Mobei, Kedun City.

Yelu Dashi convened a general meeting of the eighteen ministries of seven states.

Eighteen parts, it must not be even.

The Wugu Department and the Enemy Lie Department, because of their refuge in Yelu Dashi, became the targets of the Jin State to kill chickens and monkeys. Before the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the two tribes were separated and relocated to Taizhou (Baicheng), and the remaining tribesmen no longer dared to openly support Yelu Dashi, at most quietly sent people to deliver some news.

Hongjirabu has also betrayed Yelu Dashi and completely fallen to the Jin Kingdom.

At this meeting, sitting next to Yelu Dashi was the Mongol leader of Nilun, Hebul Khan, that is, the great-grandfather of Genghis Khan.

Niren Mongolia, that is, "noble Mongolia", Hebul Khan temporarily only has three parts: Nira, Xi (Qiyan), and Jiao Erbi.

In addition, there are the Dieliejin Mongols, that is, the "ordinary Mongol" tribes.

The Chachira tribe, which also belonged to Niren Mongolia, was loyal to Yelu Dashi at this time. Its leader was Zamuhe's great-grandfather, and Yelu Dashi also took some soldiers from the tribe.

Many of these tribal leaders have a feud with each other.

For example, the Northern Blockade Division, the Kereh Division, and the Mir Beggars Division, all three of which were willing to submit to Yelu Dashi, but they had already played dog brains with each other.

The Naiban army was too far away, and the core territory was on the Altay side, so this time only a thousand cavalry were sent to cheer.

"Chiefs," said Yelu Dashi, "I have found out in the eyes of Mo Nan that the Jin Kingdom has forced the southern steppe tribes to send troops. Large and small tribes, many send thousands of troops, and few send hundreds, and they have to bring their own food. It was not here to fight us, but was taken to Han by the Jin State to plunder. The Jin Kingdom is about to fight the Han Chinese, and this is our best chance to send troops. ”

In addition to possessing the three Mongol tribes of Nilun, Hebul Khan also conquered an ordinary Mongol tribe, and his strength was strongest in the northeastern part of the Mongolian plateau.

Although nominally subordinate to Yelu Dashi, the relationship between the two sides was more like an alliance, and Hebul Khan asked, "Haven't the Han people always suffered defeats?" What should we do when the Jin Kingdom defeats the Han people and comes to fight us with a large army? ”

Yelu Dashi pointed at Ma Kuo and Yu Yunwen: "These two are envoys sent by the Han Emperor. ”

Ma Kuo immediately bragged: "King Khan doesn't know, Emperor Han'er has already been replaced. In the past, it was the Great Song Kingdom, and the emperor was mediocre and incompetent. Now it is the Great Ming Kingdom, and the emperor is wise and martial. Lang Jun, the crown prince of our country, once personally led the troops to fight and wiped out 3,000 Hezha Meng'an and 5,000 Jin Guo Xiao cavalry. The prince of Jin Guo could not leave, and was killed by the prince of our country, Langjun, and returned to Yanshan in vain. ”

Yu Yunwen also said: "I, His Royal Highness the Prince of the Ming Dynasty, led a thousand people to raise troops, and destroyed the Song State and replaced it, and last year I sent troops to fight the Western Xia to surrender." Today's Ming Dynasty, with 500,000 armor, the Jin Kingdom will be defeated in this battle! ”

Yelu Dashi smiled and said: "This time, taking advantage of the Mingjin battle, we will send troops to the Jin country, and we don't have to fight to the south, but to conquer the Tatar (Tatar department) and the Hongji tribe!" As for the Wugu tribe and the enemy martyr tribe that have not been moved, I have secretly contacted them, and as soon as our army comes out, they will also raise troops to respond. ”

To put it bluntly, it is to kill the lackeys of the Jin Kingdom and completely control the vast grasslands around Hulun Lake.

Yelu Dashi also said the plan to divide the spoils: "If this battle is won completely, the tribes that are close to each other can be divided into some pastures. Distant tribes were given access to people, livestock, and goods. ”

When the tribal leaders heard this, they began to talk about it, and then asked in detail how to divide the spoils.

Yelu Dashi said that it would be distributed according to the number of troops sent. Moreover, if you want pasture, you can't ask for other loot, otherwise the tribe that is too far away will suffer.

