Hara bitterly remembered the words of his father Khan: "Don't look down on Zhao Kuo, a commander can pull an army of 500,000 and hold on to it in the case of being encircled and without food for more than 40 days, and the army has not collapsed, which is already very remarkable." ”

At first, Hara Kuchu scoffed at this sentence. Now that I have taken the army around, I can finally understand the difficulty of commanding the troops.

In the Zhao army back then, there were many factions and many mountains.

Le Yi and Zhao Hao are the faction of King Zhao Wuling who participated in Hufu riding and shooting.

And Le Yi may not be trusted by King Zhao, or he may be unwilling to fight with Bai Qi, and he has returned to Zhao for many years, and he has always been a high-ranking official and has not led troops to fight.

Zhao Kuo inherited the title of Mafu Jun, and during the Battle of Changping, he had become a representative of the military generals of King Wuling of Zhao.

Lian Po was clearly conservative, which was evidenced by his extreme aversion to fighting the Qin army.

led the army back and forth for three or four thousand miles, and Hara also figured it out: his subordinates were also divided into many factions.

The descendants of their own father and son are mostly in battle; The other tribes are fine when the wind is good, but when the wind is against the wind, they all have a cowardly heart.

Totokh Buhua's old ministry with Ara, not only did not want to fight with the Ming army, but also had a grudge and was willing to avenge Tokhoff Buhua and Ara.

They are behind the scenes, and they don't necessarily collude with each other.

In addition, there is also an old department in the army. Because Hara Kuchu is also the son-in-law of Yexian, this part is more loyal.

In short, the army of Hara Ku was intricate and difficult to lead at all. Defecting to the enemy and mutiny and bombing the camp are all very likely.

The Ming army is much more comfortable, the Xiaoqi Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, and Duoyanwei are all the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, everyone eats in the same pot, and everyone has a share, so there is no conflict of interest.

During the day, Tao Jin, Wang Yue and the generals all slept in their respective tents. In the evening, everyone gathered in the Chinese army and waited for the Mongolian army to attack the camp.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, the shouts of killing from the north were loud, as if thousands of troops were rushing towards them.

Tao Jin looked at Wang Yue and asked for countermeasures with his eyes.

Wang Yue was amused: "The saint often says, don't bark when you bite a dog, don't bite a dog." The earth-shattering sound of this shouting and killing is obviously a sound of attacking the west.

We have impregnable fortifications to the west and the Ulsun River to the east.

Since the north is a bluff, the enemy is naturally going to attack the camp from the south.

We can gather the elite and fend off the enemy to the south. ”

When the generals heard this, they all admired it. The Wenchen in front of him can often talk to the saint, chatting and ridiculing.

Who doesn't want to drink wine and guide the country with the saint?

However, now is not the time for gossip, a small half of the generals continue to stay in the Chinese army to guard, and the other half commands the elite to go to the large camp on the south side to wait for the rabbit.

There were also several generals, commanding their subordinates, to the north side to resist the feint attack of the Mongol army with great fanfare.

Hara wanted to be powerful in the army, so he personally led the army to attack the camp.

Hearing the sound of artillery in the north, the Ming army shouted and killed endlessly, and Hara was extremely proud: the Ming army definitely couldn't imagine that the first night he rushed back was restless, but ran to rob the camp.

Even if they thought of it by mistake, they couldn't have guessed that they would bluff on the north side first, and lead the elite to attack from the south side.

After waiting patiently for a while, it was estimated that the attention of the Ming army had been concentrated on the north side, and Hara had to lead his own army to kill.

When they entered the camp from the south side, the Mongol army saw that they had succeeded, so they shouted loudly, burning the tent of the Ming army and slashing bravely.

It wasn't long before the unexpected happened.

On a slightly higher ground, there is a tent, which is noticeably taller than the other tents in the vicinity.

The Mongolian army originally wanted to kill on a high place, observe the situation, and then decide on the direction of the charge.

But when he rushed up, he found that the tall tent was full of gold, silver and jewels, shining brightly, almost blinding everyone's eyes.

Seeing the wealth, all the soldiers had forgotten to kill the enemy for a while, and they rushed up to fight for it.

Seeing this, Hara was surprised. Okay, how could it be so coincidental, he took his own soldiers with his head covered and rushed to kill, and he just happened to kill the place where the Ming army stored its treasures.

After pondering for a while, Hara finally realized that something was wrong: if this was the property of the Ming soldiers themselves, it should be packed and stored separately, how could it be piled up together like this.

If it is the loot that has just been snatched, it has not yet had time to be distributed, but the Mongolian tribes do not have so many gold, silver and jewels in their hands.

The wealth of the Mongolian nobles was quite a lot, but most of them were brought to the Hetao with the main force in the army.

In other words, the Ming army deliberately piled up the treasure in a conspicuous camp tent, waiting for the Mongol army attacking the camp to scramble.

Hara was also convinced, and couldn't help but scold angrily: "These god-killing Han people can't have 800 hearts and eyes." Everyone stopped, quickly retreated, and withdrew from the Ming army camp. ”

The Mongolian army has already snatched the treasure, where can I take care of the general's order.

It's easy to wait for the treasure to be snatched up, it's too late.

Thousands of Ming infantry had already blocked the gap in the camp with ballistas, and more than 3,000 cavalry, after the infantry, protected their flanks and rear.

The Meng army knew that he was panicked, and Hara shouted bitterly: "Quickly throw away the gold and silver treasures and rush out." ”

shouted more than 20 times in a row, but the Mongolian army was unmoved, anyway, the law did not blame the people, and at this time it was chaotic, and the main general could not control his own head.

Hara sighed bitterly in his heart, the current Mongolian army is really incomparable with the iron army that was banned in the era of Genghis Khan.

In fact, it is not entirely to blame the current Mongolian army for being greedy for money, but in the Jingtai Dynasty, the purchasing power of gold and silver is too tempting.

As soon as the mutual market is opened, with gold and silver, you can buy almost anything you want.

Merchants seek profits, as long as there is a demand for a thing, there is a profit, they can find ways to provide it.

Just as the Mongolian army was stunned by the ballista cart at the gap in the camp, behind him, there were tens of thousands of Ming troops, hugging the ballista and gradually approaching.

This is really a dilemma with wolves in front and tigers in the back.

Hara hurriedly instructed his henchmen around him: "Quickly launch the trumpet arrow and call for reinforcements." ”

The henchman lit the trumpet arrow and threw it into the air with all his might, flashing through the sky like a meteor.

Hara Kuchu thought that the Mongolian cavalry in the distance received the signal and should immediately rush to answer it.

Seeing this, the Ming army on the south side gave up holding on to the gap in the camp and pushed the ballista forward. After a short time, the Mongolian troops in the battalion entered the range of crossbow arrows.

The Mongolian army could not retreat, because the crossbow carts of the Ming army were also behind.

Hara let out a long sigh and commanded the soldiers to rush forward.

At the same time, the Ming army fired crossbows in unison.

A volley took the lives of hundreds of Mongolian soldiers.

Next, it's time for the scuffle.

The Ming army was all dressed in heavy armor, and even if they couldn't hurt the enemy, it was more than enough for self-protection.

After a full quarter of an hour, the Mongolian reinforcements arrived. Thousands of Mongolian cavalry should not be underestimated, and the Ming army did not love war, and let Hara go out of the siege.

(End of chapter)