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Without the cover of infantry vehicles, the cavalry of the Datong Army didn't feel very powerful to Zhuotebabatur.In his opinion, the Han people are only fierce in formation and firearms, and the Mongol warriors are still the most powerful in cavalry combat.

As for what to line up the cavalry wall to charge, this kind of hellish remarks were taken as a joke by Zhuote Babatur.

It must be that Khalkha has been in Mongolia for a long time, and was frightened by the Datong army, so I felt that the Han cavalry was pouring in, like a moving city wall composed of countless cavalry.

Most of the most beautiful grasslands in Mobei are mountain grasslands, and some are simply in the mountains.

The current battlefield belongs to the hilly area.

The further south is full of big mountains, and the tributary of the Selenga River passes between the two mountains.It was specially selected by Zhuote Babatur to ambush the cavalry of Datong. Once they enter the valley, it will be difficult to escape.

Among the hills extending from the mountains, large and small hills, the trees are not very lush, but green weeds can be seen everywhere.

These mountain pastures can also be used for horse racing and grazing.But as a battlefield, it will make the battle more complicated, unlike the flat grassland.

Seeing that Cao Bianjiao stopped escaping, Zhuote Babatur immediately dispatched more than 1 light cavalry, and circled several hills to outflank the rear.He never thought that he would be defeated, so at the first moment, he wanted to block Cao Bianjiao's retreat, and wanted to eat all the Datong cavalry in front of him.

After all, the Datong army sent too many troops this time, and the Mongols couldn't afford it, so they had to do everything possible to annihilate them one by one.

The Mongols in Mobei, men, women, old and young together, have only a little over [-] left.

The previous Khalkha Mongols had been at war with the Manchus.Then he was defeated in the face of the Datong Army, and many of them froze to death and starved to death on the way to withdraw.Senggezai led Zhungeer's troops to kill him, and many died in battle.Then Sengge was murdered and Zhungeer was split in two.

The Zhungeer tribe brought by Zhuote Babatur, plus the annexed Khalkha tribe, can only make up [-] cavalry no matter how they are put together.

A few days ago, Fei Ruhe and Zhang Tieniu killed thousands of people!

It is very difficult for Zhuote Babatur to come back, so he can only fight an ambush and annihilation battle.Once he sees that the situation is not good, he will run away immediately. Anyway, the Datong army will naturally withdraw its troops if it drags on until winter.

"The first regiment of the Xiaocavalry is responsible for dealing with the enemies behind."

Cao Bianjiao ordered.

The command flag was played, and Zhang Piao led more than a thousand riders, and turned to face the side and rear.

The cavalry division led by Zhuo Teba was adapted from Li Zicheng's Hetao cavalry. - Half of the officers, from the Xiaotong Army; the other - half of the officers, promoted from Li Zicheng's old department.

Li Zicheng's adopted son, Zhang Zhu, is currently in the army.

I went to Nanjing to study the crash course of the military academy for two years, and returned to Atao to directly serve as the regiment leader.That was to appease Li Zicheng's old army, because before the reorganization, the low-level officers were almost all junior soldiers. If Wang Chuang's old army was not satisfied, promoting Zhang Xun could stabilize the army's morale.

"The Seventh Regiment of the Xiao Cavalry, line up on the right side of the Yi Cavalry!"

Zhuoteba issued another military order.

On the front are eight regiments of Yi cavalry, unable to organize a wall charge.

On the left is the river.

On the right is a regiment of cavalry.

Zhuoteba led hundreds of cavalry as the reserve force of the Chinese army.

On the frontal battlefield, the two sides approached slowly.

The Mongols were still fighting in the traditional way. Chang Yanda and Cao Bianjiao sent thousands of cavalry to shoot arrows from the front and right side.

"Blow the horn, the Yi cavalry charge! The seventh regiment of the Xiao cavalry, speed up and retreat, and help the Yi cavalry drive away the archery enemy cavalry."

Zhuoteba is trying to shoot each other with Mongolia for a long time. I have more troops, so I must take it all at once.

The Mongolian cavalry sent out to test were still within range, and there were 4000 cavalry from Xiaotong, arranged in a chaotic order and retreating in unison.Moreover, the speed is getting slower and slower. Just after the end, I just ran fast, and I rushed up in a moment.

Whether Zhang Yuankuan and Cao Bianjiao have a thousand outer mirrors, although I can see the details clearly, I am not a little surprised by the overwhelming momentum.

