Around this day, the Emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Borjijinkun Timur, who was defeated by Zhu Quan's troops in October this year, still stayed near Lake Baikal and did not return south to the grassland.
The Mongolian grasslands in winter are very cold. Without winter clothes and not enough food, it is basically courting death to be active on the grasslands in winter. Zhu Quan encountered heavy snow on his way back to the army. Fortunately, he had already arrived at the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, and the soldiers persisted for two days.
It was only by returning to the northernmost fortress of the Ming Dynasty that there were no casualties.
Kun Timur and Arutai originally prepared winter clothes, but when Zhu Quan led his troops to raid, everything was lost except for the horse under his crotch. Although some horses, cattle and sheep were later recovered,
But we can only stay near Lake Baikal, relying on the rich products here to survive this winter, and then go south in spring.
Although everyone is near Lake Baikal, this area is very large, and everyone is unwilling to go too far in winter, so so far Kun Timur has only found more than a thousand subordinates, gathered on the west bank of Lake Baikal close to the future generations
Local survival in Irkutsk.
After the sun came up on this day, Kun Timur brought out all the adult men among the people he found, and divided them into groups of forty or fifty people to hunt; the women and children finally built a
There were cattle, sheep and horses in the camp. Although Kun Timur was sweating profusely, he couldn't do anything special in this situation and take people to hunt himself.
Most animals go to hibernate in winter, but there are still many species that are active in the wild. Their goal is to catch these animals that are still active in the wild.
After a while, the hunting team led by Kun Timur himself encountered a deer. Deer is a very common animal in this area. Not only does it not hibernate, but it is also big and easy to see.
Kun Timur personally directed the killing of the deer. He did not dare to get closer at this time, and asked the thirty or so people who followed him to disperse to surround the deer.
Halfway through the group, the deer turned around and started running, not knowing whether it wanted to leave or found one of them.
Kun Timur immediately shot the arrow that was already on the bow; taking this as a signal, dozens of arrows shot at the deer in the middle.
If this deer had stayed where it was, nine of its lives would have been lost; but it had already left the place in advance and survived, and after being frightened like this, it ran faster, running dozens of times in the blink of an eye.
rice.
Kun Timur reluctantly shot another arrow, but failed to hit the deer. Seeing the deer disappear immediately, he could only put down the bow and hang it on his body, move his right arm, and lead them
Go hunt the next animal.
But at this moment, Kun Timur suddenly felt a vibration coming from the ground. He was a little surprised: 'I am standing on a big rock at this time, and I can actually feel the vibration! How many horses are running!
'
He quickly jumped down from the stone and lay down on the ground to feel the vibration; other people also lay down on the ground and listened.
"Khan, the sound is coming from the southeast. At least two thousand horses are running to make such a noise." One of Kun Timur's guards said.
‘Are they the other people who were scattered? But why do they want to gallop on such a day?’ Kun Timur secretly guessed in his heart.
The sound of horse hooves got closer and closer, and soon they could see the front few horses of the cavalry. Kun Timur subconsciously felt that the arrival of these people was not a good thing for him, and wanted to hide in the forest.
But at this moment, a shout suddenly rang out: "Great Khan! I am your bodyguard Al! These people who came over were from the Qilghis tribe. They came after hearing that the Great Khan was defeated by the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Help! Dahan,..." the man shouted repeatedly.
After Kun Timur heard this voice, he stopped again. This voice indeed belonged to his loyal bodyguard Ale. Uruktemul, the leader of the Qilghis tribe, also always treated him with great respect.
, he thought there should be nothing wrong.
After a while, thousands of war horses stopped on the road. A tall, strong man got off his horse and walked over with a dozen people.
Seeing that he only brought a dozen people with him, Kun Timur ordered the most loyal guards to put away the swords in their hands. He also put the sword into its sheath and walked towards Uruktemul.
When Uruktemul saw Kun Timur, he immediately knelt down and said, "I, Uruktemul of the Qilghis tribe, have met His Majesty the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty."
Kun Timur stretched out his hand to help him up and said with a smile: "You don't have to use Han people's etiquette, just use our Mongolian etiquette."
"Since His Majesty is the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, he is both the Great Khan of the Mongols and the Emperor of the Han people. The current false empire in the south is just stealing the Central Plains. Sooner or later, Your Majesty will be able to return to the Central Plains to rule over the Han people." Uruktemul said.
Although Kun Timur knew that he was flattering, he was really very comfortable. He smiled and patted his shoulder and said a few words of encouragement.
"Your Majesty, our Qilghis tribe is nearby at this time. I respectfully ask Your Majesty to stop at our Qilghis tribe." Uruktemul said again.
He didn't say that Kun Timur was also going to his tribe. Winter was completely different in the wild and in the tribe. Although he had experienced such hard times before, they were only a few days during the march. From then on,
He could hardly bear it after being in the wild for such a long time.
