Since the Mongols lost their supremacy since the orthodox golden family was defeated by the Ming army in the early Ming Dynasty, the major tribes have no restraint among themselves, and they have been killing each other for the throne of the Great Khan, and they have been torn apart.Inner Mongolia alone has twenty-four large tribes, and each of them is not under the unified, weakening the overall strength, which was used by the Manchu Emperor Taiji, nominally submissive to the Manchu Qing, and was compiled into the Mongolian Forty-Nine Banners by the Emperor Taiji.Subsequently, in order to facilitate management, a number of flags were organized into an "alliance", and the leader of the alliance was the convener of each subordinate flag.Hu Lianqi's intelligence said that these Mongols who came to invade belonged to some of the small banners of the 49 banners of Inner Mongolia.These small banners are generally attached to the big tribes that are the leaders of the alliance, but the big tribes don't have time to take care of them, unless they are recruited in battle, and they don't care if they live or die the rest of the time.Most of the time, these small banners that no one cares about make a living by grazing on their own pastures, and when they encounter natural disasters, the ranch income is not good, and they cannot make a living, so they turn from herdsmen to horse bandits, and rely on the south to loot the Han people to survive the disaster year.In the past two years, the weather has been abnormal, and their livelihood has become more difficult, and they often go south to plunder.Wang Shuo had just pacified Gansu, and he was busy with affairs, so he couldn't take care of the border affairs for a while, so they made many sneak attacks.Seeing that they had gained a lot of benefits, they thought that Wang Shuo was weak and could be bullied, so they united with each banner and organized a large-scale army to attack the areas of Ganzhou and Suzhou, robbing the people and livestock, and the vanguard even reached the vicinity of Lanzhou.These Mongols grew up on horseback from an early age and were skilled in bowing horses.Sending a large army to suppress them, they quickly fled without a trace by the speed of their horses.It will certainly not be possible to use infantry against them, only cavalry against them.After Wang Shuo occupied Qinghai, he had the support of the horse farm left by the Qinghai Ming Army, coupled with the considerable profitability of Qi Tingji's tea and horse market, in exchange for a large number of war horses, and he had no shortage of cavalry.He now has 50,000 cavalry troops that can fight, and in the future, he plans to develop all the cavalry except for musketeers, not infantry in the traditional sense.He ordered the cavalry commander of the First Group Army, Hakeshi, to leave Suzhou, and the cavalry commander of the Second Army, Ma Sanxi, to go out of Gan and Lan, and to surround and annihilate all the Mongolian cavalry troops.Just like Huo Quai's fight against the Huns, if you don't fight, you will fight hard, so that they no longer dare to look at Gansu The idea is very good, but the effect is not good.These Mongols are actually herdsmen, not an army, and they are not very good at fighting, but they are good at horsemanship, and their ability to escape is very great.Before Wang Shuo's cavalry arrived to surround them, they had already run away without a trace.Although Gansu is not large, tens of thousands of cavalry troops can't defend much of the place, and there are gaps and loopholes everywhere.The two cavalry armies not only did not fight the Mongols, but also made a sneak attack on the people, losing a lot of men and horses.Now the Mongols were even more bold, and they didn't take Wang Shuo's cavalry seriously at all.Even a few Mongolian horse bandits couldn't deal with it, and they still thought about dealing with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which made Wang Shuo worried, and gave the officers a half-day lesson, but the result was not as good as it, and even the bandits couldn't deal with it, and the more they studied, the more they fell back.The method of the Mongols is, to put it bluntly, what we call guerrilla warfare in modern times.How to deal with guerrilla warfare has to be found in the minds of great men.Wang Shuo thought for a long time, and thought of the Yungui bandits in the early days of liberation.Starting from the Han Dynasty's Fubo general Ma Yuan, the banditry that could not be completely eradicated for thousands of years was wiped out by the people's army with the idea of a great man after liberation, which is not accidental, and this is another great victory of the great man's thought.If you want to deal with them, you must first know their exact location, which requires an intelligence system.But it is simply unrealistic to expect Hu Lianqi's men to keep an eye on these Mongols on the border of Gansu, which is thousands of miles away, just as Lao Chiang expects the military commanders to target the people of the whole country.This requires the use of the great man's thinking and giving full play to the power of the people, that is, the people.It is necessary to mobilize the people on the frontier, raise their consciousness, organize them fully, and let everyone become an army with the eyes of the horse bandits.With the support of the people, it will also be easier to fight a war.The officers who have studied know how to ask the enemy from the mouths of the people.Even if they don't ask, the local village officials will tell them.Second, if you find a horse bandit, you can't let them run away.How to entangle them and eliminate them Wang Shuo gathered the officers of the two cavalry corps to brainstorm, and with the modern knowledge he possessed, this problem was quickly solved.Then, Wang Shuo changed his strategy.The cavalry no longer went out on a large scale, but in cavalry regiments.It is no longer mainly defensive, but takes the initiative to start attacking.This cavalry regiment was not all veterans, but half veterans with half recruits, and he expanded his cavalry from 50,000 to 100,000 at once, and in the future, when these 50,000 recruits matured, he would expand by another 100,000.These new cavalry were led by the old cavalry and took turns to fight the Mongols, and they should have been trained by battle.The 50,000 cavalry here are tired and go back, and the 50,000 who are repairing in the interior will come out again to change shifts.At this time, these small Mongolian tribes were miserable, and before they could loot in Gansu, Wang Shuo's cavalry directly entered the Mongolian steppe.They were in groups of several hundred, galloping on the steppe, and when they encountered a large group of Mongolian cavalry, they fired a trumpet to war, and then they themselves cruised around the Mongolian cavalry.Soon, trumpets began to sound in all directions, and small groups of cavalry came from all directions, and the streams converged like a great river, and soon gathered into a large cavalry army, which surrounded the Mongol cavalry to the death.After suffering a few losses, the Mongols knew that they could not afford to provoke these wolf-like cavalry, and began to avoid them, but their shadows were everywhere in the steppe, and wherever to hide, as long as they let their small troops meet, they would stick to you, and constantly release cannons to gather the surrounding troops until they surrounded you.If you don't surrender, you're dead.They carried with them something that could be eaten at any time, called chow mein, which was said to have been invented by their general.Fried and dried with barley noodles, eggs, cooked meat and vegetables with salt and oil, and carried diagonally on the shoulders with long pockets, a bag of grain can last for more than ten days, and there is no need to make a fire to cook, which solves the most difficult supply problem on the steppe that even the Mongols cannot solve.So, as long as there is water, they are not afraid of starvation on the prairie.If you build a small tribe, you don't have to worry about food.The key is that they also instigated the slaves in the tribe to rebel, and this slave who couldn't stand the rebellion followed them like a demon, and if he didn't listen to the tribal leader, he would never come back after following them back to Gansu.Anyway, there has been a war for many years, and there is a shortage of people everywhere, and the same is true in Kannai.If this continues, not only will the Mongols not be able to rob the Han Chinese, but they will not even be able to keep their pastures.The leaders of the small tribes were originally counting on robbing the Han people of the population and property to replenish themselves, but now they robbed them in turn, so they had to migrate to the north and west of the grassland, the farther away from Gansu as possible, and they did not dare to get closer.Wang Shuo was proud.Small, dare to calculate Lao Tzu, let you know that Lao Tzu is powerful, Lao Tzu is not good or not, and it is also the wisdom of four hundred years later, and it can't rectify you: