Three days later, Liu Juntao led 83,000 soldiers to march to Zhenchuan Fort.

This Zhenchuan Fort was originally an important fortress in the northeast of Datong Town, where a hundred households were stationed and a barrier in the northeast of Datong Town.

However, since the Great Khan of Warat also led his troops south, the Warat Iron Cavalry attacked everywhere, constantly attacking various fortresses around the town of Datong, plundering a lot of money, grain, and baggage, and this Zhenchuan Fort was also broken by a thousand Warat Iron Cavalry and became a ruin.

At this time, Liu Juntao set up the Chinese army in Zhenchuan Fort, and the soldiers of each battalion set up a large camp around Zhenchuan Fort, preparing to continue north the next morning, and go around to the north of Datong Town.

A day later, Liu Juntao led his army to set out, and the 83,000-strong army marched north from Zhenchuan Fort to the grassland north of Datong Town.

At the same time, Liu Juntao also ordered Zhou Zongsheng, the general of the Iron Cavalry Army, to lead his Iron Cavalry to attack, covering the whereabouts of the army ten miles away from the army, and intercepting and killing more than a dozen Warat sentry cavalry along the way.

After that, Liu Juntao led the army to rush to the area of Baishan Mountain in the north for more than a day, and camped in a valley to hide.

After the army settled down, Liu Juntao sent a large number of night guards to the south, checking the battle situation in Datong Town and killing the sentry cavalry of the Wara army on the other.

In this regard, the generals Zhang Xiaojun, Yan Hu, Sun Xu and others all rushed to the Chinese army's big tent to ask for battle, and asked for an immediate war against the Wara army.

The same is true for Liu Zi'an and Zhang Yuqing, who believe that at this time, the army is in the north of Datong Town, and if it takes a long time, there will definitely be a shortage of food and grass supplies for the army, and it must be resolved quickly.

Liu Juntao saw that everyone was eager to fight, so he said with a smile: "This battle must be fought as soon as possible, but how to fight, we have to discuss." ”

Everyone thinks that it is good to directly open the posture and start fighting, except for the two places of Baishan Mountain and Lei Gong Mountain in the north of Datong Town, the rest of the area is a flat river, there is no possibility of using a plan at all, in addition to the two sides to put on a posture to face each other, is there any other way?

Everyone said something, and then Liu Juntao said: "Only by inflicting heavy losses on the Warat army in the field can we completely turn the tide of the battle in Datong Town." Otherwise, we will directly put on a posture to fight, and we will not necessarily have a hard fight first, and it is very likely that we will let Datong Town and let us in, and then close the siege again. ”

Zhang Xiaojun asked: "Then how can we win by surprise on the flat river north of Datong Town?" ”

Liu Juntao said: "Starting tomorrow, the army will go out from the Baishan Mountain area and go directly to Datong Town!" However, we don't need to be too fast, just walk more than ten miles a day. ”

Everyone was puzzled, and they all asked why.

In this way, there will be time to make a deployment first. At that time, the Warat army will definitely concentrate its troops and horses to meet the battle, and the army will lose the opportunity to win by surprise.

"I just want to let you know that we have arrived, and I just want to give the Warat army time to assemble!"

Liu Juntao said in a deep voice: "Let's just press it step by step, what will we do first?" ”

Everyone thought about it.

At this time, Zhang Yuqing suddenly understood something, and said: "If I were the first, I would definitely use a small number of soldiers and horses to besiege Datong Town without attacking, and at the same time gather the main army to confront us!" ”

"That's right!"

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "This is the opportunity I was waiting for!" As long as we concentrate our troops and horses to confront us first, I am sure that they will be dealt a heavy blow! ”、

On the same day, Liu Juntao led 83,000 soldiers to come out of Baishan Mountain with great fanfare, slowly went south from the grassland north of Datong Town, and set up camp to rest after walking ten miles a day.

At the same time, the army did not collect at night and gave up the pursuit and pursuit of the Warat Sentinel Cavalry, and let the Warat Sentinel Cavalry come up.

Of course, if the Warat Sentinels didn't know what to do and wanted to take advantage of it, the soldiers of the Iron Cavalry would rush up and kill them.

Two days later, Liu Juntao led his troops thirty miles away from Datong Town.

At this time, he had already received the news, and was immediately taken aback, and hurriedly ordered the king of Saikan to lead his 40,000 iron cavalry to the north to fight with him, and ordered the general Arazhiyuan to lead 30,000 iron cavalry to besiege Datong Town, and mobilize the remaining 70,000 troops to the north.

