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But Oqirtu didn't know that the three Khan kings who couldn't live in Khalkha across from him were much more worried than him.

Tuxie Tuhan Gonbu, Zasak Tuhan Norbu and Chechen Khan Shuolei withdrew their troops ten miles away and camped far away. When the three kings met, they didn't look good.

Finally Norbu sighed and said: "I finally found out today that firearms were passed down to Eqirtu from the Ming Dynasty. Eqirtu can use them so well, so there is no need to explain the army! Unprepared, My people have suffered heavy losses!”

"Yes, when Mangui fought, he was like a mad dog. Not only did he bite you, but he bit me again. My people also suffered heavy losses!" Gunbu also sighed and said with a sad face. .

Shuolei looked at the two of them and said angrily: "I have eyes. I can see. How much damage can be done? The key is that our morale has been destroyed by Man Gui's actions!"

Hearing this, Norbu immediately became unhappy. He looked at him and said, "What do you mean by this? So many of my people have died, but you didn't see it? Are you blind?"

"The maximum number of casualties is a thousand or so, which is about the same number!" Shuolei said without hesitation, "There is no way in which people will not die in a war. The key is to win this battle..."

Norbu's side collided head-on with the troops led by Man Gui, and was bombarded with firearms by the Ming army for the first time. But after all, both sides were cavalry. Although there were many people participating in the battle, the casualties were still limited. If the infantry group fought, there would be more than a thousand casualties.

As for Gunbu, because of Norbu's example, they were more prepared for the Ming army's firearms, and their casualties were even less, no more than three hundred. That's why Shuolei said this.

Gunbu was not happy when he heard Shuolei's words. He asked him in a high-pitched voice: "Of course you won't feel bad if someone who died is not one of your tribe. When the Ming army went back, why didn't your people intercept it? ?”

"That lunatic Man Gui is leading the army to fight back. Whoever stops him at this time will probably suffer heavy casualties." When Shuolei said this, he realized that it seemed inappropriate to say this, so he immediately added, "If the remaining Ming troops are behind and behind If there is a flanking attack, there will definitely be heavy casualties. I don’t want to think about it now, I want to think about it in the long term!”

Although what he said was reasonable, the problem was that the other two families had died, and he had not. This made the other two families very unhappy, and they did not give Shuolei a good look.

In the big tent, no one spoke for a while, and then everyone fell silent.

Perhaps Shuolei could understand the mood of the other two people. After thinking for a while, he took the initiative and said: "The Tsarist Russians also have a lot of firearms. In other words, the barbarians further west also use more firearms. This firearm has a flaw. It’s just that it’s not easy to load, and it consumes a lot of gunpowder. We can surround the Ming army without confronting them or harassing them. As long as we use up their gunpowder and even their food, then this war will eventually end. The winner must be us!"

The other two are not children and will not be angry all the time. After hearing what he said and thinking about it seriously, they all nodded.

Whether it is a matchlock gun or a self-generated musket, it must be loaded. But there are cavalry on both sides and they are very fast, so the reloading speed is not enough. If the Ming army's gunpowder is almost consumed, and the reloading speed of firearms is too slow, then the Ming army will have no advantage in firearms, and the Ming army can be overwhelmed by the sea of ​​​​people here.

In the end, after discussion, the three families decided to use their superior strength to surround the Ming army instead of attacking it, only to harass them. The Ming army should not be allowed to relax, and more importantly, the Ming army should not be allowed to withdraw into the pass, and the Ming army should be dragged to death on the grassland.

The three tribes took turns to step forward and fire a feint. If any tribe was accidentally bitten by the Ming army, the other two tribes would attack the Ming army's main formation to provide support. Anyway, one purpose is not to allow the Ming army to retreat easily until food and materials are exhausted.

In fact, the people on the grasslands are very good at this trick.

Riding a horse, they will surround you like a pack of wolves, trying to bite you from time to time, without giving you a chance to rest. If you harass them too much, they will consume all the opponent's energy (military supplies and food and grass), and then they will swarm you.

The grassland is vast as far as the eye can see. Apart from a head-on battle with strength, there are basically not many plots and tricks to use.

