In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 96
On a section of the Great Wall in the north of Datong, watching the Tatars retreat, all the Ming army generals who had just led their armies to pursue them all breathed a sigh of relief.

They were all secretly glad that the Tatars left so quickly this time, otherwise they would not have known how to report to the court with the Xuanfu's great victory ahead.

It was the [-] cavalry led by Hauge who broke through the barrier. Compared with the galloping horses before, the team at this time was moving extremely slowly.

The person who slowed down was naturally the Han man who was walking on foot with a face of despair.

These Han people, both men and women, would be whipped by the cavalry rushing up next to them if they walked a little slower.

More than 1 people were being driven like cattle and sheep.

Although this robbery lasted only a short month, it still robbed tens of thousands of people and two hundred carts of materials and property, not counting the private trophies carried by the cavalry.

But looking at the looted slaves and supplies, Hauge couldn't be happy, because Huang Ama sent him here to exterminate the horse bandits, not to enter the pass to plunder.

So I was very worried. After such a long delay, had the group of horse bandits already arrived and were recruiting troops?
His original plan was to take a detour from the north of Datong, deliberately lure Namu Zhong to leave Daming and go to Neiluo, and loot the area near Datong for a few days. This would not only appease the army, but the time was just right, and he might be able to bump into it. Horse bandits.

Who would have thought that these guys were addicted to robbing, ignored his orders, never returned, and even wanted to rob Daizhou and Xinzhou.

In the end, if I hadn't given the death order, I don't know how long it would have taken. However, because too many people and materials were grabbed, the speed was affected, and it was still delayed for more than twenty days.

"Sony, I will leave you a thousand cavalry and a thousand servants. You are responsible for escorting these slaves and supplies back to Liaodong first."

After Hauge finished speaking, he said to the messenger on the side: "Give me the order, everyone will take off all the looted things from the horseback, and only food and salt are allowed to be carried."

"It's the lord!"

The messenger immediately conveyed Hauge's order.

This order immediately aroused dissatisfaction among all Mongolians and Jurchens.

Even the entire team was complaining.

After all, according to the old rules of the Eight Banners, only part of the looted things must be handed over, and the rest belongs to you.

But now that everything but food and salt have to be handed over, how can I be willing?

When Hauge saw that the team was getting into a commotion, he was so angry that he immediately slapped his horse and rushed over in person, roaring.

After the crowd was calmed down, he explained: "I am not trying to swallow up your loot, but my mission this time is to wipe out the group of horse bandits. I'm afraid they have all reached the inner trap now, and they must not be so slow. There is a delay. If you guys carry so many things at once, can we still fight?

But don’t worry, everyone, these things are just for Sony to escort you back to Liaodong, and they will still belong to you then! "

Hauge knew that there must be no further delay, otherwise by the time they arrived at the Chahar tribes in the inner nest, Namuzhong might have already recruited all the men, and they might even convince those Chahar tribes to directly rebel against the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, he planned to let Sony escort the looted materials and people back to Liaodong first. He led the cavalry directly to Neilao, non-stop, and would arrive in five days at most. At the same time, he could also notify the Tumote Department to encircle and suppress them together.

"But my lord, when we return to Liaodong, how can we tell who belongs to whom these things belong to?"

"Yes, my lord, and our women, what if they kill us along the way?"

Everyone started making noises, obviously not trusting to hand over the things and women they had robbed to others for escort.

Hauge was also disturbed by their quarrel, and he already regretted that he should not have allowed them to plunder.

But if this problem is not solved at this point, it will definitely affect morale, make everyone feel dissatisfied with him as Prince Su, and affect his status in the army.However, there were no literati in the army, so even if they wanted to make statistics, they couldn't do it. Finally, after thinking about it, they had to ask everyone to mark their belongings.

Then everyone reluctantly dismounted, took out their daggers, and began to carve marks on the things they had snatched. Even the woman's arm was scratched several times to prevent them from recognizing each other.

"Report to the prince, a group of cavalry was found fifty miles to the north. It should be the group of horse bandits migrating westward..."

As soon as everyone made their marks and prepared to divide their troops, a group of exploration horses came galloping over.

"What? That group of horse bandits just arrived here. Did you get it wrong? Is it from another tribe?"

Hauge looked surprised and full of doubts.

Due to the barrier of the Great Wall, the group of horse bandits could no longer find out anything about them after leaving the Great Wall from Dushi Fort.

But three days after they left, the group of horse bandits left the Great Wall. It has been nearly twenty days now, and the Monolith Castle is only three or four hundred miles away from here. How did it take four or five days to get here? ?
Could it be that they went to Liaohetao again, or even returned to the valley?

Thinking of this, Hauge's heart skipped a beat.

"Go back to the prince, although the other party is grazing and migrating, they are almost all adult cavalry. There are no old, weak, women and children, and there are no carriages. The armor of some of the cavalry also looks very much like that group of horse bandits." The sentry knight quickly replied.

Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Hauge quickly asked: "Have the other party's sentries noticed you?"

No matter what, it is a good thing that the opponent has not yet reached Chahar's headquarters, and now that they have hit him again, it will be much easier next time.

"My lord, I should have discovered it, but their sentry riders seem to be women and they dare not drive us away, and my servants didn't bother with them!"

"How many men do they have?"

"Back to my lord, my servants don't dare to get too close, but there should be at least 5000 men and [-] riders."

Hauge also breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. Although the opponent's numbers and horses have increased slightly, the increase is not big. He probably hasn't been to Neitao yet. He probably went back to the Liaohe area and recruited some Mongolians.

He didn't care much about this. The other party had been recruiting there for more than a month. It was impossible to recruit many more people, unless those tribes dared to directly betray the Qing Dynasty, but this was simply impossible.

"Your Majesty, how about I bring another group of cavalry to bite them first?" Sony suggested again. Obviously, he didn't want to go back to Liaodong with these things.

"No, it's useless even if you bite them, you might scare them into fleeing into the Great Wall."

Hauge waved his hand and immediately rejected his bad idea. If Sony hadn't been chasing too closely last time, the other party might not have entered the Great Wall and would have gone directly to the Loop. How could it have caused so much trouble?

Now the opponent might have been eliminated long ago.

"Then Your Majesty, do you still want to escort the supplies and people back to Liaodong?"

"Let's just pretend we haven't discovered them, ignore them for the time being, and let them continue to move west. We continue east, pretending to take these slave supplies back to Liaodong."

After some weighing, Hauge finally decided to ignore the group of horse bandits for the time being. He continued to move slowly north of Datong, while sending fast horses to naturalize and notifying the Tumut Department to gather good people.

When the group of horse bandits arrived at the Yellow River, he would kill them from the south. The cavalry of Tumut's various tribes came from the north and east to see where the group of horse bandits would flee.

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