"Great Khan, Lao Taiji is here."
The bodyguard Mumuzha walked in from outside the yurt to report.
"No." Bu Shitu waved his hand impatiently, and as soon as he finished speaking, he immediately said, "Wait a minute, bring Lao Taiji in!"
"Yes." Mumuzha agreed and exited the yurt.
Not long after, Kankantada came in from outside, stood in front of the fortune-telling rabbit, saluted and said: "See the Great Khan."
"Lao Taiji, sit down!" Bu Shitu raised his finger and pointed to the seat next to him, then he picked up the golden bottle on the low table and took a sip of the wine inside.
Kankantada walked behind the low table on one side and sat down cross-legged.
"Send some wine to Lao Taiji. By the way, Lao Taiji likes the kumiss brewed by us Mongolians. Send me a pot of kumiss." Bu Shitu ordered a guard beside him.
The bodyguard bowed and left.
Kankantada bowed to the fortune-telling rabbit and said, "I thank the Great Khan for the reward."
"You don't have to be so polite. You can have a few drinks with me later." Bu Shitu grabbed the golden bottle and drank the remaining wine in one gulp.
Then he picked up the wine jug next to him and refilled the gold cup himself.
Kankantada looked at the unhappy Bushitu and said, "Is the Great Khan in a bad mood because of today's defeat?"
"Since the army arrived here, it has been defeated twice in a row. Do you think Ben Khan will be in a good mood?" Bu Shitu said with an unhappy look on his face.
After losing two battles in a row and losing hundreds of people, he still had nothing to do with the fortress of the Tiger Flag. As the Great Khan, he could already feel the dissatisfaction among the ministries below.
Kankantada said: "I just went to Sukhba Beast and found out why it failed this time. For this reason, I came up with a way to deal with the Tiger Flag, which can restore the confidence of various ministries for the Great Khan."
Bu Shitu did not speak, but picked up the golden bottle and put it to his mouth and took a sip of wine.
Kankantada said: "The two previous defeats were due to our underestimation of the strength of the Tiger Flag soldiers. As long as we are fully prepared this time, we will definitely be able to defeat the Tiger Flag soldiers and win the victory. This castle in front of you."
"I already regret listening to you and coming here to conquer the Tiger Flag. If you hadn't asked me to force the Tiger Flag to withdraw from the grassland, the Tiger Flag would not have come to build a fort on the grassland, let alone so many things that happened later. ." Bu Shitu said in a bad tone.
He already regretted his antagonism with Tiger Flag, otherwise he would still be able to get the dividends he deserved from Tiger Flag's business.
Hearing this, Kankantada's eyes twitched and advised: "Great Khan, the tiger-character flag is ambitious. Even if we don't force them to withdraw from the grassland, it will be a matter of time before they come to the grassland to build forts. Now how many of our Ten thousand troops are here, Khan, you must not think of retreating."
He was afraid that Shitu would retreat.
The Tiger Character Banner has already built the forts on the grassland. No one knows how many more forts the Tiger Character Banner will build on the grassland. Once the forts are built in Qingcheng and Banshengdi, they will become the land of the Ming Dynasty. Rather than the grassland of Tumut.
"Tell me first, what ideas have you come up with to deal with the tiger-character flag soldiers and horses in front of you." Bu Shitu put down the golden bottle in his hand and asked Kankantada on the side. Love reading books
Kankantada said: "Now we know how capable the soldiers of the Tiger Character Banner are. They are not easy to fight, but they don't have many soldiers and horses. We have brought tens of thousands of Mongolian warriors. As long as we send more warriors, we will definitely be able to defeat them." Eat the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag and capture the fort they are stationed in."
"Do you want to send more troops to attack the fortress of the Tiger Flag?" Bu Shitu frowned slightly.
Kankantada nodded, and then said: "This time we not only need to attack the Tiger Flag's fort, but also deal with the Tiger Flag's troops outside the fort, and prevent the Tiger Flag's troops outside from supporting them. Their castle."
"Are you sure?" Bu Shitu asked uneasily.
The last time Kankantada said that his idea would definitely win the castle in front of him, but what he got in the end was a defeat, so he no longer had the same new trust in Kankantada as before.
Kankantada nodded vigorously and said: "Don't worry, Khan, I am fully confident this time. Our tens of thousands of troops can definitely win in one battle as long as we separate the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag and the soldiers and horses in the Dunbao." .”
"The fort here in Tiger Character Banner has not been built yet. There are more forts that have been built ahead. It is so difficult to win this unbuilt fort. The forts that have been built in front are... I'm afraid it will be more difficult to deal with." Bu Shitu was worried that dispatching tens of thousands of troops would destroy too many Tumut warriors.
Too many Tumote warriors were killed or injured, which would directly affect Tumute's strength.
If the strength becomes weak on the grassland, other tribes will invade each other's pastures and drive the weaker tribes to survive in places with harsh environments.
The pasture of the Tumut tribe today is the pasture of Chahar, the left-wing Mongolia. Back then, because of the strength of Sodo Khan's Tumut, Chahar had to abandon this grassland and choose to move eastward.
Kankantada said in a relaxed tone: "The Great Khan can rest assured about this. We only have the most soldiers and horses stationed in the Tiger Flag here. As long as the Tiger Flag soldiers and horses here are eliminated, there will be no more fortresses in front of us." So many soldiers and horses with tiger-shaped flags are stationed."
"How do you know this?" Bu Shitu asked puzzledly.
Kankantada said: "I sent sentries to investigate along the road, and most of the soldiers and horses sent to the grassland by the Tiger Character Banner are stationed here."
"Can you guarantee that you will win the castle in front of you this time?" Bu Shitu asked again.
Kankantada nodded and said: "Don't worry, Khan, we have tens of thousands of troops, several times the number of soldiers and horses of the Tiger Character Flag, and they are all warriors who are good at fighting. We can definitely take down the Tiger Character Flag here in one fell swoop." And Dunbao.”
He once again promised Shitu.
Bu Shitu turned the golden bottle in his hand, still a little worried.
Once tens of thousands of troops go all out to deal with the Tiger Flag and fail to win, it will be difficult to deal with the Tiger Flag on the grassland in the future.
Kankantada continued to persuade: "Great Khan, we have no choice. The people of the Tiger Banner have built the fort on the grassland and spent a lot of money. It is impossible for them to give up. We can only fight. And it is better to fight late than to fight early. As long as we win this battle, the Tiger Flag will not be a concern in the future."
At this time, the bodyguard walked into the yurt carrying a pot of kumiss.
"Taiji, your kumiss." The guard placed the jug containing kumiss on the low table in front of Kancantada.
Kankantada knew that Shitu was still thinking about it, so he picked up the wine flask, poured a glass of kumiss into his own wine glass, then picked it up and tasted it slowly.
Many Taijis in Tumut know that he likes to drink kumiss, but they don’t know that he also likes to drink spirits. However, only kumiss is the Mongolians’ own wine, and the spirits on the grasslands are sold by Ming merchants. On the grassland, although he could drink it, he drank very little. He was worried that one day he would get used to drinking Ming country wine and no longer like to drink the mare's milk wine brewed by the Mongols.
