Bright Spring

In front of the camps of the various armies, it was a different scene at this time, and the preparations for the battle were still going on.Countless cavalry were alive and well, and their horses, full of beans and rice, moved all the way to the forward Ping'an army in the cold air.Red and cyan flags fluttered in the air, bringing some vitality to the lifeless land.

Ping An handed over the military power of the vanguard infantry to General Wang Bin, who himself had received the imperial decree and had taken over the newly mobilized [-] fine cavalry.

In the afternoon, cavalry from various armies gathered near the forward barracks.Ping An ordered to move out immediately!

There is an open space on all sides, with some rolling hills.Except for the rangers of the Ming army, no Tatars were seen around, and no one knew whether the Tatars had inquired about the movements of the Ming army.

The herd of jogging horses spread across the entire land, and the sound of "rumbling rumbling..." was heard in the air.The Ping'an Army marched northwest in the direction that the forward Qingqi had found out.

The Xueshui River (Hailaer River) is directly north of the vanguard's position, and the Ming army will have no chance to reach this river again.In the next two to three days, the Ministry of Security will rush from the west bank of the Xueshui River to the northeast of the "Lake Like the Sea".

According to this deployment, the Ming army will catch up with Ben Yali's sweaty king's tent somewhere in the northwest of the "Land of Fengquan" (Manzhouli).

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(I'm sorry everyone, it's been off for a few days. I'm really sick. I'm being honest and I didn't lie to everyone.

This time I had a bad cold, probably a viral flu, I couldn't resist it, it was very serious.First, I had a high fever that morning and couldn't get up, so I struggled to write a post asking for leave, and then the high fever lasted for three or four days.I felt weak all over, and I was in a daze; I took that cold medicine again, which seemed to have sleeping ingredients, and my mind became even more dizzy.

So I fell asleep for three or four days and hardly got up.The fever went away yesterday, but it's not cured, and I still feel a little uncomfortable.The update resumed today, because the mental state is still a little problem, so the fluency of the sentences may be a little worse than usual, I hope everyone will forgive me.It should slowly recover in the past few days, and Xifeng is also very anxious, and will not stop changing. )

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Chapter 697 Land of Plenty

A piece of wilderness in the northwest of Lake Ruhai is called "Land of Rich Springs".

In the camp of the Tatars, there is a huge round tent.Above the tent is a large white flag with complex patterns painted on it, called "Nine-White Banner".Many patterns surround a pattern of a golden spear inserted in the black horse's mane. The golden spear is also called "Sulide".

Numerous Tatar nobles and soldiers knelt down in front of the big tent, offering sacrifices and worshiping to the white flag.Khan, wearing a robe, turned his back to the crowd and recited prayers in Mongolian.

"Sulide, who can subdue fierce monsters and stubborn enemies! Urgently call for Jin Sulede! Holy Lord Genghis Khan Sulede, please send a gift to bless the royal descendants and the common people..."

After profusely reading for a while, everyone prostrated themselves together and raised their hands to cheer: "Su Lide!"

The slaves of various ethnic groups and Han people in the distance cannot approach, but can only kneel in the distance to watch the ceremony.Among them was the Han eunuch Huang Yan.

Huang Yan was not appreciated by the Tatar Khan. He didn't even see the Khan, but only saw the back of the Khan from a distance.For several months, Huang Yan could only follow a low-level general named Tuotuo.

The prayer ceremony was finally over. Huang Yan walked into the camp, found Tuotuo, and asked curiously, "What is Su Lide?"

Tuotuo replied: "It's a long story, but to put it simply, it is a relic of Genghis Khan's golden spear, which possesses divine power."

Tuotuo is a Tatar, and after spending a long time with Huang Yan, his Chinese seems to have improved a lot.

Huang Yan seemed to understand the general idea, so he nodded and asked casually: "Su Lide really has supernatural power?"

Tuotuo thought about it for a while, and replied: "Sometimes there is infinite divine power, and sometimes there is nothing."

When Huang Yan heard this, he suddenly felt that this dirty Tatar was quite thoughtful.

After the sacrifice, the surrounding camp gradually became very turbulent.Many Tatars, clad in solid armor and shouting, rushed out of the camp on horseback, and were gathering towards the army banner painted with Sulid.

Without waiting for Huang Yan to ask, Tuotuo took the initiative to say: "The enemy army is coming, and the Khan will lead the army to fight against the Ming army and defend the king's tent!"

Huang Yan's expression was panicked, he looked around hastily, but saw the ice and snow all around was barren, and there was no sign of the Ming army at all.

