Horqin is known as the pearl of the steppe, the birthplace of the famous Mongolian regional culture - Horqin culture, after the golden family was found, Genghis Khan gave the Horqin grassland to his younger brother Hasal as a territory.

In Mongolian, Horqin means "bow-maker", which shows that it is the most prosperous and wealthy region of Mongolia, and it is the birthplace of many ethnic groups in history, and there is a tradition of producing easy-to-mine coal and iron ore, so the traditional handicrafts are relatively very developed.

The Horqin Grassland is located in the northeast of Inner Mongolia in the later generations, on the southern slope of the Daxing'an Mountains, and in the western section of the Songliao Plain, that is, from the Daxing'an Mountains to the Songliao Plain.

Habtu is a direct descendant of Hasar, the decline of the Northern Yuan inevitably also affected the Horqin Department, the Ming army was greatly damaged by several northern expeditions, the population size plummeted to less than one-fifth of the heyday, and most of the subordinate tribes for generations became the Duoyan Sanwei who were canonized by the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Hao's choice of time is very good, it is the rebellion period of Guili Chi to kill the Mongol Great Khan, in order to get the support of the Ming Dynasty, and in order to realize his ambitions, Guili Chi openly abolished the title of Dayuan last year, preparing to restore Tatar and establish himself as Khan.

Although he claimed to have the blood of the Golden Family, his surname had already proven to be the first Mongol not to be directly related to the Genghis Khan family, a major event with far-reaching implications, marking the complete loss of the status of the supreme Central Khanate of the Kublai Khan family in the eyes of the Mongols.

In just a few months, from the extreme east to the extreme west, from the north of the Great Wall to the south of Siberia, and even to the major khanates that were struggling to survive, the vast majority of the Mongolian tribes in the vast steppe Gobi Desert declared their independence from the central khanate one after another. Of course, the influence of the Golden Family will still exist, but the Mongol Empire, which conquered the world, has become even more fragmented, and there is no chance of unifying its rise, which is only a flash in the pan in the long river of history.

The city of Buyeo, which was occupied by the Horqin tribe, was under the control of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and although it did not submit to the Ming Dynasty in recent years, it had a good relationship with King Ning, so it lost its guard and was attacked.

Xu Hao was not too worried about being besieged by a group. Now the north has not dared to challenge the existence of the Ming Dynasty, of course, it will not be certain in a few years. The temporary ally Ghost Li Chi is busy attacking the opponents, who would dare to offend the Ming army at this juncture? On the contrary, the enemy is Fu Yuwei, who has been obedient for many years.

Even though he knows that the rise of the Tatars is not a good thing, for political reasons, he must support the ghost in the past few years.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Xu Haoda, who was waiting for the battle report, walked out of the palace, the weather was good today, the blue sky was cloudless, several fast horses galloped over, and three good war horses were killed on the spot. Xu Hao's brows suddenly jumped.

After a quick glance at the latest news, Xu Hao frowned and passed by the nobleman's house, when he saw several slaves carrying a frozen corpse out, and four or five children with collars around their necks wearing tattered animal skins, following barefoot and crying.

Syllable! A child's immature face was left with a shocking bloodstain and he fell into the snowdrift.

The Mongolian butler glared at the rest of the slaves viciously, turned his head and said respectfully, "Your Excellency, please!" ”

Xu Hao beckoned to the frightened slaves and asked casually, "Who is the one who died?" ”

The butler replied, "It's an old and useless slave girl." ”

"Oh!" Xu Hao looked at the slaves who refused to come over and showed displeasure, and the housekeeper kicked the child hard when he saw this. The slaves were forced to hurriedly come over.

Xu Hao lowered his head to a dirty girl and asked, "What's your name?" ”

The girl shook her head blankly, and Xu Hao asked again, "What nationality are you?" The girl still shook her head, as if she couldn't understand Chinese at all.

Xu Hao turned to ask the Mongolian housekeeper, "Who are they?" ”

The housekeeper said, "Nobleman, these are slaves for several lifetimes. It's like a cheap bastard like a livestock. ”

Xu Hao glanced at a few children of mixed blood again, turned around and strode away. In the afternoon of the same day, 1,000 families of Mongols who kept slaves, men, women, and children, were crucified on the city wall on charges of oppressing the Han Chinese.