The meeting was held for a whole day in the midst of the noise, and before the war was fought, the spoils were to be distributed to the agreement, and the number of troops to be sent by the respective tribes was determined.

The next day, the leaders of the tribes slaughtered cattle and sheep, and swore an alliance outside the city of Kedun.

After eating and drinking, Hebul Khan left with his relatives, he didn't want pastures this time, only people and supplies.

Hebul Khan's ambition was to unify the Mongols, and with the population and materials, he would be able to annex the surrounding tribes more quickly. Historically, after seven years, this person was able to repel the conquest of the Jin soldiers, and was canonized as the king of the Mengwu Kingdom by the Emperor of the Jin State.

Genghis Khan's ancestors chose population and materials, but Zamuhe's ancestors chose pastures.

Sooner or later, the two of them will fight, because the territory is very close to each other, and they both belong to the Niren Mongol system.

At the beginning of September, the grassland autumn grass has turned yellow, and the war horses are fat and strong.

Under the call of Yelu Dashi, more than 30,000 horses and horses marched out from the north and west, and flanked the tribes that had taken refuge in the Jin Kingdom.

The Tatars were taken by surprise and lost all their pasture. The old and weak women, children, and livestock, who had not yet had time to evacuate, were also plundered by the Jerod stone. There were only two or three thousand remnants of soldiers and a small number of family members left, and they fled to the Hongji Department next to them.

The territory of the Hongji Rabu is next to the Great Khing'an Mountains.

The two divisions combined nearly 10,000 troops, but they did not dare to fight Yelu Dashi head-on, and fled to the territory controlled by the Jin State with the population and materials.

In less than a month of fighting, Yelu Dashi captured the entire Hulunbuir grassland.

However, Yelu Dashi is only the co-lord of the grassland, and the leaders of the various tribes may not be obedient. For the sake of interests, the various ministries will attack each other, and Yelu Dashi will come forward to mediate at most.

His base is too weak.

After the tribal leader disobeyed the order, Yelu Dashi sent an army to conquer, and won several successive victories in this conquest, in order to fully establish his prestige. Moreover, you have to have your own tribe and pasture, otherwise it will be a bamboo basket after all.

The prairie has the rules of the prairie!

He also had more sons, divided the pastures to increase the blood tribes, and had more children to marry with the tribes.

The ruling system of the Central Plains cannot be played here.

Of course, with the Mobei tribes continue to fight south, and continue to win victories to conquer Monan, this can also make Yelu Dashi a real grassland overlord.

But this year will definitely not work, he is not only afraid of recruiting the main force of the Jin soldiers, but also afraid of forcing the Monan tribes to resist collectively.

……

Receiving the news of the fall of the Hulunbuir grassland, the Jin court did not react.

As soon as the Jin soldiers had already gone south, they were preparing for a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty, and they couldn't draw extra troops at all. Second, it was already a feudal territory, and the Jin Kingdom had never actually controlled it.

If you lose it, you will lose it, and when you defeat the Ming Dynasty, you will take it back.

The war, which involved five countries, first broke out in the Hulunbuir grassland.

Western Xia and Goryeo are purely the sixth, and the former quietly sent troops to the north to spy on the reality of Dongshengzhou, and once the opportunity was found, they would start fighting. The latter gathered troops in Baozhou, falsely claiming to be going to support southern Liaoning and help the Jin State take back the land of Lushun, but in fact he wanted to take the opportunity to occupy the north of the Yalu River.

Before the Jin Kingdom officially started the war, its two younger brothers were ready to rebel.

Mid-September.

Wanyan Zonghan couldn't wait for enough food and grass, so he took the lead in sending troops south, and the 50,000-strong army went straight to Taiyuan City.

He also divided more than 10,000 troops, so that Yinshu could be commanded, and went to the prefecture where the discount was sought.

Zhe Keqiu frantically sent a letter asking for help, so that Liu Yanqing next door hurriedly came to the rescue. Liu Yanqing claimed that he wanted to guard against Western Xia, and he didn't care about the life or death of his family, and strengthened the fortress pass of his own territory.

Under the city of Taiyuan, the Jin soldiers were building siege equipment while sending people to call for battle.

"Defend the city, don't go to war!"

