Less than three miles south of the Eight Banners camp, there are scattered camps of various Mongolian departments, the camp tents are relatively loose, the tribes are nested in their own stations, people and animals are mixed together, it looks a little messy, and the perimeter guard is only a few young and strong people who are on guard listlessly around the fire to nap, which is in stark contrast to the Eight Banners camp scouts and cavalry out in all directions, surrounded by bonfires - the Mongols camp is still the same old way, each tribe does not interfere with the river water, each guards its own territory, and each manages its own people and animals.

The Mongols, according to the old custom, took care of their livestock, and then went back to their respective camps to sleep—they were also tired, and they came out of their homes for more than a month, and they kept running, and they were hungry and thirsty on the road, and the Eight Banners Army thought they were walking slowly, and scolded and drove them away along the way, and when they set up camp, they were disgusted with them, and drove them far aside. Everyone is on fire in their hearts, the Eight Banners of the Jin State are too domineering, since they have been attached to them, they have been constantly forcing Ding out of their cattle to fight, and they don't give everyone a chance to take a breath, this time they are going to fight Chahar Khan, but they are the authentic Mongolian Khan, and the Taiji can't get along with the Khan, what does it matter to our people. The lives of the common people are not good, they were taken on the thief ship by those nobles, and they can only suffer and live hard.

It was already late in the night, the Mongolian camp was silent, and the sentry by the campfire was suddenly awakened by a crisp sound of horses' hooves, which came from the direction of the Eight Banners camp, maybe the annoying Zhushen came to annoy again. The sentry shouted and asked, and it was indeed the Eight Banners on the other side, and he could hear the standard Zhushen dialect.

The other party galloped closer with torches, about a hundred armored cavalry, the sentry felt that the attire did not seem to be quite right, and stepped forward to interrogate a few words, the officer at the head smiled at him, and raised his hand unhurriedly, the sentry was surprised to find that the Eight Banners soldier on the opposite side actually raised his bow and arrow, and before he could react, a burst of arrows came and he fell to the ground with his companions.

"Blow the trumpet, and we will kill it, and burn the tent when we see it, and cut it down if we see it alive." Holding his sword aloof, Turichen rushed into the Mongol camp first.

In an instant, the sound of military trumpets came and went, countless torches were lit outside the camp, and iron hooves swarmed, and the silence of the long night was suddenly broken, and the camp was full of fire, shouting and crying endlessly. The Mongols were stunned, panicked shouting and running around, they could not figure out where this was a wave of enemy horses, the other side had no flag, and the shouts were varied, there were Chinese, Mongolian, and Zhushen dialects, not only killed people when they saw them, and burned tents when they saw them, but they were even more ferocious to the livestock, and the cattle, alpacas, and horses were all stabbed, as if they had a grudge against the livestock. The Mongols were still in the old habit of coming to the leader's side when they were in danger, each holding his own camp, and when he saw outsiders rushing over, whether it was his own or not, he immediately shot a flurry of arrows - the Mongol camp was divided and dispersed their counterattack forces, or they did not intend to fight back at all, which gave the attackers room to gallop at will, and easily overwhelmed the weak tribes, and more and more people were scattered, running around like headless flies.

"Blow the trumpet, keep blowing the trumpet, beckon everyone to follow, don't fall in love." Li Yu shouted to Chen Erzhu, still shooting arrows in his hands, and ordered without looking back, "Shout at them together, and run home if you want to." ”

"Run if you want to go home" - this shouted to alert the Mongols, and the crowd reacted and fled eastward with shouts, and by the way, several small tribes ran together, so that there were hordes of Mongol deserters on the road to the east.

The Toyosu Iron Cavalry quickly penetrated the Mongol camp, and the cavalry quickly completed the change of horses and relined to prepare for another attack.

"Brother Zhao, I'll send you here, you take a detour to the south for a while, and then it's up to you to toss behind their butts." Li Yu said to Zhao Ji with a smile.

"These Mongol rebels are not as good as the Chahars, they are easy enough to fight, while they are still in chaos, you go back quickly, let's break up." Zhao Ji smiled and hugged Li Yu goodbye, and then hurriedly left with Sun Fuhu and Qiu Xian's cavalry left battalion.

