When the sounds of herdsmen's chatting and horses neighing outside began to fill the camp, Liu Jingting, who had a light sleep, was quickly woken up. When he opened his eyes, it was dark inside the yurt, and it was a long time before the outlines of some objects could be faintly seen.

Following the memory, he propped himself up, reached out and touched the place where he had put down his clothes last night, and put them on one by one in the order in which they were placed.

After tossing for half an hour, he was neatly dressed, and then he lifted the curtain made of wool felt and walked out of the yurt. The oncoming fresh air suddenly blew away the strong smell of mutton in the yurt, which made him feel uplifted.

However, it was bitterly cold outside the plug, just entered October, the weather was close to freezing in the morning and evening, and with the fresh air came, there was a cold chill, which suddenly made Liu Jingting, who came out of the warm yurt, involuntarily shivered.

Su Rile Heke, who was feeding his mount, saw Liu Jingting coming out of the yurt, and immediately grinned and shouted loudly: "Mr. Liu, you got up really early today." Wait, I'll have breakfast ready for you. ”

Liu Jingting hurriedly smiled and returned the salute and said, "Don't worry, don't worry, I'll go to the river to wash up first, you can be busy first." ”

Suzhle Hok agreed, and lowered his head and continued to feed the horses. Liu Jingting, on the other hand, walked slowly towards the east of this small camp with his hands behind his back.

Since Lin Dan Khan listened to the advice of the lamas around him, he took care of them, the envoys of the Ming Kingdom.

And Liu Jingting was handed over to his eldest brother-in-law Gui Yingcha to take care of, and Gui Yingcha, who had assured the Ming officials of the safety of the envoy, handed Liu Jingting over to his close subordinate Su Rile Heke to take care of.

Suzhl Hok is the leader of a small tribe of the Chahar tribe, which is less than 300 people, and because of some relationship with Guiyingcha's mother, he has received a lot of care from Guiyingcha.

After receiving Gui Yingcha's order, Su Rile Hoke naturally took care of Liu Jingting as a top priority. At the beginning, Liu Jingting could only move at the door of the yurt where he lived, and could not go anywhere else. Every day, 4 people accompany him tightly.

However, Liu Jingting had no intention of fleeing, nor did he want to commit suicide or anything. His attitude of being at ease with what happened finally made the guards who guarded him relax.

And Liu Jingting spent the first half of his life in the rivers and lakes, but he learned a lot of strange skills, and Fang said some techniques for breaking the bones.

Under his deliberate approach, he quickly won the favor of these simple Mongolian herdsmen. The peoples of the steppe respect doctors and shamans the most.

In their nomadic life, the former healed their bodies, and the latter became their spiritual sustenance by the way.

After showing a few small healing methods, Liu Jingting received the highest courtesy from the tribe. The cramped, dilapidated yurt he used to live in has been replaced with one of the best yurts in the tribe.

And whether it is diet or range of action, they are also greatly preferential. However, when Liu Jingting had just become familiar with the area where the tribe was located, Lin Dan Khan suddenly ordered the army to leave Guihua City and head towards Yin Mountain to the east. The tribes of Suzhlehok were also under the command of the Great Khan.

Although the small tribe was reluctant to leave the rich pastures they had just acquired, they knew that they could not disobey the orders of the Great Khan.

In one step and three turns, the tribe followed Lin Dan Khan's army through the Yinshan Mountains and came to the vicinity known as Jining Haizi.

It is an irregular triangle that is about 40 li long from east to west and about 150 li wide from north to south. With more than 20 rivers flowing into the sea, the lake looks like a sea with no end in sight.

The lake is rich in fish, so waterfowl flourish in the swamps around the lake, and swans can often be seen by herders near the lake. Therefore, Jining Haizi is also known as the "Saiwai Shengjie Mingtang", which is a sacred lake for some Mongolian tribes.

The grassland around Jining Haizi is flat and rich in water and grass, and it was originally the pasture of the Siziwang tribe, the Urat tribe, the Maomingan tribe, and the Khalkha right-wing tribe.

However, when Lin Dan Khan led a large army to arrive here, except for some tribes who were unwilling to submit to Lin Dan Khan and went south to join the Ming and Mongolian alliances, most of the tribes still offered their allegiance to Lin Dan Khan.

Lin Dan Khan stayed near Jining Haizi for half a month, then continued to the south with his army and went to settle accounts with the Ming-Mongolian coalition army, but the tribe of Suilhek and some other tribes were left here to take care of the logistics of the army.

The camp of the Suzhlehok tribe is set up on a hill with a river down the slope to the east.

The prairie rivers look exceptionally clear, but today there is a thin layer of ice on the river's edge. Liu Jingting carefully found a suitable place by the river, and then squatted down and broke the thin ice in front of him.

When he hurriedly washed himself in the cold water, he wiped his hands away from the water and began to calculate how long it had been since Lin Dan Khan's army had left.

Although Liu Jingting has been looking untroubled on the surface these days, he is full of uneasiness about this war in his heart.

After personally contacting the officers and soldiers of the Daming border pass and the Mongolian tribes outside the Saiwai, Liu Jingting finally faintly felt that perhaps the victory or defeat of this war would determine the power structure of the Mongolian tribes outside the Guanwai.

