In front of Lin Dan Khan, this personal guard sent by Huluke Zhaisang knelt on one knee and did not dare to raise his head and continued: "... The lord was deeply ashamed that he had been entrusted with the Great Khan, so he decided to reorganize his men and prepare to personally lead the team to attack the hill.

The lord said that although the remaining remnants of the army may not be the opponent of the Ming army, he would rather die on the way to the enemy than bear to be humiliated and lose the face of the Great Khan. ”

Lin Dan Khan glanced at the tribal leaders around him, and saw that they seemed to be deeply moved by the words from the Hulu Kezhai Sang faction, and nodded vigorously to praise the courage of the chief official, as if the great defeat had never happened again, which made him quite annoyed in his heart.

"In that case, Huluk Zhaisang asked you to come over, what else do you want to say to Ben Khan? Is it necessary for Ben Khan to beat the drum and cheer him on? Lin Danhan couldn't help but ask the guard mockingly.

The guard stubbornly said: "Your Excellency just asks the Great Khan to look at the past feelings, and after he dies, take care of the children left by the adult." ”

The left-wing chief Tashhai suddenly stood up, knelt down on one knee in front of Lin Dan Khan and pleaded: "Great Khan, although Huluk Zhaisang is not effective in combat, please give him another chance for the sake of his loyalty to the Great Khan in the past." ”

With Tashhai taking the lead, a group of tribal leaders also stepped forward one after another and began to intercede for Huluk Zhaisang. Seeing this scene, Tu Taiji and Ezhe couldn't help but say a few words for Huluke Zhaisangfen.

The young and vigorous Ezhe even took the initiative to ask Ying, wanting to replace the unlucky Huluke Zhaisang and fight against the Ming army.

Looking at his eager son and his straightforward brother, Lin Dan Khan had to suppress the anger in his heart, he walked to the personal guard of Huluk Zhaisang, and asked with a stern face.

"Say, what does Huluk Zhaisang want, so that he can capture that hill for Ben Khan and wash away his shame."

The guard's grip on the grass finally relaxed, and he hurriedly replied, "If the Great Khan can give your Excellency another 3 thousand troops and 500 Golden Horde warriors, then your Excellency will definitely take that mountain for the Great Khan." ”

"3 thousand-person teams, 500 Golden Horde warriors, he is really a big mouth..."Lin Danhan heard this request, and suddenly became a little angry, but he still didn't vent his anger completely, so he stopped.

The 40,000 Chahar cavalry and 4,000 Golden Horde warriors were the guarantor of his authority over the Great Khan. Compared to the former, only the 4,000 Golden Horde warriors were truly loyal to his descendants, and would not be co-opted by the tribal leaders.

It is precisely because the Golden Horde suppresses the Chahar cavalry, and the force composed of the two suppresses it, that the dissidents inside and outside the tribe can be the Great Khan of the Chahar tribe and the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire that intimidates the Mongol tribes.

For the loss of the Golden Horde, each one would make him feel very distressed. On this expedition, he left 1,000 Golden Horde warriors to guard the Khan's Court in Naturalization City, plus the guards given to several cronies and generals, and the Golden Horde warriors around him were only more than 1,600 people.

A failed attack by Huluk Zhaisang caused him to lose more than 100 Golden Horde warriors, and indirectly caused the three Golden Horde Warrior Hundred Warriors to lose their combat power, which already made him feel distressed. Now if he were given another 500 men, there would be less than a thousand Golden Horde warriors around him.

If this war left the Golden Horde and the cavalry of the Chahar tribe suffering heavy losses, then what was the point of winning this victory.

As far as he knew, the Ming Dynasty had more than 200,000 troops in Xuanfu and Datong, and more than 70,000 cavalry. But now the Ming army that appears on the grassland is more than 30,000 people.

