Soon, after thinking for a few days, Lin Danhan handed a letter to Jinong Naodaomao: "Immediately send someone to deliver this letter to Jinong Leren of the Xitumote Department and tell him that we need to borrow If he wants to go to Xuanfu, he must agree! As for the reason, Ben Khan has written it clearly above. I hope he still has the interests of our entire Golden Family in mind!"
Lin Danhan said to the other Chahar nobles around him: "For the benefit of my Huang family, from now on, this Khan will no longer directly use force to unify other Tatar tribes, but try to appease the other tribes. and alliance, in order to preserve the strength of our Tatars as much as possible. Through the recent understanding of the south, today’s Ming Dynasty seems to be different from the previous Ming Dynasty. This is a country that has begun to actively expand and has more The ambitious Ming Dynasty, their goal is not only the land, but maybe our population, and even let us, the Immortals, completely disappear from this world!"
Lin Danhan said with a solemn expression: "This is a terrible thing! I hope Leren from the Xitumote Department can understand this! We must prevent this from happening. If they are short-sighted and only want to do things with the Ming Dynasty, Buying and selling, exchanging horses and sheep for Ming goods, and even willing to let his slaves escape and become subjects of the Ming Dynasty, but forgetting that the knife in his hand can not only cut mutton for eating, but also kill people. We can only eliminate these degenerates who have no fighting spirit and are not worthy of being the descendants of my Golden Family for the benefit of the entire Great Yuan Empire!"
"The Great Khan is right. Now there are herdsmen on the grassland who have begun to flee to the pass. They would rather be the subjects of the Ming Kingdom than betray our Golden Family. The behavior shown by the Ming Kingdom now seems to want to encroach on our land. and population, and we have to respond to that.”
Na Mo then responded.
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"According to this, the behavior shown by the current Ming Dynasty is indeed worthy of our vigilance, and we are willing to take advantage of it."
After seeing the envoy sent by Lin Dan Khan and reading Lin Dan Khan's letter, Leren frowned and pondered for a while, and then made what he thought was the wisest choice.
The Tumut tribe was the tribe of Anda in the past. Later, the entire Tumut tribe was divided into two parts. The part in Liaodong was called the Eastern Tumut tribe, and the part in Datong and Xuanfu is now called the Western Tumut tribe.
Now, if Lin Dan Khan wanted to plunder Xuanfu and reach Datong, he would have to pass through the territory of the Xitumut tribe.
Lin Dan Khan originally planned to directly annex the Xitumut tribe and achieve the purpose of unifying his Yuan Empire.
But now because of the strength shown by Ming Dynasty, he decided to use indirect methods to achieve his goal of unifying the Yuan Empire, and used his main purpose to curb the expansion of Ming Dynasty.
Lin Dan Khan is obviously a person who is very sensitive to the situation in the competition between countries.
And Le Lun was not that stupid. He also realized that the Ming Empire was different from before and that people like him needed to be more vigilant. Therefore, he decisively agreed to Lin Danhan's request.
But because Leren was financially dependent on Ming Dynasty and did not want to be the first target of Ming Dynasty's revenge, he made another decision after agreeing to Lin Danhan.
"As soon as the Chahar tribe breaks through, they will immediately send people to inform the Ming court, saying that we did not allow the Chahar tribe to pass through our pastoral area, but the Chahar tribe forcibly defeated our army and directly After we went to Datong and Xuanfu, we could only send people to inform the Ming Emperor in a hurry, and hope that the Ming Emperor would forgive our mistakes. In addition, we sent another one thousand taels of gold to the Governor of Xuanda, Zhang Butang, hoping that they could help us speak. .”
Therefore, Leren gave this order to his subordinates and said: "There are few Han civil servants who don't love money. They should be able to help us speak."
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Here, after Lin Danhan learned that Le Lun promised to lend him a road, he decisively led his cavalry to invade Xuanfu.
At this time, Zhang Fengxiang, the governor of Xuanda, also received a secret letter from Le Lun and a gift of one thousand taels of gold from the merchant.
Therefore, Zhang Fengxiang immediately told his confidant Yang Wencong: "Immediately write a memorial to the imperial court, saying that according to informants, Lin Dan Khan raised 100,000 troops. After defeating the Xitumut tribe, he suddenly invaded Xuanfu and invited the imperial court. Send reinforcements immediately."
After saying that, Zhang Fengxiang said to Ai Wenkui, another confidant of his, "Go to Zhangjiakou Fort and inform the wealthy businessmen there about this matter."
Ai Wenkui took the order and left.
The border defense line of the Ming Dynasty is very long. The Great Wall stretches for thousands of miles in the Xuanfu area alone. Therefore, it is easy for Lin Danhan's army to find a section of the Great Wall to break through. After all, the main function of the Great Wall is actually to act as an economic blockade. In terms of military , cannot completely prevent the nomads from going south
After breaking through the customs, Lin Danhan's troops came straight to Zhangjiakou Fort, not far from the Great Wall.
Yue Qijie, the deputy inspector responsible for defending Zhangjiakou Fort, had summoned all the civil and military officials and wealthy businessmen in the fort, and said: "The Tatars came so fast that although we have sent people to Xuan Mansion to ask for help, now It's too late to wait for reinforcements. We need to defend Zhangjiakou Fort on our own first. In addition to the officers and soldiers, each family will mobilize their servants, and each family will donate some money and food to defend the city together. After that, I will definitely ask the court for credit for you. .”
At this time, guerrilla Xu Dingguo suddenly stood up and said: "In this case, we might as well surrender. Maybe we can save our lives and defend Zhangjiakou Fort. What if we are massacred by the Tatars after the city is broken?"
Yue Qijie glared at Xu Dingguo: "Is this what you say is a manly statement? I want you to open the city and surrender, unless you kill me now!"
"Then you'll offend me and cross the road!"
Therefore, Xu Dingguo suddenly pulled out the short knife from his sleeve and stabbed Yue Qijie directly.
Yue Qijie was shocked. He looked at the knife that was buried in his belly, and then looked at Xu Dingguo: "You!"
"Please don't blame Daotai. We are all businessmen, and so is General Xu. We can only do this."
At this time, a wealthy businessman named Zhang Yongfa said with a smile, and then looked at Huang Liangyu, a member of the Jinyiwei Baihu who was stationed in Zhangjiakou to manage the border trade department here, and said: "Huang Baihu! Please don't blame me!"
"ah!"
Before Huang Liangyu could finish speaking, he was strangled by someone. When he looked back, he saw a guard beside Yue Qijie. He had obviously been bribed and was strangling him with a wire.
Huang Liangyu kicked his legs and said, "You, you profiteers!"
At the same time, Xu Dingguo had already pulled out his knife, and then stabbed Yue Qijie again, then pulled it out again, and stabbed him again, and so on. In the end, Yue Qijie died from being stabbed more than ten times.
Lin Danhan was also surprised by this. He did not expect that the wealthy businessmen in Zhangjiakou Fort would be so cooperative and would take the initiative to send people to ask for surrender. The only requirement was that their property would not be looted.
Therefore, Lin Danhan agreed to their conditions and successfully entered Zhangjiakou Fort with Xu Dingguo and the wealthy businessmen of Zhangjiakou Fort kneeling to welcome him.
As soon as Lin Dan Khan entered Zhangjiakou Fort, he immediately ordered: "Except for those who surrendered in advance, all Mongolian and Han people in the city will be slaughtered! No one will be left alive! Including women and children! All their families will be exterminated!"
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