The three 10,000-strong teams under Xu Heng have different combat strengths: the 10,000-person team led by Xu Heng is composed of 5,000 elite border troops, 3,000 of the most elite Shenji battalions, and 2,000 emperor's personal guards.

The most elite combat forces under Xu Heng were all dispatched, and they didn't even defend the city. The defense of Yuantu City was temporarily replaced by two thousand guards sent by the emperor.

Xu Heng, Fan Guang, and Xu Tong, all three of them were in charge of the 10,000-person team led by them, which was also one of the two main forces that attacked Polo at night.

The 10,000-strong team located in the left rear is the 10,000-person Shenji Battalion led by Governor Tao Jin.

The 10,000-strong team located in the right rear is the 5,000-day guard commanded by Chengshan Marquis Wang Tong, plus 5,000 Shenji Battalion soldiers to assist.

In addition to Tao Jin's relatively peaceful mentality, the remaining generals of the unified army are very much in need of military merits.

The most urgent thing is Chengshan Marquis Wang Tong, his marquis was only orally restored by the emperor, and it was officially confirmed that he still needed to make new contributions.

And Wang Tong's Tian Cewei, although he was included in the emperor's personal guard, but Tian Cewei was asked to be a guard by the King of Han back then, which led to the destruction of the Han King, and Tian Cewei has been suppressed for 20 years.

On top of that, the name Tiancewei is also very problematic. The reason why the King of Han had to name Tiance Wei was because Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, was a general of Tiance and opened the Tiance Mansion. Therefore, King Han felt that the name Tian Cewei was a good luck, and he also wanted to replace the eldest as the crown prince by the second child like Li Shimin.

In this way, can Tiancewei still be good, he can only be suppressed by the emperor everywhere, and he can't turn over for more than 20 years.

has been waiting until Emperor Jingtai ascended the throne, catching up with Zhu Qiyu's extreme lack of manpower, in order to dig up his cronies, it has reached the point of drilling mountains and holes, and Tiancewei finally ushered in a turning point.

Moreover, Tian Cewei is now the emperor's personal guard, and he will be rewarded with twenty taels for cutting off a Tartar head.

So now Wang Tong is leading the Tiance Guard, and he is very eager to rush up and cut off people's heads.

This is the morale of the 30,000 Ming army under the command of Xu Heng now.

The Ming army has a characteristic, that is, it never disappoints people when it has sufficient food and salaries and does not suffer losses in intelligence.

This also has the joke of later generations: the Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000, and it is invincible; The Ming army was not satisfied with the salary, and the battle was victorious when it was full.

However, he said that after dark, he decided that the Ming army would not attack, so he withdrew to his camp with 30,000 iron cavalry. The main army of 60,000 gathered together, preparing to rest for the night and act again tomorrow.

After retreating back to the camp first, the 30,000 Ming troops separated between Yexian and Polo had no worries, and under the leadership of Governor Tang Jie and Liu Dexin, they began to cooperate with Xu Heng's 30,000 main force and pressed towards Polo step by step.

Polo stayed in the camp, very sad in his heart, the black lights outside were blind, and he couldn't understand what the Ming army was doing. And now I don't know what to do:

Sleeping upside down? Then this heart is too big, and it is impossible to sleep.

Rush out with the cavalry? Where to rush and to whom? What should I do if I am unfamiliar with the place and blind in the dark, what should I do if I rush into a private house, what should I do if I hit a wall, what should I do if I step into a trench?

Build fortifications? Repairing fortifications at night, I've never heard of a fool doing this.

Polo had to look at the two brothers, but the two brothers were also staring at each other, and they couldn't say why.

It was the first time Polo had encountered a strange opponent who had to fight at night, and it was also the first time that he had fought so badly.

At the same time that Polo was entangled, the 60,000 Ming army slowly advanced to a mile away from the edge of the Polo camp, and then continued to advance, and it took two full hours to finally get two hundred steps away from the Polo camp.

At this time, Xu Heng was no longer silent, and ordered three teams of 10,000 people to start attacking the opposite side with catapults.

So a hundred catapults attacked at the same time, and with each volley, a hundred stones were thrown into Polo's camp.

In fact, under normal circumstances, catapults are useless and do not cause any damage.