At the same time, the Seventh Regiment of the Xiaocavalry rushed even slower.

The commanding general is called Batur, a graduate of the seventh batch of Nanjing Military Academy.

Among the graduates of the military academy, there are not even a dozen regiment commanders, and not eight brigade commanders.That's why Zhao Han embarked on the reform of the military system, because he was afraid that the founding ministers would interfere with the army, because apart from low-level officers, there were not a small number of middle- and senior-level officers who had graduated from military academies.

Those people have all received the education of being loyal to the emperor and loving the people, and they are not the personal soldiers of any general.

Batur followed more than a thousand Xiao cavalry, accelerated around the Yi cavalry, and rushed towards the enemy cavalry shooting arrows behind.While charging, they shot at each other. There were no casualties between the two sides, but the Xiao cavalry was fully armored, which was comparable to the Mongolian cavalry in leather armor.

Before a round of shooting, seeing that Batur was still rushing back, the Mongolian cavalry on the opposite side consciously moved forward, went back for a certain distance, and then turned back to shoot arrows.

When the enemy's seventh round of arrow rain shot out, Batur pointed to the right before raising his spear.The trumpeters around him immediately blew their horns, and more than a thousand cavalrymen circled to the right in unison, rushing towards the Mongolian cavalry here.

The Xiao cavalry gave way to the frontal battlefield, and the Yi cavalry in front sped up again, rushing towards the Mongolian cavalry who was being drawn.

The awe-inspiring momentum made the Mongolian cavalry forget about shooting arrows, and calmly stepped aside to chase Batur's troops.

"Block, slow down!"

Zhang Yuankuan and Cao Bianjiao shouted.

The main formation of the Mongolian cavalry was suppressed by thousands of cavalry.About [-] young cavalry were equipped with iron armor, and the rest of the cavalry were all leather armor. At this time, the Zhungeer tribe was obviously still very poor.

The eight thousand young armored Mongolian cavalry were all led by Abarai.

For many years, this person followed Gushri Khan on expeditions to Qinghai and Tibet.Historically, the Tsarist Russian envoy Baykov was not escorted out of Beijing, but was rewarded by Emperor Shunzhi.

Abarai followed his armored cavalry and rushed back, and it felt right no matter how far he charged.

The cavalry wall of the Xiaotong Army is arranged in a mess. If I charge back again, there will be a car accident [-]%.There is absolutely no chance of escape. The cavalry wall is too dense, and there is no room to dodge.

Abarai is a fool, a battle to the death, I may take it.

Although it was me, Abarai led the troops and ran to the right.I planned to avoid the wall charge, wait for Xiaotong's cavalry to rush over, and then charge in from the front, flanking Chang Yanda Cao Bianjiao's Chinese army from behind.

It's just that Abarai thinks that way, the other Mongolian nobles are all flashing puzzles to the right, and everyone is willing to collide with a group of crazy lunatics.

As soon as we gave way, Zhang Yuankuan and Cao Bianjiao's Chinese army faced the charge.

Chang Yanda Cao Bianjiao's eyes widened, he knew right away that it was a good idea to ask.Before I issued an order, my two sons led a team to escape, and the rest of the generals also led their troops to disperse.

Yi cavalry's wall charge is more subtle than later practiced.

The cavalry battalion on the innermost side of the platoon dispersed little by little during the charge, and then those who were close to this battalion dispersed.When I was young, there were not half of Yi cavalry who changed from wall charge to traditional charge.Those scattered cavalry rushed towards the calmly dodging enemy cavalry, and killed more than [-] enemy cavalry through the middle.

Chang Yanda and Cao Bianjiao are also running away, and have been separated from their two sons, leaving me with only a thousand young men who are directly under my command.

The Mongolian cavalry on the side gradually felt that it was right, and in a blink of an eye the coach ran away.We are either from Khalkha Mongolia, or we are not the old tribe of Sage, so we have no loyalty to Zhang Yuankuan and Cao Bianjiao.Zhang Yuankuan and Cao Bianjiao have all escaped, what are we still doing?

Team after team of Mongolian cavalry turned their horses and fled the battlefield. Batur led a regiment to hunt them down frantically.

As the chief general, Zhuo Teba saw the enemy army crumbling, and immediately said to the reserve team, turned around and rushed forward. I want to help Zhang Zhuo to meet the enemy cavalry around the front.

