Su Tiancheng led 15,000 Jiangning battalion soldiers to arrive in Ningxiawei, it was already the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month.

Time is precious, according to the report of the Ningxia Wei commander, it is said that the sergeants of the Xibe and Daurian tribes like to attack villages and towns during the 30th of the Chinese New Year's Eve, at this time, the common people are reunited at home, the New Year is a day of family reunion, and the family reserves of grain and other materials are relatively large.

Su Tiancheng believes that the news of the deployment of the Jiangning battalion should not have come out yet, although it has been reversed for three months, but the situation in Shaanxi is still bad, when walking along the road, there are not many peasant households, especially after entering the garrison of the Ningxia guard, there are almost not many people, but this situation also makes Su Tiancheng suspicious.

The leaders of the Mongolian tribes should also know the situation here, after years of invasion, it is said that the common people will not wait for the Tartars to come to slaughter, according to common sense analysis, the more the Spring Festival, the more you need to pay attention.

Liu Tiehan and others proposed whether to directly contact the commander of the Ningxia guard, Su Tiancheng did not agree, and asked the scout battalion to increase the intensity of investigation, as for thinking about it, Qu Qingze had already arranged it, and after the army entered the Ningxia guard station, there was a secret line of Jinyi Wei to contact and serve as the guide of the army.

It can be said that when the ten thousand families were reunited, Su Tiancheng was in the tent, thinking nervously, and the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion were waiting for the day, ready to fight with the Mongolian Tatars at any time.

This time, Liu Tiehan still personally took the scouts and spread the net to investigate.

Ningxia Wei garrison, many places are deserted, take a look, are all loess high slopes, the army is stationed in one place, will not attract attention at all.

The thirtieth day of the lunar month. Chinese New Year's Eve.

Su Tiancheng was a little anxious, it has been two days, and there is still no news from the scouts led by Liu Tiehan, it should not be, the scouts of the Jiangning camp. After many expeditions, in terms of investigation, it is already perfect, and when it comes to a place, I know where to go to investigate.

Besides, the army is stationed here, and the day is special, and on this special holiday, everyone misses their relatives on the side. On the one hand, we must be vigilant at all times, after all, there is no real fight with the Mongolian Tatars, I don't know the details of the other party, and I don't know how many people and horses the other party has, no one dares to be negligent, and no one dares to joke with their own lives.

Seeing that it was about to get dark, Su Tiancheng couldn't sit still, got up and prepared to walk out of the tent.

It was at this time. Liu Tiehan appeared outside the tent covered in dust.

"Iron man, come in. What was discovered. ”

Liu Tiehan's face was full of tiredness, more of a dazedness.

When marching and fighting, the most bitter thing is the scouts, who have to be responsible for reconnaissance, and sometimes, they don't sleep all night. That's a lot of the time, and if you don't have the endurance and perseverance, then don't think about being a scout.

Su Tiancheng handed the kettle to Liu Tiehan, this was on the march to fight, but there was no tea to serve.

Liu Tiehan didn't have time to drink water. He spoke in a hoarse voice.

"My lord, my subordinates sent a thousand scouts, spread their nets and went out to investigate, but they did not find a large army of Mongol Tatars, but only found two small groups of troops, the number of which is about three hundred, and the specific location is here."

Liu Tiehan's hand pointed to the map where the Mongolian Tartar was found, halfway between Gaoping Fort and Tiezhu Spring.

The scout was still in the process of reconnaissance, and he was not able to make a sand table, and Su Tiancheng could only rely on the map.

"My lord, there are still three hundred scouts, who have entered the Ningxia Wei garrison to investigate, according to the time, there may be news tomorrow."

"Are you saying that the scout battalion was stationed in Ningxia Guard, and only two strands of Mongolian Tartars were found, and each strand of Tartars did not exceed three hundred?"

"This is the case, and the subordinates also feel strange, Gaoping Fort is close to the Great Wall, and it is said that there is a natural barrier, I don't know how the Mongolian Tatars came in."

Su Tiancheng's face was very ugly, what he thought of was not how the Mongolian Tatars entered the pass, although the border pass has the Great Wall guards, but after so many years, the imperial court has no silver, and there is no time to repair the Great Wall, and there is a collapse in those places, which is also unclear, as for the border troops stationed on the Great Wall, it is needless to say, because of the lack of silver, and because of the greed of the officers, the sergeants fled in large numbers, and the so-called guards in some sections have become decorations.

The key is that the scout camp only found two groups of Mongolian Tatars, less than 600 people, what is the situation, can it be said that the Mongolian Tatars are so bold that hundreds of people dare to enter the pass, or that the Mongolian Tatars here are part of the large army, harassing and plundering the people in the Ningxia rearguard.

Su Tiancheng's heart began to sink, and after entering the garrison of Ningxia Guard, the situation he saw along the way was indeed chilling, and he could hardly see any people, if he chose by himself, he would not come to this deserted place to plunder.

