The tribal leaders in the Golden Horde naturally couldn't see Dayan Khan's hesitation in his heart at this time, for them, they had been waiting for this day for months.

In the past, at this time, they had been looting in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, enjoying the pleasure of getting something for nothing, and enjoying the joy of plundering.

When it comes to plundering in the south, the atmosphere of the Golden Horde has become warm and high, and the grain, tea, salt, gold, silver and jewelry, iron pots, kitchen knives and fragrant beauties of the Ming people make people's blood rush and their spirits are high at the thought of these things.

As for Dayan Khan, he drank warm wine with a smile on his face, but his mind began to calculate how to break through the defense line of the Ming Dynasty at the minimum cost, and take these steppe wolves to eat again.

The speed of the steppe army is beyond imagination, for the people on the steppe, with a scimitar, with a bow and arrow, they immediately become a steppe warrior, there is no need for any preparation at all, and everyone has horses, and one person carries at least two war horses, and the speed of travel is very fast.

In just a few days, Dayan Khan gathered an army of 100,000 and slaughtered the south.

On the vast border of the Ming Dynasty, on the long Great Wall, beacon fires are in the sky, and wolf smoke is constantly rising; On the official roads in the Ming Dynasty, the eight hundred miles of intensified battle reports were sent to the capital one after another, and Emperor Hongzhi began to sleep poorly again.

Unlike in the past, this time, Dayan Khan adopted the strategy of feint to attack Xuanfu and attack Datong, the purpose is naturally to open the gap with the least loss, Dayan Khan clearly knows that the biggest problem in all this southward is how to break through the defense line like a moat.

The army he led is very huge, on the long line of defense, there are not many places for his army to pass quickly, and even very little, several key points are guarded by heavy soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and he is more familiar with Datong, Xuanfu, Taiyuan, the middle line, and it is also the most traveled route in the past.

However, Dayan Khan also belongs to the kind of person who suffers losses and does not have a long memory, last year, because of the appearance of the telescope, his plan of feint attack was recognized, and the border army of the Ming Dynasty planned to teach him a hard lesson, so that he had to go to Gansu and Shaanxi to take the western front to loot.

He has never understood how his feint strategy was discovered, and how the position of the main force of his army was discovered by the Ming Dynasty, and this year he even adopted the feint attack strategy again.

On the slopes of the grassland, a team of scouts of the border army of the Ming Dynasty was also one person and two horses, each with a telescope in their hands, and stood on the slope of the mountain at a high place, and the telescope in their hands looked around, and they could find the traces of the grassland army within a radius of dozens of miles as early as possible.

Even though Dayan Khan sent out a lot of scout teams this time, the main job of these scout teams was to clean up the scouts of the Ming Dynasty army, because the Ming Dynasty army did not dare to fight in the field, so as soon as the scout team of the steppe people came out in the past, the scout team of the Ming army had to flee back, because if the escape was slow, it would mean that there was no life.

This is also an important reason why Dayan Khan was able to easily break through the defense line many times in the past, because they were clear about the movements of the Ming army, while the Ming army was dark about their movements.

You can use very simple feint tactics to easily break through the defense line of the Ming Dynasty border army, after entering the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, you can also grasp the movement of the Ming Dynasty army, lead the Ming Dynasty army to walk around, and wait for the Ming Dynasty army to get tired, they will bite it hard, and they can easily eat it.

This is also one of the important reasons why the Ming Dynasty army stubbornly defended the city.

Because defending the city can still fight a dozen, this field battle out of the city is basically the rhythm of looking for death and delivering food.

But now the situation has undergone a subtle change, the scouts of the Ming Dynasty are expected to have a telescope, so they can find the traces of the grassland people early, and the scouts of the grassland people can be avoided far away, so as not to be driven away, unable to grasp the movement of the grassland.

Last year, the border army of the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the telescope to grasp the movements of the steppe people in advance, and gave Dayan Khan a good lesson.

"This little prince, it seems that the hardships he endured last year were not enough, and he even used the old routine of feints."

With the movement of the grassland army, the border army of the Ming Dynasty also began to be on high alert, Liu Yu is the general system of Xuanfu and Datong, last year relying on the telescope as a sharp weapon, but also gave the little prince a head drink, so it was also rewarded by Emperor Hongzhi.

Liu Yu is a fellow countryman of Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, and he is an official from Henan, especially valued by Liu Jian, and recommended by Ma Wensheng to make the general system of Xuanfu and Datong.

