Luo Tong saw that the emperor looked confident, so he couldn't say anything.

From Luo Tong's heart, he really felt that the Shanxi battlefield was a little out of control. Now he still has 30,000 troops in his hands, and they are all cavalry, moving freely, coming and going like the wind. If these 30,000 cavalry really jumped around Shanxi, there was no doubt what would happen.

Now the emperor actually pinned the victory or defeat of the war on the conscience of Liu An and Guo Deng, which really made the ministers present cry and laugh.

Zhu Qiyu himself, I didn't think that the matter was so serious, this Guangning Bo Liu An, his ability was quite mediocre, and he was only appointed as the chief soldier of Datong this year.

Obviously, although Liu An was nominally the chief soldier, he could not command the defenders of Datong.

And Guo Deng's ability to govern the army is several grades stronger than Liu An. Although nominally he is the deputy commander-in-chief, he is actually the backbone of Datong.

Now that the big house and the second room of the Marquis of Wuding have voted for the new monarch, Guo Deng seems to have no better choice, so he can only be coerced to join the emperor together.

In this way, there is no way to get food and grass supplies from Datong in the first place, and even if you go to attack Xuanfu, you can only march and loot along the way.

If he wants to loot along the way, it is difficult to keep the secret march, and he has to make a trade-off first, which is a headache for him.

Based on his reliance on the Guo family and his confidence in his own lineage, Zhu Qiyu calmed down the ministers and continued to go back to the room to make up for sleep.

The ministers walked out of the West Flower Hall with a sad face, and the melee of more than 300,000 troops in the northwest really made everyone a little frightened, it was good to win, in case of some accidents, then Da Ming was really three long and two short.

This is simply more terrifying than the battle for Beijing. Under the city of Beijing, at least relying on the city wall, there is no way to defeat. Fighting a sports war in the northwest is completely different, no, a battle of Longfeng Temple, and another 30,000 Ming troops were sent.

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However, it is not only the ministers in Beijing who are shocked, but now they are also sitting in their own Chinese army camps, all with sad faces, as if they have lost a big battle.

At this time, I thought of Bai Qi's famous saying: A miserable victory is like defeat.

At the end of the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi also did not have a trace of joy, and never boasted that he had defeated Zhao Kuo.

The most tragic war in the era of cold weapons, so tragic that the generals of both sides were ruined together, which was unprecedented.

Although this ambush killed and injured more than 30,000 Ming troops, he also killed 5,000 Warat warriors, not counting the wounded soldiers of the thousands of people.

The whole war has been going on so far, and there are only 20,000 people left in the main force of Warat attacking the Ming Dynasty, and counting the 10,000 soldiers of Boyan Timur who have no intention of fighting, there are barely 30,000 people.

There were 80,000 troops in total.

At this time, Wara's 30,000-strong army was camped ten miles north of Datong City, and Shiheng's 60,000-strong army was camped ten miles south of Datong City.

In Datong City, there are nearly 20,000 Datong defenders, and 10,000 Xuanfu fugitive troops. These 10,000 people were captured in Juyong Pass and later ransomed by the emperor with 30,000 sets of armor, and then sent to Datong to wear crimes and make meritorious contributions, and handed over to Wang Zhi and Liu An to take care of.

This is the current force comparison. Shi Heng's army lost one-third, and now that it has not collapsed, even if it burns high incense, it is impossible to organize an attack for a while.

It was about the same, with 5,000 killed, more than a fifth of the total force, and thousands more wounded.

Unless he is possessed by the soldier immortal Han Xin now, he can only be forced to rest in place.

This is the reason why Zhu Qiyu is in his chest, and the army of the first is close to the end of the strong crossbow, look at the series of major battles they fought: the Battle of Yanghekou, the Battle of Harrier Ridge, the Battle of Tumubao, the Battle of Bauhinia Pass, the Battle of Beijing City Assembly, the Battle of Fallen Horse Pass, and the Battle of Longfeng Temple.

With so many battles fought in four months, even an army made of steel should be tired.

These are the second, and the most troublesome thing is that the eunuch Xining has come to a conclusion based on the information he has received in the past few days, combined with his own experience: In the imperial army that came to Datong this time, there was no emperor's pro-army, and the main force was all five military battalions and three thousand battalions.

So the question is, where did the emperor's descendant army go?

The more I thought about it, the more scared I became, I really didn't dare to imagine that the emperor dared to send the main force again after the change of the civil fort in the Ming Dynasty, and smashed the nest of Wara?

Just when he was worried, Boyan Timur hurriedly walked in, and without waiting to ask a question, he said directly with a crying voice: "Big brother, it's not good, there is news from the inside line of the Xuanfu that he has rebelled. ”

also stood up suddenly: "Rebellion? How did he rebel? ”

"With his own army of 30,000 and tens of thousands of troops from the Ming Court, he returned to the division to attack the headquarters of Warat."

I also felt a chill in my heart first, my legs became weak, and I sat back paralyzed.

After losing his mind for a long time, he also asked first, "When did this happen?" ”

"In about ten days, the army of the Arazhiyuan has already driven back to the grassland."

"Then why did you only get the message now?"

Boyan replied with a bitter face: "It turns out that the Ming Emperor has long colluded with the Arazhiyuan. The emperor ordered the Arazhiyuan to besiege the city of Xuanfu, and no one could get out.

After Ara's withdrawal, the emperor immediately ordered nearly 20,000 people from the Shenji battalion to surround Xuanfu again.

As for the guards of the castles in Xuanfu who have a private relationship with us, they have all been beheaded by the emperor in public. And the castles such as the horse camp and the monolith that passed from Xuanfu to the grassland had long been abandoned by Yang Jun and other guards.

So there were no Xuanfu defenders along the way, so naturally no one passed on the news to us.

Now the emperor has sent more troops to Xuanfu, and there are generals close to the emperor, so he secretly passed the news over, otherwise we are still in the dark. ”

I also heard it first, and some of the six gods have no master. There are only 40,000 troops left behind in Warat to guard the grassland, and they are still leaderless. If this is annihilated by the main force of the Ming army, then there is really no way to live, how can the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty be so ruthless.

Now what I want to do most is to beat up Emperor Zhu Qizhen, what do you say you are doing in person. Even if you want to conquer in person, at the last time, throw down the army and whip up quickly, and run from Tumubao to Juyong Pass one step earlier?

Repenting of his death, isn't it fragrant to let Zhu Qizhen, a waste, be an emperor, what am I doing when I capture him, I really lack eight generations of great virtue.

Boyan Timur didn't speak at first, and eagerly persuaded: "Big brother, now that the matter is over, let's hurry out of Yanghekou and return to the grassland, maybe it's still too late." ”

also shook his head first: "What's in time, it's no surprise, our left-behind army is now fighting with the main force of the Ming army." When we rush back, the only thing we can do is collect the body.

Besides, do we have enough food and grass to support the army to return to the grassland? And these exhausted soldiers, once they hit the main force of the Ming army when they return to the grassland, won't it be all over? ”

(End of chapter)