The soldiers and civilians recognized the "Red Banner Army" even more, because since the soldiers and horses were killed near Ningwu Pass, the soldiers had eaten three meals.

Although the daily ration was still adopted in order to save food, the soldiers were already 80% full, and they also ate cooking cakes, horse meat, and delicious canned sea fish that they had never tasted before.

The common people still have two meals, but it is no longer just a bowl of cereals, in addition to drinking thin and dry goods, every day to ensure that there is a full three or two multigrain cakes to eat.

Hanzi has food, men and horses, and powerful offensive force, so he naturally became the issuer of Ningwuguan's orders, and the orders can be carried out well.

Today's Ningwuguan and Yangfangbao are united, and the Qing army is going to come here to fight offensive and defensive battles, and all the men and horses who have plundered the Ming Dynasty are guaranteed to let them return.

Among the three people, the farthest target was Yang Danian's group, because their starting place, Yanmen Pass, was four or five hundred miles away from Yaotou Pass.

The head of the east of the Guandong is connected with Yajiao Mountain, the west is close to the Yellow River, it is located at the turn of the Yellow River into the south flow of Jin, it is a major place for the soldiers of the past dynasties, and it is named because of the east and the west.

It is not only the gateway of northern Shanxi, but also the trade port of northern Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. The circumference of the gate is seven miles, and there are three gates in the east, west and south, all of which are built with urn cities.

Due to the convenience of the Yellow River, the Great Wall controlled by the Yatou Pass was not completely built, and the Yellow River cliff was even more defensive than the city wall as a barrier.

However, the most feared thing is that the Yellow River will be frozen for thousands of miles in the cold winter, and the reason why the Liukou can kill from Shanxi and Shaanxi to Henan without seizing Tongguan a few years ago is that they used the frozen Yellow River.

The Qing army garrison stationed at the Yatou Pass was Heshuo Eju Darhan, who was the brother-in-law of Emperor Chongde, with more than 1,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, less than 3,000 Mongolian light cavalry, and 7 or 800 Qiding and Baoyi slaves.

At the end of June, Darhan used the Mongols under his command to disguise themselves as caravans to buy horses to skillfully take the pass, and there was no brutal offensive and defensive battle, half of the Ming defenders broke and fled, and more than 1,000 were blocked in the city and became prisoners.

Because the attack of the Qing soldiers was too sudden, more than 20,000 merchants and ordinary people in the pass did not react and became trophies.

As a border trade port, Darhan had a lot of wealth, and Darhan collected a lot of gold, silver, treasures and grain.

More than 400 miles from Yanmen Pass to Yatou Pass, there are official roads to connect, but they have to bypass Shuozhou City, so the four battalions of Yang Danian, Zhang Yang, Yuan Siming, and Huang Feng who attacked did not divide their troops and marched together, and only a few small-scale encounters occurred along the way, killing two or three hundred Qing troops.

When the army arrived, it took five days, and Darhan was ordered to hold this important pass of the Outer Great Wall, and he did not choose to abandon the pass knowing that the "Red Banner Army" was coming.

Because the Yatou Pass is less than 500 miles away from the Naturalization City, it is a retreat channel reserved by the slave chieftain.

The first Great Wall pass to resist the invasion of the nomads into the territory of the Han family, the defense is remarkable, but the focus of the defense is to prevent the enemy from fighting from the outside to the inside, and now it is completely different, the "Red Flag Army" is attacking from the inner line to the outer line.

Although the fortress was more than four paces thick and more than four zhang high, the Qing army at the head of the city could not effectively defend itself under the intensive artillery fire and Mini gun attacks.

Darhan was originally prepared to rely on Guancheng to hold on, and he firmly believed that Emperor Chongde could not let the "Red Banner Army" block the retreat of the Qing army, as long as he held on, he would soon wait for reinforcements.

