After Li Guo's men and horses crossed the river, Li Hongji reorganized the men and horses on the river embankment, and then looked at the Pingchuan River under the river embankment, which was really a good place for the cavalry to fight a decisive battle. Bu Shitu Taiji's men and horses had already gathered the rout, and the leader of the team, Wan Hu Hadan*, was extremely angry at the rout of the forward, he didn't believe the excuse of the three thousand households who had just been defeated, so he led the team to rush over. Besides, Li Guo was very cautious in fighting, and immediately after crossing the river, he arranged small mortars on the embankment again, and when Hadan*'s team rushed to a distance of fifty zhang, the artillery was fired in unison. Because after all, Hadan* still has nearly three times the strength of the Ming army, and the power of these dozens of small mortars is still not enough. When they were close to a distance of more than ten zhang, the Ming army's firing rifles opened fire quickly. After three rounds of volleys, Li Hongji waved his hand and rushed over with his men, and this time as soon as he fought, Hadan* was completely dumbfounded. Obviously, he has almost twice as many people as the other party, but he always feels that he always has to face three people on the other side. This is a matter of tactics, and there is a huge gap between professional soldiers and amateur soldiers, the Ming army is a highly trained professional soldier, and the soldiers of Hadan* are all young and strong people pulled out of the tribe. Napoleon once said, "One Cossack cavalry can deal with three French cavalry, but a platoon of French soldiers can be equal to thirty Cossack cavalry, and when a company of French cavalry meets a hundred Cossack cavalry, the Cossack cavalry will be defeated." That is to say, it is much better to have an excellent organization of team battles than to fight alone, not to mention that in terms of the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers, the Ming army is not inferior to these young men brought by Hadan*.

The tragedy of Hadan* was doomed, in less than two quarters of an hour, Li Hongji and Liu Zongmin pierced Hadan*'s team, and almost all of the cavalry that fell along the way were Hadan*'s cavalry, and there was no need for Li Hongji to turn around and kill back, Li Guobu, who dropped the mortar, quickly got on the horse and cleaned up the remnants left by Li Hongji and Liu Zongmin. Hadan* was blinded in one eye by Liu Zongmin's crossbow at the moment of fighting with Liu Zongmin, and then his own soldiers slashed his head, and such a 10,000-strong household was immediately trampled into mud by a chaotic horse. The leaderless soldiers of the dragon did not have any confidence at all, and the only thought was that the Ming army was too ferocious, run fast, and if it was slow, it would be lifeless.

There was no need to form a team again, and in the process of pursuit, the Ming army naturally followed behind its commander, only Li Guobu paused slightly, the purpose was to clean up the battlefield, treat his own wounded soldiers, and pack up the remaining supplies. Li Hongji. Liu Zongmin led the team to stick tightly to the defeated Mongolian soldiers, and they rushed into the Nian Bei Guard, and the Mongols in the Nian Bei Guard did not resist at all, who dared to turn back these stragglers, and the brave Hadan * Wanhu were killed. Li Hongji's troops then occupied the Nian Beiwei Station, packed up the booty, cleaned the barracks, and then waited for the arrival of the follow-up troops.

Yuan Chonghuan was also afraid that Li Hongji and they would make a mistake, so he quickly rushed to the Nian Bei Guard, left a thousand soldiers and a thousand generals in Kawaguchi Fort, left enough ammunition and provisions, and strengthened the defense of Kawaguchi Fort, ensuring that when they were attacked by less than 10,000 people, they could hold on for half a month, no need to attack, just hold on.

It was still a day off in the Nian Bei Guard, leaving Li Guo with 2,000 soldiers to guard, as well as nearly 10,000 logistics support personnel, and there were still Hong Chengchou with Hao Yongzhong's 5,000 men and horses to Pingrong City. (Note: The owner of Pingrong City is a descendant of the Mongolian Qiya Wen clan, because of the merit of consolidating the border land, Ming Hongwu five years (1372) was named Tusi, and then hereditary to the Republic of China 20 years (1931), living in Gaoqiang (now Sanhe Village, Sanhe Town)). Qiyawen Tusi is more interesting, although he is a Mongol, but he is not very close to his own people, maybe he is dissatisfied with seeing his own people fighting each other, maybe he is afraid of the strength of the Han army, in short, he has never participated in various conflicts, but just stuck to his own village. When the 5,000 men and horses led by Hong Chengchou arrived, Qiyawen Tusi led the soldiers of Pingrong City to open the door to greet them. At first, Hong Chengchou thought that this Tusi of Pingrong City was also a Mongolian, how could he fight a battle, but he didn't expect people to greet him like this, and he quickly dismounted to meet him, and people came over!

