In the second year of Chongzhen, on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, naturalized city.

The firecrackers had returned, but the firecrackers were Wang Zezhi's heart, and he was reluctant to let them lose one of them, so when they set off, Wang Zezhi ordered to return immediately after occupying the Omu Butokto camp.

Before the firecrackers returned, Wang Zezhi received a battle report.

After reading the battle report, Wang Zezhi was first overjoyed, and then puzzled.

In this battle, except for the Tartars who fell into the quicksand, more than 16,000 people of the Russian army were strangled and more than 4,300 were captured, and the rest of the enemy army was scattered and disappeared.

In addition, more than 10,000 war horses and thousands of cattle and sheep were also captured.

What made Wang Zezhi feel strange was the grain and grass, and only a few hundred stones of forage were seized.

Don't the Tartars have anything to eat?

This is impossible, the war is fought with grain and grass, and he does not believe that Omubu will recruit more than 30,000 people without grain and grass.

Although Tokto won the battle, he did not dare to guarantee that Omubu would not make a comeback.

If Omubu's grain and grass are not lost, then he will have the opportunity to attack again, which is not what Wang Zezhi wants to see.

"Order, order Xiao Liuzi to lead the sentry camp to track down the whereabouts of the Omubu army."

"Order."

After the herald left, Wang Ze's heart sank.

In this season, if he wants to pursue Omubu, he must be prepared to fight a protracted battle.

Wang Zezhi spread out the map and began to look at it.

"The order is to order Li Hua to prepare 3,000 foot soldiers, with 1,000 people as a unit, stationed in Yulin, Yunchuan, and Yunnei, I want to open up the grain road from Hukou to Tuoketuo, and at the same time ensure the stability of the grain road in Guihua City.

The order was issued, and Wang Shan was ordered to prepare the logistics personnel, and immediately organize people to escort grain and grass to Tuoketuo to ensure that the soldiers on the front line are fed and clothed. ”

"Yes."

After doing this, Wang Zezhi always felt that he had forgotten something.

"The order was given to the sergeants who occupied Tuoketuo to take local materials, and to use the captured cattle and sheep as military rations, and as for salt, tea, and other goods, they were immediately transported out of the city of Guihua."

"Yes."

Eating always comes first when marching and fighting, and he can't let the sergeants at the front go without food.

After issuing these orders, all that remains is to wait.

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In the first year of Chongzhen, the twelfth day of the first month.

The news of the Omubu army is finally complete.

On the day of Omubu's escape, he met in the desert with the Eluchen who had been deposed of his official position as Jinong by Lin Dan Khan.

The two fell in love, gathered the soldiers and horses together, and went to the area of Qu Yechuan.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Timur was driven out of Ordos, and Ordos was under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

Soon, however, the Yuan forces and the Mongol tribes entered the Ordos region one after another.

For more than a century, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to attack many times, but it never succeeded.

Later, the Ming Dynasty built the Great Wall in the south of Ordos, added border passes, ceded Ordos to the Mongol army, and crowned Altan Khan (Alta) as the king of Shunyi, and the relationship between the two families was eased.

In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty set up Chahan Naoerwei in the south of present-day Ordos, and set up Dongshengwei in the north of Dongsheng. Later, the Ordos Department entered the Hetao, and the Ming Dynasty forces retreated to the south of the Great Wall.

In the fifteenth year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, the fifteenth grandson of Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan, Temujin, once again unified the Mongolian steppe and set up 60,000 households; Feng Qi's third son, Erjin Balsborot (the second son of Alaban Khan, the head of the Mongolian Tumut tribe), was in charge of the grassland in the middle of the new Qin, and was the Wanhu of Ordos.

The fifth grandson of Baalsborot, the fifth grandson of Baalsborot, took his official position as Jinong.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Lin Dan Khan moved westward, expelled the Shunyi king Bu Lost Rabbit (the grandson of Tumut Altan Khan), and abolished the Jinong Exuan (Jinong was a hereditary official set up by Dayan Khan to manage the right wing on behalf of the Great Khan, stationed in Ordos, and was effectively independent by the time of Lin Dan Khan).

Unexpectedly, he fled to the western desert, and happened to meet Omubu, who also fled in embarrassment.

One was driven here by Lin Dan Khan, and the other was driven here by Wang Zezhi, and the two hit it off and prepared to recruit troops to return to Huacheng. 33

So the two joined forces and arrived at the hinterland of the Hetao, Quye River.

The sentinels found that they had a large amount of grain and grass in the area of Quye River.

