Li Yuntian slept very deeply this night, and when he woke up, it was already night, Niu Shihao, Bai An and others were talking and laughing in the living room.

Originally, after Niu Shihao arrived, Lin Xin wanted to wake up Li Yuntian, but was stopped by Niu Shihao, Niu Shihao knew Li Yuntian's habits, so he let Li Yuntian sleep well.

The battle of the ancient city of Dunhuang was actually over at the moment when the cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Niu Shihao appeared, and the efforts made by Wendu were just a struggle before dying, everything was in vain, and the soldiers of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, who had been exhausted by the Ming army in Guanxi, could resist the cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army like a tiger descending the mountain.

Therefore, in the morning, the army of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty had been routed under the fierce cavalry attack of the Northern Expeditionary Army, first the soldiers outside the city began to flee, and then the soldiers in the city also fled out of the city.

By the afternoon, the battle outside the city had ended, and only some soldiers of the besieged Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty were still in the city.

Niu Shihao had already ordered the cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army to pursue the fleeing enemy, and be sure to annihilate the enemy as much as possible, so that the territory of Kansai would be peaceful.

After the victory of the battle of the ancient city of Dunhuang, Niu Shihao and Bai An and others were immersed in great joy, this battle not only won the Guanxi, but more importantly, the Tuhuan and Hordu Khan and others were trapped in the pass, as long as Li Yuntian waved his army to the east to defend Jiayu Pass, then the pair of Tuhuan and Hordu Khan and others will become the turtle in the urn.

"Lord Wang!" Seeing Li Yuntian walk into the living room, Niu Shihao, Bai An and others hurriedly got up to greet each other, with happy smiles on their faces, looking high-spirited.

"Marquis Anping, it's too opportune for you to come, and you haven't suffered a lot on this march." After Li Yuntian sat down in the first place, he said to Niu Shihao with a smile.

"Lord Wang, compared with our brothers in Kansai, our life can be described as comfortable, and it can't be called a 'bitter' word." Niu Shihao shook his head with a smile when he heard this.

To tell the truth, before this, Niu Shihao thought that the Ming army in Guanxi must have honestly hid in Qinglong City in order to preserve its strength before the arrival of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who would have thought that Li Yuntian not only took the initiative to destroy a large number of enemy troops, but also fought with the enemy army in the ancient city of Dunhuang.

After Li Yuntian came to Guanxi, he mainly fought with the enemy army besieging Qinglong City, and Wendu led 300,000 Timurid Empire and Northern Yuan coalition troops to besiege the city, and was killed by Li Yuntian with artillery and fire oil after the year.

It is worth mentioning that of the more than 30,000 annihilated enemy troops, more than 10,000 died of wound infections caused by burns, and there is no way to treat them with the current level of medical care.

Tuhuan and Khordu Khan later transferred the remaining more than 10,000 wounded soldiers from Qinglong City, and transferred 50,000 people from the ancient city of Dunhuang to change the defense, so as to ensure that the number of troops besieging the city reached 300,000.

In this way, Qinglong City actually attracted 350,000 enemy troops, and later Li Yuntian raided the ancient city of Dunhuang and killed more than 10,000 enemy troops.

Now, the enemy troops besieging Qinglong City have all been annihilated in the ancient city of Dunhuang.

Counting the 20,000 or 30,000 enemy troops killed in the two battles of Beishu Bali City and Sunset Valley, after the battle of Dunhuang Ancient City, Li Yuntian used the 200,000 Ming troops in Qinglong City to intermittently destroy and capture more than 400,000 Timurid Empire, Northern Yuan Empire coalition troops and servant troops.

In Niu Shihao's view, this is simply a miracle, and no one thought that Li Yuntian could achieve such brilliant results in such a difficult situation.

Although the victory in the Battle of Dunhuang Ancient City had an important relationship with the participation of the cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Niu Shihao, Niu Shihao knew that even if the Northern Expeditionary Army did not participate in the war, Li Yuntian could lead the Ming army to victory in the end.

The reason is very simple, the Ming army in this battle of Kansai belongs to defending the homeland and defending the country, and its willpower to fight is obviously higher than that of the soldiers of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, and under the leadership of Li Yuntian, they will definitely fight to the death.

The Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty, which had originally had the upper hand in the Battle of Guanxi, were now forced to fight to the death against the Ming army led by Li Yuntian in the ancient city of Dunhuang, and their morale must have been hit unpredictably.

With the stalemate of the war, the psychology of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan soldiers will inevitably undergo subtle changes, in the final analysis, plundering the spoils of war is an important purpose of their crusade to the east, in the case of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan amassing heavy troops in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, no one wants to die in the ancient city of Dunhuang in vain.

Therefore, the greatest effect of the Northern Expeditionary Army's participation in the war was to reduce the casualties of the Ming army in the battle of Dunhuang and exacerbate the rout of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan coalition army.

From Niu Shihao, Li Yuntian learned about the process of pacifying Mobei by the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the process is best described as calm, except for the Oirat Division, including the Horqin Department and the Turhut Division, they chose to surrender without too fierce resistance.

According to the itinerary, the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Zhang Hao will enter the border of Guanxi in another ten days, and the strength of the Ming Army in Guanxi will exceed 300,000.

Although Li Yuntian wanted to besiege the combined forces of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty in Jiuquan, he knew that such a possibility was very small, because once the Tuhuan and Khordu Khan in Jiuquan City learned the news of Wendu's defeat in the ancient city of Dunhuang, they would definitely immediately retreat west and withdraw from Jiayuguan.

At that time, Guanxi will become the battlefield of the decisive battle between the Ming army and the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan coalition army, so it is very important to hold the Yumen Pass of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty's retreat to the Western Regions.

