Chapter Twenty-Eight: The King of Qin is Captured

"Lord Wang, Yuan Yu is cunning, this half a year with the help of the right time and place, many times harassed my Ming border, Weichen has the intention to exterminate it, but it is difficult to find no one, although there is a lot of 100,000 troops, but the battle line is too long, every city needs to be defended, and do not dare to go deep alone, it is indeed tired to deal with. Now, the prince has brought 100,000 troops, and the weather has improved, so we can change our defense to attack, starting from the easiest passes, and attacking one by one. ”

"General Li is reasonable, this time my father ordered me to expel the Northern Yuan captives, and I must have something to gain."

Zhu Di first expressed the attitude of this battle, and then said to the map: "General Li, you have been guarding the border pass for half a year, there are many large and small battles, and the soldiers are relatively tired, it is better for you to lead 100,000 soldiers to hold the two fortresses in the east and west of Xining and Juyong Pass, I led the troops to attack the Northern Yuan from the Fenzhou area, there is no danger to defend here, and there are many mountainous areas, the cavalry of the Yuan Yu will be greatly hindered, if the Yuan soldiers are beaten to Lingchuan, they can form an encirclement with Xining when they fall, and similarly, to the east, they will be able to destroy the enemy by attacking the soldiers of Juyong Pass on both sides. ”

"Good! Seconds! The prince is really strategic. General Dingyuan clasped his hands into fists and made an admiring gesture.

"With all that said, what am I doing?" After listening to this for a long time, Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, finally couldn't help it.

"Second brother, you have outstanding martial arts, and this matter of charging and sweeping the formation will be hard for you."

"Good!" Zhu Fan looked eager to try, obviously looking forward to this opportunity to show his talents.

"Second brother, tomorrow you will take 5,000 elites to raid Fenzhou, remember, after victory, hold Fenzhou City, don't attack again."

"Why don't you chase after the victory?" Zhu Fan was very puzzled.

"Second brother, the terrain in the north is complicated, although it is not conducive to cavalry, but it is conducive to ambushes, before you understand the situation, remember not to go deep into the hinterland." Zhu Di explained patiently.

"Okay."

The next day, Zhu Fan led 5,000 cavalry to raid the Yuan army, Zhu Di led the army to fully press the border, the Northern Yuan soldiers had no power to fight back, and immediately fled in all directions, and Fenzhou was easily taken.

Similarly, in the next dozens of days, Zhu Fan was the vanguard, and the Northern Yuan soldiers he encountered were all invincible, and he soon connected to the three cities.

A month later, he attacked the city of Liangzhou.

Liangzhou City is an important town in the northwest, and then to the west is the Qilian Mountains, the Qilian Mountains have complex topography, the climate in the mountains is changeable, it is a natural barrier, Liangzhou City is the last city to enter the Qilian Mountains, and Liangzhou City is another scene.

Since ancient times, Liangzhou City has been a place where literati and scholars sent their friends to part, and generals and soldiers fought bloody battles, leaving poems that can drown the entire city. Moreover, Liangzhou City connects the east, west, north and south, and when the trade between the places is carried out, they are all traded in Liangzhou City, so it can be said that Liangzhou City is a city with quite developed commerce and great diversification.

Of course, although Liangzhou City is an important town, it has a decisive military position, but there is no barrier to rely on, the whole city is built on the border of Gansu, and only the city wall is protected on all sides.

If there is an enemy attack, the only way to defend the city is to rely on the soldiers in the city. Therefore, when Zhu Fan led his troops to attack the city, the Yuan army did not respond to the battle, and directly abandoned the city and fled, all the way to the Qilian Mountains.

Zhu Fan was carried away by the continuous victories for many days, completely forgot Zhu Di's words, and chased after the vanguard soldiers all the way.

Who knows, the commander of the Northern Yuan army this time is the Mongolian captain Naier Buhua, and the main will be Thorin Timur, although Naier Buhua is weak and incompetent, timid and afraid, but Thorin Timur is wise and brave, brave and good at fighting, and can be called the first warrior of Mongolia.

The reason why it was so easy to win in the previous battles was that Zhu Di's army was overwhelming and unstoppable, and on the other hand, it was also because there were no decent generals in the previous cities.

And Liangzhou City is an important place for soldiers, it is personally seated by Thorin Timur, Thorin Timur knows that Liangzhou City is easy to attack and difficult to defend, even if it can resist Zhu Rong's advance army, it cannot resist Zhu Di's 100,000 army, so if you want to win, you can only outwit, so you can directly abandon Liangzhou City, ambush in the Qilian Mountains, and use the topography and environmental advantages of the Qilian Mountains to give the Ming army a hard blow.

If the vanguard was not Zhu Zhang, maybe Thorin Timur would have had to put a lot of effort into the success of the ambush, but Zhu Fan was more than brave, lacking in resourcefulness, fainted, and was captured alive by Thorin Timur, not to mention that there were less than 20 of the 5,000 vanguard troops left, and all of them became prisoners of Thorin Timur.

Fortunately, Zhu Fan still had a little brain, and when he noticed that something was wrong, he asked a few scouts to hide in the dark to find out the news, so that no one knew about the annihilation of the whole army.

And Zhu Di rushed all the way to Liangzhou City with an army of 100,000 troops, but as soon as he arrived in Liangzhou, he found that there was only an empty city, and Zhu Fan and others were nowhere to be seen.

In the past, if Zhu Fan broke through the city, he would send people on duty, and go out of the city to meet Zhu Di, if he did not break through the city, Zhu Di arrived when he was also in the flames of war, and then joined the war and won the door in one fell swoop, how can there be such an empty city today?

"Oh no, King Qin shouldn't chase him out, right?" Su Ying, who accompanied Zhu Di all the way, said worriedly.

Zhu Di didn't answer, but his tight eyebrows showed that he also agreed with Su Ying's words.

"Su Ying, the five of you will take five thousand light horsemen with me to support and strive to recover King Qin. Jiang Li, you bring 20,000 horses and horses to follow. Leng Feng, Liangzhou City has been taken, do a good job of follow-up matters, the large army is stationed outside, it is strictly forbidden to disturb the people and rob money, and come to support after receiving the signal. ”

Zhu Di quickly made arrangements, and then chased in the direction of Qilian Mountain non-stop, only to see the dust outside Liangzhou City.

It's a pity that the sky was unsatisfactory, Zhu Di and others chased all the way to the foot of Qilian Mountain, but they never found Zhu Fan and others, so they had to search everywhere.

Later, the searchers found two weak Ming soldiers in the grass and brought them to Zhu Di.

After being helped over, the two soldiers immediately knelt down, disheveled, their faces covered with mud, and they were very embarrassed.