Chapter 97: Encirclement and reinforcements
"You?" Wang Pu said indifferently, "Take your people to camp at the foot of the mountain, eat, and sleep." ”
"What?" The bearded man almost suspected that something was wrong with his ears, and asked in disbelief, "Eat and sleep, General, do you mean now?" ”
"Yes." Wang Pu said, "It's now." ”
"No, it won't." The bearded man muttered, "It's noon, I can't sleep." ”
"If you can't sleep, you have to sleep." Wang Pu said, "This is a military order. ”
"Okay." The bearded man scratched his head vigorously, turned back to the generals behind him, and yelled, "Do you fucking hear me, the general ordered us to eat first, and then sleep!" ”
"Huh?"
"This ......"
Several generals looked at each other, but no one dared to question Wang Pu's military orders, so they had to act as ordered.
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Korqin Khanting.
Wu Keshan and a few nobles nervously came to the gentle slope in the south, and the captain of the guard, Bart, who was leading people to set up a car formation, hurriedly greeted him, hugged his chest with one hand and saluted: "Lord Wang, why are you here?" ”
"Bart." Wu Keshan asked with a solemn expression, "Is the car formation set up?" ”
Bart replied, "It's almost set." ”
"Two mortars are also set?"
"It's set."
"Really?" Wu Keshan was a little surprised and asked, "The Ming army didn't attack?" ”
"No, the Ming army has already camped at the foot of the mountain." Bart shook his head, pointed down the mountain and said, "Lord, you see, except for the four or five hundred Ming troops on this halfway up the mountain, who are responsible for monitoring our movements, the other Ming cavalry are busy with their own work, some are digging horse traps in front of the slope, some are cutting wood in the woods on the left, and some are just sleeping after eating. ”
"Sleep?" Ukeshan asked in disbelief, "Is there anything else going on?" ”
Bart said: "Lord Wang, look at the hundreds of tents, there are about a thousand or so Ming troops sleeping in them. ”
"It's weird." Ukshan frowned, "It's so weird! We weren't ready just now, it was the best time for the Ming army to attack, but they gave up, and now they are pulling up their tents at the bottom of the mountain and sleeping, what are they going to do? ”
Bart and several Korqin nobles were speechless.
"Forget it, don't worry about it." Ukshan shook his head and asked, "Bart, the fast horses sent to the Syrah Wheel River for help?" ”
Bart said: "Don't worry, the prince has been sent out before the Ming army arrives." ”
"That's good." Ukshan breathed a long sigh of relief and said in a low voice, "Bart, cheer up your people, no matter what, you must block the Ming army under the mountain, and you must not let them rush up, and in two days, Tagar will be able to return with 20,000 cavalry on the east bank of the Syrahlun River." ”
"Don't worry, the prince." Bart replied proudly, "As long as the villain is alive, he will never let a Ming army come up." ”
"Well, good job." Wu Keshan patted Bart's shoulder and said, "When the Ming army is defeated, this king will promote you to the rank of commander of a thousand and let you lead the king's three thousand iron guards." ”
Bart hurriedly knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "Thank you for your support." ”
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By the time it was almost dark, Scarface's thousand-man team had already built a large number of rejection horses.
According to Wang Pu's military order, Scarface led the people to place three rejection horses on the front and left and right wings of the camp, but there was no rejection of horses on the back of the Korqin Khan's court.
Although Tang Sheng's thousand-man team did not have the right tools, they also dug hundreds of horse traps on the soft grass with a horse chopping knife, according to Wang Pu's meaning, these horse traps are deep and shallow, criss-crossed, at first glance they are chaotic, and if you look closely, you will find that these horse traps are roughly distributed in a ring along the front and left and right wings of the Ming army camp, leaving only a gap in the southeast and southwest corners for the cavalry to pass safely.
Monk Zhang took five hundred-man teams to guard the slopes of the mountain and confronted Barth's two hundred guards, Lu Liu took two hundred-man teams scattered on the grassland to be responsible for guarding, only the bearded thousand-man team was the most free, and after eating and drinking, he hid in the tent and fell asleep, and he had slept for half a day now.
By this time, Wang Pu's tactical intentions had been exposed.
