Chapter 65: The Siege (I)

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Amur knelt in front of Lin Dan Khan's horse, like a chicken in soup.

"Are you sure it's not a Jurchen?" Lin Dan Khan was not as thunderous as he imagined.

"There are no Jurchens, are they Han Chinese and Tumuts?" Amur's voice trembled, and the elite 3,000 cavalry of his tribe fled back less than a thousand, and the herdsmen suffered heavy casualties.

Lin Dan Khan suddenly raised his horsewhip, slapped Amur on the back fiercely, and roared: "Defeated by the lowly Han and Tumut herdsmen, what are you doing when you come back alive?" ”

Amur fell on the grass and whispered: "It's the incompetence of his subordinates!" Please punish the Great Khan! ”

"Reprimand?" Lin Dan Khan walked around Amur, "How do you want me to punish you?" Isn't the Immortal Heaven punishing us Chahars enough? His voice was a little hoarse, like a wounded wolf king in the steppe.

"I'm going to punish the Tumutes!" Lin Dan Khan's face showed a sinister smile.

"Five thousand cavalry! I will give you 5,000 cavalry, and you will turn back now, and you will deal a fatal blow to the Tumuts before the Jurchens reach naturalization, and let their dreams bring blood to nourish this steppe! ”

Lin Dan Khan pulled out the scimitar on his waist, and the cold blade made Amur shudder.

"None of them have been left behind, and my kindness has given them enough of it!"

"Jurchen ......"

"The Jurchens still have nearly two days to reach Guihua, and they are already tired after a long journey, so you will cross the Yellow River immediately under one blow, and I will let the herdsmen migrate first, and lead the sweat tent cavalry to meet you along the Yellow River. I've endured enough! Lin Dan Khan's eyes were cold, the Chahar people had not yet been reduced to the point that anyone could bully.

"Yes!" Amur did not dare to refute again.

The water of the Yellow River is tumbling eastward, as muddy as the tears of a thousand-year-old man, and no amount of blood can change her color.

The Chahar cavalry crossed the river forty miles downstream of the Junzijin ferry, and the Amur expanded the scouts thirty miles away. Along the way, I met some Chahars who had survived the previous night and fled back, and there was no trace of the Tumuts.

The scouts searched carefully, leaving too many traces in the grass after the rain.

"The cavalry came out of the mountains of Holinger!"

Amur was a little irritable, if the Tumuts were hiding in the mountains, this sneak attack was not destined to go so smoothly.

"Keep searching!"

Scouts fought like hunting, which was a Mongol specialty in the steppes, and the Chahar scouts spread out into the jungle. Half a day later, more than a dozen scouts returned excitedly and announced: "I have captured two Han Chinese." ”

"Bring it here!" Amur rejoiced.

The two men were dragged over like dead dogs by the Tumut scouts. Both of them were Hanzhai patrol cavalry, under the command of Zuo Ruo's subordinates, and were suddenly ambushed and wounded and captured by Chahar's scouts.

The guards grabbed the heads of the two men and turned their faces towards Amur.

"Where have the Tumuts and Han escaped?"

The tall and thin man on the right hesitated for a moment and asked, "If you all sue you, can you spare our lives?" ”

"Can't!" Amr shook his head, drew his shiny scimitar and slashed it lightly in his face, saying, "There are many ways to die, one is fatal, and some are a thousand cuts. ”

"It's all death anyway, let's do it!" has been a horse thief for many years, but the two still have a singleton spirit.

The scimitar in Amur's hand trembled, and in an instant four ears were cut off, and the screams were terrible. The scimitar had no intention of stopping, and Amur seemed to want to vent all the anger in his heart, and a moment later, there was a pile of fragments on the ground, and the two captives became a pile of bloody people. ”

"I said, I said, give me a good time!" Two horse thieves with a \

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"I'll only give one person a chance!" Amur drew his sword and stood.

