Regarding the internal strife in the Tumote Department, they were sent to Datong. Zhao Yutu also went with the tiger-character flag convoy from Datong to Xuanfu.
With the end of the war with the Tumote tribe, the Tiger Flag returned to peace.
Xinping Fort is one of the frontier forts. Every day, some people drag their families out of Datong and go to the grassland.
Most of these people are the family members of the Tiger Flag soldiers.
In order to better develop the land on the Tumut grassland, the Tiger Banner allowed soldiers from each major battalion to send letters to their families, and allowed their families to farm on the grassland.
These fields do not require any money and are completely free, but they are not allowed to be bought or sold, only rented.
For the people, land is their lifeblood. Land in Datong is already scarce. Most of the land is in the hands of clans and gentry. Ordinary people rarely have their own fields. Most people rent and farm other people's land.
Now Tiger Flag gives them free land for farming, and the tax is very low, which is almost the same as the imperial court's yellow list. The most important thing is that they don't need to pay an extra white list. This is attractive to many people who have no land. too big.
Of course, not everyone believes in such a good thing. Only those family members who have people working for the Tiger Flag and who have full trust in the Tiger Flag are willing to believe it and come to the grassland.
There are tens of thousands of tiger-character flag soldiers and baggage soldiers in total. Behind each person represents a family. Each family has at least two or three people, and the most people have a dozen or so people.
So many people wanted to go to Chaoyuan from the direction of Xinpingbao, and a long queue slowly formed.
In order to ensure the safety of these family members, Tiger Banner dispatched a military battalion to escort them.
Outside the gate of Xinpingbao City, there is a special registration system for family members going to the grassland, and wooden signs are issued to prove their identity.
There was such a big movement in Xinpingbao, so it was natural that the local officials could not hide it. Someone reported it early, uploaded it layer by layer, and finally sent it to the governor's office.
"Sir, General Ma is here." A yamen officer from the governor's yamen came to the back yamen.
Governor Liu put an official document in his hand on the table, and then said to the government servant in front of him: "Please invite General Ma to come in!"
After speaking, he picked up the blue and white tureen on the table, brought it to his mouth and took a sip of tea.
The officer retired.
Soon, General Ma in red robe walked in from outside.
"I've seen the governor before." As soon as he came in, General Ma saluted Governor Liu.
Liu Hongxu raised his right hand and said, "Sit down, someone will serve tea to the Commander-in-Chief."
"Thank you, sir." General Ma saluted again.
There was a seat next to it, and Mr. Ma walked over and sat down.
The servant brought a cup of freshly brewed hot tea, placed it next to Mr. Ma, and then withdrew.
Liu Hong leaned back on his chair, looked at General Ma, and said in a calm tone: "If the General Military Mansion is not training soldiers recently, why do you have time to come here today?"
"Reporting to your lord, I have just received the news from Xinpingbao. Your lord, please read it." As he said that, General Ma took out an official document from his sleeves and held it in both hands.
Du Wanyuan, the governor's staff member who was standing aside, came over, took the official document from General Ma's hand, and sent it to Liu Hong.
Liu Hong picked up the official document, opened it and flipped through it.
Soon, after reading the official document, he frowned slightly and said, "Do you believe what it says?"
"I don't know whether I should believe it or not. It's really a coincidence. Just when Liu Heng of Tiger Character Banner was going to the Tumote tribe to discuss the border expansion, civil strife broke out in the Tumote tribe. King Shunyi also died in the civil strife. Hit." General Ma said.
It is not like they have never heard of what happened in the Tumut Department.
However, what they heard was different from what Xinpingbao said. The news they received was that the Tiger Character Banner defeated the Tumut tribe, killed King Shunyi, and occupied Qingcheng.
Liu Hong picked up an official document from the desk, handed it to Du Wanyuan, and said at the same time: "Read the contents of this to General Ma."
Du Wanyuan took the official document and began to read it.
The content of the official document is about a large number of Datong people going to the grassland in the direction of Xinpingbao.
After Du Wanyuan read the last sentence of the official document, he closed the document.
"Sir, do you mean that the news about the Tiger Character Banner's defeat of the Tumote Tribe is true?" Ma Zongbing's face suddenly changed.
The Tumut tribe is not a small tribe, but one of the most powerful tribes with ten thousand households on the grassland. They invaded and plundered the country more than ten years ago, and they often invaded the territory of the Ming Dynasty during the Anda Khan period decades ago. .
If such a powerful Mongolian tribe is really defeated by the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag, this will not be a good thing for Datong, but a very terrible thing.
The condition for recruiting the Tiger-Character Banner was that Liu Heng was only allowed to leave a large battalion of soldiers and horses, because he was worried that the Tiger-Character Banner would become the last force to be defeated.
Now that the Tiger Character Banner is able to defeat the Tumote tribe, if this is true, it is enough to show that the Tiger Character Banner not only has three thousand soldiers and horses, but there will only be more soldiers and horses secretly.
It is impossible for the Tiger Flag with only 3,000 troops to defeat the Tumut tribe.
Even though the strength of the Tumote tribe has not been as strong as it was in recent years, there are still tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry. With the three thousand infantry of the Tiger Flag, no matter how powerful they are, they cannot be an opponent of tens of thousands of cavalry.
"It's not necessarily true." Liu Hong said, "No matter how powerful the soldiers of the Tiger Flag are, everyone in the Tumote tribe is a cavalry, and they can easily pull up a tens of thousands of cavalry. The Ziqi Banner is all infantry, so if you want to defeat tens of thousands of cavalry, it is impossible without several times more soldiers and horses, but do you think the Tiger Ziqi Banner can have an army of hundreds of thousands?"
After hearing this, General Ma shook his head subconsciously.
If the Tiger Character Banner really has an army of hundreds of thousands, not to mention Datong, even if the entire Xuan Mansion's troops and horses are added to it, they will not be a match for the Tiger Character Banner.
Moreover, he did not think that the Tiger Character Banner could support an army of hundreds of thousands of people.
If hundreds of thousands of infantrymen want to defeat tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry, these infantrymen must be the elite of the army.
Liu Hong said: "This is also what I don't understand. Logically speaking, the Tiger Character Banner cannot be the opponent of the Tumote Department, but now that the Tiger Character Flag has brought so many people to the grassland, I am a little unsure. ”
"Xiaoguan thinks that the news sent by Tiger Character Banner may be close to the truth, but there are some other things hidden in it." Ma Zongbing said.
Liu Hong nodded and said: "I think so too, but how do you think this matter should be reported to the court? After all, such a big thing as the murder of King Shunyi cannot be concealed."
"How about we send it up as the tiger-character flag was sent?" Ma Zongbing said tentatively.
Liu Hong thought for a while and said: "It seems that this is the only way, but you have to keep a close eye on the Tiger Flag and try to figure out how powerful the Tiger Flag is."
"Don't worry, sir. I will definitely find a way to figure it out." Ma Zongbing said.
To them, the Tiger Flag is like an evil tiger that can eat people at any time. Neither of them can feel at ease unless they understand it thoroughly.
