Mingzhu's urgent military suggestion, Wu Dan, did not have time to Chen Chen to Kangxi. In the early morning of the second day, Suo Etu hurried back from the Feiyang Ancient Army, convened a meeting of guards as a minister of the interior, conveyed Kangxi's decision at night, and ordered Wu Danli to go to Nanjing, and ordered Jackie Chan to urge Cao Yun to go north. When Wu Dan was leaving, he only conveyed Mingzhu's words to Suo Etu and rode away. Kangxi's military affairs were complicated, and he was ten times busier than when he was in the capital, and he ordered all the armies to tighten the encirclement and approach Jingfeng Huanggang Mountain, but he couldn't think of blocking the escape route. He was also in charge of the errand of raising salaries from all walks of life, and only urged Yu Chenglong in Nanjing, Tang Renhui in Henan, and Ge Li in Shaanxi to mobilize water boats and land vehicles to transport grain, meat, and vegetables to supply the 140,000 troops gathered on the front line of Ulan Butong.

In the middle of the month, the Qing soldiers, under the command of Feiyanggu, successively conquered the cities of Linxi, Hot Water Pond, Shuichengzi, and Shanggongdi. The wolf led the Karaqin Left Banner to occupy the Huanggangshan fortress. Geerdan's 20,000 men and horses were all compressed in the valleys of Jingfeng and Ulan Butong Peaks. Gerdan was extremely panicked when he lost his natural dangers one after another, but he knew in his heart that as long as he gave the order to retreat, he would collapse when the Qing army, which was five times his size, surrounded and neutralized. Fortunately, at this time, the Rakshasa sent a letter saying that Lieutenant General Zakharov would be sent to bring 3,000 Cossacks to reinforcements within half a month, and the Tibetan soldiers of ** also rushed to Kobdo and were marching towards Ulan Butong day and night. These were two doses of stimulants, and Geldan felt bold, so he ordered a temporary "camel city" to be built in Jingfeng, and vowed to fight to the death with the Qing soldiers here.

The so-called "camel city" was used by the Mongols when they destroyed the Song Dynasty. That is, the camels were lined up in a city circle to defend the siege. The camel is known as the "ship of the desert", and it lies still when it encounters a strong wind, and it is wonderful to use this characteristic of the camel to form a temporary camel city in the battle array. At the order of Geldan, all the thirteen,000 camels used to transport the baggage were gathered under Jingfeng, and lay down around the camp, with stacks on their backs, and the felt was covered tightly with water, and the three hundred musketeers lay behind the camel array, and the ten thousand archers stood on the high slope behind them.

Feiyanggu and Soetu rode around in front of the camel formation, and when they returned to the camp in Bahrain, it was already dawn. Suo Etu looked very excited, drinking hot milk, talking and laughing with Tong Guogang, and said to Feiyang Gu: "This kind of Luo array is not afraid, I have ordered someone to set up all forty-three red-clothed cannons in front today, and it will not take two hours to tear apart his camel formation, and his whole army will be chaotic without a fight!" Feiyanggu listened but did not speak, closed his eyes and half-leaned back on the chair as if he was asleep. Suo Etu smiled and said to Tong Guogang, "Look at our handsome, we have committed the problem of sleepy insects again!" ”

Tong Guogang smiled and said closely: "Marshal, today's battle must be won, and it is already a last resort, what are you still thinking about?" ”

"What the Holy One wants is that nothing slips through the net, and it is not a must-win!" Feiyang Gu Huo Ran opened his eyes, and his expression became extremely grim, "Geldan is not an idle person. I think he is using a camel formation to block our army, covering his Chinese army to flee to the northwest! Otherwise, why was his most elite Musar battalion not in front, but set up to the west of Jingfeng? You know, Musar was in charge of guarding him! The artillery can't be used all on the front, at least half of it has to be transferred to the northwest! ”

