The cavalry brigade that came from the northeast was indeed the Korqin cavalry, in fact, it was the army gathered by Tagar, the third son of Ukshan, on the east bank of the Ximulalun River.

Banktu, Sogar and Tagar joined forces and launched a tentative attack on the Ming army on the mountain, but they were easily repelled by the Ming army, with hundreds of corpses! After losing the first battle, the Horqin people immediately stopped their attack and set up a large camp at the foot of the mountain to the south, trying to trap the Ming army on the mountain with siege tactics.

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On the mountain, Wang Pu is inspecting the terrain.

The topography of this earth mountain is very peculiar, it is like a big platform that protrudes on the flat ground, the north, west and east sides are dozens of zhang high cliffs, only the south side is a gentle slope that is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, close to the platform at the top of the mountain, the width of the gentle slope is only 20 zhang, quite a bit of a one-man pass, the momentum of ten thousand people can not be opened.

As long as there is enough ammunition, two hundred musketeers will be enough to hold for a year!

Standing on the top of the mountain and looking into the distance, surrounded by vast snowfields, endless distances, there are undulating mountains and the sky, the world is vast, reckless and vast, Wang Pu can't help but think of a word: the scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting; Up and down the river, suddenly lost and surging; Inside and outside the Great Wall, only recklessness remains...... It's a pity that now is not the time to point out the country and promote words, Wang Pu has to find a way to escape from this Jedi, and he has to find a way to go back to Datong!

More than 20,000 Mongol cavalry had blocked the main road down the mountain to the south.

However, the Horqin people did not send troops to guard in the other three directions, and did not even send too many patrols, not only because the mountain is huge, and the Horqin people do not want to leave a chance for the Ming army to break through head-on because of the dispersion of their forces, but also because these three directions are dozens of zhang high cliffs, if the Ming army wants to climb down the cliff and escape, they have to abandon all the war horses on foot!

Perhaps in the eyes of the Horqin people, it is impossible for the Ming army to do this, how can the Ming army, which has lost its war horse, escape the pursuit of the Horqin people on the endless grassland?

The Korqin people apparently believed that the Ming army could only break through from the front except to defend it.

However, Wang Pu knew that breaking through from the front was definitely a dead end, although the bearded 1,000 musket team was powerful, but they had little ammunition left, even if the musket team had enough ammunition to blast through the Mongols' defense with sharp round shots, but what about the flanks and back of the musket team? By whom to protect?

You can't let a thousand musketeers form a square formation and slowly move back to Datong like turtle shells, right?

Well, rely on the remaining 1,700 cavalry to protect the flanks and behind the musketeers? These cavalry could hold off one, two, or even ten Mongol attacks, but what about the eleventh or even the hundredth attack? The Mongols had more than 20,000 cavalry, but they only had more than 1,700 cavalry, and the difference in strength was too great!

The Mongols are not paper-muffled, they are nomads, they are born warriors.

If you can break through from the front, Wang Pu doesn't have to retreat to the mountain with his army, he ordered a retreat before the arrival of the Mongolian cavalry, and the frontal breakthrough can only be a dead end, although retreating to the mountain is a self-surrendered Jedi, but at least he can temporarily protect himself, at least he can buy time to find another way to escape!

A cold north wind suddenly blew over the mountain, blowing up snow all over the sky, and slowly sprinkled it in front of Wang Pu's eyes...... Suddenly, Wang Pu's heart moved, and he thought of a way to get out!

Wang Puhuo Ran turned around and shouted, "Someone! ”

Lu Liu hurriedly took two steps forward and responded, "Yes." ”

Wang Pu said: "Immediately bring Scarface, Tang Sheng, Zhao Xin, the bearded man and the monk." ”

"Yes."

Lu Liu agreed and took the order.

