The soldiers wholeheartedly carried out Chen Kan's order to kill anyone who was higher than the wheel.
The elderly, children, women, no one was spared.
In the end, there were only a few children left in the tribe who had never reached the height of the wheel.
Cheng Feng led the people and threw all these children out of the tribe. Chen Kan knew that without the protection of adults, these children had no chance of surviving in the wild.
After all, this is the season when prairie wolves put on their autumn fat.
It's not that Chen Kan has no mercy, but that Chen Kan clearly knows that on the grassland, he has no qualifications for mercy.
There are only two thousand of them. Once they contract Madonna's disease, the final outcome is likely that none of them will be able to make it back alive.
Fang Xu led the people to simply clean up the corpses in the tribe. These corpses did not need to be burned, as they would soon be devoured by the creatures on the grassland.
After finding a relatively tidy tent as a meeting place, Chen Kan gathered all the senior generals in the team together.
Now that they are far away from the main force of the Tatars in Tumut River and have a foothold, it is time to get rid of the tail behind them.
Chen Kan looked at Cen Gu, who was in charge of the scouts, and asked, "How far are the three thousand Tatars from us?"
Cen Gu cupped his hands and said: "Back to the Marquis, when we attacked this tribe, the tail of the Tatars followed us sixty miles away. However, it took us more than half an hour to clean up this tribe. Presumably the tail also followed us. ”
As soon as Cen Gu finished speaking, the voice of a scout asking for an audience came from outside the tent.
"Let him in!"
Chen Kan's voice spread out, and the two soldiers guarding outside the big tent led the scouts into the big tent.
"Report, Lord Marquis, the pursuers are only thirty miles away from the camp."
"Thirty miles, it came quickly enough."
A sneer appeared on Chen Kan's face, then he looked at the scout and asked, "Where is the main force of the Tatars?"
The scout cupped his hands and said, "Returning to the Marquis, the main force of the Tatars has not followed. There are only three thousand pursuers."
Chen Kan nodded clearly. The Ming Dynasty's actions were not in vain. The Tatars may not dare to divide their troops on a large scale to pursue him.
Otherwise, Ming Dynasty's fake show will definitely turn out to be true. Wu Gao can be a prince by virtue of his military achievements, so he will not be a fool.
Since the main force of the Tatars did not dare to pursue them and only dared to send a small team to die, then don't blame Chen Kan for his appetite.
"Cen Gu!"
Chen Kan spoke, ready to fulfill the promise he made when entering the grassland.
The moment he heard his name, a bloodthirsty smile appeared on Cen Gu's face: "The general will be here."
Chen Kan said calmly: "This time, you will be the main attacker."
"It's an order."
Cen Gu happily received the military order and gave Cheng Feng a provocative look.
Chen Kan just pretended not to notice the little action between the two, and then continued to issue orders.
"Cheng Feng, this time you are responsible for cutting off the Tatars' retreat."
"I?"
Cheng Feng stood up in surprise, and then met Chen Kan's emotionless eyes.
"Okay, okay..."
After receiving the military order angrily, Cheng Feng's face suddenly showed an expression of mourning for his heir.
Everyone else also has their own tasks, and no one is idle, except Chen Kan.
After giving all the military orders, Chen Kan waved his hand and drove everyone out.
He has never been very good at things like fighting. Now that everyone under his command can perform their duties, Chen Kan just took advantage of this opportunity to have a good sleep.
So, Chen Kan fell into sleep.
At midnight, Chen Kan was awakened by intense gunfire.
I wanted to get up and get angry for a while, but suddenly I heard a report from a scout: "Master Marquis, a Tatar army was found in the southeast, numbering about five thousand people, less than a hundred miles away from our camp."
"Tatar reinforcements are coming?"
Chen Kan looked shocked, but he didn't expect that there were smart people among the Tatars, and they would send two armies to outflank him.
"Explore again!"
After waving his hand to dismiss the scouts, Chen Kan couldn't help but look a little solemn.
Although the morale of the Ming army is extremely high now, no matter how powerful the Ming army is, there are only a few thousand people.
Not to mention that after entering the grassland, the Ming army had already fought two battles with the Tatar army, during which they did not get much rest at all.
Although they relied on a sneak attack to kill an army of 5,000 Tatars for the first time, it was a sneak attack, not a head-on battle.
If these five thousand people are allowed to outflank the Ming army, the Ming army will be in danger!
Realizing the seriousness of the matter, Chen Kan lost sleep.
The gunfire outside the tribe gradually calmed down. Cheng Feng entered the camp with a embarrassed look on his face and began to curse: "Damn, the Tatars are too cunning."
Zhou Shi and Cen Gu walked into the camp closely behind, the expressions on their faces were not very pretty.
Obviously, tonight's massacre plan didn't go very well.
"What's wrong?"
Chen Kan sat on the main seat and looked at a group of generals who looked like eggplants beaten with frost with great interest.
Cheng Feng and Zhou Shi looked at each other, and finally Zhou Shi stepped forward and said, "Master Marquis, the Tatar general who came this time is a wise man, and he failed to wipe out all the pursuers."
