The Houjin army of 780,000 can not leave the mountains under the constraints of military discipline.

However, the more than a million Manchu and Han Chinese slaves who hid in the mountains with the army could not do this.

Although these Manchurians do not need to worry about food, the millions of cattle and sheep in their hands need a large amount of winter forage every day to continue to live.

In this case, for the sake of these cattle and sheep not to freeze to death and starve to death during the winter, for the future of their own tribe. The Manchus, who were scattered among the tribes, had to send Han Chinese slaves from their tribes out of the mountains to collect forage in the plains outside the mountains.

So, in less than two days, seven or eight Han slaves who were collecting forage outside the mountains were found by the Haw Par Army scouts and camped later......

"Are you sure, you can take us to find the tribe where the Tartars are hiding in the mountains......" After listening to the narration of several captives, Wang Feng's eyes flickered and he subconsciously asked......

Although the prince had already determined the specific steps for the decisive battle with the main force of Houjin before he set off. However, the troops did not move at all for several days, and Wang Feng was still very anxious when he looked at it.

After all, no one knows whether this style of play proposed by the prince will have an effect in front of Hou Jin Huang Taiji.

And now, the appearance of these Han slaves directly proves to Wang Feng with facts that the idea put forward by Wei Zheng is feasible. At this moment, what he needs to do is to prove through a battle according to Wang Yewei's proposal that this idea can achieve the goal he wants!

Facing the scorching gaze of Wang Feng's eyes shooting outward, Luo Jingshan, who personally interrogated these captives, also had a strong burning expression on his face. Wang Feng's words had just been finished. Luo Jingshan replied impatiently......

"Lord Wang. There should be no problem. I interrogated these captives separately one by one, and the results of the interrogations were not very different...... In addition, they don't know each other, and it is impossible to collude, so I believe their words......"

Seeing Wang Feng nodding with an approving face, Luo Jingshan hurriedly seized the opportunity and continued.

They also confessed that their tribe was a large tribe with tens of thousands of Manchurians. There are at least 100,000 head of cattle and sheep in the tribe...... As long as we can defeat this tribe by surprise, the cattle and sheep raised by the Tartars in the tribe and the food hoarded in the tribe will be our tiger and leopard army...... Therefore, I took all the officers and men of the cavalry division to ask the commander for battle, and immediately attacked and ate this Tartar tribe. “

After ignoring Luo Jingshan's request to fight, Wang Feng, whose face had slowly returned to seriousness, directly refused: "Forget about the cavalry, your cavalry division is in the mountain in front of you." It can't be used at all, and even half of the combat effectiveness in normal times can't be brought into play. So. In addition to field battles outside the mountains, from now on, your cavalry division will have a total of two things.

"First, continue to send cavalry troops to expand our search range outside the mountains, and bring back all the Han slaves who are active outside the mountains......

"As for the Tartars, in order to avoid wasting our limited grain and grass, don't hesitate to kill them all......"

"The second thing, to act as a musketeer for the time being, to ensure that the camp under our feet is always in our own hands, to ensure the safety of the entire barracks, especially when the three musketeer divisions are dispatched...... So you don't want to think about going into the mountains to fight the Tartar tribes......"

Luo Jingshan was full of disappointment, training his subordinates in the military camp to vent his grievances and anger.

Wang Bo, commander of the First Infantry Division, was walking out of Wang Feng's military tent with a smile on his face.

There is no doubt that the first battle of entering the mountains to attack the Tatar tribe finally fell into the hands of Wang Bo, the commander of the first division.

In this way, early the next morning, Wang Bo led more than 6,000 officers and men of the whole division, except for the heavy artillery battalion, under the leadership of the prisoners, into the mountains, and began the first battle in the real sense since the First Army of the Tiger and Leopard Army set out......

Led by the captives, it took only one day for the 1st Division to find this tribe hiding in the mountains.

What made the division commander Wang Bo happy was that in order to prevent the fierce beasts in the mountains from attacking the tribe and the cattle and sheep in the tribe, the whole tribe had a wooden fence that surrounded all the tribes, in addition to the tents that could be called densely packed without seeing the edge at a glance......

After taking in the Tartar tribe located in the mountain recess, Wang Bo, who was smiling, couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "God really helps me...... The Tartar tribe was surrounded by a fence like a lamb in a sheepfold...... As long as we block all the entrances and exits of the sheepfold, the lambs that are enclosed in the sheepfold will be slaughtered by us......"

Then, a trace of seriousness before the battle appeared on Wang Bo's face.

Facing the three regiment commanders who were already eager to try, he decisively ordered: "One regiment, with a company as a unit, patrols outside the Tartar tribe to eliminate all Tartar ...... who want to break through the fence and break through."

"The other two regiments, also in companies, fought into the Tartar tribe and wiped out all the Tartar ...... who dared to resist"

"Artillery, all mortars are set up here, and if the attacking troops are resisted, immediately artillery strikes on the Tartar tribes......"

"Finally, when the attack comes, all the soldiers must be shot with bayonets...... After the battle, I will see the blood of the Tartars on the bayonets of the cabinet officers...... Of course, this does not require you to use bayonets to solve the battle, in the course of the battle, we still follow the operational principles of our Tiger and Leopard Army, and resolutely solve the problem with muskets if you can solve it with artillery, and resolutely solve it with bayonets if you can solve it with muskets...... I don't want to see casualties among the soldiers against a group of herders who barely have much combat power......"

The successive defeats have allowed Houjin to drain all the strong men that the various tribes can fight.

Therefore, the tribe in front of me, although there are more than 10,000 people. However, out of more than 10,000 people, the number of men is less than 3,000.

If not, there are less than 3,000 men, and they are all children and old people under the age of ten and over fifty.

It can be said that the Tatar tribe in front of him has no combat effectiveness at all in front of the elite First Division of the Tiger and Leopard Army.

However, no matter what, the unruly character of the nomads still caused a lot of trouble for the tiger and leopard army that entered the tribe.

Of course, this trouble does not mean that the Haw Par Army will suffer many casualties. It means that the Haw Par Army has spent a lot of effort to completely eliminate the resistance forces in the tribe......

However, no matter how troublesome, the whole offensive was a one-sided slaughter for the Haw Par Army. (To be continued......)