Chapter 1077: Conspiracy
When Liu Daxia decided to lead his troops westward, he basically ignored the rescue troops led by Shen Xi. www.biquge.info It is true that Liu Daxia believes that Shen Xi is brave and strategic, but with his status and prestige, he is absolutely not allowed to appear in times of danger, and he can only rely on the fledgling Shen Xi to turn the tide, which is more unacceptable than the defeat of the Tatars.
Therefore, in Liu Daxia's mind, he was willing to believe the information that the main force of the Tatar Chinese army was advancing westward, and the battle reports from Ningxia Wei were conclusive, and there were war reports from Guyuan Town and Gansu Town echoed them, Liu Daxia felt that this was the best time to prove his ability, live up to the emperor's trust, and fight back.
Shen Xi's soldiers and horses have not yet arrived in Datong Town, and in Liu Daxia's opinion, it is a sign of Shen Xi's indentation, and it is more and more impossible to stay and wait.
At this time, Shen Xi was actually in a state of isolation and helplessness, if he knew in advance, he would never rashly come in west as this "bait", he would definitely withdraw his troops back to Juyong Pass as soon as possible, and use the natural danger of Juyong Pass to deploy defense, maybe he could survive until the arrival of reinforcements from the Beijing Division and the northwest, and he did not need to take risks in person.
At this time, near the former site of the Daming Xinghe Institute in the upper reaches of the Haliutu River north of Xuanfu, the Tatars completed the final assembly of soldiers and horses in the north of the Saibei.
Dayan Khan Batu Munke personally led 30,000 horses on the left wing of the Chahar Department under his command, plus the Great Khan's personal guards, and advanced to the north of Xuanfu Town, Wanquan Right Guard, and Zhangjiakou Fort.
On the southern route of the Great Wall, Yisi Mayin, the national teacher of the Dayan Department, led 40,000 horses and horses, and after taking Lan County, he went all the way west to the bank of the Yellow River and went north with the help of the Yellow River.
At this time, Liu Daxia had just transferred Linxian and Hequ soldiers and horses to Ningwu Pass to assemble, so the Tatar soldiers and horses arrived near Yatou Pass without danger and launched a surprise attack.
The Tatars sent rangers to block the mountain road to the Octagon, and then continued eastward along the valley of the Guanhe River, and after breaking out of the Mangtou Mountains, they appeared at Jingping north of Shuozhou.
In order to keep the secret of the eastward advance of the army, the Tatars first sent rangers to control the mountain road leading to Shuozhou and Pingyuwei and Mayi, and then launched a siege war. The 14 horsemen who went to various places to ask for help were all hanged by the Tatar cavalry.
The Tatars left two hundred-man detachments to block the news, and the main force passed through the narrow strip of land south of Pingyuwei into the Sanggan River Plain area north of Mayi, and made a long-distance attack, successively passing through the defense areas of Andong Zhongtunwei, Gaoshanwei and Tianchengwei, and approaching Huai'an Acropolis, the western barrier of Xuanfu Town.
At this time, Da Ming was unaware, mainly because the guards were basically cowering in the city, and there was no report from the people in the wild, and the gap between the city fortress and the city fortress was very wide, as long as the Tatars controlled the distance, in the deserted field, there was no trace of the Tatar cavalry at all.
After redundant Yulin Acropolis and heavy damage to Liu Daxia's department, the Tatars not only did not withdraw their troops, but also quietly passed through the northwest territory of the Ming Dynasty, preparing to clear the Great Wall Pass in the north of Xuanfu in one fell swoop, and reverted to Juyong Pass as a breakthrough to threaten the safety of the Ming Dynasty.
Ismayin was in his fifties, and in the steppe, he was already a long man, and his status among the Tatars was very high, not only as a national teacher, but also with his own tribe, and Dayan Khan Batu Munk admired him very much.
The strategic deployment behind this detour to the Ming Dynasty is from the handiwork of Yi Si Mayin.
In the face of the Ming Dynasty's fierce soldiers, Batu Munk forced the tribes of Southern Mongolia to bow to the Dayan tribe, and made a promise to the leaders of the tribes such as Huosiao and Yibra that the population and goods plundered this time would be evenly distributed, and if they could enter the Central Plains, Dayan Khan Batu Munk would be the emperor, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty would be divided into Tatar tribal leaders.
The fire sieve and other departments themselves are at a disadvantage in the competition for the Mo Nan grassland, and after years of fighting, the population and livestock have suffered serious losses, and if they don't go south to plunder, I'm afraid they won't even be able to survive this winter. Dayan Khan put forward such conditions, and in the face of the Ming sharpening the sword, the tribes no longer insisted, reached a reconciliation, and cooperated with the Dayan Ministry to send troops to the Ming Dynasty.
The Tatars won several big victories in succession, and the Ming lost the most important border city in the northwest, Yulin Acropolis, but in Yismayin's view, this city was like chicken ribs, and it was a pity to abandon it if it was tasteless. Because the Yulin Acropolis is close to the Hetao area, it belongs to the sphere of influence of the Tatar Fire Sieve Division, and the foundation of the Dayan Department is in the direction near Xuanfu Town.
And to attack the Daming Jingshi, if you detour to Yulinwei, the follow-up supply line is too long, but if you can break through the northern pass of Xuanfu Town and destroy the Great Wall, then the Dayan Department can use a short distance to complete the supply of grain and grass materials, first concentrate on taking all the fortresses of Xuanfu Town, stabilize the rear and then send troops to attack Juyong Pass, and break Juyong Pass to attack Daming Jingshi.
In the eyes of ordinary herdsmen, the national teacher is not only a wise elder, but also the embodiment of God, he is familiar with the art of war, proficient in a variety of languages, and can even communicate with ghosts and gods, just when the Tatars thought that the Ming Dynasty was about to come out of the nest and repeat the scene of the Ming Chengzu's conquest of the grassland, Yismain advocated sacrificing the interests of small tribes, demarcating spheres of influence to annex small tribes, and then making full use of the resources of small tribes to meet the basic needs of marching and fighting.
It was precisely because of the Tatars' plundering of the small tribes that many Tatar tribes who had lost their homes and possessions moved south, and Yismain took advantage of the situation to include a large number of spies. When Liu Daxia's trilateral governor Yamen came to ask for resettlement, Shen Xi immediately sensed that the Tatars had the intention to take the initiative to attack.
Shen Xi's comments to Xie Qian made Xie Qian stand out in front of the emperor, but the final result was that the Tatars' successive military operations were different from Xie Qian's speculation, Xie Qian could not justify himself, so he could only push Shen Xi out and let Shen Xi lead the troops to the battle.
Yismain never thought that his plan would be discovered in advance by the Ming Dynasty, and the reason why the results were so brilliant was that he used the spies who infiltrated the Yulin Acropolis to attack the Yulin Acropolis in one fell swoop at the critical moment, and then cooperated with the main force led by Dayan Khan Batu Munk to chase and attack Liu Daxia's troops.
After the main force of the Ming army retreated across the Yellow River, Batu Mengke immediately went north along the Huangpu River and the Shili Changchuan River, took the Habuqi Ditch and Wuliang Taigou to the Yellow River, crossed the Yellow River from Lama Bay and returned to the Chahar area, and then waited for an opportunity to go south.
And Yisi Mayin led his own tribes and fire sieve and other tribal armies, detoured south, detoured to Yongning Prefecture and Lan County, and made a posture of attacking Ningwu Pass.
When Liu Daxia mobilized troops to hold Ningwu Pass, Yisima quickly adjusted his troops and horses, and unexpectedly went off the rails into the hinterland of Datong Town, taking advantage of the fact that all the people and horses in the northwest of Daming could only garrison the city, and the contact was almost cut off, achieving a surprise effect and appearing in the area east of Datong Town.
As for the Tatar cavalry that is now raging around Ningxia Town, they are basically the Yibula and other tribes of Mongol in southern Mongolia and the reinforcements invited from Wara, with a total strength of only 20,000 horsemen, but because the grassland is basically one person, two horses or even three horses, it gives people the impression that the cavalry is gushing endlessly, stretching for dozens of miles, creating the illusion of a siege by hundreds of thousands of troops.
On September 17, Yisma completed the integration of his troops and horses, and the pre-war deployment was basically realized.
In Yismayin's conception, the next focus was on the Huai'an Acropolis, Xuanfu, Zhangjiakou Fort, Juyongguan and Jingshi.
In addition to obtaining a strategic fulcrum, you can also get the capture of grain and grass materials from the Huai'an Acropolis to solve the shortage of materials after the thousand-mile raid; Then the soldiers were divided into two routes, one to Xuanfu Town, cutting off the road from Xuanfu to Zhangjiakou Fort, and the other to Zhangjiakou Fort, and the army led by Dayan Khan Batu Munk should join forces and take Zhangjiakou Fort.
The third step is to destroy the fortresses along the Great Wall, demolish the Great Wall, so that the rear is worry-free, and then wave troops south to encircle Xuanfu.
