"You still dare to follow, when did this Zhu Quan child become so bold."

On the first day of the ninth month, on the road to the north, Khalawu led his troops to the low hill from time to time to look at the rear, and at this time, he could always see Zhu Quan who was like kraft candy.

Beside Harawu, Azashiri also said with a dark face: "This is almost the city of Uliang Ha Bald, in the past, he was at most looking for provocation south of Checher Mountain, but this time he actually dared to follow here." ”

"Could it be that the news that Zhu Di is in Kaipingwei is fake, and Zhu Quan is just a pioneer?"

"No!" Harawu interrupted him: "You all know the situation of the southern soldiers, it is not easy for them to maintain Daning, and every time they go north, it will take two or three years to launch a large-scale provocation from Daning. ”

"They just provoked once last year, and I'm afraid Daning's granary is almost empty."

"Besides, there are also people on the old land of King Qi (Wang Baobao) who have seen the southern soldiers on the northern patrol when they went south to graze, and Zhu Di does not need to question it in Kaipingwei."

"What I'm curious about now is what kind of backhand Zhu Quan has to dare to follow us like this."

Harawu squinted slightly, wishing he could see farther.

At the same time, in the Ming army array that he was looking at, Liu Zhen also said to Zhu Quan beside him with a solemn face: "Your Highness, our grain and grass are only enough to eat for twenty days." ”

"If His Royal Highness the King of Bohai doesn't show up again, I'm afraid we will have to retreat."

"I know......" Zhu Quan's face was not very good-looking, they had traveled more than 800 miles all the way north, and they had reached the limit of carrying grain and grass this time.

If they continue to go north and can't find some small tribes to supplement grain and grass, then the grain and grass in their hands will only be enough for them to withdraw to Daning.

"How long can you go?" Zhu Quan turned around and asked Liu Zhen, and Liu Zhen also looked at the military officials.

"About one hundred and twenty miles, no further than that." The military officials explained truthfully, and Zhu Quan also bowed his head after hearing this:

"In this case, then go another hundred and twenty miles."

"If I don't get any more news from Gao Xu, then I can only retreat."

When the army is on the march, the commander must take all the factors into account, but sometimes, uncertainties such as weather and hydrology can occur in many places.

The path Zhu Gaoxu chose this time was originally a road without a large-scale march, and if he was delayed halfway, or was trapped, and he was still waiting for him here, it would only trap him to death.

He was annoyed that the Wenjiang River was transported to replenish the food, even if the food was not enough to eat, he could wait for a few days to wait for Zhaozhou City to transport the grain.

But once the food is exhausted, he has to walk back 800 miles on his legs.

Because of this, even if Zhu Gaoxu is the child of his fourth brother, he can't ignore the army because of him.

Zhu Quan tightly bit the tail of tens of thousands of people such as Haragu, who was also retreating step by step.

At this moment, they were less than a hundred miles away from the city of Uliang Ha Vulture, and both sides were waiting, the difference was that Haragu was waiting for Zhu Quan to retreat, and Zhu Quan was waiting for his nephew to go south to raid.

One-day, two-day ......

Time passed little by little, and when the third day of the ninth lunar month successfully came, Zhu Quan and the others also saw the city he had only come to last year in the early morning march.

"Your Highness, we have arrived at the city of Uliangha, you ...... look"

On horseback, Liu Zhen opened his mouth to ask, and the generals around him also turned their eyes to Zhu Quan.

At this moment, Zhu Quan had a heavy pressure on his shoulders, and under their gaze, Hara Wu and they successfully returned to Wuliang Ha Bald City.

By September, the corn fields outside the city of Uliangha were already in harvest season.

Last year, because of Zhu Di's northern tour, Haragu did not arrange to plant corn, but this year, because Zhu Di was expected to not make a northern tour, they planted thousands of acres of cultivated land outside the city with corn.

In order to better harvest the corn, Haragu led a large army to be stationed more than ten miles south of the city, and more than 20,000 herdsmen began to harvest corn under his orders.

"This Zhu Quan doesn't have the courage to go up again, and when the corn is harvested, they can only retreat."

Sitting on the horse, Kharagu had a tent for him to be shaded, and he carried a bowl of mare's milk wine and a plate of roast lamb shanks in front of him.

Not only him, but almost all the nobles who were able to be present were here.

Along the way, a number of small and medium-sized tribes continued to join the ranks of the Haragu, and now they had gathered tens of thousands of armored soldiers and more than 20,000 light soldiers wearing leather armor.

