Due to the large number of Tatar cavalry, the troops led by Chi Hu and Zhang Quanfu were also urgently transferred to the vicinity of Zhenyuan Pass and used as a general reserve. Although the battle just now was very fierce and dangerous, Xu Xingxia never used Chi Hu's team. He knew that Chi Hu's squad was the last knife in his hand, and it had to be used at the most critical time. As long as the knife is raised, it is necessary to cut the vertebrae of the tartar cleanly.

Chi Hu personally led the soldiers of his squad to grab the side van and plug the gap. The Tartar infantry, who tried to rush up, fell down again after being fired upon by Chi Hu's platoon guns. With the interception of explosives thrown by trebuchets and the firing of Minnie bullets, it was even more difficult for the Tartar cavalry to break through this blockade.

"Three-stage shooting!"

"Ready!"

"Put!"

Chi Hu calmly shouted the password.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Bursts of orderly gunfire rang out.

The Tartar cavalry outside the breakthrough encountered a volley of Yue Yue Gong and fell down one after another. At such a close distance, the power of the Moon Gun is too strong. As long as Mini catapults out, there is basically no possibility of failure. As long as it is hit by Minnie's bullet, whether it is a person or a war horse, it is either a death or injury.

A moment later, Zhang Quanfu's troops were also transferred. The strength of the two detachments was a full 200 people, and the gap was immediately crowded with people. The 200 Lunar Guns were shot in three stages, and the power was still quite strong. Inside the breach, they kept firing to make up for the dead spots created when the explosives were thrown. The Tartars, who were not killed or injured by the explosion, also fell one after another under the fire of Mini's bullets.

"Up!"

Seeing that the timing was about the same, Xu Xingxia shouted in a deep voice.

The auxiliaries, who had been prepared long ago, as well as professional craftsmen, hurriedly seized the opportunity, rushed up from behind, inserted new planks into the grooves of the side vans, and then fixed them with iron nails. At that time, the iron nails were not the round iron nails of later generations, they were basically square, and one was the size of half a finger. One end of the nail can be bent. As long as you drive in three or four nails and bend the nails, the plank will be fixed. When the planks were erected, the arrows of the Tartar cavalry were completely useless.

The guns of the white-clothed army were so fierce, and there was a wooden plank to block them, and there was no possibility for the Tartar cavalry to rush up again. Taking advantage of this rare gap, more auxiliaries came up and worked with the craftsmen to adjust the partial van and narrow the gap between the two cars as much as possible, so that the arrows of the Tartar did not have a chance to shoot in. As a result, in this way, the Tartar cavalry outside was completely in a state of passive beating.

"Impossible!"

"It's impossible!"

"Rubbish! It's all rubbish! ”

"You shit! Rush it all for me! ”

Finding that the breach had been re-blocked, Eyudun suddenly screamed in anger.

This is not only a matter of the breakthrough being blocked, but also the turning point of the whole battle. On this point, Eyudun is very clear. He doesn't have other skills, and he still knows how to judge the most basic situation on the battlefield. Just now, near the breach, the Tatars had already paid too heavy a price to barely open a small gap. If this gap is not widened into a breach, from which the defenses of the white-clothed army cannot be crushed, then, next time, the Tatars will not have enough strength to open the gap again.

As time went on, the power of the Tatars would only get weaker and weaker. The guns of the white-clad army were so ferocious, the lethality was so terrifying, and the Tatars suffered huge casualties all the time. He didn't have the time or the heart to calculate the casualties of his troops. However, he was sure that at least a third of his troops had already been hit. If the casualty figure continues to rise, the force will collapse.

"It's over......"

Hellerkin muttered weakly.

He was more pessimistic, more depressed, and more concerned about the casualty figures of his own troops. There is no way, his family background is small and he can't withstand such a toss. However, the more he counted the casualties, the more he felt that his heart was constantly falling, falling into the boundless abyss.

In the battle just now, the casualties of the Helekin tribe must have exceeded a thousand. And that's not counting the casualties caused near the breach. Near the gap, the Kyllegin tribe, how many people died, Hellerkin himself, really did not have the courage to calculate. He could only roughly estimate that this number must not be small. If you use small stones, it must be a very large pile.

