"Sigh the law ......"

On June 12, when the sound of horses was heard, a small tribe of more than 1,000 people was singing Mongolian folk songs on their pastures.

Before Genghis Khan, whenever there was a regime change among the steppe peoples, the original people either joined the new team, or packed up and left, and went to the west to expand their territory.

There is no burden for those who join the new team, anyway, everyone doesn't need words, and there is nothing to keep, just a few clothes and a few horses.

However, as the Mongols developed their own culture and political system and script, it became difficult for the Mongols to integrate into other nomadic peoples.

Since Genghis Khan unified the Mongolian plateau, the Mongols began to completely differ from other nomadic tribes of their predecessors.

Genghis Khan first divided the population of Mongolia into three types: "people in the forest", "people in felt tents" and "people in the city", with a rough calculation of more than one million people.

Secondly, he divided the people of Mongolia into ninety-five thousand households in military affairs, and appointed meritorious officials, whose nobles were named Thousand Households Nayan, and were hereditary rulers.

The thousand-household system is a kind of military-political unit, replacing the old tribal or clan structure, each thousand households have their own pasture, the former small and medium-sized tribes began to compete for pasture, and the casualties caused by the Mongols due to internal strife began to decrease.

On top of the thousand households, Genghis Khan set up five supreme military governors of ten thousand households, and five of Genghis Khan's cronies Mu Huali, Borshu, Nayaa, Horchi, and Kunan served as the positions.

At the same time, he expanded the escort army, and stipulated a strict guard system, appointing the "four masters" Bolhu, Borshu, Mu Huali, and Chilao Wen four hereditary four cowardly Xue Chang.

Politically, there is a chief magistrate, and his adoptive brother is appointed to be in charge of the people's households and prisons, and he is the supreme administrator, equivalent to the prime minister.

There are a number of judges under the chief judge, similar to the six departments.

After achieving both military and political success, Genghis Khan culturally created the Mongolian script.

Through these measures, Genghis Khan made his family a golden family, the supreme ruling group of Mongolia, and all the Mongols were his subjects, and all the ten thousand households, Nayan were his servants.

Because of this, Mongolia has reached a comprehensive system that many nomads of previous generations could not achieve, and the Golden Family, no matter how it is, is the only existence that all Mongols agree with.

Even if there are no descendants of the Golden Family in Mobei today, it is still recognized by the Mongols.

"The River of Distress is our birthplace......

Melodious folk songs are sung in the vast grassland, and the sheep grazing on the grass in the distance make a cry from time to time, and the wind blows through the meadow, everything seems so peaceful.

It's just a pity that all peace has limits, as the study ......

"Buzz rumble—"

When the dull sound of horses' hooves sounded in the distance, the herdsmen who were grazing their cattle became vigilant.

The men of the tribe began to put on their armor and prepared to move in the direction of the sound.

However, before they could set off, flags appeared on the eastern horizon waving in the wind.

The color of the flag made the pupils of the group of more than 100 men in good armor constrict, and the older men began to greet everyone.

They surrounded the old and weak women and children and some of the herds in Lele carts, and sent messengers to the north.

The men in armor looked dryly at the growing number of flags and watched them approach them.

As Zhu Gaoxu said in the textbook, if the Mongols wanted to compete with the current Ming army for mobility and leave the Ming army behind, they could only abandon the herd or even the old and weak.

The men of this tribe were unwilling to abandon their herds, women and children, and they were greeted by the charge and encirclement of the Ming army.

Thousands of Ming troops dressed in Ming armor came and surrounded these more than 1,000 people.

They circled around the outside of Lele's car, the Mongolian population in animal clothes dry, nervously watching the group many of them had never seen before.

The Ming army had not made an expedition to Mobei for fifteen years, so when they appeared, most of the Mongols who had been beaten by the Ming army had already died, and only a few still remembered their figures.

"Which ministry are you from, and where is Arutai stationed now?"

When a general who seemed to be of a good rank rode out of the ranks of the Ming army, and also spoke very fluent Tatar headquarters Mongolian, the group of Mongols were stunned, and finally a hundred households stubbornly said from afar: "Yong Xie Bu ......"