A quarter of an hour later, the Han village was no longer a secret to the Amur, and he never imagined that the Han people and horse thieves were hiding here, hooking up with the Tumuts for a long time, and the Chahars were deceived.

Chase down the Tumuts or the horse thieves who sneak up on the Han village! Amur hesitated.

It is risky for 5,000 cavalry to sneak into the steppe to attack the Tumuts, especially the complex terrain of Liangcheng, and the Jurchens will intercept the return of the army when they arrive at naturalization. Taking the Han people and horse thieves to open the knife can be regarded as an explanation to Lin Dan Khan, and Amur finally made a decision.

"Raid Hanzhai!"

Towards night, more than 5,000 horsemen hid in the mountains and forests of Horingel under the cover of night, and two horse thieves cut like blood gourds led the way in the dark.

Hanzhai.

The Tumuts were sent away, and the village was empty, and the homeless people and artisans were still building houses.

In the presiding minister's house, Zuo Ruo and Zong Mao stood opposite each other.

"The two patrolling sentries did not return to Dizhai on time!" Zuo Ruo's brows furrowed, and the patrols and probes on the periphery were now under his control.

"Will it be delayed on the way?"

"No, every patrol route was determined by me personally, and it's been an hour."

"Did you have an accident?" Zong Mao didn't dare to slack off, "Send someone to investigate again?" He began to gradually replace Wang Yi's position in the main mansion, but he still respected Zuo Ruo very much.

"I'll investigate, and you go and tell the boss."

The sky was getting darker and darker, cloudy, and he couldn't see his five fingers, Zuo Ruo led a dozen cavalry out of the Hanzhai gate and went to the northwest.

In the principal's mansion, Zong Mao told Zhai Zhe the details.

"The sentry didn't return on time?" Zhai Zhe's heart moved, the Tumut people had already moved away, and there was no one else in Helinger except the Han Ministry, and an ominous premonition rose in his mind.

"Call the wind!"

Zong Mao took the order and left.

A moment later, Che Feng pushed the door open under the guidance of his own soldiers.

Zhai Zhe instructed: "You go to the Tumut tribe of Liangcheng and tell Princess Wulan to be careful of Chahar and kill the horse."

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A, come and sneak attack! ”

Che Feng was stunned and asked, "Are the Chahars back?" ”

"I don't know, be prepared, don't die before dawn!". The inexplicable tension in Zhai Zhe's heart was even worse, the Han Department had a strong cottage that could still be defended, and if the Chahar people attacked the Tumuts at night, they would definitely suffer a catastrophe in their ecstatic mentality.

"Yes!" Che Feng led the way.

On the dark mountain road, the cavalry with torches galloped wildly to the northeast.

Zhai Yan rubbed his hands nervously, he was too careless, hoping that it would be too late. A wounded beast sleeping beside the couch dared to relax so much.

There was no moon, and the Chahars in the jungle of Helinger wriggled like ants, and it was pitch black in the distance.

The breeze rustled through the trees, and Zuo Ruo walked slowly along the familiar route without lighting torches, which he had set himself, and he had engraved it in his mind.

Suddenly, he stopped and said, "Do you hear me?" There are footsteps! ”

The footsteps were weak and inaudible under the rustling wind, and the soldiers around him had a keen sense of hearing, and after a moment of careful discernment, they nodded and said, "Yes!" ”。

"There are a lot of people, go back to the village!"

Zuo Ruogang turned around and heard a miserable scream from the soldiers beside him, and a sharp arrow was stuck in his chest, and more arrows shot out of the dense forest.

"There is an ambush, retreat!" Zuo Ruo didn't dare to fight.

It was Chahar's scout battalion that was ambushed, marching at the forefront of the army, searching for the road and probing for movement. Seeing that Zuo Ruo had already seen the movement of the army, of course they would not leave any more alive.

The Chahar scouts whistled sharply and gathered their companions around them.

