Na Minfu was suddenly tapped on the shoulder.
Because of the bad words he was sweating in his heart, Na Minfu felt a little guilty and almost jumped up on the spot.
Then he heard Tuo Lei's calm voice: "That's Guo Ning's flag. I didn't expect him to come in person."
Naminfu became more frightened and said quickly: "Now that this person is here, his successors must not have many soldiers and horses. Fourth Prince, let's leave quickly to avoid anything happening!"
After shouting a few words, Na Minfu suddenly realized that such words clearly showed complete distrust of his own power, and for the arrogant Tuo Lei, it was simply a humiliation. He quickly bowed his head, not knowing how to continue persuading him.
Fortunately, Tuo Lei only twitched in the corner of his eye, as if he didn't hear the implication of Na Minfu's words at all.
After the defeat in Shandong the year before last, the experienced veteran Na Minfu returned to the grassland with Tuo Lei. The rest of the tribes were severely punished by the Great Khan for their defeat. Only Naminfu received Tuo Lei's protection because of his role as an envoy to retrieve Tuo Lei. Not only was he exempted from actual punishment, but he also retained his position as a hundred households and the Great Khan. The black flag given.
However, the power of drag thunder only goes so far.
On that day, as the youngest son who had been following Genghis Khan for a long time, he was able to suddenly take the lead in a large-scale war and command many thousands of households to be like lackeys. But now, the number of reliable subordinates that towed mines can drive is less than one-tenth of the original number. Naminfu, the centurion, is already a very effective member of them.
In the past two years, Tuo Lei's life has also been difficult.
His special respected status on the grassland comes from the favor of the Great Khan. The value of the Great Khan's favor is based on the Great Khan's own prestige.
After all, Mongol Uluth is not a country in the true sense. At its core, it is still a military tribal alliance. The alliance itself has no system or laws to speak of, but the prestige of the tribal leader is too high to crush all opponents and implement his will into systems and laws.
Tuo Lei's humiliating defeat in Shandong made him a stain under the shining light of Khan. The existence of this stain itself keeps telling others: The Jin Kingdom is still powerful enough to cause heavy losses to the Mongols. The Great Khan's strategy for the Jin Kingdom is flawed; and the expedition south is not easy, and there is a possibility of failure. of.
This stain not only affected Genghis Khan's prestige, but also weakened the Khan's control over countless tribes. In this case, hiding this stain became the best choice. Therefore, Tuo Lei has not appeared in the Mongolian tribes for three years. He rarely sees the Great Khan, and rarely acts with his brothers such as Jochi, Ogedai, and Chagatai.
But until the next year, when the Great Khan urged the tribes to go south again and launched a severe attack on the Kingdom of Jin, many tribal leaders cited Tuolei's failure as an example to shirk the Great Khan's recruitment.
Every argument they had on the Khulil stage was a mockery of Tuo Lei. And every time they mention Tuo Lei, it will cause the members of the Golden Family to be dissatisfied with this loser.
Tuo Lei has thought a lot in the past three years. In his view, this fear of small failures was a side effect of Genghis Khan's splitting the grassland tribes into ninety-five thousand households.
After the originally large tribe was divided into thousands of households, no one of the thousands of households could stand alone against the authority of the Great Khan. However, the financial resources of a single Qianhu family cannot bear the huge losses on the battlefield.
In Shandong and Liaodong, nearly ten thousand Mongolian households were defeated at the hands of Ding Haijun. Every thousand households have suffered a great loss of vitality, and it is impossible to recover without three to five years. Such risks have caused many Qianhu Nayan to have doubts about the strategy of going south to collect gold. This doubt is also a doubt about Genghis Khan and the bright future he promised everyone.
To deal with this situation, Genghis Khan had to prove himself. There are only two ways to prove yourself. One is to seize the central capital of the Jin Kingdom, destroy the Jin Kingdom or force the Jin Kingdom to surrender completely; the second is to defeat Ding Haijun simply and neatly.
As long as these two points can be achieved, Genghis Khan's prestige will rise to a new level, and his control over the grassland will be restored to be monolithic. Therefore, Genghis Khan used his elite troops to quickly break into the territory of the Jin Kingdom. He felt that this kind of power was enough. Then he failed miserably.
After this failure, the pressure on Tuo Lei suddenly eased, and no one criticized Tuo Lei's incompetence anymore. However, the pressure faced by the entire Golden Family has increased tenfold. It can even be said that if the response is not careful, it will be a disaster.
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After all, the Mongols only obey the strong!
After all, those generations who once bowed their knees to the Kingdom of Jin are still alive!
If Genghis Khan was not a strong man, it would be inevitable for many tribes to change their ways.
At this time, many conflicts suddenly surfaced, and they could no longer be resolved by debating and singing on the Khulil stage. Huo'erchi, the great shaman who represented the Immortal Heaven, died on the battlefield, and the oracles seemed to have less weight than before. Genghis Khan himself was even less able to maintain the method of using victory to inspire and profit to bribe.
Fortunately, Genghis Khan could still rule with fear, and he never lacked the ruthlessness, violence, and efficiency to create fear.
