Chapter 071: A Thunderbolt on a Sunny Day
"You are also an old man, why don't you have any common sense, and you have only sent a messenger once to report the situation after setting off for so long?"
This is the anger of Tumen Khan, and the object of his anger is none other than Buzhhattu.
Burihatu was a little worried in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on his face, and simply said: "Maybe the war situation is urgent......
"Urgent?" Tumen Khan snorted and said, "His messenger made it very clear that the other party is only five or six thousand infantry of the guards, and it is a field accident, you tell Ben Khan, where can this be urgent?" ”
What's this...... It's a bit difficult to explain, although Buzhhatu has the heart to excuse his father, but after thinking about it, he can only say: "Maybe the previous exploration horse didn't find out clearly, and the other party may have reinforcements." ”
In fact, he originally wanted to say that maybe the other party escaped quickly, and his father might have been able to fight and chase all the way, and he forgot to send someone back to report the battle situation.
But he himself felt that it didn't make sense, because since the other party was only a few thousand infantry, when facing more than 10,000 cavalry, he could only fight in formation, and maybe there was a glimmer of life, and turning around and running away was purely looking for death, and the main general of the Ming army would not do this as long as he had a little brain.
This reason is very simple, if the infantry in line to meet each other, if it is a heavy infantry with good defense, the cavalry corps may choose to gradually encircle and suppress such a pinch as a strong attack to cause large casualties, and at least win some chances to be rescued.
And if they give up the formation and choose to turn around and run away, then there is really no chance at all, whether the cavalry is pinching the grid, or losing the vultures, or even charging directly, the other party has only a dead end.
Therefore, Buzhhatu could only say that the other party might have reinforcements, but he didn't know that the Ming army on the opposite side had no reinforcements, but Ma Chengxun's "inspiration" made the reinforcements really happen.
It's just that neither Buzhihatu nor Tumen Khan expected that before the other party's support soldiers appeared, Xin Ai fought extremely hard, and after the support soldiers appeared, it directly caused Xin Ai's confidence to collapse, and the entire army has now become the trophy of the Ming army.
"Did you send someone to investigate?" Tumen Khan, who didn't know the truth, asked with anger suppressed.
Burihatu replied cautiously: "Someone has been sent to make contact, and by this time, the messenger should be on his way back." ”
Tumen Khan barely endured it, and then changed the subject: "This guy is worthy of being the first general in Tumut in recent decades, and he does have some ability...... You say, how can you beat him faster? ”
Tumen Khan is still more pragmatic, at first he planned to eat the Eastern Route Army directly, and even after finding out that the other party was led by Chataiji, he did not change his mind, but as soon as he fought today, he found that Chataiji was not easy to mess with, this fight was very shrewd, slippery, I am afraid it will be difficult to quickly find an opportunity to annihilate, so he lowered his expectations first during the questioning.
However, even if he lowered his expectations, he could not get a satisfactory answer, and Buzhhatu said with a bitter face: "Usually if you want to do this, you either force it to fight a decisive battle, or induce it to fight a decisive battle, but now the opponent is detached...... Force, can't be forced; Tempt it, you can't tempt it. The minister didn't think of any good way for a while. ”
He couldn't think of it, so he just thought about it himself. Zasaktu Khan thought for a while and asked, "You say, if Ben Khan pretends to withdraw his troops to the west, what will Tokhtu think?" Will it follow right away? ”
"Is the Great Khan trying to lure him along, and then set up an ambush, or shoot him back?" Buzhihatu saw Tumen Khan's intentions at once, in fact, he felt that Tumen Khan thought too beautifully, and judging from the performance of Tokto, it was not easy to deceive him.
At least, even if it is changed to his own command, even if he wants to follow at this time, he will not follow very closely, he must be hanging far away, and follow carefully - after all, Tumen Khan's department is going west, that is, it is approaching the Hannaji department, and Tokhtar only needs to follow slowly, and then it will be surrounded by Hannaji.
However, Tumen Khan was currently angry, and Buri Hatu didn't want to provoke him, so he had to say: "It's very likely that he will follow, but it's hard to say whether he will follow, after all, Tokhant's current strength is still limited, even if the Great Khan looks like he's leaving, he doesn't necessarily have the courage to fight the Great Khan." ”
These words have the meaning of putting gold on the faces of the figures, but the pictures themselves feel very reasonable when they hear it, and nod: "That's right." ”
Having said that, isn't this an impasse? Tumen sweated and frowned, and he was very troubled for a while.
Buzhhatu also felt very embarrassed, although he had been pit the Tumen because of his father, but he only wanted the Tumen to persist in fighting the Tumut counterinsurgency war, not to watch the Tumen fail, but from the current situation, it seemed that ...... There is a real possibility of a big defeat for the Tumen.
The two of them were in a dilemma, thinking hard together, and suddenly a herald hurriedly ran over, and said in a panicked tone: "Great Khan, the big thing is not good, Xin Ai Huang Taiji's department was attacked by the main force of the Ming cavalry when he was fighting with the Ming infantry, and now the whole army has collapsed, and Xin Ai Huang Taiji himself has been captured!" ”
"What?!"
"It can't be!"
When Tumen Khan and Buzhihatu heard this, they were as if they had been struck by lightning.
Xin Ai not only failed to take down the opponent's infantry, but was also defeated in an ambush, and even himself was captured!
Tumen Khan was dumbfounded, unable to speak at all except for this rhetorical question.
Burihatu gasped, he didn't have time to think about his father's safety, but he thought of the danger of the current situation, and said in shock: "Oh no, Great Khan, I'm afraid we've fallen for it!" ”
Tumen sweated and asked rhetorically: "You Abu have suffered a defeat, why did I fall for it?" As soon as the person was nervous, even Ben Khan forgot to say it, and directly started "I".
Buzhihatu's back was wet with cold sweat, and his tone trembled slightly: "Chen, the minister suspects that the other party has already guessed that we are going to come to the Eastern Route Army to find opportunities to break through, so they have already prepared here, and they have always avoided the decisive battle today and dragged me back and forth to slowly grind time, which may be part of the whole plan - his purpose is to contain the Great Khan, drag the Great Khan to the death near Huapi Ridge, and wait for Hannaji's main force to arrive, and then he can think of retaining the Great Khan." ”
Retaining the Great Khan is obviously a nice way to say it, but in fact it is a capture.
Tumen's body trembled, and he said in horror: "Even if Hannaji really comes, as long as Ben Khan retreats half a day before he arrives, he won't be able to catch up even if he wants to, right?" ”
Bu Rihatu looked bitter and replied: "It should have been like this, but now that I have trouble with Abu, I think that the so-called main force of the Ming cavalry that Abu is facing is only here to intercept the Great Khan." ”
What, the other party was planning to kill me in the first place?
They are so daring! Ketu Khan also knew that they had indeed been holding their noses until now......
I just wanted to help Xin Ai, but the other party actually wanted to leave me!
It's a bolt from the blue!