Anyway, the Chahar Department and the Ming Dynasty will be a family in the future, and it is not a big deal that some people in the Chahar Department are willing to join Dong Ce's command, but they have earned it by their own efforts, not ********.

These people fell into the hands of Dong Ce to enhance Dong Ce's strength, and Liu Ruozai was happy to see it. Because in his opinion, among these generals in the Ming Dynasty, there are only a few who are better than Dong Ce in terms of military training. In the hands of Dong Ce, these people can play their role to the fullest, and their combat effectiveness can be brought into full play. This is not to say that Dong Ce's talent is so high, the set of military training methods he uses is actually not immobile to others, after all, Ji Xiao's new book and military training records can be bought directly in the bookstore in Dabu. It's just that Dong Ce's strict implementation conditions gave the soldiers generous treatment, rich nutrition and harsh training, as well as sophisticated equipment. After hard training day and night, I was finally able to do the order and prohibition, and when I gave an order, I was not afraid of death and fought bravely.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, if an army could do what it ordered, it could be regarded as a good army. And if it is also well-equipped and not afraid of death, it is an absolutely strong army. As long as the commander of this army has a middle-class posture, then this army will not be invincible, but at least it will rarely meet opponents.

Of course, the number of people cannot be too small.

If you have three or five hundred people who meet the thousands of horse armors and hundreds of Baya soldiers of Jiannu, then no matter how strong you are, it is useless.

Regarding Dong Ce's ability in this regard, Liu Ruozai completely agrees.

Moreover, he has a deeper plan. When he asked the court to recruit the Chahar Army, it was already written that he would recruit the elite of the Chahar Department into the Ming Army to enhance the cavalry strength of the Ming Army. The imperial court has not yet given a clear reply to this matter, and he can roughly guess what the imperial court and the emperor think: probably because he felt that he could not master these Chahar soldiers, for fear that something would happen after they entered the army, so he put this matter on hold. With the current efficiency of this bureaucracy under the panic of the Ming Dynasty, once this matter is put aside, it may never be picked up again.

Now that Dong Ce has a group of Chahar cavalry under his command, Liu Ruozai's idea is to see how effective it is. If the effect is good, treat this as a successful case and take it to the court to talk about it. With this fact in front of us, the opposition in the court will be much smaller.

Therefore, after Dong Ce told him about this as it was, he did not blame Dong Ce, but acquiesced to him coming over.

After walking a little further, Dong Ce and the others could already see that on the grassland in the distance, patches of white yurts appeared, and around the yurts, there were herdsmen grazing cattle and sheep. Come to think of it, that is where the tribe of the Empress Dowager Sutai is located, and the Empress Dowager Sutai is from a very prominent background, and she is the daughter of Yehebu Taiji. When she married Lin Dan Khan, she brought some tribal people, and then Lin Dan Khan was quite fond of her, plus she gave birth to Ezhe, Lin Dan Khan gave her a lot of dingkou. Now in the Chahar Ministry, these people under the Empress Dowager Su Tai can be regarded as a very powerful force.

To be honest, Ezhe has been able to support it until now, and he has not been taken down by the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager Sutai's own strength is also an extremely important reason. With the Empress Dowager Su Tai here, and the thousands of people under her command, Ezhe's position is relatively stable. Of course, this is only a temporary situation, and after the Chahar Ministry returns to the Ming Dynasty, trade with the Ming Dynasty will be launched, and the Empress Dowager will undoubtedly control this matter. Through trade with the Ming Dynasty, the Empress Dowager was able to continue to grow her clan and power, and little by little she consumed the power of the Empress Dowager Sutai and other Fujin and nobles, and when the Empress Dowager Sutai's own strength surpassed the sum of others, it was when she abolished Ezhe.

Dong Ce and Empress Dowager Su Tai both saw this clearly.

Empress Dowager Sutai is now seeking cooperation with Dong Ce, and this timing is also quite good, if it is a little later, the Chahar Department will officially move to Xiashui Sea, and after the Ming Dynasty starts trade, it will not be easy for Dong Ce to intervene. And now that she has discussed it with Dong Ce, Dong Ce will be able to lay out in advance.

After seeing the people of the Chahar tribe in the distance, Dong Ce ordered the team to stop and not move forward, but to send someone to inform the Empress Dowager Sutai.

Very few people know about the Empress Dowager Su Tai and his transactions, at least it is impossible for the people under the Empress Dowager Su Tai to know. Rashly intruding into other people's territory at such a sensitive time, if there is any misunderstanding, it is not beautiful. Before he could send someone, about a dozen feet away in front of him, behind a small hill, a team came out. There are about twenty or thirty people in this team, all of them are quite elite cavalry, and one of them is surrounded by me, and it is my Empress Dowager Sutai.

The equipment of these cavalrymen is quite good in the Chahar department, basically wearing a leather armor, holding a standard bow and arrow in their hands, and the double fork next to the saddle is full of feather arrows.

When the team approached, the Empress Dowager Su Tai glanced at Dong Ce and said with a smile: "You are on time." ”

Dong Ce said: "The Empress Dowager Sutai has an order, how dare she delay it?" ”

In front of the Empress Dowager Sutai's subordinates, he was still very respectful to the other party. Empress Dowager Su Tai smiled: "Let's go, take you to meet them." ”

Then, Dong Ce and the others followed behind the Empress Dowager Su Tai and her party and continued to walk forward. After a few villages, a hill appeared in front of me. This hill is afraid to stretch for dozens of miles, and unlike the mounds you see along the way, they are real mountains, with a height of about hundreds of meters, rising from the ground in this grassland, and it is very spectacular to look at. The mountain stretches to the northeast and is covered with trees.

The Empress Dowager Su Tai and her entourage entered the mountain without hesitation, and Dong Ce waved his hand and motioned for his subordinates to follow.

After entering the mountain, surrounded by dense woods, after turning around a mountain col, the eyes suddenly opened up. Here, it is a fairly large mountain valley. This mountain valley is seven or eight miles in circumference, and it is a flat grassland. At this time, hundreds of people are waiting here in this mountain valley.

They sat or lay down, some were talking and laughing, sometimes they were bowing their heads in contemplation, but without exception, they were all on horses. Yes, that's right, they're on horses. Even those who are lying down have a horse under them. They lay on the horse's back, without even a saddle under their crotch, and the horse walked forward slowly, and their bodies fell together, but they lay on it as steady as Mount Tai. Others were galloping, but he was not sitting on a horse, but with his feet on the horse, and no matter how wild the horse was, he would not be thrown off.

There is no doubt that each of them is quite skilled in controlling horses. Dong Ce just glanced at it, and his heart was shocked.