"My lord, do you think this tartar is sick! If you don't come on weekdays, you have to pick up the weather in this cold winter to grab things. It's been more than 200 years, and it's still like this! Wang Degui put his hands in his sleeves, squatted beside Zhang Fan, shrunk his head and looked at the tartars walking on the wall of Fanxian County from time to time, complaining. Now the injuries on his body are also healed, when Zhang Fan asked him to go back, he insisted on staying.

"The Tartars live by grazing, and as soon as winter comes, they run out of food, so they naturally come to rob." Zhang Fan was also looking at the movement on the city wall, but he was a little careless, "And those Tartars have also sat in the world and enjoyed glory and wealth, knowing the situation here, they naturally want to come to ask for some benefits." ”

"Damn, these dead tartars!" Wang Degui spat forward hatefully, as if he wanted to smash the tartars on the city wall to death, but it fell to the ground before a foot away, Wang Degui looked at it again, and turned back unwillingly.

Zhang Fan and the others have been here for a day, and there is still no movement in the city. When the Tartars saw that the Ming army was aided by a large army, they even retreated into the city without moving.

More than 20,000 troops under the city have been deployed, and more than 10,000 people have been left around Fanxian to guard it. The Tartars did not know where the other 10,000 men had gone, but the battle of the previous few days seemed to have scared them, and they showed no sign of daring to leave the city. Due to the fast escape of the people of Datong this time, the Tartars did not loot much grain, and Fanxian, a small county town with only a few thousand people, obviously did not have much grain in it, and it could withstand the use of 20,000 Tartar soldiers!

From above, there was no movement in the city. The Tartars wandered the streets in twos and threes, and the Tatars of yesteryear looked even more listless now. And in the camp of the Ming army that surrounded them here, it was a different scene. There is a large army guarding the front, and in the camp in the rear, a bonfire is built on the snow, a large pot is set up, and meat is boiled in the pot, and from time to time there are Ming soldiers who come to serve a bowl of fragrant broth. Although alcohol is not allowed in the army, the soldiers still look happy to have a bowl of broth floating with lard in this cold winter weather.

It's like a spring outing here, and the tartars in the city are not comfortable. Especially in the Tartars patrolling the city, the pawns were not as guaranteed as the food of those generals, and it was even more uncomfortable to see the Ming soldiers eating and drinking. When the patrolling Tartar soldiers go back and talk to their companions, the fun will be great. Tartars eat meat all year round, and now tens of thousands of people are trapped in this small county town, almost breaking the fire, while the Ming soldiers on the opposite side are eating and drinking there, how can it make people feel good. What's more, he came to rob, but now he has fallen into this step of the field, where can he still hold on, and he has asked his leader to fight.

And these little leaders of the Tartars also lived a similar life as these soldiers, and they had long been uncomfortable in their hearts, and they couldn't sit still when they were provoked by their subordinates like this. However, these small leaders are just some low-level officers, and the question of whether to send troops or not is not up to them. So he continued to ask the people above for an explanation.

And those high-ranking generals are still relatively nourished, they are lazy to fight, thinking that if they hold on for a while, the Ming army will naturally retreat; I don't want to fight, this time the Ming army they encountered was not afraid of life and death, and they were all desperate to fight, and they were all well-trained, so they could not be easily defeated. What frightened these high-ranking generals even more was that the 3,000 cavalry under the general of the Ming Dynasty, known as Qi Beheaded, was really powerful, and everyone had muskets in their hands. For those Tartar soldiers who went into battle to fight, they were all lifeless characters, and it didn't matter how many of their companions died. And those Tartar generals who watched the battle from outside the battle were frightened, and before they could meet the Ming army on horseback, thousands of people fell on their side. After a big battle, I don't know if the Ming army occupied the territory or what, and few people died. On the Tartar side, however, there were corpses strewn with snow, and the nearly 35,000 men and horses that came were less than 30,000 at once. The general who almost frightened the troops, Zarlie, immediately ordered the withdrawal of the troops, and finally retreated in this small Fanxian county. It's ridiculous that Zal Lie didn't read military books, didn't know that the morale of his soldiers was not reduced, and he resigned rashly, committing a taboo in soldiers.

