The grassland was gray and deafening, surrounded by shouting people. At this time, Ping An vaguely saw a Tatar, better dressed than the others, wearing an iron helmet without a rim and a white fur collar.

The figure flashed by, and was quickly obscured by the chaotic horsemen and the rising dust.

Peace intuition、That must be a Tatar with status! Without hesitation, he raised his bloody iron axe and shouted, "Kill!" The first soldier led his horse to the other side and rushed over.

A Ming army is riding rampage! There were unlucky Tatars who did not run away, but were bumping into Ping An; Ping'an took up his axe and fell, and swept his men and horses to the ground. After a while, he saw the brightly armored Tatar again, and saw that the man was running his horse and was turning his head and waving the scimitar in his hand, shouting.

"Drive!" Ping An kicked the horse's belly twice in a row and accelerated to rush over.

The Tatars also discovered Ping'an's horse team, and they also shook the reins in a panic, constantly looking back at Ping'an's distance!

In a short time, peace had rushed to the left rear of the Tatar. The Ming cavalry on both flanks and other enemy soldiers were already shouting and fighting. The Tatars hurriedly switched the scimitar to their left hand.

"Whew!" The heavy iron axe swung with a strong wind. There was a thud of metal, and the Tatar's scimitar was opened, and he let out a frightened "ah" scream.

But the iron axe of peace, though swift and heavy, was as light as a needle and thread in his hand, and almost grazed the face of the Tartar. The face of the Tatar was instantly bloodless!

With a "hiss", the Tatar war horse let out a terrible cry. The war horse was slashed by Ping'an, and its front hooves knelt down! The Tatars "pounced" and jumped off their horses, screaming and rolling on the ground.

Ping An turned his head and shouted, "Catch it alive!" ”

The cavalry of the Ming army made a detour from all sides and surrounded the group. Some of the horsemen jumped off their horses and rushed over to hold the Tatar down......

The battle did not last long, the fighting everywhere had gradually subsided, and the sound of horses' hooves was still roaring in all directions. The grassland is full of corpses of people and horses, and the dead people and horses are groaning, groaning, and calling.

The Tatar cavalry suffered heavy losses in this battle, and probably only a small part of the enemy cavalry escaped.

The cheers of the Ming army in the distance came from the wind, and the breath of victory echoed across the field.

However, when Ping'an was walking back with the bound captives, he saw some soldiers who were very sad and were clasping their fists in worship to some mutilated corpses on the ground. Those corpses are the warriors of the Ming army who crashed straight into the Tatar horses before! Many perished with the enemy.

"Han heroes, heroic." The tied Tatar suddenly spoke.

Ping An immediately turned his head to look at him: "Do you speak Chinese?" ”

The Tatar nodded: "I am one of the prime ministers of the Great Khan, and I know several words. ”

The generals around him suddenly became interested and said, "I caught a big fish." "This is a great achievement!"

Ping'an quietly ordered: "The captured prisoners will be separated from the custody and interrogated by a few Mongolian ancients in the army." ”

"Order!"

The Tatar prime minister seemed to hear Ping'an's suspicions, sighed, and said, "My name is Tuhuan, and there is no need to hide it. I was ordered to attack and delay you, and I didn't want to fall into a siege and lose my troops, and it became like this! Shame on the Great Khan, I will be killed when I return. ”

Ping An ignored it for the time being, and ordered all the horse teams to return to the military formation one after another.

Previously, Heian sent large forces of cavalry roughly in two directions, and there was a battle on the left flank; But the right-wing horses ran away and returned one after another. The right flank of the horsemen moved to the east in order to prevent the enemy cavalry from making a detour from the south and escaping to the east, but the enemy cavalry did not do so.

The forward army camped on the spot, waiting for the baggage battalion to send people to clean up the battlefield, bring back the bodies of the wounded soldiers and fallen soldiers, and make a list of the dead in battle. At the same time, the torture of the captives began in the barracks, and the "crackling" whips and screams of the captives could be heard in the distance.

There was no movement in the northeast, and Ping An initially guessed that the Tatars were "attacking the west", but it seems that he did not guess accurately. This Tatar cavalry was a lone army, just attacking and disturbing the Ming army.

…… After the sun goes down, the temperature drops rapidly. There is a great difference between day and night in this place, and the wind in the field is getting colder and colder.

At this time, Emperor Zhu Gaoxu and several generals of the Ming army led the guards to rush to the Ping'an camp.

Everyone was in the big tent, surrounded by a pile of red charcoals. After the generals saluted, Zhu Gaoxu sat on the ground in the north direction and asked the generals to sit down and talk.

Ping'an hugged his fists and said: "The saint played the saint, and the minister captured a Tatar prime minister named Tuhuan. His identity should be true, and seven or eight captives were severely tortured, which also confirmed the identity of Dehuan. However, the confession was very happy, the reason was that he was defeated and would be killed, so he wanted to make meritorious service and join the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Gaoxu asked, "What military situation?" ”

Ping'an said: "Tuhuan confessed that the main force of Benyali Khan and Arutai was about to be near the Yuqu River (west of Hulun Lake, now the Krulun River) at this time. Many tribes followed the main Tatar force and migrated due north. ”

When the generals heard this, they immediately spoke, and the tent quickly became lively. People's eyes sparkled in the firelight, and they were very excited! If you can destroy the main force of the ancient Mongolian country in one battle, all the generals are people who understand, and you can imagine how great the military achievements are!

