In the early morning of that day, in the Tatar army camp outside the west gate of Tumubao, Awulu, the princess of Dayan Khan, who was negotiating with Shen Xi, the commander of the Ming army, for the exchange of prisoners of war, had already rested. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the previous turmoil and fiasco, Ah Wulu knew very well that he couldn't interfere too much in the command of the army now, otherwise even if he was not defeated, he was only attacked and harassed by Shen Xi and caused the loss of his troops, and he would be held accountable as the person who gave the order.

With the lessons of failure, Ah Wulu thought that she was not capable of confronting Shen Xi, even if she boasted that she was a little smart, but in the face of Shen Xi's whimsical combat strategy, she found that she was tired of coping and lost ground, so she simply ignored it.

Ah Wulu was woken up by the chaotic footsteps outside, and there was chaos outside the camp, and the first thing she thought of when she woke up and sat up was that Shen Xi finally couldn't help but break through at night.

Different from the previous panic, Ah Wulu was vaguely excited in her heart this time, because she knew that it was really difficult for Shen Xi to stay in the city, but the situation was completely different when Shen Xi led the troops to kill.

"Zhao envoy, the reinforcements of the Ming people are here!" Ah Wulu had just finished dressing up and leaving the sleeping tent when she heard a message that made her head explode instantly.

"Mingren's reinforcements, what reinforcements? Doesn't it mean that the person has not moved? ”

A Wulu felt very angry, he had not received any news that the Ming Dynasty soldiers and horses were marching to Tumubao before, and the last battle report before going to bed was still calm, in just two or three hours, the Ming people had reinforcements all the way to the city of Tumubao, which was really speechless.

A Wulu scolded, and suddenly remembered something: "This may be a trick of the Ming people, in fact, there are no reinforcements arriving, but the Ming army in the Tumu Fort deliberately caused chaos and prepared to break through!" ”

Qianhu, who came to report the news, said: "What the envoy said is not right, we did encounter the reinforcements of the Ming people. Didn't a military report come two days ago that an army of unknown numbers had marched into the Huailai Acropolis in the southeast? However, not enough attention was paid at the time, and it should be that unit that appears east of the civil fort now. ”

"The specific number of reinforcements of the Ming people is unknown, but it seems that there are thousands to tens of thousands of horses, most of them are infantry, and now they are engaged in a fierce battle with our patrol, but there is no movement in the city for the time being!"

"There is no movement in the city for the time being, there is no movement in the city for the time being...... A Wulu pondered for a long time, and suddenly shouted, "No, you must strictly prevent Shen Xi from leading troops to break through!" ”

Historically, when the situation of men and horses inside and outside the encirclement is unknown, the psychology of the officers and men on the flank side has a devastating effect on the psychology of the officers and men who have been flanked by the enemy, and it is easy for them to fall into a rout in the early stage of the war.

Although Awulu is the concubine of Dayan Khan, she does not have the authority to directly mobilize troops and horses, especially in this kind of battlefield that is almost out of control, and the Tatar cavalry is not something that she can dispatch as a weak woman.

Ah Wulu got on her horse and wanted to take a detour to the east of Tumubao, when she suddenly saw a fiery red firework rising in the sky in the distance, as if it was rising from four or five miles east of Tumubao, even if she didn't understand the specific meaning of this firework, she also knew that it was a means of communication between the Ming people.

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Outside the civil fort, the beacon smoke is everywhere.

At the same time that Shen Xi gave the order to attack, a lot of firewood was lit everywhere outside the city, so that there were fires everywhere outside the Tumu Fort, east, west, north and south, which made the Tatars fall into the illusion that the Ming army would disperse and break through.

The Tatars were good at skirmishes and had some experience in siege, but they had little experience in defense, because the steppe people were naturally offensive rather than defensive.

When the Ming reinforcements arrived, the Tatars instinctively met the attack, but then found that there were fires everywhere outside the fort, and the Tatars naturally reorganized their troops and horses and held them in all directions...... They had never been forced to defend, and the military orders they received were to garrison outside the Tumu Fort to prevent the Ming soldiers from breaking through.

Now that the Ming reinforcements have arrived, as long as the Shenxi soldiers and horses in the city have not taken the initiative to break through, they only need to put the Ming reinforcements outside into the city...... Even if the Ming people in the civil fort choose to break through, as long as the Tatar cavalry is not chaotic and has plenty of time to launch a pursuit, the mobility and powerful impact of the cavalry are not comparable to the infantry at all, and they can completely intercept Shen Xi's troops halfway.

Therefore, at this time, the Tatars hoped that Shen Xi would choose to break through this road.

The number of Ming reinforcements was not large, only about two or three thousand men and horses, and most of them were infantry, so their combat effectiveness could not compete with the Tatar cavalry at all.

At the moment when the fireworks in the sky exploded the earth, Shen Xi suddenly felt a sense of helplessness after observing the number of reinforcements slightly...... It seems that even Li Pin, the commander of Long Qingwei, who admired him very much, did not dare to bet all his bets on him.

Shen Xi was on a four- or five-meter-high platform made of muck in the east of the city at this moment, and the soldiers and horses in the city behind him had already poured out of the tunnel along the tunnel, and the soldiers were thinking that it was important to save their lives, except for bringing their belongings and weapons, most of the other things were abandoned.

