Chapter 245: Self-invested (Part 2)

The old rule is that several flowers bloom, each with one branch. Time goes back. When the Mongolian scout brought the news of Ma Guozhu's successful exploration back to the Mongolian army camp, he confirmed that the Yutailing small road could directly enter the hinterland of Xuanfu. Ezhe immediately ordered the trumpet to be promoted and the generals sent troops without saying a word. Unfortunately, the Mongolian army has undergone serious degeneration, and Ezhe is not the kind of commander who can be convincing the people. Therefore, ten trumpeters blew the trumpet for half an hour outside the tent, and Mongolian generals of the thousand-man commander level arrived. That's not all. When Ezhe ordered the whole army to gather and take a small path to attack the hinterland of Xuanfu, the generals not only did not agree unconditionally, but a small number of Mongolian generals who were not the Chahar tribe even raised opposition.

"Big Prince, we are allies with the Ming Dynasty. How can you give such an order?" Several thousand-time captains of the Hongjisat tribe relied on the strength of their tribe to question Ezhe directly. The headed thousand-time captain Hadanda even publicly said: "Big Prince, if you send troops to sneak attack the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty without authorization, even if you succeed, the Ming army will definitely not give up. When the war reopens, the 57-year friendly diplomatic relations between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia will be destroyed. We and the prince will both become Mongolian national sinners!"

"Yes, once the war starts with the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will definitely close the border market, and the famine of our Mongolian tribe will be even worse." The relatives of the Ming Dynasty Mongolian generals agreed, and the generals shouted, "Big Prince, you must not go to war with the Ming Dynasty. Once this battle starts, our Mongolian will split first!" "Yes, Big Prince, have you never heard of Lord Zhang Haogu of the Ming Dynasty using 8,000 troops to annihilate our 120,000 troops, and sweep the Korqin grasslands and Kalaqin grasslands. You can't defeat Lord Zhang Haogu."

The voices of opposing the war with the Ming Dynasty were so loud that Ezhe, who was very ambitious and talented, suddenly felt caught off guard. He couldn't think of any way to suppress these voices for a moment. Fortunately, there were many pro-Ming factions within the Mongolian army, and there were also many pro-Ming factions and pro-Slave factions. At least Ezhe's two left-hand men, Guyingtasu and Qitatecheerbe Zhesang are iron-core hawks and hardcore pro-Slave factions, and their actual abilities are far beyond Ezhe. Faced with the opposition from the generals of the Ming Dynasty, Zhesang was the first to jump out and yelled: "Shut up to me! Do you want to disobey the military order? The eldest prince is the leader of the entire army. You have to do whatever he asks you to do! Otherwise, you will disobey the orders and must be executed according to military law!"

"Yes! As the commander of the entire army, even if you want you to kill your parents, wives and children, you must kill them immediately!" Gu Yingtasu also bluffed, "Otherwise, if you disobey the military order, you have to put them in a sack and trample them to death with a war horse! The eldest prince is so kind to you in normal times. If you dare to make a big splash, the eldest prince will have to marching!"

Ezhe himself is a hard-core pro-slave sect. The generals in the army naturally have a low status. When Zhaisang and Guyingtasu used military laws, most of the generals of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to speak. Only a few of the more hard-working generals said bravely: "General Guyingtasu, General Zhaisang, we are not disobeying the military orders, we cannot understand the order of the eldest prince - we are allies with the Ming Dynasty, and sending troops to sneak attack their hinterland. This is not a heroic act. If the Khan pursues the matter, who will take this responsibility?"

"Shut up!" With Zhaisang and Guyingtasu support, Ezhe became much more confident and yelled with a very respectful look: "Whoever dares to oppose my orders again, I will let him taste the taste of being trampled to death by a war horse! Obeying the order and going to fight to kill the enemy is your business! How to deal with my father Khan, it is my business! As for how to negotiate with the barbarian Mingguo, whether it is a negotiation or a war, it is my business of my father Khan, it is not your turn to worry about it!"

"Well said!" Guyingtasu took the lead in applauding and shouted to the generals: "Have you heard it? You just need to execute the orders of the eldest prince. As for the consequences, you don't have to worry about it. That's the matter between the eldest prince and us!" I have to admit that this sentence is indeed quite reasonable, so all the Mongolian generals applauded and no longer opposed the order of Ezhe's sneak attack on the hinterland of Xuanfu. - Of course, Guyingtasu had to regret his words afterwards so that his intestines turned green. Afterwards, I would hold on to the point of not mentioning this for the time being.

