Muktu, in a place not far from Zhaomodo, at this time was stationed countless soldiers of the Fu Han Army, the overwhelming flag almost dyed the entire sky red, and in the central grassland of Muktu, there was a huge handsome tent, on which was a red dragon regimental flag waving in the wind.

Obviously, where the Red Dragon Regiment Banner is located, is where the current Great Chu Emperor is located.

Speaking of which, Ning Yu did not experience much of the arrogance of the northern expedition to the grassland, but felt a little bored in the march and stationing day after day, because so far, he had not encountered the army of the Dzungar Khanate, or he had not even touched a single hair, except for a few herdsmen found along the way, everywhere was desolate.

Today's Ning Yu has been able to understand the mood of Lan Yu and Zhu Di back then, like the former, fortunately, chased all the way to the fishing sea, and harvested a big victory that is enough to write in the history books, in addition to the ancient Si Timur and the prince Tianbaonu and other dozens of horses escaped, almost the entire Northern Yuan court was rounded, and more than 70,000 men and women were seized, and 150,000 horses, cattle, alpacas and sheep were seized.

As for Zhu Di in the future, he will have relatively little gain, although the Five Expeditions to Mongolia expelled the Mongolian tribes that had recovered a little vitality and left, leaving more strategic survival space for the Ming Court, but after all, he failed to reap too many results.

Therefore, the conquest of Mobei has never been a simple confrontation between the two armies, rushing to kill each other, but a game of cat and mouse, as for the roles of cat and mouse, they are often in a state of change, and it is often more difficult to find each other than to eliminate each other.

So, when he was in a depressed mood, Ning Yu often pulled Li Fu to play games to kill his leisure time.

"Hahahaha, Li Qingqidao was overthinking after all, but lost his edge."

Ning Yu held the cloud in his hand, looking at the black and white staggered chess game, and his face suddenly showed a little pride.

Indeed, just from the chessboard, black has trapped white in a dead game, and the overall situation has been decided, but white has no chance.

"Your Majesty, this game of chess is lost by the minister."

said that he lost the chess, but Li Fu, who was holding the white chess, did not have any sense of loss on his face, but was a little relaxed.

The reason is very simple, it is really not an easy thing to play chess with the emperor, you can't blindly and deliberately give in, and you can't really let the emperor lose all your head, you can only use clever methods to make Ning Yu feel happy in his heart, and playing chess in this way is more difficult than winning.

Therefore, although Ning Yu's level is far inferior to Li Fu, he is the emperor after all, and he has won a lot of games under Li Fu's clever concessions, and the boredom of the past few days has been much less.

"Come, Li Qing, let's do it again!"

Just when Ning Yu was about to fight again, there was a rush of footsteps outside the tent, but it was Shen Hongyi, the privy councillor, who hurriedly walked in, with a little worry on his face.

"Your Majesty, the latest news has come from the Eastern Route Army, they have met the main force of the Jungar Khanate in Bala and Tun, and the new Han King of the Zhunbu seems to be also there, General Dong thinks that the fighter plane is rare, and decides to hold on to the enemy, waiting for His Majesty to lead troops to encircle and completely annihilate the enemy here."

"What? The Eastern Route Army met the enemy? Bala and Tun? ”

A trace of surprise flashed on Ning Yu's face, he had never heard of this place at all, and he didn't know what kind of place birds don't, but soon a wave of ecstasy swept through his heart, this was really a little unexpected, the main force that had been looking for it appeared in front of him like this, if he could be sure that the news was accurate, then the harvest would be great!

As long as these tens of thousands of main forces of Dzungar are completely eliminated, then the Fuhan army can move westward, and then it will no longer be a problem to level the Dzungar Khanate, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

And this opportunity to destroy the Quasi-Ministry almost flew in front of Ning Yu!

Since the establishment of the Dzungar Khanate, it has been fighting for a long time, but its military strength has always remained at a level of about 100,000, even in the peak of the Galdan period, the total number of troops is only more than 100,000, but such a Dzungar Khanate can compete with the Qing court and the Russian Empire at the same time for a long time, and even has the upper hand many times!

