stubborn thief

At the foot of Muna Mountain in northern Ordos.

The leader of the Harashen Tribe, Gulusi Qibu, stood on the bank, looking across the Yellow River at the Ordos Plateau on the south bank.

This was the fifth day of their march from Jining. Gulusi Qibu took the lead in the march. At a speed of two hundred miles a day, he was the first to lead his army around the Yinshan Mountains and arrived north of Ordos.

It's not that Grusqibu mastered any black technology of rapid marching.

It's true that he was a bit miserable. It is not an exaggeration to say that Harashen is also the most powerful tribe in Monan. Even pushing forward two years, it is said that it is the most powerful tribe in Monan after Lin Danhanxi left.

In fact, until a month ago, Gulu Siqibu, the leader of the Harashen tribe, was still the uncrowned king of Monan.

But the world is changing too fast. He just brought his direct cavalry to Horqin to meet Dorgon. When he came back, the tribe was robbed by large-scale horse bandits from the Monan Governor's Mansion, which directly caused the tribe... It can't be said that it is powerful. If it falls, your life is hanging by a thread.

Originally, Gulu Siqibu planned to mobilize 2,800 troops, 3,000 horses, and 5,000 livestock for this expedition. This strength ensured that even if the army was defeated and the entire army was annihilated, Harashen's troops would not be injured. Muscles move bones.

On the other hand, if they win, their army can also paddle through the water, smoothly drive the herds in circles, and eat their neighbors' grass.

After all, Gulu Siqibu is a Mongolian, with the blood of Uliangha flowing in his body. Although he is loyal to Huang Taiji, he will not use his tribe to turn into flesh and bones to smear the throne for Hou Jin.

As a result, after being raided, his attitude changed drastically. In an almost militaristic manner, he recruited all the people in the tribe who could fight on horseback, and gathered... 800 riders.

There was no way, with this small power, there was no way for Harashen to keep his pasture land after Hou Jin retired. He could only stake all his wealth and fight with Hou Jin to make up for the losses as much as possible.

It's just that for these 800 cavalry, Gulusi Qibu couldn't even get decent rations. The people only brought some dry food with them, no logistics or supplies.

So on the first day after receiving the marching order, he led his troops to run forward desperately, just to catch some rabbits before the large group of troops arrived.

High-intensity marching naturally has its price. All men and horses lose weight, but they have no room for choice. After all, walking fast can not only get the right to take the lead in hunting on the north bank of the Yellow River, but also avoid being noticed later. Marshal Monan's army intercepted.

Gu Lusi Qibu didn't think that Yang Qi was a fool who could be deceived by Dorgon's letter of war for eight days.

Therefore, he would rather bear all the risks of a rapid march than be intercepted by Yang Qi's eagle and dog minions.

After all, if they were intercepted... they would fucking destroy the country.

Jianzhou, Horqin, Harashen and even the previous Tumut were all considered as tribes by the Ming court, and they all regarded each other as kingdoms, and they were all allies in the documents.

If the last eight hundred elites of Harashen's tribe were lost in this war, then Harashen's Ulyanha dynasty would naturally die.

The fact was indeed as he expected, Yang Qi's reaction was very quick.

The day after Gulu Siqibu arrived at the north bank of the Yellow River, the Harashen cavalry were happily hunting rabbits and carp in the river on the north bank, when they received reinforcements from the northeast.

The leader of the reinforcements was named Luo Li, whose surname was Horqin. He had been Lin Dan Khan's bodyguard before. When Chahar was defeated, he stole the golden Buddha statue cast in the early Yuan Dynasty. Together with the four brothers, they led more than 200 people to surrender to Houjinhuang Taiji.

In order to show the effectiveness of buying horse bones with a thousand gold, Luoli was awarded the high-ranking official hereditary first-class general of Zhenghuang Banner beyond the standard.

His elder brother Shaji, his younger brother Uban, and Shalidai were all awarded the title of guerrilla general. At one time, there were four named generals in one department without actual awards.

But now it seems that Huang Taiji’s horse bone effect is obviously not good.

After Luoli, the Mongolians who defected to Houjin only had two or three kittens, and there were no people who could take action at all.

In the final analysis, Luo Li defected to Houjin not because the Northern Yuan Dynasty was destroyed and he had nowhere to go as an old man; but because he was a noble from Horqin and did not want to go west to Qinghai with the Khan.

At this time, the real elders of Beiyuan were all with Liu Chengzong, and many of them even followed Guitu Taiji back.

But to be honest, Liu Shizi's attraction to the Beiyuan nobles was not so great that they rushed to attach themselves to him.