Ningxia Wei, Ningxia front and rear guard station, the situation is special, the border army here, most of the land belongs to the border army, are the cultivated land of the military tun, years of development, the military household slowly grew up here, some military families with many children and grandchildren, in accordance with the rules of the imperial court, slowly changed their identity, no longer a military household, so the people began to appear.

But Ningxia Wei's recital, the above is very clear, there are a large number of Mongolian Tartars, entering the Guannei, looting the people, this recital, has gone to the imperial court, there will be no fake.

In any case, these two groups of Mongolian Tatars also have to be eliminated.

As for the large army of the Mongolian Tartars, it is possible that they are in Ningxiawei, and the garrison of Ningxiawei is much larger, and the people are more than the places where the Ningxia Guards are stationed, so it is possible that the large army of the Mongolian Tartars is active in the area of Ningxiawei.

After thinking about it for a while, Su Tiancheng gave the order.

"Luo Chang, you lead all the soldiers of the forward battalion to exterminate these two Mongol Tatars, remember, don't underestimate the enemy, although the number of Tatars is not large, but they are used to mobile combat, my request is to annihilate these two Mongol Tatars, not to drive them away, and also, we must catch them alive."

The forward battalion had 4,000 soldiers, and against the Mongol Tartars of less than 600 men, it was obvious that anti-aircraft guns were fighting mosquitoes.

Su Tiancheng had just given the order, and Liu Tiehan on the side spoke.

"My lord, my subordinates should also go with General Luo, my subordinates are familiar with the road."

"Okay, judging from the map, our station, less than three hundred miles away from where the Tartars are, give you two days to annihilate this group of Tartars, the army is still stationed here, you must remember, you must be completely annihilated, you can't leak the news, you can't alarm the Mongol Tartars' army, you can't let them escape."

Su Tiancheng did not use the artillery battalion, to deal with less than six hundred Mongolian Tartars, the artillery battalion could not play much role at all, besides, Su Tiancheng also had his own ideas, the war horses of the Mongolian Tartars were very good, if they could completely annihilate these two Tartars and capture all the war horses, it would be good.

On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Luo Chang set out with four thousand soldiers of the pioneer battalion, and Liu Tiehan took one hundred soldiers of the scout battalion to follow the action, time is the most precious, if it lasts too long, the news is completely leaked out, disturbing the large army of the Mongol Tatars, and the Jiangning battalion's conquest this time may be lost.

The days of waiting are an ordeal.

All the requirements, Su Tiancheng made it clear, at this time, he also had to worry about the five thousand Jiangning battalion soldiers led by Hong Chengchou, they went deep into the Hetao area, where most of the places are deserts, the degree of hardship can be imagined, and the guide is also a problem, and there are no farmers who are particularly familiar with the Hetao area.

In fact, the biggest worry in Su Tiancheng's heart is the accuracy of the intelligence, if there is a huge deviation in the intelligence, the consequences will be unimaginable, this is a situation that Su Tiancheng can't believe.

At noon on the first day of the first lunar month, the scouts sent to Ningxia Wei returned.

Ningxia Wei did not find the Mongol Tartar army, the soldiers of the scout battalion, and they worked hard, and some of them were almost unstable after they returned.

Su Tiancheng began to lose control of his temper, and the increasingly terrible situation was already looming.

The biggest possibility is that the commander of Ningxia Wei lied about the military situation, the purpose is that the imperial court can allocate more military salaries, such a situation is not uncommon, there are not many Mongolian Tatars, but the commander of the Wei reported that there are a lot of Mongolian Tatars, so as to attract the attention of the imperial court.

Doing such a thing, in the eyes of the officers of the guard, is not a big deal, maybe they have done it often before, and they are all happy to be able to get the silver allocated by the imperial court, and if they can't get the silver, it doesn't have much impact.

But this approach of Officer Ningxia Wei hurt Su Tiancheng.

Annoyingly, the strength of the Jinyi Wei dark line in Ningxia Wei is also weak, and it is not able to provide any useful information at all.

You must know that the army of the Mongolian tribe follows the activities of the tribe, when fighting, they are sergeants, in peacetime, they are farmers and herdsmen, if the Mongolian Tatars did not invade the Guannei on a large scale, then they are still in the tribe, if this is the case, the five thousand soldiers led by Hong Chengchou will encounter great danger.

Thinking of these, Su Tiancheng began to be impatient, since the establishment of the Jiangning battalion, has not encountered such a crisis, if the five thousand soldiers led by Hong Chengchou suffered a crushing defeat in the Hetao area, then the attacks in the imperial court will be surging, and all his plans will be in vain.

It's a pity that Ningxiawei's officers lied about the military situation, Su Tiancheng couldn't deal with it directly, he held the Shang Fang sword, but it could only be used for people's livelihood, and could not interfere with the military, this was a dead rule of the imperial court, and Su Tiancheng didn't dare to transgress it.

Su Tiancheng quickly issued an order, asking Ma Huabiao, the commander of the Jianrui battalion, to quickly contact the commander of the Ningxia rearguard, prepare the necessary grain and grass, etc., and buy it with silver, no matter what the price, it must be prepared sufficiently. (To be continued......)