After the marching column was set out, the trumpet sounded, and then the forward battalion began to set out, and then after the second battalion followed the ranks, the rest of the battalions marched together, with a few units as the rearguard, and at the rear of the Chinese army, and a few soldiers and artillery in the camp area to prevent Chotu Khan from running on a whim to steal the camp. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There was a commotion in the procession, and there were a few people who were nervous, but they were only a few.

Qin Bosheng stood in front of his squad, and the squad in front of him was the squadron flag, the squadron leader and the flag bearer plus the herald and the drummer stood in a queue, and the flags guided the soldiers to follow the queue and keep moving forward.

The expected battlefield is miles away, but it is estimated that there will be a long time to start, the military flag points forward, one column after another strides forward, everyone is fully armed, due to the lack of auxiliaries, even the jumping soldiers are dressed in armor and march, very close to each other and flat ground, slow marching will not consume too much physical energy, when arriving in the middle of the two armies, all the soldiers according to the banner command to the predetermined opening point of each battalion and company, at this time the sun has risen, the soldiers in armor are sweating, At this time, the officers motioned for everyone to sit down and rest, and many people unscrewed the kettle and began to drink.

Qin Bosheng turned around and talked to the bearded team officer, they are all veterans, He Laosan, who has just been promoted to team officer, is much older than Qin Bosheng, he has been a soldier for more than three years and is only a team officer, and the cultural course barely passed the team officer level exam, and it is only a temporary title, but He San did not feel sorry for himself, he came up step by step, married a daughter-in-law, and had a son, he was quite satisfied with life, and he was also familiar with the work at hand, his team was trained by him like a machine with tightened screws, It is very fast as soon as it starts, and you can rest assured that the maintenance and quality of the machine will be maintained.

Standing beside such an officer, Qin Bosheng also felt at ease, and looking at the past, the soldiers and pikemen sitting on the ground, as well as the musketeers, their officers or sergeant majors, or squadron leaders, and even high-level officers, each has its own characteristics, but every officer or sergeant major can make people feel at ease, the entire merchant army is like this, from each army to each squad, each squadron and company, and then to the battalion and regiment, there used to be a brigade, but with the strengthening of the battalion, the brigade-level officers have been adjusting one after another, I believe that it is only a matter of time before the brigade is canceled...... Each officer stands in his own suitable position, wears the right uniform, and takes his subordinates to the battlefield with the right pace, and has made quite enough preparations in advance, and the quality of each soldier's inspection, equipment and personnel are adjusted to the best condition, understand the terrain, also know their enemies, grasp the influence of the terrain on the output of firepower, and even the weather, and the consideration of the weather before each battle is also very important, today is undoubtedly a sunny day.

Qin Bosheng exhaled softly, being able to stand in such a team made him feel extremely relieved.

At the end of the group were makeshift tents, guarded by soldiers, along with the few squadrons of men in the group.

They are all stretchers or health soldiers, who help the doctors, carry the stretchers, urgently debride, bandage, transport the wounded back to the official field hospital in the camp, and if there is no way, they will record the information of the fallen soldiers, and try not to make a soldier a missing person.

The artillery has not yet established a position, because there is no trace of the enemy in the line of sight, even the sentry cavalry is in the distance, and only the red-clothed chasseurs can only faintly see the figure galloping, above the green grass and under the blue sky, the red dots are particularly conspicuous.

The soldiers didn't laugh this time, but no one was too nervous, they were no longer allowed to speak on the battlefield, but they could still light cigarettes, many veterans brought their own smoke pots and tobacco, they lit the smoke pot with flints, the flames lit the tobacco, the blue smoke rose, and the whole battlefield was filled with the smell of tobacco with aroma.

Everyone is waiting, including Ren Jing and Xia Xiping, senior officers, ordinary soldiers and junior officers can enjoy the pre-war calm, they just have to wait, and the senior officers are constantly looking forward with binoculars, the lush grass can still see the cavalry galloping back and forth to chase each other, constantly people are falling off their horses, a large group of Mongolian cavalry divided into several groups trying to hold the chasers of hundreds of people, but they are not weak at all, in the face of sharp firepower, More and more Mongolian cavalry turned back in circles, and those who dared to come over were scattered by bursts of dense firearms, and the chasers were fighting and retreating, many times giving the Mongols an illusion, as if the chasers were afraid and fleeing, and as a result, when the cavalry rushed over, they were swept down by the rain of bullets, and when the main force arrived at the expected battle battlefield, no one dared to pursue anymore, and the chasers slowly retreated.