That is to say, even if the Ming army in front of him is completely annihilated, if the Ming army in Datong Pass is also so difficult, then what strength does he have to break through the Datong border fortress and force the Ming Dynasty to come up with rewards and materials.

He wanted to defeat the Ming and Mongolian coalition forces on the opposite side, one purpose was to make the right-wing Mongolia no longer have the strength and ability to resist him; Another purpose was that enough supplies and silver taels must be squeezed out of the hands of the Ming Dynasty, so that the herdsmen of the Chahar tribe could survive this winter comfortably, and the tribal leaders who had been resisting westward migration would have to make a little noise.

If this battle is fought and only one reputation is won and nothing else is gained, the Chahar tribe, which has suffered heavy losses, will have a difficult winter to endure.

Although he was the rightful heir of the Great Yuan and the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, he was also recognized by the Mongols as the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. However, in Liaodong, he had two enemies, Houjin and Horqin, and on the right flank of Mongolia, there were tribes such as Tumut who were unwilling to obey orders.

The Moxi Mongols did not agree with the history of the Chahar Department ruling the Khan's court, which has a long history. As for Mobei Mongolia, except for one Chechen Khan, other tribes were equally unconvinced that he was the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.

He looked around, and realized that there was no other person around him who was not an enemy. In this sinister environment, the weakening of the Chahar tribe and the weakening of the Golden Horde may be the beginning of the road of no return for him.

After thinking about it for a long time, Lin Dan Khan finally decided: "Go back and tell Huluk Zhaisang that there are no Golden Horde warriors, and Ben Khan will give him two more thousand troops." If he can attack, he will attack, and if he can't attack, he will crucify those Ming troops to the mountain for Ben Khan, and don't let them attack down the hillside. If he can't even do that, he will wipe his neck before coming to see me. ”

The soldier did not dare to say more, but agreed, bowed his head and withdrew some distance, then quickly turned and mounted his horse and galloped away.

Lin Dan Khan seemed to still be angry and said: "Tashhai, you send two thousand-strong troops to Huluke Zhaisang, and by the way, send two more people to the left and right flanks to find out how the battle is going."

Ask Gui Yingcha for Ben Khan how long it will take for him to crush the left flank of the Ming people and outflank the Chinese army of the Ming people..."

When Lin Dan Khan gave orders to the ministers around him, Mao Yuanyi, who was standing on the edge of the hill, observed the Mongol cavalry fleeing down the mountain for a long time, and then determined that these cavalry could not counterattack to the top of the mountain in a short time.

He said to the staff officers who followed him: "You can order the second battalion of the third brigade of Xuanfu to come up and change the guard, the first battalion will leave the third company to garrison, and the others will return to the rear to repair."

Let the men bring the wounded down as well, and pile up the bodies on the south passage. After the second battalion came up, it restored this line of defense.

Then bring me the military judge. ”

The staff officer standing beside him lowered his head and recorded the order, but hesitated for his last request, so the staff officer raised his head and said to Mao Yuanyi with some concern: "My lord, although your duty is to guard this hill, but to punish the military attaché who escapes from the battle, it can be handed over to Chief Sun and Lord Yuan." ”

Mao Yuanyi glanced back at him, and said with a stern look on his face: "Isn't this official able to deal with these scum?" Even if that hundred households are from the Jiang family in Datong and dare to escape, the official will dare to behead him.

You go and give the order, when the second battalion and the first battalion hand over positions, the officers should use their heads to strictly enforce military discipline, and see who dares to abandon their comrades and positions next time and flee without permission. ”

The staff officer immediately shrunk his neck, not daring to persuade Mao Yuanyi anymore. For this compiler of the army's regulations, any behavior that violates the regulations will be disgusted by him. Not to mention, these military attachés abandoned their men and fled, causing a gap in the entire defensive line, leaving several teams of archers and musketeers dead in vain.

