Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 839 Tumen with a headache

Chahanhot, the current "capital" of the "Great Mongolia".

Here is also a city, an earthen city.This city is not considered big, and it is only a little stronger than Tuotuo City. It is definitely not as good as Dabansheng City, nor Guihua City.

But it is still the capital of the Great Mongolian Kingdom, because the Khan of the Great Mongolian Kingdom—Zhasaktu Khantus are stationed here, and the Chahar tribe known as the "Central Chahar Ten Thousand Households" is also here guardian.

Regarding the meaning of "Chahar", according to Mongolian literature, "Chahar" is an ancient Turkic language, meaning "the guard of the Khan's palace", and its full name is "Good Chen Chahaner". The origin is the subject of Genghis Khan's youngest son Tuolei and his wife Luheteni.

Chahar should be said to be a very special part of the Mongolian tribes. His tribe's main body began with Genghis Khan's establishment of the Qixue Army, which is the standing guard.After the death of the Qixue system, it was rejuvenated during the Dayan Khan period of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and the Great Khan Guard Army, namely the Chahar Department, was established.In the original history, after Lin Danhan failed to fight against gold, the Chahar tribe dispersed and declined.

Genghis Khan's Qixue army was gathered from the essence of the Mongolian nation at that time. According to Genghis Khan's will, he was selected from among the sons of ten thousand household heads, one thousand household heads, one hundred household heads and free men. The Great Khan guards the pro-army composed of human beings.In the war, the Qixue army has extremely strong combat effectiveness and is the mainstay of Genghis Khan's army. Immortal feats have been established.

Although the Qixue system has long passed away, the spirit of the Qixue army has long been an important part of the core spirit of Mongolian culture. It was inherited and carried forward in the Great Khan Guard Army established by Dayan Khan. Only then did the Central Chaharwan appearance of the account.Tuotuobuhua, Mandulu, Dayan Khan, etc. of the Northern Yuan Dynasty all directly ruled Chahar Wanhu.

In the early years, after the Western Expedition of Mongolia, the Chahar tribe was originally stationed in the Altai Mountains. Later, the Dayan Khan reunified the various tribes of Mongolia, entrusting the princes to rule [-] households on the left and right wings.At that time, Dayan Khan was stationed in Chahar and was the head of [-] households on the left wing, commanding the whole of Mongolia.

The Great Khan directly commanded the Chahar Wanhu. Therefore, the Chahar tribe became the orthodox suzerain tribe and the center of the Mongolian tribes. His Khan was the "co-lord" of the Mongolian tribes. Khan position, since then in the original history, there have been six major sweats.

In the late Ming Dynasty, due to the continuous internal strife of the Tumed tribe, the Chahar tribe once ruled Monan.After the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty, Nurhaci adopted the means of force attack and political wooing to divide and disintegrate the various tribes of Mongolia.Aohan, Naiman and other ministries of Wanhu in Chahar joined Houjin successively. When Nurhachi went south, Lin Dan Khan of Chahar fought desperately with him until Lin Dan Khan was defeated and died in Dacaotan, Gansu.

The following year, his son Erke Konguoer Ezhe led his troops to surrender under the siege of Houjin.From then on, the orthodox Khan power of Mongolia was seized by the Jurchens, and the Mongols all over the world lost their own national Khan.

The current Mongols don't know their "future" situation, and they don't have much respect for their own nation's Great Khan Tumen Khan, and they don't even have much goodwill.Including the internal and external Khalkha tribes who nominally obeyed Tumen Khan, in fact, they often violated his will.

As for Tumed, it goes without saying that the Chahar tribe would not have moved east if it hadn't been for the fear of Alta's annexation in the past.

It wasn't until the fourth year of Wanli that Tumen Khan used the "five rulings" system to slightly establish the authority of the Great Khan. The so-called governing.

In that year, Tumen Khan convened thousands of households in Eastern Mongolia to formulate the "Tumen Khan Law Code", which was promulgated throughout Mongolia, and ordered Amudai Hongtaiji of the left-wing Chahar Wanhu : Brain hair is big.), Kalkha Wanhu's Subahai, right-wing Erdos Wanhu's Qiejin Huangtaiji, Yongxie Buwanhu's Asut Department's Dumb Speed ​​Huoluochibaduer, Tumed Wanhu's The five members of Lalik govern according to law.

