In the land of China, there has always been a saying: A monk can't run a temple if he can run.

This sentence is not the same in the grassland. The temple of the steppe tribe can not only run, but also can run many times a year.

The Eight White Rooms are just a symbol in honor of Genghis Khan. Even if it is still the family temple of the Golden Family, it was originally frequently migrated with the tents of the tribe.

It is because the Ming Dynasty is too cowardly after the civil engineering change, because the Hetao area is too fertile and the climate is more livable, and it is because the right-wing has been able to unify itself for decades, so Gunbilik has this psychological baggage.

Now that he had figured it out, he said to the leaders of the tribes under his tent in front of his big tent: "Chunwa, Xiagang, Qiuping, Dongyang!" Following the guidance of the Immortal Heaven, winter is coming, and it is necessary to find a place where you can block the cold wind, so that the fattened horses, cattle and sheep can live until the weather warms up again. The Han people are eyeing us, but I haven't forgotten that the immortal people who move uncertainly and come and go like the wind are the nightmare of the Han people in the south! ”

Whether it's excuses, fears, in short, there must be a rhetoric.

"For decades, the Ordos Department has wanted to stand firm here because there is good pasture here, and because we are directly facing the Han people! I, Jinnon of the Khan's Court, your lord, will not follow the example of the Han people to settle there, build houses and build cities, as Altan did! lost what he was good at, and was defeated by the Han people in winter, and then rebelled against the Khan's court! Now, let Ordos Wanhu let them see, what is it to promote strengths and avoid weaknesses! ”

"We grew up on horseback, and we are familiar with every gust of wind, every hill, and every footprint of the grassland." Gunbirick agitated, "The Han people have won a few times, and they are starting to be proud. Very well, let them be a little more proud, let them leave their familiar city walls and step into strange grasslands and deserts. As long as our sons and horses, cattle and sheep are still there, the pasture of the whole world is ours, and there is no need to defend any place like the Han people. ”

"Cross the river! Go to the south of Yinshan! ”

It was the single order that Gunberic had embraced in months.

Since Jiajing suffered his first defeat in Shuozhou at the end of five years, the pressure of the Ming Dynasty on the Beiyu has been increasing day by day in the past six years.

And now, the Ming Emperor began to move north. The Ming army in the three towns of Gansu, Ningxia, and Yansui played provocations, retreats, and provocations with the Ordos Department for several months, and their behavior in and out of the side wall is now more understandable: everything is for Taiyuan Town and Datong Town to contain the main force of the Ordos Department.

Now, the walled fort outside Helan Mountain has stabilized, and the Ming army on the side of the side of the head pass is increasing every day.

The Ordos Ministry knew that this was a strategic defeat for Gunbirik.

If you don't give up the south of the Yellow River, the back and front sets of the north of the Yellow River and the south of Yinshan may be lost, and they will be surrounded from now on; The main force withdrew to the north of the Yellow River, and I am afraid that it will not be able to come back.

Despite this, they still supported Gunbiric, and finally made this decision - if it was really surrounded, and there was a natural danger of the Yellow River, the Ordos Wanhu tribes south of the Yellow River would die.

So this is not an ordinary migration, they go from questioning me to answering, and finally understanding me and becoming my answer.

Migration 2.0.

All the young men were mobilized, not only to break the rear and avoid the Ming army from hanging the tails of the slow-moving tribes, but also to reconnoiter forward, mobilize troops and troops left north of the Yellow River to hold the Ming army that might be attacking from the direction of the Biaotou Pass.

In addition, it is necessary to prepare a large number of tools to cross the river.

Dumbfounded, Gunbilik found that many of the tribes had slaughtered large numbers of cattle and sheep, both for jerky and for enough fur – whether to keep out the cold or to make rafts and skins to cross the river.

Logically speaking, the Ordos Department has been confronting the Ming army for two or three months outside the border walls of Yansui and eastern Ningxia, especially at this time, the sentinels of the Ordos Department cannot let the sentinels of the Ming army find that many tribes are preparing to migrate.

But if nothing else, there is an accident.

There is only one special operations battalion, and the number of people is not large, but there are quite a few people in the special service station, and not only can the public security department of each province bury a special service team, but each of the nine towns in the border area has a full number of 100 households as the chief military officer's personal soldiers.

Their positioning, in the hinterland provinces, is a special military force in the sequence of the General Department of Public Security, which is directly under the imperial power in addition to civil ministers and military generals, and in the border areas, it is directly used as a special reconnaissance force under the command of the general army and docking intelligence with foreign factories.

