In mid-August, Shaharu decided to withdraw his troops and leave the border from Pohu Fort.

The reason why Hu Fort was chosen to break is that in addition to the name of this fort that he hates, it is also because this is the city wall built in the Hongwu period, which will be small in scale, and it was not repaired until the Chenghua and Hongzhi periods in history, and then strengthened in Xijing and Wanli.

At this time, Shaharu had about 360,000 troops in his hands, basically all of which were his elite main force, and there were 500,000 horses accompanying him, many of which were carrying grain and grass.

With such a large team, whether attacking or retreating, it is a huge project.

On 16 August, Shahru's army headed north, but as soon as they reached the northern tributary of the Sangan River, they found that the bridge over the river had been blown up.

Shaharu hurriedly found the local people of the Ming people who were caught, and through the people led the way, he found that the three bridges that could be crossed to the north were blown up by the Ming people.

So they either find a way to build a bridge or take a detour.

Shaharu entered the Ming realm to find a decisive battle with the Ming army, and the people who were heavy and could build bridges followed behind the Fort Hu, and they were defeated by the Ming army before they could enter.

Now he was dumbfounded, and Shaharu had to take a detour.

On the 17th, just as Shaharu was leading his army to the west and north, the sentry cavalry reported that a large force of Ming cavalry had appeared ten miles away, as if it was coming from the direction of Datong.

Shaharu was overjoyed and led his soldiers and horses to turn around and fight the Ming army.

Unexpectedly, when the Ming army saw them turn back, they immediately turned around and ran.

Shaharubai ran for dozens of miles and didn't catch up, and he was half dead of anger.

He turned around and took another detour.

The Ming army followed again.

He sent a large number of sentry cavalry to find out how many soldiers and horses the Ming army had, but the sentry cavalry was no match for the Ming army's sentry cavalry, and it was difficult to get close.

In the end, a large number of casualties were paid, and finally a little bit of the scale was seen, and it was estimated that the Ming army had thirty or forty thousand people, and all of them were cavalry.

He was sure that the Ming army came out of Datong, and probably brought the soldiers and horses of Huairen County, which knew that he was blocked in his retreat and was ready to come over to attack from both sides.

Sure enough, the next day he received news that there were 30,000 or 40,000 Ming troops on the side of Hubao (in fact, there were only more than 20,000 cavalry) who were also coming here.

The Ming army wants to fight with us in the field?

Shaharu felt that the Ming army had few soldiers and horses, so he didn't dare to fight with him in the field, and decided to let the two Ming armies converge.

He took more than 300,000 more than 500,000 war horses, slowly swallowed west, and then went north, and when he arrived near Weiyuanwei on August 20, the two divisions of the Ming army really converged.

At this time, after the two divisions of the Ming army converged, all cavalry, about 60,000 people, and those who came from Zhuhu Fort were still one person and two horses, all of which were horses under Shaharu's subordinates.

After Shaharu and the other Ming troops converged, they turned around again and wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army.

The Ming army retreated.

Shaharu had no choice but to continue northward with a scolding and came to the foot of Pohu Fort on August 22.

Pohu Fort will still be a small fort, and the surrounding city walls are also small, and many places are thousands of years old city walls, dilapidated and unrepaired.

However, Zhu Gaoxu's 20,000 infantry battalions that came in from Fort Zhuhu had already dispersed into the forts.

There are more than 2,000 elite garrisons in Pohu Fort.

Without saying a word, Shaharu gave the order to attack.

As soon as they attacked, the Ming cavalry also captured from behind.

Shaharu was not in a hurry and sent 100,000 horsemen to meet the Ming army.

The Ming army's style of play is similar to that of the Mongols, specializing in plundering, the enemy advances and I retreat, I retreat and I chase, Shaharu's 100,000 cavalry is led by the nose by tens of thousands of Ming troops, one will go south, one will go north, one will go west, and all the way to be shot dead and wounded.

Shaharu didn't expect the Ming army to shoot so strongly, and his 100,000 cavalry was so embarrassed that he couldn't parry.

He sent another 100,000 horsemen in shame, but the Ming army retreated while fighting, and the Shaharu cavalry did not dare to pursue and returned to the main formation.

When they returned, the Ming army returned.

Shaharu ordered to form a formation and defend on the spot, as long as the front was cleared through the Fort of Pohu.

The Ming army shot arrows within fifty paces, and tens of thousands of Ming horsemen took turns to shoot at them, and the soldiers and horses of Shahru were in pain.

When Shaharu sent troops up to meet the battle, the Ming army retreated.

Shaharu was so angry and unable to do anything that he could only order a strong attack on Fort Hu.

There was a large amount of gunpowder in the fort of Kepohu, and there were more than 2,000 people, and Shaharu stormed it for a day without progress.

The main thing is that he needs a lot of ladders, which cannot be made in a short time.

After he entered the Ming Realm, he prepared for a decisive battle with the Ming army, but he didn't expect to attack everywhere.

That night, the Ming army harassed everywhere, and Shaharu was miserable again.

The next day, Shaharu decided to attack three forts at the same time, these three were Kill Hukou, Break Hu Fort, and Ninglu Fort.

Each of the three forts is more than ten miles apart, and it is only thirty or forty miles when they are lined up.

His army of more than 300,000 can be deployed at exactly this distance.

No matter how far away the fort is, he can't go to fight, because his soldiers and horses are not enough to drain a long enough distance, and the Ming army is tens of thousands of horsemen, and his soldiers and horses dare not disperse, so they can only gather in a group.

But he definitely didn't expect that the night before, the Ming army's infantry battalion, which was blocking Fort Hubao hundreds of miles away, rode all kinds of horses and mules from outside the pass, desperately rushing to this side, and was still transporting artillery in the future.