Suo Etu also sank his face and said, "You are also too worried!" At this level, I also thought that the road to Kobdo in the northwest was either barren grassy flats, swamps, or desert seas. He really escaped, what did our light cavalry do, did our horses run slower than theirs? There are few cannons, if you can't attack head-on, Geldan doesn't have to flee at all, and this battle will be a confrontation, how can you give an account to the emperor? Feiyang Gu pondered for a moment and said, "I only blame me for having no way to schedule, and I didn't see it earlier." In the past few days, I can draw some troops from the wolf's head to hold the northwest. At this time, I think that the most important thing is not to let the tiger return to the mountain, and it doesn't matter if you fight here for a few more days. Suo Etu sneered: "What are you talking about? It's just stupid! As long as the Rakshasa Kingdom knows that Geldan and we are tied, they will immediately reinforce it, and the war will spread, and maybe it will ruin Nebuchu's new treaty. If the overall situation of the court is broken, you will bear this responsibility? ”

He assumed the identity of the assistant politician in the study, with bones and thorns, and he was extremely heavy. Feiyanggu deeply regretted that when Kangxi sent Suo Etu to come, he did not ask for an order to hand over the command of the whole army to him. Now it's good, the battle has won the Suo Etu Jugong, and there is no fault in the trouble of asking for the Etu! After thinking for a long time, Feiyanggu bit his lip and said: "Zhongtang, it's not that I refute your face, the forty-three cannons are all used on the front, which is inappropriate." Geldan has also fought a defeat in the Western Regions, this person has ** and Rakshasa funding behind him, and he recovers very quickly, and escaping is a scourge! ”

"Then transfer ten cannons." Suo Etu also thought about it carefully, after all, this controversy can't be hidden from Kangxi, if there is really negligence, Kangxi will be intolerable, because he said, "Ten cannons are enough." ”

Feiyang Gu held back his anger and ordered to transfer ten red-clothed cannons. After noon, he and Suo Etu stopped and crossed the Xilamulun River and came to the front of the battle. At this moment, the left-wing staff general Nian Qianyao, and the right-wing Tong Guogang each led 10,000 infantry troops and 5,000 cavalry, with swords unsheathed and arrows wound, just waiting for an order to go out. Fei Yanggu called the two of them, and commanded with a cruel smile: "The camel formation first bombarded with artillery, opened a gap, and immediately rushed in to divide the battalions of Geldan. Guogang, with you as the main leader, capturing Geldan is the first achievement! If you escape, I won't care what your brother is the minister of the study!" With that, he waved the blood-red flag in his hand.

Thirty-three red-coated cannons immediately roared angrily, missiles carrying thick smoke and flashing fire flew towards the enemy formation, and more than a thousand shotgunners stood in front of the formation and fired fiercely at the enemy formation at Jingfeng. Almost at the same time, the three hundred musketeers in Geldan's formation also fired at the Qing army. Although they did not have artillery, the Russian-style muskets were indeed much better than those of the Qing army, with a long range and good accuracy, and concentrated their firepower to attack the gunners, and more than 40 gunners in the Qing army had already died of bullets. Thanks to the fact that Feiyanggu is equipped with more gunners per gun, if it is equipped according to the usual practice, it will be ten dumb guns. At this moment, the battle of guns and artillery is fierce, under Jingfeng, the cannon sound on the bank of the Xilamulun River rumbles, shaking the earth violently, several fires under Jingfeng, crackling in the north wind, the thick smoke and yellow dust on the battlefield go straight to the sky, the sound of killing and drums are endless, very tense and terrifying.

But Gerdan's camel formation was not attacked. The difficulty is that the camel is alive, and several times the gap in the front explosion is blown, and the camel is blown to the flesh and blood, and immediately there is a driver to adjust and fill it. It wasn't until the end of the day that Feiyang Guming concentrated his fire on the west flank and called the shotgunners to concentrate on shooting the pilots, which worked. The opposite side of the left flank of the Qing army was finally torn open a large gap of 30 zhang, and then the front was also opened. Feiyanggu's eyes were red, and he shouted: "The seven-foot husband's achievements are at this moment, brothers, kill!" Nian Qianyao and Tong Guogang, a white helmet and silver robe, and a silver-red cloak, lightly touched the spurs and galloped out like projectiles. Tens of thousands of Qing soldiers immediately dismounted and shouted in unison. When the horn of the Geldan battalion was neutral, the horn sounded sharply, and more than 10,000 cavalry poured out of front of the formation, and the bank of the Xilamulun River immediately presented a bloody battle of hand-to-hand combat!

