Lin Dan Khan's capital city of Chahanhot is located at the southern foot of the Abagahan Mountain, and the towering mountains block the cold current from the north from the south, making the climate warm in winter and cool in summer, and its environment is very suitable for human habitation.

A naturally formed valley on the east side crosses the Great Khing'an Mountains, forming a natural passage from the Mongolian Plateau to the Songliao Plain, which is a transportation choke point and a strategic location.

Its territory is crisscrossed by rivers, fertile pastures, and a rare pasture.

Tsahanhot means "white city" in Mongolian.

It uses Qipan Mountain as a natural barrier, and uses rammed earth to build a wall at the col between the two peaks, and there is a 10-meter-wide south gate of Baicheng in the center.

The city is square, on Thursdays. Open a gate on each side, build an urn city outside, and set up a corner platform in the four corners.

Outside the north and south cities, there are also horse-faced walls.

Mao Yuanyi said: "This should be the ruins of the Shangjing Linhuang Mansion of the Liao Dynasty, and the location is indeed unique, but the city is a little childish!" ”

"Now that the troops in the city are insufficient, there are not many defenders on the hillsides on both sides, as long as we occupy the chessboard mountains on both sides, and then bombard the city condescendingly, we can break it here!"

Li Xianzhong said: "In the future, a group of fortresses will have to be built on the slopes on both sides, so that the city can be more effectively defended." ”

With an order, the 6-pounder Franc field guns carried by the Liaodong Army began to fire at the slopes on both sides.

At this time, there were only a few hundred defenders on the hill and a few low forts built of rammed earth.

After the sound of the cannon, thousands of "Imperial Army" wearing blue armor quickly attacked.

There was just a group of old and weak people on the mountain, and in less than a stick of incense, Azig ran over and said, "Qi Liao Guogong, our imperial army has occupied the fort on the mountain and captured more than 200 prisoners, what should we do with these people?" ”

Li Xianzhong said: "All of them were taken to the south gate to be beheaded, and told the guards in the city that the prince gave them half an hour to think about it." As soon as the hour passes, if they don't open the city and surrender, then the city of Chahanhot will be left without chickens and dogs! ”

This is a common trick used by the Mongols, and it has to be said that it is quite useful.

At this time, Lin Dan Khan was not there, and there were only more than 2,000 horses left in the city, which could not resist the army outside the city at all.

In the end, Lin Dan Khan's first concubine, Namu Zhong, decided to surrender the city.

After all, Lin Dan Khan is a direct descendant of the Golden Family and the heir to the throne of the Northern Yuan Khan, although he was blackmailed by Li Xianzhong a few years ago.

However, there are still a lot of treasures in the city of Chahanhot, with a large number of gold and jewelry, according to rough statistics, worth more than 800,000 taels of silver.

A few years ago, this would have been a lot of money.

However, now Liaodong's annual expenses are more than 5 million taels, and these silver are better than nothing.

Soon, the eldest concubine Namu Zhong offered the Northern Yuan jade seal that Lin Dan Khan had privately hidden.

Looking at the jade seal made of mutton fat white jade in front of him, Li Xianzhong was very excited, even though he knew that it was fake.

After bathing and burning incense, he officially accepted this jade seal in front of everyone.

However, when he picked up the jade seal and looked at it carefully, he found that the words engraved on it were not "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity", but "the treasure of the system".

This time, he specially brought Mao Yuanyi with him to avoid this embarrassment, after all, he was just a keyboard warrior in his previous life, and he really couldn't appreciate these things.

Mao Yuanyi is worthy of being able to compile the "Wubei Zhi", he quickly said: "According to the material and content of this seal, it should be the jade seal carved from mutton fat jade that Emperor Zhao Jun gave to the Xiongnu Shan Yu when Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty ordered Zhaojun to go out of the fortress. ”

Namu Zhong said: "This jade seal was brought to the desert by Emperor Yuan Shun at the beginning, and it is the heirloom jade seal of the Great Yuan. ”

From Mao Yuanyi's hesitant eyes, Li Xianzhong knew that although this ancient seal was not small, it was probably not the heirloom jade seal of the Yuan Dynasty.

It didn't matter, though, as long as the Mongol chieftains thought it was.

It is convincing enough that he seized the jade seal of the Great Yuan from the hands of the Great Khan, the direct line of the Northern Yuan.

No one even recognizes Lin Dan Khan, a direct descendant of Genghis Khan, let alone such a jade seal?

