Bright Spring

As soon as the words fell, suddenly "bang bang bang" burst of firecrackers rang out again, blood|flowers splashed on the horse's head and body, fell to the ground and rolled a few times, its limbs were still twitching|twitching on the ground.

At this time, the whole land seemed to be destroyed, and the enemy army seemed to have launched attacks from many places.The sound of firecrackers from near and far came one after another, bursts of flames flickered in the vast dust and mist, and the sky and earth were filled with "rumbling" noises, mixed with shouts.

The nearby enemy troops ran for a while, and the sound of horseshoes finally faded away.They never rushed.

Qianhu from behind ordered a team change.The infantry in front hastily turned around and walked back through the gap between the musketeers and archers.The other three rows of infantry marched to the forefront.

Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, someone suddenly screamed.Zhang Yong turned his head to follow the sound, and saw a sergeant fell to the ground with an arrow shot in his back.Several people around hurried up to help him up.

The general yelled twice, and everyone quickly turned around, facing the front, facing the direction of the arrow with their breastplates.People looked at the sky one after another, and from time to time, arrows whistling and flying obliquely.Seeing this movement, the Tatars got off their horses in the distance again and started shooting | arrows.

At this moment, the huge army formation was shrouded in a vast mist of dust, and the fire|guns were flickering everywhere.In the middle of the formation, the cavalry lined up, and all around the horses remained motionless.

The Tatar army had some war horses that ran away as soon as they fired the guns; but the war horses of the Ming army have been trained and have long been accustomed to the sound of fire|guns and artillery, and will not be frightened.

There is not only gunpowder smoke in the air, but also dust.Behind each formation, some sergeants were digging trenches and taking earth to build walls. They were very hot and dusty.

Many soldiers around Zhang Yong were brothers from Jingying, and many of them showed blank expressions at this time.However, Zhang Yong had followed Shangfeng to fight the Tatars in the guard post in Datong, which was quite unusual... Tatars rarely fight in battle as soon as they come, they will go around like this first!

However, the Tatars' riding and shooting are very dangerous. Sometimes the brothers will die suddenly if they don't pay attention.The Tatars had to wait for the Ming army to counterattack before trying to break the formation.

The flag leader sat down on the ground first, and Zhang Yong also sat down upon seeing this.He hugged the wooden shield with an arrow nailed into his arms, only showing his face, looking up at the arrows flying in the sky from time to time.

After a long time, the sound of gunfire from all around gradually subsided.What followed was the painful groan of the wounded soldier.

Zhang Yong couldn't help being curious, so he stood up and looked north.There were still some sporadic cavalry wandering in the wilderness, but the large group of Tatars retreated a mile away.

The sun was still in the east, and the sky was still early, so the short battle stopped.The two sides confronted each other, and there was no hard battle, and the Tatars didn't even try to break the formation... The Ming army had few cavalry and it was difficult to pursue them, and the Tatars couldn't break the formation. The situation looked very embarrassing.

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(I'm sorry, fellow readers, I will take one day off tomorrow on the 27th. In addition, I will go to the annual meeting at the end of the month for about a week, so I can only try my best to keep one chapter updated every day recently, sorry.)

6 Chapter Ninety

At the beginning of October, the season finally entered winter, but Zhu Gaoxu and others felt that it was already severe winter here.

After the Chinese army camped in the evening, Zhu Gaoxu received two reports from the former army Qu Neng.It seems that the inscriptions were issued successively within the same day, but Zhu Gaoxu got them at the same time.

The general content of the first one is that the Qu Neng Department was attacked by a large group of Tatar cavalry on the north side of the Luxun River, and the enemy dispatched at least six or seven thousand cavalry!Qu Neng has formed a defensive formation on the spot.The second one was about the confrontation between the two sides a mile away after the Tatar army cavalry and shooting harassed.

The generals of the Chinese army heard the news and decided that the enemy had already taken the bait!Everyone was excited, already a little impatient; all the generals were gearing up, ready to march to the Luxun River, and do a big job to vent the suffocation of almost nothing in the past two months.

However, in the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Zhu Gaoxu was awakened by shouts from outside the account, and the military situation seemed to have made new progress.

He rolled over and got up.Duan Xuehen beside her also woke up, she asked: "What's wrong?"

Zhu Gaoxu took a felt blanket and wrapped it up, and said, "Let me ask first."

He walked to the tent door, opened a corner of the felt curtain, and asked, "What happened?"

The general at the door said: "The forward general is safe and urgent!"

Zhu Gaoxu took the envelope, walked back to a dimly lit lantern in the tent, and took out the letter to read.

In the middle of last night, Ping An received a report from the scouts returning to the camp: the scouts found a large campsite in the north of Yuyuerhai (Bell Lake)!Two scouts of the Ming army were shot dead by enemy rangers. The people who came back shouted that there are [-] Tatar cavalry on the north side of Yuerhai!

[-] cavalry is a bit exaggerated. It is estimated that it is impossible for Beiyuan Khan to gather [-] cavalry at this time.Zhu Gaoxu has fought so many battles, and he has long been accustomed to these exaggerated intelligence.However, he believed that scouts generally did not dare to lie about military information, mostly because they were frightened, attacked by rangers, and nervous.

