Chapter 1112: Key Reinforcements
Under the refreshing morning light, the dust in the northeast of the ancient city of Dunhuang was billowing up, and the black-pressed cavalry waved the saber in his hand, urging the war horse to gallop forward, like a rolling torrent, devouring anything encountered in the future.
Wen Du's face was filled with a hint of excitement, he was sure that the Ming army did not have such a large cavalry team in Guanxi, and Jiayuguan was controlled by the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, so the cavalry that came this time was definitely the reinforcement he was looking forward to, and it seemed that Khordu Khan also wanted to capture Li Yuntian.
The generals of the nearby Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty also showed joy on their faces, as long as this cavalry reinforcement arrived, then the Ming army in the ancient city of Dunhuang would be wiped out.
"Quick, bring the Thousand Miles Cylinder to Ben General." Wen Du wanted to know who the cavalry who came to the rescue this time was under the command of the troops, so he gave an order to the guards on the side.
The guard hurriedly handed the Qianli Cylinder to Wendu, it is worth mentioning that the Qianli Cylinder was not made by the Timurid Empire, but the spoils of the Ming army captured by Wendu in the Battle of Blue Leaf City.
Wen Du closed one eye, moved the Qianli Cylinder to the front of the other eye, and looked at the banner held by the cavalry in the distance, through which he could know the identity of the other party.
"This ...... What's going on? When he saw a large flag held by one of the knights in the team, Wen couldn't help but be stunned, and his face showed a stunned look.
Thinking that he was dazzled, Wen Du stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes and looked over again, his face immediately turned iron-blue, and the big flag was waving in the wind with a big "Ming" character written in Chinese characters
At the same time, Wen Du also noticed that the cavalry was not wearing the costumes of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty, nor the costumes of the Ming army, but the military uniforms of a similar style to the Xiaowu army.
According to Wendu's knowledge, this kind of military uniform was the uniform of the soldiers of the Daming Mountain North Military Region and the Liaodong Military Region, and he was surprised how these people crossed the Jiayu Pass and appeared here.
"Prepare to meet the enemy!" However, now that the situation is critical, Wen Du wondered where these Ming cavalry came from, and shouted gloomily to the surrounding generals after taking off the Qianli tube.
Those generals were talking about the reinforcements with great interest, and when they heard Wendu's order, they looked suspicious on their faces, and looked at Wendu in confusion.
"They are reinforcements for the Ming army!" Wen Du threw the thousand-mile cylinder in his hand to the guards on the side, then drew out the scimitar on his waist with a brush, and said to the shocked generals on the scene with a cold expression, "Everyone, if we can't block the reinforcements of the Ming army, we will be defeated in Dunhuang City and even Guanxi, and now it has reached the moment of life and death. ”
"The Khanate will win, defeat the Ming army!" As he spoke, Wen Du raised the scimitar in his hand and shouted loudly.
"The Khanate will win, defeat the Ming army!" The generals were inspired by Wendu, and their morale was immediately high, and they all drew their weapons and shouted.
These generals were very clear about the situation in Guanxi, and the battle of the ancient city of Dunhuang could be said to have gathered all the forces of the Ming army, the Timurid Empire, and the Northern Yuan Dynasty in Guanxi, and no one could afford to lose, and if they failed, they would give up the entire Guanxi to others.
To be honest, including Wen, no one would have expected a few days ago that the battle of the ancient city of Dunhuang, which was originally ten out of ten and nine stable, would evolve into the current bad situation, and the reinforcements of the Ming army appeared one after another as if they had put on wings, which made them feel surprised and caught off guard.
Now, at the most critical juncture of the war in the ancient city of Dunhuang, a large-scale Ming cavalry actually fell from the sky, Wen Du and others were surprised by this, and it was not clear where these Ming reinforcements came from.
After all, the previous Bai An and Lu Minen both belonged to the Kansai Ming Army, and the cavalry unit that appeared now obviously did not belong to the category of the Kansai Ming Army, which is puzzling.
