From the late Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty to the Longqing period, under the leadership of Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others, the Ming Dynasty began to take offensives against the Hetao area, that is, to change passive defense to actively go out of the frontier, and use military means such as rushing horses, collecting tents, burning wasteland, and rushing nests to counterattack the Mongols. This method was also called "searching" during the Chenghua period.

Although the Ming army suffered heavy casualties during the search process, it caused greater losses to Altan Khan's troops, which occupied the Hetao area, and gradually fell into a passive position.

In the fifth year of Longqing, the Ming Dynasty appointed Altan Khan as King Shunyi, and his wife, the third wife, was Mrs. Zhongshun. The two sides traded each other, and the Hetao area remained stable.

After the death of the third lady in the 41st year of Wanli, Ordos, Tumote and other tribes, which were originally controlled by King Shunyi, had no heads. They began to do their own things and repeatedly violated the borders of the Ming Dynasty. However, because Mongolia itself was already weak, this offense posed no substantial threat to the Ming Dynasty.

The rise of the Later Jin Dynasty made the competition between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia in the Hetao region no longer a strategic focus. With the rise of Lin Dankhan and the attack on the Mongolian tribes by the Later Jin army, the Ordos tribes and Tumote tribes that originally occupied the Hetao region began to decline.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, the chief of the Later Jin Dynasty, Hong Tai, personally led an army to expedition to Hetao. Lin Dankhan, the Mongolian leader of Hetao, was defeated and left Qinghai. The Later Jin army then occupied all the Mongolian areas in the south of the desert, including the Hetao area, and its territory also extended from Liaodong to Jiayuguan, forming a thorough border defense advantage over the Ming Dynasty. It no longer had to be limited to Shanhaiguan or the Great Wall Pass near Beijing, and could break into any place along the Great Wall at any time and anywhere, so that the Ming Dynasty could not defend much.

In order to uniformly manage the Mongols, Hong Tai designated Mongolia in the south of the desert as "inner Mongolia", and the rest of the Mongolian tribes as "outer vassal Mongolia".

All the inner Mongolian capitals were organized into banners, with Meilezhangjing or the general manager as the banner leader, and like the Eight Banners Mongolia, there were also officials such as the Eight Banners and Mongolia.

During the Chongzhen period of the former Ming Dynasty, the Qing army entered the pass five times, and the Mongolian soldiers who entered the pass were about 20,000. Because these Mongolian soldiers were extremely poor in equipment and were even poorer than the Eight Manchu and Mongolian Banners, they entered the pass and killed and robbed were the most brutal. Like the Eight Korean Banners soldiers who invaded the Qing army, they were called the Second Tartars by the Han people in the pass.

The Mongolian tribes that had descended from Jin in Hetao area were not classified as Mongolia by the Qing court, but were designated as Mongolians in the outer vassals, and these Mongolian tribes were managed in the form of Zhazak.

This Zazak is roughly the same title as Manchuria, namely Khan, Prince, Prince, Beile, and Beizi, were all canonized by the Qing court and controlled by the Qing court's vassal court, local ministers or counselors.

Tashhai, the former chief general of Lin Dankhan's wings under the Hetao region, and Hulukzhaisang, were awarded the title of the Hereditary Prince of Zazak after surrendered to the Later Jin Dynasty.

As early as when Dashun conquered Beijing, the governor Lu Wenzong set three directions for the future Dashun war, namely the Southern Ming, the Western Zhang, and the Northern Meng.

Before Zhang Xianzhong defeated the alliance and attacked Shun, Lu Wenzong intended to marry his father Lu Youwen through Zhezhe, and then he would marry the Mongolian tribes in the south of the Moon, especially the most powerful Korqin tribe, so as to work together to restrain the Mongolian tribes in the north of Moon, and prevent Moon from annexing the tribes in the south of the Moon when the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, becoming Dashun's new powerful enemy in the north.