Li Xianzhong got it just one more excuse to annex Lin Dan Khan's troops and occupy Monan.

To put it bluntly, what these Mongols are afraid of is his Liaodong Iron Cavalry, not this so-called jade seal.

Then under the leadership of Mao Yuanyi, Buhe, Buyangu, Jintaiji, Azig and others congratulated Li Xianzhong on obtaining the jade seal of the Great Yuan.

However, it is not the time to think about these things yet, after all, Lin Dan Khan's main force has not been eliminated.

According to the scout's report, Lin Dan Khan did not return to Chahanhot, but retreated in the direction of the city of Guihua in the southwest.

Originally, Li Xianzhong asked Man Gui to lead the cavalry to set up an ambush on the road that Lin Dan Khan had to go back to help, but it seems that this time was completely unsuccessful.

This Lin Dan Khan didn't play his cards according to the routine, he didn't save his lair, but ran to the territory of the Tumut Department to take refuge?

Now that his army is overwhelming, even if he can occupy the magpie's nest, it doesn't make any sense.

Mao Yuanyi said in horror: "It's not good, Lin Danhan must be worried that the direct reinforcement will be attacked by our Tongzai Sai, so he retreated westward, so as to tempt Zai Sai to pursue, his real target is probably Zai Sai!" ”

Li Xianzhong said: "It seems that Lin Dan Khan wants to set up an ambush and slaughter the race, first eliminate the Inner Khalkha Mongols and then fight a decisive battle with us. ”

Then he looked at his father-in-law and said, "Khurhan, you will lead the 15,000 horsemen of the Korqin Department to support Zai Sai, and you must not let Lin Dan Khan succeed." ”

Although Bu He was a little reluctant, he didn't dare to disobey his son-in-law at this time, so he said: "Don't worry, the Duke of Liao, I, the Horqin warrior, will definitely rescue Zai Sai!" ”

Then Li Xianzhong ordered Azig and others to go down to reorganize the troops and horses, ready to go out at any time.

Seeing that everyone retreated, Mao Yuanyi said: "At the beginning, Zai Sai once slaughtered the Horqin tribe with the Duke of Liao, and took the opportunity to annex many Horqin tribes, and the two of them formed a grudge. ”

"Liao Guogong sent Buhe to save Zai Sai at this time, I'm afraid he won't do his best!"

Li Xianzhong said with a smile: "In the end, Brother Mao understands my mind, and this time my father wants to solve the problem of Mo Nan in one fell swoop." Think about it, if we occupy the city of Chahanhot and annex Lin Dan Khan's people, will Zai Sai be dissatisfied with us? ”

Zai Sai and Lin Dan Khan have been fighting for several years, and the subordinates on both sides have suffered heavy casualties, and now you Li Xianzhong have come to pick peaches, and it is strange that Zai Sai does not turn his face!

Li Xianzhong was sure that Horqin would definitely not rescue Zai Sai in time, so he deliberately let Buhe go.

In this way, the purpose of weakening Zaisai is achieved, and a bad reputation for not saving allies will not be lost!

No, my father-in-law should have made two preparations.

If Zaisai only suffered damage to his troops and did not suffer a major injury, he would blame Horqin for the unfavorable rescue, and then the two of them would have turned against each other. Zaisai will have no time to take care of us, and we will have enough time to digest Mo Nan.

If Zaisai is completely annihilated, I am afraid that Li Xianzhong will annex Inner Khalkha together with the Korqin Department and take the opportunity to expand the territory of Monan.

His own father-in-law really made a good calculation, but at this time Mao Yuanyi still had a question.

He said: "The Duke of Liao is far-sighted, and his subordinates admire him. It's just that this Zaisai has been fighting with Lin Dan Khan for all these years, and both sides know each other, I'm afraid he hasn't been so easily fooled? ”

Li Xianzhong said: "If I send someone to tell Zai Sai that my father agreed with him that whoever takes down Lin Dan Khan's head, Chahanhot City will belong to whom, do you guess he will be tempted?" ”

"In addition, Commander Mao is afraid that he has forgotten that the earliest members of the Intelligence Department are still by Zai Sai's side, and this prince is not afraid that he will not take the bait!"

Master Liu?

How did I forget him.

I have to say that these ace undercover agents under my command are really powerful. One Fan Wenyu can tear Jianyu apart, and his role is at least better than tens of thousands of troops.

Nurhachi and Huang Taiji probably didn't know until they died, and their most trusted Mr. Fan was actually a spy of the Intelligence Department.

