On the grassy steppe, the clear river as clear as the jade belt flows along the snow-capped mountains in the distance, the dense flocks of sheep can be seen everywhere, countless dressed girls and white tents scattered on the prairie like dots, all of which show the richness and tranquility of the seat of the Khalkha royal court. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the leader of the Khalkha tribe, Chechen Khan, also enjoyed the calm in front of him, drinking pure mare's milk wine, hugging the plump beauty, and then picking up the roast leg of lamb and pulling it in his mouth, he was immediately very comfortable.

Although he already knew that the Ming Dynasty had dispatched tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to come through the Chahar Department and attacked the left banner of the Zasak Department, he did not think that the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty could really give his Khalkha Department, especially his own tribe, to a pot, and even in order to show his responsibility as the leader of the entire Khalkha Department, Chechen Khan decided to gather tens of thousands of cavalry near Kulen to annihilate the Ming army that dared to break into his Khalkha Department, and even he intended to take advantage of this to get rid of the Chahar Department, the reason is naturally that the Chahar Department is ashamed of Changshengtian, actually formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, who stole the Great Yuan Dynasty.

For this reason, Chechen Khan, the leader of the Khalkha tribe, one of the largest tribes in Mongolia, sent a special envoy to contact other Khalkha tribes, preparing to gather all the cavalry of the Khalkha tribe to annihilate the Ming army in one fell swoop, and even rely on this to obtain political and economic benefits.

But just when the Chechen Khan was immersed in his Khalkha ministry and could give Daming a sarhu like a slave, there was a chaotic sound of horses' hooves outside.

When the Chechen Khan came out, it was his son who rushed back with his Chechen Khan's cavalry, but looking at the scattered formation and declining morale, as well as the empty hands, it did not look like he had returned from a victorious battle.

Some herdsmen have realized that their sons or brothers have not returned, that they have become the soul of the enemy, and they have whimpered and wept, and even knelt on the ground and prayed to the immortal heaven.

Mutar finally got rid of the pursuit of the Praetorian Guard's Western Route Army and returned to the royal court smoothly, and as soon as he returned, he immediately said to his father Chechen Khan: "Father Khan, we have been defeated, the Ming army has the blessing of immortality, they can spit fire, they can even cast spells, so that our war horses dare not move forward, their firearms are not even afraid of storms, their knives are also extremely sharp, one of them can even directly cut off a horse......"

As soon as Mutar got off his horse, he grabbed the Chechen Khan, chattering about how powerful the Ming army was, and the other cavalry also bowed their heads silently, and these former Khalkha warriors had to admit that the Ming army they encountered was not the group of soft bags with weak legs when they saw the cavalry in red clothes.

Chechen Khan didn't expect that his son, who had always been empty-eyed and self-proclaimed brave and invincible, would be so defeated this time, but he had to admit that judging from the performance of his returned Khalkha cavalry, his Khalkha army was indeed defeated by this Ming army.

This surprised the Chechen Khan, who could not help but look at the Han captives beside the tent who were chained to build iron cavalry for their tribe, and he could hardly compare them to a mighty army capable of defeating tens of thousands of cavalry from the Khalkha army.

"When will the Han people be able to bully my immortal boy again", Chechen Khan said secretly, and returned to his royal tent with Mutar.

"Praetorian Guard?" After hearing Mutar's account, the Chechen Khan fell into deep contemplation, as soon as possible he Khalkha deep in Monan, but the understanding of the Ming Dynasty that occupied the land of Guannai has never decreased, he also knows that in recent years, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has reorganized a Praetorian Guard, and even this Praetorian Guard has successfully resisted the attack of the elite cavalry of the Jiannu Eight Banners in Gyeonggi, at that time he did not believe it, thinking that the Ming Dynasty deliberately exaggerated the results of the war.

After all, Ming Ting has done this kind of thing, and killing a few Tartars can also be a big victory.

But he didn't expect that the Janissaries had really defeated his Khalkha cavalry, and looking at his son's look, it seemed that he had been defeated a little badly.

Chechen Khan began to regret whether it was the right decision to choose to support the Korqin Ministry, but now he is already riding a tiger, and he can only go all the way to the dark.

In his mind, this Ming army may indeed be a strength that cannot be underestimated, but fortunately, there are not many people, according to his son's account, the number of cavalry is only more than 10,000 people, otherwise he can completely annihilate his son's cavalry.

Since there are not many people, he can mobilize more cavalry to eliminate this force that can threaten the political ecology of the steppe.

