Karaqin Taiji believed that the best fighter was fleeting, so he did not send a messenger to ask for reinforcements.

In order to gain time, they didn't even have time to gather all the men and horses of the Karaqin tribe.

Zhuoerbi hurried in the direction of the Ming army with three thousand men and horses, and the Tartars all got the exact news, knowing that two or three thousand Ming troops had plundered the yurts and ran in the wrong direction, and they actually came to dozens of miles southwest of Qingcheng.

The Tartars were doing nothing in the winter, and everyone was scrambling to see such a good thing, and the armor and weapons of the Ming Dynasty were the favorite of the Tartars, and they all fantasized about capturing a pair of iron armor to improve their defenses.

The Tartars have been fighting with the Ming army for more than 200 years, and they have a better understanding of the tactics and combat effectiveness of the Ming army, which has long lost its enterprising spirit.

The Ming army was nothing more than a strong defender of the city, and in the past ten years, it has basically been passively beaten when it comes to the prairie.

The number of cavalry on their side is more than twice that of the cavalry of the Ming army, and it is not a problem to defeat the Ming army and get captured, and the key to a complete victory is to judge whether the Ming army is not sweeping the prairie with multiple people and horses?

As long as it was confirmed that it was not a large-scale attack by the Ming army, but a plundering force, the Karaqin people were confident that they would be able to deal with it with their own strength.

After walking slowly for twenty or thirty miles, two of the ten teams of scouts sent by Zhuoerbi to make a detour to investigate returned.

The scouts encountered a dozen people who had fled after being robbed of yurts by the Ming army, and these light cavalry found that the Ming army did not pursue and stopped fleeing, and they sent a few young men to gallop to Qingcheng to report the news, while the others turned back to follow and monitor the Ming army.

The attacked Tartars, of course, hated the Ming army, they wanted revenge, they wanted to take back their products and women.

Therefore, they all took the initiative to follow and peep at the Ming army, and when the men and horses sent by Taiji arrived, they could know how many men and horses the Ming army had, and they could immediately lock the specific location of the Ming army.

The scouts discovered these clansmen, and of course learned about the current situation of the Ming army, and they thought that the information was valuable enough to return to the commander, and immediately brought the clansmen back to report.

A dozen of the hussars who had been robbed of their yurts swore an oath to tell Taiji that they had not given up the fight after a surprise attack in their sleep.

However, the disparity in strength is so great that they really can't fight with the Ming army, so they can only choose to follow the Ming army to find opportunities, they have been following the Ming army for most of the day, and they can be sure that there will not be any large number of men and horses within dozens of miles behind the Ming army that they are about to encounter with the warriors of Taiji.

General Zhuoerbi was suspicious, he did not recklessly order his subordinates to speed up, and he wanted to prevent those clansmen who had been ruined from deliberately concealing the number of the Ming army in order to avenge their hatred.

The Karaqin cavalry had room at this time, and they continued to jog and advanced again for twenty or thirty miles, and the other eight teams of scouts returned one after another.

Not only did they encounter a dozen scattered tribesmen, but they also extended the reconnaissance area to a radius of fifty or sixty miles, and their summary was the same as the conclusion reached by the first two scouts.

Ten teams of scouts unanimously proved that the Ming army had no follow-up troops, Zhuoerbi chose to believe, he was overjoyed, now the situation is clear, the Ming army that is about to appear in front should be alone and go astray.

The commander of the Ming army, who was in a daze, made such a fatal omission and led two or three thousand men and horses deep into the grassland for nearly three hundred miles, how could the Karaqin people let them leave? Rushing up and killing them all is the only choice.

When Zolbi brought the latest news to the whole army, the Karaqin people immediately cheered and thundered, as if they had seen the Ming army shivering in the cold light of the Mongol scimitars.

The Karaqin cavalry knew that the Ming army and horses were also about 3,000, but the cavalry was only more than 1,000, and they were full of confidence.

The confident Zhuoerbi believed that the 3,000 Erlang he led and the more than 200 Tanma who returned to the team were all Karaqin warriors, and they were skilled in arching and horses, and they had a psychological advantage against the same number of Ming troops.

Because when the battle is engaged, it should be a cavalry duel, and the infantry cannot intervene at all, as long as more than 1,000 Ming cavalry are defeated, the remaining 2,000 or so infantry are lambs to be slaughtered, and they cannot escape at all under the supervision of the Mongolian light cavalry.

Zhuoerbi can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles, and he loudly ordered the whole army to dismount and repair for half an hour.

The Karaqin people did not bring spare horses to fight at the door of their homes, but everyone brought a few catties of horse material, and the purpose of dismounting at this time was to let the war horses that had trotted for an hour or two get rest and recover their strength.

The Karaqin cavalry dismounted, the war horse had no weight, and then ate a few catties of concentrate to rest for half an hour, although it was not enough to recover the full horsepower, it should be no problem to recover seventy or eighty percent.

Two quarters of an hour later, Zhuo Erbi, who was on the horse again, was full of confidence, and he thought that the time was not too early, and he would always accept the great gift from the Ming army before the sun went down.

Zhuoerbi laughed and drove his horse and began to trot, because the Ming army should be seven or eight miles away.

His wish was very good, but when he approached the Ming army, he found that the gap between his ideal and reality was not a little bit.

The infantry of the Ming army was calm, and when they found a large group of Karaqin cavalry approaching, they immediately deployed, and they followed the line one by one, and one by one the wheelbarrows were discharged from the array, and the spears inserted in the vehicles were dazzling.

Zhuoerbi finally knew why the Ming army came to the steppe with many carts, and it turned out that the Ming army was afraid of the Mongolian cavalry charging into battle, so they deliberately took the carts to block the front of the array.

This seems to be a good practice, Zhuo Erbi admired, the Han people are really smart, and for the sake of safety, they did not hesitate to push so many cars from all over the world.

This Taiji did not give up his intention to kill the Ming army and seize the armor and weapons of the vehicle, and he was ready to make an attempted attack.

The Karaqin people did not worry about a big defeat or loss, because the Mongols had first-class equestrian skills, and if they found that they could not defeat their opponents, they could retreat calmly and look for fighters later.

Moreover, they knew that there were only more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, and they didn't know what the Ming army commander's intentions were, and it was possible that the commander of this Ming army was an incompetent person, so a little bit of men and horses actually divided the troops, and more than 1,000 cavalry followed the infantry at a distance of about five or six miles.

Zhuo Erbi has been in battle for a long time, and he understands that the art of war is not a waste material on paper, he has too much actual combat experience, and understands that only by concentrating troops can he form a fist.

He believed that if the Karaqin cavalry could break through the Ming infantry array in an instant, the Ming army's rout would be formed immediately.

The follow-up cavalry of the Ming army may have been disrupted by the defeated and fleeing infantry, and the Karaqin warriors will then cover up and break the cavalry ranks of the Ming army again, and this battle will be smooth sailing.

Zhuoerbi issued an order, the Chinese army of 1,000 men and horses did not move, once the Ming cavalry rushed up to give a head-on attack, the left and right flanks of 1,000 men and horses attacked, found that the Ming army array had a flaw and rushed directly into the formation, if there was no opportunity to ramp around the Ming army to disturb the enemy and then find fighters.