However, Emperor Hongzhi has never liked him very much, because Liu Yu has a bad character, and when he was in charge of the border town, he privately set up a horse market to make a lot of profits, and then bribed the powerful people on a large scale.

Of course, at this time, Emperor Hongzhi didn't know this, otherwise he wouldn't have used him to govern Xuanfu and Datong, Liu Yu in history made a lot of money by setting up a private horse market, and then used this silver to bribe, in the Ming Wuzong period, it was colluded with Liu Jin, and the official to the Ministry of Shangshu and Wenyuan Pavilion University Scholar, almost one step into the cabinet.

However, with the fall of Liu Jin, he was quickly impeached, cut to office, and Ziren was deposed to the people.

It can be seen from Liu Yu's resume that this person is actually a very ambitious person, a person who yearns to climb up, so he is very good at using the resources at hand.

And the cabinet first assistant Liu Jian is a fellow countryman, so he often goes to Liu Jian's where, and is valued by Liu Jian, because Liu Jian recommended the promotion of the right capital of the imperial history, the governor of Datong, and later called the left deputy capital of the imperial history.

Then he had a good relationship with his own boss Sima Wensheng, and under the recommendation of Ma Wensheng, he became the general system of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi, and was the boss of the border town with military power.

Holding the border town, he also used the power at hand to set up a private horse market, the price of horses in ancient times is naturally needless to say, any horse, even the cheapest is a few dozen taels of silver, and the private horse market does not know how much silver it earns.

With money, he climbed up desperately, had a good relationship with the celebrities around the emperor, and Liu Jin was a brother, and he relied on this relationship to become a secretary and a secretary, and almost entered the cabinet.

Because of his ambition, this Liu Yu is also a person who has some ideas and can do a little thing, and last year he was rewarded by Emperor Hongzhi for giving the little prince a head drink, which made him see the hope of promotion.

Therefore, when the steppe army moved, he also reacted in time, sent a large number of scouts, and very accurately grasped the movements of Dayan Khan's army, and made his own judgment.

"This time the feint attack on Xuanfu is still Datong."

Liu Yu was very sure of his own judgment, and he also began to allocate troops according to his own judgment, and concentrated most of the troops of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi here in Datong, preparing to fight with Dayan Khan's army.

Sure enough, a few days later, Xuanfu's side was first attacked by Dayan Khan's feint troops, but because the city wall was much higher, the feint troops did not achieve any substantial results at all.

If in the past, the feint attack force may also become the main attack force, because the Ming Dynasty border army is in difficulty, the combat power is low, and the fortifications of the defense are in disrepair, etc., so sometimes the feint attack force can easily break the defense line, and then change from the feint attack to the main attack, and then make a roundabout attack, and easily break through the defense system of the Ming Dynasty border army.

Because he clearly understood Dayan Khan's movements and purposes, Liu Yu's side also arranged troops, and also gave Dayan Khan's side a maze, deliberately creating the illusion of mobilizing heavy troops on the Xuanfu side, so that Dayan Khan would go all out when he attacked Datong.

Liu Yu's plan worked, and Dayan Khan thought that his plan of feint attack had succeeded, and led the army to Datong in the first time.

"Bell~Bell~"

On the city wall of Datong, which is more than ten zhang high, on the lookout, the lookout used a telescope to see the mighty army on the grassland early, and soon sounded the alarm.

"Haha, it's finally here, what a high city wall, I'll see how you fly in."

On the city wall, Liu Yu was full of confidence, he had enough troops in his hands, and relying on such a strong and tall city wall, even if Dayan Khan's 100,000 troops pressed the border this time, he did not panic at all.

In his mind, he imagined that he would fight a beautiful battle this time, go back to his fellow countryman Liu Jian, and then walk around with Ma Wensheng, maybe he could be promoted, and even a knighthood or something, and multiple iron rice bowls could be passed on.

"This~"

Unlike Liu Yu, who was full of confidence, when the army of the grassland came to the edge of the tall city wall, the leaders of the tribes were dumbfounded, how did this city wall suddenly become so high?

Last year, the wall was only half as high as it is now, and now it is as high as the mountains on both sides.

"We're going to fly over?"

As for the ordinary steppe warriors, they were even more frightened by the majestic and tall city wall in front of them at this time, and felt that they could not pass at all unless they had grown wings.