"Since I am so respectful to you, I will be disrespectful." Kun Timur said with a smile.
Uruktemur bowed and saluted again, and Kun Timur passed him and walked towards the cavalry.
He walked to the most majestic horse, turned around and said to Uruktemul: "I just saw that this is the horse you ride? Give it to me..."
But at this moment, before Kun Timur finished speaking, he heard someone shouting: "Khan, be careful!"
Kun Timur looked up and saw an arrow flying towards him. He had no time to react and the arrow hit his heart. Kun Timur slowly fell to the ground, his eyes becoming increasingly blurry.
He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something; but before the words came out, he could no longer hold himself up and fell to the ground with his head tilted.
Uruktemuul held knives in both hands and hacked to death a man who was about to rush to kill him, shouting loudly: "Kill all these people!" His soldiers also drew their knives and hacked around, and soon they killed him.
All the people in front of them were chopped to the ground. Although they did not all die immediately, they would soon die of excessive blood loss.
Uruktemul looked around and saw Kun Timur's bodyguard Ale, although he was bleeding all over his body, he was still alive and staring at him with big eyes.
Uruktemul suddenly felt a childlike innocence, squatted down and said to Ale: "What do you want to say to me?"
"You, you, are you, haven't you, have hidden evil intentions for a long time, and want to assassinate the Khan." Al said with great effort.
"You are right." Uruktemur said with a smile: "I have wanted to kill him for a long time. What kind of ability does Kun Timur have? Just because he is a descendant of Genghis Khan, he can be the Great Khan;
And those of us who are not descendants of Genghis Khan cannot be the Great Khan of Mongolia no matter how capable we are, so why!”
"I killed him today because I wanted to know whether someone with a foreign surname could become the Great Khan of Mongolia!"
Al stretched out his hand and pointed at him, as if he was going to say something more, but a lot of blood spurted out from his mouth. He couldn't support it and hit his head heavily on the ground, motionless. But he could not keep his eyes open until he died.
It's so big that I can't close my eyes.
Uruktemul stood up and sighed: "They are all warriors." Then he ordered one of his guards: "Take a hundred people and dig a hole here to bury them all."
Then he said loudly: "Warriors of the Qilghis tribe, follow me now to subdue the people in the central tent of Mongolia." After receiving cheers from the soldiers, he got on his horse and galloped towards the east.
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On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Yunchuan Guard. Yunchuan Guard is a guard station located on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, hundreds of miles northwest of Datong City, near Helinger in later generations.
This is the front line against Mongolia, so even during the Chinese New Year, most civil and military officials are not allowed to take a break and are on duty at the guard station in turns. Today is the first day of the New Year, but everyone has already arrived at the guard station to be on duty.
Already.
Xu Youde, the commander of Yunchuan Guard, sat in his seat, looked at a report in front of him, and said after a while: "There has been some turmoil on the grassland recently. Has the cause been detected?"
"Not yet," said Qianhu from the local Jinyi Guards: "Now there are only some vague news coming, probably saying that they had another internal strife and Kun Timur was killed; but who killed it? Now Bei
I don’t even know who Emperor Yuan is.”
"Then it's better not to report to His Majesty for the time being, and then report to the capital when there is definite information." Xu Youde said.
"The capital city may not report it for the time being, but His Highness the King needs to know. His Highness is now in charge of Shanseixingdusi (Datong Dusi). It would be outrageous not to know." Qianhu, the Jinyi Guard, said.
"In this case, I will write a document to inform His Highness about the matter." Xu Youde thought for a while and said.
He was about to start writing a letter to the king when suddenly Yunchuan Wei Zhenfu came in with a document with a special mark and said to Xu Youde: "It's a document that came from the grassland."
Xu Youde reached out to take the document, glanced at it for a few times and suddenly laughed loudly.
"What's wrong?" Jin Yiwei Qianhu asked in surprise.
"We know the reason for the turmoil on the grassland. A man named Uruktemur killed Kun Timur and established himself as Khan; not only that, he also revoked the title of Beiyuan Kingdom and called himself Mongolia." Xu Youde said.
"Really?" the commander of the Jinyi Guards said this, and immediately laughed: "Now I can report to His Majesty, and His Majesty will definitely be happy when he knows about it. Make up the deal quickly, preferably in February
Let His Majesty receive the memorial before."
Xu Youde immediately threw aside the paperwork in front of him, grabbed another piece of paper and began to write a memorial to Yunxi. When he was halfway through writing, he suddenly looked at Uruk Timur's name and frowned, saying: "This
The name is too hard to remember. Please give him another name." Then he wrote on the memorial: "The Mongolian general Guilichi killed his emperor Kun Timur..."