Chapter Seventy-Eight: Judging the Situation and Assessing the Situation
As soon as the Mongolian cavalry staggered out of the tent, he heard a burst of feathered arrows breaking through the air and the muffled sound of arrows entering the flesh, and listening to the sound, at least seven or eight arrows were hit.
Seeing that he was in such a dangerous situation, Zhu Quan was still calm and calm, and his mind was clear, which was even more awe-inspiring.
After a while, the sound of fighting became quieter. When the big tent was stirred, a Mongolian man with a blue nose and swollen face held two shields and rushed into the big tent, which was Su Lan's subordinate Nasutai.
Seeing that it was Nasutai, Tuhuan's expression eased, put down the scimitar in his hand, and asked in a deep voice, "What is the situation outside?" ”
Nasutai bowed and said: "There are dozens of enemies outside, and the clothes are the soldiers of the Mobei Yuan Court, and they have been besieged by me at this time, please follow me out of the account." ”
Tuhuan heard that the situation had been controlled, and hurriedly greeted Su Lan, Zhu Quan, and Xu Ying to go out together.
Outside the tent, there were more than 20 corpses on the ground, and the remaining 20 or so Mongolian knights covered in blood were besieged by hundreds of Oirat knights, forced in a corner, although they were still armed with weapons, but they had no power to fight back. It is evident that they are all people who have come to assassinate them.
An old man with a goatee sat on a steed, accompanied by a hideous-looking Mongol man, surrounded by a group of guards, who came to Tuhuan's body, the leader of the Oirat tribe, Tuhuan's father, Mahamu and Tuoyu.
Seeing that his son was wounded on the arm, Mahamu couldn't help but be concerned, but when he was about to speak, he saw Su Lan's tent lifted, and a centurion with a scimitar in his hand walked out, walking towards the group of besieged Mongol knights, who was obviously the leader of this group of assassins.
Seeing that he had no way to go to heaven, the besieging Oirat knights also sideways to make way for a way. .com
Ma Hamu said to Tuhuan with a pleasant face: "Are you okay?" Seeing that he shook his head, he immediately said in a deep voice: "Gui Li Chi has bad intentions and leads a large group of men and horses to approach the military camp, but fortunately, we have been prepared for a long time and have not suffered a loss. Gui Lichi asks you to come out and speak. With that, he turned to the group of Assassins and shouted, "Lay down your swords and tell who you are commanding, and you may be able to save your lives." He couldn't help but be surprised to see that the dress of this group of Mongol knights was not owned by the three tribes to which the army belonged.
The besieged centurion sneered and scolded: "You Oirats, who are afraid of the army of the Ming Dynasty, are not worthy of being called steppe warriors. "He does not discard his weapon.
Hearing Gui Lichi's attack, Tuhuan's face was cloudy, and he suddenly gave an order: "All the troops listen to the order and prepare to release arrows." ”
A group of Dehuan's subordinates who were eyeing him suddenly received the order, and they all opened their bows and arrows, aiming at the group of besieged knights.
Hearing this, Mahamu frowned, and whispered to his son beside him: "These guys are strange, don't you leave a living mouth for interrogation?" ”
Tuohuan shook his head, and with a wave of the scimitar in his hand, hundreds of feathered arrows suddenly rained out, shooting all the assassins below the centurion like hedgehogs.
Tuhuan instructed Nasutai beside him: "Bring their corpses with me, and follow me to see Gui Lichi." With that, he turned his horse and led his knights towards the camp of the Birgiz tribe.
Although Mahamu was suspicious in his heart, he knew his son's ability, so he didn't ask much, and led Su Lan to follow.
Zhu Quan and Xu Ying glanced at each other, and also followed, intending to see how the conflict between their two clans would end. .com
At this time, the sky had already broken slightly, and the eastern sky was also showing the whiteness of the fish's belly. At the junction of the military camps of the Oirat tribe and the Qiergis tribe, it was also crowded, and in front of the black and oppressive knights, a Mongolian man with a grim face sat on a war horse, and it was Gui Lichi, who looked at each other coldly, but it was a large group of knights led by a captain of the Oirat tribe. Although the two sides were silent, they were on the verge of breaking out, and the tension was tense.
Gui Lichi's face was indifferent, and his heart was awe-inspiring, it turned out that after he had just launched a large army, he realized that it was not only Dehuan's subordinates, but also the Asut tribe, and the more than 10,000 elites under Arutai's subordinates, also seemed to have been prepared, and he couldn't help but change his mind: Wait for the opportunity to act, don't make trouble to the end. Just thinking of this, seeing the father and son of Tuohuan walking towards him surrounded by a group of knights, his heart sank even more, and he said: What does he say?
