Chapter 233: Confrontation
Wan'er forced herself to calm down, and slowly thought about the dragon's strategy for a while, only to feel that this strategy was more reliable than the Fire Ox Formation, and immediately said: "It can be, but with such a method of warfare, what should the eleven herdsmen of Gorouzi do? The three thousand cattle and horses can only be sacrificed, right?"
"On the battle array, no one can guarantee that they will survive!" Zilong sighed and said, "The sacrifice of the three thousand cattle and horses will be sacrificed! After all, there are not many other grasslands, and there are a lot of livestock! As for Golangzi and them, I have seen Golangzi grazing with his Abba, and they should be able to withdraw at the last moment! In this way, although there is some danger, there is also life!"
"Okay! then do it, I'll go and fix a book, and you can also write a letter to recruit Ashig as soon as possible, and we will prepare for this big battle!" Wan'er nodded when she heard this, and immediately walked to the vicinity of a few cases, and directly began to write. Zilong looked at Wan'er's serious appearance, and felt a little stunned, and after a while, he came to his senses, and he also wrote a letter of surrender in advance.
The two of them wrote these two letters in a short time, and then sent them quickly according to the strategy agreed upon before! Wan'er's one was naturally handed over to the beggar gang and quickly sent back to Ningxia. However, Zilong's letter was handed over to Yao Mingqiang, ordering him to quickly hand over the letters from the leaders of the tribes to the vanguard Jiang Yunsong, and then release the captives to the Ahig camp according to the plan.
After everything was ready, Zilong and Wan'er rested for a while, then ordered people to collect cattle and horses, and finally led an army of 13,000 horsemen to gallop towards the edge of the Great Wall in the border town of Ningxia beyond the Hetao.
On the road of the army, it is not a day. Zilong walked along the road, but it was a fast march. The battle reports and intelligence on the front line were continuously sent by the spies to Zilong's hands. After three days of marching in Zilongshuai's army, Jiang Yunsong sent someone to report that the vanguard had arrived at the Great Wall of Ningxia and patrolled behind the Ahig army, causing Ashig to throw a mouse trap and stop the attack on the Great Wall.
After another half a day, Jiang Yunsong sent another battle report, saying that Ashig had sent 2,000 soldiers from the 3rd tribe and 3,000 tribal warriors, totaling 5,000 people to attack Jiang Yunsong.
However, Jiang Yunsong fought and retreated, and finally left 500 soldiers in Ashige's department and returned with a feather.
So Ashige's troops turned from attack to defense, and they could not shrink in the middle of the camp.
On the second day, Ashig sent the Six Heavenly Kings Ilede to lead an army to challenge Jiang Yunsong, but Jiang Yunsong knew that his martial arts were inferior to Ilede, so he did not confront Ilede head-on, but only attacked nearby.
Unexpectedly, Ashige informed Ordos and sent Ordos's cavalry to fight with Ilede in the north and south, and almost captured Jiang Yunsong.
It's just that Jiang Yunsong has a lot of experience in Mongolian warfare, and he even took the vanguard troops to evade this killing, but instead ate nearly 1,000 horsemen from the Ordos headquarters that came to pursue.
Ordos had been fighting quite fiercely with Dingguo Gong on the frontal battlefield, and the three thousand light cavalry sent out to flank Jiang Yunsong were already one of their few mobile forces.
After this loss, Ordos no longer dared to send troops to disturb him, but only let Ashige solve Jiang Yunsong on his own, and urged Ashig to break the Great Wall from the flank as soon as possible and break through the Ming army's defense system.
After these two battles were fought, the Ashig division also lost the troops that exterminated Jiang Yunsong, who came and went like the wind, and could only send troops to monitor Jiang Yunsong's movements, and then go to attack the Great Wall.
It's just that Ahige's department was originally only 30,000 people, and under the bloody battles for days, plus the 2,000 people sent to Hetao, and two fierce battles with Jiang Yunsong, now there are less than 25,000 people!
Among them, there are three elites, but there are still nearly 8,000 people left, and most of the dead and wounded are tribal warriors, and there are only 17,000 people!
Therefore, this soldier was divided into two ways, watching Jiang Yunsong all the way, and attacking the city all the way, but it was really difficult!
In addition, Jiang Yunsong's tactics and tactics are good, and he broke through the Ashig subordinates who watched him several times and drove directly under the Great Wall, which not only frustrated the spirit of Ahig to attack the Great Wall, but also greatly boosted the morale of the Ming army on the Great Wall, and it was no longer the previous slump.
For a while, the battle situation was dragged down by Jiang Yunsong's partial division, and Ashige did not dare to let go of the siege, nor could he annihilate Jiang Yunsong, so he could only be stuffed in the camp.
On the second day, Zilong came to Jiang Yunsong's camp with an army of 13,000!
At this time, Zilong's side had an army of 18,000, and the opposite side of Ashige's department had 25,000 people, but the combat strength of the two sides was also about the same.
The captives who were released did not fail in their mission, spread the news of the change in the grassland, and let Asig see the letter of surrender.
Ashig knew that the hearts of the clan warriors had fluctuated, and if the confrontation continued, someone might rebel, so he directly sent someone to write a war letter to Zilong, stating that he would decide the battle in a battle!
