In the pursuit battle on the Sanbula River, Haoge led the army to flee into Dashawo and lost a trace, and Zhao Shujiao and Cao Wenzhao's troops pulled out the camp and went south the next morning, detoured to the west and then ended.

Since then, there has been no trace of the Jianyu cavalry from Jizhen and Xuanfu to the north of Ulan Hada Mountain City and even south of the Xilamulun River.

And Zu Dashou, who led the cavalry of Datong Town out of Zhenchuankou and wanted to intercept and block Huang Taiji on the grassland around the old Jining Fort, did not wait for the remnants of Huang Taiji as he wished.

However, on the evening of the first day of December, he waited for a large cavalry led by Zhao Shujiao and others, who had made a detour south.

In this era, Qianxing and Weijining Fort, which had long been dilapidated and abandoned, was the location of the Ulanqab League, which was named after the Monan tribes surrendered to Huangtaiji, that is, the later Inner Mongolia Ulanqab City.

This place is located in the east and west, north and south of the Saiwai, more than 200 miles away from Datong in the south, more than 200 miles away from naturalization in the west, and 300 miles away from Zhangjiakou in the east, so the geographical location is very critical.

On the evening of the first day of the lunar month, Zhao Shujiao, Cao Wenzhao and others led the Ming cavalry that pursued Haoge's department, and it was in Jining Fort, which was located in the key place, that they met with the Zu Dashou Department who went north from Datong, and informed each other of the battle situation inside and outside the Guan, and they were relieved.

Zu Dashou no longer needs to be wary of the yellow flags and the Horqin army gathered outside the Dushi Pass, and he can finally rest assured that he will go west to Guihua City.

And Zhao Shujiao and Cao Wenzhao, who have always been worried about the civil war situation in Guan, can also let go of the grassland mountain siege to chase and intercept the Jianyu army that escaped from the north.

Zu Dashou, Zhao Shujiao and Cao Wenzhao were all born in Liaodong, and they were all fierce generals with a big view of the overall situation.

On the morning of the third day of the lunar month, the wind and snow that lasted for two days finally stopped.

After resting in Jining Fort, Zhao Shujiao first sent a team of men and horses back to Duolun City to deliver a letter and report to Sun Chengzong, the Minister of Military Aircraft, and then left a group of wounded and sick soldiers who were tired and frostbitten due to continuous combat to continue to recuperate in Jining Fort.

And he himself, together with generals such as Zu Dashou, Cao Wenzhao, and the leader of the Duolun Tribe, Hadan Batel, each brought the elite cavalry selected by his department, cooperated with a large army, and quickly advanced in the direction of Naturalization City.

In the north of the desert in early December, the icy northwest wind on the desert steppe brought a bitter cold, raging all living beings in the wilderness.

The cavalry officers and soldiers of the Ming army, who had long been accustomed to the cold winter outside the border, Datong Town, Jizhou Town, Shanhai Town, and Rehe Fort, rode their horses and galloped in the ice and snow, still freezing so much that they were "gritting their teeth" and shivering.

On the cotton curtain of the lower edge of the winter lining of the Ming army's standard iron helmet hanging down to protect the ears and face, a layer of frost formed by sweat was condensed.

Although the weather was bitterly cold, the morale of this Ming cavalry was very high.

The previous successive victories inspired everyone.

You must know that a few years ago, or even two years ago, the Ming army, whether it was cavalry or foot soldiers, had been beaten by the Jianyu Iron Cavalry, and never dared to march in such a joyful manner in the place where the Jianyu Iron Cavalry haunted.

Not to mention, he pursued Jianlu and the Mongol cavalry in the field and won many victories.

This is a scene that the cavalry veterans of Jizhen, Shanhai Town, and even Datong Town in the Ming Dynasty never dared to imagine before.

The defeat and flight of the captives and the victory of the officers and soldiers in the field pursuit are greater in boosting morale and confidence than in eating and cloning the soldiers.

Today's food and clothing of the Ming army is no longer a problem, and the bottleneck of winter operations that has plagued it for many years is also being properly solved.

The standard cardigan jacket issued in the iron plate armor is no longer issued or changed for several years, but a new cotton jacket made by the Tongzhou Quilt Factory of the Armed Forces Institute will be issued every autumn and winter.

Although it still can't solve the problem of tailor-made and size-fitting, it has achieved the unity of color and standard.

Coupled with a unified helmet and iron armor, the army of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty is already like a standard army with a unified banner, uniform color, and unified equipment.

This was originally the most basic thing for an army, but in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, it was simply not possible to do this.

Not to mention that the Ming border army and the battalions and guards in the interior cannot achieve unification in all aspects, that is, the towns on the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty cannot achieve basic unification in terms of military uniforms and armor, banner orders, establishment sequences, military horses, money valleys, etc., and even in weapons and equipment.

If an army can't even do this, then let alone the unity of command from top to bottom.

In December of the second year of Chongzhen, on the Saibei Wasteland, those who endured the same cold torture as the cavalry of the Ming Border Army, as well as the people and horses of Haoge and Zhaisang who rushed into the Great Shawo (later known as Hunshandak Sand).

Of course, these people's tolerance for cold is much stronger than that of ordinary Ming soldiers and Han soldiers, and they also have their own methods of resisting the cold and keeping out the cold.

However, when the hungry horses cut through the ice and snow covering the ground, but could not find enough hay to eat, this Jianjun and the Mongolian iron cavalry soon ushered in a severe test.