In this way, he first gathered three 165,000 soldiers and horses, and set up a posture in the north of Datong Town, preparing to confront Liu Juntao's 83,000 army.

On this day, as the Wara army outside Datong Town continued to retreat and gathered towards the north of Datong Town, the defenders in the city were also relieved to see this, and Xue Tong, the deputy commander-in-chief, almost collapsed to the ground.

At this time, Xue Tong had already learned that Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Yanzhou Town, was leading the army to come, but how the more than 80,000 soldiers led by Liu Juntao ran to the north, Xue Tong couldn't figure it out.

But fortunately, now the town of Datong is temporarily preserved, if Liu Juntao comes one day late, it is estimated that Datong will be lost.

After the onslaught of the Wara army, now there are only more than 10,000 defenders left in Datong City, due to the low morale of the defenders in the city and the lack of combat power, the Wara army even killed and injured a large number of Ming troops with low casualties, which made Xue Tong shocked!

"I hope Mr. Liu can win a big victory!"

Xue Tong looked at the boundless and endless army of Warat in the north, and secretly prayed in his heart.

After the assembly of more than 160,000 warat troops, boundless companies and camps appeared in the north of Datong Town, almost occupying all the grasslands of more than ten miles north of Datong, and at the same time completely cutting off the connection between Liu Juntao's army and Datong Town.

At this time, the general of Wara, Ala, led an army of 30,000 to besiege the city, and confronted Xue Tong's department, and first discussed the battle with the king of Saikan in the Chinese army.

Although the Wara army is strong, the opponent is Liu Juntao's department after all, and its strength has also swelled to more than 80,000 people, and its strength cannot be underestimated.

Therefore, whether it is Yexian or the king of the journal, his face is very dignified, and he is very serious when discussing countermeasures.

"Great Khan, I think we still leave the soldiers and horses here to hold on, the main force of the army continues to attack Datong Town, as long as Datong Town is taken, our army can be invincible!"

also pondered for a long time, the king of the journal suggested that he had also considered, but there were fewer soldiers and horses left to block Liu Juntao's department, and he would definitely not be able to resist it, if he left more soldiers and horses, the siege force was insufficient, so he gave up this very chicken strategy.

also said first: "It's been a few days now, and Liu Juntao has always led the army to slowly go south, it seems that we don't dare to act rashly, and want to force us to fight a decisive battle!" ”

The king of the journal said suspiciously: "Could it be that Liu Juntao is sure of victory?" We're twice as strong! ”

"Humph!"

also sneered first and said: "Then Liu Juntao is a madman, it is hard to guarantee that he will not lead the army to fight us to the death." He Liu Juntao can afford to fight, I can't fight like this! ”

Speaking of this, the king of the saikan said tentatively: "Great Khan, why don't we withdraw first?" ”

"No way!"

also immediately vetoed the suggestion of the king of the journal, and said: "This battle has been fought until now, and there is no reason to give up halfway!" ”

If you don't take down a city and a place, and then retreat to the grassland, it is estimated that all the tribes inside Warat will have some thoughts about their position as the Great Khan!

For this point, the king of Saikan was also clear in his heart, so he didn't say anything after mentioning it.

At this time, a centurion outside the big tent came in and said: "Qi Great Khan, visit the Malay report, Liu Juntao, the chief soldier of the Ming army, led his troops to advance another five miles today, and set up a big camp fifteen miles north of the big camp!" ”

He also groaned for a while when he heard this, and then said: "Since Liu Juntao is coming to the door, then let's have a fight with him early tomorrow morning and see how the battle goes!" ”

The king of the journal could only nod.

Early the next morning, he and the king of Saikan gathered a large army, and the king of Saikan led an army of 20,000 to defend the camp, and also led the remaining 145,000 main army to attack, and set up a position ten miles north of the camp.

However, to the first surprise, Liu Juntao refused to face the battle, leading more than 83,000 soldiers and horses to stick to the camp, and refused to fight no matter how aggressive the generals were.

In desperation, he first led his troops to stalemate in the wilderness for half a day, and then he could only lead the army back to the camp.

For several days after that, no matter how the Warat army attacked and harassed, Liu Juntao did not move, but only confronted the Warat army, and he was also troubled by this at first.

After tossing and turning in the past few days, the Warat army attacked almost every day, and then had no choice but to return, and all the soldiers and horses were physically and mentally exhausted and demoralized.