Although Geldan had few cavalry, they were all Mongolian warriors selected from the nomadic tribes of the Western Regions. The Qing soldiers have been training for many years, and they have formed formations to rush and kill, advance and retreat in a controlled manner, and the killing is indistinguishable. Cannons and shotguns were useless at this time, and the people on the battlefield were all like blood gourds, and they only used braids and no braids as symbols. The horses neighed and rushed back and forth, sabers and sabers advancing each other, sparks shooting in all directions. The severed heads were kicked around by human feet and horses' hooves, and the bubbling blood became pools of blood, gradually solidifying and purple. This hand-to-hand combat has not been killed from time to time, and it has not been slackened. Feiyanggu looked back at Suo Etu, who was a person who had come from the sea of blood in the mountains of soldiers, and at this moment he was also clenched with his fists and his face pale. Feiyang Guluo groaned, and suddenly shouted:

"The emperor has arrived, long live the warriors who have come to visit me! Hooray! ”

When the Qing soldiers heard this shout, they went even more crazy, waving their swords at the enemy and fighting hard. While shouting "long live", he slashed and chopped hard. Geldan's soldiers were already outnumbered, and after three stops and two stops, he became more and more discouraged at this moment, and when Geldan saw that he could not support it, he shouted "return to the army" and fled to Musar's camp. On the battlefield, the Qing soldiers surrounded the remaining 3,000 enemy regiments in front of the battle, cut down the melon celle, and killed none of them in less than half a meal, and then rushed into the base camp of Gerdan, and the enemy camp was neutral and lit with a raging fire.

"Order, Nian Qianyao went west, blocked his way to the west, and ordered Tong Guogang to immediately attack Musar's camp!" Feiyang Gu said sharply, "If there is a delay, cut it immediately!" With that, he loosened the reins, and as soon as the spurs touched, the jujube horse galloped west without waiting for the whip to be raised. Suo Etu and the Chinese guards knew that he was going to personally command the capture of Musar Dazhai, and they followed with a flick of the reins.

After the defeat of Geldan's battalion, the rest of the battle continued, and the Mongols preferred to die rather than give in, although they lost their formation, they still fought for themselves in the night, and in the darkness they slashed with swords, and countless people died. Geldan's 600 Chinese soldiers forgot their lives and finally escaped to the camp of his son-in-law Musar. Geldan used to hate Musar for watching the fire from the other side, but now he is glad to have this temporary resting place. Seeing that her father was wounded in the leg and came back covered in blood, Xiao Zhen didn't feel miserable, and hurriedly went up with her husband to support Geerdan, and rested on the chair, Geerdan woke up from the panic, thinking that the whole army would be wiped out in one day, and the destiny of heaven was over the year but nothing was accomplished, and the dismal business of the past was in vain, and she didn't feel sad from it, so she stood up and looked up to the sky and laughed wildly: "Hahahaha...... I can't believe that I have today! Suddenly, he howled and beat his chest. When the people in the tent saw him so sad, they wept bitterly.

"I heard my daughter's words earlier, why did I have today?" Xiao Zhen hid her face and said with tears in her eyes, "Which of those Rakshasa people is faithful?" The Great Khan listened to them! If like the kings of Mobei and Eastern Mongolia, Anfen for Bogda Khan to guard the Western Domain......"

