Chapter 41: Shi Heng's Pursuit

To withdraw from the vicinity of Shuangcheng, if you don't pass through the three passes, you have to go a little north, and you have to pass through the west side of Xingkai Lake.

Although Xingkai Lake is a large lake, it is a pristine large lake, and there are large swampy wetlands around the lake.

In fact, many large lakes are next to them, and they are like this. It is only after generations of development that many lakes have been turned into a land of fish and rice.

Therefore, Boyan Timur could only make a detour to the west, so that it was very close to Jiajingou.

In the face of Boyan Timur, the momentum came.

At first, Shi Heng thought that Boyan Timur had come to recapture Jiajingou.

Therefore, Shi Heng left thousands of soldiers behind and defended the city with the local miners, and promised that if the miners retreated, they would all be released as good people.

Truth be told, miners in this era are a high-risk type of work, and they may die.

However, the population of Haixi is small, and it is impossible to recruit people on the spot, so the miners here are exiled criminals.

After listening to Shi Heng's promise, he was also a lot more settled. It's just that it's hard to say how much these people can help, as long as they don't make trouble.

The so-called army that has no need to help outside, and there is no minister who can defend inside.

Therefore, Shi Heng led the rest of the army to wander outside. Wait for the tile spur to be unable to attack for a long time, and then counterattack vigorously, and defeat the tile spur army under the city in one fell swoop.

It's just that Shi Heng's abacus played very loudly, but he never expected that Boyan Timur had no intention of attacking here at all, and he didn't even mean to pass through here, so he turned around dozens of miles away, and went north with large bags and small bags.

Under such circumstances, if Shi Heng didn't know what Boyan Timur wanted to do, it would be too substandard.

It's just that Shi Heng couldn't believe it, and even felt that this was probably a trap for Boyan Timur, and then the news from Haixi came to prove it.

The tile spur is not a decoy, but a real retreat.

Shi Heng was simply overjoyed.

It is also the instinct of generals to disguise their strategic intentions. Gain has made the enemy aware of his strategic intentions, and there is much to counter.

And when Boyan Timur's intentions were completely understood by Shi Heng, then he fell into complete passivity in the subsequent battles.

Shi Heng went through a battle to capture the city. There were also a lot of losses among his men.

Probably less than 30,000 cavalry can be drawn out to fight, of which the army killed, disabled, and left behind must be dug out.

Moreover, time is urgent, and there is no time to mobilize the troops left behind in Haixi.

Therefore, what Shi Heng had to do was to use the army in his hand to hit the Tile Thorn army.

If other generals were put here, such as Yang Hong, it is estimated that they would not attack. After all, a big victory has already been won, and taking this risk again is a bit of a snake.

In case of defeat, the previous victory is also negated.

But what is Shi Heng?

He was arrogant, bold, fierce, brutal, with only fighters in his eyes, and never thought about what would happen if he failed?

But one death.

Shi Heng has long been used to it.

Just when Boyan Timur came to the west side of Xingkai Lake. To the east of the army, there is a large swampy wetland, including Xingkai Lake.

The land is endless, lush with vegetation and accessible in many places, but you don't know when the small surfaces of various vegetation turn into swamps. Is it that as soon as you step down, you will be swallowed up by a large amount of silt, or there is only a shallow stream of muddy water below that can only overflow your feet and necks.

In short, the seemingly calm underneath is hidden murder.

And at this moment, Boyan Timur's mood is also like this swamp, seemingly calm, but his heart is tumbling.

At this moment, he had a bad premonition. But I don't know where to start for a while.

If he didn't estimate the difficulty of withdrawing the troops, it was wrong, he at least pinched the elite of the Tile Spur Headquarters in his hands.

These tens of thousands of cavalry are a heavy army group that can affect the outcome of the battle.

So he also made compromises on the marching columns.

If most of the tile spurs are in the front, the other tribes are naturally unwilling, after all, there is the battle of Montenegro, and the lessons from the past are here, who is willing to cut off the rear for the tile spurs.

If the main force of the tile spur is put at the end, and Boyan Timur is not the reason, how can he be willing to consume the men and horses of his headquarters for these miscellaneous armies?