Hong Chengchou had a cordial conversation with Qiyawen Tusi, and then he knew that this Tusi was still sealed by Taizu, and it has been passed down for more than ten generations now, and he has always been loyal to the Ming Dynasty. So they went into the city together and waited for Yuan Chonghuan to arrive.

Yuan Chonghuan was very pleased with Qiya Wen Tusi's profound righteousness, so he gave him a special pistol given to him by Zhu Youxiao, a delicate six-shot pistol. Qi Ya Wen Tusi was not polite, he accepted it directly, looking at the exquisite pistol in his hand, Qi Ya Wen Tusi's respect for the imperial army increased to a new height. He told Yuan Chonghuan that if he wanted to pacify Bu Shitu Taiji, he had to wipe them out, and as for the other tribes, he could leave an army to slowly subdue them, and their combat effectiveness was not strong. However, if you march to the Us-Tibet region in the south, you must change horses, and the war horses brought from Mongolia are not suitable for the plateau climate further south, not only can they not run, but they will also die because the climate is not suitable. This is what Yuan Chonghuan did not expect, after all, people in this era still do not understand the concept of thin air, and the advice of Qiyawen Toast undoubtedly made Yuan Chonghuan pay attention to the factors of climate, so that he has increased his understanding of the factors of victory and defeat in war.

Rest the troops for two days, here is only a few dozen miles away from Xining City, according to Yuan Chonghuan's arrangement, Hong Chengchou and Hao Yongzhong first led 5,000 men and horses under the leadership of the eldest son of Qiyawen Tusi, secretly moved to the southwest side of Xining City in advance to prevent him from escaping in the southwest direction, Li Hongji and Liu Zongmin took 5,000 people to surround in the northwest direction, led by the second son of Tusi, blocking the retreat in this direction, and the rest of the men and horses were led by Yuan Chonghuan himself, attacking the city from the northeast, maybe Qiyawen Tusi avoided suspicion, He offered to bring a thousand native soldiers to act with Yuan Chonghuan, and Yuan Chonghuan was also afraid of changes, so he agreed to Qiyawen Tusi's request.

According to Yuan Chonghuan's campaign purpose, this time Bu Shitu Taiji must not be allowed to escape, so he was surrounded on all sides, but the lack of troops was also a problem, so Yuan Chonghuan's arrangement was to arrange cavalry with strong mobility in the direction where Bu Shitu Taiji might escape, and he took 7,000 cavalry and 1,000 Tusi soldiers of Qiyawen Tusi to attack the city.

Bu Shitu Taiji detective heard that the Ming army had hit Pingrong City, originally thought that it was going to be blocked in Pingrong City, but he didn't expect Qiya Wen Tusi to directly welcome the Ming army into the city, the previous battles were very poor, so he felt that the cavalry of the Ming army really couldn't afford to provoke him, if he escaped, I am afraid that there would be no place to stand in the future, and he would lose his independence if he surrendered to the Yarkand Khanate in the southwest, or to Turpan in the northwest, or to seek help from Uszang in the south. He has now recovered nearly 50,000 Mongolian and Tibetan soldiers and horses, and he does not want to obey other people's orders under the fence, not to mention that this Xining area was originally his base. The cavalry of the Ming army is powerful in the field, but it is not necessarily powerful when it is used to attack the city, the cavalry can not attack the city wall, not to mention the many people who defend the city, so he decided to resist according to the city, carry out a war of attrition, and then borrow 30,000 Tibetan soldiers from Wu Si Zang, and wait for the Ming army to be consumed, and then fight a counteroffensive when withdrawing the army, so that you can hold your own nest, and then cede a part of the land to Wu Si Zang.

Yuan Chonghuan of the Ming army wanted to annihilate Bu Shitu Taiji and prevent him from escaping, Bu Shitu Taiji wanted to stick to the city and consume the Ming army, and the two of them had the same idea of a decisive battle to see whose strength was better, whether it was the tip of the spear or the edge of the shield?

When Yuan Chonghuan's 8,000 troops arrived in the west of Xining, Bu Shitu Taiji was already in full battle, and the city walls were full of guarded soldiers. Yuan Chonghuan unhurriedly sent three thousand soldiers to the east and north of the city gate, and then surrounded five rows of musketeer soldiers at the city gate, and then arranged five hand-cranked machine guns, so that the mortars began to bombard the soldiers standing on the city wall, after five rounds of shelling, the soldiers above the city gate have been lost, and the next thing is to blow up the city gate with *, and shoot at the city gate hole with a hand-cranked machine gun, trying to block the Mongolian soldiers entering the city at the entrance of the city gate. No one dares to look for death in this straight line.