In fact, it should also be Zarlie unlucky, although the three thousand subordinates brought by Qi Jiguang were all good at fighting and killed countless widows, but they turned out to be infantry. Who called this Tartar too much, Emperor Zhu Zaiyuan, who had just sat on the throne not long ago, was very angry, and the consequences were very serious. And the direct consequence is that the holy decree that Qi Jiguang received reads: The three thousand Qi family troops are easy to walk and ride, and go straight to Datong and Jizhou to exterminate the southern invasion of the Tartars, and no one is allowed to be let go.

Now Zarlie has long regretted it, he seems to be dozens of years old at the age of forty, sitting in the middle hall of a large family in Fanxian County like an old man, frowning, as if even the mare's milk wine in front of him has no taste. He regretted that he shouldn't have retreated to this Fanxian county, but don't get me wrong, he didn't want to fight with the Ming army, but regretted that he should have returned directly to the grassland at that time. Now trapped in this small county town, there is not much food and grass, although it does not affect him, but his soldiers have already complained, how can he not know! The Ming army outside the city was still paying attention to the situation in the city, listening to the scout's report that the Ming army seemed to have reinforcements coming. Although the more than 10,000 Ming troops who came the day before yesterday only stayed for less than a day and disappeared, how could Zarlie be relieved. What upset him the most was that the eagle who had delivered the order to Bals hadn't been here since four days ago, so what could be wrong with it?

Just when these problems disturbed Zarlie, those generals who were urged by their subordinates also came over!

"What do you say! Get out of town! "Zarri listened to the words of several of his subordinate generals and almost went crazy! Now all he was thinking about was how to retreat back to the grassland, and these guys still wanted to fight! Don't they know that the strongest army of the Ming Dynasty is stationed outside the city!

A few generals, you look at me, I look at you, and finally, a man who looked quite old stood up and said: "General, we don't want to, we are really forced to be helpless!" Every soldier under my command is clamoring for battle, and my men say the same. Those soldiers don't seem to be able to hold out anymore, they would rather die! A general said with a sad face. The other generals also had the same expressions on their faces.

"Dead and dead, you know that you are dead, and there is a use in dying a fart." Zarri also broke out, dropped the bowl containing mare's milk wine on the table, and roared, "What's more, we are all dead, how can we go back and ask General Bars to explain!" "It's not that Zallie is afraid of death, but he really admires Baals very much, after all, if it weren't for Baars, how could he have today's status! If there is any mistake in these 30,000 horses, then Bars will inevitably be troubled by the Mongol nobles who have been his personal enmity for many years when he returns to Alta, and then he will be considered to have harmed Bars! It's just that Zarlie doesn't know that the general he admires the most has returned to the embrace of Immortality.

"My lord, can the general have a military order sent in the near future?" One of the generals below asked.

"There hasn't been a military order for four days!" Speaking of this, Zarlie also sighed, "I don't know what happened to the general, it must be that the war in the west is tight." I sent back a few days ago and there was no response. ”

"Could it be ......" that some of the generals below thought of something!

"Bastard, don't guess." Zarlie's face also changed, but he still managed to calm himself and said, "The general is brave and good at fighting, and with the protection of the Immortal Heaven, nothing will happen." ”

"Subordinates should be damned." The general knew about the relationship between Zallie and Bars, and hurriedly said.

In fact, it is not that Zallie has not considered the possibility of life and death of Bars, but the blind worship of Bars in his heart has forced this thought in his heart.

"So, General, what are we supposed to do?" A general asked.

Zales pondered in his heart for a long time, and finally made up his mind, slapped the table heavily, stood up and said: "I have made up my mind, tomorrow I will break through from the West Gate, where the Ming army is the weakest defense, follow the Great Wall to the east of the Hetao, and withdraw to the main account of General Bars along the Yellow River." At that time, if the Ming army pursues them, our Tatar army of 50,000 will definitely annihilate their entire army, and I will be ashamed of the snow today. May the heavens bless you! ”

"No! May the heavens bless you! The generals below rushed to the scene.

It's just that they didn't know that Bars had already been beheaded, and the Tartars who had invaded Shaanxi had long since been wiped out. And their retreat this time was exactly in the hands of Qi Jiguang's plan. Perhaps their Immortal Heavenly God had long since lost his power!