Chapter 587: Traveling 2,000 Miles to Conquer the Prairie

The next day, 40,000 allied troops galloped out of Guihua City, and under the scorching sun, Chang Wei's short hedgehog-like hair flashed like a flame, and the mane of the horse under him was full of light. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The smoke and dust in the rear, the 40,000 army and more than 100,000 horses' hooves, along the undulating lines of the prairie to form a magnificent silhouette, such a scene made countless herdsmen tremble, so that the distant majestic mountains and the open Gobi in front of them are trembling, and since then this land has belonged. This is his territory, his journey.

From the Guihua City under the ruins to Bansheng a hundred miles away, from the pitch-black Dahei River to the clear sea of Xiashui, from the beautiful and rich Hetao to the remote and barren Qingshui Camp, from the Guihua City at the foot to the Daningwei 1,700 miles away, it will be a battlefield where the army will be crisscrossed!

As long as the streams of the valley are still flowing, as long as the grassland is still green, tens of thousands of iron horsemen will trample through one by one, and for those who do not want to surrender, whether it is a fierce young man, or a beautiful girl, whether it is a soft flock, or a proud eagle, whether it is a large golden wheat field, or a mirror-like lake, all the beautiful water birds, and the warm felt tents, will be turned into ruins one by one!

Golden birches and verdant spruce forests will be burned, the green rivers and blue skies will be polluted, and the beautiful pastures will be ploughed by artillery fire. All tribes and territories that do not want to surrender will be completely destroyed, and it will be a cruel and bloody road of conquest!

After supporting Ezhe and Sutai, conquering the Hetao grassland, and eradicating Chahan Buhua, Chang Wei got 300 million prestige points, and so far he has accumulated one billion prestige points, if the rest of the six guards will conquer the benefits will be unimaginable, which will be a huge change for the court, the country, the nation, the people and the general trend of the world, so Chang Wei can't wait to lead the army to the expedition.

Gallop one day to Bansheng, here is the location of Gufeng Prefecture, gathered more than 50,000 half-farming and half-pastoral Han people, built a soil city. Ma Lie, who is also a Han Chinese, enjoys great prestige here, but the news he brings is not very good.

Five days ago, during the battle of Ordos in Changwei, the Shaanxi thieves led by Wang Er and Gao Yingxiang sent troops to the south and smashed the Great Wall from between the Qingshui camp and the old camp into Shanxi.

Chang Wei didn't have time to pay attention to the thieves, so he only let his subordinates announce the draft of the imperial court to set up counties, support Han people, and operate outside the Saiwai, and the news immediately caused a sensation in Bansheng. Although they are a large force in Bansheng, they were oppressed by the Tumo River in the west and the Chahar Department in the east, and they had to pay huge amounts of livestock and taxes, but once the imperial court sent a large army and officials, they would no longer have to be oppressed!

Immediately, there were 5,000 sturdy horsemen with knives to join Chang Wei's Eastern Expeditionary Army, this unexpected harvest made Chang Wei overjoyed, these Han people have lived outside the fortress for a long time, half ploughing and half herding, on the horse kung fu and the nomads are equivalent, and the supplement is immediately a ready-made light cavalry army, since then the flank of the volunteer battalion has a real safe and reliable guarantee!

At present, stay in Bansheng for a day and reform the military system. The cavalry of the Volunteer Battalion was changed to the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, the newly joined Han cavalry was changed to the Flying Cavalry Battalion, and the cavalry of Ma Lie was changed to the Hussar Battalion.

After these good news, Wang Ziyong, Fang Huan'er, Big Dipper Qizi and other masters brought a puzzling news. There was still no news of the kings of Shanxi, the kings of Jin, and the princes of Lu, as well as the huge amount of silver and grain they carried, and the three princes and their men disappeared as if out of thin air, without the slightest clue.

But now Chang Wei has no time to care about those little minions, as long as they are still on the prairie, sooner or later they will not be able to fly out of the palm of their hands!

On the first day of August, Chang Wei led 45,000 horsemen to set off from Bansheng and officially began the journey to the East!

At the beginning of August, the seven armies crossed the Wujiao Mountain, launched a large-scale attack on the Dahatu banner, the cavalry of the department was crushed at the touch of a touch, thirteen tribes were broken, tens of thousands of cattle were plundered, tens of thousands of soldiers were killed, and the grazing land was scorched into the earth, and the banner lord was beheaded, Chang Wei appointed a new banner lord on the spot, and ordered him to bring a large number of cattle to the ancient city of Yunchuan to declare himself a vassal to Ezhe Khan. All the looted cattle rushed to Bansheng and distributed them to the Han people there.