This method is feasible, but it is to turn the former Manchu-Mongolian marriage into a Han-Mongolian marriage. For Zhezhe, their aunt and nephew, they did not lose anything.

If you want to say sacrifice, it is also sacrifice of the body of the father and son of the Dashun Jianguo. It is the father and son of the Lu family who suffer the loss rather than their Borjigit.

When making this decision, Lu Si felt wronged, but when he thought that this was for the future of Dashun, there was nothing wrong with it.

The former governor of Zunhua of the Qing Dynasty, Song Quan, was sent to the southern tribes of the Moon, which was a political extension of this "curve marriage". Gao Jie was appointed as the governor of Liaodong and the Seventh Army entered Liaodong, which was a military assistance for the "curve marriage".

As long as the tribes in the south of the desert are mainly favored by Dashun, the Seventh Army of Liaodong can help the Mongolians in the south of the desert to resist the northern part of the desert. In this way, the northern part of the desert will not be able to annex the southern part of the desert in the short term. After Dashun unifies the south, with the support of the whole country's money, food, elite troops in a hundred battles, and advanced weapons, such great martial arts as Fenglangjuxu and Yuma Hanhai will reappear in the east.

Zhang Xianzhong's backbone allowed Lu Si to slow down the west, the strategic concept of short-drawn north, and the real-drawn south went bankrupt, and he had to do his best to solve the Western Army first, which also restricted all aspects of the actions of the Mongolian tribes in the south of the desert.

This restraint is mainly due to the restraint of money and food.

The Seventh Army, which was originally scheduled to send some troops to advance westward a few years ago, stabilized the southern Mongolian army through political and military means. Now the Seventh Army is unable to send troops to the southern part of the desert because of lack of food and grass.

In order to alleviate the food and people in Liaodong, Liaodong Governor Gao Jie took the old path of Li Huajing extorting North Korea, and continued to increase troops to the Yalu River in Yizhou. He also asked the navy to block the mouth of the Yalu River and acted as if Dashun would enter North Korea.

This move shocked and angry Seoul. Many close and submissive factions also denounced the Yanjing's betrayal and only knew how to pursue the previous North Korean forced to assist Man, and ignored the North Korean troops to help Shun destroy the Qing Dynasty.

In Beijing, the left assistant Gu Junen was dissatisfied with Gao Jie's intention to initiate border quarrels without authorization. The six governments and the Privy Council also believed that Dashun could not use troops against North Korea, and should still impose the old rules of the Ming Dynasty. The Censorate impeached Gao Jie as a vassal.

In this regard, Lu Si stayed at the end of the Communist Party of China and refused to send any news.

There is a sentence in the letter to my nephew Li Yanzong: "What is Seoul?"

Lu Si didn't care whether Gao Jie really wanted to use troops to North Korea or extort. He asked Gao Jie to take charge of the overall situation in Liaodong, but it was really going to rain and his mother wanted to get married, so he followed Gao Jie to do it.

Don't pretend if the sky falls, find a tall person to support it. But having no money or food is fatal. Benevolence and righteousness cannot be exchanged for money and food. Although the North Korean country changed its camp again when the Qing Dynasty was weak and sent troops to help the war, this move was incomparable to the contributions made by North Korea for the Qing Dynasty.

It is absolutely possible to teach appropriate lessons, and it is not impossible to take the opportunity to destroy the country.

After two strikes by the Later Jin Dynasty, North Korea's strength was not as strong as the current remnant Sun of the Western Army and the Li Group. It was a completely pedantic view that he regarded North Korea as a country that was not conquered by his past views.

Lu Si doesn't like the saying that the world is the king's land, but he is very popular with the saying that the East is China.

This matter will be done by Gao Jie. North Korea can tighten its belt and pay for money, grain and troops to help Manchuria. Why can't it help Dashun?

Could it be that Dashun's sword is not sharper than his Manchu?

Liaodong is now unable to interfere with the Mongolian "civil war", and Lu Si can only start from the Western Front.

