Chapter 730 0725 [Yelü Dashi's Thought of Migrating West]

After the Jin people left, the vast area south of Yanshan was set up as a Yanshan Prefecture and was under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province.

The Ansu Army, Shun'an Army, Baoding Army, and Xin'an Army in Hebei were no longer on the front line, so their military-level administrative organizations were all cancelled and downgraded to Ansu County, Gaoyang County, Guixin County, and Xin'an County.

Baozhou and Dingzhou were officially merged into Baoding Prefecture.

Rongcheng County on the Jin side (there was also Rongcheng County on the Ming side) was downgraded to Beirong Town and was under the jurisdiction of Ansu County. Ansu County was also merged into Baoding Prefecture.

There were many similar administrative division changes, which were basically based on geographical conditions to merge the former Song-Liao border.

Yizhou was downgraded to Yi County, Zhuozhou was downgraded to Fanyang County, Shunzhou was downgraded to Huairen County... all under the jurisdiction of Yanshan Prefecture. Some states did not even keep the county-level divisions and directly became a small town because the population was so damn small.

The soldiers and civilians of the Jin Dynasty who fled south to the Ming Dynasty were relocated back to their original villages to obtain land.

Many people randomly pointed out the farmland and said it was their own. The Ming government recognized it. As long as they could grow it and pay taxes honestly after the tax exemption period, the government actually encouraged them.

The immigrants from the three southern provinces also accelerated their march, and the prefectures and counties along the way must fully cooperate.

At the same time, all the cavalry under Li Yanxian were deployed to Taihang Mountain and Yanshan Mountain to lure the people.

The conditions for the lure were very relaxed. As long as the people in the mountains were willing to come out, they could farm the nearby land at will.

Even within five years, all taxes were exempted. This was because the land was vast and sparsely populated, and even small towns could not be formed, and they could only form natural villages. Under this situation, the cost of collecting taxes was too high, so they simply let it go and wait until the formation of towns to register the people.

The same situation also appeared in some other areas, with villages scattered in the wilderness. The nearby state and county towns were all ghost towns. The Jin Kingdom was too lazy to collect taxes, and the Ming government naturally did not collect taxes either. Those cities were temporarily left uncultivated.

There were millions of these mountain people and scattered villagers.

They were wary of all the courts, and could only use time to heal their psychological trauma.

After several months of enticement, there were only two or three thousand people willing to go down the mountain. Moreover, they lived in the foothills of seven or eight hundred miles long, and basically five or eight households gathered together to resist wild beasts. Even small settlements of more than ten households were not allowed, for fear that too many people would attract the government to recruit soldiers and food.

Gradually, Li Yanxian discovered a situation.

Even in the mountainous areas, there were a large number of gentry, and they were the leaders of the mountain people.

When they fled, ordinary people, led by the gentry in the village, hid in the mountains to reclaim wasteland and survive in units of villages.

As long as one gentry was persuaded, at least twenty or thirty households of people could be enticed to come out of the mountains!

After these gentry go down to the mountains to cultivate for a year, the government will not come to collect taxes, and they will probably trust the Ming Dynasty. Let them go back to the mountains next year, and persuade more gentry to bring people back. It should be no problem to attract hundreds of thousands of people within three to five years.

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The development of people's livelihood is in full swing here in the Ming Dynasty.

The Jin Dynasty was also not idle.

The Jin soldiers guarded the strong passes and dangerous strongholds of Yanshan Mountain and Taihang Mountain to prevent the Ming Dynasty from tearing up the peace treaty and suddenly sending troops. At the same time, they mobilized elite troops and horses, waiting for the harvest in autumn.

Before autumn came, Wanyan Zonghan dispatched cavalry to the grassland to order all tribes to send troops.

They are going to fight Yelu Dashi!

The Jin Dynasty actually endured the backstab of Xixia and did not intend to retaliate. The main reason was that the territory taken away by Xixia was too poor and remote to have much oil, and most of the area was separated by deserts and Gobi.

