"My lord, I want to conduct a night attack!" Lan Yu clenched her fists with a smile on her face and hammered the location of Timur's camp on the map.
When it comes to night attacks, Lan Yu is a big boss. I think back then, he braved a snowstorm to attack the Beiyuan Imperial Court at night on Yuerhai, and wiped out the entire Beiyuan Imperial Court in one battle, almost with one fell swoop.
It broke off the Mongol and Yuan orthodoxy.
And now the conditions for the night attack on Timur's camp are much better than when he attacked the Northern Yuan Dynasty at night. The reason why Lan Yu has closed the city gates tightly these days is to cause Timur to have trouble at all.
He pretended that he would not leave the city. Now it seems that his actions finally worked.
After hearing this, all the generals' eyes lit up.
"Okay, sir, this is a great plan. You can see bonfires rising in Timur's camp every night, and he almost doesn't take us seriously. Then attack it at night and let them remember it for a long time!"
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The Timurid people lit bonfires at night. In addition to not expecting that the Ming army would sneak attack on them, another reason was that the nights here were too cold. It was hot during the day and bone-chilling at night, which is exactly the climate characteristic of this edge of the vast sea.
Lan Yu glanced at everyone, everyone nodded in agreement, and no one objected.
"Okay, let's make it tonight. Select 30,000 fine cavalry, eat early, get some sleep, and prepare to leave the city at night. In addition, all the horses' hooves are wrapped in cloth, the horses pick luan bells, and the sergeant titles are awarded, and prepare to shake the sky.
, I want Timur to have a good drink!"
"Got the order!"
Tamerlane's camp.
Timur was sitting in a gorgeous tent. His tent was completely different from other tents. The other tents were white, but his tent was bright red with blue inlays, showing his unique status and importance.
symbol.
Lan Yu had already noticed this tent that stood out from the crowd, and she knew without guessing that this tent must be where Timur was.
A waiter slowly opened the curtain and walked in with a tray. On the tray was a bottle of wine. He knelt forward respectfully, poured the wine for Timur, and then waved at Timur.
Go out on your knees.
After Timur waited for the waiter to leave, he used a gorgeous sword to cut a piece of meat from the roast lamb leg on the plate and put it into his mouth. After chewing it for a few times, he picked up the wine glass and took a sip to swallow the delicious food.
After dinner, Timur went to bed early. He was old and lacked energy, so he became sleepy early.
In his daze, Timur seemed to hear a burst of shouts and shouts. At first, he did not wake up, and thought he was dreaming and ignored it. But the sound became louder and louder.
Clear, Timur
I suddenly realized that this was not an auditory hallucination!
Suddenly lifting the lamb fur covering his body, Timur shouted loudly, "Come here."
The captain of the guard immediately opened the curtain and came in.
Timur immediately asked "What happened?"
"Great Sultan, Mingren seems to have made a sneak attack. The front is resisting. Please leave here immediately, master." The captain of the guard replied.
"Sneak attack?" Timur's expression changed, and he suddenly felt that something was wrong.
When he first arrived, Timur also strengthened patrols at night to guard against sneak attacks by the Ming Dynasty. However, after seeing that the Ming Dynasty people would only hide in Jiayuguan for such a long time and did not have the courage to leave the city, he slowly
He relaxed his vigilance in this regard. Unexpectedly, the Ming Dynasty people were trying to paralyze him in order to wait until he was careless and come to sneak attack.
"Let's go." Without thinking much, Timur left and ordered the captain of the guard to take someone to escort him away.
Timur is not stupid. His tent must have been the first target when the Ming Dynasty attacked him. Why don't he leave now and wait for the Ming Dynasty to rush over and catch him?
Not long after Timur left here, Lan Yu took the lead and rushed here with the cavalry. Seeing the red and blue tent, Lan Yu's eyes lit up, and he threw a thunderbolt over it, regardless of whether Timur was there or not.
Inside, let's blow it up first.
"Boom!" A ball of fire flashed inside the tent, and in an instant the entire tent was blown to pieces like paper.
Other soldiers of the Ming Dynasty also threw the thunderbolts towards the tents and people on both sides. Along with the roars, continuous screams could be heard in the dark night.
Thirty thousand cavalrymen were thrown all the way, and soon the whole camp was ablaze with countless flames.
As time went by, Lan Yu saw that the Timurid people, who were originally as helpless as headless flies, gradually began to move forward and retreat in a well-established manner, and realized that someone was commanding the Timurid people and began to gather troops to encircle and suppress them.
Already.
Seeing such a result, Lan Yu felt a little regretful, guessing that Timur was probably still alive, otherwise the Timur people would not have responded so quickly.
Although it was a bit regretful that Timur was not killed, the results of tonight's night attack were also very brilliant. Lan Yu gave up when he saw the opportunity and immediately ordered a retreat.
The cavalry quickly left Timur's camp and headed towards
Leaving Jiayuguan.
