The capital has its own thoughts, except for Xie Qianhui to help Shen Xi, the rest of the people, including Ma Wensheng, will not give Shen Xi any help. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Shen Xi has changed from a loyal and good general who was ordered to be in danger and burdened at the beginning, to a mediocre person who is now considered scheming, cowardly and cowardly, and the change is only because Shen Xi did not follow the preset route given to him by the imperial court in the northwest army, and marched all the way west to Yansui Town to recover the Yulin Acropolis.

The imperial court dug a pit for Shen Xi, and Shen Xi did not jump into it, so he became a sinner, but now Shen Xi has no time to care about this, and he needs to face the siege of thousands of Tatar elite horsemen.

On the night of September 23, Shen Xi led his army to Tumubao on the night of the arrival of Tumubao, and sent Hu Songyue with more than 200 cavalry to fetch water in the direction of fifteen miles south of Tumubao, taking advantage of the arrival of the main Tatar force to increase the reserve of drinking water.

Before sending this group of people, Shen Xi considered the possibility of Hu Songyue leading the troops to escape, and he had been worried after the team set off, but soon he found himself too worried.

The Tatars were well guarded, blocking the traffic from the Tumubao to the southern water source, Hu Songyue went out of the city to the south this time, almost wiped out the whole army, when he went to more than 200 horses, came back not even a hundred horses, lost half of the men and horses on the way, but did not bring back even a drop of water.

Also that night, the Chinese army led by Huo Aya arrived around the Tumu Fort and blocked all the paths for Shen Xi to withdraw his troops from the city.

Four thousand cavalry is not too much, but it is not too much, and it is more than enough to besiege a fortress that is only two square miles.

The city was already very crowded, in addition to the more than 8,000 people led by Shen Xi, there were still tens of thousands of refugees, and the soldiers in the city had to be careful even if they wanted to open the stove, so as not to be robbed of food by the refugees who were freezing and starving.

After Huo Aya led the army to arrive, he stood on a high post five miles west of the city of Tumu Fort, looking at the castle in front of him.

"Finally able to take revenge!"

Huo Aya rode on a horse, raised his horsewhip and pointed directly at the civil fort, very much hoping that this would lead the army under his command to attack the city and take off Shen Xi's head to sacrifice the flag, but the civil fort in the night is like a fierce beast, giving people a sense of behemoth and gloom, plus the garrison in the city is Shen Xi, a young man of the Ming Dynasty whose name resounded in the grassland in the past few years, even if Huo Aya is conceited, he must think carefully and think about it.

Huo Aya thought to herself: "This Shen Xi is really useless, it was only the vanguard of our army who arrived before, he obviously has the advantage of troops but he doesn't even have the courage to take the initiative, he must be greedy for life and afraid of death, and wants to stay in the city as a turtle with a shrunken head...... Hmph, I want you to know that it is powerful, even if you don't come out of the city, I will lead troops to break the city and worship the immortal heaven with your head! ”

"Huoya, is it time to attack the city next?"

A general of the same tribe stepped forward and asked, his tone was quite disrespectful, because they were all Qianhu, but they had to obey the orders of a woman who was the commander of Qianhu, and they were not convinced.

They also know that they have a gap with Huo Aya in terms of ability, but they still don't want to admit the identity of their subordinates, and even Huo Aya's name is called directly.

Huo Aya said: "It is up to me to decide whether to attack the city or not, and you just have to follow the order." The order went down, and all the sons and daughters were encamped on the spot, and no one was allowed to attack without my military order. Send men to the east, south, and north of the city to strengthen the defense and prevent the enemy from escaping. ”

"If the enemy flees and runs into a wall and retreats to the fortress on his own, do not pursue them relentlessly, lest you fall into an ambush of the enemy!"

Before grasping the overall battle situation, Huo Aya maintained relative calm, some of the arrangements she made were specially given to her by Yi Si Ma Yin, and some of them were based on her own understanding, and the reason why Yi Si Ma Yin was relieved to hand over four thousand elite soldiers to a vengeful woman was also to fully believe in her ability.

Although there were jealous and unconvinced people in the Tatar army, the Tatar generals present were still basically able to obey the military orders, which was also the reason why the Tatars were able to rise in the steppe, because they understood that if they wanted to win the war, they could only cooperate with each other, and if they went their own way, they would give the enemy a chance, and in the end they would probably face defeat.

With this kind of thinking, even if the Tatar Fire Sieve Department took the initiative to launch a war against the Ming Dynasty's border fortress, the rest of the Tatar tribes also roughly maintained mutual non-aggression against the Fire Sieve Department, and when the spoils were divided afterwards, each tribe would have something to gain.

Today, in the Tatar army, Huoya is a female general, although many people are not convinced, but her military orders are still carried out, no one doubts whether it is the right thing to do, even if it is not correct, the Tatars firmly believe that as long as they work together, they can achieve victory and get a lot of booty!

The purpose of the Tatars' wars today is simple: burn, kill and plunder.

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Not long after Huo Aya was stationed in the big tent of the Chinese army, the news came that Shen Xi sent men and horses to the south of the city to grab water, but it failed.

