The mountains are like a screen, with peaks and ridges, criss-crossing ravines, and various shapes.
The pines and cypresses in this mountain are evergreen, the willows in the ditches are green, the streams are gurgling, and the green trees at the foot of the mountain are reflected in the blue waves. When you look at it, it's not like the wilderness, but like the Central Plains.
"The clear sky shows the central tower of the temple, and the morning dawns brightly on the city's upper floors. The noise of carriages and horses can't be seen, and the sound of whips is whirling across Fengzhou."
The ruling center of Mongolia's right-wing Tumut tribe is on the other side of the Daqingshan.
In later generations, this place was called Hohhot and was the provincial capital of Inner Mongolia. The so-called "Hohhot" means "green city" in Mongolian. It comes from the new city built here with large blue bricks by Anda Khan and Sanniangzi in the ninth year of Wanli.
Now, since the blue city has not yet been established, "Hohhot" is naturally out of the question. At this time, the old name from the Jin and Yuan Dynasties was still used here: Fengzhou.
Since Ada Khan, the leader of the Tumut tribe, entered Hetao and soon unified Monan, this place has been his pastoral residence, and now it has become the de facto Khan's court of the Tumut tribe.
At this moment, at the foot of Daqing Mountain, a large-scale caravan was meandering.
It was late autumn, the rice and millet in the Central Plains were ripe, and the cattle and horses in the grassland were fat. In previous years, it would have been the time when the Shanxi caravan set out to collect goods and set foot on the grassland.
However, in April this year, I sent my troops to attack Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi, and alerted the border officials. In August, An Da and his son Xin Ai attacked Datong and Jinzhou separately.
Although the generals such as Datong Commander-in-Chief Ma Fang and Jizhou Commander-in-Chief Qi Jiguang were well guarded, the two important places were safe and the incoming enemy was successfully repelled in September. However, now that it has only been a month since Anda withdraws its troops, which caravan still dares to blindly enter the grassland? It is said that the Han caravans went straight to Fengzhou, but even the Mongolians who went to Zhangjiakou to purchase goods were already very rare - after all, they had just fought a war, right?
But this caravan was different. Not only did they dare to go deep into the grassland, they even continued to show their arrogance when they reached Daqing Mountain, as if the Fengzhou City not far ahead was not a dragon's pond and a tiger's den at all, but rather like wandering around in their own back garden.
This caravan stretched back and forth for two or three miles, and its number of people was six to seven hundred, making it truly rare in Monan. However, they had probably traveled too far. At this time, the packhorses were already quite tired, and each one had their heads drooped. The loads on their bodies prevented them from relaxing for a moment. The heavily armed caravan knights were still waving their whips as hard as they could. Shouting loudly, intimidating the horses that seemed about to be crushed.
This caravan is not only large in scale, but also has many horses pulling goods. If you look at it casually, it is estimated that the number of knights and pack horses is more than 1,300, 400. Even if it is placed in Mongolia, it is a big fortune.
A caravan of this size will inevitably have armed guards, so there are about two hundred vigorous knights in front and behind the caravan. The horses under their crotches are obviously different from the pack horses. They are tall and majestic, and may be even taller than the regular cavalry of the Ming Dynasty border army. Not bad at all. The knights on horseback had swords across their waists and arrows stuck in their backs. They all looked strong and powerful. They were obviously the armed guards of this caravan, but... the size of this guard was really too big.
At the front, middle and rear of the caravan, the same flags were flying in the wind to identify themselves: it was a giant wolf howling under the moon, with the wolf's body embroidered with the color of blood.
Blood Wolf Howling Moon Flag.
The blood is red, this is the color of the Ming Dynasty; the wolf howling at the moon is the majesty of the grassland!
It is said that it has only been half a year since this flag appeared. However, in this mere half year, no less than a thousand Mongolian bandits have fallen under this flag. Especially in May of this year, a small tribe of thousands of people who had just been punished by Anda Khan for a trivial matter, because they were greedy for the large amount of goods carried by this caravan, went out with all their clans, intending to take advantage of them, but they were killed by this caravan. The caravan guard carrying the Blood Wolf Roaring Moon flag was severely defeated. The entire tribe was killed and only about two hundred people were left, and they immediately fell apart.
In the grassland, heroes and strength have always been admired. This Han caravan that dared to fight back and completely wiped out an entire group of people in the vast grassland not only was not encircled and suppressed by An Da Khan's army, but was recognized by An Da Khan afterwards. . Antar Khan, the leader of the right-wing Mongolia, personally announced publicly that this caravan was "worthy of the friendship of this Khan" and strictly ordered all ministries to "remain friendly and not to have evil thoughts" when they came to do business. Anyone who violated the order would be deemed as "If you despise this Khan's edict, you will be punished."
Of course, the above are all words "translated" by Bansheng Han people. In fact, Anda Khan's original words were: "They are here to do business with me and are my friends. Who of you dares to use force against my friends?" , I will kill all the men of your clan, seize your women, cattle and sheep, part of them will be rewarded to the meritorious soldiers, and part of it will be used to make amends to friends."
It's rough, it's direct, but it's effective.
After all, even the "Emperor of the Great Yuan Dynasty", the titular master of the Wanli Grassland, and the Mongolian left-wing Zhasak Tutumen Khan are wary of Anda, fearing that he will use force to show off his ferocity and peek at the "big treasure". Who dares to do so in this desert land? Ignore Anda Khan's strict orders?
Therefore, even though the war was over, this large-scale caravan, under the gaze of the Blood Wolf Roaring Moon Flag, still dared to come to Fengzhou, the Khan's court of Anda Khan.
Blood Wolf Roaring Moon Flag, such a secondary image and name, of course only a high-ranking official who has played too many computer games can come up with it and feel proud of it. The guard cavalry carrying this flag was built with the former Bailixia thieves as its backbone. After six months of expansion and more than three months of private training by Datong general Ma Fang, it was finally carefully crafted!
Unlike most of his time-travel predecessors who "expanded private armies", Gao Pragmatic rarely personally intervened in his "private army" in the name of armed servants, except for formulating some rules and regulations. He only focused on introducing Yuan Shikai's "advanced experience" " His escort servants, whether on foot or on horseback, must shout a slogan loudly during three meals a day and when paying monthly wages: "Eat the eldest son's food and obey the eldest son's orders!"
If it is an additional reward, then one sentence should be added: "Thank you, eldest son, for the reward, and for working hard for him!"
Although this method is almost simpler and cruder than An Dahan, after half a year of observation, the effect is unexpectedly good. In particular, according to the method formulated by Gao Jingshi, the chief officer who "led the troops" was not allowed to pay himself, but must be appointed by Gao Jingshi, under the supervision of the chief military officers at all levels, in front of every guard servant. On the other hand, after the implementation of the system of "paying the salary to the individual on behalf of the eldest son", Gao Pragmatic enjoyed a high reputation among the bodyguards even though he did not directly interfere with the operations of the bodyguards.
No wonder later generations once concluded, "Whoever pays to support you is your father." This is a wise saying. In the final analysis, this pragmatic approach is nothing more than constantly reminding his bodyguards and servants who is the one "paying for you".
But now, this team, which was supported by Gao Shidu at his own expense, has arrived outside the Khan's court of Anda Khan.
