanli, King Qing ascended the throne, established himself as the prison country, built the Yuan Shaode, and Ren Cao Zideng was the scholar of the Zhongji Hall and the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, the secretary of the military department, Feng Bibai as the king of Jing and the general of the Zhenguo, and the rabbit as the king of Ningxia.

At the same time, King Qing also made other powerful bureaucrats who had attached to him officials.

After Bibai obtained the king's title, he officially began to recruit soldiers and horses, and expanded more than 20,000 ordinary Mongolian soldiers in one go.

The ordnance used was all funded by the governor of Ningxia, Cao Zideng, who opened the domain.

After obtaining these soldiers and horses, Bibai specially called a cadre of officers who had been awarded the title of ten thousand households and thousands of households to come to him and said: "Go back and tell the brothers, why should we be like beggars and live by begging for alms from other Han people? As a people on horseback, we should take a sword and ride a horse to grab it! Instead of waging his tail and begging for mercy, like a dog, he even did not hesitate to cling to the Han people as slaves in order to have enough to eat! ”

Before this, the attached Mongols were indeed accepting alms from the Han people, relying on the porridge and rice relief of the Ming court, and some of them also directly participated in their own paid labor, and some of them joined the army because of their bravery and good fighting, and became soldiers, and many of them did join the Han family as slaves.

All this is because the economic environment of the Mongolian people is getting worse and worse, and the economic environment of the Han people is getting better and better, so the Mongolian people will have to rely on the Han people to live.

Of course, many Mongolians will still grab it directly.

Naturally, the Mongol nobles who chose to rob directly were the main ones, after all, they had troops.

On the contrary, it is difficult for ordinary Mongolian people to have this strength.

But even ordinary Mongolian people, unless they have been completely Sinicized and disciplined to become farmers or citizens, most of them who have not been Sinicized still have the intention of grabbing what they can.

Therefore, Bibai's words are naturally very inflammatory.

The Mongolian people who have seen how rich the Han people are, unlike later generations, with their current level of civilization, they do want to loot more.

So these Mongols were agitated.

There are more and more trappers gathered outside the Flower Horse Pond, and many of them are already ready to move, looking at the Flower Horse Pond with bright eyes.

And inside and outside Huamachi City, there are actually many Mongolian people.

For the reason mentioned earlier, there are a lot of Mongolian people attached, not only in Ningxia City.

Natural and man-made disasters forced many ordinary Mongolians to migrate to the Great Wall.

Wan Shide once defended hundreds of thousands of Mongolians in Ningxia and avoided a major upheaval.

And now, after Wan Shide saw the dense traps outside, he issued an order to the general Xiao Ruxun and said:

"Drive out all the Mongols of the city, who are above the wheels! Even if there are Han people as a guarantee, you have to rush it! If you don't comply, you will be killed! ”

"Isn't that too impersonal?"

"After all, many Mongolians in the city have become accustomed to living here, and many of them have even intermarried with ordinary Han people, or have been enslaved by large families."

Xiao Ruxun replied.

Wan Shide said in a deep voice: "The general should understand the truth that mercy is not in charge of soldiers and righteousness is not in charge of wealth!" ”

"Now it's a war, not a disaster relief, the nature has changed, I'd rather let all the Mongols in the city suffer unwarranted disasters than let the Mongols in the city have the possibility of a detailed existence!"

"Then I understand, but whether they live or die, will they force these Mongols who have been driven out to be our enemies?"

Xiao Ruxun asked and said, "Why don't I send cavalry, escort them out of the city to dig trenches, give them some grain and rice, and let the captives kill them." ”

Wan Shide bowed his head.

So, Xiao Ruxun really began to send troops to drive away the Inner Mongolians in the city.

"What are you doing! This is my newly bought house slave, you can't take him with you! ”

When Xiao Ruxun's chief Xue Cheng led the troops to the big household in the city and began to escort a Mongolian person away, the head of the big household stopped him.