Li Yu watched as the brothers in the left battalion of the cavalry disappeared into the night, turned his horse's head and said to Monk, Jeddah, and Bak, "This time we will return from the west side of the enemy camp, and tell the brothers that if they are scattered, we will meet at the great meadow thirty miles to the northwest, and we must retreat before noon tomorrow, and then hurry back to the Buthorn River." ”

"Flying Tiger Battalion, follow me." Li Yu raised his lance and shouted, leading his brothers to pounce on the Mongolian camp again.

At dawn, the Flying Tiger rode to the Great Meadow, and the process of fighting back was very easy, the leaders of the Mongol tribes gathered their troops and nested in their own camps to defend them, and the gaps between the various tribes were completely open, except for some people and animals running around, the Flying Tiger Battalion was almost unimpeded, and it did not take much effort to penetrate the enemy camp again.

After counting the number of people, there were still more than fifty people who had not returned, including Buck's gang, Li Yu's heart suddenly rose again, and after sending scouts and vigilant sentinels, he stood on a high slope, walking around anxiously, and looking east from time to time.

When it was close to noon, more than a dozen people came back one after another, but there was no trace of Buck, Li Yu got angry, scolded Buck's gang for being too sloppy, and would never bring him out next time, scolding and scolding, his eyes turned red, Buck is an old brother who went to Yang and joined the army with him, if something happens, it will be like digging a piece of meat from him.

Mo Rige has been by Li Yu's side, Buck is his cousin, he is also anxious, when the sun is about to go overhead, Mo Rige is a little discouraged, softly comforted Li Yu and said: "It's too dangerous here, let's retreat quickly, Buck They may take a fork in the road and go directly to the Butong River to find us." ”

Li Yu didn't answer, his eyes were still staring at the east, and the two were silent again, until the shadows on the ground were almost gone, Li Yu lowered his head and said, "Let's go." ”

"Buck is back, Buck is back", Li Yu looked up when he heard the sound, Buck and more than a dozen people were galloping towards them, Li Yufei also ran down the dirt slope, and Buck who got off the horse and ran over was a heavy punch.

"Great Commander, I found a grain and grass greenhouse, with hundreds of stones of grain, let me burn it all." Buck sat on the ground and yelled aggrievedly.

"Bastard, a few hundred stone grains is a fart, brothers are more expensive than anything, why haven't a few of your brothers come back?" Li Yu grabbed Buck and shouted angrily.

"Burn their grain, kill their livestock, let the robbers from the Jin Kingdom starve to death, and it is worth it for us to die a few brothers." Buck said hatefully.

"Buck, let me tell you, you and your brothers are more important than anything else, the Jin army is hungry, and can only be defeated by the brothers, you go back to Fengzhou immediately, or do your caravan." Li Yu threw Buck out, turned around and left.

"Buck, why are you still ignorant, the Great Commander didn't have any relatives before, so he took love too seriously, and missing a brother was the same as ripping out his heart." Mozhgra got up and lectured dissatisfiedly.

The Toyosu Iron Cavalry set off again, this time in the direction of the return journey, but the twenty-eight brothers could no longer go home with them, and they did not know that this night attack, although small in scale, would have a huge impact on the future of the battle.

Tiancong Khan was woken up in the middle of the night, at this time the Mongolian camp had been turned upside down, he was so angry that he slapped his head, why didn't I think of it, Erlu learned the trick of long-distance attack, and the Mongols will suffer a big loss this time. Azig jumped out again and shouted and shouted to kill, but Yue Tuo was much calmer, the Eight Banners Army was not familiar with the roads and terrain here, and the enemy situation was not yet clear, if he attacked rashly, once there was a sudden change, it would be ......, Tiancong Khan suddenly woke up, those Mongols may not be reliable, it was dark outside, and it was too easy to make a black hand.

The battalions of the Eight Banners guarded the strict defense this night, did not go out of the big camp one step, as soon as there was a movement was a chaotic arrow, the Mongols who rushed to ask for help also drove back, Tiancong Khan and Baylor were even more helmets and armor to guard the big tent, when the sky was bright, Tiancong Khan sent Yue Tuo and Haoge to lead troops to support the Mongolian departments, but the other party had already run away without a trace, Yue Tuo also picked up a few arrows, and quietly told Tiancong Khan that the sneak attacker must be Erlu no different, this kind of two and two arrows are imitations of us, only Erlu's soldiers love to use, their troops are obviously not much, The casualties caused were not large, less than 1,000 people, but the loss of grain, grass and livestock in various Mongolian departments was not small, and the population was also lost by 3,000 or 4,000.