The first army in high-yield power sent troops to Hetao not only completely blocked Sun Kewang, but also Li Ding's escape abroad, but also demonstrated from the western front that Dashun had the ability to interfere with the "civil war" between the Mongolian tribes in northern and southern Mo.

In order to pacify and recover the Hetao area as soon as possible, Lu Si ordered Gao Yigong: "First, during the advance, only the resisting enemy troops will be killed, and those who surrender will not be killed. Secondly, do not disperse the families of the Mongolian tribes, and do not rape silver women. If any innocent people kill or rape silver women indiscriminately, they will be executed."

This is a policy to treat Mongolian tribes in the Hetao region as Dashun people.

However, he also ordered that wherever the First Army went, whether it was a prisoner or a surrendered Mongolian tribe, they would change their Manchu clothes to Chinese clothes. If they still followed the Manchu hair shaving order or restored their past Mongolian clothes, they would follow the Mongolian method to handle the wheel.

The change of Manchu clothing to Chinese clothing is not at odds with the Mongolian tribes in the Hetao area, because they abandoned the Mongolian clothing and clothing in the past to follow the Manchus' orders to shave their hair and wear braids, which was also very pleasant.

According to the news from the Hetao Land Military Information Department, the two largest forces in the Hetao region, Tashhai and Hulukezhaisang, each of them is about 10,000 people, and the remaining tribes scattered in various places have dozens of large and small tribes, with a total population of no more than 100,000.

Lu Zhiqi, the Secretary of the Military Government, believed that this 100,000 was impossible, and all the Mongolians in the entire Hetao area would not exceed 40,000.

According to the reason, when Hong Tai led his army to pursue Lin Dankhan, he surrendered more than 60,000 of his troops. Later, when Lin Dankhan's son Ezhe led the remaining troops to surrender to Hong Tai, there were only more than 10,000 subordinates following him. However, when Altan Khan was at its peak in the Jiajing period of the Hetao area, there were only more than 100,000 subordinates.

Therefore, Lu Zhiqi gave an estimate of 40,000 people.

These 40,000 people are only the total number of Mongolians in Hetao area. The Mongols who can fight in a single figure may be less than a few thousand. In addition, the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin attacked Mongolia many times. The Mongols in Hetao area were almost poor and even had to use a few iron pots together. Therefore, during the Chongzhen period, they were the most active in entering the pass and robbing, but even so, they were just drinking some leftover soup given by the Manchus. After all, the Manchus were more ruthless than the Han people to defend against these foreign vassals, and it was impossible to restore their armed forces and strength.

The first army that the Shun Army entered Hetao was adapted from more than 20,000 elite troops from the Dashun West Route Army. Whether it was the ninth town where the military commander Gao Yigong and the town commander, or the tenth town raised by the fierce general Lin, after obtaining sufficient weapons and equipment, they were all elite troops who could fight against Manchuria.

Needless to say, Gao Yigong's prestige and qualifications as Li Zicheng's brother-in-law Yu Shunjun, Lin Yangcheng can also be regarded as a rebellious senior who was still alive in the Dashun Dynasty.

This man was with Ma Shouying the old Hui, and Ge Li was in love with He Yilong, He Jin, the king of Zuo Jin, and Liu Xiyao, the king of the battle for the world, were all "kings of troubled times". The famous Five Camp of Ge Zuo was under the leadership of these five people.

Now Ma Shouying, He Yilong and Liu Xiyao are dead, and He Jin died in northwest Ganzhou. Only Lin Yangcheng is left in the fifth camp. Whether it is the rebellion or the leadership experience, he is a rare veteran in Dashun.

Therefore, Gao Yigong and Lin Yangcheng led the army into Hetao, and Lu Si was relieved to be ten thousand.