If it weren't for the concern that Zhu Quan had any conspiracy, Haragu would have ordered them to be driven out a long time ago.

At this time, no one said that Hara was conservative, after all, last year's Uliangha had just suffered a major defeat, killing and wounding thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of men.

No matter which tribe it is, it has suffered a lot of losses, and it will not be able to recover in five or six years.

"Is there any news from Gomur in the north?"

Harawu took a sip of mare's milk wine, turned his head and asked about Tru Kucha'er, but he shook his head and said, "There is no news, and there is no news from Temur and Huyaga, I am afraid that they have run away." ”

"Timid as a mouse...... Harawu said a Han idiom, and then confronted Zhu Quan unhurriedly.

Soon a day passed, and seeing that he couldn't wait for Zhu Gaoxu, many soldiers in Ning Wangfu's mansion complained.

Among them, many of them had no contact with the Bohai Palace, and only a few hundred participated in Zhu Di's attack on Jilin City, where they ate a few meals of hot mutton.

But in the final analysis, after all, it was Dou Mi En's promotion of Mi Qiu, and they had already had a lot of resentment in their hearts after helping the Bohai Navy to assist for so many days.

In the camp, Liu Zhen found Zhu Quan's big tent and said euphemistically: "Many brothers are homesick, Your Highness, look at ......"

"......" Listening to Liu Zhen's words, Zhu Quan, who was sitting in the tent, also put down the pen in his hand, and sighed after a while: "Tomorrow at noon, the class teacher will return to the army ......."

"Yes!" Seeing that Zhu Quan agreed to withdraw the army, Liu Zhen immediately put a smile on his face.

He walked out of the tent and conveyed the news of the withdrawal of the army at noon tomorrow to the troops.

Soon, the Ming soldiers in the camp began to have smiling faces on their faces, and they were all happy that they could go home.

Under the cover of that night, perhaps they didn't know that Zhu Gaoxu had already touched the Vulyangha Bald City at this time.

"Mother, why are there so many ...... even sentinels?"

More than ten miles northeast of the Vulyaha Bald City, when the hundreds of Wuliangha cavalry patrolling with torches were exposed in front of Zhu Gaoxu behind the low hill, Fu Rang next to him couldn't help but burst into foul language.

Compared with him, Zhu Gaoxu asked Gan Bara, a naturalized soldier of Wuliangha, beside him: "Can you recognize the banner in their hands?" ”

"It's too far away to see." Ganbala said truthfully, but he also explained:

"There are generally not so many sentinels in Wuliangha Bald City, but now there are so many sentinels, it must be that the surrounding tribes have gathered."

"These days are the harvest days of the Vulyangha Bald City, and they should be rushing to harvest the grain."

"How many soldiers and horses can be stationed in the city of Uliangha?" Zhu Gaoxu asked again, and Gan Bara also truthfully explained: "There are not many people living in the city, and they are generally nobles and slaves serving them, no more than 10,000. ”

"But at this time, there are usually 20,000 or 30,000 people outside the city, or more."

Although Gan Bara was arranged to reclaim the fields in Andong City, his brain was still quite sharp, otherwise he would not have been selected to follow Zhu Gaoxu on the expedition.

"Is this the same camp as the wooden village in Uliang Hashan?" Zhu Gaoxu had an idea in his heart, and this idea reached its peak after Gan Bara nodded.

"Good!" He replied, if you succeed in raiding the city of Uliangha this time, I will personally give you a name, and allow you to enter the military academy and be promoted to a hundred household officials!

"Your Highness!!" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu's words, Ganbala was overjoyed, he was just an ordinary herdsman in the Wuliangha tribes, and he only got leather armor and weapons when he was fighting grass valleys.

Because of this, they lived a miserable life, and his woman and doll fell ill and died because they did not have enough food to eat.

He has had enough of such a difficult life, so he will join the Bohai Navy without hesitation and become the guide of the Bohai Navy.

For the Mongols, they only have a sense of tribal belonging, and as for what ethnic belonging, they do not have this concept at all.

He thought that Zhu Gaoxu was a good master, and not only did not discriminate against him, but also learned Mongolian in order to communicate with them Mongolians.

These days, when the mutton is divided, he will also come to see in person whether he has received the mutton, and the edict that the whole army cannot discriminate against him.

Gan Bara had never read a book, but he still knew such basic things as knowing the grace of the newspaper.

