Before Genghis Khan launched the Western Expedition, he purged more than 20 thousand households with extremely cruel methods, and took nearly 70 thousand households hostage, including a large number of Naiman tribes, Klei tribe cavalry and a huge army of Wanggu people.
The troops went on long-distance expeditions. Therefore, the number of the remaining thousand households was small, their individual power was not strong, and the troops in their hands were even more limited.
If you are very familiar with the grassland people, you can find that among the thousands of households that can stay on the grassland, most of them Nayan himself served directly under Genghis Khan, and they generally have no ambitions. Many of his subordinates were also recruited by Genghis Khan during his campaigns in the north and south.
They were promoted one after another during the war.
Taking away the distant but powerful Qianhu, leaving behind the close but slightly weaker Qianhu, this involves Genghis Khan's method of unifying various ministries, and the cause and effect is very complicated.
But looking into the underlying reasons, there is one that cannot be bypassed.
That is, the process of Genghis Khan elevating the status of the Golden Family and turning loyalty to the Golden Family into an iron law of politics on the grasslands was interrupted, and the Mongol Uluth's control over the grasslands once again returned to the rule of the strong.
The thinking mode of many Mongolians has returned to more than ten years ago, to a tradition that has lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years. That is, everyone only cares about the force and wealth in front of them, and nothing else.
In this case, if Genghis Khan himself could not personally suppress the grassland, he would have to leave some weaker Qianhu to ensure the authority of Belgutai and Princess Alahaibeji.
In the past few years, because of this arrangement, the grassland has always maintained general stability. Relying on the advantage of the cavalry's long drive, at certain times, the Mongols gathered strength and could even collide with the Zhou garrison on the edge of the grassland. This kind of
The confrontation is only symbolic, but it is enough to boost the morale of each tribe.
However, the stability of the grasslands does not entirely depend on the grassland government itself.
In the past few years, along with the commercial advantages that have penetrated into the grasslands, there has also been the force of the Central Plains regime.
The true unfolding of this force only requires an appropriate opportunity!
No one on the grassland expected that Belgutai's move to seize the land would provide this opportunity.
This was obviously a small dispute within the Mongols, and it was obviously a common robberies among members of the Golden Family. It can even be said that Belgutai was extremely polite! He could have killed all the Han merchants present and ate them first.
They had a good meal, but because there was a large Jinshan defense envoy present, they stopped, and they politely negotiated terms with Han'er, hoping to continue the business!
How can a strong man on the grassland be so self-denying?
If Belgutai had not been the brother of the Great Khan, countless people would have scolded him for being embarrassed just because he was so polite to Zhao Xuan!
What else?
This matter was a trivial matter from beginning to end. Even if one or two people with a good background in the Central Plains disappeared, Belgutai and Yeliyasi, both of whom were from thousands of households, had issued a reward for their release.
Did you find it?
Not to mention whether you can find it or not, or whether you will live or die after you find it. For decades, there have been constant battles inside and outside the grassland, and blood has flowed into rivers. In some important places that have been fought over repeatedly, bones are piled up in layers under the grass! So!
There are so many people who died and disappeared, who has such treatment?
What else?
In the past few years, we have killed countless high-ranking officials from the Central Plains. The heads of the Jurchens are rolling under our swords. What will happen to you guys who are treated as slaves by the Jurchens? Can you still transfer them?
Will one hundred thousand cavalry come to the grassland to compete with us?
People's ideas are easily contradictory. On the one hand, many Mongolians know that the great Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains is powerful; on the other hand, they always feel that the Mongolian Uluths are a country of conquerors after all. The prairie warriors are facing the Han people in the Central Plains.
Even if you don't have the upper hand, you will never be passive.
So none of them cared about the reaction of the Central Plains court, or they had considered it, but they didn't think it was particularly dangerous.
After two thousand families offered huge rewards, at least seven or eight thousand families and a dozen scattered small tribes in the eastern part of the grassland were involved in this matter, and no less than five or six hundred teams of people were sent out to search.
The grassland was so vast that it was not easy to find people, so the groups of five or six hundred people were running here and there, becoming more and more loose, like a large number of hounds that had separated from the herd and were running wild.
Each of them was in a state of excitement, and what they were thinking about was the benefits offered by Qianhu. They thought that if they were lucky this time, they would be able to make a big fortune.
But at the same time that a large number of capable Mongolians left the tribe, the Zhou Dynasty responded.
A mere trivial matter in the eyes of the Mongols, it was like a gravel triggering a landslide, triggering strong actions from the Central Plains court. The newly rising Great Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains inherited the tradition of the Great Jin driving the Yi army in the past. Their first
This action was to mobilize six thousand Mongolian households who obeyed the Zhou Dynasty and invade the grassland!
Those Mongolian traitors didn’t know what they were thinking, but they kept saying that Belgutai Qianhu was provoking the Great Zhou and offending the majesty of the Great Zhou, so they had to cut off his head and present it to the emperor of the Great Zhou!
