It was already March of the eighth year of Chongzhen, and Li Guodong had not waited for the arrival of the Dadewang caravan, but he waited for the imperial edict from Chongzhen and the letter of the country sent to the three ministries of Mobei, Chahar and Tumote. The envoy who was about to be sent to the Mongolian in Mobei was a new Jinshi in the seventh year of Chongzhen, named Zhu Yongyou. Although this person was a seventh-rank chief, Li Guodong knew that in the future he had a famous student named Zhu Shunshui, and Zhu Yongyou himself was also a hero of the anti-Qing Dynasty. He had a good friend named Zhang Huangyan. Zhu Yongyou failed to fight against the Qing Dynasty and his family died heroically.

After Li Guodong asked Zhu Yongyou's entourage, he realized that no officials in the court were willing to go to the northern Mongolian government. The last time the mission was attacked, the civil officials who were only verbal were scared to death. They were named on the list of gold and were officials for money, not for life.

Even though I knew that returning from the mission to Mobei was a great achievement, I had to be destined to come back.

No one rushed there, and Zhu Yongyou volunteered to stand up and expressed his willingness to go on a mission to Mongolia in Mobei.

"Master Zhu is really a hero! It is so dangerous to go on a mission to Mongolia in northern Mo and volunteer, which really makes me admire you!" Li Guodong praised him when he learned about the incident.

Zhu Yongyou hurriedly replied: "How dare you compare to General Li! General Li was born outside the border, but he did not forget to serve the country! He is really a loyal and kind person in the Ming Dynasty!"

The Dadewang business has never arrived, and Wang Quan didn't have time to send the letter. Li Guodong knew that he must have encountered some trouble, perhaps the thief attacked the city.

"Shopkeeper Wang won't be robbed by thieves on the road, right?" He Xing asked worriedly.

"No, now the Dadewang merchant has already taken the water route. Although the bandits are powerful, they cannot do it on the water. The caravan has to go north on the water route, and the thieves can do nothing. What I worry about is that their nest was attacked by the bandits."

Han Dashan asked, "I wonder if Manager Wang can hold on?"

"It is no problem to defend. Brother Wang Quan has learned the true teachings of my method of defending the city. After several years of operation, the Douhu City Village is as solid as a god. No matter how many thieves die, they cannot be captured. They can only be besieged. However, since the envoy of the Ming Dynasty has arrived, we have to leave. Brothers, go and prepare. Since the caravan cannot come, we have to bring goods to travel."

He Xing, Han Dashan and others went to prepare the goods separately. This time, Li Guodong's cavalry part-time caravans will carry grain, salt, cloth and tea to Mobei Mongolia. First go to Mobei, sell the grain, cloth and some salt and tea to the three departments of Mobei, and welcome gold, silver, cattle, sheep and horses. On the way back, they will go to Guihua City and sell the remaining salt and tea to the Tumote people. Although Tumote grows his own grain, they do not produce salt and tea, so they still need to obtain it through the caravan.

Li Hong, an insider who was stationed in Tumot's army, would send information every once in a while. It was only a while ago that the information from Guihua City was sent: Yue Tuo had not arrived in Guihua after returning to Liaodong.

Based on his historical knowledge in his previous life, Li Guodong also knew that the Later Jin had invaded twice, and the third invasion was in 1636, that is, the ninth year of Chongzhen. If it were based on the original historical process, the Later Jin would not have invaded eight years of Chongzhen. But he was also worried that the Second Invasion of the Later Jin suffered losses and lost troops and generals, and the gains were very small. I wonder if it was possible that the Invasion of the Second Invasion would have invaded early in order to make up for the losses of the Second Invasion? After all, major changes had occurred at this time, and the subsequent development trend was no longer possible for Li Guodong to control it.

Li Guodong brought two generals He Xing and Han Dashan, and took two thousand cavalry and two hundred cavalry artillery to the north of Mobei. The cavalry was one man and three horses, and the artillery team carried six six-pound field cannons and two twelve-pound howitzers, each cannon cart was towed with four horses. In addition, two thousand civilians were temporarily organized, carrying two thousand horses and mules, responsible for chasing the carriages, and following the cavalry. Each of these two thousand civilians was equipped with infantry armor, and a total of one thousand bird guns, one hundred nine-headed bird guns, eight hundred pounds of Folang machines and eight tiger squat cannons, two thousand civilians were used as firearms and soldiers.

