Huo'er suddenly ran out of eight or nine miles with thousands of remnants of soldiers in one go, and plunged into the small stone with his head covered, until he went deep into the red stone and stopped.

Next, it was time to dismount and rest to paralyze the Ming army. Just waiting for the Ming army to go deep into the valley, the 20,000 cavalry who had already been ambushed rushed out of the valley, waiting for work and killing the Ming army by surprise.

Defeat and ambush are the traditional skills that the Warat cavalry have inherited from the beginning. In the land of Shanxi, deception and ambush are tried and tested, although there is no technical content, but the Ming army eats this set.

Huo'er suddenly replied very proudly, although there was a bit of miscalculation under the Bauhinia Pass, but the traditional craftsmanship of deceiving and luring the enemy and setting up ambushes to annihilate them was not left behind.

20,000 people lured the enemy under the Bauhinia Pass, and 20,000 set up an ambush in the river valley. A total of 40,000 troops, where did the extra 10,000 cavalry come from?

This is also a clever move by Huo'er, who flickered 10,000 cavalry from the Timurid Empire and Yili Janri. Because the number of Daming's Gansu garrison increased dramatically, several surrounding countries were afraid, so everyone was willing to put together 10,000 cavalry to support Huo'er and suddenly meet Daming first.

The Ming army believed that Huo'er Huda's headquarters had a total of 30,000 soldiers and horses, while Huo'er Huda actually had an army of 40,000. This intelligence blind spot is enough to have fatal consequences.

For example, the 30,000 troops of the Ming army who are now out of the city, once they enter the valley, they are rushed by the 20,000 fresh troops who are waiting for work, and it is another battle of Harrier Ridge.

But Huo'er suddenly missed a little, his opponent this time was Emperor Jingtai of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu designed a strategy for his pro-army this time to harden the village and fight in a stupid battle. Just relying on the Bauhinia Pass fortifications, the army will definitely not leave the defense line for more than eight miles.

The Yingzhou Wei army rushed and killed about five miles, and then began to slow down the offensive. By the time we reached the mouth of the small stone valley, it had completely stopped, and there was no intention of rushing in at all.

After cutting off two or three thousand heads, the Yingzhou guard and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion covered each other and slowly retreated to Bauhinia Pass.

This time Huo'er suddenly replied that he was crazy, what about the pursuit of victory? Okay, what about chasing and fighting? The regular Ming army shouldn't be the current way of fighting when you see a good deal.

Together with those two or three kilowatt cavalry, they died in vain?

After more than an hour, hundreds of cavalry protected His Royal Highness King Yi and joined Huo'er Kuda. Although Yingzhou Wei shouted fiercely, he didn't really chase down His Royal Highness King Yi.

Huo'er suddenly replied and made the same old mistake again, and for the next three days, thousands of people were sent to provoke from a distance outside the range of the Ming army's artillery fire. 20,000 cavalry remained in ambush in the valley.

Liu Chang was not annoyed, so he made up his mind and would not go out of the customs no matter what.

At this time, the defenders of Datong were still old and chose to avoid Warat without fighting and never attacked. And Li Bing, the governor of Shanxi, was in a hurry in Taiyuan, but in a short period of time, he could not organize a fighting army at all.

Huo'er Huda sent thousands of cavalry to plunder in Shanxi.

On May 15, this was the eighth day that Huo'er Huda led his army into Shanxi.

Warat looted almost enough, Bauhinia Pass could not be captured, and if it continued to be consumed, the main force of the Ming army would be killed, so Huo'er suddenly decided to retreat.

At this time, there was a high-ranking official Dingzhou Wei deputy Qianhu, named Kang Bald, who came with two henchmen to ask for a sudden answer to Huo'er, threatening to offer a clever plan.

Huo'er suddenly summoned people in and asked curiously, "If the Bauhinia Pass is so strong, what can you do?" ”

He replied: "Why do you have to be obsessed with capturing the Bauhinia Pass, the last general knows a small path that can bypass the Bauhinia Pass."

You can lead the main force to retreat to Datong, and then send two or three thousand people to bypass the Bauhinia Pass along the trail on foot. At that time, the end will be an internal response, attack and seize the dry food of the Dingzhou guards, and then take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Ming army to drive directly to the city of Beijing. ”

Huo'er suddenly replied and was amused: "Even if what you say can be successful, is there any point in me sending two or three thousand people directly to the city of Beijing?"

