The Mongols outside the fortress heard the wind and fled!

Generally speaking, the closer you get to the Great Wall, the warmer it is, and the more Mongols there are, but by the time the spring flowers are blooming, the Mongols have already evacuated north.

They dragged their families and drove their livestock away.

The cunning of the Mongolian chieftains must not be underestimated, they know that the Ming army has accumulated too much anger and resentment, and they have a little courage to come in anger, and the Mongols are few, and they can't fight hard with the Ming people, so the Mongols will not be stupid enough to fight with the Ming people.

Retreat first, avoid the sharp spirit of the Ming people, and wait until they are slack, and then attack, the wing can come in the future without a fight and surrender the army, if the Ming army reproduces the rotten temperament of the former Ming army, frightened, a thousand miles of collapse, then the Mongols will laugh in their dreams.

The army did not encounter any resistance along the way, not even the Mongols, and walked for three days.

But don't take it lightly, or you'll die!

The large army of action sent out scouts, watching from front to back, left and right, and every soldier raised their vigilance, even the people played with the muskets they carried when they had time, and this time, the people were all armed, and once the troops were short, they immediately enlisted for the conscription when needed.

The vegetation on the road is vigorous, the spring breeze has been green outside the Great Wall, and the green grassland has covered the sky in a short period of time, which is really a good territory for animal husbandry, fattening the war horses of the Hu people and the northern captives, and going south to make the Han Dynasty fall into blood and fire!

They march on the water source, and the army of 20,000 people marches, and if there is no water source on the road, it is really a big problem.

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On the city wall of Gubeikou, Gan Hui put down his binoculars and was silent.

There are a few yurts in the steppe in the distance, and some sheep are grazing, and that is the Mongols coming!

A handful of the Mongols had made a comeback, and their rangers even roamed the city in arrogance.

The north was too big, and the 20,000 troops dispatched were like throwing stones into the sea.

"Send someone to kill them!" Gan Hui said indifferently.

"Yes!" An officer answered, and soon, a thousand horsemen left the city, the sound of horses' hooves making the walls tremble.

The Mongols fled and played the game of "come, I go".

"We will definitely succeed!" Gan Hui cheered himself up and said, "Then come to the liver and see who is afraid of whom!" ”

Gan Hui is like Lu Meng, his knowledge has improved rapidly after enlistment, he has a clear understanding of the north of the Ming Dynasty, in Chinese history, the Central Plains Dynasty has been operating the Central Plains and Jiangnan regions for a long time, as for the northern grasslands, often not in one of the spheres of influence of the Central Plains Dynasty, but the sphere of influence of the grassland tribes.

Although when the national strength was strong, the Central Plains Dynasty would also carry out a series of northern expeditions, but it did not fundamentally solve the problem.

Once the national power of the Central Plains Dynasty declined, the northern grassland regime could even directly threaten the Central Plains Dynasty, and from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, this problem was never resolved.

The tribes of the steppe were cut like crops, but a series of powerful tribes such as the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Khitan, Mongol, Tatar and a series of regimes seriously threatened the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Today, the Xinming people have taken over the problems that their ancestors could not solve, and tried to use force against the northern grassland tribes, looking for a way to finally solve the northern grassland tribes once and for all.

"There are so many problems that need to be solved!"

"It's all about people!"

"Wipe out the Northern Captives and expand our population!"

"We want strict military discipline, organization, and no disorderly formation, can the first batch of troops withstand the test?" Gan Hui pondered silently.

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"Our back road is broken!" It is a fact that the Mongolian cavalry appeared in the rear of the Ming army, cutting off the connection between the Ming army and the rear, and the lone army went deep, making everyone a little panicked, but it was already to the north and could not turn back.

The first battle began, and by a river, a troop of more than thirty men sent out to draw water fired the first shot.

They encountered a surprise attack by the Mongol cavalry lying in ambush in the reeds, and more than ten horsemen rushed out, and when the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, all the Ming soldiers panicked.

However, their officers and non-commissioned officers held their ground, and they blew their whistles, and the officers shouted hoarsely: "If you escape, behead the public, and the whole family will be exiled!" ”

The non-commissioned officer repeated aloud, so the soldiers, under the command of the officer, quickly formed a battle formation, and the soldiers in the front row hurriedly fired their bullets, then raised their muskets and stabbed them at the enemy, and the brothers in the back also opened fire, nervously reloading.

The first batch of bullets hit very few Mongols, and they fired arrows at the Ming army.

Whizzing arrows fell in the Ming army, shooting a few people, but no one was hit, and some people in the Ming army were hit by arrows, but they didn't hit the vital point, and no one fell.

Although those Ming soldiers were newcomers, after they stabilized, the actions that had been trained as conditioned reflexes immediately made the Mongols suffer!

At the sound of gunfire, the Mongols fell like fallen leaves in the autumn wind, and at once they were half knocked down, and the rest fled.

The Ming army rushed forward in formation and opened fire on the struggling Mongols, killing them all.

"We killed seven of them, captured three horses, killed no one on our side, and wounded eleven!" The officer reported to He Zhen, who had arrived.

"Very good!" He Zhen attached great importance to the first battle, and ordered to give ten silver dollars to each soldier participating in the battle, twenty to the wounded soldiers, thirty silver dollars to the non-commissioned officer, and one hundred silver dollars to the leading officer, and to inform the whole army!

Victory is inevitable, the Ming army, like the southeast army, has strengthened the training of the officer corps, the officers have a good salary, noble social status, especially above the civilian officials, they have good combat quality and firm will, completely different from the former Ming officers!

The Mongols kept probing, they sneaked up and assaulted, but they were greeted by a rain of bullets, not only did they lose the upper hand, but they also ate guns.

The scene of the Ming army, which made the Mongols have high hopes, flee without a fight did not appear, not once!

During the battle, the Ming army also arrived at the destination of this trip, and walked to the side of a large lake, the lake is as flat as a mirror, covering thousands of square kilometers, and a large river flows into this lake.

At that time, there was not much development, the water was abundant, and there were patches of forest along the lake.

Immediately set up camp, both soldiers and people, frantically digging ditches, cutting wood, and building camps with wooden railings and deep ditches!

All this made the Mongols watching next to them very depressed, because this lake is their holy lake, and the forest is the treasure in their eyes, they will at most collect some dry wood and fallen leaves to burn the fire, but they will not cut down a single wood, however, the Ming people came, the Mongolian holy lake was trampled, the precious trees were cut down, and they could not do anything, and the morale of the Mongols was hit!