This move is intended to reunify Mongolia and restore the power of the Great Khan, and Tumen Khan is therefore honored as Zasak Tuhan.

But, that's all. The five ruling powers are actually soy sauce in Chahanhot. In fact, there is not much that requires them to "govern".

In fact, if you think about it, you will know that the habit of the Mongols, whether it works or not, first depends on whether the fist is big or not. Of the five rulings, only the big-headed ones were born in Chahar, and the tribes of the other four are thousands of miles away, so they cannot be borrowed. , speaking naturally will have no effect.

Over time, the remaining four rulers basically received their wages in name, and they ate and waited to die in Chahanhot.

As for the big-haired man, he was born in the Hexigten tribe, one of the Eight Great Battalions (Eight Tribes) in Chahar.This tribe was originally owned by the sixth son of Dayan Khan, Ozir Borot, and later hereditary.

The grazing land of the Hexigten Department is about [-] miles away from the Jizhou side wall.It can be seen that this department is probably in the northernmost part of the pasture land of Wanhu in Chahar.

"Keshike" also means "cowardly", here it means "on duty", and Keshigten means "person on duty".Therefore, this Hexigten Department is the guard duty force, which is on duty in shifts.The members of the guards are from the sons of the head of ten thousand households and the head of one thousand households. The tasks are heavy and the salary is very high.

By the way, this Heshigten tribe was loyal to the Great Khans of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. In the original history, after Erzhe Konguoer surrendered the gold, Saraleda, a descendant of Genghis Khan, led the tribe to surrender the gold and became the last in Monan. A tribe of descending gold.

Since he is loyal, the "nature of his work" among the five ruling powers is obvious: he is the spokesperson of the Great Khan.

For example, at today's Five-Government Conference, the big-brained job is to try to get Tumen Khan to obtain the legal name of going west to Tumed.

It stands to reason that, as the Great Khan of all Mongolia, it should be reasonable and legal for Tumen to go to any place in Mongolia. Even if he wants to take care of the face of the local lord, it should only need the consent of Lalik who appeared here on behalf of Tumed , he will be able to go to Tumed.

But it's not.

If you look at the areas represented by the five ruling powers, you will know that, except for Chahar’s Naomaoda and Khalkha’s Subahai, Tumed, Ordos, and Yongxiebu represented by the other three are all from right-wing Mongolia. , Before I died, they were all people who listened to me.

But now, after Yongxiebu left a small part of his people to Xin Ai, he has gone to Qinghai, which is thousands of miles away from Chahar. It is impossible for them to be afraid of Tumen. To fight with other troops, it is necessary to win the support of Tumed - because Tumed controls the exchange market, which is their source of supplies of all kinds of materials except cattle, sheep and horses, and they cannot be offended at all.

Huang Taiji, who is the leader of Ordos, has said before that he is Alda's grand-nephew, and he is also the main figure who advocated that Ordos should obey Tumed.The reason why he chose this way was because of Alda's powerful strength and outstanding prestige, and secondly because the power of mutual market trade was in the hands of Tumed.

I have analyzed the situation in Hetao before, because there is a large desert in that place, and the rest of the land can't do anything other than grazing, so Ordos now needs Daming's supplies more urgently than Tumed, who owns Fengzhoutan.Comparatively speaking, without the mutual market in Tumed, the population may drop by a third, and the hegemony of Monan may be lost. If Ordos does not have the mutual market, it will really lack everything except cattle, sheep and horses.

After more than ten years of trading with each other, it seems that they are used to walking on the big road, and if they go on the narrow road, it may be difficult for them to move forward.

So when Lalik proposed to invite Tumen Khan to lead his troops to Tumed to "counter the rebellion", the two rulers of Ordos and Yongxiebu, Huang Taiji and Huo Luochi, immediately expressed their opposition, thinking that the Khan should not Leading troops into other tribes, no matter what the name is.

Of course, the big-brained representative of the Chahar Department supported the Great Khan's "counter-rebellion" in Tumed, so now the five ruling conferences have formed a two-to-two tie.

At this time, Khalkha's Subahai became the decisive force.

