Dusk and Xu Huizu rode side by side.

Xu Huizu said worriedly: "I don't think we should come here, I'm scared, if my prediction is correct, Ma Hadan will leave about a thousand people waiting for your news in Yumuchuan, and the rest of the troops will withdraw to Yulin and Yulin, and they should give up going south from the two passes of Dushi Pass and Juyong Pass, and choose Dingbian Pass in the west." ”

The problem now is that the soldiers and horses at Dingbian Pass have been transferred to the grassland to surround Mahadan's 30,000 troops.

Dingbian Pass is basically an empty city.

Dusk was stunned, "Really? ”

Really.

Lao Tzu's idea is in the eyes of everyone in Bingdao, it is a child playing at home, or taking it for granted, the ideal is very beautiful, but the reality is very skinny, and he has taught himself a lesson.

Hurriedly said: "Then what should we do?" ”

Xu Huizu pondered for a long time, "I can't wait for seven days, and I can't wait for the encirclement to take shape, we must start taking the initiative now, otherwise let Mahadan's people run away, and we will have to look for a needle in a haystack, so Kaiping's troops continue to move, and the troops of Daning, Quanning and Yingchang quickly move westward, bypassing Kaiping, and then go to Yulin, Yunzhou, Yulin, and Guihua City for a generation, and strive to still form an encirclement, and at the same time let Li Yuan divide his troops back to Dingbian Pass, and must hold the Guancheng and not let the flames of war burn to the pass." ”

Dusk didn't think twice, "Okay, immediately send someone to pass the military order." ”

Never mind.

I still want to be a big official who flirts with women from good families, and leave these things to a professional like Xu Huizu to handle the war, thinking of this, I simply untied Zhu Di's sword of heaven and handed it to my eldest brother, "From tonight onwards, you have full authority to take over." ”

Xu Huizu smiled: "You finally understand." ”

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that Dusk was his brother-in-law, and because he was a messenger sent by His Majesty, Xu Huizu would almost have broken all kinds of plans to scold Dusk - it's just a pile of shit.

Presumably Li Yuan also had this idea.

The reason why he didn't say it was because a lot of things had been done before dusk, Xu Huizu and Li Yuan had hope, and felt that dusk had a backhand that they didn't expect.

But when I went to see Ma Hadan tonight, Xu Huizu understood that his brother-in-law was okay in officialdom or business, or he was good in the overall situation, and he had a big military point of view, and he was also in place.

Only the marching formation that has been implemented is really a pile of shit.

Dusk smiled awkwardly: "I still have a little hope, after all, I have such a battlefield dream, I hope to be like Xin Qijian in the Southern Song Dynasty, drunk to pick up the lamp and look at the sword, or lead the troops to break through the Helan Mountain, but I didn't expect to think highly of myself." ”

Xu Huizu took the sword of the Son of Heaven and looked at it confidently, "It's not too late!" ”

Now that I am in charge of the army, see how I can strategize, not to mention leaving all the 30,000 people of Mahadan in the Yumu River, at least I will save the princess Baoqing and let thousands of Tatar cavalry stay in the Yumu River forever.

By this time, Mahadan wanted to go?

It's too late!

Xu Huizule stopped his horse, looked back at the five hundred iron horsemen in the dark night, and pulled out the prince's sword with a bang, "With my military order, immediately send fifty horsemen to Daning, Quanning, and Kaiping to pass the military order, and order the Kaiping defenders to stay put, and the troops of Daning and Quanning marched with all their might, directly westward, bypassing Kaiping, all the way to the west, if you encounter the enemy, you can bite it, and you can't fight to the death." ”

Immediately someone left the group and headed east.

Dusk said puzzledly: "Li Yuan's side, don't you go to inform?" ”

Xu Huizu laughed, "There is no need to be notified, if Li Yuan can't even see this little fighter, then he is a mediocre talent who eats dry food, how can He De be the Marquis of Anping!" ”

Dusk touched his nose in embarrassment.

Come on.

Lao Tzu doesn't ask anymore, he his heart once he asks, and at his military level, he is probably the same as the eunuch Wang Zhen in the Tumubao Change, controlling too much military power will only affect the overall situation.

Awkwardly asked, "Uncle, what about me, what am I doing now?" ”

Xu Huizu was happy, "You go back to Dushi Pass." ”

Twilight: "Huh? ”

It's none of my business, it's made me so faceless, no, I can't just go back like this, so I have to follow my brother-in-law to learn how to march and set up the army.

So he said: "It's okay to go back now, anyway, there will be no war in Dushi Pass, in this way, I will follow you to the battlefield to fight, don't worry, isn't there more than 100 people like Li Tongyun to protect me." ”

Xu Huizu couldn't cry or laugh, "The sword on the battlefield has no eyes, it's really red-eyed, who has time to protect you, it's all about killing the enemy to save your life, you can't take care of other people, you better go back to Dushi Pass and wait for my good news." ”

Dusk was helpless, so he had to part ways with Xu Huizu.

……

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In the fifth year of Yongle, the most correct thing that Dusk did was not to draw a clear line with the prince, nor to draw a clear line with the prince, nor to hand over the military power to Xu Huizu on the Yumu River.

Dusk once thought that with his vision and knowledge beyond the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, as well as his understanding of many famous battles in history, even if he hadn't read any military books, it was not difficult to be a "Han Xin, Li Jing" during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty in the era of cold weapons, but the battle in Yumuchuan in the fifth year of Yongle made Dusk understand: he was dreaming!

