The capital city has their own thoughts. Except for Xie Qianhui who helped Chen Xi, the rest of the people, including Ma Wensheng, will not give Chen Xi any help.

Chen Xi went from being a loyal minister and a good general who was originally ordered in the face of danger and was burdened to a mediocre person who is now considered to be scheming and timid and cowardly. The change was simply because Chen Xi did not follow the route preset for him in the northwest military service, and went westward to Yansui Town to recover Yulin Cangcheng.

The court dug a hole for Chen Xi, but Chen Xi did not jump into it, so he became a sinner. But now Chen Xi has no time to worry about these things, and he needs to face the siege of thousands of Tatar cavalry.

On the night of September 23, Chen Xi led his army to Tumu Fort that night, he sent Hu Songyue to lead more than 200 cavalry to fetch water fifteen miles south of Tumu Fort City, and to increase drinking water reserves before the main Tatars arrived.

Before sending this group, Chen Xi considered the possibility of Hu Songyue leading his troops to escape. After the team set off, he was worried, but soon he found that he was over-concerned.

The Tatars were well prepared and blocked the traffic from Tumu Fort to the south. Hu Songyue left the city and headed south, and almost wiped out his entire army. When he went there, he had more than 200 cavalry, but he didn't even have a hundred cavalry when he came back. Half of his men and horses were damaged on the road, but he didn't even bring back a drop of water.

It was also that night that the central army led by Huo Ling arrived around Tumu Fort and blocked all the way Chen Xi to withdraw troops from the city.

Four thousand cavalrymen said that there were not many more, and that there were no less. It was more than enough to siege a city that was only two square miles away.

The city was already very crowded. In addition to the more than 8,000 people led by Chen Xi, there were still tens of thousands of refugees. Even if the soldiers in the city had to be careful, they would not be stolen by the refugees who were freezing and hungry.

After Huo Ling led her army to arrive, she stood on a high hill five miles west of Tumu Fort City, looking at the castle ahead.

"We can finally take revenge!"

Huo Ling rode on the horse, raised her whip and pointed directly at Tumu Fort. She hoped that she would lead her army to launch an attack on the city and take Chen Xi's head off the flag to sacrifice. However, the Tumu Fort in the night was like a beast, giving people a sense of majesty and gloomy. In addition, Chen Xi, a young Ming Dynasty talent who had a name resounded through the grassland in the past few years. Even if Huo Ling was arrogant, she would have to consider it carefully.

Huo Ling thought to herself: "This Chen Xi is really useless. It was just our vanguard who arrived before. He clearly had the superior force but did not even have the courage to take the initiative. He must be afraid of death and wanted to stay in the city as a turtle with his head... Humph, I want you to know that it is powerful. Even if you don't come out of the city, I will lead troops to break through the city and worship the heaven of immortality with your head!"

"Huo Yan, is it time to attack the city next?"

A general from the same tribe came forward to ask, his tone was quite disrespectful, because they were all Qianhu, but they had to obey a woman with Qianhu as the head coach, and they were dissatisfied.

They also knew that they had some difference with Huo Ling in terms of ability, but they still didn't want to admit their identities, and even Huo Ling's name was called out directly.

Huo Ling said: "I will decide whether to attack the city or not. You just follow the orders. If you pass the orders, all the children will camp on the spot. Without my military orders, no one will be allowed to attack without authorization. Send people to strengthen defenses everywhere in the east, south, and north of the city to prevent the enemy from escaping."

"If the enemy escapes and encounters a wall, he will retreat to the city gate by himself, and he will not pursue it relentlessly, so as not to fall into the ambush of the enemy!"

Before grasping the overall situation, Huo Ling remained relatively calm. Some of the arrangements she made were specifically explained to her by Yi Simayin, and some of them were out of her own understanding. The reason why Yi Simayin was relieved to hand over the four thousand elite soldiers to a woman who was eager to revenge was that she fully believed in her ability.

Although there were jealous and unconvincing people in the Tatar army, the Tatar generals present could basically abide by military orders, which was also the reason why the Tatars could rise on the grasslands, because they understood that if they wanted to win the war, they could only cooperate with each other. If they did their own things, they would give the enemy a chance and would likely face failure in the end.

With this idea, even if the Tatar Fire Screening Division took the initiative to launch a war against the Ming Dynasty border, the other Tatar tribes generally maintained non-aggression of the Fire Screening Division. When the spoils were divided up later, all tribes would gain something.

Now in the Tatar army, Huo Yan is a female general. Although many people are not convinced, her military order has been implemented. No one questioned whether it is correct. Even if it is not correct, the Tatars firmly believe that as long as they are united, they can win and obtain a large number of spoils!

The Tatars' purpose of fighting wars is very simple, that is, burning, killing, looting.

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Not long after Huo Ling entered the Central Army's tent, news came that Shen Xi sent people to the south of the city to grab water but failed.

The morale of the Tatar army was greatly boosted. In the minds of many Tatars, Shen Xi was the strongest enemy and a person who could be compared with Dayan Khan and Yisimayin.