They do not participate in direct foreign operations, nor are they only responsible to the general army. The number of people is small, which is helpful for military generals to make meritorious contributions and replaces certain functions of supervising the army, but they do not dictate military deployment and command.

This is a good change for the governor and the general soldier.

Now, their role is being revealed.

Although they are more than a step inferior to the special combat battalion, they are still the most elite if they are just used to spy on the enemy like a dun sentinel army.

What's more, they are border special forces?

There are a total of 200 special service teams in the two towns of Yansui and Ningxia, and now there are 12 small flags, each of which is divided into two five-person squads, which are sprinkled on the north side of the side wall.

They had only one task: to touch the past, hide it, and use the telescopes they were equipped with to spy on the movement of the Ordos Ministry's tent.

For each mission, they had to bring fifteen days of dry rations. However, the time to stay should be thought of a month and a half. The extra month depends on the skills they mastered by receiving wilderness survival training with the special operations battalion at the request of He Quanan, the No. 2 person in Jinyiwei.

Whether it's hunting, looting or plundering, it's in the territory occupied by the enemy anyway.

Now, the telescope gives them a longer viewing distance, making them safer, though still quite dangerous.

"Second brother...... Are they leaving? ”

Behind the heaps of rocks hidden in the night, the most eye-catching man looked through his binoculars at the tent of a Tartar tribe in the distance.

They are day and night, but the current trap is day and night.

Every time one more skin and raft is made, there is one more hope of returning to the north of the Yellow River safely. The young and strong people of the clan want to protect them, and the old people, women and children of the clan are making these preparations day and night.

The man who was called the second brother took the telescope in his hand, and through the round lens, which had become more and more transparent, he saw the torches soaked in grease burning outside the tent. The tents had not yet been dismantled, but the Tartars were packing up their rudimentary furniture, preparing ox carts, slaughtering fat sheep, and sewing skins.

"That's right! It's going to move away. When the tent is dismantled, it will be moved! This news must be transmitted back as soon as possible! ”

"Then we can go back?"

"Go back! It has already been instructed from above, if the Tartars are ready to withdraw, it is the most important news, and we don't have to go here to stare at it anymore. The rest is only handed over to the Dun Sentinel Army, without prejudice to the overall situation. ”

The squad was thrilled, and it was not easy to find a way to get around the patrols of their sentries in the heart of the Tartars every day, and to spy on the movements behind the Tartars.

Without binoculars, it is difficult to detect the cavalry in the distance in advance and then hide.

If they can't avoid it, or if the hunting of some wild beasts is not smooth, they must also take risks and find lonely herders near the Tartar base camp.

During the one-and-a-half-month mission, some lucky teams were able to go back to rest and replace with all their tails; If you're unlucky, you'll always fold a little manpower. Some of them were because they didn't find a suitable hiding place to make a fire and barbecue meat, and some of them let their guard down and were touched by the Tartar sentry horsemen.

Now that they have a harvest, they are not greedy or hesitant, but immediately choose to withdraw.

At this moment, just like the out-of-factory spies who desperately sent the news back to Daming after I decided to move in the first place, the other special service teams and the out-of-town spies in the Hetao area also made the same decision.

Five days later, the news of the first arrival reached Tang Shunzhi.

He is still waiting, waiting for more information to corroborate.

"If it's true, that's not wise." Tang Shunzhi muttered to himself, "Wait until now, do you want to wait for the Yellow River to freeze?" ”

has been here for almost four years, and Tang Shunzhi has naturally been familiar with the climate here.

The Yellow River makes four big bends here in the Hetao, separating the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi and Shanxi, roaring all the way, unstoppable. After tens of millions of years of tenacious and persistent scouring, a huge and deep canyon has been opened on the reckless loess plain.

Because of the separation of the Yellow River, and in addition to Guanzhong, this area is also mountainous, so there are actually many ferries on this section of the Yellow River between Shanxi and Shaanxi. But at the moment, most of these ferries are under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

After crossing the Hequ Gudu near the Yatou Pass, there are two good ferries within the scope of Mongolian control.

A place is located in the northeast of Helan Mountain, west of the back set of the second big bend of the Yellow River, which is called Dengkou. When the Yellow River reaches here, it begins to enter the Hetao Plain, and it has to turn again, and the flow slows down. But here, it's not far from the town.

Another place is located in the southwest of Yunchuan Castle next to Dongsheng, Junzijin, or just called the estuary. It is a good ferry port for a similar reason, after which the Yellow River turns further south. But here in Junzijin, it's not far from the Yatou Pass.

