Although Feng Tieling had never fought with the three tribes such as Oirat, he had also heard Zhu Quan talk about what he had seen and heard in the Oirat tribe, and replied with a sneer: "Yes, the purpose of our 150,000 Han people's Northern Expedition is to take revenge and slash the Tartar Emperor, but they may not all want to give their lives to the Tartar Emperor, and the disharmony of the army is their fatal point."

When the two were talking, there were bursts of drums in the far away in the camp of the Ming army, and it was obvious that Lan Yu was beating drums in the tent of the Chinese army again, Zhu Quan and Feng Tieling hurriedly turned around and got on their horses, and galloped towards the big tent of Lan Yu in the military camp.

When the two of them entered the big tent of the Chinese army, they saw that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and a group of generals and colonels were already in the solemn column of Lanyu.

Lan Yu, who was dressed in armor, was pacing back and forth in the tent, seeing that all the important people in the army were gathered, after scanning everyone's eyes, he said in a deep voice: "You wait until you go back and give your own orders, let the army feed the war horses, rest early, and the whole army will start at noon tonight." Each person carried two days' rations and drinking water, and the camp tent and heavy grain and grass were not required. Speaking of this, he suddenly turned his head to his deputy, "Dingyuan Marquis" Wang Bi ordered: "Leave a thousand cavalry, select a clever hundred households to lead, and when our army leaves the camp, beat the war drums, blow the horn, shout loudly, and make the momentum of attacking the mountain." ”

Zhu Quan, Zhu Di and the others couldn't help but be confused when they heard what Lan Yu said, and they couldn't help but look at each other. ”“

Zhu Quan frowned and asked, "I don't know where we're going?" ”

Lan Yu took out the three-foot long sword on his waist, pointed to a place on the map, and said categorically: "Fishing in the sea, this commander wants to wave his army north and level the golden horde." Speaking of this, his eyes flashed with a cold glow like a sharp edge out of the sheath, and seeing that everyone still didn't fully understand, he turned his head and said loudly: "Please Mr. Fang." ”

When the handsome tent generals were wondering, they saw a figure swaying, and a figure walked out of the back tent, one-armed green shirt, carrying a long sword, it was Qin Zhuofeng's friend, the head of the shadowless sword, Fang Jinsong.

Zhu Quan had personally sent his master and Fang Jinsong away a few months ago, and at this time, seeing him suddenly appear, but he appeared alone, he couldn't help but be a little worried about his master Qin Zhuofeng, seeing that at this time he was discussing the plan of the Northern Expedition, so he forced himself to press the words that had already been asked.

Fang Jinsong gestured slightly to Zhu Quan and his friend Feng Tieling in the tent, then walked to Lan Yu's side, pointed to a place on the fishing side of the sea on the map, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Qin and I witnessed with our own eyes that the court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty is stationed here, followed by about 100,000 cavalry, at least 200,000 family members of the army, and hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses. Speaking of this, after a slight pause, he looked at Zhu Quan and said with a smile: "When the hundreds of thousands of horses of the Northern Yuan Dynasty went south, I quietly followed them all the way, but Brother Qin stayed near the fishing sea, followed and monitored the movements of the Tartar Emperor, and when you rushed back to Daning a few days ago, you had already gone to Gyeongju under the leadership of General Lan, so you quickly whipped up and caught up." ”

It turned out that after Lan Yu's army had just set up camp in Gyeongju, Fang Jinsong had already rushed to Lan Yu's tent. After Lan Yu heard the movements of the Yuan army from Fang Jinsong, he only told him to hide behind the handsome tent where he lived, and not to leak this matter to anyone, so he didn't say that it was Wang Bi, Guo Ying and other generals, even Zhu Quan and Feng Tieling and others, they didn't know about it.

Fang Jinsong turned his head to Lan Yu and said: "At present, although we are much closer to the fishing sea than Qingzhou, we are also two hundred miles away, and more than 100 miles of it is a desert with no grass and no water source. ”

Lan Yu nodded, turned his head to Wu Dinghou Guo Ying and ordered: "Let the remaining thousands of military horses carry as many sheepskin water bags as possible and follow the army to set off." "It turns out that last time, the two Chang Mao brothers were ordered by Emperor Hongwu to bring more than 10,000 military horses to supplement the Blue Jade Northern Expedition army, in addition to replenishing the war horses that have died of illness in the past few months, there are thousands of remaining in the army.

Guo Ying saw that the army was about to attack the Northern Yuan Golden Horde, and he couldn't help but be very excited, bowed down and took the order, and asked his subordinates to lead more than 1,000 people to the river not far from the army camp to get water and put it into sheepskin water bags.

