The Great Wall was burning with smoke, but there was no Ming army nearby to support, and under the collapsed city wall, a barbaric girl dressed in mink looked down at the blood stains on her leather boots and frowned: "What's the point of killing these civilians?" Why didn't they march south? ”

The question of this answer was obviously obvious, and the girl was not seeking an answer, she took off her boots, and immediately someone gave her a new pair, and when she had put them on, she continued to look south, silently thinking about something.

The characteristics of the nomadic wars have always been to fight separately, even if it is the Great Khan, there is no way to treat the cavalry of each tribe as his own private soldiers like the emperor of the Central Plains, whenever he goes to war, although the Khan is the commander, but there is no way to command each tribe handy, the order is passed on, after all, it still depends on the head of each tribe.

Now her father has encountered such trouble - crossed the Great Wall, set foot on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, obviously can go all the way to the south, but those tribes are fascinated by these cities in front of them, everyone is busy killing people and looting, putting things into their own pockets, but they ignore the order to march south, do they know that if they continue like this, they will miss the best opportunity to defeat the Datong Ming army?

She considered herself a woman, but in some respects she was not inferior to a man, but as her father had said when he took her on this expedition, this was her last chance to go wild, and no matter what the outcome of this war was, she would marry the son of the Varat Taishi, and there would be no more freedom at all.

Damn, if she's a man, if she's a man alone...

Her father was in the city to meet with the leaders of the Qusang tribe, urging them to go south, the city was about to be looted by the Qusang tribe, groups of Han women and children were arrested and tied up and taken back to the grassland to become slaves, those gold and silver treasures and even iron pots and chopsticks had to be brought back, every grassland soldier had a smile on his face, and the cries of the Han people came along the wind, but she was not moved in the slightest but only felt irritable.

I don't know how many other places there are such trips, and all the tribal leaders are this virtue! only cares about the small profits in front of him, and he doesn't know how to face the behemoth of Daming!

But there is no way, although her father is the commander of this time, he can't completely command these tribes, the war organization of the steppe has been so loose all these years, and the cavalry that was the most powerful in the world at the time of the Great Yuan has now been reduced to these horse bandits who only care about stuffing things into their arms.

Gently exhaling a ball of hot air, she rolled over and got on her horse, and the guards behind her raised their hands and clenched their fists, and dozens of guards immediately rode their horses to take the lead, and began to drive away the tribal cavalry that had grabbed the red eye.

"Lord Baima, the prince has left the city and is waiting at the west gate."

"Got it."

Bai Ma waved the horsewhip, the white horse under her raised the horse's hooves lightly, and the group slowly rushed to the west gate, and from a distance, she saw her father's bad face.

"My lovely daughter is here? How does it feel to see Han Chinese crying under the hooves of horses again? ”

"It's a pity that it's still too far away from Dadu," Baima said, looking north, "and I can't see the Han people there kneeling on the ground begging for mercy." ”

"yes, mostly... It's been years. ”

"Father, are they still reluctant to go south?"

Su Keqi sneered: "They think that the Yan King of the Ming Dynasty is also fighting Datong, and going to the south at this time is to help the Yan King, so it is better to grab it here!" A bunch of fools, have they forgotten the days when King Yan led his troops into the grassland? That person is not a good person, and when he lays down Datong, the situation will only get worse! ”

Bai Ma saw that her father was exhausted, and she comforted: "Maybe King Yan won't be so quick to conquer Datong... Father, where are we going next? ”

"Farther west, I'm going to see the Ukel tribes, they seem to be in trouble," Su Keqi's majestic face was full of disdain, "they can't even take the city!" And the Tatars have also sent troops, I am going to sit in the town, and tell them that if they want to pick up the bargain, it depends on the timing, and now is not the time for civil strife in Mongolia. ”

His line is like the big tent of the Chinese army of the Ming army, just because of the characteristics of the Mongolian cavalry, when they are fighting separately, the command role of the seven thousand royal court cavalry around him is far inferior to the support role, and now it is time for them to show their knives.

It is also time to let these scattered tribes see that the glory of the golden family is still shrouded in the grassland!

Thousands of royal court cavalry, all of them were opened.