Chang Yan led more than a thousand cavalrymen, and was shooting arrows at the surrounding ten thousand cavalrymen under the grassy hill.Before shooting an arrow, he swooped up from the hill immediately, left the battlefield and went to the seventh hill.

The enemy Zhang Zhu was facing obviously planned to fight desperately, but wanted to wait for the frontal battlefield to decide the winner.

To put it bluntly, the enemy soldiers are united.

It is also the Khalkha Ministry, and the Zhungeer Ministry, the old Ministry outside the Jungar Ministry that has not yet been upgraded.We didn't have deep hatred or petty hatred between each other, only because Zhang Yuankuan and Cao Changjiao Xiaosi divided up the pastures, we combined those messy forces.

If anyone loses a small amount of troops, even if we win this battle, our pasture may be swallowed up.

This is to preserve strength, [-] people besieged and killed more than [-] small fellow troops, and it was so slow that they had to be completely surrounded before they fought.

The two sides gradually approached the main battlefield, and Zhang Yuankuan and Cao Bianjiao's Chinese army had not yet broken up.The [-] Mongolian cavalrymen turned around and fled when they saw this, Zhang and Zhuo Teba rushed to chase and kill them at full speed.

Fleeing and fleeing, suddenly no Mongolian nobleman thought of anything, drew his sword and shouted: "You have made contact with the villain on the right, and you can be the guardian if you join the Celestial Dynasty. Kill as you want!"

It was a Khalkha force, led by the Mongolian nobles, violently killing the "friendly army" who was fleeing in the distance.We have no blood feud with the Zhungeer tribe, so we can avenge our clansmen and win the appreciation of the heavenly court by turning against each other.

There is no old army that hates the grid, and it also turns to attack and kill friendly troops.

Very slowly, the ten thousand Mongolian cavalrymen became a group by themselves, and it was completely unclear who wanted to take refuge in the Celestial Dynasty.

Anyway, the one who wins the fight is not eligible to take part.

After that, let go of revenge, we have long seen each other is full.

"Then...who are you going to help?"

Looking at the messy battlefield, Zhang Bing was not a little confused.

Zhuo Teba smiled bitterly and said: "Let's fight, you also know who to help, so let's chase down the defeated soldiers head-on."

Zhuo Teba took Zhang Zhu, turned around and went to the frontal battlefield to hunt down.

They only ran a few places, and there were no ordinary Mongolian cavalry, who mounted their horses and knelt behind them.A Mongolian youth in his seventies held Zhang Yuankuan and Cao Bianjiao Jiu's head and said, "Chang Yanda, the rebel general of the Celestial Dynasty, has not been killed by you yet!"

Chang Yanda was very upset, he helped this person up himself, then asked his identity, and immediately said yes.

It was Zhang Yuankuan and Chang Yanda's own son who killed Zhang Yuankuan and Chang Yanda!

Chapter 997 [Mobei Protectorate and Beihai Protectorate]

Mobei Mongolia must have a population of more than one hundred thousand, and there are three types of people who have not been counted.

The first type is the disciples of Buddha H, such as Jebtsundamba Hutuktu.

The venerable was resident in Aoergao, which is later Ulaanbaatar, and thousands of herdsmen were directly ruled by him.

No matter which Khan fights, he will send hundreds of troops to help, and help with propaganda and mediation by the way.He didn't care about the rest, anyway, whichever new Khan came to power would come to visit and respect him.

It was the same this time, two or three hundred cavalry were thrown out to help Zhuote Babatur fight.As soon as Fei Ruhe arrived, he led thousands of people and chose to surrender without any psychological burden.

The second type is the Gobi herdsmen.

The vast Gobi desert also has rivers and grasslands.Fei Ruhe left Yinshan Mountain in the north, and his marching route was to follow the biggest river.

The Gobi herdsmen are very scattered. A tribe often has dozens of people, and the largest one has only two to three hundred people.They are ruled by the Mongolian Khan in name, but it is actually difficult to manage, and they basically don’t participate in the war—who the hell went to the Gobi Desert to recruit soldiers?

The third type is the shepherd slave.

Of course, slaves are not human beings, and very few of them can join the army to fight, but no matter how many meritorious deeds they have done, they are still slaves.

For example, Ma Fang, a famous general in the Jiajing Dynasty, was originally a farmer in Xuanhua.At the age of eight, he was plundered by Mongolia and worked as a shepherd slave for more than ten years. Because he was smart and good at riding and shooting, he became a riding slave for the nobles.

