A few days later, Ortai's initial good mood had long disappeared, replaced by an extremely solemnity.

Ortai conducted a detailed investigation on what Batu said these days. Whether it was asking about the ordinary Mongolian man named Bagen or the people he sent out to inquire about, they told him that it was very likely that the Ming army was done by the attacks of the Urat tribe.

Although no actual evidence was found, according to the survivor's description, the Ming army was almost 100%. Now these Ming army lost their traces after destroying three small tribes on the grassland. If you guessed it well, these Ming army have returned to Ming land and can no longer catch their tails.

The incident caused Ortai, who originally thought he could be able to get along well, to feel a great sense of crisis. He had to re-verify the Ming Dynasty's attitude towards him, and at the same time speculating on the real intention of the Ming Dynasty to do so.

"Did the Ming Dynasty already know about me and the Russians? Or because he has not answered the Ming Dynasty for a long time, the Ming Dynasty used this method to hit himself?"

Ortai was suspicious and even suspected that there was a Ming Dynasty eye-catching presence in Mongolia. You should know that not many people knew about his contact with Russia. Moreover, in order to prevent the Ming Dynasty from blocking it, even those Mongolian princes, Taiji and others knew about it. How did the Ming Dynasty know?

Ortai naturally knew how powerful the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei was. But can the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei really penetrate in Mongolia? Ortai thought for a long time but couldn't confirm it. After thinking about it, he felt that it was because he had never replied to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty made such a move in order to force himself to express his opinion.

"Yes! That's right! That's it!" Ortai seemed to have figured out everything, but at the same time he was also having a headache about this matter.

The Ming Dynasty asked him to accept the title of King Shunyi and surrender to the Ming Dynasty, but Ortai was unwilling to be the true subject of the Ming Dynasty. What he wanted was to protect himself and at the same time make himself the master of the grassland, thus becoming one of the forces of all parties.

This is also the reason why Ortai negotiated with the Russians for this goal, but now the Ming Dynasty suddenly made such a move and directly broke his overall plan. In Ortai's view, it may be a warning now, but the next step is probably the Ming Dynasty's real attack.

Although Ortai did not believe that the Ming Dynasty had the ability to annex Mongolia in one go, Ortai was not able to resist in the face of the powerful army of the Ming Dynasty. What he could do at that time was actually similar to Prince Yi in Liaodong, that is, avoid the edge of the Ming Dynasty and use the vast grasslands of Mongolia to retreat to protect himself.

But doing this is just a temporary measure. The Ming Dynasty is not the previous Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yicheng, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, is much more powerful than his ancestors. Not to mention the rest, it can be seen from the strategic deployment of the Ming army in Liaodong that the Ming Dynasty adopted a steady and steady strategy, and at the same time, using the strong backing of the Ming Dynasty to stabilize the occupied areas.

Although Mongolia is far larger than Liaodong in terms of territory, no matter how large the territory is, it has a limit. If the Ming Dynasty followed Liaodong to adopt this tactic against Mongolia, Ortai believed that it would become a stray dog ​​without a way out in a few years.

By then, I am afraid that if I become the lord of Mongolia, I might end up dead without a complete body.

Ortai knows the most what the Mongolians are. Although the Mongolians always say about loyalty, brothers, heroes, etc., the Mongolians are actually cruel and selfish in their bones.

Betrayal of brothers, traumatizing brothers, and even fathers and sons are everywhere in the history of the Mongolians. When the strong can suppress them and give them benefits and benefits at the same time, these Mongolians will be your loyal warriors. But when you lose your value, these Mongolians can give you a sharp knife in a blink of an eye, and then hold your head and smile to the new master.

In fact, it was not only the Mongols, but also the Manchus. Although Ortai, as a Manchu, had long been in the midst of a large extent, the bloodline passed down from his ancestors told him that once he could not suppress the Mongolian tribes and the Mongolian tribes were greatly affected by their interests, that was when his rule in Mongolia was completely collapsed.

Thinking of this, Ortai was extremely irritable. He stood up and walked around anxiously, thinking about how to solve this problem.

After a long time, Ortai finally made up his mind to ask someone to find Zhao Huolo.

"Master!"

"Come on? Let's sit down." Ortai seemed very calm, but his eyes showed unconcealed anxiety.

Zhao Huoluo was a little nervous when he sat down carefully. As a member of the Jinyiwei, he had been secretly conveying information about Mongolia to Daming and Daming these days.

Among them, the transaction information between Ortai and the Russians was secretly transmitted to the Ming Dynasty by Zhao Huoluo. Moreover, because of the transmission of these messages, Zhao Huoluo has been commended by Zhang Ran, the commander of the Jinyiwei, and even promoted him to a higher level.

But Zhao Huoluo never expected that the Ming Dynasty responded so much shortly after his news was passed. As a close confidant of Ortai, he knew about the accident in the Urat tribe, and he also got the possibility that the people who attacked the Urat tribe were extremely likely to be the Ming military.

When Zhao Huoluo learned of this situation, he was shocked. He never expected that the Ming Dynasty would do this. Wasn't the Ming Dynasty afraid of angering Ortai and breaking up in one fell swoop?

At the same time, Zhao Huoluo was also worried that once Ortai was found on his head because of this, his identity as a spy would be exposed. So Zhao Huoluo has been worried and full of anxiety these days.

Today, Ortai suddenly summoned him, which scared Zhao Huoluo. When he came, he thought his identity was exposed and Ortai was going to take action against him. However, when he saw Ortai, the other party did not turn against him on the spot, and at the same time, he asked him to sit down as usual. Zhao Huoluo then felt a little relieved.

"Master General asked me to come..." Zhao Huoluo asked carefully.

"Do you know about Urattaiji?" Ortai asked back.

Zhao Huluo hesitated and nodded, "I heard that the general said, "It is said that the Ming army sent troops to destroy three small tribes under Urat and destroyed nearly 10,000 cattle and sheep?"

Ortai nodded and sighed: "That's true. It seems that the Ming Dynasty is not in a hurry to wait and deliberately use this method to force me."
Chapter completed!