After hearing this, Xue Cheng directly pulled out his knife: "Then leave a dead one!" ”

Seeing this, the head of the big family was silent, and then he watched as the Mongols, who had been newly bought as slaves, were taken down.

"We're not leaving! We're not leaving! ”

At the same time, several Mongolians who worked in the city for a living refused to leave, but after the officials and soldiers drew their swords and threatened, they all became honest.

But because of this, there were really Mongolian people who suddenly killed the officers and soldiers who were going to arrest them with swords, and one of them went directly to the Yamen.

"Killing Xiao Ruxun and leaving them leaderless can be regarded as worthy of the general!"

At the same time that a group of Mongolians rushed to the Yamen of the generals, the Mongolian people led by the first leader also gave such orders.

Bang bang!

But at this time, there was a sudden loud bang around the general's yamen.

It turned out that Xiao Ruxun had already prepared the officers and soldiers in advance, and some officers and soldiers suddenly appeared, and directly formed a formation to surround them in the middle and suppress them with firearms.

All of them were killed on the spot.

Several fell directly on the steps of the general's yamen, and the blood flowed down the steps, and soon converged into a trickle.

And that night, Xiao Ruxun came to Wanshide, looked at the Mongolian people who were still being escorted out of the city one after another, and said:

"Sure enough, there is an internal response, if it is really not my race, its heart will be different! In vain, I spent so much grain and rice to help them and take them in, and these captives still want to seek wealth from my city. ”

"Take this opportunity to tell the Han people in the city that the captives have decided to break through Huamachi and slaughter the city, and no men, women and children will be left! But the imperial court has sent reinforcements, so please rest assured, as long as we hold on together, we will wait for the reinforcements to come, and we will keep safe! ”

"And now send out all the ordnance in the warehouse, but the daily supply of food and rice must be limited! Therefore, the grain shops are all taken over by the government! ”

Wan Shide commanded.

Xiao Ruxun said yes.

Here, Bibai said to Litu during the day: "This Wan Shide is a Bodhisattva, as soon as he arrived in Shaanxi to take up his post, he gave relief to the stricken Mongolian people in Huamachi, so that an incident that seemed to evolve into a large-scale Mongolian seizure and looting turned into a good governance for disaster relief, and I also took advantage of this to install hundreds of capable Mongolian people disguised as disaster victims to blend in, buy them as family members, and if they raise troops in the future, they will be about internal response, so now attacking this Huamachi, there is no need to tentatively attack, after the formation is completed, directly press over, and the ants will attack the city, When the time comes, there will be an internal response, and take down this flower horse pool, and capture Wan Shide and Xiao Ruxun alive. ”

"So, you really don't need Cao Ge's old Tuwenxiu's artillery?"

Litu asked.

"No! When he brings in the artillery, the reinforcements will be closer to the rear set, and where will there be a chance to fight other key passes. ”

After hearing this, Zhu Litu really agreed with Bibai to launch a general attack on Huamachi three days later, when the whole army was assembled.

The whole Huamachi City, before the Tianshun Dynasty, the location is on the outside of the Xingwu camp built in the orthodox two years, after the Tianshun Dynasty, this city was built on the inner side of the Xingwu camp, and the side wall pass was added, that is, the Great Wall Pass, and the city is wide from east to west and narrow from north to south, so the whole city is particularly narrow and long, there is Xingwu Camp in the east, Yanchi Fort in the west, Liu Castle in the north, and Anding Fort in the south.

The city is brick-laid, since Wanli ascended the throne, it has also strengthened a lot, added several high platforms and more than ten heavy artillery.

Now, the Ming army has forced the Mongols to dig several trenches outside.

Therefore, three days later, when Bibai and other captives came to attack various castles, they were blocked outside several trenches on the spot, and then they were bombarded by the Ming army's artillery, and there were countless corpses on the spot.

Bibai looked at the several trenches and the Mongols on both sides of the trenches in a daze.

The rabbit even sank his face and ordered: "Withdraw!" ”

(End of chapter)