But the battlefield is always ever-changing, and Sunantai Ji has long learned about this tactic of the Ming army through the Mongols who moved west, because some of the Mongols who moved west were Horqin Mongols. In history, the Horqin Mongols were the first to unite with the Jurchens, and they united through intermarriage to form the cooperation of the Manchu and Mongolian families, so that the Jurchens had no worries, unified the entire Liaodong, and then exterminated other Mongol tribes, forming a siege of the northern Ming Dynasty. Unlike in history, Xiong Tingbi passed through Liaodong this time, not only defending Liaoyang and Shenyang. Moreover, with the assistance of all the generals, under the superior firepower of artillery and muskets, they also occupied Tieling, assimilated, and united with the Yehnara tribe, defeated the combined army of Nurhachi and Horqin Mongols in one fell swoop, and blocked the communication channel between them at once, coupled with the oppression and persecution of the Chahar Mongols, their life was much more bitter than in history, so some small tribes attached to the Horqin Mongols were more miserable, and they had to move west to seek better water and grass, so that some of them were displaced to the Hetao area, became part of the Tumut tribe.

Because of the climate of the Xiaoice Age, and because the Mongols were not good at planting, the Tumut tribe was very short of food, and these westward Mongols also needed food to satisfy their hunger, which caused an even worse food crisis, and had to venture south to plunder the Han people, which caused the Ming army to counterattack. In the face of the sharp firearms of the Ming army, the scattered forces of the Tumut tribe could not resist at all, and the leaders of the Horqin Mongol tribes who had fallen in exile offered strategies, and so and so on. Su Nang Taiji is now full of confidence to fight with the Ming army.

Now that both sides have strategies for each other and have made their own calculations, the next step is to see the specific implementation methods of both sides.

Yuan Chonghuan saw that the men and horses of the Sunangtaiji tribe began to adjust their formation and change to the charging formation, so he informed Sun Yuanhua to get ready. What I didn't expect was that when I was preparing for the beginning of the shelling, I suddenly found that it was not the Mongolian cavalry that rushed out of the Mongolian camp, but tens of thousands of Mongolian cattle and horses.

Su Nang Taiji sat in the rear, watching the Mongolian cattle and horses rushing straight to the Ming army's position, laughing happily, watching the cavalry following behind wielding swords, his heart was very excited. Yuan Chonghuan's heart was a little cold now, looking at the cattle and horses that were getting closer and closer, or Sun Yuanhua had experienced the battle formation, and immediately ordered mortars and artillery to carry out partition bombardment, and forcibly covered and separated them with artillery fire between Mongolian cattle, horses and cavalry. At this time, a team of about 300 people rushed out from the rear team, but the leader was Li Hongji, followed by two fourteen or fifteen children, they ran to Yuan Chonghuan to say hello, and then divided into three teams to rush to the cattle and horses that rushed into the formation, and then looked at the nearly 100 cows and horses behind them.

It turns out that this Li Hongji has been a post guard since his father's death, and he is very good at animal temperament, royal horses and cows, to put it bluntly, he is naughty and mischievous, plus practicing martial arts, practicing guns and knives, gambling and playing money, he is a little Zhengtai. This time I got twenty taels of silver from Yuan Chonghuan, so I went to find Liu Zongmin, who I once knew, and Li Guo, my nephew, to join the army, and when I arrived in Yansui City, I heard Chen Yuzhi say that Yuan Chonghuan had crossed the Great Wall and entered the Hetao to fight the Mongols, so he took these two people to Dongsheng Town, although he didn't know Lu Xiangsheng, but he knew Sun Yuanhua, and he was familiar with Lu Xiangsheng. Seeing that the Mongols had set up a formation of cows and horses, he immediately asked Lu Xiangsheng to borrow dozens of cows and mares from the herdsmen and rushed over.

It turned out that the cattle and horses released by the Mongols were fed with aphrodisiac epimedium grass, and hundreds of cows and mares were placed a few miles behind the Ming army. At the same time, they were also fed epimedium grass, so that the male cattle and horses who smelled the smell of the female in the camp moved the railing in the camp and rushed over like crazy. Unexpectedly, Li Hongji, the little guy, knew these things, and took these cows and horses to rush fifty steps away from these cows and horses, and then turned his head and rushed towards the open space of the Ming army's position. This beast is a beast, where does it matter if you fight or not, when you are in heat, you see that the female is not desperately chasing, these cow mares have not yet reached the estrus season, and they don't hurry up and run, so they chase and run to break the cattle and horse formation of Susang Taiji.

