Abnormal is definitely abnormal, the Mongols engaged in the closure of the city and defended this set almost more than 200 years ago, that is, the period before and after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, when the Mongols still had many cities in the Central Plains, and they always needed to defend the city.

However, even then, the Mongols were not very good at defending the city, and they were still more inclined to attack in the field, so most of the defense battles were relatively poor.

When the Mongols withdrew from the Central Plains, it was even less common to defend the city, and it would be even better after a while - there was no city, so naturally there was no need to defend it.

If you don't count the big bansheng, then it was almost until Altan built the naturalized city that the Mongols regained such a thing as a "city". However, whether it is Dabansheng or Naturalized City, it is all done by Alta, and it belongs to Tumut and not to Chahar.

As for Chahar's Khan Tent Chahanhot, it is said that it is a city, but in fact, the so-called city wall is not even as good as the city wall of the east and west cities of Yehe, and in the eyes of the Ming people, it is probably just an earthen fence, which is nothing more than a larger area of enclosure.

Under such conditions, the ability of the Tumen army to defend the city can be imagined, not only the Ming army knows, but they themselves should know it even more. That being the case, where did the Mongols get the confidence to play a closed city?

The generals of the Ming army actually had ideas about this, but they thought that the Tumen relied on the weather and Buzhhatu.

The weather is easy to understand, the winter in Liaodong, especially in Liaobei, is completely "cold" for the Ming people, and the Ming army has rarely used troops in this period in the past. Although the Ming army came this time, the Tumen side probably thought that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army should have declined, or even seriously declined, and they themselves were much more accustomed to this kind of cold.

At the same time, the dripping winter of Liaobei was also helpful for defending the city. You want to climb the city with ants, and the walls of rain and snow and ice are slippery and not slippery; You have to bombard the city, put a few sticks of wood in the breach, pile a few bamboo branches, and pour water, and the ice city will appear; You're going to besiege it for a long time...... No, are you really going to compare who will freeze to death outside the city first?

It was precisely because the generals of the Ming army also guessed that the Tumen might have such thoughts, so they just discussed how to break the city quickly. For example, Zhang Wanbang thinks that the artillery should be concentrated to directly blast it, and Qi Jin thinks that it is possible to consider using the old skills of Buri Hatu, and so on.

But everyone thinks so, in fact, they just think that Tumen relies on himself, so he will close the city and defend it, and they don't think that he has prepared any conspiracy.

Of course, the Mongols were not very good at intrigue and intrigue themselves, and for many years they had always been relatively direct, and the generals of the Ming army generally did not think much about it.

Only Gao Yimin didn't have any dealings with the Mongols in the past, and he still considered the current situation according to ordinary thinking, so he suddenly felt that the situation was wrong.

"The Mongols like to take the initiative to attack, and it is not in his habit to shackle 20,000 cavalry in the city and wait for our army to attack on his own."

Gao Yimin felt everyone's gaze towards him, and behaved unhurriedly: "Especially for this person, the lord has repeatedly reminded him that he is by no means a person who is waiting to be killed, and once he feels that there may be danger, he will definitely arrange it in advance, and strive to introduce our army into his hub." ”

Gao Pragmatic did say this to him very surely, if nothing else, just say that what Buzhhatu has done several times this year is not based on this habit?

First in the northwest, and then in Liaodong, Buzhihatu felt the strong will of the Ming Dynasty to begin to perish the "Great Yuan", so he laid out in advance and made things everywhere, in order to drag the Ming Dynasty and continue the life of the remnant Yuan. As for which step he can achieve, Buzhhatu himself may not be clear, and Gao Shishi expects that he will not be able to think about it that far, and most of them are just doing his best and obeying the destiny of heaven.

Of course, perhaps Burihatu hoped that under his constant troubles, Daming would be exhausted, and finally give up the plan to continue to destroy the remnants.

After all, many things are easy to provoke, but no one can expect how to develop in the future.

When the Song Dynasty secretly supported Wanyan Aguta, it probably just hoped that Wanyan Aguda would make a big mess and not be at peace, how could it be expected that the Jurchens would overturn the Khitans in one go, not to mention, the descendants of Aguda still refused to abide by the agreement with the Song Dynasty like the "old Khan", and actually beat the Song Dynasty together?

It's easy to ignite, but no one can say what it will become.

Therefore, it is a good thing for him to light fires everywhere in Burihatu, and wherever the fever is big. If it was really like the Song Dynasty supporting the Jurchens, the last fire almost burned themselves to death, then Burihatu can only be said to be the number of days, and there is no way to do it.

