On the first day of October, at dawn. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Inside the civil fort, Shen Xi was ready to attack.

More than 4,500 soldiers and horses and 2,000 people have been prepared, this is a war with no way out, it is necessary to defeat the 2,000 Tatar soldiers and horses in front of them, in order to avoid being harassed by 2,000 cavalry on the way to retreat to Juyong Pass, unable to march quickly, and then being caught up by the enemy's Chinese army, bringing the fate of the entire army.

As in the previous battle with the Fire Aya, Shen Xi did not leave many men and horses in the city, at best, two hundred foot soldiers, dozens of gunners and loaders, and more than five hundred wounded soldiers, with the remaining two thousand people, guarding the Fire Silk and those Tatar prisoners of war.

Shen Xi never intended to kill the prisoners, but he also knew that if this battle was lost, these prisoners of war would most likely fall back into the hands of the Tatars and re-equip themselves to attack the Ming Frontier.

Therefore, Shen Xi issued a military order, if the soldiers and horses of this battle were defeated outside the city, the prisoners of war in the city must be killed on the spot, and could not be left to the Tatars.

But Shen Xi knew that it was very difficult to carry out this military order.

If the city's foot soldiers, wounded soldiers, and civilians knew that there was a great defeat ahead, their first reaction was to flee, rather than kill the prisoners and delay time.

Leaving a prisoner of war alive may save his own life...... If all the prisoners of war were killed, the angry Tatars would never stop, and even if they chased them to the Juyong Pass, they would not stop dying, and the chances of surviving under the cavalry pursuit were too small.

Being in a feudal dynasty and belonging to the war against aggression, there should not have been some kind of mercy, but Shen Xi came from later generations and had an enlightened mind, so he was unwilling to make an indiscriminate act of killing prisoners of war.

As the eastern sky became brighter and brighter, Shen Xi stood at the head of the city and looked into the distance with a telescope.

Shen Xi carefully observed the Tatar camp outside the city, and it was fine at first, but he didn't know why his face became more and more ugly.

The distance between the two sides was five miles, the Tatars were very vigilant, and the camp was built on high ground, so it was not realistic to rely on night attacks to win, but it was most appropriate to attack with the previous military formation. It's a pity that now the Tatars have taken precautions, and it is difficult to fight the great victory of the previous battle with the fire silk department.

Even if it is a battle with the fire silk department, there is an element of luck, and now to defeat the two thousand Tatar soldiers and horses on this road, Shen Xi calculated, the chance of victory is actually less than thirty percent, and it all depends on the opponent's commander to make a fool and gather again to have a face-to-face battle with himself.

"My lord, the soldiers and horses are ready, if it just dawns today, it is estimated that the Tatars are still sleeping, if after sunrise, the Tatars are on guard, they will not be able to achieve the effect of surprise!"

Behind the temporary battlements of the west city wall, Hu Songyue came to Shen Xi's side to play.

In Hu Songyue's eyes, Shen Xi is a coach with a strange personality, and he likes to stand at the head of the city with a small cylinder every day to look at the Tatar camp in the distance, but he doesn't say what he sees, but he guesses that Shen Xi will not see more than him. At this time, the sky was just dawning, and he couldn't even see clearly from dozens of feet away, and he could only see the faint lights in the camp in the distance, and he didn't know how Shen Xi determined the movement of the Tatars through the small cylinder.

"No need, it looks like we can't fight this battle today!" Shen Xi said suddenly.

Hu Songyue was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "My lord, what are you talking about?" I don't understand it, isn't it ready, why...... Suddenly stopped fighting? ”

Shen Xi turned his head and glared at Hu Songyue, and said, "If I say that the Tatar reinforcements are coming, and we are going out of the city purely to send them to death, what do you think?" ”

"Aid...... Reinforcements? ”

Hu Songyue's feet were unstable, and he almost fell from the city, but fortunately, someone behind him helped him, and when he came back to his senses, his eyes did not leave the Tatar military camp in the distance, "My lord, this black light is blinding, don't you have clairvoyance?" How do you know...... Reinforcements from the Tatars arrived? ”

Shen Xi was about to hand the telescope to Hu Songyue, but he was afraid that Hu Songyue would accidentally drop the telescope to the ground and break it when he was surprised, so he immediately said: "This official takes it, you can see it for yourself!" Then he handed the telescope to Hu Songyue.

Hu Songyue looked out of the small round hole, but he didn't understand it for a long time, and when his vision finally became clear, he found that he seemed to have opened his eyes to the sky, and he could actually see the movement of soldiers in the camp in the distance, as well as the Tatar cavalry that was constantly moving at the junction of heaven and earth in front of him.

Hu Songyue pointed to the west, his face was full of panic: "My lord, I saw the Tatar camp and reinforcements...... There are quite a few of them, I'm afraid there are six or seven hundred horsemen in the field of vision alone, maybe there are thousands of horsemen in the entire support army! ”

"See clearly?"

Shen Xi took the telescope back, Hu Songyue didn't make a fuss anymore, just looked at Shen Xi curiously, and he suddenly understood that the reason why Shen Xi could see so far was entirely due to that gadget.

"My lord, this is a good thing, I wonder where you got it?" Hu Songyue looked at Shen Xi with a huff.

Shen Xixin said that a rough person is a rough person, and he doesn't ask what the principle of this thing is, he opens his mouth to ask where it came from, so that he can turn around and make a set. replied angrily at the moment: "Before leaving for the expedition, can't the treasures given by the emperor work?" ”

"Goshi? Your Majesty gave it? ”

Hu Songyue swallowed his saliva, his eyes were greedy, but he immediately realized that now was not the time to dwell on this issue, but should pay attention to the steady stream of Tatar reinforcements in the Tatar camp, "My lord, the situation is not good, the Tatar reinforcements suddenly arrived, does it indicate that Xuanfu and Zhangjiakou Fort have ......?"

