"Yo he!!"

The endless Ningxia and Gansu grasslands still belonged to Fandi at this time, and did not directly accept the control of the Ming Dynasty.

On the grassland, a cavalry team galloping on horseback, shouting and excited, skillfully controlled the elite horses under the crotch, and galloped freely on this grassland.

"General, today we swallowed another gang of horses, this hand of livestock and grain is not enough for us to use for half a month, should we find a fat sheep to fill it?"

On top of the first few fine war horses, a few young and middle-aged people dressed in Han costumes galloped with the ups and downs of the horses under their hips, and they still had time to talk.

"The surrounding tribe has been favored by you, tell me about it?"

The Han young man who rode first turned around and glanced at a few henchmen behind him, and asked with a look that he already knew what your idea was.

The young man's skin was under the harsh wind and frost in the north, and the whole person looked rough and a little blush, but if you look closely, you can still vaguely recognize the other party's face, but it was the previous year that followed the king Li Zicheng to flee to the grassland, and finally broke away from the peasant ranks, a peasant rebel army in Hongyangtang.

After dispersing with Li Zicheng's main army, Hong Yangtang took the team to stay in Gangcha Town for a period of time, but the cost of the team was too large, and the tribes and land around the small Gangcha Town were not enough to support Hongyangtang, an army of thousands of people.

Since Emperor Yingzong personally conquered the Tumu Fort in the Ming Dynasty, its military attitude towards the northern nomads changed from active offensive to passive defense, and the subsequent emperors shrank the border defense forces, only maintaining a few important guards as a symbol, such as Ningxia and Gansu, although there are guards, but its troops are more defensive against the Mongol tribes in the north, and the internal grassland troops are relatively empty.

In addition, now that the inland peasant uprisings in the Ming Dynasty are endless, more troops and military forces of the government are used to suppress the peasant uprisings and prevent the northern Jurchen Mongols, which has made Ningxia and Gansu almost autonomous for the nomadic peoples, and the Ming Dynasty guards are almost equal to nothing.

There is a corridor leading to the west of the Western Regions, where all kinds of ethnic groups and tribes can be seen, and for Hongyangtang, it is simply a place made in heaven.

The only fly in the ointment is the strength of the soldiers of the Hongyang Hall, which seems to be a little thinner in this chaotic land.

The Ming Dynasty such as Hamiwei has been possessed by the Yarkand Khanate, which was established by the Mughal people of the Western minority, and the Guanxi Qiwei, which was originally the capital of the Hexi Corridor as the Gongwei Guard, has been torn apart, which means that the Ming Dynasty's control of the Hexi Corridor exists in name only.

Hongyangtang first found a few weak tribes in this chaotic land without the restraint of the king's law, plundered and annexed them, occupied the land and livestock of the other party, and gradually gained a foothold in the grassland.

Later, Hongyangtang and the others learned the journey of Hongmen to become stronger, while looking for targets that could be used in the surrounding areas, while absorbing the Han children who fled from the east, as well as the many horse gangs on the grassland.

Of course, the most important point is to let the soldiers under his command quickly learn to ride war horses and switch to fighting as cavalry.

The battle on the grassland was not like that in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, where only a small number of cavalry were among the main forces of the Ming Dynasty and the elite of the peasant army.

Here, the grassland men have been dealing with war horses since childhood, except for eating, drinking and sleeping, most of the other time, the children of the grassland spend almost all the time on the backs of the horses.

Therefore, if they want to gain a foothold on the grassland completely, then they must know how to fight on horses.

It took nearly a year for Hong Yangtang to finally have a skilled cavalry of more than 1,000 people, which also gave Hong Yangtang a more powerful means to fight abroad.

"Hey, hey, a Mughal tribe has recently relocated near the Gobi Desert in the northwest, although the population is not too much, but there are a lot of cattle and sheep in their tribe, why don't we go and get him done this time?"

The henchman Dabanya was broken by Hong Yangtang, but he was not afraid, and simply said his goal.

"When we go back, let's discuss it and understand the truth and then talk about it!"

Hong Yangtang was noncommittal, and after a few words of leisurely reply, he clamped the horse's belly under his feet, and his beloved war horse understood that he would accelerate in a leap of time, and gradually broke away from the ranks of the soldiers behind him.

"Wait for us, General!"

Not all the warriors' war horses are as powerful as the war horses under the command of Hong Yangtang, after the acceleration of Hong Yangtang's war horses, the horse team behind him is getting longer and longer, and under the sunset, it is like a long snake.

The more you live on the grassland, the more you can feel the vast vitality and freedom of the desert and grassland endowed by nature.

With the increasing number of soldiers under his command, Hongyangtang, a peasant army division, gradually grew from four or five thousand people to nearly 10,000 people, and became a small force in the grassland of the Hexi Corridor.

When he was in Hongmen before, after the young Hongyangtang received some education from Hongmen, there were no other distracting thoughts except that the young people were enthusiastic; Later, he was caught by the spy war, and after receiving some training from the spy war, he was sent to the peasant army and became a pawn planted by Hongmen in the peasant army.

Through his own efforts and the assistance of the Hongmen headquarters, Hong Yangtang soon climbed to the position of a middle-level general of the peasant army.

However, although there are thousands of peasant army officers and soldiers in his hands, no matter in terms of the quality of the soldiers or the size of the peasant army, the strength of Hongyangtang's headquarters in the peasant army is really not ranked at all.

As a cannon fodder team in the peasant army, every time he finally pulled up a team to come out, he was sent to the vanguard by generals of the peasant army, such as Guo Tianxing and Chaotianxing, and was almost beaten into a bare-bones commander by the Ming army after a war.

Previously, Hong Yangtang deliberately left behind and broke away from the control of Li Zicheng's main force, which had a relationship with Hongmen's intelligence support, which allowed him to identify the crisis ahead; At the same time, he also hoped to get rid of the peasant army generals who were born in the grass-headed army, and did not let the army that he had painstakingly pulled up was used as cannon fodder to fill the knife edge of the Ming army again and again.

After more than a year of fighting on this chaotic grassland, Hong Yangtang finally experienced the thrill of being in power, and at the same time, he also felt the powerful power of life and death.

(End of chapter)