The grasslands of Inner Mongolia in August are the season when water plants are at their most abundant. At a glance, the earth seems to be wrapped in a thick green blanket, stretching to the end of the world, boundless, as if the edge can never be seen.

"Crash!" In front of the gate of Tachu Army Station, the soldiers who were carrying supplies to the baggage truck accidentally fell down and a box fell down, spilling white flowers all over the floor.

Ding Yongkang walked over with a dark face and yelled at the two helpless soldiers: "Why are you working like a donkey? Pick it up quickly."

Darling, how much money does it cost to make sixteen carts?

In front of a shop not far from the military station, Bao Liyin swallowed twice and stared at the silver coins scattered on the ground with a greedy look in his eyes.

Tachu City is one of the thirty-six stations on the Guihua Business Road. It is the only place to pass from Guihua City and Baotou to Uliasu Station. It is located in the center of these three places. It was an important station to pacify the northwest. Military station, during the Kangxi and Qianlong years, Agui, the left-wing general of Dingbian at that time, built a city with loess on the east side of the Tachu River on his way to Mongolia as a forward camp to quell the Galdan rebellion. Although more than a hundred years later, the use of loess was The rammed city wall already looked dilapidated, but to the Mongolian cavalry on the grassland, it was still a "strong city" that had been difficult to break.

"Report to the battalion commander that all the baggage has been loaded onto the trucks. According to the news sent back by the reconnaissance team, there is no sign of the main activities of the Mongolian rebels between Tuihe City Station. Please give instructions!"

Ding Yongkang, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 12th Regiment of the Northwest Frontier Defense Force, was riding on a horse with an expressionless face and stroking his whip with his hand. The adjutant reported to him the results of the reconnaissance and asked for instructions on the next step.

"Okay, let's go!" Ding Yongkang took a deep breath, looked at the more than 200 officers and soldiers lined up under him, and then waved his hand and gave the order.

The four-horse solid rubber wheel cart was still very bumpy on the road, and the car made a "clang, clang, clang, clang" metal collision sound. Bao Liyin, who was waiting outside the city, kept watching the convoy coming from the wooden road in the west of the city. After crossing the river on the bridge and away from the city, he got on his horse and galloped away to the north.

In a dense forest in a valley at the southeastern end of Mount Hangai, the Bandeda Lama led more than 1,000 Mongolian rebel forwards to camp and ambush in the grassland in the forest. The Russians sent a small team of more than a dozen military advisers to step up their attack on his "militiamen." "During the drill, Captain Mitchens, who was wearing a Mongolian robe, was studying the battle plan with Bandida and several leaders. Behind them, Chakdzab of Tushetu Khan was leading more than 3,500 main rebels. Coming in this direction.

After the Russians failed to instigate a rebellion in Simon and Inner Mongolia, they began to instruct the Kulun authorities to send rebels to invade Simon and Inner Mongolia. Under the instigation of the Russians, Jebzundamba recruited from the four Khalkha tribes and pieced together the Forty thousand "militiamen", plus nearly 3,000 horse bandits recruited from various places, under the arm and command of the Russians, the army quickly expanded to more than 50,000 people. Russia sent more than 1,600 "advisors" to help train the Mongolian rebels , and even directly participated in command operations.

The Kulun authorities' attempt to annex Simon was crushed by the Northwest Frontier Army, but in Hulunbuir, under the control and direction of Usati, the Russian consul in Hulunnaoer (Hailaer), the Mongolian rebels headed by the Manchu Shengfu, the former Erut Banner general manager The army occupied Hulunnaoer City, and under the coercion of the Russian army, the defenders of Binhe City (Manzhouli) were forced to abandon Binhe City and retreat to Qiqihar, the capital of Heilongjiang Province. The entire Hulunbuir Grassland fell into the hands of the rebels.

The success of the rebels in Hulunbuir fueled the arrogance of the Kulun side. The royal meeting held by the Kulun side decided to divide the troops into three groups to attack various parts of Inner Mongolia in accordance with the battle plan formulated by the Russians. In addition, a rebel army headed by Chakdzab was sent to attack the rebels.

