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Volume 1: Invasion of the Capital Chapter 937: Return without success

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    As long as people care about gains and losses, they will have many ideas, and the same is true for the Tumote tribe.  In the era of farming and animal husbandry, there were generally no wars in spring and summer. This was a season of production. Even if the war was won, it would affect the production of the year, which was completely outweighed by the losses, because it was difficult to survive the autumn and winter seasons.  Therefore, Pegasus Town's expedition hit the most painful place for the Mongolian tribes.  The first response measure taken by the Tumote tribe was to retreat all tribes to the Hetao area, in the city occupied by the Tumote tribe, which is near the modern city of Hohhot.  At this time, the Mongolian tribes in Hohhot had actually gradually shifted towards settlement and farming, so relatively speaking, the food pressure on the Tumut tribe was much less.  Coupled with the city's help in defense, the Tumote tribe's ability to survive is much stronger.  In addition, it is difficult to find wood and stones on the grassland, and it is also difficult to build siege equipment.  With only cavalry, it would be difficult to attack a fortified city. The Tumote tribe wanted to use this hedgehog-like posture to make the attacking Pegasus town retreat.  The second response measure used by the Tumut Department was to send envoys.  In the eyes of the princes and nobles of the Tumut tribe, there is actually no life-and-death conflict between their tribe and the Han people.  Whether it is the Manchu or the Ping dynasty, the Tumote Department does not care who of you lives or dies.  But if you want to fight, fight it yourself, and don¡¯t bring disaster to the Tumote Department, which is a fish in the pond!  To this end, the Tumote tribe even invited several Shanxi merchants who were good friends with their tribe as envoys.  In the view of Prince Tumut and others: Shanxi merchants and officials from the Central Plains are inextricably linked. With their contacts, many conditions can be negotiated!  So, wrong information often leads to wrong actions, and this is what Tumote Ministry did.  He completely sold himself out.  After the establishment of the Great Ping Dynasty, the eight Shanxi merchants were in great panic.  Because Wu Shigong hated Shanxi merchants for doing business with foreign countries, colluding with enemies, and betraying intelligence about the Central Plains dynasty, the Great Ping Dynasty wanted to drive out all Shanxi merchants.  If it were just an attitude, Shanxi merchants could still struggle.  But now the Daping Dynasty has occupied Shanxi, and the eight Shanxi merchant families whose home base has been occupied can't wait to show their loyalty to the Daping Dynasty.  Although the Chang family, one of the eight great families, first established contact with Wu Shigong, these eight great families were broken bones and connected with tendons, so they were still one to the outside world.  therefore.  The eight Shanxi merchants approved the Chang family and wanted to negotiate a once and for all sincerity plan with the Daping Dynasty.  It is also the good luck of the eight Shanxi merchants. They chose the right time.  At this time, the Daping Dynasty was experiencing frequent civil strife and was surrounded by enemies on all sides, so Wu Shigong did not want to establish any more powerful enemies.  The eight Shanxi merchant families were originally extremely wealthy, and their families all possessed powerful military forces.  Although it's not good compared to the Daping Army, don't forget it.  The Daping Army in Shanxi has already invaded Shaanxi, and Wu Shigong does not want Shanxi to be in chaos again.  Another point is that Shanxi merchants¡¯ many years of operation in the Ming Dynasty officialdom also had an effect.  Through funding and bribery, many civil and military officials were the spokespersons of Shanxi merchants in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.  And these officials are now basically accepted by the Daping Dynasty.  If Wu Shigong resorted to violence rashly, it would also cause turmoil in the court.  So, after some bargaining.  Wu Shigong finally agreed to the sincerity request of the eight Shanxi merchants.  However, he asked the eight Shanxi merchants to show "sincerity."  What is "sincerity"?  Of course it¡¯s real money.  In the end, the eight Shanxi merchants agreed to donate two million taels of silver to the Daping Dynasty, and loaned three million taels of silver to the court for five years without interest, as "forgiveness money" for previous actions.  But the Tumote tribe had no idea what happened between the Shanxi merchants and the Daping Dynasty?  So they asked Shanxi merchants to be their envoys. Isn¡¯t that an entrustment to someone they were entrusted to?  Therefore, as soon as the Shanxi merchant envoys arrived at Pegasus Town, they immediately explained the situation to Zuge and others like pouring beans through bamboo tubes.  Moreover, these Shanxi merchant envoys also suggested taking advantage of Tumut's unpreparedness.  Give them a hard kick to get more benefits.  To be honest, at this time, Zug and others did not think about attacking the Tumote tribe.  Because of the departure of Pegasus Town, the Qing army has begun to dispatch, and the city of the Tumut Department cannot be conquered in a short time.  So Zug and others prepared to return to the Great Wall through Datong.  But now I heard the weakness of the Tumote Department.  If you don't bully her, you will definitely be struck by lightning.  On the seventh day of the fifth lunar month, Pegasus Town¡¯s 25,000-strong army galloped 800 miles and unexpectedly attacked Hohhot (called by its modern name) with lightning speed.  Caught off guard, the Tumut herdsmen stationed outside the city were defeated.  Then, Pegasus Town used the artillery carried by the army to bombard Hohhot, causing great fear among the nobles of the Tumote tribe in the city.  Then, envoys from Shanxi merchants came to the city to persuade and persuade Tumote.?Accept the alliance under the city proposed by Zug and others.  Under the rhetoric of Shanxi merchant envoys, the Tumote tribe finally chose to surrender.  They will nominally submit to the Daping Dynasty, submit a surrender form to the Daping Dynasty and declare themselves vassal.  However, this behavior only looks good in appearance, but in reality it is meaningless.  When Pegasus Town leaves, who can guarantee that the Tumote Department will not turn around and fall into the arms of the Qing Dynasty?  But next, Pegasus Town will bleed from Tumote Department.  They demanded 10,000 sheep and 1,000 horses as war compensation to make up for their military expenditures in attacking Tumut.  ¡­ And in Jinzhou, Dorgon, when he learned that Horqin¡¯s 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 marching westward, the Chahar tribe also suffered a disastrous defeat, and Chahar Khan Ezhe also fled north in a hurry, he could no longer remain calm.  Although Chahar Khan Ezhe was just a puppet, he was also the guarantee for the Manchu Qing to rule Eastern Mongolia.  If Ezhe falls into the hands of the Daping Army, not only the Manchu Qing rule over Eastern Mongolia will collapse, but at least it will cost more in the future.  So Dorgon immediately mobilized 20,000 troops, with Abatai as the commander, to march westward to encircle and suppress the Daping army that had passed the pass.  This Qing army first moved to the Horqin tribe and mobilized the Horqin tribe's army. Then it came to the Chahar tribe, gathered the remnants of the Chahar tribe, and once again controlled the Chahar Khan's forehead.  Zhe.  At this time, the Manchu-Mongolian coalition led by Abatai also numbered more than 50,000.
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