After finalizing the sneak attack plan, Ezhe immediately mobilized troops and generals according to Ma Guozhu's guidance. Guyingtasu, who was most trusted by Ezhe, led five thousand light cavalry to set out first, and brought more open-route tools to clear the road for the army, so as to help the entire Mongolian army quickly pass through the relatively narrow path, and at the same time shoulder the task of sneak attacking Wanquancheng under the reception of the Ming army traitors; Ezhe personally led the main force to carry food, supplies and then go, and if necessary, he could take over the head-on attack Wanquancheng; Zhaisang led the 5,000 elite cavalry hall and was responsible for expelling and killing the Ming army scouts to prevent the main force of the Ming army from discovering the sneak attack plan of the main force of the Mongolian army from being too early, and if necessary, he would be responsible for blocking the Ming army's pursuit.

After a certain plan, Ezhe discussed the time for the troops with the generals. On the night of August 19th, the Mongolian camp became lively. They made fires and cooked and fed horses in the evening. At the beginning of the update, Guyingtasu's advance team and Zhaisang's rear team set off at the same time, headed by the guide and rushed to the Yutailing trail, and turned to the southeast to clear the Ming army scouts at that location and monitored the movements of the Ming army in Zhangjiakou. At the third update, Ezhe personally took the main force of the Mongolian army and left the empty camp and rushed to Yutailing.

This time, luck finally stood on the side of the Mongolian army. When Ezhe's army rushed to the entrance of Yutailing Road at dawn, news came from the village where the Ming army was monitoring the movements of the Ming army. The Ming army garrison in Zhangjiakou did not react at all and knew nothing about the Mongolian army's sneak attack plan. Ezhe was overjoyed and quickly ordered the entire army to quickly enter the Yutailing Canyon and cross the Yinshan Mountains to rush straight to Wanquan. But in this way, some experienced Mongolian generals quit and rushed to Ezhe to oppose and question. One of the veteran generals pointed to the high mountains on both sides of the canyon and said, "Big Prince, look, this place is really too dangerous. Once we go in, it will be difficult to think about it."

"What are you afraid of? Didn't the barbarian say? How can you get a tiger if you don't enter the tiger's den?" Ezhe rarely showed off his idiom and said in a big way: "Do you think I'm so stupid. If you don't send someone to explore the way, you can enter such a dangerous place? Don't worry, I have sent scouts to investigate carefully repeatedly. There is no ambush from the barbarian here. We just need to go in and we can pass through the Yinshan Mountains and penetrate the barbarian's hinterland!"

"Have you sent scouts to investigate repeatedly?" Several Mongolian veterans looked at each other, but they really didn't dare to let go. The mountains and steep mountains such as the Yinshan Remaining Lines have high mountains and dense forests, and the terrain is extremely complex. Not to mention that a few scouts have carefully investigated, even if they station tens of thousands of troops here, it would be difficult to take into account the situation and completely avoid the enemy's ambush. In a timid manner, a veteran suggested kindly: "Big Prince, why not do this? Let's not go into the small path first. Wait until General Guyingtasu's vanguard army takes over Wanquan City and establish a forward stronghold. Our army will pass through the mountains and enter the hinterland of Xuanfu!"

"Nonsense!" Ezhe was furious and shouted, "You are still a lot of white beards. You can actually come up with such a stupid move? Guyingtasu only has 5,000 troops. Even if he can successfully capture Wanquan City, our actions will be completely exposed! At that time, Guyingtasu sent people to send messages to convey them, and it will take another time. It will take a while for us to pass through the Yinshan Mountains. During this period, if the Barbarian army reacts and blocks this path, how can our main force enter the hinterland of Xuanfu? By then, will Guyingtasu's five thousand troops become lonely? Will it be slaughtered by the numerous barbarian army like lambs?"

Not to mention, Ezhe's words really make some sense. Several Mongolian veterans really can't think of a way to refute. Seeing that a few veterans who were old enough to be grandpa were scolded and speechless, Ezhe was even more proud and showed off his knowledge and scolded: "Besides, fighting is a kind of adventure. How can we fight if we don't dare to take risks? If we don't dare to take this risk, it's better to go home and sleep with an old and ugly woman. In my dream, I'll just drool in the beauty of barbarians! Have you forgotten that when our Mongolian army marched across the natural danger of the Carpathian Mountains, the whole army also crossed the natural danger of the Carpathian Mountains, and then successfully attacked the City of Gran! There is no road in the snow-capped Carpathian Mountains, so our Mongolian army can all pass, let alone this small Yinshan Mountains with roads?"

