Although Jianzhou lost tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers in the previous battle of Kaiyuan, there are still more than 34,000 people in the Eight Banners, and their strength is far above Ye He.

Nurhachi was very angry with Yehe's behavior of taking the opportunity to sweep the walled city of Jianzhou, and once wanted to directly send troops to destroy Yehe.

However, because the main force of the Ming army had been gathering near Kuandian Fort, he still did not dare to attack north with all his strength after all.

However, small forces in Jianzhou often penetrated deep into Yeh's territory to trap Yeh's cavalry.

Although they were unable to break through the eastern and western cities of Yehe, they greatly limited the scope of Yehe's activities.

Now Yehe's men and horses can only retreat in the east and west cities, and basically lose control of the surrounding strongholds.

Buyangu stood on the tower of Yehesi City, looked at the Jianzhou cavalry looming in the distance, and said to his daughter Hazia: "In today's situation, we can only ask Daming for help. ”

More than two months ago, Ye He sent the heads of hundreds of Zhenghuang Banners to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the Wanli Emperor was very happy and ordered to canonize Yehe Bel Buyangu and Jin Taiji as the governor of Haixi Taru Muwei Nu Zhidu (Zheng Erpin).

And he gave ten thousand taels of silver, and three hundred horses of brocade, and countless other articles of all kinds.

Later, there was a holy decree that Yehegekhazia and Li Xianzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, were married.

This made the entire Ye He department happy, and with the marriage of the Ming Emperor, it was tantamount to adding a public talisman to Ye He.

Unfortunately, it backfired, and this marriage gift caused Nurhachi to be jealous, and he joined forces with Korqin to invade Yeh.

Although in the end, Li Xianzhong personally swept Horqin to relieve Yehe, but Jianzhou took the opportunity to storm the original road, and even broke through Zhenbei Pass for a time.

Even Li Xianzhong himself was ambushed by Jianzhou outside Zhenbei Pass, not only did his cavalry suffer heavy losses, but even he escaped death.

All this made Hazia blame herself very much, and now unless Ye He really has the worry of dying in the family, she is unwilling to ask Li Xianzhong for help anymore, lest he fall into the trap of Jianzhou again.

Just when Buyangu was at a loss, the Jianzhou cavalry that was originally roaming around fled, and a large number of cavalry appeared on the horizon.

The Yehe soldiers in the city shouted: "Great, it's the Ming army coming!" ”

The ironclad knights with bright armor and cold air must be Liaodong iron horses.

Behind the cavalry, there were also large carts, loaded with countless supplies, and there were hundreds of them as far as the eye could see.

The red decorations tied to the car and those eye-catching wedding words all indicate that these things are dowry.

Where have the people of Yeh seen such a scene?

Suddenly all the people ran out, it can be said that there are thousands of empty alleys!

At this time, Hazia's heart was also very excited, and she finally waited for Li Xianzhong to marry her.

She looked anxiously at the crowd in the distance, a little disappointed on her face, and it was clear that he hadn't found the person he wanted to see in the crowd.

Buyangu has also come to the city to welcome the arrival of the Ming army with the highest specifications.

Li Xianzhong did not come, Li Sanshun appeared at the front of the line, and there was a middle-aged man wearing a satin robe beside him.

The middle-aged man said with a smile: "The old man is the housekeeper of the Li Mansion, and this time he is hired on behalf of the Li family." ”

Then Li Sanshun handed over a thick list of dowry gifts.

Although everyone could see that Li Xianzhong's dowry was quite rich this time, Buyangu was still shocked when he opened the gift list.

1. Two hundred taels of gold.

2. Ten thousand taels of silver.

3. Sixty horses.

4. Two gold tea tubes and four silver tea tubes.

5. Two silver basins.

6. Two hundred pieces of silk.

7. Two hundred pairs of heavy-duty cloth armor.

8. Twenty pieces of jade.

9. Four handles of jade Ruyi.

10. 10,000 stone of corn.

There are also countless teas, salt, coarse cloth, three livestock, fish, all kinds of dried fruits, fine wine, and exquisite gift boxes.

Are Ming people so arrogant when they marry?

If other tribes saw this gift list, what would they do with Daming?

directly gave birth to a few beautiful girls to marry Li Xianzhong.