These traitors! These lost dogs!
Aren't they afraid of the wrath of the Immortal Heaven? Aren't they afraid that Genghis Khan will trample them into pieces when he comes back?
These people are crazy!
Belgutai cursed loudly.
Of course he wouldn't give up his head, this is too ridiculous.
As a powerful member of the Golden Family, he had enough power to mobilize many thousands of families to attack and intercept. Therefore, in order to search for the missing person, the cavalry teams that had been scattered across the vast grasslands were urgently recalled one by one.
The shepherds were armed one by one.
The irritable Nayans took out the most valuable benefits to reward their troops, sent Alkinchi to every important road, and set up blocking battlefields.
Fighting soon broke out.
And it broke out continuously. Each time, it happened between Mongols and Mongols. Because they knew each other thoroughly, the battle was particularly cruel.
The scattered cavalry were massacred.
The small isolated tribes were crushed.
The Mongol army that had temporarily gathered together was immediately violently attacked by its former companions.
The grassland east of Angjiluo became a battlefield. The most effective general in the Zhou army, the Mongolian Sukhbalu, was breathing in the special smell of the battlefield.
This is the smell of human and horse sweat, the smell of dust in the air, the smell of blood and the unique stench of corpses. People who are not familiar with it will cough or even feel sick when they smell it. But Sukhbalu feels that this smell is quite good.
Smells good.
This smell represents that I will always have a place to play in Dazhou.
His horse galloped forward at a fast pace. While he was urging the horse firmly, he occasionally glanced to the right, which was where the cavalry of the Huolarasi Division were assembled.
The Huoluolasi tribe is a separate division of the Hongji Lasi tribe.
At that time, Temuge, the leader of the Hongji tribe, supported Jamuka to become Gur Khan, but then he turned to Genghis Khan and succeeded in defeating Tuoli Khan. Genghis Khan said that he wanted to marry his daughter to Temuge, but he immediately attacked and killed him, leaving him
His father-in-law, Dexue Chan, became the new leader of Hongjira.
This move caused great instability among the people of the Hongjilash tribe. Naren Khan, the leader of the Kholoras tribe, continued to be hostile to Genghis Khan. It was not until ten years later that he was defeated by Hesar, who was sent by Genghis Khan to crusade.
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When Genghis Khan divided the Thousand Households into enfeoffments, he deliberately split the Huolarasi tribe into two far apart Thousand Households. What stood in front of Sukhbaru at this moment was only an additional allotment from one of the Thousand Households before the Western Expedition.
A dismantled part.
Even if the Mongols are naturally good at fighting, if they are divided step by step to this extent, it is difficult to ensure that every thousand households have complete combat effectiveness.
When the Mongols invaded the south, the cavalry tactics that seemed like raging waves could not be accomplished out of thin air by just a genius commander. The tactics required top-down layers of outstanding officers to execute them, and they needed to be constantly absorbed in battles.
The enemy's strengths and immediately properly integrate them into one's own.
But when Genghis Khan hurriedly launched the Western Expedition, in order to ensure the strength of the Western Expedition army, he mobilized elites from various ministries; in order to maintain the situation on the grasslands, he also divided the remaining ministries into too trivial ways.
This kind of transfer and division will inevitably affect the original tribal structure and the relationship between officers. Many tactical know-hows that were originally passed down orally among the Mongolian army are no longer spread.
This is not a problem for some Qianhu who are powerful in military force. But some Qianhu were already in a weak position of being conquered in the Mongolian tribal wars. This cut off their possibility of learning from other countries.
As for Qianhu, which is too small to raise a thousand cavalry in a hurry, it does not have enough resources to invest in equipment, training and tactics. Even if they have perfected their herding and hunting skills, they will only be able to do it in each area.
At the human level, it cannot meet the requirements of the military.
After Sukhbalu experienced the training of mid-level officers in the Zhou army, his vision had improved a lot. But at this moment, even if he abandoned everything he learned in the military academy and looked at it from the perspective of a Mongolian warrior, these Huolarasi cavalrymen
The tactics chosen were also wrong, and the timing of rushing out to intercept was even more stupid.
About three hundred cavalrymen from the Horolasi tribe gathered together, and the same number of cavalrymen came from the east one after another, trying to outflank them, but were directly blocked by the flanking troops arranged by Sukhbalu.
The battle on the flanks raged fiercely, and the sharp whistle of arrows piercing the air continued.
Few of the Kholoras people wore leather armor, let alone iron armor. When the arrows were flying, the number of them who were knocked off their horses was much higher than that of Sukhbalu's subordinates. They didn't last long, and they were defeated.
They gave up the outflanking and began to move away from the enemy.
The failure of the flanking attack made the main force that had completed the assembly feel nervous. Obviously, some people wanted to retreat and then go around to the west to join their companions, while others tried to attack the large cavalry where Sukhbaru was.
People had different ideas, so the horses crowded together and collided with each other.
Such a stupid situation would never have happened in the Mongolian army four or five years ago!