Chapter 064: Tumen's Decision

In fact, Buzhihatu's last words were still a little unfinished, because in his opinion, if the Tumen were to go west this time and give up halfway, then the Great Mongolia would probably lose not only Tumut, but also Ordos Wanhu and Qinghai Tumut.

In other words, the entire right-wing Mongolia will be completely lost.

This reason is obvious, Tumut is sandwiched between the Chahar Department and the Ordos Department, completely separating the two departments, and the Ordos Department and Qinghai Tumut were originally influenced by the Tumut Department and obeyed my orders.

Therefore, as long as the heir of Alta, the new Chechen Khan, does not mess around, these two departments can only continue to obey Tumut because they have to rely on the power of the Shunyi King to preside over the mutual market to ensure trade with the Ming Dynasty.

Expect them to give up the huge interests of the mutual market and go against Tumut simply out of the "Mongolian family", or even jump back to follow Tumen Khan?

Hehe, which side of your face looks prettier?

Huang Taiji has always been a follower of Alta, and he is a very rational person, and he is well aware of the importance of the mutual market, and he will definitely not give up the huge benefits he has already obtained to follow the empty sweat of Tumen as soon as his brain is hot;

Huoluo Chi may have been a little more ambitious than cutting out Huang Taiji, but he was originally the leader of Yong Xie Bu, and he followed me for many years before he was sent by me to Qinghai to take charge of one side alone. For this reason, he even left about thirty percent of his strength as a "thank you gift" or exchange, and now he has just gained a foothold in Qinghai, and he desperately needs to "replenish his blood" through the mutual market trade with the Ming Dynasty, in this case, can he give up the mutual market? I can't do it!

Therefore, if Tumen Khan does not interfere with the changes in Tumut this time, or if he retreats his troops because of the fire in his backyard, then he and the Great Mongol State will lose not just Tumut, but the entire right-wing Mongolia.

Perhaps, for a period of time, Tumut, Ordos and Qinghai Tumut will be temporarily retained within the political framework of the Great Mongolia. However, it only took more than ten years for the Ming Dynasty to tie up the right-wing Mongolia so firmly, if there were another ten or twenty years, would this right-wing Mongolia still exist? It will truly become the "Ming Golden Country".

Burihatu has analyzed the motives and practices of pragmatism quite clearly, and although Tumen Khan is "wise and late", he has now basically understood the danger of his situation.

Since Dayan Khan, the great situation of Mongolian unification has been almost collapsed because of the death of Alda, who was manipulated by that guy called Gao Pragmatic!

For the first time, Tumen Khan learned the tremendous pressure of the word "high pragmatism".

As the Great Khan of all Mongolia, he experienced the three Ming Emperors of Jiajing, Longqing and now Wanli.

In his eyes, Jiajing is powerful internally, but incompetent externally, but he is a good person, and the Ming Dynasty in the Jiajing period seems to be the best bully now that he thinks about it;

Long Qing is benevolent or weak internally, but he has a set of external feelings, and now in retrospect, it seems that it was because of the proper use of people, and the strategy of Gao Gong's Xihuaidong system made him very uncomfortable. And it was also during the Longqing period that Tumut resolutely threw himself into the arms of the Ming Dynasty, and since then he has become more and more separated from him, the Great Khan of Mongolia;

What about Wanli? This little emperor did not show anything unique before, at first everything was presided over by Gao Gong, and after Gao Gong's death, he continued to use Gao Gong's ally Guo Pu, Xiao Gui Cao implemented the Xihuaidong system everywhere, so that he harassed Ming Jing several times and suffered a shameful defeat under the counterattack of Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang.

But at that time, it seemed that it was only there: Qi Jiguang just stubbornly held on, Li Chengliang occasionally sent troops to sweep but never rushed to kill, and the two sides always remained on the tug-of-war between you and me, which seemed to be just a normal continuation of the 200-year-long war between Ming and Mongolia.