The plan to attack the Great Wall was temporarily halted, and the army of Ordos attacked the city alone.
Zilong also knew that the battle had already been accomplished, so he directly waved his pen and approved the decisive battle! The two sides agreed to hold a decisive battle on the grassland under the Great Wall after noon.
At that moment, when Ahig saw that Zilong agreed to a decisive battle, he found the leaders of the various tribes, and after deciding how to attack, how to defend, and how to break the attack, he ordered his subordinates to go down and prepare!
It's just that he privately sent his cronies to start monitoring the leaders of the various tribes in case there was a change.
In the blink of an eye at noon, the two armies were directly on this grassland, forming a duel.
Both armies were steppe armies, so the cavalry was very numerous! But Ashig had come to siege the city, so he had an army of 25,000 and 10,000 infantry.
As for Zilong's army, in order to lure the enemy into depth, some light cavalry was deliberately converted into 8,000 foot soldiers, and the remaining cavalry had 7,000 cavalry, far less than the 15,000 cavalry on the opposite side!
When Ashig saw the situation in the array, he couldn't help but be extremely proud, looked around to the left and right, and said: "The enemy army is only more than 7,000 horsemen, but we have 15,000 horsemen! Later, everyone will divide the cavalry into three teams and charge and kill from three directions, and the enemy will be defeated!"
The remaining high-ranking members of the Heavenly King Sect felt that what Ashige said was reasonable, and they couldn't help but be eager to try, even the clan leaders who had originally had different intentions, seeing this situation, also ignited the confidence of victory in their hearts, and temporarily let go of the idea of betrayal.
At this time, Zilong, according to the pre-war practice, shouted in front of the battle, and asked the enemy chief Ashige to come out to answer. Ashige was conceited that there were many masters on his side, and his military strength was faintly stronger than Zilong's side, so he immediately went to the appointment happily, and directly took the Six Heavenly King Ilede and the Eighth Heavenly King Wu Zhengfang to answer.
On Zilong's side, he only took Ren Bufan and the three elders of the beggar gang out of the battle. Fifty paces apart, he stopped. Zilong took the lead and said: "I have heard the name of the Second Heavenly King Ahige for a long time, and when I see it today, it is not bad!"
Ahige's appearance is not like a Mongol, but like a handsome son from the Central Plains!
I saw that he was wearing a blue fox robe, lightly tied with a jade belt around his waist, and his hairstyle was also the same as that of a Central Plains person.
After listening to Zilong's words, he knew that this was his great enemy this time, who destroyed the Black Stone Cliff and killed Xu Zilong, the Great Heavenly King.
Immediately, he couldn't help but look at the dragon carefully, and then couldn't help but nod and said, "Your Excellency is Xu Zilong!
"Ahige, today the two armies are facing each other, and we won't talk much nonsense! Now the situation is clear, I have destroyed the Great Heavenly King and his family, and all of them on this grassland have surrendered to me, whether it is war or peace, it is in your thoughts! It's just that I want you to think about it clearly, now that your roots have been cut off, there is no logistical supply to speak of! Even if I lose this battle, as long as I block the grassland, you will be like a tree without roots, and you can only starve to death slowly!" Zilong didn't talk too much politely to Asig, and went straight to the point.
When these words were right, Ren Bufan also faintly used his internal force to spread Zilong's words on the battlefield.
The leaders of the various clans of Ahige's department, who were originally quite hesitant, faintly felt justified when they heard Zilong's words, but the military spirit slowly floated.
Ashige also knew Zilong's purpose in calling him out, so he immediately became tepid and said: "How wise and powerful the Great Heavenly King is, how can you kill him! Not to mention that we are relying on the Ordos army, even if you occupy the grassland? As long as we cooperate with Ordos and break the Great Wall, then Ningxia will take what we want! With Ningxia's financial resources, I can fight at least 50,000 iron troops, and with Ordos's cooperation, do you dare to say that you will win?"
Naturally, Ashig said these words as Ren Bufan, using internal force.
It's just that Ashige's skills are not as profound as Ren Bufan after all, and in the end, it is Elode behind him who can pass on the credit to him, so that Ren Bufan can achieve this level.
Although he was denying that Zilong had become the lord of the grassland, but in his later words, he faintly agreed that Zilong had become the lord of the grassland, and those tribal leaders were even more panicked when they heard it.
However, after carefully pondering Ahige's words, the leaders of these various departments, who were already somewhat loyal to Ahige, were all slightly moved in their hearts, and they were thinking in their hearts one by one: "Yes! If the Great Wall is broken, the flowery world of Ningxia will not be left to their own needs! When the time comes, if they join forces with the Ordos army, this bullshit grassland lord will not be tenable, and he can only withdraw from the grassland in a gray manner, and when the time comes, even if he and others are heroes of all ethnic groups, it will be better than going back in a gray manner now!"
At present, the leaders of these various ethnic groups are in good spirits, and their morale has risen a lot.
His Majesty Emperor Taizongwen even personally led a large army to the Khan Court of the Three Liberals in the north, which terrified the grasslands! Do you really think that if you break Ningxia, there will be good fruits to eat?"