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The situation is turbulent and party disputes continue. Compared with the instability within the pass, the land in the north of the Great Wall is filled with a chilling atmosphere.

In spring, the grass is fertile and the water is beautiful. Cattle and sheep herds chew grass and drink water by the river. Not far away is the temporary residence of hundreds of sentries.

Wearing thick fur sweaters, they were extremely bulky and sat on low stools in the camp. Some were blowing tribal whistles, while others were singing loudly.

It seems that they are no different from ordinary herdsmen.

Herds are their food source, but due to their status, they cannot slaughter cattle and sheep at will, but can only eat the dairy products of cattle and sheep to fill their stomachs.

The portion of this dairy product is not large. Due to the cutoff of mutual trade, the entire Horqin tribe can only eat some porridge or mud food mixed with sorghum (sorghum) and dairy products.

The food doesn't taste great, but at least it fills my stomach.

For these sentries, this kind of food is a very common meal in their daily lives. They can only eat meat in large quantities after winning a battle or on the last day of every month.

A good meal is a rare thing for this sentry stationed on the edge of the Harawen Mountains.

They did not know that the Ming army had defeated Chahar, so their defense was very lax.

Despite Huang Taiji's reminder, since the Horqin tribe was in the form of an alliance after all, the tribes did not quite believe that the Ming army could continue to detour north to attack them after defeating Lin Dan Khan.

They even did not believe that the Ming army would cross the Halawen Mountains to launch an attack, because in their opinion, the Halawen Mountains were too high and densely forested to be crossed.

Therefore, they placed most of their forces on the southeastern foothills of the Halawen Mountains instead of on the eastern foothills.

This also resulted in an empty defense at the eastern foot of the mountain. While the group of sentry riders were still singing in the camp, along with a row of trees falling down, a dusty post road in the Halawen Mountains was reopened.

Similarly, it was not just the post roads that were opened, but also all the obstacles in front of the Ming army...

"Finally got it through!"

"Fortunately, this post road was made using the fried soil method back then, so there were no trees on the road, otherwise it might not have been so easy to connect."

When a row of trees fell down and the Ming soldiers began to dig out the roots, Sun Shoufa and Man Gui also laughed and chatted with each other.

Behind them, Zhu Youjian was observing the map, and then said:

"According to the information given to us by the Haraqin tribes, as well as the information given to us by some tribes within Horqin, the people stationed at the eastern foot are basically people from those small tribes."

"We have to ask them to move their troops and horses away first, and then report the location of Oba's camp. We will make a direct raid at night."

After closing the map, Zhu Youjian looked at the Jin Yiwei Qianhu behind him, and the other party also bowed:

"Don't worry, Your Highness, there is enough time."

Having said that, he turned around and asked people to prepare to send homing pigeons to contact the many small tribes in Horqin who had long been secretly exchanging information with the Ming army.

Compared with Jianlu, who treated the Han people as slaves, even craftsmen had to work five or six hours a day, and were very accommodating, the Mongols did not have strong control over the Han people.

There are many Han people in Horqin tribes who have fled north. As long as they have skills, their status in the tribe will not be lower than that of ordinary Mongols.

Although Li Ruolian's Beizhen Fusi could not use the Han people to invade Jianlu and obtain their intelligence.

But it is easy to use the Han people to invade Horqin and win over some small tribes.

This battle has not yet started, but there are already many moles belonging to the Ming army within Horqin.

"As soon as the Horqin cavalry at the eastern foot retreats, we will immediately raid Oba's camp."

"Killing Oba will leave Horqin without a leader. Our army will take the opportunity to control Horqin and move them south to Daning Mansion. It will be enough."

Zhu Youjian wanted to take the path of moving the northern barbarians inward and the Han people moving out. Of course, this path did not mean moving the Mongols into the pass, but moving them closer to the places where the Han people lived.

Throughout the ages, the reason why dynasties that did this failed was because of insufficient population, and the Ming Dynasty happened to have too many people.

The total number of Mongolians in Monan, Mobei, and Mongolia is only 700-800,000. Counting the Mongols in Central Asia, the number of Mongols in Central Asia is less than 2 million at most.

Move part of them inward and move part of the Han people out, enough to dilute them with enough numbers. Zhu Yuanzhang also used this method in the early Ming Dynasty, and it was very effective.

What's more, for many Mongolian nobles, who would be willing to eat grass and blow sand on the grassland as long as Zhu Youjian can give them the rank of Lord Wu?

"The army is stationed on the mountain road, using bushes as cover to prevent passing herdsmen from seeing it."

Zhu Youjian commanded the army and began to deploy, which brought him back to the time when he was the leading soldier.

Under his arrangement, after clearing the tree roots, the Ming army began to collect bushes to block the cleared post road.

Looking back, only about one-half of the post road built by Zhu Di was cleaned up by Zhu Youjian and others.

"In the future, to manage Nuergan land, it will be necessary to overhaul the post roads..."

Looking at the cleared post road behind him, Zhu Youjian nodded secretly, and then began to rest with the army, waiting for internal responses from Horqin's many small tribes.

If they can successfully respond internally, then the Ming army can abandon the two hundred five-pound cannons in the army and attack the Oba camp with light equipment.

However, we still have to wait for the specific news...

At this moment, Zhu Youjian was sitting on a tree stump. He didn't know what was happening in the south. All he had to do was win this battle and further reduce Jianlu's living range.

