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Huang Yao led his army to a mountain basin in Yushu, looked at the scattered goats, and the dead horses on the ground, and was confused for a long time.

Han is gone!

A large number of horses were forced to run to death, and before Huang Yao arrived, he rushed back to the Mongolian garrison and fled directly with his troops.

"Is this giving up Kang Zang?" Huang Yao was amazed at the opponent's decisiveness. From this point of view, Handu is definitely number one.

Se Chin Nai said, "General, Han is very tough. He would rather die than give up his territory."

Huang Yao was silent for a moment, the situation he was most worried about appeared. Fangliang Road has been stretched to 2,000 miles, but the enemy commander is still running, and he does not fight head-to-head with himself at all.

If we continue to move forward, there will definitely not be enough people to transport grain, and the grain road will inevitably be more dangerous.

Huang Yao encountered the embarrassment of Zhu Di's expedition to Mobei. He spent countless money and food, but could not find the enemy's shadow. This battle was destined to become an armed parade.

The southern foot of Kunlun Mountains.

"Father, are we leaving like this?" Selemo asked.

Handu explained: "The battle of Qinghai is the key, and we have to help them fight. If we can defeat the Han army in Qinghai, it will not be too late to return to Kham to fight. If we cannot defeat the Han army in Qinghai, we will win the Han army in Kham." It’s useless, and you will definitely be caught between two sides in the end.”

Selemo asked: "What if we lose in Qinghai?"

Handu said: "When you go to Qinghai, you must preserve your strength. Fight if you can, and run if you can't. If you lose, gather more troops and leave Qinghai for Hami!"

Selemo stopped talking, feeling that his father was too cowardly, how could he give up Kham without a real fight?

Handu was also suffering, he was always luring the enemy to go deep, but Huang Yao was advancing steadily, never giving him a chance to sneak attack. I only have a few thousand cavalry in my hand, how can I compete head-on with the Han army in the mountains?

It can only be said that the Handu at this time has not yet expanded.

Historically, after another twenty years, Handu's strength has grown even stronger. He exclusively enjoyed the profits from the ancient tea-horse road, refused to send taxes to the Mongolian nobles in Qinghai, and had a complete falling out with Lhasa. Moreover, they repeatedly invaded Lijiang and extorted violently in Kham. At the same time, it offended the forces of Manchu, Mongolia, and Tibet, and fought against all surrounding forces at the same time, and even an uprising of Tibetan nobles broke out inside.

In the end, Kandu wiped out the Manchu sent army, but was killed by the Mongolian nobles.

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The army on the North Road is headed by Jiang Liang.

Nearly 40,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians surrounded Xining.

Qi Tingjian, commander of the Xining Guard of the Ming Dynasty, was already very old and sick at this time, and his son Qi Xingzhou was in charge of all military and political affairs.

"Father, fight or surrender?" Qi Xingzhou asked.

Qi Tingjian lay on the hospital bed and said weakly: "Surrender, you can't expect the Mongol Tartars to come to rescue. Surrender quickly, donate all the land, and help the court divide the land and the people, otherwise our Qi family will be finished." .”

Qi Tingjian himself was a descendant of Mongolia, but he called the Oirat Mongols who occupied Qinghai the Tartars.

Qi Xingzhou asked: "Are the other generals willing?"

"Whether they like it or not, you go to Kaesong and ask for surrender." Qi Tingjian said.

The Qi family is essentially the chieftain of Xining, and the real commander of the Xining guards is Han Chinese, and most of the military households moved from Jianghuai.

When Li Zicheng's troops came to kill, all the Han generals surrendered. Only Qi Tingjian and Lu Yinchang, the two Mongolian chieftains, were loyal to Ming Dynasty.

Lu Yinchang died for the Ming Dynasty, Qi Tingjian was defeated and fled, and historically he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. But in this time and space, Qi Tingjian took advantage of the Datong Army's absence and recaptured Xining and appointed himself as the commander. On the one hand, he professed his minister to Gushi Khan, and on the other hand, he professed his minister to the Datong court. As a buffer force, the court has never conscripted.