If you don't struggle, you're sure to die, so why not struggle, in case a miracle happens?

At this time, Gao Yimin lifted his master out, and the generals, whether they believed it or not, did not dare to put on a questioning look, but did not think about it one after another, thinking about the truth in these words.

Cao Yan was the fastest to think, because Gao Pragmatic had mentioned in the previous letter that he wanted him to be careful of Buzhihatu's tricks. Just now, because of his many years of habit, he didn't think too deeply about the conspiracy, and after Gao Yimin's reminder, he immediately woke up and said, "Yes, Buzhihatu is a scheming person, so he has to guard against it." ”

Without waiting for everyone to say something, Cao Yan continued: "If it is said that 'the Mongols are more inclined to take the initiative', Ben Shuai thinks that there are only two opportunities for Tumen and Buzhihatu. ”

He looked around at everyone and said in a deep voice: "First, turn the tiger away from the mountain." They may take advantage of my dispatch and make a detour to attack the eastern city of Yehe. The crux of this method is that once the eastern city is lost, Yehe can be said to have completely collapsed, even if it is rebuilt and restored in the future, at least in the short term, it will lose any threat to Chahar, and it will no longer become a fence of our Ming Liaobei Domain, which can free Chahar with a hand.

What is even more worrying for our army is that once Dongcheng is also lost, our army will become a lone army outside Liaobei, not to mention some ordinary supplies, it is difficult to find a foothold under the cold and freezing. ”

He paused for a moment, and then said: "But the good news is that we have already taken precautions against this, Ye He's infantry are all staying in Dongcheng, and there are more than a hundred scout cavalry, even if Buzhhatu wants to sneak attack, they can temporarily hold and warn us for help." ”

All the generals said that this is true, although there is a possibility of Dongcheng being attacked, but everyone is more confident in the safety of Dongcheng, it is expected that Buzhihatu should not hope that Daming and Ye He will ignore Dongcheng, and the possibility of really attacking Dongcheng is still not large.

Seeing this, Cao Yan stretched out his hand and made a virtual pressure movement, and said: "The second is that the golden cicada is shedding its shell." Brother Fang Cai Gao was reasonable, and Da Si Nong also reminded Ben Shuai that Bu Rihatu was good at setting up traps, and Ben Shuai thought that he might be planning to pretend to defend Xicheng, but in fact he had already led his army away. There may not be no Mongols in Xicheng, but most of them are no longer the main Mongol force.

The question now is, if the Mongols really played a trick of the golden cicada out of their shells, then where are they going to go? Do you want to take the opportunity to sneak back to Chahanhot, or do you want to find a way to ambush us? ”

Don't look at the Mongols often claiming that they are invincible, in fact, the tactical thinking of the Mongols is more like that of mainstream felines, that is, they are accustomed to avoiding casualties, and then relying on their speed advantage to catch the opponent off guard, and only when the decisive battle cannot be avoided, they will fight head-on - but this tactic of Mangu is not very "frontal" to some extent.

In short, the Mongols are very good at ambushes, and most of the ambushes on the Ming side can only calculate the opponent's every move, and then engage in guarding the rabbit, the Mongols ambush rely on speed, that is, to find out the opponent's marching route, and quickly detour to the opponent's place where they must pass to ambush it, so as to wait for the sneak attack.

The generals of the Ming army still knew the Mongols well, so as soon as Cao Yan said this, everyone said that it was unlikely that the other party would simply escape back to Chahanhot, and it was likely that they would find an opportunity to ambush their army halfway.

So Cao Yan asked Ye He and the two Baylors if there were any special suitable locations for ambushes on the way from Xicheng to Dongcheng. Narimbulu and Buzhai glanced at each other, indicating that there was a bare mountain in the middle of the east and west cities, but the Ming army did not plan to climb the mountain in winter, so they chose to bypass from the southern foot of the bare bald mountain.

From Yehe Dongcheng to the south foot of the west city, first of all, you must bypass Zhuanshan Lake (later Zhuanshan Lake is an artificial lake, but it was also built on this basis, at this time there are but very small, its name is unknown, the name of the future generations is called), and then move to the southwest, and the most common way to walk this way is to walk along the Yehe River.

"Yehe" means "the sun by the river" in Jurchen language, and this "river" is the Yehe River. According to the two Baylors, because this road is the only way to connect the east and west cities, the roads are relatively neat, and if the Mongols want to set up an ambush, it must not be possible to set up an ambush very close to the main road.

