Tang Mu took the soldiers of the Zhongxiao battalion and rushed to the battlefield, although he threw down the infantry of the Zhongxiao battalion without war horses, but the marching speed was not very fast, because it was noon, and at this marching speed, it would be night to rush to the battlefield and win the battle, and it would be very difficult for the prisoners and war horses to be captured.

Therefore, Tang Mu chose to arrive before nightfall, and the scouts had already found out that those Mongols would need to cross the river tomorrow, because there was no bridge over the Bali River, and the heavy rain yesterday and today made the water level skyrocket, and the livestock, especially the sheep, could not pass.

In fact, today's Liaodong is the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han tribes are mixed, for example, further north to Haicheng is the territory of one of the Han Domains, and these Mongolians are not foreign vassals, but the Mongolian Eight Banners, eight years ago, after the Emperor Taiji conquered Lin Dan Khan, the Khalkha people of Lin Dan Khan's department were compiled into the Mongolian Eight Banners and resettled.

What Tang Mu was eyeing was one of the Mongolian Blue Flags.

These Mongol Eight Banners still retained their nomadic habits because they joined the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and unlike those Zhuangtun who could only surrender and scatter in the face of the attack of the Eastern Brigade, after receiving the warning of the fugitives and the enemy attack, the Mongols immediately loaded their belongings and fled north with their cattle.

Before nightfall, the Zhongxiao battalion arrived at the assembly place arranged by Tang Mu, plus the 150 cavalry of the Zhongxiao battalion, there were as many as 500 cavalry, of which the supervisor Li Laiheng brought 70 people.

The rest were all cavalry of the Eastern Brigade, most of them belonged to the cavalry battalion, and there were sixty people who belonged to the personal entourage led by Tang Mu.

These cavalry came from a variety of sources and were equipped with complex equipment.

The cavalry of the loyal and filial piety battalion and the Shun army are mostly equipped with horse bows, sabers, bones, spears, and chain mail, which can be regarded as hussars.

The cavalry battalion of the Eastern Brigade selected the high-class war horses purchased and captured, equipped with spears, iron armor, and sabers, and the shoulder height of its war horses reached 145 to 150 centimeters, which was an excellent war horse in Mongolian Mali, although it could not be compared with the heavy cavalry in Europe that was often armed with a shoulder height of 160 centimeters, but it could still be regarded as heavy cavalry, because its training method was also trained according to the heavy cavalry.

Li Zhaoji's personal guards are very complicated, many of these people are sailors, and they can't ride horses, they learned in the process of fighting with Li Zhaoji in the south and the north, but they can only ride horses, although they later joined some cavalry from the guard, but this force of more than 100 people can hardly be said to be a cavalry.

It was the formation of the Eastern Brigade that changed their fate, and this group of people was the first to come into contact with flintlock rifled guns, so they were equipped with rifled guns before the hunters, which made them dragoons, whose main weapon was a flintlock rifled gun, and the other weapons were equipped according to individual abilities, and all kinds of cavalry weapons would be seen in them.

There are two kinds of personal guards, among which are mounted infantry, who can only ride horses and cannot fight immediately, and some are excellent riders, because the latter part can be used as scouts and heralds, and those who go out with Tang Mu are the former.

In the early morning of the next day, the camp of the Zhenglan Banner Mongolia was migrating and encountered a surprise attack, and there was little resistance, obviously the leader of the Mongols did not expect to be attacked at all, and there were no elites in the camp, most of them were old and weak women and children, and the remaining men were also herdsmen and slaves, few of these people would bend bows and arrows, because almost all of them who mastered combat skills followed their masters into the customs to participate in the war.

Although they were all Eight Banners, the Eight Banners of the Han Army, the Outer Domain Army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia were all elites, and only one-third of the Eight Banners of Manchuria remained.

The resistance of the Mongols occurred in the center of the camp, someone surrounded the camp with a cart, and when someone approached, the people inside would shoot arrows, Tang Mu observed for a while and found that the resistance was very weak, and the firepower was even weaker, so he sent someone to find oil, let the cavalry get close to the horse, splash it on the vehicle, and then ignite a fire.

In the end, the people inside rushed out, there were seven or eight who were not afraid of death, and were killed on the spot by Zheng Sen's cavalry, the most difficult thing to deal with was a cavalry wearing armor, who escaped on horseback, followed by three or four slaves, this person opened his bow and shot, the slaves rushed to kill with spears, and the master and servant were all not afraid of death, fortunately, Zheng Sen did not have the intention of fighting with him, and ordered the cavalry to shoot with bows and arrows.

Tang Mu stepped forward, took off his helmet, and saw an old face, and interrogated the captives to know that this person used to be the former armor of the Mongolian Zhenglan Banner, because of his old age, the position was passed to his son, and the family had already entered the customs to serve in the army.

This was also the last resistance of the Mongols, and the Zhongxiao camp lost two people.

And a group of people immediately ran out of the camp, all of them were old and weak women and children, and after asking, they found out that these were the relatives of the nobles in the migrating tribe, and their husbands and brothers were at least Niu Lu Ezhen.

"What about Zhou Bowen? Bowen Zhou! Tang Mugao shouted.

