"The Grand Master's skill is really profound..." The man immediately realized that the ghostly laughter was coming from the Grand Master. He quickly changed the subject and said, "It knocked me off my horse at once!" He was also a capable person.
, was knocked unconscious, and he could still flatter him with his mouthful of nonsense.
Arutai's face became hot when he was photographed, and he thought to himself: 'This person's flattery skills have reached an advanced level, and he has the same demeanor as I did back then...'
"I wonder why the Grand Master was laughing just now?" With that person's confusion, all the nobles remembered their vocation to praise them.
"Ahem..." Arutai was also so disturbed that he almost forgot his words. After coughing a few times, he remembered what he wanted to say. Then he perked up and raised his riding crop.
Shi Nigan, Abu Ji'an, and a group of Tatar nobles all quickly turned their heads and covered their faces... Only then did they realize that the grand master was not trying to hit someone, but was pointing to the other side of the river.
"I'm just laughing at Wang Xian, who is nothing more than that." The old master made a full gesture of pointing out the situation, and then said calmly: "He put all his effort into planning, but he still doesn't let us escape."
"Grand Master, half of our troops were lost in the Royal City, how can we escape with all our lives?" A Tatar noble felt extremely distressed and couldn't help but tell the truth.
"Hey, those servant armies are just consumables. So what if they are all used up." Arutai said disapprovingly: "As for the 10,000 people of our own tribe, these idiots will not listen to orders and will kill the three armies sooner or later. This will
You will bring the blame on yourself. Death in the city will be beneficial to us." As he said this, he looked at the nearly 40,000 troops who had already crossed the river, were crossing the river, and those who had not yet crossed the river and said: "This is our foundation. It has not been hurt at all. Next year
Just come back again!" As he spoke, he stretched his beard and looked around the crowd confidently: "Is it possible that Wang Xian can stay on the grassland for the rest of his life?"
"The Grand Master is indeed very wise!" All the Tatar nobles were enlightened and felt less sad. They all sang praises and said: "We can't catch up with you!"
"Yes, yes, under the wise leadership of the Grand Master, I will definitely be able to come back and take revenge!"
"Next year, we must bloodbath the King's City! Capture Baoyin Qiqige alive!"
All the Tatar nobles were full of flattery, but they saw the old master's face changed drastically. He froze there, and another handful of gray beard was pulled out in his hand...
Seeing that the Grand Master was still as motionless as a mountain, the nobles didn't know why, but when they saw the beard in the Grand Master's hand, they had an ominous premonition.
"Master, what's the matter? What happened?" A group of Tatar nobles hurriedly got up from the ground and looked around in confusion, but there were many horses around, blocking their sight, and they didn't see anything unusual. The army
While crossing the river, the scene was extremely noisy and nothing unusual could be heard.
Arutai's teeth were chattering, and he raised his hand to point to the north. The riding crop in his hand fell to the ground without noticing. Arutai's throat shook a few times, and he finally managed to squeeze out a few words: "Wang Xian, here we come!"
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Shi Nigan and others hurriedly climbed on their horses. Now that their sight was unobstructed, they suddenly discovered that a cavalry army in the distance was surrounding them in a fan shape. The two sides were only a few miles away, and they could already clearly see each other's flags!
Especially the two-foot-tall Chinese army flag, with its apricot-yellow flag fluttering in the wind, and the word "king" with teeth and claws on it, which pierced everyone's soul! Like a majestic king of beasts,
Leading its army of beasts, carrying the billowing wind and clouds, they pounce on their prey!
There is no other king on the grassland, only Wang Xian’s ‘king’!
"Wang Xian! It's really Wang Xian!" The Tatar nobles exclaimed in fear: "Why is he here?!"
"Why are you still standing there!" Shi Niqian had learned the art of war after all, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and meet the enemy! Don't let the Ming army attack halfway!"
Although the Tatars are not educated, they are no strangers to the words "half-crossing and attacking", because just three years ago, they used this method to annihilate the Ming Dynasty army on the banks of the Tru River. At that time
Shi Nigan wiped out the blindness for them... Speaking of which, that battle was also thanks to Shi Nigan's plan, but with Arutai's ability to pick fruits, naturally he would not let the great credit fall to his son.
What came from afar was the main force of the Ming army led by Wang Xian! Forty thousand elite cavalry!
From the day they stepped into the grassland, Wang Xian and his staff have been planning for this day. The reason why they have been marching slowly and refused to immediately reinforce the King's City is that the apparent reason is that the army has been out of battle formation for a long time.
The acclimatization from the Central Plains to the grassland requires practice and adaptation, but he is actually waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the Tatars!
Opportunities sometimes come by waiting, but more often they are created on the initiative. Wang Xian naturally does not rely on the sky for a living, he has to take the initiative to create this opportunity. The first step is to release the batch of homing pigeons towards the King's City!
In the eyes of the Tatars and the defenders, the role of those pigeons was nothing more than to cheer up the defenders, but Baoyin understood the true meaning that Wang Xian wanted to convey to him. Wang Xian's army was buried on the seventh day of May.
Mo Chuan, if he really planned to rescue the King's City as soon as possible, he should have appeared outside the King's City on the tenth day of the month and started a confrontation with the Tatar army's cavalry. There was no need to release these carrier pigeons and expose their whereabouts.
