Reincarnation of the powerful minister

When Su Yan woke up, he found that he was being held in the arms of King Yu, and they were riding together on horses, galloping across the endless Pingchuan.The horse's back was very bumpy, and the wind was like a knife cutting the face, but the embrace behind him was very warm.

In order to make him sleep comfortably, King Yu didn't wear any armor, but only a black battle robe embroidered with silver dragon patterns. More than half of the rolled sable cloak was pulled in front of him and wrapped around Su Yan.

The sound of horseshoes behind him was like thunder in the sky. Su Yan looked up and saw thousands of black cloud cavalry following the leading general. Xuanjia rolled by in the night like ghosts in the wilderness.

"...How long have I been asleep?" The wind was strong, he turned his head back, and asked in King Yu's ear.

"Twelve hours."

Su Yan was startled: "It's been so long! You're still in a deep sleep, what did you do?"

King Yu smiled and took the opportunity to nibble on the earlobe he gave him, feeling smooth and cold like a piece of jade. "You've been too tired recently, I'll let you sleep well, lest exhaustion turn into unmentionable illness and hurt your body's vitality."

Su Yan suspected that he had tapped his sleeping point, but after this sleep, he was indeed refreshed, and he no longer felt lazy and tired, so he didn't care too much about it.Ask again: "What is this place? Where are we going?"

"We have crossed Hetao, crossed the northernmost section of the Yellow River, and entered Yunnei Pingchuan."

Yunnei Pingchuan... A map of the border that he had consulted many times appeared in Su Yan's mind.The terrain here is flat, the water and grass are abundant, and it is an excellent pasture.What's more rare is that the climate conditions are suitable for farming. Although it is located on the edge of the Northern Desert, most of this plain is suitable for planting crops such as wheat, corn, sugar beets, and flax. It can be called a small south of the Yangtze River outside the Great Wall.

——But why is the ground scorched black, and ashes rise up when the horse's hooves step on it, as if it has been burned by a raging fire?Su Yan looked around, and saw that the ground was barren of grass, and the scorched black stretched out endlessly, exuding the pungent smell of years of burning.

King Yu seemed to see through his curiosity, and explained, "It's caused by burning wasteland."

"What is burning wasteland?"

"Every autumn and winter, Daming would send cavalry to light the pasture and all crops here with torches. They would advance fifty miles northward from the border, burn all the way out, and burn all the way back. A hundred miles back and forth is exactly the distance of a day's riding on horseback. Year after year, this barren zone has been formed, known as the 'Dark World'."

Su Yan felt a little distressed when he heard it, but he quickly realized: "Is this to artificially create a buffer zone to separate the border of Daming from Beimo?"

King Yu nodded: "In this way, the war horses of the northern barbarians will never be able to eat a single piece of pasture in this area. You think, every time there is a wasteland, a raging fire will be ignited along the thousands of miles of the border, and the flames will rise to the sky. Countless cavalry Running back and forth on the grassland and shouting, the sound shook the world, what a magnificent scene! So this move also has the meaning of showing off soldiers and deterring the enemy."

"It's a pity!" Su Yan couldn't help muttering, "Although I know that even if I grow crops here, they will be harvested by the people of Beimo, but such good land is burned every year for nothing..."

Fortunately, fire is no worse than nuclear pollution, and it will not cause irreversible damage to the environment. The plant ash produced can be regarded as supplementing nutrients to the soil, making this black land become dead and fertile.

"That's why there was a poem in the ancients - but if the flying generals of Dragon City are here, don't call Huma Duyin Mountain." King Yu's handsome face was full of fighting spirit, "Now I want to lead the Jingbei Army to attack Kill Altan and completely block the Northern Desert Cavalry from Yinshan Mountain."

Su Yan clutched his arm tightly, then slowly let go, and asked in a low voice, "How far is this place from Yinshan Mountain?"

"Cross Yunnei Pingchuan, cross the vast sea and desert, and you will arrive at Chilechuan at the foot of Yinshan Mountain."

"The target is so clear, is this going to be a sniper battle? Could it be that you already know... the movements of the Beimo army?"

It's about military affairs, but King Yu didn't hide anything from Su Yan, and said: "Yebushuo is indeed the sharpest dark blade. You sent Huo Dun and Yan Chengxue to Yebushuo back then, it was a stroke of genius—— The herdsman who fell into the water was under the two of them, and there was important information about Altan's dispatch of troops."

