Chapter 223: Frontier

The March wind began to warm up, and some of the dead branches in the Thousand Cow Fort sprouted, and the wind no longer felt like a knife cutting on people's faces.

As Yu Zizi said, the Tatars inside and outside the Thousand Cow Fort no longer besieged the Thousand Niu Fort.

But Yokoyama Wei and Guyuan Right Guard had already met with the Tatars, and after the two armies fought, the Ming army lost more than 2,000 people, but they desperately wanted to drill into the Thousand Cow Fort, this move confused the fire sieve, and made him believe that there were definitely important people in the Thousand Cow Castle.

After this defeat, the gate of Lingzhou City was also closed, and no one or one horse was allowed to go out of the city.

Huosiao is still reluctant to retreat, first, the Ming army reacted quickly this time, and they did not loot enough, and second, the place of Qianniu Fort touched his heart.

Huo Sieve is also a cautious person, Lingzhou is also a city after all, and attacking Lingzhou is definitely not as good as attacking Qianniu Fort.

So he wanted to try, if he fought Qianniu Fort again, would Yang Yiqing send troops to save him.

As soon as a few days passed, the fire screen began to arrange troops, and he ordered his general Tukemeng to ambush and intercept in the middle of the road, and if there was a Ming army out of Lingzhou, he would block it.

He himself led his men and horses to attack Qianniu Fort.

There was also an older general named Zhana under the fire sieve tent, and he offered advice to the fire sieve, "Chief, the trilateral governor of the Ming army seems to be far inferior to the previous two, he only knows how to send soldiers out to die, and use the lives of soldiers to save him from being punished by the Ming Emperor. The small Thousand Cattle Fort doesn't need the leader to use all his strength, so is it possible to divide another force to bypass Lingzhou and go to the interior to grab supplies and population?"

The fire sieve put his hands behind his back, and he didn't immediately refuse, "Give your reasons."

"We can't afford to wait here too long! The purpose of marching into the Ming Dynasty was to snatch food and clothing for the women and children of the tribe, and now this purpose has not been achieved, but we are confronting the two armies of the Ming army here, which is very disadvantageous to us."

Tu Kemeng's face was big, "Didn't you just say that this surnamed Yang is not powerful? How about we have fun with him! Destroy this Ming army, and no one will be able to stop the leader! Whatever you want!"

"Tukemeng, if we have supplies in our hands, of course we can take the Ming army around in a circle, and if the battle situation is slightly unfavorable, we can retreat immediately, and the Ming army has no way to take us. But now the materials in hand are insufficient, and the 40,000 troops are empty here...... You know, the children of the tribe are still waiting to eat salt!"

There is some truth to Zana's words.

Now it's the turn of the fire sieve to be entangled, the Ming army and the Tatars have a feud, how many of them were killed when Wang Yue was there? The tribe was singled out one by one, and there was no ancestral man who died in the hands of the Ming army.

So not only does the fire screen itself want revenge, but there are also many warriors in the army who want revenge.

Besides, these few times, this Yang Yiqing really doesn't understand military affairs, and he only knows where there is danger. Then he was killed for a while and then hid to avoid the battle, what is this?

He is simply a man who can't fight.

This opportunity was missed, and the fire was reluctant.

But fighting like this with the Ming army is really not their purpose, grabbing things is real!

"Chief!" Seeing him hesitate, Tukemeng couldn't help but be anxious.

The fire sieve went around the tent, and finally decided to take a risk, "I want to kill the Ming army!" I'm going to grab things too! Yang Yiqing from Lingzhou City seemed to dare not come out. We will send ten thousand men to plunder!" ….

"Chief, never!" Tu Kemeng didn't want the fire sieve to take Zhana's opinion, "This is the territory of the Ming Dynasty after all! Only by bringing the warriors together can we defeat the Ming army, and if we are separated, it will be very dangerous if we encounter the enemy!"

"I know, but I think I could have taken a bit of a risk this time."

