"Everyone is here?" The faces of Su Nang and Bu Nang were gloomy and they could squeeze into the water, and in front of them were a group of lonely and ghost-like herdsmen and armor soldiers, everyone was embarrassed, the weather was very hot, and they were still wearing leather jackets, and each of them had a face full of dust and dust, and they were pitifully thin.

Half a month passed in a blink of an eye, and Su Nang and Bu Nang finally broke free from the shadow of the Ming army's pursuit, and the last Ming cavalry also gave up their intention to go deep into the grassland, retreated from the border place to the border wall, and no longer pursued.

Su Nan felt like he had been in a nightmare for half a month, and the dream was too terrible, but he couldn't wake up. Compared with him, the loss of the cloth bag is not small, and the two have gloomy faces every time they meet, and they feel that each other is dead.

They did not go directly back to the heart of the Tumut department, the Ming army had a guerrilla battalion out of the side wall in advance and stuck on several key points, Bu Bao and Su Bao were all frightened, and when they saw the traces of the Ming cavalry, they could only flee by looking at the wind, they ran hundreds of miles to the east or west, hiding everywhere, if it wasn't for Ma Chengen to collect his troops early, and there was no plan to completely annihilate them, I am afraid that the heads of these two people have been hung above the gate of Datong Mansion City.

They can't go to the west, the Ordos Department and the set of troops in the west are guarding against the Ming army in Yansui Town, Du Wenhuan, the general soldier, received Zhang Han's silver in advance, saying that he was sick, and now he has an excuse for the instability of the set of troops, and he has sent troops to crusade, with the matter of Tumut, the northern captives know that they are at a loss, and many tribes choose to retreat, and the fact that the set of troops and the same enemy in history has not happened to make Du Zongbing go to work, Du Wenhuan is in good spirits, and has won the battle merit, and reported more than 200 levels of beheading, and won the cabinet and the Ministry of War and other documents that should be in charge of the yamen. Of course, Ning Yuan didn't want General Du to go, and replaced other unlucky ghosts to take office.

Unable to go to the west, Bu Nang and Su Nang turned eastward, until they reached the border with the Baihong Dataiji tribe, and found that the Ming army had really retreated, so they gathered the scattered subordinates and herdsmen along the way, and prepared to return to Qingcheng and Bansheng.

After a few days of staying here, the bitterness on their faces became even more obvious.

When they went out of the border wall, the two took nearly 3,000 armor horsemen and more than 15,000 herdsmen, and nearly 20,000 people followed them out of the border wall.

About seventy percent of them are their own people, and thirty percent are people from small tribes who rushed to the grass valley after hearing the news, and they want to go with them to fight grass valleys, so that they can make some money and make up for their families.

There were nearly 20,000 people, more than 30,000 horses, more than 100,000 cattle and sheep, and more than 10,000 tents and felt bags, but now there were less than 10,000 cattle and sheep, more than 5,000 horses, more than 4,000 frightened herdsmen, and less than 1,000 armored soldiers.

There are many taiji on the Mongolian steppe, and a small tribe may have dozens of taiji, some of which have a very political status, which is the accumulation of hereditary status for many years, and some of them have many people directly under the tribe, and some people have fertile pastures, and have accumulated a lot of money and raised more armor soldiers, of course, they can have a stronger status.

The two of them lost most of the herdsmen and soldiers, and lost almost ninety percent of the cattle, sheep and felt bags, which is equivalent to falling from billionaire to poor at once, and the misery is extremely miserable.

"I will report to the Great Khan and give me some additional soldiers and herdsmen." Bu Bag muttered, "But I don't think it's going to be much." ”

After all, Lin Dan Khan is the contemporary Mongolian Great Khan, the co-owner of 60,000 tribes on the left and right wings, in addition to the Oirat Mongols who have always been unruly and self-contained, the Mongolian tribes in the far north are also obedient to the teachings of the previous Great Khans, even if Lin Dan Khan has lost the hearts of the people because of his belief in the Red Religion, but the status of the co-owner has not changed, unless Tumut intends to stand on his own, otherwise no one will touch the cloth bag, but he is different, the three ladies did not fight for him to the position of the Great Khan, But he left him a big Bansheng City, there were originally a lot of Han people living in the city, in addition to farming or mostly merchants, the original horse market did not shrink before there were also many Ming merchants to trade in Bansheng City, so the commercial trade of the Susang tribe is very developed, so many years in addition to the family property left to him by the three ladies, Su Nang himself has also accumulated a lot of wealth, if he has the original strength, his wealth is a few times more fine, no one dares to covet Su Nang's family property, but now it is completely different, He only had a few hundred soldiers and a few thousand herdsmen left, plus only some women and the old and weak who remained in the city, this time he and Bu Nang can be said to have come out of the nest, and the result was a fiasco, for the Mongols prestige is a trivial matter, strength is the real most important thing.