After saying a few words to Su Yan about Xieyang's information, he took out a finger-sized wooden tube containing a secret letter from his bosom, and handed it to Su Yan: "This is what I received when Shenmu and most of the Jingbei Army met. The second message that arrived."

Su Yan opened it carefully, took out the secret letter inside, and browsed through the gradually brightening sky. "The army led by Altan will pass through Yunnei City to collect food and grass..." He collected the information again, stuffed the pocket wooden tube the size of a finger back into his arms, and asked King Yu, "So you plan to rush to Yunnei City first?" Set up an ambush in the inner city? Is that city built by people from Beimo? Is it strong? Do we need to fight a siege battle first?"

The king of Yu mocked: "People in the northern desert live on the grass. They only build dome huts. How can they build a city? It's just a site where merchants who came to the Western Regions built their own town hundreds of years ago. Later, that area became Qingzhou on its own. After being repaired and reinforced by the Wei family, the prototype of the city was formed, and it was renamed Qingzhou City.

"Later, when the Wei family declined, the Tatars took the opportunity to annex Qingzhou, and changed Qingzhou City to Yunnei City.

"Now occupying Yunnei City is a large Tatar tribe—the Tuoba clan, who also surrendered to Altan after the Tatar royal court surrendered."

The more Su Yan heard it, the more he felt that Yunnei City was very important. If Tuoba Clan could be taken down and Yunnei Pingchuan could be brought back to the Great Ming, the vast sea desert could be used as a new border line, and the Beimo cavalry could be kept out of the Imperial Palace. Outside Lechuan... No, without a natural moat to rely on, the border on this plain is too precarious... We still have to push further north, and include Chilechuan in the Daming map, with Yinshan as the boundary...

In this way, Daming will have the most extensive pasture.But the living space of the grassland people will be compressed to the north of the Yinshan Mountains, where there are mostly wastelands covered by permafrost and Gobi, and the living conditions will become even worse...

While Su Yan opened up the land for Da Ming in his mind, he also had a little pity for the northern desert tribes in such a situation, but he quickly extinguished this pity - as a minister of Da Ming, Naturally, we have to consider national interests from the standpoint of the Great Ming, how can we control the life and death of other countries?And right now, Da Ming is at war with Beimo, and the spirit of humanitarianism is not used here.

King Yu intuitively felt that Su Yan's mood was a little low, so he pressed him into his arms: "After sleeping all day and night, you are starving, stop and eat some dry food?"

Su Yan shook his head: "I can't delay your march."

King Yu smiled and said, "According to intelligence calculations, the forward of Altan's army has just crossed the Yin Mountain, and we have enough time to set up an ambush near Yunnei City. Besides, not only you are hungry, but the soldiers are also hungry."

"The vast sea is surrounded by hundreds of feet of ice, and the gloomy clouds are gloomy and condensed".

However, the Beimo people have already tempered their copper skin and iron bones and a tenacious heart as hard as stone in the harsher climate and environment. The horseshoes of the 10,000+ army slammed across the cracked ice and gravel on the desert, like a vast and unstoppable avalanche.

According to Altan's plan, the army went outside Yunnei City for the last internal replenishment, and then divided into three groups, rushing to Datong Right Guard, Pinglu Guard and Weiyuan respectively. Ming Jingshi.

When formulating the marching plan before dispatching troops, the Wala generals heard that the once famous king in Shuobei had returned to the Huairen fiefdom. They were a little bit jealous and suggested to bypass Datong and attack Taiyuan.

Al Tan said: "Your intelligence is behind. Zhu Xu has regained control of the Jingbei Army and is stationed in Taiyuan Army Town, a border fort near Piantouguan."

The generals respected Sheng Khan very much, but they also wanted to know where such detailed information came from.

Altan said: "After Chuhu was defeated, the rest of his subordinates took the captured people and animals back to the royal court. I accidentally found an old friend in the prisoner camp."

This "old man", Altan did not let the generals see, but was guarded by his confidant guard Chang Wudan himself.

Altan said to Wo Dan: "I forgot the name of this man, but I seem to have met him in Qingshui Camp in Lingzhou, and he fought with me once. He was not a friend but an enemy." Then Wu Dan whipped him with a horsewhip Seeing that he was still stubborn, he wanted to feed him alive to wolves, and finally forced a confession of the truth——

His name is Huo Dun, and he is a secret agent who does not accept at night. He is responsible for inquiring about the military situation of the Jingbei Army.