Fang Jinsong said in a deep voice: "The old man and the old man Qin have been following the Tartar army for a long time, and they have also sneaked into their military camp at night, but the Tartar Emperor has about four or five thousand ironclad cavalry to protect him day and night. ”

All the generals in the tent heard what Fang Jinsong said, and their hearts couldn't help but sink, they were all battle-hardened generations, and they naturally knew that with the light cavalry of the Ming army under their head, the people and horses of the Yuan army were all wearing iron armor, and the heavy cavalry that was difficult to injure under the arrows and knives was bound to pay tragic casualties.

"The last general asks the marshal for orders and leads these brothers under his command to deal with the Tartar Emperor's imperial army." A one-eyed old man walked out of the queue slowly, and said lightly, it was Feng Tieling.

Lan Yu has vaguely guessed the emperor's mind since Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to recruit Chen Youliang's former subordinate Feng Tieling and lead them on the Northern Expedition, and has watched the thousands of black-armored cavalry drills several times in the past few months, and has already known that if Feng Tieling's soldiers talk about marching and fighting, they are not weaker than their own lineage in Liaodong, and they all practice martial arts, and their ability to fight alone is far better than that of ordinary Ming soldiers. At this time, after hearing Feng Tieling's words and orders, he also agreed. After a little muttering, he pointed at Feng Tieling and said in a deep voice: "Select five hundred outstanding martial artists under your command, and after our army starts tonight, disperse to be responsible for robbing and killing Hara Wenshan, a scout sent by the Yuan army to Mobei to report the news. ”

After Feng Tieling bowed down to receive the order, he turned around and walked out of the tent quickly.

Zhu Quan heard what Lan Yu said, and asked all the Ming soldiers to only bring two days' rations, so he couldn't help frowning and asked, "Then what should we do with the rest of the grain and grass?" ”

"I don't know who is the commander of the Yuan army in Hara Wenshan?" A young man asked Shi Ran beside him, it was Zhu Di, the king of Yan. It turned out that he looked at the camp of the Yuan army stationed on the side of the mountain during the day, and found that their banners were different, and the camping was also slightly different, so he couldn't help but ask questions under curiosity.

Fang Jinsong pondered for a while and then said: "The commander is an important minister of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, about half of this group of Yuan troops is under the command of the Northern Yuan Emperor, and the other half seems to belong to three different tribes. ”

Zhu Di stroked his palms and laughed: "This is very good. Seeing that the people around him were looking at him with puzzled eyes, he immediately smiled and said to Lan Yu: "Why don't we just be a favor and leave all the grain and grass that we can't take away to the tartars." ”

Seeing that Zhu Di said this, Chang Mao couldn't help crying and laughing, and muttered in his mouth: "Your Highness Qiqi, we are here to find the Tartars to work hard, and we are not relatives, what kind of gift do you give?" In my opinion, all the food that can't be taken away is burned, and not a single grain of food is left for them. ”

Zhu Quan heard Zhu Di say this, and suddenly secretly admired under his realization, and said in a deep voice: "The Northern Yuan Dynasty military and civilians combined, there are hundreds of thousands of people, after several heavy snows last winter, it is difficult to recover the vitality, these grains and grasses are more precious than pearls for them, let them go to divide the spoils unevenly, dog eats dog." Even if they don't kill each other, they are bound to slow down the pace of these grain and grass burdens, and buy us time to move north. Saying this, his eyes glanced at Zhu Di, who was calm, and secretly thought in his heart: This Zhu Laosi is really his mother's loss. It's like piling up a mountain of gold in front of a group of robbers, and they are bound to cause a lot of trouble because of the issue of dividing the spoils.

Lan Yu heard that Zhu Di's thoughts coincided with herself, and she was secretly awe-inspiring in her heart, and thought: No wonder the Chinese side is filial, Huang Zicheng's gang of rotten Confucians talk about this Yan King, and they are all like facing a great enemy. It seems that when I return to Yingtian, I have to advise His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and ask him to be careful against this King Yan. Thinking of this, Zhu Quan, who squinted at the side, said angrily: As soon as this kid heard King Yan's idea, he immediately helped on the side, it seems that the two of them have already been embarrassed, and they have to let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince be careful. He, like Mu Ying, is a general who holds military power in the army and is loyal to the prince Zhu Biao, so he is naturally hostile to King Yan and King Ning.

After receiving the command of the commander Lan Yu for a while, all the generals in the marshal tent hurried back to the camp, passed down the military order, and asked the Ming soldiers under him to prepare quietly for tonight's departure.

