When the Ming army saw the Mongol cavalry in the big valley on the mountain, the distance between the two sides was not very close, at least five or six miles away. By the time the Ming army on the mountain, Baote, gradually descended the mountain and began to put up a position, the Mongol army had also begun to mobilize. However, Cao Yan on the mountain saw at a glance that the Mongols were not moving in the right direction.

"Huh?" Cao Yan frowned, his eyes narrowed slightly: "The figures want to withdraw?" ”

Gao Yimin, who was beside him, did not answer immediately, but looked at it again, and then nodded: "Before the war, the lord had a judgment that he thought that in the current situation of Chahar, Tumen and Buzhihatu should try to be cautious and try to avoid a battle without full certainty. Even in battles where they are certain to win, they prioritize how much they are likely to lose. Once they judge that the losses in the engagement will be large, they are likely to abandon the battle, even if the odds of victory are high. ”

"Entang is far-sighted and sees thousands of miles." Cao Yan nodded first to affirm Gao Pragmatic's opinion, and then added: "So, now the Tumen and Buzhihatu just see that our army is in a neat lineup, and they are not profitable, so they plan to avoid the war?" ”

Gao Yimin replied: "It seems that this is indeed the case. ”

"But there are some doubts here." Cao Yan said cautiously: "Our army came to save Dongcheng, they can withdraw, then our army will continue to recover Xicheng, will they also evacuate like this?" If this is the case, what is the significance of Tumen's mobilization of the people to invade Yehe? ”

This question belongs to the strategic level, Gao Yimin is actually a little puzzled, but after all, he is an honor student, although the director is not in strategy, but even from the tactical level, he can see that something is wrong.

"Zong Rong is extremely suspicious. This year, the Tumen or Buzhhatu first provoked a war in the northwest and then in Liaodong, but neither the former nor the latter actually invested much. Needless to say, even if the northwest invaded Yehe this time, Chahar did not invest many troops, and the defeat of Xicheng relied on a long siege to paralyze Buzhai and others, and then secretly blew up the city wall, and then made a breakthrough, and its own losses were very small......"

Gao Yimin accentuated his tone: "I don't know if General Rong noticed that when Xicheng was broken, Buzhai and others broke through from the city with inferior forces, but they were not strongly intercepted by the Chahar army, and only lost about 600 people to complete the breakthrough and successfully fled to Xicheng...... Based on Zongrong's experience, is this reasonable? ”

As soon as Cao Yan was reminded by him, he immediately said, "It's obviously unreasonable." According to the combat strength of the Chahar Department in the past, under the siege of 20,000 elite Mongolian cavalry, Buzhai with its main force in the western city of at most seven or eight thousand people, it is impossible to escape so easily.

Ben Shuai does not underestimate Ye He, nor does he look down on Chahar, but under the same strength, the combat power of Ye He's cavalry is definitely not as good as Chahar, which Ben Shuai dares to pack!

What's more, although Yehe's division had the highest proportion of cavalry among the Jurchens, it did not reach the point of being all cavalry, and they also had about half of the infantry. In other words, the cavalry of Xicheng will probably not exceed four thousand, and the remaining four thousand should be infantry.

In this case, the Chahar Department actually only wiped out 600 people from the Yehe Department, and watched the main force of the West City flee back to the East City, which is not reasonable to look at horizontally and vertically. ”

"Always wise." Gao Yimin praised and continued: "So I think that there is at least one of the most basic principles for Buzhhatu to instigate the eastward invasion of the Tumen, that is, as the old man said, they should try to avoid the loss of their headquarters. And his main purpose is not necessarily to annex Yehe, or kill and injure a large number of Yehe's soldiers, and it is unlikely that he wants to have a big fight with our army. ”

"And what does he want?" Cao Yan frowned and asked.

Gao Yimin said slowly: "The little ones think that they are just ...... Find fault and make trouble, disturb Liaodong. ”

Cao Yan frowned: "What is the purpose of this, is this old man in a panic, or is the guy in Buzhhatu full of food?" ”

"Mr. Rong misunderstood." Gao Yimin explained: "Disrupting Liaodong is the goal, and they may not have a particularly clear tactical goal - the small meaning is that they do not have a clear idea of where they must take, but simply want to make Liaodong troublesome." ”

Gao Yimin's idea is actually not entirely correct, but he still found the right direction in general, but he did not think as deeply and meticulously as Burihatu.

