Chapter 223: Yuan Chonghuan and Zhou Xian's Dispute
Just when Amin and Dai Shan were discussing how to deal with Yang Feng, Yuan Chonghuan, who was stationed in Dalinghe Fort, and Zhou Xian, the guard of Dalinghe Fort, couldn't sleep at all. The Tartar movement outside the city is so big, the Ming army on the head of the city will not be unaware even if it is a dead person, and finally Yuan Chonghuan decided to send a few teams out of the city to investigate, and an hour later, a shocking news came from Night Buhui.
"What? The camp of the Tartars outside the city is empty, and the Tartars are gone? ”
"Yes!" A sweaty night man knelt down on one knee in front of Yuan Chonghuan with a puzzled expression, "An hour ago, the villain and a few brothers risked their lives to sneak into the Tartar camp, and found that the Tartar's huge camp was missing except for less than a thousand Tartars and some auxiliaries. ”
"The Tartars are gone, where can they go?" Yuan Chonghuan stood up openly.
"Are you sure you read that right?" Zhou Xian on the side was also shocked, and after glancing at Yuan Chonghuan, both of them showed expressions of disbelief, originally thought that a life-and-death battle would break out tomorrow, but he didn't think that someone told him that the enemy had disappeared, and there was no more shocking news than that.
"Two adults, even if the villain has the courage to deceive you two." Ye didn't close it was also a look of confusion, after all, what he saw just now was so outrageous that even he, the person who witnessed it, couldn't believe it, let alone the two adults.
Yuan Chonghuan took a deep breath and waved his hand, "That's it, you go down first, if this matter is verified as you say, this official will not lose your reward." ”
"Thank you, sir!" The night is not closed, and I hurry down.
After the night was not taken away, the room fell into silence, and Yuan Chonghuan said in an affirmative tone for a long time: "This matter is not right, the Tartars will never withdraw their troops for no reason, there must be something strange in it!" ”
"So what, we can't go out to kill the Tartar camp now, right?" Zhou Xian said with some hesitation.
"Naturally, we can't now, but tomorrow morning we can go out of the city again and investigate again, if it's true, why don't we send troops?" Yuan Chonghuan's face was full of eagerness, "If you can take the camp of the Tartars, this will also be a great achievement." ”
"I don't agree." Zhou Xian was against this matter, "I don't know that this matter is not a trick of the Tartars, what we have to do is to defend Dalinghe Fort, as long as Dalinghe Fort is not lost, it will be a great achievement, why does Lord Yuan want to go out of the city?" ”
"Are our reinforcements arriving?"
Yuan Chonghuan's eyes suddenly became a little bright: "Lord Zhou, this official thinks that there is only one reason why the Tartars can abandon the village overnight, that is, our reinforcements have arrived, and the Tartars have to take the lead in attacking and trying to defeat the friendly troops who come to help, there is no other explanation, we can go out of the city early tomorrow morning to destroy the camp of the Tartars, and then go out of the city to meet with the reinforcements to deal with the Houjin Tartars." ”
"Don't ......" Zhou Xian's head shook like a rattle, "All this is Lord Yuan's speculation, this official will never agree, if the guess is wrong, Dalinghe Fort will be in danger." ”
Yuan Chonghuan was anxious, stood up and said loudly: "Lord Zhou, if you miss the opportunity, you will regret it too late." ”
"I'd rather miss this opportunity than put our army in danger!" Zhou Xian's attitude was very resolute, that is, he did not agree with Yuan Chonghuan's opinion that he wanted to go out of the city.
"You ......"
Yuan Chonghuan was so angry that he pointed at Zhou Xian and couldn't speak, Zhou Xian's character is good, it is called conservative, and what is ugly is not enterprising, timid and afraid. And Yuan Chonghuan's temperament is a little aggressive, and the personalities of the two are fundamentally different, so naturally there was a fierce collision.
In the end, the two parted unhappily, and after a night of silence, the sky soon became bright.
When the sky was bright, Yang Feng ordered all the soldiers to have a full meal, and after the 6,000 sergeants, 3,000 baggage soldiers, and 4,000 cavalry began to march out of the camp and march towards the Dry Grass Ridge.
The peak of the dry grass ridge is not high, the highest place is less than two hundred meters from the ground, the geology belongs to the half-soil and half-stone structure, so there is not much vegetation on it, at this time the two sides of the dry grass ridge have been occupied by the Houjin Tartars, a famous Tartar has already stabbed out of the sheath bow and looked at the army coming from the array.
The army lined up at the foot of the dry grass ridge, Yang Feng couldn't help frowning slightly when he looked at the narrow road between the two peaks, and then looked at the mountains on both sides of the mountain ridge was a sea of flags. In front of the Houjin army was a dense array of shield carts, followed by armorers wearing blue trim and red trim and red armor.
Yang Feng and Zhao Shujiao observed the situation of the mountains with a telescope together, Zhao Shujiao's telescope was given to him by Yang Feng two days ago, Zhao Shujiao has been in love with him since he got the telescope, and he took it as a baby.
After looking at it for a while, Zhao Shujiao put it down and snorted lightly: "Houjin Tartar is still the same old-fashioned, using shield carts in front, archers and shield bearers in the back, and dead soldiers and auxiliaries, in vain trying to rely on these terrain to stop our army from advancing, and then the strange soldiers will kill from behind after defeating our army's sharp spirit, so our army will inevitably be in chaos." ”
Yang Feng asked, "Lord Zhao, do you think these arrangements of the Tartars can withstand our artillery?" ”
Zhao Shujiao hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "To be honest, I'm not sure that the Tartars are so well prepared, even the shield cart has been moved up the mountain, and you have not found it." This time, the Tartars have also learned well, and their shield car is different from the shield car under Jinzhou City a few days ago, it has been thickened, and I am afraid that even artillery can be defended. ”
"Can you fire a firefight?" Yang Feng laughed out loud, but he immediately shook his head, it seems that the generals of this era still don't fully realize the power of hot weapons, if the artillery is so easy to defend, can it still be called the god of war?
While talking, the team had slowly approached the mountain pass, and when it was more than 500 meters away from the mountain pass, the team stopped, and as the group of sergeants leaned to the sides, one cannon after another was pushed out by the sergeants, and finally a total of eighty six-pounder guns and forty twelve-pounder guns were divided into two rows, and the gunners were also busy carrying ammunition, setting up artillery and doing final inspections, and the gunners were busy setting up the position of the gun team mirror to measure the place.
Dai Shan and Amin on the mountain ridge looked at the guns under the mountain and the black holes of the guns aimed at themselves, and their faces began to change, Amin turned his head to Dai Shan and said: "Big brother, is the Ming army under the mountain that made you suffer a big loss the day before yesterday?" ”
"That's them." Dai Shan looked at the familiar armor and dazzling red of the Ming army under the mountain and nodded solemnly.
"Big Baylor, Second Baylor, the Ming army under the mountain is about to open fire! You two should hurry to the back. Goshha next to him reminded.
PS: Kavin, it's so uncomfortable!