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"Good, good, the more the better!"

Zhang Tieniu didn't know many idioms, Han Xin ordered troops, the more the better, he still knew this idiom.

An hour later, the Horqin cavalry from chasing and killing Bahrain also rushed to the Datong Army's garrison.Manzhu Xili rode a horse into the camp alone, knelt down and kowtowed and said: "The guilty general Manzhu Xili, pay homage to the governor of the Celestial Dynasty!"

The two Manzhu Xili finally met together.

Even if there is no other grievance, only the name is the same, it is estimated that the two will not understand each other.

Zhang Tieniu asked: "How are you doing in the north?"

Manzhu Xili from Horqin said with an aggrieved face: "The governor, please send troops to rescue our tribe. Our tribe will be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor for generations to come!"

"Don't worry, we will definitely save him." Zhang Tieniu agreed.

After being rescued, how to deal with it is another matter.

The resettlement pastures were disrupted, and ten guards were divided and set up.There will no longer be any leader who can gather more than 3000 troops, unless they also organize ordinary herdsmen as cavalry.

The territory of the Han people will continue to expand northward. At least the territory of the Bahrain Ministry must be in the hands of the Han people, which is a strategic location!

In this way, without fighting a single battle, Zhang Tieniu's troops increased again just by marching two hundred miles northward.

The equipment of the Bahraini cavalry is so bad that they have no combat effectiveness at all. When assigning tasks, Zhang Tieniu said: "All of you go out to investigate. You don't need to pester the enemy when you encounter them. As long as you can find out the enemy's situation, you will be considered meritorious."

Sebuteng said: "General, the warriors of Bahrain are also capable of fighting. General, please lend the spare armor to our men temporarily."

Zhang Tieniu raised his hand and said, "No need, you guys should be sentinels."

Manzhu Xili from Horqin said: "Our department can take the main attack, and we must fight the enemy bravely!"

"Very well, you all follow me, and you will definitely be useful in wars." Zhang Tieniu acknowledged this. After all, Horqin's people, animals, and property were all taken away by Khalkha, and he would definitely work hard in wars.

The Datong army continued to march northward slowly. A few days later, the Liaoning friendly army, which was advancing close to the remaining veins of Yanshan Mountain, came to meet up under the leadership of Li Zheng.

Zhang Tieniu, Li Zheng and others didn't seem to be chasing the enemy.

Every time they went to a key position, 1 people were left to garrison, cut down trees in the mountains to build camps, and dug trenches on all sides to prepare for long-term defense.They ignored the main force of Khalkha at all, and only wanted to block the Khalkha army so that Chahun Dorji could not lead his army back to Mobei.

Chahun Dorji, who wanted to lure the enemy deep and stretch the supply line of the Changtong Army, was enraged by Zhang Tieniu's approach.

"This is looking down on me, and even divided up the troops along the way. Let them continue to divide the troops, and we will fight back after the division is over! Also, send [-] cavalry to detour south to cut off the Han soldiers' food road!"

Chapter 790 [The Frog at the Bottom of the Well]

If the students of the Nanjing Military Academy were to analyze this military deployment, they would probably score a zero directly.

Two hundred miles north of Chifeng, [-] Datong troops were stationed on the banks of the Xilamulun River.

Two hundred miles further north, [-] Datong troops were stationed on the banks of the Heimulun River.

Eighty miles further north, eleven thousand Datong troops were stationed on the banks of the Wuliji Mulun River.

Two hundred miles further north, [-] Datong troops were stationed on the banks of the Huolin River.

Forty-four thousand troops were scattered out like this.It is no longer a long snake formation, but four biscuits are spilled, waiting for the Khalkha army to come and eat them one by one.

Li Dingguo dared to propose such a military plan, and Zhang Tieniu really dared to adopt it and implement it immediately.

Li Zheng, with a conservative personality, was speechless when he led the army to meet up.He couldn't overthrow Zhang Tieniu's arrangement, so he could only remedy it as much as possible. He personally led two infantry divisions to sit on the other side of the Wuliji Mulun River, so that he could coordinate with other troops. He also asked Wang Tingchen to lead the cavalry division to join forces with Zhang Tieniu. .

Zhang Tieniu, Li Dingguo, and Wang Tingchen led the mobile force to pursue northward.The Khalkha army is still retreating northward, and they are almost retreating to the main line of the Greater Khingan Mountains.