On August 24, the fort was broken.

But when Shaharu's soldiers and horses entered, they found that behind them were tributaries of the Xiashui Sea, and behind the fort were many low mountains, and the feasible road was only three horses.

That's right, this road can be passed, but his army of more than 300,000 and 500,000 war horses may not be able to complete it in half a year.

This is the consequence of an unfamiliarity with the local terrain.

Shaharu had no choice, and while sending troops to resist the Ming army behind, he beat and killed Hukou.

Can kill Hukou is an important town of the Ming army, it is a famous dangerous pass, both sides are high mountains, no one in history has come in from outside the pass, enter and kill Hukou.

Now although Shaharu is fighting from inside the pass, the result is still the same, the Ming army relies on the terrain, the defense is very easy, and Shaharu does not have particularly good siege equipment, so he also returned without attacking.

Shaharu attacked for three days in a row, except for breaking Ninglu Fort, there was no way to kill Hukou and break Hubao, and he obviously felt that the Ming army had reinforcements.

At this time, he had a new idea, and ordered his eldest son, Ulugh Beg, to lead the people out of Ninglu Fort first.

Although the road outside Ningyu Fort is narrow and small, it is still possible to walk.

He personally stayed behind to continue to lead people to storm the fort, and asked to send people to attack the fort in turn every day.

If he is given enough time, he will be able to break these two passes sooner or later by virtue of the advantage of being outnumbered and constantly consuming the Ming army.

But at this time, the soldiers and horses on his periphery couldn't stop the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Ming army.

The Ming army came over every day to shoot, they pursued, they retreated, they shot while retreating, they chased when they went back, caught up and shot again.

This style of play is quite disgusting, and the people and horses who beat Shaharu are miserable.

Some of Shaharu's elites can also be mounted and arched, but the Ming army all carry bows and arrows, and all of them can ride and shoot, which is a bit disgusting.

Moreover, the Ming army took turns to shoot forward, effectively maintaining physical strength.

But this kind of damage is not very large, the losses of both sides are limited, and originally Shaharu felt that he could hold on for a while and break the two forts.

But at this moment.

Suddenly, one morning, with the sound of the Ming army's horn, a dense crowd appeared in front of the Ming army.

These days, the Ming army has been fighting with the cavalry, and suddenly there are more infantry, which scares Shaharu as well.

But when these people got closer, they hissed, and Shaharu gasped.

Before, when they were attacking the city, they drove the Ming people in front, and now the Ming army is titing for a tooth.

In front of tens of thousands of Ming cavalry, there were tens of thousands of Shaharu men and horses who were captured in Fort Hu, and tens of thousands of Hu people were densely packed, lined up like a foot camp.

"Akito is going to fight us?" Shaharu was shocked at first, then excited.

Seeing this scene, he knew that Akito should fight them in a decisive battle.

He left a wave of men to continue the siege of the fort while gathering a large army.

A full 300,000 elites were gathered around him.

Shaharu raised his sword and said sharply: "No matter who is in front, they will all be slashed in a moment." ”

The surrounding generals looked at each other.

After a while, the Ming army began to drive the Hu people, tens of thousands of Hu people rushed forward like crazy, and the Ming army began to shoot arrows in the back, and from time to time the Hu people fell to the ground, and the Hu people were even more afraid, and they ran forward desperately.

At this time, the Ming army forwards began to charge forward behind the Hu people, they wanted to use the Hu people to disrupt the formation of Shaharu and defeat them in a battle.

Of course, Shaharu knew about the old battlefield, and immediately ordered: "Kill, kill everything." ”

With the sound of horses' hooves, Shahru's army began to move forward.

Tens of thousands of Hu people ran to them all over the mountains.

Many people untie ropes on their bodies while running.

But the Akito had a very tight rope on them, and without a knife, it was impossible to reduce it in a short time.

These people could only wave their hands as they ran, their expressions shocked and frightened.

One hundred steps, eighty steps, sixty steps.

"Archery." Hu Qi took the lead in shooting arrows at the Hu people.

A dense rain of arrows rained down on the Hu, and then the cavalry rushed forward like a raging wind.

Almost half an hour later, tens of thousands of Hu people were killed by Hu Qi.

The Ming army did not flinch and continued to rush forward.

Tens of thousands of Ming troops rushed up, and 300,000 Hu cavalry also rushed up, and the two sides collided directly.

As soon as the Ming army changed its normal state, that is, it did not plunder or fight on the side, and directly hedged, which made Shaharu overjoyed.

The Ming army was only tens of thousands of horsemen, and he was very confident in himself.

The huge battlefield is filled with shouts and killings from both sides, and the forwards on both sides have already rushed to you and me, and I have you.

The back rows of both sides are shooting arrows at the front.

"Ignition." At this moment, the Ming army lit rockets one after another.

"Shoot the arrows."

Whoosh, dense rain-down rockets shot into the distance.

On the ground in the distance, in addition to the countless Shahru army, there were also tens of thousands of corpses of the Hu people lying on the ground, and many arrows rained down on these corpses, and then ignited.

Shaharu apparently did not know what the Ming army was doing with rockets.

He didn't react until the first explosion sounded.

"Boom" A huge explosion rose into the sky in a pile of Hu horses.

The Ming army tied a large amount of explosives to tens of thousands of Hu people and drove them forward.

A lot of people are untied along the way, but few are able to untie it.

When these men were killed, Shahru's army also rushed forward, and all the gunpowder was in Shahru's array.

The Ming army fired a large number of rockets, and as long as it caused a partial explosion, a chain reaction would soon be formed.

Boom, boom, boom, the scene exploded one after another, all in Shaharu's formation.

(End of chapter)