"Now is not the time to complain!" Musar cut off his wife's words, the Mongolian long boots stepped on the chair, pressed the waist knife and frowned, and said, "Father, you know, I don't agree with your crusade, Bogda Khan didn't go to hurt us, attacking Eastern Mongolia, it was brothers killing each other, so I only promised to protect your life - now I fulfill my promise, I will lead people to defend here, you ...... Let's escape with Jane. It's just that when I die, I have a word to advise. Return to your homeland to recuperate, slowly make peace with the court, and don't come again...... Hit! ”

Geldan raised his head suddenly, stared at Musar for a long time, and sighed: "It's not that I don't do my best, it's that God doesn't allow me to restore the world of the Great Mongolian Eight Pillars and One Universe!" I ......," he swallowed discouragedly, "I'm tired and old, and I'll never do anything like this again......"

Then everyone discussed the plan to break through. But it is not easy to break through, tens of thousands of Qing soldiers have surrounded Jingfeng like an iron bucket, and it can be expected that the wolf's army is outflanking the northwest at the same time, and there will be ten cannons to block it as soon as the camp comes out!

"You have to slow down his morale!" Geldan has fought all his life, in the end, he is scheming, "The front of the village is pretended, we break through from the back village, when the Qing soldiers wake up, they are already beyond the reach of the whip!" ”

Musar blushed and muttered silently, the defeat was already humiliating, and he raised the white flag to surrender again, unlike the heroes of Mongolia. After thinking about it for a long time, there was no better way, so he had to gasp heavily: "Okay, you go first, I'll cut it off!" ”

The white flag was raised in the Geldan battalion, and the Qing army camp was immediately thunderous. At this time, it was already midnight, and thousands of torches were lit by the two opposing camps, illuminating the land as if it were day. Feiyanggu is a little difficult, Kangxi has an order not to refuse to surrender, so he can't attack, but at this moment the encirclement has not been completely closed, in case it is a fake surrender, how can the crime of arsonance be deserved? While he was groaning, Suo Etu pointed to the gate of the village and said, "Someone has come out to speak, it must be Musar!" Nian Qianyao and Tong Guogang didn't speak, just looked at Feiyanggu and waited for him to give an order.

"Is the general over there Feiyanggu?" Musar shouted, "We are not fighting, we are going to surrender!" Ask someone to discuss the conditions! ”

Suo Etu thought for a while, and at this moment he didn't answer, and he didn't have any credit for himself, because he urged the horse to take a few steps forward, and replied: "I'm Suo Etu, the minister of the upper study!" Musar, since you have surrendered, of course you should send people, and I will guarantee that I will not be harmed! ”

"There are a lot of Han people over there, and they are all insidious and treacherous!" Musar tried to delay as much time as possible, recounting the experiences of the Mongols who had been deceived since the end of the Ming Dynasty," ...... It's still you, we can't trust you! ”

Suo Etu looked back at Feiyanggu and asked, "What should I do?" Feiyang Gu knew his mind very well, and also felt that it was appropriate for him to take this kind of thing, so as not to be unable to afford it, so he said: "Please ask Zhongtang to preside over this matter." "Okay," Suo Etu bowed his head and pondered for a moment, and said, "Guogang, your identity is suitable, you can go for a trip." ”

"Wow!" Tong Guogang agreed, took two retinues and galloped towards the enemy camp. Seeing that he had just arrived at the gate of the camp, suddenly the cannons roared from the west, and a cavalry rushed in a panic, and the herald did not have time to salute, so he tightened his neighing horse and said, "Great commander! Hundreds of people rushed out of the back village! ”

"Surrender!" Feiyang Gu's heart sank, and he exclaimed, "Guogang, come back quickly, quickly!" ”

But it was too late, it was fast, and Tong Guogang, who had just woken up, had not time to turn the horse's head, and the crossbow arrows and muskets in the village were fired. Poor Tong Guogang had just come out of the mountain, and after less than a year as a general, he shot like a hedgehog and fell to the ground and died.

