Chapter 188: Snowy Night

Just when Meng He stood still and continued to ambush Jia Ke in the direction of Kaiping Town, Jia Ke stood neatly on a high post at this time, watching the smoke and dust caused by the galloping Tatar cavalry in the distance.

The corners of Jia Ke's mouth couldn't help but show a sneer, this Tatar will actually use a trick now, the smoke and dust raised by this army is like a large army passing, but there is no horse's hooves like thunder when the army passes.

Jia Ke did not retreat in the direction of Kaiping Town during this time, because he was still unclear whether the enemy army had retreated in the direction of Kaiping Town? So he didn't dare to take risks, so he took his men and horses and laid an ambush on the road to the north of Kaiping Town. And sent a large number of scout horses to spy in the direction of Kaiping Town.

Just a few days ago, he finally got the news that the cavalry of the brigade came from the direction of Kaiping Town and went to reinforce in the direction of Zhangbei.

So Jia Ke took a part of his own soldiers and carefully watched their formation on the way through which this team must pass. At this glance, I found that the other party was just bluffing, don't look at the smoke and dust. But at night, they lit very few bonfires.

The next day, Jia Ke sent someone to investigate again, and it was as he expected. Only a small part of the earthen stoves dug in the Tatar camp did not look like the presence of large soldiers.

Now that Jia Ke was once again standing on the dirt slope and watching, he was now completely sure that this force was nothing more than a trick. This is the main general of the Tatars who wants to deceive himself into thinking that the way back to Kaiping Town is clear. Then take a large group of men and horses all the way into his ambush circle. Where could Jia Ke fall for such a childish plan as his.

Since the Tatars came to die, what else did he hesitate about? Maybe there are still people in this army who know the whereabouts of Arslen Khan, and then he will be able to make up for the regret of not meeting him last time.

Jia Ke immediately ordered all the Manchu Eight Banners to spread out in all directions and surround this partial division.

And the Tatars did not know what was happening, and they also advanced to the new garrison of Arslene Khan on the orders of Meng He. Towards evening, they camped in a puddle. There was jubilation in the camp, and they didn't feel any danger.

At this time, Jia Ke was silently watching them from ten miles away, quietly waiting for the prey to reveal its flaws like a wolf. At the third watch in the middle of the night, Jia Ke thought that the time had come, and immediately ordered the Eight Banners to attack, while he himself was a few places away and leisurely watched this scene on the hillside.

The Tatar camp, which was quiet at first, suddenly rushed out from all directions with countless Manchu Eight Banners with torches, and they rushed into the Tatar camp from all directions, lighting fires everywhere and killing people, and the Tatar camp turned into a sea of fire in just an instant.

Then there were shouts of killing, the Tatars were boiling throughout the camp, and Jia Ke vaguely saw countless people rushing out of the big tent on the dirt mountain, and then being cut down, this was not a war at all, but a naked massacre.

The massacre lasted only an hour, and the whole camp gradually quieted down, and Jia Ke came to the Tatar camp with his own soldiers, only to see that the camp was in disarray, with corpses and blood stains everywhere.

Jia Ke led the people directly to the big tent of the Chinese army, only to see that the inside had been cleaned up, Ji Rigela stood by the big tent with a flattering face, as soon as he saw Jia Ke coming, he immediately greeted Jia Ke and invited Jia Ke into the big tent.

And Jia Ke also sat in the big tent with peace of mind, waiting for the final news to come, and sure enough, as he expected, these Tatars were indeed sent to reinforce Arslen Khan, and they also knew the location of Arslen Khan.

The purpose of their visit this time was as Jia Ke expected, to attract Jia Ke's attention and make Jia Ke think that the Tatar army had begun to come back to help. In order to deceive Jia Ke, let him enter the ambush set up by the Tatars in Kaiping Town with peace of mind, and use it to wipe out Jia Ke.

This time, Jake not only got the specific deployment of the Tatars, but also knew the location of Arslen Khan. Jia Ke was overjoyed by this news, and now he finally knew where Arslen Khan was. Jia Ke decided to lead his men and horses to attack again, to see if Arslen Khan had three heads and six arms? was able to escape his pursuit several times.

This time he did not lead all the men, but selected the most elite 10,000 people from the Manchu Eight Banners, all of them were one man and three horses, and Jia Ke planned to give Arslen Khan a blitzkrieg.

At this time, Arslen Khan had fled to the territory of the Chahar Department, which was more than 300 miles away from Zhangbei, and in order to prevent Jia Ke from sneaking up again, he sent people to the nearby tribes to collect men and horses, hoping to gather some troops as much as possible.

But the grassland is vast and sparsely populated, and it is not so easy to gather people and horses, and he can only gather a few thousand herdsmen from nearby in a few days. These herdsmen are old and weak soldiers. The real elite have gone south with the tribal leaders to rob. This filled Arslen Khan with disappointment.

Arslen Khan was now a frightened bird, and with what he knew about Jake. It turned out that Jia Ke found his traces once, and he would definitely search for his location everywhere, this guy is not a person who gives up easily. This is Arslen Khan's analysis of Jia Ke's personality after dealing with Jia Ke many times.

What Arslen Khan didn't expect was that he had been pinning his hopes on Meng He to lead his men and horses back to rescue, but Meng He came to a general who was not subject to the order of the monarch outside, and in order to eliminate Jia Ke, he dared not listen to his orders? Only a small force was sent to feign reinforcements, and most of the army was still ambushed in the direction of Kaiping Town.