Ezhe, who dreamed of reappearing the great Yuan Dynasty, moved out the example of the Mongolian Western Expedition of that year. Several Mongolian veterans had nothing to say, so they had to obediently execute Ezhe's orders, lead the entire army into the canyon between Yutai Ridge and Yehu Ridge, and tremble into the mountains and ridges in the remnants of Yinshan Mountains in fear. However, after several veterans executed the orders, they also asked Ezhe in a verbal manner. Since Ezhe insisted on implementing this adventure plan, the Mongolian army must seize the time to quickly cross the mountains. Even if they missed the opportunity to attack Wanquan City and killed a few more people to attack the city head-on, they would not give the Ming army a chance to react.

"I understand, don't talk too much." Ezhe waved his hand in a big way, and Zhang laughed arrogantly: "If you attack head-on, you will attack head-on. Not to mention that there are only three thousand old and weak barbarians in Wanquan City. Even if the barbarians, who are known as the God of War, is in charge of Wanquan City, it is absolutely fine if I take Wanquan City! In the words of the barbarians, it is called Yiru Bian!"

With the dream of rushing into the hinterland of Xuanfu, 40,000 Mongolian main force was led by Ezhe into the canyon between Yehu Ridge and Yutai Ridge, and along the winding path left by smuggling merchants, he plunged into the mountains and ridges of the Yinshan Mountains. On the way, all experienced Mongolian generals urged the entire army to speed up and complete this mountain path full of dangers as soon as possible. Unfortunately, such a path was never suitable for large groups of people to march. Although the vanguard army led by Guyingtasu had widened and strengthened the road, the Mongolian army's march speed could not be fast. At most, they could only maintain a speed equivalent to the normal march of the plains, and could not reach the lightning speed of the lightning attack by light cavalry.

The slow march was already worrying enough, and what made the Mongolian veterans even more depressed was that their commander, the Mongolian prince Ezhe, not only did not worry about this, but instead taught them a lesson in a big way: "What are you anxious about? It is already good to maintain such a speed in the mountains. Do you think this is on the plain grassland, and our Mongolian cavalry can walk 300 miles a day and a night? Besides, we have been walking for so long, and we don't even have the ghost of a barbarian ambush. What else do you have to be afraid of?"

"Big Prince, the Ming army does not need to ambush halfway!" Several anxious Mongolian generals almost shouted out, "The Ming army really wants to ambush, just use a small army to block the north and south entrances of this road. Big Prince, have you noticed that we have either mountains, dense forests or cliffs along the way, and there is no way to go! What's even more troublesome is that there is not even a larger stream on this road and there is not enough water. If we are trapped here, let alone break through, we can't even stay waiting for assistance!"

"This road is so remote, will the barbarians think of us taking this road to attack them?" Ezhe snorted confidently. But when he saw the angry look of several veterans' hair standing upside down, Ezhe reluctantly said: "Okay, pass my orders on, and the whole army should try to speed up and try to pass through this mountain range before sunset."

He almost used a whip to urge him to drink and scold. The marching speed of the main Mongolian army finally accelerated a little, and passed through multiple canyons and relatively open basins in succession. When the sun had just entered the horizon and humiliated him, the main Mongolian army finally caught up with the Guyingtasu vanguard army who was opening the road. Seeing that Guyingtasu's army was still carrying rocks and wood piled up on the road, the anxious Mongolian veteran generals all shouted out and accused Guyingtasu of the slow opening of the road. Guyingtasu retorted with confidence: "Can I blame me? This road was originally blocked by barbarians. The stones and wood blocked the road were blocked for more than three miles, and there was only one carriage in the middle. If I don't clean up all the stones and trees here, our 50,000 troops would have to walk at least one night just by walking these three miles!"

"What's the situation before? Have you sent someone to check it out?" asked the veteran Toris nervously. Guyingtasu replied arrogantly: "Then you need to say it? Don't worry, my people have arrived at the new Kaikou Fort abandoned by the barbarians, and there are still no barbarian troops there. We just need to pass this narrow road and the new Kaikou Fort, and further south is the plain."

"That's good." Several veterans were relieved and rushed to shout: "Big Prince, send someone to help clear the road. The faster you walk out of this road, the better!"