"Smash his camp!" Suo Etu was furious, drew his sword in his hand, and roared, "Capture Musar alive and avenge General Tong!" In fact, before he could give the order, the angry Qing army had already swarmed up. In an instant, the entire row of wooden fences was torn down, and the earth-shattering shouts of killing were so deafening that they couldn't even hear the other side talking. Feiyang Gu saw Nian Qianyao escorting Musar, who was tied up like rice dumplings, and spat on his face, and scolded angrily: "Bastard! Don't chase Goldan yet! ”

Nian Qianyao is a person who wants to fight for face, he was insulted in public, and he had nowhere to be angry, he looked back at Musar, mentioned it, and said viciously: "Ye Ling cut you!" ”

"Slow!"

Someone behind him suddenly shouted a command, and when everyone looked back, it was Kangxi who came to the front of the battle.

Kangxi didn't pay any attention to Nian Qianyao, patted Musar's sturdy shoulder, and ordered: "Untie him." Seeing that everyone had dismounted and prostrated to the ground, he asked Feiyang Gudao: "You have placed cannons on the west flank, which shows that you have anticipated Geldan's escape, why don't you put more of them?" If you make a feint attack in the west, you won't escape from Gerdan! Suo Etu's face immediately turned pale, for fear that Feiyanggu would tell the truth in front of him, and this responsibility would be serious. But Feiyanggu didn't dare, he only glanced at Suo Etu aggrievedly, kowtowed and replied in a trembling voice: "It's always the slave who doesn't do a good job, and he lets go of the culprit and the evil, and asks the master to ...... Condemn ......" Kangxi thought for a while, walked to Musar's side, and said in Mongolian: "Each is his master, there is a testament in ancient times: victory is not enough to be arrogant, defeat is not enough to humiliate, I pity you are a Mongolian hero and iron man, let you go, you go!" ”

"What!" Musal was stunned, his lips twitched, and he said after a while: "...... Let me go? ”

"Yes, let you go." Kangxi said indifferently, "Go back and persuade your subordinates not to be enemies of the imperial court anymore, don't listen to Geldan anymore, and be born in the Western Regions to defend the domain." You have all seen it, 25,000 of you have died, and more than 10,000 of us have died, and they all have wives and children, parents and families. ”

Mussar suddenly wept bitterly, muttered in Mongolian for a while, mounted his horse and rode away, and disappeared into the darkness of the night in the blink of an eye.

"I can't blame Feiyang Gu completely, I also have miscalculations." Kangxi said. His eyes looked at the dark and dreary grassland in the distance, and he breathed a sigh of relief, "Now we must determine Geerdan's whereabouts as soon as possible, and we can't relax a single step, and chase them to the end until we get them, and then I can lie in Beijing!" ”

Feiyang Gu kowtowed and said: "This battle has not received all the merits, the responsibility lies with the minister, the minister is willing to take 30,000 light horsemen to chase, within a year can not catch Geerdan, the minister will pay the head to the servant to send back to Beijing, never work again!" Kangxi silently glanced at Suo Etu, Feiyang Gu automatically asked the former enemy to make meritorious service, and he was happy. But at the moment, he has fallen short, does he have no responsibility at all? After a long time, Kangxi Fang said: "I said that I was pro-conscripted, but in fact, I didn't fight a battle. In pursuit of Geldan I personally led 14,000 Chinese troops and pursued fiercely from behind. Feiyanggu led an army of 35,000 troops from the north road to force the march to Kobdo to intercept his back road! ”

"Please," Suo Etu felt that he had been silent for too long, and said busily, "What kind of errand is the servant doing?" ”

"What are you......" Kangxi hesitated, "You and Shiqi will guard the base camp to arrange military salaries." You can't leave without permission. Mingzhu fights with my middle camp! ”

Suo Etu understood the meaning of "not leaving without permission", that is, he was not allowed to return to Beijing. couldn't help but shudder, so he had to kowtow and say: "The minister respectfully obeys the order, and the Ganshan army and horses should be transferred to contain the Tibetan soldiers in Qinghai and cannot help Geerdan." It's just that this place is too far away from the front line, please move the imperial camp to Jining in order to control it? ”

"Yes." Kangxi had no expression on his face, "It's just that you have to be fast, always inquire about the whereabouts of my army, and ensure that the North Road army has food and straw, this is a military aircraft, and I won't tolerate you if you make a mistake!" ”

