This is the remnant of Daqing Mountain. d-m

In later generations, Daqingshan was located at the junction of Inner Mongolia and Shanxi, and most of it was located in Inner Mongolia.

In the south of Inner Mongolia, the Yinshan Mountain, which is thousands of miles long, stretches from east to west, like a huge barrier, the Yinshan Mountain is connected with the remaining veins of the Yanshan Mountain in the north of Hebei, and the Helan Mountain, the Beida Mountain, the Horsehair Mountain and so on are connected in the west, protecting the vast Central Plains and the northern frontier in its arms.

And this mountain range has also become a barrier between the Central Plains and the northern Yidi in the actual sense for thousands of years. The south is rich, and the north is fierce.

And Daqing Mountain, in fact, is the name of the middle section of Yinshan, and it is also the main body of Yinshan.

The northern part of Jin Province is full of mountains, and the remnants of this Daqing Mountain are also called Daqing Mountain by the Han people in the south.

However, it is said that it is a mountainous area, but the terrain here is quite peculiar, not as steep and compact as the mountains in the Central Plains or the south of the Yangtze River, but very large.

The peaks are not particularly high, nor are they very steep, especially the northern slope facing the prairie, which is even more gentle. The mountains are dotted with a large number of broken low hills and vast basins formed by tens of millions of years of wind and water erosion, and at the edge of them, they are gradually connected with the steppe.

At the foot of the mountain, there are many erosion remnants of low mountains and numerous ravines, and after the rain, the torrent breaks through the mountain and forms a large area at the mouth of the valley at the foot of the mountain. One? Root? Read? Novel alluvial plain area. When the Ming Dynasty had just been founded, it was the strength of the army and the high power that Yi Di fled. At that time, there were still many Tuntian Zhuangzi distributed at the foot of Daqingshan Mountain, including Juntun and Mintun. In these rich places, their grain output is not inferior to that of the Central Plains.

I don't know how many years have passed, after the ravine has been eroded by flowing water and become a wide valley, a communication channel between the front mountain and the back mountain has been formed.

I don't know how many such traffic channels there are, but they are only famous, and there are three or four relatively large river valleys, which are suitable for more than or close to more than 10,000 people.

The Tartars of the past, and the Jiannu of the present, always roar from these river valleys.

The Ming Dynasty once spent a lot of effort to renovate the side wall, that is, the Great Wall, but today, those side walls that cost tens of millions of taels of silver to build have long been abandoned, except for Jizhen, the Great Wall of Xuanda and Da has almost no troops to garrison. Even in Jizhen, which was the most heavily guarded and had the highest security with Jiannu, it was only at an important pass that soldiers were stationed.

In Xuanda, the measure taken is to build fortresses not far from those traffic arteries, which is the origin of castles and side piers.

These forts are not clinging to the bottom of the mountain, but are not far from the exit of those tunnels, about a dozen to dozens of miles. On the outskirts of the castle, there are side piers that stick out.

In this way, two lines of defense are formed.

The idea was excellent -- to build a fortress at this distance, which would not only allow the military households to have a large area of land around the fortress for cultivation and thus be self-sufficient, but also hold the main road south, so that the invaders would have to gnaw hard bones one by one, and they would inevitably suffer heavy losses in troops. In terms of effect, this is much more cost-effective than holding the thin layer of defense of the Great Wall.

However, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the generals were greedy and vicious, the people were numb and cowardly, and the army's combat effectiveness was outrageous. A few years ago, Chahar, now Jiannu, roared in this land of northern Jinbei, and no soldier dared to fight! This line of defense has completely lost its meaning of existence and has become an ornament.

The root of everything is still in people.

This is a rare and steep place at the southern foot of Daqing Mountain, called Hutou Mountain. This place is already outside the Great Wall, dozens of miles away from the side wall.

A mountain hundreds of zhang high stands majestically, shaped like a tiger's head, extremely powerful.

The hill was three or four miles in circumference, and the southern foot of the hill was gentle, and in front of it was a basin through which two rivers flowed, forming a vast alluvial plain, on which were thick meadows overgrown with grass, but which had now turned into a withered yellow color.

At the foot of the mountain and in the lower part of the mountain, there are large shrubs and sparse pine forests, and further up, there are large forests of pine, arborvitae, juniper, aspen, oak, spruce, and birch.

Hutou Mountain shelters the cold wind from the north, so although it is freezing and silent outside, the temperature in the valley is higher than outside, and it doesn't feel too cold.

At this time, among the long wild grass, there was a group of people walking freely and hard.

There are about a dozen people in this group, all of whom are wearing wide cotton armor, but the cotton armor is very dirty, and I don't know how long I haven't taken care of it. They all led the horses, and the saddle was still complete on the horse, and there were knives hanging next to the saddle, which was obviously not a good character to mess with. Although they all looked aggrieved, they just walked forward with their heads down, but when those eyes occasionally opened and closed, they revealed a ruthless color.

