Yang Cong didn't expect that Altan Khan would be so "vulnerable", or rather, cautious.

This time the battle of the Hetao was so smooth that he didn't expect it.

Altan Khan tested it with tens of thousands of foot soldiers at the beginning, and then, without fighting, he ran away!

Is there any mistake?

You must know that Altan Khan's retreat means that this Hetao has been recovered by the Ming Dynasty, and from now on, it will not be so easy for the Tartars to re-enter Kou Daming.

All this always gives people a sense of unreality.

Did the Tartars really give up on the loop?

To be honest, at this time, Yang Cong still didn't believe it much.

Altan Khan is a generation of heroes, how can it be so easy to defeat.

However, two months later, when the fortress group was connected with the Ningxia avant-garde defense line, he sent countless scouts and cavalry to repeatedly spy in the Hetao grassland for more than ten days, but still did not find any trace of the Tartars.

In other words, the Tartars have really retreated, and the Hetao has really recovered!

As for whether the Tartars would take the opportunity to counterattack from outside the loop, he was not worried at all, because if the Tartars wanted to counterattack again, they would have to cross the Yellow River.

Crossing the river is not a joke, although this section of the river loop, the narrowest river is less than a mile wide, but it is also the river surface, not land, if you want to cross the river, you have to take a boat, or build a pontoon bridge.

If the Tartars choose to cross the river by boat, then well, the Tartars are a people on horseback, not on the water, and all they can build is a small wooden boat, 10,000 horses, I am afraid they have to transport most of the day.

And the Ming Dynasty already has a steamer at this time, although the Yellow River such a large steamer such as the river fortune boat can not enter, such a small and medium-sized steamer as the Cangshan boat can still go unimpeded, as long as dozens of Cangshan boats are arranged to patrol back and forth in the waters of the Hetao, let alone half a day, half an hour is not needed, the small wooden boat crossing the river of the Tartar will be discovered.

As for building a pontoon bridge, not to mention, with the technical level of the Tartars, it will take at least a few hours to build a pontoon bridge that can be passed by horses, such a long time, it is strange not to be discovered by the patrol boat, it is estimated that they are not ready, they will face the siege of the Cangshan boat.

The Ming army at this time is not the Ming army of the past, the number of muskets and artillery, it is simply scared to death, not to mention on the water that the Tartars are not good at at all, even on the land that the Tartars are proud of, the artillery of the Ming army can bombard them so that they can't find the north.

This, perhaps, is the reason for the panicked retreat of the Tartars, in the face of dense artillery arrays, the cavalry can only be sent to death.

Perhaps, Altan Khan saw the gap between cold weapons and hot weapons, and did not want his subordinates to die in vain, so he chose to retreat.

In any case, since the Tartars have all withdrawn from the Loop, it means that the Loop has been completely recovered.

This is a great achievement, you know, the size of the Hetao is enough to be equivalent to half of the Shanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy, and the recovery of such a large piece of lost land is enough to go down in history and be a big book.

With such a great achievement, even Jiajing can sacrifice to the ancestral temple and brag about it in front of the ancestors and ancestors, and Yang Cong naturally has to brag about it and show his merits for his subordinates.

He is not the kind of pedantic person, although this merit is simple, it is also a great achievement, how to celebrate, then how to celebrate, how to ask for merit, then how to ask for merit, he will not be polite to Jiajing.

After determining that all the Tartars had withdrawn from the Hetao grassland, he wrote a letter of recital, played it to the imperial court, and began to ask for credit.

This twist and turn can be described as extremely deceitful, and the "great battle" to recover the Hetao is described as extremely difficult, as if he has been fighting with the Tartars for nearly two years.

It has indeed been nearly two years since he became the governor of the northwest, but in the past two years, he has only fought with the Tartars in total, and in his recitals, he describes it as if he was fighting with the Tartars every day!

The soldiers of the Ming army were not afraid of danger, and in the face of more than 200,000 Tartar troops, they fought fiercely with them for several days, and finally repelled the crazy attack of the Tartars.

Yu Dayou, the chief general of the Ming army, was brave and good at fighting, using fire to break the Tartar shield array, and repelled more than 100,000 Tartar cavalry with 40,000 foot soldiers.

What Ming army scouts are not afraid of hardships and dangers, go deep into the Hetao grassland, and every time they are seriously injured, they can desperately bring back the intelligence they have spied on.

What else Wang Xuan has been fighting on the front line regardless of his own safety, why Zhang Juzheng, Tan Lun, and Hai Rui have done their best, forgetting to sleep and food, and providing logistical support for the Ming army, and so on.

Anyway, as long as it is his cronies or disciples, they all have merit, and the whole piece is written down in a sprinkled manner, it is like a legendary story.

Jiajing, anyway, is an easy to fool master, and the only "prison army", the eunuch Li Fang was also sent by him to Jinling to enjoy happiness, what the "big war" of the Hetao is, Jiajing can only understand through his twists and turns, even if he exaggerates, Jiajing can only choose to believe.

Because most fundamentally, he recovered the Loop, which is not bragging, but an ironclad fact.

Immediately after that, Yang Cong set up a celebration wine at the Ningxia avant-garde station, and drank with the officers and men of the Northwest Army and the Southeast Army to celebrate this "hard-won" victory.

Of course, there is also an element of drama in this, after all, he is blowing the sky in the twists and turns, as if he has achieved an unprecedented victory, if they don't celebrate it themselves, it will be too fake.

The celebration banquet was extremely grand, almost all the generals of the Northwest Army and the Southeast Army came, and more than half of the local dignitaries from Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces also came, and everyone was extremely happy, celebrating this "unprecedented" victory.

This person is Zhang Da, the veteran general of the Northwest Frontier Army.

Perhaps, he has experienced too many wars, so he has some emotion, or perhaps, he thinks of the sacrificed border soldiers, and he is sad from the heart, in short, his performance is extremely abnormal, and the atmosphere of celebration seems so incompatible.

Yang Cong is also quite serious about this general, his abnormal performance quickly attracted Yang Cong's attention, and he was half drunk, while everyone was drunk and dizzy, Yang Cong found an opportunity, walked up to Zhang Da, and asked in a low voice: "Snow Mountain, what's wrong with you?" ”

When Zhang Da heard this, he didn't hide it, and sighed directly: "The last general thought of Lord Zeng, who was bent on recovering the Hetao, but was killed by traitors and beheaded to show the public, how wronged." At this time, the Hetao has finally been recovered, and presumably, his spirit in heaven should also rest in peace. ”

It turned out that Zhang Da was mourning for Zeng Miao.

These two people, one is the governor of the northwest and the governor of Shanxi, and the other is the chief military officer of Shanxi.

Zeng Milled this person, how to say it.

As a person, no problem.

As an official, it's no problem.

There is no problem with his thoughts, he just wants to recover the Hetao and solve the trouble of the northern captives.

His only problem is that he is with the wrong person!

Xia Yan is actually not a traitor, but unfortunately, they met Yan Song, a big traitor.

Yan Song, this old fox, what are you thinking about at this moment?

Yang Cong couldn't help but look in the direction of the capital and fell into deep thought.