The third day of the "Red Banner Army" out of the customs was destined to be the harvest day, not only the general banner of Sang Yu found the Karaqin people, but more than half of the other ten general banners also encountered yurts.

The scale of these small winter settlements of the Karaqin people is not too large, the smallest is two families with four yurts, the population is only a dozen or so, and only three people can ride and shoot.

The largest settlement area is probably fifty or sixty households, and the one who detected this place was Pei Daneng General Banner, who obeyed the orders of the head of the family to the letter, and quickly sent a small banner's subordinates back to the camp to contact.

Yuan Siming, the official of the thousand households, received a report and commanded the five general banners to encircle and annihilate the Tartars together with Pei Daneng's general banner, and planned to kill 63 people who controlled the strings of the Tartars and captured nine people.

Because all our knights were tightly wrapped in iron armor and cotton armor, and more than 300 armor soldiers fought against seventy or eighty Tartars, and they took a surprise attack to kill the enemy, no one was killed, only about 20 people were slightly injured or slightly injured.

Without exception, the officers of the "Red Banner Army" are all good men who can live, and they are all inseparable from the style of Sang Yu Zongqi.

After the yurt was attacked by them, only a few or dozens of headless corpses awaited the wolves in the original Tartar settlement, where not even a single nail remained.

The knights of the "Red Banner Army" finally felt that the day was good, and with negligible casualties, they not only killed a hundred or dozens of Karaqin Tatars, but also seized a lot of gold and silver treasures, as well as many cattle and horses, fat sheep and yurts.

What is even happier is that the rescue of 300 Han men and women, most of these people are young and middle-aged, basically no more than 35 years old, there are very few children, only about 20, among them there are no young children.

A small half of these Han Chinese had been to Qingcheng, or had been exchanged for cattle at the Qingcheng population market.

In the afternoon of the same day, the "Red Banner Army" camped early, and all the personnel could eat mutton and beef with their teeth, even the Han people who had just been freed.

Not only did they come with military service to identify the rescued Han Chinese, but many soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" also came to inquire, because some of their relatives were captured by Jiannu and Tatars, and their lives and deaths were unknown.

Unfortunately, there was no miracle, and no immediate family members of the "Red Banner Army" were found among the more than 370 rescued Han Chinese.

Dozens of them had been enslaved in the Karaqin tribe as early as three or five years ago, and these people were Han people from Liaodong who were used as commodities by Jiannu to exchange war horses with the Karaqin people.

After communicating with each other, only three of them met their former fellow villagers, but they didn't ask where their wives and children were. Are you still alive? One by one, they cried and grabbed the ground.

A total of less than 20 Karaqin Tatars were captured, and then Huang Han basically figured out the situation in Qingcheng by torturing the Tatars and asking the Han people.

Huang Han also found Xiang Chengliang, a scholar who was proficient in Mongolian and could write Chinese characters, and after communicating with him, he learned that this person had a deep enmity with Jiannu and Tatars, and his home was burned down by the Houjin army at the end of last year, and his wife, children, and mother were all buried in the fire.

The officials of the "Red Banner Army" recorded the confessions of the Tatars separately and summarized them, and listened carefully to the descriptions of the Han people, and now they can confirm that there are several direct tribes of Karaqin Taiji who spent the winter in Qingcheng.

The direct tribes of Taijipur Gadu and Zhuoerbi in Karaqin have taken root in Qingcheng, and they are also learning to build slaves, and in recent years they have enslaved the Han people to cultivate more than 100,000 acres of wheat fields around Qingcheng.

Of course, the Tartars do not farm, they are all cultivated by Han Chinese slaves. It is estimated that there are between 10,000 and 20,000 Han slaves in Qingcheng, 3,000 or 4,000 Tartars, and the population of Karaqin should also be 10,000 or 20,000.

It is no wonder that Karaqin Qingcheng has a certain reputation, many tribes of Taiji have chosen to come here to spend the winter, the city seems to have about 30,000 or 40,000 permanent residents, and there are more than 50,000 stone of grain in stock.

In the vast and sparsely populated grasslands, such a commodity gathering place with abundant food and a large population is indeed sought after by herders.

A city with a population of 30,000 or 40,000 is nothing remarkable in Daming, just an ordinary county seat, and at least half of it is slaves, of which more than ninety percent of the slaves are Han Chinese, and some of them should be the booty obtained by the Karaqin after conquering other tribes.

One of the main trophies of the steppe peoples was women, and the tribes attacked each other, according to Genghis Khan's law, men who were taller than the wheel were slaughtered, but all tribes without exception did not kill women.

Therefore, the women of the steppe peoples are neutral, they belong to the victors, and the Tartars do not mind that the women who were once their own are taken away by the enemy for a few years, and when they are recaptured, there will be more people.

Because the Tartar woman has already borne children for the enemy, this is not alarmist, and the historical Genghis Khan also had cheap sons.

Raids between tribes did not necessarily kill all adult men, and the Tartars accepted surrender, so not all slaves were Han Chinese, but some were captives of rival tribes.

It has been confirmed by many parties that the Karaqin Qingcheng is a hundred miles away, and the "Red Banner Army" will face three or four thousand Tatar cavalry, if the Karaqin people do not choose to flee and mobilize everyone in the city, including half-grown children and old people, to participate in the battle, it is estimated that there will be more than six thousand or even more people.

Looks like the cake is too big! At this moment, Huang Han couldn't help but hesitate, if the Karaqin people were willing to work hard, thousands of men and horses were defending the city, the casualties of the "Red Banner Army" were uncontrollable, and the final outcome was a tragic victory, it would be bad.

It seems that the established tactics of the rush need to be modified, and you can't just eat Qingcheng in one go, which will break your teeth, and you should find a way to tempt the Karaqin people to divide their troops.

A person is able to eat a cow, but not all at once. The "Red Banner Army" could fight thousands of Tartars, but could not succeed in the First World War.

Huang Han held a pre-war meeting, and he bluntly expressed his worries, telling his officers at and above the general banner that the enemy's strength was twice that of our army, and that he could not directly attack Karaqin Qingcheng according to the established plan, and that he needed to tempt the Tartars to leave Qingcheng and have a field battle with the "Red Banner Army".

The "Red Banner Army" had just appeared, and the number of men and horses was not large, and the Karaqin people did not know the equipment and combat effectiveness of this Biao people, and estimated that when the first battle was engaged, the Karaqin Taiji in Qingcheng should not think of mobilizing the whole people, and they should bring two or three thousand Tartars to fight this battle.

As long as the "Red Banner Army" is ruthless enough to kill half of the Karaqin fighters in the field, the situation will be much better when facing the attack.

To make it easier for the Tartars in Qingcheng to discover the "Red Banner Army", the closer they get to the heart of Karaqin, the more and more settlements will be, and tomorrow the cavalry will find more yurts, it is impossible to wrap the Tartars round every time, there will always be fish that slip through the net.

The escaped Tartars went to Qingcheng to report that there were more than 1,000 Ming cavalry looting the yurts in Karaqin Taiji, and of course Taiji and the tribal leaders would not sit idly by, and it was inevitable to lead people and horses to fight.