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Chapter 19 Information Exchange for Herdsmen

Wang Quan really lived up to Li Laoer's high hopes. Within two days, he opened the Dasheng Kui Xikou semi-colon in Xikou. Yue Tuo was ordered by Huang Taiji to naturalize, and asked the eight Shanxi merchants to transport food to the Tumote tribe. He ambushed a sharp knife behind Lin Danhan's Chahar tribe, and won the Tumote tribe to deal with Lin Danhan and understand clearly.

The Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants had close relations with government officials at all levels of Xuanda, and even people in the court did this kind of business of killing the nine clans, but the Jinyiwei did not come to the door. In fact, this was related to Chongzhen being deceived by civil officials and self-destruction of the factory guards.

In fact, Wang Quan also knew very well that he helped Li Laoer investigate the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi merchants at the risk of losing his head. If he accidentally leaked his true identity, he would definitely be retaliated against by the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi merchants.

After understanding these situations, Wang Quan did not dare to neglect them. He immediately rushed to the mountain village located in Dadongyugouling and reported these situations to Li Laoer.

"The captain Emperor Taiji is indeed amazing! Jiannu's fighting skills are so good! Those Shanxi merchants, as Han Chinese, are willing to be a lackey for Jiannu. They are really a group of traitors who forget their ancestors! Calling them dogs really insults! Dogs don't care about their poverty, they are much better than these Shanxi merchants!" Li Laoer said angrily when he heard the news.

Next, Li Laoer linked up a series of actions of the Later Jin Juzhen, and then clarified his ideas. Huang Taiji's entire plan was sorted out: Huang Taiji was about to invade from Da'ankou, and during this period, in order to ensure that their invasion was not harassed by Chahar Mongolia, Huang Taiji had to win over the Tumote tribe to restrain Lin Danhan behind his back. But how to win over the Tumote tribe? Huang Taiji sent Yuetuo to Guihua City. The Later Jin Juzhen had gold and silver, but no food, iron and gunpowder. These extremely shortage materials needed to be purchased from the Shanxi merchants.

So Yue Tuo took gold, silver and treasures to Guihua City, and directly purchased important materials such as grain, iron, cotton and salt from Shanxi merchants to give them to Tumote tribe.

Huang Taiji is indeed a generation of heroes. This series of tricks can be said to be a kill of three birds with one stone. Invading the capital not only weakens the strength of the Ming Dynasty and increases his own strength, but also can shock Lin Dankhan and alienate the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and Lin Dankhan. At the same time, Lin Dankhan was forced to move westward to collide with the Tumot Mongols. The Later Jin Dynasty won over the Tumot people. Chahar, Tumot and the Ming Dynasty were originally allies, but by Huang Taiji's disruption, the ally relationship between the three collapsed. In addition, invading the capital can also eliminate Yuan Chonghuan, who was trying his best to promote peace with the Mongols.

Before, Huang Taiji first fooled Yuan Chonghuan and killed Mao Wenlong, but now he fooled Chongzhen to kill Yuan Chonghuan, and then he alienated the relationship between Lin Danhan, Tumote and the Ming Dynasty, which pulled out all the nails for the Later Jin Jurchens to invade the capital.

The Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants had thousands of people and hundreds of Jurchen cavalry brought by Yue Tuo. It was impossible for Li Laoer to eat the goods of the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants by himself. So he got the news and immediately rushed to Lin Danhan's camp and told Lin Danhan about this important information.

"What a series of tricks!" Lin Danhan was shocked, "If Huang Taiji succeeded in invasion and robbery, he would definitely strengthen the strength of the savages of the Later Jin Jurchens! When their strength is stronger, they will turn back to deal with Ben Khan!"

"Can the Khan sent troops to the grassland north of the west entrance and robbed the goods of the Shanxi merchants?" Li Laoer asked tentatively.