Tuhuan rode his horse to a distance of more than ten zhang from Gui Lichi, but did not speak, and ordered his subordinates to carry over the corpses of the knights who had assassinated him, put them on the ground, looked at Gui Lichi, and asked, "I don't know what my uncle led the army to approach, but for what reason?" ”
Guili saw the assassination of Tuhuan with his bare eyes, and all of Highlander's subordinates, from the centurion and below, were all corpses not far from his horse, relieved his heart, and said with a calm face: "After you left, my subordinate guards found a guard who was subdued and couldn't move, and it was obvious that there were assassins hiding in the Han caravan, I wanted to be cautious, but this centurion was a subordinate of General Highlander of Mobei Yuanting, and he came here to ask for help, and I happened to hear about it, just because he was hostile to the Han people, and he took advantage of the middle of the night to sneak into your military camp, Intending to kill all these cunning Han Chinese, I was afraid of misunderstanding after I found out, so I led my army here. ”
Tuohuan pretended to be relieved, nodded, turned his head and shouted to the black-pressed knight: "It turned out to be a misunderstanding, put away all the weapons for me, what are you making a fuss about." ”
Guili saw that Tuhuan was not dead, and the Oirat army was obviously prepared, and knew that it would not be good to please, so he also pretended to order his subordinates to put away their weapons.
At this moment, a Mongolian knight rode a horse, ran to Gui Lichi, bowed down and said: "My Khan asked the little Khan to report to the Khan, and found a large Ming army about seven miles north. "It turned out that he was a scout under the command of Arutai of the Asut tribe, and he had come to report the enemy.
Gui Lichi and Dehuan, Mahamu's face changed greatly when he heard this. Guili asked with a calm face, "How many centaurs are there?" ”
The scout shouted, "It's not yet dark, but from a small distance, the size of the military camp is at least tens of thousands of horses. ”
"Hurry up and bring more scouts, and then explore." Gui Lichi commanded. It turned out that he was still nominally the commander of the three-clan alliance this time, and had the right to command.
Tuhuan turned his head to look at his father Mahamu, bowed and said, "The little nephew will go back to the camp to rectify the military horses, and he will obey his uncle's dispatch at any time." ”
Guili saw that the enemy was present, and he did not have the slightest intention of fighting, so he led his men and horses back to the camp.
Zhu Quan and Xu Ying walked side by side towards the camp where they lived, and Zhu Quan suddenly whispered: "If it weren't for the fact that our Han caravan was in the barracks, and it would be difficult to suffer from the pond fish under the scuffle, I would let Na Tuhuan die at the hands of the assassins, and they would fight you to the death." It turned out that although the two of them didn't understand Mongolian, they were standing beside Su Lan before, and under her translation, they knew about Gui Lichi and Tuhuan's words, as well as the military situation reported by the Mongolian scout.
Xu Ying thought so deeply in her heart, but remembered that Zhu Quan seemed to have listened to Su Lan's call before she came to help, glared at Zhu Quan hatefully, and said angrily: "I thought you couldn't stand Su Lan's words of Yingying Yanyan, and you had the intention to please her." ”
When Zhu Quan heard her mention Su Lan, he couldn't help but smile wryly, and whispered in Xu Ying's ear: "She is a little hairy child." What am I doing to please her? Speaking of this, he suddenly blew into Xu Ying's ear and said with a wicked smile: "Maybe I was fascinated by her beauty, and I was soft-hearted for a while, but I didn't say it was necessarily." ”
Xu Ying's ears tickled him, and he couldn't help but chase after him with his fist.
Zhu Quan said: "Looking at the actions of the detached Huan Fangcai, under the tense situation, this kid can still resolve the crisis with a heavy weight, and he may become a big problem for the Ming court in the future, but when this army is on an expedition to Liaodong, he, as the head of the Oirath tribe, is indispensable for us to divide the alliance of the three clans." ”
When he returned to the caravan's camp, he saw Shen Peng directing a group of men to pack up the camp tent vehicles, looking like they were ready to leave.
Shen Peng saw that the two of them had returned safely, and couldn't help but put his mind at ease, and whispered to them: "Tuhuan said that this Ming army is likely to belong to General Lan Yu, and asked us to leave the camp quickly and go to General Lan's camp, which shows that the Oirat tribe is willing to make friends with the Ming court, and he also said that as long as the Ming army does not attack, he will temporarily hold his troops and wait and see what happens." ”