It's only early winter, but it's already very cold on the grassland, and there are not many snowflakes today.

Hiding in his big tent, Arslen Khan felt extremely lonely, and he sent out to recruit the people of the nearby herdsmen to work for him, but only a small part of them had returned so far, and how could the thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people brought back be able to withstand a charge from Jia Ke.

Although Arslen Khan also sent an envoy to ask for help from his headquarters, his own tribe was too far away from here, and it was impossible to reach his current position without dozens of days. Therefore, all his hopes were focused on Meng He.

Arslen Khan spent every day in torment, not a single day of his sleep in the past few days, and every day he would wake up from a nightmare in which Jake broke into the camp with his men and horses and cut off his head. He looked forward to Meng He bringing people to the rescue every day, but what he was waiting for was not Meng He's rescuers, but the Eight Banners raided by Jia Ke.

Late at night on this day, for some reason, Arslen Khan felt a chill coming to him for no reason. He'd encountered this feeling several times, and each time it was when his life was in danger. And the most recent one was a few days ago when Jia Ke raided his Zhangbei camp.

Arslen Khan did not dare to hesitate at this time, he thought that it was not a big mistake to be careful, so he immediately ordered the men and horses to immediately prepare and start moving. But they were still a little late, and they were just about to pack their things, and Jia Ke had already arrived with 10,000 cavalry.

From a distance, Jia Ke saw the boiling of Arslen Khan's camp, and all kinds of torches lit up almost half of the sky. Jia Ke knew that they were going to flee as soon as he saw this situation, Jia Ke admired Arslen Khan a little at this time, this person's ability to escape was indeed great, and it was difficult to predict in advance that he was coming to sneak attack.

But where could Jia Ke let go of this beaked duck, and immediately ordered the whole army to attack. Jia Ke rushed to the front of the line first.

As Arslen Khan was preparing to evacuate, he suddenly heard the thunderous sound of horses' hooves in the distance. Arslen Khan was very sensitive to the sound of horses' hooves, he was born and raised in the grassland. As soon as you hear the sound of horses' hooves, you can tell how many horses there are.

Hearing the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, Arslen Khan now judged that at least twenty or thirty thousand cavalry were rushing here.

Arslen Khan couldn't take care of anything else at this time, and immediately turned over his own BMW, and couldn't take care of his wife and concubine, anyway, these women were also plundered by him from all over the country, and his wife and real concubine were in the headquarters, so he didn't care about these people when they lost them. Arslen Khan fled with dozens of guards as if in the middle of the night.

By the time Jake stormed into the Tatar camp, Arslen Khan had already run away. Jake did not know about this situation, and he led his cavalry to charge left and right in the Tatar camp, constantly searching for traces of Arslen Khan.

He was not found until daylight, and finally found his wife and concubine abandoned by Arslen Khan in a large tent. Jake hurriedly ordered them to be brought down for questioning, and finally the news from his own soldiers was that Arslen Khan had fled in the snow before Jake could attack.

Jia Ke couldn't help but sigh that Arslen Khan's luck was so good, he was escaped by Arslen Khan in two sneak attacks. And Jia Ke didn't have time to carry it out, and the third sneak attack happened.

Let's not talk about whether he can find the traces of Arslen Khan, even this winter that has come is enough for him. Jia Ke's most important thing now is to bring the captive population and wealth back to Kaiping Town.

Unable to find Arslen Khan, Jake took all his captives and headed for the intended assembly place.

Besides, after Arslen Khan once again escaped from the siege of Jake, this time he did not dare to stay any longer. He continued northward, fleeing for a day and a night. Only then did he settle down again in a small tribe.

Arslen Khan was completely frightened this time, and at the same time angry at Meng He's delay in coming to the rescue. He once again sent a messenger to order Meng He to come down with men and horses to support, and at the same time sent a messenger to his headquarters again, ordering his headquarters to immediately send 50,000 cavalry to respond. This is his way of preventing Meng He from disobeying orders again, and it is his backhand left in the selection of land.

Meng He received another order from Arslen Khan five days later. This time, Arslen Khan did not have the mildness of the last time, but ordered him to withdraw his troops immediately and go to reinforce him.

After Meng Hexiang understood the cause and effect, he already knew that it was not good. It seems that Jia Ke saw through his plan, took advantage of the situation to kill the partial division he rescued, and got the exact location of Arslen Khan, so that he could easily attack Arslen Khan again. This time it was completely a mistake caused by his arrogance, he underestimated Jia Ke, and also looked down on himself, so that he fell into an embarrassment this time.

Although Meng He was very reluctant, he knew that Jia Ke was coming back soon. Because winter is coming, Jia Ke will not be able to spend the winter in the grassland no matter what, and winter will force him to return to Kaiping Town in the near future.

But this time Arslen Khan's order was very severe, and the tribes wanted to return to the tribe for the winter with the looted goods early in the morning. And they had been scared by Jia Ke a few times before, so after receiving the orders of Arsleng Khan, they immediately pretended to be loyal and filial sons and forced Meng He to obey Arsleng Khan's orders.

Meng He could no longer suppress these tribes, otherwise it was entirely possible that these tribes would disperse in the name of Arslen Khan's orders.

Meng He once again looked at the grassland north of Kaiping Town, thinking in his heart that he would be fighting Jia Ke this time next year.