Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Low-Flying Eagle
Zhu Quan and Xu Ying also guessed that this team of tens of thousands of Ming troops was most likely led by Lan Yu, and they couldn't help but glance at each other when they heard this, Zhu Quan immediately asked Shen Peng to find two horses, and Xu Ying turned over on the horses, slowly walked out of the barracks, and galloped towards the north.
After a stick of incense, Shen Peng also led a caravan of more than 1,000 Mongolian and Han men, driving hundreds of trucks, bidding farewell to the joy and heading in the direction where the Ming army camp was located in the north.
On a salt cart in the convoy, Jin Yiwei knew Jiang Xian, and sat side by side with two subordinates with a frown. He failed to assassinate Arutai last night, but was injured by Takuha, but fortunately the injury was not serious. At this time, it was not his own injury that was worried, it turned out that in the second half of the night, Gui Lichi led the army to approach the Oirat camp, and was assassinated, which caused a lot of riots in the Han caravan in the military camp. To find someone among these tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, so when Shen Peng's convoy left, Jiang Xian had no choice but to follow the caravan.
In the Oirat barracks, an old man with a goatee and a young Mongolian stood side by side, it was Mahamu and his son Tuhuan.
Ma Hamu looked at the Han caravan that was gradually moving away, turned his head to look at the bandage where the blood stains on Tuohuan's arm were faintly visible, and said to his son with a little sadness: "Let's show favor to the Ming court, but I'm afraid that there will be many people in the tribe who will not accept it." ”
Tuhuan looked up at a hovering and soaring goshawk in mid-air, his eyebrows were furrowed, he sighed softly, and said slowly: "Even if it is an eagle, there are times when it flies low, if Genghis Khan had no forbearance in the past, he would have been buried in the desert long ago, how could he come to the Golden Horde?" Zhu Yuanzhang since the unification of the Central Plains, the implementation of light and thin endowment, so far more than 20 years, the Central Plains vitality has been greatly restored, now the Ming court has millions of soldiers, and the famous generals Xu Da, Feng Sheng, Mu Ying, Fu Youde are all there. The population of our tribe is the smallest among the three major tribes, and we only have 50,000 or 60,000 elites in a patchwork, how can we fight against Zhu Yuanzhang? It is better to show weakness for the time being, take advantage of the opportunity of trade and mutual market with the Ming Dynasty, recuperate, and take the opportunity to strengthen the strength. ”
Ma Hamu knew that what his son said was the matter, so he couldn't help but nodded, and suddenly asked softly: "In your opinion, when will we have a chance?" ”
Tuohuan chuckled and waved his horsewhip, and continued: "The Han people have two old sayings, called the master of high merit, the birds are exhausted, and the good bow is hidden. Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen, who assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in the past to defeat the Ming Dynasty, were literati, and didn't they lose their lives in the end? Not to mention these battle-hardened generals? ”
In the camp of the Ming army, Lan Yu got the report of the scouts, after discovering a large force of the Yuan army in the south direction, he immediately ordered the three armies to be on guard, and stood firmly in the camp surrounded by the wooden fence built last night, and he brought dozens of personal soldiers to the outside of the camp, on a slightly higher hillside, watching the Yuan army camp, when watching, a horse in the Ming army camp rode to the hillside, and the young knight turned over and dismounted on his side, it was his deputy, the deputy vanguard general Wang Bi.
Seeing that Wang Bi was no longer in the barracks to inspect his subordinates, Lan Yu came to him with a happy face, and couldn't help but be slightly displeased, and said in a low voice: "You are not in the barracks and ready to go, inspect your subordinates, what are you doing here?" "It turned out that Lan Yujiu had been in Liaodong for a long time, and he had dealt with the Yuan army to which Nahachu belonged a lot, and after watching it, he had already seen that this Yuan army was not Nahachu's department, and it was also different from the Mobei Yuan army that attacked him the night before. I couldn't help but feel overjoyed in my heart, and wanted to command my subordinates to 30,000 elites to defeat this Yuan army in one go.
