At the foot of Huashan Mountain, which is more than thirty miles away from here, Ye Xian Tu Gan is ambushing here with his tribe. Ye Xian Tu Gan had already arrived here yesterday, and today Banwan took the risk to cross the Yang River to check on Yun Xi and the others.
The situation in the camp was that it was completely dark at this time, and Xian Tugan returned to his camp with his cronies from the south bank of the Yang River.
Returning to his tent, he also said to the people around him: "It turns out that the Southern Barbarians still have generals. The camp is so neatly arranged. It's really cool. When the camp is broken, I will definitely capture the Southern Barbarian generals alive."
At this time, Boutai walked into Ye Xiantugan's camp and said: "Prince, I have made an appointment with the Ordos and Karaqin tribes on the left and right, and asked them to attack Tiancheng Guard and Huai'an Guard tonight to contain the Nanman left and right.
of the army.”
Ye Xian Tu Gan shouted: "Okay. It would be better if the Nanman prince stayed at Yanghe Fort overnight, so that he could surround Yanghe Fort early tomorrow morning and smoke them. Now this can't be done, we can only attack the camp.
Well, fortunately, although the Nanman are vigilant, they don’t know that we are coming, so they can attack at night. Command the troops to go down immediately and select a thousand of the most elite warriors to attack the Nanman camp at midnight tonight."
Yunxi was marching very hard during the day today, so he fell asleep not long after returning to his tent after talking to Lan Zhen. Like Yunxi, most of the people accompanying him, including Lan Zhen, were also tired of marching during the day.
Tired, I went to bed early.
Only Qin Nan and brother Qin Song were not sleeping yet. Qin Nan said: "I see you don't show much in front of His Highness, you are still fooling around. How can you revitalize the Qin family if you do this!"
Qin Song said: "It's not like you don't know my temper, that's all."
Qin Nan said: "If I die tomorrow, so will you!"
Qin Song said: "Why are you talking about life and death? It's late today, so let's go to bed first." Then Qin Song turned over and lay down.
Qin Nan glanced at him helplessly, shook his head, and lay down.
At three o'clock in the middle of the night, Ye Xiantu Gan personally led a thousand Mongolian soldiers across the Yang River. Everyone salivated at the grass and horses salivated, and slowly approached Yunxi's camp with the lightest movements.
Lan Zhen's arrangement was quite good, but he forgot that this was not the nervous Northern Expedition army, but ordinary guards who no one thought would be attacked.
Yexian Tugan and several soldiers marched to a place about seven or eight feet away from the camp gate, lay down on the ground, gently picked up the weeds in front of them, and looked carefully to confirm that the two Ming soldiers guarding the camp gate had fallen asleep.
After catching it, he said to himself: "God helps me too." Then he signaled to the people around him.
The two Mongolian soldiers beside him quietly squatted for four or five feet, then straightened up and walked quickly for a few steps. Then they killed the Ming soldier guarding the door with a dagger, and then quickly moved the barrier at the entrance of the camp.
horse.
At this time, a Ming soldier woke up to urinate, probably because he had been urinating, and saw someone moving a horse. The Ming soldier did not actually see clearly that it was a Mongolian soldier, but he subconsciously shouted: "What are you doing?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a chill all over his body and then lost consciousness.
Yexian Tugan let go of the bow in his hand, took out his whistle and blew it fiercely. The man with a thousand cavalry behind him heard the whistle and knew that he had been discovered when he broke open the camp gate. He first said to the guards beside him: "
Go back immediately and tell the remaining warriors to leave a thousand people to prepare according to the prince's previous arrangements, and the remaining people will all mount their horses and come over."
Then he slapped the horse's butt and shouted: "Warriors, the time has come to capture the Southern Barbarian prince alive and regain control of the Central Plains. Charge." Then he rushed out at the lead. The rest of the Mongolian soldiers also rushed out.
Lan Zhen had already woken up the moment Ye Xian Tu Gan blew the whistle. Mongolian whistles are different from Han people. Lan Zhen, who followed her father on many northern expeditions, is very sensitive to the sound of whistles. After Lan Zhen heard the whistle
He jumped out of bed immediately. He didn't know that the Mongols were here to capture Yunxi, but he knew his responsibilities very well.
He didn't even have time to put on his clothes, so he ran out of his tent, asked his brother Lan Lian to wake up the nearby soldiers, and ran towards the place where the horses were kept. At this time, he felt the shaking on the ground and knew that it was the Mongolian cavalry charging.
Yes, I secretly thought I was lucky.
It turned out that because there were two thousand households guarding Yunxi, Lan Zhen was divided into two camps, front and rear, according to custom. There were horses and other things in the middle of the two camps. Even if the Mongolian cavalry rushed into the front camp, they would not be able to break into it for a while.
Back camp.
However, most of the students from the martial arts hall and the soldiers in the front camp could not be saved. Lan Zhen resisted the idea of going back to take command, and said to a soldier who gathered around him at this moment: "Go and tell Lian
Let him gather as many soldiers as he can, and then collect the people who ran from the front camp in front of the fence of the front and rear camps.
"But if more than a hundred Mongolian cavalry come to the fence, people from the front camp are not allowed to come over and dare to charge into the formation and shoot them with bows and arrows."
The soldier was also someone who had accompanied Lan Yu on many northern expeditions. He knew that Ci should not take charge of the army, so he turned around and ran towards Lan Lian without saying a word.
Lan Zhen asked several other people accompanying her to shout everywhere: "Get up quickly and go to the stables to get the horses."
Lan Zhen herself also ran to the stables, took out dozens of horses, and then said to Cao Xing, who also arrived here: "You bring your soldiers here to maintain order. Anyone who dares to cause trouble will be killed without mercy." Cao Xing said.
OK nod.
Lan Zhen mounted her horse and quickly came to Yunxi's tent.
Yunxi had already woken up when the Mongolian cavalry attacked the front camp. He got up and put on his armor, summoned the guards and subordinate officers around him and gathered outside his tent.
But after that, although Yunxi was still calm, he didn't know what to do at all. Although the guards around him had been on the battlefield, they were all young soldiers who didn't know what to do. Guo Zhen had a family background, but he was young.
They were young and had not been on the battlefield yet, so these dozens of people just stayed around Yunxi's camp.
This was what Lan Zhen saw when she came to Yunxi's camp. Lan Zhen immediately said: "Your Highness, mount your horse quickly."
When Yunxi saw Lan Zhen, it was as if he had seen his backbone. He immediately mounted his horse and said, "Lan Qing, what should we do now?"
Lan Zhen said: "Listening to the sound of horse hooves, there are more than a thousand Mongolian cavalry attacking the front camp; I expected that the attacking Mongolian soldiers must be more than these thousand. Now the front camp is in chaos, and the rear camp is only more than a thousand people. Yanghe
There are only five hundred soldiers in the fort, and it takes two days to get here from the Tiancheng Guards and Huai'an Guards on the left and right. If there are soldiers to block it, I don't know how long it will take."
"The security right guard in the southeast is three days' journey away. The fortresses on all sides from here are not very strong. It is okay to hold on to the fortress, but rescue is useless. Therefore, it is impossible to hold on and must break through."
Yunxi had no idea at this time and asked: "Where to break out?"
"Xiangdong." Lan Zhen said without hesitation. "There is Nettle Ridge to the east. As long as you get into Nettle Ridge, you can escape."