Cao Yan also reacted at this time, and suddenly said: "Oh, Ben Shuai understands." In the final analysis, whether Buzhihatu stirs up trouble in the northwest or finds fault in Liaodong, they are actually trying to divert the court's attention from them. As for whether it is transferred to the northwest or to Liaodong, it doesn't matter. ”

Gao Yimin nodded and said, "The little one thinks that's exactly the case." ”

"It's just a disaster." Cao Yan snorted lightly: "It is rumored that Bu Rihatu has read the books of our Han people, it seems that it is really not nonsense, there are indeed a few drops of ink in this guy's stomach." ”

Gao Yimin arched his hand towards the southwest direction (Jingshi): "So the master is far-sighted, and he can see through the tricks of Bu Rihatu at a glance." Marshal, the lord said before that although the troops should be sent quickly this time, the army does not have to be fast, didn't he guess the purpose of Buzhhatu? ”

Cao Yan suddenly slapped his face: "Ah! I said that Entang's guidance was a bit strange, and he wanted me to send troops early, and I was not allowed to fight quickly. Now it seems that Entang knew that Buzhihatu would not fight a decisive battle with me, and even if I came quickly, it would not be faster than the whole Mongol cavalry, and if they really wanted to avoid fighting, I would not find a chance. ”

When he said this, he sighed: "It is worthy of Lord Entang, it is really high in the temple and far away from the rivers and lakes." His old man is far away in Beijing, but a pair of discerning eyes can go to the direction of the battle situation of Yehe thousands of miles away, and he is very capable, even if Zhuge Wuhou is resurrected, he can only bow to the wind. ”

These words are a bit exaggerated, and they are "Lord Entang" and "his old man", and even took Zhuge Liang out as a foil. However, considering this situation, coupled with the fact that it is said to a highly pragmatic cronie, I can understand its intentions.

If Gao Shishi himself was here, he would definitely have to hurry up and humble himself, but Gao Yimin is just his family, but he can't represent his own master to be modest and modest, so he had to make a haha to "slide away" this topic, and then said with a smile: "Having said that, but always Rong should not be careless, Buzhhatu has always been scheming, although this time he has made up his mind to avoid big casualties, but if we leak too many flaws, I am worried that he will still want to take the opportunity to bargain." ”

"Oh?" Cao Yan hurriedly restrained his smile and thought about it, "You mean he retreated...... Half-truths? ”

Gao Yimin groaned: "Maybe it should be said that it is true or false. ”

Cao Yan's eyes froze when he heard this, and then there was a hint of murderous intent in his eyes: "Why, this guy still wants to give Ben Shuai another battle of Chang'an Fort?" Okay, very good, he really took Ben Shuai as a fool, couldn't Ben Shuai even eat a trench and grow wise, and he still expected Ben Shuai to repeat the mistakes of the past? ”

It seems that the defeat of Chang'an Fort touched Cao Yan greatly, and it almost became his backscale. But also, if that failure was not for the help of high-level affairs, it is difficult to say whether Cao Yan will live or die at this time, and the best result is probably to resign and return to his hometown, and end up in the countryside, this lesson is indeed profound enough.

However, although Cao Yan was angry, he was a veteran in the end, and he especially knew the rules of officialdom, so he did not rejuvenate the teacher because of anger, but took a deep breath, calmed down, and asked Gao Yimin: "Since the trick of Buzhihatu has been seen through, how do you think Brother Gao should deal with it now?" ”

"Just do as the master wants." Gao Yimin said: "Let's brake quietly, do what we need to do, and never change our established pace because of what actions Buzhihatu makes." ”

Gao Pragmatism did not say these words clearly, nor did he say anything about "braking with static", Gao Yimin's statement actually summed up Gao Pragmatism's thinking and concretized his "guiding ideology".

However, Cao Yan only knew that Gao Shishi must have instructed Gao Yimin alone, but he didn't know what it said, so when Gao Yimin said this, he could only believe it.

Therefore, he nodded and said, "What Brother Gao said is very true, since this is the case, then let's not chase it for now." Ben Shuai sent someone to let Narim Bulu and Buzhai come out to greet them, and by the way, let them arrange the food and lodging of our army. Let's take a break in the East City, and then we will consider recovering the West City...... It is expected that he and the two little Baylors should also know what is good and bad, so as not to disobey the power of heaven. ”

Gao Yimin smiled and bowed his hand and nodded yes.

The Ming army here did not rush forward slowly, without the slightest pursuit, and the Tumen and Burihatu slowly retreated, and had withdrawn to the edge of the northwest corner of the big valley, and they were about to go up the mountain and cross over.

Tumen looked at the movement of the Ming army, his face became worse and worse, and after a long time, he finally couldn't help but whip a horsewhip at an old tree beside him, and said hatefully: "Cao Yan, a gutless rat, didn't even dare to pursue?" Thanks to Ben Khan, he also deliberately explained to his sons and daughters, and asked them to pretend to be defeated for a while, so that they could lead the Ming army to chase all the way to Xicheng...... What can be done now? ”

Burihatu's face is not good-looking. Although he is still young, he has been running west and east since the beginning of this year, and he is trying to stir things up everywhere, and he has to actually take charge of the internal government affairs of Tchahar to reduce the burden of the aging Tumen Khan, so his energy is already a little overdrawn.

