"Lord Wang, are you going to attack the ancient city of Dunhuang in person?" When Li Yuntian called Lu Minen over and told him his battle plan, Lu Minen was immediately stunned.

Although the fall of Jiayuguan made Qinglong City a chicken rib in Guanxi, losing its deterrence against the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, in Lu Minen's opinion, this kind of risky thing would not be Li Yuntian's turn anyway.

"Lord Wang, leave this matter to the lower officials to do, the lower officials must capture the ancient city of Dunhuang and burn the military rations inside." Therefore, Lu Minen stood up from his seat after pondering for a while, and said solemnly after bowing his hand to Li Yuntian, "You are the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty, how can you be in danger?" ”

"Your good intentions have been received by this king, and the Lanzhou defense line of Zhongguo Gong cannot be lost, otherwise the Central Plains and Jiangnan of the Ming Dynasty will suffer a catastrophe." Li Yuntian knew that Lu Minen was worried about him, so he smiled disapprethoughtly and said, "Besides, only when this king shows up can he drag them in Guanxi, this king is just blocking the enemy this time and will not fight hard with him, it is not easy for them to catch up with this king." ”

"After this king leaves, the affairs of Qinglong City will be handed over to you, and this burden is not small." As he spoke, Li Yuntian turned around and said to Lu Minen with a serious expression.

"Don't worry, the lower officials will definitely guard Qinglong City." Lu Minen saw that Li Yuntian had made up his mind, so he bowed to Li Yuntian and accepted the task in a deep voice.

In fact, Lu Minen is not only as simple as defending the city, he also has to find a way to drag the enemy army besieging the city and relieve Li Yuntian's pressure.

Li Yuntian should not bring too many soldiers and horses out of the city this time, so he, like Bai An, is ready to bring 20,000 cavalry and 30,000 foot soldiers, so that there are only more than 20,000 cavalry left in the city.

In fact, Li Yuntian is not worried about the safety of Qinglong City, not to mention that the city defense of Qinglong City is extremely strong, and the attention of the enemy troops besieging the city after the fall of Jiayuguan will definitely be attracted away, they are now afraid that they are looking forward to entering the northwest of the Ming Dynasty to plunder, where is they in the mood to attack the Qinglong City, which has high walls and thick walls?

Li Yuntian knew that it was dangerous for him to lead his troops to attack this time, so the cavalry and foot soldiers he took away were the elite of the Qinglong City army, and whether they could hold back the enemy army in Guanxi depended on whether these elites could beat the enemy army and make them afraid.

Due to the urgency of the situation, Li Yuntian was ready to leave the city on the night of receiving the fall of Jiayuguan, so he convened the generals of Qinglong City to discuss the matter.

The generals were all as surprised as Bai An when they learned that Li Yuntian was going to attack the ancient city of Dunhuang, and they all wanted to replace Li Yuntian to carry out this dangerous mission, but the result was naturally rejected by Li Yuntian, and he hoped that everyone could unite sincerely and tide over the difficulties together.

"Lord Wang, where do you plan to break through?" After Li Yuntian finished selecting the generals and troops who were going to steal the ancient city of Dunhuang with him, Lu Minen asked with a serious expression, the only thing he could do for Li Yuntian now was to cover Li Yuntian out of the city.

"Simon!" Hearing this, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth suddenly showed a hint of a smile, and two words gently spit out from his mouth.

"Simon?" Lu Minen was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "Ximen is good, I'm afraid they didn't expect that the prince would break through from Ximen again." ”

Indeed, Taiping in the enemy camp outside the West Gate did not expect that the Ming army in the city would once again choose to break through from his defense area.

Different from the previous situation, in order to cover the breakthrough of Li Yuntian and his party, the artillery of the Ming army in the city crackled and fired a cannon in the open space outside the west gate, which caused the open space outside the west city to fly dirt and fill the smoke with gunpowder.

If anyone pays close attention, they will find that the shelling of the Ming artillery this time produced a huge smoke in front of the position, and the shells used were obviously different from the last shelling outside the south gate.

At the same time, Li Yuntian led the army to quietly attack from the west gate amid the sound of artillery, because the enemy troops outside the city, including Wendu, thought that this was Li Yuntian's method of "attacking the west from the east", so they all stood still and secretly waited for the progress of the situation.

When the soldiers in the Northern Yuan army barracks outside the west gate found that the Ming army had passed through the smoke in front of the formation, the Ming army was already very close to the Northern Yuan barracks, and they quickly marched to the northwest side of the camp under the surprised gaze of the Northern Yuan soldiers in the barracks.

"Your Excellency, the Ming army in the city broke through under the cover of artillery and fled to the northwest of our army's camp." Taiping, who had been awakened by the sound of cannons, was secretly speculating about the intention of the Ming army to bombard the open space outside the west gate, when a guard hurriedly walked in, half-kneeling on the ground and shouting a loud message.

"What...... What the? Taiping was stunned when he heard this, and his face became very ugly, he never expected that the Ming army would break through from his defense area again.

"It's too much to deceive, it's too much to deceive!" Then, Taiping slammed on the table next to him, and shouted angrily, "Come on, send troops to intercept them, you must not let them escape!" ”

"Obedience." Hearing this, the guard hurriedly bowed his hand to Taiping, got up and walked away quickly.

"Wait!" When the guard reached the door, Taiping suddenly called out to him, and then paced back and forth in the big tent with his hands behind his back, his brows furrowed tightly.

Although Taiping was angry at the Ming army's successive stirring up trouble in his defense area, as if he had become a soft persimmon to be manipulated, he had long passed the age of being self-willed, so after experiencing the initial outburst, he quickly calmed down and began to ponder the Ming army's breakthrough this time.

