Naturally, the tribal leaders in the Golden Tent could not see the hesitation in Dayan Khan's heart at this time. For them, they had been waiting for this day for several months.
At this time in the past, they had been plundering in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, enjoying the pleasure of getting something for nothing and enjoying the joy of plundering.
Speaking of going south to plunder, the atmosphere in the Jinzhang became heated and high. The food, tea, salt, gold and silver jewelry, iron pots, kitchen knives and fragrant beauties of the Ming Dynasty made people's blood rush.
Zhang, in high spirits.
As for Dayan Khan, he drank the warm wine with a smile on his face, but in his mind he began to calculate how to break through the Ming Dynasty's defense line at the minimum cost, and take these steppe wolves for another feast.
The grassland army assembles faster than expected. For people on the grassland, if they pick up a machete, a bow and arrow, they immediately become a grassland warrior. There is no need for any preparation at all, and everyone has a horse.
Each person leads at least two horses and can move very fast.
In just a few days, Dayan Khan gathered an army of 100,000 and marched toward the south. Suddenly, smoke was everywhere and the situation suddenly changed.
On the vast border of the Ming Dynasty, on the long Great Wall, war flames continued to rise, and the smoke continued to rise; on the official roads within the Ming Dynasty, eight hundred miles of intensified war reports were sent one after another towards the capital.
After sending it off, Emperor Hongzhi began to have trouble sleeping again.
Different from the past, this time, Dayan Khan adopted the strategy of pretending to attack Xuanfu and mainly attacking Datong. The purpose was naturally to open a gap with the least loss. Dayan Khan clearly knew that the biggest problem in all this going south was how to break through.
A defensive line like a natural moat.
The army he led was very large. On the long defense line, there were not many places for his army to pass quickly. It could even be said that there were very few. Several key points were heavily guarded by Ming troops, which he was familiar with.
The middle line between Datong, Xuanfu and Taiyuan was also the most traveled line in the past.
However, Dayan Khan is also the kind of person who suffers losses and does not have a long memory. Last year, due to the emergence of telescopes, his feint attack plan was seen through. The Ming Dynasty border army used the trick and gave him a hard lesson.
He had to take the Western Front to plunder Gansu and Shaanxi.
He has never understood how his feint attack strategy was discovered and how the location of the main force of his army was discovered by the Ming Dynasty people. This year, he actually adopted the feint attack strategy again.
On the hillside of the grassland, teams of scouts from the Ming Dynasty's frontier army were also one man and two horses. Each of them had a telescope in his hand. He stood on the high hillside and looked around with the telescope in his hand.
Able to detect traces of the grassland army within a radius of dozens of miles.
Even though Dayan Khan sent out a lot of scout teams this time, the main job of these scout teams was to clean up the scouts of the Ming Dynasty army. Because the Ming Dynasty army did not dare to fight in the field, in the past, as soon as the scout teams of the prairie people came out, the Ming army's scouts
The scout team had to flee back, because escaping slowly would mean death.
This is also an important reason why Dayan Khan was able to easily break through the defense line many times in the past, because they knew the movements of the Ming Dynasty army clearly, but the Ming Dynasty army was completely in the dark about their movements.
You can use very simple feint tactics to easily break through the defense lines of the Ming Dynasty border troops. After entering the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, you can also grasp the movements of the Ming Dynasty army, lead the Ming Dynasty army around, and wait until the Ming Dynasty army is tired.
, they bite it hard and eat it easily.
This is also one of the important reasons why the Ming Dynasty army defended the city.
Because you can still fight a dozen people while defending the city, so if you go out to fight in the city, you are basically looking for death and delivering food.
But now the situation has undergone a subtle change. The Ming Dynasty's scouts had telescopes, so they could detect the traces of the prairie people early. When encountering the prairie people, the scouts would stay away from them, so as not to be driven away and helpless.
Understand the trends of the grassland.
Last year, the border troops of the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the telescope to grasp the movements of the grassland people in advance and used their tactics to teach Dayan Khan a good lesson.
"This little prince, it seems that the suffering he suffered last year was not enough, so he resorted to the old trick of feinting."
Along with the changes in the grassland army, the Ming Dynasty's frontier army also began to be on high alert. Liu Yu was the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu and Datong. Last year, with the help of the telescope, he also used the weapon to give the little prince a heads-up. Therefore,
He also received a commendation from Emperor Hongzhi.
Liu Yu was a fellow countryman of Liu Jian, the chief minister of the cabinet. They were both officials from Henan. He was especially highly regarded by Liu Jian and was recommended by Ma Wensheng to control the Xuanfu, Datong.
However, Emperor Hongzhi had never been very fond of him because Liu Yu had bad conduct. When he was in charge of the border town, he set up a private horse market to make huge profits, and then bribed the powerful officials liberally.
Of course, Emperor Hongzhi didn't know this yet, otherwise he wouldn't have used him to control Xuanfu and Datong. In history, Liu Yu made a lot of money by setting up a private horse market, and then used the money to bribe
, during the Wuzong period of the Ming Dynasty, he colluded with Liu Jin, and became the official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, one step away from joining the cabinet.
However, with the fall of Liu Jin later, he was soon impeached, demoted to an official position, and Ziren was deposed for the people.
It can be seen from Liu Yu's resume that he is actually a very ambitious person who wants to climb up the ladder, so he is very good at making use of the resources at hand.
He was a fellow villager with Liu Jian, the chief minister of the cabinet, so he often visited Liu Jian's place, and he was highly regarded by Liu Jian. Because Liu Jian recommended him to be the censor of the right Qian capital, and he was the governor of Datong, and later he was called the censor of the left deputy capital.
Then he developed a good relationship with his immediate boss, Ma Wensheng. Under Ma Wensheng's recommendation, he became the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi. He was the boss of the border town with military power.
Holding the border town in hand, he also used his power to set up a private horse market. Needless to say, the price of horses in ancient times. Any horse, even the cheapest one, cost dozens of taels of silver. Setting up a private horse market
I don’t know how much money I made.
Once he had money, he worked hard to climb up the ladder, established a good relationship with the famous people around the emperor, and became a close brother with Liu Jin. Relying on this relationship, he became the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and almost entered the cabinet.
Because of his ambition, Liu Yu is a person who has some ideas and can do something. Last year, he was awarded by Emperor Hongzhi for giving the little prince a heads-up. This gave him hope of promotion.
So when the grassland army moved, he responded in time, sent a large number of scouts, accurately grasped the movements of Dayan Khan's army, and made his own judgment.
"This time we pretend to attack Xuanfu, the main attack is on Datong."
Liu Yu was very sure of his judgment, and began to allocate troops based on his own judgment. Most of the troops from Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi were concentrated in Datong, preparing for a showdown with Dayan Khan's army.
Sure enough, a few days later, the Xuanfu side was first attacked by Dayan Khan's feint attack force. However, because the city wall was much higher, the feint attack force did not achieve any substantial results at all.
In the past, the feint attack force might have become the main attack force. Because the Ming Dynasty's frontier troops were in dire straits, had low combat effectiveness, and the defensive fortifications were in disrepair, etc., sometimes the feint attack force could easily break through the defense line, and then
The feint attack turned into a main attack, and then they attacked in a roundabout way, easily breaking through the defense system of the Ming Dynasty's border troops.
Because he clearly understood Dayan Khan's movements and purposes, Liu Yu also arranged his troops and formed a confusing formation for Dayan Khan, deliberately creating the illusion of mobilizing heavy troops on the Xuanfu side.
In this way, Dayan Khan will go all out when he attacks Datong.
Liu Yu's strategy worked. Dayan Khan thought that his feint attack plan was successful, and he led his army to Datong in the first time.
"Dang~dang~"
On the city wall of Datong, which is more than ten feet high, on the observation deck, the lookout used binoculars to see the mighty army coming on the grassland early, and soon sounded the alarm.
"Haha, we're finally here. How high is the city wall? I'll see how you fly in."
On the city wall, Liu Yu was confident. He had enough troops in his hands and relied on such a strong and tall city wall. Even if Dayan Khan's army of 100,000 pressed on the city this time, he would not panic at all.
In his mind, he imagined fighting a good fight this time, looking back to his fellow countryman Liu Jian, and walking around with Ma Wensheng. Maybe he could be promoted, and even get a title or something, and have many irons.
Jobs can be passed down from generation to generation.
"This~"
Unlike Liu Yu who was full of confidence, when the grassland army came to the tall city wall, the tribal leaders were dumbfounded. Why did the city wall suddenly become so high?
Last year, the city wall was only half as high as it is now. Now it is as high as the mountains on both sides. How can we fight this battle?
"Are we going to fly there?"
As for the ordinary grassland warriors, they were frightened by the majestic and tall city wall in front of them. They felt that unless they had wings, they would not be able to cross it.