This is the serious consequence of Tuhuan concealing that the Ming army reinforcements did not appear in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, so that Wen Du could not judge the origin of this cavalry force, if he knew this important information, he would naturally guess the origin of these Ming cavalry.
At this moment, on the top of a hill in the northeast of the ancient city of Dunhuang, Niu Shihao, the Marquis of Anping, who was riding a high-headed horse, looked at the ancient city of Dunhuang in the distance expressionlessly under the embrace of the generals, and the cavalry of the Ming army swept under the mountain and rushed towards the battlefield outside the ancient city of Dunhuang.
Although Niu Shihao's expression was cold, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, because he was delayed by some things in Mobei, the Ming army in the north to Mobei was delayed by nearly two months than the scheduled time before rushing to Kansai, although this was still within the deadline set by Li Yuntian, but it was obvious that the longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for the Ming army in Guanxi.
On the way to Guanxi, the Ming army of the northern expedition to Mobei met the people sent by Li Yuntian to contact them, not only knew the current situation in Guanxi, but also knew that Li Yuntian was in danger, so the commander of the army, Zhang Hao, the Duke of Yiguo, asked the deputy marshal and the Marquis of Anping, Niu Shihao, to lead 50,000 cavalry to take the lead and rush to the ancient city of Dunhuang to support.
On the way to the ancient city of Dunhuang, Niu Shihao has been up and down in his heart, uneasy, he knows that Li Yuntian has been holding on to the ancient city of Dunhuang for a long time, and will face the all-out attack of Wendu, if something happens, then things will be bad, and the good situation will be ruined.
It should be pointed out that among the 150,000 troops of the Ming army's northern expedition to Mobei, it was composed of the Xiaowu army of the Datong battalion of the three Xiaowu Army, 30,000 Jurchen soldiers of the 30,000 Liaodong Military Region, and 90,000 Mongolian soldiers of the 90,000 Shanbei Military Region.
It's not that Li Yuntian doesn't want to use the Weisuo Army, it's that the Western Expeditionary Army has already transferred the local Weisuo Army to seventy-seven eighty-eight, and it is no longer possible to transfer troops from it.
Therefore, the Northern Expeditionary Army of Mobei this time can be said to be Li Yuntian's descendant troops, if Li Yuntian has an accident, the Xiaowu Army is okay, but it is difficult to predict what will happen to the psychology of the Mongol soldiers and the Jurchen soldiers.
This time, the Northern Expeditionary Army not only successfully recovered the Mobei region, but also recruited 50,000 horses from various tribes in Mobei to participate in the war.
The reason why so many troops were able to be recruited was that the Mongolian nobles of the Mongol political envoys played a crucial role, especially the head of the Mongolian Dayan tribe, the king of Anyi, Halbara, and the head of the Mongolian Huite tribe, the king of Anle, who gave the most credit to the vultures.
After the last war between the Northern Yuan and the Ming Dynasty, the tribes of Monan and Mobei have actually mixed with each other, for example, the tribes of Huite and other tribes that originally belonged to Mobei moved south, while the tribes of Horqin and other tribes that originally belonged to Monan moved north, and Harbara and Polo represented the interests of the original Monan and Mobei tribes respectively, and under the appeasement of the two, the tribes in Mobei region have joined the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to the huge military pressure brought by the Northern Expeditionary Army to the Mongol tribes in Mobei, the great development of the Monan region in recent years is also an important reason why the Mobei tribes chose to belong to the Ming Dynasty.
With the vigorous support of the lecture martial arts, the economic level of the southern Mobei tribes has gradually improved, and the people's lives have been stable, which makes the Mobei tribes envious, and then there have been many incidents of the northern desert tribes moving south in private.
Therefore, after the Northern Expeditionary Army entered the Mobei area, it encountered almost no resistance, and the various units along the way were annexed one after another.