On August 11, in Basumu encountered 30,000 troops in the rear banner of the right wing of Chahar, Ma Lie bravely took the lead, broke through the enemy formation, and the cavalry battalion took advantage of the situation to follow up and divide and surround the enemy, and the battle lasted for half a day, the enemy 20,000 elite cavalry reinforcements came, and Ma Lie led 8,000 hussars to copy his rear road. Zhuo Qizhen, the commander of the flying cavalry battalion, led the newly surrendered 5,000 cavalry to break through the battle and break the enemy. Kill more than 20,000 in one battle!

Chang Wei was the first soldier, killed the deputy general of the department, defeated his army, and three days later advanced to the hometown of Jiningwei, the remnants of the rear banner of the right wing of Har, the middle banner of the right wing and the Ulanqab department, gathered 120,000 troops to meet the battle, in the face of the army, Chang Wei put on the defensive, bombarded with artillery, and repelled the enemy.

The next day, he saw through the opponent's trick of luring the coalition army into an ambush with weak cavalry, and instead led the opponent into an ambush circle, fighting fiercely for a day and night, killing 80,000 enemy troops, and the rest collapsed.

After the victory, the generals thought that the enemy had retreated, and they were relieved, but Chang Wei calmly judged that the enemy would inevitably make a comeback, and immediately deployed in Baihaizi, and the enemy really gathered 150,000 troops such as Bayintara Division, Huiteng Xile Division, and Chahar Right Wing Front Banner to kill.

Chang Wei pretended to be short of shells, and ordered his troops to retreat first, and after he personally led many masters and Ma Lie's hussar camp to break off, a fierce battle actually caused the superior Chahar coalition army to flee, Chang Wei immediately turned to attack and pursued to Huangqihai to break the enemy again.

After these two major battles, the various departments of the Chahar right wing were unable to fight anymore, and they all submitted to the army of the Ming Qin Guogong. The Chahar Department was originally very strong, but after repeated requisitions by Lin Dan Khan and Houjin over the years, the talents withered, and almost all those who had backbone and ability died in battle. Therefore, under the ferocious attack of Chang Wei's guns, cannons, and cavalry, he completely lost his self-confidence in confrontation.

In this battle, millions of cattle were harvested and 200,000 people were captured. Chang Wei ordered the thirty-five nearby tribal leaders to divide into two parts, one of which led people to the west to the Hetao to pay tribute to Ezhe Khan, and the other to the south to the Great Wall to declare the Ming Dynasty, and also expressed the intention of the imperial court to be knighted and exchanged markets. On the one hand, there was a fierce and powerful army, and on the other hand, there were benefits to take, and these frightened wall grasses immediately betrayed Houjin and fell to the Ming and Ezhe Khan.

So far, the first stop of the Eastern Crusade, Jiningwei's hometown, has been conquered. Because of the commander of Wuding, Chang Wei can rest assured that he can charge into battle, therefore, he gathered Tang Jinyi, the Seven Sons of the Big Dipper, Wang Ziyong and Tuerhai and other masters and warriors to form a team of 300 people. Form a 'broken camp' with excellent combat power and unrivaled.

After that, he taught Wei Qing's methods of fighting to nourish the war, Huo Quai's jumping formation, and Qi Jiguang's firepower level distribution in the army, regardless of whether this complex army understood it or not, in short, it was instilled in the first place, so that the officers could implement it in accordance with the harsh military law.

Because, after the victory of the successive battles, Chang Wei had accumulated enough majesty, and the property and livestock plundered by the victory in each battle were all distributed according to the size of the merit, and he himself did not leave any and won the love of tens of thousands of troops, so although the military law was harsh, it was smoothly implemented.

For the tribes that surrendered and surrendered, Chang Wei rewarded them with a combination of gratitude, and also conscripted the elite soldiers of the department to fight with the army, which not only made them completely turn against the tribes of the Jin after surrender, but also made them no longer have the troops to make trouble in the rear; for the recalcitrant tribes, they directly burned the pastures, poisoned the water sources, killed all the livestock, and slaughtered the population in groups, and the cruelty of the means was heartbreaking.

With a large number of steppe rangers as subordinates, Chang Wei brought the light cavalry to the extreme with the tactics of fast control, long-distance running, and roundabout outflanking.

After recovering Jiningwei, Chang Wei's army has expanded to 60,000 people, rested for three days, and once again rushed to Wanquanwei's hometown 300 miles away, and the three hundred thousand households in the middle wing of Chahar gathered 200,000 cavalry troops to snipe the Ming coalition army at the Maqun Mountain Pass.

In the battle, due to the terrain restrictions, the Ming army's artillery threat was not great, Chang Wei was hit by fifteen arrows, suffered five knife wounds, and his mount was shot and killed three horses. The nomadic cavalry of all units saw that the main general of the Ming army was so brave, so they jumped bravely and bravely broke into battle, killing the army on the middle wing of Chahar for dozens of miles, and the army of 100,000 was scattered.