After this battle is over, the next battle in the north will be able to clean up the captives...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian looked up at the blue sky and snow-white clouds.

Not long after, the homing pigeons were released. They fluttered their wings and flew into the sky. Dozens of them flew towards the east, passing over the grasslands and hills. Finally, only a few flew into an earthen city standing on the banks of the Tar River (Nen River).

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The homing pigeons flew into a wooden house. There were more than a hundred pigeon cages in the wooden house, and hundreds of homing pigeons were resting and dozing in the cages.

After the homing pigeon landed, he skillfully found water and food by himself until the door of the wooden house was opened half an hour later.

"squeak……"

The creaking door was pushed open, and a thin herdsman wearing Mongolian clothing and disheveled hair walked into the wooden house. After closing the wooden door, he saw the homing pigeons foraging for food in the food box.

Seeing this, he quickly stepped forward to grab the pigeon and pulled out the letter from the pigeon's leg. Hundreds of words were densely written on the thumb-sized letter paper (you can read the ancient imperial examination cheat sheet).

It was difficult to see clearly what was written on the letter with just the human eye, so the man walked to a nearby table, turned it over and found a single lens similar to a magnifying glass, and pointed it at the content on the letter.

[The warships are ready, just waiting for the east wind. In the land of Shan Yu, the wolf is sealed in Xu, there is no...]

The densely packed small characters, if written with normal small regular script pen, it would be impossible to write so many words.

To write such a small calligraphy, you can only write with a special pen made of two or three rat whiskers. If it is written by a person with excellent eyesight, such a thumb-sized piece of paper is enough to write thousands of words...

"The wait is finally here..."

When hundreds of words were read clearly by this person, what came out of his mouth was undoubtedly Ming Dynasty Mandarin. After reading the letter, he immediately folded it and ate it.

After chewing and swallowing, he immediately walked out of the wooden house. After locking the wooden house, he glanced at the simple wooden houses around him and walked towards the wooden house in the center of the Tucheng.

Compared with ordinary wooden houses, this wooden house can also be said to be a small courtyard, and its door is guarded by two teams of Mongolians wearing simple chainmails.

When this Han man who spoke Ming Dynasty Mandarin tried to walk into the courtyard, the two groups of Mongolians not only did not stop him, but also gave him a chest-hugging salute.

He hurriedly walked into the courtyard and crossed the courtyard. When he came to the meeting hall, a Mongolian man as old as fifty years old was sitting on a tiger leather chair and was reading the Ming Dynasty's "Three Words and Two Pai" in his hand.

"Omubutaiji, your wealth has come."

"Huh?" Seeing the Han man walking in and saying this with his arms crossed, Omubu immediately stood up and said, "What do you mean?"

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi has led his troops to the eastern foot of the Halawen Mountains. Now we only need Taiji to be able to withdraw the sentries and the tribes below from the eastern foot, and I will lead the way and lead the troops to the city of Gelezhurgen. It will be easy.

To win Obama."

"At that time, according to the example of Hetao, you will at least be an uncle of the Ming Dynasty!"

"They really crossed the Halawen Mountains?" Omubu couldn't believe it. After all, the Halawen Mountains are all primeval forests. Leading an army across more than 400 miles of primeval forests was not what he knew he could do.

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However, if the Ming army really did it, then he could firmly surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

"Already arrived." The Han man crossed his chest and saluted, but Omubu hesitated for a moment after hearing this, and then said:

"I can have people evacuate for one night. If His Highness King Qi can lead the troops to attack the city of Geljurgen within one night, then I will help His Highness King Qi resist the rebellion from the south."

"Taiji, your decision is extremely wise. I believe that you will become an uncle of the Ming Dynasty soon."

The Han people heard the sound and saluted, and then said: "I will take people to search for the traces of His Highness King Qi personally. Please give me your military orders, Taiji."

"Take it." Emubu, who wanted to speculate, immediately took off an iron seal from his waist. This was the official seal awarded to the Horqin tribes by the Ming Dynasty. Omubu also had one.

Normally, this seal represents his personal arrival at the front line, and giving this seal to the person in front of him naturally represents the authority to mobilize troops.

After getting the seal, the Han man immediately turned around and left. After getting a horse from the stable, he rushed out of the Tucheng with two Mongolians and ran towards the west.

Along the way, he kept using Omu cloth seals to exchange horses with various ministries. Before dark, he ran for more than 200 miles, holding a torch, carrying a load of rattling arrows on his back, and starting to surround Harawen with this crossbow.

The mountains shoot out a loud arrow every three miles.

The two Mongolians behind him also knew that he was a royal guard of the Ming Dynasty, and they did not think there was anything strange about helping the Ming Dynasty to deal with Horqin.

In this era before the rise of national ideological trends, they did not care whether they were ruled by Han Chinese or Mongolians.

If they weren't afraid of being beheaded by the Ming army if they went south, many Mongolians would even take the initiative to flee south.

Throughout the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there were many examples of Han people fleeing north and Mongols fleeing south.

The difference is that most Mongolians need guides and introducers when fleeing south, while Han people who flee north and are blacksmiths or carpenters will basically be given preferential treatment.

Now that their Urad tribe has the opportunity to submit to the Ming Dynasty, who is still willing to eat sand on the grassland?
To be continued...