However, Gulu Shixi, the younger brother of Chahun Dorji, brought [-] cavalry and a large number of livestock, and went south to cut off the Datong army's grain road.

When Gulu Shixi made a detour from the direction of Tongliao to the Xiliao River, smoke billowed suddenly from the south bank.Immediately, every few miles, the smoke of the beacon rose, extending westward to the camp of the Datong Army.

At each beacon point, there were only a few dragoons, and after setting off the smoke, they rode away immediately before the enemy crossed the river to pursue them.On the river, there are occasional small boats to deliver food to the beacon fire points along the river, and when they see the beacon fire, they quickly row and run away.

The grain road was further to the west, and when the grain transportation team saw the smoke, they withdrew to the nearest Datong military camp.All the ministries took out all the dragoons as a mobile force to cover the food transport team at any time. If it was too late to retreat, they would gather to fight according to the situation of the war.

Gulu Shixi did successfully cut off the grain road, but he didn't even notice the shadow of the grain transport team.

With [-] Khalkha cavalry, this guy was a little confused and didn't know where to run.He could continue to get stuck in the food channel, but he always felt that he would be surrounded because he was too far away from the main force.

A few days later, 2000 dragoons from the six divisions gathered in Kailu County in later generations, looking for Gulu Shixi everywhere.

After searching hard for two days, the traces on the grassland were identified.

Jiang Tiao, who was born in the Ming Dynasty, looked at the trampled and messy grass, and said depressedly: "This guy is running fast. It seems that he has been away for two or three days. There is no need to chase any more. It is important to go back to cover the camp."

Chahun Dorji, farther north, did not want to fight the main force of the Datong Army, so he seized the opportunity and chose to go southward in a detour.He sent out a partial division to trample the prairie back and forth, leading Zhang Tieniu to pursue it to the northwest.With the main army, he turned back from the southeast and went south, preparing to break through the camps of the Datong army one by one-every Datong army camp blocked his way back to Mobei.

When detouring to the west of Tongyu County in later generations, wolf smoke was also ignited by the river, exposing it one after another.

Chahun Dorji sneered: "What's the use of this method? Divide the troops and go south at full speed, harassing every river, let the enemy all light up the smoke, so that the Han army doesn't know where we are going to attack. Then come back immediately and meet, we will go Attack the Han army in the direction of Huolinhe!"

There are several rivers in the north and south, and in the next few days, there will be rising smoke everywhere.

Li Zheng, who was in the middle, received similar news constantly, and his mind was almost confused, and he couldn't figure out the real situation of the enemy at all.He ordered: "Scatter out all the dragoons, each unit should not be too far apart, and must detect the direction of the main force of the enemy. Also, quickly go to the north to inform Dudu Zhang that the main force of Khalkha must be in the south, so that they don't go any further." Chased north."

At the beginning of October in the lunar calendar, the weather suddenly turned cold, and there seemed to be signs of snowfall.

Gulushixi's [-] cavalry finally joined Chahun Dorji, and the main force of Khalkha suddenly ran along the Huolin River.Along the banks of the Huolin River, beacon fires were ignited again, clearly becoming the main target of the enemy's attack, but the friendly forces from the north and the south were still two hundred miles away.

The Datong garrison there will be led by Wang Hui, a native of Hunan, and the deputy will be Huang Fei, a surrendered general of the Ming Dynasty.Originally there were 1000 troops, but 9000 dragoons were transferred, and now there are only 1 left, including more than [-] civilian husbands.

Chahun Dorji's main force is more than 9 people.

"Before the enemy rescues, step down here quickly!" Chahun Dorji ordered.

These guys don't have binoculars, so they can only climb up the nearby slopes to roughly observe the battlefield.Then send the riders to run over and get closer to observe the details.

Soon some Khalkha cavalry came back and reported, "Khan, the enemy camp has dug deep ditches."

Chahun Dorji said: "Let Lama Shixi's cavalry get off their horses and fill up the deep ditch there!"

Lama Shixi was very upset, but who told him to take refuge halfway, he could only send soldiers as cannon fodder to fill the trenches.

"what is that?"

At this moment, a hot air balloon suddenly rose above the camp of the Datong Army.