However, the Mongols had a speed advantage, they could set up an ambush a little farther away, and it would be too late to wait for the Ming army to appear and then suddenly rush over.

And there is another point that Narimbulu specifically pointed out: the eastern city of Yeh is east of the Yeh River, but the west city is west of the Yeh River, and they do not have the ability to build a bridge on the Yeh River, so if there is a large-scale operation to cross the river in the past, they will either take the northern foot to detour, or take advantage of the winter when the Yeh River is frozen and walk directly over.

Here comes the problem, since the detour has been abandoned, it is necessary to cross the river to go to the southern foothills. There is no bridge to cross the river, although the freezing has begun, but the Ming army has already sent people to check, the ice is not thick enough, at most people can go, and they have to be careful. Horses don't dare to pass casually now, and cannons don't even think about it.

Therefore, if the Ming army wants to cross the river, it is quite troublesome, at least it needs to break through the ice and set up a pontoon bridge. The width of the Yeh River varies, but the two Baylors are clearly familiar with their hometown, pointing to a place with Tingzhou in the center of the river.

Tingzhou is a small island in the middle of the lake, and with Tingzhou, the efficiency of building a pontoon bridge will be much higher, because there is a fulcrum in the center of the river. Both Baylors agreed that it was the best place to build a pontoon.

Who knew that after they finished speaking, Gao Yimin laughed and said, "It seems that if Buri Hatu wants to ambush, the ambush location is not far from the river on both sides of Tingzhou." ”

Cao Yan also laughed and said: "The hero sees the same thing, the two servants think that place is the best place to build a pontoon bridge, and Buzhhatu has naturally investigated and understood it in the past few days when he went to Xicheng, knowing that most of our army is going to build a bridge there, how could he miss such a good opportunity?" ”

But when he said this, his face became serious again, and he muttered: "But now that our army is going out in winter, it is inconvenient to stay outside, and since this is the best place to build a pontoon bridge, it is not good for us not to use it." As a result, how to deal with the surprise attack in Buzhhatu has become a top priority...... I wonder if you have any tips for me? ”

This is a difficult topic. Since the road of the Yehe River is the only road between the two cities, it must obviously be a big road, which is convenient for the cavalry to gallop vertically and horizontally, and the Ming army has to build a pontoon bridge, which is bound to be inconvenient to wait nervously in formation, and it is naturally difficult to prevent a sneak attack.

Zhang Wanbang, a young general who is famous for fighting tough battles, is really still very tough, and said fearlessly: "It's okay, those who build bridges only need to build bridges, and the last general's department can be in charge of guarding the back river, no matter what Mongolian iron cavalry he is, as long as they dare to rush to the last general's array, he will be called to have no return!" ”

Qi Jin was not to be outdone, and said: "After all, General Zhang's troops are limited, and the last general is willing to help him, and he will not let the Tartars of Buri Hatu take advantage of it." ”

Cao Yan thought about it, and felt that the combat strength of the two of them was quite strong, judging from the previous records, it was quite certain to prevent a sneak attack by the cavalry frontally, and no matter how bad it was, it could give the main force of the army time to move from building bridges to rearmament.

He just wanted to agree, but Leng Buding Gao Yimin laughed and interjected: "The two generals are naturally solid, but the Tumen and Buzhihatu calculate our heavenly soldiers like this, if our army can't take the initiative, but just let them gallop around, wouldn't it be a loss of face?" ”

As soon as Cao Yan heard it, he knew that he still had something to say, so he smiled and said, "It seems that Brother Gao still has a clever plan to turn our army from defense to offense?" You can't hide it, come and wait with me. ”

Gao Yimin hugged his fists at everyone, and then said: "Tumen's department is conceited with its cavalry, thinking that it can gallop vertically and horizontally, and come and go freely, but I don't know that our cavalry is also huge at the moment, and the elite is not inferior to him Chahar. In such a situation, how can they be allowed to be presumptuous! ”

He paused for a moment and said: "I have the courage to advise the general army to command the main cavalry of our army with a fierce cavalry general, and together with the Yehe cavalry, we will not participate in the construction of bridges and prepare for battle at any time, and we can open a short distance from the main force of the infantry to lure the Tartars to take advantage of the weakness to attack the flank of our infantry." When the Tartars launched an offensive, our cavalry also took action, either flanking the enemy or outflanking them, in short, not making the Tartars feel good. It is up to us to decide what to do at that time. ”

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