The first battle was frustrated, the central wing of Chahar regrouped 50 tribes, formed an army of 300,000 to organize a defensive line at the Red Mountain Pass, Chang Wei on the one hand set up a cavalry camp in the Red Mountain Pass, with artillery fire and line formation to stabilize the position, on the other hand, led the broken camp, hussar battalion, flying cavalry battalion and other 30,000 light cavalry through the valley, galloping from the flank and back, attacking from both sides, fighting bloody battle for half a day, the enemy fled in a hurry!

Chang Wei did not untie his clothes, inspired the soldiers, ran for a long time, and caught up with the enemy army in Shizuizi, and the coalition forces of the central wing of Chahar did not expect the Ming army to come so quickly, and they were caught off guard, and they were beaten and forced to retreat north in embarrassment.

However, the Chahar center wing was outnumbered, although it was defeated but did not collapse, Chang Wei's coalition army was temporarily unable to pursue after two bloody battles, and on August 27, the center wing coalition army once again went south to make sure that it was humiliating.

This time, unlike the previous gathering of heavy troops, it was changed to decentralized harassment, and Chang Wei ordered Wuding to lead the flying cavalry battalion, artillery, and Han Chinese to form a flying cavalry battalion, with a total of more than 10,000 people building fortifications and garrisoning.

The remaining 50,000 light cavalry divided into two routes, Ma Lie led 20,000 cavalry to the northeast Kaipingwei hometown to raid, and he himself led Batu Baihu and other 30,000 cavalry to the north to the north for 100 li, and then to the northwest to bypass the northern foot of Maqun Mountain, all the way to attack Yingchangwei's hometown of 500 li. This ingenious attack directly bypassed the direction of the heavy gathering of troops in the center of Chahar, and easily succeeded in a sneak attack, capturing 160,000 people left behind by his tribe, plundering 3 million cattle, and finally meeting in Guangchang in the south of Kaipingwei!

As soon as the major households in the central wing of Chahar heard the news, they immediately integrated their heavy troops and went north, at this time, Wuding quietly pulled out the camp and ran north for hundreds of miles to set up artillery positions on the mountainside of the horses, which made people fly to report to Changwei.

After learning of Wuding's strategy, Chang Wei and Ma Lie gave up their captured livestock, brutally killed nearly 100,000 male captives, and set fire to the grassland.

Seeing such a tragic situation, the middle wing of Chahar, who had been empty, howled angrily to the sky, vowing to break the Ming coalition army into pieces, and at that moment, more than 200,000 cavalry frantically launched an attack on the coalition army. Pretending to be outnumbered, the coalition forces retreated rapidly along the foot of the hill to the range of artillery, and in a moment a hundred cannons roared in unison, raining down 3,000 shells in one hour.

In the face of steel and explosives, the enemy finally collapsed, and the coalition cavalry that had been waiting for a long time rushed out with an indomitable momentum, this battle, the coalition army of 50,000 or 60,000 people chased 500 miles, until the hometown of Quanningwei, it was late at night, and the embarrassed remnants of the Chahar center wing fell asleep not long after, Chang Wei arrived.

He led the elite Breaker camp to infiltrate the Chahar mid-flank camp and set it on fire, and then, while it was in disarray, he ordered the Tatar cavalry to desperately shout "surrender".

Then, the army launched a strong attack, the coalition army was brave and killed, the morale was like a rainbow, the enemy army was caught off guard, embarrassed, and the rout inevitably occurred. The Ming army followed one after another, and the offensive was wave after wave, and the enemy army panicked and trampled on each other, and countless dead were trampled on each other.

After these two battles, only 30,000 remnants of the more than 200,000 troops escaped, 780,000 were killed, and more than 100,000 surrendered. 700,000 people were captured, and 6,000,000 cattle were captured.

Chang Wei took the opportunity to collect the army and expand to 100,000 troops, each of whom had an exaggerated ten horses.

For a whole month, Jining, Wanquan, Yingchang, Kaiping, and Quanning were all conquered by Changwei's army, and the subdued tribes were loyal to Daming and Ezhe in two ways according to the previous method.

Counting the Dongshengwei of the Hetao, the hometown of the six Davids has been recovered so far, and only one Daningwei remains! And only half of the autumn offensive has passed, and before the snow falls in October, Daningwei Changwei, who is only 600 miles away, has not paid attention to it at all!

The morale and enthusiasm of the soldiers who had won a huge number of battles were high, so the next day they sent troops to the southeast and marched to the Keshiketeng Banner, a hundred miles away, and sent people to surrender before the army could reach this tribe.

Two hundred miles to the south, the Wengniut banner led its troops south to retreat into the sphere of influence of the Chahar left flank before the arrival of the coalition forces.

