After the sand table was made, he marked all the sides and local forces on it.

At this time, the balance of forces between the two sides is very clear, although Shazhouwei and Hachali are surrounded in the city, there are still nearly 10,000 troops in the city, which can be regarded as a large force.

As long as they find the right time, even if they are already scared by the Mongols, they will not let go of the victory that is easy to achieve.

In front of the 150,000 Mongol army, the army of less than 40,000 led by Zhu Gui and Xu Yingxu was very small.

However, Zhu Gui didn't look worried.

"Lord Wang, how are you going to fight next?" Xu Miaoqing on the side also looked eager to try, worthy of being the sister of the two generals.

"First of all, we must find the large camp of the Mongols, as long as we can defeat or even capture the leader of this Mongol army, then we can end this war." Zhu Gui did not hide his thoughts.

However, on the map sent by Xu Yingxu, there was no mark on the great presence of this Mongolian, which required Zhu Gui to figure out a way by himself.

Fortunately, the place where Zhu Gui's army was stationed was not far from the Andingwei in the rear, which would also become a place for the Mongols to fear.

Therefore, even if the Mongols reconnoitred it, the place where this army was located would not come to attack at the first time, and Zhu Gui guessed that what they had to do was to concentrate the army in this direction.

This gave Zhu Gui time, and at the same time he could wait for the arrival of the baggage troops in the rear, as well as find the location of the Mongol camp.

Just when Zhu Gui was actively deploying, the two thousand households who went out on the expedition had already rushed towards the predetermined address with a cavalry force of 2,000 people.

Due to the superiority in intelligence and the large character of the Mongols, they did not send any scouts in the surrounding directions, which led to the Ming army of 2,000 people being discovered by the other side when they were only less than 500 meters away from the other side.

But this point is already close to Qi Ming, and it is no different from sticking to the face.

Although these two Qianhu were leading their troops independently for the first time, they were deeply aware of the essence of the raid and harassment warfare that Zhu Gui usually taught them, although the enemy's strength was more than twice as large as theirs, and they were directly plunged into the enemy camp like a sharp knife.

The Mongols were immediately blinded, and they were celebrating this "great victory" tonight, not expecting that the Ming army would launch a surprise attack.

The Mongols were originally part of a coalition of the two tribes, and they had less than 33,000 men stationed in their place, and the other 2,000 were still burned by them and stationed in the villages.

The battle began very suddenly, and ended unusually quickly, in less than an hour, after half of the 3,000 Mongols were killed and wounded, the rest surrendered.

The Ming soldiers wanted to kill them all, but they were rejected by the Qianhu who led the troops.

Because they knew Zhu Gui's thoughts well, they sent a force of 100 people to send these prisoners back to Zhu Gui's camp.

They continued to lie in ambush and waited for the 2,000-strong Mongol force behind them to come back.

Zhu Gui soon received the news of the victory in the battle, and he was not surprised by this.

However, after hearing that they had captured nearly 2,000 Mongols, Xu Miaoqing said to Zhu Gui, "It's a time of war, do we still want to keep these prisoners?" Even if they don't defect, they will consume our food, not to mention that if the Mongols attack, they may start a rebellion. ”

Zhu Gui said with a smile, "Don't worry, this king has already thought about it, although this war is between the Ming and the Mongols, it does not mean that we and the Mongols have to fight to the death, on the premise of ensuring the victory of the war, we can still communicate with the Mongols." ”

"But didn't this ancient Mongol come from the Waspur tribe? They are not the same as those Mongolians outside Datong and Ganzhou. Xu Miaoqing asked a little suspiciously.

"That's right, you're right about this, but don't forget, there is not only this Dzungar force inside the Watts, they only attacked the border because of natural disasters, as long as the conditions are right, we have no fundamental conflict of interest with them, on the contrary, they still have a request for us."

Zhu Gui explained lightly.

"Asking us? The prince is talking about grain, right? But they can rob us and won't trade with us, right? Xu Miaoqing continued to ask.

"Of course, if we lose this war, then there is nothing to talk about, so only by winning this war first, can we seize the initiative in the next negotiations, so as to disintegrate the forces of the spurs from within."

Zhu Gui obviously had further consideration for the future trend of the situation.

This time Xu Miaoqing didn't say anything, just nodded, and looked at Zhu Gui with admiration on his face.

"Lord Wang, you are so powerful, what you said seems to be clearer than my eldest brother and second brother's analysis."

Xu Miaoqing couldn't help but admire.

Zhu Gui shook his head and said, "This king just saw that the military book said more, and it was far from the two generals." ”

While the two were talking, in the southeasterly direction more than 200 miles away from here, Xu Yingxu was leading his subordinates to launch a surprise attack on a Mongol camp.

Of course, this is also to echo the offensive of Zhu Gui's troops.

It's just that as Zhu Gui said, Xu Yingxu's ability to lead troops to fight is indeed not blown.

His raid route this time was very tricky, and he even bypassed several peripheral forces of the Mongols and raided one of the Mongols' granaries.

Although it was guarded by tens of thousands of elite Mongol cavalry, it was only half a night before it was completely lost.

However, because this place is in the hinterland of the Mongol forces, Xu Yingxu can only burn this place completely with a fire.

After the Mongols got the news, they sent a large army to pursue Xu Yingxu's department, but they didn't expect to be hit by the other party, and thousands of people were wiped out by surprise.

This battle can be said to be very beautiful, when Zhu Gui received the news the next day, he couldn't help but applaud, and immediately wrote a letter, reporting the battle to Nanjing, and then asking for credit for Xu Yingxu.

And the Mongols finally knew the movement of the Ming army, and a large force began to gather towards the side of Shazhouwei.

For a time, the entire northwest direction of the Ming Dynasty was covered with dark clouds, and many forces were paying attention to the final trend of this war.