Approaching the battlefield was Wang Yuan, and Zhu Houzhao still had about ten miles to go.

The current situation is as follows:

On a hill in the northwest, there were 2,000 remnants of the Ming Dynasty, guarded by hundreds of Mongolian cavalry and did not dare to come down.

To the south is the camp of Wang Xun and other troops, with a total of more than 8,000 officers and soldiers, but the gunpowder and arrows are about to run out.

Between these two Ming troops, there was the camp of Dayan Khan, with a total of about 40,000 light cavalry, as well as countless plundered goods and people.

Due north is Wang Yuan's 5,000 light cavalry, and further north is Zhu Houzhao's 40,000 army.

And behind Zhu Houzhao, he quietly followed 10,000 Mongolian cavalry.

That night, the Mongolian deputy Khan Ba'er Su Polo sent a thousand light cavalry to attack Zhu Houzhao's camp. As long as he could cause chaos, he immediately led 10,000 cavalry to kill, and Polo Khan's 40,000 cavalry could follow.

But the emperor is in the army, and the generals around him dare to slack off? Every day, watch out for enemy night attacks.

The sentinels each had a clairglass, camped with their backs to the Sanggan River, and deliberately selected two sides of the water, and the direction of vigilance was greatly reduced. As soon as the 1,000 Mongol cavalry lit the torches, they were discovered by the sentries, who immediately sounded a warning sound, and the 2,000 soldiers in armor and stood by directly took up arms to defend.

The 1,000 enemy horsemen, because of the failure of the night attack, left nearly 100 corpses and fled in a hurry.

……

The next morning, it was foggy again.

In the middle of the morning, the fog cleared slightly, Zhu Houzhao ordered to advance, and Dayan Khan also launched a fierce attack.

"Don't shoot in advance, there's not enough ammunition and arrows!"

"Your Majesty has personally led the reinforcements to arrive, and the sons and daughters will hold on for another half a day!"

"Hurry up and bid for guns!"

“……”

Dayan Khan sat on a horse, quietly watching the battle, silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

The Mongolian cavalry tactics disgusted the Ming officers and soldiers; The Ming tortoise formation also disgusted the Mongols enough.

Dayan Khan's command was full of light cavalry, and even if there were 40,000 horses, he did not dare to rush straight into the 8,000 Ming army. can only make all kinds of feints and temptations, slowly consume the arrows and morale of the Ming army, and wait for the morale to collapse before fighting again.

In the past, the Ming army was besieged for several days, and it was so that it could not collapse anymore.

But this time it's so weird!

Dayan Khan turned his head to look to the north, where there were also Mongol cavalry, harassing the Ming reinforcements that were arriving. Dayan Khan guessed that there must be some great man in the support army, otherwise it would never have been possible to fight to such a point.

Han Chinese emperor?

Only the Han emperor can make the Ming army hold on to this day, and it is impossible to replace it with any civilian governor.

"Great Khan, the morale of the Ming army is high, I am afraid it will be difficult to break through today." The leader of the Horqin tribe, King Ertuo (i.e., King of Ordotai Buyantu), said on the side.

Dayan Khan said: "Continue to feint and harass, and try to consume as much gunpowder and arrows as possible from the enemy. ”

After Dayan Khan unified Mongolia, he reformed the politics of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, restored the old system of Genghis Khan, and distributed the main pastures to his seven sons. Only the Korqin Department maintained a relatively independent status, and its leader, King Ertuo, also became the first fierce general under Dayan Khan.

