Yang Cong didn't expect that Altan Khan would be so "vulnerable", or rather, be cautious.

This battle in Hetao was so smooth that he didn't expect it.

At the beginning, Altan Khan tried it with tens of thousands of invaders, and then stopped fighting and ran away!

Is there anything wrong?

You know, Altan Khan's retreat means that the Hetao has been recovered by the Ming Dynasty. From now on, it will not be so easy for the Tatars to invade the Ming Dynasty again.

All of this always gives people an unreal feeling.

Did the Tartar really give up on Hetao?

To be honest, by this time, Yang Cong still didn't believe it very much.

Altan Khan is a hero of a generation, so it is not so easy to defeat.

However, two months later, when the fortress group was connected with the Ningxia avant-garde defense line, he sent countless scouts to spy on the Hetao grassland for more than ten days, but still no trace of the Tartars was found.

In other words, the Tartars really retreated, and the Hetao really recovered!

As for whether the Tartars would take the opportunity to counterattack outside Hetao, he was not worried at all, because the Tartars would have to cross the Yellow River if they wanted to counterattack again.

It is no joke to cross the river to fight. Although the narrowest river surface in the Hetao section is less than one mile wide, it is also the river surface, not land. If you want to cross the river, you have to take a boat or build a floating bridge.

If the Tartars chose to cross the river by boat, then that would be great. The Tartars were a nation on horseback, not a nation on water. At most, they could build small wooden boats. Ten thousand people would probably have to be transported for most of the day.

There are already steamers in the Ming Dynasty at this time. Although large ships like the Yellow River can't get in, small and medium-sized ships like Cangshan Boat can still travel unimpeded. As long as dozens of Cangshan Boat are arranged to patrol back and forth in the Hetao waters, not to mention half a day, not to mention half an hour, the small wooden boats that the Tatars cross the river will be discovered.

As for building a pontoon bridge, let alone. With the Tartars' technical level, it will take at least a few hours to build a pontoon bridge that can be passed by horses. It would be strange if they were not discovered by patrol boats for such a long time. It is estimated that they will face the siege of Cangshan boats before they are ready.

The Ming army is not the Ming army in the past. The number of muskets and cannons is so scary that it is. Not to mention on the water that the Tartars are not good at at all, even on the land where the Tartars are proud of, the Ming army's cannons can make them unable to find the north.

This may be the reason why the Tartars retreated in panic. Faced with the dense artillery formations and cavalry, they could only die.

Perhaps, Altan Khan saw the gap between cold weapons and hot weapons, and was unwilling to let his subordinates die in vain, so he chose to retreat.

No matter what, since the Tartars have all withdrawn from Hetao, it means that Hetao has been completely recovered.

This is a great achievement. You must know that the size of Hetao is enough to be equivalent to half of the Shanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy. Recovering such a large piece of lost land is enough to be recorded in history and a very big book.

With such great achievements, even Jiajing can pay tribute to the ancestral temple and boast about it in front of the ancestors and ancestors. Naturally, Yang Cong also has to boast about it and show his merits to his subordinates.

He is not the kind of pedantic person. Although this achievement is simple, it is also a great achievement. He will celebrate it as much as he should, and ask for it as much as he should, so he will not be polite to Jiajing.

After confirming that all the Tartars had withdrawn from the Hetao grassland, he wrote a memorial and submitted it to the court, and began to ask for credit.

This memorial is extremely vague, and the "war" to recover Hetao is described as extremely difficult, as if he has been fighting the Tartars for nearly two years.

It has been nearly two years since he took office as the Governor of Northwest, but in the past two years, he only fought a war with the Tartars in total, but in his memorials it seemed like he was fighting with the Tartars every day!

The Ming army soldiers were not afraid of danger, facing more than 200,000 Tatar troops, and fought fiercely for several days, and finally repelled the Tatars' crazy attack.

The commander of the Ming army, Yu Dayou, was brave and good at fighting. He used fire to defeat the Tartar shield formation and defeated the Tartars with 40,000 infantrymen and cavalry.

What Ming army detective cavalry did not fear difficulties and went deep into the Hetao grassland. They were seriously injured every time, and they could even bring back the spying information.

What else is Wang Xuan fighting on the front line regardless of his own safety? Zhang Juzheng, Tan Lun, and Hai Rui exhausted all his efforts, forgot to eat and sleep, providing logistics guarantees for the Ming army, etc.

Anyway, as long as it is his confidant or disciple, he has made contributions and the whole memorial is written down in a scattered manner, it is like a legendary story.

Jiajing was a fool who was easy to fool anyway. Moreover, the only "military supervisor" was sent by him to Jinling to enjoy the happiness. Jiajing could only understand what the "war" in Hetao was like through his memorials. No matter how exaggerated he said, Jiajing could only choose to believe it.

Because the most fundamental thing is that he regained Hetao, this is not a bragging thing, but an iron-like fact.

After the memorial was handed over, it is still unknown what kind of reward Jiajing would give. Then, Yang Cong placed a celebration wine at the Ningxia Forewar Terminal and drank it with the soldiers of the Northwest Army and Southeast Army to celebrate this "hard-forgettable" victory.

Of course, there is also a component of acting. After all, he was blowing in the memorials, as if he had achieved an unprecedented victory. If they didn't celebrate it themselves, it would be too fake.

The celebration banquet was extremely grand. Almost all the generals of the Northwest Army and Southeast Army came. Most of the local officials from Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces also came. Everyone was extremely happy and celebrating this "unprecedented" victory. Only one person had a heavy face and even secretly wiped his tears there.

This person is Zhang Da, the long-time general of the Northwest Frontier Army.

Perhaps, he had experienced too many great wars and felt something, or perhaps, he thought of the sacrifice of the border soldiers, and was sad. In short, his performance was extremely abnormal and seemed so out of place with the atmosphere of celebration.

Yang Cong also valued this general very much. His abnormal behavior quickly attracted Yang Cong's attention. He was half drunk. While everyone was dizzy, Yang Cong found an opportunity, walked to Zhang Da, and asked in a low voice: "Snow Mountain, what's wrong with you?"

Zhang Da did not hide it when he heard this, and sighed directly: "I thought of Lord Zeng. Lord Zeng was determined to recover Hetao, but was killed by traitors and beheaded and displayed in public. How unfair. Now, Hetao has finally recovered. I guess he should have rest in peace in the sky."

It turned out that Zhang Da was observing silently for Zeng Xian.

These two people are the Governor of the Northwest and the Governor of Shanxi, and the other is the General Officer of Shanxi. I believe that they have more interactions in normal times.

What do you think of Zeng Xian?

Being a human being, no problem.

It's okay to be an official.

His idea was fine, he just wanted to regain Hetao and solve the problem of the Northern Territory.

His only problem is to follow the wrong person!

Xia Yan is actually not a treacherous minister, but unfortunately, they met Yan Song, a treacherous minister.

Yan Song, what are you thinking about now?
Chapter completed!