The surrounding camp was in chaos at this time.Among the countless tents, some flocks of sheep that were not watched by others ran out and scurry among the tents.Wooden carts filled with various sundries were scattered on the ground.

Huang Yan finally couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "Can the Yuan army defeat the Ming army?"

Tuotuo's face was ugly, and he said in a low voice, "At that time...if we see Tatar nobles running away, we will follow and run away."

Huang Yan's expression also became very ugly.

Tuotuo looked at the people gathered in the distance, and said again: "I am from Arutai, so no one ordered me to go out with the army. I heard a nobleman I know said that the Great Khan had a dispute with Arutai. Khan wanted Arutai to gather troops and attack the Ming army from the east; but Arutai was frightened in the battle at Yuerhai and refused to continue fighting the Ming army. He suggested that Khan abandon the king's tent and avoid it to the west. .”

Huang Yan said quietly: "Arutai should be right. Since the Great Khan has no chance of winning, it will be useless to fight again."

Tuotuo looked at the big banner on the king's tent in the distance, and said pretending to be mysterious: "The king's tent can get countless people, animals and wealth."

The two walked all the way for a while, when they suddenly heard a woman's scream.Huang Yan turned his head and saw a woman wrapped in sheepskin with disheveled hair who just ran out of the tent.He could see clearly that this woman was the Han female slave he had seen, and Huang Yan had seen this person on the first day he came to the Tatar camp.

After a while, a Tatar man chased him out of the tent.Standing at the door with a whip in his hand, the Tatar stopped suddenly, laughed a few times, and pointed the whip at the woman's back and began to curse.

Tuotuo and Huang Yan hurriedly stood where they were, put their hands on their chests, and bowed to the man.

The man stopped chasing him, took a look at Huang Yan, turned around and walked into the tent.

Huang Yan then asked, "What did that man say?"

Tuotuo said: "He said that the grassland is very cold, the slaves can't run far, and he will come back."

After hearing this, Huang Yan turned her head and glanced outside the camp, only to see the woman fell into the snow.

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The pale sun had already slanted to the west, and the horses of the Ming army jogging on the ground made a huge roar.The rangers in front were galloping, and someone shouted: "The enemy is coming! The enemy!"

Ping An covered the left front side of his forehead with his palm, looked around for a while, and found a dark shadow surging on the horizon.

But Ping An didn't make a sound for a while, and was not in a hurry; the soldiers were not in a hurry, and continued to move forward at a jogging speed.In this open and flat field, it takes a long time to run a horse even in a place that looks very close, not to mention that the enemy army is still far away in the "skyline".

Ping An continued to wait and see for a long time, and then ordered: "Order the left camp and the right camp to spread out, and outflank the past from the two wings!"

The soldiers shouted: "Decree!"

In the "Land of Fengquan", apart from the peaceful troops, it is impossible to have a Ming army brigade.So Ping An and the others haven't seen the enemy's flag clearly, but they are already sure that it is the enemy!

After a long time, the two armies gradually approached.The size of the number of people on both sides has become inescapable. From a safe perspective, the number of enemy cavalry is far less than that of the Ming army.

Not long after, the Tatar army horses began to detour to the left.

While watching in peace, he couldn't figure out what the other party wanted to do.After pondering for a long time, he swung his axe, pointed forward and shouted: "Kill!"

The fine cavalry around shouted: "Kill! Kill..." The cavalry on the two wings shouted "Long live" and began to speed up.

The sound of horseshoes on the grassland gradually became louder, and the deafening roar resounded through the earth.The military flag of the Ming army leaned forward and fluttered rapidly in the wind.The cavalry on the left was the first to approach the enemy horse herd.

"Papa..." The strings in the wind sounded chaotically.The black shadows of arrows flying in the air, people shouting and neighing came from all directions, and the people fighting on both sides immediately became chaotic.

The cavalry on the west side of the enemy army shot arrows while turning around to avoid the Ming army's charge; the Tatar crowd on the east side turned around and scattered.

The cavalry of the two armies chased and shot, but the cavalry of the Ming army charged very fast and caught up with some enemy cavalry one after another.Among the strings, the shouting and killing suddenly became louder.The cavalry of the Ming army with spears rushed into the enemy group, and people were constantly injured and fell off their horses, and there was endless scuffle among the running horses.

Ping An rode for a long time, and his commander-in-chief moved along with him; cavalrymen from all walks of life only looked at the commander-in-chief, keeping a distance from far and near, and chasing and killing everywhere.The horse army on the prairie surged violently, and the horse team rushed like a vortex, and the sound of killing on the ground was loud.