In April of the first year of Chongzhen, Kukuhetun.
This famous fortress city established by Ada Khan, the leader of thousands of Tumut households and self-proclaimed Khan, has now fallen into the hands of the orthodox Hutu Dun Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
Seizing Kukuhetun, the "capital" of right-wing Mongolia, has been Hutu Tun Khan Linden Batur's dream for many years... Ever since he set up his ambition to unify Mongolia, he has been thinking about Kukutun. Kuhetun and the surrounding Tumutchuan plain, which is fertile and fertile, is both cultivated and herded.
Don’t think that Mongolians just live in pursuit of water and grass, and don’t know how to farm or settle down... In fact, Mongolians can farm and build cities - Mongolians farm, but they can’t farm well. many. Because the grasslands and deserts they occupied did not have fertile land for settlement, they had to nomadically roam the grasslands.
The Tumut River, located between the Yellow River and the Daqing Mountains, is one of the few lands suitable for farming in the territory controlled by the Mongols today. The land here is fertile, the terrain is flat, and irrigation is convenient.
Ada Khan, the leader of thousands of Tumut households who was afraid of the grasslands and deserts, chose the Tumut plain as the foundation of his "Khan's foundation". Many farmers who believed in the White Lotus Sect were recruited to cultivate land around Kuku and Tuncheng. Gradually, the Kukuhetuncheng and Tumutchuan plains were developed into a prosperous and rich fortress paradise, and at the same time, it was also turned into a right-wing Mongolian capital that could fight against the Mongolian Khan.
The person who divided Mongolia into two wings and sixty thousand households was Dayan Khan, the ancestor of Hutu Dun Khan and the leader of Zhongxing in the Northern Yuan Dynasty. The reason Dayan Khan did this was to consolidate the power of the Golden Family in Mongolia - in Dayan Khan's time, five of the six thousand households on the left and right wings were under the control of his sons, and The Chahar Ten Thousand Households he personally led (Chahar means palace in Persian) was the strongest among the six Ten Thousand Households.
In Dayan Khan's vision, Mongolian orthodoxy will come from the central Chahar household in the future, and the Khan's court will firmly control the other two left-wing households, the Khalkha household and the Wu household, through the strength of the Chahar household. Liangha thousands of households. And the three thousand households of Mongolia on the right are also led by the descendants of Dayan Khan, responsible for resisting the Oara people in the west and defending the Mongolian Khanate... Everything seems perfect.
However, the rise of Anda Khan (who was also a descendant of Dayan Khan) and the Tumote Ten Thousand Houses led by him completely broke the power structure designed by Dayan Khan.
Not only did he make Tumote Wanhu the master of the 30,000 households on the right, but he also sent troops to conquer the Uuliangha Wanhu who belonged to the left wing. He achieved the second of three-thirds of Mongolia (referring to the main part of Mongolia), and further sought the throne of Khan. First, he obtained the title of Sodo Khan (little Khan) from Altan from Bodi Khan of Chahar, and later simply Putting aside the Khan's court and the great lama of Tibet to compliment each other, and letting the great lama give himself the title of "Zakravaldi Chechen Khan", this is tantamount to openly proclaiming himself the Great Khan and challenging the Chahar Khan's court. Great Mongolia was divided.
However, the thing that caused the greatest damage to the unification of Mongolia was that Anda Khan did not establish himself as a Khan, but continued to build Kuku, settle villages and develop the Tumote River with his young wife Sanniangzi. Thanks to the efforts of the two of them, you can see the villages of Han immigrants or Sinicized Mongolian farmers and the wheat fields cultivated by them everywhere along the way from Tumed River to Zhangjiakou.
The development of agriculture in Tumutchuan not only made Kukuhetun more prosperous and became the largest and richest city on the Monan Grassland, but also gave tens of thousands of households in Tumut a strong economic strength. Compared with the wealthy Tumote households, the Chahar households who guarded the central Khanate of Mongolia were just shabby paupers. Compared with Bu Shitu Khan, Dayan Khan was just a rustic and poor beggar... If he had not defeated Bu Shitu Khan and captured Kukku and Tunhe Tumote River, Hu Tu Dun Khan would have unified Mongolia. The dream can only be a pillow of yellow rice.
But Hutu Tun Khan Lindan Batur, who had already captured Tumotechuan and Kukuhetun, is now sitting in the glazed golden palace left by Ada Khan, but he does not feel the joy of victory at all.
Because he knew that he was not the real winner... Although he captured Tumetchuan and Kukuhetun, he had a rich base area. But at the same time that he was seizing the foundation of thousands of Tumut households, the extremely ferocious Jianzhou Jurchens were raiding the Liaohe Hetao grassland, the base of Chahar households, and were destroying the Thirty-six tribes of Karaqin and the Five Neighbors of Inner Khalkha. Completely conquered!
