The small tribes on the grassland have hope,

A large number of small tribes joined Baliangadu, bringing a sufficient population to Baliangadu.

Don't look at the fact that a small tribe only has about a hundred people in a dome hut, a small one has a few hundred people, and a slightly larger one only has more than a thousand people.

But nothing can handle too much.

One small tribe has hundreds of domes and ten small tribes have one flag.

The most indispensable thing on the grassland is such small tribes. Some were defeated in the war for grassland and lost a large number of people and were forced to flee. Some were unwilling to endure the oppression of the noble leaders and escaped from the original tribe with their cattle and sheep.

, and some herdsmen who had been abandoned by the tribe came together to join the group to keep warm.

These small tribes often do not survive a single winter, but many such small tribes appear on the grasslands every year and then die out.

In this early spring, Balianjidu has accepted dozens of small tribes, and they have been arranged on the vast Balianjidu grassland to form new pastures.

Originally, Lin Dan Baltu hoped to annex some small tribes to restore their vitality after winter. After all, Lin Dan Baltu was a member of the Golden Family and the Great Khan of Monan. His Chahar tribe was also the largest tribe in Monan.

South means there is safety and security.

However, the troops sent by Lin Dan Baltu came back with nothing. They told Lin Dan Baltu that Balian Na in the west was robbing them of small tribes.

When he heard that Balian was competing with him for people, Lin Danbaltu was so angry that he threw the cup.

Ever since he lost to Huang Taiji last year, it was as if he was having a bad year and everything he did was not going as planned.

With the defeat, after the Chahar tribe lost two thousand riders, the Horqin tribe and the Tumote tribe all questioned his position as the Great Khan of Mongolia. Even the Asov tribe wanted to take advantage of his defeat to take advantage of it.

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Although this is normal on the grassland, Lin Danbaltu just feels uncomfortable. He is the Great Khan of Mongolia and a descendant of the Golden Family. How could he suffer such injustice?

But Monan Mongolia was originally divided, and the Horqin, Tumote, and Ordos tribes did not listen to his orders. Now that he was defeated and his prestige was greatly reduced, the tribes ignored him even more.

Even though he shouted to summon all the tribes to seek revenge on Huang Taiji, these big tribes still went about their own business and did not pay attention to him as the Mongolian Khan at all.

Even Lin Danbaltu suspected that if Ordos and Chahar were far apart and separated long ago, Ordos would probably come to challenge his majesty.

Fortunately, Ordos and Chahar are separated by many grasslands and tribes.

Originally, Lin Danbaltu wanted to annex these tribes' pastures to restore their vitality, but who had ever launched a war against these two large tribes, the Balian tribe and the Nadu tribe!

When Lin Danbaltu heard the news, he almost smiled crookedly. He waited for both the Balian and Nadu tribes to be injured, and then he started to pick the fruits. But who could have imagined that, in the end, neither the Balianbu nor the Nadu tribe were defeated.

Winning, instead allowed Ming to swallow these two tribes.

Facing the Ming Dynasty, which had defeated Huang Taiji and was in full swing, Lin Danbaltu cursed but still did not dare to cause trouble. He chose to bury his head and pretended not to know anything, comforting himself in his heart: the Ming Dynasty swallowed the Ba Company and the Nadu Division.

Well, at least the Ordos tribe can't come over. He only needs to deal with the two young men of the Tumut tribe and the Horqin tribe.

However, Lin Danbaltu did not expect that after this winter, the Balian tribe and the Nadu tribe that the Ming Dynasty swallowed would become a whole, and they would even compete with him for population on the grassland!

Lin Danbaltu was so angry that he was almost furious. He was the Great Khan of Mongolia and the master of the grassland. How could an individual challenge his status?!

Now that Huang Taiji has sent troops to Horqin, Dorgon and Duoduo are galloping wantonly on the Horqin grassland. They simply don't pay attention to the Horqin tribe and him, the Mongolian Khan. But facing the still strong Manchu Qing Dynasty, Lin Danbaltu also

I could only break my teeth and swallow it in my stomach.

No matter if Horqin delays Huang Taiji's time, when Horqin can no longer support it, they will definitely come to him, the Mongolian Khan, for help.

But who would have thought that Horqin couldn't hold on any longer and still didn't come to him, as if he, the Mongolian Khan, was nothing!

At present, the Manchu and Qing dynasties are reaching out to conquer Horqin wantonly, and the Ming Dynasty is still stirring up trouble in Balianna. Lin Danbaltu, who is caught in the middle, feels extremely uncomfortable and aggrieved.

When did the dignified Golden Family and the wolf clan in the north suffer such grievances?!

So Lin Danbaltu directly ordered his subordinates to rob as many people as they could. The Chahar tribe was in great need of fresh blood.

The Great Khan gave the order, and the Chahar tribe's horsemen naturally came to rob the population.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty and Lin Dan Baltu competed for the population on the grassland between Balian Gadu and Chahar, causing many small tribes who sat on the fence to watch miserable. These small tribes also felt that Lin Dan Baltu was being manipulated by the Ming Dynasty and the emperor.

The feeling of being attacked from both sides by Tai Chi is really uncomfortable.

Faced with the solicitation of the Great Ming Dynasty and Lin Dan Bartu, the Great Khan of the grasslands, these small tribes were hesitant. The Ming Dynasty would give you pastures, cattle and sheep, and food so that you could live in peace; Lin Dan Khan's Chahar tribe

He is the overlord of Monan, and he will definitely be able to settle down if he joins the Chahar tribe. As for the cattle and sheep?

Don't count on that.