Wang Pu's intention was to "encircle the point and send reinforcements", deliberately leaving the Khan court on the hillside not to fight, in order to seduce the Horqin people to storm the Ming army camp with a tired army, and it was a strong attack at any cost! The horse rejection created by Scarface and the horse trap dug by Tang Sheng and others were all prepared for the Horqin people.
There are also a thousand musketeers under the bearded man, in order to clean up the Korqin people.
When the sky was completely dark, a series of rockets suddenly rose in the southwest sky, and they received the Ming army camp like a relay from far and near.
In the low and low cowhide tent, Wang Pu had just finished nibbling on the hard and dry dry food, and Lu Liu hurriedly rushed in and said loudly: "General, a large group of Mongolian cavalry has been found thirty miles to the southwest!" ”
Wang Pu slowly raised his head, his gaze turned to the southwest, and a faint murderous aura had already appeared on his face, had the cavalry of the Horqin people finally arrived?
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Before sending troops to Sanbulachuan, Wang Pu had carefully calculated that by the time his more than 3,000 cavalry arrived at Qierhai, Horqin's cavalry brigade was almost halfway there.
Although the vanguard cavalry of the Horqin people was defeated, the remaining hundreds of remnants of the cavalry still roamed near the Amaki Sea, monitoring the movements of the Ming army at all times.
The large-scale operation of more than 3,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 war horses under Wang Pu could not hide from the Horqin rangers, as long as the Horqin people were not idiots, they had to beware of Wang Pu's march to Qierhai in order to avoid Horqin's brigade of cavalry, and then go to attack the Sanbula River.
In this way, the vanguard cavalry of Horqin will pass the news to the cavalry of the Horqin brigade who has just walked halfway as quickly as possible, with the Sanbula Chuan Khan on one side and the Tumuts on the other, Wang Pu does not think that the Horqin people will ignore the Sanbula Chuan Khan in order to save the Tumertes.
There is no doubt that the cavalry of the Horqin Brigade, which has gone halfway, will return to the division of Sanbulachuan!
The Mongols will only be equipped with one man and three horses when they are running for a long time, this time the Horqin people are fighting at home, so it is impossible for them to prepare three horses for one person, and Wang Pu's cavalry is one horse and three horses, and the riding skills are by no means inferior to the Mongols, according to Wang Pu's estimate, his men and horses must arrive at least half a day earlier than the Horqin people to the Sanbula Chuan Khan's court!
In fact, the situation is similar to what Wang Pu expected.
By the time the Bandtu and Sogar brothers arrived at the Khan's court with more than 8,000 Korqin cavalry, Wang Pu's men and horses had already rested for a long time and carefully built fortifications.
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Gentle slope top.
When Bart was waiting behind the chariot formation with two hundred guards, suddenly the sharp-eyed guards pointed to the southwest and shouted: "Look, everyone, the cavalry! ”
"Huh?"
Bart and the rest of the guards turned their heads sideways, looked in the direction of the guard's finger, and sure enough, they saw that a large faint fire had appeared in the southwest direction, and it was slowly squirming towards the Khanting, and Bart quickly visually detected that this cavalry was still at least ten miles away based on his own experience!
"This must be our cavalry back!" The guard who was the first to notice excitedly exclaimed, "Definitely! ”
"Well, that's how it should be." Bart nodded and shouted loudly, "Come on, immediately report this good news to the prince, burn a few more fires, plant the prince's royal flag in the middle of several fires, and use it to tell the warriors who came to the rescue that the Khan court is fine, and the prince is fine!" ”
"Yes!"
Several guards took orders.
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After a day and a night of rapid marching, Banketu and Sogar led more than 8,000 Korqin cavalry to finally return to the Khan's court at dark the next day.