This dowry alone is not tens of thousands of taels of silver, and it can't be paid at all.

It doesn't matter if the gold and silver are the things, but among them, cloth armor, grain, salt, and cloth are all urgently needed by Yehe, and with this batch of materials, Yehe City will have no problem guarding it for a year and a half.

However, how to accompany the dowry is really difficult Buyangu, although their Jurchen marriage does not have so much red tape, but he still knows some of the rules of the Ming people's marriage, and if others give more, he must have to return more.

Although after Wanli's marriage, he also prepared a lot of specialties as Hazia's dowry, but it still seems that he can't do it at present.

Don't look at this dowry so rich, in fact, Li Xianzhong himself gave out some gold and silver, grain and cloth armor.

Some of the utensils were directly rewarded by Wanli, and the rest of the things were prepared for him by the Li family.

Although his identity is a righteous son, he is also a member of the Li family, after all, this is a marriage given by His Majesty, and he must not be sloppy at all.

Li Xianzhong didn't do this to show off his wealth, Ye He has been beaten by Jianzhou since last year, and the materials have long been running out.

These are what they desperately need.

As for the gold and silver, they will soon be returned to their own hands through the sale of armaments.

It is indeed expensive to spend tens of thousands of taels to marry a daughter-in-law, but if you can marry a Yehebu, it is not a loss.

The higher he raised the level of this wedding, the more gifts those who wanted to slap him up, and in the end the money could not be lost.

These dowry gifts have already attracted a lot of attention when they came out of Kaiyuan, and they have long been known to everyone.

Of course, that's exactly what he's here to do.

Soon Buyangu welcomed Steward Li and the others into Yehe City, these things were too many, and he simply asked Jin Taiji from Dongcheng to move some back directly.

Fortunately, Steward Li said that Li Xianzhong would come to greet his relatives in person three days later, and they still had a few days to prepare.

These days, Hazia also has to learn the etiquette of marriage.

The Li family not only brought a "mother" who specializes in teaching etiquette and a maid who serves him closely; Even the tailor followed, and in case the dress didn't fit, it was good to modify it at any time.

The specifications of this wedding are quite high.

Li Xianzhong doesn't care what rules the Jurchens have, this must be a pure Han wedding.

Li Xianzhong's high-profile appointment not only alarmed the entire Liaodong, but also alarmed the surrounding alien races.

In the Boundary Domain, Huang Taiji was reporting to Nurhachi about the appearance of Li Xianzhong's dowry team in Yehe City today.

Mang Gurtai said: "Li Xianzhong is crazy, he just married a woman, and sent hundreds of carts of things. ”

Even Nurhachi was greedy for this batch of supplies, but Kaiyuan was too close to Yehe, and the cavalry only needed half a day's journey, and it was too late for them to rush over from Hetuara when they got the news.

So they settled in the Realm Domain, which was only a day's journey from Yehe.

Huang Taiji said: "Li Xianzhong deliberately led us to rob, on the surface there were only 1,000 cavalry escorted, but in fact, all his cavalry was dispatched, and there were more than 5,000. ”

"A small light cavalry raid will not be able to loot this batch of supplies at all."

"Now his Liaodong Iron Cavalry is driving our cavalry near Yehe, probably preparing for the return trip."

"According to the news from our inside line in Yehe City, Li Xianzhong will personally go to Yehe City to welcome his relatives in two days, and Buyangu has also prepared a rich dowry."

Nurhachi said: "What Buyangu can marry is nothing more than some Dongzhu, ginseng, fur and the like, these things don't need to be loaded at all, and the Ming army can be taken away on horses." ”

"I don't think he will return to Kaiyuan directly from Yehe, and he will definitely make a detour to Mongolia."

Huang Taiji also analyzed Li Xianzhong's route from Yehe back to Kaiyuan, and each time he made a detour to Mongolia.

This is understandable, the Mongolian steppe is convenient for cavalry to march, this section belongs to the border between Horqin and Chahar Mongolia, and generally does not appear in large numbers of Mongolian cavalry.

Even if there were, the combat power of the Mongol cavalry could not compete with his Liaodong iron cavalry.

Li Xianzhong was sure that the Mongolian tribes lacked heavy cavalry, so he simply regarded this place as his backyard.