The king of Ertuo muttered: "The Ming army I met this time is really evil, I'm afraid there is something hidden." ”

Dayan Khan smiled: "Ah Ertuo, do you guess if the Han emperor is here?" ”

King Erto's eyes lit up suddenly, and he clapped his hands and said, "It is very likely that the support army in the north is led by the Han Emperor." If you can catch the Han emperor this time, you can not only exchange a lot of money back, but you may even take advantage of the situation to attack Beijing! ”

Dayan Khan shook his head: "The Warat Department also captured the Han emperor and fought until the city of Beijing, but the Han people will have a new emperor." If we catch the Han emperor, we will not continue south, but use the emperor to trade with the Ming state. Forcing them to pay tribute every year, forcing them to fully exchange markets, isn't it more convenient than hard looting? ”

"That's right," laughed King Erto, "it's good luck this time, a big fat sheep has come!" ”

Suddenly, a sentinel came to report: "Great Khan, the Han people have thousands of cavalry, and they are circling to the northwest." ”

Dayan Khan asked: "Who is going to drive out these enemies?" ”

The generals around him have asked for battle.

Dayan Khan glanced at it and said, "It's better to let the young man go through it." Go ahead, Burhai, and bring Buchi with you. ”

Burhai was the son of King Alto, and Buchi was the grandson of Dayan Khan. The two young men received the order and immediately led six thousand light horsemen to rush towards Wang Yuan's side.

Although Buchi had never fought, Burhai was a "veteran" on the battlefield, having participated in Dayan Khan's battle to conquer the Mongol right-wing lords.

When Wang Yuan saw the six thousand thieves rushing towards him, he immediately led the cavalry to retreat, so as not to be surrounded by more enemies.

Wei Tianxiang, who was very obedient all the way, finally made a fuss.

Wang Yuan ordered a retreat to the northwest, but Wei Tianxiang took two thousand "three thousand battalions" and headed northeast, wanting to join the emperor's army.

"Bastard!"

Wang Yuan hurriedly led his troops to chase after him, and at the same time blew the horn to order Wei Tianxiang to come back.

The two sides are divided into three strands and continue to chase. After running for a while, gradually moving away from the battlefield, Bour Hai was afraid of being lured into an ambush circle, so he took the initiative to stop the pursuit.

After opening up a longer distance, Wei Tianxiang gradually stopped, waiting for Wang Yuan to go over to converge.

Wang Yuan reprimanded angrily: "Commander Wei, why don't you listen to orders? ”

Wei Tianxiang explained with a smile: "Your Majesty does not have many cavalry around, and now that it is close to the battlefield, I want to go back to protect Your Majesty's safety." ”

"I think you are greedy for life and afraid of death, afraid of being too far away from the army!" Wang Yuan was so angry that he couldn't do it.

Wei Tianxiang said good words: "Governor Wang is angry, wait for this battle to be won, and I will invite you to drink when you return to the capital." ”

"You go and invite Lord Yama to a drink." Wang Yuan suddenly hit his horse and galloped away.

Wei Tianxiang was shocked and said: "Governor Wang, you want to ......"

"Boom!"

Wang Yuan drew his sword out of its sheath, Wei Tianxiang's head fell to the ground, and all the cavalry under his command were stunned and speechless.

Yuan Da turned over and dismounted and picked up Wei Tianxiang's head.

Wang Yuan shouted: "Your Majesty has an order, and the five thousand cavalry will be dispatched by me, but those who disobey the military order will be killed!" Yuan Da, Wei Tianxiang's two thousand horsemen, all under your command. ”

"Yes!" Yuan Da was very happy.

The cavalry officers of the various divisions were too frightened to speak.

Wei Tianxiang is the nephew of Wei Bin, one of the "Eight Tigers", who is the commander of the Sanpin Jingwei and knows the same knowledge, and his official position is only one level lower than Wang Yuan. Wang Yuan actually said that he would kill him, who the hell would dare to be disobedient again?

"Regroup!" Wang Yuan shouted.

The five thousand cavalry moved quickly, and they didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, and soon formed a formation behind Wang Yuan.

At this moment, Zhu Houzhao's army of 40,000 was close to the edge of the battlefield, and Dayan Khan sent a large number of cavalry to attack and harass.

Wang Yuan took the opportunity to lead his army straight to the center of the battlefield, where tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry were feinting and harassing on all sides in order to consume the ammunition and arrows of Wang Xun and his troops.

