The eldest son of the red mansion

As soon as Jia Ke met Jia Zheng, without waiting for Jia Zheng to ask questions, he told the truth: "Father, Prince Beijing was appointed Marshal in the court today, and he will lead the army to camp outside the city in a while. Father takes his leave, and then he will go to the army immediately, and send troops out of the city to set up camp."

Jia Zheng felt a little apprehensive after hearing this, and asked uneasily, "Last time you told me that the Tatars are not defensive this time, but really, they didn't lie to me."

"Father, don't worry, the Tatars are brave, but this time we have gathered hundreds of thousands of elites, and now that the weather is getting colder, the Tatars' fodder may not be able to keep up. Even if they can't win this time, the opponent It won’t last long and we will definitely retreat.” Jia Ke believed that his side’s odds of winning were eight or nine points, not to mention that there were tens of thousands of people around to support him, even his 10 horses were enough to hold a stalemate with the Tatars .

But Jia Zheng did not give it for nothing. He thought for a while and said, "I have thought about it these days, and I think you are still a little optimistic. Although you have 10,000 elites, most of them are infantry. Once the Tatars The Tartars are starting to wander away, I am afraid your army will not be able to keep up. How can you fight a decisive battle with [-]+ elite Tatar cavalry with only [-] cavalry?"

After hearing Jia Zheng's words, Jia Ke was taken aback for a moment.He didn't expect Jia Zheng to say such a truth.What's more, what he said is also reasonable. Now the imperial court is not afraid of a decisive battle with the Tatars. It is afraid that the Tatars will neither fight nor leave, but wander around in all directions, spending time with the imperial court.

It seems that they are worthy of being the descendants of Rong Guogong. Although they did not join the army, they still know some things in the army under the influence of their ears and eyes.

Jia Ke thought carefully about Jia Zheng's question, and then answered him helplessly: "My son hasn't thought about it yet. And this time, the Jiedu envoys will come to reinforce, each doing his own thing, and the soldiers can't be mixed together. What my father said This is really difficult.”

After Jia Ke finished speaking, he stood there with closed eyes and meditated, and finally said to Jia Zheng: "I don't think the Tatars will wander around. The soldiers of their tribe are already returning to their hearts. If they hold on to Ars for a long time Leng Khan may not be able to stabilize the morale of the army."

After hearing Jia Ke's words, Jia Zheng also felt helpless. After all, the Central Plains Dynasty will have few war horses in the future. When dealing with the northern peoples, they can only defend every time.This is also a helpless move.

In fact, if Jia Ke had all the soldiers now, he could have 10,000+ cavalry, but this is his last family property, so how will it be revealed to the court.

After Jia Ke bid farewell to Jia Zheng, she did not enter the inner house, but went out directly with her own soldiers.Only Jia Zheng was left anxious in the study.

Jia Ke brought his soldiers to the station in Xuanfu Town. As soon as they arrived in the big tent, Fan Kang and Zheng Kai came to meet each other.

Jia Ke told them about today's court affairs, especially about the king of Beijing Jing who was going to set up a big tent in their camp, and after finishing, he stared at Fan Kang with his eyes.

Fan Kang thought for a while, and came to a general conclusion in his mind, "My lord, the king of Beijing set up a big tent in our camp, and he didn't set up a big tent in the big camp when Xie Hu, the governor of Liaodong, was in accordance with the usual practice. What's wrong with Xie Hu? The cunning Wang of Beijing has already seen the secret, so he is avoiding suspicion. As for what's wrong with Xie Hu, there is too little information now, so I can't guess."

Chapter 225

After listening to Fan Kang's words, Jia Ke felt like seeing the sun behind the clouds. King Beijing Jing had stayed in the court for so many years, and he knew all the secrets of the court.There was nothing wrong with following him.

Then Jia Ke thought again, it seems that he can't have any intersection with this Xie Hu, otherwise he might be implicated by him in the end.

Next, Jia Ke ordered all the troops to pull out the camp, and the army left the city through Deshengmen. It is a common practice for troops to enter and exit through Deshengmen when they go out or return triumphantly. The meaning of nobility symbolizes that the army is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness. Perhaps it is because of this that the army has Deshengmen in and out in order to win a good fortune.

Jia Ke led his troops out of the Desheng Gate and set up a camp three miles outside the city gate. In order to prevent the Tatars from coming to attack during this period, Jia Ke led [-] cavalry in front of the formation.

Unexpectedly, Jia Ke was right. They had just started camping, and tens of thousands of cavalry came out of the Tatar camp. Led by Arslen Khan's general Meng He, they came to Jia Ke's camp. Waiting in the wings.

Unexpectedly, when they came over, Jia Ke had already led the team to block in front of them.