As for what methods the Khalkha Tribe will use, Oqiltu knows with his toes. Therefore, the next day, when he saw that the Ming army was still stationed at the foot of Tianshan Mountain, he finally went to see the governor of Baotou regardless of his need to recover from his injuries.

In the big tent, Yang Sichang smiled and asked about Eqiltu's injury, showing great concern. But Eqirtu was not in this mood. After a perfunctory moment, he asked with a serious face: "Master Zhongcheng, I wonder how the army will proceed next?"

In order to emphasize the seriousness of the matter, he did not wait for Yang Sichang's answer, and hurriedly stated what he thought were the most likely responses that the Khalkha tribe would use. Then with a hint of sincerity, he reminded Yang Sichang: "Master Zhongcheng should have never experienced the grassland war. This is completely different from the battle in the Central Plains. The two sides fight for their strength. I can guarantee that the Khalkha tribes, This must be the plan. I dare to ask Mr. Zhongcheng, the army is not stationed, but there are follow-up reinforcements arriving? "

Although Eqiltu had warned him very clearly, Yang Sichang still smiled and didn't take it seriously. He replied to Eqiltu: "The only way for reinforcements to go west is through my own way. But the Great Khan doesn't have to worry... …”

Before the new decree of the imperial court came down and the Oirat tribes were officially reorganized, the title of Great Khan of Oqirtu still existed.

Eqirtu became anxious when he heard Yang Sichang saying that he was the only one heading west for reinforcements. But before he said anything, he heard a personal guard at the door saying, "Uncle Zhongyong, please see me!"

When Yang Sichang heard this, he did not say anything further, but quickly ordered: "Come in!"

Eqirtu's heart was moved. It seemed that Master Zhongcheng didn't care about the grassland warfare method. However, Mangui is a Mongolian. He has been fighting since he was a child. He definitely knows the difference between war on the grasslands and the Central Plains. He can definitely understand his worries. Therefore, he decided to wait until Man Gui came in before talking about this matter.

Mangui strode in, saw Eqirtu there, nodded slightly to greet him, then clasped his fists and saluted Yang Sichang: "Your Excellency, we have almost figured it out."

Upon hearing this, Yang Sichang couldn't help but feel excited, and quickly stood up and said: "Map!"

The personal guard beside him immediately hung up a map, and then Mangui strode forward. After looking at the map for a while, he picked up a brush and began to draw circles on the map.

Eqirtu was very curious and didn't know what they were doing, so he quickly walked over to take a look.

After watching it for a while, he was suddenly surprised. How did this map look like the map of Mobei? Lord Zhongcheng and Mangui are far away at the foot of Tianshan Mountain, but instead of thinking about winning the battle in front of them, they are thinking about the map of Mobei. What does this mean?

He didn't believe that Yang Sichang was going to lead his army to defeat the enemy in front of him, and then go straight to the home of the Mobei Khalkha clan and kill Oqirtu. But other than that, there is no other explanation. So... what exactly is going on?

While he was thinking about it, Mangui had stopped writing, and after Yang Sichang examined the map for a while, he turned to Eqirtu and said with a smile: "Great Khan, you have many fights with the Mobei tribe. Lao Lao, you should know something about it, right? Come over and see if there is anything else you need to add?"

Hearing this, Oqiltu came back to his senses and couldn't help but feel even more depressed. Unexpectedly, the two of them were really plotting against Mobei! If Mr. Zhongcheng doesn't know the grassland warfare and thinks he can lead his army to Mobei, Mangui will not know that this is absolutely impossible. Why are you fooling around?

He took a deep breath and was about to persuade the two people in front of him to fight the battle at hand first. Man Gui had already spoken first and said: "Those Khalkha people I captured couldn't say a thing for a long time. Although they spent a lot of time After spending so much time, it feels like it’s almost done, but whether it’s right or not, I’ll let Dahan tell me, so that I can be as accurate as possible.”

During yesterday's battle, Mangui captured some prisoners and returned, and has been interrogating Mobei's intelligence since then.

