The war horses neighed, and a group of black horses rushed towards the camp from the eastern grassland.

"It's coming!" Greeting these war horses at the gate of the camp, Li Yan couldn't hide his joy.

The arrival of these 100,000 war horses was enough to strengthen the Northern Expedition army that entered the Mongolian steppe, and the possibility of destroying Mongolia was greatly increased.

"Spread my will, and choose all the soldiers who can ride horses among the armies!" Zhu Ciji did not directly distribute the war horses to the various armies, but first ordered to gather all the soldiers who could ride horses in the army, not only the five armies of the Yinglong Army and the other eight regular armies, but also the hundreds of thousands of surrendered troops.

After all, he didn't have time for soldiers who hadn't learned to ride horses to learn to ride, so he had to pick soldiers who already knew how to ride.

Soon, except for Yan Yingyuan's Fourth Army, which had been fighting in Liaodong, everyone had already learned to ride horses, and the other four Yinglong armies only selected 14,000 people who could ride horses, the Seventh Army to the Fifteenth Army selected 25,000 people who could ride horses, and the surrendered army selected 30,000 people who could ride horses. In total, it was 27,000 cavalry troops of the Ying Dragon Army, 55,000 other armies and surrendered troops, together with 82,000 men!

Zhu Ci temporarily mixed the 82,000-strong cavalry together, and divided the troops into two routes, one to attack Horqin and the other to Chahar.

"Your Majesty, is it inappropriate for such a mixed army to attack in two ways?" Li Yan asked worriedly.

You must know that although the Mongols and the Manchus suffered heavy losses in the pass, and less than 40,000 cavalry were able to return to the Mongolian steppe, the Mongols originally left troops to garrison Mongolia, and there are still 100,000 Mongolian iron cavalry in the two divisions combined.

This is in the Mongolian steppe, theoretically the Mongols are the kings, the Ming Dynasty only with 82,000 temporary mixed cavalry division to attack the two major tribes of Mongolia, once there is any accident, it is likely to suffer heavy losses, Li Yan can't help but worry.

"It's okay!" Zhu Ci shook his head and said confidently: "The Mongols don't know that we have got enough war horses, and the sudden attack of the army can catch the Mongols by surprise." Besides, isn't there a batch of grenades left, let them all take them, and they will be able to win the battle! I am confident that my army will not disappoint me. ”

Zhu Ci said so, and Li Yan couldn't raise the morale of others to destroy his own prestige, so he no longer persuaded and agreed to Zhu Ci's strategy of dividing troops and raiding.

Immediately, Zhu Ci summoned the generals to the Chinese army's big tent to discuss the matter, and personally ordered the generals to lead the two mixed armies.

"The First Route Army raided Chahar, commanded by Ji Feng, commander of the First Army of the Yinglong Army, and Chang Shunhou, commander of the Seventh Army, with a total of 40,000 people. The Second Route Army raided Horqin, commanded by Yan Yingyuan, the commander of the Fourth Army, and the commander of the 13th and 14th Army, Hong Niangzi, with a total of 42,000 people. I hope that all the generals will work together to destroy Mongolia and avenge the people of the Ming Dynasty who were once ravaged by the Mongols, and I am waiting for your good news! Zhu Cihong said angrily.

The reason why the army assigned to the second way to attack Horqin is 2,000 more than the army that attacked Chahar on the first road is because Horqin has developed into the largest tribe in Mongolia in recent years because it has taken refuge with the Manchurians early, with more troops than Chahar, and there are still 100,000 iron cavalry left in Mongolia, Horqin accounts for nearly 60,000, and Chahar only has more than 40,000, so it is undoubtedly more difficult to attack Horqin than to attack Chahar.

"The last general will live up to the holy hope!" The named generals shouted in unison.

The temporary cavalry of 82,000 men was soon divided into two temporary armies.

"Expedition!"

The war horses roared, and the two armies galloped away quickly in both directions, and soon disappeared on the horizon of the sky, killing Horqin and Chahar like fierce tigers.

Seeing the disappearance of the more than 80,000 troops on the expedition, the remaining generals who were not named, such as Zhang Kuishan, the commander of the Fifth Army, and others were full of jealousy.

originally thought that the war horses could be directly assigned to the army, but I didn't think that it would be okay if I didn't get a horse, and I didn't even get the commander of the battle.

Of course, although Zhang Kuishan and the others were so jealous that their eyes were red, they didn't dare to question Zhu Ci's order, and they could only continue to be jealous in addition to jealousy.

In the direction of Horqin, Yan Yingyuan and the Red Lady rushed with a mixed army of 42,000.

Although the number of their Second Route Army was not much more than that of the First Route Army, and Horqin had more than 10,000 troops than Chahar, their Second Route Army brought more grenades, plus Yan Yingyuan's Fourth Army had been fighting in Liaodong for a period of time, and the cavalry was not weak, and the strength of the Second Route Army was much stronger than that of the First Route Army.

"Closely intercept and kill all the Mongol spies you encounter on the road, and make sure that the Mongols don't know about our mixed cavalry raid!" Yan Yingyuan gave strict orders to the scout commanders.

"Yes! The scout team will not let Commander Yan down, otherwise someone will come to see you! "This scout commander is from the surrender army, he was a small chief in the Qing army camp, after surrendering to the Ming Dynasty and becoming a surrendered army, he has repeatedly made meritorious achievements in several major battles in the Northern Expedition, and his martial arts are not weak, and his riding skills are also good, and he was promoted to the commander of the surrender army scout team, which was deeply valued by Zhu Cijiao.

Together with the scouts of the Ying Long army, more than 300 elite scouts dispersed, intercepting and killing all the Mongols they encountered along the way.

