Qinglong City, Lu Min'en Mansion.

"Sir, an arrow book was shot from under the city, which said that King Zhongwu fought with Wendu in the ancient city of Dunhuang, and Wendu asked for help from the Taiping in the military camp outside the city in order to capture the ancient city of Dunhuang, and the Taiping is now taking advantage of the night to withdraw 50,000 troops, so that there are only 50,000 enemy troops left outside the city!"

When Lu Minen was sleeping soundly with Youlan in his arms, a voice came from outside the door, and he said to him in a deep voice.

"Oh?" When he heard that Li Yuntian had a fierce battle with Wendu in the ancient city of Dunhuang, and that Taiping had withdrawn 50,000 troops at night, resulting in only 50,000 soldiers and horses left in the enemy camp outside the city, Lu Minen, who was lying on the bed, sat up and asked outside the door, "Who shot the arrow book?" ”

"There's no signature on it, it's just ...... It's just a goat's head drawn with a few characters that the lowly can't understand. The voice of the person outside the door became a little strange, and he replied in a low voice.

"Goats?" Lu Minen was stunned at first, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face, "Ghost Golden Sheep!" It must be a ghost golden sheep! ”

"Ghost Golden Sheep?" At this time, Youlan, who was sleeping next to Lu Minen, was awakened, and after rubbing her sleepy eyes, she asked suspiciously, not knowing what Lu Minen said.

Lu Minen didn't have time to explain to Youlan, so he hurriedly got out of bed and opened the door, took a piece of paper rolled together from the hand of a military attache of the Xiaowu Army standing outside the door, lit the oil lamp in the room and looked at it with an excited face.

"Sir, who is this ghost golden sheep?" Youlan stretched lazily and came to Lu Minen's side, looking with interest at the last drawing on the paper on the head of a goat, with characters she couldn't read.

"The prince used to send out twenty-eight spies outside, named after the twenty-eight constellations, and now the person who wrote this letter is one of the ghost golden sheep." Lu Minen smiled slightly when he heard this, and explained to Youlan in a low voice, "Before the prince left Qinglong City, he told me that he had installed a total of four spies in the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, and those spies were likely to send important information at a critical moment!" ”

"So, there are only 50,000 enemy troops left outside the city?" Youlan understood what was going on now, and admired Li Yuntian very much in her heart, and even took precautions to install spies in the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty in advance, and then looked at Lu Minen in surprise.

"Since this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, then Benjue will naturally not give it up!" Lu Minen smiled slightly, took Youlan in his arms, and said in high spirits, "Now that the prince is fighting hard in the ancient city of Dunhuang, it is the time when he needs help, and he will immediately go to the rescue after Ben Jue has destroyed the enemy army outside the city." ”

"Sir, could this information be fake?" Youlan saw Lu Minen's eager look, knowing that he had already been in Qinglong City enough, and he must be very much looking forward to finally having the opportunity to go out of the city to fight this time, so he said with concern after a deep sigh, "King Zhongwu's military attainments are unmatched, how can he be besieged by Wendu in the ancient city of Dunhuang?" ”

"Madam, there is no doubt about the loyalty of the twenty-eight stars to the prince, and the special symbol of this signature is only known to him, and no one can know it."

Lu Minen couldn't help laughing when he heard this, Youlan's worry was not unreasonable, so he said with a smile, "There is one thing that Ben Jue can tell you now, the reason why the prince did not bring reinforcements to Kanxi this time is because the prince asked the reinforcements to go to Mobei and go to Duanbei Yuan's lair, according to the agreement, the army of the expedition to Mobei is about to arrive in Guanxi, and the prince should be to drag Wendu so that he is a bait to defend the ancient city of Dunhuang!" ”

"I see!" It was the first time for Youlan to learn such an amazing inside story, and she looked at Lu Minen with a shocked face, she never imagined that Li Yuntian was so bold that he would let reinforcements go on an expedition to the Northern Yuan's lair in Mobei when there was a lack of troops in Guanxi, which was really incredible.

"The prince is the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty, and he is the soul of the Xiaowu army, there must be no accident, and this lord must go to the rescue no matter what." Lu Minen's expression became serious, and he said solemnly to Youlan.

"Youlan believes that the lord will definitely relieve the prince." Seeing this, Youlan couldn't help but smile, and put her cheek on Lu Minen's face, Yun Na is also in the ancient city of Dunhuang now, so she naturally hopes that Lu Minen can help Li Yuntian defeat Wen Du and the others, not to mention that Li Yuntian is still her and Yun Na's life-saving benefactor, so naturally she doesn't want Li Yuntian to have an accident.

However, it was not easy to go to relieve Li Yuntian, and Lu Minen first had to pass the Taiping pass outside the city.

Although the Taiping transferred 50,000 horses, but there are still 50,000 troops in their hands, it is not an easy thing to defeat them, it is certain that the main forces of the Taiping are in this, and he will not send his descendants to the ancient city of Dunhuang to die.

Therefore, if Lu Minen wants to fight this battle well, he must be fully prepared, Li Yuntian, Bai An and others have already taken away the main force of Qinglong City, although he has nearly 100,000 Ming troops in his hands, but 50,000 of them are the Weisuo army that Li Yuntian secretly transferred from Jiayuguan last year.

Although these guards received rigorous training in Qinglong City, and their combat effectiveness and mental outlook were significantly improved, it was the first time they had participated in such a large-scale battle, and it was extremely important to be able to withstand the attacks of the Taiping's troops in the engagement.