The officers and men went into battle lightly and were ready to fight to the death when they left the city, but when they rushed out of the tunnel and found that it was pitch black outside the city, and they could not even distinguish the direction, and the will to fight was not as strong as it was at the beginning.

"Rush!"

Soldiers poured out of the trenches, shouting sporadically, trying to take advantage of the cover of night to successfully break through.

When the Ming reinforcements on the periphery entered the Tumu Fort for about ten miles, they found that the Tatar cavalry that had been withdrawn before was outflanked again, cutting off their back road from the periphery, and naturally forming a new encirclement, so that the Ming reinforcements could only go to the Tumu Fort on the way, otherwise they would have to start a field battle with the Tatars in the wilderness without fortifications more than ten miles outside the city.

At this time, there were more than 10,000 Tatar soldiers and horses outside the Tumu Fort, and under the premise of field warfare, it was impossible for the same number of infantry to win the cavalry, not to mention that the number of reinforcements under Shen Xi's department was not as good as that of the Tatars.

After Hu Songyue, Liu Xu, and Zhu Lie led their troops out of the trenches and crossed two or three miles of open land, they found that they could no longer charge forward.

In the distance, the torches of the Tatars on horseback were connected together, like a sea of fire, and the officers and men could not help but slow down their pace, looking at each other, and timidity and fear prevailed in their hearts in a very short time.

"Smack-"

At this moment, the fireworks of the blue withdrawal burst into the air and exploded, which was an order issued by Shen Xi in time according to the current situation...... Tonight, the soldiers and horses in the civil fort poured out, but the final result was in vain, which was really embarrassing.

"Withdraw your troops! Withdraw troops! Don't see the fireworks signs? Lord Shen has changed his tactics, the Tatars reacted in a very timely manner, don't worry about the soldiers and horses coming from the periphery for the time being, let's go back to the city! ”

Hu Songyue, as one of the only three generals in the army, became a deputy commander in the absence of the commander-in-chief, and organized a defense on the spot while ordering the withdrawal of troops. But at this time, the Ming officers and soldiers were very confused, and the soldiers were most afraid of the Tatars when they retreated.

Fortunately, the Tatars did not move, but focused on deterrence.

After the soldiers withdrew to the civil fort, they found that they were not followed by Tatars, but their own reinforcements, but the number of reinforcements was much less than the soldiers expected.

"Fuck ......"

When Shen Xi came back, he was knocked to the ground by his own people who were in a hurry to retreat, fell firmly, gnawed a mouth full of mud, and went to the city after entering the city, scolding himself non-stop.

Hu Songyue, the soldiers and horses who had not yet finished their preparations and returned to the city, had no idea what was going on outside the city.

And the officers and soldiers in the civil fort were also in a mess, because of the black lights and blind fire, the soldiers thought that they were going to break through, and things were thrown everywhere, leaving the camp and the surrounding streets and alleys in a mess.

The bonfires burning outside the city were extinguished after burning for more than half an hour, making it dark all around, and there was no sense of security in returning to the camp to their own territory.

"Lord Shen, didn't you say that there are reinforcements?"

Hu Songyue saw Shen Xi go up to the city, hurriedly rode up the city wall from the horse road, turned over and dismounted after coming to Shen Xi's side, and asked tightly.

Shen Xi pointed to the outside of the city and pouted, "Isn't that it?" ”

Hu Songyue didn't see it very clearly, but he felt that the people coming from outside the city were not like reinforcements, but more like a group of people who had taken refuge, because these people were too embarrassed.

The reinforcements running in front can already see the outfit clearly at this time, not to mention the armor first, the weapons equipped are not spears and shields, but swords and other flashy things...... On the battlefield, the Tatars are good at using scimitars on horseback, but the Ming people can only rely on long weapons to gain the advantage, otherwise they have no need to fight with the Tatars.

Moreover, the reinforcements did not have a decent structure, and the march was extremely messy, without any rules at all, like refugees fleeing, and many reinforcement soldiers did not know the direction, and as a result, they fell into the trenches solidly. The trench is nearly two feet deep, and it is not easy to get out after entering, I don't know the layout inside, I can't get out at all, and even some of the trenches are not designed to be exported at all, and they were originally used as traps.

Hu Songyue asked with a bitter face: "Lord Shen, this is the reinforcements?" ”

Even though the three armies have regarded Shen Xi as the last straw, and feel that only Shen Xi can escape from the tiger's mouth with them, after seeing the reinforcements in front of them, they still can't help but be discouraged, because these soldiers who come to help are really not enough, and they all look like a group of rabble.

Shen Xi said: "At this time, I still care about what the reinforcements are like, and bring the men and horses into the city first...... Now that the whole army has been chaotic, don't let the Tatar soldiers feel that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it! General Hu, you take the firecrackers and go outside the city to meet them, and be sure to welcome all the soldiers and horses into the civil fort within half an hour! If the Tatars attack, you will have no mercy in entertaining them with firearms! ”

"Adult ......"

Hu Songyue originally wanted to protest, but in the end he had no choice but to accept the order, "Yes, my lord!" (To be continued.) )