The battle at Tumubao was not on the verge of breaking out, and the coaches of both sides, Shen Xi and Huo Aya, were trying to avoid a war. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Shen Xi will not take the initiative to attack, while Huo Aya will not take the initiative to attack the city, they are waiting for the other party to take action first.

In this battle, the Ming army was obviously inferior, although there was a civil fort as a barrier, but the city could not replenish the water source, which was similar to the situation in the original battle on Nanao Island, but now Shen Xi as the defensive side, is likely to end up hating the civil fort.

But the war has not yet begun, the direction of the battle is unknown, Shen Xi organized people to dig wells in the city fortress overnight, and the refugees in the city began to make noise, originally the victims who had left their homes and had nothing, at this time suddenly in the gap between the Ming army and the Tatars, they were already clamoring to leave the city, ignoring the Tatar cavalry who were eyeing outside.

Hu Songyue came back from the failure to grab water, and complained to Shen Xi: "My lord, it may be a good thing for the refugees to go out of the city, but let the infantry be mixed in the ranks of the refugees, the Tatars are not numerous, if we coerce the refugees to launch a surprise attack, maybe we will succeed in a battle!" ”

Shen Xi listened for a long time, but didn't understand what was the logic of Hu Songyue's conclusion that the result of "success in the first battle" was, let the infantry mix in the ranks of refugees out of the city, and they would definitely win?

Shen Xi was supervising the digging of the well at this time, although it was past the early morning, but Shen Xi was not sleepy, his life was almost gone, sleeping was no longer a trivial matter, Shen Xi was young and energetic, and his energy was already very strong.

Shen Xi said: "General Hu, even if what you say makes some sense, this official will not allow the people in the city to go out of the city." The battle in the northwest focuses on reassuring the people and letting the people be shields, which is what my Ming soldiers should do? ”

Hu Songyue was a little ashamed on his face, and saluted: "What the adults said is that the last general has not succeeded, please surrender your guilt!" ”

Shen Xi said: "Instead of thinking about your sins, it is better to settle the mistake of me sending you out of the city to grab water...... No one expected that the Tatars were so familiar with the terrain around the Tumu Fort, and now that the water source was cut off, they had to try to find water, otherwise the Tumu Fort would become a dead place. ”

"What happened here decades ago, General Hu, you don't know, right?"

Originally, Hu Songyue and others were not very familiar with Tumubao, but after listening to many rumors in the army, they already understood that Yingzong was captured here, and the Warat people also defeated hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ming Dynasty here......

Hu Songyue's forehead was full of cold sweat, which was even more terrifying than when he was attacked by the Tatar cavalry before, and hurriedly persuaded: "My lord, you quickly come up with an idea, there is no water in the city, if you can't defeat the Tatar soldiers and horses within two or three days and withdraw to Juyong Pass, I'm afraid ...... We will lose our strength due to lack of water, and there will be more Tartars in the future! ”

Shen Xi said: "The good news is that the Tatars' current main direction of attack must not be the lonely fortress under our feet, but the Xuanfu in our north, or which pass on the Outer Great Wall. The bad news is that we can only be beaten passively, we can't get out of the city, and we have to take care of the food, drink and Lazar of the tens of thousands of people in this castle. ”

"If the Tatar siege does not attack the city for two or three days, we will soon be left with no water to drink. Now we only have a certain advantage in artillery and firearms, but the Tatars are prepared for this, and the next battle will not be as we hope! ”

There is a Franc machine gun mount at the head of the city, but the Tatars just don't take the initiative to attack the city, this is the depressing place, the Tatars control all the roads outside the city, Shen Xi can't have an overwhelming advantage in the city, which direction to break through, can not be against the Tatars.

Perhaps the Tatars had to divide their troops to garrison the four walls, but the civil fort was small, and the Tatar soldiers and horses were all cavalry, one person, two horses to three horses, and the mobility was extremely high, and even if the Shenxi side successfully broke through from one direction with superior forces, the Tatars would rush to the aid in a very fast time.