After the Timurids chased them for a certain distance, they hastily stopped the pursuit and reduced their troops to prepare for the Ming Dynasty's attack.
Lan Yu returned to Jiayuguan and counted the losses, only to find that the 30,000 cavalry attacked at night, and the losses were less than 1,000 people. Compared with the results of the night attack, such a negligible loss was simply a great victory.
On the other side, apart from sending his generals to rectify the troops and count the losses, Timur himself has never dared to show his face because he was afraid that if he was attacked again, his whereabouts would be very dangerous.
After daybreak, Timur saw the miserable state of the camp and couldn't help but rub his hands on his face. Almost half of the entire camp was destroyed, and the section from the edge to his tent was almost razed to the ground. The entire camp was completely destroyed.
There were dead bodies and wounded soldiers on the ground, and there were unburned fireworks everywhere, creating a devastated scene.
A dozen generals came over with sad expressions.
Timur took a deep breath and asked sharply, "Tell me, how much is the loss?"
All the generals were silent for a while, and finally the one at the front spoke, "Great Sultan, we have lost nearly 100,000 infantry and 30,000 cavalry. There are also tens of thousands of horses and hundreds of thousands of cattle and alpacas missing, but it should be
He was frightened and ran away last night. All we need to do is send someone to look for him and he can be found quickly."
It can be recovered, but how much can be recovered is not certain.
But even if they could be recovered, the loss of infantry and cavalry alone was enough to make Timur furious and spit out a mouthful of blood.
"puff!"
"His Majesty!"
"The Great Sultan"
Timur could only feel the buzzing around him, and his vision was getting blurry. He knew very well that of the 250,000 infantrymen, there were only 50,000 left, and he was no longer able to attack Jiayuguan.
Holding on to the last trace of clarity, he made the last decision before falling into coma.
"Retreat the troops!"
Timur sent troops from Yilibaili in May and arrived at Jiayuguan in mid-June. After three months, he was defeated by Lan Yu and had to retreat to Yilibali again.
When Lan Yu saw that Timur wanted to retreat, he immediately sent cavalry to pursue him, and Timur also sent out cavalry to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
Both the armored cavalry and the horses were heavily armored. Although the charge speed was much slower than that of the Ming Dynasty's light cavalry, the defense was impregnable. The Ming Dynasty relied on the advantage of firearms to fight the armored cavalry back and forth, but it was not easy.
take advantage,
In the end, Timur's army retreated stumblingly to Yiliba.
Although Timur was sober after returning to Yili, the defeat was a huge blow to him. On the one hand, he immediately ordered more soldiers and horses to be recruited, and on the other hand, he also took advantage of the opportunity
During this period of time, let him recover from his condition first.
Beijing.
Cold winds were blowing, and mist had already shrouded the capital in the morning. The sun had not yet come out, but the sky was gradually getting dim. The sound of rapid horse hooves came faintly from the west, and became gradually clearer.
The sergeant at the city gate noticed the movement and immediately stood up, slashed his sword and shouted, "Stop! The city gate is not open. No unauthorized entry is allowed. Violators will be executed!"
Faced with the sergeant's shouts, the cavalry did not slow down at all.
The sergeant only heard the same loud shout: "Great victory at Jiayuguan! The Xinguo public formation killed 200,000 people, and Timur retreated at the same time."
Great victory at Jiayuguan?
Before the sergeant could react, the captain behind him stood up and immediately shouted, "It's an urgent matter from 800 miles away. Open the city gate quickly!"
When the messenger saw that the city gate was still closed, he had to rein in his horse and wait for the city gate to open.
When the school captain saw him, he wanted to step forward with a smile to ask for some news. As soon as he took a step, he was stopped by a look from the messenger soldier.
The captain was stared at by this sight, and the hairs all over his body stood up. A cold current penetrated from the tailbone to Tianling Gai, making him shiver uncontrollably.
"This brother" the captain stood there, smiling and trying to get close.
However, he saw that the messenger ignored him at all. When he saw the city gate opened, he galloped his horse into the city cave with his legs crossed.
"Great victory at Jiayuguan! The Xinguo public formation killed 200,000 people, and Timur retreated at the same time."
The captain froze in embarrassment, only to hear the messenger's continuous voices getting smaller and smaller.
Drink~spit. The captain spat fiercely in the direction where the messenger disappeared. You scolded yourself, "Isn't it just a victory? What's the big deal?"
Seeing that the boss was unhappy, the sergeants around him hurriedly gathered around and comforted him, "It's just a big-headed soldier, and he dared to embarrass our general. If our general hadn't opened the door kindly, how could that man dare to force his way into the capital, no matter how great he was?"
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"We are also good generals. If it were another person, he would be more handsome."
Amidst all the compliments, the captain lost most of his anger. He waved his hand in a magnanimous manner and said, "Forget it, forget it, don't care about it, don't care about it."