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Chapter Thirty-One: Blocking Temujin

However, since the ambush of Temujin and let Temujin escape, Wang Han and Sangkun knew that Temujin was very capable of leading troops to fight, and were afraid that Temujin would lead their troops to take revenge, so they ordered their subordinates to be on guard every day. However, after two days of guarding, they did not wait for Temujin to revenge the army. However, Dushi Ping'an, who was captured by Temujin, came back and brought the heavy gifts given by Temujin.

Seeing that the envoy sent by Temujin was extremely humble and flattering, he also heard from Dushi that Temujin was seriously injured in the previous ambush. He thought that Temujin was unable to control the troops because of his serious injury and fearing that they were too powerful, he specially sent an envoy to surrender. He was immediately relieved and retreated the defenders and had a banquet with Wanyan Honglie and Jamuka in the tent for several days. Although Wanyan Honglie and Jamuka thought things might not be so simple, they could not think of something wrong, and soon lost in the affection of Wang Han and Sangkun.

On that day, Wanyan Honglie came back from Wang Han’s banquet. When he returned to the tent, he was about to rest. He broke through the tent with a "swish" and shot in, and was deeply nailed into the logs supporting the tent. Wanyan Honglie was so scared that he exclaimed "ah".

"What's wrong with you, Prince?"

"Your Majesty, are you okay?"

"Someone assassinated the prince and caught the assassin!"

...

Seeing a strong arrow from where he came from, and hearing Wanyan Honglie's screams, there was a noise outside the tent. Several personal guards rushed into the tent and asked in surprise. The remaining personal guards were nervously chasing the whereabouts of the archers. These people were not nervous. As Wanyan Honglie's personal guards, Wanyan Honglie's safety concerns their lives. If Wanyan Honglie had any good or bad, they would not be able to do so and would have to be buried with them.

Wanyan Honglie waved his hand to the personal guards who rushed in, indicating that he was fine, and his eyes remained on the arrow nailed to the logs of the tent.

At the beginning, Wanyan Honglie was also shocked and thought someone was really going to assassinate him, but then he realized that it was not the case at all, because there was a strip of cloth on the sharp arrow that was shot in, and there seemed to be words on it.

Wanyan Honglie suddenly realized that something must be wrong here. He walked over and pulled down the arrow nailed to the tent log, pulled off the cloth strip, and saw a line of Chinese characters written on it: "Temuzhen pretended to be injured, be careful of sneak attack."

Since I was young, I thought that one day I could lead a large army to destroy the Song Dynasty and let the Great Jin Dynasty unify the world, Wanyan Honglie was familiar with military books and war strategies, and most of the military books and war strategies were written in Chinese characters, so Wanyan Honglie was not unfamiliar with Chinese characters. After reading the words on the cloth strip, Wanyan Honglie was shocked: "Temujin was not injured? Really fake? Did it be Temujin's tricks before that they gave gifts and apologized? Then who was warning me?"

Wanyan Honglie immediately sent additional personnel to track down the traces of the archer, but he just sent troops to search, but he could not find it. He only found that someone had seen a man shoot an arrow from afar outside the camp and then rode a horse away. As for who this person was, where he came from, and where he went, it was unknown.

Wanyan Honglie was puzzled and could not think of who warned him. Judging from the Chinese characters written on the cloth strip, most of the people who reported the news were Han people. However, there were not many Han people on the Mongolian grasslands, and apart from the four ghosts of the Yellow River he brought, there were no Han people related to him. Who would come to report the news to him?

According to the investigation results of his subordinates, the person who reported the news was shooting archers outside the camp. The distance was hundreds of steps away. At such a distance, it was extremely rare to shoot into his tent even among the Mongols who were good at shooting, let alone the Han people. As far as he knew, there was a Han person who was good at shooting, that was the young man who defeated all the four ghosts of the Yellow River brought him with his own strength. However, since the young man had tried his best to protect Temujin before, he was naturally loyal to Temujin, so how could he report to him?

If this is Temujin's conspiracy, why did he write it in Chinese rather than Mongolian characters? Besides, doing so will only make them more cautious and vigilant about Temujin, and there is no benefit to Temujin!

With the situation of unsuccessful investigation and speculation, Wanyan Honglie told Wang Han, Sangkun and Jamuka about this matter out of caution, and advised them to be vigilant and be careful. However, Wang Han and Sangkun did not care about this, because the injury of Temujin was seen by Dushi with his own eyes. They believed it, so they in turn advised Wanyan Honglie not to be deceived by the traitors and to eat, drink and enjoy the best, and there was no need to be suspicious about a piece of news of unknown origin.

Wanyan Honglie had no choice but to do anything about this. After all, although Wang Han was enthroned by the Jin Kingdom and was a legally subordinate of the Jin Kingdom, he was also the Khan of the largest tribe of Mongolia after all. This was on his territory, so he could only suggest one or two. If the other person did not listen, he could not force his family to execute it.