He did not answer the place where his Taishi was stationed, and such an answer made the Ming army Tatar officer dissatisfied: "Arutai is disrespectful to the Ming Khan, if you don't want the whole clan to be punished, then tell him where he is stationed." ”

"Daming Khan has promised that the tribe that answers this question can be rewarded with going to the Modong Grassland and getting ten times the original pasture!"

In the face of the Tatar official's words, the hundred households, who were originally ready to resist to the death, immediately spoke up when they heard the reward of the tenfold pasture: "He is now in Cheongju. ”

"Good! How big your ranch is, Modong will give you ten times as much, how many people are there in Arutai now! ”

The Tartar official nodded in satisfaction, and Baihu also answered truthfully.

It is true that there are 50,000 or 60,000 households in the headquarters of Arutai, but there are usually only 20,000 or 30,000 households gathered around him.

Before the Ming army went out of the fortress this time, the Mongolian Plateau had not been invaded from the east for more than 200 years, so it was not at all expected that the Ming army would launch a surprise attack from Modong in the east.

Arutai's subordinates were divided into the Hulunbuir grassland and the western front of the Harawen Mountains, and he originally thought that this was foolproof, but the Ming army did not play according to the routine.

"Okay, your people can follow us, and I'll take you to see Daming Khan!"

The Tartar officials didn't expect to be able to extract so much information from a hundred households, so they happily rushed to the Chinese army with their unit.

Although Baihu was worried that the Tartar officials would do something to him halfway, in the face of more than 2,000 Mingjia cavalry, he couldn't afford to resist at all.

Eventually, under the supervision of more than 2,000 cavalry of the Ming army, the tribe of more than 1,000 people began to walk east with thousands of herds.

Two hours later, they saw the main force of the Ming army, which was tens of thousands of cavalry resting on the north bank of the Yuqu River, the number was boundless, and each of them had three horses per capita, and every three horses had bright armor on their backs.

This scene made many timid people weak in their legs.

They were placed on the side of the army, guarded by two thousand armored cavalry.

"You come with me."

The Tartar officer greeted Nayong Xie Bu Baihu, and walked towards the Chinese army with a nervous and uneasy attitude.

After a few hours, after passing the Ming soldiers who were eyeing him, they came to a makeshift tent.

There were many generals sitting in the tent, and there were many acquaintances from hundreds of households outside the tent.

They looked at Baihu and couldn't help but say, "Urile, you speak well, don't bother us." ”

"Huh?" Uzhile didn't understand why he was so troublesome, and why they looked like they were wagging their tails and begging for mercy.

"Let's go inside."

Uzhil was pushed into the tent by the Tartar officials, and unconsciously knelt on the ground.

"Which department is the hundred households, where is the main force of Arutai, how many herds, how many troops, how many soldiers and horses......"

One question after another was asked by a person who looked like a high-ranking official in the tent, and Uril wanted to tell a lie, but thinking of the reminders of those people outside the tent, he finally explained everything honestly.

"Okay, you can step back, if the next person to be brought is the same as you said, how big is your ranch, and the imperial court will send it to you ten times, why don't you kowtow to Your Majesty and thank you?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty! ”

Facing the words of the Tartar official in the tent, Urile kowtowed frequently, and then the Tartar official waved his hand: "Exit." ”

Then he said to the Tartar officer who had brought Uril at the tent gate, "Take them all down." ”

"Yes!" The Tartar official nodded, and left the place with the hundred households of the seven or eight small tribes outside the tent under the gaze of everyone.

After they left, Zhu Di, who was sitting on the main seat, said to the Tartar official who commanded: "Huo Zhen, how is it?" ”

Huozhen was a Mongol who surrendered to Zhu Di during the Hongwu period, and he and Zhu Di conquered Mongolia many times, so Zhu Di trusted him more, and the matter of this torture was also handed over to him.

"Back to Your Majesty, the information is almost the same, Arutai is indeed in Cheongju, and there are about 30,000 main forces and about 200,000 troops."

