Kang Changning is fifty-three years old this year, which is relatively large in the Tang Army.

In the early years, the Tang Army was always very young, and the senior generals of that year were generally only in their twenties and thirties, and few were over forty.

Although it is said that after many years of unification wars and several years of peace after reunification, the age of the people gradually increased, and the average age of senior generals increased significantly.

However, this situation does not exist in the field troops, where the average age of the generals is still very young.

This is because with the passage of time, the original middle and low-level officers in the reunification war have gradually grown up, and at this time, if the generals above have been occupying the positions of division commanders and army commanders and refusing to give way, so that those young officers have no hope, the rabbit will bite people in a hurry.

In addition, after the end of the Unification War, Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, was also a little worried that those high-ranking generals would rely on their merits, so he also adopted the method of rising and descending secretly, and successively transferred many high-ranking generals in the field army back to Jinling City, and even in order to arrange those army generals such as Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing, Li Xuan did not even limit the number of people in the position of deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

Among the twelve active army generals in the army today, except for General Lei Wan as the head of the war department and the minister on duty in the imperial study, the others are all serving as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

Under the combination of various circumstances, that is, although the senior generals in the Datang Army are not counted, the senior commanders in the field troops still remain young, and the average age of the army major generals and division commanders of the 20 infantry divisions is only 38 years old, the youngest is even less than 30 years old, and the oldest is only in his 40s.

And the average age of those lieutenant generals is also about forty years old.

A 53-year-old major general of the field army like Kang Changning is actually relatively rare, and he is eight years older than Deng Xide.

Kang Changning also knew that he could still serve in the field army today, and he was not transferred back to Jinling City like many people, or simply rushed to the provincial garrison headquarters, and his tone occupied a large part.

This battle of Hetao can be regarded as his last chance in the field army, and if he misses it, there will definitely be no next time, because at that time, he was either forced to retire, or was transferred back to Jinling City, or rushed to the local garrison headquarters, as for wanting to stay in the field army or the real power department in the Privy Council, basically don't count on it.

And it is precisely because of knowing these that Kang Changning is so excited, and he is cautious in his excitement.

On the night of receiving the appointment, he found Deng Xide and asked his boss who was eight years younger than himself for tactical guidance, as for relying on his age and seniority, this is not Kang Changning's style, if he is really this style, Xuanping is estimated to have been forced to retire from active duty when he was eight years old, and he can still stay there.

For Kang Changning's attitude, Deng Xide is still quite pleased, what he values is Kang Changning's maturity and stability, and at the same time, his qualifications are deep enough, when he has been his deputy for most of the past six months, Kang Changning is like a big housekeeper, handling many chores in the army in an orderly manner, and he Deng Xide does not have to worry about a lot of messy things.

This time, Deng Xide did not raise any too harsh eyes on Kang Changning, the deputy, but said that he should relax and correct his mentality, and when he encounters danger, he should avoid it, but he must resolutely and resolutely attack the enemy when he seizes the opportunity.

How to judge the proportion in detail, this Deng Xide naturally has no way to say in detail, and can only rely on Kang Changning's own experience to judge.

Deng Xide believes that this veteran cavalryman who has been in the army for more than ten years, even if his military talent is not outstanding, he still has the experience and military quality he should have, as long as he commands the troops to fight in a proper manner and does not mess up things, then there will be no big mess.

For Deng Xide's trust, Kang Changning felt more pressure.

Because Deng Xide asked him to judge the situation by himself, when to retreat, when to fight, and how to fight, all let him decide for himself.

To put it bluntly, Deng Xide will only lead the infantry troops to enter the old site of Dongsheng at that time to attract enemy troops and ensure logistics supply lines, and the matter of attacking the enemy will be handed over to Kang Changning.

For this reason, Kang Changning also felt great pressure, with this pressure, he left Datong Mansion City in early September, and in the next two days, he collected the cavalry troops under his command one by one, followed by a secret march to the edge of the Great Wall, and the next step, he was going to lead the fifteen thousand cavalry out of the Great Wall.

According to the predetermined battle plan, the cavalry corps led by him would be the first to enter the steppe, on the one hand, in order to take advantage of the rapid mobility of the cavalry to take the Tatars by surprise and gain an early advantage.