Now Fan Wenhuan is still a celebrity around Azig, so Liao Guogong is so relieved of Jianzhou Zuowei.

However, today's Jianzhou Zuowei is actually managed by Fan Wenhuan, and Fan Wencheng can sit in the high position of the political envoy of Liaodong, and it is estimated that there is also a kind of compensation from the Duke of Liao to Fan Wenhuan.

Their Fan brothers are hot figures in Liaodong.

This Master Liu is actually one of the earliest founders of the Intelligence Division, and he joined the Intelligence Department earlier than himself.

If Liao Guogong doesn't mention it, I'm afraid that I, the commander of the Intelligence Department, will soon forget about him, and it seems that this is the time for him to show his skills.

After Zaisai killed the fried flowers, it took less than half a year to completely annex the Inner Khalkha Five Alliance.

A few years ago, he went to Lin Dan Khan's lair with Li Xianzhong and forced him to name himself "Taier Khan".

Over the years, he has been competing with Lin Dan Khan for the position of the overlord of Monan, and the strength of the two sides is about the same, and no one can help anyone.

Although Lin Dan Khan asked the Tumut Ministry for help this time, fortunately, Li Xianzhong, the Duke of Liao, finally made a move.

However, in the face of Lin Dan Khan's sudden westward retreat, he was still a little worried, so he only sent a small number of scouts to reconnoitre, and did not rashly pursue.

Master Liu on the side said: "Qi Great Khan, the coalition army led by the Duke of Liao has occupied Chahanhot City. A large number of Lin Dan Khan's subordinates have been captured by the Ming army, and the army's morale must be unstable, we must not miss the opportunity! ”

"If our army doesn't have more gains in this battle, we won't be able to ask the Duke of Liao for Chahar's territory!"

At this time, Zai Sai was also quite jealous of the Ming army, on the one hand, he hoped that Li Xianzhong would take action to clean up Lin Dan Khan for himself, and on the other hand, he was afraid that the Ming army would directly occupy Chahar's territory and not leave.

Although there was a certain risk in the pursuit at this time, he was still driven by interests and decided to pursue Lin Dan Khan.

Now he also has 20,000 cavalry in his hands, even if he is entangled by Lin Dan Khan, it is always no problem to insist on the Ming army coming to reinforce him.

Soon he ordered his son Zarut to lead 5,000 cavalry in pursuit.

And he leads the main force behind, and he can respond to support at any time.

The location of the decisive battle between the two sides is located in the Xilin Gol grassland, which is surrounded by endless grasslands, but there is actually no terrain suitable for ambushes.

Lin Dan Khan's Monan coalition continued to retreat to the southwest, while Zarut was in hot pursuit.

After retreating for thousands of miles, Lin Dan Khan's Monan coalition finally reached the vicinity of the Tabu River at the junction of Yinshan and Daqingshan.

At the same time, the distance between the Zalut Division, which had been advancing all the way, and the main force behind it was also widened more and more, from the initial distance of twenty miles to the current distance of seventy or eighty miles.

Eventually, he encountered the main forces of Lindan Khan on the right bank near the Tarbu River.

At this time, they were flanked by Chahar's cavalry, and they densely occupied the entire grassland, numbering tens of thousands of people.

The two sides were only a few hundred meters apart, and the atmosphere was extremely tense, as if they could feel each other's breathing, and a big battle was about to break out.

Zarut also relied on his courage to pursue continuously, and his cavalry included a thousand heavy cavalry in armor.

He decided to be the first to break the deadlock, and with an order, the thousand ironclad heavy cavalry began to kick in.

Under the sunlight, the iron armor on their bodies and the steel knives and spears in their hands emitted bursts of cold light, and the earth gradually trembled.

Soon a rain of arrows fell on them, but unfortunately Chahar's feathered arrows did not cause much substantial damage to these iron-clad soldiers, but many horses were shot by feathered arrows and let out a terrible neighing sound.

Lin Dan Khan has been playing with Zai Sai for four or five years, and he is naturally clear about his trump card.

He came prepared this time, too.

As the two sides drew closer, the heavy riders were already within fifty paces.

Soon the rain of arrows in Chahar turned into heavy armor-piercing arrows.

At a distance of thirty or forty paces, these armor-piercing heavy arrows easily pierced through the enemy's heavy armor, and as the cavalry in the front row continued to fall from their horses, the power of the iron cavalry impact was greatly weakened.