However, Jamuka knew that Temujin was very wise and very deceitful in his military use. After listening to Wanyan Honglie's words, he became more cautious and ordered his troops to be strictly guarded against others' attacks. When Wanyan Honglie saw that Jamuka had listened to his words, he also had a good impression of Jamuka and was much closer to Jamuka, and was considering his own safety. Wanyan Honglie even moved his tent to Jamuka's military camp.

In fact, it was not someone else who sent the letter to Wanyan Honglie to call the police. It was Ling Muyun. His purpose was very simple, to make Wang Hanzha Muha and others be wary of it. Don’t be defeated and annexed by Temujin as easily as in history. It would be best to be able to fight Temujin to lose both sides. Even if it is not possible, don’t let Temujin win so easily. Slow down Temujin’s pace of unification of Mongolia as much as possible and delay his expansion outward time. This is also a contribution Ling Muyun has made to his nation as a member of the Han people.

The day after Ling Muyun returned from reporting the message to Wanyan Honglie, Temujin tore off his cowardly face and summoned all the generals under his command, and asked the generals to gather the team to follow him to attack Wang Han's troops.

The generals were stunned and didn't understand why. They were seriously injured and recuperated before and gave gifts to seek peace. Now they said they were going to attack others. Which one is the act?

Temujin explained to the generals: "Wang Han has many soldiers, but we have few soldiers. It is difficult to win the Ming Dynasty war, so we must attack. I released Dushi, gave me a generous gift, and pretended to be shot in the chest, and was seriously injured. That was to let them not be wary of it, so that we could attack the sneak attack."

When all the generals heard this, they all admired Temujin's unparalleled wisdom and strategy.

Only then did Temujin order the release of the thousand-man commander who was beaten and detained, and give a generous reward. When the thousand-man commander heard that he was going to attack Wang Han and Sangkun, he was excited and leaned to thank him and asked him to be the vanguard. Temujin agreed. The troops were divided into three groups, stopped and stayed overnight in the day and marched from the valley around the road. When they met the shepherds, they all captured them and followed the army to avoid leaking military planes. They rushed towards Wang Han's army. The next night, they arrived at the location of Wang Han's army and immediately launched an attack on Wang Han's army.

Wang Han didn't expect Temujin to come and attack. His army was unprepared and panicked when suddenly attacked in the dark. He was soon killed by Temujin's army. Fortunately, Jamujin's army was prepared before. Under Jamuka's leadership, he withstood the raid of Temujin's army at the most critical moment. He did not collapse with Wang Han's army, but formed a melee with Temujin's army.

After a night of melee, both sides suffered heavy losses. Although Wang Han's army had the most troops, it also suffered the greatest losses due to panic collapse. Most of the casualties and injuries were fled. By the time Wang Han finally gathered the team again, only less than 20% of the original ones were left. His son Sangkun and grandson Dushi also died in the chaos. This was because Jamuha led his army to stabilize the situation, otherwise there would be no more people left.

Although the Jamukha tribe was prepared, it was the party that was attacked by the sneak attack. Because it was stationed with Wang Han's troops, it was also attacked by the Wang Han's troops while enduring the attack on Temujin's army. The losses were also huge, and more than half of the troops were lost. Fortunately, it finally survived a night of melee, and after dawn, it met with Wang Han's remnants and joined forces to barely have the power to fight.

Although Temujin's troops were good at fighting and had the advantage of sneak attacks, the smallest loss among the three parties, they also lost thousands of troops, which was equivalent to 20 or 30% of the total force, which made Temujin, who wanted to take advantage of the tricks, felt very distressed.

Seeing that Wang Han and Jamuha's remnants gathered together, Temushi would inevitably suffer greater losses if they wanted to completely defeat them, they had to suppress their unwillingness to withdraw. However, Wang Han and Jamuha's troops suffered heavy losses and were unable to protect themselves, so they could not spare their energy to pursue them? Therefore, they could only watch Temushi's army leave.

After this battle, the original number one force in the grassland, the Wang Han tribe, completely declined, and Temujin's tribe replaced the Wang Han tribe and became the largest part of the grassland. Temujin also became famous because of the battle and became the veritable number one strong man on the grassland. The nearby small tribes often come to surrender, which further strengthened the Temujin's tribe's momentum.

However, because they failed to completely eliminate the Wang Han tribe and the Jamukha tribe, the two tribes formed a firm alliance against Temujin. After all, the two tribes are among the top most on the grassland. Although the losses are heavy, the strength of the joint cannot be underestimated. Although the momentum is slightly weaker than the Temujin tribe, it is not completely defeated by the Temujin tribe in a short time. For a long time since then, the Mongolian grasslands remained in a state of confrontation between the two strong.
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