If you join the Chahar tribe, Lin Dan Khan will not give them pasture, but will swallow them up directly. The population, cattle and sheep will be distributed to the leader nobles of the Chahar tribe and Lin Dan Khan himself. If a tribe enters, all the bones will be given to you.

There is not much left.

But no matter what, it is still a way to survive.

After all, no one who joins Ming Dynasty knows what the reputation of Ming Dynasty is?

The hesitation of the small tribes was not of concern to Cao Wenzhao and Lin Danbaltu. They only cared about how many people they had captured. Therefore, the two sides initially used propaganda on the grassland to encourage the small tribes to join them, and then they made clear swords and clear guns.

Small tribes submit to themselves.

Later, there were small-scale frictions between both sides.

Faced with such friction that was full of dangers of misfire, both Cao Wenzhao and Lin Danbaltu chose to turn a blind eye. They still sent teams of riders to various small tribes to promote and encourage small tribes to join their side. Of course, if they found the other side's riders,

, then you should definitely kill it first.

On this day, the cavalry sent by Cao Wenzhao and the cavalry sent by Lin Danbaltu met around a small tribe.

This small tribe has 200 domed huts and a population of more than 1,300. It is only a small tribe, and the cavalry can only bring 200 people.

However, now, around this small tribe with a population of only more than 1,300 people, there are thousands of cavalry, fighting under different banners. Faced with such a scene, this small tribe is on guard. There are only two hundred horsemen.

He clenched his weapon tightly and looked warily at the two groups of cavalry outside the tribe.

These two groups of cavalry were on one side a battalion of cavalry under General Wang Lin of Dingyuan, and on the other side were half a thousand cavalry sent by Lin Danbartu's Chahar tribe.

After the confrontation for only a quarter of an hour, the two sides immediately launched an attack.

There was no advance warning, and there was no negotiation. With the horses' hooves pounding the ground uneasily, and who knew who shouted "Kill!" first, the well-prepared riders on both sides immediately raised their bows and nocked arrows.

The clusters came and went, and then they pulled out their scimitars and picked up their short spears to charge.

Horses neighed, horse hooves galloped, and the cavalry flying the flag of the Ming Dynasty and the flag of Lin Dan Khan broke out into a conflict. A total of thousands of cavalry from both sides fought hand-to-hand in this grassland to fight for this tribe of more than 1,300 people.

Is it worth it?

certainly!

Because this kind of competition is no longer the first, both sides are already angry!

The scimitars collided, and the war horses bit each other. A series of curses and shouts in Mongolian were accompanied by the collision of scimitars and the neighing of the war horses, adding a touch of warm bloody smell to the howling cold wind.

After a wave of charges, the two sides turned their horses around and exchanged positions.

In the middle of the fighting area, there were already hundreds of warm corpses. The horses of these corpses were still humming and humping their masters' bodies, trying to wake them up and continue to ride on them and lead them galloping.

The Han military captain looked at the cavalry on the opposite side and knew that he had encountered a tough situation this time. He had already lost dozens of brothers, but the Chahar cavalry on the opposite side was also having a hard time.

Both sides were on alert, silently raising their bows and arrows, then began to retreat, retreat, and finally returned with their corpses and horses, leaving behind a messy pasture.

This small tribe breathed a long sigh of relief after watching the two groups of cavalry leave. Looking at the grassland trampled by the galloping horses, the messy marks on the ground, and the pools of blood, look at the herdsmen of this small tribe.

I, when I look at you, I don’t know what to do.

As the eldest leader of the small tribe, he looked at the expectant eyes of the tribesmen with a sad face, and after being silent for a long time, he said: "Oh, we have to move."

A herdsman asked: "Chief, are we moving again?"

The old leader said helplessly: "Now the Ming Dynasty and the Great Khan are competing for pasture and population. If we continue here, we can only become victims. It is better to leave here and find a new place to survive."

Another herdsman asked: "Chief, do we still want to wander? Can't we choose one party to join?"

The old leader said: "If we join any side now, we will all become victims. It is better to stay away from here first. When the outcome of the war is determined, we will join the winning side."

The tribesmen nodded silently and began to pack up their domes and gather their cattle, sheep and horses to prepare for the move.

For these small tribes, constant migration is their destiny. They have to chase pasture, chase the weather, and chase the hope of survival.

And now, they are moving again. This time they are not chasing, but escaping from the war.

This little tribe is lucky.

As they left on the front foot, a large group of cavalry arrived on the back foot.

First, a whole thousand cavalrymen from the Chahar tribe arrived. Before they could stare at the deserted pasture, they heard the sound of horse hooves in the distance. This was two battalions of thousands of Ming Dynasty cavalry rushing to attack them.

arrive.

When the Ming army captain saw that the tribe was gone, he thought that the Chahar tribe had taken the people away first. The two parties looked at each other, and then they were on guard against each other, and then called for support.

Groups of riders dispersed, and reinforcements arrived in batches.

The original confrontation between the two sides with a total of only 2,000 people gradually turned into a confrontation between 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, and finally tens of thousands of people.

Wang Lin, the general of Dingyuan of the Ming army, arrived with his headquarters in person, and a cavalry commander from the Chahar tribe also came. The two sides combined tens of thousands of cavalry to confront each other on this grassland for a full half day. In the end, no one dared to fight easily.

, retreated silently, not saying a word the whole time.

And this confrontation is still getting more and more intense. Both Cao Wenzhao and Lin Danbaltu are aware of the current situation, but they still remain silent, waiting to see who can't stand it first.

It seems that Cao Wenzhao is still calm, but now he has only 40,000 Mongolian cavalry and 10,000 Ming troops. Facing the Chahar tribe with hundreds of thousands of dome huts and hundreds of thousands of tribesmen, Cao Wenzhao
To be continued...