Not to mention that with Beijing's defense, two or three thousand people will not be able to kill it at all. Even if you can kill it, two or three thousand people are not enough for the Ming army in the city.

I was disgusted that the soldiers of the Ming Army were slow to be promoted, so I took the initiative to give them heads, right? ”

He replied: "Two or three thousand people really can't be killed in Beijing City, but Taishi Ke is still imprisoned in Beijing, don't you want to rescue Taishi, and then use Taishi's fame to reunify Warat?" ”

"I also want to rescue my father, but how can two or three thousand people be successfully rescued when they get to the city of Beijing?"

He replied: "The last general's uncle, Zhai is the commander of the Dingzhou Guard, and recently with hundreds of soldiers, he was urgently requisitioned to Beijing to consolidate the city defense.

As long as you send two or three thousand people to the city, your uncle can lead his subordinates to rescue the Taishi, and then quietly fall down the city with a hanging basket at night. ”

Huo'er suddenly replied and fell into deep thought.

In the end, Huo'er suddenly accepted the bald offer. If his father can really come back, the subordinates of the third brother Amasanchi will be able to gather back immediately, and even Boyan Timur may not dare to engage in the east and the west anymore.

This is called having an old man in the family, if there is a treasure.

The plan had been decided, and Huo'er suddenly selected 3,000 elite generals to follow the hidden path in the mountains, bypassing the Bauhinia Pass, and entering the hinterland of Zhili, and he withdrew to Datong after the second day.

The defenders of Datong did not dare to go out of the city to fight, Huo'er suddenly agreed to advance or retreat, if the situation was good, they would wait for the three thousand elites to rescue their father; If the situation is not good, spread your legs and run, and you can go out of the Great Wall from Yanghekou into the grassland in a little more than a day.

On May 17, Du commanded Tongzhi Xu Tong to lead Duoyan Sanwei into Dongsheng City, and blocked the news to prevent the Warat army from escaping when they heard the news.

Early in the morning on May 20th.

Zhu Qiyu sat on the soft couch and checked Xu Youzhen's recital word by word. The situation in Beijing was relatively stable, and Zhu Qiyu began to pay attention to the south again.

Half a month has passed since the news of the fall of Dongsheng City, and Beijing City is ready for war.

However, the news that the Warat army had retreated to Datong made the people of the capital relax a little.

Qianxue asked curiously: "The husband is not in a hurry to abolish the emperor, I am afraid that the anger of the people will subside in a few days." ”

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "How can it be, one ring after another, everything is under control." If the odds are right, the situation will change early tomorrow morning.

Is the newspaper production going up now? How many newspapers can be published in a day? ”

Qianxue replied: "The General Administration Department employs more than 3,000 people in total, some copy fast, some copy slowly, and the total number of copies a day is about 5,000 copies. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded, the reason why he was not in a hurry to engage in technology such as movable type printing, but hired so many people to copy by hand, there was also a consideration:

These 3,000 people were selected and trained from the poor, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and they were well paid. These people are holding the rice bowl given by the emperor, and they naturally have their hearts towards the emperor.

If you pick up the bowl to eat, put down the bowl and scold your mother, then human nature is too inferior. First, there is no such strange thing among the workers who copy the newspaper, and second, even if there is, they will be kicked out immediately.

After tea and dinner, when visiting relatives and friends, these people will also actively or passively preach current affairs to the people around them and promote the emperor's virtues.

These people explain current affairs to the people of the capital vividly, which is much more vivid than simply reading the newspaper.

Zhu Qiyu's layout of public opinion has gradually shown its effect, and the people of Beijing have developed the habit of learning about current affairs through newspapers and newspaper copyers.

Slightly more important military and political affairs can be spread throughout the Beijing Division in two or three days after the news is sent.

This summer, there was a lot of rain in Zhili, Shandong, and Shanxi.

In the evening, it began to rain again.

The lightning flashed and thundered, the wind and rain raged, and most of the people went to sleep in the warm bed.

The officers and men guarding and patrolling the city also drank in the towers and duty rooms, and refused to go out.

Only Dingzhou Wei commanded the servant to take shelter from the wind and rain, and led his subordinates to No. 100 cronies to rescue the Yexian Taishi who was under house arrest in a small courtyard behind the Three Law Divisions.

(End of chapter)