"Don't worry." Bu Nang said: "I will go to see Bu Shitu Khan and Tushetu Khan, as well as Ordos Jinong, and Ah Cheng Taiji, you are fighting for the tribe in the Ming Kingdom, and if you suffer losses, you can just watch from the side, no one can fall into the well and rob while the fire is burning." I want the Great Khan and Taiji to swear an oath to keep you and Bansheng safe. ”

"I hope what you say will come true." Su Nang didn't have much confidence, after all, Bu Nang said it well, but the various departments were not stupid, they were obviously squeezed by He Yusheng and had no choice but to jump over the wall in a hurry, and it was not for the benefit of the tribe.

"Two Taiji, there is an enemy ambush ahead!"

A sentry suddenly galloped in, startling a large number of resting herdsmen.

……

"I don't know if those two goods dare to fight."

"It's estimated to be between five and five."

"Well, I'm chilling after all."

"It still depends on the number of people, maybe I think we have few people, we can take a dozen."

Chang Wei and Wang Yikui said and answered, both of them looked very relaxed, Chang Wei was wearing a pale green short robe, wearing a soft foot head, and a faint smile on his face.

Chang Wei had a straight knife hanging from his waist, he didn't pull out the knife, Wang Yikui didn't pull out the waist knife, Chang Wei and he were both the highest-level commanders, if they needed to draw the knife, the battle would have been defeated.

In front of him are nearly half of the personnel of the Qingcheng Division and the Xinping Division, and the two divisions have three and a half bureaus waiting for the appearance of the Mongols in this valley, and more than 600 people have been stationed here for five days, and finally waited for the re-assembled cloth sacs and vegetarian sacs.

Chang Wei continued: "Beat them here, the people in Bansheng City also took advantage of the chaos to make a move, and Su Bao accumulated a lot of goods, thirty percent to Bu Shitu Khan, thirty percent to give the big and small Tai Ji points, let's take away forty percent, it is estimated that no one will stand up for these two goods." ”

Wang Yikui said with a smile: "I am only responsible for fighting, obeying the command, and I don't care about anything else, and you don't have to tell me this." ”

Chang Wei laughed, and the topic really didn't go on.

Wang Yikui pointed to the valley in front of him and said: "To the north, there is Jiufeng Mountain, the southeast side is Luan Han Mountain, and the west is the Dahei River. ”

Chang Wei glanced around, there were faintly visible mountains and mountains in the distance, the river could not be seen, but the sound of water vapor and flowing water could be felt, in front of it were some unknown small valleys, cascading visible, looking to the north, of course, Qingcheng could not be seen, and it would take half a day to ride a horse to Qingcheng, but some acres of land could already be seen, and there were some gathering places such as Han villages, which were not pure herdsmen's pastures and felt bags.

There are dozens of bansheng land near Qingcheng, in fact, the big ones are cities, and the small ones are towns and villages, and there are a lot of grain and vegetables produced by the Han people on this side of the Tumut Department, and the grain and vegetables grown supplement the materials that the Mongols lack the most, so the Han people can survive here, just like the Han merchants can pass freely between the tribes.

Not only Tumut grows vegetables here, but also goes east to the five departments of Inner Khalkha and the Han department, where there are Han people who are in exile or who have been plundered.

Wang Yikui continued: "If they want to return to the vicinity of Qingcheng as soon as possible, this is the area that cannot be bypassed, unless they go west or east, detour from other people's tribes, then they will have to walk for more than a month, and there is no guarantee that others will not do anything to them." So, in other words, I think this battle can be fought. ”

Whether the battle can be successful depends on whether both sides have the desire to fight, or whether one side forces the other side to fight, and the situation, geography, and the ability to pursue are all indispensable.

If one side does not dare to fight, or has the ability to evade the battle, the battle cannot be fought.

In front of them was a semi-circular array, which was usually arranged like this in a military formation dominated by infantry, but unlike a pure infantry formation, each team was allocated a large cart.

Sixty-seven large chariots were connected end to end in a semicircular array, and all the infantry were within the cover of the vehicles, because the terrain chosen was favorable, and it was difficult for the cavalry to take a detour to invite the attack from behind the chariot formation, so they did not form a circular formation.

This car is also out of the Lizhuang Carriage Miscellaneous Bureau, the military car has long been finalized, the current type was tried a year ago, the vehicle is of course a four-wheeled vehicle, the front and rear wheels are equal, the carriage is square, the steering mechanism and shock absorbing reeds are the same as the civilian car, the biggest difference is that the carriage is relatively large, and the largest model of the civil cargo car, the difference is that the largest model of the cargo is a semi-enclosed carriage, most of which is used to transport iron raw materials and iron products, the military is fully enclosed, and the two sides are open perforated, you can play the bird, There are also large holes where the cannons can be fired.

The wooden planks of the carriage are hardwood, and a thin iron plate is added, in this era to worry about the bow and arrow, whether it is a nomadic or a fishing and hunting people are using arrows, the northern and eastern captives are less used firearms, and the eastern captives have to master the artillery after Kong Youde surrendered, and there is no need to worry about it at all for the time being.

Such a heavy vehicle is almost invincible in this era, the arrow can not be shot at all, there is an iron cable between the two cars, there is no need to worry about being washed away, and at the same time, the soldier uses a large card in the gap between the two vehicles to defend against the bow and arrow, and he can attack the enemy with confidence.

"Just wait for the Tartars to attack now." Wang Yikui stood comfortably in place, his eyes staring south.