It wasn't until Guo Puzhishi that the little emperor began to officially govern, and everything suddenly changed greatly.

The occasion for this great change was naturally the death of Alta, but with the beginning of the little emperor's unexpected use of Gao Pragmatism as a plenipotentiary envoy, there seems to have been a strange change in the policy of the Ming Dynasty.

The "West Huai" of the "West Huai East System" has been further improved, and the Ming Dynasty is no longer satisfied with the "West", it seems that it is now about to be raised to "control".

A Ming dynasty who has completely mastered the right-wing Mongolia feels terrible when you think about it!

Two hundred years ago, Zhu Di only had three Wuliangha in his hands, and the Ming Dynasty pressed Mongolia to fight, and attacked Mobei five times, if they had the entire right wing now, what would it be like? Can you stay in Chahanhot?

This high pragmatism is too powerful! If his plans are not disrupted this time, the unification and revival of Mongolia will be far away!

Tumen Khan was persuaded by Burihatu, he now regards Gao Pragmatic as a great enemy like Gao Gong, and unlike Gao Gong's steady reign in the imperial court, Gao Pragmatic is now in Monan, in Tumut!

Tumen Khan gritted his teeth and made up his mind: he could not retreat, and this time he must completely cut off the claws stretched out by Gao Pragmatic!

"Ben Khan has decided." Tumen Khan's eyes showed a determined look: "First defeat Han Naji, capture the Ming court envoy, and sacrifice the flag with a high and pragmatic head!" ”

Huang Taiji and the others sighed in their hearts, and the brothers Pullik and Burihatu immediately applauded loudly and vigorously praised Tumen Khan's wise decision.

In fact, what the pictures don't know is that Gao Pragmatic doesn't have much feeling about Zhu Di's Five Expeditions to Mobei, and even has some slander in private.

According to the views of many people in later generations, the five expeditions to Mobei and the prestige of the world, such a grand event, what are you slandering?

But with a pragmatic approach, he has always not attached importance to false fame, but to practical results.

What is the effectiveness of the five expeditions to Mobei? What did the Ming gain and what did they lose in the Five Expeditions to the Desert North?

Due to the meritorious service of the Wuliang Habu in the Battle of Jingyan, Zhu Di still had a gentle attitude towards Mongolia at first, but in the seventh year of Yongle, this thinking changed.

At that time, the leader of Eastern Mongolia, Benyasuri Khan, first beheaded the envoy Guo Ji of the Ming Dynasty, and then annihilated the 100,000 army of the Ming Dynasty in the Battle of the Yuqu River, which caused heavy losses to the Ming Dynasty. When Zhu Di learned the news, he was furious and personally led an army of 500,000 to crusade.

Thus, the fourteen-year-long Northern Expedition was unveiled, and a desperate battle with Mongolia began. So, how can the fourteen-year war be fought to the end?

In the eighth year of Yongle, Zhu Di began his first conquest. The result of this battle is actually a bit embarrassing, because, Zhu Di sent troops to recruit in February, but in the first three months, the Ming army could not find Benjamin Khan's large army at all, Zhu Di with this 500,000 army, mighty, but like a paddock hunting, can not beat a few Mongolian soldiers. It was not until May that the Ming army made a small gain - killed a few Mongolian soldiers, seized a few horses, sheep, and vehicles.

It was not until they reached the banks of the Martyrdom River and the east of Lake Bell that the Ming army met the strategic target of this time, Benjamli, and began a real fierce battle. In this battle, the Ming army defeated the Mongol soldiers with an absolute advantage, but unfortunately, they failed to kill Benjamin Khan and let him flee to the west.

At the same time, because the grain and grass of the Ming army had been exhausted after several months of contemporary, many Ming soldiers were starved to death, and there was no way to do this, so Zhu Di could only hastily end the Northern Expedition that lasted for five months.