It is also because the partial head pass was taken by chance from the inside and outside, the pass was not damaged, and the defense function was sound, which enhanced the confidence of the Qing army to hold on.

Who knew that Yang Danian saw that the city was intact and was not ready to use field guns to fire solid bullets to cause great damage, but chose Mini guns to shoot accurately plus a pound of Furlong machine guns to scatter bombs, and cooperate with infantry swords, shields, and ants to attack the city.

Yang Danian was very confident, believing that under the fire of 3,000 mini guns, the casualties of the sword and shield men would be controllable when they landed in the city.

The actual battle showed that this was indeed the case, and the Qing troops who tried to hold on in vain were killed and wounded hundreds on the spot by the rain of bullets, and even Darhan, who commanded the stubborn resistance at the head of the city, suffered heavy losses and his arm was broken by scattered bullets.

Several of his own soldiers risked their lives to drag their master Darhan, who had fainted due to excessive blood loss, down the city, and the Qing army that had lost their command all rushed to the north gate in search of war horses.

When the sword and shield men climbed the ladder to the city, there was not a single fighting Tartar and Jiannu at the head of the city, only dozens of wounded soldiers who were seriously wounded and dying.

In less than half an hour, 5,000 cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" under the leadership of Zhang Yang and Yuan Siming passed through the Yatou Pass and went north to pursue and kill the defeated soldiers of the Qing army.

At the same time, Yang Danian and Huang Feng commanded the infantry to wipe out the remnants of the enemy, collect and capture the Han people who were settled and rescued, and screen the bannermen and clothed minions who blended into the common people.

More than 1,000 Ming troops captured by the Qing army were rescued, among which dozens of military attaches who flattered Jiannu were identified by the soldiers, and seven military attaches who participated in the killing of Han people after surrendering were beheaded by Yang Danian.

An intact fortress was in hand, and the food in it was enough for 50,000 horses to eat for more than four months, not counting the supplies for the army loaded on the "Red Banner Army" wheelbarrow.

After Yang Danian and Huang Feng saw the terrain here, they thought that it was enough to have three thousand infantry plus four thousand people from the original Ming army and Minzhuang to guard the city.

The cavalry led by Zhang Yang and Yuan Siming, who went out to cover the killing, both had two horses, and the Qing army that fled in a hurry that day was intercepted by several hundred.

Darhan, who was too wounded to ride a horse, was unable to escape, and when he found that he was besieged, he ordered his own soldiers to share it and stabbed him.

Zhang Yang and Yuan Siming were both bold and careful generals, who had always served as the cavalry commanders of the "Red Banner Army", and they knew that the number of people who fled from the Qing army was at an absolute disadvantage, so they chased after them and spent the night on the prairie.

The knights of the "Red Banner Army" got up early the next morning and chased after the effect, but Tartar and Jiannu didn't expect the Ming army to be so awesome today, and they didn't return to the camp at night, carelessly.

They were chased by Zhang Yang and Sang Yu, who were following and pursuing in the snow trampled by the horses' hooves, and fought a sports siege battle, more than 500 Qing troops were killed, and 1,000 war horses were captured.

On the afternoon of the third day, Zhang Yang and Yuan Siming led their subordinates back to Yatou Pass, and they gained a huge harvest, not only killing 1,000 Tartar Jiannu, seizing nearly 2,000 war horses, but also getting nearly 200,000 taels of silver in precious metals.

It can be seen that after half a year of looting in the Ming Dynasty, on average, each Tartar and Jiannu had one or two hundred taels of silver worth of precious metals to carry with them, and the vast majority of the Qing troops who fled from the Yatou Pass chose gold and jewelry, causing Zhang Yang and Yuan Siming to be so happy that they couldn't keep their mouths together.

The "Red Banner Army" does not privately divide the captures, but it does not mean that the captured soldiers are busy in vain, and these will record the merit value, and in the future, the promotion, silver reward, promotion, and so on of the soldiers will have to look at the merit value.