On the other hand, it was also to reconnoiter the specific situation of the Tatars, and at the same time to attract the attention of the Tatars, indirectly covering the infantry behind them.

The infantry in the rear had an even heavier task, they needed to fight all the way to the old site of Dongsheng City, which was all flat and could be attacked by the Tatar cavalry at any time.

Therefore, when these infantry went out on the expedition, there were more than 3,000 professional engineering troops drawn from various units in the north, and among the many people who were recruited to transport the baggage, there were also some craftsmen who were recruited, and these craftsmen, together with the ordinary people, would become the main labor force to assist the sappers in building the fortress.

The 20,000 people, in addition to transporting their baggage, also needed to build forts along the way, all the way to Dongsheng Castle, and finally planted an oversized nail in Dongsheng Castle, enough to pierce the Tatar nails.

And if you want to build a fortress under the eyes of the enemy, it is naturally not ordinary.

In order to quickly construct, the military even used a large amount of cement, and all kinds of carriages for transporting cement and other materials were all four-wheeled heavy carriages, these four-wheeled heavy carriages not only carried large cargo, but also could resist the impact of cavalry, and the army began to use these four-wheeled heavy carriages on a large scale in the plain terrain during the unification war.

These four-wheeled carriages can be seen in the Northern Expedition War and the Liaodong War, but it is the first time that they have been used on a large scale.

The infantry army in the rear, that is, a super army, the total number of troops is more than 40,000, and there are 20,000 people, so many people have killed the steppe, it is impossible for the Tatars not to stop it.

Therefore, Kang Changning's task in the early stage was to interfere with the Tatars' line of sight, confuse the enemy, and achieve the purpose of indirectly covering the actions of the infantry in the rear.

With their own cavalry corps, the Tatars did not dare to attack their own infantry units easily.

And when the infantry unit covers the sappers and builds the defense line, then the strategic initiative in the Hetao area can be directly returned to the hands of the Tang Army.

Under the leadership of Kang Changning, the cavalry corps officially left the Great Wall, and more than 10,000 cavalry crossed the Great Wall and killed the grassland.

Immediately afterwards, many messengers galloped on fast horses on the grassland, and they needed to inform the tribe of the news that the large cavalry of the Tang Army had entered the grassland as soon as possible!

Kang Changning also knew that once he entered the grassland, it would not take him a few days, and I am afraid that all the tribes within a radius of hundreds of miles would know, after all, there was a post station system in the Tang Empire, which could be rushed for three hundred miles or even five hundred miles.

But most of the Tatars also have a similar communication system, and the steppe lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of horses, and at the same time the terrain is a plain, and the speed of the messenger's transmission of messages is faster.

However, a few days of buffer time is enough, even if they know tomorrow that they will lead their troops to kill, these nomads are scattered in various places to graze on weekdays, and it takes more than a day or two to gather together to fight.

He estimated that he would have at least half a month or so.

In this half month, the enemy has not yet massed on a large scale, and his own infantry can be safe, and at the same time, he can also strike first and inflict heavy losses on some of the Tatar tribes.

With this judgment, after he entered the steppe, he was not too cautious, but quickly went north, forming a huge arrow and sweeping towards the hinterland of the steppe, he hoped to take advantage of this time to weaken the resistance of the Tatars as much as possible, and prepare for the big war in half a month.

However, Kang Changning apparently underestimated the ability of Altan Khan and the military mobilization ability of the Tatars under his command, and underestimated the ability of the Tatars to spy on intelligence on the defense line of the Great Wall.

In fact, before Kang Changning sent his troops, Altan Khan on the grassland had already received many early warnings and knew that the Tang Army was heavily armed in Datong Mansion!

As a precaution, Altan Khan had sent emissaries to the tribes a few days earlier to recruit their soldiers.

Now the messengers who have recruited the troops of the tribes are galloping on horseback, heading towards the grasslands.

Not only in the Tumo River, but also in the neighboring Hetao and other regions, the tribes will be recruited from the contemporary grass overlord 'Altan Khan'!

As for Altan Khan's direct control of the descendant tribes, that is, the Tumut tribe, it is even more strictly guarded!

When Altan Khan learned from the messenger who rushed back all the way that the Tang Army had really sent troops, the soldiers of the Tumut Department quickly got on horseback and set out to meet the battle under the personal leadership of Altan Khan!

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