While they were chatting, they suddenly saw a messenger coming over and informed them: "General Ma Shen has returned. The commander-in-chief has given orders to discuss matters in the central military tent!"
After hearing this, Gao Yigong and others looked at each other and saw that there were no ink marks, and immediately rushed to the Chinese army's tent.
By the time they arrived at the central military tent, the generals from all walks of life were almost there. Before they could discuss the news with each other, they saw Li Dingguo and Ma Shouying coming out of the rear tent, and the military meeting began.
They only heard Li Dingguo say to them first: "The Ma guerrillas marched westward and encountered the Huite tribe of Waci. The specific news about Waci will be told by General Ma."
In fact, we are all old acquaintances, but the different recruitment orders and different military merits make their military positions different.
Ma Shouying was not polite and immediately introduced the news he had heard in detail.
Relatively speaking, Emperor Chongzhen actually gave some information, and it was probably not much different.
Western Mongolia, also known as Wasi, reached its peak in strength during Yexian's era and won the Battle of Tumubao, which profoundly changed the political structure of the Ming Dynasty.
Afterwards, Wasac began to fight among himself, and his strength began to decline. When it came to eastern Mongolia, it was actually Anda Khan of the Tumote tribe who rose to power. On the grasslands bordering the Ming Dynasty, Anda Khan basically had the final say, and Wasac only had the final say.
It may have migrated to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.
After that, Wa Ci did nothing.
At this time, Waci was mainly divided into four large tribes, and then there were some small tribes as vassals. The Huite tribe was one of the vassal small tribes.
The four major tribes in Wasi are the Zhungeer Tribe, the Heshuote Tribe, the Torhut Tribe and the Duerbot Tribe. These four tribes also have internal fights with each other over water sources and pastures.
In addition, Wasi also had another fight with the Khalkha tribe in northern Mongolia, also over pasture and water sources.
Under the internal and external friction, the Waci tribe could not grow stronger at all.
The news that Jianlu was strong spread to Western Mongolia, especially the news that they were chasing Lin Dan Khan, which shocked the western Mongolia. They did not want to be enemies of the powerful Jianlu, so they sent envoys to surrender to Jianlu.
Moreover, the four big tribes of Wasi were not united and even disbanded.
Among them, the Torgut tribe moved westward and went to the Volga River Basin to seek a living; the Heshuote tribe, led by their Gushi Khan, attacked Qinghai and Tibet and fought religious wars.
However, at this time, Batur Hutaiji of the Zhungar tribe was considered a relatively powerful figure. After all his efforts, he finally reconciled with the Khalkha people and signed a code of law, and they agreed to make progress together as best they could.
Their joint advance and retreat was actually to deal with the eastern invasion of the Tsarist Russia. At this time, both Western Mongolia and Mobei Mongolia were in conflict with Tsarist Russia.
But who knew, what they never expected was that the Qing Empire sent an envoy to act as their peacemaker, and took the lead, saying that they would attack the Ming Kingdom together.
It was also said that the Qing Empire had formed an alliance with the Japanese, and that there were internal forces within the Ming Dynasty, so conquering the Ming Dynasty and carving up the Ming Dynasty was a sure thing.
Regarding this situation, there are different opinions within Waqi. Some people think that the Ming Dynasty is prosperous, and it is naturally best to participate in it and get a share of the pie.
However, there are also some tribes who have doubts about this. Although they do not know the specific situation, they feel that things may not be as stated just from the efforts of the Qing Empire's envoys to lobby.
If the Ming Dynasty was really vulnerable, then the Qing Empire was already so powerful before, and now that the Japanese had formed an alliance, and there were internal forces within the Ming Dynasty, why did they bother so much and even ask the Tsarist Empire so far away to also send troops?
There are also some people who feel that they have enmity with the Tsarist Russians and want to become friendly forces with them, and they cannot change their minds.
In short, this matter is still being discussed within Wacai, including within the Khalkha tribe, and many people are hesitant.
According to the explanation from the Huite tribe, their small tribe has no decision-making power and just wants to live their lives. They are willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty and serve for the Ming Dynasty, provided that they can move to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
After Ma Shouying received the news, he was shocked and immediately rushed back with the leader of the Huite tribe to report the situation.
After he finished introducing the situation, Li Dingguo said with a serious expression: "According to the information revealed by the Jianlu envoy, the spies within our Ming Dynasty are very powerful. Once they suddenly betray the imperial court during a war, it is likely to cause very serious consequences.
It will cause great harm. Therefore, I decided to send someone to rush back the message. In addition, I will take advantage of the coming cold winter to raid the Khalkha Mongolian tribe. If they don’t surrender, they will not be able to survive this winter!"
He considered that if they attacked Wasi, once they fled westward, the war would drag on, and the final result would probably be to return without success.
However, for Mobei Mongolia, their places to spend the winter are very limited. Under the Ming army's raid, it is impossible for them to flee north. There is a high possibility that a single raid can severely damage Mobei Mongolia.