Huang Taiji said: "Don't worry, the envoy of Horqin should have seen Lin Dan Khan at this time, and I believe that he will definitely be able to move him to send troops." ”

In the city of Chahanhot, Lin Dan Khan was sitting upright on his sweat seat.

Lin Dan Khan's son Jin clan, named Lin Dan Batur, Khan name is Khutuktu Khan, is the 35th Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.

The 28-year-old is bent on unifying the Mongol tribes and restoring the former glory of the Mongol Empire, as Genghis Khan did.

This can be seen from his honorific titles: "God of God, All-Wise Genghis Longsheng Khan", "Lin Dan Hutu Ketu Shengwu Genghis Daming Xue Chan is invincible, incomparably great, Chakrakravaldi Taizong Heavenly Heaven and the Jade Emperor of the universe turns the Golden Wheel Dharma King".

It's a pity that his strength is far less resounding than his honorific name.

Lin Dan Khan was still nominally the co-ruler of Southern Mongolia, but in fact he only directly belonged to his own Chahar department.

The Korqin, Nekhalkha, Tumut, and Ordos departments in Monan are in their own hands; Moxi Weirat Mongols were in a hostile state with him.

However, after more than ten years of hard work, the Inner Khalkha Five League, which is commonly known as the "Five Departments of Fried Flowers", is now under his leadership.

Today, the Horqin tribe, which had been disobedient to him before, was finally willing to surrender to him.

Bel Manggus of the Horqin Left Wing League, Bel Aoba of the Horqin Right Wing League, and the envoys of Bel Mingan and Honggol of the Horqin Left Wing League all knelt before him at this time.

Manggus even said loudly: "Great Khutuktu Khan, Korqin is willing to submit to your wise leadership, please lead our Mongols to destroy the Li family's Liaodong Iron Cavalry, just like your father Khan did 21 years ago!" ”

At this time, Lin Dan Khan frowned tightly and did not say a word.

Originally, he thought that the Horqin tribe was scared by himself and came to surrender, but it turned out that their surrender was conditional.

That is to ambush Li Xianzhong, the chief military officer of the Ming State Kaiyuan.

This Kaiyuan chief military officer was indeed a big threat to the Mongols, first attacking Zai Sai of the Fried Flower Department, and then jointly Zai Sai to eliminate the Stewed Rabbit; Later, together with Zai Sai, he swept away Manggusi on the left wing of Horqin.

In just over two months, seven or eight thousand horsemen from southern Mongolia were beheaded.

And they continue to stir up strife on the grassland.

For this reason, he also protested to the Ming court.

However, the Ming court also quickly gave a reply: Li Xianzhong did not take the initiative to provoke a fight, and it was the first attack of the Flower Speculation Department to attack Kaiyuan Xiguan, which belonged to self-defense and counterattack; Horqin attacked Ye He under the protection of the Ming Dynasty with a blow from Jianzhou, the sworn enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and was swept away purely by self-inflicted blame.

Ambushed Li Xianzhong, which undoubtedly led to a renewed hostility with the Ming Dynasty.

A few years ago, Lin Dan Khan once led the fried flower department to attack the line from Jinzhou to Guangning, but found that he had robbed it for several years and did not get any benefits.

So two years ago, he took the initiative to repatriate the captured border people and started a horse market trade with the Ming Dynasty.

Although the horse market also has many restrictions, it mainly relies on smuggling.

However, if there were not enough benefits, he would not turn against Daming, after all, Li Xianzhong had no conflict with him.

At this time, the leader of Nekhalkha, Fried Flowers, also said: "Great Khan, in the long run, Li Xianzhong is definitely a Ma Fang and Li Chengliang-like figure. If we don't take advantage of his fledgling moment and weaken him. I am afraid that in the future, all my Mongolian tribes will be the targets of the 'Liaodong Iron Cavalry' under his command to harvest human heads. ”

Although Lin Dan Khan is ambitious, he is somewhat indecisive!

He said: "The Ming Military Department has canceled Liaodong Town's policy of rewarding Mongolia's head, Li Xianzhong may not continue to attack you in the future, right?" ”

Hearing this, Fried Flower and Manggusi both let out a helpless sigh in their hearts.

Li Xianzong provoked the infighting of the Mongolian ministries obviously to weaken the Mongolian ministries so that he could further control them, and the first-level reward was only incidental.

