As to whether they can defeat the official army, the entire Montenegrin top management is a little unconfident.

These people were driven all the way to the grassland by the official army from Daming, and they have never won a battle in the face of the official army. And the current official army is not comparable to the past, that is to be able to resist and defeat Jiannu. In the past few years in the grassland, they have heard from the herdsmen that Jiannu is as powerful as the Mongolian Khan Lin Dan Khan, and he is not the opponent of Jiannu, and was driven here by Jiannu from northern Liao.

"Rest assured, in my opinion, there is no problem for us to defeat the official army." Li Hongji said with a smile.

"Oh, what do you mean?" Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others all looked at Li Hongji without blinking. Wang Jiayin doesn't have any confidence, although Zhang Xianzhong and Gao Yingxiang want to fight, they don't have any confidence in defeating the official army, why is Li Hongji so swearing?

Wang Jiayin was even more suspicious in his heart, suspecting that Li Hongji was a fine work of the official army.

"You don't know, the current border army is not what it used to be." Li Hongji said calmly, "Last winter, Jiannu invaded Gyeonggi, and the emperor urgently summoned the troops of various provinces to Qinwang, and the border troops such as Yulin, Datong, and Xuanfu were all among the conscripts. However, in a big battle in Yongping Mansion, more than 100,000 Qinwang troops were killed by Jiannu under the command of Sun Chuanting, and only more than 10,000 people remained. If it weren't for Lu Xiangsheng and the Praetorian Guards stealing Jiannu's lair, and Jiannu was in a hurry to return, then Sun Chuanting might have been killed by Jiannu, and Jiannu took the opportunity to break through Beijing City. So now Datong, Yulin and Xuanfu, the elite border army has long been wiped out in that battle, and the rest are just old and weak soldiers, so what are you afraid of? ”

"Since the border army is as weak as you said, why does Sun Chuanting dare to attack us?" Wang Jiayinhu said suspiciously.

Li Hongji said with a smile: "Sun Chuanting has always been arrogant, and in his eyes, our Montenegro is just a rabble composed of a group of homeless people.

Big boss, leaders, I'm not saying that our Montenegro is a soft persimmon. In my opinion, the Montenegrin army is not what it used to be. We have a large number of war horses here, and there are more than 3,000 cavalry alone, and the combat power is no worse than that of the officers and soldiers. ”

"Big boss, I think General Chuang is right, we have been fighting and training brothers in the past three years, and it is no longer comparable to the past, and there should be no problem in killing and defeating the officers and soldiers." Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, was eager to try, "There is a lot of cold wind and sand outside this plug, I have long had enough, after we defeat the official army, we will attack the Ming Dynasty and sweep the provinces to be happy, isn't it much stronger than eating wind and drinking sand on the grassland?" ”

"The Eight Kings are right. Now is the best time to attack the Ming Dynasty. Li Hongji said with a smile, "The most elite Praetorian Guards of the imperial court are trapped in the battlefield of Liaodong and Liaoxi, and they are confronting Jiannu to compete for Liaoshen. As long as we can defeat the officers and troops who have been killed, the imperial court will no longer be able to send troops, unless they don't want Liaodong to recruit the Praetorian Guard. In the past few years, the provinces have been plagued by disasters year after year, the people are not able to make a living, the government has expropriated violently, the local gentry have taken advantage of the situation, and the people in the northern provinces are living in dire straits. ”

"Hahaha......" The leaders in the tent laughed.

"Okay, when the time comes, the big man will be the emperor, and I will be the prime minister with Zijinliang, and you will all be princes!" Bai Yuzhu laughed.

They are all thieves bent on rebellion, how can they be willing to hide in the grassland all the time? These people have long wanted to kill the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Jiayin's brows furrowed, and he had to admit that what Li Hongji said was very right and reasonable. The situation in China is indeed as Li Hongji said, the people of the northern provinces are not living well, otherwise there would not be the original refugees from northern Shaanxi.

It's just that the uprising with such a huge momentum was easily suppressed by the imperial court, with the tens of thousands of people in Montenegro, can it attack the Ming Dynasty? As a big boss, Wang Jiayin has to be cautious.

"Big boss, in fact, there is nothing to think about, the official army is attacking in a big way, unless we abandon Montenegro and run into the desert, we will have to fight with the official army after all, instead of passively waiting for the official army to come, it is better to take the initiative to attack, as the general said, to break through the official army." Gao Yingxiang persuaded.