By the time the time the actual confrontation came, the hundreds of iron cavalry would not be able to tear through the defense line of the Chahar army.

Seeing that his trump card failed, Zarut also realized the seriousness of the problem.

However, at this time, it was too late for him to retreat, and the leader of the Tumut tribe, Guluge, led tens of thousands of cavalry to appear in his rear.

Although Zarut led the army to charge several times, trying to break through the interception of Tumert's cavalry, it was a pity that in the end it was all in vain.

Especially when their 1,000 ironclad cavalry were wiped out by the Chahar cavalry, their morale fell to the extreme.

At this time, there were less than 200 horsemen left with him, but just as he was feeling desperate, Zaisa's main cavalry arrived.

Many of the Tumut cavalry were shot off their horses by the rain of arrows behind them.

Zarut was so excited that he was about to cry, but his mood for the rest of his life did not last long.

Soon, cavalry continued to fight out in the surrounding poplar forests, re-encircling the main cavalry force of Zaisai.

Originally, there were 25,000 people in the Monan coalition army, and Lin Dan Khan mobilized thousands of men and horses left in the south of the Chahar Department here, plus Tumut's old nest Naturalization City (now Hohhot) is also here.

Now they have more than 35,000 people, and the 5,000 men of Zaisai's vanguard have been basically reimbursed, and now only 15,000 horsemen remain.

In particular, the death of a thousand ironclad heavy cavalry had a great impact on their overall morale.

Everywhere there were fighting cavalry, and for a time the clashing of weapons and the neighing of war horses resounded throughout the riverbank.

Although Zaisai constantly adjusted the ranks of the cavalry, he attacked the Chahar coalition army again and again, trying to tear a hole.

However, the coalition forces still relied on their numerical superiority to trap him on the bank of the river.

Seeing that the breakthrough could not be achieved, Zai Sai could only retreat to the next best thing and retreated into a forest by the river.

As it grew dark, Lin Dan Khan's men stopped attacking and only besieged them in the woods.

Today he was undoubtedly a great success, as they annihilated more than 10,000 of Zai Sai's men, while their own casualties were only 5,000.

Now their ratio of forces has also become 3 to 1.

Lin Dan Khan knew that Zai Sai would not sit back and wait for him, and he would definitely try to break through tonight.

But now 30,000 against 10,000, the advantage is mine. How could Lin Dan Khan let them get their wish? Zaisai launched several attacks overnight, but Lin Dan Khan repulsed them, but instead lost thousands of men and horses.

At this time, there was no hope of breaking through, and he could only hope for Li Xianzhong's reinforcements.

And Master Liu also quickly found the Horqin cavalry who rushed to reinforce them.

When Buhe heard that Zaisai was surrounded by Chahar's main force near the Tarbu River, Buhe had an excitement that could not be concealed.

The three major forces of southern Mongolia are Lin Dan Khan, Inner Khalkha and Korqin.

Now that the two of them are fighting, it is a good opportunity for Horqin to rise.

It seems that this time to reveal the news of the jade seal to Li Xianzhong, this move is really the right move.

He said: "I, Horqin, have few soldiers now, I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist the Chahar coalition army, so let's wait for the main force of the Liao State to arrive before making plans!" ”

Originally, Master Liu was just pretending, but now he is relieved to see that Horqin will not save him when he sees death.

Li Xianzhong was not so fierce as Lin Dan Khan, and he really retreated more than a thousand miles in order to lure the enemy.

However, now that they have retreated to the vicinity of the lair of the Tumut Ministry, it is more than 1 day away from Naturalization City, which still increases the difficulty of their raid on Naturalization City.

This also forced Li Xianzhong to divide his troops.

Eventually, he ordered Azig's Imperial Allied Army and Yehe's cavalry to set up an ambush at Daqingshan to block the possible return of Lin Dan Khan.

And he led the Liaodong Army to attack Guihua City.

In the sixth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty (1572), Alatan Khan, the leader of the Mongolian tribe stationed in Tumochuan, summoned skilled craftsmen of all ethnic groups to imitate the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, and broke ground to build a majestic and beautiful city with eight buildings and a glazed gold and silver hall on the bank of Daqing Mountain and the Yellow River.

After the completion of the city, the Ming court gave it the name "Naturalization City".

This large-scale city, under the glow of the green hills, reveals a lush vitality. At that time, the naturalization city was made of green bricks, and the local Mongolian people gave her a beautiful name, called "Kuku and Tun", which was also translated as "Hohhot", and Han means "green city".

