The moon is dark and kills the night, and the wind is high and the sky is on fire.

On the fifth day of the first month of September, the border pass in the north of Jin, the wind is getting colder, and the autumn dew is frosty.

Just a while after the ugly time, the gate of Zhenqiang Fort suddenly opened, and a cavalry with a man and a horse cage quietly poured out from the gate, the soldiers of this cavalry were not wearing the common red mandarin duck battle robes of the Ming Dynasty official army, but all dressed in dark cotton clothes, covered with unpolished black iron fine scale armor, and the war horse under the crotch had already taken off the copper bell on the chest, except that it had not been wrapped in hooves for the time being, it was already a standard attire for cavalry night raids.

Zhenqiang Fort is only less than 20 miles away from Desheng Fort, which is within the scope of the horse patrol of the Chinese army, but in the past few days, the Ming army has figured out the law of the enemy's horse exploration every two hours, and now is the best time for the last round of horse exploration has already returned to the camp and the next round of exploration has not yet set off.

The chief and deputy leaders of this cavalry seem to be quite experienced, leading the formation in front of the team, the speed is neither fast nor slow, and has been maintained on the critical line that the war horse will not be too difficult, obviously deliberately conserving horsepower, only when it reaches the predetermined position will the horse speed up and launch a surprise attack.

Under the thin light of the crescent moon, the faces of the two leaders were reflected, and it was Ma Gui and Gao Jue. As for Gao Mo, although he is a regimental leader, he was born in foot combat, his riding skills are average, and it is not his forte to fight immediately.

Ma Gui and Gao Jue did not communicate all the way, but fortunately, it was less than twenty miles, which did not take long for the cavalry, and it didn't take long for the faint moonlight to see a large number of felt tents in front of them—that was naturally where the camp of Alta was.

Because the Ming army rarely took the initiative to attack, coupled with the pressure of tens of thousands of male soldiers in Alta, there was no Mongolian general who thought that the Ming army dared to go out of the pass to fight, because the Chinese army in Alta only had ordinary night guard posts, and even because it was nearly three autumns, it was the season when the climate in Monan was rapidly cooling, and even the night watchmen who fixed the sentry posts warmed up because of drinking, and most of them had fallen asleep in a daze at the moment.

The night cavalry made a slight detour, and finally came to a halt behind a slightly raised hillock not far northeast of the Alta camp.

Only then did Ma Gui lower his voice, wave his hands and shout: "Later, the soldiers will open the way in front, and the Jinghua cavalry guards will follow up, and follow me and Deputy Gao Tuan to kill directly!" But you have to remember that in this surprise attack, we don't want to kill or injure many Tartars, nor do we want to take away the enemy's head or right ear, and when you encounter the enemy in the camp, you will first hit the three-eyed gun, and then change to a waist knife, and throw fire folds at flammable objects when you have the opportunity! In addition, don't get entangled with the enemy, remember to follow up with me and Gao Tuan's deputy, advance together, and withdraw together! ”

Gao Jue waited for him to finish speaking, and added to his own horseman: "Brothers, General Ma just said, don't judge merit by the first rank, before this departure, the eldest young master has already said that those who successfully sneak attack and return to the camp will be collectively second-class merit!" Those who successfully sneak attack but unfortunately die will be a first-class merit of the collective! As for the resettlement method for the families of the martyrs, I don't need to say more, you all know it! If there are still cheating and cheating people under such generous kindness, you know what punishment there is, and you will not be able to repay the money in your family for ten lifetimes! ”

What Gao Jue said earlier was okay, Ma Gui even moved in his heart when he heard it, and secretly thought: How to settle the families of martyrs? It sounds interesting, but when you get back, be sure to ask.

But in the end, Gao Jue's threatening words made Ma Gui a little stunned: deserters or those who are unwilling to fight are naturally cut with a knife, how can you listen to Gao Jue's meaning, Gao Jiajun is actually fined? Does this kind of thing work? However, the whole family is not finished for ten lifetimes? Sounds a bit harsh......