"In addition to these, Arutai has also placed more than a dozen thousand households in the grasslands on the west side of the Haravin Mountains, and it seems that his troops are about fifty or sixty thousand, and his troops are not less than four hundred thousand."

"Most of these tribes who reported the news sent messengers to their thousands of households before encountering our army's Tang cavalry, and we are running out of time."

After Huo Zhen finished speaking, Zhu Di also immediately got up: "The whole army is marching to Qingzhouli, and I want to be caught off guard by this Arutai!" ”

"The last general commands!" Huo Zhen responded, and Wang Yi, Zhu Neng and others in the tent also got up one after another.

Soon, Zhu Di, who had learned the exact news of Arutai, left 2,000 cavalry to escort the captured thousands of Mongols and tens of thousands of herds to Meng Zhang's camp, and he himself led more than 20,000 cavalry to kill in Qingzhou in the north.

Even the artillery with the artillery cart was dragged by the cold leather pull, although it was not fast, but it was enough to follow the cavalry.

At this time, the Ming army was only 200 miles away from Arutai, so when the Ming army was only half a day after the attack, Arutai, who was in Qingzhou, got the news......

In the vast grasslands, the lakes shine with emerald green, and more than 100,000 Mongolians live a simple and free life by the water.

Looking to the north, a magnificent stone city stands on the north shore of the lake, there are some stone houses near the city, small stone houses, strong and durable, like the Mongolian people's sustenance and cherishment of safety, but these stone houses can only be inhabited by more than 1,000 generals, ordinary herdsmen can not bother to live.

It's not that they don't have the ability to build, it's that they don't have the qualifications.

Like the herds of millions of cattle and sheep in the steppe outside the city, although they are large enough for the Mongols who live here to feed for several months, they are not ordinary Mongols.

Even in this beautiful and tranquil grassland, the disgusting rules and classes still exist.

"Drive! Drive! ”

"The military situation is urgent, get out of the way!!"

When the anxious and shouting messengers rode their horses, many herdsmen did not pay attention to the so-called military situation at all, but only subconsciously avoided it.

This is the northern part of Kuoluan Haizi (Hulun Lake), more than 400 miles away from the northern part of the fishing sea, and it is also the place where the Tatar headquarters depends for survival.

Compared with the numbness of the herdsmen at the bottom, some 10,000 and 1,000 households, who are vested interests, are very concerned about the so-called military situation.

They guessed who the messenger was from the direction he came, and they became nervous.

"Let's go! Go to Taishina! "Many of the generals began to mount their horses and go to the place where Arutai lived at this moment.

In that humble stone city, there are still all kinds of houses and streets.

Of course, they can't compare to the cities in the south, but they are still the most advantageous cities for the Mongols at the moment.

They came to a courtyard gate enclosed by a stone wall in the center of Shichengzi, and the officials of the thousand households were allowed to enter.

Inside the stone walls were tents that could be taken away, and they were large enough to accommodate hundreds of people.

Sitting in the main seat was a sturdy middle-aged man wearing a Mongolian robe with fat narrow sleeves and trim.

His appearance is very much in line with the Mongolian appearance in the perception of the Han Chinese, with a round face, slender eyes, and the typical short beard of the Mongols.

At this time, he had just listened to the report of the messenger in the southeast, and then he knew that the Ming army had actually crossed the defensive line he had arranged in the south and came to a place less than two hundred miles away from him.

"Go and call Alitai, Lost Pinch, and Polo first!"

When he saw the people coming from the tent, Arutai commanded the people to go and preach those who were able to do the work.

Under their transmission, the leaders of the ten tribes, including Azov, Haraha, and Shenulang, began to gather.

Arutai's background is not good, he is an officer from Asuwei under Emperor Yuan Shun.

Because Asuwei fled without a fight during the suppression of the Red Turban Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, causing a rout, he was despised by many Mongols.

But even so, Dang Asuwei was still one of the few military forces that Emperor Yuan Shun could mobilize.