But for those nobles of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Liu Chengzong's Khan Court was the Khan Court they were most willing to join after settling for the next best thing.

After all, compared with the Khan Court of Duntaurus and the Khan Court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the only difference was that there was a new Khan.

Not to mention symbolic things like the Nine White Papers, the four chief ministers of the Khan Court are still the four chief ministers, and the nobles are still the same nobles.

The most outrageous thing is that among the eight empresses, the emperor's younger brother Tututaiji and the prince Ezhe still stay in their original positions.

It can be said to be the environment that the nobles of Beiyuan are most familiar with.

Especially the Beiyuan dynasty was very friendly to the Mongolian nobles. The most loyal thing about this large group was that Lin Dan, Hu Duntu and others were sitting on the Khan throne.

Now that the Great Khan has been taken away from him, although the famous Khan does not sound so majestic and smart, to the nobles, the unsmart Great Khan is the best Khan, right?

The bad thing about Lin Dan is that he thinks he is too smart.

If they are not even willing to defect to Liu Chengzong's court, there will be no place in the world that they are willing to go. Those who have not defected will lead their troops into the barren land and take the initiative to stay away from the ownership disputes in Monan.

For Gulu Siqibu, Luo Li's appearance here is a very strange thing in itself.

Because when he left Jining, the Horqin army to which Luoli belonged was in charge of the rear.

Moreover, Gulu Siqibu also knew that in the earlier battle of Jining, Luo Li did not receive any benefits from the rear mission.

He bumped into a group of Chahar elders led by Qututaiji.

There is a saying that as the Chahar heroes who followed Lin Dan Khan from Zhangjiakou and moved five thousand miles westward in three directions, they had limited military strength, but they had strong physical fitness, mobile will, survival ability, cultural education and combat skills, and their combat effectiveness could be described as The best in Monan.

The biggest problem with this group of people is that they are very weak mentally.

When fighting against the Ming army, they were timid before fighting; after fighting against the Jin army, half of them raised the white flag.

When the Great Khan was alive, he faced Oirat, a Mongolian barbarian with evil intentions, and was defeated in a maneuver; when the Great Khan died, he faced Liu Chengzong, a Han barbarian with malicious intentions. He who knows the current affairs directly is a hero.

Only against the Mongolian Mud Legs, this group of people had a psychological advantage similar to the landlords' regiment training to suppress the peasant army.

At this point, almost all the Mongolian armies under the Beiyuan framework were all mud-legged coalition forces to them.

After all, only two or three people in other people's thousands-strong army may have surnames; and as an important part of the Khan's court, they are all nobles.

When Zhututaiji's soldiers saw Luoli's men on the battlefield, they all had high fighting spirit and directly penetrated their troops, and even almost stabbed them into Dorgon's main formation. Ruitu Taiji's guess in Guihua City was correct. What he saw at that time was the main force of the Hou Jin Army. However, they were almost surrounded later, which was not Dorgon's original intention.

It's just that the place in Jining at that time was Dorgon's military camp. The Jin army was accustomed to adjusting its deployment in field battles. Therefore, when they were fighting, Dorgon temporarily adjusted their deployment and deployed reinforcements to quickly encircle it.

But the old man Chahar saw the Eight Banners Army's characteristics of running away and saved Qututaiji.

In a sense, existence can be considered a success.

After all, when the Eight Banners Army, accustomed to hunting, completed the encirclement with superior strength, not many people in the world could escape.

In terms of running away, Gututai Jineng and Wu Xiang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong in prison, were tied for first place in the world.

On the other hand, Luo Li's situation was not so good. Gulusi Qibu originally thought that this person would die in the rear mission, but he didn't expect that he, a rear guard, would actually run second behind the vanguard.

Luo Li's head was wrapped in a bandage, covering half of his face. His clothes still smelled of blood, but he looked pretty good.

At least he was in a good mood. He came all the way with hundreds of cavalrymen. When he saw Gulu Siqibu, he saluted from a distance, and then he opened his arms and hugged him.

I was dumbfounded by Gulu Siqibu, thinking when did I have such a good relationship with this guy?

Bu Jie Gui Bu Jie, he would not doubt Luo Li's goodwill. After all, at this time, his Harashen had just experienced a disastrous defeat. As one of Hou Jin's allies in the Monan Grassland, it was too difficult to see a picture at this time. Friendly face.

"You almost never saw me again."

Luo Li's hug hurt the arrow wound, and he bared his teeth for a long time. Then he raised his finger toward the northeast and said: "The Ming army, no, that Liu Manzi's soldiers responded very quickly. From Wuchuan to the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, they sent troops everywhere to invite attacks. People behind will be dragged and entangled, and they will be in big trouble."