"Since all the brothers agree to fight, then let's fight him with the official army!" Wang Jiayin's brows were completely furrowed, and he said proudly. Finally settled down at the southern foot of Montenegro, reclaimed more than 100,000 acres of fields, built houses, if driven to the desert by the official army, I don't know how many people will freeze to death and starve to death, so I have to fight, first drive the official army away, as for whether to attack the Ming Dynasty, and wait for later.

"Big boss, can you contact Lin Dan Khan and ask him to send some Mongolian soldiers to help us." Zijin Liang said suddenly.

"Don't think about it, it's impossible!" Li Hongji hurriedly said, "In order to deal with the attack of Jiannu, Lin Dan Khan had to rely on the support of the Ming Dynasty. It's good if Lin Dan Khan doesn't help the Ming army deal with us, and it's impossible to offend the Ming Dynasty for us. ”

"Let's send someone to Naturalization City." Gao Yingxiang said, "Regardless of whether Lin Dan Khan helps us or not, at least we can't let him help Ming Jun." ”

Wang Jiayin nodded and looked at Zijin Liang: "Brother, you are tired, go to Naturalization City." ”

"Yes, boss." Zijin Liang clenched his fists and left.

Next, everyone began to discuss how to deal with the Ming army. In the end, Li Hongji's strategy was adopted, and the Ming army took the initiative to attack and break through.

In the past three years, the displaced army has exchanged grain, vegetables, and other goods for a large number of horses from Mongolian herdsmen, and now there are as many as five or six thousand horses of all kinds alone, including more than 3,000 war horses, and the total number of cavalry in the hands of the leaders exceeds 3,000.

Wang Jiayin ordered to concentrate the cavalry in the hands of each leader, a total of 3,000 cavalry, led by himself, disguised as Mongols, hired Mongolian herdsmen as guides, crossed the Yellow River south into Ordos, and attacked the Yulin army first. The rest of the Displaced Population Army remained in Montenegro to look after their families.

As a newcomer, Li Hongji naturally took the initiative to ask for battle, and was appreciated by Wang Jiayin, so that he could fight with Gao Yingxiang's cavalry. In private, Wang Jiayin confessed to Gao Yingxiang, secretly watched Li Hongji, and killed him if there was any change.

On the second day, Wang Jiayin personally led 3,000 cavalry south, and crossed the Yellow River into Ordos one day later.

After being defeated and annexed by Lin Dan Khan, the former powerful Ordos Department has long since declined, most of the men of the tribe were recruited to the Naturalization City, and only a few small tribes remained in the eight white rooms of Genghis Khan's mausoleum, with a total population of several thousand, and they did not dare to stop the Black Mountain cavalry. Of course, the Hetao is a vast area, and there are many Mongolian tribes in other places, but there is simply no time to gather herdsmen's cavalry to intercept it.

The Wanderer Cavalry did not intend to deal with these herdsman tribes, but went south along the valley of the Ulan Mulun River. The left and right sides of the Ulan Mulun River are deserts, and if the Ming army in Yulin wants to attack Montenegro, it is most convenient to go through the river valley and get drinking water at any time.

Three days after going deep into the Hetao, the sentinel came to report that the traces of the Ming army were found ten miles ahead, Wang Jiayin was an officer of the border army, so he naturally knew the reason for the surprise, and did not stop to rest, but the whole army quickly moved forward and fought directly with the Ming army.

The distance of ten miles was reached in a moment, and then I saw the Ming army that was messing up the whole team.

The Yulin army had more than 10,000 men, but most of them were infantry, and the queue stretched seven or eight miles long along the river valley all the way to the north. In fact, at the same time that the homeless cavalry discovered the Ming army, the Ming army sentinel also noticed the existence of the homeless army. But the Wandering Army was too fast for the cavalry, and there was not much time left for the Ming Army to organize the formation, and the Yulin Army, like other border troops, lacked training, so it was impossible to organize the array in such a short time.

"The Mongols are here!" Many Yulin soldiers shouted in panic, and the already scattered queue became even more scattered.

"Hou Gui, you take the headquarters to intercept it, and I will quickly form the team." Yulin General Ma Gui ordered to General You Zhensong.

There were thousands of "Mongolian soldiers" attacking on the opposite side, and You Zhensong was naturally unwilling to take the initiative to block it, but he didn't dare to disobey the military order, so he took more than 2,000 infantry from 100 families to meet him. However, before the two sides could make contact, looking at the overwhelming "Mongol" cavalry, his 2,000 infantry collapsed at once, and countless people ran in panic shouting in all directions. These infantry are ordinary soldiers, but they spend most of their time farming, and they don't necessarily practice once a month, so where is the courage to stand up to the cavalry?