Wang Bi bowed and said, "General Qiyu, His Royal Highness King Ning is back." Since Hailanda led the Yuan army to attack the Ming army camp at night, after Zhu Quan and Xu Ying were lost, Wang Bi was always worried that if something happened to this bold "His Royal Highness King Ning", he was afraid that even if he won the class, he would not be able to explain to Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
Lan Yu let out an "oh", turned around, and asked casually, "He came back alone?" ”
Wang Bi looked at Lan Yu with a disapproving expression, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, and said in his heart: Your Highness was lost in our chaotic army, how big of a deal is that? Only you, General Lan, can be so unfazed. Thinking so in his heart, he said in a deep voice: "Your Highness and one of his personal guards turned back together, and he brought an extremely important news from the Mongolian military camp, it is said that this Yuan army belongs to three tribes, and there is quite intrigue among them, I hope that the general will not act rashly, and return to the camp to listen to him explain the matter."
Lan Yu heard Wang Bi tell that Xu Ying also returned with Zhu Quan, relieved her heart, looked at the caravan that had left the Oirath military camp like a long dragon, a smile flashed in her eyes, and she said softly: "They are willing to let Shen Peng, this kid return to our side, it seems that they don't want to fight us to the death." Let's go back to the camp. After that, he turned over his horse and led Wang Bi and a group of personal soldiers back to the camp.
Outside the camp of the Mongolian three-ethnic coalition army, Guilichi and Arutai also led their own soldiers, climbed high and looked, and overlooked the Ming army camp.
Arutai said with a little melancholy: "This group of Ming troops, the men and horses are almost the same as us, hiding behind the wooden fence, supplemented by firearms, I am afraid that we will attack head-on, and the casualties will be not small." ”
Although Gui Lichi is very fierce, he is also a long-time battle-hardened person, and he will not be stupid enough to fight to the death, turned his head and looked at the 20,000 knights of the Qiergis tribe who were ready to go in the military camp and the 10,000 elites to whom Arutai belonged, and suddenly his fingers gradually walked to the Han caravan in the blue jade military camp, with a hint of ruthlessness on his face, and said with a cruel smile: "These Han caravans will naturally tell Lan Yu that the little cub is unwilling to be an enemy of the Ming Court, let's wait and see what happens, as long as Lan Yu leads the army to evacuate and get out of the Muzha military camp, Our 30,000 elite knights immediately rushed forward and killed one of them. ”
Hearing this, Arutai showed his usual smile on his face, and nodded sincerely, he is also the person who leads the troops, knowing that the Ming army cannot be like the army of the grassland tribe, tens of thousands of people are all cavalry, there must be a lot of foot soldiers with him, and the marching speed cannot be compared with the cavalry, even if they let them go for two hours first, it will be difficult to escape the fierce pursuit of the Mongolian cavalry. As long as the Ming army is not guarded by the Muzha camp and is pursued when retreating, the military spirit and formation will inevitably be scattered, and then it will become the mouth of tens of thousands of iron horsemen?
Gui Lichi turned his head to look at the Oirat camp that was not moving, and said hatefully: "This little cub of Tuhuan actually pretended to be sick, see that I cleaned up the blue jade, and then come to skin him." ”
Outside the handsome tent of the Ming army camp, Xu Ying's master Qin Zhuofeng, Zhu Quan's henchmen, Ma Sanbao, Jing Jun and Sima Chao, listened to Zhu Quan and Xu Ying tell the reason for not coming, and heard that the two of them were able to return unharmed after nine deaths, and couldn't help but secretly call it a fluke, Qin Zhuofeng scolded with a calm face: "You two little dolls are really bold, you must not be brave enough in the future, no matter how strong your martial arts are, you may not be able to save your life among thousands of troops, this time you can stay and return with a small life, it is pure luck." ”
Zhu Quan and Xu Ying recalled that night that the Yuan army to which Highlander belonged gave a sneak attack to the black-clothed knights of Feng Tieling, and the fierce battle of thousands of troops and horses, they were also secretly afraid, and they both nodded when they heard the words.
Qin Zhuofeng heard Xu Ying tell that the thousands of black-clothed knights were led by his old friend in Chen Youliang's army, Feng Tieling, and couldn't help but sigh: "The old madman used to be under Chen Youliang, and he was also a fierce general of the three armies, he is not my opponent in terms of martial arts, but if it is about marching and fighting, I can't catch up with him, I can't imagine that he is not dead until today?" Good, good, good. "Between the words, there was great joy.
When Zhu Quan heard him talk about martial arts, his heart couldn't help but move, and he immediately told the experience of fighting with the first master of the Oirat tribe, the Mongolian ugly Han Tuoyu.