The Ming cavalry, which was chasing the Junggar tribe cavalry, finally withdrew their troops.

Those who were the junggar tribe cavalry were rabbits and jumped fast, and the Ming cavalry was moving in a hurry again, and they could not keep chasing them.

That's it, the first war in the Western Expedition of the Ming Dynasty ended like this.

How to say, in this battle, the Junggar tribe first gave the Ming army a surprise attack, defeating part of the Ming army and surrounding most of the Ming army. Unfortunately, the Junggar tribe was unable to eat the surrounding Ming army in the end, and during the battle, because the elite of the Ming army and the excellent equipment exceeded the Junggar tribe's imagination, causing a lot of casualties.

If the reinforcements from Hong Chengchou's troops did not arrive in time, then this battle was indeed a great victory for the Junggar tribe. However, it was precisely because Hong Chengchou's troops arrived in time that they rescued the surrounded Ming soldiers.

To sum up, in fact, the raid of the Junggar cavalry did not get any advantage. It was also a price to give up the opportunity to immediately annex and digest other tribes, and instead take the initiative to attack the Ming army in Hami.

The Ming army vanguard, who was about 15,000, was defeated by 5,000, and two or three thousand were killed in battle. The remaining 10,000 Ming army, although they could eat and drink enough food, could recover in a few days, but the war horses had been killed and eaten. If they wanted to obtain tens of thousands of war horses, they would not be able to be dispatched in a short time.

Therefore, in general, the Ming army that is now fighting in the Western Regions is about 35,000 cavalry led by Hong Chengchou.

This battle also proved that the cunning of the Junggar tribe exceeded expectations. This reminds everyone: the Ming Dynasty's expedition to the Western Regions this time was not as simple as imagined!

After this Hami battle, Hong Chengchou also decided to make contributions as soon as possible.

This time he went on the expedition, he was the head coach. He was responsible for the attack of the vanguard army. Of course, the one who had the greater responsibility was the vanguard commander Lu Daqi.

Another point is that Hong Chengchou was able to arrive in time this time and save Lu Daqi's troops.

Anyway, he would not say that he would kill him. He wanted to make a contribution because he wanted to make a contribution and did not want to wait for the emperor to join him. He rushed to the road. Instead, he said that he had hidden worries and worries, and kept the right distance between the two armies for a complete plan, so he saved the Lu Daqi team. In this way, he would make more contributions than his faults, and he could give some of his intentions to make contributions.

Just like that, Hong Chengchou ordered a rest in Hami, waiting for the food and supplies behind the scenes day and night, and at the same time, he wanted to protect Lu Daqi's troops and take care of them to recover as soon as possible. In addition, he waited for the emperor to arrive before talking. Of course, if he didn't collect the night, he would definitely release it.

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After Emperor Chongzhen learned about the battle situation ahead through the Class A eavesdropping seeds on Hong Chengchou's body, he accelerated his marching speed and rushed to Hami on June 22, 22nd year of Chongzhen.

At this time, the Ming cavalry under Lu Daqi's troops, or now the infantry, had almost recovered. However, Lu Daqi's own health was not well restored because he was old.

After Emperor Chongzhen arrived, he first made a statement about the first war: this was a great victory, shattering the rebellious conspiracy of the Junggar tribe. He insisted on not surrendering in Hami, which reflected the military spirit of the Ming Dynasty's strength and unyieldingness and defending the country. Therefore, all the Ming soldiers who stood firm in Hami were awarded merits and received a Hami commemorative medal.

Gansu Governor Lu Daqi made great contributions, but his achievements exceeded his mistakes. He was promoted to the left censor and the prince's young security guard, allowing him to retire and return home and recuperate.

In addition, all the soldiers died in the Battle of Hami and were admitted to the Ming Martyrs' Temple to enjoy the Ming Dynasty incense, and their families were treated according to the rules;

However, the part that fled in the Battle of Hami was like the Liaodong tribes surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and they were all demoted to slave soldiers, allowing them to continue fighting with the army. Only those who made meritorious service could become formal soldiers of the Ming Dynasty again. Of course, Emperor Chongzhen was not ruthless to those officers who fled over a hundred households and beheaded in front of the army!

After making resolute rewards and punishments, Emperor Chongzhen was surrounded by about 40,000 Hong Chengchou's troops and more than 10,000 cavalry soldiers, and the number of people reached more than 50,000 again.

However, more than 5,000 of them became infantrymen. It was not convenient for these people to continue to follow the army because they could not keep up with the speed of the army's advance. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to station on the spot in Hami and build Hami to prepare for the Ming Dynasty to control the Western Regions in the future.

Then, he led more than 45,000 cavalry to march west again and set out in a mighty manner from Hami.

This time, the entire army was not dispersed. All cavalry were combined together, and at most, there was a one-day trip between the divisions, scattered into two lines north and south, advancing towards Urumqi.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen did this without any purpose.

