Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 585
Five days later, 20 soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion had spread across the Gobi Desert south of the Chahar Grassland.

At this time, a larger team swarmed out from the mountain pass north of Yanshan Mountain.

Standing on top of an infantry fighting vehicle, Taichang scanned the Gobi Desert ahead with his binoculars, with a hint of excitement on his face.

For thousands of years, no emperor of the Central Plains dynasty can completely solve the problem of nomadic tribes outside the Great Wall. This time, this history will be rewritten by him, and it will be completely rewritten!
I snatched all of you, let's see how you develop and invade the border!

He was thinking about it excitedly, but Sun Chengzong at the side said cautiously: "Your Majesty, why don't we set up camp at this mountain pass?"

Putting down the binoculars, Taichang said rather puzzled, "Isn't it too early, why did you set up camp?"

Sun Chengzong said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, let's not get too close to the battlefield, shall we?"

This old man was just a little too careful.

Taichang smiled slightly and said: "What are you afraid of? We have more than [-] horses here, as well as [-] infantry chariots and [-] ordinary chariots. Even if Huang Taiji gathers all the horses and rushes over, he will still deliver food to me!"

Isn't this afraid of accidents?

Sun Chengzong still said cautiously: "Your Majesty, didn't you say that the Liaodong Cavalry is mainly responsible for transporting prisoners? We don't need to be so close to the battlefield, right?"

However, Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "Our battle line has been stretched for more than a thousand miles. If we stay behind to transfer prisoners, it will take longer and longer to run back and forth, which is too inconvenient. Let's move on, let's go with The Shenwu Battalion army in front just needs to keep a day or so away, no problem."

Well, Sun Chengzong could only cup his hands helplessly and said: "My minister obeys the order."

When Cao Bianjiao saw that they had finished speaking, he cupped his hands and asked, "Your Majesty, when will we start the campaign?"

Taichang looked at the sky and roughly estimated the distance, and then said solemnly: "Go to the front first, take a closer look at the arrangement of the formation, and see if there is any gap between the ten groups of troops, and make adjustments tomorrow. Let’s launch the campaign the next morning. This time we’re going to clean up the entire grassland outside the Great Wall. The key is not how fast the progress is, but not what slips through the net, do you understand?”

Cao Bianjiao hastily cupped his hands and said, "The general will understand."

Taichang warned again: "Remember, keep your soldiers in check and try to avoid civilian casualties."

Cao Bianjiao hastily clasped his hands again and said, "I will remember it at the end."

Then Taichang nodded slightly and said, "Well, let's go."

Cao Bianjiao quickly bowed his hands, got out of the chariot, stepped on his horse, and rushed forward with a group of guards.

How will this battle end?

Could they really remove all the nomadic tribes on the grassland beyond the Great Wall?
Two days later, in the early hours of the morning, at the western edge of the Chahar Grassland, a huge convoy suddenly rumbled out from the desert Gobi, and the scattered scouts quickly spread all over a radius of a hundred miles.

Luo Weilin held up his binoculars and scanned the slightly yellowish green grass, with a hint of excitement on his face.

The Robbery War has finally begun!

This time, the emperor gave him extra favors, and if he caught ordinary herdsmen, it would be considered a military merit, no matter men, women, old or young, it would be 50 taels each.

Although this military reward is only half of that of Jiannu and Mongolian Yuan cavalry, it is easier to catch ordinary herdsmen, and there is basically no danger.

Therefore, everyone is very interested, just thinking about catching a few more and earning more military merits.

Soon, a scout rode back on a horse and galloped back, came under the chariot, hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Report, general, a herdsman was found about five miles ahead on the right."

Uh, only one household?

No way, most of the herdsmen on the prairie will not gather together, because if they gather together, the nearby pastures will soon be eaten up by the cattle, sheep and horses they raise.

Therefore, after a nomadic tribe migrates to a place, ordinary herdsmen will disperse and divide into several families to gather together to graze, or even a single family may occupy a single area.

And the place where the pasture is the most fertile and the water source is the most abundant is usually enjoyed by the tribal leader and his cronies.

There is no need for a family of herdsmen to lead an army.

Luo Weilin thought for a while, and then ordered: "Go to Mr. Zhao Qian and lead a team, and bring back all the cattle and sheep in his tent. Don't leave anything behind. Remember, try not to hurt anyone."

The convoy continued to move forward, and the scouts rushed back to report one after another. However, they only found one or a few herdsmen grazing alone, and no large gatherings were found.

Their gains were not very great, they only caught dozens of people in total, and there were not many cattle, sheep and horses.

There are more than one herdsmen scattered around here, and there must be a place where tribal leaders live together.

