It wasn't until they arrived in the upper valley of the Luan River, surrounded by mountains, and left the endless Saibei grassland, that Cao Wenzhao and Niu Juming's tense faces finally had a smile, and they finally felt much more at ease. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At this point, the march of the army slowed down, and except for Hari Jura and her two maids, the rest of the people were in high spirits, as if they had returned home.

In particular, when the slave camp under the command of Tang Jiuzhou, Li Wanqing and Ba Gen camped in the Luanhe Valley for the first time, many Han herdsmen even knelt on the ground and wept bitterly.

Because for them, when they arrived here, they could be regarded as truly escaping from the steppe and completely getting rid of the original nightmarish slave life.

In this way, after arriving in the Luanhe Valley, after four days of overnight stay, Cao Wenzhao and Niu Juming took nearly 4,000 cavalry, as well as more than 5,000 mares and foals, as well as the largest capture of their trip, that is, Borzigit-Harizula of Horqin, and finally returned to Rehe Fort on the banks of the Wulie River.

Of course, the group was extremely tired, but when they went, they were fine, all preparations were sufficient, and supplies were not a problem. But on the way back, it all became a problem.

First of all, the number of people has increased, and the addition of more than 1,300 slave camps is equivalent to more than 1,300 mouths that need to eat.

In addition, there are more than 5,000 Mongolian horses. Although some of them were scattered, straggled, and killed for food, it was necessary to make detours along the way to some places where water and grass were abundant, and to send people out to graze at night, so that the horses could have the strength to run continuously during the day.

It is completely inconceivable that an army of four thousand would be able to return unusually smoothly without a special supply point on the steppe thanks to these horses along the way.

It wasn't until these people arrived in the middle reaches of the Luanhe River that they successively met the Ming people who had migrated outside the Saiwai to reclaim the land, exchanged some grain and vegetables with the accompanying horses, and finally walked out of the grassland and persevered to the end.

Of course, the tiredness was extremely tired, and when the army returned to Rehe Fort, everyone was relaxed and felt especially physically exhausted.

But the harvest of this trip is also extremely huge, not only the soldiers of the Wulie Battalion have seized a lot of gold and silver ornaments or precious furs, but also the soldiers of the Wulie Battalion who have been established for half a year have been trained by an ultra-long-distance run for more than half a month, which means that since then, the Wulie Battalion has truly become a rare elite cavalry in the Ming Border Army.

On the second day after returning to Rehebao, the anxious Uliji rushed to the direction of Ulan Hada with dozens of his subordinates, one man and two horses.

Although Cao Wenzhao was exhausted, accompanied by Ying Shisheng, he inspected the progress of various projects in Rehebao.

The forts on the wall of Rehe Fort have all been repaired, and the barracks of the Wulie Battalion in the fort have been completed inside and out, and they are ready to move in.

The most important thing is that the large and small resettlement sites near the confluence of the Wulie River and the Luan River are also a scene of abundant harvest.

Because of the abundant water nearby, the corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes grown on both sides of the Luan River and the Wulie River are more productive than those in the Gyeonggi region.

In less than half a year, the displaced people who were recruited from the Guannai to come to the reclamation have jumped from absolute poverty to food and clothing.

Although most of the people still live in half-cellars and half-adobe straw huts, which seem to be inferior to the slums of later generations, for these people, as long as the family has a field, the field produces grain, and the government does not collect taxes, then these immigrants will have a prosperous life.

Now that a large number of potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes have been harvested, the minds of the common people have finally settled down, some are busy learning how to store these Fanbang coarse grains for a long time, and some are helping to try how to use these Fanbang coarse grains to make everyone's favorite delicacies.

The soldiers who returned from the expedition of the Wulie Battalion were very fond of these Fanbang coarse grains, and they didn't need to be elaborate, as long as they were cooked in a pot, they could eat them with relish.

Because no matter who you are, if you eat mutton and horse meat for more than half a month, you will also very much hope to be able to eat a little coarse grain to supplement some dietary fiber and vitamins that the body urgently needs.

The simple way of eating the soldiers of the Wulie Battalion naturally spread quickly, and some intelligent immigrants even began to come to the gate of Rehe Fort one after another and sell roasted sweet potatoes.

It didn't take long for tortillas and potato flour to appear one after another. Of course, that's a few months away.

On the second day after returning to Rehe Fort, Wu Liji hurriedly went north to Ulan Hada, Cao Wenzhao was busy inspecting the construction of Rehe Fort, while Niu Juming locked himself in the guest house that had been put into use in Rehe Fort, and devoted himself to writing the secret fold to be presented to the emperor, and boasted the beauty of the first beauty of the grassland, Hari Zhula, in the secret fold, and also fully expressed his sincere fear and fear that he and Cao Wenzhao Yue Yue would give the emperor long live the media. In the end, he suggested that the emperor Naharizhu be brought into the palace, which rose to the height of dividing the relationship between the Eastern Mongolian tribes and the Jianyu Jurchens, and at the same time uniting and drawing the Mongolian tribes to jointly eliminate the Jianyu Jurchens.

In the whole twist and turn, on the contrary, the two of them attacked Horqin without a report and slaughtered the old and weak people in their rear, and some even mentioned it at all, and did not mention the results of the Eastern Mongolian tribes' alliance to conquer Karaqin.

On the third day after returning to Rehe Fort, Niu Juming's secret fold was finally written, and it was soon given to Cao Wenzhao. At first glance, Cao Wenzhao admired Niu Juming so much that he quickly signed his name on it, and for the first time stamped the official seal of the envoy of Rehe Town.

In the afternoon of the same day, this letter was sent to the Jingshi by a new hundred households named Nan Tingxuan who was stationed in the Shoufu of Rehe Town by the Thousand Households of Jinyi Wei Ji Town.

On the fourth day after Cao Wenzhao and his entourage returned to Rehebao, they went north to return to Wuliji in Karaqin, and once again rushed back to Rehebao, bringing a news of Burhatu to Cao Wenzhao and Niu Juming.

Ulan Hada, the new khanate of Kundulun Khan of the Karaqin Tribe, was occupied by the army led by the left flank Korqin Taiji Jaisang, and the newly built Guiyi palace in Burhatu was also burned to the ground, a large number of cattle, sheep and livestock were seized, and many of the 2,000 old and weak troops who were ordered to stay in Ulan Hada were killed, and only a few escaped to report the news.

As for Burhatu himself, he fled a long time ago, and with the 5,000 cavalry collected by the Karaqin tribes, as well as more than 30,000 herdsmen and a large number of horses, cattle and sheep, he first fled 100 miles south and returned to his original station.

A few days later, when he heard that the coalition forces had crossed the Yingjin River and occupied the city of Ulan Hada, Burhatu fled all the way south, and now he has fled to the hometown of Daningwei, from where he sent waves of messengers to Rehe Fort and Yizhou City, waiting for the rescue of the surrounding Ming army.

Of course, fighting if you can win and running if you can't win is also a common practice of tribal warfare in the Mongolian steppe in this era. Because, running away is sometimes a manifestation of understanding the times, or an effective tactical strategy.