In the undercurrent, Huo Luochi and E Linchen still feel very good.

The rangers of the Shang regiment army continued to appear on the edge, and Huo Luochi also discovered signs of the Han army going west. It was his way back to Qinghai and could not be missed. But the current situation was that he could no longer care about the way out. Huo Luochi even decided to continue to retreat east after discussing with Kalin City.

Their countermeasures were to fight a battle with the merchant army from Baichengzi to Heishuihe, Huashachengzi, Huichengzi, Hongershan to Hongliuhe.

The two tribes gathered a huge army of more than 100,000 ding dykes.

This gathering of this scale has not been seen for a long time. When Altan Khan was there, thirty years ago, the Mongols often gathered like this, and the Tao tribe was also part of the Tumote tribe. The Wanhu of Ordos has always been a staunch ally of the Tumote tribe. In the entire Western Mongolian tribe, the Tuxitu tribe in the north of the Mo also followed Altan Khan's horse head. In addition, some small tribes and the Kalaqin people could easily gather an army of 200,000 or even 400,000 people without the help of the Eastern Mongols.

Although the Mongols were as poor at that time, they could gather tens of thousands of soldiers together, which was a force that could not be directly opposed by the important towns on the Nine-sided borders of the Ming Dynasty. I still remember the scenery and fire at that time. Unfortunately, since Altan Khan was dependent on him, there was no more grand occasions of the past.

Now the rare grand occasion is present in front of us. There are erected Sulu ingots everywhere, there are Mercedes-Benzers and a small number of armored soldiers everywhere, and the pastures from Heishui River to Hongliu River are crowded with people. There are herds everywhere, and the team is full of strong men. The Taomen was originally the main force, and the women and children of the Hubei Division also moved to the west.

If the battle is unfavorable, follow the Dusitu River northward and move forward again. Before the war begins, Huoluo Chihui deploys powerful second-line troops to maintain the smooth road to the Dusitu River area. If the battle is unfavorable, he will lead the main force to flee west with Elinchen, return to Qinghai, and then plan for funeral.

Surrender, Huo Luochi had considered it, it was a very comfortable choice, but the pride of the old Mongolians and past experiences stopped him.

"The Han people have passed the desert." Elinchen was still very young, less than thirty years old, but Jinnong's responsibility made his back slightly hunched.

After all, it is the leader of a department. The development of the Hubei Ministry in the past two years has been quite unsuccessful. It can even be said that it has been suppressed by Hutchison led by Zhang Han.

"Has the whistle driver sent over?"

Huo Luochi knew the answer after asking.

They stood on the edge of Baichengzi, which was also one of the many Mongolian Chahan cities. However, compared with Qingcheng and Chahar people's Baichengzi, this Baichengzi is too simple.

Several large temples are the core of the city, surrounded by some low-rise buildings. The entire urban agglomeration is less than three miles away, and it is not even as good as a county town in the mainland of Ming Dynasty.

However, it is still different from ordinary Mongolian grazing land. The buildings here are permanent, including the outer buildings and some semi-fixed felt bags scattered on the grassland like green blankets, like embellishment of beautiful scenery.

About 300 whistle-riding cavalry fled back from the north in a hurry. They ran very quickly and had almost no concerns about any adverse effects. In front of everyone's eyes, the outpost-riding cavalry rushed forward in a hurry, which could almost be described as escape.

"Stop!" Huo Luochi rode his horse forward, and rode alone to face the hundreds of defeated horses. At this moment, this old Mongolian nobleman blocked the knights hundreds of times their own like fire.

"Bastard!" Huo Luo red glanced at the whistle knights present with his eyes as fire. They were all warriors and athletes in the tribe, and they were also carefully selected brave knights to be qualified as whistle knights.

At the same time, these people all have simple armor, which is simply a pieced together elite cavalry for the more poor Ordos and the Takui.

It’s not that the Hetao area is bad. In fact, the herdsmen here are all living well, and the shepherded flocks are very fat. In later generations, Ordos produced a lot of wool in addition to producing coal, and is one of the production areas of wool in the Republic’s industrial chain.

Herders and ordinary herders lived a comfortable life, but because they had been confronting the Ming Dynasty, there was no benefit from the mutual market. In addition, the Ming Dynasty had banned salt and iron from entering the grassland for more than 200 years, and their family's assets had long been defeated. The current scale of armored soldiers was already the income from countless times to the grass valley. Some cavalry's leather helmets were even inherited for more than a hundred years, but because of careful maintenance and preservation, they could be passed down from generation to generation.

Such a group of elite soldiers were driven back like a rabbit, and they were in a mess. I don’t know how many soldiers and herders saw the miserable situation of the whistle and cavalry along the way. This was called Huo Luochi’s anger burst out like a volcano and was difficult to stop.

However, when watching up close, I found that the embarrassment of the whistle drivers was not completely unfair. Many of them were injured, many of them were injured by muskets, with obvious blood marks on their bodies, and even the smell of gunpowder and sulfur.

