Volume 16 Chapter 45 The War on the Western Front (Five Watches, thanks to T34/85 for the big reward.) )

It is said that Gushi Khan led 200,000 cavalry to raid Hamiwei, originally wanted to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Ming army and take Hamiwei as a stronghold for invading Shaanxi Xingdu Division in one fell swoop, but he never thought that the Ming army had already been in strict formation, and as a result, after three rounds of siege, he lost more than 40,000 horses.

Gushi Khan looked at the defeated remnants of the withdrawn army, and then at Hamiwei, and shouted unwillingly: "Order, the whole army gathers, and returns to the foot of the Tianshan Mountain to camp." ”

It's just a camp, why do you want to run dozens of miles?

It's not that he was frightened by the Ming army, mainly because there is no water source near Hamiwei, and only when he returns to the foot of the Tianshan Mountains can there be melting snow water, and the more than 100,000 troops don't know how much to drink just by drinking water a day, if there is no water, who can hold it.

After arriving at the foot of the Tien Shan Mountains, he ordered the Kazakh cavalry to start camping, and the Tile Spur cavalry began to bandage and heal the wounded soldiers.

I have to say that the iron bump of the Ming army is really vicious, just like the legendary rainstorm pear flower needle, "boom" exploded, and the steel needles within a radius of a few feet were densely packed with random shots.

Among the remaining more than 50,000 people in the tile spur, except for the 20,000 people who attacked in the first wave, basically everyone who escaped back in the next two waves was hit!

The feeling of being covered with steel needles on his body was not to mention how painful it was, and for a while, the Tile Spur Coalition camp screamed continuously, just like a collective haunting.

But fortunately, the Ming army did not apply poison to the steel needle, and after pulling out the steel needle, there was basically no big problem.

I don't know how long it took, but the howling of ghosts and wolves in the camp finally disappeared, and after a night's rest, the Tile Thorn cavalry finally recovered a little bit of vitality.

After a burst of shouting orders, Gushi Khan took all kinds of lightly wounded with him, barely gathered 50,000 horses, and galloped towards Jiayuguan with 100,000 Kazakh cavalry, while the remaining thousands of seriously wounded slowly retreated with the remaining 50,000 war horses.

These naturally could not escape the eyes of the sentry on the Tianshan Mountain, and after the news was transmitted back to Hamiwei, Hou Gongji did not take any action, because in the wasteland, the 50,000 infantry under his command were no match for the Tile Thorn Cavalry at all.

Don't look at the fact that they were beaten to the bottom when they attacked the city, this is completely by virtue of the benefits of the city, in the wasteland, not 200,000, only 100,000 iron horsemen, can definitely kill 50,000 foot soldiers.

Hou Gongji watched Gushi Khan lead 150,000 cavalry to bypass Hamiwei and run towards Jiayuguan, he did not take any action to stop the advance of the Tile Spur Coalition Army, but just sent a telegram to Han Dongwei behind to remind them that the Tile Spur Coalition Army had passed.

Therefore, when Gushi Khan ran to Handongwei, he saw the same Ming army standing on the city wall, which was no different from Hamiwei.

Gushi Khan did not lead his army to attack, but continued to rush in the direction of Jiayuguan.

There are about more than 1,000 miles from Hamiwei to Jiayuguan, there are three guards in the middle, Handongwei, Shazhouwei and Chijin Mongolian Guard, Gushi Khan did not do any stop, every time he took a telescope to observe carefully in the distance, and found that the city wall was really a Ming army, and immediately ran away.

The more he rushes forward, the happier he is, it seems that Sun Chuanting, the chief general of the Ming army, is not as powerful as the legend, he was yin by the Ming army gathered in Hamiwei, but, it doesn't matter, whether to take Hamiwei or not is not the key to this battle, Jiayuguan is the lifeline of the Ming army.

This Sun Chuanting doesn't know if he is too confident, or he can't figure out the point at all, he actually stationed so many Ming troops in Hamiwei, and the Handongwei, Shazhouwei and Chijin Mongolian Weiwei along the way are not less than 10,000 people on the city wall, so calculated, there are at most 20,000 or 30,000 Ming troops stationed in Hamiwei, isn't he looking for death!

As long as Jiayu Pass is taken, the gateway to the northwest of the Ming Dynasty will suddenly be opened, and more than 100,000 iron horsemen will rush into the pass, who can stop it?

With excitement, he led 150,000 cavalry all the way to the vicinity of Jiayuguan in only two days.

Early in the morning of the third day, he ran excitedly outside Jiayu Pass with 150,000 horses, but as a result, he was dumbfounded.

There are sixty or seventy thousand Ming cavalry waiting outside the pass, and the Great Wall is even denser with Ming troops, and the number is definitely more than twenty or thirty thousand!

Now he finally understood that it was not that Sun Chuanting couldn't figure out the point, but that the Ming army came to reinforcements.

Look at this, the Ming army has at least 100,000 reinforcements, and he was once again tricked by Rozov and Koperov, what Ming army can't send reinforcements, why even if the Ming army gathers reinforcements, it will take several months, bullshit!

Looking at the heavily guarded Ming army, he had to grit his teeth and lead the army to run back, as for attacking Jiayu Pass at this time, what kind of joke, there were tens of thousands of cavalry standing under the city wall, and he couldn't even touch the city wall.

There are raindrops of cannonballs on the head, and in front of them are the cavalry of the Ming army, and they also ran up to attack the city, and they are not looking for death!

Seeing the Tile Spur Coalition running back in a gloomy manner, Sun Chuanting on the tower of the city gate couldn't help but show a faint smile.

This is just the beginning, if the Tile Spur Coalition is going to be led by his nose for half a month, he is absolutely sure to defeat it.

Why did he gather his cavalry under the Jiayu Pass instead of Hamiwei? This was done in order to exhaust the enemy.

If he gathered the cavalry under the Hami Acropolis, then the Tile Thorn cavalry would definitely not dare to attack the city, and besides, they would not even come to Jiayu Pass.

Obviously, the Qin army can't have so many cavalry, there must be reinforcements, and he is still running to Jiayu Pass, stupid?

In that case, the Tile Thorn cavalry would definitely retreat to the vicinity of the Tianshan Mountains, and wait for the infantry to come up and attack the city together, wouldn't that make them recuperate all the time.

Now it's different, Gushi Khan led the cavalry to raid again, siege the city, and rush, from the beginning to the present, there has been no rest at all.

Moreover, he will have to continue to run for two or three days before he can run back to the foot of the Tianshan Mountain near Hamiwei, and when he runs back, it is estimated that their infantry will almost arrive, and then he will have to lead the army to attack the city!

What Sun Chuanting didn't expect was that Gushi Khan actually lost nearly 50,000 cavalry in Hamiwei, which was an unexpected gain, who knew that this thing was so stupid, just test it, take the cavalry to attack the city, it's just a problem!

After the 50,000 cavalry were missing, Sun Chuanting was even more confident in defeating them.

Next, wait for Gushi Khan to lead the army to continue to attack Hamiwei, once the Tile Spur coalition army goes to attack Hamiwei, he will lead the army to the nearest Handongwei and wait, and when he is tired from attacking the city, he will immediately rush up and give them a surprise attack!

As for this timing, it depends on the intensity of the siege of the Tile Spur Alliance, if they send people to attack the city in turn, then Hou Gongji can withstand it for three days at most, that is, he must go to raid on the night of the third day; If the intensity of their siege is not large, it will take ten days, and they will be exhausted.