Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

As long as people care about gains and losses, they have many ideas, and the same is true for the Tumote Department.In the era of farming and animal husbandry, spring and summer are generally not wars. This is a production season. Even if you win the battle, it will affect the production of this year.Therefore, Pegasus Town's expedition this time hit the most painful place for the tribes of Mongolia.

The first countermeasure taken by the Tumed Department was to retreat all the troops to the Hetao area, in the city occupied by the Tumed Department, which is near the modern city of Hohhot.

At this time, the Mongolian tribes in Hohhot had actually gradually shifted to the direction of settlement and farming, so relatively speaking, the food pressure of the Tumed tribe was much less.In addition, with the help of the city for defense, the survival ability of Tumed's troops is much stronger.

In addition, wood and stones are not easy to find on the grassland, and siege equipment is also difficult to build.With only cavalry, it is difficult to attack Fortified City. The Tumed Department wants to use this hedgehog-like posture to make the attacking Pegasus Town retreat.

The second countermeasure used by the Tumed Department is to send envoys.In the eyes of the princes and nobles of the Tumed Department, there is actually no life-and-death conflict between their tribe and the Han people.Whether it was the Manchu Qing Dynasty or the Daping Dynasty, the Tumed Ministry didn't care who lived and who died among you.But if you want to fight, fight it yourself, so don't hurt the fish in the pool of the Tumed Department!

For this reason, the Tumed Department even invited several Shanxi merchants who had good relations with their own tribe as envoys.In the eyes of Prince Tumed and others: Shanxi merchants are inextricably linked with the officials of the Central Plains, and they are in contact with each other.Many conditions can be negotiated!

Therefore, wrong information often leads to wrong actions, such as the move of the Ministry of Tumut.It's completely selling yourself clean.

After the establishment of the Daping Dynasty, everyone in the Shanxi Merchants Group panicked.Because Wu Shigong hated Shanxi merchants and foreign trade, capitalizing on the enemy and betraying the intelligence of the Central Plains Dynasty, the Daping Dynasty wanted to drive out Shanxi merchants.If it's just an attitude, then Shanxi merchants can still struggle, but the current Daping Dynasty has already occupied Shanxi and occupied the eight families of Shanxi merchants.I can't wait to lose my sincerity to Daping Dynasty.

Although the Chang family, one of the eight great families, first established contact with Wu Shigong, these eight great families are after all broken bones and connected tendons.So the outside is still one.Therefore, the eight Shanxi merchants passed the Chang family, and wanted to discuss a once-and-for-all scheme of defeating the sincerity with the Daping Dynasty.

It is also the good fortune of the eight major Shanxi merchants, and their choice of timing is more appropriate.At this time, the Daping Dynasty had frequent internal turmoil and was surrounded by enemies.So Wu Shigong didn't want to make another strong enemy.The Eight Great Shanxi Merchants were originally rich and incomparable.All of their families have strong military forces.Although it is not impressive compared with the Daping Army, don't forget that the Daping Army in Shanxi has already invaded Shaanxi, and Wu Shigong doesn't want to make Shanxi mess up again.

Another point is that the many years of operation of Shanxi merchants in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty also had an effect.Through funding and bribery, in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, many civil and military officials were the spokespersons of Shanxi merchants.And these officials are now basically fully accepted by the Daping Dynasty.If Wu Shigong resorted to violence rashly, it would also cause turmoil in the court.

therefore.After some bargaining, Wu Shigong finally agreed to the request of the Eight Shanxi Merchants to lose their sincerity.but.He asked the Eight Shanxi Merchants to show their "sincerity".

What "sincerity"?Of course it is real money.In the end, the eight Shanxi merchants agreed to donate 200 million taels of silver to the Daping Dynasty, and loan 300 million taels of silver to the court for five years without interest, as the "forgiveness silver" for previous actions.

But the Tumed Department didn't know at all what happened between the Shanxi Merchants and the Daping Dynasty?So they let Shanxi merchants be envoys, isn't that entrusted with inhumanity?

Therefore, as soon as the envoys of Shanxi merchants arrived in Feima Town, they immediately explained the situation to Zuge and others like pouring beans into a bamboo tube.And these envoys of Shanxi merchants also suggested: taking advantage of the unpreparedness of Tumed's department, give them a ruthless blow, so as to obtain more benefits.

To be honest, at this time Zug and others did not think about attacking Tumed.Because of the departure of Pegasus Town, the Qing army has already begun to move out, and the city of Tumed's army cannot be conquered in a short time.So Zuge and others prepared to return to the Great Wall through Datong.But now he heard the weakness of Tumote's department, if he didn't bully him, he would definitely be struck by lightning.

On the seventh day of May, the entire army of Feima Town, with [-] riders, galloped for [-] miles, and attacked Hohhot (called it by its modern name) with lightning speed.Caught off guard, the herdsmen of Tumed's troops stationed outside the city collapsed.

Then, Feima Town bombarded Hohhot with the artillery carried by the army, causing great fear among the Tumed nobles in the city.Then, the envoys of Shanxi merchants went to the city to persuade them to accept the alliance under the city proposed by Zug and others.

Under the rhetoric of the envoy of the Shanxi merchants, Tumote finally chose to give in.They will submit to the Daping Dynasty in name, submit a form of surrender to the Daping Dynasty and proclaim their ministers.However, this behavior is good-looking, but in reality it is meaningless.When Pegasus Town leaves, who can guarantee that the Tumed Department will not turn around and fall into the arms of Man Qing?

But next, Pegasus Town is about to bleed out of Tumot.They asked for [-] sheep and [-] horses as war compensation, so as to make up for their military expenses for attacking Tumed.

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As for Dorgon in Jinzhou, when he learned that the Horqin tribe was under attack, the first thing he did was to arrange the army to the west of Jinzhou to guard against the flank attack of the Daping Army.But when Dorgon heard that the Daping Army was heading west, the Chahar tribe suffered a disastrous defeat, and the Chahar Khan Ezhe also fled north in a hurry, he could no longer be calm.

Although Chahar Khan Ezhe was just a puppet, he was also a guarantee for the Manchu Qing to rule Eastern Mongolia.If Ezhe fell into the hands of the Daping Army, not to mention that the Manchu Qing rule over Eastern Mongolia would collapse, at least it would take a lot of trouble in the future.

So Dorgon immediately dispatched [-] troops, with Abatai as the commander, and went west to encircle and suppress the Daping army that had passed through.This Qing army first marched to the Horqin Department, recruited the Horqin Department's army, and then came to the Chahar Department, gathered the remnants of the Chahar Department, and once again controlled the Chahar Khan's forehead. Zhe.At this time, the Manchu-Mongolian coalition army led by Abatay also reached more than [-]. (To be continued..)