After Emperor Yuan Shun fled north, the Ming army continued to carry out military strikes against the Northern Yuan, and the Northern Yuan continued to fight among themselves, so the Mongol power was repeatedly weakened.

At this time, Arutai, who commanded the remnants of the Azowei army, gradually rose, and the original Azowei soldiers under his command also formed the Asote Division.

After the Battle of Yuerhai, under the continuous attack of the Ming army, the Northern Yuan gradually only had two army leaders left who could be valued by the Ming Dynasty, one was the Mahamu Taishi of Oirat, and the other was the Arutai Taishi of Asut.

Both men accepted the Ming dynasty's knighthood and then annexed other Mongol tribes, which in turn called the Mahamu forces "Warat" and the Arutai forces "Tatars".

Under the annexation and co-optation of Arutai, many Mongol tribes submitted to Arutai, and the prototype of the Yongshebu Mongols was formed.

Yongshebu took Asut and Harashen, two Mongolized descendants from the mercenaries of the Semu people, as the main core, and united with the Mongolized Tangut tribe of the Tangut people to co-opt the eagle keepers of the Yunxu Palace, and co-opted some of the Buryatia, Balhu and Huanghuotan who went south.

As a result, the Yongshebu Mongols were formed, with the Asute tribe as the leader and the Chinese "Yunxu Palace" as the tribal identity.

Don't look at them as a makeshift tribe, but they are an important pillar that has always supported the Northern Yuan.

"The Ming army is coming, their number is not clear, but I think it should not be too small."

Facing the 10,000 and 1,000 households of the 10 tribes, including the Ahara, the Shenulang, the Porai, and the Dangrahan, Arutai recounted what was happening at the moment.

"They are less than two hundred miles away from us, and they came at the right time, just when I fell out with Yuelu Timur (Ghost Lichi)."

"I have issued a military order to several thousand households around Kuolian Haizi (Hulun Lake), and they will soon gather here with their people."

"In this way, we have at least 40,000 soldiers and horses."

Arutai said about his arrangement, and the nobles below also spoke: "The herd, women and children must be transferred first, otherwise we will take the initiative!" ”

"Who is the general of the Ming army who led the troops this time?"

"It should be Zhu Neng or Zhang Yu, Wang Yi, Meng Zhang, ......"

"Isn't Zhang Yu already old and transferred back?"

"When?"

"...... a few years ago"

"Who are Wang Yi and Meng Zhang?"

"A few Han generals who fought with Haragu and them before."

I have to say that the information of the Tatar Ministry is very lagging behind, and they don't even know that Zhang Yu was transferred back, and they thought that it was Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng who were defending the north.

As for Wang Yi and Meng Zhang, if it weren't for the Tatar tribe and the Uliangha in the east, I'm afraid they wouldn't know who these two people were.

"Okay......"

Seeing that they couldn't find a result in their argument, Arutai said directly: "I have already sent Tang cavalry, if the Ming army knows about our pastureland, they should also look for us." ”

"The most important thing at the moment is to first transfer the troops and herds to show the weakness of the enemy to lure the Ming army to pursue, and finally choose a place to set up an ambush."

Arutai hadn't fought the Ming army for more than ten years, and although he had received a lot of information from Uliangha, he didn't find it useful.

In their eyes, the fighting power of the Uliangha was no different from that of the stronger horse bandits.

"Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, and Li Wenzhong are dead, and the generals on the Ming army have nothing to pay attention to except for Zhu Di, who has become the emperor, and his son Zhu Gaoxu."

Arutai stood up, and the nobles got up when they heard this, but there were still questions raised.

"Zhu Di led the troops to destroy Wuliangha last time, will he also lead the troops this time?"

"It's possible" Arutai admitted this possibility, but he was still calm: "Even if Zhu Di leads the troops, we don't need to be nervous." ”

"The Ming army in the south has not fought with us for fifteen years, and our strength has developed in the past fifteen years, if they are still as arrogant as before, they can only get a crushing defeat."

"Now, as I commanded, prepare to lure them into your pockets and eat them in one fell swoop!"

