It's another year of autumn when horses are fat.

At this time, the leaders of the tribes on the steppe would take their well-kept horses and cavalry and go south to harass the border towns. Naturally, they ignored those fortified cities, but the villages and small county towns around the big cities were not so lucky. But as soon as the summer is over, the days of fear are coming. Even the fortresses on the northwest border wall that are connected in a line are often all taken with great caution from the guards to the soldiers.

It is said that they echo each other, but once the captive army really attacks, the time that one fortress can support is definitely not enough time for other places to rush to the rescue! What's more, the mobile forces are limited, and when the army of each town really comes, those captives will inevitably either succeed in one blow and leave, or have already penetrated into the rear to plunder, which is overwhelming! However, in recent years, with the increase of investment in the imperial court and the training of military generals in Zhubian, this situation has gradually changed.

It didn't look like a different year, but it wasn't the case for the defire reds who led the troops. Dayan Khan Batu Munk, though still ambitious, is far from what he used to be. And the news that Urusborot is not dead has spread all over the world, and after the three towns of Shaanxi are attached to the fire sieve, the once suppressed departments on the grassland are naturally more serious. Although Balsborough had some of his father's original skills, he did not have the wholehearted assistance of a strong, brave and intelligent woman like Manduhai, so even though the other sons of the Great Khan had already received about 30,000 households, the power had not yet been fully gathered in their hands.

What's more, his deceased eldest brother also left an heir!

Although I heard that there was a great turmoil in the Ming court, on the surface, it showed an extraordinary trend of prosperity. Xu Xun, the Marquis of Pingbei, who once used trickery to make him suffer, has now been crowned the highest title that his subjects can get, and he doesn't care much about outside things, and only enjoys being surrounded by his wife and children at home. And the civil servants quarrel every day, but I heard that there is a considerable increase in tax revenue. Even this information, which used to be easy to obtain, is much harder now than it used to be. Because the management of the nine border towns along the border is much stricter than before. All the officers of the Nine Frontiers General Military Office had to undergo intensive training ranging from two months to half a year in the Jiangwu Hall in the capital, and I heard that one of the instructors was Xu Xun, the Duke of Xingguo.

"If I knew this, no matter how big the price was, I would have killed him on our grassland!"

"My lord, there is Red Gate Fort ahead." Dehuo Chicai muttered to himself, and a middle-aged man who was following him immediately came forward to remind him. Years of grassland life made him look a little vicissitudes of life, and his face showed a bit of red-black similar to that of the Mongolian people, and his head was covered with wrinkles like knife carvings. This is the one who used the previous tooth card to impersonate the celebrant and the celebrant. Now he has long been accustomed to the name Bai Sheng, seeing that he looked back at him, he had finished eating, and he couldn't get along with Balsborot and said with a smile, "It is said that the Jin merchants are the richest, and if they can plunder back this time, Jinong will definitely appreciate the adults more." ”

Dehuo Chi originally couldn't get used to such a guy who was neither male nor female, however. Since this man has volunteered to be the one who leads the way. And he still knows a little about Ming Ting, so he piggybacks on him. At this moment, he nodded slightly, and then instructed a guard who had been promoted from a slave next to him: "Pass the order, take everyone well, and when you tear down the wall, move quickly!" ”

If it weren't for the trick that the fire sieve came to die, it would be difficult for the entire Hetao to stay in the herd now. The Ming people guarded according to the Yellow River, and the best place to attack the entire northwest is like a bone with nowhere to go now, why bother to take the line west of Datong! This is not counting, the Ming people actually have the time to reinforce the side wall of the Shaanxi line, on the day of completion, the Xingguo Gong Xu Xun, who has rarely gone out in recent years, personally led the team to inspect the side wall, and I heard that the eyes were red along the way. Cut off more than two dozen heads! If it weren't for the fact that it would take time to renovate this area of Datong, it would be best to exploit the loopholes in these places now, but it is difficult to say in the future, and he would not have brought these more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in one breath this time!

Balsborot, the descendant of Jinon, has been almost hollowed out by him, and if he loses this time, then Balsborot's nine-ten-strong position will be lost. This is a gamble, but that huge bet corresponds to the same rich reward, you must know that the general army of Datong has just been replaced, and it is said that the one who has just taken office is a young man named Zhu Shou, who is not yet thirty years old! I don't know if it's because the emperor of the Ming court used a relationship with Xu Xun, so he especially likes to reuse young people.

The Mongol cavalry, which had fought all the way to Europe, although after retreating to the steppe, once lost the craftsmen and civilians who had been vassals of them, etc., after the Ming court was no longer strong at the beginning of the founding of the country, the siege tools and so on were still gradually perfected in the previous Koubian. Those who were driven by the first wave to build a passage into the city with their lives were often slaves they had taken captive from the villages and county towns of various border towns, and this time the Red Gate Fort was naturally the same. He thought that the slaves who were used as cannon fodder would have to be killed and wounded before they could break through the Red Gate Fort in one fell swoop, but the result of a small battle made him very satisfied.

