The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 109: Insane Tactics
Wanli's gains from this beating were simply too great.

There were at least a thousand households in a Mongol tribe, and each household raised at least dozens or hundreds of cattle and sheep.

In this case, every household must have at least one horse, otherwise they will not be able to migrate.

The three major wealthy families in Puzhou have been doing business with them openly and secretly for decades. As they have no shortage of food and daily necessities, their population and livestock have multiplied.

It can be said that this was the time when they were the strongest or richest, and every household had more than one horse.

In this situation, if you send out cavalry to rob people frantically, the harvest will be really amazing.

This time, the cavalry visited more than a dozen Mongolian tribes. Not to mention the ones robbed by Li Chengliang, there were 40,000 to 50,000 horses looted from Jizhou Town and Xuanfu Town alone, including more than 10,000 war horses.

They didn't rob many cattle and sheep, but there were still tens of thousands, and all kinds of furs, which was too much. It was enough for every soldier in the Beijing camp to have a set of leather armor.

On this side, the looting in Jizhou Town and Xuanfu Town had been completed for several days, but the cattle, sheep and horses were still being sent to the Summer Resort.

Generals such as Dong Yikui, Dong Yiyuan, Xiao Ruxun, Man Gui, and Du Song were all extremely excited.

In the past two or three decades, the northern barbarians have always been invading the border. They rush into the border towns and kill and rob indiscriminately. It is considered good if the border troops can hold on. It is simply a dream to rush into the northern barbarians' territory to steal cattle, sheep and horses.

Unexpectedly, their dream came true. They killed and robbed people, which was so cool.

Wanli actually gained more than that after this beating.

He discovered that the Northern Tartars had too many flaws!

For example, it is impossible for the Northern Tartar cavalry to gather together all the time.

Because war horses eat so much, one war horse needs dozens of acres of grassland to feed on. Ten thousand war horses need hundreds of thousands of acres of grassland to feed on. If tens of thousands of war horses are gathered together, millions of acres of grassland will be needed to feed on them.

If tens of thousands of war horses were gathered together and kept eating, the grass within a radius of dozens of miles around the camp would dry up within a month, and the grass roots would be dug out and eaten.

This is of course not possible. Grassland is the lifeblood of nomadic tribes, and they will never let their war horses dry up the grassland.

Therefore, the Northern Tartars usually determined their targets before gathering their troops. After gathering for two or three days, they would go to war directly. After the battle, they would divide the spoils and send the troops back to their respective pastures to graze.

It is impossible for the Northern Tartars to gather tens of thousands of cavalrymen together at all times.

This gave their cavalry the opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

If they attacked randomly without any warning or pattern, like crazy, the Northern Tartars would not be able to withstand it, at least not on the first day.

If they can't hold on on the first day, their cavalry will be able to crush the northern barbarian tribes, and they will still have time to run away after that.

Also, the territory of the Northern Lu is too large, and the distance between each tribe is often hundreds of miles.

Moreover, since the implementation of the thousand-household system in the early Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty tribes basically consisted of more than a thousand households. Even after hundreds of years of development, the average tribe would not exceed five thousand households.

They have more than 10,000 cavalrymen, which is definitely enough to launch a surprise attack on an ordinary tribe. If they just want to destroy the tribe, they will definitely succeed.

Naturally, he would take advantage of these weaknesses of the Northern Tartars.

That afternoon, as the sun was setting, Qi Jiguang returned with his war horses and chariots. He immediately summoned all the generals who had stayed in the Mountain Resort to the lobby of the county government office for a discussion.

After all the generals had gathered, he immediately asked, "Yuan Jing, how is it going? How many troops have the Tumed tribe gathered on the north bank of the Qingshui River?"

Qi Jiguang guessed, "They seem to think our target is their old nest, Guihua City, so more and more people are gathering on the north bank of the Qingshui River.

Initially, they only assembled about 30,000 cavalrymen to charge forward, but by now, there were probably 40,000 to 50,000 cavalrymen gathered on the north bank of the Qingshui River. "Do these guys think their target is Guihua City?"
Upon hearing this, Wanli bent down in front of the map and gestured for a while, nodding repeatedly and said, "Well, it seems that they must have misunderstood.

The north bank of the Qingshui River seems to be only two or three hundred miles away from Guihua City. If our cavalry charges over there, it will take less than a day. They must think that we want to attack their old nest, Guihua City.