Meng He led his troops to the opposite side of Jia Ke to watch carefully.I saw that all the soldiers on Jia Ke's side were wearing paper armor, and even the horses were wearing armor. Although it was the same as the original Iron Buddha, it was much lighter and did not affect the speed of the horses.

Seeing Meng He coming, Jia Ke urged his horse and halberd to come to the front of the battle, and shouted at the Tatar camp: "Jia Ke in Xuanfu Town is here, who dares to fight with me?"

There was a commotion in the Tatar camp. Although some people had heard of Jia Ke's reputation, they had never really seen his martial arts.He just wanted to urge the horse to come out and fight Jia Ke.

But Meng He, the main general on the battlefield, waved his hand to stop these people's recklessness.When he came to the Central Plains this time, Meng He thought that Jia Ke would come to the capital for reinforcements, so he learned about Jia Ke's specific combat strength from those who had fought against Jia Ke in private.

As a result, when those people heard the name Jia Ke, their faces turned pale.They all told him tremblingly that Jia Ke was invincible.

Although Meng He thought they were exaggerating, he couldn't deny Jia Ke's martial arts.When he came this time, he didn't intend to fight alone from Jia Ke.Although doing so would damage the morale of his own side, it was better than being killed by Jia Ke without any power to fight back.

At the epicenter, Meng He shouted to Jia Ke, who was showing off his power on the battlefield: "Jia Ke, I know you are superb in martial arts. But on the battlefield, it is not brave for a general to lead an army, so you don't have to shame yourself there."

Then Meng He ordered his soldiers to start wandering around, looking for weaknesses in Jia Ke's army.Then you can kill with one hit.

And Jia Ke did not show weakness, and led the soldiers under his command.He also ran on the battlefield, guarding the camp behind him.

After wandering around the battlefield for a long time, Meng He couldn't find any flaws in Jia Ke's cavalry, which surprised him. No matter how well the Central Plains cavalry was trained, they couldn't compare to those on the grassland who had been on horseback since birth. skilled.

But Jia Ke was able to confront him with these people, and he didn't show his flaws for so long.These cavalry are no different from the elite on the grassland.

At this time, King Beijing on the top of the city couldn't help stroking his beard and nodding when he saw this situation.It seems that this time I made the right choice.Among the troops who came to aid, only Jia Ke's men and horses were able to confront the Tatars.

While the two sides were wandering around and testing each other, the sound of horns suddenly came from the Tatar camp.It was Arslen Khan's order to retreat.In fact, Meng He wanted to retreat a long time ago, because he hadn't found a loophole in the confrontation with Jia Ke for such a long time, and there was no point in continuing the confrontation unless the two sides opened up and it was a hard fight.But this happened to be unacceptable to Arslen Khan.

Now that Meng He had listened to the order, he immediately ordered the troops to retreat.He did not let the troops retreat in a swarm, but kept retreating in batches and batches, covering each other.

Jia Ke originally saw the other party retreating and wanted to lead a charge for a while, but seeing Meng He being so cautious that he had no openings, so he could only monitor them from a distance and let Meng He retreat back to the camp intact.

Jia Ke looked at the Tatar general retreating back in an orderly manner without leaving any openings, and couldn't help frowning. It seemed that this battle was a bit troublesome.

The Tatars have such prudent generals that even if they lose, they will not lose much.In the future, the Central Plains may not have any good ways to restrain the Tatars.In the end, Jia Ke closed her eyes and thought for a while, and there was only one last solution.

That is, at the time of the decisive battle in the future, relying on his own bravery, he led an army into the Tatar formation, causing him to turn the world upside down.This can not only delay the speed of the Tatars' attack and retreat, but also deal a huge blow to the morale of the Tatars army, if it is possible to kill their generals.

Once the Tatars are in chaos, then it is possible for their own side to win.

Not long after the Tatars retreated, talented troops and horses from various Jiedu envoys camped near him, and surrounded the troops of Xuanfu Town.Just now they saw tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry galloping back and forth on the top of the city.It scared them a lot. If they left the city first, the entire army might be wiped out in just one stroke.

At the same time, they also saw the power of Jia Ke's army. They really are worthy of their reputation. They didn't expect the cavalry in Xuanfu Town to stand against tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry for such a long time without losing the wind, and finally forced the other side to be helpless. retreat.This is completely different from the Central Plains cavalry they usually know. No wonder Jia Ke has won so many victories over the years that the Tatars dare not invade Xuanfu Town.

During the whole morning, the envoys of various festivals were around Jia Ke to secure the camp.But Jia Ke led the cavalry, and did not return to the camp immediately, but still guarded them all around.This reassured the Jiedu envoys who had set up camp.

