Chapter 237: Westward Expansion
Although Zilong said it concisely and to the point, as if it was no big deal to defeat the Heavenly King Faction, Zhu Zhi understood it very well!
This is just a group of men and horses sent by the Heavenly King, there are many masters, and the defenders of the Great Wall can't raise their heads, even if they lead 5,000 Ningxia troops here, they only keep on the defensive, and they don't have the slightest idea of counterattacking.
If it weren't for Zilongshuai's army coming from behind this time, the five thousand cavalry troops would be constantly harassing from the side, and Zhu Zhi would only be afraid that the border pass of the Great Wall would be lost.
At the moment, Zhu Zhi looked at Zilong with a complicated expression, and only felt that this former ranger of the rivers and lakes, and now a hero, he could no longer see clearly!
Zilong naturally didn't know that Zhu Zhi's heart had turned a thousand times, and he had turned so many thoughts, he saw that Zhu Zhi was silent, and thought that Zhu Zhi was thinking about what to do next, so he immediately said out loud: "I'm from the grassland, and I don't know the specific form here! It's only because Ashige's department is a remnant of the Heavenly King Sect that I understand it more clearly! Can the little prince tell me where the army of Dingguo Gong and Ordos are holding each other now, and what is the form?"
"Okay! This morning I just sent a battle report of the battle between Dingguo Gong and Ordos, I'll tell you!" Hearing Zilong's inquiry, Zhu Zhi had no choice but to let go of the distracting thoughts in his heart and explain to Zilong, "Now that Dingguo Gong and the Ordos Department are fighting near Helan Mountain, this morning's battle report said that after the Ordos Ministry attacked the flank of the Dingguo Gong army, the Dingguo Gong army was in danger.
Now my father, the Fengyue Gang and others have sent people to help Dingguo Gong guard his grain route. It's just that on the frontal battlefield, because the Ordos people are treacherous, they don't confront the army head-on, and they only have a defensive position to fight Dingguogong, and they have no power to fight back!"
"Helan Mountain?" Zilong moved when he heard this, looked back at the sloppy march map behind him, made a rough comparison, and said, "Now our army is in Chonggang, only a hundred miles away from Helan Mountain, I see that tomorrow morning, I will send troops to Helan Mountain, and threaten Ordos from the flank! I just don't know where Ordos's base camp is, otherwise if he threatens it, Ordos will definitely not dare to be so presumptuous!" Zilong said while sighing and looking at Zhu Zhi's eyes.
"I don't know where the base camp of Ordos is!" Zhu Zhi couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, and said, "What I know, now that our army has been fighting in Helan Mountain for more than a month, the battle situation has been extremely unfavorable to our army!"
"Well, I know, then I will move west tomorrow and go to Helan Mountain! But I don't know what mission you are going to perform next, little prince?" Zilongdang directly decided the next movement of the army, and finally looked at Zhu Zhi and asked.
"Me?" Zhu Zhi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said, "I'm just urgently transferred here because the front-line battle is imminent! On top of the border pass, I still have to listen to the orders of the border guard! Although the enemy troops outside the pass have been annihilated by you, Lord Yu is still worried that other enemies will take the opportunity to attack, so he asked me to come and inform the military situation, and then I have to go back to Guanshan to defend strictly!"
"This ...... Okay!" Zilong was also quite sorry when he heard this, this time he attacked Ordos in the west and decided to determine the Duke of Guo, but he didn't know what the specific battle situation was, and he didn't know how many people and horses came to Ordos this time.
Originally, Zilong heard that Zhu Zhi had brought the palace guards and two thousand Ningxia defenders to come, thinking that these five thousand men and horses were all considered to be his subordinates, and their combat power was good, and they joined the tribal army, and when they could strengthen their combat power, they thought that it would be best to take them away.
What Zhu Zhi said at this time is also a truth. What's more, the military regulations of the Ming army are extremely strict, and since Lord Yu is a guard general, it is not wrong to do so! Immediately thought for a moment, and then said to Zhu Zhi: "Then please take care of the little prince, and by the way, help me talk to the prince of Ningxia, saying that after Zilong drove away the Tartars in Ordos, he will take Wan'er back to visit his old man!"
Zhu Zhi obviously didn't know about Zilong and Wan'er's engagement, and when he heard Zilong say this, he also nodded, and after the three of them talked for a while, Zhu Zhi retreated under the leadership of Yao Mingqiang and returned to the border of the Great Wall.
Seeing Zhu Zhi retreating, Zilong couldn't help but rub his brows, and said to Wan'er: "We still don't know how many people are coming from this Ordos this time!
"Brother Zilong means to investigate first?" Wan'er couldn't help but ask when she heard this.
"No, listening to the battle report just now, I think it is extremely uncomfortable to come to Dingguogong, we still streamline the troops, directly rush forward with light cavalry, kill Helan Mountain as soon as possible, and help Dingguo Gong from the side!" Zilong shook his head when he heard this, he knew from the battle report just now that Dingguo Gong on the main battlefield was quite embarrassed at this time, and immediately prepared to go directly to the rescue!
"Then are all the more than 30,000 troops gone?" Wan'er asked again.
"No! Let Jiang Yunsong select 20,000 cavalry troops, and let the rest of the infantry be carried by other leaders, and then follow! This battle should be fast rather than slow, the whole army will rest for three hours, and then quickly march to Helan Mountain!" Zilong ordered directly.