Banktu, who was galloping at the front, saw the Ming army camp under the hillside at a glance, and was so angry that he scolded: "Damn, let the Ming army take half a step ahead!" ”
Sogar, who was following behind, said worriedly: "I don't know what happened to my father Khan?" ”
Sogar's voice fell, and several fires suddenly lit up on the mountain, and a big flag was set up in it, and it was hunting and fluttering in the wind, and Banktu's eyes were sharp, and he saw at a glance that it was the royal flag of Prince Heshuo Zhuoliktu, and he immediately said with great joy: "Great, it is the royal flag of my father Khan, and the Khan's court and my father Khan are fine." ”
"It's really the royal banner of my father Khan." Sogar also saw it clearly, and said happily, "Immortal God bless, Father Khan, he's fine, haha." ”
Banketu pulled out his scimitar and turned around and shouted: "Tuolitua, Uhulu, you take two thousand cavalry to attack from the front immediately, Qili, Zakru, you each bring a thousand cavalry to guard from the left and right flanks, Xiao Wang limits you to kick through the Ming army camp within half an hour!" ”
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
The four commanders responded with a bang.
"Big brother!" Sogar hurriedly said, "The soldiers have just gone through a long journey, and their horsepower and manpower have reached the limit, so why don't you rest for two hours first?" ”
"Well......" Banktu thought for a while, nodded and said, "What the second brother said makes sense, anyway, my father Khan is safe and sound, and he doesn't fight for this little time, so let's rest for two hours first, and then attack the Ming army camp when the soldiers have recovered their strength!" ”
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The camp of the Ming army.
Wang Pu came out of the camp under the escort of Lu Liu and more than a dozen personal soldiers and came to the front of the battle.
The bearded thousand-man squad had already set up a shooting formation behind the first heavy rejection horse, and the eight hundred musketeers were divided into four teams, each with two hundred people, lined up, and the remaining two hundred musketeers were each divided into five dragon king cannons with handles.
Seeing Wang Pu coming, the bearded man hurriedly greeted him and shouted, "General, why did the Horqin people stop." ”
"Really?" Wang Pu looked up, and sure enough, he saw that the Horqin people had stopped, and couldn't help frowning, "Really stopped?" ”
The bearded man snorted and said, "General, the people of Horqin shouldn't be afraid of us, haha......"
Wang Pu shook his head thoughtfully, and suddenly said, "No, you can't wait for the Horqin people to recover their strength before attacking, you have to force them to attack immediately!" ”
"This ......," the bearded man scratched his head, "if they don't attack, what can we do?" ”
Wang Pu Huoran turned around and said, "Lu Liu! ”
Lu Liu hurriedly stepped forward and responded: "The villain is here." ”
Wang Pu shouted: "Order Monk Zhang, let him immediately launch an attack on the Horqin Khan's court!" ”
"Yes!"
Lu Liu agreed and took the order.
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Halfway up the mountain, Monk Zhang was pulling his neck to look down the mountain, seeing that the rescue troops of the Horqin people had arrived, but he didn't see Wang Pu's military order for a long time, whether to continue to stay here or retreat to the camp under the mountain, there should always be a quasi-letter, and the brothers can't be allowed to stay here like this and drink the northwest wind, right?
Monk Zhang's five generals have already begun to scratch.
"Boss Zhang, what the hell is going on?"
"yes, you can't let the brothers stay halfway up the mountain, right?"
"That is, the mountain wind here can freeze Lao Tzu's [***], if you want to say it, you should kill it up the mountain, the mountain is the Mongol Khan's court, there must be women to eat and drink, hehe, just let the brothers be happy."
"Hahaha......"
The rest of the generals burst into laughter, and Monk Zhang turned his head and glared at the boss, and scolded: "Shut up, be careful that Lao Tzu instigates you." ”
"Hey, don't." The boss reached out to cover his crotch and exclaimed, "We haven't had time to taste what it's like to be a woman, but we can't just lose our roots." ”
The rest of the generals laughed more and more, and Monk Zhang was also amused.
"Boss Zhang." The boss whispered, "Why don't we just kill it secretly?" ”
Monk Zhang was also a little moved when he heard this, but after thinking about it, he dispelled his thoughts, and said angrily: "You kid is tired of living, right?" But Lao Tzu still wants to live a few more years, do you know what the crime of disobeying military orders is? No mercy! ”
The boss stuck out his tongue and said in annoyance, "I'm just talking about it." ”
At this moment, Lu Liu's voice suddenly came from not far away: "Mr. Zhang Qian, the general has an order, immediately launch an attack on the Khan court of the Horqin people!" ”
(To be continued)