Inside and outside Mashi Fort, the fire guns were still roaring, and the Mongols were still resisting.

In the Mashi Fort, there are a lot of corpses, and there are corpses of people and horses everywhere. There were Mongols and Han Chinese, and there were merchant men who traded with the Mongols, three or four hundred people, who became the ghosts of the Mongols.

On the city wall, looking at the indifferent Hong Chengchou, Xu Xianchun sighed secretly, and unconsciously distanced himself from Hong Chengchou.

Now, Xu Xianchun has a full understanding of the ruthlessness of civil officials......

In this opening of the horse market, Hong Chengchou gave the business to the merchants of Zhangjiakou on the grounds that the royal business was not prepared. In the last big raid, not all merchants' warehouses found contraband, and three or four percent of the warehouses did not find anything.

Hong Chengchou did not seal down these warehouses, but promised them that they could continue to participate in the horse market trade in the future. This trade was dominated by these merchants. These people originally thought they would make a lot of money, but they didn't expect to be killed by Hong Chengchou as bait!

After this battle, Hong Chengchou booby-trapped and killed tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers, and eliminated the future competitors of the royal firm, and since then the royal firm has monopolized the trade of Zhangjiakou horse market, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

However, behind the huge achievements, there are hundreds of innocent lives, and Xu Xianchun, who is used to killing, also feels quite uncomfortable.

Hong Chengchou naturally didn't know what Xu Xianchun thought, but was paying attention to the entire battlefield and issuing orders from time to time.

Under the command of Hong Chengchou, the Mongolian cavalry that rushed out of the horse market was shot by the firecrackers, and the Mongolian cavalry that occasionally escaped from the horse rejection array ushered in the siege and killing of Huang Degong's cavalry.

Seeing that they were cornered, many Mongolian cavalry had to dismount and kneel to surrender.

In the evening, as the Qaraqin Khan and his cavalry left, the fighting in the horse market also stopped, and the battle finally ended.

Thousands of Mongol captives were taken to surrounding forts and imprisoned, and Ming soldiers began to clean up the battlefield.

In this battle, the Ming army beheaded more than 6,000 people, captured more than 4,000 Mongolian soldiers, captured more than 4,000 horses, more than 10,000 cattle and sheep, and thousands of horses were killed by firearms, bows and arrows, and could only be cut and eaten meat. The captured war horses alone are enough to form a cavalry battalion, which can be described as a huge gain.

The Ming army also suffered more than 1,000 casualties, of which more than 500 were killed, more than half of them were businessmen and men in the horse market, and most of the wounded were arrow wounds, and they could continue to fight after a period of recuperation. Of course, these casualties are nothing compared to the huge results.

After the statistics of the battle results were clear, Hong Chengchou immediately wrote a report of victory, ordered people to ride fast horses to Xuanhua City, and at the same time asked for instructions on the next movements, and asked Zhu Youzhen for an order to lead the army out of the fortress to attack the old nest of the Karaqin Department.

"Futai, Fan Yongdou and his son have been caught!" Suddenly, a soldier came to report.

"It's closed, and wait for the court to ask about the crime." Hong Chengchou commanded, and he was in no mood to pay attention to the two traitor businessmen who were about to die.

"The herald orders that the soldiers and commissioners of each battalion will count the list of meritorious soldiers as soon as possible, and I will ask for rewards for all the soldiers in front of His Majesty." Hong Chengchou ordered.

Xuanhua City, looking at the report documents sent by Hong Chengchou, Zhu Youzhen laughed.

Annihilated more than 10,000 Mongolian elite soldiers in World War I, this battle can be described as brilliant!

"Congratulations, Your Majesty." Zhou Yuji, who was by Zhu Youzhen's side, congratulated Zhou Yuji at the same time, Zhou Yuji also had some regrets, he didn't participate in such a big battle.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty!" Hou Shilu and other Xuanfu civil and military officials also congratulated Zhu Youzhen.

From Hong Chengchou's raid of the warehouses in Zhangjiakou, to the siege of Zhangjiabao by the Xuanfu rebels, and then to the great battle with the Mongols, in just over 20 days, so many things have happened, which makes Hou Shilu and others sigh.

And Hong Chengchou with 6,000 Praetorian Guards, more than 10,000 Zhangjiakou defenders, plus hundreds of cavalry, actually annihilated 11,000 Mongolian elites, such a big result, it is simply breathtaking. For the strong combat power of the Praetorian Guard, all Xuanfu civil and military forces were in awe.

"Governor Hong asked for instructions to lead his troops out of the fortress to attack the Karaqin lair, what do you generals think?" Zhu Youzhen asked.

"The Karaqin tribe was defeated by the Chahar tribe not long ago, and now it has suffered another great defeat, and its troops have suffered great losses and demoralization, and it is the time for the plough pavilion to sweep the holes. Your Majesty, the minister is willing to follow the tail wing of Governor Hong and lead the troops out of the border wall to destroy the Mongols. Hou Shilu pleaded.

"The ministers are willing to bow down to the tail of the governor and go out of the border wall to destroy Mongolia." Others shouted.

Zhou Yuji also wanted to fight, but thinking of the duty of guarding the emperor, he opened his mouth and did not make a sound.

"Since you all think that you can fight, then let Governor Hong go on the expedition." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile.

"However, before setting out on the expedition, we must first distribute the rewards for meritorious soldiers in this battle." Zhu Youzhen continued, "According to the report, the Mongolian Karaqin Department used more than 20,000 horsemen this time, of which more than 11,000 attacked the border wall, beheaded more than 6,000, and captured more than 4,000. In this case, the battle exploits should be calculated according to the 11,000 heads. Each head was rewarded with 20 taels of silver, a total of 220,000 taels of silver, and Hong Chengchou was ordered to distribute the silver as soon as possible. ”

The so-called reward is not overdue, if you want to gather morale to attack, you must distribute the reward as soon as possible, fortunately, the Jin merchants seized a large amount of silver, and you can take out a sum of money to reward.

"As for the list of soldiers to be promoted, Hong Chengchou will report it as soon as possible." Zhu Youzhen continued.

After this battle, the combat effectiveness of the Praetorian Guard was widely known, and no one in Xuanfu would dare to disagree. If they can defeat the Karaqin Department, the military might of the Ming army will be scattered throughout the Monan grassland.

The reason why he had to attack the Karaqin Department was that Hong Chengchou also made it clear in his request for life. The Karaqin tribe was first defeated by Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar Department, and then defeated by the Ming army, and there was no place in the grassland north of Xuanfu, and in order to protect itself, it was very likely that they would defect to Jiannu in the east.

Attacking the Karaqin Department now is tantamount to cutting off Jiannu's arm.

As for Chahar Lindan Khan, who replaced the Karaqin tribe, he had been hostile to Jiannu for many years, and would not take refuge in Jiannu no matter what.

Therefore, for the current Ming Dynasty, it is necessary to abandon the Karaqin and other ministries that were the objects of tribute in the past, and instead form an alliance with the Chahar Ministries to fight against Jiannu.

Although Lin Dan Khan was driven away from his hometown in Lingnan and Liaoxi by Jiannu, if he had the support of the Ming Dynasty and his annexation and integration of Tumut, Ordos and other departments, he might not be able to compete with Jiannu.

Zhu Youzhen immediately ordered Hou Shilu to lead the 8,000 defenders of Xuanhua City to Zhangjiakou and obey Hong Chengchou's dispatch. Hong Chengchou was ordered to lead 6,000 Praetorian Guard infantry, 1,000 Praetorian cavalry, and 20,000 Xuanfu troops, a total of 27,000 troops, to attack the Karaqin Department three days later.