Before Genghis Khan launched the Western Expedition, he purged more than 20 thousand households with extremely cruel methods, and took nearly 70 thousand households hostage, including a large number of Naiman tribes, Klei tribe cavalry and Wanggu people attached to the army. Troops for long-distance expeditions. Therefore, the number of the remaining thousand households is small, the power of a single one is not strong, and the troops in hand are even more limited.
If you are very familiar with the people in the grassland, you can find that most of the thousands of households that can stay in the grassland, Nayan himself has served directly under Genghis Khan, and generally has no ambitions. Many of his subordinates were also recruited by Genghis Khan during his campaigns in the north and south. They were promoted one after another during the war.
Taking away the distant but powerful Qianhu, leaving behind the close but slightly weaker Qianhu, this involves Genghis Khan's method of unifying various ministries, and the cause and effect is very complicated.
But there is one underlying reason that cannot be circumvented.
That is, the process of Genghis Khan's promotion of the status of the Golden Family and the establishment of loyalty to the Golden Family into an iron law of politics on the grasslands was interrupted, and the Mongol Uluth's control over the grasslands once again returned to the rule of the strong.
The thinking mode of many Mongolians has returned to more than ten years ago, to a tradition that has lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years. That is, everyone only cares about the force and wealth in front of them, and nothing else.
In this case, if Genghis Khan himself cannot suppress the grassland personally, then some weaker Qianhu must be left behind in order to ensure the authority of Belgutai and Princess Alahaibeji.
In the past few years, because of this arrangement, the grassland has remained generally stable. Relying on the advantage of the long cavalry driving back and forth, at certain times, the Mongols gathered strength and could even collide with the Zhou garrison on the edge of the grassland. This confrontation is only symbolic, but it is enough to boost the morale of each tribe.
However, the stability of the grasslands does not entirely depend on the grassland regime itself.
In the past few years, along with the commercial advantages that have penetrated into the grasslands, there has also been the force of the Central Plains regime.
The true unfolding of this force only requires an appropriate opportunity!
No one on the grassland expected that Belgutai's move to seize the land would provide this opportunity.
This is obviously a small dispute within the Mongols, and it is obviously a common robberies among members of the Golden Family. It can even be said that Belgutai was extremely polite! He could have killed all the merchants of Han'er present and had a good meal first, but he stopped because there was a Jinshan defense envoy from Da Zhou present, and negotiated terms with Han'er politely, thinking that Keep the business going!
How can a strong man on the grassland be so self-denying?
If Belgutai had not been the brother of the Great Khan, countless people would have scolded him for being embarrassed just because he was so polite to Zhao Xuan!
What else?
This matter was a trivial matter from beginning to end. Even if one or two people with a good background in the Central Plains disappeared, didn't Belgutai and Yeliyasi, both of whom belong to thousands of families, issue a reward for their release? Did you find it?
Not to mention whether you can find it or not, or whether you will die or live after you find it. For decades, there have been constant battles inside and outside the grassland, and blood flowed like a river. In some important areas that have been fought over repeatedly, bones are piled up in layers under the grass! There are so many dead and missing people, who has such treatment?
What else?
In the past few years, we have killed countless high-ranking officials from the Central Plains. The heads of the Jurchens are rolling under our swords. What will happen to you guys who are treated as slaves by the Jurchens? Can you still mobilize 100,000 cavalry to come to the grassland to compete with us?
Human thoughts are easily contradictory. On the one hand, many Mongolians know that the great Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains is powerful in military force; on the other hand, they always feel that the Mongolian Uluths are a country of conquerors after all. Even if the grassland warriors do not have the upper hand against the Han'er in the Central Plains, they will never be passive. .
So none of them cared about the reaction of the Central Plains court, or they had considered it, but they didn't think it was particularly dangerous.
After two thousand families offered huge rewards, at least seven or eight thousand families and a dozen scattered small tribes in the eastern part of the grassland were involved in this matter, and no less than five or six hundred teams of people were sent out to search.
The grassland was so vast that it was not easy to find people, so the groups of five or six hundred people were running here and there, becoming more and more loose, like a large number of hounds breaking out of the herd and running wild.
Each of them was in high spirits, and what they were thinking about was the benefits offered by Qianhu. They thought that if they were lucky this time, they would be able to make a big fortune.
But just as a large number of capable Mongolians left the tribe, the Zhou Dynasty responded.
What was a trivial matter in the eyes of the Mongols was like a gravel causing a landslide, triggering strong action from the Central Plains court. The newly rising Great Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains inherited the tradition of the Great Jin Dynasty in driving the Yi army. Their first move was to mobilize six thousand Mongolian households who obeyed the Great Zhou Dynasty and invade the grassland!
Those Mongolian traitors didn’t know what they were thinking, but they kept saying that Belgutai Qianhu was provoking the Great Zhou and offending the majesty of the Great Zhou, so they had to cut off his head and present it to the emperor of the Great Zhou!
These traitors! These lost dogs!