In this case, they should have mobilized all the cavalry they could. In other words, the cavalry from the Tumed, Bayut, Balin, and Dalat tribes should have all gathered on the north bank of the Qingshui River. Otherwise, there wouldn't be as many as 40,000 or 50,000 cavalry there."

Qi Jiguang nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, the Tumed, Bayut, Balin, and Dalat tribes should only have so many cavalry. The Weiwushen tribe is too far away, so it is unlikely that they can send cavalry here."

Great, I can catch them and beat them up again.

Wanli stared at the map for a while, then asked, "Do you know the exact locations of the Bayuet, Balin, and Dalat tribes?"

Well, nomadic tribes don’t have a fixed location.

Qi Jiguang thought for a moment, then pointed to a circle on the map and said, "The Bayuet tribe is roughly 300 to 500 li northwest of Yanghewei. The Balin tribe is roughly 400 to 600 li north of Tianchengwei. The Dalat tribe is roughly 500 to 700 li northwest of Datongyouwei."

Upon hearing this, Wanli couldn't help but ask curiously, "Isn't the Balin tribe about 300 miles northwest of Wanquan Youwei?"

Qi Jiguang nodded slightly and said, "Yes, that's right, but the northwest of Wanquan Youwei is impassable due to the mountainous terrain. To get there from Xuanfu Town, you have to go north from Zhangjiakou, go around the mountains, and then go west for another two hundred miles before you can reach the Balin tribe's grazing area."

Upon hearing this, Wanli nodded slightly and said, "Now the three Doyan guards and the Kharchin tribe have been frightened by us and have moved north. Our cavalry should be safe if they go north from Zhangjiakou for more than 200 miles."

Upon hearing this, Qi Jiguang suddenly realized something and said, "Your Majesty, do you mean that we should send troops from Tianchengwei in Datong Town and Zhangjiakou in Xuanfu Town simultaneously to encircle the Balin tribe?"

Wanli nodded slowly and said, "Yes, haven't their cavalry all rushed to the north bank of the Qingshui River? If they want to circle back, they will have to go around for at least five or six hundred miles.

We will first let General Ma lead the cavalry of Datong Town out of Yanghewei to rob the horses of the Bayuete tribe, and let Yikui lead the cavalry of Xuanfu Town out of Gubeikou to rob the horses of the Balin tribe.

The cavalry of the Bayuete and Balin tribes should come back to support after receiving the news. We let the 40,000 cavalry of the Shenwu Camp leave from Datong Zhongwei in advance and wait near Tucheng in the north. Once the cavalry of the Bayuete and Balin tribes come back to support, the 40,000 cavalry of the Shenwu Camp will rush up and launch a surprise attack to defeat them.

Then, the cavalry of Shenwu Camp surrounded the Bayuete tribe from west to east, the cavalry of Xuanfu Town surrounded the Balin tribe from east to west, and the cavalry of Datong Town attacked directly from the south.

In this way, even if we don't completely wipe out the Bayut and Balin tribes, I estimate that less than half of them will escape from the north."

You also let the cavalry of the Shenwu Camp run to the border to attack the Northern Lu cavalry!

This is not impossible.

Qi Jiguang thought for a moment and then asked, "Your Majesty, what should we do with the elderly, children, women and children we have captured? The Bayuete and Balin tribes are both large tribes. They control at least four or five small tribes. The combined population of these two tribes is estimated to be over 100,000."

Wanli said without hesitation: "Don't they know how to raise cattle and sheep? We probably have stolen more than 100,000 cattle and sheep. We just need to keep them under guard and let them raise cattle and sheep for us."

This seems to make sense.

Qi Jiguang carefully reminded him, "Your Majesty, raising so many cattle and sheep requires pasture. We don't even have such a large pasture. If we continue to grab it like this, we may not even have enough pasture to raise horses."

Aren’t there plenty of grasslands in Hetao?
Wanli covered the Hetao area on the map with his palm and said madly, "This time we can destroy the Bayuet and Balin tribes. Next time we will find a way to destroy the Dalat tribe and the Tumed tribe. Then we can recapture the Hetao area."

So you want to recapture Hetao!

You ignored the rebellion of Zhen Haibai in Ningxia and were thinking about recovering Hetao.

Wang Chonggu and Yang Junmin will definitely not be able to understand your insane fighting style.

Hetao is so important.

If it can be recovered, there will be no more trouble from the northern barbarians in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty!
(End of this chapter)