Those prisoners are not hard-core, and they will be able to do anything if they are tortured a little longer. But the point is, they couldn't tell clearly. Or if you let them go back by themselves, they probably know how to go, but if you tell them, it won't be easy. The endless grassland, desert, and Gobi. No matter how to get there, I spent a lot of money talking. I was worried that they were giving random directions. I needed multiple confessions to check, so I have been busy until now to get the results.

Hearing Man Gui ask the same question, Eqirtu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, then took a deep breath and said seriously: "Master Zhongcheng, Uncle Zhongyong, I think our top priority is to fight the battle in front of us well and aim high. , It’s better to put unrealistic things aside for now!”

He is now the Great Khan, so he is still qualified to speak here. In order to wake up the two people in front of him with a stick, he even didn't hesitate to speak a little harshly. After all, even if the words were harsh and offended both of them, it would be better than being wiped out, right?

Hearing his words, Man Gui and Yang Sichang looked at each other and couldn't help but smile. Especially Man Gui, the beard all over his face couldn't hide his smile, he just grinned. The way he smiled was a bit mean, and Eqirtu had the urge to go up and slap him in the face, but could he still laugh?

In the end, Yang Sichang smiled and said: "Great Khan, I just said that there are no reinforcements to march westward. But that does not mean that the imperial court has no other reinforcements..."

Hearing this, Oqiltu couldn't help but be stunned. What does it mean? Turning to look at the map of Mobei hanging there, he suddenly came back to his senses and couldn't help but feel a look of joy on his face.

"...The emperor has sent 50,000 naturalized cavalry troops, led by Governor Hong, to go north. The Liaodong Army also has more than 10,000 cavalry, also going north. This battle will be over without a fight. If it is fought, the three tribes of Mobei will be plowed. All the Tingsao caves were wiped out. Then the army marched from Mobei to the Western Region, and then annihilated the remaining Mobei tribes here."

Yang Sichang smiled when he said this, and when he saw Eqirtu's surprised expression, he continued to add, "Therefore, the order I received was to set up camp at the foot of Tianshan Mountain after receiving the command from the Great Khan. Drag the troops of the three Khalkha tribes and provide more detailed information about Mobei to Governor Hong."

If it were another army, even so, there would still be many uncontrollable factors. After all, so many armies are moving separately and cannot communicate with each other. If the army heading north to Mobei is delayed and cannot find the lairs of the Khalkha tribes. Or perhaps, when the army going to Mobei was tired, they happened to encounter more than 30,000 cavalry troops returning here. On the territory of Mobei, it was not certain who would win or lose.

However, all this does not exist on the Ming army's side. Eqirtu looked at the Jin Yiwei beside Yang Sichang. Someone with such a magical ability could not only know the battle situation in Mobei, but also capture people from various ethnic groups in Khalkha and report the military situation. past.

Although the grassland is endless, can it still stop such a magical Ming army? It is said that the flintlock gun is an important military weapon of the Ming Dynasty! But in fact, these factory guards with incredible abilities are the real military weapons of the Ming Dynasty, and they are the trump card of the Ming Dynasty!

Eqirtu was really pleasantly surprised when he understood what was going on. Only then did he understand why Lord Zhongcheng was not anxious at all and why Mangui would follow suit. It turned out that he was wrong. From the beginning, the Ming Dynasty opened a huge net to catch all the Khalkha tribe. In this way, the vengeance of the Oirat tribes will be avenged soon.

With this in mind, Eqirtu immediately rushed to the Mobei map without saying a word. After carefully looking at Mangui's latest annotation, he immediately began to point out what terrain on the map was wrong and where it might be possible. There will be people from the Khalkha tribe, and people from the Khalkha tribe coming to raid Oirat, so what arrangements might be there at his lair, etc. Anyway, it’s all Eqirtu can think of, everything is detailed. Said it clearly.

