August in Wuhu Ketu is the crisp autumn season, and it is also the time of day when the rain is the lowest. This season was originally the season when the local tribes grazed their livestock and allowed them to grow fat quickly. In the entire basin with Wuhu Ketu as the core, wild grasses are the protagonist of this nature, whether it is a lowland plain or a protruding hillside, it is rare to see trees other than wild grass.

When Bai Juyi traveled to Qiantang Lake, he said that the shallow grass could not have horses' hooves, but the wild grasses in Wuhu Ketu mostly covered the horse's legs. However, in previous years, this sparsely populated basin grassland has now become a battlefield for more than 100,000 people to compete between the Ming Dynasty-Mongolian alliance and the Houjin-Mongolian alliance army.

In such a dry season, coupled with the tuyere effect formed by the air movement from the northern desert, the Ming army was the first to clear the weeds around the camp to prevent the opponent from using fire attack tactics. Soon after, the Jin army also realized this and cleared the wild grass and shrubs near the camp.

Since the Houjin envoy was reprimanded back by Chongzhen, the atmosphere on the battlefield changed drastically for a while, and the tacit understanding between the two armies that they had not been in contact before became wiped out at this moment. Small units patrolling the camp on both sides often cross the line of the battlefield and try to get close to the other side's camp for reconnaissance, and at this time they will always encounter counterattacks from the opposing battalion troops.

It should be said that at the beginning of this oppressive reconnaissance, the Ming army still suffered a lot of losses, either the reconnaissance troops did not retreat in time, or the battalion troops attacked slowly, which always allowed the Houjin army to take a lot of advantage.

However, the generals of Houjin soon noticed that the Ming and Mongolian coalition forces on the opposite side were very different from the Ming and Mongol tribal armies they had encountered in the past. In the past, the Ming army and the Mongols, the scout warriors who could get their hands on it were also like this, once they suffered two losses, the generals on the opposite side were reluctant to take risks with this little treasure. Houjin's sentinel detective cavalry also took advantage of the situation to open up and fully grasp the power of information control on the battlefield.

But now the Mingmeng coalition army on the opposite side, although the quality of the scout scouts sent is not as good as their own, their learning ability and manpower supplement are too strong. Even if the sentry scout cavalry on Houjin's side gave the other party several heavy blows, and even wiped out one or two scout cavalry squads, but by the next day, a new Ming army scout cavalry would appear. And these Ming people became more and more proficient in the use of tactics of small cavalry, and began to gradually lose the upper hand in such small-scale cavalry battles.

If the tactics and combat capabilities of the two sides are not separated, then it is natural to fight a war of attrition. But this war of attrition was fought until the eighth or ninth day, and the Houjin side could not bear it in the first place. The way Houjin cultivated scout scout cavalry was actually no different from the old Ming army, but the quality of Houjin's soldiers was much better than that of the Ming army, and most of the Houjin soldiers were already quite good hunters before joining the army, while the Ming people were just farmers who were used to hoes.

However, in Wuhu Ketu, the number of Jurchens in Jianzhou is only 5,000, and the number of scout scouts is naturally not too much. Once more than half of its backbone strength was consumed by the Ming people, the Jurchen and Mongol knights who were replenished were not much different from the quality of the soldiers replenished by the Ming army.

The scout team of the Ming army, which relied on organization and equipment protection, obviously wanted the scout team on the Houjin side to train the scout cavalry in the traditional way, and be more tolerant of the decline in the ability of individual members. So after August 9, Huang Taiji had to order to reduce the range of scouts and admit the failure of the sentry operation.

In this sentinel war, the overall losses of the Houjin army were actually not large, and compared with the personnel losses of the Ming army, it was probably that the Houjin still had a certain advantage. However, the defeat of this sentinel war was still quite shocking to the psychology of Jurchen relatives such as Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, and Mang Gurtai.

This is the first time that Houjin's sentry detectives can't control the right to cover the battlefield. In previous battles, except for Hou Jin's own mistakes, he had never encountered such a situation.

However, all targets targeted by the Later Jin will always be cut off by the Later Jin sentry before the war, so that the battlefield is unilaterally transparent to the Later Jin army. No matter what tactics the Houjin army used, it did not rely on the guesswork of the commander-in-chief, but came from the actual information on the battlefield.

But the current war, from the very beginning, the three big Baylors have lost their complete grasp of battlefield information, and can only rely on their experience and intuition to judge the next move of the enemy army on the opposite side.

The war went on to such an extent that even Huang Taiji, who had been insisting on this battle, faintly felt that a big stone was pressing on his heart, and it seemed that a great danger was attacking the Houjin army.

Although he also had a slight retreat in his heart, the fact was that the war could not be stopped. Because the Ming army continued to launch sentinel warfare, it also continued to stretch its troops to the two wings, which also forced Houjin to open his army. And if the team wants to close after it is opened, it is still when the enemy army is on the offensive, which is undoubtedly a suicidal act.

Like Chongzhen's thoughts, Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, and Mang Gurtai also believed that the hills and hills on the west side of the Ming army camp were easy to defend and difficult to break through, and the defensive measures in front of the camp were quite complete, and only the plains on the east side of the Ulanqab River could be broken through.