"I understand, why are you talking about it?" Ezhe, who was already considering whether to attack Wanquancheng head-on or sneak attack as planned, agreed impatiently, and pointed at the veterans and ordered: "Since you are so anxious, then you can lead the army to help." The Mongolian veterans such as Tulisi had no choice but to go on battle hatefully and lead the army to help clear the trail.

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At the same time, on a hill not far from the Mongolian army, our Zhang Haogu, Mr. Zhang sat comfortably on a chair covered with brocade blankets, with a cup of tea in front of him and a thread book in his hand, taking advantage of the last trace of light after sunset, Shi Kefa, who was standing next to Mr. Zhang, was so anxious that he would turn around. He picked up his telescope from time to time and looked into the distance. Finally, he couldn't help but say to Mr. Zhang: "Mr. Zhang, I'm convinced you. The Mongolian army is about to walk out of the path. Why haven't you ordered an attack? If the Mongolian army takes out this path, all our efforts will be wasted."

"What's the hurry? It's not all dark yet." Master Zhang said slowly: "When will the army be most likely to be confused when it is attacked by sneak attacks? When it is completely dark, once it is attacked by sneak attacks, it is most likely to be confused and morale collapsed! And letting the Mongolian army take a little rest has two benefits for us. First, the dark night can help our army hide its strength, make the Mongolian army unable to understand our true strength, our situation, and it is more likely to fall into fear of unknown threats. Second, after a normal human being has a lot of physical energy consumed, due to muscle inertia, it can still maintain some physical strength in a short period of time, but once it takes a little rest, the muscles will feel extremely sore and their strength will decrease greatly, which will affect combat capabilities. Therefore, it is more beneficial to us to let the Mongolian army rest for a while!"

"Although the words are right, but..." Shi Kefa originally wanted to refute, but suddenly glanced at the book in Master Zhang's hand, Shi Kefa laughed and asked, "Mr. Zhang is changing his nature today? The books in your hand are not "Jin Ping Mei" and "The Meat Pump" are "Yellow Emperor's Royal Girl Sutra". Why are you happy today? I fell in love with the travel notes of the Buddhist temple in Mount Wutai? Does Lord Zhang want to be devout to Buddha? That world's Jiannu must be grateful to him."

"Don't underestimate this travel notes on Mount Wutai. For our Xuanda Army, the effect of this book is comparable to that of an army!" Master Zhang said in a shocking manner, raised his hand and smiled and said: "That old man Lin Dan respected the Red Cult and built a golden-topped white temple in his Chahanhaote City, which was specially used for the Red Cult Lama to live in. In this travel notes on Mount Wutai written by anonymous people, there happened to be records about the Red Cult Temple in Mount Wutai - there is a line of words on it, which will be the key to my next plan, and it can be worth a hundred thousand troops in my plan!"

"Can that line of words be worth a hundred thousand army?" Shi Kefa was shocked. Master Zhang replied, "I will read it to you: 'We weigh 64 pounds and 2 ounces, and we are one foot and two inches tall.' This sentence is worth a hundred thousand army to me."

"Weighing 64 kilograms and two liang, one foot and two inches tall? This sentence is worth a hundred thousand army? What does it mean?" Shi Kefa was completely stunned and looked at Master Zhang blankly. He really couldn't figure out that this sentence was effective and could be worth a hundred thousand army?

"You will understand in the future. Now I will finish what we should do first." Master Zhang put down his book and stood up, looked at the sky that was already drooping, and said with a smile: "Autumn is getting dark quickly, you can do it. Come and send a signal!"

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"Swish-!Swish-!Swish-!" Three fireworks roared into the air and exploded, and three huge beautiful bouquets bloomed in the night sky. Seeing these three bouquets, the Mongolian army, who were still working hard to transport the stones blocking the road, were first inexplicably, and then a few Mongolian generals who reacted first screamed, "Oh my God! There are really ambushes here! We were fooled!"

"Road out!" The Mongolian veteran Turis, who was worried that this was a trap from the beginning, was the first to yell, "Road quickly! How much can you rush over and count as much as you can and seize the road exit!"

"Kill!" It was already late, almost at the same time, the sound of killing suddenly appeared on the tops of the mountain on both sides of the road. Countless Ming soldiers wearing leaf-branched crowns rushed out, pushing big rocks and trees off the cliff, and smashing at the Mongolian soldiers who were trying to rush across the narrow road. And to the south of the abandoned Xinkaikou Fort, a Ming army also shouted and rushed back to the fortress, fighting fiercely with a small number of Mongolian soldiers garrisoned in the fort. During the street fighting, these Ming soldiers were holding iron pipes in their hands.

