Zu Dale's words made Zu Kuan can't help but shut his mouth, and there is nothing else he can do except snort a few times in anger. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

And Zu Dale only shook his head at this, and walked towards Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youzhen smiled at Zu Dale very calmly: "Zu Junmen, we should go." ”

The two of them were determined to become people abandoned by His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, so they also felt a little sympathetic to each other, and no one said anything.

"Reply to His Royal Highness the King, stay until half an hour to set off, and strive to arrive at Yumen Pass in the afternoon, according to the sentry to report, the current Yumen Pass has five thousand Tartars stationed in the Chijin Department, because the governor of Jiajing had the ambition to recover the Yumen in Hexi, and attacked here, so the Tartars have strengthened the city defense here, not only there are five thousand Tartars in the city, there are often thousands of Tartars cruising around the Yumen Pass, we want to break through the Yumen City, we have to take advantage of the Tartars outside the city to go to the south of the Yumen Pass to get water from the lone wolf ditch, quickly break through the Yumen Pass, Otherwise, it will be even more difficult to break through the Jade Gate Pass once and for all! ”

Although Zu Dale is the chief military officer, and Zhu Youxiao is just the deputy chief soldier, Zu Dale did not despise Zhu Youzhen because of this, since Zhu Youzhen asked, he also answered truthfully.

Zhu You only smiled and nodded after listening, from Yumen Pass to Hamiwei, there are not many fortified cities that need to be attacked, and the difficulty is the countless Tartar cavalry along the way.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but ask Zu Dale curiously: "How many percent does the military think this western expedition has?" ”

"The general is just acting on orders, repaying the country with death, for the odds of victory, it is just a matter of concern for the imperial cabinet and the military department, the last general is a martial artist, how dare to speculate at will."

Zu Dale excused himself to haha, he had always acted cautiously, even in front of Zhu Youzhen, he did not dare to show his dissatisfaction with the imperial court.

Zhu Youzhen saw that Zu Dale was so cautious, so he had to sigh and said: "Zu Junmen is right, for the general, the only way to repay the country with death, although I, Zhu Youzhen, am a royal prince and a nobleman, and I am just a martial artist, unlike your chief military officer and tens of thousands of Guan Ning troops, my deputy chief military officer does not even have half a private soldier, and the only person who asks for it is to be buried in this green mountain." ”

Zu Dale didn't say much except for comforting Zhu Youzhen with kind words, he didn't have any political ambitions, so Zhu Youzhen, the prince, was just a pitiful person in front of him, and he couldn't talk about political resources.

Besides, his ancestor Dale also knew that even if he united with Zhu Youzhen, he would not be able to fight against the imperial court now.

Rather than this, it is better to keep a distance from Zhu Youzhen, a politically sensitive body, so as not to even have a chance to shroud the body of the horse leather.

After lunch, the Western Expeditionary Army rested for a few quarters of an hour before heading towards Yumen Pass.

Why should Qiang Di complain about the willows, the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass, the area around the Yumen Pass is a place where the wind and sand are bad, and now it is spring, it is even more serious, the army marches on the vast desert, even if the veil covers the face, it can not prevent the wind and sand from drilling into the nostrils, coupled with the dry climate, it didn't take long to feel thirsty.

Due to the higher altitude, the air is obviously thinner than that of Liaodong, so the sun is more scorching, and the sun is hot and painful on the face.

But in order not to delay the fighter, the Western Expeditionary Army had to grit its teeth and move forward, if it was Zu Dale and Zhu Youzhen and other high-level generals who were forced to do so, then the soldiers of the Guanning Army at the bottom were accustomed to following the Zu generals for decades and did not choose to escape.

However, after the distance traveled became longer and longer, and the climate became more and more harsh, many Guanning troops also chose to become deserters.

However, Zu Dale did not stop him, he was like a moth who willingly chose to pounce on the fire to die, and he no longer had the heart to care whether his soldiers were willing to follow him to seek death.

In short, the morale of the entire Western Expeditionary Army was dull, there was no vigor and no decadence after the defeat, and everyone seemed to be getting by, waiting for the verdict of fate.

And when they successfully avoided the wandering Tartar cavalry and successfully reached the Yumen Pass, they did not show a trace of joy, but naturally proceeded according to the siege procedure.

That is, the organization of the assembled logs to hit the logs, and the ladders that should be prepared to erect cloud ladders, and Zhu Youxiao also took the initiative to ask Ying, and Zu Kuan each led a force to attack the east and west gates of Yumen Pass.

The Tartars stationed at Yumen Pass did not expect that there would be a Ming army after a lapse of decades, and they were a little caught off guard, but as one of the few Tartars in the northwest who controlled the Northwest Town, they were not willing to give up Yumen Pass.

Therefore, these Tartars quickly organized a counterattack, although as cavalry they were not familiar with defending the city, and the weapons to defend the city were not so colorful, but they were very powerful in archery, so under the rain of arrows, they also successfully prevented the first wave of the Ming army's attack.

However, the Ming army such as Zhu Youzhen and Zu Kuan, who were determined to die, were not afraid because of this, and still climbed the city wall without fear.

Zhu Youzhen fell down the ladder once, but fortunately, the height of the fall was not high, and the land was sandy, so there was no damage, so he got up and continued to rush.

But it was precisely because he was not afraid of death that he finally rushed to the Yumen Pass, and Zhu Youzhen and other Ming troops did not care about the fatigue and the fact that there were not many troops rushing to the city wall on their side, and they began to kill the Tartars on the city wall.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know how many Tartars he had killed, anyway, after sunset, he didn't die, and Yumen Pass successfully changed hands because of this!

After the city was broken, the Tartars stationed at Yumen Pass did not choose to continue to hold on, but decisively withdrew from Yumen Pass.

As soon as the Ming army occupied Yumen Pass, it immediately sent troops to report to the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, and then the Xingdu Division reported to Sun Chengzong, the trilateral commander-in-chief, and then Sun Chengzong reported to the military department and the imperial court, and finally the imperial court and the military department decided who to send to garrison the Yumen Pass.

This procedure is relatively long, and Zu Dale only allocated part of his troops to temporarily manage Yumen Pass, while he and Zhu Youzhen continued to march westward with most of the main force of the Guanning Army.

But not long after they left Yumen Pass, they encountered a large force of Tartar cavalry attack.

Obviously, the Tartar is not stupid, you took advantage of my inconvenience to take away my jade gate, then I will also take advantage of your inconvenience to attack you directly in the wild.

However, Zu Dale and Zhu Youzhen and other Guan Ning troops didn't care how many of these Tartar cavalry there were, and what their combat effectiveness was, anyway, they came to beg for the horse leather shroud, so they didn't care about anything, and directly drew their swords and rushed over to kill them.

Kill!

Seeing the killing sound of the Ming army in front of him shaking the world and rushing over, it made the Mongolian Tatars in the Chijin Department very stunned, and secretly said that these Han cavalry were so fierce and fearless to death.

The Mongol Tartars were surprised but did not dare to hesitate, so they immediately rushed over and killed them.

A battle did not stop until after dusk, and these Tartars composed of various tribes were finally defeated because of the fearlessness of the Ming Western Expeditionary Army, which continued to march west after sucking and sacrificing nearly a thousand more men.