"Immediately send someone to tell the news that the Ming army will unite with the Chahar Department and intend to annex the Mongol tribes in southern China to the Horqin Department, and at the same time, ask him to immediately mobilize heavy troops to help, since he Zhu Youxiao wants to learn from his ancestors to conquer my grassland, then Ben Khan will let him be a Ming Yingzong!" When the time comes, I will go to the capital, capture him alive, and let him be a prisoner too! ”

According to the idea of the Chechen Khan, the Korqin Department can mobilize 30,000 elite cavalry, and the other departments of the Khalkha Department can also mobilize 20,000, plus the remaining cavalry of the headquarters, they can weep 60,000 elite cavalry, or they can fight with this Ming army.

Moreover, Chechen Khan also decided to go to Wu Xiangbu and Jiannu for help, these two forces are the Ming Dynasty's fierce enemies and mortal enemies, Chechen Khan believes that they will not be willing to see the Ming army easily occupy the entire Monan, thus forming a two-sided attack on them.

Oba of the Korqin Department was also surprised when he learned that the Khalkha Department had been attacked by the Ming army and that the Khalkha Department had also suffered heavy losses, he did not expect that the Ming would attack from the direction of Chahar and Khalkha.

"Could it be that this Zhu Youxiao's appetite is really so big, is it possible that he is muddy in all the tribes of Southern Mongolia", Oba said with some annoyance, in his opinion, it is better to take the battlefield in the Khalkha Department in this way, so that his Horqin steppe, a rich land, will not be affected by the war.

Therefore, Oba did not hesitate to immediately mobilize 30,000 elite horsemen, and also led these three elite horsemen to the Khalkha Ministry with his son Badali himself as the commander.

At this time, Wu Xiang's 50,000 Guanning troops also left Jinzhou City and drove straight towards the right flank of the Horqin Division, but at this time, Wu Xiang also received a request for help from the Khalkha Department.

"The Praetorian Guard is actually attacking from the Chahar Department, no wonder my scouts in Liaodong did not find the phenomenon of a large army gathering, this Zhu Youxiao seems to be willing to seek the near and far, but his wolf ambition is obvious, he took the opportunity to unite the Chahar Department in the name of attacking the Korqin Department, annexed the Khalkha Department and the Korqin Department, and then formed an encirclement of us, this move is not not vicious!"

Wu Sangui said, and said to Wu Xiang: "Father, from the perspective of the sons, it seems that we should change the direction of the march, since we have already led the troops out, we will simply go straight to the Khalkha Department, and together with the Mongolian Tatars, encircle and annihilate the Ming army, and get rid of this living force, then the Ming court will not dare to touch me for a few years!" As for the time comes, if the imperial court investigates it, we will flatly deny it, saying that we were indeed ordered to attack the Korqin Department, and we don't know anything about the battle situation in the Khalkha Department. ”

Wu Xiang has always obeyed Wu Sangui's words, and he immediately agreed to Wu Sangui's proposal, immediately prepared overnight, held a ceremony on the second day, cut off the Mingzi military flag, and replaced it with the Liaozi flag, and read out Zhu Youxiao's eighty charges on the spot, what to favor the eunuchs, pit Zhongliang, anyway, all the charges given to Zhu Youxiao in the history of the Qing Dynasty in later generations were settled in advance by the Wu father and son.

Then, Wu Xiang's Guan Ning army decisively and immediately galloped into the Khalkha department.

And Huang Taiji, under the urging of Liu Zongzhou and Shi Kefa, also brought 5,000 armored soldiers and 10,000 Han and Mongolian Eight Banner soldiers to the Horqin Department.

But for the attack on the Horqin Division, he was also pretentious, not to mention the extremely slow speed of the march, and he had to rest for three miles, stop for ten miles, and it took about half a month to reach the Horqin Division, but the Horqin Department and his Huang Taiji did not have the slightest intention of starting a war, and the Horqin Department did not prevent the cavalry of Huang Taiji from entering, and Huang Taiji's army did not plunder in the Horqin Department.

However, not long after, Huang Taiji also learned the news that the Khalkha Department had suffered heavy losses from the Ming army, and he was also surprised by this, he did not expect that the Ming army would attack the Khalkha Department first, and he did not expect that the Khalkha Department would be defeated by the Ming army.

Huang Taiji did have to admit that the Ming army's Praetorian Guards had sharp firearms and strong combat qualities, but Huang Taiji did not think that once there were enough cavalry and it was in the vast grassland, he would really be afraid of this kind of army that won with firearms.

What's more, Huang Taiji himself has now brought firearms troops, as well as artillery, which are the results of his painstaking work for a year.

"Pass on my edict, leave 3,000 people to pretend to be the main force into the Horqin Department Tuxetu Department, and the rest will immediately rush to the Khalkha Department with me, if the Ming army wants to attack the Khalkha Department, you have to ask me if I can agree!"

