Before the army goes out to march, the commander beats the drum and encourages the generals.
Although Harbala was not a member of the Tiger Banner, he was the commander-in-chief of the Mongolian army who went on the expedition together, and was naturally among those appointed as generals.
Riding on horseback and taking the escorting soldiers with him, he rushed to the camp where the commander was located.
Su Yaer temporarily acted as a soldier beside him and rushed over with him.
The camp of the Tiger Banner Army was surrounded by a simple camp built of wood. There were soldiers on guard in front of the camp gate, and there were also soldiers on the towers on both sides, forming an angle with the camp gate.
"This is the camp of the Tiger Flag. Don't mess around." Just as he was about to enter the camp gate, Halbala reminded Su Yaer beside him in a low voice.
Worried that Su Yal would do something impulsive.
"Don't worry, I know what's going on." Su Yaer replied to him.
After hearing this, Halbala felt a little relieved, and then he drove his horse through the camp gate and entered the camp.
Rows of tents are lined up neatly in the camp, and patrolling soldiers pass by from time to time.
After passing through rows of tents, Harbala led the people to a tent with a handsome flag hanging on it.
After dismounting, he handed the reins to the soldier beside him and said, "You stay here and wait for me to come out."
The soldier who took the reins led the horse to the horse pile nearby.
At this time, Su Yal followed from behind, stopped Harbala, and said, "Take me in with you?"
"What are you going to do?" Halbala, who was stopped, stared at Suyar warily.
Su Yaer said: "Don't worry, I just want to hear how the people in the Tiger Character Banner plan to deal with our people."
"When I come out, I will tell you what was discussed inside. Just be patient for now." Halbala persuaded him to stay outside.
However, Suyar did not move and still blocked Halbala.
Seeing this, Harbala's face became a little ugly and said: "It's not that I won't take you in, but I can't take you in. Even I can only go in alone, and even if other Taiji come, they can't take you in." It can only be blocked out.”
"I'm your guard now. It's a problem for you to bring a guard in!" Su Yaer still insisted on going into the camp.
Harbala said with a wry smile: "To tell you the truth! I only went in with an ear, and I am not qualified to tell the affairs of the army. If I were not the chief general of this Mongolian army, I would not even be qualified to go in." , let alone bring one of your soldiers in."
"What a useless piece of trash, there's no way he looks like a Mongolian." Su Yaer snorted disdainfully and moved his body out of the way.
As if he didn't hear anything, Halbala walked past Suyar and entered the coach's tent in front.
There were two guards in front of the big tent door holding long guns, with bayonets inserted into the front ends of the guns. The sun shone on them, emitting a cold light.
The guard knew Harbala and let him in.
In the camp, seven or eight people had gathered at this time, all of whom were the commanders of various military camps and cavalry battalions.
As the commander of the army, Zhang Hong sat in the middle. After Harbala came in, he walked to the side and sat down. Next to him was Ma Yunjiu, the division chief of the cavalry division.
The benches where several battalions were sitting were further behind him.
"Everyone is here, let's start now!" Zhang Hong glanced at Halbala, who came in last.
As the commander-in-chief of the army, Zhang Hong began to assign tasks to each battalion, especially the cavalry division. They needed to set off ahead of the army to find traces of the enemy and at the same time clear the way for the army.
The meeting is over, and each battalion is leaving one after another to prepare.
Ma Yunjiu and Harbala were the last to walk out of the handsome tent.
As soon as he came out of the handsome tent, Su Yal, who was waiting outside, hurriedly greeted Harbala, and at the same time, he did not forget to take a look at Ma Yunjiu, who came out with him.
"These guards of yours are quite loyal." Ma Yunjiu said with a smile, and looked at Su Ya'er before leaving.
Harbala watched Ma Yunjiu walk away, and then said to Su Yaer and others: "Let's go, we will go too."
A soldier brought a horse for him.
"Who was that person just now?" Su Yaer asked Halbala, asking about Ma Yunjiu's identity.
Harbala, who was on horseback, said, "That is the commander of the cavalry division."
"It's him!" Su Ya'er looked at Ma Yunjiu's retreating back, biting his silver teeth secretly.
Halbala said: "I know you have suffered a loss at the hands of this person, but it doesn't matter. If you have any grudges in the future, you will have a chance to get revenge. Let's go!"
With a greeting, he urged his horse forward.
Others also got up and followed, and soon the group left the camp and returned to the Mongolian camp.
As the leading troops of the cavalry division set off, the Chinese army camp and the Mongolian camp also moved out one after another.
The Mongolian army commanded by Harbala set out together with Zhang Hong's war division and was responsible for protecting the flanks of the war division, so it did not move very fast.
Halbach and a group of Mongolian warriors on horseback followed the team as they moved forward slowly.
Several Mongolian Taijis who accompanied the army all held the position of captain of thousands, and walked with the string-controlling warriors of their own tribes, while Harbala was surrounded by soldiers in his own tent and warriors of the Ulut tribe.
"How many soldiers and horses did the Tiger Character Banner dispatch this time? Why doesn't it seem like too many?" Su Yaer noticed that there were only six or seven thousand infantry in the Zhan Bing Division, and there were no Mongolian soldiers like the one he was currently on. The army of men seemed powerful.
Harbala turned his head and glanced at the warrior division, withdrew his gaze and said: "This infantry only has seven or eight thousand infantry, and we have more than eight thousand soldiers here, and everyone is riding a horse. Naturally, it seems that there are no us. The momentum has become louder.”
"The Tiger-Character Banner sent so few troops?" Su Yaer frowned.
Halbala answered: "Aren't there still cavalry? The Tiger Banner's cavalry division also has several thousand cavalry, and there are enough people on both sides to add up to more than one person."
"That's not much! We have 80,000 soldiers." The "we" Su Yal said was the Chahar tribe from which he came.
Harbala said: "Don't forget, there are also my army of more than 8,000 Mongolians. Together with the troops of the Tiger Flag, there are almost 20,000 troops."
"This army of yours cannot be regarded as the troops of the Tiger Flag!" Su Yar said looking at Halbala.
Harbala, who heard this, said: "That's definitely not possible. We Mongolians are all together, but the people in the Tiger Banner don't know that, so they will naturally count the army under my command as their own."
"The Tiger-Character Banner sent so few soldiers and horses to fight. It seems that Changshengtian is on the side of us Mongols." Su Yaer said sadly, looking at the Tiger-Character Banner army in the distance.
Harbala said with a smile: "You have sent an army of fifty thousand, plus my more than eight thousand soldiers and horses, it will be nearly sixty thousand. The soldiers and horses on the Tiger Flag are only a little over ten thousand. In this battle we Definitely win."
Su Yaer nodded.
He did not tell Harbala in front of him that the army sent by the Chahar Department this time was only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses.
However, in his opinion, the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses plus the army of the Tumote tribe were almost three times the number of soldiers and horses of the tiger-shaped flag. In addition, whether they were calculating or not, this battle would be impossible for them. lose.
