However, Xu Huizu and Song Sheng were not in front of him at this time, so Yun Xi suppressed his anger and said to Zhang Fu: "The night attack on the Chinese army camp by Xiyu is about two schemes. First, if we can take prisoners, we can cause chaos in our army, so that we can win without a fight; Second, Timur was also a battle-hardened man, and of course he understood that the guards around where I was would not be easily defeated, and it was probably the idea of sending reinforcements under the pretext of encirclement. ”

"But I'm not in the Chinese army camp tonight, so I can just do it. Zhang Qing, how do you think you should command? ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that he should immediately send people to go around the back of the camp of the Western Captives to block their retreat."

Zhang Fu said with excitement on his face: "The soldiers sent to attack the camp must be the elite of the Western Prisoners, and they will not be given up easily. Our army blocked their retreat and encircled and annihilated, Timur had to send troops to relieve the siege, and our army took the opportunity to gather the western captives and annihilate them in one fell swoop. ”

"Gather and annihilate?" Yun Xi frowned. Although Zhang Fu used this word, he immediately understood what Zhang Fu meant: he planned to turn this attack on the camp into a big melee between the enemy and our army, hoping to take this opportunity to defeat the Xilu in one fell swoop.

But what if you lose? Yun Xi knew that as long as he nodded, this battle would immediately turn into a big melee of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, even if the Ming army had more soldiers than the soldiers of the Western Army, but it was not to the point of overwhelming superiority, and the Ming could not guarantee victory.

Yoon-hee stood up and walked around the tent, thinking carefully.

Zhang Fu first sent someone to inform the three battalions of the rear army, the front army, and the right army, and informed Wu Jie and others that His Majesty was in the left army camp at this time, and there was no need to rush to send troops to the Chinese army camp, so he stopped sitting next to the place where Yun Xi was sitting just now, and did not say a word.

Zhang Fu himself was not sure that after the scale of the campaign was escalated, he would be able to defeat the Western Emperor, not only could he not make this guarantee, but no one in the world could make such a guarantee when his enemy was Timur. But he made the suggestion anyway.

In his opinion, since the Western Capture occupies the Gurbantunggut Basin, the stalemate of the war will have a logistical advantage for the Western Territory; Moreover, every day to send troops to engage in exploratory battles with the Western Lu, the damage of the Ming army is not small, if this continues, even if the Western Lu is finally defeated, the Ming will suffer heavy losses.

If it becomes a big melee, although the losses will be greater if it is defeated, if it can be won, many losses can be avoided and the current stalemate will be ended.

Admittedly, it was a rather crazy idea, but Zhang Fu couldn't get it out of his mind anymore after thinking of it, so he said it.

He never knew that he had such a big courage, and he was very mature and steady on weekdays. Zhang Fu looked at Yun Xi, who was thinking about it, and reached out and touched his heart: "I don't know if I'm bold this time, whether it's good or bad." ’

Yoon-hee circled around the tent. Slowly, the sound of the thunderstorm outside the tent has gradually subsided, the sky has turned slightly white, and even the candles in the tent have burned to the end, and when they are about to be extinguished, Yun Xi finally stopped, turned his head and said to Zhang Fu: "Are you sure that this battle will be won?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is not sure!" Zhang Fu stood up and said: "But the minister will lead the troops to rush to the front line, if this battle is defeated, the minister is willing to be dealt with by military law." ”

"There is no need to lead the troops to rush to the front line, and there is no need to deal with it by military law, you are a deputy general, it is within your duty to propose to me, and it is I who makes the decision, not you, how can I blame you?" Yun Xi said slowly.

"So, Your Majesty is determined to fight a decisive battle with the Western Prisoners?" Zhang Fu couldn't help but ask after hearing his words.

"I have made up my mind, and I will decide the outcome with Xilu today!" Yun Xi said.

Yun Xi felt that his blood had been stimulated for a long time. He has been cautious since he succeeded to the throne as emperor, but this does not mean that his blood has disappeared without a trace, but it has been suppressed and cannot be shown. But the so-called extremes of things must be reversed, and the blood has been suppressed for too long until this year, just like a dormant volcano that has not erupted for many years, spurting out, and all the magma-like blood that has been suppressed in recent years will be released.

Let me indulge for once. Yun Xi thought.

"Your Ministers obey." Zhang Fu knelt down and said.

He immediately said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is a body of ten thousand gold, and you must not go to danger, and the minister asks Your Majesty to return to Yiwu City immediately under the escort of the soldiers, and wait for the good news of the ministers!" ”

"How can I escape?"

"What a runaway! His Majesty is not the commander of this Western Expeditionary Army, and in any case it cannot be called an escape. Moreover, Your Majesty is the Lord of all the people in the world, if Your Majesty is in danger, the Ming Dynasty is in turmoil, and the people will suffer catastrophe. Zhang Fu kowtowed again and again, asking Yun Xi to return to Yiwu.

"In that case, I'll return to Igo." Yun Xi was also a little afraid that he would die in battle, so he finally agreed.

Zhang Fu immediately sent someone to call a cavalry guard commander to ask him to escort Yun Xi back to Yiwu City.

Before the arrival of the commander, the two of them were not idle, and sent many people to the battalions to give orders to arrange this decisive battle. Of course, the most important of them is Xu Huizu, he is the commander after all, and he has to be the commander. Not only because Zhang Fu was not qualified enough, but also because he had never commanded such a large-scale war, for fear that he would lose the battle because of his own mistakes, so he did not dare to command.