In the twelfth year of Yongle, he conquered the Mobei region for the second time. At this time, the Mongolian Warat Department began to gradually become stronger, and there were harassments and threats to the border of the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Di led an army of 500,000 to start the second imperial expedition.

At the Tula River, the Ming army launched an attack on the Warat troops with artillery, causing them heavy casualties. According to relevant historical records, the Ming army "killed hundreds of enemies" in this battle. This time, Zhu Di adopted the method of pursuing the victory, and after the bombardment, he began to fight at close range.

In the course of the fierce battle, both sides suffered many casualties, but the Warat tribe suffered even heavier losses, and was later annexed by the Tatar tribe Arutai, who was ostensibly subservient to the Ming Dynasty at that time. In the later period of the Arutai period, the power gradually became stronger, and then the tribute was stopped, and later, this army developed into the Ming army.

In the twentieth year of Yongle, the Third Northern Expedition began. This time, Zhu Di's main target of attack was Arutai in the Tatar Ministry. Due to the difference in strength, Arutai did not dare to clash head-on with the Ming Dynasty, so before Zhu Di's army reached Mongolia, Arutai fled with a group of generals under his command.

Therefore, after Zhu Di and his 300,000 troops arrived in Mongolia, they didn't even see the enemy's shadow. Originally, Zhu Di still wanted to hunt down Arutai, but at the end of September, he changed his mind and returned home. The results of this expedition were...... Kill dozens of enemies.

The following year, the Fourth Desert War began. Because he didn't hit Arutai last time, and he himself was also a thief, he gathered troops and horses again to make a comeback, forcing Zhu Di to start the fourth personal expedition. However, this time, Arutai still refused to confront the Ming army head-on, and adopted a roundabout dodge tactic.

However, the luck of this expedition was better than the last, and in the course of sporadic engagements, the Ming army also annihilated most of the Arutai forces, so that they were finally reduced so much that they were finally annihilated by the resurgent Mongol Warat tribe.

Another year passed, and in the twenty-second year of Yongle, the fifth conquest of Mobei began. This is Zhu Di's third imperial expedition and the last time he sent troops to Mongolia, but even so, this time he still returned empty-handed.

When the Ming army came to Mongolia, the local enemy army just refused to fight, but began a guerrilla war like a hide-and-seek.

Although Zhu Di sent people to repeatedly search various valleys and narrow roads, trying to find the enemy, he did not see a single soldier of the enemy. Later, someone suggested that he wanted to use a month's military rations as bait to lure the enemy into going deeper, but Zhu Di was worried that something would happen to him because he was too close to the hinterland of the enemy, so he rejected the proposal and returned to the court.

What's worse is that Zhu Di died of illness on the way back to Beijing, and the Ming army could only speed up the return to Beijing and end the northern expedition.

Therefore, in Gao Pragmatic's view, during Zhu Di's reign, he personally conquered Mobei five times, and won five battles and five victories, which seems to be a great achievement, but what is inconsistent with propaganda is that in fact, these five victories did not kill countless enemies, nor did they completely eliminate the troubles of the Ming Dynasty, but only made the hatred between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia deeper and deeper.

It doesn't matter if you have a grudge, the problem is that in these five Mobei crusades, the Ming Dynasty did not get any substantial victories, and Zhu Di, who brought hundreds of thousands of troops each time, also thundered and rained on the road to the battle, but the results were mediocre.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty was so vigorous and mobilized the people, and the continuous northern expedition consumed a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and compared with the Mongolian army, it was obviously more at a loss. Even if the country was strong at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, what good would it be to do so? It's not as useful as seven trips to the West - seven trips to the West are actually not at a loss, but it is the emperor's internal money that makes money, and even the Ming Dynasty has obtained Arabian specialty dyes, which opened the era of blue and white porcelain.

But Zhu Di is not stupid, since he has done useless work in several Northern Expeditions, why does he still try again and again?

Zhu Di's goal was not actually a military goal, his Northern Expedition was political.