The Mongolian nobles who did not die were dying nailed to the wooden frame and let the wind and sun shine. From time to time, the screams were terrible, and the scene was extremely terrifying, which turned Buyeo City into a famous dead city on the prairie.

Xu Hao said to the Mongolian people of Duoyanwei and the more than 10,000 ordinary herdsmen: "I will only say it once. The families who plundered the Han as slaves were executed regardless of the reason. ”

Lu Zhong turned a blind eye to the terrifying human stakes around him, and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I will return the Han slave as soon as I go back." ”

"The dignity of the Han people cannot be violated, this is an iron law on the grassland. Of course, people of all ethnic groups are welcome to come to Shun, according to the law of Guannei, they have to wear Hanfu and speak Chinese, change their Han name to Han nationality, and strictly prohibit intermarriage within their own clan, then they are regarded as Han people, enjoy the same law and military protection as Han people, enjoy the most superior tax and labor service, can apply for migration, can be in the military, business, study and become an official. ”

Xu Hao finished speaking in one breath, and then said: "I want to lend you 3,000 cavalry, and ask you to escort the grain and grass, half of these herdsmen and wealth will be counted as remuneration, and the pastures here will also belong to you and other clansmen to migrate and graze, and the other half will be equally distributed to my subordinates, can you agree?" ”

Everyone was overjoyed at once, and they felt almost nothing about the death of their compatriots, just because there were too many brutal scenes like this.

Lu Zhong said loudly: "A word is a certainty!" ”

Xu Hao pointed to the thousands of slaves who had been rescued, and said: "These people have all restored their Han identity, and together with the Han slaves in your family and other families, they will live in Daning Mansion for generations to cultivate and graze, and they will be under the jurisdiction of the Yamen arrangement. ”

Lu Zhong glanced at the musket of the Ming army wrapped in cotton, and secretly said that this time it was really a distraction, this young general was actually a fierce god who eats people and does not spit out bones, sighed and said: "Yes!" ”

Because of the report that King Yan was in critical condition, Xu Hao immediately gave up the opportunity to contact with the Mongolian tribes such as Guilichi, and blatantly slaughtered nearly 10,000 Mongolians, without worrying that it would cause a violent reaction.

On the march, the sergeants erected a corpse as a warning every mile, and so on, which made the Duoyan cavalry who slaughtered the city at every turn in their ancestors frightened.

Mu Yi frowned and asked: "All dynasties and dynasties have been based on bondage, and my dynasty has always been benevolent to the border Tatars, so that all ethnic groups can coexist peacefully. Why do you do so, alas! ”

"Why is it so cruel and vicious? Provoke a backlash from the Mongols and make the border killings endless? Impeached and killed too many people by literati? ”

Xu Hao said calmly, stretched out his hand and tightened his cloak, exhaled a white breath, and his blue and purple lips were a little disobedient, "Right and wrong don't matter at all, I'm not for revenge for the Han people, but for the next situation, of course, I can't avoid retaliating by the way." The so-called might is justice, and force is justice. Put away the set of benevolence, righteousness and morality outside this strong man's respect, if you can turn a wolf into a dog without a stick, I will call you Dad. ”

Mu Yi smiled bitterly: "I know that Brother Lu Dao's opinion is right, but I am not happy in my heart. ”

Xu Hao smiled and stretched out his hand to pat him on the shoulder, laughing at himself: "That's right, in fact, I don't feel good in my heart, this time it can be regarded as a burden to you, and soon the reputation of the butcher Xu Hao will spread all over the inside and outside of the Guan, even those rescued slaves will not think that I am a good person." The life of some slaves is much better than hard labor, and many even curse me every day, haha! ”

Mu Yi sighed: "Why bother, why don't my brother reduce the Mongolian people to slaves? In the hands of Duo Yanwei, life is better than death. My brother's reputation will not be tarnished. ”