Soon, the five people with Scarface came to Wang Pu at a trot, and they all clasped their fists and saluted: "See the general for the inferior rank." ”

"That's it." Wang Pu waved his hand and said in a deep voice, "Starting tomorrow night, no fire is allowed on the mountain!" The open posts in the mountain passes must also be removed, but the secret posts must be strengthened, and unless the Mongols kill them, everyone must stay in their tents, and they are not allowed to make loud noises, let alone go out without permission! ”

"Yes."

The five of them agreed with a bang.

Wang Pu said to Monk Zhang again: "Monk." ”

Monk Zhang hurriedly stepped forward and responded: "Humble duty." ”

Wang Pu said: "You take people to collect all the hemp ropes, linen cloth, and cotton cloth on the mountain, and then untie all the reins on the war horses, and roll them all into ropes, the more the better, and each rope must be at least thirty zhang long!" ”

"What?" Monk Zhang was stunned and said, "The reins are untied, how can this horse be ridden?" ”

"This is a military order." Wang Pu said, "Execute." ”

"Yes."

Monk Zhang answered and took the order.

The rest of the bearded, scarface, Tang Sheng and Zhao Xin looked at each other, and they didn't know why Wang Pu gave such a military order, if this war horse didn't have a rein, how could it be ridden?

Wang Pu said to Tang Sheng, Zhao Xin, and Scarface: "You take people to gather all the grain on the mountain, make steamed buns and nest heads, kill hundreds of war horses, roast the meat and then cut it into small pieces, and prepare at least fifteen days' worth of dry food for each person before dark tomorrow." ”

"Yes."

Tang Sheng and the three of them also took the order.

Wang Pu said to the bearded man again: "In addition to sending more secret cards, your people should also stay in tents, if the Mongols attack, let them approach, wait for them to enter within twenty paces and then greet them with the dragon king cannon, don't be stingy with the dragon king cannon, if the Mongols dare to come up, let the brothers greet them vigorously!" ”

"Yes."

The bearded man also took the order.

Wang Pu breathed a long sigh of relief, now that everything has been arranged, as the so-called plan is in people, success is in heaven, whether Wang Pu and more than 2,700 people under him can return to Datong alive, then only God knows!

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The quiet day passed quickly, and the time came for the next night.

The three brothers, Banktu, Sogar and Tagar, were sitting around the fire with a few captains eating large pieces of meat, laughing loudly, Tagar inadvertently looked up at the mountain, and suddenly said: "Hey, why hasn't the Nanming barbarian moved?" Don't make a fire to keep warm on this cold day? ”

Banktu, Sogar, and several other captains looked up at the mountain, and when they looked at it, they found that the mountain was pitch black, and there was not a trace of fire or sound at all, and what was even more strange was that there was no one to be seen, as if there was no one on the mountain at all.

"It's weird." Sogar scratched his head and said, "What the hell is the Nanming barbarian doing?" ”

A stunned captain Fan Ran said, "Could it be that he ran away?" ”

"Run?" Banktu sneered, "There are cliffs on three sides, and we are blocking the south side, where can they run?" Isn't it possible to fly away with wings or escape from the ground? ”

"That might be." The man said, "The Nanming barbarian can rub a few hemp ropes and fall off the cliff." ”

"Hahaha......"

Banketu and several other captains laughed when they heard this, this kind of thing can only be said by stunned guys, if the Nanming barbarians really want to rub the rope and fall off the cliff, they have to abandon all the war horses, but this ice and snow, if there are no horses, where can they run? And how far can you run?

Even if you don't get caught up and shot to death by the Korqin people, you will freeze to death and starve to death!

Tagar thought for a moment and said, "Big brother, just in case, let's send two thousand people up to take a look." ”

"Leave it to me." The stunned captain volunteered, "I'll go." ”

"It's fine." Banktu nodded and ordered, "Then you will take two thousand men to climb up and have a look." ”

"Wait." "Don't light the torches, you sneak up while it's dark." ”

"Yes."

The captain answered and took the order.

Soon, the 2,000 Korqin cavalry assembled, abandoned their horses and climbed up the mountain on foot.

