During the preparation period, more than 200 small rafts pulled by Song Nan from the Xiya ferry port were finally put to use, and the sheepskin rafts and small wooden boats could only transport less than 2,000 soldiers across the river at a time. But fortunately, the Dusitu River and the Yellow River are not the same, and at the ferry on the west side of Lake Bulong, even if the Tartars have destroyed the wharf for crossing the river, these little sheepskin fellers can still enter the water at any point.

Under the cover of night, more than 2,000 Ming troops rowed boats and rafts along the gentle river towards the opposite bank; Fifty or sixty paces nearer to the opposite side, a trumpet was heard, torches lit up on the opposite bank, and countless figures of Tartars appeared on the bank of the river, and in an instant, they shot towards the surface of the river like arrows.

Jiang Bin on the south bank jumped to his feet and scolded, the Tartars were really unwilling to be lightly crossed by the Ming army, the peace and tranquility in the evening were all illusions, as soon as night fell, the Tartars gathered from their hiding places to the opposite side of the river bank, and began to block the Ming army.

Ma Ming, who was the first to take the lead, beat a large drum violently on a small boat, and the drum clattered, and all the soldiers on the river raised their large wooden shields to block the rain of arrows. The Tartars clearly expected this, and the second round of the rain of arrows was the rockets coated with mutton fat and ignited, the arrows squeaked and burned on the rafts and wooden shields, and the air was filled with a pungent scorching smell, and more than a dozen sheepskin rafts caught fire, and the soldiers on them had to turn over and jump into the icy river to avoid the fire.

Jiang Bin's mouth was full of foul language, a stack of voices urging Zhang Ning to release the cannon, Zhang Ning immediately ordered, more than a dozen multiple rocket guns immediately aimed at the cannon on the opposite bank, after a shout, the rocket artillery began to breathe fire, dragging the small cannonball with a fiery red tail across the river only a hundred steps wide and exploded in the shadowy Tartar figures on the opposite bank, and suddenly the mud and grass clippings and gravel flew all over the sky, accompanied by a violent explosion, dozens of steps near the river surface fell a torrential rain of stones and mud, falling into the river water with a sneering sound, The Ming troops on more than a dozen rafts near the shore were smashed on their heads and bled out.

Ma Ming shouted and scolded: "Row back, stupid, still look ahead, looking for death?" ”

The raft on which the Ming army crossed the river quickly moved away, and at the same time the explosion on the opposite bank continued, and the rocket artillery only fired three rounds, but even if a dozen or so eighty-one rocket launchers fired only three rounds, it was enough to dump thousands of small shells on the land on the other bank, and in the face of such ferocious firearms suppression, the Tartars on the opposite bank disappeared almost in an instant.

After the rockets stopped bombing, 1,800 Ming soldiers climbed onto the riverbank on the steaming tidal flats of the river. The fleeing Tartars turned back to fight again, and suddenly it was dark and dreary, and only the sound of starlight on the other side of the river shook the sky.

The raft returned quickly, and the second group of Ming troops landed on the other side of the 6 places after a stick of incense, but the shouts and killings on the other side suddenly became scarce, and the more than 1,000 Ming troops of the batch almost did not pay any casualties, and then killed the Tartars who surrounded them; The footsteps of the Tartars running away on the grassland gradually drifted away, and the Ming army did not dare to chase after them, so they had to make a defensive posture in situ, allowing groups of Ming troops to cross the river from the opposite bank; After that, there was no more fighting, and all the Tartars disappeared.

It took more than two hours for more than 20,000 forward soldiers and horses to cross the river, and the warning range on the opposite bank had been expanded to a radius of fifteen miles, but there were no more Tartar soldiers and horses. It took a lot of time to transport the rocket artillery across the river, and several rafts could be put together to carry the weight of a rocket launcher, and a lot of time was wasted on this, until it was dawn, and the more than 40,000 soldiers and horses of the forward army and the Chinese army all stepped on the grass on the north bank of the Dusitu River.

As soon as the sky dawned, a question that lingered in everyone's hearts was also solved, why the Tartars were so vulnerable, and the reason why more than a thousand Ming troops killed them back, and even the reason why they never came to the battle again was revealed; The corpses lying on the ground are the answer.

These were not regular Tartar soldiers at all, they were all Tartar civilians dressed in ordinary herdsmen's clothes, and among the corpses were women with turbans and children in their teens. The bows and arrows used are also homemade hunting bows and arrows, and the styles are varied.

