Qi Jiguang's army marched all the way west, leaving a personal attraction behind him.

This is naturally the restoration of the Han name, from the city of Daning, to the north to reset the Taining Wei, Duoyan Wei, Fuyu Wei, more north and Muli Jiwei, the town of Weisuo will be temporarily led by the Zhejiang army neutral meritorious generals, from the surrounding Mongolia, Jurchen Department to recruit Ding, the imperial court from the interior to send troops, Taining, Duoyan Erwei is also known as the road army, protect the Wulianghai Railway from the mainland; Fuyu and Muliji Erwei are also known as river guards to protect the navigable rivers to Dali Lake.

The railway will be used by Qi Jiguang in the future, and the river will be used by Li Chengliang.

Li Chengliang's attack on the northeast was based on the river, unlike Qi Jiguang, who chased and marched on the boundless grassland on the western front, and was not on the march on the way; Li Chengliang's troops were more static and less moving, and when his troops achieved a mission, they were stationed in the neighboring tribal cities, waiting for baggage, collecting grain and grass, and sending out scouts to explore along the river, collect more information, and determine the next target according to whether the surrounding tribes accepted the persuasion to surrender.

Once the objective was confirmed and the preparations were achieved, the large army marched out of the river in two ways, carrying infantry divisions, artillery, and baggage on the river, and marched at a rapid pace.

The two armies of the Eastern Front and the Western Front were joined together, and it was still last year.

Qi Jiguang saw Li Chengliang's soldiers on the second day after defeating the barbarians in Dali Lake, they drove a small boat to the mouth of Dali Lake, abandoned the boat and were found by Qi's army, followed the footprints all the way to chase, and found that these soldiers wearing military uniforms in eastern Liaodong were circling around Dali Lake, so they handed them over to Qi Jiguang.

After some conversation, I learned that they were Li Chengliang's scouts, and they traveled all the way along the river from the estuary of the Heilongjiang River near Kuwu Island, and when they encountered a small river, they abandoned the big boat and replaced it with a small boat, and then abandoned the small boat on foot if there was an accident, and then made a raft by themselves, and just walked along the river all the way, and they were the only ones in a dozen teams who came here, and no one knew where the others were.

They don't know when this mission will end, Li Chengliang's order to them is to find the source of the river, no matter which river or which fork they take, as long as they go to the end of the source, they can go back.

Maybe everyone else has already gone back, only they walk along the river...... Every time I hit a fork in the road, I made a mistake.

Qi Jiguang was very sympathetic to them, these unlucky Liaodong young men went north along the Heilongjiang River, following the winding river in the northeast of the empire, they bathed in Hulun Lake and Bear Lake, which are rich in water.

Hulun and Kuoluan are the homonyms of the Mongolian language 'Ha Yu', which means water se, and Bell and Fishing are the meaning of male otter in Mongolian, and these two lakes are rich in this, hence the name.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Lan Yu went to the fishing sea, where he annihilated the small court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

However, the imperial court's understanding of the Northeast water system has been close to a blank after so many years, so Qi Jiguang ordered people to copy their records in their original locality, keep these people with him, and let them go to Naturalization City with him, and then go south from there to enter the customs and return to Liaodong.

In a land where there are no roads, a navigable river is the best road, and by controlling the river, you can control all the land.

After Qi Jiguang's death, he left behind a number of empty cities, which was the land where the Zhejiang army had camped, some places built above-ground barracks, some places built underground barracks, when the Ming army left shortly after, those barracks were found by nomads, and they were transformed and used.

The military camp is very environmental, and although being a soldier is a chore, and the soldiers are hardly any better than the wild dogs on the march, their camp environment is very good.

The shrewd general chose a camp where water could be harvested on a large scale, the external environment was safe, and the terrain was not risky, and these places were equally suitable for towns or cattle garrisons.

However, when Qi Dashuai was about to arrive in Jining, the Zhejiang army under his command became extremely cautious.

The news came back from Chen Dacheng, who was a pioneer officer, who was ordered to search for the dilapidated official roads in the northern part of ancient Jining on the boundless grasslands, and the scouts reported that they found traces of a large group of chariots and horses marching on the official roads.

With deep ruts and hoof prints, paw prints of lackeys on the road, and gnawed bones and broken arrows discarded on the ground, Chen's analysis is that a group of 1,000-strong Mongol soldiers migrated north under the threat of the Ming army's northward advance.

Then they found a suspicious camp, the traces left in the camp also told his speculation, in addition to the other group of people who had appeared here, the people who left these traces were not Mongol soldiers but Ming soldiers, the broken wooden planks left over from the cooking were punched by lead pellets, and there were marks of gunpowder leaking on the ground, Chen Dacheng thought that this was the army of Youwei Suo out of the fortress to pursue the Mongol army in front.

The eating, drinking, and lazing of the 'two groups of people' are clearly displayed in the track, and even the way of disposing of the excrement left behind is different.

The only thing that made Chen Dacheng suspicious was that the feces buried in the soil and the feces in the open appeared to be less than a day apart.

In such a short period of time, why did the Ming army choose to garrison instead of catching up?

The state of rumors lasted for just two days, and Qi Jiguang's front-line troops ushered in the second batch of what Chen Dacheng called 'a large number of armed personnel'.

A large mixed caravan.

The scouts of the Zhejiang army with binoculars carefully crouched on the low hills, looking into the distance at the caravan stationed in the camp, the deputy of the scout was sketching the situation of the camp with pen and paper, the camp was clearly arranged in three circles, the merchants surrounded the connected car city with wagons, they had a hundred or more wagons, almost every wagon had spears and quivers, and countless camels were circled in the camp.

There are hundreds of armed people outside the camp, most of them wear military uniforms and armor used in spring, summer and autumn, the uniforms are red and blue iron cotton armor, and some people are also wearing cuirasses on the outside, the cuirass is standard, painted with different colors can distinguish them from the mainland, the border army or the Beiyang.

Others wore no uniforms and appeared to be armed guards, some wore leather armor, some had chain mail, and many more wore no armor and carried all kinds of firearms other than birds.

There are big flags in the camp, just like the barracks, and those soldiers have the flag army of Beiyang and the people of the border army.

And outside the car camp, there is a long banner belonging to the right wing of Mongolia in the Ming Jin Kingdom, nearly 300 armor horses under the banner are shouting, the best armed is the armored horse, the worst also has chain mail, leather armor to protect the body, there are not many tribes on the grassland that can come up with such armed forces, as long as you look at it, you will know that they are the Mongolian armor of the king of Shunyi of the Ming Jin Kingdom.

Seeing this caravan, I couldn't help but think of those Quanzhou merchants in the southeast and overseas, who were also self-recruited sailors running rampant overseas.

Could that happen happen again in the north?