Huo Sieve felt that the governor sent by the Ming Dynasty was not to be afraid, and there was no well-known name, a group of nobodies, even so he did not underestimate the enemy, but he felt that a little adventure was always something to try.

At the sound of the order, the Tatar troops immediately went into action.

For a time, Qianniu Fort was alarmed, and Lingzhou City was also on the verge of a great enemy. But time passed, and Yang Yiqing received a military report that there were Tatar troops behind Lingzhou City.

It's too much of a sight to behold.

Yang Yiqing faced the generals and asked, "Who dares to lead the troops to break the enemy's spirit?"

Last time, the governor had already sent Cao Sheng, Zhang Lun and other two generals to the outside of the city, but he ran into the Tatar troops and was beaten so that he almost couldn't come back. Now they have to let people go out of the city to meet the enemy, who dares to take this life?

Cao Sheng is actually still brave, but the infantry can't withstand the impact of the cavalry, so what's the use of personal bravery.

In fact, this is also the dilemma of the Ming army in the face of the Tatars, and many generals who defended the city only dared to defend the city, and did not dare to go out of the city. That is why there are always Tatars who have plundered countless retributions.

Anyway, the Tatars didn't want to attack those big cities, and there were people outside the city, so he was outside the city.

But it's useless not to dare, as long as the governor really gives the order, you have to dare if you don't dare.

"The Tatars broke into the interior, and in the past we could say that we could not reach the whip in Guyuan, but now the army has gathered in Lingzhou." Yang Yiqing's face was calm, and he would cough a little between his speeches, and he had also been boiling hard these days, "If the imperial court asks, why don't we take out the city and let the Tatars wantonly plunder, how will we reply when the time comes?"

Shaanxi Governor Qi Chengsui frowned.

He was also a literati, but he still understood some basic military theories. Not to mention, the Tatar army is close at hand, but Yang Butang always thinks about the Beijing division thousands of miles away, instead of thinking about the army outside the city, what kind of battle is this fighting?

Every time it's a political battle, I'm so afraid that the black yarn hat will fall off.

Thinking so in his heart, Qi Chengsui didn't dare to say that he was an old man brought out by Yang Yiqing, so he naturally obeyed him. But he didn't want Yang Butang to step into the abyss step by step, maybe there should be some changes to remind him.

So he gritted his teeth and stood up and took the initiative to ask, "The lower official is willing to go!"

Yang Yiqing raised his head, his ancient eyes looked at his old subordinate, and there was no superfluous expression, he just said, "Okay. And what about Thousand Cow Fort? Who will save it?"

Cao Xiong, the chief soldier of Ningxia, has been giving the eunuch Xue Shou a look, in his opinion, at this time, apart from Xue Gonggong, who would dare to question Yang Butang?

Xue Shou didn't have Cao Xiong's position in his eyes, he only knew that Zhang Lun and Cao Sheng had lost the battle before.

"Yang Butang, my Ming soldiers are copper-headed and iron-armed, but I can't help the Tatars cut like this, the Holy Lord sent you to guard the northwest, you are always the Holy Lord's reliance!"

Yang Yiqing raised his arm and arched his hand, "What is Gonggong Xue's opinion?" ….

"Yang Butang is here, where do we have any opinions. Our family is worried about the ministry, and this time the troops were spent on the money that His Majesty had saved for several years, if it didn't work......

"Father-in-law Xue's words, the old man understands. His Majesty wants the old man to resist the enemy and defend the land, isn't this exactly what the old man did? Father-in-law Xue can take this matter to the emperor, and all the blame will be borne by the old man."

"Our family will naturally play the emperor."

was only a defeat, and Xue Shou tried his best not to make a bad appearance with the governors of the three sides. But there are some things that he does have to report to Jingshi.

said that Yang Yiqing was not good, and the emperor said at most that he was small and could not tolerate it. But not to mention, once there is a big disaster here, his head on the neck will not be saved.