After getting the name of Zhu Gaoxu and becoming an official of a hundred households, he will be able to divide the fields in the four cities of Bohai and live a good life.

Thinking of this, Gan Bara was so excited that he couldn't wait to be Zhu Gaoxu's pawn and be the first to rush to the front of the team.

When he thought so, Zhu Gaoxu explained to Fu Rang: "Give full play to our strengths and fight at night, just like last time!" ”

"Good!" Fu Rang nodded in response.

In war, there is no benevolence, righteousness and morality to talk about, the Bohai Navy has no night blindness, so it naturally has to give full play to its strengths, not to mention that this is still a foreign war, and there is no need to restrain yourself.

Soon, Fu Rang asked Lin Su and Zhang Chun to tell the whole army to rest, and when it was ugly, they raided Wuliang Ha Bald City.

The reason why the time was changed from Yin Shi to Chou Shi was the experience of Zhu Gaoxu and Fu after they raided Wuliang Hashan.

The Mongols rested earlier than the Han Chinese, so many of them woke up early by the time they were in Yin.

With this experience, Zhu Gaoxu and the others naturally wanted to advance the time of the night battle.

Not only did they have experience, but even the soldiers of the Bohai Navy also had experience.

Having learned the lesson of the last time, many of the soldiers were communicating about the favorite parts of the Uliangha people to shoot arrows in the last night battle, and asked the people below to stuff some felt blankets and linen into these parts.

Time passed, and as last time, the chatter in the dark camp grew to the next moment.

Zhu Gaoxu rested from the fourth quarter of the hour (19 o'clock) and slept for nearly two and a half hours, until he was about to arrive at Chou, when he was woken up by Fu Rang, who got up early next to him.

There were no complaints, Zhu Gaoxu and all the brothers of the Bohai Navy got up with ease and put on armor.

By the time everyone is ready, it's already ugly.

Wearing armor and sitting on horseback, Fu Rang stepped forward to explain to Zhu Gaoxu: "That team of sentry riders will patrol about once a quarter, should we wait." ”

"No need to ......" Zhu Gaoxu picked up the iron gun in his hand and stuck it on the ground, putting on a mask for himself: "Anyway, the sound of horses' hooves will wake them up." ”

"It's more than ten miles away from the city of Uliang Ha, we don't know how many sentry horses there are in them, and it will be exposed sooner or later."

"Harawu has fought with Song Guogong and my father, and it is not by luck that he has survived until now."

"Although it was a night attack, I am not sure that it will succeed, if it does not succeed, I will think of other ways."

When the words fell, Zhu Gaoxu shook the reins of his horse and led 4,000 horsemen to go into battle.

They are fast to the southwest, and they are not worried about horsepower, because they are now able to do one man and three horses.

In the past three days, they have plundered many tribes all the way south, and because of the good work of sweeping the tail, many Uliangha tribes have not noticed their appearance and departure.

Zhu Gaoxu only knew that they had already made a fortune from this robbery, and what he had to do next was to complete the final blow and completely cripple Wu Liangha!

In the dead of night, the 4,000 Bohai navy, under the guidance of Gan Bala, inserted themselves towards the city of Wuliang Ha Bald.

They walked seven or eight miles southwest before they were discovered by the sentry posts on the periphery.

"Beep!!"

A dense whistle sounded, all the way to the southwest.

The shrill whistle was heard by the Uliangha soldiers who were on vigil, and they blew their wooden whistles and sounded their gongs.

"The Ming army is fighting at night?!"

In the camp outside the city of Uliang Havul, Kharagu opened the tent curtain shirtless and questioned the two teams of Tanma Red Army at the gate.

The two teams of Tanma Chijun were also confused, and it was not until the arrival of the night duty that someone solved Haragu's doubts.

"The whistle came from the northeast, there was no movement from Zhu Quan's side, I have already asked all the men in the battalion to go into battle in armor!"

Trukhucar arranged everything, much to the relief of Haragu.

He returned to his tent to wear his armor, and a quarter of an hour later walked out of the camp with the Red Army of Tanma and the guards of the Tanma.

Outside the battalion, thousands of armor soldiers had already been assembled, but there were still many more armor soldiers and light soldiers still scurrying around in the camp, and they could not all leave the camp for a while.

The Kharagu had no time to take care of them, for the sentinels from the northeast were already coming to their side.