This is also Omubu's confidence, otherwise Elinchen may not necessarily follow him.

It was with this grain and grass that the two gathered an army of 50,000 in a very short time.

After listening to the information, Wang Zezhi spread out the map and looked at it seriously.

Qu Yechuan is more than 400 miles away from Tuoketuo, and it takes fifteen hours to ride a horse to the starry night.

Even if the light horsemen have two horses, they will paralyze the horses, and it is not advisable to storm them.

Besides, the enemy's soldiers and horses have increased to 50,000, which is no longer something that these 10,000 cavalry can contend with.

"The order was ordered, and Xiao Liuzi was ordered to lead an armed outpost to harass Omubu's army, and try every means to delay them for three days.

The order was ordered, and Qi Qi was ordered to lead Tianchengwei and 3,000 soldiers and horses to gallop to the aid of Tuoketo in the starry night.

Ordered Yang Guo to lead two thousand light horsemen to put down the task at hand and quickly gallop to the aid of Tuoketo.

The Fangshan guerrilla battalion was ordered to transfer 2,000 soldiers and horses to take over the matter of Yang Guo escorting supplies.

The Fangshan guerrilla battalion transferred all the newly cast artillery, weapons and armor in the battalion and transported them all to Tuoketo.

The Fangshan guerrilla battalion was ordered to transfer 1,000 soldiers and horses to stay in Datong City.

Li Hua was ordered to transfer all the soldiers and horses who were being trained in Datong Mansion, whether they were border soldiers or Tartar soldiers, to Tuoketuo.

After the people led by Li Hua arrived at Tuoketo, they immediately rejected the horses, surrounded the barbed wire, and put thistles on the iron.

Ordered Wang Shan to do his best to assist most of the troops and horses on the march and ensure logistics supplies.

If there are not enough soldiers and horses, the people will be selected from the homeless camps and military families in Fangshannan to transport them.

The order was ordered, and he ordered Tuomu to lead his soldiers and horses to escort 3,000 musketeers to aid Tuoketo. ”

"Order."

One by one, the heralds stepped forward, and one after another took the order.

Killing the tiger's mouth can't be moved, the stakes here are very high, and it is the only way to get out of Datong Mansion, and you can't give up.

Xinping Fort, where the bear-armored chief was stationed, could not be moved, because the market was already open there.

The traders who originally came to Naturalization City had already moved over there to do business, so he couldn't withdraw from Xinping Fort.

Because of the bitter cold of the Cypriot Outer Departments, the Naturalized City has been under martial law, and if Xinpingbao is closed again, the Cypriot Outer Parts will not be able to buy the living materials they need, and I am afraid that there will be changes.

Now the soldiers and horses under Wang Zezhi's command have reached more than 60,000 people, but the cavalry is too few.

He thought that all the sergeants under his command had horses, but unfortunately the reality was cruel.

Even if he does his best to buy horses everywhere, it is difficult for everyone to have horses.

Because, if you want to ensure the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, the light cavalry must have at least two horses.

If he formed 60,000 light horsemen, he would have to have 120,000 horses.

120,000 war horses, even the entire right wing, I am afraid there are not so many.

Recently, the Cowherd has rarely given him horses, and in the words of the Cowherd, the horses in the entire Shanxi have been bought by him.

Including Beizhili, there are not many war horses to buy.

Therefore, the Cowherd had already gone south a few years ago.

According to him, Nan Zhili can also buy good horses.

Nanzhili is referred to as Nanzhi, which is the general name of the region in the south of the Ming Dynasty, the government of the six central departments of Zhili and the prefecture of Zhili. It is one of the two capital regions of the Ming Dynasty, which is different from the North Zhili.

Nanzhili has a prosperous economy, the highest tax in the country, a prosperous culture, a culture of reverence for literature and education, and more than half of the officials are from the Jiangnan Gongyuan.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the area directly under the Jingshi Nanjing was Zhili, and in the early years of Hongwu, the capital was built in Yingtianfu, and 14 prefecture-level units such as Yingtianfu, Suzhou and Fengyang were directly subordinate.

In the eighteenth year of Yongle, after Zhu Di moved the capital to Ming Chengzu, he eliminated the political envoy of Beiping, and the government under the jurisdiction of the political envoy of Beiping and the prefecture were also directly subordinate to the six central departments, so it was called Beizhili, referred to as Beizhi, and the area was roughly equivalent to Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and other cities and provinces; The Jingshi was renamed Nanjing, and the original Jingshi area was renamed Nanzhili, and the original jurisdiction remained basically unchanged to distinguish it from the Northern Zhili.