When they meet on the frontal battlefield, the chance of Shen Xi's division winning is close to zero.

At this time, Shen Xi couldn't care about how to break through, the focus was to find the potential water source in the city, and the current storage of water could only last for two days, if it could not find water for replenishment, it meant that the city would fall into a water shortage situation after two days.

Shen Xi instructed Hu Songyue: "Order the three armies, in the absence of a water source, all the soldiers in the city are not allowed to use dry food to feed their stomachs, so as not to be thirsty!" ”

Hu Songyue was a little dissatisfied: "My lord, this thirst is very uncomfortable, do you want to keep your stomach hungry and suffer two sins?" ”

Shen Xi said: "This is not a double sin, it is that eating, especially dry food, must be accompanied by water, according to my orders, there must be no disobedience!" ”

Hu Songyue didn't understand very well, but he still went as he said, and when he walked away, he turned around and saw that Shen Xi was still directing the soldiers to dig a well overnight, and he felt that death had descended.

Hu Song said in his heart: "If you had obeyed Lord Shen's orders before and went fifteen miles south of the city to grab water, you might not have encountered the Tatar cavalry." Next time, I want to find such a good opportunity to break through, I don't know when! ”

It turned out that Shen Xi asked Hu Songyue to go out of the city to grab water, Hu Songyue wanted to escape with two hundred cavalry, but he encountered the Tatar cavalry soon after he went to the official road, and he was defeated.

Hu Songyue couldn't figure out why Shen Xi knew the terrain around Tumubao well, and still couldn't get the first chance of a war?

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Shen Xi is preparing for war, and Huo Aya is also preparing for war.

The Tatars have always been good at frontal encounters in the plains, but when Huo Aya found out that Shen Xi was likely to hold out, she was worried that Shen Xi would choose to break through, so she adopted the strategy that the Ming people always liked to use, that is, to set up horse traps and tripping ropes on the road from Tumu Fort to various official roads to block the route of the Ming army's withdrawal.

Huoya was more open-minded than ordinary Tatars, and used some reasonable means in the Ming army to use them in the battle of Tatar soldiers and horses, which was quite effective. Huo Aya was full of confidence in herself, thinking that Shen Xi belonged to the turtle in the urn this time, as long as the city was cut off, it would take less than three days for Shen Xi's soldiers and horses to break down.

The only thing to guard against now is for Shen Xi to lead his troops to break through.

Huo Aya felt that it would not be difficult for her to win this battle, and the only thing she could worry about was how to capture Shen Xi alive.

"If you can't catch him alive, it's okay to kill him, but I don't know if he will hide? If he can fly away, it's bad! ”

Huo Aya had heard before that the wise people in the Central Plains usually had some evil arts, such as what kind of pig brother Liang, who can call the wind and rain, and what kind of Niu Bowen, who can observe the earth and cut the dragon vein, she didn't believe it, but most of the people who spread these words were very determined, and swore that there was indeed such a person, and over time she believed it.

Huo Aya couldn't be sure if Shen Xi had this kind of magical power, and even in her heart, she would rather believe that Shen Xi really had this ability, because it would make her feel better:

"Shen Xi did not rely on his talent and wisdom to achieve the victory of Hongzhi in the thirteenth year, but by the power of some ghosts and gods, if we Tatars will also, we can achieve the same effect, the Ming people are not so godly!"

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It was also the twenty-third day and night, Jingshi, the Forbidden City, and Wenyuan Pavilion.

On this day, Xie Qian had dinner at home, and then returned to the palace to watch the night, and as soon as he entered Wenyuan Pavilion, he saw Li Dongyang reviewing the recital.

When shifts are changed on weekdays, Li Dongyang usually arrives late and leaves early, Xie Qian never cares about his old friends, and this time it is rare to meet Li Dongyang and he has not left until he arrives.