So when Wang Xian released these white pigeons, he was not announcing his arrival at all, but telling Baoyin that he did not come to the rescue immediately, but was waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the Tatars or at least severely damage them!
If Baoyin didn't understand, Wang Xian would naturally use other means to make her understand. But Baoyin obviously did not disappoint Wang Xian. The next day, her performance of "womanly benevolence" caused the defenders to lose something.
When the news of the city wall was transmitted back to the Ming army camp through Wang Xian's scouts, the Ming army generals were immediately shocked. Xu Huaiqing and others were eager to go to the rescue of Dawang City!
Unexpectedly, Wang Xian laughed loudly, very freely, and even a little sweet. All his men were dumbfounded. They couldn't remember that their lord had not laughed like this for several years. Why?
Seeing that his wife and children were about to fall into the enemy's hands, he went out of his way and laughed so hard that he laughed so hard?
‘Could it be that my lord has lost his mind and gone crazy?’ Some generals secretly speculated in their minds. Xu Huaiqing and other old subordinates immediately understood that this was clearly the lord’s plan and they were sure to win!
But Xu Huaiqing and others didn't quite understand why Wang Xian was so sure. After laughing, Wang Xian said to everyone: "You don't have to worry, this is the princess deliberately acting to lure Arutai into a trap!" After hearing the scout's report,
Wang Xian understood immediately that Baoyin had understood his idea and had already begun to implement it because Wang Xian knew Baoyin too well and was a more qualified leader than himself. She would always put the overall situation first, how could she not take everything into consideration?
How about the life and death of the people in the city if they suffer from Mary's disease?
That was definitely not the Baoyin he was familiar with. If she did this, she must be trying to trick people...
The feeling of being able to act in tacit agreement without any need to express it, or even meet each other, with just a hint or a signal, is so happy.
Xu Huaiqing, Liu Sheng and others are also veterans on the battlefield. If Wang Xian is asked to point this out, I still don't understand his plan!
Wang Xian weighed the strength of both sides. Without a strategy, the Ming army would never be able to annihilate all the Tatars, and even the chance of victory was only 50 to 50. Moreover, what he was most worried about was that the Tatars fled. Once they were allowed to escape, the army would only be able to annihilate them.
To return without success is absolutely unacceptable to the Ming army who came from the expedition.
Therefore, Wang Xian must create an opportunity to hold back Arutai. It is best to let the Tatars get trapped in the Great King City and be in a dilemma! Therefore, the Great King City becomes the key. The more Tatars Baoyin can entangle, the better the victory.
The balance is tilting more and more towards the Ming army. If half of the Tatar army can be trapped in the city and unable to escape, the Ming army will definitely win this battle!
Baoyin obviously understood Wang Xian's idea, and immediately deliberately abandoned a city wall to allow the enemy to attack the city. The Tatars are greedy by nature. When they saw that the wall of the King's City after a month of attacking was finally lost, they would naturally be like flies chasing the smell.
When the wind blows up, no one can push it away!
Finally, under the planning of Baoyin and Chen Duo, the King's City turned into a bottomless pit that swallowed up the Tatars. More than 50,000 troops were trapped in the city, and even half of the cavalry originally guarding the Ming army were used to attack the city.
,The opportunity Wang Xian wanted finally appeared!
However, even if this moment finally occurred, Wang Xian only sent 10,000 partial troops to rescue, and he just ordered them to bluff and create the illusion of a large army pressing down on the situation!
Because he had already seen through the Tatars and Arutai, he knew that at that moment, the Tatars would not dare to risk a fight, but would run away at all costs, so it made no difference whether they sent the main force or not.
Therefore, in Wang Xian's plan, the main force was not used to rescue the King's City at all, but to annihilate the fleeing Tatars! Therefore, not long after Wang Xian set up camp a hundred miles away from the King's City, the main force of the army took advantage of the night.
He quietly left the camp and headed north, making a big circle, starting from the lower reaches of the Tabu River and going upstream...
Therefore, in the next few days, there were actually only Wu Wei's 10,000 troops in the Ming army camp. However, in front of the Ming Dynasty people who were good at disguise, the Tatar scouts did not notice anything unusual at all.
When Wang Xian led his army, detoured for hundreds of miles, and finally appeared in the upper reaches of the Tabu River, he only waited one night before the scouts reported that the Tatars had arrived on the other side of the river!
Wang Xian, Liu Sheng and others suddenly broke into a cold sweat. It was estimated that the Tatars would have to wait another day and night to reach the south bank of the river at the earliest. However, Arutai led his army to complete the task in only ten hours.
A forced march of two hundred miles!
"If we delay even a little bit, we will let him escape!" Liu Sheng said with a frightened look on his face: "This guy's escape skills are getting better and better!" Anyuanhou followed the late emperor on several northern expeditions, and he and Alutai also
He was an old rival. With the late emperor's unparalleled power across the world, he had never caught this old fox. Liu Sheng was naturally impressed by his ability to escape.
"Well, if we let him escape again this time, I'm afraid it will be difficult to catch him again." Wang Xianye said with a solemn expression.
"Hey, he's unlucky, but we arrived at the banks of the Tabu River first." Xu Huaiqing licked his chapped lips and said with a bloodthirsty look on his face: "Ten hours and two hundred miles, my iron body will fall apart!"