When many officers in the big tent heard this, including Jiang Yunsong, they all obeyed the order and went down directly to distribute it, Zilong saw that the military order had been issued, so he breathed a sigh of relief, sat down slowly, leaned back in the chair, and fell into rest. Wan'er knew that Zilong was in good hands, so she took Qianqian's jade fingers and kept massaging Zilong
Besides, the Ordos Ministry! This time Ordos invaded the south, but it was only the nature of fighting grass valleys, and he wanted to loot it, so he would return! Unexpectedly, a noble son of Ordos led a light cavalry southward, but he happened to be ambushed for a long time, and Jiang Han, who had already received the news that Ordos was going south, was ambushed, Jiang Han was jealous and hateful, and when he saw a Han woman that this nobleman's son had just snatched, he couldn't help but be furious, and directly ordered this person to be executed.
When the son of this nobleman died, his son, the great nobleman of Ordos, was immediately furious, and interfered with the decision-making of the leaders of Ordos, and won over many nobles of Ordos, turning this originally small-scale grass-fighting valley into a large-scale Koubian.
At first, under the command of the nobles, Ordos only came with more than 10,000 light cavalry, but relying on the advantage of cavalry, the battle with Jiang Zongbing was in full swing, so it was not majestic. He was also determined to avenge his son, so he deliberately looted several towns and forts, and obtained some gold, silver, wealth, and supplies.
When the other Ordos nobles saw that this nobleman had taken so many benefits, they immediately turned red, and they instigated the leader to gather 50,000 elite horsemen to go south. In this way, it was almost the strength of Ordos, which invaded the south with all its might.
When he received the report from the spies, Jiang Han faintly felt that something was wrong, and rushed to the Great Wall with most of the border troops in Ningxia. The battle between the two sides lasted for more than half a month, and Ordos got some cheap, but Jiang Han didn't lose much.
But later, Ordos was red-eyed and sent envoys to Hetao to induce Hetao to send troops. In line with the idea of weakening the Mongol faction, the Great Heavenly King of Hetao asked Ashige to gather 30,000 troops to come out of the set, and to fight with Ordos in the west and east, and jointly attack the Ming frontier. In this way, Jiang Han couldn't hold it anymore, so he had to report the matter to the imperial court.
It was at this time that Dingguo Gong came to the forefront, took the initiative to ask for help, and integrated the border troops drawn from Xuanfu, Datong, and Yansui, totaling more than 100,000, and came to Ningxia in a mighty way.
After this Dingguo Duke was Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, he also inherited many of the kings of Zhongshan's art of war. He commanded more than 100,000 Ming troops, and launched a fierce battle with the 60,000 troops of Ordos on the long border of the Great Wall.
Although the Ordos people were less than the Ming army under the command of Dingguo Gong, these Ordos people were extremely cunning, relying on the cavalry to gallop back and forth quickly, and they continued to attack the Ming army on the border of the Great Wall. In order to make substantial progress, the nobles of Ordos sent Asig to attack Chonggang in the east, hoping to break the Ming army's defenses from there and then attack Ningxia.
It's just that the Ordos people didn't expect that at this moment, the Great Wall was about to be broken, but Ashige was defeated, led 5,000 people, found the camp in Ordos, and proposed to surrender, and the Ordos people were shocked.
They knew that there were 30,000 people under Ashige, although the number was only half of Ordos, but the overall combat strength was also considerable, otherwise they would not have beaten the main peace faction of the Ming army, and almost asked for peace!
At this time, Ashig fled here in a hurry, and the elite army around him was only 2,000 people left, and Albus, the first nobleman in Ordos, received Ahig in his staff.
"What the hell is going on, Ahige, you have 30,000 people, how can you be so badly defeated?" Albus looked at Asig, who was still in good manners in front of him, and couldn't understand how he had been defeated so badly.
"Lord Albus!" originally thought that Ahig was in the Hetao grassland, but he was on an equal footing with Albus, but the status of the two was not much different. It's just that now there are only 2,000 people in Ashige's hands, and he came here to take refuge in this Albus, so he also obediently lowered his posture and said, "I don't know if you know about the shocking changes on the Hetao grassland?"
"A little bit of it!" Albus said, nodding.
"Did you know that the Heavenly King's Sect was destroyed and the Great Heavenly King died?" continued Ashige.
"I don't know this!What??, is Mobei Crazy Knife dead?" Albus's identity, but there is no need to call the Great Heavenly King, but after this Great Heavenly King became the Great Heavenly King, the real name is no longer known to outsiders, so ordinary outsiders use his nickname back then to call this person.
"Yes, the Great Heavenly King is dead! I was killed by a Han swordsman! The reason why I failed was also because I was defeated by the Han swordsman who led the rebels on the grassland!" Ashig naturally couldn't say that his strategic mistake led to this miserable defeat, so he could only try his best to exaggerate Zilong's power in front of Albus.
"Oh, can you kill the Mobei Crazy Knife, and you can also lead the traitors to defeat your army, is this Han swordsman so powerful?" Hearing this, Albus was a little unconvinced, the ability of this Mobei Crazy Knife was already visible when the 50,000 Tatar elite cavalry were repulsed.