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In the past, there might have been problems with the raid. But now, with people from the Huite tribe leading the way, it is much easier. As for whether the people from the Huite tribe can lie to others, that doesn't matter. Let them see what they will do in the future after they surrender to the Ming Dynasty.
Just live whatever life you want.
Gao Yigong and others are very supportive of Li Dingguo's arrangement. Anyway, for them, there is a battle to fight and the chance of winning is obviously relatively high, so of course they are happy.
I think back then, Li Dingguo was also a bandit, but now he has been knighted. Gao Yigong and the others were jealous, and of course they wanted to achieve more military exploits.
In fact, Mobei Mongolia is also divided into three large tribes. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, their strength was no longer good. Otherwise, they would not have surrendered to Jianlu. Nor would Washi have weakened.
However, he still agreed to turn the feud into friendship with this worldly enemy. The two parties negotiated a peace and jointly formulated the "Kalkha Oirat Code".
When Li Dingguo led the western cavalry to turn north, he rode a fast horse at an accelerated speed of 800 miles to report the news to the nearest governor of Yansui.
Governor Yansui was shocked when he received the military report: Someone was acting as an internal agent for Jianlu and the Japanese country. This was a big deal. So he did not dare to neglect and immediately wrote a secret report, also using eight hundred Li plus.
As quickly as possible, send it to the capital.
Fortunately, most of the officials in the border areas have the authority to report secretly. Otherwise, if this matter were reported publicly, it would probably shock a large number of people.
After receiving this secret report, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be a little speechless.
Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong was a fake insider. Otherwise, if the envoy who was captured by Jianqi said so to Wac, and the news came back, he would definitely be able to investigate.
Of course, Jianlu's envoy must have thought that this matter would only spread among the higher-ups of Wasi and would not reach the Ming Dynasty. He did not expect that the Ming Dynasty would send troops westward and capture the leader of the Huite tribe.
Emperor Chongzhen admired the military report of Li Dingguo that he received along with the secret report. He was worthy of being a famous general in the Southern Ming Dynasty. He could make a prompt decision and attack Mobei Mongolia first based on the information.
I just don’t know what the outcome of his battle will be. Estimating the time, it should be a battle by now, right? Emperor Chongzhen thought to himself that it was a pity that he did not have the mobile phone of future generations to contact him directly. Otherwise, he could call and ask directly about the situation.
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Emperor Chongzhen's guess was correct. At this time, Li Dingguo led 14,000 cavalry troops, which were the various units of the rogue cavalry army that had been recruited. A total of 2,000 were under Gao Yigong's command, 2,000 were under Li Guo's command, and 2,000 were under Li Laiheng's command.
With one thousand troops, Tian Jianxiu's two thousand troops, Ma Shouying's three thousand troops, and four thousand cavalry troops under his own direct command, they arrived in the Mobei area.
The vanguard this time was from Tian Jianxiu's command, who sent Ye Bushou to capture the Mobei Mongolian herdsmen they encountered and sent them to the Chinese army.
The weeds on the grassland have long lost their green color and become withered and yellow, but there is now a sea of red.
The more than twenty Mongolian herdsmen from Mobei, large and small, who were escorted over, saw so many Ming cavalry troops suddenly appearing next to their homes. They were all frightened and their faces turned pale and trembling. They didn't know what they were doing.
What will happen in the future?
The relationship between Mongolians and Central Plains people has always been disharmonious.
When the forces on the grassland are strong, they will find ways to attack the Central Plains; even if there is no big attack, there will be a routine attack on Qiugu;
Similarly, if the Central Plains dynasty was strong, it would also send troops to fight on the grasslands. For example, not to mention the early days of the Ming Dynasty, even when Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty was established, he personally conquered the grasslands five times.
It can be said that the border conflict between the Mongolian grasslands and the Central Plains dynasties has never stopped.
Now, seeing such a powerful Ming cavalry army with bright armor and strict military discipline, it goes without saying that they are a strong army, which means that the people on the Mongolian grasslands are going to be unlucky.
They just didn't expect that they were in Mobei, and the Ming cavalry would actually come here!
After Li Dingguo heard the report, he did not let his soldiers escort these Mongolian herdsmen in. Instead, he left the Chinese military tent and came to these herdsmen himself.
He glanced at the herdsmen in front of him, including men and women, old and young, and found that they were dressed very crudely, and the clothes on their bodies were all patched.
Li Dingguo could see that if these herdsmen did not have other warm clothes, they would probably be very sad in the coming winter. This was similar to the situation of the people in the pass in the past.
Also, judging from the fact that most of them are sallow and thin, they probably don’t have enough to eat and are often hungry.
Li Dingguo actually understands this situation. Among the Mongolians, those who are the leader and the leader's cronies will have a better life. As for the lower-level herdsmen, they are all oppressed by the leader and the leader's cronies.
Yes, life will not go as planned.
Not to mention, Mobei Mongolia is located in a remote and bitter cold, and their living conditions are even more difficult.
But no matter how hard it is, it's impossible to suffer those leaders!