On the twelfth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the second big battle on the grassland began.

The ending is similar to the first one, in less than a day, Su Tiancheng, Hong Chengchou and Qin Liangyu led the Jiangning battalion, Datong border army, Xibe tribe sergeant and Daur tribal sergeant, cleanly wiped out the front banner, middle banner and rear banner army of the left wing of the Chahar tribe, from this moment on, the once powerful Chahar tribe completely declined on the grassland, but because of Su Tiancheng's strict requirements, the army seriously implemented discipline, and the Chahar tribe was not on the verge of extinction. In particular, the women and children in the tribe were hardly harmed.

The expeditions that followed began to become a little more difficult.

The news that Su Tiancheng and Jiangning Ying entered the grassland to conquer, as well as the situation that the Chahar tribe was completely exterminated, quickly spread among the grassland tribes, the powerful Chahar tribe, with the left wing front flag, the middle flag, the rear flag, and the right wing front flag, middle flag, rear flag, close to 100,000 troops, but in less than ten days, it was wiped out by the army led by Su Tiancheng, this news, so that the other tribes of the grassland feel fear, no tribe will wait for Su Tiancheng's arrival at the station, despite the cold climate, Despite the difficulties in supplying food, most of the steppe tribes began to migrate, moving deeper into the steppe to avoid a devastating blow.

It was at this time that a lot of information began to be sent to Qu Qingze.

The scope of this information is very extensive, including information sent from Datong, information sent from Fort Anning and Jingbian, and information sent from the Xibe tribe and the Daur tribe. There is even information sent by merchants from all over the grassland, and these pieces of information are inside. There is some crucial news.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the traditional Lantern Festival.

The large army was concentrated in the rear banner of the left flank of Chahar. Take a break here for the time being.

This is a decision made by Su Tiancheng, firstly, to let everyone take a good rest, after all, it is the Lantern Festival, and secondly, it is also necessary to carefully study the intelligence and deploy the next action, all actions must be combined with the actual situation.

Su Tiancheng, Hong Chengchou, Qin Liangyu, Qu Qingze, Mo Si, Tong Cha, and the officers above the commander of the Jiangning battalion guard, plus Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Li Dingguo and others, were concentrated in the yurt. Consult together.

Mo Si and Tong Cha are not very accustomed to such a situation, in their opinion, Su Tiancheng is a high saint, leading the Jiangning camp to the grassland, invincible, the once extremely powerful Chahar tribe fell down, can't Su Tiancheng say nothing. Do you still have to discuss with everyone, more importantly, the two of them have already learned that the tribal station has been attacked by the Houjin Tartars. Fortunately, the retreat was organized in advance, and the old and weak women and children of the tribe finally did not encounter massacres. If this had happened before, I am afraid that there would be nothing. They attributed such credit to Su Tiancheng.

As long as it's fighting and fighting. There are always losses, the tribal garrison was attacked, the two leaders and the sergeants below did not show any special surprise, not to mention that the family did not suffer a massacre, as for the loss of property, it is nothing, in the next expedition, more property can be obtained.

Qu Qingze first began to report the situation.

"The latest situation is that Huang Taiji sent Haoge, leading the Zhenglan Banner, the Han Eight Banners, and the Han Army, a total of nearly 40,000 people, into the Mongolian steppe, and the Houjin Tatars entered the Mongolian steppe, which was already in our expectations, but the Houjin Tatars actually ran thousands of miles to attack the Xibe tribe and the Daur tribe's station, which we did not expect, and it was also my mistake, the Xibe tribe suffered heavy losses, and the remaining sergeants were killed more than 4,000 people, and the stations of the two tribes were burned."

"Judging from the actions of the Houjin Tartars, their purpose in entering the grassland is very clear, that is, to unite the tribes of the grassland, defeat us, consolidate the power of the Houjin in the grassland, and even if they can't defeat us, they must preserve the strength of the grassland tribes."

"The Tumut tribe, the Dzungar tribe, the Dalat tribe, etc., have all begun to carry out large-scale migration, which is also because the Chahar tribe suffered a ruin, spread in the grassland, these tribes in order to avoid being exterminated, chose to flee, despite the cold climate, but these tribes still took a huge risk and began to migrate."

"Anning Fort, Jingbian, Yulin and Datong have all begun to be on alert to prevent the invasion of the Golden Tartars, as for the grassland tribes, according to our hunger estimates, they do not dare to attack the border pass of our Daming." ……

After Qu Qingze finished speaking, everyone began to discuss.

