Yuan Chonghuan won the battle on the southern front, and almost wiped out more than 13,000 Sunangtaiji's cavalry, and only a few escaped the Great Wall. The use of new weapons greatly increased the confidence of the Ming army, and on the contrary, after this battle, the Mongols no longer rushed to plunder.

On the north road, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng waited for the follow-up ammunition to arrive, and then crossed the Great Wall from the remote city and began to retaliate against the Tumut tribe. The first town that crossed the Great Wall, Jungar, in fact, this is not a small town, but it is just a gathering of more yurts, about 20,000 people in this tribe, in the face of the arrival of the Ming army they did not panic at all, under the leadership of the tribal leader, organized nearly 9,000 cavalry into a charge formation pressed up, in the face of these charges with no military quality, Hong Chengchou disdained, from a distance of five hundred steps began sporadic artillery bombardment, when most of them entered within three hundred steps, the forward was only fifty steps, Lu Xiangsheng ordered all the artillery to carry out a covering bombardment together, and after five rounds, there were less than 2,000 of the 9,000 people left, and they were all dizzy, looking at the corpses all over the ground and stunned. Then Hong Chengchou led the light cavalry to outflank, Lu Xiangsheng led the musketeers to attack in a row, without any effort at all, in less than half an hour, 9,000 people were annihilated, the tribal leader had already been blown up, and the remaining remnants of the army lost the courage to resist, and the remaining women, children, and children of the entire tribe became prisoners. In their eyes, the Ming army was the embodiment of the devil, otherwise how could the heroic Mongol soldiers be wiped out in less than an hour? It's a pity that they haven't had the consciousness of being prisoners until now, and when the Ming army got close to them, suddenly a wolf howled, and they pulled out their weapons from their waists to kill the Ming army, and the Ming army who didn't take precautions was suddenly killed dozens of people. However, a soldier is a soldier, not to mention a soldier trained under the veterans of the Qi family's army. Hong Chengchou gave an order to "don't leave chickens and dogs", the red-eyed soldiers are men, women and children, as long as the Mongols are not breathless, they are all a knife and a gun, this tribe that dares to resist was almost killed by Hong Chengchou, only a few clever ghosts or people who did not have time to go home escaped this killing poke.

Seeing that nearly a hundred soldiers were killed by the Mongols who surrendered in disguise, Hong Chengchou was furious, "From this time on, I, Hong Chengchou, don't take prisoners, as long as I don't take off my body and surrender to kill all of them." My Ming Dynasty treated the captives with benevolence and righteousness, but so many people were killed, and this revenge is not revenge, how can I face the dead soldiers. ”

Next, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng discussed, anyway, we have the advantage of artillery fire, why don't we also divide our troops into two ways, sweep the past and go straight to Dongsheng City, the old nest of Sunang Taiji, and flatten the entire Ordos Plateau in one fell swoop, and include the entire "Yellow River Inner Jacket" into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

After the two discussed, they sent someone to report to Yuan Chonghuan that they knew, and then divided into two roads, left and right, and surrounded Dongsheng City in a fan-shaped shape. Hong Chengchou was full of murderous intent, as long as he encountered the Mongol tribe, regardless of the artillery fire, he would send musketeers to charge in a row, and those who dared to counterattack the whole team would use "two kicks" small artillery and mortars to cover the bombardment, only to kill the Mongols who were terrified and fled. Since then, there has been a legend of "Hong shaving his head" in this Hetao area, that is, adults scare disobedient children and say, "Don't cry, if you are disobedient, 'Hong shaves your head' will come".

After Yuan Chonghuan received Hong Chengchou's express, he discussed with Sun Yuanhua how to cross the Great Wall to attack the Tumut tribe, and finally the two decided to let Chen Yuzhi hold Yansui City, and the two also divided their troops to Dongsheng Town with 5,000 troops like Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng, because the main force of Sunangtaiji in the south has been almost wiped out by Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Yuanhua, and the rest are scattered ordinary herdsmen of the tribe, so the two are not afraid of being intercepted by the Mongols.

