Chapter 1359: Drag Lei to Proclaim Emperor
After the Battle of Dragon City, Huo Qubing led his lone army to continue out of the fortress, but along the way they were blocked by dozens of Yuanmeng tribesmen and pursued by the army of Yuanting in Dragon City. His army suffered heavy casualties.
The first person to pursue Huo Qubing was Murong Ke. Murong Ke noticed the Qin army's conspiracy halfway, so he decisively led his army back to attack Zhenbeiguan.
Murong Ke cast a shadow over the entire army out of the fortress. If Murong Ke had not given up the pursuit midway, Huo Qubing's army would have been completely wiped out.
After Murong Ke left, Tuo Lei, who was in charge of Longcheng, personally led the army to encircle and suppress Huo Qubing, vowing to wipe out this lonely Han army that had penetrated deeply. The army also experienced the most difficult battle after leaving the fortress.
The encirclement laid by Tuo Lei's hundreds of thousands of troops on this vast grassland left Huo Qubing with nowhere to hide, forcing him to lead his troops in a fight to the death.
At the same time, a white pigeon flew from Hetao and brought news of the great victory in Hetao to the army leaving the border. For a time, the morale of the army marching out of the border skyrocketed.
In the end, Huo Qubing went out with an army of more than 10,000 soldiers with high morale, and faced Tuo Lei's army of more than 100,000 people in Mobei.
Under Huo Qubing's textbook cavalry tactics, the two sides fought fiercely for more than ten games. Not only did the Han army not fall into a disadvantage, but they also inflicted heavy losses on Yuan and Meng, killing nearly 20,000 enemies, and forcibly broke Yuan and Meng's encirclement again.
After this battle, more than half of the army outside the fortress suffered casualties again. The entire army only had nearly 5,000 troops left, and most of its supplies had been consumed. It was no longer able to deal a powerful blow to Yuanmeng.
In addition, the Battle of Hetao has been won, and even if the army from the frontier continues to stay, it will not be of much use. Instead, it will put itself in danger, so Huo Qubing made a decisive decision to lead the army to withdraw north.
On the other side, after Tuoleidang learned about the battle situation in the Hetao and the news of Temujin's death in the battle, he suddenly felt that the sky was falling.
In the Battle of Hetao, Yuan Meng sent 80% of the country's troops. This was a battle that blocked the fate of the country, but the result was that the entire army was annihilated, and even the founding emperor died in the battle.
This fiasco caused Yuanmeng to lose everything. With Yuanmeng's remaining strength, how could he resist the covetousness of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in the east? Already the anger of the big man in the south?
After thinking of this, there was only one thought left in Tuo Lai's mind, and that was that Yuan Meng, this great country that had just been established, was probably going to end.
Confusion, helplessness, anger, sadness, all kinds of emotions came over him, so heavy that Tuo Lei could hardly breathe.
Tuo Lei locked himself up and did not eat or drink for two days and two nights. When he came out, his eyes were full of determination.
Although his brother Temujin died in the war, Yuanmeng will not die. He will inherit Temujin's will and let this great country continue to stand.
After the tragic defeat at Hetao, Temujin died in battle, and Tuo Lei no longer had the intention to preside over the encirclement and suppression of the Han army from Seoul. For the Yuan-Meng Empire, which was currently in turmoil, he was urgently needed as the king to step forward and take charge of the overall situation. A mere five thousand Han troops from Seoul was nothing more than It's just a case of phlegm.
Although Tuo Lai did not continue to preside over the encirclement and suppression of the Han army, he handed over this important task to his son Kublai Khan, and gave Kublai an order to capture alive Huo Qubing's senior generals who had left the Han army. Tuo Lei wanted to use these people to Peace talks with the Han army.
As expected by Tuo Lei, not long after he returned to Longcheng, he received news that the Manchu Qing Dynasty had mobilized heavy troops on the border with the intention of invading Yuanmeng.