The person in the middle of the crowd was about forty years old, with a thin appearance, but between his eyebrows, there was a lingering fierce and gloomy color.

It was the former town of Qiangbao garrison, and now it was the governor of Xuanda, the governor of Shanxi, the governor of Xuanfu, the governor of Datong and other Ming power officials who went to the sea to catch documents, and searched the world to arrest the rebellious criminal, Hou Jiawei.

He was much thinner than when he had just escaped from Zhenqiang Fort, his cheeks had gone down, his cheekbones were higher, and his eye sockets were much deeper. The outer robe on his body had already broken several holes, revealing the reddish bronze mountain armor inside. Obviously, his life was not easy during this time.

However, it seems that it has little impact on him, on the contrary, his temperament is more concise and calm, although the whole person is thin, but the fat on his body is gone, but he is more upright. His eyes were firm and sharp, and there was a burning fighting spirit in them.

If Dong Ce saw his appearance at this time, he would definitely sigh. There are always some people in this world who have tenacious vitality and a good mentality that they can't fight to the death and suppress them, and they can quickly recover from the last defeat, but they become more and more courageous the more they fight.

Don't you want me to die? I'm going to survive and see who dies in the end!

Dong Ce is this kind of person, obviously, Hou Jiawei is also this kind of person.

It is precisely because of his strong heart that his actions are also firm and decisive, which brings hope to those who follow him, and does not let the team disperse, and he also becomes a loner.

It had been twelve days since they had escaped from Zhenqiang Fort.

On that day, they fled all the way, and Hou Jiawei's plan was to flee Houjin and surrender to Jiannu. He was at the border and knew more than anyone else -- among the merchants who had returned from the Houjin Territory, the Houjin Khan Huang Taiji was more heroic than the mean Emperor Chongzhen in Beijing. At least from the mind, but all the civil and military officials of Jin after surrender are mostly high-ranking officials who can sit and enjoy.

For example, Geng Zhongming, who lowered the Houjin and once caused trouble in most of Shandong in Chongzhen for four years, was just a general in Daming, and he had to kowtow when he saw the prefect and county order, and the house slaves of the squires in a place dared to reprimand him like a slave. But after the people lowered the Houjin, the Great Khan also summoned him, and also rewarded his wife and concubine, and also rewarded the slave and maid's mansion, and there was no shortage of gold, silver and jewelry, and let him lead the army alone, which was extremely important.

Kong Youde Geng Zhongming's matter had already been carefully walked by the spies of the Houjin Dynasty to various places in the Ming Dynasty, and many generals and even unambitious literati in the Ming Dynasty had to admit that after hearing the news, they were indeed excited.

Huang Taiji's means of buying people's hearts are very clever, as a mature politician who has struggled with his father and brothers for many years to really reach the pole of the foundation, and he is one person in the south. His wrists, scheming, forbearance, etc., are not the young Zhu Youzhen who grew up in the deep palace, was surrounded by the Donglin Party ministers, was ambitious and talented, and was dry and mean, and was only twenty-five years old this year.

This year, when Huang Taiji went south to enter Kou Xuan University, Zhang Wenheng, a prisoner of Datong, rushed to Xuanfu on foot to serve is a clear example.

Therefore, Hou Jiawei is also very confident, if he returns to Houjin, just by virtue of knowing Xuanda so well, it is enough to be reused.

But the problem is that when they fled, they had no money and no food, and it was really wishful thinking to flee to Jiannu like this. So Hou Jiawei planned to rob a village first, get some grain, gold, silver and horses. He planned to rely on the identity of officers and soldiers to go in and rob directly, and forgive those Diao people and dare not resist.

But he didn't expect Liu Ruozai's reaction to be much faster than him, and as soon as the situation stabilized, he ordered the surrounding castles to cooperate in arresting Hou Jiawei.

After Hou Jiawei and others lurked in a deserted village for a day, they were recognized as soon as they arrived near a people's fort on the second day, the gate of the people's fort was closed, and stones were thrown down the wall, and Hou Jiawei and his party were all cavalry, and there was no way at all. When he saw this, he knew that he was in a bad situation, so he immediately led his people north, not approaching people at all along the way, and only after robbing a passing caravan could barely support it.

In this situation, I went to Jiannu, I am afraid that I will starve to death if I can't walk halfway, and winter is also coming, and it will snow heavily, so I can't rush at all. So Hou Jiawei temporarily changed his mind and decided to temporarily take refuge in his former partner, Daqing Mountain Thief, Bai Mazi. This small but elite team continued to follow him, because they really saw no hope other than following the man who had been their master for nearly ten years.

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