Lin Dan Khan can't even see this, this Great Khan is really a little naïve and cute!

Manggus said: "I, the Horqin Mongols, am willing to pay a tribute of 10,000 taels of silver to the great Khutuktu Khan every year to show our submission, and ask the Great Khan to seek justice for us!" ”

Fried flowers thought that Lin Dan Khan would be unmoved, after all, the dignified Mongolian Khan would not change his position for 10,000 taels.

I didn't expect Lin Dan Khan to be really tempted, but he was not stupid, and he wanted him to send troops with this bit of silver, which was too cheap.

So he counted: "I heard that your Horqin Department attacked Yehe before, and received a thousand pieces of heavy cloth armor from Jianzhou, but this time it is the heavy armored cavalry of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and I Chahar lacks heavy armor." ”

This request is still a bit excessive, and Fried Flower thought that Manggus would refuse, at least he would bargain.

But he didn't expect Manggus to agree, and said that a thousand pieces of heavy cloth armor and 10,000 taels of silver would be shipped to Chahar immediately.

The reason why Manggus is so generous is because these things are not made by himself, whether it is armor or silver, they are all paid by Jianzhou, and they are only given out in the name of Korqin.

If Jianzhou gave it himself, I'm afraid Lin Dan Khan would have doubts.

Sure enough, Lin Dan Khan was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately said that the Chahar Department sent 15,000 troops to participate in the ambush of Li Xianzhong.

Fried flowers also said that the five alliances of fried flowers can send 10,000 troops.

Since Horqin is the initiator of this incident, they naturally can't be left behind, and they are also willing to send 10,000 troops.

This would have 40,000 cavalry.

Li Xianzhong's cavalry was hit hard by the Eight Banners of Jianzhou just over a month ago, and now there are only a few thousand.

They believed that they could kill Li Xianzhong again like they did when they ambushed Li Rusong.

Fried Hua said with a smile: "I heard that the bride Hazia married by Li Xianzhong is very similar to Dongge, the first beauty of the Jurchens, and there has always been a custom of robbing brides on the grassland. The Great Khan already has eight Fujin, and this Hazia can just be the Nine Fujin of the Great Khan. ”

In fact, Hazia had come to Chahar earlier, wanting to marry in exchange for her own troops.

However, at that time, Jianzhou was powerful, and Lin Dan Khan was unwilling to waste his troops in vain, so he rejected her.

Now thinking of Hazia's charming face and graceful figure, he swallowed his saliva unconsciously.

The scene of the little sao hoof crawling under his crotch has already appeared in his mind.

Manggus said suddenly: "But there is still a tricky problem now, Zai Sai has too close contacts with Li Xianzhong, I'm afraid he will leak the news in advance, and then we will be empty of bamboo baskets!" ”

Fried Flower said: "Although Zai Sai is the strongest of my five Fried Flower Alliance, I have a way to keep him from leaking the news, but this still needs the help of the Great Khan!" ”

Soon Zai Sai came to Chahanhot City at the invitation of Lin Dan Khan.

Sure enough, after hearing that Li Xianzhong was going to be ambushed, he refused.

He said: "You don't know the strength of the 'Liaodong Iron Cavalry', and the more than 20,000 main cavalry of Jianzhou outside Zhenbei Pass have not been able to severely damage them, even if there are 40,000 horses, I am afraid they will still not be able to take them." ”

"I advise the Great Khan to think twice, and at present, Li Xianzhong has more than 5,000 cavalry, all of which are ironclad troops, how many armored soldiers are there among our 40,000 people?"

At this time, everyone only thought that Zai Sai was unwilling to send troops, so they exaggerated Li Xianzhong's combat strength.

Fried Flower sank his face and said coldly: "Think about it again, if you don't want to send troops, we can't let you go back first, lest the people around you leak the news!" ”

After hearing the news, Master Liu beside Zai Sai could be said to be anxious.

But he still pretended to be unfazed on the surface, and said: "Zai Sai, I know that you are unwilling to fight with the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, but the current situation does not allow us not to agree." ”

In the end, under the persuasion of Master Liu, Zai Sai still agreed to send troops, but only 2,000 people, and did not send heavy cavalry.

At this time, although Zaisai recovered some of his own, he still could not leave the city of Chahanhot, and a large number of people followed him when he traveled.

