"If you don't give it a try, how do you know if you can't?" Sun Yueling took over the conversation in time and looked at everyone, "Fang Yichen has already found out clearly, the Zhenglan Banner and Red Banner soldiers stationed in Tashan Fort are only a few thousand, and the rest are Mongols and Han slaves who are used to escort grain, in terms of troops, we are not less than Houjin, this is one of them." ”

He continued, saying: "Second, after the battle a few days ago, Houjin must have thought that our army had retreated and did not dare to advance further, so the enemy in Tashan Fort must have lax defense, and our army can take advantage of this opportunity to launch a night attack on it. ”

"This third ......" Sun Yueling suddenly laughed and said, "If the Houjin general who defended Tashan is Dai Shan, a generation of Huang Taiji, we may not be able to succeed, but Huang Taiji just took this matter lightly and actually sent Mang Gurtai and Yue Tuo to Tashan." As far as I know, Mang Gurtai is just a reckless man, and has always been unruly; Yue Tuo is even more of an arrogant person, such a combination, why should we be afraid? Why don't you dare to hit Tower Hill? ”

Hearing him say this, all the generals laughed.

Sun Zushou said: "What my lord said is that Mang Gurtai is extremely conceited, and he must have thought that our army had withdrawn to Ningyuan in the previous battle, and if our army launched a surprise attack on it, there was a chance that it would be successful." ”

"Good!" Sun Yueling clapped his hands and said, "Since all the generals are united, then let's go and prepare for it, and immediately start after eating, and launch a surprise attack on Tashan tonight." ”

"No!" The generals surrendered.

Next, the Ming army carried out a simple integration, the nearly 1,000 cavalry withdrawn from the Mangui Department was commanded by Wu Wenyao, Sun Yueling immediately promoted him to a guerrilla general, and officially appointed to report to the imperial court after the end of the war.

Sun Zushou continued to lead the 2,000 people under his command, and the elite of the Fenghua Society brought by Yan Nantian formed Sun Yueling's personal army, with a total strength of nearly 4,000 people, reaching the scale of a standing battalion under the Ming military system.

As for the captured Mongols and puppet troops, they were organized into auxiliaries to use, after all, Yuan Chonghuan did not send auxiliaries to accompany him on this expedition, and even the rations they brought were only enough to eat for ten days. Yuan Chonghuan's actions could not be more obvious, almost dealing with Sun Yueling, asking him to lead his troops to Jinyou to fight a detour and come back, just bluffing.

After dinner, the whole army set out around the hour of Hai, wrapped up in horses, and marched lightly in the northeast direction under the dark night.

Tashan Fort is more than forty miles away from Shahe Fort, and the dark night march cannot be too fast, but it should not be a problem to reach the vicinity of Tashan Fort at three o'clock.

Because this was a surprise attack, the cavalry was placed at the back of the team, and Sun Yueling led the team with his own soldiers, Sun Zushou was in the center, and sent scouts to explore the way.

The horses traveled all the way, but they did not encounter half of the enemy, and when they were about to reach Tashan Fort, they did not even encounter a single Houjin scout.

Sun Yueling was puzzled, and when he was thinking, he saw two blurred figures running in their direction in the distant shadows ahead.

Yan Nantian raised his hand and said, "Everyone be on guard!" ”

At his command, everyone bowed down and hid themselves by the rolling hills and thick trees.

The two figures gradually approached, and made a fire break code, Yan Nantian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The scout we sent out." ”

Sun Yueling stood up and greeted him, because he found that one of the two was a scout sent to explore the way, and the other was clearly Fang Yichen, whose whereabouts were unknown.

"Brother Fang!" Sun Yueling was overjoyed and said, "Sure enough, it's you, I knew you would be fine." ”

The two of them stood still in front of him, Fang Yichen arched his hand at him, and said, "Brother Sun, I also know that you will definitely come to attack Tashan." ”

When everyone saw that Fang Yichen was fine, they were all overjoyed.

From Fang Yichen's mouth, Sun Yueling learned the whole situation. It turned out that Fang Yichen asked the old scout to go first, leaving the broken queen alone, and relying on his exquisite swordsmanship to block the siege of Onimuro Yoshishin and others.

But he is only one person after all, even if his swordsmanship is exquisite, how can he resist the siege of a group of people, and among the opponents is the super master of the Chongding League's left protector Ghost Room Yoshinobu. Fortunately, he was very good at light skills, so he fought and retreated, desperately suffered some internal injuries, and finally escaped from the siege of the Tartar masters.