"I just want to let the aliens know that there will always be Han people who will kill people without mercy and go to the benevolence and morality of the mother." Xu Hao turned his head to the left and right guards and ordered: "Send a hundred people to give orders along the way, and those who do not surrender will not be left behind after the village is broken." The taxes and labor of the military households attached to the Yan Wangfu were all reduced to the lightest, and compared with the Jurchens, the family members who fought from Yang Wen did not ask for their crimes. That's right. Those who dare to keep Han serfs in captivity are ordered to hand over the people within half a month, otherwise there will be no forgiveness for killing! ”

Sent a hundred scouts, Xu Hao said loudly to the long line behind him: "The brothers braved the cold to follow Xu Hao out of the customs, and they froze to death and suffered a great crime, Hao is very grateful. Today, I promised in public that after the completion of the matter, hundreds of households and thousands of households will be promoted to one level, and the officers above the school captain will be promoted to two levels, and the ordinary soldiers will be promoted to the third level, and everyone will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, no matter who lives or dies in the end, I Xu Hao guarantees that everyone has three generations of hereditary families and hundreds of households, and there will be 100 acres of fertile land outside this pass. ”

The morale-boosting Yan army followed Xu Hao over the mountains and headed for Zhangwu County, hundreds of miles away, conquering several small tribes of Fuyuwei who had spent the winter in succession, forcing the nobles to sacrifice slaves and grain.

Under the low city walls of Zhangwu County, the Yan army hurried to heat up the frozen muskets on the snow, and the leader Hai Sa Nan Daxi led the eight thousand iron cavalry urgently recruited to move forward slowly.

Seeing this, Xu Hao rode his horse alone to meet him, and Hai Sa Nan replied that Xi also rode over alone, and the two met in the middle of the two armies.

"This is Fuyuwei under the rule of the imperial court, General Xu, please go back, you are not welcome in Liaodong." Haisa Nan Daxi, who is known as the first warrior in Liaodong, is tall and strong, wearing a Mongolian pointed fur hat on his head and a mustache on his chin, and said coldly.

Xu Hao smiled, raised his hand and raised his short gun to fire at the other party, bang! The first warrior who was stunned, Hai Sanan, was immediately killed.

"Kill them for revenge."

The 8,000 Fu Yu Wei immediately launched a charge angrily, and the more than 4,000 Yan troops who had been reduced due to frostbite raised their firearms to meet the enemy, while Xu Hao hurriedly fled to the side.

Although many of their muskets were frozen and useless, there were more than 3,000 firearms left, enough to kill and injure a large number of enemies.

In the midst of the screams, the knights continued to fall, killing and wounding about two thousand people, and the speed inevitably slowed down, and the three thousand Yan Wei cavalry on both wings rode their horses to kill.

The Yan army quickly put on their backs and turned around and ran to the rear, turned over and got on their horses, and ran towards a high ground not far away, Duo Yanwei rushed through the enemy's formation in one breath, and both sides were killed and wounded, and continued to move forward without stopping.

The cavalry of Fuyuwei ignored their fellow clansmen, and went straight to the Han army to kill, riding on the horse and shooting arrows with a bow, and in an instant thousands of sharp arrows drew a beautiful parabola, and the Yan army hurriedly dismounted and took refuge in the shallow trench dug overnight, and raised the round shield to curl up as much as possible.

From time to time, sergeants with arrows cursed, while others pulled off their new weapons with wooden handles on their waists, unscrewed the lids, pulled out the fire twists, and threw the smoking grenades out of the snort.

Thundered! With the explosion of a thousand grenades, the shells also whistled according to the established track, and the sudden violent sound and the power of firearms with amazing lethality, the Mongol cavalry fell in pieces, no matter how the remaining knights drove, the war horses scattered and galloped wildly.

The Duoyan Wei cavalry, who was hiding far away, tried to calm the restless horses under their crotches, and took the opportunity to kill the chaotic Fuyuwei.

In the battle of Zhangwu, the leader of Fuyuwei and the hereditary commander Tongzhi Hai Sanan Daxi and his 5,000 tribesmen were killed, and most of the rest surrendered, and then more than 20,000 people from all the families who participated in the war were killed.

Except for the thousands of slaves and Han people in the city, all the surrounding ethnic groups were swept away, burned and looted in the name of resisting the Yan army, dozens of tribes were wiped out, and Xu Hao's murderous reputation immediately spread throughout Liaodong. (To be continued......)