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Sometimes, war really seems like child's play.

Historically, Sengge was murdered by two brothers, and his tribe fled and scattered in all directions. When Galdan learned of his brother's death, he rushed back from Tibet and gained the allegiance of more than a thousand Mongolian cavalry.

What can more than a thousand cavalry do?

Galdan took the initiative to attack his two brothers, despite all opinions.

In a hurry, his two brothers only had time to assemble more than 10,000 cavalry. Galdan charged forward with his lance raised, shouting: "Wherever my gun is pointing, you should charge forward!"

The general was so brave that all his soldiers died in response, killing an enemy force ten times his own on the spot.

The enemy troops fled to Jinlingkou and guarded the dangerous place. Galdan took more than 20 of his followers and abandoned their horses to climb the mountain in spite of the rain of arrows. Only then did the rest of the soldiers dare to follow and charge. Galdan captured one brother alive, and the other brother fled to Qinghai in embarrassment.

Galdan was only 26 years old at this time, and it took less than a year from setting off from Tibet to regaining the throne.

This time the Datong Army went on an expedition to Mobei, and their enemy was Galdan's brother, Zhuote Babatur.

Since Mobei is full of pastures, after Sengge was killed, a large number of his tribesmen defected to Zhuote Babatur because they could all get rich rewards of pastures.

But this guy was a coward. When he learned that the Datong Army was coming to kill him, he led his troops to flee in advance.

Zhang Tieniu set out from the Horqin Grassland with 40,000 infantry, 60,000 cavalry, 180,000 civilians, and 300,000 mules and horses. When they arrived at the Hulunbuir Grassland, they were chased by the Mongols for more than two months, but only tens of thousands of livestock and thousands of women and children were captured.

After Sengge's death, his son Cewang Alabutan led his tribe to join Zhang Tieniu. Even Galdan's biological mother was in the Raole Protectorate.

Cewang Alabutan was very familiar with the grasslands and guided Zhang Tieniu's cavalry straight to the lush pastures. After struggling for a while and wasting countless amounts of food and grass, it was finally determined that there was no main enemy force in the grasslands of the upper reaches of Heilongjiang (the eastern region of Mobei).

They all ran away!

Zhang Tieniu continued to lead his troops westward, traveling along the Kullen River.

This river is the mother river of the Mongols. Anyone who wants to unify Mobei will march along this river. The same was true for Genghis Khan back then.

When they arrived at Dahan'er (Wendur Khan), they encountered a small group of cavalry sent by Fei Ruhe.

"How's the fight going here?" Zhang Tieniu asked.

The team was led by a cavalry battalion commander named Ouyang Qi. He replied: "We intercepted one of the enemy troops escaping from the east. There were only more than 3,000 cavalry, and the rest were all old, weak, women, children and livestock. What is the name of the H Buddha who is stationed in Aurgao? Damba Hutuktu led thousands of his men to surrender before he could escape.”

Zhang Tieniu said with a smile: "I'm afraid this person didn't intend to run away in the first place. He is a native of Mobei. How can he help the Zhungeer tribe fight in the war?"

Ouyang Qi said: "Our army dispatched troops quickly, and the enemy troops needed time to assemble. Governor Fei guessed that the enemy was gathering while retreating, and secretly sent a small force to attack the grain road. Two grain transport teams of our army were attacked, killing and wounding civilians. There were more than 1,800, but the enemy’s attacking force was also wiped out.”

"Where did the enemy withdraw?" Zhang Tieniu was a little depressed. He led 280,000 people on the expedition and spent three full months marching.

Ouyang Qi said: "There are traces of enemy troops everywhere. Governor Fei thought they were retreating to the north, so he sent me to lead the way for Governor Zhang."

The entire Mobei is divided into three major regions by the Altai Mountains, the Hangai Mountains, the Kent Mountains, and the Daxingan Mountains.

The west is the Great Lakes Basin, the middle is the Selenge Grassland, and the east is the upper reaches of Heilongjiang Grassland.