Altan Khan led the Mongolian nobles to hunt, and Ma Fang participated with his master.Suddenly a fierce tiger came rushing, and all the Mongolian tribes ran away in panic, but Ma Fang didn't change his face, and shot the tiger with his bow and arrows to kill the tiger.Altan Khan praised him very much and presented him with a good bow and a horse.

From then on, he followed Da Khan around.ginger

Even though he became Altan Khan's close servant and made many military exploits, Ma Fang was still a slave.

In the end, taking advantage of the opportunity to rob Daming with the army, Ma Fang stole horses and escaped overnight, defected to the frontier army of Daming, and found her lost parents.Ma Fang was well aware of the situation in the grassland, and was promoted to a thousand households through repeated military exploits, and even beheaded the generals of Altan Khan.

Altan Khan once killed Huairou, and the situation in Beijing was tense.Tens of thousands of reinforcements were afraid to go forward, Ma Fang, who served as a general, rushed out and led [-] cavalry in a bloody battle in Bao'an (Hebei Zhulu), killing the Mongolian army back dozens of miles.The Mongols didn't know the truth, so the whole army withdrew northward.

But Ma Fang suffered five stab wounds, and his horse was also shot to death. Jiajing praised him as "be braver than Ma Fang", and the Mongols honored him as "Ma Taishi".

When Ma Fang served as the deputy general of Ji Town, his reputation had already spread to the east.More than [-] Mongolian troops invaded Jizhen in the south, and learned from the Ming army prisoners that "Ma Taishi" was sitting here, and the Mongolian army was so frightened that they ran away.

It's a pity that Ma Fang didn't get along with Yan Song, and his military achievements were falsely claimed.The civilian governor made a mistake in his command. Even though Ma Fang tried his best to turn the tide, Ma Fang was still the one to blame.

Although she has been blamed countless times and made countless achievements in the military, Ma Fang was promoted to the rank of Zuo Dudu!

"How many Mongolian cavalry surrendered?"

Fei Rustork asked.

Ao Ergao replied: "[-] people surrendered—fewer than a thousand people, and many thousands escaped."

Of the 2 Mongolian cavalrymen, 8000 surrendered, and several thousand fled, but it wasn't that about [-] were beheaded.Those who really died at the hands of Xiaotong's army were actually less than [-] people, and the remaining [-] to [-] people all died of cannibalism.

Xiang Yayong said: "Interrogate the Mongolian generals separately to see who personally led the troops to kill your soldiers and civilians. You have to kill a few nobles. How can you give benefits if you surrender? Are your soldiers and civilians dead for nothing!"

That is to build up our prestige, who told us to surrender early, we have to wait until the winner is decided before turning back.

Altan arrived with a small army, and when he heard that the battle had begun, he immediately spoke, and Xiang Yayong and other generals under his command were also silent for a while.

Counting the civilian husbands, there are two groups; the small army has tens of thousands of people, and it seems that there is no suspicion of shooting mosquitoes with small cannons.

But there is no way, the land in Mobei is too small.

Before sending too many troops, the enemy will walk around as fools.Even, the Mongols must enter and exit the grasslands of the lower reaches of the Bailong River, and divide them into two groups to carefully circle around the two small grasslands.Only if there is not enough troops, can we divide the troops to track and search, forcing the Mongols to narrow the scope of activities.

And the fewer soldiers there are, the less the ration consumption will be, and it is necessary to bring down hundreds of thousands of civilian men, mules and horses.

The supply line is really too long, and a small part of Li Dingguo's grain and grass are transported from Shaanxi and Shanxi to Mobei.And Altan's; a small part of the grain and grass was transported from Hebei and Liaoning.The grain road two thousand miles away has to pass through the Gobi and mountainous areas, and half of it will be consumed halfway!

"Thousands of escaped Mongolian cavalry, if you want to continue searching?"

Altan asked.

Xiang Yayong shook his head: "It is necessary, send someone to surrender, the time has dragged on, and we will consume more food and grass."

Altan said: "You keep Xiang Yayong here, and take the rest of the troops back."

The imperial court had no plan. Before they attacked Mobei, they had no time to attack the Lake Baikal region.

In Feiruhe (Ulaanbaatar), the Mobei Protectorate was established, and Ao Ergao led his troops to stay here as a small protector of Mobei.And rely on the river and the mountain to build the domain pool, and change the name of Fei Ruhe to "Bei Ning Yu"m