The figures in the surrounding mountains and forests are longing, Zuo Ruo only knows how to urge the horses to gallop, and there are fewer and fewer soldiers around him, and long arrows pass by. Fortunately, this was the road he was familiar with, and the darkness was the best cover, and Zuo Ruo fled for nearly half an hour before throwing off his pursuers, and there were only three people left around him.

The Chahar scout quickly reported to Amur: "The horse thief's secret whistle has been revealed. ”

Amur spat at the mouth of the mouth and ordered: "The whole army marches and raids overnight, and this gang of horse thieves must be eliminated!" ”

This gang of horse thieves is no ordinary reckless man, and they can be seen at the slightest mistake. But no matter how well-organized the horse thieves are, it is impossible to be an enemy of the elite Chahar warriors, except for the Jurchens, the Chahar people have not yet lost a battle on the steppe.

It was already late at night, and Hanzhai was immersed in darkness and heavily guarded.

The lights in the principal's mansion were dim, and Zhai Yan had been waiting for Zuo Ruo to return.

The horses neighed at the foot of Hanzhai Mountain, and the four horsemen called the door to enter, and went straight to the main office.

"We have been ambushed, army of Chahars!" Zuo Ruo's footsteps were hurried, and he said to Zhai Zhe, who was standing at the gate of the principal's mansion.

"Where?" Zhai Zhe's heart was shocked.

"Twenty miles away from Hanzhai, I can't see clearly in the dark, many people." Zuo Ruo's heart palpitated.

"Twenty miles, it's coming soon!" Zhai Zhe was anxious in his heart and gave an order: "All battalions are ready to fight!" "I don't know if they were attacked along the way.

The presiding officer's herald ran around.

The soldiers of Hanzhai woke up from their sleep, put on their clothes and armor, and prepared their weapons and gathered everywhere. The people also got up and pushed the logs and large stones into place, and many people were uneasy.

In less than half an hour, the sound of the dense hooves of the cavalry under the Hanzhai Mountain covered the flowing water of the Tumao River.

"It's coming! Chahars! ”

Zhai Zhe squinted into the distance.

Xiao Zhiyan looked relaxed and said: "The Mongols are not good at attacking cities, and they can't attack such a strong cottage." ”

Amur did not want to talk to the people of Hanzhai, and the Chahar warriors attacked the mountain gate of Hanzhai directly.

I don't know who shouted the first killing, at the narrow intersection of Hanzhai, the Chahar people took out a simple escalator and built it on the newly built earthen wall, and hundreds of archers in the distance stretched their bows at the same time to suppress.

The long arrows were as dense as rain, and the walls of Dizhai were too short to be built, and the soldiers led by Lei Yanqian couldn't raise their heads, and the iron arrows crashed against the stone walls.

"Stop!"

As soon as Amur gave the order, the dense rain of arrows suddenly stopped, and the warriors who had already prepared under the wall quickly climbed up.

"Pikemen! Spearmen, come here! Lei Yanqian shouted loudly, unable to stop the Chahars from climbing the tower, so he could only attack while their foothold was not stable.

More than a dozen spears of three or four zhang were stubbornly pressed against the narrow entrance of the city tower, and behind the pikemen were archers pressing the formation, and the narrow intersection allowed only a dozen people on both sides to engage in battle.

Lei Yanqian led his own soldiers to stand beside the pikemen with thick-backed knives, blocking the Chahars who rushed closer.

On the top of the mountain, Zhai Zhe tried his best to see the battle under the mountain clearly, and said: "There is no way to support the gate from the top of the mountain, the key is the second mountain gate, as long as they enter the narrow road, the stones on the top of the mountain can come in handy." ”

Zuo Ruo has rich combat experience and said: "The Mongols failed to sneak attack, this attack is just a test, and the real battle is after dawn." ”

Xiao Zhiyan also hid his cynical smile and said, "Yes, the Mongolian precision arrows can't be swung in the dark, and the early morning is the real test!" ”