At such a time, either Chotu Khan chooses not to fight here, retreats with his troops, chooses a better place for the battle, or simply flees, or he will set up and adjust his strategy in the following time to prepare for a real fierce battle.

The high-ranking officers did not hide their excitement, but the Khan was as confident as expected, and was willing to settle the trouble with a battle, which was good, and that was what the merchant army wanted.

If the enemy were to flee in pieces, they would lose all their herds and a considerable number of Dingkou, but it would be a good way to survive, they could run to the side of the Hutits, or to the side of the Oirats, or even from the side of the Southern Route Army, and all worries could be eliminated with the imminent battle in front of them.

By the time the two armies were separated by less than five miles, a battle was already inevitable.

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At dawn, Chotu Khan wore a refined iron armor shining with silver light, and rode on a war horse and stood on the grassland.

On his left hand side is the jade-belt-like Selenge River, which is the mother river of the Mobei tribes, and its basin is quite important, almost nourishing most of the grasslands of the Mobei tribes.

There are more rivers in Mobei than in Monan, and if it weren't for a considerable range of Gobi and desert areas, they would live quite comfortably, and the tribe would be more powerful.

But all kinds of landforms, including the mountains that stretch for thousands of miles, the Buryat Mongols in the north, the alien races in the forest, and the cold polar regions in the north, these limited the further development of the Mongols.

But Tu Khan had ambitions, but he was restricted from moving in Mobei, and it was not until the various departments of Mobei colluded with the Han army that he realized that he had spent too much time here.

There was a roar in front, this kind of sound is too rare on the Mobei side, many war horses are panicked and neighed, the riders have to work hard to appease the good war horses, many old people recall the memories of the old days, in those years there were people with Altan Khan to attack the Ming, the border army of the Ming State is like this to set firearms, they appease those young shepherds, the Ming people are indeed using firearms, it seems that the flames are spewing out, in fact, there is nothing remarkable, if firearms are useful, The Ming people of a few decades ago would not have been so embarrassed by the Mongols.

There are too many people and horses, it is simply a little unarrivable, one by one the nobles and officers began to formally promote, in the morning the herdsmen are mostly eating their own cheese and dried meat, everyone's food is quite limited, there is no habit of storing food on the grassland, each ranch received the order and rushed over with manpower, the farthest pasture is still nearly a thousand miles away, the entire pasture of the Chotu Khan Department is basically along the Selenga River to the south of the Tur River, more than 400 miles from north to south, the southernmost is near Uriya Sutai, The northernmost part of the place where the Southern Route Army was already located was the two banks of the Selenga River, the west reached the Tohuite Division, and the southeast was connected with the Zasaktu Division, with a length of nearly 1,000 miles from east to west.

This was a fertile land, which later became part of the Dzungar Khanate, part of the Oirats, that is, Gushi Khan established part of the territory of the later Central Asian states, as well as the whole of Tibet, Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Sichuan, and part of the territory of Xinjiang and most of the later Central Asian countries, including Mongolia and a large part of Inner Mongolia, the combined territory of the two khanates was about 7 million square kilometers, and later became part of the Dzungar Khanate, including the current Chotu Khanate.

A wave of pride rose in the heart of the Khan: perhaps after defeating these invading Han troops, the Khan should take advantage of the situation to rise!

From the dawn of the morning, Chotu Khan sent a large number of sentinels to fight fiercely with the merchant army, and by this time the victory was still not decided, but the chasers gradually began to break away from the battlefield, and the Mongol sentry cavalry continued to probe the outpost without receiving orders, and they galloped back and forth, making a sharp whistle sound, and it seemed that they occupied a large area of grassland and gained the initiative on the battlefield.

In the wilderness near the river, the black cavalry rushed forward along the jade-like river, the water grass higher than the adult swayed gently in the breeze, and the cavalry rode forward on the edge of the water grass, but they could not go too far, and the chasers could not give way to their right flank, and let the cavalry of the Chotu Khan get through, which was very dangerous, and it was likely to cause the main force to be surrounded and outflanked by the cavalry.

Chotu Khan also shook his head slightly, he saw that there were more Han troops on horseback galloping towards the river, fighting by the river was not conducive to the large force of cavalry, there was no way to send the main force, it was likely that a considerable number of cavalry were squeezed into the mud by the river, which was quite unfavorable to the Mongols who were good at cavalry raids.

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