Strictly speaking, although the war between the Zungar Khanate and the Qing court in the previous Galdan period was lost, it did not really hurt its vitality, and the death of Galdan was more like a result of internal struggle, and during the Yongzheng period, the recovered Zungar Khanate even fought a big victory in the battle with Tongpo!

The poem "Five Thousand Mink Brocade Mourning Hu Chen" almost became a famous sentence at the time, because in this battle, nearly 5,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Beijing Battalion died in the battle of Hetongbo, and more than 14 generals died in the battle, and even Yongzheng was so angry that he vomited blood.

In the 55th year of Kangxi, the Russian army began to penetrate along the Irtysh River to the Yamesh Lake on the left bank of the middle reaches, forming a serious challenge to the power of the Dzungar Khanate, so the Arabutan sent the Great Ce Lingdun Dob to lead more than 10,000 troops to surround the invading Russians, and finally achieved the record of annihilating more than 2,000 enemy troops.

To put it simply, although the Jungar Empire at this time was barren in land, sparsely populated, and had an army of only 100,000 people, it was able to fight back and forth with the Qing court and the Russian Empire on the side, not without reason.

Ning Yu also understood that in fact, if he hadn't come to this era, Dzungar would still be able to continue to survive under the double attack of the Qing court and the Russians, until after the death of Galdan Tseling, the khanate was really destroyed due to internal strife and began to decline, which means that it was destroyed by internal strife after all, not by external enemies.

It can be seen from this that the difficulty of destroying the Dzungar Khanate in this era is not much easier than that of the Northern Expedition.

Li Fu also thought so, he laughed softly: "Your Majesty, this is indeed a good opportunity now, we have to hurry up and see where the Eastern Route Army is!" ”

Ning Yu smiled slightly, quickly got up and walked in front of Yutu, and began to look for the location of Bala and Tun, but this place was indeed too small, so Shen Hongyi did his homework early and outlined the small place that attracted attention to Ning Yu.

Soon, through the preliminary estimates of both sides, Ning Yu also got a result similar to Dong Ce, he wanted to lead his troops to rush over,

"Your Majesty, at present, because the Eastern Route Army has to take care of the back road, there are only 14,000 people in Bala and Tun, and according to General Dong, there are at least 50,000 Jungger soldiers, and I don't know how long they can hold out."

Shen Hongyi's face was a little worried, he was not worried about his old senior Dong Ce, but worried about the changes in the battle situation in the entire Mongolian grassland, if his old senior suffered a loss in front of Galdance, then I am afraid that in the future, the fun will be big, and the entire eastern grassland will become a huge loophole.

Ning Yu pondered for a moment, this question had been circling in his mind from the beginning, but out of his understanding of Dong Ce, he still believed in the other party's choice and judgment very much, with the current background of the Fu Han Army, it was not a big problem to hold on for a few days after all, but the real dilemma at the moment was whether it was the main force of Zhungeer in Bala and Tun?

It's not that he doesn't believe Dong Ce, but because the battlefield is changing rapidly, and military intelligence spying needs to be more cautious, what if Dong Ce himself is also blinded? It's not impossible.

"Order, prepare the whole army to assemble!"

Ning Yu finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and threw the charcoal pen in his hand on the table, he finally made up his mind, whether it was the main force of Jungger or not, it was better than playing chess here.

"Should we gather our forces first and then go to the rescue?"

Li Fu frowned slightly, he was not against sending troops, but he thought that the middle route army was only 37,000 people at the moment, and if he encountered the Jungar army on the way, he would be a little passive. If the troops can be gathered, the total number of troops can rise to about 45,000 by then, and even if they encounter the Jungar army, they will not have to worry about losses.

Ning Yu shook his head and said in a low voice: "The military situation is like fire, but you can't delay Shen Hongyi for a moment, quickly go and pass on my order, pack up and leave the camp today, you can't delay any longer." ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! ”

The strength of the Fu Han army has never been only reflected in the equipment, but also in the prohibition to a greater extent, so when Ning Yu's order was issued, and then the whole army packed up and started, it only took an hour and a half.