Of course, if the city is big, it is only relative to the soil city on the grassland.

In fact, the naturalization city is more than 300 meters long from east to west, and 250 meters wide from north to south.

It's just that it wraps a layer of blue bricks on the outside of the rammed earth, and the city is 8 meters high, which is still relatively tall.

At this time, the main force of the Tumut Department had been transferred to besiege Zaisai, and naturally there were not many men and horses in the city.

The Ming army was a cavalry march, and the artillery would take half a day to arrive.

However, Li Xianzhong was not ready to wait, and soon the Ming army, under the cover of Lu Mi Gong, pushed the city breaker and launched an attack on the planning city.

To be honest, the Liaodong Army has not carried out such a primitive siege for a long time.

However, fortunately, the Mongols' feather arrows were unable to penetrate the iron armor of the Liaodong iron cavalry, and these heavy cavalry were used as heavy infantry at this time.

The Ming army under the city used Lu Mi to completely limit the defenders' counterattack.

These Mongols were mercilessly shot at the slightest chance of showing their heads.

Despite a few twists and turns, the Ming army quickly conquered the city of Guihua.

After 3 days of fighting, Lin Dan Khan and others finally annihilated the Zaisai Department, Kurhan Zaisai and his eldest son Zarut were killed, and the 20,000 horsemen of the Inner Khalkha were killed except for more than 1,000 people who surrendered.

However, the Monan coalition army also paid the price of more than 10,000 deaths.

But before they had time to clean up the battlefield at this time, the news came that the Ming army had conquered Guihua City.

Although Lin Dan Khan had doubts in his heart, he had to agree to return to the main division, after all, the Tumut Department caused the lair to be stolen in order to help him ambush Zai Sai.

However, he still kept an eye on it, and let the leader of the Tumut tribe, Guluge, lead 10,000 allied troops to return to the division first, and he himself led 10,000 people to the rear.

Sure enough, as soon as they entered the Daqingshan area, they were attacked by the Imperial Alliance Army and Yehe's cavalry.

They had fought with Zaisai's army for three days before, and they were already tired divisions, plus they were marching in a hurry, and they were all tired at the moment, where was the opponent of people?

Soon after, the 10,000 men led by Gulug were almost completely wiped out.

Seeing that this was wrong, Lin Dan Khan hurriedly led more than 10,000 remnants to retreat.

The Horqin Division, which was supposed to be broken, was busy attacking Zaisai's territory at this time, resulting in Lin Dan Khan's successful escape.

In the end, Li Xianzhong and Horqin divided the territory of the original Zaisai, but on the surface, Li Xianzhong still let Zaisai's 5-year-old son take charge of the original people with the assistance of Master Liu.

After that, the Ming army took the opportunity to cross the Yellow River and defeated the Ordos Department entrenched in the Hetao area.

He brought the Yinshan Tonghetao area under his control.

Later, the Ming army built Jiuyuan City (now Baotou) between Yinshan and the Yellow River, and used Jiuyuan to defend Yinshan and overlook the Hetao.

Originally, Li Xianzhong wanted to reward Lin Dan Khan's eight concubines to Azig and others who sent troops this time.

However, Mao Yuanyi thought that it must not be, because these women were almost all marriages between the Mongolian tribes and Lin Dan Khan.

If they were given to the leaders of the Horqin or Jurchen tribes, it would inadvertently cause them to form an alliance with each other.

Moreover, these concubines all control some of Lin Dan Khan's subordinates to a greater or lesser extent.

So Mao Yuanyi suggested that Li Xianzhong include all the 8 concubines in his harem.

In fact, Lin Danhan is not a few years older than Li Xianzhong, and these concubines are still relatively young and beautiful.

The eldest concubine, Namu Zhong, is 2 years older than Li Xianzhong this year.

For the long-term stability of Southern Mongolia, Li Xianzhong finally accepted all the eight concubines of Lin Dan Khan.

On the tenth day of the first month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Horqin Mongolia, the Inner Khalkha Mongolia, the Tumut Mongolia, the Ordos Mongolia, and the Chahar Mongolian tribes jointly supported Li Xianzhong, the Duke of the Liao State of the Ming Dynasty, as the co-ruler of Monan Mongolia in the Naturalization City.

Because Li Xianzhong obtained the treasure of the Great Yuan, which was the destiny of heaven, the Mongolian tribes privately called him the "Khan of the Mandate of Heaven"!

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