Yang Yiqing doesn't seem to care about this, he is ***, an important minister of the court, and Yang Yiqing, who regards death as home, a person who wants to be the pillar of the court, naturally has his own background.

Not to mention the current crisis, the DPRK and China are fighting and deceiving, when has it not been a crisis in the past few decades?

"Out of the city, meet the enemy!"

……

The little people of Qianniu Fort did not have the dashing energy to see life and death like Yang Yiqing, and the Tatar army began to surround it, and everyone's hairs stood up.

After a few days of repair, Yu Zizi's leg injury was slightly better, he was able to move, and his physical strength recovered a lot. Hearing the movement, he picked up his knife and went up to the city wall, and the young man named Han Shijilang followed him like a fart.

"Brother Yu, the Tatars don't like to attack fortified cities, why do they always hold on to us?"

Yu Zizi pressed the young man down and squatted, lest an arrow take him away. Then check yourself

's leg wound is not tied strongly, and then said: "The soldiers of the Hengshan Guard who entered the city brought news that His Majesty had died. You know what?"

Han Shishilang shook his head, "I don't know. What does this have to do with the Tatars?"

Yu Zizi looked nervously at the Tatars who were screaming strange sounds outside the city through the cracks in the stones, and said, "Your Majesty's death means that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has ascended the throne. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascended the throne, which means that the imperial court must be trying to find a way to intervene in the Tatars. In addition, Yang Butang sent Hengshan Wei and Guyuan Right Guard to support our Qianniu Fort...... Everything shows that the army of the imperial court is already on its way."

Han Shishilang said these words in a fog.

But time was urgent, and Yu Zizi didn't have time to explain more, "Boy, in the future, I will find a way to go to Beijing and study at the Military Academy, and wait for you to see Tai...... Oh, no, it should be Your Majesty, and you will understand what I said today. Let's try to kill the enemy, our Ming Dynasty is now the Ming monarch in the court, and one day, we can also beat them around the Tatars!"

"When's that day?"

"Sooner or later."

He Yanheng was in a hurry, and he was not in the mood to chat at all, "Everyone, tie up filial piety and kill the northern captives!!"

For him, the garrison general, although there are new soldiers added by Yokoyama Guard and Guyuan Right Guard, the pattern of strong enemies and weak ones has not changed, so he can only be mentally motivated.

The mourning soldier will win, which is the one he trusts.

Yu Zizi understood him, so he raised his sword and shouted, "Brothers, the first emperor has died in Jingshi!" During the state mourning, the Tatars actually raised troops on a large scale, and deceived people too much, so let's fight with them!"

"Be careful!"

Han Shishilang's eyes are quick and his ears are good, so he listened to a 'zheng' sound, so he subconsciously pulled Yu Zizi down, and it turned out that an arrow feather did fly over his scalp.

Next came the blackened arrow feathers, covering the entire sky!

"Be careful!"

The earth-shattering cry covered all the groans of pain.

Yu Zizi was frightened into a cold sweat, his chest had a huge heaviness, and he rubbed Han Shishilang's head, "You are simply my own father!"

The side was too noisy, many words were not heard clearly, Han Shishilang heard it wrong, and according to the age of the two, it should be said that he is his father, and at the moment of life and death, the emotions are the most real, so Han Shishilang did not twist, and knelt down and kowtowed directly: Godfather is above, please accept the son's worship!

"Don't knock, get ready to kill! Bring a bow and arrows!" Yu Zizi kicked Han Shishilang, "You said that your archery skills are good, but you didn't take advantage of the bow and arrows. Prove it to me!"

Han Shishilang is not a liar, he grew up in the frontier since he was a child, and he practiced archery hard if he didn't have enough strength, so he could kill and injure the enemy from a distance, so he took the bow and arrow and aimed at a person or horse who was galloping closer!

Sou!

Yu Zizai looked closely, and he wondered if anyone would fall......

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