"Not so fast, even if the Tatars want to conquer these two fortresses, I'm afraid it will take a few days...... Now after the arrival of Tatar reinforcements, the number of Tatar cavalry outside the fort is expected to be five or six thousand, plus the previous four thousand cavalry, that is ten thousand troops...... We succeeded in attracting the Tatars to divide our troops and gain precious time for the entrenchment of Xuanfu and Zhangjiakou Fort, but if I did not have reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty, it would have been all in vain! ”

Shen Xi said with a worried face.

"That'...... Big...... What's next, my lord? At this time, Hu Songyue was frightened, and his tongue was not good.

Shen Xi said: "Order the three armies, continue to be stationed in the city, take advantage of the fact that the Tatar reinforcements have just arrived, and the defensive formation has not yet been arranged, send cavalry to the south of the city to transport water, how much can be transported back!" ”

"Yes, yes!"

Hu Songyue didn't want to attack and escape at this time.

As soon as the Tatar reinforcements came, it meant that the hope of escaping was completely cut off, and there was only one way at the moment, which was to fight to the end with the Tatars, and it was necessary to defend according to the danger, if there was no minimum protection of the city wall, and the Tatars would fight face to face, their own combat power would not be strong, the number of soldiers and horses would not be as good as the other party, and the soldiers' fighting spirit would not be strong, so there was no chance of winning no matter how you thought about it.

Originally, the officers and soldiers in the city were ready to attack, and many people had the heart of death...... They know that being a deserter now is also a life of death, it is better to go to the battlefield and work hard, killing one is enough, and killing two will make money.

With Shen Xi's military order issued, the soldiers were not only not disappointed, but secretly happy, because it meant that their heads could be placed on their necks for a few more days for the time being.

"Your Excellency's order to continue to hold on!"

"Your Excellency orders someone to be sent to carry water!"

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There was chaos inside and outside the Tumu Fort, and the Tatars had to expand the size of the camp because reinforcements had just arrived, and at the same time prepare to improve the encirclement to prevent the Shenxi soldiers and horses from escaping.

Shen Xi had been standing at the head of the West Gate City to observe the enemy's movements.

Soon after the Tatars entered the camp, cavalry marched on both flanks of the fort to encircle the fortress, and at the same time, the traps and tripwires that had been laid by the Fire Ayas were re-erected.

Only the southern side of the city was deliberately set aside, as if the Tatars intended to let the defenders of the city replenish the water.

It seems that the commander of the other party has made a faint move, but Shen Xi can feel the cleverness of the person who arranged this plan behind him: encircling three and one has always been the only way for soldiers to besiege the city, not only to complete the siege of the city, but also not to make the soldiers in the city think that there is no way to escape, and to do a desperate battle, simply surround three sides, giving the soldiers in the city an illusion that they can continue to defend or escape, and slack off the will to fight.

The direction of the vacancy is naturally to the south, because fifteen miles south of the city of Tumubao is the water source, and the deserters go to the south to replenish the water source, and mistakenly think that everything will be fine if they cross the river.

As everyone knows, now there are four Tartars on the south bank of the Yongding River who patrol day and night, and as long as they find Ming people, whether they are soldiers or refugees, they will all be killed.

Even if the Tatars sent 5,000 cavalry to besiege the city, they still did not dare to rashly launch an attack on the Tumu fort, because the Tatars had suffered and knew how powerful Shen Xi was.

Shen Xi was able to make the Tatars deflated in field combat, not to mention that the Ming army was already good at defensive warfare, and the role of the Franc cannon in defending the city was even greater.

"Let the people who carry the water not be in a hurry first, look at the enemy's posture, it should not interfere with the water intake in the city in the past two days, and then find someone to go around the city fortress to find some larger rocks and giant trees to come back, and prepare for the defense of the city!" Shen Xi ordered.

Liu Xu, who had been edicted, couldn't hold back any longer, and stepped forward to play: "My lord, just take advantage of the fact that the Tatars have not yet completed the siege and break through!" ”

Shen Xi said angrily: "If you say anything about retreating, cut it!" ”

"Your Excellency?"

Liu Xu was in a hurry, and he was about to argue with Shen Xi with a red face, but he was pulled down by several commands.

Shen Xi is extremely angry at this time, the Tatar reinforcements have arrived, and now there is no way to retreat, and then he wants to replicate the glorious results of the previous battle with the Tatars, Shen Xi is really powerless, the number of officers and soldiers in the city is less than a thousand people than before, and there is no chance of winning at all.

Shen Xi thought about it, went down to the city tower, and called Zhu Lie, who was organizing officers and soldiers and people to dig trenches in the city, and asked him to select 1,300 people from the 2,000 young men selected from the refugees before, replenish them into the army, and restore the 6,000 quota when he went out.

In order to improve Zhu Lie's morale, Shen Xi promised that after returning to Beijing, he would recommend him to the imperial court to serve as the commander of the capital of the Beijing camp, and Zhu Lie happily went.

"My lord, there is someone outside the city fortress who asks to see him, it seems to be a Tatar envoy!"

The sun rose over the eastern horizon, bringing warmth and light to the earth, and a convoy of horses suddenly appeared in the west of the city of Tumubao, clustered around a magnificent carriage, towards the west gate.

"Huh!? What does this mean? ”

Shen Xi hurriedly returned to the city tower, looked carefully into the distance, and silently speculated in his heart about what the Tatars had intentions, but no matter what he thought, the Tatars would not sue for peace at this juncture, you must know that the Tatars currently have an absolute advantage, how could they take the initiative to come to the door to humiliate themselves?

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