Simon's border guard supply lines were raided.

"Is this supply team really full of silver?" Bandida asked, licking his lips. This tall and short lama wore a yellow and red robe. Because he threatened to go on a killing spree, he wore a Bon Tibetan robe on his head.

Unique black top hat.

"It's absolutely true. I saw with my own eyes that they loaded boxes of silver coins onto large carts. There were sixteen carts!" Bao Liyin turned out to be a Karen guard. He spoke Chinese very well, Misqin said.

The captain assigned him the task of spying on intelligence and became the leader of a small reconnaissance team.

Bandida was about to take action. Although he was known as the Living Buddha, the practice in the temple blocked his love for silver.

"Living Buddha, should we wait for Prince Chak's main force to arrive before we act together?" After Misqin asked about the strength of the border guards, he still had to be a little more careful. He knew very well what happened to the Mongolian soldiers under his command.

Even if these more than 1,000 people can feed this baggage train with only about 200 people, I am afraid that more than half of them will be lost.

"We have to entangle them first, and we must not let the enemy escape!" Bandida said with drooling, his true desire for silver coins was his real thought.

Hearing that they were going to rob the silver, Bandida's rebels all became energetic and rushed out of the valley roaring on their horses.

"Stop!" Just after 5 p.m., the baggage convoy led by Ding Yongkang came to a small hill called Baishi Mountain by passing Montenegrin merchants. He reined in the horse and raised his right hand to signal the troops to stop.

Come down, "Everyone dismount and build a position immediately!"

Second company commander Xie Hongtai ran over and said, "Battalion commander, what happened?"

"Nothing's wrong, we're fishing here!" Ding Yongkang said: "Tell the brothers, the Mongols are coming soon. If you don't want to die, hurry up and repair the fortifications. Why are you waiting for a while? Go quickly!"

The sun gradually sets to the west of the mountain, and the sky is filled with fiery red clouds. The cool breeze blows, which is a bit pleasant. On the small border guard position on the top of Baishi Mountain, sixteen Maxim machine guns are actually set up.

, the officers and soldiers who had already had dinner looked a little nervous.

Ding Yongkang has already conveyed the order to go up the peak to his subordinates, and everyone is now staying on a dead ground.

The best way to trap the hungry wolves running around on the grassland is to dig a trap and throw out a piece of fat.

Ding Yongkang's team is the fragrant bait.

The problem is that the risk of using it as bait is quite high. Even if you catch the wolf, the fat meat will be swallowed by the wolf first. The most tragic result is that the wolf trap did not hit the wolf and it finished the meat.

, but walked away again.

The waiting time was really unbearable. Ding Yongkang had gone back and forth to check the fortifications built on the mountain several times, but there was still no movement on the quiet grassland. Several reconnaissance teams had been sent back, but with no results.

Did the Mongols not plan to come, or did they see the trick?

It was certain that the Mongols could get the information. Ding Yongkang even deliberately put on a show in front of the Mongolian spies, so that they could see the real ocean full of cars.

Have the Mongolians learned to become smarter? Ding Yongkang felt a little lucky, but also a little disappointed.

Bang! At this moment, a clear gunshot shot across the dark sky, and then the gunfire gradually became chaotic. The Shui Lianzhu used by the Russians was mixed with the Mauser 98 equipped by the border guards. Ding Yongkang stood up

, and listened carefully to the sound coming from the northeast of Baishi Mountain. It was obvious that the reconnaissance team sent earlier had exchanged fire with the rebels. From the sound of the sound, the rebel cavalry was pursuing the reconnaissance team of only five people.

"Come to the position, the enemy is coming!" The officers' command whistles sounded on the hilltop, and the soldiers ran to their fighting positions in a panic.

The thunderous sound of horse hooves came closer and closer. It seemed that the Mongolian rebel army was really coming towards them.
Chapter completed!