Chapter 706: The Decisive Battle
However, Zhu Di knew that Xu Huizu's rout was not real enough to make Arutai react, so Zhu Di quickly issued an order, and Xu Huizu's command mistake buried his son, resulting in an unfavorable battle situation, which was dealt with according to military law.
The Holy Decree sent a group of scouts with a small eunuch to the Bars and Tan regions.
As Zhu Di expected.
The procession carrying the decree was stopped halfway by a procession of Tartar scouts, and the little eunuch was "accidentally" captured, and then the decree was delivered to Arutai.
Of course, Arutai would not be kind enough to send the holy decree to the ancestral tribe of Xu Hui in Bals and Tan.
Anyway, in his mind, Zhu Di's holy decree was intercepted, and he would definitely send another holy decree to Xu Huizu after knowing the news, why do you need to be this good person.
However, it was precisely because of this holy decree that Arutai became more and more convinced of the authenticity of Xu Huizu's defeat.
He became more and more disdainful of Xu Huizu.
I really don't know how my son Mahadan lost to this person in Yumuchuan last year.
But Arutai didn't expect that Zhu Di didn't send down the holy decree at all.
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Zhu Di secretly ordered Zhu Gaoxu's troops to hold still, and only tried to attack the Tatar troops stationed in front on a small scale, and at the same time ordered Qiu Fu to do his best to fight and not let the Tatars cut the right flank.
If the right flank is cut, the Tatars can make a detour, and the reason for this is to force Arutai to return to the front side, or let Arutai divide his troops to bypass Zhu Gaoxu's front and intersperse between Xu Huizu and the Chinese army on the left flank of the Ming army to attack the Chinese army.
Capture the thief and capture the king.
Presumably, Arutai must have this idea: if Zhu Di defeats the Chinese army with one blow, then the battle will be won or lost.
With Zhu Di's will, how dare Qiu Fu not do his best.
Not to mention Zhang Fu.
Zhang Fu is Zhang Yu's eldest son, and he is in charge of Annan alone, and he is a general who has experienced the test of the battlefield, and Qiu Fu also trusts him, and the combination of the old and the young complements each other very well.
It was the right-wing Ming army that was extremely ferocious, and fought head-on with the main force of Arutai, not giving up an inch of land.
The forward of the Ming army was still dragged by a small number of troops in Arutai and could not divide troops to support the right flank, and for a time the entire fishing area was full of swords and swords.
Xu Huizu of Bars and Tan gathered his troops, established a stronghold and began to resist the bite and harassment of some of Arutai's troops, but there was no sign of continuing to send troops.
However, Arutai knew that Zhu Di was definitely more than that, so he quickly sent troops to cut off the connection between Qiu Fu, Zhang Fubu and Zhu Di's Chinese army camp - unless Zhu Di sent heavy troops to open the passage.
But let Arutai breathe a sigh of relief? Because Zhu Di seems to have given up on the right wing? began to let the forward led by Zhu Gaoxu reorganize the troops and make a large-scale attack.
How could Arutai allow himself to be caught in such a predicament.
Prairie Iron Rider? Not good at anything else? It's just that he runs fast, so Arutai quickly got rid of the fight with Qiu Fu and Zhang Fu? Withdraw troops to the fishing area and at the same time divide a large number of troops? Reinforcements of Bars and Tan? I want to swallow Xu Hui's ancestors in one bite.
Xu Huizu refused to defend and not attack.
The war is at a stalemate.
During this period, Arutai tried to lead the cavalry, from between Bars and Tanhe Yuerhai, to the rear of the Ming Dynasty, wanting to sneak attack Zhu Di's Chinese army? But was stopped by Zhu Gaoxu's division of troops? had to change the strategy, entangled Zhu Gaoxu with part of the troops, and then pressed the Bals and Tan with all the troops, intending to annihilate the soft persimmon Xu Huizu in one fell swoop.
But......
After beating Xu Huizu for more than half a month, Arutai had the heart to scold his mother.
Xu Huizu is a coward.
