As soon as Li Yan returned to the camp, Li Nian and Li Mou surrounded him.
Li Nian said: "Brother, does Mr. Chongzhen agree to surrender?"
"No." Li Yan shook his head and said, "Chongzhen is very stubborn."
"Look." Li Mou spread his hands and said, "I just said it was unnecessary."
Li Yan smiled and said: "I didn't expect Chongzhen to surrender."
"Ah?" Li Mou said, "Then why are you running to see Chongzhen, brother?"
Li Yan waved his hand and said: "Because my original intention was not to persuade Chongzhen to surrender, but just to tell him that the Mongolian army will be here soon."
"What do you mean?" Li Mou looked confused.
But Li Nian suddenly said: "Well, I understand, brother is just trying to scare the snake away!"
"Yes, to scare the snake away!" Li Yan nodded and said, "The Ming army camp is surrounded by rivers on three sides, and the front is surrounded by trenches and protective walls. If we attack by force, the losses will probably not be small, not to mention there are two thousand cavalry from the Gongtu Department watching on the side.
, if the Gongtu cavalry suddenly attacks while our army is fighting fiercely with the Ming army, the consequences will be disastrous."
Li Nian and Li Mou nodded, they both understood this.
After a pause, Li Yan said again: "But we can't delay the decision for too long, because this is Chahar, which is in the territory of the Mongols. Until the Mongolian army arrives in Chahar, we will have no chance.
General Li You and General Gu Kecheng arrived, but we only have about 7,000 cavalry, and it is still difficult to defeat the Mongols."
"That's why brother wants to alert the enemy." Li Nian said solemnly.
"Yes, we will force Chongzhen to break through tonight." Li Yan nodded and said, "If nothing else happens, the Ming army will cross the river tonight and break out from the east or south. Considering that we have thousands of troops from Dashun and Mongolia,
With the cavalry on the side, the Ming army will most likely use the main cavalry as bait to lure away the pursuers, and then use a small number of retainers to protect Chongzhen and break out in the opposite direction."
Li Yan was indeed Li Yan, he had predicted the Ming army's reaction, and truly anticipated the enemy's plans.
Li Mou looked tense and said: "If this is the case, the main cavalry of the Ming army will definitely break out to the north, and Chongzhen and the few accompanying servants will definitely escape to the south!"
"I'm afraid it's just the opposite." Li Nian said.
"I think Chongzhen will do the opposite and go north instead!"
Li Yan smiled slightly and said: "It's getting dark soon. Send the order and the whole army will hurry up to bury pots and make rice. After a full meal, they will wade across the river at night and ambush in the northeast on the other side of the river!"
"Yes!" Li Nian and Li Mou responded in unison.
…
Smoke was rising from the bandit camp in the north.
Boritichina looked away from the bandit camp and said in a deep voice: "Let the boys hurry up and cook mare's milk, roast mutton, have a hearty meal before dark, and then wade across the river at night to ambush in the southeast."
"Ah?" an underage boy asked, "Abba, why is this?"
Boritichi touched his son's little head lovingly and said: "The eagle on the grassland is destined to soar in the sky, and the hare without fangs is destined to be eaten by the prairie wolf. Our rabbits are destined to be immortal."
A tribe of hunters chosen by heaven, so no prey can escape our hunting."
"I can already smell the restless scent of prey in the air."
"If nothing else happens, the prey will escape tonight."
After talking about this, he added: "And the direction of escape is most likely to be the southeast. As long as we guard the southeast of Hara Hetao, we can catch the prey."
The young man's eyes lit up.
…
There was already a commotion in the Ming army camp.
As soon as Wang Jiayan finished speaking, Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng and other civil servants seconded their opinions.
Wei Shichun and Zhang Qingzhen, two nobles, hesitated for a while but also expressed their support.
Among the dozen distinguished officials who followed Zhu Gaoyuan to break out, only Jin Xuan and Gong Yonggu remained silent.
Zhu Gaoyuan's face completely fell. Sure enough, when we were winning the battle, hello to everyone, hello to me, hello to everyone, but when the situation suffered a slight setback, the distinguished officials immediately rebounded.
If you are not good at Chongzhen, you cannot give orders blindly.
We have to go back and get back on track, we can’t mess around!
It is said that the human heart is like water, and indeed the most difficult thing to control in the world is the human heart.
There is still a long way to go to make these distinguished officials obedient and able to use their fingers like an arm. It may never be possible to do so.
What is the old saying?
It is more terrible for honest officials to do bad things than for corrupt officials.
By the same token, loyal ministers who are not afraid of imperial power are more difficult to surrender than treacherous ministers.
But now, they need to think in one place and work hard in one place. Ten people with ten mouths cannot do it. They must teach these guys a lesson and unify their thoughts first.
In other words, he "Chongzhen" must establish absolute authority.
And it must be the kind of authority that all ministers respect from the bottom of their hearts.
It's like the heroes of Huaixi versus Zhu Yuanzhang, or the heroes of Jingnan versus Zhu Di.
At that moment, Zhu Gaoyuan turned his eyes to Jin Xuan and asked, "Jin Qing, why don't you speak?"
Jin Xuan said: "The reason why I didn't say anything was because I didn't agree with what You Sima Shicai said. I thought there might be a chance to break through with the main force to protect the Holy Lord. If the troops were divided into two groups and only a small number of elite cavalry were used to protect the Holy Lord, then
It's like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth. If this happens, the Holy Spirit will be in danger, and our Ming Dynasty will be in danger!"
