Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

While the battles in Liaodong and Liaonan were in full swing, Liaobei was also not idle.

The fifth son of the Great Khan Lianhua, Prince of Zhao, Biligendalai, and the Junggar chieftain, Urigendalai, led 10,000 cavalrymen to march northeast from Shenyang. Biligendalai means "ocean of wisdom" in Mongolian. As the fruit of the love between the Great Khan Lianhua and the noblewoman of Yarkand, the concubine Gulixiati, the young Prince of Zhao is only sixteen years old this year, but he has received a good education, is familiar with military books, and has the assistance of the battle-hardened general Urigendalai. He is very wise in fighting. To put it bluntly, he is able to defeat the enemy without fighting.

First, Tieling was attacked. The commander of Tieling was Ma Chengxun, a Han army commander of the Zhenghuang Banner. After Ma Chengxun surrendered to the Wei, His Royal Highness the King of Zhao sent someone to ask him for a letter of persuasion to surrender, and ordered him to recruit the commanders of Tieling, Kaiyuan and other places (30,000 guards) to surrender. The commander of Tieling was Ma Chengxun's old subordinate. After seeing the letter, he surrendered the city without saying a word; then Kaiyuan, although the commander of Kaiyuan, Zhao Tianxiang, was a Han Chinese, he was very loyal to the Qing Dynasty. He tore up the letter of persuasion to surrender and wrote a blood letter to encourage his subordinates to defend the city. He also recruited young and strong men in the city to help defend the city. It was supposed to be a fierce battle. But Biligendalai carefully asked the locals and learned that most of the residents of Kaiyuan were immigrants who moved in a few years ago. After the Manchus entered the pass, in order to consolidate the birthplace of Liaodong, a series of preferential policies were promulgated to immigrate to Liaodong from Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi and other places. Kaiyuan was a place with poor natural conditions. Local officials gave each new citizen two shang of land in the city and five shang of land in the wild to the new citizens, which would be their permanent property. As a result, dozens of Han clans moved to Kaiyuan to reclaim wasteland and joined the Han Army Banner. The number of foreign population far exceeded the local population. The clever King of Liao used his wisdom and continuously shot letters of persuasion to the city, saying, "I know you are all Han people enslaved by the Manchus. Why do you have to work for the Qing Dynasty? If you are willing to surrender, your land and property can be preserved. If you don't surrender, we will kill you and kill you." It was very effective. The Han clans in the city were often moved in from other provinces in their entire villages. They were very united and listened to the words of their clan leaders. Several frightened clan leaders secretly contacted the guards and led people to open the city gates at night. After the guards entered the city, they cut off Zhao Tianxiang's head and hung it on the city gate as a warning. After that, they went smoothly and successively conquered Shangyang, Qingyun and Yongning forts, and no one dared to stop them.

After Kaiyuan, heading north, the vast areas of Greater Khingan Range and the Heilongjiang, Songhua and Ussuri River basins are under the jurisdiction of Ningguta Angbang Zhangjing. Most of the garrisoned soldiers are fierce Solon soldiers. Biligendalai is not afraid of the Solon soldiers, but the military order given to him by his old father is to go to the Horqin grassland and meet up at the Horqin Left Rear Banner. Naturally, he could not continue to fight eastward and northward, but turned northwest to hunt on the Horqin grassland.

"Your Highness, across the Liao River from here is Kangjiatun (Kangping), which is already the pastureland of the Khorchin tribe. After we occupy Kangjiatun, should we go northwest to attack the Khorchin Left Rear Banner or west to attack the Khorchin Left Front Banner?" In the guard camp on the east bank of the Liao River, Urrigendalai asked Biligenda for instructions.

"My father Khan and we have agreed to meet at the Left Rear Banner of Khorchin, so naturally we will attack the Left Rear Banner. Tell the warriors to act quickly. Firstly, we can catch the Left Rear Banner off guard, and secondly, we can cut off the retreat of the Left Front Banner," the young Prince Zhao gave the order with great enthusiasm.

"Your Highness, please let me lead two thousand brave warriors, each with two horses, to go ahead. The Khorchin people are not good at fighting, but they are fast at running away. I am worried that if we run too slowly, they will escape," Urgendale laughed.

"Well, you have thought it through. I will assign the best rider and the fastest horse to you. You will ride two horses non-stop. If you let the Khorchin people escape, I will whip you severely with the whip," Biligenda joked about the fierce general.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. If you let the Khorchin people escape, I will let you deal with them," Wurigendalai said solemnly. In the army, there is no joking, and this statement is equivalent to a military order. After crossing the Liaohe River, the fierce general did not enter the pastureland of the Khorchin Left Front Banner, Kangjiatun, to prevent the news from leaking, but went straight to the Khorchin Left Rear Banner from the north of Kangjiatun.
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The sun rose, silently shining on the pastures of the Horqin Left Rear Banner of the Jirim League. The cattle, sheep and horses were leisurely nibbling on the green grass. Such fertile grasslands made the livestock fat and strong. This was all thanks to the Empress Dowager and Empress of the Qing Dynasty. If it were not for the marriage with the Qing Dynasty, how could the Horqin tribe have such a good pasture?

The son of Zasakduoluo Prince Zhangjilun, Taiji Budali was hunting gazelles with his followers. The frightened gazelles ran fast, but not faster than the arrows. He took out his arrows and shot three arrows in a row. All the arrows hit the target, and three fat gazelles lay on the grass. Khorchin means archer or bowman in Mongolian. Their ancestors were good at archery, and Budali was also a famous archer in the tribe.

Suddenly, the attendant shouted in panic, "Taiji, look, there is a fire near the king's tent!"

A raging fire was burning near the royal tent of the Horqin Left Rear Banner, and thick smoke was rising from tents and livestock sheds. It was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. The damn Oirat bandits came here, killing people and setting fires, as cruel as jackals.

"The guards are coming, blow the horn and tell the warriors to gather!" The old Zasakdoro Prince Zhang Jilun stumbled out of the royal tent, trying to organize his men to resist. But there were only a thousand tents near the royal flag, and most of the herdsmen were grazing in various places, not near the royal flag. In a hurry, only a thousand people could be gathered, and they were in a mess and without any formation.

Wurigendalai led two thousand elite soldiers and quickly killed Zhangjilun's personal guards. "Prepare to die," the fierce general spat out three words viciously from between his teeth, and slashed the big knife in his hand horizontally, and the head of Prince Duolo rolled down.

"Eqige!" Seeing the fire in the king's tent, Budali knew that the enemy had come, and hurriedly led his followers back. There were fleeing herdsmen everywhere along the way.

"Taiji, it's bad. The Oirats are attacking us. They are everywhere in the mountains and plains, and there are countless of them," a panicked herdsman informed him.

"Taiji, the king's tent has been lost. There is no point in going back. The enemy outnumbers us. Please quickly gather your troops and retreat north," a confidant suggested.

"Retreat north? What about Eqige?" Budali refused to abandon his old father and escape alone, insisting on returning to the king's tent. Soon he encountered the men of Urigendalai who were killing and setting fire, and was defeated. As a last resort, the taiji could only flee, but the guards would not let him go and chased him closely, leaving him no time to gather his people and cross the Xiliao River to the pastureland of the Horqin Left Wing Middle Banner.

In this battle, the guards beheaded 2,000 people and captured more than 14,000 herdsmen, almost completely destroying the Horqin Left Wing Rear Banner. After the victory, Biligendalai and Urigendalai did not dare to be careless. While placing the captured people and livestock and waiting for Sultan's army, they also made preparations to intercept the Horqin Left Wing Front Banner. (End of this chapter)