In Zhu Quan's tent, Fang Jinsong was feasting on the hot meal brought by the scholar Ma Sanbao, completely lacking the elegance he saw every day. After eating like a whirlwind, he wiped his mouth with his sleeve, looked at Zhu Quan with a smile and said: "Your Highness, it's no wonder, the old man and Boss Qin have lived like a savage in a barren place like Mobei in the past few months, and they haven't eaten such a hot meal for a long time. ”

"I don't know how the two seniors lived in a deserted place like Mobei?" Ma Sanbao poured Fang Jinsong a full cup of tea and asked respectfully.

Fang Jinsong said with a smile: "When there is nothing to eat, Boss Qin and I can only lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, attracting those ferocious wild wolves to approach and slaughter them, and we are so hungry during the day that we dare not make a fire for the Yuan army scouts to discover, only wolf flesh and wolf blood quench thirst, and swallow the wolf cubs alive." ”

Zhu Quan looked at the dumbfounded Ma Sanbao, and couldn't help laughing, but he sighed secretly in his heart, and secretly thought to himself: I don't know how many hardships and hardships the master and Fang seniors have experienced in the past few months, and they have died in a lifetime. Thinking that his master is still fishing in the sea, I can't help but feel very worried.

Fang Jinsong naturally knew what he was thinking, and Wen Yan persuaded: "Your Highness, please rest assured, Boss Qin will not do that risky act of sacrificing his life to assassinate the Tartar Emperor." In the past, when he and I were young, he also had the idea of going to Dadu to assassinate the Tartar Emperor, but the old man said to him at the time that a mediocre and confused Tartar Emperor was the great helper of all our Han rebels, and it would have great benefits to keep it and not kill it. ”

Ma Sanbao couldn't help but wonder when he heard Fang Jinsong say this. You must know that all the generals of the Ming army he saw on weekdays, and even ordinary people, when they talk about Tartar, they all hate it to the bone, and they can't wait to sleep on its skin and eat its flesh to relieve their hatred, how can Fang Jinsong actually say that the Tartar Emperor is the helper of the Han rebels?

Zhu Quan recalled that he had heard his master Qin Zhuofeng say that the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty who personally led the army to besiege Zhang Shicheng escaped and finally died under a holy decree of the Tartar Emperor, and he already understood what Fang Jinsong was referring to in his heart, and couldn't help but put his mind at ease, and said with a chuckle: "My master may not be able to assassinate the Yuan Dynasty Tartar general even if they sacrifice their lives, but the emperor may take away his military power with a holy decree, and even take his dog's life, isn't it the helper of all our Han people?" ”

Fang Jinsong couldn't help but stroke his palm and laugh when he heard this: "That's right. ”

At midnight, in the Oirat military camp on the side of Mount Haravin, he was lying on the carpet with his eyes closed. When he was in Liaodong, he had witnessed the fierceness and sharpness of the Ming army under Lan Yu, last time Lan Yu only had 30,000 horses, he dared to call for battle with his three clans, and now he has 150,000 troops under his command, what else can not be done? When the two armies confronted each other, they really couldn't be careless.

At this moment, there was a faint sound of horns and fighting in his ears, and Tuhuan opened his eyes and Huo Ran got up. Facing an Oirat knight who was hurrying into the camp, he asked in a deep voice, "The Ming army has been killed?" ”

I saw that the Oirat knight dressed as the captain of ten thousand was tall and looked quite vicious, and it was Su Lan's guard, Nasutai, who had competed with Zhu Quan. It turned out that he was bent on making military merits, so this time he followed Tuhuan to the expedition.

Nasutai nodded, and said to Tuhuan: "The Ming army attacked our military camp at night from the north, please make a decision." ”

Tuhuan hurried out of the tent where he lived, turned over his horse, rode his horse and galloped north, and asked Nasutai beside him, "How many men and horses are coming?" ”

Nasutai said angrily: "These Han people are as cunning as foxes, taking advantage of the dark night to sneak quietly in front of the camp, a bow and arrow are shot, and there are not many men and horses yet. ”

After a cup of tea, the two of them had already ridden to the north of the Oirat barracks. In the light of the torches, I saw that thousands of Oirat knights in the camp had already poured out of the camp tent like a tide, armed with scimitars, and sitting on horses with bows and arrows on their backs, ready to fight.

Tuhuan looked at the arrows on the ground on the camp, and then looked at the corpses of the dozens of Oirats soldiers who were killed by the arrows of the Ming army, and couldn't help frowning, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that the night attack of the Ming army is only harassing the hearts of our soldiers, not pouring into the nest. ”

At this moment, a trumpet faintly sounded from the far east, and it was obvious that there was also an enemy.