Chang Wei immediately ordered the pursuit, and the left flank of Chahar concentrated its troops and subordinates in the 600-mile gallop of the coalition army, and successively engaged the coalition forces in Zhaosu River, Yin River, Banjian River, Xibo River, and other places.

Chang Wei first let the 50,000 or 60,000 Chahar right wing and center wing cavalry who surrendered to charge in front, and the Khan court cavalry such as Batu Baihu, Etuoke, and Hangjin Banner were behind to supervise the battle team.

Although Chang Wei dared to use nomadic cavalry and was willing to give them rich rewards and titles, the more these people died, the better, until there was a vicious dog in the hands of him and the Ming Dynasty!

Under Chang Wei's obscenity, the cavalry of the Chahar tribes that took the lead fought repeatedly and desperately, and the feathered arrows and sabers rushed to the 300,000 troops on the right flank of Chahar like a tide, and after seven days of bloody fighting, the cavalry on the right wing and the center of Chahar who surrendered were almost wiped out; most of the cavalry of the Khanting were killed in battle; and all the 5,000 people of the original Chahan Buhua Department were also killed.

These seven days of bloody fighting not only wiped out the 150,000-strong army of Chahar's left flank, but also depleted their morale. In the end, under the coordination of artillery, muskets and the remaining 40,000 cavalry, the Chahar left flank army suffered one defeat after another.

In the battle of the Half Arrow River, the recuperated cavalry battalion completely defeated the enemy army with an iron wall charge and roaring bullets, and the enemy suffered more than 50,000 casualties in one day.

The 100,000 enemy troops who were struggling to survive gave full play to the advantages of light cavalry mobility and flexibility, and continued to retreat by alternating cover, but the enemy army, which had already gone to the top, was powerless to return to the sky.

After five consecutive battles, the Ming coalition army won victory after victory and retreated to Qingfeng Mountain in the southeast of Daningwei, and the enemy launched a Jedi counterattack. First, a small force of cavalry was defeated to induce the coalition army to advance lightly, intending to gather and annihilate it with a strength advantage of 100,000 to 40,000. Chang Wei really led his troops to break through, and the enemy army was overjoyed, and he was about to encircle and annihilate him, but he saw the cavalry on both wings kill like a whirlwind.

It turned out that after the battle began, the cavalry battalion and artillery withstood the frontal attack, and the Khanting cavalry covered its flank, Chang Wei and Ma Lie took the flying cavalry battalion, the hussar battalion, and broke the camp, detoured the flank, and cut off the enemy's waist.

As a result, the enemy's originally planned ambush battle, instead became the annihilation of the Ming coalition army, the battle lasted for a day and night, the battle was extremely tragic, Chang Wei himself still took the lead in rushing through the enemy formation, rushing to kill the saber and breaking thirteen, the mount fell to seven heads, twenty-one wounds on the body, and the back was almost full of arrows.

In this vicious battle, 50,000 cavalry on the left flank of Chahar were killed, and the other 50,000 people did not even have the courage to flee and surrendered to the coalition forces on the spot.

This time, Chang Wei led his troops to attack, break the enemy, chase and kill, and fight to the death, seven battles and seven victories, and killed only 50,000 of the 300,000 enemy soldiers. At the same time, only 10,000 of the 35,000 nomadic cavalry he brought out of the Hetao remained, and the losses of the Han cavalry were almost negligible.

The greatest significance of running more than 2,000 miles in the past two months is not to restore all the hometowns of the Seven Davids outside the Saiwai, but to greatly damage the vitality of the Tatar tribes of Chahar and Hetao, and they no longer have the ability to make waves.

After reorganizing the army on the spot, Chang Wei had 5,500 people under his command: 5,500 Xiao cavalry battalions in Wuding, 2,000 hussar battalions in Ma Lie, 3,500 flying cavalry battalions in Zhuo Qizhen, 10,000 cavalry in Khanting, and 50,000 people in the left wing of Chahar who surrendered. There were 71,000 cavalry, and millions of horses!

Chang Wei led more than 70,000 cavalry south, preparing to sweep along the Great Wall from the outside of Jizhou, and put down all the small tribes that had slipped through the net and were not convinced, all the way to the west, and they would be able to return to the Hetao in November.

But at this time, there was news on the Great Wall, and Brother Houjin Belle Hao led 50,000 cavalry from Karaqin, Khalkha, Korqin, Han Eight Banners and Manchurian Zhengbai Banner to kill between the Qinglong River and the Haramulun River, and the goal was directly aimed at the coalition army!

Chang Wei sneered in his heart: "Is the Jiannu who realized it late finally here? It's good to come, I'm worried that the 50,000 surrendered Chahar cavalry have nowhere to digest!" )