Subahai came from the Taining Department of Neikalkha, and has always been the powerful accomplice of Tumen's invasion of Daming. It stands to reason that he should support Tumen.

However, when it was Su Bahai's turn to speak, Su Bahai said blankly: "I also object."

His eyes widened immediately, and he asked subconsciously, "What? What are you against? What are you against?" For a moment he thought he had misunderstood.

But Su Bahai was indifferent to the surprise of his big head, and said again seriously: "I oppose the sweat going to Tumed." He looked at the deeply frowning Lalik, stroked his beard and said: "The matter of Tumed , Tumed Wanhu should solve it by himself... When did Altan ask us to intervene in Tumed's matter?"

Altan is my answer, and I said that no one else would intervene in Tumed's affairs, and he was the only one who intervened in other family affairs.

Although this sentence meant something, Huang Taiji and Huo Luochi nodded their heads in agreement.

Naomao said angrily: "Shubahai, are you confused?"

"I'm very awake." Shu Bahai closed his eyes, leaned back slightly, and said calmly: "Instead of meddling in Tumed's family affairs, I'd rather go to Liaodong to snatch one... I got a tip, tomorrow People are hoarding supplies in Shanhaiguan, and judging from the scale, this batch of supplies is very large, I think it must be transported to Liaodong, if they can be snatched, this batch of supplies will be enough for us to eat for several years."

Tumen Khan, who sat at the top to observe the meeting, did not expect that Subahai would defect, and announced the adjournment with an ugly expression.

Back in his "palace", Tumen Khan's face was livid, his eyes were bloodshot with anger, Brain Hairy followed him in, and asked cautiously: "Khan, what's the matter with this old fox, Subahai? Why does he oppose the Great Khan's westward march to Tumed? Did someone bribe him?"

"No one bribed him, he was just playing his own little calculation. Huh, this short-sighted person!" Tumen Khan gritted his teeth and said, "He is just afraid that if I can go to Tumed today, I can go to Kaer tomorrow. Ka, at that time he will not be attached to me, but can only rely on me! None of these people take the interests of the whole Mongolia seriously!"

The truth is good, but... this is a chronic disease of Mongolia. It has been like this since Genghis Khan. The enfeoffment system can only cause division, not unity.Later, Dayan Khan unified again, and the result was enfeoffment again...

If there is any meaning to the unification of Dayan Khan, it is probably the abolition of the Taishi system. From then on, the enfeoffment is basically only the gold family and the Borjijin family. Bar.

But in fact, isn't it Dayan Khan who made "Taiji are as many as dogs, and the lords walk around the place"?The ghost knows how many descendants of Genghis Khan there have been in the past few hundred years.Although there are many clans in the Ming Dynasty, at least they are just supported by them. The descendants of the Borjijin family are all entrusted, and they all have to be from the tribe and the pasture.

Thinking about it?Isn't that a matter of course?
I am only the master of one part, but not the master of the whole Mongolia. You want me to consider the whole Mongolia?It's not impossible, then you first give me the sweat.

Naomao sighed and said: "I thought he was just greedy for profit, and he really saw the batch of supplies from Shanhaiguan."

Tumen waved their hands: "That reason may not be all false, Ben Khan also got a tip saying that Jizhen and Liaodong are both counting and hoarding supplies...Don't tell me, this thing is really a bit strangeness."

The hairy head was surprised and said: "Is there really a large amount of supplies to be sent to Liaodong? Khan, is the news about the vicinity of Shanhaiguan received by Subahai true?"

"So what?" Tumen sighed, "It's not the first year of Longqing now, and it's not easy to do what it was like back then... Both Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang are hard to deal with."

Speaking of the incident in the first year of Longqing, the big-headed man couldn't help but sigh, saying: "It's such a big victory back then, I really feel happy when I think about it."

What the two of them said had a lot to do with the changes in Jizhen's defense level over the years.

In the past, in the early spring of the 43rd year of Jiajing, Tumen Khan failed to attack Shanhaiguan and other passes. Three years later, in the first year of Longqing, he finally succeeded.At the end of autumn of this year, Tumen Khan's 10 troops demolished 29 places on the Great Wall, such as Heling, which were neglected or simply unguarded by the Ming army.