The troops led by the four of them attacked quickly, and arrived at Dongsheng City almost at the same time in less than half a month, the difference is that Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Yuanhua each only brought their own 5,000 men and horses, while Lu Xiangsheng led nearly 30,000 Mongolian and Han herdsmen, whether young or old, the herdsmen also helped Lu Xiangsheng transport materials in a regular manner, Hong Chengchou was indeed different, he also brought a lot of Mongolians, but they were all handcuffed with ropes and connected to their feet, and each of them was wrapped around a piece of sheepskin around their waists. It turned out that Hong Chengchou was murderous after the death of a hundred soldiers, as long as he touched the Mongols, he would surround them and kill them, and those who surrendered must strip naked, so as not to hide weapons in their waists and suddenly attack their soldiers, and anyone who dares to disobey will be killed. Lu Xiangsheng took the left road, not only met the Mongols, but also many Han Chinese, so with the help of these local Han people, he persuaded many Mongols to join him in attacking the tribe of Sunantai Ji, and promised that if Su Nang Taiji was wiped out, and the Mongols stopped nomadic raids and plundered the Han Chinese, they would settle down and live.

At this time, Dongsheng Castle was the largest town in the entire inner loop, and Sunang Taiji lived here and ruled over the entire inner loop. In the case of the Ming army besieged on all sides, Su Nang Taiji took a shrink force in Dongsheng City, ready to fight to the death with the Ming army, he believed that the Ming army with only 20,000 horses was not the opponent of 50,000 Mongolian cavalry at all, and it was much better to attract the Ming army to Dongsheng City to gather and annihilate than to break through, as long as these Ming troops were gathered and annihilated, not only the entire Yellow River inner sleeve would belong to him, and even the entire Hetao area he could occupy, so the Ming army besieging the four roads did not receive much resistance in the process of attacking.

Su Nang Taiji thought really well, but what he didn't expect was that the Ming army Yuan Chonghuan was exactly the same as he thought, they all wanted to finish their work in one battle, as soon as Hong Chengchou's messenger arrived, Yuan Chonghuan decided to implement this plan, the purpose of dividing the troops and attacking together was to drive the Mongols together to encircle and annihilate, because the Mongols could not resist the attack of the Ming army as a tribal unit, but if they were guerrilla everywhere, the Ming army would not be able to prevent it, and it would be too wasteful of time to eliminate them one by one. Hong Chengchou's wanton killing and poking and Lu Xiangsheng's Huairou policy had the same effect, both of which made Su Nang Taiji feel that only a decisive battle with the army could give the Ming army a fatal blow, so as to achieve the goal of occupying the Hetao area, but he did not take the way of resisting step by step and consuming the materials of the Ming army, and finally made a big mistake and ruined his hegemony.

On April 11, the second year of the Apocalypse, on a vast plain outside Dongsheng City, 50,000 Mongolian cavalry and 20,000 Ming troops lined up against each other. This is the most ideal way of war for Sunantai Ji, the vast, flat terrain is too favorable for the cavalry, the 500 steps of the charge distance just makes the speed of the war horse play to the fullest, if this can not win, it can only be said that the descendants of Genghis Khan have declined, and they are no longer worthy of dominating the steppe again.

Yuan Chonghuan accepted Sun Yuanhua's suggestion, agreed to the location chosen for the decisive battle of Sunantai Ji, and he also wanted to defeat Su Nang Taiji in a dignified manner, so that he could see the power of the Ming army, so that he would never dare to rebel again, and be a good citizen in a proper manner, so that the people of the border pass would settle down from then on, and let the Hetao area become the westward base of the Ming Dynasty.

Yuan Chonghuan, the commander of the Ming army, sat at the forefront, followed by Sun Yuanhua's artillery, and on the left and right were Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng's men. Yuan Chonghuan's intention was to open fire while the Mongols were forming before the attack, which was also Sun Yuanhua's strategy, to catch the enemy by surprise, then a large area of artillery fire to cover, and then to charge, until the capture of Sunangtaiji.