There was also a large group of Mongolian leaders who followed Yue Tuo back, and when they saw Tiancong Khan, they wept and cried, telling that they were attacked by a large number of thieves at night, and that the other party might have four or five thousand people, seven or eight thousand people, maybe more than ten thousand people, burning, killing and looting everything, and they resisted desperately to defeat the thieves, but they also suffered heavy losses, there was little grain, grass, and livestock, and thousands of people were taken captive, and if the Great Khan did not give them some food and property, they would not be able to survive.

As soon as Tiancong Khan heard it, he knew that these guys were full of lies, Elu used the tactics of running from a long distance, fighting and leaving, and he definitely didn't care about burning, killing and looting, he was very suspicious that these people took advantage of the chaos to instigate some of their subordinates to carry livestock and property and run away to hide, as for desperate resistance, it is their old problem that everyone cares about each person, will there be a sudden explosion of character? However, sweeping the snow in front of the door is also something he vigorously advocates in various Mongolian ministries, so he can't call on them to join together. Forget it, knowing that these guys are reaching out to blackmail, they still have to be appeased with good words, without them as helpers, the future battle will be really difficult to fight.

Tiancong Khan figured it out, and immediately put on a smiling face and praised the Mongol leaders for their merits in defending against the enemy, especially the old Oba of Horqin and the young Wu Keshan, Manzhu Xili and others, and promised to reward the various departments with some grain and grass to ensure that they would not go hungry to fight, and they would also be assigned good errands in the future, so that they could have the opportunity to make a small fortune, and the Mongol leaders went back satisfied.

What are they? The Belles scolded as soon as the Mongol leaders left, these guys were not honest from the beginning, and ordered them to rush to the Xilamulun River in early April to assemble, but they were still dragging their feet in mid-April, and asked them to recruit at least 20,000 people, but only 16,700 people came. The strength of the Mongol troops was discounted, and after being attacked by Erlu at night, they lost and scattered several thousand people, probably only about 13,000 left, while the Eight Banners sent 25,000 troops, of which only 16,000 were in Zhushen, and the others were the Mongolian battalion and the Ama's Aha, excluding the attrition along the way and the scattered garrison troops left, the strength was less than 23,000 people, so the western expedition was overstretched.

Tiancong Khan sat down with a gloomy face, and suddenly saw Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai still standing on the side, these two people are very honest now, and they are like puppets without asking, as if they don't exist at all, which is even more annoying. Tiancong Khan waved his hand to signal the two of them to sit down, barely squeezed out a little smile, and asked Da Baylor and San Baylor if they had any suggestions for the next step.

"The Great Khan is eloquent and strategic, he must have planned it in advance, just give orders, and the ministers will definitely obey their orders." Dai Shanpi replied with a smile, in fact, he had been secretly scolding the old eight in his heart for being crazy and bringing them here to suffer, but he didn't dare to say a word about these words.

"Whatever the Great Khan says, the ministers will do." Mang Gurtai replied with a blank face.

The two old slippery heads, Tiancong Khan ignored them, turned his face and discussed with the young Baylors again.

"Great Khan, my Dajin army has traveled thousands of miles, costing a huge amount of national strength, we must not give up halfway, fight it all the way to Kuku and Tun, and take the opportunity to cross the Yellow River to attack, we must completely destroy the strength of Chahar, and the Dajin Kingdom has no time to continue to entangle with Chahar Khan." Yue Tuo said loudly with a fist.

"Great Khan, Chahar Khan is just a dying man, and if he doesn't attack, he will collapse himself, and the Ming country has a large land and a large population, so he should take advantage of its disaster and civil strife and weak national strength to go south to Xuanfu to take the Ming State directly, one is that our army can break its state capital to replenish supplies, and the other can also promote its regeneration and chaos, and do not give it a chance to breathe and recover," Sakhalian decided that the Ming State was rotten, and the idea of fighting and promoting peace in the past became a replacement for the Ming, and to achieve this goal, it was necessary to constantly weaken the other party's national strength, and then choose the most favorable time to destroy it in one fell swoop, He stood up and waved his hand and said, "Chahar and Korea are both small and weak, and the matter of cutting down Ming must not be delayed, Great Khan, the Ming country is declining like a deer being expelled, I don't take a lot of money, only people take it, and it will restore its strength in time, and when will it be if you don't fight at this time?" ”

"I also think it's better to break the border wall and attack Xuanfu, the minions like to crusade against the Ming Kingdom the most, Chahar Khan and Erlu are too poor, there is no oil and water to fish, besides, Erlu is still our Zhushen, in the future, when our days are better, he will naturally come back, why rush." Duoduo shook his head and said, to be honest, he really didn't want to fight Li Yu, it was a hard and meatless bone, so he didn't want to gnaw it.