And now, Cao Yan, the big fish in his eyes, still refuses to bite and fish, which inevitably makes his complexion look worse.

In the gloomy light rain, Burihatu was silent for a moment before he said, "Forget it, it's not bad if they don't come today." In such a rainy weather, their firearms may not be very easy to use, and it will not be long before our bowstrings begin to loosen, and it will not be easy for either side......"

He sighed softly and said, "Great Khan, let's retreat to Xicheng to rest first." In addition, ask the Great Khan to send a few more sentry spies to monitor the movements of the eastern city and see if there will be any changes. ”

"Change? How else could it change? Tumen muttered: "Cao Yan, I'm afraid that he was beaten off his eggs in Chang'an Fort that time, and he didn't have any guts at all, you wouldn't expect him to just plan to go into Yehe East City to hide from the rain, and when the rain stops, he will come to fight Xicheng, right?" ”

Bu Rihatu's face remained unchanged, and he said calmly: "After the defeat of Cao Yan's Chang'an Fort, it is understandable that his mentality has changed, but he is the commander of the Ming army, and it is not too surprising that he is calm, but his calmness does not mean that everyone is calm, there will always be people who are more anxious than him." ”

Tumen was stunned for a moment, and then hesitated: "You mean ......?"

"Buzhai's previous military losses were not large, its main force was still there, and almost all the people in the tribe were lost. Now that the Ming army is pressing, he is likely to feel that he has a reliance...... In addition, Ye Hesu is known for the unity of the two cities in the east and west, and if Buzhai Gent wants to send troops to recover the western city, I am afraid that the eastern city of Bellena Linbulu can only come with him, and we may not have no chance at that time. ”

Not to mention that Buzhhatu is the most lacking talent in the Mongols now, with his calm mentality, he is much better than the vast majority of artillery Mongolian generals who blew up at this time.

After all, the Tumen still resigned themselves to Burihatu, and after listening to his words, they couldn't help but sigh: "What you said is reasonable, so let's do it according to this." It's just that Ben Khan originally planned to hunt the head of the tiger, who knows that in the end there may only be a dog. What the fuck is this...... It's a little unwilling to think about it. ”

Buzhihatu was very calm and comforted: "Although hunting tigers is a heroic act, tigers are the king of beasts, not to mention hunting, and it is easy to hurt yourself." Dogs are different, they are both good hunters and meat, although the weight is lighter, in the end it can fill the stomach, and it will not easily hurt people, which is the most appropriate. ”

"Hahahaha, you can talk." Burihatu's explanation made the Tumen Khan listen very comfortably, and nodded: "You are right, although the tiger is full of treasures, this thing is really not easy to fiddle with." If you want to say that it is still easy to do with dogs, it is easy to fight and delicious, and it is not afraid of knocking your teeth. ”

Then with a wave of his hand, he ordered the surrounding generals: "Withdraw, withdraw with peace of mind, Cao Yan is already from the palace, and plans to enter the palace to serve them in the future, Emperor Zhu, let's go back to Xicheng to eat some hot food!" ”

The Mongolian athletes in the cold rain and cold wind laughed in unison when they heard this, and they all went to lead their subordinates to prepare for the whole army to retreat.

At the same time, Cao Yan, who had already advanced to the south gate of Yehedong City, stared coldly at the Mongol army that was retreating in the northwest direction, and was silent as he listened to their obvious mocking laughter.

Although he couldn't hear exactly what the Mongols were saying, he could probably guess that nothing good would happen. Deputy Chief Cao was already thin and thin, and the wrinkles on his face were more profound, and there was more haze between his eyebrows, which made the word "Sichuan" more and more obvious.

"Do you guess they're laughing at me for being inferior to a girl, or simply laughing at me for planning to be a eunuch?" Cao Yan sat on the horse and didn't move, but suddenly asked.

Gao Yimin guessed that Cao Yan might be in a bad mood, but he didn't expect him to ask like this, but Staff Officer Gao reacted quickly and immediately said: "Presumably, General Rong must know about Sima Zhongda's old affairs, in this case, what is this little thing at the moment?" ”

Sima Zhongda is Sima Yi, and what Gao Yimin said naturally refers to the stubble that Zhuge Liang gave Sima Yi with women's clothes.

When Cao Yan heard this, he "snorted" somehow, and said: "Although Ben Shuai is not as good as Sima Zhongda, they are even less worthy of being compared with Zhuge Wuhou. ”