Lama Shixi felt that his chance to perform had come, so he galloped forward and said, "Khan, that is a magic weapon of the Han people, and it can ascend to heaven to observe the battlefield."

Chahun Dorji said: "This is a good thing. I stand on the slope, and I can't see the whole situation at all. They can see clearly how the enemy ascended to the sky and how I lined up my troops."

Lama Shixi also said: "The Jurchens are fighting with the Han people, and the Han people like to dig ditches. They sweat profusely, and the Han people have powerful artillery. When we fill up the ditch, the Han people's reinforcements will soon arrive. I don't think we should attack here by force, but go to the Attack the reinforcements of the Han people. Divide [-] cavalry and hide in the nearby mountainous area. When the reinforcements of the Han people come, rush out and kill him by surprise!"

"I think so too," Chahun Dorji nodded and said, "Withdraw the camp one after another, divide the troops to the mountains to the south at night, and start filling the trenches tomorrow morning!"

Datong Military Camp.

The watchman on the hot air balloon constantly sends messages through semaphore.

Lieutenant General Huang Fei said: "The enemy has retreated. It should be because they saw the trenches and are not going to attack directly. They will attack slowly after setting up the camp. Do you want to go out and attack the camp tonight?"

"No need," Wang Hui shook his head, "Most of the dragoons in our army have been dispatched, leaving only [-] cavalry. The enemy has a large number of cavalry, and if the night attack fails, we will be the ones who will suffer. Slowly guard and put The enemy drags here and waits for friendly troops to come to rescue."

Huang Fei worried: "We didn't block the access to the mountain. What if the main force of the enemy army fled westward along the valley? After crossing the valley, they can return to Mobei."

Wang Hui said with a smile: "If the enemy cavalry can escape, so many cattle, sheep and food can be taken away? If they don't bring enough food and supplies, they will encounter heavy snow on the way, and they will all freeze to death and starve to death on the grassland."

Wang Hui squatted down and grabbed a handful of soil, and said with emotion: "There is also black soil here. I heard from the Han people in Chifeng that this kind of black soil is very good for growing food, and they don't need to be composted. You have to go to the court and immigrate more. Occupy all the places with black soil."

In the vast Horqin Grassland, there are a large number of river plains, and many river plains are black soil.

The Khalkha army gradually retreated towards the west with their luggage, and camped against a mountain.If they don't continue to fight, they can get into the mountains, pass through the mountains along the river valley, and then return to Mobei without hindrance.However, the river valley meanders for more than [-] miles, and marching with a large amount of logistics supplies, the speed cannot be fast at all, and it is easy to be overtaken by Datong cavalry.

At night, more than 3 Khalkha cavalry crossed the upper reaches of the Huolin River and hid in the Hanwula Mountains.

If the Datong Army from the south came to rescue them, the Khalkha cavalry hiding in the mountains would most likely attack the Datong Army halfway from the rear.

Until now, Chahun Dorji has not decided whether to quickly eat up the Datong army in front of him, or change the combat goal to encircle the spot to fight for reinforcements.

Day two.

Lama Shixi's Horqin soldiers were sent out to fill the trench with soil.It is all extremely fertile black soil, instead of being used to grow crops, it has become a material for filling trenches.

"Boom boom boom!"

The artillery of the Datong Army fired in turn, and the Horqin soldiers carrying the dirt on their backs rushed forward with the shells on their backs.

As they rushed forward, they fled one after another.

These Horqin soldiers didn't want to fight at all.To be precise, they didn't want to fight for Khalkha. They lived well here, and for some reason followed the leader to defect to Khalkha, and now they are used as cannon fodder to fill trenches.Who is willing?

Several times in a row, Chahun Dorji finally became angry, and called Lama Shixi over: "If your soldiers are greedy for life and fear death, I will deal with it by military law. You...go and supervise the battle yourself!"

In desperation, Lama Shixi had no choice but to bite the bullet and personally command the troops to fill the trench with soil.

Chahun Dorji thought about it, and felt that Lama Shixi couldn't be bullied by himself.As a result, the conquered tribes from the Hulun Buir Grassland were also organized to fill the trenches.

Immediately afterwards, thousands of Khalkha cavalry were sent to stand behind to supervise the battle, and anyone who dared to retreat would shoot arrows immediately.