Zhang Xiaochun and Yang Weizhong were in charge of the defense of Taiyuan, which was full of recruits who had been trained last year. In the past, they could hold on for half a year due to lack of soldiers and food, but now they are not afraid of sufficient food and grass.

As for Zhang Guangdao's elite, it is not in Taiyuan at all. He has been stationed in Shouyang, trying to capture the Pingding Army (Yangquan), and then opened up Chengtianzhai (Niangzi Pass), and killed from Jingcheng to take the pseudo-Song capital Zhending Mansion.

Leping County (Xiyang) under the rule of the Pingding Army, as well as Jingyang Village and Baijing Village further east, have been captured by Zhang Guangdao last year, and now only one military city is still in the hands of Jin Bing.

It was difficult to fight the military city of Pingding, and there were 3,000 Jurchen soldiers stationed in the city, 5,000 old Liao and Han soldiers, and 2,000 puppet soldiers of the pseudo-Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the hardest defenders are those old Liao Han soldiers!

They were miserable by the Great Song Dynasty, and they were on the same page as the Han people in Shaanxi, and they were determined to be lackeys of the Jin Kingdom. is also a Han Chinese, and when fighting against the Ming army, they were even more desperate than the Jurchen soldiers.

Under the city of Taiyuan.

Wanyan Lou looked at the tall and sturdy city, and admonished: "Marshal Langjun, this city is not easy to attack, and it will only be a waste of grain and grass if you continue to fight." After the previous siege for more than half a year, I didn't even climb the city wall a few times, so why did I have to fight it again? ”

Wanyan Zonghan said: "If you don't conquer Taiyuan, you will never want to extinguish the Ming." ”

"The Ming army is besieging the Pingding army, it is better to leave a force to fight Taiyuan, and the main force of our army will go to the Pingding army and fight a decisive battle with the main force of Shanxi of the Ming State," Wanyan Lou Room suggested, "After defeating the main force of the Ming army in Shanxi, the morale of the Taiyuan defenders will inevitably plummet, and perhaps they can go down without a fight." ”

Wanyan Zonghan thought carefully, nodded and said, "Okay!" ”

In fact, he didn't want to leave, he just wanted to fight Taiyuan, which has almost become an obsession.

After Yan Zonghan has been fighting for many years, he is invincible and invincible, but he is blocked here, and there is no way to take Taiyuan City.

After all, he couldn't be reckless in the war, and stared at Taiyuan City for a while, after Yan Zonghan ordered the division of troops, he wanted to take the main force to fight Zhang Guangdao in the field.

Zhu Ming's task to Zhang Guangdao was to let him defend the city and hold off Yan Zonghan's Western Route Army.

But everyone has selfish intentions, Yang Zhi and Li Bao have made great contributions one after another, Zhang Guangdao led the troops in Shanxi for more than a year, but only laid down one county seat, one Guancheng, and two walled cities.

Yao Pingzhong had already led troops to support Shanxi, and Zhang Guangdao felt that the troops were enough, and he didn't want to defend the city. So he brought people to pacify the military city and attracted Yan Zonghan's main force to come to the rescue, he wanted to fight with the most elite troops of the Jin Kingdom!

There are four well-known generals under Yao Pingzhong, namely: Liu Qi, Wang De, Wu Jue, and Wu Lan.

A wooden cannon was carried by the people and transported on the mountain road.

Yao Pingzhong's eyes lit up and asked, "These wooden cannons can also be used?" ”

Zhang Guangdao nodded and said, "It can be used, but it can only be played dozens of steps away, so I have to prepare more." ”

"How many?" Yao Pingzhong asked.

Zhang Guangdao grinned: "In more than a year, I have built more than 300 doors. The projectiles are all made of stones, but the gunpowder is not enough, and the imperial court has been urged to transport it several times. ”

"More than 300 cannons ......" Yao Pingzhong gasped, he could imagine the scene of a salvo.

Zhang Guangdao said: "If it weren't for the casualties and strong attack, I would have beaten down the Pingding military city a long time ago." The terrain here is very good, and it is very suitable to keep the siege for reinforcements. For the battlefield of arranging troops, I have selected more than a dozen places before and after, and this is the most suitable for ten thousand cannons! ”

(End of chapter)