"Yu Qiao, this is almost over, the palace gate has been closed for a long time, how can you be on duty in the cabinet?" Li Dongyang asked with a look of resentment.

Xie Qian was caught being late, a little embarrassed, and said: "Today, there is a banquet at home, and I drank a few more cups unconsciously, and I only entered the palace after Xiao Mei." ”

Li Dongyang bowed slightly: "Military affairs are important, at this time, it is better not to be greedy." Yu Qiao, here is a few minutes of the recital that just came over from the northwest, after you have read it, you will prepare a ticket and plan to send it to the celebrant overnight! “

Before Xie Qian was still grateful to his old friend for his "understanding", at this time Xie Qian was a little unhappy in his heart, you Li Dongyang stayed in Wenyuan Pavilion, holding an important battle report in his hand, but he didn't personally review it, so he had to wait until I came to let me finish it? Then what do you mean by staying here, overseeing my work?

I also have to send it to the celebrant overnight, what an important battle report is that, isn't the northwest war opening again?

Taking advantage of Li Dongyang's absence, Xie Qian took the notebook over, read it in detail, and found that most of the battle reports were very ordinary, basically official documents from Taiyuan and Datong Town, indicating that the surrounding situation was calm, and the Beijing division was relieved, but there was an extra copy of the Ningxia Wei Song report and an urgent report from the main force of Tatar, which was not good news.

The news of the main Tatar force had not appeared for a long time in the battle reports sent to the capital by the fortress passes in the northwest, and it was suddenly seen at this time, which could not help but make people surprised.

"What does Yu Qiao think about this?"

Li Dongyang found that Xie Qian was holding Ningxiawei's battle report and frowned and pondered, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

Xie Qian organized the language and said, "Since we have discovered that the main force of Beiyi is advancing westward, if we take advantage of the situation to recover the fortresses and key passes of Yansui, this performance should be presented to Your Majesty as soon as possible." Have you ever said hello to the celebrant? ”

"Hmm."

Li Dongyang nodded, "I have already informed Gonggong Xiao, and he will come over in person later, and the three of us will agree before I leave the palace." If there is any more war report about the movements of the Tatar Chinese army in the future, it will all depend on you! ”

Xie Qian smiled bitterly, he wanted to say that he didn't have enough energy and couldn't stay up late every night, but when the words came to his lips and swallowed back, he asked himself to ask Li Dongyang for help in many things, and now that Li Dongyang has lost his son and has no solution, he can only try to be considerate of this old friend.

Soon, Xiao Jing, the eunuch of the celebrant seal seal, appeared in Wenyuan Pavilion.

Xiao Jing looked very nervous, hearing that there was a change in the war in the northwest, he was afraid that it would be a battle report of defeat. When he learned that it was Ningxia Wei who encountered the main Tatar force, he hurriedly asked, "Has Ningxia Wei been lost?" ”

"Not lost!" Li Dongyang said.

Xie Qian carefully read the question book, nodded and said, "I don't know for the time being, but if there is a loss, there will be a detailed report in the future!" ”

In contrast, Xiao Jing was more willing to adopt Li Dongyang's answer, because if he went to report to Emperor Hongzhi overnight, he would inevitably face the same problem.

What's the matter, that's also "Scholar Li said" Yunyun.

Xiao Jing said with relief: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, now that the direction of the main Tatar force is basically determined, it's time to regain the lost ground...... The civil war in the northwest has been a lot in the past six months, it is time to stop, the two elders, if you come to meet the saint in the future, you must remember to tell Your Majesty about it! ”

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PS: The third update!

At noon, the Provincial Writers' Association called to hold a meeting, and the Son of Heaven had to participate, and it was already six o'clock when he came back from the meeting in the afternoon. For the sake of such diligence of the Son of Heaven, everyone has a wave of subscriptions and monthly passes to encourage! (To be continued.) )