The morale of the supervisory team was obviously "boosted", and there were actually more than 2000 Mongolian soldiers who rushed tens of meters outside the trench with the shells on them.

"Tiger crouching gun, reload all bombs!"

After the reform, the Datong Army was equipped with a lot of tiger squat guns.Although most of the dragoons of this division were transferred away, the tiger squatting artillery remained.

With the sound of cannons, countless small shells were fired.Iron eggs, lead bullets, and even stones, like celestial maidens scattered flowers, were thrown at the Mongolian soldiers at close range. The smallest cannonballs were even as thick as a thumb.

"Ah, my legs!"

"My belly was pierced!"

"Run!"

Chahun Dorji looked at the battlefield from a distance, and said dumbfounded: "Why do the Han people have so many artillery pieces? Call Lama Shixi back!"

He also has artillery, which he bought from the Cossacks.But only a few guns were bought, and the barrel was only as thick as a calf, so two people could carry them around.Even so, due to the lack of gunpowder, the small cannons were used sparingly, and they were generally used as secret weapons to deter other tribes.

Lama Shixi, who was personally supervising the battle, quickly rode back.

Chahun Dorji asked, "Why do the Han people have so many cannons?"

Lama Shixi replied helplessly: "Khan, I have already said that the Han people have many cannons, more than the Jurchens. Not only are there cannons, but also countless firecrackers, which can be fired from a long distance."

"Bastard, you only said that there are many artillery pieces, but you didn't say that there are so many!" Chahun Dorji scolded, "Do other Han armies also have so many firearms?"

Lama Shixi nodded and said, "It's all like this."

That's a fart!

It was only then that Chahun Dorji realized that something was wrong, and called the leaders of the various ministries: "Send all the slaves you have captured to fill the trenches. It only takes two days to fight, and if you can't fight for two days, you will immediately retreat into the mountains! "

"Great Khan, many of the slaves robbed from Horqin are Han Chinese who know how to farm..." Darhan said.

Chahun Dorji interrupted: "Shut up, don't care if he knows how to farm, now we are going to fight!"

Chapter 791 [Stable as an old dog]

"Where are... Han people?"

"No matter who it is, if you want to fill the trench, you will be shot. Give me a blast!"

Not only the Han slaves, but also the Horqin tribe were all forced to fill trenches with soil.Around the Datong military camp, there are dense trench-filling troops everywhere, and it is obviously not enough to pull out all the artillery to bombard.

In one morning, nearly 2000 people were killed or injured by the cannon fodder responsible for filling the trenches.

Many casualties were caused even at the edge of the trench.They had poured the earth into the trenches, and then they were shot by muskets, fell in large numbers, turned and fled after their morale collapsed.

Darhan found Chahun Dorji again: "Khan, if you keep filling it like this, you will definitely not be able to capture the enemy camp in two days. According to the report from the soldiers who filled the trench, the Han army poured a lot of iron nails behind the trench ( After the iron nails, many horses and chariots were launched. Even if these are broken, there are still wooden walls of the Han army. In three days at most, the reinforcements of the Han people will definitely arrive.”

Chahun Dorji hesitated, he already felt that the camp in front of him was very tricky.

It is mainly a matter of vision. These Khalkha Mongols used to live along the Halaha River (the border river between Inner Mongolia and Mongolia).About 100 years ago, they moved to Mobei one after another. Although they went south several times to plunder, the targets of the robbery were all the Mongolian tribes in Monan. They had not fought against the Han people for nearly a hundred years.

In Chahun Dorji's established thinking, fighting is nothing more than those few tricks.Even if they fought against the Manchus, the Manchus would take the initiative to attack every time, and it was impossible to bring too many chariots and chariots to fight in positional warfare.

This is the first time in the past hundred years that Khalkha Mongolian cavalry has taken the initiative to go south to confront the Han people.

moat?never seen it.

artillery?Firearms?I've seen it, but never this dense.

Caltrops?What is that?

Chahun Dorji had never heard of the chariots that connected the formation to block the cavalry.

If the attack continues like this, even if the Han camp can be broken, the Han reinforcements will come and surround him.

Each of the four biscuits thrown out by Zhang Tieniu and Li Dingguo was a bait.There are nothing more than two purposes, one is to block the enemy's escape to the west, and the other is to hold the enemy back and wait for reinforcements.