After dawn, Zhang Han found that the Houjin mission had left, probably before dawn, the Mongols still looked solemn, and there was chaos in the wooden city, Zhang Han asked to see Oba to explain his intention to leave, Oba readily agreed, and then decided to send a team of cavalry to escort Zhang Han's caravan to the Jurchen realm.

From Horqin to Hetuala, you can only go all the way to the southwest, enter the territory of the original Ula Department, and then go south along the Ula River, and then enter the Suzi River Basin, which is where Hetuala is located.

These places have been captured by the Houjin, the local Niu Lu reserve royal used to garrison, recently the only remaining Ye He Department in the Jurchen Haixi four moves frequently, often cross-border invasion, the Ming army is also gathering heavy troops, and the soldiers and horses are gradually transferred from Liaoxi to Liaodong, in Kaiyuan to Qinghe Fort and then to Fushun Pass, the border wall line of Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, heavy troops gathered, waiting for the battle, the situation is very tense.

When the Mongols were preparing, Zhang Han, Liang Xing and others had already made preparations, watching more than a hundred Mongolian cavalry in the outer city saddling and checking the horseshoe.

After watching it for a while, the Zhao family brothers and Duo'er and the others looked at each other, and then whispered to Liang Xing for a while.

Liang Xing walked up to Zhang Han and sneered: "These Tartars are really interesting, they travel more than a thousand miles back and forth, they don't have many water bladders and dry food, and they don't bring more tents and bedding, and they only care about inspecting weapons and bows and arrows there. ”

Huang Taiji estimated that Zhang Han could see something strange on the way, but he really underestimated Zhang Han and his attaché.

From Zhangjiakou to Qingcheng, and then to Harashen, Karaqin, Khalkha, Bahrain, Alukorqin, Nenjiang Horqin, this road is 4,000 miles away, there are more than a dozen horse thieves alone, and the Mongolian tribes are not monolithic, there is no shortage of Taiji, who are hostile to Zhang Han and others or covet their accompanying goods, this way, even rookies have become veterans, not to mention that Duoer and Li Zhiye and others were originally veterans in the border army.

Zhang Han frowned and looked at the group, there were more than 100 Mongolians, and all of them were armored horses, Zhang Han and the others put the chariots and horses on the side of the Bahrain Department, if the other party suddenly made a move on the way, and there was no chariot formation, even if they could win on their side, I am afraid that the people would almost die.

"Where do you think they're going to do it?"

"I think it's over the Yidan River."

"What about them?"

"They don't know the geography well, but after telling them, they think they should be there."

Zhang Han had a map of Liaodong purchased from the Jingshi channel, and he brought it with him before he set off, and the Ming army fought with the Jurchen tribes and the Mongol tribes in Liaodong for more than 200 years, plus the territory of the original Nuer Gandusi all the way to the far north, and even Sakhalin Island had a rough map, not to mention the vicinity of the side wall, in this regard, Liaodong here is much stronger than Jizhen and Shanxi.

This map also needs to be corrected and supplemented, Wang Anping, Liang Xing and others went all the way to survey, try to supplement some obvious geographical trends of mountains and rivers.

From the Horqin side to the Ula department, the most obvious dividing line in the middle is the Yidan River, and beyond the Yidan River is the tributary of the Songhua River and the Wula River, which is the boundary of the current Houjin Kingdom.

If you start too early, the risk of exposing this matter is too great, after all, Zhang Han and the others were protected by Bu Shitu Great Khan and Namurtai Jili, and the leakage of the news will cause an uproar in Mongolia, and all the tribes from Tumut to Karaqin will be very dissatisfied with Horqin, and even hostile to each other, for the life of a Han merchant, it is not worth it.

The Idan River is the middle point, a vast and sparsely populated area, and apart from a few scattered herders and fishskin tartars for fishing, there are few decent Jurchen cities or Mongol pastures, and it is the best place to do it there.

At this time, the Mongols were finally ready, a few horses rode over, loudly beckoned Zhang Han and others to set up on the road, Zhang Han was silent, and Duoer and others were not allowed to show traces, they rode horses in front, the Mongols were in the middle and behind, the large group of men and horses swept out of this wooden city, stepped through the felt bags dotted in the pasture, looked at the herds of cattle, sheep and horses in the corral, and gradually raised the speed of the horse, the horse's hooves trampled on the soft yellow turf, and gradually the speed was raised, galloping to nearly noon, The ranches of Korqin have been left far behind.

In the evening of the next day, there was still half a day's journey to the Yidan River.

Now the scenery is already obvious to the forest plain and the river mixed with the zone, the pure large grassland has ceased to exist, everywhere is uncultivated fertile black soil, here is the territory of Jilin Province in later generations, in the early Ming Dynasty, here was once the boundary of Nuer Gandusi, in the hands of Zhang Han on the map of the Ming Dynasty, here was once the boundary of Bu Thorn Hanwei, behind them, is the old land of Taining Wei, at the beginning of the country, Taining Fuyu Duoyan Sanwei occupied a vast territory, and obeyed the transfer of the Ming Dynasty Zhenbian vassal king, During the famous Battle of Jingyan, the Three Guards Cavalry was dispatched by King Ning stationed in Daning to accept the command of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and made great contributions to Zhu Di's defeat of the southern army and finally won the throne. Because of this, Zhu Di later took the initiative to abandon Daning, and handed over hundreds of miles of land to the Mongols, the consequence was that Liaodong was out of control, the three guards sat big, and the power swelled.