As time went by little by little, Yan Yingyuan and the others gradually approached the Horqin Division.

It is located in the northeastern part of the Mongolian steppe.

"Father, the Ming army has been in the prairie for three days, and there has been no movement, will there be fraud?" Wu Keshan said to King Horqin.

King Horqin frowned, he was also worried about fraud, they Horqin was the first to follow the Manchurians into the Central Plains, originally the entire tribe had more than 100,000 iron cavalry soldiers, but the defeat of Xuzhou a few years ago and the Northern Expedition of the Ming Army this year gave them a heavy blow to Horqin, so that now even 60,000 iron cavalry are not available, and they can't confront the powerful Ming army at all, only relying on the vastness of the Mongolian steppe to survive until the Ming army can not hold on and withdraw from the grassland.

After thinking for a while, Horqin shook his head and said firmly: "There should be no fraud, the Ming army lacks war horses, and it is impossible to use any fraud on the prairie, and there has been no action, I am afraid that I know this very well, and I know that there is no way to take us on the grassland, and I may be ready to retreat to the pass." ”

The only reliance of the king of Horqin was that the Ming army did not have enough war horses, and if they moved on foot, it would take at least a few days for the Ming army to kill Horqin, which was enough for them to arrange calmly.

"By the way, where are the Manchurians now?" King Korqin temporarily put aside his concern for the Ming army and turned his attention to the Manchus who moved westward.

"Back to my father, the Manchus have been traveling for the past few days, and now they have arrived at the Mengdun River, and they are staying there, probably waiting for other Manchus who have moved from the east and west of Liao to converge, after all, after crossing the Mengdun River is an endless sea of sand, only after that sand sea will there be a grassland again, it seems that the Manchus do not intend to settle in the Mongolian grassland." Wu Keshan replied.

"That's it!" King Korqin nodded reassuringly.

Not only their Korqin, in fact, Chahar has also been concerned about the movement of the Manchus moving westward, and they are afraid that the Manchus will compete with them for territory in the Mongolian steppe, although the Mongols have fewer troops than any of them, and all of them together are only more than 30,000 young and strong cavalry, but the combat effectiveness of the Manchus really makes them palpitate, plus the existence of Dolgon.

Don't look at Dolgon, who has been defeated repeatedly in the battle with the Ming army in Guannei, it seems that there is nothing to fear, but their Mongols are afraid, after all, Dolgon has been recruiting their Mongols since his debut, especially Chahar, who was defeated by Dolgon with more than 10,000 white flags to defeat 60,000 Chahar iron cavalry, and killed the Chahar Department to talk about Dolgon, and had to surrender to the Manchurians, such a record, how not to make the Mongols frightened.

"Father, if you want to say that this Manchu is also a nest, once killed the Ming corpse mountain and sea of blood, my Mongolia can only submit to its feet, how brilliant, but now it can only move west, even with the Ming army to break the net, poor sister does not listen to our advice, insists on continuing to follow the Manchus, I don't know where the Manchus will eventually move west, I am afraid that I will not see my sister in this life!" Wu Keshan sighed and said.

The sister he was talking about was naturally the Manchurian Xiaozhuang Empress Dowager Da Yu'er.

"It's a pity, otherwise, with Da Yu'er's beauty, maybe someone else can be allowed, and it may not be necessary to increase my Horqin's strength!" King Korqin also sighed, and said with great pity.

It can be heard from the words of King Horqin that it is not their father and son Duo'er who loves Da Yu'er Bumu Butai, and Da Yu'er is indeed the most beautiful woman in their Horqin, how many tribal leaders have been moved, even if Da Yu'er is married to the human emperor Taiji and has given birth to a son, but who cares about these children of the grassland, there must be tribal leaders who are willing to marry, this is what King Horqin and Wu Keshan think.

I have to say that Da Yu'er may know this, so when King Horqin and Wu Keshan proposed to let him return to Horqin, he refused without hesitation and insisted on following the Manchus to move west.

"Forget it, let's just pretend that I never gave birth to this daughter." King Korqin retracted his mind and no longer paid attention to the affairs of the Manchurians, and only their Mongols were left in the Mongolian steppe in the future, so he should think about how to unify the Mongolian steppe in the future.

On a grassland slope just a kilometer away from the Horqin tribe, several Ying Long army scouts looked at the Horqin tribe in the distance.

"Huh" Yan Yingyuan and the Red Lady also came to ride a horse to this high slope and look at the Horqin Department in the distance.

"Looking at this situation, the Manchurians should not know that we are waiting for the army to kill!" Yan Yingyuan said to the red lady.

"Well, in that case, according to the plan, we will be able to defeat the Horqin Mongols in one fell swoop by sneaking up on the night attack!" The red lady nodded, and under her eyebrows, her eyes flashed with a strong evil aura.

The clouds of the great war loomed over the Horqin Mongols, and at this time, the Horqin people did not know that death was coming.

As the sun sets, night falls.

Ten miles away, Yan Yingyuan and other 42,000 Ming troops mixed cavalry gathered here, rushing to the Horqin Department at any time.

The 42,000 mixed cavalry was divided into 14,000 Ying Dragon Army cavalry and 28,000 ordinary cavalry, of which Yan Yingyuan led 14,000 Ying Dragon Army cavalry, and Red Lady led 28,000 ordinary cavalry.

"Let's go!" Yan Yingyuan looked at the dark sky, estimated the hour, and felt that the time had come, so he and the red lady led the army to start acting under the moonlight, in order to avoid the sound of horses' hooves alarming the Mongols, the army did not gallop, but slowly approached the Horqin Division, when the Horqin Department was close at hand, they would order the army to storm violently!

A major battle against the Mongol Korqin tribe is about to begin.

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