Only then did Gu Lusi Qibu realize that no wonder Luo Li was in such a good mood.

His soldiers were originally in charge of the rear, but they were defeated in a battle with Quututaiji, and he himself was wounded, so he was replaced by someone else.

Otherwise, with his battle-scarred body, it would be difficult for him to survive the pursuit.

This is like saving a life without realizing it.

As for the Liu Manzi mentioned by Luo Li, he was naturally Liu Chengzong.

It's just that this barbarian does not mean that Liu Chengzong is barbaric to the point of resorting to militarism, but the southern barbarian.

As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, when various countries fought for orthodoxy in the Central Plains, people from the north began to refer to the people from the south as barbarians.

By the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's group of Huaixi brothers obviously fit the definition of "Southern Barbarians" in the eyes of the Mongolians, and the Mongols also very much fit the definition of barbarians in the minds of the Ming Dynasty people.

Everyone has entered the childish age of calling each other barbarians across the Great Wall.

We are all barbarians, don’t dislike anyone.

The two exchanged a few words, and Luo Li took out a letter from the servant's arms, handed it to Gulu Siqibu, and said, "Jiubele's letter."

Gu Lusi spread out the letter and winked after a moment: "I only have 800 people, why should I divide my troops into two groups?"

Dorgon's order was written in Uighur-style Mongolian on the letter, telling his troops to divide into two groups, and send an advance group to cross the river first to explore the way, while Gulu Siqibu stayed on the north bank to supervise the construction of the sampan pontoon bridge to help the army cross the river.

Gulu Siqibu looked embarrassed. It stands to reason that the Harashen cavalry should get a short rest, and the supervision of the construction of the pontoon bridge would be the responsibility of Nenjiang Horqin Khan Badali, who was slightly behind.

After all, Badali has more soldiers, so even the bridge can be built more smoothly.

"We have no choice but to divide. Tumut's pawns are chasing Jiubele like wolves. We can't fight in the north. Yang Manzi has taken more than 10,000 households from the north to Ordos. There is no one in the north, so we can't even grab food." "

Luo Li said and looked at Gulu Siqibu: "Brothers can't help with this matter. The military order I got is to help you look to the east... No matter how thoughtful you are, the enemy this time is different. They’re all fucking crazy.”

Speaking of what he saw and heard along the way, Luo Li was no longer afraid, but endlessly afraid.

To the north of Yinshan Mountain and Langshan Mountain, what he saw was not just the desolate Gobi and grasslands of the southern desert.

Instead, between the Gobi Desert and the grasslands, along the seas and rivers, canals were built, and patches of farmland were reclaimed. There were signs of large groups of people living around those farmlands.

They dug wells and built a few underground shelters, as well as pasture fences and brickworks and kilns that were too late to be demolished.

Luo Li couldn't recognize what kind of crops were grown in the farmland. He was just subconsciously afraid of those farmlands.

Because when Lin Danhan was defeated and fled westward, he left the team on the eve of arriving in Ningxia and fled back to the east to join Houjin. This was the road he took at that time.

He remembered clearly that the place was desolate at that time, full of rotten riverbanks left by the diversion of the Yellow River, but there were no canals or farmland.

Obviously these things were built and cultivated only after Liu Manzi's soldiers arrived - they had only been here for a year!

These changes are important, but not so important for the war. More importantly, these 'relics' express the flexible attitude of the Monan Governor's Office.

They put a lot of effort into cultivating farmland in the wilderness and building canals to irrigate the fields among the rivers, but they gave up all the efforts as soon as the war came, and all people and animals moved to other places.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty, they were unwilling to admit defeat and locked up officials, troops and people in a city.

However, their army did not leave Guihua City. Instead, they invited attacks everywhere at the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, delaying their advance with great enthusiasm.

This is not like Lin Dan Khan, who was so pessimistic that he did not engage in war yet, and simply walked away with the Khan court because he was not fully prepared.

The ruins of the canals and the crops growing well in the farmland, as well as the Monan army attacking on the North Yinshan Road, gave Luo Li a terrible suspicion for no reason, like a declaration, as if to say: You will eventually leave, And we are rooted here and will come back.

This conjecture gave him many bad associations with this battle.

For example, whether they can, under the leadership of Dorgon, grab enough food to return before they run out of food.

Or, when they return to Shenyang this year and come back next year, will a few more fortresses grow on this land where many crops have already grown?

This worry also infected Gulu Siqibu.

He frowned, holding the general's order firmly in his palm, and slowly shook his head and said: "If this is the case, I'm afraid this year will be the easiest year to attack Monan." (End of Chapter)