Chapter nine hundred and thirty seventh return without success
As long as people care about gains and losses, they will have many ideas, and the same is true for the Tumut tribe. In the era of agriculture and animal husbandry, there was generally no fighting in spring and summer. This was a season of production. Even if they won, it would also affect the situation.
A year's production is completely worth the loss, because it is difficult to survive the autumn and winter seasons. Therefore, Pegasus Town's expedition hit the most painful place for the Mongolian tribes.
The first response measure taken by the Tumut tribe was to retreat all the tribes to the Hetao area, in the city occupied by the Tumut tribe, which is near the modern city of Hohhot.
At this time, the Mongolian tribes in Hohhot had actually gradually shifted towards settlement and farming, so relatively speaking, the food pressure on the Tumut tribe was much less. In addition, with the city to help with defense, the Tumut tribe
The ability to survive is much stronger.
In addition, it is difficult to find wood and stones on the grassland, and it is difficult to build siege equipment. With only cavalry, it is difficult to attack a fortified city. The Tumut Ministry wants to use this hedgehog-like posture to let the attacking Pegasus
The town retreated when it was difficult.
The second countermeasure used by the Tumut tribe was to send envoys. In the eyes of the princes and nobles of the Tumut tribe, there was actually no life-and-death conflict between their tribe and the Han people. Whether it was the Manchu Qing Dynasty or the Daping Dynasty,
Okay, the Tumote tribe doesn't care who of you lives or dies. But if you want to fight, just fight it yourself, and don't bring disaster to the Tumote tribe!
To this end, the Tumut tribe even invited several Shanxi merchants who were good friends with their tribe as envoys. In the view of Prince Tumut and others, Shanxi merchants and officials from the Central Plains are inextricably linked.
They contact each other, and many conditions can be negotiated!
Therefore, wrong information often leads to wrong actions. The move of the Tumut Department completely sold itself out.
After the establishment of the Great Ping Dynasty, the eight Shanxi merchants were in great panic. Because Wu Shigong hated the Shanxi merchants for doing business with foreign countries, sponsoring enemies and betraying the Central Plains dynasty's intelligence, the Great Ping Dynasty wanted to drive out all the Shanxi merchants. If only
With an attitude, Shanxi merchants can still struggle. But now that the Daping Dynasty has occupied Shanxi, the eight Shanxi merchants whose home base has been occupied can't wait to show their loyalty to the Daping Dynasty.
Although the Chang family, one of the eight great families, established contact with Wu Shigong first, these eight great families had broken bones and connected tendons after all, so they were still one body to the outside world. Therefore, the eight great families of Shanxi merchants passed the Chang family and wanted to
Discuss with Da Pingchao a once and for all solution to the problem of sincerity.
It was also the good luck of the eight Shanxi merchant families that they chose the right time. At this time, the Daping Dynasty was experiencing frequent civil strife and was surrounded by enemies on all sides, so Wu Shigong did not want to establish any more powerful enemies. The eight Shanxi merchant families were already rich and invincible, so they
The family has strong military force. Although it is not comparable to the Daping Army, don't forget it. The Daping Army in Shanxi has already invaded Shaanxi, and Wu Shigong does not want Shanxi to be in chaos again.
Another point is that Shanxi merchants have been operating in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty for many years. Through funding and bribery, many civil and military officials were the spokespersons of Shanxi merchants in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. And these officials are now basically accepted by the Ping Dynasty.
.If Wu Shigong rashly resorts to violence, it will also cause turmoil in the court.
Therefore, after some haggling, Wu Shigong finally agreed to the eight Shanxi merchants' request for sincerity. However, he asked the eight Shanxi merchants to show "sincerity."
What "sincerity"? Of course it means real money. In the end, the eight Shanxi merchants agreed to donate two million taels of silver to the Daping Dynasty, and loaned three million taels of silver to the court for five years without any interest, as a sign of
"Forgiveness money" for previous actions.
But the Tumote tribe had no idea what happened between the Shanxi merchants and the Daping Dynasty? So they asked the Shanxi merchants to be envoys. Isn't that an entrustment to an unjust person?
Therefore, as soon as the Shanxi merchant envoys arrived at Pegasus Town, they immediately explained the situation to Zuge and others like pouring beans through bamboo tubes. Moreover, these Shanxi merchant envoys also suggested that they should come to Tumut's troops while they were unprepared.
A tough one to get more benefits.
To be honest, at this time, Zug and others did not think about attacking the Tumote tribe. Because of the departure of Pegasus Town, the Qing army had already begun to dispatch, and the Tumote tribe's city could not be defeated in a short time.
It was conquered within a short period of time. So Zug and others prepared to return to the Great Wall through Datong. But now they heard that the Tumote tribe was weak. If they didn't bully them, they would definitely be struck by lightning.
On the seventh day of May, Pegasus Town's 25,000-strong army galloped 800 miles and attacked Hohhot (called it by its modern name) with lightning speed. Caught off guard, Tumote's troops were outside the city.
The herdsmen stationed there were in great disarray.
Then, Pegasus Town used the artillery carried by the army to bombard Hohhot, causing the nobles of the Tumut tribe in the city to be greatly frightened. Then, envoys from Shanxi merchants entered the city to persuade the Tumut tribe to accept the alliance under the city proposed by Zug and others.
Under the rhetoric of the Shanxi merchant envoys, the Tumote tribe finally chose to surrender. They would nominally submit to the Daping Dynasty, submit a surrender form to the Daping Dynasty and become vassal. However, this behavior only looked good in appearance, but in reality
It is meaningless. When Pegasus Town leaves, who can guarantee that the Tumote Department will not turn around and fall into the arms of the Qing Dynasty?
But next, Pegasus Town was bleeding from the Tumut tribe. They demanded 10,000 sheep and 1,000 horses as war compensation to make up for their military expenses in attacking the Tumut tribe.
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Dorgon in Jinzhou, when he learned that Horqin's tribe was under attack, the first thing he did was to arrange the army to the west of Jinzhou to guard against the flank attack of the Daping Army. But when Dorgon heard again: the Daping Army had sent troops.
To the west, the Chahar tribe also suffered a disastrous defeat, and when Chahar Khan Ezhe fled north in a hurry, he could no longer remain calm.
Although Chahar Khan Ezhe was just a puppet, he was also the guarantee for the Manchu Qing's rule over Eastern Mongolia. If Ezhe fell into the hands of the Daping Army, not only the Manchu Qing's rule over Eastern Mongolia would collapse, at least it would in the future.
A lot of effort.
So Dorgon immediately mobilized 20,000 troops, with Abatai as the commander, and went west to encircle and suppress the Daping army that had passed the pass. This Qing army first moved to the Horqin tribe, recruited the Horqin tribe's army, and then came to
The Chahar tribe also gathered the remaining troops of the Chahar tribe and once again controlled Chahar Khan Ezhe. At this time, the Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces led by Abatai also reached more than 50,000.