The army is still continuing to march into the depths of the grassland, and the tribe is discovering more and more, but this time it is different from before, most of the cavalry and young men in the tribe are gone, obviously these people have been withdrawn, or they have left the tribe themselves. This also proves one thing, someone is gathering people, and Zhu Houzhao is looking forward to this.

From the time the army caught up with the tribes and began to clear the tribes, this war has been forced to a dead end, and this war has to be fought if you want to, and you have to fight if you don't want to.

If you don't fight, the tribe will be wiped out, and the population and livestock will be lost, then this tribe will be gone, and if you want to recover, you can only go to other tribes to rob, or merge into other tribes, and there is no other way. If you fight, then there are two possibilities of victory and defeat, and it is needless to say that victory is natural, the grain, grass, equipment and war horses of the Ming army are all trophies.

Not only can you make up for the loss, but you can even make a lot of money, maybe the tribe will rise, this is an idea that everyone will have.

Defeated, either completely wiped out, the whole army is annihilated, or defeated, but you can retain a part of the living force, while covering the retreat of the tribe, keeping the population, livestock and slaves, although defeated, but a little rest and recuperation has the possibility of doing it again, and can also retaliate back, these are the two options after the defeat.

Zhu Houzhao pointed to the map, with a piece of grass hanging from his mouth, and instilled his thoughts in Wang Shouren beside him.

"Under normal circumstances, people don't think that they will be defeated, he will not feel that he is so bad, he will directly achieve the annihilation of the whole army, he firmly believes that he can lose part of it at worst, but he retreats with his whole body, and at the same time covers the population and livestock, and keeps the opportunity to make a comeback. Even in their hearts, they will faintly expect a miracle to appear, thinking that they can win. ”

Zhu Houzhao looked at Wang Shouren with a smile, and then said: "This is human nature, they all say that they think about defeat before worrying about victory, but many people's definition of defeat is vague. ”

"What does it mean to be defeated?" Zhu Houzhao asked Wang Shouren with a smile, but he hadn't spoken yet, Zhu Houzhao himself answered this question first, and he said with a smile: "In the eyes of this palace, as long as you don't win, you will be defeated." So this time only win, not defeat, let the scouts have a snack and see if they can find where the Tartars are assembled. ”

If the assembly place of the Tartars can be found, then this battle will be much easier to fight, and the army can directly run over and destroy them, Zhu Houzhao does not think how difficult it is for his Black Dragon Army to do such a thing.

"Yes, Your Highness, the minister will arrange it!" Wang Shouren naturally didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly nodded and agreed.

The army was still marching into the depths of Ordos, and every day the tribes were cleared, and finally on the third day, the scouts in front came to report. Zhu Houzhao was riding on a horse, and beside him was Wang Shouren, looking at the scout in front of him, neither of them spoke, waiting for the scout to report.

"Your Highness, the scout of the Tartars was found ahead!" The scout spoke, the expression on his face very serious.

Zhu Houzhao and Wang Shouren glanced at each other, and both of them had a sense of relief, since they were scouts, scouts had also found a lot of rangers these days, but they were just rangers but not scouts. Since it was a scout, it was an organized large-scale operation, and it was clear that the Tartars had completed their assembly and were ready to fight with themselves.

In fact, even if the Tartars don't fight with him this time, Zhu Houzhao also feels that he will not lose money this time, anyway, it has come to this point, and he only needs to clear enough tribes.

But now it seems that the Tartars can't help it after all, it seems that with a glance at the scouts, Zhu Houzhao said: "Order, go all out to strangle the Tartar scouts, don't let them find out the truth of our army, the 20,000 pioneers of the Black Dragon Army speed up, find the main force of the Tartars as soon as possible, entangle, don't let the main force of the Tartars run away, this time the palace will fight the Hetao." ”

"Yes, Your Highness!" The scout agreed, and then ran to give the order, while Zhu Houzhao turned to Wang Shouren and said: "Tell the soldiers, all cheer up, and the opportunity for meritorious service is coming soon." ”

In the next two days, the two sides carried out a very fierce scout battle, and the Ming side also began to have casualties, which was unavoidable, and even a small group of Tartar cavalry appeared in the rear of the brigade, obviously to find out the news, but Zhu Houzhao was unmoved except for sending a small group of cavalry to strangle.

For the attack and harassment of the Tartars, Zhu Houzhao completely ignored it, and led the army to move forward, approaching the depths of Ordos.

When you see the actions of the Tartars, you know, the purpose of going around is to end up your own food channel, and if there are foot soldiers, they will launch an attack on the foot soldiers, but they are wrong, this time the Ming and Qing Dynasty are all cavalry, and the Black Dragon Army's desire to fight is high, so that the Tartars on the battlefield have not taken advantage of it at all. As for the raids, they are basically chased by scouts and small groups of black dragon troops as rabbits, and that is all credit, and credit represents promotion and wealth.

These two movements of the Tartars can be seen that they intend to delay the marching speed of the Ming Dynasty, to put it bluntly, that is, to delay time.

Whether it is a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty or the final escape, the tribe must move out, otherwise the people will run away, the tribe will be exterminated by the Ming Dynasty, and the tribe will be finished. However, they also have a way out, and they can retreat into Toyoshu Beach. Once nothing can be done, leaving the tribe behind and retreating to Fengzhou Beach is a choice that will never be made until the last resort.

Since he saw through the Tartars' plan, Zhu Houzhao naturally couldn't give them this opportunity, and the army was constantly accelerating forward, and even faster and faster.

Zhu Houzhao's idea is very simple, even if the Tartars of Ordos do not fight with him, then he must leave all their tribes here, women, children and livestock, the importance of these things to the tribe is self-evident. Once these things are taken down, the fire sieve will not want to relieve his breath, and he can turn his hand to the east.

In the camp, which is located 300 miles away from the camp of the Ming army, people shout and neigh, livestock are concentrated in large numbers, and the tribes drag their families with them, and there is a scene of fleeing.

Inside the tent, a Mongolian man in his forties sat in his seat with a gloomy face, his face tired, his beard curled, and his mood became even more irritable as he listened to the noise outside. This is called Battle, he is the son-in-law of the fire screen, the fire screen is now located in Fengzhou Beach, and it is Battle who is in charge of Ordos.

But who would have thought that Ordos, which had been stable for three years, would suddenly rekindle the flames of war? For a while, Battle was really caught off guard.

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