On the vast grassland, the wind is biting, the snow is falling, and it is another cold winter.
The little prince Dayan Khan wore a thick mink coat and rode a tall horse to inspect the camp where his headquarters was stationed. The goose-feather heavy snow soon accumulated a thick layer on his body.
But at this time, he no longer had the energy to pay attention to this little thing, because his face was very ugly.
The weather was too cold, the snow was too heavy, and too many cattle and sheep died. Although a large number of cattle and sheep died every winter, they had long been accustomed to this.
But the weather is really getting colder and colder, and it is snowing more and more. Cattle and sheep are dying in large tracts. There are too many dead, which means that many, many people will die together.
"It is better to die on the battlefield than to freeze to death."
Dayan Khan looked at the scene in front of him, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he quickly rode back to his golden tent.
In the huge golden tent, the charcoal fire is burning very brightly, it is very warm, and the cold wind from outside cannot blow in. There are delicious roasted whole sheep, as well as the horse milk tea that you will never get tired of drinking, and the graceful figure.
The young beauty allowed every tribal leader who came to attend the meeting to drink as much as they wanted.
Dayan Khan sat down on his seat with an expressionless expression, and drank a glass of wine that had just been warmed up in one gulp. He suddenly felt extremely comfortable, and he took a long breath, which seemed to dissipate the coldness in his body.
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"Has everyone had enough to eat and drink?"
Dayan Khan looked at the tribal leaders in the golden tent and said coldly.
His words were like a bucket of cold water poured on everyone's hearts, and the entire golden tent suddenly became quiet. The girls who were dancing just now also left wisely, knowing that the leaders had important matters to discuss.
"Winter is here, the cold north is howling, and the goose-feather heavy snow keeps falling. What is the Everlasting Sky telling us?"
Dayan Khan's voice was very loud and clearly reached the ears of every tribal leader present.
"Changshengtian is telling us that it's time for us wolves in the north to go south to hunt."
"Great Khan, we have been waiting for this day for a long time. As long as you give the order, our Sunit warriors will capture the southern city for you and bring you a cart full of gold, silver and jewelry. Choose for you.
The most beautiful woman in the world."
"Yes, Great Khan, our Tuva tribe has been waiting for this day for a long time."
The leaders of the tribes all stood up and shouted. When they came, they knew that Dayan Khan had called everyone to a meeting for the purpose of going south to plunder. This was a program that would be performed almost every winter.
It's just that they have been waiting for a long time this year. In previous years, Dayan Khan would usually gather everyone at the beginning of autumn to prepare to go south to plunder. But this year, it was already October, and Dayan Khan only called everyone together.
Dayan Khan also smiled after listening to the words of the tribal leaders, but he was actually very hesitant in his heart, very hesitant, which is why he delayed convening everyone until October.
He had already sent out scout teams one after another to conduct reconnaissance, check the situation of the Ming Dynasty people, and prepare for the plundering going south in winter.
However, the intelligence returned by the spy made him fall into endless hesitation.
I don’t know what method the people of the Ming Dynasty used to repair all the loopholes in the long defense line in a short period of time. And this time, it was not only repaired, but even areas that had been easily broken in the past were repaired.
An unprecedentedly high wall was built. The city wall was so high that it made people despair, and it was so hard that even bows and arrows could not penetrate it.
At first, he didn't believe this, but as more and more scout teams came back to report the situation, he had to take people to check it out personally.
The moment he saw the extremely tall city wall here in Datong, he knew that this winter would definitely be harder than he imagined. In the past, the program of going south to plunder every winter might no longer be possible.
Facing a city wall that is ten feet high, I don’t know how many lives it will take to fill it, but it may not be possible to open the gap. In the complete defense system built by the Ming Dynasty, there are very few places where they can exploit loopholes, which is suitable for a large-scale march south.
That's just a few places.
Faced with such a situation, going south to plunder may not only result in no gains, but also a greater possibility of heavy casualties and loss of troops.
The dead are nothing. People die all the time on the grassland, and the people on the grassland have already taken it indifferently. But for Dayan Khan, he had more things to think about.
He is an extremely strategic hero. In the past, he organized plundering southward every year, and each time he got a bumper harvest. He wanted food, salt, gold, silver and jewelry, and beautiful women.
Both Dayan Khan and the tribes who followed him gained a lot.
By relying on this method, he successfully united the scattered tribes and established his own prestige.
So he knew very well that when it came to plundering south, he could only fight with the wind, that is, break into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty people at the minimum cost, and loot as much as they wanted in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty people, so that everyone could
Gain benefits and only in this way can you keep playing.
But if you encounter headwinds.
For example, if you can't even break through the opponent's defense line and can't get in at all, and if there are heavy casualties, it will be a heavy blow to the tribes, and of course it will also be a blow to Dayan Khan's prestige.
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Everyone likes to follow someone who can lead them to prosperity, rather than someone who can lead them to a miserable life.
Because he knows this, Dayan Khan has been hesitating, always hesitating whether to go south to plunder. Many times, after more than ten years of smooth sailing, once defeated, he may never be able to recover. There are too many such things, too
too much.
He was also very afraid that if there was no harvest from this trip south, the cohesion he had managed to gather might soon be completely dispersed, and the entire grassland would turn into a piece of loose sand again.
He is already thirty-one years old, which is the golden age of a man. He has very lofty ambitions. He longs to be like Genghis Khan, unify the entire Mongolian tribes again, lead the Mongolian army to conquer the north and south, and conquer the sunshine.
In the same way, all the land below became the grassland of the Mongols.
Therefore, he cannot fail, nor can he allow the various departments that have finally been gathered together to become scattered again.
But now, he had to make a decision. The weather was too cold and too many cattle and sheep died. If this continues, if enough food is not looted from the Ming Dynasty in the south, the number of people who will die this winter will be
very many.
Too many people died, which was also a heavy blow to Dayan Khan. Although the grassland was vast, the population had been very sparse since ancient times. Without enough people, what could he do to unify the entire Mongolia?
How can he become the second Genghis Khan?
So now he had to go south, but in his heart, he was very hesitant. If he failed this time, it would be a heavy blow to him.