Fang Yichen's words were relaxed, but Sun Yueling knew that the situation must be dangerous and abnormal, which could be seen from the torn clothes and armor on his body and the blood stains on his body, however, Sun Yueling still felt very puzzled and asked, "How do you know that we will definitely come to attack Tashan?" ”

Fang Yichen smiled proudly and said, "If you can't see this, I won't be Fang Yichen." Glancing at everyone, he continued, "I had been lurking in a dense forest to recuperate from my wounds, but when I found out that the enemy at Fort Tower Hill was in a big move, I knew that something must have happened. After I recovered from my wounds, I captured an enemy scout and tortured him carefully, only to learn that you and the Tartars had a battle at the Fence Mountain. ”

Speaking of this, he said to Sun Yueling: "Lao He should have already told you about the enemy's strength, right?" ”

Sun Yueling nodded and said, "Yes, thanks to your news, we dared to let go and fight the enemy, and wiped out thousands of Houjin elites." However, our army also suffered a lot of losses, and more than 1,000 horsemen were killed under the command of General Manchu alone. ”

Fang Yichen nodded and said, "I know that if Wu Xiang didn't flee without a fight in this battle, our army would definitely be able to win a big victory." In the face of everyone's doubts, he continued, "This is also what I learned from the mouth of the enemy scouts, and I also know that you did not retreat in the direction of Ningyuan, but went to the west. ”

looked at Sun Yueling with a smile and said, "Others may not understand you, don't I understand?" I guess you must lead your army to attack tonight, otherwise why don't you retreat to Ningyuan, but retreat to Shahe Fort. Besides, you've never liked to fight your enemies, and you've always had a style of playing other people's sticks. Therefore, I deliberately waited here, and I also helped you kill the six Houjin scouts. ”

At this time, the Ming army scout who was sent out also followed and said: "Yes, thanks to Lord Fang's timely action, otherwise I might have been planted in the hands of the enemy scouts...... Not long ago, he and an enemy scout met in the dense forest, the two of them shot each other blindly in the dense forest, no one dared to move too much, just when he was trembling and walking on thin ice, Fang Yichen fell from the sky, and he was still carrying a bloody human head in his hand.

Sun Yueling patted Fang Yichen on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Lord Fang, you have made a lot of contributions this time, this scripture will definitely show your merits to the imperial court, why don't you return to the imperial court?" ”

"I think it's better to be free!" Fang Yichen waved his hand and said, "Since I came out, I don't plan to go back." The so-called unofficial is light, since I was idle, I don't know how many times happier I was than before. Besides, if I don't serve in the imperial court, I can't still kill Tartars. ”

Sun Yueling shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "Okay, everything depends on you." ”

After chatting in a hurry, Sun Yueling learned the specific situation of Tashan Fort from Fang Yichen's mouth.

At present, Mang Gurtai and the others have returned to Tashan Fort and are resting in the city. The people stationed in Tashan Fort are all elites of the Blue Banner, and the number of people is probably more than 3,000.

The west, north and south outside Tashan Fort are all auxiliary troops composed of Mongols and Han Chinese, these people have little combat effectiveness, almost all of them are used to carry grain, because Tashan Fort can not be stationed, so they camp outside the fort, but mainly the auxiliary soldiers in the north are more, and the number of people stationed on the other two sides is less.

After understanding the enemy's situation, Sun Yueling quickly conveyed and issued a military order, and Zhang Zhiqi and Wu Wenyao led the cavalry to go around to the north to raid the enemy's auxiliary camp, and set fire to the camp to block the enemy's retreat at Tashan Fort; Yan Nantian led 400 spearmen to raid the auxiliary camps in the west and east; The remaining 2,000 foot soldiers and their own troops all went around to the south, lightly armed, with swords on their bodies, to attack the main force of the Zhenglan Banner in the fort.

After the order was given, the various divisions bypassed themselves and dispersed in the darkness of the night.

Sun Yueling, Fang Yichen, and Sun Zushou led more than 2,000 horses around to the south of Tashan Fort, and slowly approached Tashan Fort by night.

Tonight, the dark clouds are rolling, the stars and the moon are eclipsed, and it is a good time to launch a sneak attack.

In the battle a few days ago, if Huang Taiji or Dai Shan and others would definitely be vigilant against their Ming army, they would be guarded against. But the enemy's commander was Mang Gurtai, so Sun Yueling dared to take a dangerous fight and launch a surprise attack on the Zhenglan Banner.

It's an adventure, but it's also a gamble.

If they win the bet, they will open the passage from Ningyuan to Jinzhou, giving Houjin a great deterrent, letting them know that the Ming army is not an incompetent army, and it will also deal a serious blow to the most elite Zhenglan Banner in the Eight Banners.

If the bet is lost, then they will inevitably suffer heavy losses, not only this Ming army can not be spared, since then the Ming army can not think of crossing Tashan half a step, can only sit back and watch Jinzhou be surrounded. He Sun Yueling didn't have the face to see Yuan Chonghuan, and in the future, he would have to look at Yuan Chonghuan's face in military command.

Therefore, this battle must only be successful, not defeated - this will be a crucial battle for him to make a name for himself.

A hundred paces away, the torches flickered at the head of the city of Tashan Fort, and the figures were blurred, and there were many enemy soldiers patrolling the city.

Sun Yueling said to Fang Yichen: "Brother Fang, let's take our brothers up first, solve the patrol post at the head of the city, and then open the south gate to let General Sun and them in." ”

Fang Yichen nodded, turned around and gave the order to the pro-soldier team.

Sun Yueling took some skilled people and took advantage of the darkness to touch the city wall of Tashan Fort.

The city wall of Tashan Fort is not tall, only one zhang high, and Tashan Fort is not big, the circumference is less than eight miles, only the size of a football field in later generations, thousands of Houjin soldiers are stationed in it, plus those military facilities and granaries, you can imagine how crowded it is.

Therefore, as long as the city gate can be opened, it is a narrow road to meet the brave wins.

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