Zhu Gaoxu roughly guessed that the enemy army was on the north side of Diaoyuerhai, and there should indeed be a large number of troops coming, numbering in the tens of thousands.

He lost his mind under the lantern for a while, and when he turned around, he saw that Duan Xuehen had silently put on his clothes and was tidying up.She glanced this way from time to time, without asking much, but there was concern in her eyes.

Zhu Gaoxu put away the letter, went to the tent door and shouted: "Come here, send an order to the military and military of the Chinese army, and go to the big tent to discuss matters in two quarters."

Chen Wu's voice said: "I obey the order!"

Zhu Gaoxu said again: "Tell Hou Hai to get up quickly, first write down the military order of the Chinese army, and notify all the troops to be alert."

With the help of Duan Xuehen, Zhu Gaoxu quickly put on the military uniform.When he stepped out of the tent, his whole body was shocked!The air seemed to be frozen, and the cold air penetrated through his clothes.When he came to the big tent of the Chinese army, the eunuch Cao Fu and others also arrived, helping Zhu Gaoxu put on the armor.

Soon Qi Tai, Hai Tao, and general Zhang Fu Zhao Ping in the Chinese army came to the big tent one after another, and everyone saluted one after another.

Zhu Gaoxu circulated the letter written by Ping An to everyone.People arrived at different times, but they read the letters from Ping An one after another, so there was no need to waste time waiting.

A map was laid out in the middle of the tent, on a felt blanket.

Zhu Gaoxu invited everyone to sit on the ground, pointed straight at the map, and tapped twice with his fingers: "Yuyuerhai is here, we are now tens of miles north of the west of Yuyuerhai; Qu Nengjun is in Luxun North, It is located more than 200 miles northwest of us.

The main force of the Tatars is tens of thousands, and yesterday they reached the north of the Fishing Sea, which is very close to us.I thought Yu Yuerhai, the main force of the Tatar army, was coming for us! "

Zhao Pingdao: "Qi Zou Shengshang, there are still seven armies and more than [-] people in the Ming Dynasty's army here. The Tatar army should have no way to take our main force; the enemy is probably pretending to move and wants to turn around and encircle Ba Guogong." (Qu Neng)'s men?"

Zhang Fu shook his head and said: "The distance between the main force of the army and Ba Guogong is only a few days' journey. If the Tatars pretend to move with a large number of troops at this time, they will only miss their opportunity."

Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment, and said: "A while ago, our army spread out eighty miles wide, burning | killing and sweeping | looting all the way. The Tatars must have known about our army's movement without scouting.

I have a guess.The enemy's current intention is to eat up the troops of Qu Neng's department, who are alone two or three hundred miles away!However, after the Tatars tried it, they might feel that they could not forcefully attack and eliminate Qu Neng's tribe; so more time was needed to consume the food, arrows and ammunition that Qu Neng lacked, so as to exhaust Qu Neng's army!

The role of Yuerhai's large enemy army is to harass and delay the speed of our army, and buy time for the Tatar army to attack Qu Neng.After all, the Tatars were all cavalry when they attacked, and they could run away if they couldn't win. "

Zhang Fu took the lead in seconding Zhu Gaoxu's guess.

In fact, at this time Zhu Gaoxu couldn't fully determine what the Tatars wanted to do!He just intuitively believed that the Mongols should be reluctant to fight like the Ming army; he then thought of a more reasonable motive for the Mongols' movement based on this.

Everyone discussed for a while, Zhu Gaoxu slapped his thigh and said: "First adjust the formation of each army, continue to advance north, and then see what they want to do!"

He paused for a moment, and then said: "At this time, the two armies have gradually come into contact, and there is no need to sweep|sweep the pastures; my army has begun to shrink two days ago, and starting this morning, the Seventh Army has re-deployed its formation."

So Zhu Gaoxu immediately started to arrange.

In addition to Ping'an's forward army, there are also six armies of Zuoye, Zuoxiao, Rear Army, Central Army, Right Ye, and Right Shao, which are laid out in turn with the word "one".

Zhu Gaoxu believes that the forward Pingan Army and the right wing Liu Shengjun are most likely to encounter the enemy first.So he ordered: the rear army moves north, the forward moves south; the middle army, right yeh adjusts its position north;The entire army has been gradually gathered together, forming a formation that is easier to support each other.

At the same time, he ordered the Chinese Army and the Right Ye Cavalry to take the lead in mobilizing eastward to reinforce Liu Sheng's army.

After discussing the matter, the generals will leave.

Zhu Gaoxu left the big tent of the Chinese army so that the heavy soldiers could come to collect the big tent and march out of the camp.But he didn't leave here right away, he just walked around outside the big tent...

After pondering for a long time, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly slapped his forehead, and suddenly remembered a detail, a matter that was very likely to be misjudged!

The main cavalry of the Tatar army may not have escaped to the north; instead, they should still be on the prairie pasture near the "Lake Like the Sea" (Hulun Lake).Qu Nengbu ran to Luxun River, but the direction was wrong!

As soon as the Tatar prime minister made a confession, Zhu Gaoxu immediately realized that it was a lie.But Zhu Gaoxu didn't pay much attention to it, some of the specific military information that Tuo Huan said might be fake!For example, the position of the main force of the Tatar cavalry.