The morale of the Tatar army was greatly boosted, and in the minds of many Tatars, Shen Xi was the strongest enemy, a figure that could be compared to Dayan Khan and Yismain.

It stands to reason that a man like Shen Xi should not experience defeat, but the army led by Shen Xi was defeated in the first battle, which made the Tatar army with a little worry excited.

At the same time, the actions of the Ming army also made it clear to the Tatars that there was a lack of water in the city, otherwise the Ming army would not have sent cavalry with water bags to the south of the city to grab water.

"Huo Aya, the national teacher asked me to be sure to annihilate Shen Xi's soldiers and horses, if I can capture Shen Xi alive, it's best, if not, kill him, and go back with his head! Now that the Ming army has thrown itself into a dead end, stationed in a city fortress that lacks water, it seems that we are not far from victory. ”

A Tatar thousand households are immersed in the dream of making a meritorious achievement.

Huo Aya clenched her fists and shouted, "No one is allowed to kill him, he is mine, I will take him back to the grassland, and kill him with my sword in the Naadam meeting of the grassland...... He dares to throw my sword on the ground, and I must let him know what will happen if he offends me!" ”

Huo Aya was thrown by Shen Xi in the capital, and not many people on the grassland know about it.

In the eyes of the Tatars, such an act is a great insult to man. The head can be broken and the blood can be shed, once the sword is taken out for competition, it represents a sacred duel, and the sword that desecrates the enemy is only after defeating the opponent by force, but if it is before the battle, it means that both sides will not die.

In the past, Yisima did not allow Huo Aya to tell about being thrown by Shen Xi, mainly to avoid affecting Huo Aya's status as a goddess of war in the minds of the Tatars.

Now that Huo Aya saw the enemy in front of her, she couldn't care about it for a while, and she was honest in public...... I have to admit that straightforwardness is Huo Aya's biggest characteristic, and she wants to fight hard with Shen Xi, so she takes the initiative to tell the humiliation she suffered before, so that people can know the resentment in her heart. In this way, she let the army know her troubles in disguise.

"Huo Aya, have you ever been insulted by that Ming man throwing a knife? How could you stand it, why didn't you kill him at that time? You can't kill him, so why don't you kill yourself with your full name? One of them asked.

Huo Aya was stunned for a moment when asked, and then frowned and explained: "In the realm of the Ming people, I was a guest, and I was on the mission of the envoy at that time, not to kill people, he refused to go back to the grassland with me to participate in the Naadam Conference, and threw his knife on the ground, because he didn't understand the rules of our grassland people, why should I commit suicide?" ”

Huo Aya is a woman who admits death, she doesn't think that she wants to commit suicide for Shen Xi's unruly behavior, and she hasn't thought about it at all, but others think that Huo Aya is afraid of Shen Xi, and in the case of being "seriously insulted" by Shen Xi, she neither fights back, nor breaks herself, which is the embodiment of the bad race.

"If you go to the place of the Ming people, you will understand why I made such a choice in the first place, staying in the green mountains without fear of no firewood, this is a common saying of the Central Plains people, for today's revenge, I have been preparing for a long time. From today onwards, before killing Shen Xi, I only slept for two hours a day, and whenever there was a situation in the city, whether I was resting or not, it would be delivered to me as soon as possible! ”

After giving the military order, she returned to her sleeping tent.

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The night of stationing in the civil fort was long and difficult.

After Shen Xi led his troops to retreat to Tumu Fort, he was caught up by the Tatar elite cavalry, although the other party was not many, but Shen Xi asked himself that the group of Beijing battalion soldiers under his command could not compete with the brave and warlike Tatar elite cavalry.

After Hu Song jumped out of the city to grab water, the army encountered the first water shortage that night, some soldiers did not have special preparations, some sheepskin water bags cracked, and some threw them away in panic. That night, when they found that there was no water source in the huge civil fort, many soldiers began to panic.

You may be able to last seven or eight days without food, and three days without water is good, and the taste of thirst is far worse than the taste of hunger.

Although there were still more than a dozen horse-drawn trucks in the army full of water, and there was no need to worry about the lack of water for a while, Shen Xi still ordered to concentrate all the water in the army, strictly control the use of water, and organize the digging of wells that night.

If you realize that there is no water to drink when you are short of water, then you can only wait until you are sleepy and tired to complete an impossible breakout battle, and finally the whole army will be annihilated.

This is definitely not the result that Shen Xi wants to see!

But Shen Xi knew that the terrain of Tumubao was very high, and it was very difficult to drill groundwater, and it was not easy to find all the water sources in this small projectile land, not to mention, even if a well could be drilled, there were more than 8,000 people in the army, plus more than 10,000 refugees in the city, the water supply would still not be maintained.

Faced with a major water shortage problem, Shenxi was at a loss.

Originally, Shen Xi should have made a decision to break through immediately, at least to have a glimmer of life.

But Shen Xi knew that if the breakthrough failed, it would inevitably be death; Even if he can escape and return to the capital, the court will not let him go, and there is a great possibility that he will "self-judge to thank the world", or he will flee incognito and live in humiliation for the rest of his life, but it will cause the Shen family to suffer.

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