The Hulunbuir Prairie is part of the grassland in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang. Its geographical function is to threaten Hebei and Northeast China, and it is an important basis for Mobei Mongolia to fight south.

As for the Selenge Grassland in the middle, the Mobei Mongolian Royal Court is generally located here because it is the core of the Mobei Grassland. To the east, you can attack the grasslands of the upper reaches of Heilongjiang; to the west, you can attack the Great Lakes Basin, and even cross the Altai Mountains to the Western Regions; to the south, across the Gobi, you can attack the Yinshan Hetao; to the north, you can conquer the Lake Baikal region.

No matter how hard the enemy retreats, they will never abandon the Selenge Grassland, otherwise they will be waiting for the northwest wind next year.

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Zuo Xiaocheng is now in Fei Ruhe's army. This man is already the person in charge of the National Security Agency in Chahar.

The Chahar tribe is divided into several military governors. Zuo Xiaocheng is the first military guardian of Chahar. The Duhu's biological mother, a princess of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, had always been unclear about Zuo Xiaocheng, and the two even gave birth to three children one after another. This guy also took his wife and children from the south, and now he is living very well.

"The north is mostly mountainous and grassland, and the river network is very complex, which is more conducive to our army's fighting and not conducive to the movement of Mongolian cavalry." Zuo Xiaocheng is no longer the useless scholar he was before. He is very familiar with the Chahar grassland, and his meticulous work is often done Follow the caravan to Mobei.

Fei Ruhe frowned: "Where can the enemy's main force go?"

Zuo Xiaocheng said: "Most of the old, weak, women, children, and livestock and food have retreated to a mountain in the north to hide. As for the main enemy force, I'm afraid they are still circling. It is very likely that our army will continue to advance north, but they will attack our food road. . It’s not a small group attacking, but the main force bypassing it and completely cutting off our army’s food route.”

Fei Ruhe encountered the problem of Zhu Di's fifth Northern Expedition. Hundreds of thousands of troops were dispatched. The Mongols did not dare to fight at all and kept making detours in the vast grasslands.

It has been almost three months since they entered Mobei. The total results of the two Datong armies were to kill more than 4,000 Mongolian cavalry, capture more than 9,000 old, weak, women and children, and seize more than 100,000 livestock. He himself lost 102 Datong troops, nearly 2,000 civilians were killed and injured, and a lot of food and grass were burned by the enemy.

"Rumble..."

More than two thousand cavalry came from the southwest and were discovered by Datong Army scouts more than ten miles away.

The scout did not immediately flee to report the news, but watched from a distance. Because the Mongolian cavalry in front of them didn't seem to be here for a surprise attack. They were heading in the wrong direction, and many of them were injured.

When they encountered the Datong Army scouts, these Mongolian cavalry also stopped.

A Mongolian nobleman came forward with only a dozen horses and shouted: "I want to submit to the Heavenly Dynasty, I want to submit to the Heavenly Dynasty!"

The scouts of the Datong Army are stationed in Hetao and have long since learned to speak Mongolian. The scout captain asked half of the soldiers to retreat. If the situation was not good, he immediately went back to report the situation, and he rode up to meet him: "Who are you?"

The Mongolian nobleman said: "I am Jungertai Jize Lingdun Dobu, and the murdered monk is my father. I did business with Mr. Zuo Xiaocheng of the Celestial Dynasty. Mr. Zuo said that as long as I surrender to the Celestial Dynasty, I can be the Protector of the Anbei Protectorate, and I can also lead my troops to the pasture."

The scout captain asked: "Why did you come to defect now?"

Seringtun Dobu explained: "Zhot Babatur was afraid of me and was afraid that I would rebel. The grassland he allocated to me was right under his nose. He did not dare to murder me, for fear of arousing dissatisfaction from my father's old tribe. .So I was forced to stay with him during this battle, and all my wives and children were taken away by him."