Huang Taiji said that he personally led 10,000 people to the Khalkha Department, and sent an order back to Shengjing, and then transferred 20,000 to come, he thought of entering the customs back then, if he brought more people, maybe the last person to kneel down was not himself, or Zhu Youxiao, so he no longer dared to pinch the combat soldiers skillfully now.

In this way, for a time, there were more than 100,000 troops gathered towards the Khalkha Department, and the West Route Army was only more than 30,000 people, but it mobilized several strong enemies in the entire Liaodong and Mobei, which no one expected, including Zhu Youxiao, at the beginning, he really just wanted to make the Khalkha Ministry agree and unite through the preferential policies of economic interests, so as to complete the war purpose of attacking the Horqin Department on two roads.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that these strong enemies outside the pass wanted to make a bigger Salhu, and wanted to concentrate superior forces and annihilate their own Western Route Army, so as to destroy the elite of the Ming Dynasty.

The Chechen Khan of the Khalkha Department did not expect that he would be able to gather the "Eighteen Route Princes" in such a short period of time, and when he thought that there would be more than 100,000 troops and the most elite cavalry in the entire Guanwai area, he had the ambition to defeat the Ming army in the Khalkha Department.

But they ignored the most important point, that is, they still don't know how strong their prey is, the specific number of people, and even the equipment, they don't bother to know, even the most specific location, they don't bother to check.

Although Huang Taiji also realized the so-called truth that knowing oneself and knowing the other side would not be defeated in a hundred battles, Wu Sangui also knew, but now everyone is an independent military force, no one can unite anyone, and no one is willing to let their soldiers and horses face the Ming army alone, so they just wait, waiting for the Ming army to attack, anyway, their own soldiers are strong, and they don't have to be afraid of what conspiracy the Ming army will play, after all, in the face of absolute military strength, any conspiracy is a paper tiger.

This is what Huang Taiji saw in Daming Daily, and he now believes in this truth.

However, these military nobles outside the gate seem to ignore the existence of the Ming Dynasty not only the Praetorian Guard but also the Jinyi Guard, a powerful intelligence system, when they were sharpening their knives and waiting for the rabbit of the Western Route Army to collide, Zhu Youxiao's side also knew the movements of these military nobles, and asked the Western Route Army to suspend the attack, dragging and consuming with the 100,000 troops gathered by these military nobles.

And Zhu Youxiao's "General Staff" has shifted its attention to the territory of Liaodong.

Yang Sichang, the left attendant of the military department, has now smiled, pointed to the sand table and said to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, please see, in the current land of Liaodong, the troops in the Ningjin area are only 10,000 old and weak in the Wuxiang department, and the Tartar department is only Shengjing and heavy troops, and the Horqin department is the army of the whole country in order to defeat our Western Route Army in one fell swoop in the Khalkha Department, and now the Horqin Department is not only a woman is a child and an old man, once my East Route Army, that is, the first army, the second army, and the fifth army of the Praetorian Guard Army land, it can be said that the wolf enters the flock, and you can bite wherever you want!" ”

"Very good, if you fight a war, you have to make the war lively, let Huang Taiji be happy now, tell the Aobai of the Western Route Army, you can show the enemy weakness, and at the same time, let Mao Wenlong of the Dongjiang River immediately control the landing docks in Liaodong, prepare for the landing operation of our Eastern Route Army, and at the same time order to continue to send more Jinyi Guards, be sure not to let them find the clues!"

Not long after Zhu Youxiao said this, the First Army of Chang Yanling here had begun to gradually dock, in order to be able to adapt to the long-term sea driving, they had done short-term adaptation training before, but now there are still many soldiers who have shown seasickness, and as soon as the ship docks, they have to start replenishing supplies and resting with the help of the Dongjiang soldiers.

When another half a month passed, on the side of the Western Route Army, Aobai did lead the Third Army to attack a tribe in the Khalkha Department, but it was surrounded by tens of thousands of iron cavalry, but Aobai's Third Army did not love to fight and quickly retreated.

The Fourth Army, on the other hand, remained in seclusion and did not take any further action.

However, the Khalkha and Korqin tribes, as well as the Wuxiang and Jiannu tribes, also tasted a little sweetness because of this, and turned their attention more and more to this side, eager to find this main force of the Ming army this morning and eat them.

In order to carry out the task of covering the full landing of the Eastern Route Army of the Janissaries, the Fourth Army had to expose itself in advance and immediately attacked the Khalkha Department.

But because of this, 50,000 iron cavalry were immediately recruited to besiege it, and the third army had to come to the rescue, so the last 60,000 iron cavalry surrounded it.