Of course, this is not the time to think about these things, Ma Gui quickly concentrated and ordered: "Everyone dismount, wrap their horses' hooves, and prepare to rush to the camp!" ”

There are two flowers, one on each branch. At this moment, there was almost no sound in the Chinese army camp except for the occasional neighing of horses, and the countless felt tents were also dark and dreary, obviously everyone was asleep, but at this moment, candlelight suddenly lit up in the main tent of the Chinese army.

Of course, I don't have the ability to predict the future, he didn't know that someone was stealing the camp and suddenly got up, let alone deliberately set up an ambush or something, he only turned on the light in his tent because he was the oldest old man in the entire Chinese army camp, and many old people have a characteristic...... Doesn't have a long time to sleep, and wakes up very early.

Coincidentally, I am such a normal old man.

What's more, because he was unwilling to easily fight under the fortified Fort Desheng and lose valuable combat power, the army seemed to have nothing to do, and he himself slept relatively early at night, although it was only about half past three in the morning in the later life, but he had already woken up, and could not sleep again, so he simply got up, planning to take dozens of personal soldiers to Guanxia to see if the Ming army's vigil was slack - although he refused to fight, but if the Ming defenders were slacking off at night, he didn't mind changing his mind, Concentrate the elite to carry out a surprise attack at this time tomorrow night, break through Desheng Fort, and capture the Qin sent there to talk to the Ming court about the deal in exchange for his grandson.

However, just as he was about to leave the tent after being dressed under the attendant of the slave girl, he suddenly felt something unusual on the ground under his feet. As the king of the Monan grassland for decades, although I am old, but the experience is incomparably rich, I saw his face change, squatted down and stretched out his hand on the ground to press, but after a few breaths, he had already stood up suddenly, shouting: "There are enemy cavalry stealing the camp, quickly drum and blow the trumpet!" ”

The dozen or so large tents of the soldiers around the tent of Altan Khan were the first to react, and soon they lit their torches one after another - at this time, they could not light the lamps casually, but only hold the torches, so as not to be left unattended by the candles in the event of a sneak attack, and they themselves burned the camp.

Whimpering and melodious trumpets and heart-stirring drums sounded at the same time, and countless Mongol soldiers were awakened from their sleep, a little sluggish, and after realizing that they had heard correctly, they hurriedly dressed in armor and ran out with sabers and bows.

But at this moment, it may be a little too late, or rather, it is still a little slow.

Because there were so many horses and even cattle and sheep that needed to be accommodated, the Mongol camp was seven or eight miles long and nearly three miles wide, and even though Altan Khan, relying on his extraordinary experience, did not even send people to check on this routine operation, he decisively ordered the trumpets to be beaten, but he could not inform every Mongol soldier of the more precise situation at such a time.

For example, I immediately judged two main points from just touching the ground with my hands: the enemy cavalry was about 1,000, and the direction of attack was the northeast corner of the Mongol camp!

No matter how strong I am, I can't change the technical backwardness of the command system in this era, so he can only walk out of his main account majestically and use his composure to convey confidence to the people around him. So instead of shouting hoarsely, he stood out of the main tent, held the torch himself, illuminated his figure and face, and then shouted: "Chuan Ben Khan decrees that all troops should guard their own camps, and they must not go out of the camp to rescue at will!" ”

Then he said to a tall Mongol general who had arrived in a hurry: "Chataiji! Wu'er quickly ordered Qiben Khan's army to go to the northeast of the camp to resist the enemy, and it must be expelled as soon as possible, and it must not be allowed to impact the northeast horse circle! ”

Chataiji is worthy of being the number one master of the right wing of Mongolia who is so strong that he can accept me as his son, he doesn't need to explain at all, and he has already used the same method to know that about a thousand enemy horsemen are coming to the northeast of the camp, and after listening to his order, he replied loudly: "Take care of the Great Khan, and the ministers will go back when they go!" Shamur, you take a hundred men to protect the Great Khan, and the rest go to war with me! ”