In such a situation, how long his tribe could hold out, Hellerkin himself did not know. As a companion, the Edun tribe can hold out for how long, Helkin himself is not confident. He was very worried that once he found out that something was wrong, he would withdraw his troops immediately. If Erdun leaves, he Helejin tribe will be unable to support it alone, but I am afraid that it will be completely finished. At that time, a strong counterattack by the white-clothed army will be able to bite them hard.

"It's over......"

Helkin muttered to herself in frustration.

…… is completely different from Erdun 's anger and Helkin's frustration, Xu Xingxia seems very calm. He stood at the back of the white-clothed military camp, quietly observing the shooting movements of the white-clothed army in front. He didn't have any weapons in his hands. In fact, his eyes had no focus at all. Looking ahead, it's just a subconscious action.

At this point in the battle, victory must have belonged to the White Army. The various troops under his command, how to fight, there is no need for him to give too many instructions. Now, it is a good time for the commanders of each unit to cross the sea and show their magical powers, and they will take care of everything in their own troops.

Even, the question he is now considering is no longer the victory in the battle, nor is it how to expand the armament after the victory in the battle. He thinks about the problem in the long term. His gaze looked at the far north, at the distant Bayannur grassland. The question he considered was how to deal with the rich Bayannur grassland.

Xu Xingxia knew very well that no matter what the outcome of today's battle was, the Hellergin tribe basically had no possibility of continuing to survive. There is also the Edun tribe, after suffering such heavy losses, it is also unknown whether they can survive with reading power. In the battle, they have already paid a heavy price, and their own strength has been seriously weakened. Even if the Han army did not pick them up, the internal strife of the Tatars themselves would have swallowed them all. The law of the jungle is the law of the iron of the prairie, without any exceptions.

The only thing he is worried about now is that once the Hellergin tribe no longer exists, whose hands will the rich Bayannur grassland fall into? Previously, it was the Khairgin tribe who controlled this rich plain, but what about later? After the decline of the Kylekin tribe, will there be other Tatar tribes, or Mongol tribes, trying to seize this place? And the white-clothed army, does it have a chance to seize this grassland full of fat?

According to Xu Xingxia's understanding, the Bayannur grassland in later generations was quite rich, with considerable grain output and animal husbandry output. It can be unceremoniously said that once the Bayannur grassland is developed and utilized, it is also a big granary and a big farm. It is said that the Ningxia Plain is rich, but in fact, the Bayannur Plain is not inferior to the Ningxia Plain. Since the time of the Han Dynasty, it has been an important strategic base.

In later generations, Bayannur could produce four billion catties of grain per year, mainly wheat, corn, oil sunflower, edible sunflower, sugar beet, tomato, watermelon and the like. Four billion catties, which is converted to 21 million stones. What kind of concept is this? The Ming Dynasty owed all the military households in the nine border towns, that is, about 9 million stones. In other words, the annual grain output of the Bayannur Plain is enough to pay for the arrears of all military households in the important towns of the Nine Sides, and there will be a large amount of surplus as a backup. The annual grain produced by Ningxia Town is estimated to be about 10 million stones, which is less than half.

This is still in terms of grain production, and when it comes to animal husbandry, Bayannur is even more abundant. There is no need to say the number of horses, cattle and sheep, the annual output of appearance alone is 8,000 tons. Why does Lin Dan Khan want to control here? It's because I fell in love with the abundance here. If the Mongolian Tumut tribe can control here, the strength of Ta Lin Dan Khan can be further enhanced. A few years later, it was not impossible to unify the Mongolian tribes.

From a strategic point of view, Bayannur is also the only way to Baotou and Hohhot (i.e., the city of naturalization). If the white-clothed army occupies this place, it can also directly threaten the entire Mongolian steppe, so that all the nomads dare not act rashly. In fact, since the time of the Qin Dynasty, the Han army has been stationed here for a long time to defend national security. "But make the dragon city fly, don't teach Humadu Yinshan", this familiar poem, the Yinshan mentioned in it, is the Yinshan Mountain Range in the northern part of the Bayannur grassland.

During the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court directly set up Shuofang Jiedu envoys to the south of Yinshan to directly deal with the nomads north of Yinshan. Guo Ziyi started from the position of Shuo Fang Jiedu envoy. It's a pity that when the Ming Dynasty was founded, Zhu Yuanzhang did not attach importance to this area, did not send a strong army to garrison here, and gave it to the nomads in vain. Since then, the nomads entrenched here have always brought a lot of trouble to the Ming Dynasty. Now, it's time to clean up all these troubles once and for all.

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(To be continued)