"That's natural!" Lin Danhan slapped the table violently, "How could Ben Han watch the enemy's strength grow and then deal with Ben Han? If that batch of goods falls into the hands of the Tumots, they will strengthen their strength to deal with Ben Han! If Ben Han intercepts this batch of goods, it will strengthen Ben Han's strength!"

"Caomin provided such important information to the Khan. Can the Khan agree to the Khan and send a group of herd slaves to the Khan?"

"Of course! This information is crucial! It is related to Ben Khan's life and death! What's more, Ben Khan promised you, what's this little muslim! Ben Khan will issue an order to give you a thousand muslim slaves as compensation!"

So Lin Danhan generously gave Li Laoer a thousand herd slaves. These thousand Han people who were good at riding horses were all potential cavalry seedlings. Li Laoer naturally thanked Lin Danhan. But now there is another problem in front of Li Laoer: There are people, but what about food? More than a thousand cavalrymen, with Li Laoer's current strength, they can't afford it at all.

Li Laoer currently has more than 100 war horses on hand, and with the war horses obtained from the tea and horse trade of Wang Quan, he can create a cavalry of 200 people.

If you want food, you can only eat black first. There are many horse thieves in the Yinshan Mountains. They can eliminate all the horse thieves and expand their cavalry. Then, with Lin Danhan, they will find trouble for the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi merchants. If they steal the food they used to invest in the enemy, they can support their cavalry.

Li Laoer knew very well that it was impossible to use steps to control cavalry against the Later Jin Jurchens, and it was impossible to use simple firearms to defeat the enemy. After all, in this era, even making flintlock rifles was a luxury. Making flintlock rifles requires high-quality Su Gang to build the springs of the bolt machine, so it is impossible to equip flintlock rifles in large quantities. The firing rate of the flintlock rifles is too slow and it cannot be restrained by the Jurchen Iron Cavalry.

To defeat the enemy, Li Laoer's plan is to take two-pronged approach: the first is to use cavalry to develop a powerful cavalry to deal with the Jurchens; the second is naturally to develop his own old profession. Aren't he engineers? Digging tunnels and building fortresses are all his strengths. The purpose of infantry is to build fortresses and fortifications, and even launching sneak attacks from tunnels, using tunnels to break the camp at night, which is also a very good tactic to defeat the enemy.

As long as there is enough manpower, the castle fortifications will be used to restrain the Jurchens' Later Jin. When they set up camp, they will dig an authentic tunnel from the castle and enter the Jurchens' camp below the stable, and bury gunpowder under the stable. The gunpowder must be placed in the coffin and sealed tightly to explode. As long as the stable is blown up, the war horses will shock the crowd and their cavalry will attack the enemy camp and will defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

But that's all the things that happened later. At present, I'm not even the officers and soldiers.

A few days ago, I saw Wang Yuanya's expression and attitude. Unless he took Yue Tuo's head to accept the amnesty, the Ming Dynasty court would not be able to accept it at all. However, Li Laoer dared not think about getting Yue Tuo's head.

In addition, there is another way to accept recruitment, that is, to wait. After a few years, Lu Xiang will be promoted to Xuanda and become the governor of Xuanda. When he goes to Lu Xiangsheng, he will definitely accept himself. When he is recruited and becomes an officer and soldier, he will be able to serve the court and kill the enemy and make meritorious service.

A thousand muslims were obtained, and Li Laoer brought the thousand strong men with him, left Lin Danhan's camp, and returned to his own fortress. With these thousand people, it seemed that it was no problem to guard his own castle.

"What a group of strong men! It's really good!" Li Hong looked at the thousand munus brought back by Li Laoer and was delighted.

These herd slaves have lived in Mongolia for a long time. They are all skilled in bows and horses and have superb riding skills. Among them, there is a great man named Tang Yu who is extremely superb riding, able to draw two-stone strong bows, and extremely accurate archery skills. Li Laoer likes them very much, making him his 100-man captain.
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