Hauge immediately expressed his support for Sakhalian and Duoduo, shouting that he would be the vanguard to fight the Ming Kingdom, but Tiancong Khan glared at him before he closed his mouth. Tiancong Khan knew in his heart that the three of them had obviously not forgotten their old feelings for Erlu and did not want to meet their good friends in battle, so he set his sights on Zilharang and Dolgon, who had always been more intelligent among the Beylers.

"The matter of Vaming is really important, but Faming must first conquer the Mongol forces, Chahar Khan, Erlu Devil and Ming colluded with each other, repeatedly looking for trouble with us, if we go south, they will definitely come back and take the opportunity to attack our back road, so our army will fall into a dilemma, this ********, they must not be kept anymore, it is more prudent to continue the westward expedition." Zilharang said slowly.

"Great Khan, Chahar Khan has fled westward, and the Ming Kingdom will not dare to go out of the border wall if he is cowardly, Elu's strength is too weak and isolated, and if he does not surrender, it is a dead end, it is better to clean up Elu first, and then go south to Xuanfu or Datong, Elu, the minister advocates that he should still give him a way to live, this kid can fight, just use him to attack Ming in the south, anyway, he has 50,000 people, and we are not easy to digest." Dolgon said, and both Tiancong Khan and Zhubeile laughed.

"Great Khan, let's fight Erlu, I, Azig, am willing to be the vanguard." Azig immediately shouted, he always felt that Li Yu was the biggest obstacle for him to compete for the first place in Zhushen.

"What Zilharang and Dolgon said is extremely true, if we do not sweep away the Chahar Khan and Erlu on the flanks, our army will not be able to move south smoothly, and we will send troops to the west until we reach the Yellow River." Tiancong Khan nodded with satisfaction, and then added, "Erlu doesn't have many eyes, but he has repeatedly opposed my Dajin, it must be Liu Xingzuo's rebellious instigation, and he will kill this personality when he sees it." ”

Zhong Beile immediately said that he obeyed his fate, and he must have cut Liu Xingzuo with a thousand knives, but Sakhalian's face was pale, and the Great Khan hated Liu Xingzuo, who had deceived him several times, and the news that Liu Xingzhi and other Liu brothers died in the internal strife on Phi Island came last year, and immediately beheaded the Liu family in Shenyang, leaving only Liu Xingzuo's seventy-year-old mother, the Great Khan could let go of Erlu, but would not spare Liu Xingzuo.

"What about the Mongols? They don't work hard, how can we have so much grain and grass for them to eat, it's better to drive them away, Chahar Khan has fled, the Eru people are few and vulnerable, and they are not needed now. Azig suddenly remembered the pesky guys again.

"Azig, Hugh is talking nonsense, the Mongolian tribes are also people from my Dajin country, how can I dislike them," Tiancong Khan shook his head dissatisfied, thought about it and said: "It is impossible for the Chahar people to run out all at once, there should still be some population and livestock outside the Xuanfu and Datong borders, let them rob the Chahar people, and by the way, they can also guard outside the border wall to scare the Ming Kingdom, they should be good at doing this, Azig, you can go and do this errand." ”

Azig almost jumped up and didn't let him go to fight Erlu, but sent an errand with little oil and water, how could the Great Khan always look at him unpleasantly, Dolgon quietly pulled it, and Azig swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.

Tiancong Khan immediately ordered that the Jin army was divided into two wings, the Mongol battalion of Wunag and Lao Oba and a group of Mongols were the left flanks, led by Azig to attack Xuanfu and Datong, and the main force of Zhubeile and the Jin army was the right flank, led by himself and Dabeile and Sanbeile to go straight to Kuku and Tun to attack the east bank of the Yellow River.