Logically speaking, Shen Xi, who is so calculating, should not experience failure, but the army led by Shen Xi failed in the first battle, which excited the Tatars with a little worry.

At the same time, the actions of the Ming army also made the Tatars clearly know that there was a lack of water in the city, otherwise the Ming army would not have sent cavalry to the south of the city to grab water with water bags.

"Huoling, the national army asked us to wipe out Shen Xi's troops. It would be best if we could capture Shen Xi alive. If we don't, kill him and take his head back! Now the Ming army is dead and enters a water-scarce city. It seems that we are not far from victory."

A thousand Tatar household was immersed in the vision of making achievements.

Huo Ling clenched her fists and shouted, "No one is allowed to kill him. He is mine. I want to take him back to the grassland. At the Nadam Conference in the grassland, I will kill him openly with my sword... He actually dared to throw my sword on the ground. I must let him know the consequences of offending me!"

Not many people know about Huo Ling being thrown by Shen Xi in the capital.

In the eyes of the Tatars, this action is a huge insult to humans. The head can be cut off and blood can flow. Once the sword is taken out for competition, it means a sacred duel. The sword that desecrates the enemy can only defeat the opponent by force, but before the battle, it means that both sides will never die.

In the past, Yi Sima did not allow Huo Ling to tell the story of Shen Xi's throwing knife, mainly to avoid affecting Huo Ling's status as a female war god in the minds of the Tatars.

Now that Huo Ling saw the enemy in front of her, she didn't care about her for a moment and was honest in public... I have to admit that straightforwardness is Huo Ling's biggest feature. If she wants to fight Shen Xi, she took the initiative to tell her humiliation before, so that she could tell her anger. In this way, the army would know her embarrassing things in disguise.

"Huo Ling, you were insulted by that Ming man who threw a knife? How could you bear it? Why didn't you kill him at that time? Why didn't you commit suicide because of your full reputation?" One of the Qianhu asked.

Huo Ling was stunned when asked, and frowned and explained: "In the Ming people's territory, I was a guest. At that time, I was on a mission, not a murder. He refused to go back to the grassland with me to attend the Nadam Conference. He threw his knife on the ground, so he didn't understand the rules of our grassland people. Why did I commit suicide?"

Huo Ling is a woman who believes in her own way. She doesn't think she wants to commit suicide because of Chen Xi's irregular behavior. She has never thought about this at all. However, others think that Huo Ling is afraid of Chen Xi. When she is "seriously insulted" by Chen Xi, she neither fights back nor breaks herself. This is a manifestation of cowardice.

"If you go to the Ming people's place, you will understand why I made such a choice at the beginning, leaving the green mountains without fear of burning firewood. This is a saying from the Central Plains people. I have been preparing for today's revenge. From today on, before killing Chenxi, I only slept for two hours a day. At any time when there is a situation in the city, no matter whether I am resting or not, I will send it to me as soon as possible!"

After Huo Ling issued a military order, she returned to her tent.

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The night of entering Tumu Fort was a long and difficult one.

After Chen Xi led his troops to retreat to Tumu Fort, he was caught up by the Tatar cavalry. Although there were not many people on the other side, Chen Xi asked himself that the group of Beijing soldiers could not compete with the brave and combat-ready Tatar cavalry.

After Hu Song failed to rob the water in the city, he encountered the first water waste in the army that night. Some soldiers did not make any special preparations, some sheepskin water bags cracked, and some threw them away in panic. That night, when he found that there was no water source in the huge Tumu Fort, many soldiers began to panic.

If you don’t have food to eat, you may last for seven or eight days, and if you don’t have water to last for three days, it’s good. Moreover, the taste of thirst is far more uncomfortable than the taste of hunger.

Although there were still more than a dozen carriages in the army full of water and there was no need to worry about lack of water for a while, Chen Xi still ordered all the water in the army to strictly control the use of water, and organized the digging of water wells that night.

If you realize that there is no water when you are short of water, then the Tumu Fort can only wait until the crowd is trapped and the horse is exhausted and the army is wiped out, and the entire army will be wiped out.

This is definitely not the result that Chen Xi hopes to see!

But Chen Xi knew that the Tumu Fort was very high and it was very difficult to drill groundwater. It was not easy to get water sources in this small and small place. What's more, even if you could dig a well, there were more than 8,000 troops in the army and more than 10,000 refugees in the city, the water still could not be maintained.

Faced with the major water shortage problem, Chenxi was at a loss.

Originally, Chen Xi should have made a quick decision and made a decision to break through, at least there would be a glimmer of hope.

But Chen Xi knew that if the breakthrough failed, it would inevitably be death; if the breakthrough was successful, it would inevitably lead to heavy losses. Even if he could escape from birth and return to the capital, the court would not let him go. It is very likely that he would "deadly to thank the world", or he would escape from a foreign land in anonymous name and live humiliatedly for the rest of his life, but it would cause the Shen family to suffer.

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