After taking Xuanfu City, he immediately marched into Juyong Pass and broke Juyong Pass; At that time, some men and horses will be left to guard against the return of soldiers and horses in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, and the main force of the Chinese army will drive straight into the Ming Dynasty.
Ismain's plan is very vicious. Since he used his tricks to earn the Yulin Acropolis, he has been regarded as a god by his Tatar soldiers and horses...... It was the place that made the Tatars hate in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, and now it is a shame, and the prestige of Yismain has almost reached its peak.
Liu Daxia was almost led by the nose by Yi Si Ma Yin, and when he arrived at Ningwu Pass, he found that there was no Tatar main force, and miscalculated the situation around Ningxia Wei, thinking that the Tatar Chinese army was close to Ningxia Wei and Gansu Town, so that Liu Daxia personally led the main force to the west, and once again opened the distance from the Tatar soldiers and horses led by Yi Si Ma Yin.
"The soldiers are bloodless, and the battle is successful!"
Before the Huai'an Acropolis was attacked, the Ming defenders in the city did not realize that they were facing a menacing Tatar main force of 40,000, and thought that they were only facing stragglers who did not know from which valley the Tatars had mixed in, and they were besieged on all sides without even sending a distress signal.
On the morning of September 18, the offensive and defensive battle of Huai'an Acropolis began. Despite the desperate resistance of the defenders of the city, it was still difficult to resist the siege of 40,000 Tatar soldiers and horses.
The Tatars were well prepared for the battle, and the siege equipment was well prepared, most of which came from the Ming army on the Yulin Acropolis, and even the Tatars also looted a hundred Ming cast Franc cannons from Yulin City, and used them to assist in the siege.
Although the effect of the Franc cannon in the siege of the city was not very obvious, with the help of this new firearm with great lethality, the last hope of the Huai'an Acropolis Company was dashed.
In the early morning of September 19, after a day and a night of bloody fighting, the fortress fell, followed by a bloody massacre by the Tatars, and for only half a day there was no living mouth in the city.
In order to prevent the news of the eastward advance of his headquarters from leaking out, Yisima ordered the slaughter of the city, and all the soldiers and civilians in the city were killed, and the blood flowed like a river.
Amid the cheers of the Tatar soldiers, Ismain rode on a tall horse and led his guards and main generals into the city to accept the fruits of victory.
Huai'an Acropolis, Wei commanded the Yamen.
Yi Si Ma Yin stood under the plaque in the lobby of the Yamen, the plaque of "Jing Zhong and Mighty" fell to the ground, and in front of Yi Si Ma Yin were ten thousand households and thousands of households who had just finished killing and came back to their lives.
There was silence in the lobby of the yamen.
Yi Si Ma Yin was flipping through the official documents on the table, these official documents were all war reports and military secrets of the Ming Dynasty, Yi Sima Yin knew Chinese characters, and thought he was proficient in the Central Plains culture, after breaking through the city fortress, he naturally wanted to know the next military movements of the Ming Dynasty, and therefore fine-tuned his plan.
"National teacher, all the animals in the city are not left alive, and the 19,200 heads that have been beheaded have been displayed outside, please show me!"
Outside the lobby of the yamen, a female Tatar general wearing a red cloak and looking a little rough between her eyebrows walked in.
Among the Tatar tribes, who have always believed in power, women have a low status in the steppe, and have always been regarded as goods by men, and can even be sold.
But no one dared to disagree with this female general, because she was not only brave and strategic, but also made many contributions to Dayan Khan in the Tatar civil war in the previous few years, and it was the fire silk that Shen Xi knew.
Huo Aya is the only female thousand households in the Dayan Department, if she is not a woman, Dayan Khan Batu Munk even has the intention of sealing her as ten thousand households, and Huo Aya has been following Yi Si Ma Yin, Yi Si Ma Yin is the patriarch of Huo Aya, Huo Aya has followed Yi Si Ma Yin twice to envoy Daming, and has a deep understanding of Da Ming's culture.
Ismaine looked up, holding an urgent document in his hand, and he didn't comment, just looked at the fire.
Nearly 20,000 people were killed in this Huai'an Acropolis alone, of which only one-fifth were Ming officers and soldiers, and most of the rest were military families and Tuntian people.
Yi Si Ma Yin nodded slightly, very satisfied with Huo Aya's performance, and said in the grassland language: "Last night, the city was broken, you made a lot of contributions, and you should have suspended the army for two days before entering the army, but now the situation has changed, and you have to send troops immediately!" (To be continued.) )