Now, the imperial court sent troops to kill, and Qi Ting had to surrender if he didn't surrender.

The gate of the city was opened wide, Qi Xingzhou came out of the city and knelt to welcome him, and even carried out Qi Tingjian who was seriously ill.

The rest of the Han generals could only follow suit and surrender.

The military household system is still in use here. Once the Datong army is surrendered, it means that the generals will lose their land, and they will inevitably lose the military households who are like serfs.

Qi Xingzhou knelt on the ground and shouted: "Xining soldiers and civilians are all looking forward to the imperial court sending troops, and now they have finally got their wish. The imperial court's land administration is really good governance that has never been seen in ancient times. The Qi family is willing to donate all the land to help the imperial court divide the good land. with the people!"

"Willing to dedicate the land and distribute it to the people!"

The rest of the generals also shouted, and cried after shouting, it was the land accumulated by their ancestors for generations.

Jiang Liang sneered and said, "It's cheap for you bastards. There is an order from the imperial court that each family of the old Ming army in Xining can take away five carts of goods. It can be loaded with silver or grain, but only five carts are allowed. The frame has been prepared for you, load it and leave immediately, and report to Lanzhou within a month. The Lanzhou government will arrange a place for you to go to Shanxi or Hebei to settle down and divide the land!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace!"

The generals wanted to cry but had no tears. They surrendered their city and land, but they could only take away five carts of goods, and they had to kneel down and kowtow to thank them for not killing them.

Temporary family separation is not acceptable, it must be counted as a family.

It is said that five carts of property can be taken away, but they are all big families, how much can each person get after sharing?

After dealing with these officers, Jiang Liang let the military officials enter the city to calm the people, and sent a small group of cavalry to the surrounding villages and towns to publicize the land administration of the new dynasty of Datong along the way. Whether it is a Han military household or a Mongolian shepherd slave, all of them are free, and they can also share land and pastures.

For a time, the people were excited and enthusiastically supported the imperial court.

Immediately afterwards, troops were sent to Guide (Guide) and other thousand households to recover all the surrounding old places of Ming Dynasty.

Qin Liangyu's grandson, Ma Wannian, is now the commander of the Shaanxi Cavalry Division.

He led more than 10,000 cavalry as the vanguard, and went straight to Dongke Temple by Qinghai Lake, which is the largest temple in Qinghai.

The abbot of Dongke Temple has been a guest in Nanjing for several years. Ma Wannian came with a letter from the abbot, urging the monks to release the slaves, and anyone who disobeyed would violate the abbot's order.

As for the Mongolian tribes here, they have already fled with their livestock!

Badaiji from Qinghai led his followers and retreated all the way to Xingxiu Sea. I don't know if they met the old fairy Xingxiu.

The boss, Ozier, is on his way from Tibet, so the sixth Batur has the final say here.

"In my opinion, it's better to surrender, Nanjing Emperor Zhao is still very kind." Dai Qing, the second Chechen, was the first to speak. He had visited Zhao Han in Nanjing.

The fifth son, Yil Duqi, firmly opposed it because his son was Handu who controlled Kham: "We can't surrender, everyone has seen Han envoys, and the Han emperor wants us to dedicate Kham."

According to the arrangement of Gushri Khan, the taxes in the snow area were used to support monks, and the taxes in the Kham area were used to support Mongolian nobles. Once the Kham area is lost, the Mongolian nobles in Qinghai will lose their stable sources of income and food, and will only be able to make a living on the grasslands of Qinghai in the future.

"The eldest brother is not here, so the sixth brother has an idea." Old Nine Gonpo Chahun said, he didn't care anyway, all the children died young, so he had no other ideas.