The guns were fired at once, and then stabbed them. Mongolian soldiers who had never seen such strange tactics were caught off guard. They were stabbed by triangular bayonets on the gun. The wounds were bleeding and even pressed on the cloth bag could not stop the bleeding. They were soon expelled from the fort by all the Ming soldiers. The Ming army took advantage of the situation to seize the fortress, quickly piled up the fort gate with early rocks, and built musket positions on the fortress. They also shamelessly set up the small cannons of Franc brought with the army, aiming the black muzzle at the northern trail.

"Kill--!" The shouts of killing became more and more fierce, and there were more and more stones and trees rolling down the top of the mountain. Under the guidance of their dark-hearted Governor, the Ming soldiers who were ambushing on the top of the mountain first sawed three-quarters of the trees with a saw. From a distance, the trees were green and intact, but in fact, they would break with just a slight push, and then rolled down the cliff and hit the heads and faces of the Mongolian soldiers, making the Mongolian soldiers cry and howl, and the heads were bloody, and soon blocked the path below the mountain, making the small cannon hidden on the mountain, and the people could not pass through. At the same time, the small cannon hidden on the mountain also began to show their power, pouring iron horns onto the heads of the Mongolian army, which made the Mongolian cavalry overturn and scream endlessly. With no choice, the Mongolian army had to give up the plan to rush out of the intersection, exit the narrow road, and temporarily avoid the open area.

"Ezhe, I admire you so much--!"

After the Mongolian army stopped charging and the Ming army also stopped firing, the battlefield became quiet a little. When the Mongolian generals were gathering around Ezhe to discuss countermeasures, a treacherous laughter suddenly echoed among the mountains, "I really admire you from the bottom of my heart! Our Ming army is watching Dandan nearby. You dare to lead the entire army to attack our hinterland and bring the army into such a dead place? I don't have such courage! Have you read too much "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and think that the small Taoist tactics in the book can still work on the real battlefield?"

"Hahahahahahaha..." The traitor laughed very happily, "But it's okay, I didn't even expect that the blessing of you, the idiot, was that the Mongolian army entrenched at our doorstep would be completely killed by you so easily! There are not many people in this world who are so stupid as you are!"

"Damn it, who are you?" After listening to the translation of the translation, the pretentious Ezhe screamed wildly.

"Who am I? Haven't we met?" Amid the crazy laughter, a young man stood at the top of the nearby cliff. He used the torches in the hands of the Ming soldiers beside the young man. Ezhe immediately recognized the person and screamed in surprise, "Zhang Zhongzheng? Are you not the barbarian envoy Zhang Zhongzheng? Why are you here?" After calling here, Ezhe suddenly remembered something again and quickly shouted: "Zhang Zhongzheng, don't forget that your handle on the enemy and stolen the country is still in my hands. Let your people make way out, otherwise I will hand over your evidence of your crime to Governor Zhang Haogu of your Ming State!"

"Then bring it." Zhang Zhongzheng stretched out a hand and said with a smile: "I am Zhang Haogu, the governor of the Ming Dynasty Xuanda. Don't you give me the evidence of guilt? Take it now. Don't worry, I will definitely make a decision impartially - if I really do anything to collude with the enemy and sell the country, I will definitely punish myself severely."

"You... are you Zhang Haogu?" Ezhe could hardly believe his ears. In surprise, he completely forgot to shout and question. Young Master Zhang seemed to hear Ezhe's murmurs from Xu Yuan across the street, and laughed and said, "Are you surprised? That day I pretended to be an envoy to go to your military camp in person, just to test your reality, but I didn't expect that the traitor you and Ma Guozhu would be so stupid that he actually wanted to bribe me and make me a traitor! That's not all, you

I actually wanted to sneak attack my hinterland from the Yutailing Road. Are you really stupid enough to believe that I would reveal such a big flaw in the defense line? Have you never thought about abandoning the new Kaikou Fort, in fact, I had already found that it was too easy to ambush here, so I deliberately left a trap shortly after taking office, specifically to entertain any enemy who tried to invade Xuanfu? Otherwise, in such a dangerous position, how could I not even have an army to guard in such a dangerous position?"
Chapter completed!