As Arutai set the tone, soon the tribes in Cheongju began to migrate to the north of the Nan River, and Arutai also began to gather a few thousand households nearby, and personally led the 30,000 cavalry of his headquarters to supply jerky, cheese and other food, and began to march to the southeast.

At this time, he didn't know who the opponent he was going to face, but in his opinion, as long as Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochu were not leading the troops, this one would not be too difficult.

During the day and night attack, Arutai joined several thousand households and gathered nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses at noon the next day.

When they gathered on the grassland, the bright armor was dazzling, although the quality of the armor was not as good as the Ming army, but it could pull out 40,000 armored cavalry, which was also a very remarkable existence in the history of nomadism in the past dynasties.

You must know that even after 300 years, the Dzungar that fought the 100-year war with the Qing Dynasty was only 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses, and the number of soldiers and horses that could pull out to fight against the Qing Dynasty never exceeded 30,000.

Arutai, who has such strength, naturally has the confidence to fight with the Ming army.

Under his arrangement, the sentinels marched south with a team of 1,000 men to disperse support, and their task was to attract the main force of the Ming army into their pockets.

"Sigh the law ......"

"Beep-"

On the vast grassland, when the Ming army Tang Cavalry maintained a certain speed and marched north, a piercing whistle suddenly sounded.

"What's going on!"

In the Chinese army, Qiu Fu, who was in charge of leading this cavalry, frowned, but the news from the front made him overjoyed.

"Qi Guogong, the Hu cavalry was found in front, no less than a thousand!"

When the Qianhu official reported the situation found in front of him, Qiu Fu immediately said excitedly: "Has the enemy army ever discovered us?" ”

"Look at the movement of soldiers and horses, never."

Qianhu officials answered truthfully, after all, the Ming army's Tang Cavalry also had its own Tang Cavalry, and in front of these thousand people were more than ten Tang Cavalry holding binoculars.

Unless the Mongols could see a few figures two or three miles away, only the Ming army could peep at them, and there was no reason for them to peep at the Ming army.

"Good!" Hearing such good news, Qiu Fu grinded his fists excitedly.

"Pass on my military order, the whole army will attack from the flanks in a roundabout way, eat the thousand cavalry first, and give the whole army a good prize!"

Qiu Fu was about to eat this cavalry without thinking, and the Qianhu official next to him said cautiously when he heard this: "Do you want to report to Your Majesty first, or ask for help from the Marquis of Tong'an, the Marquis of Wucheng, and the Marquis of Anping?" ”

The three soldiers and horses mentioned by the Qianhu official are the soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of Huo Zhen, Wang Cong and Li Yuan.

Because Zhu Di was very cautious when searching for the Tatar headquarters, he did not directly hand over tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to his old brothers, but asked them to lead 1,000 people to serve as Tang cavalry to search for Arutai's soldiers and horses on the periphery of Kuoluan Haizi.

"Time is running out, it's okay to send a message to Your Majesty for help, but we must act now!"

Qiu Fu was not so arrogant that he thought that he could still eat the opponent's reinforcements even if a thousand people ate the other party's thousand.

However, in his opinion, before His Majesty led the reinforcements to arrive, he would definitely be able to eat the thousand people on the opposite side first and win the first merit of the whole army.

"But ......"

Qianhu Guan wanted to say more, but Qiu Fu glared at him: "What? Do you think I won't fight? ”

"That's not what the last will mean!" Hearing this, Qianhu Guan hurriedly explained, Qiu Fu was not careful, but just pointed forward with a horsewhip:

"You will now personally take ten people to deliver the news, and the rest of the people will follow me to flank this Hu cavalry...... Drive! ”

Qiu Fu said that he took the lead and set off, and the dozens of family members he brought also followed suit.

The rest of the cavalry looked at each other and glanced at their own Qianhu officials.

"Look at what I'm doing, keep up!"

Qianhu Guan saw that he couldn't stop him, so he could only let the army follow Qiu Fu, and he himself took a few soldiers around him to act as a messenger to convey the news of the discovery of Hu Qi to the rear......

(End of chapter)