Obviously, like the Ming army that broke through last time, the Ming army still has no intention of attacking the Northern Yuan camp this time, if he sends troops to attack, then there is a chance that it will turn into a melee, and the Northern Yuan army will probably have a lot of losses, so it will be more than worth the loss for him.

Moreover, according to the strategy of dehuan, the army of the Northern Yuan should try to avoid fighting with the Ming army and lead the war to the Timurid Empire, after all, the Northern Yuan should not only pay attention to the current war situation now, but also focus on the future, and wait for the Ming Dynasty to conquer the Ming Dynasty After the capture of the Northern Yuan and the Timurid Empire, a conflict of interests will definitely break out, so the Northern Yuan should try to save troops now.

What is particularly important is that most of the soldiers in the Northern Yuan military camp outside the west gate of Qinglong City are Taiping descendants, and he is really reluctant to fight them against the Ming army.

"Order, closely monitor the movements of the Ming army, send someone to report to General Wendu immediately, tell him that the Ming army has broken through from our defense area, our department has sent people to keep an eye on them, please General Wendu send reinforcements, and pursue the fleeing Ming army with our department!"

After a deep groan, Taiping stopped, and said to the guard with a serious expression, he skillfully pushed the responsibility of fighting the Ming army to Wendu, and see how Wendu responded, anyway, he was able to catch this kind of kicking the ball.

"What? The Ming army fled from the West Gate again! ”

When the guards sent by the Taiping went to see Wendu, Wendu had already convened the generals in the camp in the big tent of the Timurid Empire's military camp outside the southern city to prepare for the military action of the Ming army in the city.

The generals of the Timurid Empire present couldn't help but show a look of schadenfreude, in their opinion, the Ming army was clearly bullying the Northern Yuan army in the west of the city, and at the same time, it also reflected the incompetence of the Northern Yuan army.

"General Wendu, there are forty or fifty thousand Ming troops who fled this time, and our army is limited. The guard of the Northern Yuan Dynasty bowed his hand to Wen Du and said solemnly.

Wen Du's brows furrowed slightly, he didn't mean to mock the Northern Yuan Army in his heart, he knew very well that Taiping was deliberately preserving his strength by doing this, although this made him feel a little annoyed in his heart, but he was helpless, after all, the Northern Yuan and the Timurid Empire were only cooperative, and with Taiping's old way, he would definitely be able to find a reasonable explanation for his behavior.

What is especially important is that Taiping has sent people to ask for reinforcements, and has put on a posture of chasing and breaking through the Ming army, which makes him feel like he is punching cotton.

"How many Ming soldiers have fled this time?" Wen knew that now was not the time to be entangled in Taiping to avoid war, so after a deep groan, he asked the guard quietly, he first had to find out the intentions of the Ming army now.

"About forty or fifty thousand people." The guard thought for a moment, then replied in a deep voice.

If it is replaced by other generals of the Northern Yuan, it will definitely exaggerate the number of people who broke through the Ming army, so that it can better shirk the responsibility, but the Taiping is different, once it is done, it will definitely mislead Wendu's thinking, in the end, the Northern Yuan now needs the Timurid Empire to deal with the Ming Dynasty, so he asked the guard to answer truthfully.

"Forty or fifty thousand!" Wen Du's brows suddenly furrowed, according to the information he had, the Guanxi army and the Ming army in Qinglong City added up to nearly 200,000, and now the Ming army in the city has divided half of the troops in the city after two breakthroughs, he really doesn't understand what Li Yuntian is doing, do you want to watch the Ming army that broke through to die in Guanxi? You must know that Kansai is now the world of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan.

"General, now that the strength of Qinglong City is empty, it can no longer pose a threat to our army, can our army concentrate its forces to pursue the fleeing Ming army?" The generals of the Timurid Empire present knew the situation of the troops in Qinglong City, so they all realized that the number of Ming troops in Qinglong City had dropped by half, so one of the generals couldn't help but speak.

Wen Du nodded immediately when he heard this, the reason why he had no way to deal with the Ming army in Qinglong City was because the city defense of Qinglong City was too amazing, and they needed to break through the existing technology to build a longer ladder to climb the city wall, and now that the Ming army in the city had taken the initiative to leave such a strong city, it was not difficult to annihilate them outside the city.

Originally, the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan army besieging Qinglong had 300,000 troops, although the shelling and fire of the West Gate killed and wounded more than 50,000 people, but later the troops were replenished.

Therefore, in addition to the 50,000 horses and horses that pursued Bai An and Tuhuan Timur, the enemy army outside Qinglong City was 250,000, and in Wendu's opinion, it was completely possible to draw 100,000 people from it to encircle and suppress the Ming army that broke through this time, and the remaining 150,000 people were enough to deal with the Ming army in the city.

In fact, Wen Du looked forward to the Ming army in the city going out of the city to attack after discovering that he had sent troops to pursue the Ming army that broke through the siege, so that he could take the opportunity to kill and injure the Ming army's troops, and he was afraid that the Ming army would hide in Qinglong City and not come out.

"The general has already decided to divide half of his forces with Dayuan to pursue the fleeing Ming army this time, who of you wants to take command?" Thinking of this, Wen Du raised his head and glanced around at the Timurid Empire generals present in the big tent, and asked in a deep voice, he was going to free up his hands to destroy the Ming army that broke through first, weaken the strength of the Ming army in Guanxi, and then concentrate on dealing with the Ming army in Qinglong City.

"Report, there is an urgent military report from Jiayuguan!" As soon as Wendu's words fell, a shout came from outside the tent door, and a dusty Timurid Empire herald ran in panting, holding a sealed cylinder in his hand.

Seeing this situation, everyone at the scene looked at the herald who was sweating profusely and breathing rapidly, and they all wanted to know what happened in Jiayuguan, which actually made the herald come to deliver the battle report non-stop.