Master Liu was actually very worried in his heart, fortunately, the Intelligence Department had just set up a stronghold in the city, otherwise the news would not have been able to spread.

Soon after, he took advantage of the opportunity to accompany Jae Sai to the market and secretly sent the information out.

Soon it was the day to come to greet the relatives, and I saw Li Xianzhong riding a dark cloud on a snow horse, wearing a red groom's dress and coming to Yehexi City.

Li Xianzhong is already fair-skinned, although he has been slightly tanned recently due to the sunrise, but he is still handsome, which makes the Yehe girls in the city fall in love.

The eight sedan chairs are naturally prepared, but they are just making a show in Yehe City, and it is impossible to carry them back to Kaiyuan directly.

In the end, they still had to ride back to Kaiyuan.

Therefore, Li Xianzhong's plan is to hold another wedding ceremony in Kaiyuan, welcome the bride from Kaiyuan to the old mansion of the Li family in Tielingwei, and finally worship in the old mansion and enter the cave room.

For this reason, some uncles and their sons and nephews of the Li family, who were far away at the border pass, also took this opportunity to get together in Tieling.

In three days, the city of Yehsi had also been decorated, and the hundreds of red silks in the dowry were basically used, and the city gates and streets were also hung with red silk.

In this way, Li Xianzhong's welcoming procession beat gongs and drums all the way to Baylor Mansion in the city.

After some simple wedding ceremonies, Hazia, who was covered with a hijab, was sent to the eight-carried sedan chair with the support of the maid.

Yehe City is not big, and in the end, the sedan chair spared three laps in Yehe City, and finally left the city.

Not long after, Li Xianzhong and Hazia completed the dressing, and the sedan chair was naturally useless.

There must be the same sedan chair waiting for them outside Kaiyuan City.

This time, they brought a large number of horses to carry the dowry, so they chose to return to Kaiyuan through Mongolia.

Li Sanshun said: "The young general rest assured, the last general led the assault battalion to clear the sentinels of Jianzhou south of Yehe, and they must not have imagined that we would make a detour through the Mongolian steppe." ”

Li Xianzhong said: "You underestimate Nurhachi too much, the road ahead will definitely not be so peaceful." ”

Li Xianzhong thought that Lao Tzu made such a big move, it was impossible for them not to react.

Anyway, now that the bait has been cast, just waiting for the fish to bite the hook.

But whether it's Jianzhou or Mongolia is hard to say?

Not long after the army set off, they saw Kong Youde chasing from the direction of Yehe City.

After receiving the latest information, Li Xianzhong was also taken aback, he only wanted to catch one or two fish, but such a large group came.

It seems that these Mongols are not good enough to use their brains, and they actually use them as gunmen for Jianzhou.

Since they want to play Ben, I'll have fun with them.

Soon, a good-looking palanquin man and the same maid changed into the groom and bride's dresses respectively, and the red dress was very eye-catching in the team.

Li Xianzhong took Hazia and 4,000 cavalry straight to Korqin's camp.

Although the marriage etiquette of these Han women is very cumbersome, Hazia still enjoys it all, after all, everyone only has such a chance to marry once in their life, or to marry a man they love.

Li Xianzhong's heavy dowry made her very happy, which showed that she was very important in his heart.

It's just that she didn't expect that Li Xianzhong also used these things to lure the enemy.

The groom and the bride went to the enemy's lair to steal the camp on the day of the wedding, which was really exciting!

On the other side, Lin Dan Khan and the others had been waiting near a valley for several hours.

Fried Flower said impatiently: "Li Xianzhong left Yehe City a few hours ago, it stands to reason that he should have arrived here a long time ago, so he hasn't come yet, this speed is a little slow!" ”

Then he stared at the sentry and asked, "Are you sure Li Xianzhong is coming this way?" ”

The sentry said: "We didn't dare to get too close, and from a distance, we saw two men and women in red dresses in the team, it should be Li Xianzhong, they are still 30 miles away from here. ”

Just when the fried flowers were still worried, I saw a Mongolian cavalry rushing here, and then the man shouted: "Ming'an Belle, something is wrong, our camp has been raided by the Ming army!" ”

This news directly made everyone who was preparing to ambush Li Xianzhong stunned in place!

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