There was no time for Lu Minen to judge whether the guards who had come from Jiayuguan would be able to fight this battle, and he had to trust that they would complete the task.

On the morning of the next day, Lu Minen convened the senior generals in the city to discuss the matter, and informed everyone of Li Yuntian's fierce battle with Wendu in the ancient city of Dunhuang, as well as the fact that the Taiping division of troops to reinforce Wendu, made the scene commotion, and no one could have imagined that the battle situation outside had undergone such a major change.

In the face of Li Yuntian, who was besieged by heavy troops, the generals present naturally had only one thought, that is, to send troops to reinforcements, and no one wanted to see Li Yuntian defeated in the ancient city of Dunhuang.

Therefore, for the Ming generals of Qinglong City, the first thing they had to do was to move away from the big stones in front of them and defeat the enemy army led by Taiping.

In order to defeat the enemy army outside the city in one fell swoop, Lu Minen was ready to use the 100,000 Ming troops in the city to besiege the Taiping people, and use the advantage of numbers to fight a quick victory, he didn't have time to consume Lu Minen here.

What Lu Minen relied on was a mixed force of 50,000 troops composed of the Xiaowu Army, the Western Expeditionary Army and the Kwantan Army, which were enough to fight against the troops in Taiping's hands, and the remaining 50,000 Weisuo troops were responsible for the icing on the cake.

Since the regular army of Qinglong City was transferred by Lu Minen to participate in the war, the defense of Qinglong City fell on the militia of Qinglong City, and Lu Minen was very relieved of the militia and was enough to defend the city.

With the issuance of Lu Minen's battle plan, the generals of the Ming army of Qinglong City went to the camp to mobilize and prepare for the battle, and the people of the militia were also gathered, and after receiving weapons, they climbed the city wall to take over the defense of Qinglong City.

For Lu Minen, in this battle with Taiping, he not only had the dominance of the battle, but also had superior troops, so he could not lose no matter what, and he could not afford to lose.

At midnight, the heavens and the earth were silent, and Qinglong City was shrouded in a silent night.

Suddenly, the east and west gates of Qinglong City opened at the same time, and the heavily armed soldiers quickly advanced towards the two enemy camps outside the city in the night.

Since Wendu led a large army to pursue Li Yuntian, there were only two camps left in the east and west of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan coalition army outside Qinglong City, each with about 50,000 people.

Among them, the large camp in the west was the station of the Northern Yuan army, while the large camp in the east was the station of the large camp of the Timurid Empire.

Among the troops sent by the Taiping to reinforce Wendu this time, there were 40,000 troops of the Timurid Empire and 10,000 soldiers of the Northern Yuan, so there were only 10,000 horses left in the Timurid Empire camp outside the eastern city.

"Enemy attack! The enemy is attacking the battalion! When the Ming army was halfway away from the two large camps outside the city, they were successively discovered by the sentinels of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty who were ambushed in the dark, and they rang the gong in their hands one after another, and rode away in the direction of the military camp.

"Kill!" Seeing that the sneak attack had been discovered, the soldiers of the Ming army suddenly let out an overwhelming shout of killing, waving the weapons in their hands like a tiger descending the mountain and rushing towards the enemy's camp.

"What's going on?" Taiping, who was asleep, was awakened by the shouts of the Ming army, and couldn't help but get up and walk outside the tent, his mind was still a little blurred, so he shouted at the guards standing at the door.

"Your Excellency, it seems that the Ming army in the city has attacked the camp!" The guards guarding outside the tent glanced at each other, and one of the guards bowed to Taiping and replied in a deep voice.

"Raiding the camp?" Taiping couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and then shook his head vigorously to keep him awake, and gave an order with a grim face, "Order the whole army to meet the enemy, and be sure to repel the enemy who will attack the enemy!" ”

Saying that, Taiping hurriedly walked into the tent, and with the help of two guards, he began to put on armor, his mind was now in a mess, no matter what, he didn't expect that the Ming army would dare to sneak out of the city to attack, you must know that they have been shrinking turtles until now, avoiding fighting.

At the same time, Taiping also secretly complained in his heart, he was not worried about his own battalion, but worried about the battalion of Timurid Empire soldiers outside the eastern city, there were only 10,000 horses in the entire battalion, once the Ming army in the city knew that those disappeared soldiers went to the ancient city of Dunhuang to reinforce Wendu, then the Ming army would definitely mobilize troops to deal with him, and the situation would be terrible.

Therefore, Taiping wanted to concentrate his forces on defeating the Ming army that attacked his military camp as quickly as possible, and then go to encircle and suppress the Ming army that attacked the Timurid Empire's soldiers' barracks, so that the Ming army in the city would not dare to act rashly.

However, what shocked Taiping was that although he mobilized the main force in his hand to counterattack, the front of the Northern Yuan soldiers continued to retreat under the sharp offensive of the Ming army, let alone defeat the Ming army, and those Northern Yuan soldiers were forced to retreat by the other side.

Soon, Taiping was stunned to realize that since the Ming army attacked the military camps of the Northern Yuan and Timurid Empires at the same time, they regarded the military camps of the Northern Yuan soldiers as the main target, and then concentrated superior forces to attack, so that the Northern Yuan soldiers under him were firmly suppressed.

Taiping didn't know why the Ming army did this, he knew that the strength of Qinglong City was limited, wasn't they afraid that the soldiers of the Timurid Imperial military camp would defeat those attacking Ming troops and then kill them into the city?

The current situation does not allow too much consideration, and his first task now is to command his troops how to extricate themselves from this unfavorable war.