However, the Hetao area is too wide and the Mongolian tribes are too scattered. It is obviously inappropriate for pure infantry to fight here. When the First Army was established, there were only more than a thousand war horses and more than 4,000 livestock. Therefore, in order to strengthen the first army's mobile combat capabilities, Lu Si transferred more than 3,000 war horses transferred from Yuan Zongdi's regiment through Henan, and more than 2,000 cavalry left by Liu Tichun's troops of the Second Army to Gao Yigong, greatly enhancing the cavalry combat capabilities of the First Army.

After Gao Yigong, Lin Yangcheng led his troops to leave the Great Wall from Zhenjing Fort, he went straight to Tashhai tribe, who was named the prince by the Qing court, under the guidance of local guides.

According to detailed investigations, the Tashhai tribe was stationed in Baichengzi, less than 200 miles north of Zhenjing Fort. There is a big river called Hongliu. The land along the river is fertile and the grass is lush. It was once the place of Altan Khan's house. It was once the Ming Dynasty. It was once the Tainingwei.

Baichengzi was also called Xiazhou in the Song Dynasty, and the Dangxiang people established the foundation of the Western Xia Dynasty. To the west is Tongwancheng during the Five Barbarians period.

Tashhai was the left-wing chief general who was originally valued by Lin Danhan. His rebellion with the right-wing chief general general general general general general manager Huluke Zhaisang directly led to Lin Danhan being expelled from Hetao, rushing far away to Qinghai and eventually died there. Therefore, both of them were appreciated by the chief of the Later Jin Dynasty, Hong Tai, who handed over the Hetao area to the jurisdiction of the two of them.

After Gao Yigong discussed with Lin Yangcheng, he believed that the military rations they carried were limited and they had to eat locally after entering Hetao, that is, they had to obtain cattle and sheep through attacks on Mongolian tribes. Therefore, they had to first attack the Mongolian lairs, and in the end the two targeted the attacks at Baichengzi.

Gao Yigong did not divide his troops, but instead took the initiative to attack Huanglong. After leaving the Great Wall, he rushed directly to Baicheng under the leadership of the locals. Two camps were built along the way, and some left-behind soldiers were stationed. One was to facilitate contact with the Great Wall, and the other was to block key nodes to prevent the Mongols from escaping.

At this time, Bai Chengzi knew nothing about the Shun Army's outbound army, because the Mongolian leaders in Bai Chengzi had just learned about the news of the annihilation of Manchuria, and the news was only known by the Balin tribe of Mongolia in southern Mongolia who sent people to inform him.

Bahrain intends to win over Tashhai to fight against the Tengjisi brothers of the Sunit tribe, but Tashhai, who is nearly 60 years old, does not want to be an enemy of Mobei, because Chechen Khan Shuolei, one of the three Mobei tribes, sent someone to give him a big gift, because the reason was that he hoped that the Ordos tribe would not help the Mobei tribes.

The reason why the Teng Jisi brothers of the Sunit tribe of Korqin betrayed the Qing Dynasty was also the result of Shuolei's inducement. In August this year, in order to make the Teng Jisi brothers defeat the tribes in the south of the desert, Shuolei directly sent 30,000 troops to help the Teng Jisi brothers.

Knowing that Tashhai, who was weak, did not want to lose strength in the war between the three Khans in the north and the tribes in the south of the mourn, he adopted a wait-and-see approach. At the same time, the demise of Manchuria also made Tashhai's eyes that had not been south for more than ten years again land on the front line of the Great Wall. The prince enthroned by Manchuria was worried that the Han people in the Great Wall would regain their traps and regain after defeating the Manchuria.

The news sent back carefully made the prince relax. It turned out that the Han army that destroyed the Manchus faced more enemies, and no matter which enemy was, it was far more powerful than his Ordos tribe, especially the Han army was fighting another powerful Han army in Shaanxi, so it was impossible for them to free up their hands to send troops out of the frontier.

However, Tashhai, who was old and had no intention of fighting, was awakened in his sleep.

Late at night, a loud horn sound suddenly came from the grassland outside Baichengzi.

The Mongolians in the tent ran out of the tent in horror and confusion, and then they were shocked.
Chapter completed!