Song Nan came to the conclusion that the bald man had given up the defense here, but the thousands of herdsmen here were frightened by the arrival of the Ming army, and organized themselves to block the Ming army, but they were beaten by the firearms of the Ming army and the regular soldiers and horses of the Ming army, and then fled overnight.

Song Nan didn't have time to think about these things, he was anxious to do what he wanted to do, so he personally led the team and led a pro-army hundred-person team to sweep the Tartar herdsmen living on the grassland within a radius of dozens of miles.

However, what made Song Nan vomit blood angrily was that all the tents of the Tatars were empty, and there was a terrible scene in the sheepfold, all the cattle, sheep and horses fell in a pool of blood, and even the little lamb the size of a palm was killed. Worthless bedding, utensils, and other items were thrown into the fire and burned.

More than 6,000 soldiers and horses were sent out to search for property, but in the end, only a few dozen sheep and a dozen old cattle were brought back; It is said that these cattle and sheep are still seen on the grassland, not in the sheepfold of herdsmen, and they may have escaped alive if they were lost, otherwise they would not have escaped death.

The soldiers of the whole army are happy, the dead beef and mutton are still very fresh, tens of thousands of people have eaten with open stomachs, Song Nan is sitting on the grass with a leg of mutton in his hand and gnawing fiercely with a gloomy face, very unhappy in his heart, according to this posture, the Tartars are unwilling to leave a little material for themselves, is this still a fart? What to do with that asshole of debt?

The soldiers and horses rested for a while, Wan Zhi in order to make Song Nan feel better, he personally led the personal guards and cavalry to search in the mountains and forests under the cliffs around Bulong Lake and even in the temples and houses by the lake, and finally captured dozens of herdsmen who were hiding, and also swept away several lama temples on the shore of Bulong Lake, and snatched a small basket of gold-plated or silver-plated magic weapons.

The captured Tartar herdsmen provided important information, and as early as yesterday, the Great Khan in the Wuhai Great Tent sent people to urge the herdsmen to evacuate to the north; The soldiers and horses of the Etok tribe on the east side also retreated to Wuhai for fear of being attacked by the Ming army, and some of the herdsmen here could not bear to abandon here, so they organized their own resistance, which was actually not the order of the Great Khan at all.

Song Nan was amazed at the fierceness of the Tatars, their Great Khan had driven them into dire straits, and it was a bit strange that they still chose to fight alongside him. But from another point of view, this matter is actually very reasonable, whether it is the Ming army or some other soldiers and horses, violating the territory they think is their hometown, breaking their peaceful life, they will naturally rise up to resist. It's just that they don't want to realize it at all, this place doesn't belong to them in the first place, they live on someone else's territory.

Song Nan made a decision that even he hesitated for a long time, since the Tartars have all the soldiers, then there is no need to be polite to them, if they look at ordinary herdsmen, they will suffer a big loss, after all, these people have bows and arrows in their tents, these things are in hand, they are soldiers and horses that can kill, even if they have no combat power, they will cause casualties of the Ming army, and the more than 200 Ming troops killed and wounded when crossing the river is an example.

"From today onwards, as long as you see a Tartar with a weapon, whether it is a civilian or a soldier, you will not be killed." Song Nan gritted his teeth and gave this order, he knew that mercy was a luxury here, and all the people standing on this land did not deserve this luxury, when an ordinary herdsman knew how to pick up a bow and arrow to shoot the Ming army, and knew how to kill his own cattle and sheep without leaving any supplies for the Ming army, they were already damned people.

In view of knowing that most of the herdsmen and Etuoke's tribal soldiers had shrunk to Wuhai, Song Nan knew that the intention of Bald Mengke must be to use the defense system that Wuhai Town had operated for many years to block the pace of the Ming army, and there might be a fierce battle in Wuhai.

Wuhai is only more than 130 miles away from here, and the march on the flat grassland is also very fast, Song Nan simply ordered the whole army to rest, until Meimei slept well, until the sky was full of stars, the army began to move; If nothing else, you can reach the front of Wuhai Town before noon tomorrow.

But what Song Nan didn't expect at all was that this night's march was so difficult, starting from less than two hours after starting out and marching less than forty miles, along the way, there were constantly small groups of Tartar cavalry on the flanks of the army began to harass, relying on the advantage of cavalry mobility, harassing the Ming army with arrows and birds.

Later, after more than 200 soldiers were killed and wounded, Song Nan decisively ordered to stop advancing, camped on the spot and waited for dawn before leaving, and ordered the archers and firecrackers to strictly guard the flanks and strike at the harassing forces of the Tartars.

But shortly after encampment, the harassing soldiers of the Tartars disappeared and were never seen once.

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