King Ning finally decided not to attack, and sent scouts to reconnoiter around, expanding the range to two hundred li, and sent people to inform the rear army, be careful of the ambush, and quickly come to meet the forward.

However, in the subsequent military discussions, different views emerged, and Li Jinglong strongly advocated the immediate withdrawal of the army; Buwan advocated attacking the Mongol camp, trying the Mongols' qualities, and then deciding on the next step; Guo Ying was old and serious, advocating an immediate retreat, making peace with the rear army, and then deciding to stop; Wu Jie advocated retreat, but suggested sending people to the other side to reconnoiter and see what was going on with the Mongol Great Khan; Chen Heng said that he would follow King Ning's advice.

There are different opinions, which makes King Ning annoyed, but the young man still doesn't understand that in the face of a crisis, people's ideas are the most difficult to unify, and at this time he can only rely on him to decide, but he can't make up his mind. He decided to wait, wait for the scout to come back, and wait for the rear army to come and make a decision.

This was fiercely opposed by Guo Ying, as a veteran general who has fought all his life, he has a keen intuition about danger, but unfortunately this time he led the army, although he was the chief soldier, but it was no different from ordinary generals. King Ning discussed with Li Jinglong a lot in trouble, and then issued an order, which made him very helpless and could only keep silent. But this time he couldn't help it, grabbed King Ning, knelt down and said loudly: "Your Highness, the harm of using soldiers, hesitation is the greatest, the disaster of the three armies, born of suspicion." Your Highness will either attack the enemy camp at once, or retreat immediately, how can you sit here and wait for death? My 50,000 soldiers drink ice and snow, is it just to bury bones in the grassland? ”

Seeing the old general kneeling in front of him with tears in his eyes, King Ning was a little overwhelmed, and after a while, Wu Jie also knelt behind Guo Ying, and then Bu Wan and Chen Heng also knelt down.

Bu Wan was King Ning's confidant, so he also dared to speak: "Lord Wang, General Guo is right, either attack or retreat, and waiting for the rear army to come to the rescue here is really not a good strategy." ”

King Ning hurriedly said: "Old general, get up quickly, we can discuss anything, but why bother, everyone get up." Come, Jiujiang, help the old general up. ”

Li Jinglong hurriedly came over to help Guo Ying, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness won't come to the stage for a while, the old general should take it slowly, I'll go and persuade Your Highness." ”

Guo Ying glanced at Li Jinglong, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, but he didn't show it, just said: "That's hard Jiujiang." ”

When the generals stood up, King Ning also stabilized his mood and said: "Everyone understands what this king said, but it will be dark soon, and it is not suitable to retreat, but it is better to stick to it, wait until tomorrow, see the situation, and then discuss, how about it?" "Turn around and leave.

"Lord Wang......" Guo Ying was about to speak, but was stopped by Wu Jie, and when Guo Ying turned around, Wu Jie shook his head gently, and then turned his head, but King Ning had already walked out of the big tent.

But what King Ning didn't know was that when he was looking at the Mongolian camp, there were also people looking at the Ming army's camp. Wang Xing is old, his eyes are not good, and he does not have telescope equipment, but Uhaqi and Harguchuk have good eyesight, under their description and comparison, Wang Xing determined that the banner of King Ning appeared on the opposite side, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, Uhaqi and Harguchuk were also very happy after understanding, and Uhaqi immediately ordered the Taiping in the rear, and crossed the river from the upper and lower reaches of the Vulture Polo and Arak to prepare to encircle and annihilate the vanguard army of King Ning.

At night, Guo Ying still did not rest, and kept standing on the lookout and looking at the military camp opposite. Although the military camp on the opposite side is lit up, it is silent, and it is obviously an elite soldier; Looking back at their military camp, the soldiers are not in good spirits, and recently they want to catch up with the younger brother of the Mongolian Great Khan, everyone is tired, so let's rest for the night.

At this moment, the ladder on the lookout sounded, and when he looked back, it was An Luhou Wu Jie, Guo Ying nodded, but did not speak. Wu Jie knew that Guo Ying was angry, and explained in a low voice: "Old General Guo, the prince was already angry at that time, and it is not suitable to admonish, otherwise what if you can't end the game?" ”

Guo Ying turned his head and glared at Wu Jie, stopped talking, and finally said, "An Luhou, do you think our army should stay here?" ”

"I can't say this well, but if you see the Mongol Khan right in front of you and withdraw without a fight, I'm afraid the emperor will be surprised. King Ning's expedition this time had already violated the edict, if he went back like this, how would he explain to the emperor? ”

"However, the enemy obviously has a conspiracy, and the emperor will understand."