In the middle of the battlefield, on a platform built with earth and wooden platoons, Mao Yuanyi first announced the fact that the four military attaches had fled from the battle, and then asked the military judge to announce the verdict of the four military attaches in public, and directly executed them in public.

The four bloody heads were hung on the erected flag, and the soldiers passing below were all shocked.

Mao Yuanyi was not a general who only knew how to punish, and after punishing the fleeing officers, he ordered the promotion of more than a dozen ordinary soldiers and low-ranking military attachés in recognition of their heroic deeds in previous battles.

Between this punishment and reward, Mao Yuanyi finally captured the hearts of these soldiers. The army is a strange organization, and no one likes a general who is strict in their discipline. But when it came to wartime, the soldiers wanted to fight under the command of a strong general.

Mao Yuanyi's actions on the battlefield finally made these soldiers recognize that this general was exactly the commander they needed.

The experience of defeating the Mongols twice also made these soldiers begin to have some good premonitions about the outcome of this war.

After watching these soldiers handing over their positions in an orderly manner and not making any trouble, Mao Yuanyi and several staff officers around him began to study the construction positions of the eight artillery forts in the north.

When Gilda wakes up from his coma, he finds himself lying on a strange wheelbarrow, nay, rather, tied to one side of the wheelbarrow, and on the other side is a similarly injured Akito.

He thought hard about it before he understood what was going on. He prayed that his companions would crush the Ming army as soon as possible so that he could be freed from the carcass of his horse, and perhaps his own leg.

But with one thunderclap after another, the Mongol cavalry behind him not only did not continue to advance, but became completely confused. Unable to move, Gilda didn't understand what was happening, but he soon realized that his comrades who had crossed the wooden fence were panicking.

These comrades did not attack the Ming army in front of them, but galloped back and forth in front of the Ming army like headless flies, and he was so unlucky that he was kicked alive by a cavalry mount and fainted.

The last scene before he fell unconscious, and his current situation, made Gilda realize that their attack on the hill had failed, and he had become a prisoner of the Ming army.

But what the Ming army wanted to do by tying him to the car, Jeddah struggled for a moment, trying to raise his head to look at his surroundings.

"Hey, don't move, it's going down the hill. If you're not honest, the car will flip over. Immediately behind Jeddah, the coachman's voice reprimanded.

Listening to the coachman's proficient Mongolian language, Jeddah asked with a little expectation, "Are you also Mongolian?" ”

"Don't think about it, I'm not a Mongolian, I'm just a Han who went to the outside of the Seychelles to beg for a living. If it weren't for you barbarians from the east, I would have been farming near Naturalization City. From the tone of the coachman's voice, it was clear that there was a great deal of resentment towards them, the Chahars.

Gilda was speechless, and he felt that he could not explain the reason for his tribe's westward migration, which made him very frightened.

If it were him, would there be any good treatment in the face of the enemy captives who had invaded his homeland.

Gilda's mind went up and down for a long time, and finally he was forced by the fear of the unknown, and he asked in a low voice to the unfriendly coachman, "Where is this taking me?" I'm just an ordinary herdsman, and I don't know anything else. ”

The driver, who was trying to balance the vehicle, obviously had no intention of talking to him, but just insulted him and told him to shut up.

On the other side of the wheelbarrow, the Ming army, who had been looking up at the sky, suddenly turned his head and said softly to him: "Don't worry too much, for you, this war is over, as long as you stay honest, you can go home after the battle." ”

Although he didn't know the truth or falsehood of this Ming army's words, Jida seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and his heart suddenly settled down. He turned his head to thank the Ming soldier, but the Ming soldier returned to looking at the sky and was silent.

Jida stretched his neck a little curiously and glanced at the Ming army next door, wanting to see where he was injured, but saw that the Ming army's right hand was shortened.

This discovery immediately shocked him, and Gilda no longer tried to talk to the Ming army, but followed the example of the Ming army and looked at the sky. Only then did he realize that the sky was exceptionally blue today.