The scout captain asked again: "Where has the main force in Mobei gone?"

Ce Ling Dun Dobu said: "To the southwest, they are cutting off the food route of the Chinese army. They have gathered more than 40,000 cavalry, intending to lure the Chinese cavalry to abandon their infantry and return to reinforcements while cutting off the food route, and then set up an ambush and defeat them halfway. The main force of the Chinese cavalry."

The scout captain asked again: "Where are the women, children and livestock in Mobei?"

"The north is almost to the North Sea (Lake Baikal), and it's all hidden in the territory of the Buryat people," Seringtundorb said. "The Buryats are very weak. They don't dare to resist, so they can only help. Hiding the property of the Mongols. This time I came to seek refuge with the Celestial Empire, but I was hunted down not far from the camp, and I lost more than a thousand horses before escaping."

The scouts led these Mongols and quickly rushed to Fei Ruhe's station.

Before Fei Ruhe could say anything, Zuo Xiaocheng asked: "I have contacted many Mongolian nobles in the past few years. What do they think? How come you are the only one who comes to seek refuge?"

Ce Ling Dun Dobu said: "Many of my father's old troops are willing to be loyal to the Celestial Empire. But they are afraid that the Celestial Empire will not keep its promise. Not only will they not be able to get pasture, but they will also lose their own lives. As long as I go to war with the army, Under the banner of my father, many nobles must have turned their backs on the battlefield. But..."

"But what?" Fei Ruhe asked.

Sering Dundorbu said: "A few days ago, Zhuote Babatur divided the Khan position, made four deputy Khans in one breath, and also divided his own pasture. Some nobles are greedy for pasture, and I am afraid they will have to fight. Only when the battle is over, and the Chinese army has the absolute upper hand, will they choose to defect on the battlefield."

When the Zuo Xiaocheng faction made detailed contacts, they could only promise a certain number of positions as the Protectorate, and from now on they would be under the jurisdiction of the Anbei Protectorate. Mobei is divided into countless guardians. How much pasture can each noble guardian get? Certainly not as much as Drote Babatur promised.

Only people like Ce Ling Dun Dobu, who had a grudge against Zhuo Te Babatur for killing his father, lived in fear every day, finally decided to join the Celestial Empire.

But this is enough, the enemy does have to fight a tough battle. But as long as the war situation is favorable to the Datong Army, it will be a matter of time for the Mongolian nobles to defect, and the enemy's soldiers can take advantage of their discord.

Fei Ruhe ordered 30,000 infantrymen and civilians to march slowly towards the south, while he personally led 40,000 cavalry at a gallop.

Because the troops were divided to look for the enemy, many of the cavalry were dispersed. It would take time for Fei Ruhe to gather his troops. Therefore, Cao Bianjiao was sent to command eight thousand cavalry and set off immediately as a pioneer.

The food road to the south had been cut off, and Cao Bianjiao got halfway there when he received news from the scouts.

Several grain transport teams were attacked, and more than 2,000 civilians were killed or injured.

By the river in the northwest foothills of Zamal County, Mongolia, Cao Bianjiao met the scouts from Mobei Mongolia. After a chase, Cao transformed into a dragon formation and killed more than a hundred enemy troops, but he did not dare to continue the pursuit because he knew how many enemy troops were hidden in the mountains ahead.

In fact, the main enemy force was in the mountains, waiting for Cao Bianjiao to crash into it.

Seeing that Cao Bianjiao was not fooled, Zhuote Babatur actually took the initiative to attack, and more than 40,000 Mongolian cavalry attacked Cao Bianjiao.

Fight or not?

Cao Bianjiao only hesitated for a few seconds and then ordered: "The entire army wears armor!"

These are the elites of the Datong Cavalry Division. One man has two horses, and the armor and food are carried on another horse.

More than 40,000 enemy cavalry were chasing them, and the 8,000 soldiers took their time to put on their armor.

Perhaps, without any large army, these eight thousand Datong cavalry can end the war.