"What's going on? Hu Bing went crazy? ”

At the same time, in the Ming army camp, Zhu Quan put on his armor, dragged his tired body to the camp gate, and looked at the Wuliangha camp more than ten miles away, and wondered.

"Shall we go out and see?"

Zhu Quan asked Liu Zhen, who was on duty at night, but Liu Zhen said with a solemn face: "Many soldiers in our army are blind at night, in case this is Hu Bing's deception, then ......"

"We have night blindness, but Hu Bing doesn't have it?" Zhu Quan frowned, but Liu Zhen said:

"Hu Bing naturally has night blindness, and it is more serious than ours, so you can see ......"

Liu Zhen pointed to a piece of fire that never moved: "Because of this, they stood outside the camp and did not dare to go deep into the night. ”

"The last time I heard that they were fighting at Hadaling in Jilin at night, the last general was surprised by this, but now it seems that he has a long memory."

"Jilin City ......" heard his nephew's fiefdom, Zhu Quan said tentatively: "You said this situation, is Gao Xu here?" ”

"It shouldn't ......be possible," Liu Zhen shook his head, "The Bohai Palace's ability to raise so many soldiers has exceeded our expectations, and it is impossible for them to cure night blindness." ”

Although it was the Hongwu period, the life of many soldiers could only be said to be okay, so night blindness was widespread in the Ming army.

After all, not every palace is willing to spend so much money and food on the soldiers, but Liu Zhen obviously underestimated Zhu Gaoxu's investment in the Bohai Navy.

"Drive! Drive! ”

When Liu Zhen and Zhu Quan were still hesitating, outside the city of Wuliang Ha, the Qianhu official in charge of the northeast sentry cavalry rushed to the front of the battle with hundreds of horsemen out of breath.

He found Haragu and the others, and made a confession; "Great Khan, it's the Southern Army, and the Ming Army is coming to the northeast......"

"How many are there?" Harawu was not surprised by the sudden appearance of a Ming army, after all, he had already guessed that the Ming army was tired of this northern tour.

"It's too dark to see clearly, only about a thousand torches." The Qianhu official told the truth what he knew, and after hearing this, Harawu also turned his head to look at Tulu Kucha'er:

"Bring out all the idiots in the camp, I want to see how the southern soldiers dare to come to fight me at night!"

Haragu did not take the so-called more than 1,000 Ming troops and the 3,000 Ming troops in Zhu Quan's hands in his eyes.

As long as it is not Zhu Di's northern tour, the king and generals of the Ming army in the north rarely lead tens of thousands of troops out of the fortress alone.

If the Ming army does not break 10,000, there is no need for him to worry and fear.

Under his command, the Uliang Ha men in the camp began to rush out, but the speed was too slow, and the Ha Ra Wu was very angry.

In order to prevent this Ming army from burning Awata, Haragu deliberately brought thousands of armor soldiers under his command to Awata, leaving the fools who had not yet left the camp to assemble outside the camp.

Relying on Awata, Haragu soon saw a fire in the northeast.

His hand rested on the long knife, and from time to time he looked at Zhu Quan's camp to the south.

Seeing that there was no movement over there, Haragu was very puzzled.

"Why don't these two soldiers and horses cooperate at all? Could it be that Zhu Quan is not waiting for them? ”

The Kharagu were still puzzled, but the army had appeared less than a mile in front of them.

"Haragu, this old thief, is very vigilant, but it doesn't matter!"

In the night, Zhu Gaoxu reined in his horse and commanded the army to stop.

Seeing that Haragu was in full formation, Zhu Gaoxu looked at the camp in the distance and was a little puzzled: "Why are there two camps here?" ”

"Your Highness! Scratched a tongue! Lin Suce immediately stepped forward to ask for merit, and pointed to the camp in the south and said, "According to that tongue, that side is the camp of King Ning. ”

"Good!" Hearing that Zhu Quan was also there, Zhu Gaoxu did not pursue night battles.

After all, this person was able to escape from Feng Sheng and Zhu Di twice in history, and he also tried to go south to fight the grass valley during the Battle of Jingjing, and after being defeated by Wu Gao and Yang Wen, he could still run back to the grassland, and he did not die of illness until the first year of Yongle.

can survive from Zhu Di and Feng Sheng, he still has the ability, not as incompetent as the straw bale guarding Wuliang Hashan.

"Do you want to fight?"