It seems that he was completely killed by Arutai? No matter how Arutai calls the battle, he will not be able to defend himself with heavy troops? In this regard, Arutai had no choice but to continue to cut off Xu Huizu's logistics route.
According to the estimate? Xu Huizu's logistics grain and grass can last for half a month at most.
But Arutai never dreamed of it? Did he really wait for Xu Huizu's grain and grass to run out? also put Xu Hui's ancestral department in a desperate situation? For a time, Arutai won consecutive battles and won the first rank of more than 10,000 Ming soldiers.
Xu Huizu's army has been completely collapsed, scattered in the Balhostan area, according to the scout spy report, Xu Huizu has only 3,000 Ming cavalry around him, as long as he catches up, Xu Huizu will definitely die.
Arutai saw the hope of a great victory, once the left wing of the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, then Zhu Di would definitely let the forward, middle army and rear wing retract, the huge Ming army was like a cat with a broken foot, and his own army was a free-flying goshawk.
The situation is very good.
But he never dreamed that he would usher in the encirclement of the Great Ming Xiongshi!
At that moment, Arutai was confused.
He couldn't figure out how the Ming army led by Zhu Di appeared in his rear at this point in time, it was completely impossible, and the scouts didn't get any news at all!
Not to mention, even if Zhu Di led the cavalry to take a big detour, but his grain and grass baggage couldn't keep up, why did he dare to make such a detour, he was not afraid that the army's morale would collapse because of the grain and grass problem.
The key is that even so, Zhu Di is about three or five days ahead of his budget!
Zhu Di was so ruthless that he really gave up the 70,000 horses led by Xu Huizu, and used these 70,000 horses as bait to buy time for his roundabout.
Ruthless enough!
This is exactly where Zhu Di is clever.
As long as Arutai is willing to fight, he doesn't have to worry about Arutai running away, so after Xu Huizu's continuous rout attracted Arutai's attention, Zhu Di ordered Zhu Gaoxu and Qiu Fu to divide their forces to feign reinforcements of Xu Huizu, so that Arutai misunderstood that Daming did not dare to abandon Xu Huizu's troops on the left flank, but at that time, Zhu Di had already led the Shenji battalion to make a big detour from the right flank, went around a huge circle, attacked from the former Qi Wangfu, quickly broke through the Tatar garrison of Sadullu, and then waved his army to the back of Arutai.
It forms a posture of encirclement.
Zhu Di led the cavalry of the Shenji Battalion, and he showed the grassland for the first time, as for the grain and grass problem?
There are instant noodles!
It was not until this moment that Zhu Di came up with a killer move, and after forming an encirclement posture, the Chinese army was assigned to the right wing of Qiu Fu's Shenji Battalion infantry and quickly approached, and Qiu Fu also sent 20,000 infantry reinforcements, so that as long as the reinforcements arrived, Zhu Di had more than 30,000 infantry and thousands of Shenji Battalion cavalry.
Indestructible.
The grassland is very large, but the area of Baal and Stan is not large, and hundreds of thousands of Chen troops on both sides are in this area, and Arutai has no strategic depth if he wants to run.
Especially at this time, Xu Huizu began to fight back strongly.
Arutai had no choice but to fight a decisive battle and then break through.
After rigorous analysis, Arutai chose to turn around and fight Zhu Di head-on: the army that ran far away was overtired, his combat power was greatly reduced, and he was limited by the constraints of food and grass, and he could definitely not stop his cavalry from charging.
And it has to be fast.
It is necessary to attack Zhu Di before Qiu Fu's reinforcements arrive, and make him pay the price for his arrogance.
That's what Arutai thinks, and that's what he does.
He sent 20,000 of the most elite cavalry, and also sent the most trusted warriors, the 10,000-strong commander Bagen and the lost pinch, each of whom led 10,000 men to attack Zhu Di.
Kill Zhu Di, and everything will be settled.
Although Zhu Di only has about 8,000 cavalry troops of the Shenji Battalion, he is not afraid at all, whether he can completely annihilate Arutai depends on whether he can defend this opening, if he is torn apart by Arutai, it is basically impossible to completely annihilate the other party.
At least not this year.
So......
Decisive battle!