Only more than 100 slaves were killed and wounded, dozens of cavalry, and they actually drove in!

"Straight into Taiyuan Mansion, kill all the way!"

The people who came with the fire red this time are all old people who have been in the prison many times in previous years. Anyone who is an officer knows that the news of the Ming Court is getting harder and harder to inquire about, and every time those smuggling caravans arrive, they talk about hard work, and the Tao is how powerful the blockade is, but the things traded are richer and more exquisite than before. Thinking that these good things that have been used to will not be available in the future, how can they endure it when they are used to enjoyment? Therefore, the order to defire red ignited the fire in the hearts of a group of people, and for a while, tens of thousands of military horses from Hongmen Fort, Yongquanying Fort, and Jiangjunhui Fort did not make much effort to break through the pass, and they poured into the land of Shanxi.

Although the villages they passed through seemed to be deserted, their harvest was still unusually rich. From grain, cattle and horses to gold and silver, the soldiers and generals from top to bottom stuffed the blankets and arms on the horseback, although there were also sporadic small groups of Ming troops to intercept and contact, but they were all defeated without a fight. For a while, the officers below the fire level gradually became arrogant, and even when the fire was thought that Datong had just changed the chief officer, the trace of suspicion disappeared. Therefore, when a larger Wuzhou city finally appeared in the front than the village he had passed through before, he did not hesitate to give the order to attack.

Hundreds of sharp horsemen galloped towards the city gate, but when the vanguard had just stepped within a hundred paces of the city, they only heard a rumbling sound, and for a time the ground shook. In the eyes of the Chinese army, I saw that the horses of the vanguard team seemed to be buried under the hooves of the horses and continued to explode, although the people behind also tried their best to restrain their horses, but because they had just seen the empty artillery on the city wall and did not see the common artillery of the Ming army fortress and the acropolis, etc., the soldiers were sparse and sparse, so the starting speed was too fast, and it was too late to collect it at this time. And the cavalry, who were hoping to rush forward as hard as they could, hoping to get out of this dangerous area, brought more explosions with them in the gallop, and for a time the smoke was filled with gunsmoke, and it was impossible to see anything clearly.

It was only when the sound of the explosion gradually stopped, and the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, that the iron-faced defireing Chifang saw the scene ahead. There are very few people who can still ride on horses, and there are even many war horses that have lost their owners wandering in a daze, people who have been stripped off their horses and escaped are looking around in a daze, and more people are lying on the ground wailing, and war horses lying on the ground neighing in pain. Faced with this scene, Dehuo Red gritted his teeth for a long time, and finally shouted: "Go and find out the situation personally!" ”

After this round of explosions, there is theoretically no such thing as the crisis that suddenly erupted from the ground just now. Even so, the scene just now came too suddenly, and it took a long time for someone to reluctantly go to investigate immediately. This is not to be seen, it is not tight, and at a glance, all the people who came back were as white as earth. Unlike the previous firearms that only exploded, this time I don't know what kind of mechanism the Ming people added to them, and many of the injured people were all tied with all kinds of irregular iron and porcelain pieces, and even some seriously injured people bled too much and died in front of them.

Hearing such a return, Detachment couldn't help but gasp. The route of the march was very secretive, and he had consulted with Balsborough and a few of his confidants for a long time before finally deciding on it. Now that it has only reached Wuzhou, it has suddenly encountered such a surprise attack, it must be that the Ming army is prepared, and if so, there is only one person who is the most suspicious!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but grab the knife in his hand fiercely, and glanced at Bai Sheng, who was a step behind by his side, seeing that his face was pale and his eyes were erratic, he suddenly pulled the knife out of the sheath almost instantly, and slashed towards the person with a twist. However, after all, he struck from the front and back, and although Bai Sheng didn't have time to dodge, the knife only knocked the person off the horse, and then pulled a terrifying blood mark on his chest.

"Adult, it has nothing to do with the villain, the villain doesn't know what's going on!"

However, Bai Sheng's argument was not credible at all. Without hesitation, he glanced left and right, and when several guards surrounded him and slashed people, he breathed a long sigh of relief. For this kind of eunuch who is neither male nor female, he has never trusted at all, but fortunately, this Bai Sheng has almost fallen out of favor in front of Balsborough, no matter whether this loss is a report from this person, it can be planted on this person's head!

Therefore, he only worked for a moment before he commanded in a deep voice: "Take the lightly injured ones with you, change the route, and hit the river meander!" ”

After crossing the river meander, you can quickly cross the side wall and go back, this time the harvest is barely good, this Wuzhou can bury such a firearm ambush, maybe other places have already set up a set of traps for them to drill, so he will not be fooled!