Therefore, in the end, a compromise was made, and Boyan Timur sat in the Chinese army, not moving forward or backward.

With this arrangement, even if there is a problem, there is a way to deal with it in time. In the most dangerous situation, there is also room for self-preservation on the battlefield.

It's just that he thinks it's a foolproof method, but it makes the first general lose the victory.

Because, the husband fights, and the courage also.

Boyan Timur thought about how to protect himself from the beginning, and unconsciously gave up his first hand.

Although war is not a game of Go, tactical initiative is still very important.

Almost instantly, Boyan Timur received reports from various ministries, and they all said that they had encountered an attack by the Ming army.

Boyan Timur shouted angrily: "This is impossible. ”

It really can't be.

After all, tens of thousands of troops, combined with baggage, formed a marching army column that stretched for miles. Of course, there is not only one thin layer, but several parallel roads to the northwest.

If what they're reporting is true.

First of all, Boyan Timur was sure that in the face of the onslaught of the Ming army, the following people would not be able to support a few rounds, and they would probably collapse in one shot.

How could it be possible to ask for help for half a day, but nothing happened.

Secondly, although the two sides are several miles away, if a big war really breaks out, Boyan Timur's side will never hear a single movement.

It's just that as soon as Boyan Timur's voice fell, he saw movement.

Throughout the west, south, and even north, columns of smoke rose into the sky, densely packed, and then there was a sound of fireworks, bursting in the sky.

For a while, in the sky, the white clouds slightly yellowed exploded.

In the eyes of different people, there are different interpretations of such a situation, but in the eyes of Boyan Timur, he was taken aback for a moment.

As we all know, whether it is wolf smoke or fireworks, they are all tools used in the army to convey messages, different orders of magnitude, express different enemies, or their own people.

Just looking at these smoke columns and cannons, there are not a few 100,000 troops.

But Boyan Timur still couldn't believe it.

He admits that Seok Hyung caught him off guard. He couldn't figure out how many people Shi Heng had at the moment. But he was still sure that Shi Heng's plan would not exceed 50,000.

Without him, if Shi Heng had enough numbers, why didn't he directly attack the camp of the army near the twin cities, once he succeeded, wouldn't it be much more important than fighting a small city.

Therefore, he estimated that the upper limit of Shi Heng's department did not exceed 50,000.

"Yes." Boyan Timur secretly said in his heart: "Shi Heng is bluffing. He took a few deep breaths, calmed down, and immediately mobilized his men and headed towards the closest place to the confrontation.

Without waiting for the soldiers under his command to fight in the end, the soldiers on the periphery collapsed like an avalanche.

The Tile Thorn cavalry did not estimate the rout at all, and all those who attacked the formation were killed, and they fought a bloody way, and when the rout was killed, they also saw their enemy.

But I saw a gold-armored general riding on a horse, and behind him was a big flag with the word "stone" in black characters on a red background. It's none other than Shi Heng.

Shi Heng's eyes were as cold as blood, and as soon as the spear arrived, he rushed up with his subordinates like mercury.

Not to be outdone, the cavalry of the Tile Thorn Headquarters collided with each other, as if the tip of a needle was against a wheat, and for a moment I didn't know how many cavalry could not afford it, and then they were trampled into meat by countless horses' hooves.

Both sides raised their swords and guns at the same time, without a trace of retreat, the tile spur cavalry naturally has its own arrogance, but the Jingying cavalry naturally has its own hatred, not to mention that in the past few years, the Jingying cavalry has actually decreased, after all, the war horses lost in the first battle of Maoerzhuang can not be made up for a while.

Therefore, the total number of cavalry in Beijing has become 85,000 cavalry, which is a lot less than the previous 100,000 cavalry, but Zhu Qizhen attaches more importance to the training of these cavalry.

Coupled with the hatred of Maoerzhuang, as soon as the Jingying cavalry fought, they played a majestic style, and once they wanted to press the tile spur cavalry to fight, they didn't seem to be worried at all, they actually only had more than 10,000 horsemen, and there were tens of thousands of cavalry on the opposite side.