Even when attacking the Mobei Royal Court, only the soldiers of the Oirath Department to which Tuhuan belonged resisted, while the soldiers of the Horqin Department and the Turgun Department could be said to be defeated with one blow, and they did not have the slightest fighting spirit to resist.
This allowed the Northern Expeditionary Army to capture the Mobei royal court very smoothly and capture the families of many high-ranking officials of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, including the princess of Adai Khan.
If it weren't for a heavy snowstorm in Mobei that hindered the Northern Expeditionary Army's return journey, the Northern Expeditionary Army would have arrived in the Kansai region a month ago.
At this moment, Niu Shihao admired Li Yuntian so much that he accurately predicted the trend of the battle situation in Kansai before coming to Kansai, and then set a time for the Northern Expeditionary Army to go to Kansai to participate in the war.
Although the Northern Expeditionary Army did not arrive in Guanxi at the optimal time expected by Li Yuntian, judging from the current situation, they came just right, and the battle situation in the ancient city of Dunhuang was obviously in a state of anxiety, which also meant that Li Yuntian was safe and sound.
Just when Niu Shihao was staring at the ancient city of Dunhuang under the morning light, several signal flares with a sharp whistling sound rose in the ancient city of Dunhuang, and the corners of Niu Shihao's mouth couldn't help but show a smile when he saw this, he knew that this was Li Yuntian informing the Guanxi Ming army in the ancient city of Dunhuang that reinforcements had come.
"Look, there's a signal from the city."
"Looks like we're here for reinforcements?"
"That's right? Our reinforcements are coming! ”
"Brothers, reinforcements are coming, and if you don't kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, you won't have a chance."
"Kill, kill those bitches."
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Looking at the signal flares in the sky, the Guanxi Ming troops in the city and outside the city first felt surprised, and then became excited, their morale was boosted, and they launched an attack on the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan army they were facing, which made the soldiers of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan couldn't help but be in a hurry.
On the top floor of a five-storey attic in the ancient city of Dunhuang, Li Yuntian looked intently at the outside of the city, and the cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army was devouring the soldiers of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty in a hurry, and quickly approached the ancient city of Dunhuang.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this king will go and take a nap first." Seeing this situation, Li Yuntian knew that the overall situation had been decided, so he stretched lazily, first greeted Timur and the others, and then ordered Lin Xin on the side in a deep voice, "Wake up this king when the Marquis of Anping comes." ”
After speaking, Li Yuntian yawned and went downstairs, these days he was busy deploying the battle plan and didn't close his eyes at all, and now he can finally rest assured to sleep.
Timur and others hurriedly bowed to see each other, and then looked at the cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army swarming with great interest, talking and laughing with each other, everyone knew that the Ming army won this battle, not only to keep the ancient city of Dunhuang, but also to get the entire Guanxi region, which can be described as a war to decide.
Lin Xin did not follow Li Yuntian to leave, but looked at the battle situation outside the city with a relieved face, if it wasn't for the timely arrival of the Northern Expeditionary Army, God knows what the battle in the ancient city of Dunhuang would have developed.
"Sister, how did the prince know that it was Anping Hou who came?" Yun Na stood beside Lin Xin, bit her lip and asked curiously, you must know that Li Yuntian didn't know anything about the reinforcements who came to help.
"The prince is in danger, and the deputy commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army will naturally lead the army to the rescue in person." Lin Xin smiled slightly when she heard this, Yun Na still didn't know what was going on in the army, if it weren't for Zhang Hao to sit in the Northern Expeditionary Army, the commander of the army who came to the aid this time was definitely Zhang Hao, since Zhang Hao couldn't come, it naturally fell on Niu Shihao.
Yun Na couldn't help but suddenly realize when she heard this, a thoughtful look appeared on her face, as she stayed by Li Yuntian's side for more time, she found that she needed to learn more and more, it seemed that it was necessary to go to the martial arts hall to study, otherwise she would not be qualified to be a staff attaché, which was a position that only the best in the martial arts hall were qualified for.