You Zhensong didn't say much when he saw this, and turned around and ran away with a hundred and ten family members. He and his men had horses, and soon outnumbered the fleeing infantry.

Ma Guizheng, the commander-in-chief, commanded his men to set up a formation, with one hundred and ten chariots in front, the infantry hiding behind the chariots, the archers and musketeers preparing to release arrows, the pikemen protecting the archers against the enemy's charge, and the cavalry hiding on both flanks as reserves.

The array is a standard Ming army array, relying on this array to resist the Mongolian cavalry for two hundred years, if it can be laid out, it is almost impossible to break the formation with the 3,000 homeless cavalry in the hands of Wang Jiayin. However, this array was too complicated, and You Zhensong lost too quickly, so he didn't buy much time at all.

Ma Gui was still directing the formation of chariots, and the rout soldiers in front of him fled, followed by the roaring and galloping "Mongolian" cavalry.

"Defeated, run away!" Where did the main force of Ma Gui's subordinates dare to stay, and then retreated.

Ma Gui shouted, and led his family to desperately block it, and personally slashed and killed more than a dozen routs, and the other routs bypassed him and his family and continued to flee south. These Yulin military households were exploited by the generals and leading officers, and they couldn't even eat enough on weekdays, so they didn't want to go out of the border wall to fight at all.

Seeing that the rout was a foregone conclusion, Ma Gui no longer struggled, and ran away with his family.

Before they could make contact, the Ming army collapsed, and the leaders of the exile army who watched were dumbfounded. When did the officers and soldiers turn out to be so weak.

"They think we're Mongols." Li Hongji said with a smile, revealing the truth of the matter.

Looking at the Mongolian robes worn by the big guys and the Mongolian-style felt hats on their heads, the leaders laughed.

In a big battle, except for three unlucky guys who fell off their horses and broke their legs, the 3,000 cavalry had no losses, but they routed 10,000 officers and soldiers, killed and wounded more than 1000, and captured more than 1,000. If it weren't for the fact that he had to deal with the other two Ming armies, Wang Jiayin was unwilling to chase far away, and there were many more prisoners than this.

The officers and soldiers fled, leaving behind a large amount of food and baggage, and countless banners and weapons that ran away along the way. Wang Jiayin left Bai Yuzhu to clean up the battlefield with 500 cavalry, slowly returned to Montenegro with the prisoners and food baggage, and returned quickly with the remaining 2,500 cavalry, preparing to deal with the other two Ming armies.

According to the report of the sentinels, the other two Ming troops went out of the Biaotou Pass one way and went north along the mountain road on the east bank of the Yellow River, and the other way went out of Weiyuan Fort and took the line of Chi'er Mountain.

"There are about 10,000 Ming troops out of the middle road, but there are as many as 30,000 people out of Weiyuan Fort on the east road, brothers, which way should we deal with first?" Wang Jiayin asked.

"The Ming army in the middle lane is close to us, and the number is small, of course we will deal with the middle lane first!" Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, shouted.

"The Eight Kings are right, fight the few first." Others said the same.

"Brother Chuang, what do you say?" Wang Jiayin looked at Li Hongji.

Li Hongji said: "Big boss, the brothers have said a lot, and it should be easy first and then difficult." However, his subordinates have a strategy, and they can easily take down the Ming army in the middle lane. ”

......

On the rugged mountain road of the East Yellow River Road, an army is moving forward, it is the Ming Army of the Middle Road, and the main general is Ai Wannian.

Suddenly, a ride came from ahead.

"Marshal, the Yulin Army has sent troops." One of his men reported.

Ai Wannian frowned: "Ma Gui is not going to attack Montenegro, what are you sending troops here for?" ”

After thinking about it, he ordered someone to bring the envoy of the Yulin army.

"Our general has crossed the Yellow River, but our army only has 10,000 people, and the strength is really insufficient, so General Ma can only order to set up a large camp with his back to the Yellow River and wait for the other two armies to meet. Because the thief army had already noticed the movement of our army, and was worried that the few soldiers of your army would be attacked by the thief army, they specially sent General Li to lead a thousand brothers to meet your army. The Yulin envoy said.