Before dark, the crowd stopped at the old toe of a guard house.

This may be the old place of the Ming army more than 200 years ago when it passed through the Nuer Gandu Division, the guards have several rows of rammed earth and built houses, there is a small site, now it is overgrown with withered grass, the walls of the houses are still there, the roof has long been rotten and I don't know where to go, and there are a few houses with wooden beams, but they are also rotten.

Zhang Han stood on the school field of the decaying grass, looking at the rows of decayed houses behind him, and there seemed to be the sound of golden drums and people's drills, shouts, and horses neighing in his ears.

More than 200 years ago, the Ming Dynasty came into being, the Han people with bamboo poles rose bravely, from the south to the north, with the rudimentary weapons in their hands against the Mongolian iron cavalry that had been rampant in Europe and Asia, and finally expelled the foreign robbers out of their hometown, not only that, they also chased the north, captured Helin, until the fishing sea, and went south straight into Yunnan, where few Han people lived at that time, completely stabilized the southern Xinjiang, in Liaodong, in addition to restoring the Han and Tang Dynasty hometowns, the Ming Dynasty also continued to the north, in the construction of Shenyang and Liaoyang and other fortified cities, After the side wall was built again, hundreds of capital guards were set up in the north, Liaodong took Guangning, Daning, Liaoyang, and Shenyang as the core, supporting the border wall defense line, and the outside built multiple tribute roads, and the inner side wall was in the border wall to establish the guard Tuntian, the land of Liaodong, and finally returned to the hands of the Han people.

"Nu'er Gandusi, it's a pity ......"

Zhang Han came back to his senses, but he couldn't help muttering to himself.

Nearly half of the land of the entire Nuer Gandu Division later became Jilin and Heijianglong Provinces, and half of the land remained outside the country forever.

ice-free ports and outlets, a large number of woodlands and mineral resources......

Zhang Han smiled to himself again, feeling that something was wrong with his emotions.

Earlier, when he saw that group of Jurchens, he felt that he should be happy.

Traveling thousands of miles to the east is nothing more than to establish a stable smuggling trade route to Liaodong before the Jin merchants start smuggling. This is the biggest source of wealth in the next 20 years, and seizing this business road, not to mention net worth, the protection of hidden political investment is more important than family wealth.

But when he saw with his own eyes the handful of money rat tails and gray arrow robes, thinking that in the next three hundred years, Chinese people would be forced to wear such hairstyles and clothes, be stifled spiritually, and then fall behind for a whole hundred years, and be beaten for a hundred years, when he thought of those things, although Zhang Han had always warned himself to stay away from politics and be a pure profit-seeking businessman, but in any case, he really couldn't be happy.

Even, he felt that he had implicit hostility towards that group of Jurchens, and he couldn't suppress it.

This is very bad, Zhang Han reminded himself again.

Liang Xing came over at this time and asked, "Proprietor, the Mongols asked where we lived?" ”

Zhang Han said: "We live by the river, and it is convenient to wash and use water, so they live wherever they want." ”

Everyone began to prepare to settle down, although the sun was still halfway up the mountain, but it would be dark in less than half an hour, everyone first washed the war horses by the bright light, fed the war horses grain and beans, and some people picked up firewood on the ground, in this vast and sparsely populated forest plain area, there were dead branches everywhere, and it was easy to pick up a large group.

Chang Wei and Li Zhiye held a fishing hook, not even a fishing rod, a few people lined up, took off their shoes, and stood in the knee-deep river water to start fishing, but in a few minutes, Chang Wei laughed and lifted the fishing line, a huge white fish in the air jubilantly twisted around, everyone looked at it and laughed.

The Mongolians looked at it from afar, turned their heads and left, they were in awe of the large and small seas on the grassland, and they did not take a bath in their lives, and the sheep on their bodies were scared to death with a big smell, and the Tatars were not pure nonsense of the Han people, and of course they did not fish if they did not rely on water, and of course they did not eat fish, they would rather drink mare's milk and eat dried beef.

Chang Wei and the others caught more than a dozen fish in a short time, washed and peeled them and put them in the pot to boil, and after a while, the umami wafted in the air.

Zhang Han and the others sat on the ground, and the dry food was still hot in the pot, which was sun-dried rice or dried buns mixed together, plus slices of marinated meat, and a little salt, and eaten in fish soup, which was extremely delicious.

Everyone has lost interest in hunting barbecue, and along the way, the barbecue has been eaten hundreds of times, and no matter how much people like it, they feel very tired.

Then there was the sound of horses' hooves, and everyone stood up suddenly.

This is the junction of Horqin and Jurchen, except for a few Tartars fishing on the river, there is almost no trace, and there may not be a single figure on the road for dozens of miles, at this time there is the sound of horses' hooves, which makes people extra vigilant.

The Mongols, who were a hundred and ten paces away, were also in chaos, and they tidied up the house, some of them lived outside, some of them lay in the house, and they all got up as soon as they lay down or sat down, some were busy leading their horses, and some were taking their bows and arrows in their hands.