One annoying thing about nomads is that they have no fixed abode. For the Ming army, even if they were sitting in a fortified city, it was better than running around. Now, with the full cooperation of Mangui and Eqirtu, this map of Mobei roughly marks several places where the three tribes of Mobei may be nomadic. The three of them saw that there was basically no problem, so the factory guard on the side took pictures and uploaded them to the "Battle of the Grassland" temporary group in the chat group, whether it was Hong Chengchou's side, Lu Da's side, or in the capital. Several big shots, including Emperor Chongzhen and several people who knew the art of war, could see the situation.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly discovered that among the three tribes in Mobei, there was a possible nomadic land, which seemed to be far away from the Ming Dynasty. However, there happened to be someone from Daming nearby.

So, he immediately chatted privately with Li Zicheng and gave him instructions.

Siberia, although it's summer now, it's still a bit cold here. However, for Li Zicheng's subordinates, it really shouldn't be too warm.

After more than a year's experience in Siberia, among the cavalry of more than a thousand people, even if most of them were composed of Mongolians, the attrition was still serious. Today, there are only about 700 people left in this team. The number of other people who actually died in the war with Tsarist Russia was less than a hundred.

Just as Emperor Chongzhen told them when they first came, their biggest enemy is God. As for the Tsarist Russians, if these thousand cavalry encounter the Tsarist Russians, they can basically be eliminated 100% as long as they swarm them. Because in this cold land in the far north and thousands of miles away from Tsarist Russia, there are only a few hundred Tsarist Russians who can reach here. The most they encountered at one time was no more than 300 people.

No matter in terms of numbers or equipment, Li Zicheng's army had the advantage. More importantly, the Ming army knew that there were Tsarist Russians operating here, but the Tsarist Russians did not know that the Ming army was heading north. By surprise, in this far north, very few Russians escaped.

After receiving the emperor's order, Li Zicheng, a bearded man with a bit of a savage tendency, immediately became excited. He quickly gathered everyone and said: "Listen up, everyone, pack your things, we are ready to go south!"

Upon hearing this, the soldiers under his command were immediately overjoyed and started asking questions one after another.

"What, are we going back?"

"Can you leave this stupid place?"

"..."

Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "The Emperor asked us to touch upon the Khalkha tribe. Maybe we won't have to deal with those primitive people and Tsarist Russia in the future. In any case, the Khalkha are much richer than them, so we should be allowed to take care of them." It’s time to have a meal.”

In the past, Emperor Chongzhen asked Li Zicheng to avoid the Khalkha people as much as possible. In a place where even the Khalkha people no longer want to wander around in the north, when they meet the natives, they promote the Ming Dynasty and tell them that you will be the people of the Ming Dynasty in the future. When encountering Tsarist Russia, they would go to war without saying a word.

After doing this kind of thing for a long time, and the environment was so bad, they would rather go to war with Khalkha. And now, they got their wish.

Now they have become like savages. They are confident that they have this strength. There is no problem in hunting down a small group of Khalkhas. If there are many Khalkhas, they can just take them to the far north. Now, they are the masters of this far north land.

A few days later, Li Zicheng privately chatted with Emperor Chongzhen and said: "Your Majesty must have guessed correctly. The general has arrived here. There are indeed Khalkhas, and there are quite a few of them. But with the strength of the general, I'm afraid he won't be able to deal with them." .”

This situation made Li Zicheng a little regretful. Otherwise, by capturing the place where the Khalkha people live, they can improve their lives.

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen asked about the basic situation. Without saying a word, he directly pulled Li Zicheng into the temporary group and marked the situation discovered by Li Zicheng on the map.

After Li Zicheng was pulled in, he was shocked when he saw the situation. No matter how much he thought about it, he never expected that the emperor would actually launch several troops and advance into Mobei. This large-scale war in Mobei seemed to have only happened in the founding of the Ming Dynasty!

There was an arrow among them, not very far from where he was.

After exiting the group, Li Zicheng shouted anxiously: "All the soldiers have been cleaned up by me, and they are going to see their parents!"

As he spoke, he also pulled out a dagger and began to cut his beard.

Damn it, don’t be treated like savages by your own family and destroyed!

Thanks to Demon Lord Linshen for the 500 starting coin reward! , thanks for the 1,000 starting coin reward for defining the principle!