Many yurts were still burning, and thick smoke hung over the camp.

Broken knives, broken arrows, fallen herdsmen's corpses, burning yurts, the whole camp was in shambles.

The herdsmen had accepted their fate, and were driven away from the yurt by the Ming army and gathered outside the camp, shivering in the north wind of hunting.

Young men and women were separated, and the herdsmen and men were sad, waiting for their fate.

Killing their adult males and plundering their wives and children has always been a tradition of war among the steppe tribes.

If you are higher than the wheel, you will be killed, and Genghis Khan did this when he conquered the Mongolian Plateau.

Now, we can only rely on the mercy of the Ming army.

However, at present, it seems that the Ming army is quite benevolent and did not massacre, and the Ming army's military doctor even bandaged the wounds of the injured herdsmen, which made the herdsmen of the Karaqin tribe feel a little relieved, and it seems that they do not have to worry about being executed. As for what the Ming people will do with them next, whether they will be taken back as slaves or left to their fate on the grassland, it can only depend on the will of God. It is the rule of the grassland, and it has always been a practice for the defeated to obey the victor.

At present, it seems that the Ming army is still merciful, because Hong Chengchou repeatedly emphasized before the attack that this battle is not based on the first rank, otherwise, these nearly 100,000 Mongolian herdsmen will probably be killed, and the head will be used in exchange for silver.

Is Hong Chengchou merciful? Naturally not.

If necessary, he will not hesitate to order the killing of these nearly 100,000 Mongols!

The problem is that it is not necessary now, but it will cause a lot of trouble.

In the Han cultural tradition, the killing of prisoners is unknown, and most of the people who have slaughtered on a large scale since ancient times did not end well. If Hong Chengchou dares to order the slaughter of these nearly 100,000 Mongolian herdsmen, I am afraid that he will face endless impeachment after returning to the DPRK, and he will not want to enter the cabinet again in this life.

The emperor is now in the Xuanfu, and Hong Chengchou doesn't want to do such a horrific and cruel thing.

And these Mongolian herders are not useless.

The pastoral land of the Karaqin Department is close to Xuanfu, which is greatly influenced by the Ming Dynasty, and it is very easy to sinicize. Mongolian herdsmen are good at riding and shooting, they are the best cavalry, wouldn't it be a pity to slaughter them?

Therefore, Hong Chengchou stopped the commotion of his subordinate generals and announced that he would use the captured cattle and sheep to reward the soldiers, and these Mongolian young women and children needed to be escorted back to Xuanfu and sacrificed to the emperor.

Hearing the sacrifice of the captive, the generals instantly fell silent.

Sending tens of thousands of captives to the emperor is naturally more meritorious than showing the emperor a whole bunch of dirty heads.

Since Hong Chengchou promised a reward, why bother to kill again?

Of course, even if no prisoners were killed, there were enough Karaqin herders dead.

When the Huang De Power Praetorian Cavalry rushed into the camp, they set fire to the people and killed them, and they did not spare any hands. Later, Hong Chengchou personally led the infantry into the camp, and faced the resisting Mongolian herdsmen.

A rough estimate of the number of Karaqin herders burned and killed was at least 20,000 or 30,000, as evidenced by the corpses scattered all over the camp. It was not until after dawn, when the Mongols did not resist anymore and surrendered on their knees, that the killing stopped.

Because the Karaqin Department did not form an organized resistance at all from beginning to end, the casualties of the Ming army were not many, adding up to more than 1,000 casualties, more than 300 were killed in battle, and the rest were lightly wounded.

Compared to this casualty, it is an incomparably huge capture.

Not to mention the tens of thousands of prisoners, there were as many as 20,000 or 30,000 horses captured in this battle alone, of which at least more than 10,000 war horses could be used in battle!

The Ming army came too quickly, and the Ming infantry followed up in a very timely manner, and the attack took place when people slept soundly, and most of the Mongolian herders did not have a chance to run to the stables and get on their horses.

This batch of captured war horses alone is enough to form tens of thousands of cavalry!

In addition to the war horses, a large number of cattle and sheep were also captured. According to rough estimates, more than 10,000 cattle were seized and 100,000 sheep were captured.

In the Karaqin Tribe, the number of people exceeded 100,000, and all the accumulated wealth fell into the hands of the Ming army.

In addition to war horses, cattle and sheep, other wealth is minimal, Mongolian herdsmen lack living materials, there are not many good things in the yurts, most of the yurts can have an iron pot is already great.

Of course, some Mongolian nobles had some good things in their hands, a lot of gold and silver jewelry, and these fell into the hands of the Ming soldiers. Hong Chengchou knew this situation, but he didn't want to investigate it deeply. The soldiers fought hard and had to give them some benefits.

Of course, adultery is strictly prohibited. The army was full of brocade guard spies, and Hong Chengchou commanded tens of thousands of troops for the first time, but he didn't want to leave an impression on the emperor in the rear that the imperial army was not strict.

During the time of going out to conquer outside the Saiwai, Hong Chengchou had a clear feeling that among the troops under his jurisdiction, the Praetorian Guard and the Xuanfu Army were obviously different. Whether it was camping, marching, or going into battle, the Praetorian Guard had everything in order, and there was no need for him, the commander, to worry about it at all. However, the Xuanfu army was completely opposite, the ranks were not in order, the military discipline was scattered, the desire to fight was not high, and many people were still afraid of the Mongols.

and the Karaqin Department fought repeatedly, and in each battle, the Praetorian Guards were in front, relying on the strong combat power of the Praetorian Guards, to achieve this victory.

If all the soldiers under his jurisdiction were Xuanfu soldiers, Hong Chengchou didn't dare to imagine what the consequences would be when he went out on the expedition.

However, the successive victories also made the morale of the Xuanfu soldiers high, and there was an example of the Praetorian Guard, coupled with Hong Chengchou's strict restraint, it was also a lot more restrained, and it looked similar, Hong Chengchou was quite satisfied.

Guarding the prisoners, treating the wounded, collecting horses, cattle and sheep, and cleaning up the camp, the Ming soldiers were all busy.

Suddenly, a cavalry flew in, it was a sentinel sent to patrol the surrounding grasslands.

"Report, a large group of Mongolian cavalry appeared forty miles north." The cavalry jumped off the war horse and said to Hong Chengchou, who suddenly changed his face.

"How many?" Hong Chengchou asked quickly.

"It's all over the mountains, at least more than 10,000!" Said the cavalryman.

"Beat the drums, form a formation!" Hong Chengchou shouted.

The sentinel was forty miles away when he found it, but now he may have reached twenty miles away, and there is not much time left.

The rapid sound of drums sounded, and the Ming soldiers in the camp quickly began to assemble their formations.

The speed of the Praetorian Guard's assembly was very fast, and before the drums stopped, the two battalions of 6,000 soldiers were already rapidly arrayed, and Huang Degong also led 1,000 cavalry to line up on the side.

Compared with the Praetorian Guards, the speed of the Xuanfu army's assembly was much slower, and many soldiers ran in a panic, unable to find their positions at all. The soldiers can't find the generals, the generals can't find the soldiers, and it seems that they can't form a formation for a while.

Hong Chengchou was so worried that he didn't care about waiting for the Xuanfu army to assemble into a formation, so he personally led the 7,000 Janissaries to the north and formed a defensive array on the north side of the camp.

At this time, it's too late to retreat, and the only way is to hold on hard.

The huge results that were finally achieved, Hong Chengchou was reluctant to lose them.