Su Tiancheng didn't speak, listening carefully to everyone's opinions.

In fact, there are not many opinions put forward, which are mainly summarized in two aspects, the first is that the army immediately launched a pursuit, according to the predetermined goal, exterminate the Tumut tribe and the Junggar tribe, and then point the sword at the Horqin tribe, as long as the Horqin tribe is completely defeated, the situation in the steppe will have a fundamental change. The second opinion is to adjust the previous operational deployment, use a period of time to consolidate the areas currently occupied, effectively integrate the remaining personnel of the Chahar tribe, and bring it to March, after the spring flowers bloom, to directly attack the Horqin tribe, and the third opinion is to continue the offensive and run thousands of miles to directly attack the Horqin tribe.

The discussion was very lively, including Mo Si and Tong Cha, who both expressed their opinions.

The discussion didn't last long, and after half an hour, Su Tiancheng spoke.

"The opinions put forward by everyone have their own reasons and are all valid, but we can only have one choice, and what kind of choice to make is still based on the actual situation at present."

"It should be said that in the grassland for more than half a month, our soldiers have fully adapted to the harsh climate and weather conditions, which is not too much of a problem, so it is not appropriate to wait until the spring season to carry out a large-scale offensive, at that time, we may need to make more efforts to ensure the success of the expedition."

"Speaking of which, there is one thing I need to remind you, don't think that we can easily wipe out the Chahar tribe in the grassland, and you can easily take down all the grassland tribes, this kind of thinking must not appear, this is very dangerous, we can successfully exterminate the Chahar tribe, it occupies a lot of advantages, at least the harsh climate has helped us, don't think that the grassland tribes have no combat effectiveness, once they attach great importance to it, our conquest will become more difficult."

"The Tumut tribe, the Dzungar tribe and the Dalat tribe have begun a large-scale migration to avoid fighting us, and some people advocate immediately launching a pursuit to completely defeat these tribes, this consideration is good, but we must pay attention to a practical situation, that is, if these tribes adopt the strategy of losing their cars and protecting the commander, it will completely disrupt our deployment, these tribes have left behind old and weak women and children, and the elite army quickly evacuated, what should we do, you must be clear, we carry artillery, for the tribal army that fled lightlyIt is difficult to catch up, this kind of pursuit battle is likely to become a protracted war, the grassland is vast, the grassland tribes are familiar with the terrain, it is difficult for us to accurately grasp their whereabouts, and if we don't do it well, we may encounter ambushes of different scales and some unnecessary losses. ”

"There is another situation, we must attach great importance to it, that is, Haoge led the Houjin Tartars and entered the grassland, and Dai Shan also led some of the Houjin Tartars and recently entered the grassland, so that our opponents have become more powerful, Haoge and Dai Shan, in a short period of time, will not take the initiative to fight with us, they will go to various tribes, ask the grassland tribes to make all preparations, and even ask many tribes to unite to form a large army and fight with us."

"Haoge attacked the Xibe tribe station, captured a part of the artillery, this is bad news, the Houjin Tatars also have artillery, the threat to us is not small, when the army and the Houjin Tatars start a fight, what we can rely on is the bravery of the soldiers."

"In this case, I think we need to rush thousands of miles to attack the Horqin tribe."

"We made such a choice, I'm afraid it will also be beyond the expectations of the grassland tribe and the Houjin Tarzi, here is far away from the Horqin tribe station, there are many tribes nearby, we can even attack the Han tribe and the Khalkha tribe, take advantage of the situation to make peace with the Liaodong border army, and connect this grassland into a whole, from the perspective of conducive to combat, this is the best choice."

"But don't forget, what is the purpose of our expedition to the grassland, who is the most important opponent, our two most important opponents are the Chahar tribe and the Horqin tribe, the Chahar tribe has been wiped out by us, this area has stabilized for a long time, and next, we are going to attack the Horqin tribe."

"No matter how the situation changes, our key tasks still have to be completed, the situation in the grassland has changed, we will not attack other tribes for the time being, and the next opponent is the Horqin tribe."

"Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, many soldiers, take a good rest, have a good time with this Lantern Festival, tomorrow we are going to set off, we need to run a long distance, we need to exterminate the Horqin tribe, we will encounter a lot of difficulties, but no matter what kind of difficulties we meet, we must overcome, level the grassland, cut off the Huang Taiji's reliance, is the task we must complete." ……

After the combat deployment was determined, Su Tiancheng was not easy, he faintly felt that the next opponent of the army was probably not only the army of the Horqin tribe, but also the Houjin Tartar. (To be continued......)