In addition, in the core area of the Houtao, the south of the Yellow River is desert, which is not suitable for large-scale migration and river crossing. If you want to say one more thing, it is the south of Jiuyuan City during the Warring States Period, and the area known as Baotou in later generations. There, the sandy land south of the Yellow River is not very wide.

The point is that this is the season.

Due to the unique river channel trend and dimensional differences, the freezing period in the Hetao area can be as long as four months, and the downstream freezes first, and the upstream thaws first.

In autumn and winter, if the Yellow River freezes, it can become a smooth road.

In that case, why is it that in the information sent back, the captives are still preparing skins and rafts on a large scale?

In the past, the Ming Dynasty once said that it was difficult to cross the Yellow River before and after summer to search for Mongolian tribes south of the Yellow River. At that time, the main force of the captives was in the north of the Yellow River, and the search was effective, at least for a time, forcing the northern captives not to dare to enter the south of the Yellow River along the frozen Yellow River in winter to spend the winter.

Since the Hongzhi period lost the Hetao again, the trap gradually gained a firm foothold, and the big tent of Gunbilik was set up in the south of the Yellow River.

Tang Shunzhi created such a situation on the Hetao side, and in his judgment, if Gunbilik was not willing to give up, he should take advantage of the winter to mobilize a little more troops south of the Yellow River.

After the attack and defense changed shape, once the south of the Yellow River was abandoned, the traps could not be taken back.

More information is needed now before Tang Shunzhi can make further judgments.

As the days passed, more and more information was gathered to him, and Tang Shunzhi couldn't sit still.

Gunbiric gave up so simply, Daming had to react as soon as possible.

"Food, winter clothes!" Tang Shunzhi quickly ordered someone to inform Fei Maozhong, "Send a message to the south, the new grain in Shuzhong will be sent to Shaanxi, and Shaanxi will be transferred to Yansui and Ningxia." All the silver taels received from the re-set of treasury bonds were used to buy new grain! In addition to cutting off the ancient ferry at the mouth of the river and directly crossing the frozen Yellow River, the south of the ancient city of Jiuyuan is the place where it is more likely to cross the river. ”

It is impossible to go to the mouth, although it will freeze after the meeting, but Tang Shunzhi is at Zhenyuan Pass, and if he pushes it over, he can attack them when he crosses the river.

The further downstream direction of the estuary will freeze first, and the upstream water will slow down, and it will freeze one after another, so as to support the long crossing process. In the entire south of the Yellow River, the number of captives is now more than 100,000, not only the most elite Ordos cavalry, but also their families and camps.

Crossing part of the past with rafts and skins, the retreat of the cavalry was the Yellow River that froze up at the back - someone had to break it off.

Tang Shunzhi first gave a few orders, and then immediately spread out the paper and grind and write the notes.

The camera moves. This winter, the Kaiping side will not continue to attack northward, and since the captives really want to abandon the south of the Yellow River, they must seize this opportunity.

Re-searching the trap, gaining a firm foothold in the south of the Yellow River, and taking the opportunity to defeat the main force of the trappers in one fell swoop must be carried out this winter.

Although all the border armies on the western three sides and Taiyuan and the border troops left behind in Datong have long been prepared, the most critical thing in winter operations and hundreds of miles deep is still logistics.

As for whether the all-out preparation of military rations will cause grain prices in Shaanxi and Shanxi to rise, that is something that Yang Shen and the governors of the two provinces should worry about.

He had to update the emperor on the situation and make his own requests.

The heralds went all the way south from Zhenyuan Pass, and then some of them went all the way east and turned to the northeast.

Everywhere he went, it was a very clear order: the captives were going to flee north, and whether the repetition was successful or not, it was a move here.

Attack on all fronts!

The Yansui border army, which had been repeatedly jumping sideways inside and outside the border wall for several months, was actually unwilling to attack in the cold winter of Layue.

For a long time, the psychological pressure on the Ming army still existed in the north. Now they all know that Xuanfu and the north of Jizhou are also fighting, although they are not worried about military salaries, but they are worried about food and winter clothes.

But the generals don't care so much.

"After a few months, this time I can kill a lot! The Tartars have been timid, what are you afraid of? Commander Yu Linwei's eyes were scarlet, "Governor Tai clearly ordered that he would start from Zhenyuan Pass, go straight to the mouth of the mountain, and cut off the road to the north of the Tartars!" You haven't seen the ability of the governor, but Lao Tzu has seen it! Lao Tzu can't beat him, he can't count him! The governor said that this time it can be repeated, that is, it can be repeated! After this battle, it will be peaceful in the future! Hetao fertile land, everyone has it! ”

On Zhu Qi's side, he had already told Zhu Houxi that when the imperial drive pushed further north next spring, there would be good news in the Hetao.

