The Mongols were stronger in combat than the Ming army.

This is the actual psychology of everyone today, everyone knows that in the war the Ming army is often passively beaten, the Mongols are the initiative to attack, the Ming generals have the psychology of cowardice, do not dare to fight with the Mongols in the field, only dare to defend the city, passive combat.

Therefore, in an invasion war, the Ming army could not help positioning itself in the position of the weak.

Whether it was Wang Shiyang or Li Chengliang, they all felt that they were weak, they were defenders, and they never thought of taking the initiative, and they did not know the true intentions of the Mongols.

If you can't guess the strategic intentions of the other party, you can't know the true meaning of the other party's doing these things, and you think that the Mongols attacking the Bauhinia Pass are to fight the Beijing Division, because I have done this before, so the Mongols in the back will also do this.

Such inertial thinking will affect almost everyone, such as a battlefield veteran like Li Chengliang.

Because of his extreme lack of confidence in himself, he was overly cautious and sensitive, and he didn't dare to take the initiative at all, but only dared to defend the city passively, as long as he held the Bauhinia Pass, he felt that everything was fine, but he would not have thought that the Mongols did not plan to attack the Bauhinia Pass and then attack the Jingshi.

Their purpose was to plunder the massive grain stocks of the Jin merchants in Shanxi, and then flee away.

They didn't expect that the Mongols were actually afraid of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses near Jingshi, because there was no unified political power in Mongolia now, neither at the Yexian level nor at the Altan level, and Talik was at most the leader of a tribe, and Altan was the overlord of a region.

With different statuses, different strengths, and different confidences, it can be decided that I dare to take Beijing City as my goal and force the Ming court to agree to his own conditions, while Pullik has no confidence and does not dare to vainly attempt to attack the Ming Dynasty's Jingshi.

He felt that there was a lot of luck in his success this time, and he was even worried about the revenge of the Ming Dynasty in the bottom of his heart.

That's why he decided to grab it and leave.

He did not shake the strength and determination of the Ming Empire, this was his situation, and the Ming court mistakenly believed that every Mongolian tribe that entered the Ming Dynasty was coming to Beijing, especially the 100,000 Mongols!

Liu Xi's thoughts just hit Ming Ting's biggest weakness - lack of confidence.

The lack of self-confidence in a weak environment for a long time, the psychological transformation of the Ming Empire towards Mongolia before and after the Tumubao Incident was quite drastic.

Before Tumubao, although the Ming Empire gradually lost its early and completely suppressed military strength, it still had some family background, and the Mongols did not dare to invade the Ming Empire wantonly.

And after Tumubao, just like the Song Dynasty suffered from Liaophobia after the Northern Expedition of Yongxi, the literati government of the Ming Dynasty also suffered from Mongolianphobia, although the mouth is very hard, but the bottom of the heart is still lacking in confidence, and the step by step abandonment of the military important places that he originally mastered is the proof.

The Ming court and the Ming army were bound by the powerful and invincible enemy they imagined, and none of the 60,000 Ming troops at Bauhinia Pass would have imagined that they were facing only 8,000 Mongolian cavalry, not the legendary 40,000.

He felt that he could use this routine on the Ming army in Taiyuan, so that he only dared to defend, and did not dare to concentrate the main force to counterattack northward, directly restricting the movement and footsteps of the Ming army, so that the Mongols could loot the grain around Wutai first.

A cart of grain left Shanxi through Pingxingguan, and then left Datong and arrived at Guiyi City, and on the whole way, there was no obstacle from the Ming army.

The Ming army in Datong is on the defensive, the Ming army in Shanxi is on the defensive, the Ming army in Bauhinia Pass is also on the defensive, and nearly 200,000 Ming troops are mobilized, but none of the troops dare to fight back!

It's all on the defensive!

The Mongol cavalry besieging Datong was only 5,000, but it trapped 20,000 Ming troops and 30,000 strong men in the city and couldn't move, and the Ming army in the Bauhinia Pass was 60,000, but they didn't dare to move forward in the face of 8,000 Mongols.

There were 10,000 Ming troops guarding Dingxiang, 20,000 Ming troops guarding Xinzhou, 20,000 Ming troops guarding Shiling Pass, 40,000 Ming troops gathered in Taiyuan City, and 40,000 Yulin reinforcements that could reach Taiyuan in six days.

Wang Shiyang currently commands 90,000 Ming troops, 130,000 in a few days, and nearly 50,000 young men have been mobilized to build war fortresses for the Ming army.

And the Mongols who actually came to attack Taiyuan did not exceed 40,000 combined.

Not to mention that more than 40,000 people from another Mongolian tribal coalition army were bleeding from Wei Yunzhen's head hit by Wei Yunzhen at Yanmen Pass, and they don't know when they will be able to break through Yanmen Pass.

But no one dared to take the initiative.

It's just that if you really want to talk about it, even if you take the initiative, these Ming troops who lack food and clothing may not be able to defeat the Mongols, although the border army is not very lacking in training, but they must also be well fed and clothed, right? It is not only the Ming army in Taiyuan and Datong who is not well fed and clothed.

The situation couldn't have been worse.

On the way to Bauhinia Pass, Li Chengliang kept encountering a large number of refugees fleeing from the west of Bauhinia Pass, and they fled all the way to tell how many Mongols there were, how fierce they were, and begged the officials and soldiers to fight back to help them recapture their homeland......

Then many officers and soldiers snatched their clothes and shoes, mixed into their ranks and fled together.

Li Chengliang knew this much more clearly, he didn't stop it at all, he beheaded seven or eight deserters for a while, and he couldn't prevent more people from escaping, and when he arrived at Bauhinia Pass, there were only more than 30,000 of the 50,000 Beijing battalion soldiers left.

In this way, the Bauhinia Pass defenders, who are known as 60,000 troops, are actually less than 40,000.

Chai Guozhu looked at Li Chengliang, and Li Chengliang also looked at Chai Guozhu, and they both felt each other's despair.

At this time, Li Chengliang suddenly remembered when he was chatting with Qi Jiguang, Qi Jiguang talked about the ugly things that happened when he was fighting against the Japanese in the southeast, and at that time Qi Jiguang said that he was almost killed by the old soldiers, and he didn't dare to use the old soldiers anymore.

And now, Li Chengliang has also personally experienced Qi Jiguang's suffering.

The Mongols were far more ferocious than the Japanese and cavalry, and their combat effectiveness was more fierce, and Li Chengliang didn't know how long he could hold out without running back if he wanted to go out of the city and fight, or whether he could run back.

He directly lost the heart of the field, arranged for the rest of the army to be armed, and then stood at the head of the city with Chai Guozhu, looking at the endless refugee team in the distance.

On December 6, the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, after the refugee team disappeared for half a day, after the last refugee cried that his family had all been killed by the Mongols, a burst of dust and smoke appeared at the end of the sky in Li Chengliang's eyes, Li Chengliang's pupils shrank, and he instantly realized-

What should have come is still coming.