After meeting the divination stone rabbit, Kankantada returned to his yurt.
Su Nang came back with him.
The two people sat down separately in the yurt, and the guards below presented them with cooked mutton and fine wine.
The wine is koumiss brewed by the Mongolians themselves. Kankantada himself likes to drink koumiss and thinks this is the kind of wine they should drink in Mongolia, so he takes a lot of it with him every time he travels.
Su Nang took out his short knife and cut the meat from the bones to eat.
"You have seen the attitude of the Great Khan today. He will not give in when facing the tiger-character flag, and he is determined to fight to the death with the tiger-character flag." Kankantada looked at Su Nang and said.
Su Nang swallowed the mutton in his mouth, picked up the kumiss on the side and took a sip, smoothing the mutton that had just been swallowed in his throat, and then said: "Don't worry, Old Taiji, I won't mess around at this time."
"Remember what you said." Kancantada said solemnly.
At this time when the Mongols were about to fight against the Tiger Banner, he did not want Su Nang to cause discord among the various tribes due to the issue of Khan position.
As Su Nang, even if he loses the big bansheng, there are still tribes around him who support him or are friendly with him.
Su Nang used the knife in his hand to cut the mutton in the wooden basin in front of him, and said in his mouth: "If Bu Shitu hadn't supported the Tiger Flag to come to the grassland, we wouldn't have ended up like this today, but don't worry, Old Taiji. No matter what, I also have the blood of the Golden Family flowing through my body, so I know the seriousness of things."
The mutton in the wooden basin was steaming. Su Nang cut a large piece of mutton from it and placed it on the plate in front of Kankantada.
At the same time, Su Nang said again: "If Bu Shitu cannot take back Qingcheng this time, or if he wants to seek peace with the Tiger Character Banner, will you support me, Old Taiji?"
As he spoke, he looked at Kancantada aside.
"Eat something!" Kancantada did not answer, but pointed to the mutton in the basin.
Su Nang looked at Kankantada's face quietly. After a while, he suddenly laughed, picked up the kumiss on the table, and drank it all in one gulp.
He was in a good mood at this time, and even the kumiss, which he usually disliked, tasted better than before.
It has been a few days since the Mongolian army arrived outside Qingcheng. Both the Tiger Banner and the Mongols have maintained restraint and controlled large-scale battles. Only a small number of cavalry will fight on the grasslands.
"Commander, it's been several days. Why haven't the Mongols come to attack us? They don't want Qingcheng anymore?" In the camp outside Qingcheng, Zhang Sancha stood on the wall of the camp, complaining like the people around him. Chen Xunping spoke.
Chen Xunping held a monocular in his hand, looked at a certain place on the grassland, and said: "Look, our armored cavalry battalion has won again."
The other end that the monocular leads to.
Armored cavalry wearing black breastplates were chasing a dozen fleeing Mongolian sentries.
"What's there to see? It's not the people from the armored cavalry battalion who win every time." Zhang Sancha said disapprovingly, and then added, "The people from the armored cavalry battalion can still fight the Mongols with real swords and guns. In the last battle, our soldiers couldn't even touch Mao, and there were at least tens of thousands of people in the Mongolian camp. If you ask me, if they don't come to attack Qingcheng, we can go over and fight them."
War means military exploits.
Especially after several battles with the Mongolian army, I found that the Mongolian army is particularly easy to bully and has no threat. The military merits of defeating the Mongolian army are almost the same as those obtained for free. Many generals of the Tiger-Character Banner's war divisions are ready to make a move, hoping to fight with the garrison as soon as possible. The Mongolian army started fighting more than ten miles away.
Zhang Sancha is one of these people who is ready to make a move.
He is now only the battalion commander of the battle camp, but the deputy position of the battle division is vacant. As a senior battalion commander, he is qualified to compete for this position, and the prerequisite is to make meritorious service.
As long as the tens of thousands of Mongolian troops commanded by Bu Shitu are defeated, he believes that the position of deputy commander of the First War Division will most likely fall to him.
"There's no rush." Chen Xunping pointed to the monocular in his hand and said, "The reinforcements sent by various ministries on the grassland have not arrived yet. We will fight again when they do."
The tiger flag has a large number of infantry and a small number of cavalry.
Facing the Mongolian army where everyone is a cavalry, the best way is to annihilate them in one fell swoop and not give these Mongolian cavalry a chance to escape.
"When will this happen?" Zhang Sancha said with a grumble.
Chen Xunping said: "My lord, what you want is to wipe out the Tumote tribe in one battle, so that all tribes in the grassland will not dare to take the initiative to provoke our Tiger Flag. Therefore, the more soldiers and horses of the Mongolian army we defeat in this battle, the more we can make the grassland The ministries know how strong we are."
"The same is true for this fortune-telling rabbit. We have been crossing the river for a long time, but we didn't find the reinforcements earlier, making us waste time here waiting for them to gather their troops." Zhang Sancha didn't dare to speak ill of the Lord, so he complained. Divination stone rabbit.
Chen Xunping smiled and said: "Don't worry, the day for us to take action is coming soon, and now the only reinforcements from the two tribes in Mobei have not arrived yet."
He also had a copy of the information sent back by the Foreign Intelligence Agency about the various tribes in the grassland, so he knew exactly which tribes had come back for reinforcements.
Usually, there are armored cavalry battalions patrolling around Qingcheng, and they would also exclude sentinels to get news from the Mongolian army camp.
Whenever a large group of Mongolian soldiers and horses arrived near Qingcheng, they would be discovered by the scouts sent out by the Tiger Character Banner, and the news would be brought back.
Each Mongolian tribe has its own flag. You can basically identify tribes based on the flags of large groups of Mongolian cavalry, unless the Mongols deliberately change the flags of other tribes.
However, there was no need for the Mongols to do this, which also allowed the Tiger Banner's scouts to easily find out which tribe's reinforcements were arriving.
"Report." A cavalryman wearing a breastplate appeared under the wall.
Chen Xunping turned around and said calmly: "Speak!"
"Returning to the division commander, half an hour ago, the reinforcements from the Tuxie Tuhan Tribe and Zhasak Tuhan Tribe in Mobei reached the Mongolian camp more than ten miles away." The cavalryman recounted the news he had brought back.
Chen Xunping said: "You have to work hard again and send this news to Qingcheng."
"Yes." The cavalryman turned his horse's head and urged the horse under him to leave.
After the cavalryman who sent back the news left, Chen Xunping said to Zhang Sancha on the side: "What you have been waiting for is about to begin. Send an order to all the war camps to prepare for war at any time."
"Yes, my subordinates will go to each camp to convey the orders from the front." Zhang Sancha left happily.
The arrival of the reinforcements from the Tushetu Khan Tribe and the Zasak Tuhan Tribe means that the reinforcements from all the ministries to aid Tumut have arrived, and the war is about to break out.