Altan vaguely remembered the scene of the two fighting, and decided that this person must be a lieutenant general of the Ming Army, and the identity of the spy was not credible.Huo Dun was forced to be helpless, saying that his best friend Yan Chengxue was beheaded by the court for poisoning Prince Oara, and he was also implicated and demoted to Yebushou as a pawn.

"Holy Khan was poisoned back then, and almost died, it was the two of you!" Wu Dan was furious, and drew his sword to kill Huo Dun, but was stopped by Altan.

"If the best friend you are talking about is the head sent by the envoys sent by the Ming Kingdom—it is still there, and you tell me the information about Zhu Xujing and the Jingbei Army, I will return the skull to you. Don't you Central Plains people pay attention to personalities? The whole body, buried in the ground?" Altan said to Horton.

Huo Dun really wanted to get that head back, but he also knew that leaking the military plane would be treason, so he hesitated and struggled for a while.

Altan smiled: "I don't know what you think. But if the court kills my best friend and sends me to die, why should I still be foolishly loyal to it?"

Horton refused with difficulty.

It wasn't until Wo Dan brought the skull and was about to crush it in front of him that Huo Dun shed tears and confided an important military situation to them:

The King of Yu knew that Altan would lead his troops south to knock down the pass, and he was going to lead the Jingbei Army to set up an ambush to the south of Yinshan Mountain.

To the south of the Yin Mountain is Chile River, and further south is the Hanhai Desert and Yunnei Pingchuan. Where is the ambush?Altan asked.

Huo Dun said that he didn't know the exact location, but according to King Yu's usual method, he would deploy flexibly according to the enemy's marching route.

Altan put Huo Dun in prison and ordered him to be under strict supervision. After going out, he said to Wu Dan: "I actually thought of an ambush location for Zhu Xu - Yunnei City."

Right now, the Beimo army has crossed the vast sea and desert overnight, and it will not be far from Yunnei City if it goes south.

The sky was cloudy and the wind was strong again. Wudan was a little worried, and said to Altan: "Why don't you send the left-wing army to get food and grass outside the city? Those small tribes are weaker in combat power, and they will be damaged if they are used as bait." It's not a big loss."

Altan asked back: "Why do you call me the Holy Khan of Beimo, not the Holy Khan of Oara?"

Wu Dan replied without hesitation: "Of course because Altan is the co-lord of the Northern Desert!"

"As the co-lord of the Northern Desert, is the left-wing army from a small tribe also my subjects who should be protected?"

Wodan was speechless.

Altan whipped him on the back with the tip of the horsewhip, with little force, like a serious reminder: "You have to jump out of the circle of the tribe and look at the whole northern desert, Wodan, otherwise you will not be able to keep up with me pace."

Wudan said yes convincingly.

"Besides, if I didn't come forward, how could I catch the big fish of General Jingbei?" Altan looked to the south, his eyes burning with an unconcealable fighting spirit, "Ten years ago, when I was a child, He has been famous in the frontier and known as the God of War. Father Khan told me about the several battles between the Jingbei Army and the Tatars, which made my blood boil when I was young. Now I will fight him personally to see if he is the treasured sword. Old, still a waste of fame."

Wo Dan was also full of fighting spirit, and said with a smile: "The scouts we sent have found out that the forward of the Jingbei Army, Heiyun Tuqi, was indeed rushing towards Yunnei City after crossing the river. It seems that we used Huo The other party has already believed the intelligence thrown by Dun's subordinates. What kind of God of War, that's all."

Altan slapped him on the back again: "Don't underestimate the enemy! Proud soldiers are bound to be defeated."

Wu Dan repeatedly said yes, thought for a while and then asked: "Could it be that Altan thinks that Huo Dun's confession is not reliable?"

Altan kept his expression on his face, and only said: "The way of using soldiers is false and true, who can tell clearly?"

At dusk, the sky was still not clear, and the clouds were so thick that even the light and shadow of the setting sun could not be seen.

The outline of the city not far away also looked dim and dilapidated, as if it was going to blend into the background of the loess hills.

Wodan came back with a team of scouts and reported to Altan: "The Tuoba family in Yunnei has obeyed the military order to pull the grain and grass to be paid outside the city gate, and let our army take it."

He took a few steps closer and lowered his voice: "Yunnei City seems to be very peaceful, and there is no movement in a radius of ten miles. Do you think that General Jingbei's footsteps are too slow?"

Al Tan said: "Try it and you'll know?" Saying that, he went up in person to meet the City Lord Yunnei who was waiting for Mianjun with his family by the roadside.