The Mongolian cavalry was originally covered by Sun Yuanhua's artillery fire and was a little blind, but now the cattle and horses have been led away, and the cavalry can't follow the bulls and stallions to find cows and mares! So they were completely separated. Sun Yuanhua immediately ordered the artillery to cover a large area of all the artillery, mortars, and "two-kicked" small cannons to bombard the Mongolian cavalry, and the mountains shook for a while. The charging Mongol cavalry didn't have time to dodge before they were blown up. When the charge to about one hundred and fifty paces, ten hand-cranked machine guns and muskets fired together, in front of modern firearms, especially in front of machine guns, the cavalry completely became the object of abuse, on this one hundred and fifty steps distance became the nightmare of the Mongolian cavalry, nearly half of the death in half an hour, stunned can no longer rush a step, with the extension of the cannon bombardment, Su Nang Taiji was also injured, and then the musketeers launched a volley counterattack, the light cavalry on the left and right also began to outflank, the Mongolian cavalry finally could not resist, a rout in front, The latter ones were completely collapsed, and in the end, less than 20,000 Mongol cavalry were able to withdraw to Dongsheng City, and the rest were either killed in battle or taken prisoner.

After the great victory of the Ming army, they took advantage of the situation to besiege Dongsheng City, and Sunantai Ji and his subordinates became turtles in the urn. Under normal circumstances, Su Nang Taiji will not return to the city, and will definitely run to the depths of the prairie, and the infantry of the Ming army will not be able to catch up at all, but the current Tumut tribe is a little sinicized, and they already have family property, and they are reluctant to give up these family properties, so they have to go back to the city to hold on.

On the city wall, looking at the Ming army discharging dazzling cannons, Su Nang Taiji understood that the city could not be held at all, while the Ming army had not yet attacked the city, in order to save his life and property, Su Nang Taiji hurriedly sent a messenger to the Ming army to announce the surrender, Yuan Chonghuan promised not to kill him, nor to confiscate his family property and floating wealth, as long as he came out to surrender and then talk about his future. Although Sunantai Ji was afraid, he had no choice but to go out of the city and surrender.

It took nearly two months to pacify the Tumut tribe in the entire Hetao Inner Loop, Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Yuanhua, Hong Chengchou, and Lu Xiangsheng rested a little in Dongsheng City, reorganized the soldiers and horses, and prepared to return to the court with the Sunantai Ji division, but at this time he received Zhu Youxiao's holy decree, saying that the follow-up arms and materials had been transported to Taiyuan City, and they were preparing to march to Yansui City, requiring the four of them to temporarily train in Dongsheng City, waiting for the next battle plan, and only lining up people to send Susang Taiji to the capital to see the emperor.

It turned out that after Zhu Youxiao found that the Ming army occupied the inner loop area, the situation changed, and the Ming army could take advantage of the situation to recover the entire Hetao area, recover the entire Hetao area, and then step up immigration, and stipulate that the herdsmen in the Hetao area are not allowed to graze freely, especially the goats that are special to the Hetao area - Albas white goats, because other cattle, horses, and sheep only eat grass leaves, and Albas white goats not only eat grass leaves, but also eat grass roots, which greatly destroys the ecological environment of the grassland, and makes the environment for forage growth continue to deteriorate, which in turn causes desertification and serious loss of water and soil. Remembering that in later generations, even the city of Beijing was affected by desertification, so Zhu Youxiao had to start thinking about soil erosion on the Loess Plateau now. The reason why the Yellow River became the Yellow River is because the sediment content of the river water is too high, and the color of the water turns yellow, the reason is that when passing through the Loess Plateau, the soil erosion of the Loess Plateau is serious, and it is washed into the river, which makes the Yellow River, which has some serious river sand more yellow, Zhu Youxiao decided to completely occupy the Hetao Plain in the future, and began to completely prohibit nomadism in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, so that the entire middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River can maintain good green mountains and green waters, and then build an artificial lake with sand sinking somewhere upstream. From the middle reaches of Hekou Town, down to the banks of the tributaries, it is forbidden to open up land for farming, and all trees and vegetation are planted, so that the entire basin of the Yellow River will be cleared. Now Zhu Youxiao asked Yuan Chonghuan to stay in Hanoi to reorganize the soldiers and horses, and to subdue and sinicize these nomadic Mongols, in order to pave the way for future plans.