The war in the era of cold weapons was far more complicated than he thought.

So Dusk quickly changed his mind.

If he wants to leave a name for himself in the military, he probably has to build the Shenji Battalion and adopt the strategy of a certain American general: the firepower coverage of excess ammunition.

But this plan will have to wait for several years.

So at the end of the fifth year of Yongle, the most thought was how to continue to develop firearms, and how to equip all the hundreds of thousands of heroes in the Ming Dynasty with firearms as soon as possible.

After returning to Dushi Pass at dusk, he passed the border pass to the cities, and handed over the military power to Xu Huizu, and Zhu Di on the Shuntian side reacted after receiving the flying pigeon transmission at dusk, knowing that he overestimated Dusk's military ability, so he quickly passed the holy decree to the border pass and appointed Xu Huizu as the chief military officer.

In the fifth year of Yongle, the war in Yumuchuan was fought from autumn to winter.

Until it snows.

Originally, the Tatars had only 30,000 cavalry, but the infantry troops who stayed behind and prepared to attack the city to the south quickly took the initiative to attack after learning that Mahadan's cavalry was encircled.

A local battle turned into a battle.

The troops of Juyongguan, Dushiguan, Xuanfu, and Datong were all transferred to outside the pass, and together with the troops of the guards in Yulin, Yulin, Guihua, Yunzhou, Daning, Quanning, Kaiping, and Yingchang, a huge encirclement was formed in the area of Yumuchuan at full speed.

In the circle, it was Xu Huizu who led 10,000 elite iron cavalry, constantly biting at the back of Mahadan's 30,000 iron cavalry, and did not fight head-on.

Soon, the Tatar 30,000 cavalry were limited by logistics and wanted to break through and return to the depths of the steppe.

By this time, however, the circle had shrunk.

After determining that Ma Hadan could no longer get rid of the bite, and that the cavalry in his encircled forces had converged, Xu Huizu made a bold move: he led the cavalry to launch a full-scale offensive.

There were heavy casualties on both sides.

Among them, Mahadan was killed in battle, Xu Huizu was hit by an arrow in the chest, and the defeated Tatar cavalry was led by the commander Bagen, who was originally going to kill the captured county lord on the spot, but at the critical moment, the seriously injured Xu Huizu led the crowd to chase and kill.

Bagen had no choice but to give up all the baggage in a hurry, everyone went into battle lightly, chose to break through the siege for the last time, and adopted the strategy of attacking the west, and finally fled back to the depths of the grassland at the cost of leaving a large number of children's corpses under the response of the foot soldiers.

Countless horses have been lost.

Of course, it was important to flee for your life, and the Tatar soldiers did not have time to execute the good-looking little county lord.

In this war, the Tatar 30,000 cavalry, and finally returned to the depths of the grassland, only more than 13,000 people, and lost more than 30,000 war horses, and the more than 40,000 foot soldiers who originally planned to cooperate with the cavalry to attack the city before the autumn launched several battles in order to meet the cavalry army and contain the encirclement forces of the Ming Dynasty, wanting to open a life channel for the cavalry, so seven or eight thousand people were injured.

However, it didn't work out.

The Ming border army knew that once the Tatar cavalry opened the opening, once the 30,000 cavalry ran out, no one would be able to catch up, and Li Yuan could not bear this responsibility, so he fought to the death.

Thereupon......

Tatar defeat!

Daming's side is actually not comfortable.

Even if it occupies an absolute advantage, the combat power of the Tatar army is really terrible, the cavalry led by Xu Huizu has lost more than 8,000 cavalry, and the troops of Yulin, Yulin, Guihua, Yunzhou and Dingbian Pass need to suffer the enemy on their backs in order to maintain the situation of encirclement, and the casualties are nearly 10,000.

War is like that.

In the absence of absolute strategic superiority and absolute superiority in firepower, it is always a matter of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of them.

In fact, the high-level generals at the Daming border pass all knew that the reason why this time was a disastrous victory was because of the Anbei general who didn't understand military affairs but had to get involved.

It was he who delayed the fighter.

He even made a lot of nonsense to annihilate the enemy's 30,000 cavalry?

Slap in the face, right?

Even Xu Huizu didn't dare to be so absolute.

When Xu Huizu took over, Ma Hadan had already led the cavalry to retreat to the west, which caused the encirclement time on the thin line to be a bit hasty, and caused the troops of Daning and Quanning on the eastern front to take more time.

If Xu Huizu had commanded it from the beginning, and the troops had formed an encirclement at the best time, the 30,000 Tatar cavalry would have been wiped out, and at least 20,000 would have to stay in Yumuchuan forever.

Therefore, the court at the end of the fifth year of Yongle is destined to make waves because of this incident.

Responsibility must be asked.

It's up to you to deal with the twilight.

However, on the whole, the Ming Dynasty and the opposition were thriving, and no one expected that since Zhu Di ascended the throne, the two contact wars with the Tatars turned out to be the absolute results of the Ming Dynasty.

Do not fall into the prestige of Taizu.

Stepping on the grassland, the period of hope!

Daming was overjoyed, but on the Tatar side in the depths of the grassland, the Northern Yuan Taishi lost his beloved son, and he was furious, and an irreconcilable contradiction broke out with the Khan Ghost Lichi who he supported with one hand.

In the winter of this year, deep in the grassland, we entered the Xiaoice period in advance.

Yongle five years, coming to an end.