Sure enough, more than an hour later, another scout rode on a horse and galloped to the chariot. He cupped his hands excitedly and said, "Report, general, a circle of tents was found about ten miles ahead on the left. There were as many as twenty or thirty tents." .”

Great, finally found it.

Luo Weilin ordered without hesitation: "Old Li, take two thousand riders and surround them first, don't let any one go."

Under the chariot, Mr. Qian surnamed Li said "obedience", and then rode his horse and ran to the front, ordered two thousand cavalry, followed the scout and went straight to the front left.

Luo Weilin immediately gave another order: "The convoy turns, the target is the front left."

For a distance of more than ten miles, it would not take a quarter of an hour for a war horse to gallop across.

However, it takes nearly two quarters of an hour for the convoy to drive there.

After about a quarter of an hour, Luo Weilin raised his binoculars frequently and kept scanning forward.

Finally, a circle of tents appeared on the grass in front, and at this moment, the outer perimeter of the tents was surrounded by two thousand cavalry.

He immediately waved his hand without hesitation and said, "The chariots spread out and formed a square formation around the tent in front of us."

"Wow", a hundred infantry fighting vehicles and nearly a thousand horse-drawn carriages quickly spread out, forming a square city around the camp in front.

This time, the leader of the Mengyuan tribe in the middle of the camp was frightened.

They are just a small tribe on the edge of the Chahar grassland, with a total of less than a thousand people.

What are these Ming troops doing?
Surrounding them with two thousand cavalry was enough to make them desperate. Why are there so many men, horses and chariots behind them?
As for?
What a hatred!
Do you need to mobilize the crowd like this?
He wondered if he accidentally offended some big Ming figure.

The problem is that there is an order from above, ordering them not to provoke Da Ming as much as possible. He hasn't had a face-to-face meeting with Da Ming's people for a long, long time. How could he offend him?

He really couldn't figure out how to provoke them, but the Ming army didn't care, they got on the cavalry chariots, and even a bunch of scary big guys drove over, and immediately surrounded them three floors inside and outside three floors.

Soon, the square car array was set up, and this time, none of them would be able to escape.

Luo Weilin looked at the hundreds of people in the tent in the middle, and couldn't help curling his lips.

So many people still haven't surrendered?

He waved helplessly and said, "Old Lei, step forward and shout."

The old Lei immediately rode his horse and ran to the outside of the tent in the middle, shouting: "Put down your weapons and surrender, we promise we won't hurt you at all."

This is the official language of Ming Dynasty, and people seem to not understand it.

That old Lei shouted loudly again in Mengyuan dialect.

This time, someone finally lost the poor dagger in his hand.

Immediately afterwards, there was a crackling thought, and more than a dozen strong men lost their weapons.

Seeing this, Luo Weilin smiled slightly, then waved and said, "Tie people, pack them up."

"Wow", all the two thousand cavalry surrounding the tent got off their horses, stepped forward quickly, tied up all the adults inside, and then began to dismantle the tent.

Luo Weilin immediately gave another order: "Set up camp."

Well, he tore down all the tents of other people's camps, but let his own men camp. This operation is really incomprehensible.

What is he doing?

In fact, he didn't want to do anything, he just wanted to gather all the herdsmen in the vicinity and wait for the Liaodong iron cavalry to come to transfer.

Soon, he sent Kuaiqi to inform Zu Dashou to go.

And the scouts on his side never stopped, and the herdsmen who were scattered within a hundred miles were captured one by one by them.

At this moment, the team sent by the Liaodong Cavalry is actually not far away from them. Zu Dashou has already sent ten convoys to the places where the ten teams of the Shenwu Camp are located.

At noon that day, five thousand Liaodong cavalry came with five hundred carriages.

There are less than a thousand herdsmen in a radius of a hundred miles here, so it is easy to transfer.

Early the next morning, two thousand Liaodong iron cavalry took two hundred horse-drawn carts, pulled the herdsmen here, their tents and other living supplies, and drove their cattle, sheep and horses to the southeast.

And Luo Weilin ordered his men to close the tents, and took the remaining Liaodong cavalry with them, and continued to suppress the past in the north.

It seemed that the people-robbing battle was not very intense at the beginning, because the grassland outside the Great Wall had just begun to thaw, the weather was still very cold, and the various tribes had not yet communicated with each other.

Moreover, they basically did not leave any chickens or dogs behind, they surrounded all the people and caught them all, basically no fish slipped through the net, so the Mongolian and Yuan ministries have not yet reacted.

As for the Jiannu, most of them gathered in the Horqin Grassland more than a thousand miles away to the northeast, where it was still icy and snowy right now.

Huang Taiji never expected that Daming would suddenly send troops to encircle and suppress from the Chahar Grassland.

(End of this chapter)