"Your Majesty, now you should send troops to the battalions to give orders, send out the cavalry, and quickly rush to the outside of the camp where the western captives attacked. After that, the battle was handed over to Xu Shuai's command. Zhang Fu said.

Yun Xi nodded, and after thinking about it, he said, "Send my guards to give orders." You are not the commander of this battle, and the people you send may not obey their orders, and even if there is an edict from me, it will have to be delayed for a while; Send my guards to herald the order, and they will soon know what I mean, and they will not dare to delay in the slightest. ”

He then summoned a few guards to the battalions to give orders. One of the two guards who went to the Houjun camp happened to be Chen Lijie.

"You must be quick, quick, to spread my orders to the camps." Yun Xi instructed.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Everyone agreed in unison.

Chen Lijie immediately went to the rear army camp with the other person. On the way, he met Quan Ningwei led by Xu Youde. Chen Lijie knew that the purpose of Yun Xi sending them out was to mobilize the cavalry as soon as possible to block the retreat of the Western Prisoners, so he immediately passed the order to Xu Youde.

Xu Youde is also a person who is very eager to make military achievements, and immediately led his subordinates to rush over, just blocking the retreat of the soldiers led by Yesbu, and fighting with the Xiyu again.

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Of course, Jesbou was unaware of this tortuous process, but he fully understood the consequences of his siege.

He now not only has the 10,000 cavalry and the thousands of defeated soldiers of Salha's department rescued, but also more than 10,000 soldiers who responded outside the camp, with a total strength of nearly 30,000, all of which are the main elite soldiers under Timur's command, if they are wiped out by the Ming army, it will definitely be a huge loss for Timur.

More importantly, the attack on the camp Timur used the elite, and they had lost at least 30,000 elites before, and the less than 30,000 people he led were wiped out by the Ming army, Timur was equivalent to the loss of one-third of the main force, such a huge loss Timur could never accept, and would definitely send troops to the rescue. This battle will turn into a large-scale melee, or even a decisive battle between the two armies.

Yesbu, like Xu Huizu, who had not long received Yunxi's will at this time, was very reluctant to start a decisive battle; But he couldn't think about it, so he could only fight with the Ming army.

"Poof! Boast! Boast! The sound kept ringing, and countless large eating horses collided with Mongolian horses. A big eating horse can knock a Mongolian horse to a stumbling stumbling down, but the number of Mongolian horses in Xu Youde's hand is much more than the number of big eating horses in Yesbu's hand, and the quality is not enough to make up for the quantity.

This was not a tactic used by cavalry in battle. Cavalry battles are generally fought by facing each other's soldiers, completely rushing past each other's soldiers, and then turning their horses' heads to face each other again until one of them is defeated. The cavalry fought each other for only a brief moment.

But Xu Youde's purpose at this time was to prevent Yesbu from escaping with his troops, so naturally he couldn't use such a method, so he could only use a dense formation to block it at the cost of the life of the war horse.

When Salha found that he had been stopped, he brandished his long knife and hacked a Ming soldier to death, causing the war horse under his crotch to rush forward a few steps.

But then more Ming troops blocked the place, and drove several horses over, even if people were constantly hacked to death by him, he did not retreat at all.

Peng Qingzong saw that Salha was very brave in killing the soldiers of the Ming army, shouted and rushed over on horseback, and opened his bow and arrows to shoot Salha.

Salha had just swept another person off his horse, and suddenly the hairs on his body stood up, and he subconsciously lowered his head and happened to dodge Peng Qingzong's arrow.

Peng Qingzong saw that his arrow did not work, so he hurriedly rushed over to fight him. After a while, both of them were wounded.

The progress of breaking through the blockade of Quanning Wei here was not smooth, and the soldiers led by Cao Xing over there chased after him again. Cao Xing saw the blocking guards appear, and said happily to Song Xuan: "This battle will definitely wipe out this Western captive." So he led his troops and rushed forward. Song Xuan also hurriedly followed.

Although Cao Xing only had one arm, he didn't feel inferior to a person at all when he was fighting on a horse at this time. He first let a long knife pass through his chest, and with a backhand blow knocked the man off his horse; He also let the spear of another person, and when he swung the spear again, he blocked it in one fell swoop, and countless sparks burst out from the place where the blades of the two sides met. This person was about to withdraw his spear and stab Cao Xing again, when he suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and he had been killed by Cao Xing's personal guards.

By this time, the rain had gradually stopped. Seeing that although they were unable to reopen the blockade of Quan Ningwei, Jesbu ordered loudly: "Archers, shoot arrows at the Ming army in front of you!" ”

As he gave an order, only the sound of "whooshing" sounded, and thousands of arrows were shot at Quan Ningwei.

Xu Youde immediately ordered to fight back. But Quan Ning Wei is only one of the more than 400 guards in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not the most important one, ordinary soldiers have no armor at all, and the Jesbu department is the elite of Samarkand, and everyone wears armor, so the loss of Quan Ning Wei is much greater than that of the Jesbu department.

Xu Youde looked at the soldiers who were shot to death because they were uncovered, and felt that his heart was dripping blood. He has always treated his soldiers very well, and it is of course an exaggeration to say that he leads soldiers like sons, but it is never an exaggeration to say that he treats them like friends. It was very uncomfortable to see them shot to death. But he still gritted his teeth and stopped. Because he knew that whether he could win this battle or not depended on whether he could stop this Western captive.

But he became more and more unstoppable. After all, the Xilu are all elites, and their combat power is very strong. Fortunately, just when he was about to lose his hold, reinforcements arrived.