In the shortest possible time, Genghis Khan launched a massacre against the vacillating people and those with malicious intentions on the grassland. In just two months, the left and right wings of the Great Mongolia were cut off by one-third of the thousand households. Every surviving Qianhu Nayan kissed Genghis Khan's boots and swore allegiance again.
However, after reunifying the grasslands, the basic problems of Great Mongolia remained the same.
Where are the benefits? Where is the ranch?
As the Great Khan of the Mongols, Genghis Khan told everyone that this question was simple. Since the eastward advance has been frustrated, let’s advance westward.
Be it the Xia Kingdom, the forest tribes in the Land of Eight Rivers, the remnants of the Naiman tribe and the Kelei tribe on both sides of the Shihe River in Ye'er, or the Ju tribe over there in Balasagon, which seems to be related to the Khitan people. It's okay to sweat. None of them is as wealthy as Jin Guo, and their territory is smaller, but any one of them is easier to deal with than Jin Guo.
The Mongols, who had experienced defeat, were about to drink their blood and bite their flesh to strengthen themselves. The pace of advancing westward will not stop until the power brought by the Mongols becomes stronger and stronger, reaching a level that is enough to overwhelm the Jin Kingdom... Then the time for revenge has come.
In order to advance this strategy, Genghis Khan assembled a huge force and would show an unprecedented iron flow west of the plateau. But at the same time, he must also stabilize the eastern part of the grassland and reach temporary peace with the Kingdom of Jin.
That's why Tou Lei came here.
This was not Tuo Lei's request, but Genghis Khan's personal appointment. After all, most of the proud Mongolians were unwilling to undertake this task, and in the eyes of Genghis Khan, only this son, who had also experienced failure, could endure the humiliation.
Tuo Lei originally thought that after arriving at a certain Jin stronghold and proposing his intention to sue for peace, he would be transferred to the Zhongdu of the Jin Kingdom, and he would inevitably be humiliated in the process. Fortunately, he was lucky, Guo Ning was here.
Although Guo Ning is extremely vicious, he has a straightforward temperament. If we could meet with him, the two sides could decide with one word whether the peace was successful or not, and there would be no need to worry about intimidation and deceit, what is true and what is false.
"Naminfu, let's take a walk."
Tuo Lei took a deep breath and lifted his chest as high as possible.
Without waiting for Naminfu to answer, he suddenly urged his horse and bolted out from the forest and deep grass.
They soon galloped onto the road. This road is the road that connects Longmen and Jinshan, and is extremely valued by Zhao Xuan. Walking on this road, Tuo Lei felt waves of excitement.
This road has been abandoned for a long time, and Tuo Lei can even see the traces of thousands of iron hooves trampling it when he and Chi Ju Ma led their army to attack Jinshan the year before. Han'er wanted to restore it, but it probably happened in the past month or two.
But in such a short period of time, the road that was originally buried in the grass regained some of its appearance. Tuo Lei could see the stone pestles used for ramming earth scattered along the roadside; he could see the direction of the drainage ditch marked with lime; he could see that wood was piled up every ten miles, which was intended to build an observation site. appearance.
This kind of meticulous and methodical construction is never seen on the grassland. The herdsmen live by water and grass and rely on the sky for food. They do not need roads, water conservancy, cities or even anything that requires human construction. But the Han'ers obviously didn't think so.
Tuo Lei keenly felt that they were willing to build and invest manpower and material resources because construction could bring them a lot of things. This was also one of the reasons for the rapid growth of Ding Haijun's regime. However, he still didn't understand the specific reason.
Tuo Lei and his party left the cover of the forest for a moment and were discovered by the dense sentries outside Jinshan City. Accompanied by the sound of beeping one after another, the sentry riders gathered from several directions and looked at Tuo Lei and others with vigilance.
There is no doubt that these sentinels are excellent warriors. Their riding skills are naturally inferior to those of the Mongols, but they are still skilled enough. They stayed in front of Tuo Lei and the others, holding their bows and losing their guard in a very mature manner. If you look closely, you can see that everyone's face is tense, but there is no fear or fear. There was a vague bloodthirsty and excitement on the faces of some old soldiers who were obviously officers such as generals.
This is the result of three consecutive years of fighting with the Kingdom of Jin.
The Mongolian warriors destroyed hundreds of cities, looted mountains of wealth, and killed millions of Jin soldiers and civilians, but they also contributed to the emergence of new forces within the Jin Kingdom. This new force was born in the sea of blood, so it is not afraid of the Mongols at all. In their eyes, they are simply a powerful regime that can be compared with the Mongolian Uluth.
Three years ago, this kind of person would have been regarded by Tuo Lei as a fool who was bound to die, but now Tuo Lei has no such idea. If they are idiots, what does it matter to drag himself?
The drag horse stopped.
When a sentry rider slowly walked to Tuo Lei with his sword on his waist. An interpreter flashed out from behind Tuo Lei, coughed twice, and prepared to speak. Tuo Lei stretched out his arm and put a riding crop on the interpreter's shoulder: "I'll do it myself."
He turned to the sentinel and said, "I am Tuo Lei, the fourth prince of the Great Mongolian Kingdom. I am seeking to see Guo Ning, the marshal of the Great Jin Kingdom. I am here to negotiate peace."
His speech was very slow, but his words were clear and standard Chinese.