Aren't they afraid of the wrath of the Immortal Heaven? Aren't they afraid that when Genghis Khan comes back, he will trample them into a pulp?
These people are crazy!
Belgutai cursed loudly.
Of course he would not give up his head, this is too ridiculous.
As a powerful member of the Golden Family, he has enough power to mobilize many thousands of households to attack and intercept. Therefore, in order to search for the missing person, the cavalry teams that had been scattered across the vast grasslands were urgently recalled one by one, and the herdsmen everywhere were armed one by one.
The irritable Nayans took out the most valuable benefits to reward their troops, sent Aljinchi to every important road, and set up blocking battlefields.
Fighting soon broke out.
And it breaks out continuously. Each time, it was between Mongols and Mongols. Because they know each other's ins and outs, the battle is particularly cruel.
The scattered cavalry were massacred.
The small isolated tribes were crushed.
The Mongolian army that had temporarily gathered together was immediately violently attacked by its former companions.
The grassland east of Angjiluo became a battlefield. The most powerful general in the Zhou army, the Mongolian Sukhbalu, was breathing in the special smell of the battlefield.
This is a mixture of the smell of human and horse sweat, the smell of dust in the air, the smell of blood and the unique stench of corpses. People who are unfamiliar with it will cough or even feel sick when they smell it. But Sukhbalu thought it smelled quite good.
This smell represents that he will always have a place to play in Dazhou.
His horse galloped forward. While he was urging his horse firmly, he occasionally glanced to the right, which was where the cavalry of the Huoluolasi Division was assembled.
The Huoluolasi tribe is a separate division of the Hongji Lasi tribe.
At that time, Temuge, the leader of the Hongji tribe, supported Jamuka to become Gur Khan, but then he turned to Genghis Khan and made a contribution in defeating Toli Khan. Genghis Khan expressed his intention to marry his daughter to Temuge, but immediately attacked and killed him, making his father-in-law Dexue Chan the new leader of Hongjira.
This move caused great instability among the people of the Hongji tribe. Naren Khan, the leader of the Khoraras tribe, therefore continued to be hostile to Genghis Khan. It was not until ten years later that he was defeated by Hesar, who was sent by Genghis Khan to attack.
When Genghis Khan divided the Thousand Households into enfeoffments, he deliberately split the Huolarasi tribe into two far apart Thousand Households. What stood in front of Sukhbaru at this moment was only an extra allotment from one of the Thousand Households before the Western Expedition. A dismantled part.
Even if the Mongols are naturally good at fighting, if they are divided step by step to this extent, it is difficult to ensure that every thousand households have complete combat effectiveness.
When the Mongols invaded the south before, the cavalry tactics that seemed like roaring waves could not be achieved out of thin air by just a genius commander. Tactics need to be executed by outstanding officers from top to bottom. They need to constantly absorb the enemy's strengths in battle and immediately properly integrate them into themselves.
But when Genghis Khan hurriedly launched the Western Expedition, in order to ensure the strength of the Western Expedition army, he mobilized elites from various ministries; in order to maintain the situation on the grasslands, he divided the remaining ministries into too detailed divisions.
This kind of transfer and division will inevitably affect the original tribal structure and the relationship between officers. Many tactical know-hows that were originally passed down orally among the Mongolian army were no longer spread.
For some powerful Qianhu, this is not a problem. However, some thousand households were already in a vulnerable position of being conquered in the Mongolian tribal wars. This cut off their possibility of studying abroad.
And a Qianhu, which was too small to be able to raise a thousand cavalry due to urgent needs, did not have enough resources to invest in equipment, training and tactics. Even if they have perfected their herding and hunting skills, they will only be able to meet the requirements of the army at the individual level.
After Sukhbalu experienced the training of Zhou Jun's mid-level officers, his horizons improved a lot. But at this moment, even if he discarded everything he had learned in the military academy, and looked at it from the perspective of a Mongolian warrior, the tactics chosen by these Huluolasi cavalry were wrong, and the timing of rushing out to intercept was even more stupid.
About three hundred cavalrymen from the Horolasi tribe gathered together, and the same number of cavalrymen came from the east one after another, trying to outflank them, but they were directly blocked by the flanking troops arranged by Sukhbalu.
The battle on the flanks raged, and the sharp whistle of arrows piercing the air continued.
Not many people in Huoloasi wear leather armor, let alone iron armor. During the exchange of arrows, the number of them knocked off their horses was much higher than that of Sukhbalu's men. They didn't hold out for long before they gave up the outflanking and began to retreat to a distance.
The failure of the flanking attack made the main force that had completed the assembly feel nervous. It was obvious that some people wanted to retreat and then go around to the west to join their companions, while others tried to attack the large group of cavalry where Sukhbaru was. Everyone had different ideas, so the horses crowded together and collided with each other.
Such a stupid situation would never have happened in the Mongolian army four or five years ago!
It also overcomes the decline of Mongol Uluth so quickly!