The army formed a long dragon and set out, and this time it was not as aimless as before, and there was already a very clear direction, so the morale of the whole army gradually increased, and everyone hoped to get more credit and more rewards in this battle.

Bala and Tun, after the Jungger army stopped attacking, they did not really stay away from this place, but still besieged the Fu Han army in Bala and Tun, and the whole battlefield suddenly fell into a strange calm.

As early as the beginning, Dong Ce really made up his mind to keep the Jungger army here at all costs, even if it was worth the heavy casualties, so he even asked the whole army to write a suicide note.

It's just that today's calm has washed away this tragedy, which made Dong Ce think that the Zhunger army couldn't stand the tragic casualties of the previous time, and was ready to repair it for the time being, but he didn't expect that in the past three days, the Jungger army has not moved, and even has begun to dismantle the tent, looking like they are planning to withdraw the army, which not only makes Dong Ce naturally unwilling in his heart, but also makes other soldiers of the Fuhan Army unhappy.

"Damn, if they continue to be shrunken turtles, let's just fight them!"

A trace of irritability appeared on his face, he looked at the banner of the Jungger army in the distance, and said in a sullen voice: "Since they don't fight, it means that they are completely afraid of us, why don't we take the initiative to attack?" ”

Dong Ce shook his head, "No." For now, we only need to do one thing, wait for His Majesty to come. ”

"But, looking at this, they may not stay here, you see, they have already started to camp today, and if we don't move, they will run away!" He spat out a mouthful of saliva.

In the survival logic of the Mongols, there has never been such a thing as brute force and not hitting the southern wall and not looking back, they often have only one way of thinking when dealing with the enemy, they can fight if they can fight, they will go around if they can't fight, and they will drag it until they are completely tired until they are exhausted, and then they will destroy the other party in one go.

Therefore, although this shows that the Jungger army is not as resolute as the Eight Banners in battle, it also shows that they are more flexible and more difficult.

Of course, Dong Ce also understands this truth, but he has a cautious personality and will never make a mistake at such a time, and said resolutely: "Galdance is cunning, maybe this is just his way of provoking us to fight, if we rush out of the camp to fight, when the time comes, we will not be able to hold out for too long!" ”

"Hey—in that case, I'd better go to camp first! It's just that these days are so faded out of the birds! ”

Xiao'er only pouted, and finally gave up continuing to persuade and walked out of the camp.

However, after two days, there was finally movement in the direction of the main camp of the Junggar army, but I saw that there were only a few hundred Jungar soldiers in the camp, but from behind the small hill outside the camp, tens of thousands of horses suddenly appeared, and as for the soldiers and horses in the rear, there were countless soldiers.

As Dong Ce expected, this is a trap set by Gardance, he will give up the camp, and then ambush the army outside the hills, if Dong Ce really goes to fight, he is afraid that his camp will be taken away in an instant, and then the Fu Han army will have no support, and can only fight to the end.

However, Galdance made a lot of calculations, but he still didn't expect that Dong Ce, who led the battle this time, would be so cautious, which made his trap completely soaked, and the waste of two days made Galdance unwilling to stay here any longer, and finally chose to withdraw from the camp.

At this time, he was standing in front of the camp with Dong Ce, looking at the retreating Jungar soldiers, he fell into a deep fear, if he really went to attack the Jungger camp as he said, he was afraid that he would fall into a trap, and the whole army would be wiped out.

"Dong Ce, it seems that you are the real hero!"

He was more or less dissatisfied before this, but now the trap set by Gardance Zero prompted him to really understand Dong Ce.

Dong Ce shook his head, looked at the Jungger army that had gradually disappeared on the grassland, and couldn't help but sigh and said: "Dong is not a hero, and there is a little luck this time, but I really wait for the Jungger army to evacuate, but I don't know when I will find them again——"

For Dong Ce, he will naturally not just be satisfied with getting out of trouble, he hopes to be able to completely leave the Jungger Army and become his own record.