On the Zhangbei grassland, a cavalry with one man and three horses was galloping from west to east.

Everyone in this cavalry unit wore a sheepskin hat and a thick cotton coat, and a sheepskin coat on the outside. A few people wore a leather armor on the outside. This was exactly the dress of the Mongolian cavalry of this era.

But if the distance is close, you can find that their sheepskin hats contain an iron helmet, a piece of cotton armor in the thick cotton coat, and a chain mail inside, which has extremely strong protection capabilities. This cavalry is the elite iron cavalry of Li Guodong's army disguised as Mongolian cavalry.

Each cavalry brought enough dry food for three months. The dry food was made of semolina and sorghum noodles, mixed with a little chopped green onion and salt, and roasted cakes, as well as various jerky made of horse meat, beef and mutton, and cheese made of goat milk. Some of the horses they rode were mares in the breastfeeding period, which could provide horse milk. This was completely a long-distance raid for Mongolian cavalry, and all were foods that could be eaten immediately without making a fire.

Li Guodong grew up on the grassland outside the border since childhood and is very familiar with this road. From the Zhangbei grassland to the Xilamulun River where the Korqin tribe is located, it is not a flat grassland. There are many hills along the way, but the hillsides are very smooth, suitable for long-distance cavalry attacks.

The key to the surprise attack was to surprise. The grassland horse thieves who were originally used as eyewitness for the Korqin people, the Later Jin and Shanxi merchants were already cleaned up by Li Guodong. When winter came, the Korqin Mongols had also given up nomadic things and hid in the camp to hide from the severe cold. The possibility of encountering the Korqin cavalry on the road was extremely small.

The Han cavalry rushed to the northeast, and the yellow grasslands covered with dead grass gradually disappeared, replaced by scattered white snow. The more you walked to the northeast, the more white it became, and finally the white scattered whites were connected, and there was already a snowy snow field in front.

There are more than 1,700 miles from the Zhangbei Grassland to the Xilamulun River. The Han cavalry, who is one man and three horses, marchs at a speed of 120 miles a day. At night, they find a forest or south slope of hills to rest. The forest or hills can block the cold northwest wind for the soldiers. Everyone is wearing thick cotton coats and snuggling together to keep the cold. When they are hungry, they eat a piece of dry food, eat a bite of dried cheese, drink horse milk when they are thirsty, and even hold a handful of snow on the ground to eat.

In just fourteen days, the cavalry ran more than 1,700 miles and arrived in the Xilamulun River area where the Korchin tribe was located.

The team stopped moving forward, Li Guodong turned around and looked around and asked, "We are already very close to the Mongolian Tartars. If I remember correctly, I will see the Korqin people's tent after fifty miles. Does anyone want to go with me to spy on the enemy's situation first?"

"I am willing to follow the general." Chen Yuan stood up.

"I am willing to go there too!" Liu Feng and Li Cong also stood up.

More than 20 people stood up one after another, and Li Guodong only selected ten people.

"We have too many people going there, and it is easy to be discovered by the Tartars. Just ten people will follow me." Li Guodong said.

Li Guodong and his ten brothers all wore white cloths and gave up riding horses. Instead, they took off the snowboard from the horse's back. Each of them took two wooden sticks that acted as ski poles, left the cavalry team and slid towards the Korqin camp.

The snowy world is covered with whiteness, and the Syramulun River is also frozen.

Eleven people slid up a hillside with their ski poles. When they reached the top of the slope, Li Guodong made a gesture to tell his brothers to stop moving forward. Then he lay on the snow, took out his monocular lens from his arms, and looked at the Korqin camp more than ten miles away from the other side of the river.

It was cold and the people of Korqin were all nestled in their yurts to avoid the cold, and there was no one outside.

Looking at the camp of the Korqin people, I saw that all the war horses were tied to the stables, most of the cattle and sheep had been killed, and the few cattle and sheep left to make the seeds were also locked in the camp. A Mongolian person happened to walk around in the camp. Most of the time, the camp of the Korqin people was empty. The camp of the Mongols was not a regular barracks, but an ordinary herdsmen's residential area. It was not like the barracks, which were surrounded by wooden fences, and the attackers could drive straight into the camp. In the camp, there were only stables, cattle and sheep pens, and piles of forages were surrounded by wooden fences, and the rest of the places were yurts scattered on the grassland.

"This is a small tribal camp, with an estimated number of more than 3,000 Mongolian Tartars." Li Guodong analyzed. He concluded based on calculating the number of yurts.

"Okay, I don't say much. Brothers, let's go! Let's go back and prepare, and you'll be attacking the village tonight." Li Guodong gave the order.

Eleven people slid down from the hillside with their feet on their skis.

Back in the team, Li Guodong immediately made a layout: "Brothers, we are waiting here. After dark, I will personally lead people in; Han Dashan, you go straight to the stable and release the horses; Zhang Wei, you will lead people to block their retreat in the east! Remember, as long as the males who are higher than the wheels are all killed! The Korqin people are all the allies of Jiannu, we must kill all their males and cut off one arm of Jiannu! As long as the Korqin tribe is destroyed, Jiannu will not conquer Mongolia! Jiannu cannot conquer Mongolia, and they will no longer have the chance to invade and rob!"

Half of these soldiers were the Ming people who suffered disasters during the Jisi Incident, so they naturally hated the Jurchens of the Later Jin Dynasty. They also knew that the Korqin people were the most iron ally of the Later Jin Dynasty, so they naturally hated the Korqin people.

If everyone had not been allowed to shout, I'm afraid people would have shouted "Kill the Tartars". According to Li Guodong's request, after the cavalry attacked and entered the Korqin camp at night, the Mongolian-speaking soldiers in the team would shout in unison: "Kill the traitor! Kill the traitor of Changshengtian!"

"Brother, we can't keep the fire from being covered. We pretended to be the Chahars to attack the Korqin tribe. When Lin Danhan brought his troops here, he was attacked by Jiannu. At that time, Lin Danhan thought about it with his butt and thought that it must be us! Then wouldn't we offend Lin Danhan? We were not Lin Danhan or an ally? If we did this, if Lin Danhan attacked the Ming Dynasty in anger, we might not be able to bear the crimes of the court." Han Dashan always felt that there was something wrong with Li Guodong's plan, so he raised his own concerns.

"Since Lin Danhan refused to send troops in advance, he was destined to perish! After Jiannu fought the Battle of Daling River, he would definitely take action to deal with Lin Danhan! Lin Danhan went to fight Korqin in November, which was simply a trap! I can be sure that Lin Danhan would definitely retreat all the way next! In the end, he was defeated in the West Sea!"

Li Guodong knew the subsequent historical progress, and Lin Danhan sent troops to Korqin in November. As a result, after Huang Taiji took over Zu Dashou, he assembled a hundred thousand troops to deal with Lin Danhan.

Lin Danhan happened to fall into the trap and was beaten to retreat all the way. He retreated to Guihua. Huang Taiji led his army to chase him and burned down Guihua City. Lin Danhan fled all the way to the southwest and finally died in Qinghai.
Chapter completed!