The Wugudilie tribes that were relocated to the Songnen Plain, as well as the Tanggu tribes distributed in the upper reaches of the Liaohe River, were called by Wanyan Zonghan to a meeting to discuss the dispatch of troops.

Two tribal leaders were late for their arrival and were immediately attacked by the Jin cavalry. All the nobles of the two tribes were executed, the young and strong and the livestock were taken away by the Jin, and the pasture was allocated to other tribes.

Immediately afterwards, another meeting was held in Linhuang Prefecture (Balin Left Banner), and the leaders of the grassland tribes within a radius of hundreds of miles must come.

Whoever doesn't come will be attacked!

Under a series of violent expeditions, the grassland tribes were in a state of panic and could only obediently send troops and food to follow the Jin soldiers to fight Yelu Dashi.

The Jin soldiers could not defeat the Ming army, but they regained their confidence in the grassland.

Often, dozens of Jurchen cavalry would rush straight into the tribe of thousands of people, cutting melons and vegetables all the way and being invincible.

The Jin Kingdom made such a big fuss in the south, how could Yelu Dashi not get wind of it in Mobei?

He hurriedly summoned the tribes in the northern desert to meet, but the Nirun Mongolian tribes did not come, and only two leaders of the Tatar tribes came.

This situation made Yelu Dashi feel heavy.

Most of the tribes that were loyal to him half a year ago chose to wait and see in the face of the Jin soldiers who were about to invade. These tribal leaders, fearing bloody revenge from the Jin Kingdom, have already shown an attitude of breaking away from Yelu Dashi.

Oli Shi came back from the Mongolian desert and reported: "Khan, there is accurate news from the south that the Ming Kingdom has negotiated peace with the Jin thieves."

"Ming Jin negotiated peace?" Yelu Dashi couldn't believe it.

Oli Shi said: "The Jin thieves have been defeated in succession, and they probably dare not fight the Ming army again. The Ming army recovered the territory of the Song Kingdom last year, and the Jin thieves ceded our Liao Dynasty's old land, Nanjing Road, in exchange for peace with the Ming Kingdom this spring."

The Liao Dynasty's Nanjing Road is the entire area south of Yanshan Mountain and north of Juma River.

Yelu Dashi frowned, "The Ming army is so fierce that they forced the Jin to cede territory and seek peace. If I were Prince Zhu, I would destroy the Jin in one fell swoop!"

Woli said: "Nanjing Road is dilapidated and exhausted, and the Ming Kingdom is busy taking over the territory. It is estimated that there will be no troops this year. As long as the Jin soldiers hold the pass, they can send out a large army to attack Mobei. This battle may be difficult to deal with."

Yelu Dashi said: "If we persist for another two or three years, Prince Zhu will definitely march north. By then, the Jin thieves will be too busy to take care of themselves, and we can take the opportunity to unify the northern and southern grasslands!"

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In autumn, the army is strong and the horses are strong.

The Jin Kingdom dispatched 8,000 elite cavalry and more than 10,000 grassland cavalry, a total of 24,000 troops to conquer Mobei.

The Nirun Mongolian tribes watched the show directly, neither helping Yelu Dashi to fight nor accepting the dispatch of the Jin Kingdom.

There are several leaders of the black and white Tatar tribes who are willing to follow Yelu Dashi.

The Naiman tribe promised to help because they were far away. But they were unwilling to send troops to the east, and instead asked Yelu Dashi to lead his troops to flee west, claiming that they were willing to meet them in the Altai Mountains.

Yelu Dashi chose to avoid the enemy and fled westward with his people and livestock, leaving a small group of cavalry along the way to lure the enemy.

Wanyan Zonghan's army quickly occupied the grassland abandoned by Yelu Dashi and sent cavalry to search and pursue Yelu Dashi.

Yin Shuke led 1,200 cavalry and found the enemy at the southwest foot of Wushan (Hangai Mountain). One man and three horses chased for two consecutive days, and were suddenly surrounded by more than 10,000 cavalry of Yelu Dashi.