Wang Yuan took 5,000 light horsemen and slaughtered diagonally from the north to the southeast. Seeing this situation, the enemy cavalry in front of him hurriedly turned around and formed a whole team, and the Bour Sea in the west also brought troops to kill, and thousands of enemy cavalry in the north also came to rob and attack, Wang Yuan was likely to fall into the situation of being surrounded and killed on three sides.

The five thousand Ming light horsemen were frightened enough by this situation, but Governor Wang led the team to charge forward, and they could only follow hard.

Wang Yuan's timing was very accurate, and he had already figured out the law of the enemy's feint attack through the clairvoyant mirror before. Just at the moment when the enemy cavalry in the north was feinting and charging, the other two teams of enemy cavalry were running to the east and west sides respectively, anyway, these cavalry circled around Wang Xun and others, and Wang Yuan seized a very short gap period.

The enemy in front of him had just had time to turn around, and before he could adjust his formation at all, Wang Yuan had already ordered the crossbow arrows to be thrown.

In the face of the enemy's loose light cavalry ranks, the dragon bird sword was far less practical than the horse lance given by the emperor and the wild sword presented by the Japanese. Wang Yuan brandished a super-long horse lance, rushed into the enemy formation first, and instantly stabbed and knocked over several enemies, and the cavalry under his command excitedly followed the main general to charge.

The two or three thousand Mongolian light horsemen in front of them were directly defeated and fled. This is not because the Mongol cavalry is too weak, but it proves that they are all elite - the more experienced the light cavalry, the less likely they will be in this situation, anyway, their own friendly troops are nearby, and it is better to choose to flee and regroup. Who wouldn't spare their lives?

Before Wang Yuan could encircle the two groups of enemies on the left and right behind him, he could crush the two or three thousand Mongolian cavalry in front of him without much effort. Then they didn't stop and killed the enemies in charge of the feint attack in the east, and these enemy horsemen did not wait for Wang Yuan to get closer, and immediately fled the battlefield, because their combat goal was not to fight a tough battle, but only to be ordered to feint and consume ammunition.

"Whew!"

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao's reinforcements had also arrived, Dayan Khan immediately ordered a trumpet to retreat, and he said to the leaders of the tribes around him: "Whoever can kill this Han cavalry general, Ben Khan will be rewarded!" ”

"Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng!"

The Ming officers and soldiers, who had been besieged for several days, cheered and shouted at this moment, and regarded Wang Yuan as an immortal general. With only 5,000 cavalry, he dared to charge brazenly, and as soon as he joined forces, he broke the enemy army and rescued friendly troops surrounded by more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry.

Ma Sheng was stunned and said, "Is this the champion Gong?" It's worse than Lao Tzu to fight! ”

"Can you compare with Governor Wang?" Xiao Lu suddenly sneered.

Shi Chun said: "That's it, in such a battle situation, if you had already run away, the Mongolian Tatars couldn't catch up if they wanted to." ”

Ma Sheng said angrily: ", you are not the same virtue." ”

Wang Yuan's expression was extremely serious, because Dayan Khan was too decisive. This Mongol Great Khan not only withdrew the siege neatly, but also lost all the looted goods and population, and directly led the army to the west.

Tens of thousands of Mongol cavalry, abandoning the wealth and population, once again gained terrifying mobility.

If the war continues, the Mongols will fight when they say they will fight, and they will leave as soon as they say, and the Ming officials and troops will not be able to stop them at all. Moreover, these Mongol cavalry can also make various combat deployments, looking for any opportunity to launch a devastating blow.

The enemy is too cunning to deal with.

Zhu Luan and Xu Fu, who were trapped on the hill, soon came over with 2,000 remnants of soldiers to join the division, and arrived on the battlefield almost at the same time as Zhu Houzhao's army.

Zhu Houzhao stood on top of the imperial car, observed the enemy situation with a clairvoyant mirror, and was immediately excited: "The Tatar cavalry is overwhelming, and it is indeed the main force of the little Mongolian prince!" ”