And the soldiers of the Dorote Battalion who he left to guard on the Liaohe Hetao Grassland did not even have the strength to resist when faced with a smaller number of Jianzhou elite soldiers than they did...
After this battle, all the tribes on the Mongolian grassland will probably realize the fact that the strongest person on the grassland is not Chahar Wanhu at all, but Jianzhou Jurchen!
Although they are not Mongols at all, they have the force to conquer Mongolia... Mongolia has always worshiped the strong!
What he didn't expect was that the Ming Dynasty in the south, who was so afraid of being beaten by Jianzhou Jurchens and devoted money to bribe him, had now changed his face.
He actually refused to transfer the city reward enjoyed by the Shunyi Palace to himself, and also refused to pay the city reward that was originally supposed to be given to the Chahar tribe...
Two city rewards plus one are almost 300,000 taels!
For Hutu Dunhan, who just lost his hometown, this money can be used to extend his life!
In addition, the Ming Dynasty refused to issue city rewards, which also dealt a major blow to Hutu Dun Khan's prestige... This shows that the Ming Dynasty did not agree with his behavior of taking advantage of his own people to vent his anger if he could not defeat Jianzhou.
This kind of behavior does not look like a hero! This is bullying the weak and fearing the strong... When he saw the Bu Shitu Khan who was weaker than him, he became as fierce as a tiger, but when he met the Jianzhou Jurchen, he ran faster than a rabbit!
This Tiger Rabbit Tun Khan actually knows when to be a tiger and when to be a rabbit!
When faced with the Ming Dynasty's refusal to transfer and distribute market rewards, this bullying tiger and rabbit Dunhan didn't know whether to be a tiger or a rabbit.
Because he had already received the exact information from his brother-in-law, Gui Yingqia, who is also an important minister and general and known as the leader of the ten iron konots. The person in charge of the defense of Datong is the Ming Dynasty general who was transferred from Liaodong. Mangui!
It turns out that not long ago, Guiying was sent to Datong to ask for a city reward... As a result, in Datong City, he met Man Gui, who had just taken up his post, and the cavalry servant Man Gui brought back from Liaodong!
It was Man Gui who fought bloody battles with the Hou Jin soldiers outside Jinzhou City and forced the Hou Jin soldiers to retreat!
Does Hutu Dunhan dare to fight Houjin soldiers like this? How could he not just run away?
So after learning that Man Gui had become the general soldier of Datong, Hutu Dun Khan, who had planned to lead his troops to knock on the pass, was a little scared... After losing, Jin would be fine. If he was defeated by the Ming Dynasty again, this Khan How to continue?
But the problem is that none of his important ministers and generals know his suffering, and now they are all asking for a fight in the Glazed Golden Palace!
"Great Khan, please give me 10,000 elite soldiers, and I will cut through the border wall of Datong and fight all the way to the gate of Datong Prefecture!"
"Great Khan, give me five thousand soldiers and I can break the Datong border wall!"
"Great Khan, let me go. I will definitely let the people of the Southern Dynasties know how powerful my Yuan soldiers are..."
"Great Khan, send troops!"
"Sweat..."
Hutu Dunhan knew that his group of generals could still enjoy robbing the Tumote River, so they all wanted to rush into the border wall of Datong and snatch it hard!
But the problem is... Man Gui is not easy to deal with! And now Hou Jin is still sharpening his sword, maybe he will come to Tumote River anytime soon!
If another war breaks out with the Ming Dynasty, can the Yuan Kingdom (actually just a Han tribe) be able to withstand it?
Thinking of this, Hutu Dunhan coughed, and everyone suddenly became quiet. He turned his attention to his most trusted general Gui Yingcha.
Guiying is a Mongolian man in his thirties, strong and stocky, with a sinewy face. He is the leader of the so-called Tieguo Kenot Shisumu, which is an armored cavalry divided into ten parts. Each Sumu was led by Hutu Dun Khan's ten most trusted generals, and was the core force of Hutu Dun Khan.
Gui Yingcha frowned and said thoughtfully: "Great Khan... It's okay to break the Datong border wall. You can always grab some. But the question is, will the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty be willing to make peace with us? If he doesn't It will be troublesome to resume the market reward and continue to fight with us."
Yes, it will be troublesome if you continue to fight!
When Hutu Dunhan was hesitant, one of his cronies came in quickly from outside and handed an envelope with both hands. Hutu Dunhan took the envelope and saw that it was sent by his brother, Qutu Taiji, who was stationed near the border wall of Datong.
He quickly tore open the seal, took out the letter paper inside, and suddenly burst into laughter: "The little emperor of the Southern Dynasty has sent an envoy, and he has already left the Datong border wall! It seems that he still dare not fall out with us!"