Afterwards, the Mongolian army divided troops into Funing, Lulong, Changli, Leting and other counties to burn, kill and loot everywhere, and wanted to capture and destroy Changli County.Changli County was besieged for four days, and Changli soldiers and civilians defended desperately to survive.

In just a few days, more than 1 Li civilians were killed in Changli, Funing, Lulong, Leting and other counties.

After hearing the news, the imperial court urgently dispatched Wang Zhidao, the then General Soldier of Liaodong, to lead the troops into Shanhaiguan. Settled in Shanhaiguan to guard.

A few days later, the Mongolian army broke through to Yiyuankou, demolished another [-] sections of the Great Wall at Yiyuankou, and fled.

However, their luck was a bit unlucky. When they fled to Bangchui Cliff, they lost their way in heavy fog, their horses stumbled, and many people fell into the deep ravine.

At that time, the new emperor came to the throne, and Xu Jie happened to suppress Gao Gong inside the court, and Xu Jie was just a bureaucrat with a way of fighting for power, and he hardly cared about side affairs, so there is no need to say more about the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.Therefore, many people dare not fight when they are actually fighting, but after the war, they scramble to grab the heads of the dead who fell from the Mongolian club to the club to repay their merits.

However, this battle still had a very important significance, that is, it was the first joint battle between Liaodong Town and Ji Town, and the interaction between the two towns began from there.The meeting point that can closely integrate the defense of the two towns is Shanhaiguan.

During the Jiajing period, the Great Wall in Shanhaiguan and its adjacent areas were repeatedly attacked and dangerous, and they were repaired one after another, but the architectural pattern did not change much; Major changes were made to the facilities.

After Longqing succeeded to the throne, he basically followed Gao Gong's management ideas. In order to change the dangerous situation in the Jifu area that was repeatedly invaded, he decided to call Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun, who had made great contributions to the imperial defense in the south, to the north to rectify the frontier defense. , Training frontier soldiers.

In the summer of the second year of Longqing, under the strong recommendation of Tan Lun, the new governor of Jiliao, the imperial court appointed Qi Jiguang, who had garrisoned Jizhen several times when he was young, to train troops with the prime ministers of Jizhou, Changping, and Baoding. He served as the local commander-in-chief guarding Jizhou, Yongping, Shanhai and other places.

Therefore, with the support of the imperial court, Qi Jiguang began to vigorously repair the fortifications of the Great Wall in Jizhen on the basis of rectifying and training the border guards.

During the Jiajing period, when the Great Wall in Xuanfu and Datong was repaired, many beacon towers were built, but the Great Wall in some dangerous areas of Jizhen did not build more piers.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang advocated that major changes should be made during the renovation of the Great Wall in Jizhen: one is to heighten and thicken the original side walls, set crenels on both sides of the wall, and build heavy walls in extremely important areas; Hollow enemy towers were built on the line as a fortress for the frontier troops to defend against the enemy.

Before that, there were also small masonry platforms built on the Great Wall of Ji Town, but there was no close connection between the small platforms, and the platforms were small, which made it difficult to cover soldiers and store ammunition, and was of little use in actual combat. .Qi Jiguang decided to "build a high platform and a hut to live in firearms", and decided the location and form of the enemy's platform according to the terrain.

He believes that the distance between enemy stations should be close or far according to the topography. One station should be built in tens of steps or one hundred steps in critical areas, and one station should be built in one hundred and forty steps or two hundred steps in secondary areas. The two stations correspond to each other. Cooperate.

At the same time, an enemy platform that is useful for actual combat should generally be three or four feet high, with a circumference of twelve to seventeen or eighty feet; It protrudes more than half a foot; the platform is divided into three floors, with a void in the middle, arrow windows on all sides, and crenels on the upper floor.

Each station has 50 to [-] soldiers, and stores necessary equipment and rice.Under the enemy's platform, there are other troops stationed to cooperate with the defenders on the platform to prevent the enemy from tearing down the wall and committing crimes.

At that time, Gao Gong had already returned to the court, and the financial situation of the court began to improve, so Qi Jiguang's suggestion was adopted, but because the finances had only just begun to improve, and there was no way to invest too much, the number of enemy towers to be built was reduced from 3000 to More than 1000 seats.

Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun deployed soldiers and started the project of overhauling the Great Wall. By the fifth year of Longqing, 1017 enemy towers had been repaired, and the Great Wall along the way was repaired according to the situation.At that time, the Shanhaiguan area was under the personal leadership of Governor Tan Lun, and a lot of construction was carried out. Many enemy towers were built on the Great Wall on both sides of Shanhaiguan, especially Jiaoshan and Houjiaoshan.

Qi Jiguang guarded Jizhen, trained soldiers and horses, refurbished the Great Wall, and built enemy towers. In addition, Gao Yushi provided him with a new type of firearm illustration book at that time. Although there was no Jinghua military industry, Qi Jiguang built it himself. Greatly strengthened, the Mongolian cavalry who came to invade never dared to attack the city easily.

As I said before, Gao Gong’s idea of ​​northern frontier defense was "West Huai East System", so Qi Jiguang was allowed to overhaul the Great Wall in Jizhen, and at the same time he took the incident of throwing Hannaji to the Ming Dynasty as an opportunity to complete the Alda tribute.

Since then, although some troops from Tumen Khan and Wulianghaduoyan tribe still went to Shanhaiguan and some of the Great Wall passes near Shanhaiguan to spy and attack, but because of the dense enemy towers in this area, it was difficult for them to gain much advantage.

Chang Ang and Dong Huli of Duoyan Guard, who were mainly active outside the Great Wall of Ji Town, led troops to invade Jielingkou and Taolinkou respectively in the first year of Wanli. They were defeated by the Ming army led by Qi Jiguang and were chased. Chang'ang's uncle and Dong Huli's younger brother Changtu attacked Dongjiakou, but was captured alive by the Ming army sent by Qi Jiguang to pursue and intercept him.

Chang Ang, Dong Huli and others had no choice but to request the release of Chang Tu, promise not to violate the border again, and restore tribute and exchange relations with Daming. Hanhaote cursed for several days, and no one around him dared to approach him easily.

After An Dahan reconciled with Daming, and Wuliangha's Duoyan Guards did not dare to offend the border again, the main hostile force of the imperial court was the Tumen Khan who invaded Liaodong.

At that time, Qi Jiguang gradually put the focus of guarding Jizhen on the Shanhaiguan area according to the principle of "West Huaidong System", mainly guarding Shanhaiguan.

In the twelfth lunar month of the sixth year of Wanli, the cavalry of the Tumen Khan tribe once again swarmed to attack Nanhaikou and Sieryu in Shanhaiguan.

Qi Jiguang commanded the troops to repel these Mongolian cavalry and rescued more than [-] men and women who were looted by the Mongolian army.

At that time, Qi Jiguang saw that after the sea at Nanhaikou was frozen in winter, it was easy for Mongolian cavalry to rush across by the sea, so he sent his troops to build a stone city at Nanhaikou in the second year to make up for this defensive loophole.

In the seventh year of Wanli, that is, in the winter when the Nanhaikou of the Shanhaiguan Great Wall entered the sea and the stone city was built, Tumen Khan once again led [-] Mongolian cavalry from Jinchuanying (later Jinxian, Liaoning) to attack Liaodong Town.

Qi Jiguang, who knew the military situation in advance (the Duoyan Ministry's informant), sent troops from Shanhaiguan, and confronted Tumen Khan's troops twice in Gouerhe and Shihetang, forcing Tumen Khan to withdraw his troops hundreds of miles away.

In one fell swoop, this battle changed the situation in which the Ming army stationed outside Shanhaiguan had been passively beaten for many years, and further strengthened the combination of Jizhen defense and Liaodong town defense, highlighting the important military position of Shanhaiguan between the defense areas of Jizhen and Liaodong towns. Township effect.After the war, Qi Jiguang, who had been successively promoted to Prince Taibao and Zuodudu, was named Shaobao for his meritorious service in aiding Liao Dynasty.

What Tumen said, "It's not easy to be the same as it was back then", refers to this situation.

Because of this, even if he also learned the news that Shanhaiguan had a large amount of supplies that might be shipped to Liaodong like Su Bahai, he was not very tempted.

But now it seems that Su Bahai is really tempted.

Tumen Khan, the profuse Khan of all Mongolia, had a headache for a while.
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