Ai Wannian sneered: "Do I need Ma Gui to send troops to respond?" ”

In Ai Wannian's opinion, Ma Gui's guy is clearly trying to humiliate himself, everyone is the same general soldier, how can you show that you are powerful, the first to approach Montenegro, and also sent troops to meet Lao Tzu.

"Dashuai, will there be fraud?" One of his subordinates said.

Ai Wannian thought for a while: "Send someone to take a look, see if it is really Yulin soldiers, and order to go down, the whole army shrinks, and rest first." ”

The sentinel who sent out the investigation soon came back and told Ai Wannian that he was really a Yulin soldier, with clothes, armor, weapons, and flags, and he couldn't pretend to be one at all. Ai Wannian relieved himself and ordered the whole army to continue to move forward.

After walking for another seven or eight miles, I finally saw the Yulin soldiers who responded and saw that more than a thousand cavalry were slowly coming.

Fuck, there are a lot of cavalry under Ma Gui! Ai Wannian couldn't help but scold, but he didn't care. Although they are all general soldiers, Ai Wannian only has the official position of chief soldier, while Ma Gui is in charge of Yulinwei, and in terms of territory, his troops are much stronger than Ai Wannian.

The two sides are getting closer and closer, and they can already see the appearance of the Yulin cavalry, all dressed in the Ming army system, and the appearance is all northern Shaanxi men, which is very different from the Mongols, Ai Wannian's heart finally let go.

However, at this moment, the Yulin army on the opposite side suddenly sped up their horse speed and rushed towards him, and Ai Wannian's eyes widened suddenly.

"Kill the officers and soldiers!" The wandering cavalry shouted, urging the war horses to slam into the Ming army columns, brandishing their sabers and slashing at the stunned Ming soldiers.

"It's a thief pretending, set up quickly!" Ai Wannian exclaimed.

But where is the time......

A thousand homeless cavalry rushed into the ranks of the Ming army and slashed and slashed, although the Ming army had 10,000 people, it was in a state of march, and there was no time to react. The front was attacked by a surprise attack and collapsed at once, and the Ming army in the back did not wait for the exile cavalry to kill, and fled backwards.

Ai Wannian wanted to run, but found that the road ahead was tightly blocked by the rout. The road here is surrounded by mountains to the east and the Yellow River to the west, making it difficult to run through the narrow mountain road.

At this moment, a burly thief will break the formation and kill, Ai Wannian looked, and saw that the thief's face looked familiar, but at this time, he didn't have time to think about it, and quickly picked up the steel knife to block, and then he felt a pain in his chest, and a spear penetrated his body.

Li Hongji pursed his lips and pulled out his spear. When I first went to Montenegro, I passed through Xuanfu and had a relationship with this Ai Wannian, but at this time, I couldn't care about it so much.

This battle was easier than dealing with the Yulin soldiers, because the mountain roads here were narrow, and many Ming troops had no way to escape, and the number of prisoners captured was as many as 3,000.

After a continuous long-distance attack, Wang Jiayin ordered the whole army to return to Montenegro with the captives.

The three-way Ming army was solved in two ways, and only the one with the largest number of people remained, but it was impossible to deceive again.

Hearing the news that the two partial divisions had been defeated, Hou Sui was shocked. Hurriedly ordered the army to stop.

According to the news from the Yulin rout, the Yulin army was attacked by tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry before it was defeated, and the news from the rout of Xuanfu on the middle road was that they were attacked by the Yulin army and were defeated.

Did the Yulin army rebel, or did the Mongols take action? Hou Sui was shocked for a while.

If you can't figure out the situation, you naturally can't continue to march. If it was really the Mongols, his army of 30,000 would not be an opponent at all.

Hou Sui ordered to be stationed in Chi'er Mountain, and at the same time sent people to report the situation to Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, and asked to return to the division. Both armies were defeated in this battle, and there was no possibility of victory.

Who knew that a few days later, but waiting for Sun Chuanting's letter, Sun Chuanting scolded Hou Sui, scolded him for his improper command and humiliation of the country, and then told Hou Sui that he had already reached an agreement with Lin Dan Khan, and the Mongols would not interfere in this operation. Most of the Mongols who defeated the Yulin army were thieves pretending to be thieves, and then the thieves put on the captured Yulin army uniforms and deceived the stupid Ai Wannian.

Sun Chuanting ordered Hou Sui to continue the march and go straight to Montenegro to exterminate the Montenegrin rebels!

PS: 5000 words big chapter.