Zhou Bowen was the fugitive slave caught when he came to Liaodong for reconnaissance, Tang Mu followed the original promise, let a southbound fast boat send him back to his hometown, no one expected that this guy turned back again, but he brought his wife and son to Juehua Island, he felt that with the Oriental Trading Company, he might be able to get ahead, and Zhou Bowen was familiar with the situation in Liaodong and was familiar with Manchu, which happened to be used by Tang Mu.

"General Tang, the little one is here, here." Zhou Bowen held his somewhat large helmet and trotted over, this guy was still wearing a chain mail, obviously he was cowardly.

"The situation is decided, you preach. After eating at noon, let people evacuate to Gaizhou, this time there are many people, you can release them personally. Tang Mu said.

Since the landing, Zhou Bowen has assisted Tang Mu in conquering six Zhuangtun, and he is already very skilled in business, but he was different from the Han people who were also clothed minions before, and this time he was facing the Mongols.

Zhou Bowen carried the Qinglong Banner of the Oriental Trading Company, climbed into a car, and shouted in Manchu to the hundreds of Mongolians who were captured and knelt on the ground: "You all listen, it is the bravest, smartest, most generous and benevolent general in the world who has defeated you, you don't have to be afraid, as long as you don't resist, no one here will die, even if your master is here, as long as you don't resist, you won't die."

Listen, the master of the Green Dragon Banner has defeated you, so everything you have now belongs to the owner of the Green Dragon Banner.

And you are his slaves, and all the nobles and their relatives above the Ox Lev are bound to follow this banner and leave, but not necessarily those who are inferior to them.

Men over sixteen and fifty, lift up your heads, whether you are nobles, commoners, or slaves, and use your hands to take hold of your parents, your wives, your children, and your brothers, and stand over there. ”

Zhou Bowen pointed to his right, and the men in the crowd did so, there are very few men here, everyone is dirty, sloppy and ugly, and the adult men over the age of sixteen and under the age of fifty who are still in Liaodong are almost all slaves, and all of them are here.

Soon, half of the people came to Zhou Bowen's right hand, they were male slaves and slaves' relatives, Zhou Bowen shouted at them: "Very good, on behalf of the owner of the Qinglong Banner, I declare that from today onwards, you will no longer be the slaves of the Mongolian nobles and the Manchurian nobles, and your master will become the master of this banner, and your master is waiting for you to thank you in Gaizhou, because he will grant you peace and wealth."

All the cows, sheep, tents, pregnant mares, underage foals, breeding stallions and horses will belong to you, and each man will be given a cow, three strong sheep and horses that cannot be used by the army, and the rest of the cattle will belong to your master. ”

When these words were spoken, the people on the right hand side became a little messy, some of the bold eyes were full of excitement, but more people were confused and timid, they were slaves, they had been for generations, and most of these cattle, sheep and cattle belonged to their masters, even if they were given to them, most of them did not dare to ask for them.

"Okay, now the slaves under the Qinglong banner, you go and pack up your and your master's wealth, and prepare to go to Gaizhou." Zhou Bowen said.

As slaves, they did not dare to touch the things of their masters, but the greatest characteristic of slaves was obedience, so these people were soon driven by soldiers to lead horses and sheep, and pull carriages, which were their daily work, so they did it very smoothly.

And the rest of the people, silent, some are crying, some are praying to God and worship Buddha, and the rest of them are obviously picked out and they think they are dead.

Most of these people are relatives of the Mongolian Zhenglan Bannermen, and some are relatives of slaves, and what they have in common is that all their fathers, brothers, sons and nephews have entered the customs to fight.

"You are relatives of the enemy, but the master of the Blue Dragon Banner will not kill you, but he will not accept you as slaves. You can leave, and when the water recedes, cross the river to the other side, and find the Manchurians, and the generous heavenly soldiers will leave you thirty sheep so that you will not starve to death.

Remember, the owner of this banner spared your lives, and when you see your father and brother, tell them not to be our enemies.

Let's go, get farther away. Zhou Bowen shouted in a high-pitched voice, a few days after the landing, it was his most excited and high-spirited days, he could stand on a high place and give orders to people who had not even dared to look up, although all this was based on the army behind him, but still he felt happy.

This is the policy that Lee Siu Kee has formulated towards the locals since the landing.

Whether it was the Zhuangtun of the Manchu and Han Eight Banners or the pastures of the Mongols, he would let people do this.

Among the captives, as long as they were relatives of Niu Lu Ezhen and above, they had to be taken to Gaizhou as prisoners, and these people could be used as bargaining chips in dealing with the Manchus in the future.

But the rest of the commoners and slaves are not all wanted, because these people are too badly drawn, if there are only women, the elderly and children in a family, then it will not be able to create value for the Oriental trading company, and adult women have to devote most of their energy to taking care of children and the elderly, and only a relatively complete family can meet the needs.

And all the wealth will be treated as booty, and some will be divided equally among the shepherd slaves and clothed people, and the other part will be used as booty.

As for those who lost their property, the soldiers of the Eastern Brigade would leave them some food to flee to the north, and these people would go to consume the resources of the Manchus.

Although they hated the Eastern Brigade because of the loss of their property, they could not resist, after all, there were no men in it, a group of old and weak women and children, what else could they do except flee to a place where there was food under the rule of the Manchus?

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