"oh?"
Chen Kan raised his eyebrows: "How do you say this?"
Cheng Feng took a step forward and said with an unlucky look on his face: "I let them escape for more than a thousand people. Who dares to believe it? The opponent has only three thousand people in total. They dare to divide their troops into three groups. The most important thing is that they managed to hide it from our scouts." , if we hadn’t all been equipped with muskets, we might have capsized in the gutter this time.”
Chen Kan listened to Cheng Feng's words quietly, then smiled and said, "Isn't this a great victory?"
"Big victory?"
Hearing the word "big victory" from Chen Kan's mouth, a group of generals felt as if they had swallowed dead flies.
Chen Kan ignored their expressions and said calmly: "Two thousand people fought against three thousand people, and they killed 60% of the opponent's battle losses. We defeated more with less, and we almost lost nothing. If this is not a big victory, what is a big victory?"
After several people frowned and listened to Chen Kan's analysis, Cheng Feng couldn't help but retorted: "If we fight with real swords and guns, we can achieve such a result, which will be a great victory. But now we have the advantage of guns and can't annihilate them all." The other party, what kind of victory is this?"
Chen Kan shook his head: "This is naturally a great victory. I understand your mentality, because the emergence of muskets has made war easier, which has led you to have the idea that if you want to fight, you must annihilate the opponent. , but ask yourselves, if there were no muskets, could you have achieved such results?"
Everyone frowned and thought for a while, then shook their heads and said, "If there were no muskets and an ambush like tonight, even if our pursuers could be wiped out, I'm afraid we would have become lambs to be slaughtered."
Chen Kan nodded: "Yes, we have muskets."
"But don't forget, our Ming Dynasty invested countless money and energy to develop muskets. The reason why you think it is not a victory without annihilating the opponent is because our Ming Dynasty's weapons have been upgraded, not because the enemy Weakened."
"Having such a result without a musket is a great victory, but it doesn't count if you have a musket. What's the point? Do you think the efforts of our Ming craftsmen are so insignificant in your opinion?"
Chen Kan's questioning voice made everyone lower their heads subconsciously.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is indeed the case.
Victory is still victory, and the enemy has not changed much. He is still fierce and cunning.
What has changed is their mentality.
Seeing the contemplative expressions on the faces of the generals, Chen Kan continued: "Our advanced weapons are the result of our Ming Dynasty's efforts. If the Tatars think that we are invincible, they can research their own firearms, but you should not do the same." Deny our achievements."
"I will eventually be taught."
Zhou Shi was the first to react, and after he handed over to Chen Kan, he became calmer.
This was indeed an unprecedented victory, and they really should not veto this hard-won victory just because no soldiers on their side were killed.
The other soldiers also turned around and sincerely admitted their mistake to Chen Kan.
Chen Kan didn't say much. Now the way of war has changed. It's normal for them to be unable to turn around for a while.
After a while, Chen Kan asked calmly: "There is a Tatar pursuit force of about 5,000 people a hundred miles southeast of us. What do you think?"
"Needless to say, of course we have to solve it."
As soon as Cheng Feng said this, many generals immediately agreed.
"The general doesn't think it's appropriate. We should avoid his sharp edges and try to preserve our strength. That's the most correct thing to do."
Amidst the echoes, an unharmonious voice suddenly came out.
Everyone subconsciously looked at Fang Xu and saw Fang Xu shrugging helplessly.
"Coward, why do you have to be so timid?"
A group of main combatants led by Cheng Feng immediately began to criticize and criticize Fang Xu.
Only Zhou Shi quietly stepped aside and left the battlefield to them. These days, he was doing the work of a secretary. He no longer cared about how the army was deployed.
Fang Xu retorted: "How can this be called cowardice? We are just temporarily avoiding the edge. In the past few days since we entered the grassland, we have fought two battles with the Tatars, and both times we fought with less and more. The soldiers' energy has already been exhausted." At the end of the battle, you have to understand that the field battle is not a sneak attack when we cross the Sambulek River."
"You can tell me a thousand things, but you are also cowardly."
Cheng Feng was dismissive of Fang Xu's words. In his opinion, being chased across the grassland by three thousand Tatars was already very embarrassing.
Facing Cheng Feng's disdainful expression, Fang Xu took a deep breath and said calmly: "Xia Chong can't talk about it. I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you."
Then he turned to look at Chen Kan and cupped his hands and said: "Master Hou, I think our purpose this time is to train troops and destroy the Tatars' logistics supplies. It is better to avoid the Tatars' large troops as much as possible."
Chen Kan nodded in agreement, Fang Xu's opinion was exactly what he wanted.
There is no end to the Tatars on the grassland. After killing one group, another group will come.
On the other hand, among the two thousand of them, if one of them dies, they will become weaker. With no support or supplies, fighting head-on is tantamount to slow suicide.
It would be better to preserve the vitality and wreak havoc on the grassland to weaken the overall strength of the grassland.
After making a decision, Chen Kan raised his hand to stop the quarrel among the generals and said calmly: "Just follow what Fang Xu said."