As for Yangguan, Li Yuntian doesn't have to worry at all, outside Yangguan is the endless desert Gobi, if the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan coalition army choose to go to Yangguan, then what awaits them will be endless death, and most of the people will probably die in the desert and Gobi, it is obvious that Li Yuntian will not let them prepare enough food and water before entering the desert.

Although Yumen Pass is now in the hands of Taiping, Li Yuntian is not worried at all, because the leader of the Mongolian Huite Department and King Anle has already led his army to Yumen Pass to persuade him to surrender.

Now that the Mobei tribes have been annexed to the Ming Dynasty, Taiping has no other choice but to surrender, and being able to surrender the Bald Polo is the best way out for him.

The leader of the Mongolian Dayan tribe and the king of Anyi, Halbala, also came to the aid of the ancient city of Dunhuang with Niu Shihao, and he did not appear in the ancient city of Dunhuang like the bald Polo, but led his cavalry to chase the fleeing Wendu.

To people's surprise, Wendu did not run to the Yumen Pass, which is the closest to the ancient city of Dunhuang, but fled in the direction of Jiayuguan in the distance, which was really surprising.

Li Yuntian knew why Wen Du did this, although he could escape by escaping to Yumen Pass, but in doing so, it would be equivalent to abandoning Hordu Khan in Jiuquan City.

As the god of war of the Timurid Empire, and also the most trusted and respected general of Hordu Khan, how could Wendu go to Hordu Khan and the army of Jiuquan City for his own life?

Li Yuntian hoped that Harbara could catch up with Wendu, and the existence of Wendu would bring a lot of trouble to the Ming army, but he didn't have much hope for this, after all, Harala marched all the way, and now he was tired and tired, so it was not easy to catch up with Wendu.

The next day, the results of the Battle of Dunhuang had been counted, the Ming army had captured more than 100,000 prisoners of war, and the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan army in Guanxi could be said to have been completely annihilated.

When the evening came, good news came from Yumen Pass, and the bald Polo sent people to fly to report that Taiping, who was guarding Yumen Pass, surrendered from Yumen Pass, and prepared to come with him to ask Li Yuntian for his guilt.

Li Yuntian did not stay in the ancient city of Dunhuang for a long time, after bringing the bald Polo and Taiping, he ordered the army to set off for the Qinglong City, the reason for this is that the ancient city of Dunhuang has been dilapidated after the invasion of the previous war, and it is not suitable to garrison the army inside, and the second is to reorganize the army in the Qinglong City to prepare for the decisive battle with the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the future.

In Qinglong City, Li Yuntian met Halbara, and the two hugged warmly, Li Yuntian knew that Halbara had made great contributions when he was in the northern expedition to Mobei.

Harbara regretted that he did not catch up with the fleeing Wendu, but the situation of Wendu was not much better, after the battle of the ancient city of Dunhuang, there were only more than 1,000 cavalry left by his side, and his army was completely wiped out.

Knowing that Li Yuntian had achieved a great victory in the ancient city of Dunhuang, the gate of Qinglong City, which had been closed for a long time, was finally opened, and the people welcomed Li Yuntian and others into the city with songs and dances, the scene was very lively and festive, everyone knew that the Ming Dynasty had taken the initiative in the war with the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, and the final victory was just around the corner.

Li Yuntian originally wanted to order the whole army to advance to Jiayuguan and capture Jiayuguan to block the way for the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan to retreat westward, but because the large army of the Northern Expeditionary Army had not yet arrived, and the Ming army in Guanxi had experienced the battle of the ancient city of Dunhuang and had been greatly injured, he weighed it for a long time and gave up capturing Jiayuguan.

Jiayuguan was seriously damaged after the attack of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, and the city's defense capacity has been greatly reduced, even if the Ming army captured Jiayuguan, it was difficult to hold it, and Tuhuan and Khordu Khan would definitely order the Timurid Empire, the Northern Yuan coalition army and the servant army in the northwest region to attack with all their might, and the Ming army would surely suffer heavy casualties.

The Timurid Empire, the Northern Yuan Coalition Army and the Servant Army combined for more than 300,000 troops in the northwest region of the Ming Dynasty, and the war has reached this point Li Yuntian is not only thinking about winning the war, but how to win the war at the least cost.

Obviously, the alliance between the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan coalition had ended with the end of the Battle of the Ancient City of Dunhuang, and the hopes of both sides to get involved in the Ming Dynasty had been frustrated, and they must have planned for their own futures.

If Li Yuntian sent troops to defend Jiayu Pass, it would inevitably trigger a desperate attack by the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan army, otherwise they would be trapped in the pass.

And once the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan are out of Jiayu Pass, then the alliance between the two sides will be officially dissolved, and the Northern Yuan will definitely not provoke the Ming army in Guanxi, and he will withdraw north and return to the steppe.

The Timurid Empire was different, and it had to pass through the Guanxi region and return to the Western Regions through the Yumen Pass, which would inevitably lead to a fierce battle with the Ming army.

If you count the 150,000 Northern Expeditionary Army led by Zhang Hao, the strength of the Ming army in Guanxi is also more than 300,000, and the strength of the Timurid Empire is about 150,000 or 60,000, which will undoubtedly be at a disadvantage in terms of troops.

In addition, with the arrival of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the number of cavalry of the Ming army exceeded that of the Timurid Empire, and it was dominated by the Mongol cavalry, and its impact ability on the battlefield was even better than that of the cavalry of the Timurid Empire.

Therefore, in Li Yuntian's view, breaking the alliance between the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan was the top priority, and as long as the two sides were separated, then he could concentrate his forces on completely annihilating one of them.