Horqin steppe

The battle-hardened Ying Ordai finally learned from the returning scouts who his opponent was.

The enemy is the former enemy of Houjin - the Mongolian Khalkha Department. The enemy had about 20,000 horsemen.

Hearing the news, Ying Ordai, who had been gloomy all the time, was really overjoyed.

To say that in this steppe, the enemy that Yingordai is most looking forward to encountering is really this Mongolian Khalkha Department. The Khalkha tribe should be regarded as the most familiar Mongol tribe of the British Ordai, and it is more familiar than the Korqin tribe, the current allies of the Later Jin.

Since Nurhachi officially raised an army against the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian Khalkha Department reached an anti-Houjin alliance with the Ming army in Liaodong. In the battles of Liaoshen and Guangning, the cavalry of the Khalkha Department stood on the side of the Ming army.

After occupying Liaoshen, Nurhachi, who had his hands free, launched several military strikes against the Khalkha Department in the past few years, and defeated the five Khalkha Ministries. Among the five Khalkha tribes, the Zalut department, which has the strongest opposition to Houjin, even the patriarch was directly killed by Houjin.

In the winter of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi attacked Ningyuan Buke, turned around and turned to attack Khalkha despite the severe cold.

In the bitter cold wind, the Khalkha tribe was moved several times, but the Houjin still grabbed the main force of the tribe. After that fierce battle, the Khalkha Ministry was defeated and lost. The main Uziyette Department completely collapsed, and the other four also paid a great price before they broke out of the encirclement of Houjin.

It was in that battle that Ying Ordai led 3,000 elite white flags under his command to personally break the old camp of the Khalkha Department and completely destroy the foundation of the Khalkha main Uziyat Department. It is precisely because of the exploits of the village that there are still many noble daughters of the Uziyat tribe who are existing in the Yingordai Mansion as female slaves.

As a first-hand witness of that battle, Ying Ordai can be said to know and know the combat power of the Mongolian Khalkha Department well.

20,000 rides?

Hearing that there were 20,000 horsemen coming from the Khalkha Ministry, Yingordai's heart was full of irrepressible ecstasy.

Now it has only been half a year since the last war, and at the speed at which the steppe tribes are recovering, these 20,000 horsemen should be all the forces of the remnants of the Khalkha tribe. As long as the 20,000 horsemen are completely defeated, with the cruelty of the steppe, there will be no Mongolian Khalkha department in this steppe in the future.

Defeating and completely eradicating Houjin's old enemy, such a huge military feat is just around the corner, how can you make Ying Ordai not be ecstatic?

As for the upcoming battle, Yingordai was not worried at all, he had absolute confidence in defeating the Khalkha Ministry. The only thing that Ying Ordai was worried about was receiving his summons, whether the reinforcements from the nearby Korqin Department could arrive in time?

If the Korqin troops do not come to the reinforcements, even if he defeats the Khalkha Ministry, with only 3,000 men in his hands, there is no way to keep all the 20,000 Khalkha soldiers.

In the Khalkha army

Battle looked at the back of Zhang Yunyi, the bright general in front of him, and was extremely worried.

Last winter, the war with Houjin completely damaged the Khalkha Ministry. The main Uziyat tribe completely collapsed, and the patriarch Zorik Tuhong completely lost the confidence to continue the confrontation with the Houjin.

After the war, under the pretext of looking for help to rebuild the Uziyat tribe, Zorik Tukhon left Khalkha with the remnants of the Uziyat tribe and went to seek refuge with the Mongol titular Great Khan, Lindan Khan of Chahar. So that the five Khalkha tribes that have survived in this steppe for hundreds of years are now only four.

This time, under the full mediation of the Grand Elder Gessel of the Zarut Ministry, the remaining four Khalkha tribes (Zalut, Balin, Hongjira, and Bayout) finally reached an agreement and agreed to launch a revenge war against Houjin.

What to say about revenge?

Battle was really unimpressed by the excuse that the Great Elder had made.

Still revenge?

At the beginning of the year, Batel asked Bahrain, Hongjira, and Bayant to go with them to rob Houjin's grain, but the three tribes found countless excuses of one kind or another, but they refused to go with him. Battle is very suspicious, the three departments that have been frightened still have the courage to step into the territory under the rule of Hou Jin again?

The three departments agreed to send troops this time, and Battle knew that the three departments were by no means trying to avenge Hou Jin. The three tribes are just because winter is coming, and their tribe still lacks a lot of supplies to survive the winter. Sanbu now just wants to hunt some prey, so as to replenish his family's background for the winter.

Batel understood better that the three tribes of Bahrain, Hongjira, and Bayant were willing to listen to the words of the great elders of their Zalut Department, and it was only because the Zalut Department had the support of the Longmen Caravan behind them.

In that scorching grassland winter, if it weren't for the Longmen caravan from Daming to lend a helping hand, Battle really didn't know if their Zalut Department would have survived.

However, being grateful to the Longmen caravan does not mean that Battle is willing to obey the command of the Han Chinese.

Looking at the slowly advancing team, Battle's heart was extremely sour.

The huge and complicated team in front of him was already the last of the Khalkha Fourth Division, and with the funding of the Longmen caravan, it was only 15,000 people from the five-party coalition army.

Fifteen thousand people, in the past, Zarut alone could easily mobilize such a force, but now... Battle sighed in his heart.

Of the five-party coalition, the Zarut division had a total of 4,000 men. This is also almost all the youth of the Zalut tribe now. Once this team loses, then the Zarut department is completely finished.

With such a weight on his body, how can you make Battle not be cautious and cautious.

Although the Longmen caravan only had 2,000 people, the Longmen caravan still had to bear the logistical supplies needed for this dispatch. Therefore, through the mediation of the Great Elder Gessel, the Longmen Caravan finally held the supreme command of the five-party alliance.

Along the way, the Ming general Zhang Yunyi marched, camped, and sent scouts to find the enemy's traces, and Battle could endure it. It's just that now after discovering the enemy's traces, he found that the enemy was guarded by three thousand elite Yellow Banners, and Zhang Yunyi still wanted to confront the Jurchen Tartars head-on, which made Battle unacceptable.

On the other side, the one who guards the grain, it is the elite of the three thousand Yellow Flag Tartars.

Want to go head-to-head with the 3,000 Tartar elites?

Battle had a sneer on his face.

Don't look at the fact that we have 15,000 men, we can't beat these 3,000 Tartars nine times out of ten.

Unabashedly, this is the straightforward Bartel, the most straightforward admonition to the Ming general Zhang Yunyi.

You can't blame Battle for being timid. In the last battle, the elite of the Zhenghuang Banner Tartars, who defeated the main force of the entire Khalkha Department in one fell swoop, were only a few thousand.

Battle's personal experience tells him that if you haven't experienced it yourself, you will never understand what the words Tartar elite mean. If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, you'll never know how brave and unstoppable the Tartar elite really are.

What's more, when Zhang Yunyi proposed to face off against the Jurchen Tartars, what Battle saw from the eyes of the other three generals was panic and retreat.

Battle dared to guarantee that as long as the Longmen caravan was slightly defeated in the head-to-head battle with the Tartars, the other three generals would definitely be the first to flee.

A head-to-head showdown with the Tartar elite is too risky.

After the admonition, seeing that Zhang Yunyi still insisted on a head-to-head duel with the Jurchen Tartars by the Longmen Caravan, how could you make Battle feel uneasy.

Battle didn't know that Zhang Yunyi had never seen the elite of the Jurchen Tartars.

Zhang Yunyi is really on top of the battle array, and he has personally fought with the Jurchen Tartar elite and fought hard.