"Shut up!" Wang Jiayan said angrily.
"You are a lowly official from the fifth rank, what do you know?"
Jin Xuan did not give up, and said: "Although my official position is humble, I have read a few books on the art of war. I know that soldiers are divided into masters and subordinates, and that there are hosts and guests on the battlefield. I also know that the Mongolian cavalry has a large number of scattered night soldiers during the battle."
With the habit of not collecting at night, You Sima wouldn’t think that the Holy Lord Xingzang could deceive the Mongolians into not collecting at night, right?”
"So what if you find out?" Wei Shichun said, "Just kill him."
"Then you are going to kill Uncle Xuancheng?" Jin Xuan was not so polite to Xungui.
"You?" Wei Shichun was speechless. He had long since lost the bravery of his ancestors.
Historically, after Chongzhen died for his country, Wei Shichun only committed suicide with his whole family and did not dare to summon his family members to fight.
In fact, Gong Yonggu, Liu Wenbing, and Zhang Qingzhen were just like birds. They were determined to burn their entire family to sacrifice their country, but they did not have the courage to spend their wealth to recruit troops to fight against the Dashun Army.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In a word, the noble group of the Ming Dynasty has been completely rotten.
As for the civil service, overall it is rotten, but there are still a few seeds.
Wang Jiayan said sadly: "No matter what, there is still a glimmer of hope to break out of the encirclement at this time, but when the Mongolian army arrives, everyone here will definitely die!"
This time Jin Xuan also fell silent.
Because what Wang Jiayan said is indeed true.
By the time the Mongolian army arrived, they were really dead.
Although Jin Xuan opposed the breakout and felt that the breakout would inevitably fail, he also had strong opinions on Zhu Gaoyuan's approach of bringing them from Yanshan to this military base.
In fact, it’s pretty good in Yanshan.
Why do we have to go deep into the grassland?
Are you desperate now?
Zhu Gaoyuan seemed to see what Jin Xuan was thinking and asked: "Jin Qing, do you think it is impossible to break out of the encirclement and that we are already at the end of the road?"
"Isn't it?" Jin Xuan said with a snort.
"Of course not." Zhu Gaoyuan said, "There is still a chance to break through."
Wang Jiayan was overjoyed when he heard this and said: "So, the Holy One has agreed to break out of the encirclement?"
"Wang Qing, don't be too happy." Zhu Gaoyuan said, "I agree to break out, but it is not the breakout method you just mentioned. Your method can only lead to death!"
Wang Jiayan frowned and said displeasedly: "Then how should we break out of the encirclement?"
Zhu Gaoyuan snorted softly and said: "Li Yan came just now to persuade us to surrender. On the surface, he was trying to persuade us to surrender, but in fact, he was trying to scare you and me, the emperor and our ministers, and wanted to force you and me, our emperor and our ministers, to break out at night."
Wang Jiayan said: "I can see this, but we have to break through."
Zhu Gaoyuan said: "If nothing unexpected happens, both the bandit cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry will cross the river after dark and set up ambush in the northeast and southeast of the other side. Li Yan and the Mongols are betting that I will lead a small number of fine cavalry to follow."
They are absconding from that side, while the main force of the Ming army as suspected soldiers will break through from the other direction."
"But I am not as good as they want."
After a pause, Zhu Gaoyuan said again: "I can't miss the river!"
"Huh? Break through from the front?" Jin Xuan and Wang Jiayan's eyes lit up instantly.
Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng and other civil servants as well as Gong Yonggu and other distinguished officials were still confused.
After a pause, Zhu Gaoyuan said again: "Send the order and ask the cooks to hurry up and prepare a good meal. The whole army will have a good meal and then have a good sleep, and wait for a breakout from the front at midnight!"
…
Just after Youshi, the sky gradually became dark.
At this time, the cavalry of the Gongtu Division had already had a good meal and were ready.
But Bori Tiechna did not rush to cross the river, but waited until the end of Xu Shi (9 p.m.).
Guessing that the time was almost up, Boritiechina called Hairigu to him and warned: "Hairigu, I will leave you three hundred warriors. You must take good care of our home and don't let the Dashun army
Burned our food, grass and baggage."
Boritichi was not worried about the Ming army in the river bend. He was worried about the two thousand Shun troops in the northwest.
"Don't worry, leader." Hai Rigu patted his chest and said, "Just lead your sons across the river."
Boritiechna gave Hai Rigu a few more words, and then he ordered more than 1,500 riders to quietly cross the Baihe River, which was more than 1.5 meters deep, from the lower reaches to the east bank under the cover of night.
The whole process didn't make any sound.
Horses hold coins in their mouths, people hold grass in their mouths, and the horses' hooves are all wrapped in cloth.
After crossing the river, the cavalrymen of Gongtu Department put on their clothes and armor, pushed their horses to the ground, and then began to wait quietly, waiting for the more than a thousand Ming troops in the river bend to come forward and throw themselves into the trap.
Time passed slowly in the boring waiting, and finally it was time.
Bori Tiechina looked northward from the knee-deep grass, only to see dozens of bonfires still lit in the Ming army camp on the bend of the river. There seemed to be no movement from the Ming army?
Boriti China's brows suddenly tightened.
Something doesn't look right about this situation.