And so it was settled. Kangxi led the army to pursue head-on, and the Feiyang Ancient Belt North Route Army outflanked and pursued straight to the northwest. Within a few months, the Qing army annihilated more than 10,000 left-behind troops of Geldan in the important towns of Lianke Abahana and Erenhot. In mid-August, the Qing army met at Zhaomoduo and fought fiercely for a day to capture this important village. When examining the captives, it was learned that Geldan had first sent someone to contact Gorovin, but the Rakshasa saw that he was useless, and not only refused to take him in, but also refused to deliver the 1,000 muskets he had promised. Liaison with Huibu and Qinghai, the messenger went like a yellow crane. The commander of the city only said that Geldan was escorted by his daughter, and that he had abandoned the city ten days ago, and no one knew where he had fled.

Upon learning of this, Kangxi immediately convened a military meeting in the lama temple in Zhaomoduo. At this time, Zhang Tingyu and Tong Guowei, who stayed in Beijing, were ordered by the crown prince to hand over the flying folds, saying that the Hui Ministry, Qinghai, Kazakh and other ministries had repaired the imperial court, defected to Geerdan, and called the ministers to pay tribute, ensuring that as soon as Geerdan entered the country, he would be captured and sent to Beijing immediately. Kangxi and Feiyanggu combined: At this moment, Geerdan has no other way out, but to take refuge in ** Lama Sang Jieren.

"If that's true, then it's troublesome." Feiyanggu thought of his more than ten years of preparation, and was ruined by Suo Etu's words, and he really wanted to cry without tears, "Please return to Beijing with the holy driver, at this time, the minister can only reorganize his troops to attack the south of Qinghai!" ”

Kangxi casually flipped through a stack of folds handed over by Beijing, dozens of pieces, all of which were invited by ministers of various ministries and courts to drive back to Luan. Some said: "The barbarians are subdued, and the rule is not cured, and the only way to defend them is to expel them." Some said: "The labor expedition may not be effective." Kangxi looked at it and sneered contemptuously, pushed the file, and said to Feiyang Gu: "Cheer up!" Now that Qinghai is in my hands, it is not easy for Geldan to go to northern Tibet! At best, I see him fleeing to the Tamir River. As long as the Tibetan soldiers can't join him, they will definitely be able to catch him. It can't be said that it has fallen short now, if it really lets the tiger return to the mountain, it will become a big tumor in the Western Regions in a few years! Feiyanggu looked at Kangxi, Kangxi's face was tense, and the stone man was as silent. Feiyang Gu was ashamed and admired in his heart, so he kowtowed and said: "Make the Sacred Heart work like this, and the minister will not be able to excuse himself from death!" Now that the emperor has made up his mind, how dare the minister be afraid of difficulties? Ah Xiu had been waiting by Kangxi's side, and when he saw Kangxi reaching out to touch the cup, he hurriedly poured tea and sent it up, and said: "Long live the Lord concluded that he fled to Tamir, then if he wants to meet Sang Jieren, it will take at least a year!" Winter is coming, Ma Wucao can't march, pounce on him at this time, and you will definitely be able to catch him! ”

"You're right!" Kangxi stood up as soon as he hit the case, his eyes emitted an aggressive light, he thought about it for a while, and wrote before the case:

The general is bold and bold, and the ice spear is a green sword and a frost-bladed knife.

Wait until the day of the triumph of the heavenly soldiers, and take off the battle robe with the general!

looked at it, there were two words "will" in the middle, which seemed to be inappropriate, and he didn't scrutinize it carefully, and handed the ink-drenched paper to Feiyang Gudao: "This is for you!" You still lead the army to outflank from the north road, and I lead the Chinese army to supervise the battle! Today, I will summon the officers of the three armies and above, and I will personally admonish them, and if I do not achieve my goal, I will not give up! ”

Feiyang Gu took the poem with shaking hands, and hot tears poured out like a spring.