At this time, although it was dark night, the light on the snow still made the two thousand Horqin people have nothing to hide, and they could vaguely see those wriggling figures from a few hundred steps away, but the Ming army on the mountain did not react, until the Horqin people approached the top of the mountain within fifty steps, the Ming army on the mountain still did not move.

Seeing that the Horqin people were approaching the top of the mountain step by step, but the Ming army did not react, the three Banksu brothers saw it really at the bottom of the mountain, and couldn't help but shake their heads and wondered: "It's strange, could it be that the Nanming barbarians on the mountain really abandoned their horses and fled?" Or are they all dead by ghosts? ”

Mountains.

The commander who led the troops had just approached the top of the mountain with his men and horses within twenty paces, when hundreds of black and flickering things suddenly fell on the mountain, because the sky was dim and it was not very real, and he could only faintly see that those things seemed to have a handle, and the handle was sparkling, but he didn't know what it was?

The people of Korqin watched as the hundreds of black things fell from the sky and fell among them, dozens of unlucky people were directly hit on the head by those black bumps, and fell to the ground in a daze, and the captain who led the troops couldn't help laughing, the ridiculous Nanming barbarians wanted to use these stone bumps to block their attack?

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Captain Horqin only laughed twice, and a dazzling fire burst out under his crotch, scattering his sturdy body in half in an instant, and throwing it directly into the sky, and then, more firelight bloomed from among the Horqin people, and in the deafening explosion, hundreds of Horqin people were directly blown into the sky, and more Horqin people were injured by the fragments that shot out of the dragon king's cannon, and fell in a pool of blood screaming...... In fact, as early as Horqin had just gone up the mountain, the Ming army's secret card had already been discovered.

The bearded man had already led five hundred musketeers to lie in the snow in the mountain pass and wait for the Horqin people, because of the angle, and Wang Pu had people build tunnels with snow on the mountain in advance, the Horqin people under the mountain did not notice the movement of the five hundred musketeers of the bearded man.

When the Korqin people entered within twenty steps, the bearded man gave an order, and five hundred musketeers threw the dragon king cannon down the mountain at the same time, what kind of power would the five hundred dragon king cannons explode at the same time? The unlucky Korqin people haven't been blown up to the ground? Before the Horqin people, who were lucky enough to not die, came back to their senses, the second batch of 500 dragon king cannons was thrown down again, followed by the third batch of 500 dragon king cannons...... Wang Pudu said that there was no need to be stingy with the Dragon King Cannon, and the five hundred musketeers would be regarded as setting off firecrackers, and they all threw them on the heads of the Horqin people one by one.

Yamashita.

As soon as Banktu finished speaking, a dazzling fire burst out on the mountain, followed by a deafening explosion, and the ground under the feet could be clearly felt far away from the mountain, and it was completely conceivable how violent the explosion on the mountain was, and how miserable the Horqin people were in the explosion.

"Damn it." Banktu cursed viciously, "These cunning Nanming barbarians turned out to be a trap set by them!" ”

"Quick." Tagar turned his head sharply and shouted to the captain of his own army behind him, "Quickly give the order, let the one get them to withdraw from the mountain." ”

"Yes."

The captain of the pro-soldier answered and took the order.

Soon, there was a continuous sound of horns at the bottom of the mountain, in fact, before the horn of retreating troops sounded at the bottom of the mountain, the Horqin people who had recovered from the huge explosion had already retreated in panic under the instinctive drive, and finally the Horqin people threw down more than 600 corpses on the mountain, which can be described as heavy casualties.

After that, the Horqin people learned their lesson and did not send troops up the mountain to test again.

The mountain also regained tranquility again, the Ming soldiers neither lit fires, nor made noise, let alone come out to walk around, whether it was day or night, they seemed to hibernate, or disappeared out of thin air, but the Horqin people knew that the Ming army did not disappear, they hid on the mountain, they were just playing tricks and luring them to be fooled.

(To be continued)