However, no more than twenty people died in the whistle cavalry of more than three hundred people, and most of them were in good health, which meant that they retreated without any hard battle.

"Great Nuoyan..." A leader of the whistle driver said with tears in his eyes: "It's not that we don't want to fight to the end. It's because the strength of the two sides is too far apart. Even if we continue to fight hard, we will only be wiped out and will not play a big role."

Huo Luochi was slightly angry. At this time, Elinchen and others rushed over. A Taiji shouted: "You are whistle cavalry, and you must be responsible for squeezing the Han army cavalry on the periphery. If you escape when you see a battle, we cannot protect the periphery at all except for the main battle. This restricts the movement of the army and the activities of the Tangma. Could it be that the main force of the Shang army attacks you?"

The whistle cavalry hung their heads and said nothing, and the fire fell to the equator: "How many rangers have you encountered from the merchant army?"

"There are about a hundred cavalry," said the leader of the whistle rider: "Their firearms are sharp, and we can't raise our heads when attacking. When we look at their clothes, we should be sure that they are hunting cavalrymen."

"Oh." Huo Luochi said thoughtfully: "It turns out that you have met the elite of the elite of the Shang regiment army. It is not an exaggeration to retreat. Go down and rest, restore your physical strength and spirit in case of another battle."

The whistleblowers agreed and led their horses away.

Elinchen pondered and said, "Is Nuoyan letting them go because their opponent is too strong?"

"No." Huo Luochi shook his head slowly and said, "I can't let them delay here for too long. Those who see them will lose confidence and fighting spirit."

"So that's it." E Linchen said in contemplation: "Nuoyan also feels that our side's intention to fight is not strong?"

"It's not just not strong." Huo Luochi sneered: "It's like a tiger afraid of the enemy. In the current situation, it is no longer suitable for small-scale cavalry battles. We only leave a small number of reconnaissance cavalry to spy on the enemy's main direction in preparation for battle. Most of the main forces shrink and adjust, and prepare to fight the enemy on the banks of the Blackwater River."

"A battle determines the outcome?"

"Well, you can't fight like this." Huo Luochi's eyes flashed with a light of wisdom. At this moment, Lao Taiji, who had fought for half his life, used up all his wisdom. He said, "To be fair, we are not opponents of the Shang army. We have to fight all the troops, and we have to fight with them. Don't say that the two sides will come over like pliers. We cannot be opponents. The current solution is to gather the main force and not give them the chance to eat us! But we can't fight head-on, so we're just right. Didn't they cross the desert to fight the main force? Then we'll give it to you.

They will fight, but they definitely did not bring heavy artillery when they cross the desert. The heavy artillery is on the West Road. We don’t care about it for the time being. Here we are acting as a defensive posture to delay time. They want to fight, we just guard it, there are no heavy artillery. I see how they attack. Today we will dig trenches and build fences, and use all the useful terrain. At the same time, we will send light cavalry around the desert side. Don’t fight, you can’t beat it, but it’s enough to make them tight in the food lane. You can even send some cavalry that often moves in the desert to keep disturbing the back of the merchant army.”

"I won't care about the west side?" E Linchen said with some trouble: "We have put a lot of effort and manpower in the west side to prevent the rear road from being cut off."

"The back road must be broken." At this moment, Huo Luochi's face became extremely old. He said, "They wanted to put us in the wall of the Ming Dynasty at the beginning, so the west road was stronger than the east road, so we were preventing us from breaking through with all our strength. In the west, as long as we spread along the Huamachi Lake to the Dusitu River, we could not go back to Qinghai except to run northwest. In the northwest, the Wei Lats would only take advantage of the situation and would never come forward to help us. If we ask them for help, in the words of the Han people, it would be to reject the wolf in the front door and the tiger in the back door. So from the beginning, I didn't think about breaking through the west. The so-called leaving the back road was just for the people below to see, which was just to confuse the Ming people."

"Then..." E Linchen's facial expression was a little complicated, both curious and angry. Although Huo Luochi was an old qualification, he could not deceive himself.

"This is not my thoughts." Huo Luo Chidong's eyes swept the face of Elinchen, saying, "It's just that seeing that the herdsmen and Taiji are unstable, the merchant army put too much pressure on us, which made me very cautious. I originally wanted to fight and retreat when the war was unfavorable, but later I found that their Western Army headed straight for our retreat, which gave me a new idea, that is, not to retreat in the west and turn to another direction."

Seeing that E Linchen was still confused, Huo Luochi laughed and pointed the whip south.

"Let's go from Mingguo?"

"Yes." Huo Luochi said arrogantly: "The wastes in Ming Dynasty are useless. If we only have tens of thousands of people, we may not be able to move forward too far after the break, but we have 100,000 cavalry, from the old Huama Pond, passing through the new Huama Pond, passing through the Ningxia Zhongwei, detour through Xining, and then break out and heading to our pasture in Qinghai."

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