Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 309, the little prince's hesitation

On the vast and boundless grassland, the cold wind is blowing, the snow is falling heavily, and it is another cold winter.

The little prince Dayan Khan wore a thick mink fur coat and rode a tall horse to patrol the camp where his headquarters was stationed. The snow like goose feathers quickly accumulated a thick layer on his body.

But at this moment, he has no energy to care about this trivial matter, because his face is very ugly.

The weather is too cold, the snow is too heavy, and there are too many dead cattle and sheep. Although a large number of cattle and sheep die every winter, they have long been used to this.

But the weather is really getting colder and the snow is falling more and more. Large areas of cattle and sheep are dying. There are too many deaths, which means that many, many people will also die together.

"It is better to die on the battlefield than to be frozen to death."

Looking at the scene in front of him, Dayan Khan narrowed his eyes slightly, and soon rode back to his golden tent.

In the huge golden tent, the charcoal fire is very hot, very warm, and the cold wind outside cannot blow in. The delicious roasted whole lamb, as well as the horse milk tea that people can't get tired of drinking, and the graceful Young beauties, let every tribal leader who came to the meeting drink to his heart's content.

Dayan Khan sat down on his seat with no expression on his face, and drank a glass of warm wine in one gulp, feeling extremely comfortable all of a sudden, he took a long breath, as if to dissipate the cold air in his body at once .

"Is everyone eating and drinking enough?"

Dayan Khan looked at the tribal leaders in the golden tent, and said coldly.

His words seemed to pour cold water on everyone's hearts, and the entire golden tent became quiet immediately. The girls who were dancing just now also left wisely, knowing that the leaders had something important to discuss.

"Winter is here, the cold north is howling, and the heavy snow like goose feathers keeps falling. What is Changshengtian telling us?"

Dayan Khan's voice was very loud and clearly transmitted to the ears of every tribal leader present.

"Changshengtian is telling us that it's time for us northern wolves to hunt south."

"Great Khan, we have been waiting for this day for a long time. As long as you give an order, our warriors from the Sunit Department will take down the southern city for you, bring back cartloads of gold, silver and jewelry for you, and choose for you." The most beautiful beauty in the world."

"Yes, Great Khan, our Tuva tribe has been waiting for this day for a long time."

The leaders of all the tribes stood up and yelled. When they came, they knew that Dayan Khan must have called a meeting for the purpose of going south to plunder. This is almost a program that will be staged every winter.

It's just that they waited for a long time this year. In previous years, Dayan Khan would gather everyone to prepare for the southward plunder in autumn. But this year, it was already October, and Dayan Khan called everyone together.

Dayan Khan also smiled when he heard the words of the tribal leaders, but he was actually very hesitant in his heart, very hesitant, which is why he delayed calling everyone until October.

Earlier, he had already dispatched a team of scouts to investigate, check the situation of the Ming Dynasty people, and prepare for the plunder going south in winter.

But the intelligence that came back from the spying made him fall into endless hesitation.

I don't know what method the Ming Dynasty people used to repair all the loopholes on the long line of defense in a very short period of time, and this time, not only repaired, but also in places that were easy to break through in the past, even An unprecedentedly high wall was built. The city wall was so high that it made people desperate, and it was so hard that even bows and arrows could not penetrate it.

At first, he didn't believe this, but as more and more scout teams came back to report the situation, he had to take someone to check it out himself.

The moment he saw the incomparably tall city walls here in Datong, he knew that this winter was definitely more difficult than he imagined, and the show of looting south every winter in the past might not be able to be staged.

Facing the ten-foot-high city wall, I don't know how many lives will be used to fill it, and it may not be able to open the gap. In the complete defense system built by the Ming Dynasty, there are very few places where they can exploit loopholes, which is suitable for large-scale marches southward. That's just a few places.

Faced with such a situation, going south to plunder may not only result in no gains, but is more likely to cause heavy casualties and loss of troops.

Dead people are nothing. There are people dying on the grassland all the time. The people on the grassland have long been indifferent to this, but for Dayan Khan, he needs to think about more things.

He is an extremely strategic hero. In the past, by organizing plundering southwards every year, he got a big harvest every time. He wanted food, salt, salt, gold and silver jewels, and beautiful women. Both Dayan Khan and the tribes following him have gained a lot.

Relying on such a method, he successfully brought together the scattered tribes and established his own prestige.

So he knows very well that in the matter of going south to plunder, he can only fight with the wind, that is, break into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty people at the least cost, and plunder as much as he can in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty people, so that everyone can Gain benefits, only in this way can you keep playing.

But if you encounter a headwind situation.

For example, if you can't even break through the opponent's defense line, if you can't get in at all, and if there are heavy casualties, it will be a heavy blow to the tribes, and of course it will be a blow to Dayan Khan's prestige .

Everyone likes to follow people who can lead them to enjoy themselves, not to follow people who make them disheartened.

Knowing this, Dayan Khan has been hesitating, he has been hesitating whether to go south to plunder. Many times, after more than ten years of smooth sailing, once defeated, he may never be able to stand up again. There are too many such things, too much. too much.

He was also very afraid that if there was nothing to be gained from going south this time, the cohesion he had managed to gather might soon be disintegrated, and the whole grassland would become a mess of loose sand again.

He is thirty-one years old, which is the golden age of a man. He has great ambitions. He aspires to become a man like Genghis Khan, unify the entire Mongolian tribes again, lead the Mongolian army to fight north and south, and bring the sunshine to the north. In the same way, all the land under it became the grassland of the Mongols.

So he can't fail, and he can't allow the ministries that have finally gathered together to become a mess again.

But now, he had to make a decision. The weather was too cold and too many cattle and sheep died. very many.

Too many people died, which was also a heavy blow to Dayan Khan. Although the grassland is vast, the population has been very sparse since ancient times. There are not enough people. What can he use to unify the entire Mongolia?

How can he become the second Genghis Khan?

So now he had to go south, but in his heart, he was very hesitant. If he failed this time, it would be a heavy blow to him.

　The problem of border problems became more and more serious in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. The important reason is that the nomads in the north were able to return with full rewards every time they plundered~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)