Generals such as Zhang Wei and Tang Chong stayed behind to their hometowns, and two thousand infantrymen were left to defend the city. Li Guodong also sent three thousand troops from Xiangling to Shabeigou to assist in defense.

In March of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the climate warmed and the ice and snow melted. Although it was the Little Ice Age, it was no longer so cold in the March of the lunar calendar. Green buds grew on the grassland, and Han herd slaves from Tumotebu Hetao began to plow spring.

Before the harvest season was yet to come, Yuetuo would not come to naturalize. However, what Li Guodong had to be careful was that Yuetuo had the eyeliner placed in Guihua City, Gu Luge and Hanggao, and others, so he decided to go to Tumote's troops when he came back, so that when Yuetuo got the eyeliner report, he would come to Guihua City. The mission had already returned to the Ming Dynasty, and Yuetuo had no time to catch up.

Looking at the marching team, Zhu Yongyou sighed: "General Li's iron cavalry is really a strong army! Such a formation is not inferior to Guanning Iron Cavalry, but only above Guanning Iron Cavalry!"

The army went west along the south bank of the Yellow River. Zhu Yongyou found that the route was wrong, so he asked: "General Li, we should go north to the north, why are we going west in Shanxi?"

"It is precisely to avoid Guihua City that we walked from the west of Guihua." Li Guodong replied.

"Why avoid Guihua City?"

"There are Jiannu's works in Guihua City! If we don't avoid it, even if we pass by Hetao, our whereabouts may be exposed to Jiannu! Once Jiannu learns that my Ming envoy is on a mission to Mobei Mongolia, they will definitely send troops to intercept it. If we avoid Guihua City, detour to Mobei, and then go to Yuhua when we return to Daming, even if Jiannu hears the news, we will have already returned to Daming and they will not be able to catch up with us."

"Since it's a detour, why did the general mobilize troops to mobilize such troops to mobilize Mobei?"

"Just in case, if there were Jiannu cavalry on the grassland leading to the north of Mobei, we were many people and could fight with them."

The army of missions crossed the Yellow River from Hequ area and entered the deserted Shaanxi area, which was thousands of miles away. Looking around, the mountains around them were bare, and the yellow land was dry and cracked, exactly the same as the scene that Li Guodong saw when he was passing by when he went on a mission to the Chahar tribe in Qinghai a few months ago.

Arrived at an abandoned village and set up a camp in the team.

Looking at the white bones everywhere, Zhu Yongyou felt heartbroken: "I didn't expect that the disaster in Shaanxi has been so harmful. Natural disasters and man-made disasters are even worse than natural disasters!"

"Master Zhu is a person from Jiangnan. This natural disaster did not affect Jiangnan. Jiangnan was in a state of peace. How could Zhu know that the people of Shaanxi military households fled? The people who had no way to live had to follow the thieves. Wherever the bandits passed, the people were harmed. The court suppressed the bandits, but the more they suppressed the bandits, all of which were because the court had no money to appease the people. However, the gentry in Jiangnan was unlucky and refused to share the worries of the country and donated silver to appease the people." Li Guodong said.

"General Li, this is beyond the ability of my official." Zhu Yongyou was also a gentry in Jiangnan, and was blushed by Li Guodong's words.

The army walked westward, passed through the abandoned Yulinwei, and continued to walk westward until it was about to reach the bend of the Yellow River, and then it changed to walking northward.

At night, the army set up camp. Zhu Yongyou, who was tired of traveling, sighed: "General Li is too cautious, right? Can Jiannu's eyeliner still be here?"

Li Guodong said: "It's not just here? I can meet Jiannu when I go to the Chahar tribe in Xihai! Huang Taiji tried to erode the Ming Dynasty. He wanted to invade again and again to bleed the Ming Dynasty, making the Ming Dynasty unable to eliminate the thieves, and finally achieving his goal of stealing the Central Plains! To do these things, they must control the entire grassland!"

"Didn't Jiannu go out of the custody every time he invaded and robbed him?"
Chapter completed!