It was Zhu Qiyufei who forced the warmakers of Jinyiwei to build a hundred catapults, which were specially used to make trouble for the other party at night.

The purpose is not to stone people to death, but to make the opposing soldiers unable to sleep in peace.

This stupid method did work, and Polo's army was completely unable to rest. After all, there will be stones falling from the sky at any time, who can bear this. Although the chance of being hit is very small, who would gamble with their lives.

In fact, the range of the catapult is only three or four hundred steps at most, but it is dark everywhere, and the soldiers of Warat can not care about studying the range of the catapult, only knowing that the movement is very large, and waves of stone rain fall into the camp.

Therefore, the rock-throwing tactics of thunder and rain still succeeded in affecting the mentality and sleep of the Polo army.

After receiving the report from their own soldiers, the three Polo brothers couldn't sit still at all. King Saihan persuaded: "Brother, let's retreat, we can't fight this fight, we can't sleep, and it's not a way to sit still, isn't it a matter of sitting still."

Otherwise, we will also learn from the Ming army, gather 20,000 cavalry together, and slowly retreat. Anyway, the Ming army is advancing slowly, let's slowly consume it step by step, and wait until dawn, and then we will attack with the whole army and eat this Ming army. ”

Polo asked helplessly: "I also want to withdraw, but what about the grain and grass?" What to do with baggage? Besides, there are 20,000 of us, and the Ming army on the opposite side has 60,000 during the day, I don't know how many there are outside now, how can we eat them?

They used those chariots to surround themselves like hedgehogs, how to fight? Fighting the Ming army under the city of Beijing is much more difficult than in Datong and Xuanfu. ”

"Why don't you give up the grain and grass first, and then we will grab it back tomorrow?"

When Polo heard this, he scolded angrily: "You are stupid, people burned you directly, what will you rob tomorrow?" Grab the ashes? ”

King Saihan replied helplessly: "Then what should I do, anyway, don't let me charge the Ming army now." If you want to rush at your subordinates, my subordinates will not use it for this senseless sacrifice. ”

Just when the three Polo brothers were in a dilemma, the Ming army stopped again, no longer advancing, but every quarter of an hour or so, they used trebuchets to fire a volley. The Ming army just didn't want Polo's army to sleep well, but they didn't want to fight face-to-face either.

The two sides were at a stalemate, but this also relieved Polo, at least there was no need to argue whether to fight or retreat.

It went on and on, and finally it lasted until there was only one more hour, and the sky was about to get brighter. The Ming army stopped throwing stones and began to retreat slightly.

Polo sighed, the hard night was finally over. Polo secretly swore in his heart that by tomorrow, he would have to retreat five miles to the north side of the Yexian camp, next to the main army of Warat.

blame yourself for the eldest brother, who has to let himself camp so close to the Beijing city wall, if he had been camped ten miles away from the city like the eldest brother, the Ming army would not dare to force it so close.

Thinking of this, Polo ordered his own soldiers to give orders, and the army began to rest in turns, and as soon as it was dawn, they packed up their baggage and retreated.

The pity is that Polo's order has harmed thousands of his soldiers. In fact, if the army held out for another hour, the matter would pass.

The Warat army was originally a rapid march from Bauhinia Pass, and arrived at the city of Beijing in three days, and it was already sleepy and tired. I was tossed by the Ming army again yesterday afternoon, and for a whole night, the soldiers were already physically and mentally exhausted.

Polo ordered them to rest in turn, and the soldiers were completely relaxed, and they all sat on the ground, tilted their heads and slept.

Zhu Qiyu arranged the previous series of absurd actions, waiting for this moment, waiting for Polo's misjudgment at the last moment.

Less than half an hour after Bore's order was delivered, a cavalry consisting of 3,000 emperors' personal guards suddenly attacked from the north side.

Xu Heng's 10,000-strong team, the chariot formation was wide open, and the cavalry composed of 5,000 elite Shaanxi border troops and 2,000 emperor's personal guards entered the Polo camp from the east side.

Wang Tong's 10,000-strong team also drove wide, and the 5,000-day cavalry guarded a bend and attacked the Polo camp from the south side.

The remaining 50,000 Ming troops followed behind the cavalry and began to speed up, relying on the protection of the chariot formation, to kill the Polo camp from the east and south sides.

(End of chapter)