As soon as the cavalry of the Guards caught up, they quickly threw the earth-shattering thunderbolt out.

In a moment, there was a loud explosion.

Several of the Karaqin cavalry were blown away, and even their horses shattered like balloons after the explosion.

Kulie also heard a violent explosion.

When he looked back, he saw that the cavalry behind him was already in chaos, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly turned his horse's head and evacuated Qingsong County.

The Karaqin cavalry was naturally no better than the Manchurian cavalry.

Today's Mongolian iron cavalry has long since declined.

These Karaqin cavalry were no exception, they were more like robbers who robbed houses, although they were superb in horsemanship, but they no longer had any military spirit.

As soon as he saw that he had suffered countless casualties, he lost the mentality of robbing Qingsong County, so he fled in a hurry.

But nowadays.

The Ming army would no longer let them run away at will, and the cavalry of the Guards continued to chase after them, and the Karaqin cavalry who caught a bullet was cut in half on the spot.

It was not until nightfall that more than 100 cavalry of the Guards withdrew, along with more than 200 heads of the Karaqin cavalry.

This is how a battle for the defense of Qingsong County took place.

Xin Qingdong couldn't believe his eyes, he didn't expect that hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Guards would be able to defeat Kulie and retreat in disarray, leaving more than 300 corpses behind.

But the officers and men of the Guards did not feel much excitement about this.

The cavalry of Karaqin was no more than a second-rate cavalry in this era, and it suffered heavy losses from Mu Ying, Qi Jiguang and others in the era when bird guns were popular, not to mention that now the Guards are in the era of rifled guns.

Therefore, for the Guards, who had already defeated the Manchurian Iron Cavalry, such a victory was really nothing.

But for Yu Yingshi and other merchant groups and ordinary people, the victory of the Guards undoubtedly increased their confidence to continue living here.

And so the whole city rejoiced.

Xin Qingdong was also very happy, because because the guards repelled the Karaqin cavalry, the lord was paid an extra month's salary.

But all in all, it's a cause for joy.

The Qingsong county town of the Ming Dynasty was finally able to continue to exist on the grassland, and the seeds of Han civilization were able to continue to be sown in this land.

The merchant forces were even more brazen in plundering the tribes of the Karaqin tribe and the horses and sheep.

Xin Qingdong was also hired by his lord as a family member, responsible for raiding the Karaqin Department for the lord, and there were dozens of people with him, including Han Chinese, Kunlun Nu and Hongmaofan,

He didn't know where his lord had found these people, but he had to admit that they were outlaws who only knew money, and did not hesitate to travel hundreds of miles to harass the Mongol tribes for their high salaries.

Xin Qingdong himself became an outlaw, because he found that plundering people and livestock for his employers was more profitable than working, although there were also dangers, such as being surrounded by some tribal cavalry.

But for more wealth, he can only choose to be a mercenary of the lord and plunder people and animals for the lord.

There were even more powerful merchant groups and individuals who specialized in the occupation of plundering people, snatching the herdsmen of the various Mongolian tribes and selling them to other trade groups in need of labor at high prices to make a profit.

In order to meet the primitive accumulation of capital, he naturally had to keep forging ahead, relying on the plundering of a large number of cheap labor and obtaining a large amount of land to meet his needs for expanding the scale of production.

The steam industrial revolution in Kannai has begun.

A large number of new industries and new things are constantly emerging, and the value of social wealth is constantly increasing, but it is also accompanied by the collapse of a large number of backward industries and the increase in labor costs and land costs in the customs area, so more and more businessmen have to shift the direction of pursuing interests to outside the customs area, and even have to use the most barbaric methods to obtain more capital benefits.

Therefore, although the Karaqin Department did not dare to provoke the Ming Dynasty again after the failure of the sneak attack on Qingsong County, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty would still take the initiative to provoke him, and even the Ming army would take the initiative to provoke them.

After Chen Zilong arrived in Qingsong County, he immediately ordered to eradicate the bandit-like Karaqin Tribe, the reason was naturally that the Karaqin Department dared to surrender to Qingsong County and blatantly provoked the military might of the Ming Dynasty.

After learning of the defeat of the 2,000 cavalry, the Khan of the Karaqin tribe, Polo Huli, did not dare to provoke the Ming army again, so he had to move his tribe farther away.

Even Polo Huli was afraid of being retaliated against by the Ming Dynasty, and sent people to the Ming Dynasty, hoping to submit to the Ming Dynasty, willing to respect the Ming Dynasty as the master, and did not want to be the enemy of the Ming Dynasty.

But the envoy was intercepted by Chen Zilong, and Chen Zilong, as the governor of Monan, had a very tough attitude, not only killed the envoy sent by the Karaqin tribe, but also said that if other tribes dared to take in the Karaqin tribe, he Chen Zilong would be exterminated together.

Chen Zilong's attitude is in line with the current interests of the Ming Dynasty, so the merchant group and the people are actively supporting him, and the most direct embodiment of this support is that the imperial court supports him.

Chen Zilong, as the supreme commander of the First Army of Monan, began to lead this second-rate army of the Ming Dynasty that had just been formed to conquer the Karaqin Department.

The Monan army was accompanied by merchant groups, and Chen Zilong encouraged them to continue plundering the means of production in areas that were not considered by the Ming Dynasty, and said that as long as they had plundered the population and wealth themselves, they would recognize the legitimacy of their possession.

As a result, since the twenty-fourth year of Chongzhen, the entire grassland of Monan can be seen everywhere Ming army or Han armed merchant groups of all sizes haunted everywhere, frantically sweeping the entire Monan, the small tribes were directly wiped out, and the large tribes were beaten to the ground and had to choose to migrate to farther places.

There are also a few relatively large Mongolian tribes who dare to unite to confront the Monan Army, but although the Monan Army is a second- or third-rate army of the Ming Dynasty, it is also very well-armed, and it is supported by a large number of consortiums behind it, and the Mongolian cavalry is still not their opponent, and basically only has a crushing defeat.

In the pace of the armed march of the Monan Army and the merchant group, it was accompanied by the continuous expansion of the Ming territory, more and more merchant groups and people went out of the customs, and began to have their own territory in this vast grassland, and trade began to gradually extend to these places, banks and casinos and green 0 floors began to rise in the desert.

The 2nd Corps of the 2nd Army and Li Dingguo, the main forces of the Guards, were at the forefront of the territory, and soon after occupying Qingsong County, they occupied the ancient city and then the Luanhe River.

Now, they have arrived at Kaipingwei.

(End of chapter)