On the second day after returning to Weiyuan Fort, Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, rushed to Weiyuan Fort with 8,000 Janissary Guards, and took over the entire defense of Weiyuan Fort in the name that the defeated army needed to rest, and drove the defeated army to the barracks.

Then Sun Chuanting ordered that all the generals be convened to discuss the proceedings, and as soon as the deliberations began, he ordered all the generals participating in the deliberations to be controlled.

"Commander, it's the incompetence of the lower officials, it's not the business of the soldiers, and the lower officials are willing to accept the guilt from the imperial court." Hou Sui stood up in shock and hurriedly shouted.

Sun Chuanting smiled coldly: "Governor Hou, as the commander of the army, you commanded an army of 50,000 to go to Montenegro, but the three-way army was gone, so naturally you can't escape the punishment of the imperial court. Come, take the governor down to rest. ”

As the governor of the three sides, Sun Chuanting has the right to dispose of any general, but Hou Sui is a civil official of the three grades and is not within the scope of Sun Chuanting's disposal.

"Governor Sun, he is a thief and cunning, and he actually burned the grassland, which is not a crime of war!" Zuo Liangyu shouted in horror.

Sun Chuanting said in disgust: "As a commander of the army, you should be familiar with military books, but you have fallen for an inferior fire attack plan, it is really a waste, what else is there to say!" ”

Bai An, Hu Dawei and others were dejected, but no one dared to resist and let the Praetorian Guard soldiers escort them down. At this moment, the Ming Dynasty is not the last year of Chongzhen in another time and space, although there are signs of warlords, but the generals are not so domineering, no one dares to resist the governor sent by the imperial court, and it is the governor who arrived with an army of 8,000.

Hou Sui returned to his residence, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he couldn't accept it until now, and the 50,000 army was so defeated against tens of thousands of thieves. And what made him even more unacceptable was Sun Chuanting's attitude. Obviously, this battle was insisted on by Sun Chuanting, and the generals of the army who sent troops were decided by Sun Chuanting, and the strategy of sending troops on three roads was also formulated by Sun Chuanting, but the responsibility for the defeat was all to be resisted by himself, what is the reason?

The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, and Hou Sui immediately wrote a letter with a candle, saying that he wanted to go to the court to explain the truth of the war, and at the same time ask for help from the same party in the court. If all the responsibility for this battle is borne by himself, he will definitely be dismissed and imprisoned, which is unacceptable to Hou Sui.

As a governor and a feudal official, Hou Sui has his own power, and even Sun Chuanting can't stop it.

At this moment, Sun Chuanting didn't have time to pay attention to Hou Xun.

The three-way army was defeated and retreated, and although Hou Sui was responsible for commanding the troops, he was also unable to get out of it as the governor of the three sides. Therefore, the Montenegrin thieves must be quickly suppressed in order to silence the crusade against themselves in the court, and then the entire trilateral army can be reorganized according to the plan.

A large number of sentry cavalry were dispatched, and soon the traces of the Black Mountain thieves were discovered, and Sun Chuanting was surprised to find that the Black Mountain thieves actually attacked Yulin in a big way, and they were currently confronting Zhang Shize in Zhenqiang Fort.

After Hou Sui led the Three-Way Army to the expedition, in order to prevent accidents, Sun Chuanting ordered Zhang Shize to lead the Yansui Janissary Army to the north. Among them, 5,000 guards came to Datong and obeyed the command of Sun Chuanting, and Zhang Shize brought 7,000 troops to be stationed in Yulinwei. After the initial decision of Liaoxi, considering the need to restructure the trilateral military town, Zhang Shize was transferred back to Yan'an, and more than 10,000 Yansui soldiers who went out from Yansui also returned to northern Shaanxi.

Zhang Shize was in Yulin, and Sun Chuanting himself was in Datong, each leading thousands of Praetorian Guards, which was his confidence in the reorganization of the Datong Yulin border army. As for the Montenegrin thieves, they are not in Sun Chuanting's eyes at all.

The news kept coming, and Sun Chuanting soon learned the truth about the thief's appearance in Yulin.

At that time, the Liumin Army dispatched a total of 2,000 cavalry, in order to delay the speed of the Ming army's attack on Montenegro and to delay the time until winter. As long as it is winter, the next heavy snowfall, the Ming army will be trapped in the snowfield, and the Montenegrin wandering army has long been accustomed to the winter climate on the grassland, even in the heavy snow, it is not impossible to wipe out the Ming army.

Everything was planned very well, and it was carried out according to the plan, and there was no problem at all in slowing down the marching speed of Hou Sui's army. However, neither Wang Jiayin nor Gao Yingxiang knew that there were spies of the Ming army in the exile army.

Li Hongji's initial task was to penetrate into the exile army and try to help the imperial court solve this hidden danger. And after Sun Chuanting became the governor of the tripartite, he got a new directive to help complete the reorganization of the trilateral army with the help of the Liumin Army.

Time was pressing, Li Hongji naturally could not let the war drag on until winter, as a general of the Ming army, he did not want to see all Hou Sui's 30,000 troops fall on the grassland.

Therefore, when he attacked Hou Sui's army with the cavalry, Li Hongji offered a fire attack plan to Gao Yingxiang, who led the troops. In the grassland in late autumn, the grass and trees are withered, as long as you put a fire, you can make the Ming army collapse, and then 2,000 cavalry take the opportunity to attack, and it is not impossible to completely annihilate the 30,000 Ming army.

Gao Yingxiang was very moved when he heard it, and he didn't have time to tell Wang Jiayin in Montenegro, so he launched a fire attack.

However, things are out of control. The fire on the grassland is by no means controllable, the fire burned to the Ming army and also burned to the homeless cavalry, not to mention attacking the Ming army, the homeless cavalry themselves were burned to the ground, desperately beating horses and escaping from the fire.

After returning to Montenegro, Gao Yingxiang and others were scolded by Wang Jiayin. Setting fire to the steppe is too much, and once it spreads, it will inevitably be attacked by all the Mongol tribes. You must know that there are many tribes living in this desert grassland, and I don't know how many Mongolian tribes will be burned in this fire, and I don't know how many herdsmen, cattle and sheep will be buried in the fire. Although Lin Dan Khan of Guihua City had to rely on the Black Mountain Exile Army to resist the Jiannu, he would never tolerate it after knowing the arson.

It can be said that this fire basically cut off the back road of tens of thousands of displaced troops in the grassland.

However, it is useless to regret it now, and I have to think about what to do next.

Li Hongji took the opportunity to put forward his own views and suggested that when the Ming army was defeated and retreated on three routes, he would send troops to attack the Ming Dynasty. At this moment, whether it is Datong or Yulin, the Ming army is empty, and it is a good time to return to the country.

Li Hongji's strategy was supported by most of the exiled generals of Montenegro, and since he couldn't stay in the grassland, it was naturally the best way to kill the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the successive defeats of the three-way Ming army also made the morale of these exile generals high, and they all thought that the official army was nothing more than that. In the past, everyone couldn't beat the official army because they were all homeless people who didn't know how to fight, but now it's different, after three years on the grassland, the Montenegrin Army has become an elite division. can defeat the official army on the three sides, and the official army in the mainland is not worth mentioning, and many leaders are already imagining the happy life of wanton plundering after returning to the Ming Dynasty.

The army's aspirations were that Wang Jiayin could not ignore the shouts of the leaders, so he had to make the decision to kill back to the Ming Dynasty. However, out of prudence, he vetoed Li Hongji's suggestion to attack Datong, and instead decided to return to Datong from the more familiar Yulin.