Batur said: "The Han army is really powerful. I heard that the 100,000 Mobei Mongolians were all defeated by the Han army. Even if we can win this year, what if the Han army comes every year? But it won't work if we don't fight. I The idea is to dodge as much as possible, not to fight head-on with the Han army, so that all the Han army will return in vain. If you encounter a good fighter, you can also fight a battle. After the Han army withdraws, send envoys to Nanjing for peace talks."

"How to talk about peace?" asked the old ten Zashbatur.

Batur explained: "The Han emperor wants to cede part of Kham, but not Amdo (Yushu, Aba, Gannan, Tianzhu). As for Qinghai, Xining and other places, they are not ours. The Han people If the emperor wants to take it back, he can take it."

In the Kangzang area, the Mongolian tribes are not widely distributed, and the core areas are only Yushu, Aba, Gannan and Tianzhu. The rest of the territory is full of Tibetans, Qiangs, and Yis. The Mongols use force and religion to levy taxes on all ethnic groups.

Yil Duqi shook his head again and again: "If so much is cut off at once, the tribute tax in Kham will be reduced by more than half. What will we live on in the future?"

Batur said: "It is possible to live on Qinghai and Anduo alone. We can't be greedy for enjoyment."

None of the brothers spoke a word, they had long since lost the will to fight, and only wanted to share more pastures and enjoy life. Kham was ceded out, and they still enjoyed the fart.

The seventh elder, Erdani Dai Qing, said in a strange way: "As soon as the Han soldiers come, we will cede Kham, why don't we give up Qinghai as well, and you and I will take the troops to vote for the fourth brother."

The fourth child was adopted to his uncle, and now he is nomadic in Tacheng, Xinjiang, and his territory also includes a part of the later Kazakhstan.

Elder Elder Elden said: "The Han people were also born and raised by their parents. They have flesh and blood, so why can't they win? In my opinion, if you fight hard, the Han soldiers won't dare to come again!"

No one wants to lose support from Kham. Historically, Handu occupied Kham and refused to provide taxes, so they were killed by these guys.

Most of the brothers thought this way, and Batur felt very helpless.

The big brother who only likes fighting and grazing is not here at this time. The other brothers are all short-sighted, and usually care about everything for the pasture, Batur feels really tired.

Before the Datong Army went to Qinghai, these brothers competed for the grassland, and there were several internal frictions. Now they are clamoring to fight against the Han army, but if there is a fight, they will not be able to work together at all, how can they fight if they preserve their strength?

If the brothers could unanimously fight against the outside world, Batur would not want to cede territory for peace, and he would have led his army to fight against the Han soldiers long ago.

"Don't be in a hurry to call now, let's talk about it when the eldest brother comes."

"Yes, wait for the elder brother to meet up."

"Also, Handu from the Fifth Brother's family, let him also hurry up and bring troops over to support him."

"This battle can be fought, and the Han soldiers dare not come again."

"..."

Batur looked at his brothers with a depressed face, feeling only deep helplessness in his heart.

The meeting ended, and Dai Qing, the second Chechen, found Batur and said with great concern, "Sixth brother, I really can't win. I have been to Nanjing, and the Han people are very powerful. Not to mention the city wall of Nanjing, which is so high that you can touch the clouds, just The cities along the way are also unimaginably prosperous. The Han people in Xi’an alone are countless times more numerous than the Mongolian people in Qinghai.”

"I know... Alas!" Batur sighed.

When Gushi Khan conquered Qinghai-Tibet, he borrowed troops to kill them, and all the main forces were returned to others. They have only a few thousand members, and they have received more than 40,000 local Mongolian people.

However, the infant mortality rate on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is too high, and pregnant women have various dystocias.

After many years of development and reproduction, the number of Mongolian tribes is less than 70,000. Even counting twelve or thirteen-year-old children, the number of troops that can be drawn out to fight is at most 30,000 to 40,000.

The Datong Army doesn't need to win battles, as long as they go on a few more expeditions every year, the population of Qinghai can be reduced sharply.