But for him who is imprisoned here, all he can do now is to wait silently for the ending.

The only thing that gave him some comfort was his contact with the ordinary herders of these Mongolian tribes. He found that these ordinary Mongols were not in the mood to fight against the Ming Kingdom. They also did not understand why the Great Khan wanted to conquer the brothers of the right-wing Mongol tribes.

On the contrary, the herdsmen agreed with what the Yellow Lama had said with him on his mission to Chahar. The Mongols did not fight the Mongols, the Han and the Mongols were brothers, and there should be something to sit down and discuss together, rather than the statement that the sword soldiers decided the right and wrong of things.

Even at the tribal level, there are not a few who agree with this statement. After more than ten years of entanglement with the Houjin in Liaodong, the people of the Chahar tribe also lost a lot, and all the tribes hoped to be able to recuperate for a period of time after moving to the pastures of the Mongolian right wing.

After the Jurchens raised troops in Jianzhou, they basically won all the wars against the Quartet, and the Chahar Department fought for more than ten years, and they were all defeated and won less. Therefore, the interest of ordinary Mongols in war was not as fanatical as that of the Jurchens.

In contrast, the tribes within the Chahar Department are more concerned about the location and size of their own pastures after the tribes move westward.

The westward migration of the left-wing Mongol tribes of Chahar was, in essence, to escape the Houjin Kingdom, which was becoming more and more aggressive, so this westward migration was more like an escape.

Lin Dan Khan, who once dared to write to Nurhachi, calling himself the lord of 400,000 people on the waterfront, actually moved west to seize the land of the right-wing Mongol tribes in order to avoid the invasion of the Houjin Kingdom.

When he gave this order, the self-confidence of the Mongolian tribal warriors on the left wing of Chahar was immediately shattered.

Although they easily captured the city of Guihua, they were unable to make the right-wing Mongol tribes submit to them. Even, in the hearts of many left-wing Mongolian tribal warriors, they began to look down on Lin Dan Khan, who represented the Mongol Empire.

If Lin Dan Khan wanted to bring the right-wing Mongol tribes to their knees, not by virtue and fame, but by his own force, then wouldn't the Houjin kingdom that defeated him be more worthy of the Mongol tribes to take refuge.

In Liu Jingting's view, the biggest reason why the alliance between the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian right-wing tribes was able to win was probably because of the chaotic thinking of these left-wing Mongolian tribes.

He straightened up, and the distant sun finally rose in the sky, and the mist, which had shrouded the grassland, was suddenly dispelled by the sunlight, revealing the grass mixed with various wildflowers below. From afar, it looks like a carpet of brilliant colors and intricate patterns.

Liu Jingting stood by the river and watched from a distance for a while before walking towards the camp on the hillside behind him with his hands behind his back.

When he returned to the camp's quarters, his yurt had been cleaned up. He sat down at a small square table in the yurt room, sitting cross-legged on the woolen carpet and having a very Mongolian breakfast.

Whether it is goat's milk or milk lumps, Liu Jingting eats them with relish, and there is no discomfort at all.

When he was six or seven minutes full, Suzhlehok suddenly broke into his yurt with a man.

Liu Jingting was still holding a milk bump in his hand, and before he could open his mouth to ask, Su Rile Heke had already bowed respectfully to him and saluted, and said: "Respected envoy of the Ming Kingdom, this is the envoy sent by the Great Khan, and he brought the order of the Great Khan. ”

The warrior standing beside Suzhlehok bowed slightly to him, and then said expressionlessly: "The Great Khan, please go and see him immediately, the horses are outside, if you are ready, come out." ”

After the warrior finished speaking, he didn't wait for Liu Jingting to speak, turned around and walked out. This made Su Zhle Heke on the side a little dazed and at a loss.

Liu Jingting threw the milk bumps in his hands back into the wooden plate, wiped his hands on his body, and then stood up unhurriedly, ready to walk out of the door.

"Mr. Liu?" Suzhle and Ke finally couldn't help but call him.

Liu Jingting, who was about to get out of the yurt, stopped, he glanced back, Su Rile Heke, who was a little at a loss, and couldn't help but smile and comfort: "Don't worry, nothing will happen."

It should be that the war in the south is over, so the Great Khan wants to negotiate terms with the Ming. We'll meet again if we have the chance, and thank you for your hospitality these days. ”

"No, you're welcome, then I'll send you sir, Mr. Liu take care." Su Rile and Ke waved their hands in a panic, and then said with a slight sigh.

Liu Jingting nodded at him and thanked him, and stepped out of the yurt without hesitation. There were more than 10 samurai outside his door, and the leader of the samurai group who came in to deliver a message to him.

After seeing Liu Jingting come out, the samurai leader ordered two of his men to help him on his horse, and then escorted him to the southwest.

Along the way, Liu Jingting tried to talk to these samurai, wanting to understand the state of the war ahead. But the samurai were expressionless and ignored him. Liu Jingting had no choice but to give up.

After galloping for most of the day, they only rested three times, and when the sun began to set in the west, they finally saw the huge camp in the distance, which was Lin Dan Khan's base camp.

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