Now he has not received Tang Shunzhi's message and judgment, but in front of him, there is already a pure cavalry selected from the entire Taiyuan Town and Datong's left-behind generals-with the help of Yu Dayou and Li Quanli's capture, there are more than 4,000 horsemen.

However, because the emperor had been stationed in Taiyuan and gave Tang Shunzhi, the governor of the Ninggan Border Region, the authority to revert to the matter, the information received by Yansui was sent to the Yaotou Pass in time.

Tang Shunzhi can unify the dispatch of Zhu Qi's side, and Zhu Qi's side can temporarily replace Yu Dayou, the general soldier of Datong, and control the remaining generals of Datong.

"The Tartars are going to cross the river! Success or failure in this move, the order to kill the tiger's mouth, I turned the direction of the head pass to the north and rushed to Dongsheng, kill the tiger's mouth and Tucheng must clear Yulin, Zhenyu, Yunchuan, Yunnei, intercept Tucheng to the Guanshan line! ”

It was already snowing on the north side of Yin Mountain, and Yan Chunsheng had just received the news from his seven subordinates. Along the way, three people were folded.

He didn't know that Gunbiric had really given up south of the Yellow River, but it didn't matter.

"Don't talk about Lao Tzu, the south of Yinshan is warmer!" Yan Chunsheng gritted his teeth, "The women and children of the Tartar tribe that I have captured belong to the branch of the Duoyan Tribe. You are used to being in the prairie, and you can fight for it. In the future, Daming will set up another province, and you are all heroes! ”

The resupply of the special operations battalion is not enough to support sustained high-intensity operations.

So Yan Chunsheng told again: "Don't use the bird gun and tiger squat cannon well, forget the bow horse!" Now, our identity is a Tartar tribe. In the first battle, only use bow horses, and save ammunition for critical times! ”

In the desert northwest of Dengkou, Zhang Jing led his troops on the march.

The 3,000 elite soldiers selected from the best of the best had only one direction after they disappeared from the walled fort west of Helan Mountain that day.

They were to reach the west side of the back-trap, where the river was dense, and from this direction they were to contain the traps.

This winter, although they carried the most dry rations, they were destined to fight only by war.

"Don't save, eat well, sleep well!"

In the desert, it's fine during the day, but it's colder at night.

This unit, for the sake of secrecy, in addition to never letting down its vigilance in reconnaissance, also has to travel day and night.

Fortunately, it is a desert after all, and I haven't encountered any captives or sentry riders along the way.

After going around in a circle, they were now approaching the back of the sleeve and were almost out of the desert.

"Out of this desert, kill all the way, all the small tribes will be killed, cattle, sheep, horses, there will be them!" Zhang Jing encouraged the soldiers who were already tired, "As long as the west side of the back set is cut off, it will be an immortal achievement!" We weren't the only ones who went behind enemy lines, but we also killed Bodi's town Amber with one arrow! ”

At this moment, Zhu Houxi's imperial driver had just left Datong and entered the scope of Xuanfu.

He returned to the south of Yutai Ridge, and the Xuanfu that had stayed for a long time was to the southeast of him.

But this time, he will leave straight from Zhangjiakou.

Three days later, he came to Zhangjiakou, and in front of him was the Daming side wall.

Tang Shunzhi's recital was hurriedly delivered here, and after reading it, Zhu Houxi said: "Leave the trap to Yingde, get off, get out of the stopper!" ”

Even Zhu Qizhen only arrived in Xuanfu, and he later came out of the side wall as a "foreign student".

Three years after Xuande, a hundred and three years have passed, and the Ming Dynasty once again has an emperor who is out of the fortress as the Son of Heaven.

In the queue of the imperial car, there are not only the Ming Sanchen flag, but also the dragon tail sun and moon flag that symbolizes the emperor himself here, all of which are blue, yellow, red flame horns, and painted sun and moon.

Far southeast, the monument to the west of Xuanfu City is still there, and the arrows shot by the emperor are still there.

"Erecting this monument will engrave the names of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives in this battle. Keep this arrow, and wait for the day when Meng Yuan no longer has a Khan court. ”

On November 11, the 11th year of Jiajing, Zhu Houxi chose such a day to travel here.

It's not for neatness, it's just to show determination, so that future generations can remember this day more conveniently.

On this day, the Ming Dynasty marched north again.

(End of chapter)