Zhu Gaoxu immediately said: "Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, my military force is not strong. If the main Tatar forces were so easily destroyed, how did they survive until now? ”

The sentence was like a basin of cold water, and it was faintly like a "snort". Most people quieted down, and they should feel that Zhu Gaoxu's words were very reasonable.

There was silence in the big tent for a while, and Zhu Gaoxu said again: "Since we entered the area where the Tatar tribes operated, we have traveled one or two thousand miles. This was the first attack of the Tatar cavalry. We couldn't find the Tatars for a long time, and when we suddenly learned of their whereabouts, we were inevitably impulsive, for fear that we wouldn't be able to catch them!

But in my opinion, it was all a routine...... Treacherous! Generals, the more times like this, the more calm and patient you must be! ”

Although Zhu Gaoxu had often played mental warfare in the past, although he did not know the personality of Benyali Khan and Arutai, he easily had that kind of intuition to be calculated.

He turned around and said, "Snow hate, the number seven map of the word 'earth'." ”

Duan Xuege skillfully took out a drawing from the baggage, and Zhu Gaoxu unfolded the drawing next to the charcoal fire, beckoning the surrounding generals to approach. He pointed to the map and said, "From the position of our army is south of the Yuqu River, at least three or four hundred miles away!" Tuhuan claims that the main Tatar force is migrating due north, how can our army chase it? ”

Zhao Ping, the Marquis of Yongqing next to him, said: "You can't carry baggage and Wuhan Iron and Steel vehicles, you can only chase them with cavalry." ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Yongqinghou is right. We have about 300,000 soldiers and civilians, but because we don't have enough grain to carry, we only bring tens of thousands of war horses. Although the Mongol state was in decline, it was able to gather a large number of cavalry. Our horse team chased after us, in case it was a set, and we couldn't be ambushed and besieged? ”

All the generals clasped their fists and bowed: "Holy Wisdom! ”

The generals said this, but most of them showed helpless and frustrated expressions. Labor expeditions, bumps and hardships to walk 2,000 miles in vain, everyone is to kill people, and it feels really bad to run in vain; Why isn't Zhu Gaoxu in such a mood?

Ping'an said: "The minister thinks that this is also a warring fighter, and it would be a pity if he let it go." ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded thoughtfully, and habitually issued a "hmm......" response.

At this time, Qu Neng's voice said: "Please play." The horses of the Tatars will also have something to eat, and if they gather the main force, there will be hoarding of pasture and baggage nearby! Winter had arrived in the steppes, and the Tatar horses could not fight on the wild grass of the ground, and they needed the grass harvested in the autumn and covered with grass seeds.

If our army lures the main Tatar forces to gather and attack, delay until the main forces of our army approach; If our army attacks with a cavalry brigade again, we may be able to find fighters! ”

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment, and suddenly nodded: "It makes sense." ”

Ping'an said: "If we go first to the forward cavalry and walk three or four hundred miles, the horsepower will be insufficient and the grain will be insufficient; But the enemy waited for his work. How can I resist and delay the enemy's main force? ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "You can only use infantry to form a defensive formation. But it was impossible to bring a slow-moving Wuhan Iron and Steel car, and it was impossible to carry heavy artillery. ”

He pondered for a moment and said, "Twenty thousand infantry with horses, march to the area of the Yuqu River in three to four days; Without baggage and heavy artillery, it resisted the main force of the Tatar army for about five days......"

Qu Neng hugged his fists and said: "This strategy is the minister's idea, please bait for the forward!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "The lives of 20,000 soldiers, once the defense is broken through, there will be death and no life on the vast grassland!" Will Ba Guogong be able to resist it? ”

Qu Neng was silent for a while, and bowed: "The minister should do his best, if he is defeated, come and see him!" ”

The tent was quiet again, and the slight crackling of the charcoal fire could be clearly heard.

In today's Ming Dynasty, infantry and cavalry can be skilled in commanding generals, and the most skilled and stable people, Zhu Gaoxu believes that the ranking should be Sheng Yong, Qu Neng, Zhang Fu and others...... It is not the "Battle of Jingyan" that guards the princes who were born in command, or the "Battle of Crime" who guarded the princes of the Han Dynasty.

Ping'an's use of infantry is also sparse and ordinary, barely qualified, in the later stage of the "Jingyan Battle", there was no cavalry in the Jianwen court that could fight, and Ping'an led the infantry to fight against Zhu Gaoxu. So Zhu Gaoxu knew his ability in his heart.

Even Qu Neng didn't dare to answer clearly, and Zhu Gaoxu naturally fell into silence.

No matter what the ploy, if you can't win it when you fight with real swords and guns, it's useless! Use the army as bait, and if it is defeated, the trick will surely turn into a joke of "stealing chickens does not make rice".