Fu Rang's face was worried, but Zhu Gaoxu smiled and said: "They are blind at night and must hold torches, but we don't need to." ”

"Tell the armies to extinguish the torches!" Zhu Gaoxu gave an order, and soon all the torches in the army were extinguished.

After the torches disappeared, they saw Haragu and the others very clearly, but Haragu and the others could not see them.

The torches in their hands and the light of the barracks could only allow them to see the distance of dozens of paces ahead.

"Archery!"

Harawu raised his hand and signaled his soldiers and horses to release arrows, so as to test the movement of this Ming army.

Soon, thousands of arrows were fired into the night, but there was no sound.

Looking at the backwater ahead, Haragu frowned and looked up at the sky.

Unfortunately, dark clouds covered the moonlight tonight, making the already nightblind Mongols even more unable to see ahead.

Soon, however, the sound of horses' hooves sounded ahead, and it was very heavy and dense.

"The sound of horses' hooves doesn't look like a thousand people......"

Tulu Kucha'er reminded Haragu with a solemn face, but Haragu didn't think much about it, he just raised his hand again: "Release the arrow again!" ”

Thousands of armored soldiers drew their bows and arrows, shooting thousands of arrows, but as before, there was still not a single sound.

"They're going east, barracks!" Haragu turned his head sideways, and sure enough, he heard the sound of horses' hooves running eastward.

Sure enough, Khalagu soon saw thousands of Ming cavalry appear in the eastern range of the camp, and they opened their bows and arrows to kill the light soldiers who had not yet been fully assembled.

"Drop the rocket!!"

Azashiri, who was in charge of the command, led the 3,000 armored soldiers who had just stabilized their position to shoot arrows and counterattack, but the Ming army's arrow rain was faster than theirs.

As the rain fell, arrows shot down many horses and light soldiers, but this could not affect Azashri.

He expects the rocket to light up the battlefield with some hay on fire.

But the rockets sank into the ground, and there was no way to illuminate them, because their herds had already eaten up the hay.

Seeing this, he didn't want to be beaten passively, he pulled out his saber and pointed to the Ming army who was shooting arrows around them: "Go to war!" ”

"Woo-woo-"

A dull horn sounded, and three thousand armor soldiers and thousands of Hu soldiers who had stabilized their positions began to charge, and more Hu soldiers were still rushing out on horseback.

They rushed into the night, shouting for killing.

Hu Bing, who was holding a torch, could not spare two hands to shoot arrows, so he could only hold a torch in one hand and a saber in the other.

Compared with them, the Bohai Navy had a clear target, and while retreating, they returned to their horses and shot arrows in the direction of the fire.

Hu Bing, who rushed towards the Bohai Navy, could only hear the sound of horses' hooves and see the arrows constantly flying, but he could not even see the banner of the Bohai Navy clearly.

Gradually, Azashri only felt that many light soldiers around him had fallen, and they were some armor soldiers, and he didn't know why he had fallen off his horse.

The light soldier fell from the horse with an arrow, and it was still within the scope of Azashri's cognition, but it was strange for the armor soldier to fall from the horse.

Ordinary armor-piercing arrows can't do much damage to the armor at all, let alone shoot the armor soldier to death.

Although the frequency of the armoured soldiers falling from their horses was not high, Azashiri and many of his soldiers began to be afraid.

Such a fear made Harawu in the distance frown: "Tens of thousands of people besieged a thousand people, and they fought so hard!" ”

Kharawu stood and spoke without backache, and Azashiri looked at the armored soldiers who kept falling off his horse, and his heart began to be afraid, and finally he reined in his horse and said: "Go back to the camp!" ”

He was about to turn the horse's head, but his frequent actions of giving orders attracted Zhu Gaoxu's attention at night.

Zhu Gaoxu stood on the stirrups, held the 200-pound bow in his hand, and pulled out the armor-piercing arrow like a javelin from the quiver.

The arrowhead used to pierce the armor was almost the size of a five or six-year-old child's palm.

With him stretching out his bow and arrows, Azashri, who was dozens of paces away, didn't know why, and suddenly felt his scalp tingle.

"Withdraw!"

As soon as he had said this, he felt a huge force hit his back, causing him to fall forward.

But before he could fall, he saw that his chest and abdomen were pushed out, and his body gradually weakened, and his whole body fell to the side of the saddle.

"How... What's going on......"

"Taiji!!"

Before he fell, he only heard the frightened shouts of the people around him, and finally his eyes were black......

(End of chapter)