After noon, King Jing of Beijing entered Jia Ke's barracks with his own soldiers, and went directly to the big tent of the Chinese army. Jia Ke had already set up a huge army tent for him here, and there were dozens of small ones around. The tent, guarding the large tent of the Chinese army in it.

As soon as King Beijing entered the big tent, he immediately ordered people to beat drums and gather generals. After a while, various envoys from all walks of life came to the tent. There were eight envoys who came to help this time, namely: Liaodong Jiedu Shi——Xie Hu (in charge of 12 elites in Liaodong), Jia Ke (in charge of 5000 elites) in Xuanfu Town, Wang Zuo in Taiyuan (in charge of 5000 troops), Chunyuhua in Baoding (in charge of 2 troops), Qingzhou Jiedu envoy Huang Ling (commanding 5000 horses), Laizhou Jiedu envoy Guo Min (commanding 1 horses), Shandong general Lin Feng (commanding 1 horses), Henan general soldier Lu Bin (commanding 30 horses).These large armies are gathered in one place, and there are about [-] people.

King Beijing sat in the middle of the big tent, and the envoys of the eight towns and the commander-in-chief, each with their generals, stood on both sides. For a while, there were dozens of generals standing in the big tent.

The king of Beijing swept the generals majestically, and then said: "I follow the orders of your majesty to lead the three armies. The governor's battle against the Tatars, the generals must strictly abide by the military orders. If you violate them, don't blame me." Don't show affection."

All the generals clasped their hands together and replied: "I will respect the order of the commander-in-chief and dare not violate it."

King Bei Jing nodded, "You just remember, go back to rest today, get up at three o'clock tomorrow, eat at four o'clock, and go out to fight at five o'clock, trying to defeat the enemy in one battle. Do you have any questions?"

Liaodong Jiedu Shi Xie Hu came out to ask at this time, "I don't know how to arrange the troops tomorrow, please tell the commander, and we will be ready."

"Tomorrow, the soldiers from Liaodong will be in the front, and the soldiers from Taiyuan and Qingzhou will be on the left. The soldiers from Baoding and Laizhou will be on the right. The soldiers from Shandong and Henan will be in the rear. The soldiers from Xuanfu Town will be in the middle with me. What do you think of the generals?" King Beijing squinted his eyes and looked at Liaodong Jiedu envoy Xie Hu.

Xie Hu was a little unhappy when he heard this, this time his soldiers and horses were the first to bear the brunt, and even if he wins, he would suffer a lot of losses, but in the big tent, the king of Beijing Jing had already given an order, and he dared not disobey it.So he remained silent and returned to the class.

Seeing that Xie Hu didn't refute, but instead retreated to the class, King Bei Jing saw a trace of disappointment flashing in his eyes.Jia Ke could see clearly from the side, and admired Fan Kang's judgment even more in his heart. The king of Beijing Jing was probably looking for Xie Hu's fault and wanted to seize his military power. He came to Beijing for a short time, so he didn't know the reason. .But he only knew that the King of Beijing was the emperor's confidant, and the person whom the King of Beijing wanted to touch must be the one the emperor wanted to get rid of.

For a while, everyone was speechless, so the King of Beijing asked all the Jiedu envoys to return to their own team to rectify the army.

In the early morning of the next day, the army had a full meal, and King Beijing ordered all the troops to line up in front of the battle.He led all the generals to the front of the battle, and ordered the soldiers to fight against the enemy.

In the Tatar camp, Arslen Khan ordered the army to plunder in the past few days, and the harvested grain, gold and silver, and slaves were innumerable.However, the people of the Southern Dynasties did not dare to resist, and he wiped out the entire village in some villages.

Arslen Khan thought that the time was almost up, and the supplies plundered this year were already enough, and the reinforcements from the Southern Dynasty continued to arrive.Now 40 to [-] people have gathered. Although these soldiers and horses are vulnerable, it is still best to be careful.In particular, Jia Ke from Xuanfu Town also came. Arslen Khan now has a phobia of Jia Ke, and he doesn't want to stay here any longer.

Arslen Khan thought about retreating in a day or two, but things backfired.He had just had breakfast that day when he heard a report from his own soldiers, "Great Khan, the troops of the Southern Dynasty have already lined up outside the camp, clamoring for a decisive battle with the Great Khan, please the Great Khan to make a decision."

Arslen Khan frowned when he heard this. It seemed that the Southern Dynasty was ready for a decisive battle, but he would fight or not.

If you don't fight, the morale of the army will be low, and if you retreat with these supplies, the Southern Dynasty army will follow and chase them. If you take away so many supplies and people by yourself, you must move slowly.At that time, I am afraid that they will be rushed away by the enemy.