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Under the night of the grassland, the cavalry of the Yan Army wearing the uniforms of the Ming Army was silently eating dry food, the night wind blew across the grassland, taking away the temperature on the people, the cavalry could only snuggle together with the horses, and resist the cold with the body of the horses, and the silence around the five thousand cavalry was deathly.

The most important quality that a strong army should have is silence, silence represents absolute obedience to orders, represents absolute self-confidence, only the weak-hearted will shout to show their strength, and only the stupidest people will choose to light a fire on the grassland on the eve of the attack.

Gu Huai retracted his gaze from the humble marching map, looked at these silent cavalry, and felt a little guilty in his heart, he seemed to have gone too far before, and his attitude of distrusting Zhu Di and Dao Yan was too obvious, but even in this case, Zhu Di still didn't ask more and sent the most elite cavalry over.

There were even 2,000 Mongol cavalry with more than three guards.

In fact, many things have never been missing a clue, on the way from Texas to Datong, Gu Huai has been thinking about how to solve the siege of Datong, assist Zhu Di to win the battle of Jingjing, help him ascend to the throne, and let this world settle down as soon as possible is what he wants, but if there is an alien invasion in this process, Meng Yuan goes south, then he will feel that it is his responsibility, and it is barely acceptable for soldiers to die on the battlefield because of different camps, but the people... Why did they suffer such a flying disaster?

People's lives should be lives, this should not be differentiated because of status, no one's life is more precious than whose life, this is the most universal value of later generations, and it is also the most important thing that Gu Huai thinks he should adhere to when he comes to this era.

So the way to break the situation at the moment is very clear, that is, to find the king of Sukeqi Nan, and then send him to the west sky, with such a loose southward situation as Mongolia, most of them have to withdraw their troops, unless someone with a comparable status can stand up, such as... Warata Taishi?

Whether he can come over is one thing, whether he has the courage to come over is another, he should not have forgotten the incident when Zhu Di went into the grassland and chased him for thousands of miles.

So here comes the question, King Sukzinan ... Where will it be?

He can only give a general route of the royal court's cavalry, and what Gu Huai has to do is to find out the marching route of Su Keqi from this vast prairie.

It sounds almost impossible, the whole five thousand Ming cavalry showed their tracks so arrogantly on the grassland, it seemed that they were also looking for death, but it happened that Gu Huai led the troops into the grassland to take the route of being slaughtered by the Tatars, and after entering the grassland and marching on the battlefield, coupled with the cover of the Hara Mang Department who unified this grassland, this cavalry army really seemed to have disappeared into the world, and went around to the rear of the Mongolian army without anyone noticing.

But that's the end of it, in this era when there is no high-altitude perspective of satellite positioning, how easy is it to find the wandering King of Warat Nan in such a vast and vast grassland?

Even if he said that Sukeqi would wander among the tribes, it was impossible to determine where he was now, and if he found the wrong target, the five thousand cavalry would probably die on the steppe without a sound.

"My lord, there is not enough military rations." Chen Ping, who had been on patrol, came back with a solemn face and reported.

Well... There is also a serious logistical pressure.

Only by leading the soldiers, can you see how amazing those battles were in the previous history textbooks, the young Huo Qubing was also such a lone army went deep into the grassland, and completed the impossible Jedi turnaround in the case of food and aid, sealing the wolf Juxu, Gu Huai admitted that he had learned a lot of rules and regulations for marching and fighting in these days, and he also led the troops to charge on the night of the First World War in Beiping, but if he wanted to achieve such a record, it was really unthinkable.

There is only one chance to attack, but Sukeqi may appear anywhere in this steppe bordering Mongolia and Datong, and this kind of cavalry raid similar to a decapitation operation must not make any mistakes.

What to do? The choice must be made tonight, because one more day in the grassland will increase the probability of being discovered, and those Warat tribes will definitely not let go of these five thousand fine war horses and iron armor and battle exploits, they can easily create an encirclement and slowly grind these five thousand cavalry to death.

The lives of the five thousand cavalry were pressed on their shoulders, and it would feel heavy for anyone, but all this was chosen by themselves.

As for the series of effects that his death on this grassland, or Su Keqi's death, Gu Huai no longer had the heart to think about it.

He tapped the map: "Let's start here." ”