Wudan led the bodyguards to guard Altan, carefully guarding against possible surprise attacks around him.

There were ten carts of grain and grass, and there was a long line on the side of the road. Altan drove his horse close to the last one, ordered people to untie the ropes tied up, opened the tarpaulin for inspection, and found that it was indeed high-quality forage and bean cakes.

Altan went around one by one, and when he came near the third carriage, he was already very close to the leader of the Tuoba clan waiting in front of the city gate, and he could see the fox hat on the other party's drooping head.

As usual, the cavalry went to lift the tarpaulin on the grain cart, and there was a sudden shock. A rocket shot out from the tower above the city gate, dragging the tail of flame like a meteor, and pierced into the grain cart.

The grain and grass were immediately ignited, and at the same time, the fire mine hidden in it was detonated, and it exploded, followed by several nearby grain trucks exploding in a row, and the flames soared into the sky!

coming!Altan's pupils shrank, he leaned over to avoid the splashing fire, instantly increased his horse's speed, unsheathed the scimitar at his waist, and rushed towards the leader of the Tuoba clan more than ten feet away.

The leader looked up, and under the fox hat was a Tatar face, sweating profusely from nervousness.Before he could escape in time, his head was cut off with a single knife, and the blood spattered three feet.The trembling family members screamed and scattered, while the cavalry soldiers disguised as the subordinates of the city lord pulled out their sabers and hacked at Altan's horse's leg in a well-trained manner.

At the same time, the gate of Yunnei City opened wide, and a black tide of cavalry poured out of it, charging towards Altan and the forward of the center wing army led by him.

Altan shouted: "Good time!" The horse leaped high, jumped over the sharp blade that was killing the horse's leg, and swung around with a knife.

A cavalryman in the vanguard behind him blew the horn, and the low-pitched sound of the horn resounded through the silent plain. The tens of thousands of central wing troops were split into two from the long snake, and they closed together like wild goose wings, surrounding the entire cloud. city.The arrows in their hands were also bound with kerosene packs, and after being lit with an open flame, they flew into the city wall like a meteor shower, and soon burned Yunnei City into a sea of ​​flames.

The gate of the city was blocked, and the ambush soldiers in the city could not get out of the city for a while, and could only be buried alive in the sea of ​​flames.

On the hill not far away, Su Yan was watching the battle from a peep in the guard of the personal barracks.

"...Sure enough, Jincheng was expected, and Altan was already prepared." He whispered, "Then, does Altan know that apart from the cavalry who rushed out of the city gate first, there are basically no horses in the city?" No ambushes?"

General Wei Shengwu wanted to go to battle with the general to kill the enemy, but because the guard was the military supervisor who he had sworn to obey, he was not so regretful, and said with a happy face: "That northern barbarian would not have expected, The target of the general's ambush is not his center wing army, but the rearmost left wing army. If the head and tail are cut off, the right wing in the middle will not know the situation before and after, and the army will definitely be in chaos."

"However, there are not many Heiyun Tuqi who are used as bait, and they are surrounded by the enemy's elite. I'm afraid it will be bad luck."

"My lord, don't worry, listen—" Wei Sheng's general "Weng Ting" pinned to the ground, signaling Su Yan to listen.

Su Yan squatted down, only to hear a rumbling sound, which was more shocking than thunder, and the ground trembled. "This is a tank...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?"

Wei Shengwu looked proud: "Most of the Jingbei Army are light cavalry, but they also train a heavy cavalry. All the men and horses wear fine iron armor. They are divided into two types: spear cavalry and bow cavalry. It is difficult for ordinary arrows to go far. Kills from a distance, unless with a firearm."

"The northern desert cavalry rely on the speed of bows and horses, and almost no firearms..." Su Yan murmured, "It turns out that the ambush is not only not in the city, but more than one place."

While speaking, a group of heavy cavalry roared into the battlefield from the ambush valley, charging back and forth with spears and heavy armor, trying to disperse the formation of the center wing army.

"Altan!" Wudan shouted while guarding behind the general, "We have fallen for the trick, retreat first, and help the rear!"

A stream of blood spattered Altan's cheeks, the scarlet reflected in the golden pupils, bright and violent.The corner of Altan's mouth raised a slight arc, and he shouted: "No, crucify this team of heavy cavalry here! The Jingbei Army has only been rebuilt in two or three months, and they can't prepare so many heavy cavalry in a hurry. They are all here! As for Zhu Xu himself... is not here, but I will greet him well."