So while Tuo Lei was stabilizing Longcheng, he ordered Murong Ke to lead the army to defend the border, and at the same time mobilized troops from Kublai Khan, with a posture of defending the country to the death, hoping to scare the Manchus away, but the Manchus How can one be scared off so easily?
The person Nurhaci in the entire Yuanmeng feared the most was Temujin. Now that Temujin is dead and most of his troops are lost in the Hetao, who else in the entire Yuanmeng can stop the Manchus from unifying the grasslands?
This time Nurhachi was extremely determined to annex the unified grassland of Yuan and Mongolia. Not only did he order to stop the invasion of Sanhan and Youzhou, he mobilized a full 200,000 elite cavalry in just one round, and even prepared to lead the army in person. He vowed not to give up until he annexed Yuan Meng.
This aggressive dispatch of troops by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties seemed to be on the verge of national destruction for the extremely weak Yuanmeng. Whether the entire country could continue to survive depended on whether Murong Ke could stop Nurhachi.
Tuo Lei pinned all his hopes on Murong Ke.
If Murong Ke wins, Yuan Meng will survive;
If defeated, Yuan Meng will perish.
At this time, all the cavalry of the Han army gathered at Zhenbeiguan, and 60,000 elite cavalry were ready to go, as if they were going to take advantage of the situation again.
When Tuo Lei learned about it, he was immediately shocked. He knew that at this critical moment, Yuan Meng was no longer able to resist the other side's forces. If the Han army wanted to help the Manchus at this time, Yuan Meng would be unable to resist at all, so he hurriedly paid attention. The envoy went to Jinyang to have peace talks with Qin Hao.
After the envoy went to Jinyang, what he brought back was a humiliating and treasonous treaty, the first of which was: to cancel the siege and let Huo Qubing's army return.
Article 2: Compensation for 500,000 war horses, 300,000 cattle, and 1 million lambs...
Article 3: The new Yuanmeng Emperor must admit his mistakes in the Battle of Hetao and personally apologize to the Han soldiers who died in the battle...
Article 4: In the next fifty years, Yuan Meng will not be allowed to graze outside Zhenbeiguan and Yanmen Pass, and within two hundred miles...
Article 5: Free all Han slaves in Yuan and Mongolia...
Article 6: Send the prince to the Han as a hostage...
Article 7: In the future, Yuan and Meng's troops must not exceed 200,000...
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In short, this is an extremely humiliating treaty for a defeated country, with a total of twenty-eight articles, covering many harsh conditions such as compensation, protons, etc.
There are so many excessive conditions. If Tuo Lei agrees, he will be nailed to the rack of shame, but if he doesn't agree, Yuan Meng will definitely destroy his country.
But negotiating is just like that, asking for a high price and then paying back the money.
Since the big man had shown his willingness to negotiate, Tuo Lei naturally could not give up this opportunity. He ordered Kublai Khan to open the encirclement and let Huo Qubing's troops return to the big man to show his peace with the big man. Sincerity in peace talks.
Temujin's fall and the death of most of his troops in the battle at Hetao put the whole country of Yuanmeng in panic. Tuolei stepped forward in time to take charge of the overall situation, which also gave Yuanmeng a glimmer of hope.
Although Temujin had a wife, he had no children. Therefore, after his death, the only candidates to become the new Yuan Emperor were Tolei and Ogedai.
However, Wokuotai's performance in the Battle of Hetao was too poor. In the end, he only fled back to Yuanmeng with 3,000 defeated troops. His performance was far less impressive than that of Tuo Lei, who was ordered to take charge of the overall situation in the face of danger, so Wokuotai could not compete with Tuo Lei at all.
In the end, Tu Lai, who was recognized by most of the senior officials of the Yuan-Meng Dynasty, officially ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor during the negotiations between the Han and Yuan Dynasties, becoming the second emperor of the Yuan-Meng Dynasty after Temujin.