Although there are a few small rivers here, most of them are flat grasslands, which are suitable for the Later Jin army, mainly Mongolian cavalry, to break through in this area. Once it can break through the defense on the east side of the Ming army camp, it can be inserted through the gap between the Ming army camp and Jining Haizi to cut off the connection between the Ming army camp and the rear.

Although the sentinel warfare in these days has not been able to overwhelm the Ming army, the sentinels of Houjin have not gained nothing. For example, the food source of tens of thousands of people in the Ming-Mongolian coalition army obviously did not depend on grazing on the ground, but also on transportation from the rear. The railroad that the Ming army tried to protect between the two mountains to the east is the best proof of this.

Even if it is difficult for the three major Baylors to understand the transportation capacity of the railway, the Ming army can use it to supplement the material consumption of tens of thousands of troops, then the importance of this railway has been proven.

At the same time, the livestock collected from various Mongolian tribes in the Houjin expedition this time also showed some signs of difficulty after the army stopped for more than half a month. Huang Taiji had no choice but to give up his plan to launch a major offensive after mastering the information control of the battlefield.

In terms of numbers, the combined forces of the Later Jin-Mongol tribes also had nearly 50,000 horses, including 10,000 Later Jin troops, 8,000 Korqin troops, 9,000 Nekharkha 4 troops, 2,500 Wengniute troops, 3,000 Karaqin troops, and more than 17,000 Aohan, Naiman, Bahrain, and Zalut tribes.

Dai Shan led the Red Banner and the two divisions of Wengniute and Karaqin to guard the banks of the Ulanqab River in the west; 7,000 people from Bahrain and Zarut, 8,000 from the Horqin Division, and the red and white flags were guarded in the camp; Mang Gurtai led 24,000 troops from the Blue Banner, the Mongolian Two Banners, the Inner Khalkha, the Ao Han, and the Naiman Banners to the grassland east of the Ulanqab River.

On August 10 and 11, Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, and Mang Gurtai consulted with the Jurchen relatives and the Mongol tribesmen, and finally formulated a plan for the attack. After Chongzhen erected the banner of protecting the Mongolian people, the Mongolian soldiers who followed the Houjin to fight were confused in their thinking, and many people began to feel war-weary.

Although the shadow left by the past achievements of the Later Jin Dynasty in the psychology of the Mongolian tribes made these Mongolian leaders dare not openly demand the withdrawal of troops, all kinds of hints and rumors about wanting to withdraw troops are endless in the army.

In order to persuade these Mongol chieftains to fight hard, Huang Taiji had to promise them that if the battle was won, the Mongols would choose the other spoils of war except for the Ming Emperor. And if this battle is lost, this expedition will end here, and everyone will go home together.

Out of superstition about the combat power of the Eight Banners of the rear army, none of the Mongolian leaders present thought about how this battle would end if it was defeated.

On August 12, it was still a sunny and sunny day, with winds blowing in from the gap in the northeast of the basin, and the weeds in the grassland of the basin swaying gently, making the reckless Gurtai who had begun to gather troops on the left wing of the Houjin feel that today was really a good day for hunting.

The attacking array of 24,000 cavalry was about the same as the sea that people who grew up in the interior saw when they first arrived at the seashore, which made people feel inexplicable and feel insignificant. And on the opposite side of Mang Gurtai, there was also a large cavalry team.

5,000 soldiers of the Great Tent led by Gantu Taiji and Gunchuk Taiji, and 8,000 left-wing tribal soldiers; The 8th and 9th cavalry divisions led by Cao Bianjiao and Zuo Guangxian, 9,000 right-wing self-defense troops, and about 25,000 cavalry.

Of course, compared with Mang Gurtai's side, which had done its best, the army placed by the Ming army on his right flank did not reach the limit of its ability, but the space that could accommodate cavalry fighting on this plain was almost unsaturated.

The cavalry of more than 20,000 men formed an offensive array, which was almost eight or nine kilometers wide in frontage. In fact, it is difficult to effectively command this level of troops, and it can only rely on the pre-war layout and orders, as well as the immediate response of the low-level commanders in the battle.

Even a general like Mang Gurtai, who had fought an old war, only divided his army into three groups, Ao Han and Naiman, plus a part of the strength of the Mongolian banner, and placed them on the left and right of his own army to protect the two wings. Zhenglan Banner, Mongolian Banner, and Inner Khalkha are stationed in the army.

After seeing the Ming army on the opposite side also divide the army into three, Mang Gurtai immediately thought about how to fight this battle. He decided to let his own two wings attack first, entangle the opponent's two wings, and then decide the victory with the army.

Mang Gurtai recruited the chiefs of the various tribes to assign his own orders, and then ordered the Mongol left battalion Gushan Ezhen Engdeer to lead 1,500 men from the left battalion and 5,000 men from the Inner Khalkha Division, and after engaging the two wings of the Ming army on both flanks, he would attack the Ming army road, and he himself would respond to it in the rear.

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