Before Hami set out, he released twelve prisoners of the Junggar tribe cavalry and told them clearly: "I am here and give you the last chance of the Junggar tribe. I will wait for you in Luntai for half a month, and immediately surrender unconditionally. After the expiration, the clan will be exterminated!"

The twelve unlucky men of the Junggar tribe were the prisoners who were unable to escape in time during the rescue process of Hong Chengchou's troops. They originally thought they would be killed by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to sacrifice flags, but they still had the life to go back alive. Regardless of whether they were sincere or not, they agreed repeatedly and promised to bring the words.

Naturally, they would not have thought that Emperor Chongzhen each put a Class A eavesdropping seed on the three small leaders of them. Putting these people back would allow him to find the place where the Junggar tribe cavalry hid. If they did not have this golden finger and if they did not surrender to the Ming Dynasty, they would have really killed the Qiqi flag.

The so-called Luntai is actually Urumqi in later generations, which was established in the Tang Dynasty during the Zhenguan period. Cen Shen, a famous frontier poet in the Tang Dynasty, once left a popular poem here such as "Suddenly it was like a spring breeze coming, thousands of pear blossoms blooming."

Here, you go north to the Junggar Basin, south to the Yili area, and west to the Tacheng area, which is the center of the original activity area of ​​the Junggar tribe.

Hong Chengchou actually couldn't understand Emperor Chongzhen's deployment. However, Emperor Chongzhen was arbitrary and did not seek their opinions. They did not dare to have any opinions on this, so they could only do so.

If Hong Chengchou had to ask his opinion, he thought he would still have to divide his troops. He led the way, the emperor led the way, set goals, and surrounded and attacked. In this way, if the Junggar tribe was really at the scheduled location, he could encircle and eliminate the possibility of the Junggar tribe.

But now the army is operating together. Such a huge cavalry, even if they know where the Junggar tribe is, before they arrive, the other party will definitely escape. As for the time being that the Junggar tribe surrenders unconditionally within a specified period, Hong Chengchou thought it was impossible. If they were really afraid of the Ming Dynasty and could surrender unconditionally, they would not have rebeled into the Ming Dynasty and would have obediently followed Eziertu Khan.

Of course, there is another advantage in the division of troops, that is, Hong Chengchou may be able to achieve something, which is also his selfishness.

However, Hong Chengchou also understood that according to the emperor's previous battle examples, what he did, even if it seemed to be of no use on the surface, was often proved to be very wise in the end. The emperor's most powerful point was that he could infer the truth of the matter based on clues. In other words, the emperor would probably calculate the main force of the junggar tribe during the march.

As for the transmission from the south, it was said that the emperor had holy objects from heaven to soldiers in the distance, so that the soldiers far away could get the ability to report the emperor directly. As a child of Confucianism, Hong Chengchou did not believe this.

Even if the person who said this was vivid, Hong Chengchou did not believe it. He believed that, like this, it was actually like before the army went to war, throwing a copper plate to look at the front and back to obtain God's prediction of this war. In fact, both sides of the copper plate were the same, so as to achieve the purpose of boosting morale when going to war.

In any case, the emperor's mysterious reputation as a true son of heaven is absolutely beneficial to the emperor's rule over the Ming Dynasty.

Based on this idea, Hong Chengchou led 20,000 cavalrymen to keep a day's distance from Emperor Chongzhen, and marched towards Luntai in unison.

The Ming Dynasty cavalry is the most powerful cavalry in the Western Regions. More than 45,000 cavalrymen were spread out and advanced westward. It seemed that the world was all from the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, it would be more difficult for the Ming army to stop at night. They would spread far away from the front, back and left and right of the army. On the one hand, they would collect as much military information as possible to detect the enemy.

On the way to Luntai, they followed the emperor's will and escorted all the herdsmen captured on the road, whether they were the herdsmen of the Junggar tribe, or the Heshuote tribe or other tribes, who were lucky enough to escape the pursuit of the Junggar tribe, and escorted them to Luntai together.

Just like that, when Emperor Chongzhen led his troops to Luntai, there were more than 200 such herdsmen. The Ming army detained them in several places and did not interrogate them. The most abnormality was that the Emperor Ming Dynasty, surrounded by many generals, looked at them.

At that time, almost all the herders knelt down to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, begging him, saying that they belonged to a tribe and were most loyal and grateful to the Ming Dynasty. However, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty ignored it at that time. He just pointed at them and left after the generals in the army pointed at them.

Of course, no one knew that when Emperor Chongzhen actually threw Class C eavesdropping seeds into each of their group when he listened to his generals introducing these prisoners.

Then, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to have forgotten that he was leading the army to wipe out the rebellion of the Junggar tribe. He either slept in the tent, went out to hunt, or inspected the camp, and watched the soldiers in the army train, and life seemed to be very leisurely.
Chapter completed!