King Yu led the Jingbei army ambushing in the forest to launch a surprise attack, which caught the left wing army behind them by surprise.

Under the rain of arrows, the cavalry of the Left Wing Army fell off their horses one after another, and were cut down as if they were mowing wheat.

The battle was going smoothly, but a little inspiration jumped in his heart. He felt that it would not be an easy way to defeat the Tatars and other tribes capable of conquering wars in just two years, and to rule Altan in the Northern Desert.

Sure enough, a large Beimo army appeared on the edge of the battle circle without anyone noticing, and five parallel columns spread out horizontally, sweeping towards them like a huge sledge.

The two rows in front were heavy cavalry, but they slowed down when they were about to approach. The three rows of light cavalry in the back passed through the gap between the heavy cavalry and advanced forward, shooting javelins and poisonous arrows like rain.

After a round of shooting, the three rows of light cavalry withdrew and replaced by two rows of heavy cavalry to charge.

When the two sides met each other, the retreating light cavalry spread out to the flanks, intending to outflank their sides and backs.

In front of the Jingbei Army, there was a left-wing army fighting, and behind it was a sneak attacking light and heavy cavalry mixed column, facing the enemy from the front and back.

King Yu Hengli laughed loudly: "You Altan, you know that the mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind. But after the oriole, there are eagles and falcons, so it may not be you!"

He fired a signal firework into the sky, and the Jingbei Army, which was in the midst of a fierce battle, changed formation after seeing it. Temporarily throwing aside the scattered left-wing army, it flew obliquely to both sides, broke through the encirclement, and then the Firearms Battalion launched an attack. In the front line, they fired fiercely at the heavy cavalry who were slightly less mobile.

The battle became fierce, and Su Yan was suddenly a little terrified.

He slowly moved the peeping pen from the battlefield to the sky, and felt that the sky was so dark red that it was heart-pounding, and the surging clouds seemed to be flooding from the high sky.

"The fire in Yunnei City is too hot, why is the sky red..." Su Yan murmured.

Wei Shengwu looked around the burning city, then looked up at the sky, and said strangely: "It's just a small city, it's impossible to make the whole night sky red, let's say the fire burns the clouds."

The sound of the wind became sharper, making it hard to keep one's eyes open. The wind was mixed with snowflakes the size of goose feathers, and it hit Su Yan's face. Wu's arm.

On the battlefield, Altan suddenly raised his head in the snowstorm, looked at the strange red sky, frowned, and suddenly shouted: "The snowstorm is coming!"

This loud shout seemed to be the prelude to some kind of natural power. The strong wind and snowstorm swept from the sky and the earth, galloping wantonly on this flat river, blowing away countless sundries and people and animals caught off guard.

Neither of the warring parties could hold the weapon in their hands, or even the soles of their feet. The wind roared, the horses neighed, and the dense snow hit everything on their heads and faces.

Everyone instinctively began to look for shelter, especially the Beimo soldiers, knowing that the horror of a blizzard is not only the cold, but the strong wind that can knock people against anything—if this thing is lucky, it will be the wall , Forest trees, if you are unlucky, it will be a cliff, or you will be rolled up into the air and knocked unconscious, freezing to death in the snowdrift.

Yunnei City was burned into ruins that were about to collapse in the wind. It was obviously more dangerous than open space, and no one was stupid enough to sneak in.People scattered around looking for all life-saving things that could temporarily block the wind and snow, but they couldn't see or hear. Many people were knocked down by companions or enemies who were blown on them, and they rolled away.

"Master Supervising Army——" Wei Shengwu just yelled, and the blizzard poured into his throat. He could only firmly hold Su Yan's hand that held his arm just now, trying to take him to the shelter of the mountain col.

Su Yan felt that his connection with this world was only left by the five fingers holding his wrist. If this hand was released, he could be blown into a giant paper shredder.

The person holding him should be Wei Shengwu. Su Yan tried to use the other hand to grope for the other's robe, but at this moment, the other party was hit by something hard on his legs and feet, and suddenly lost his balance and fell down the hillside. forced to let go.

Without this point of support, Su Yan followed and rolled downhill, wrapped in snow foam and blown into a fluffy ball by the wind.

The sky and the earth were spinning in a whistling white, and he didn't know how long he had been rolling until he felt a sudden impact, and the back of his head hurt sharply, his eyes went black, and he lost consciousness instantly.