A large number of soldiers with yellow flags fell ill because of cold and hunger, and then fell behind because they were sick.

At the same time, a large number of war horses also died on the endless ice and snow wasteland due to hunger and cold, and even a group of sturdy bannermen lost their war horses and had to be reduced to stragglers, and then swallowed by the raging wind and snow.

At the same time when Zhao Shujiao, Cao Wenzhao and others went south to Jining Fort to escape the wind and snow and rest their men and horses, Hao Ge took the main cavalry force with the yellow flag and Horqin under his command, although he lost and discarded thousands of cavalry and war horses, but also relied on the continuous killing of horses and food, and crossed the big sand nest in the wind and snow.

On the evening of the third day of the lunar month, the area around Kuku and Tun, an important town in Monan, was shrouded in a violent snowstorm.

Hao Ge and others, who finally led the army out of Dashawo alive, led the only remaining more than 10,000 men and horses, and suddenly appeared in the north of Kuku and Tuncheng.

Immediately afterwards, this extremely tired Jianyu and the remnants of the Mongolian iron cavalry, seeing that Kuku and Tun were in front of them, finally rose up again, roared south, and under the guidance of He Luohui, they successively broke through several Ming army camps on the periphery of Kuku and Tun, and rushed into Kuku and Tuncheng, which was saved.

As for the Ming army in the outer cities of Kuku and Tuncheng, the large camps were one after another, but most of them were empty.

This strategy of scaring the defenders in Kuku and Tuncheng by Li Banghua was also seen through by Huang Taiji and others in the city because of the unexpected rush of Haoge and others.

The reason why Li Banghua did this was, of course, out of helplessness.

Moreover, at noon on 30 November, Li Banghua took a brief rest and replenished some grain and grass in the killing of Hukou, and then at the suggestion of Sun Chuanting, Ding Qirui, He Shiyu, Wang Guoliang, and others, he led the main army under his command out of the killing of Hukou and went straight to Kuku and Tun.

When these people arrived at Kill Hukou, the corpses in Kill Hukou were all over the place, and the Jianlu and Mongol soldiers had long since disappeared.

However, Wang Guoliang, He Shiyu and others had already tortured a lot of useful information from the mouths of Fan Yongdou's group before.

Whether it was knowing that Mang Gurtai had slaughtered the merchants and soldiers of the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce in Hukou, or knowing that Huang Taiji led the remnants to escape from the Guanwai, he was in the Naturalization City not far from killing Hukou at this moment.

Although Li Banghua was cautious, worried that his men and horses were chaotic and that there were too many foot soldiers and few cavalry in Shanxi Town, and he was not an opponent of Jianlu and the Mongol cavalry in the open grassland area of Saibei, he was not willing to give up the good opportunity in front of him.

If you can decide Mo Nan in the next battle between Kuku and Tuncheng, not to mention that the feudal marquis is not a problem, it is the threat that has been in the north of the Ming Dynasty for two hundred years all the time, and it will also disappear from now on.

For any Wenchen who is interested in serving the Son of Heaven and leaving a name in history, he can't withstand such a temptation.

In this way, at noon on November 30, Li Banghua, one of the elders of the Ming Dynasty and one of the ministers of military aircraft, left Ding Qirui and his Datong Town Guard to guard Hukou, and then led Sun Chuanting of Yansui Town, more than 4,000 cavalry of He Shiyu's department, more than 8,000 foot soldiers of the Liang Department of the Kingdom of Shanxi Town, and more than 2,000 Mongolian cavalry of Erke Chuhuer, and once again swore to go north in addition to killing Hukou.

More than 8,600 young and strong men captured in the Acropolis were also conscripted as soldiers and civilians on the ground, and were organized into a camp of baggage craftsmen, escorting grain, grass and baggage, transporting artillery and ammunition with the army, and also helping the army to set up camp and take care of mules, horses and livestock.

On the morning of the 2nd day of the first month of December, more than 4,000 cavalry under the command of Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu braved the wind and snow to arrive at Kuku and Tuncheng first.

If it were left in the past, the Ming army would have gone north to build a city where the captives were entrenched, and they would definitely be attacked by the captives immediately.

But this time, there were also a lot of prisoners and Mongol troops in the city, but not a single one of them went out of the city to invite the battle.

Huang Taiji has already decided to give up Kuku and Tun, so naturally there is no need to fight any more hard battles with the Ming cavalry at this juncture.

If it weren't for Huang Taiji and others who resolutely disagreed, insisting on waiting for Haoge and Abatai to come to rendezvous, he would have led his army to leave at that time.

Therefore, at this time, he was naturally reluctant to go out of the city to fight.

In this way, on the evening of the second day of the first month of December, Li Banghua led the main force under his command, the infantry brigade, followed Sun Chuanting's footsteps and came to the outside of Kuku and Tun.

When the army arrived at the city, it set up camp and set up artillery positions.

According to the plan of Li Banghua, Sun Chuanting and others, they were supposed to launch a fierce attack on Kuku and Tun early the next morning.

After all, the winter is bitterly cold, and the people and horses are stationed in the field, which is really not conducive to long-term warfare.

But as soon as this plan was finalized, it was interrupted by the news and letters urgently sent by Ding Qirui that night.

In the early morning of the next day, after a short rest and replenishment, Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu led more than 4,000 Yansui Town cavalry under their command to quickly leave in the night and in the wind and snow.

And Li Banghua, who stayed outside Kuku and Tuncheng, like Huang Taiji in Kuku and Tuncheng, where to go has become a problem they face together.