These more than 1,000 Jurchen cavalry, instead of running away, rushed straight to Yelu Dashi's flag.

Yelu Dashi personally led his troops to meet the enemy. Before the two sides engaged in battle, Yin Shuke suddenly led his troops to turn and kill the Damili cavalry.

The Damili tribe was one of Yelu Dashi's die-hard followers, but their equipment was not very good. Not to mention the extremely low armor rate, they could not even guarantee the supply of iron arrows, and many cavalry were still using bone arrowheads.

They were originally narrowing the encirclement, but they did not expect the Jurchen cavalry to suddenly rush over.

After just one charge, the Damili cavalry fled.

In the situation of fighting with fewer troops, Yin Shuke actually divided his troops. When he was chasing the fleeing soldiers of the Damili tribe, he suddenly sent 200 Jurchen cavalrymen to attack the Yedugua tribe in another direction, and the latter was killed instantly without any resistance.

1,200 Jurchen cavalrymen rushed forward like this, causing chaos in Yelu Dashi's army of tens of thousands.

In the end, they even divided into three and charged towards Yelu Dashi's headquarters from three directions.

The two sides fought fiercely for half an hour, and more than 200 Jurchen cavalrymen were killed and wounded, but they became more crazy and brave. After retreating alternately, they continued to attack round after round, and occasionally seized the opportunity to suddenly counterattack when retreating.

Yelu Dashi was furious. When many of his troops fled, he personally led 300 cavalrymen to fight tenaciously with the Jin people.

Yin Shuke found that this was a tough nut to crack, and finally broke out, leaving behind the bodies of the dead.

Yelu Dashi led his troops to chase, and many cavalrymen who were about to flee but not yet fled gradually gathered together to chase.

During the pursuit, the Jin cavalry suddenly changed horses and fought back.

After another fierce battle, they broke through the siege, and Yelu Dashi dared not chase them anymore.

In this battle, more than 400 Jin soldiers were killed, and almost everyone who escaped was injured.

But more than 5,000 of Yelu Dashi's more than 10,000 soldiers fled far away. He also lost more than 80 of his core 300 cavalrymen, which was a huge blow to Yelu Dashi.

A few days later, more than 3,000 Jin cavalrymen came.

Yelu Dashi once again lured the enemy deep into the depths, trying to surround and annihilate the Jin soldiers, but he was defeated and fled.

The combat effectiveness of the tribal cavalry following him was too weak!

Yelu Dashi retreated all the way west until it snowed, and the Jin soldiers withdrew one after another. Moreover, he took out his anger on the surrounding tribes and robbed a large number of livestock and women.

After this battle, Yelu Dashi's prestige in Mobei plummeted, and the Nirun Mongolian tribes openly broke away from his rule.

The Tatar tribes also complained because they were robbed the most by the Jin soldiers.

The Mobei grassland was not the foundation for a career, and Yelu Dashi finally had the idea of ​​moving westward.

His foundation here was too weak, even worse than the Nirun Mongolian tribes.

Those Mongolian tribes had developed for several generations, and they had blood ties with each other, and there were a large number of intermarriage tribes.

And what about Yelu Dashi?

He was just an outsider, with no in-laws in Mobei, and relied purely on three hundred cavalry to subdue the tribes. Once in danger, the powerful tribes would not obey at all, and were only willing to follow him to grab the benefits of the territory.

That winter, Yelu Dashi stayed in Mobei to lick his wounds.

He selected brave men to make up for the three hundred cavalry. People died, but the armor was still there, and hundreds of armors were obtained from the fallen Jurchen cavalry.

After the defeat, he lost some armor. Now he has more than 500 sets of armor.

It's pitiful. Yelu Dashi only has more than 500 sets of armor, and they are all medium-sized armor. He doesn't even have a heavy armor.

Looking at the snow, Yelu Dashi plans to ascend the throne next year, and move west immediately after rewarding officials.

Whoever wants to stay in Mobei can stay, anyway, he can't stay there anymore.