"Yes, the emperor will understand, but King Ning may never have the opportunity to go on the expedition again."

"......" Guo Yingsai, yes, this is very likely to happen.

Guo Ying was only crowned by Hongwu in the seventeenth year, but he has always been trusted by Zhu Yuanzhang, which is related to his character. When he understood King Ning's difficulties, he stopped talking.

At this moment, Wu Jie pushed Guo Ying and pointed to the side of the guide, Guo Ying turned around and saw that more than a dozen cavalry came from the south and soon arrived outside the camp gate. Guo Ying and Wu Jie hurriedly got off the lookout and rushed to the camp gate. The leading officer saw Guo Ying and hurriedly bowed: "Lord Commander! ”

"What's wrong? Who sent you? ”

"Back to my lord, Liu Dudu and the Marquis of Dingyuan signed a joint letter to send King Ning urgently!"

Dingyuan Marquis? Wang Bi? Guo Ying couldn't help but stumble, and immediately said: "Take the letter, go with the general to see King Ning, Wu Jie, go and wake up the generals, and gather in King Ning's big tent, quickly!" ”

Wu Jie turned around to leave, but was grabbed by Guo Ying and said in a low voice: "Move lightly, don't alarm others." Also, when informing Buwan, ask him to call the cavalry of his cronies and be ready to go out at any time. ”

Wu Jie was a little puzzled, but then his face changed greatly: "Yes, I want to ......"

Guo Ying nodded lightly, then shook his head again. Wu Jie completely understood, turned around and ran towards the camp, but his steps staggered a little......

In less than a stick of incense, except for Bu Wan, everyone gathered in King Ning's big tent. Because everyone slept in their clothes at most, Wu Jie hurried over as soon as he called.

At this time, King Ning and Guo Ying had already finished reading the letter and were asking Liu Zhen, the captain of Liu Zhen's personal army, Liu Xuetong, who came to deliver the letter.

When everyone read the letter and didn't shout, it may have been a premonition in their hearts.

In the end, everyone's eyes couldn't help but look at Guo Ying, including King Ning. Looking at King Ning's eyes, Guo Ying smiled bitterly in his heart, but on the surface he was unusually calm, he first saluted King Ning and said: "Lord Wang, our army has fallen into the trap of the enemy, and now we can only consider the matter of retreating. ”

King Ning glanced at the people in the tent, stood up, gave a deep salute, and everyone hurriedly dodged away. King Ning said: "Generals, this expedition is the king's underestimation of the enemy, and now it is under siege, the king is sorry for everyone, the king can't go, and the king is willing to give everyone a break." ”

Everyone glanced at each other and knelt down in unison: "The prince can't, the ministers are willing to break off for His Royal Highness, and they will never give up." ”

At this moment, Bu Wan walked in and couldn't help but be a little stunned when he saw the situation in the tent. When Guo Ying saw Bu Wan, he immediately said: "General Bu, our army has fallen into a heavy siege, you immediately lead a small number of cavalry to escort the prince back to the rear army Liu Dudu and the Marquis of Dingyuan, remember, there can be no mistakes." ”

Siege? Bu Wan was a little confused, and Guo Ying said sharply: "General Bu, Benhou issued an order as the chief military officer to immediately escort the prince back to the rear army, and those who do not obey will be beheaded immediately." ”

Bu Wan immediately said: "The last general will obey the order." ”

Although King Ning was unwilling, he was still carried out by Bu Wan, but before leaving, King Ning promised to take care of everyone's families.

After a stick of incense, Guo Ying's guards came back to report that King Ning and his party had left, and Bu Wan had only brought a hundred cavalry.

Guo Ying nodded and waved his hand to let him go down. Then Guo Ying looked at the people with crying faces, and said: "King Ning is safe, and our family will be saved, so the rest is to see if we can survive, come, let's discuss it......"

Five miles away from the camp, King Ning looked back at the still brightly lit camp, and secretly swore: "I, I will come back." ”

The night was still silent, but, however, no one slept.