"Lord Wang!" When he was walking to the distance from Beishi Bali City, a group of cavalry came rushing towards him, and the leader was Li Zixi, who hurriedly turned over and dismounted and saluted after seeing Li Yuntian, and then looked at Li Yuntian with concern and asked, "Lord Wang, why did you come here in person when the battle situation in the Western Regions is complicated?" ”

"This king wants them to know that although the Western Regions are now their world, the iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty can still come and go freely!" Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, and then praised Li Zixi, "You have done a good job on this trip to the Western Regions, and this king is very pleased." ”

"It's all because the prince usually teaches well." A happy smile suddenly appeared on Li Zixi's face, and he was very satisfied to be praised by Li Yuntian, after all, Li Yuntian didn't often talk about compliments, and then replied humbly.

"Are all the people in the city alright?" Li Yuntian smiled and asked quietly.

What he is most worried about now is that the magnates of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate in the city will commit rebellion under the pressure of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan army outside the city, this kind of thing can be said to be accustomed in history, for those courtiers who are greedy for life and death, greedy for pleasure, defecting to the enemy is just a change of master, and they can still enjoy a life of fine clothes and fine food.

"My lord, everything is fine in the city, but last night Monte Khan ordered the arrest of some ministers who intended to rebel." Li Zixi smiled slightly and replied in a deep voice, "I knew in advance that this information was Liu Sheng, who was protecting the concubine. ”

"Let's go, process!" Li Yuntian immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, nodded to Li Zixi, and then clamped the horse's belly between his legs, and walked towards the west gate of Beishi Bali City surrounded by everyone.

As for the source of Liu Sheng's intelligence, Li Yuntian was naturally clear, to be precise, before Liu Sheng left, he told Liu Sheng how to contact an agent who was planted in the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and Liu Sheng's information came from that secret agent.

Although Liu Shengde got the information, Liu Sheng had never seen the secret agent, and there were only three people in the world who knew the identity of the secret agent, one was Li Yuntian, the other was Yang Yungui who was in charge of the intelligence network, and the other was Lei Ting.

On the way forward, Liu Sheng told Li Yuntian about how he led the Xiaowu Army Firearms Battalion and the Western Expeditionary Army responsible for escorting the troops to retreat to Beishi Bali City after Song Hai, the Duke of Wuguo, was defeated at Lanye City.

When Song Hai was like a bamboo all the way and captured Blue Leaf City with little effort, Li Zixi was keenly aware that the army of the Timurid Empire seemed to be deliberately showing weakness, and gradually led the main force of the Western Expeditionary Army from Beshu Bali City to Blue Leaf City, which was thousands of miles away, which made the Western Expeditionary Army's pursuit of the Timurid Empire's army a lone army.

Therefore, when Blue Leaf City was captured, Li Zixi did not follow Song Hai and other generals of the Western Expeditionary Army into the city to accept the warm welcome of the people of Blue Leaf City, but arranged the artillery camp in an inconspicuous town outside the city.

The development of things was exactly the same as Li Zixi expected, ten days later, the army of the Timurid Empire took advantage of the slack of the Western Expeditionary Army in the Blue Leaf City to attack, and opened the gate of Blue Leaf City in the morning with the cooperation of the spies in the city, which made the Xiaowu army stationed in the city be taken by surprise, and got up from their sleep to respond to the battle in a hurry, suffering heavy casualties.

Not only that, but the armies of the Western Expeditionary Army in the area around Fallen Leaf City were also attacked on the same night, causing the Western Expeditionary Army in those two cities to also suffer heavy casualties.

To the surprise of the Timurid Empire's army, just when they thought that they could easily take the three cities including the Fallen Leaf City where the Western Expeditionary Army was stationed, the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army surrounded by them did not surrender in front of the huge disadvantage like the countries and tribes they had conquered before, but resisted to the death and fought from the city to the outside of the city, making the Timurid Empire also pay a lot of price.

After Li Zixi learned that Lanye City was broken by the Timurid Empire army with superior forces, he immediately knew that something was wrong, and he did not lead the army to reinforce Luoyecheng, otherwise the people in the artillery battalion would be sent to death, and at the same time stopped the idea of the generals of the Western Expeditionary Army who were responsible for protecting the safety of the artillery battalion to go to the rescue, and retreated in the direction of Beshbali City with artillery and ammunition.

At the beginning, the army of the Timurid Empire did not know that the artillery camp of the Western Expeditionary Army was not close to the Fallen Leaf City, and then hurriedly sent the Wuman to lead the army to chase after him.

According to the confession of the pursuers led by the captured barbarians, the reason why the Timurid Empire launched an attack on the three cities where the western expeditionary army was located at the same time was because the 300,000 reinforcements in its country had arrived, and the strength of the previous Timurid Empire army was as high as 500,000.

If Li Zixi had hesitated a little at that time, then once the barbarians led the army to surround the town where they were stationed, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The people of the Timurid Empire did not expect that the town that they thought was just the grain and grass base of the Western Expeditionary Army was stationed in the small town that they had dreamed of seizing, and in order to avoid startling the grass and snakes, they did not attack the town first, and then gave Li Zixi a chance to retreat, otherwise Li Zixi and others would have been besieged in that town.

After learning about the experience of the defeat of the Western Expeditionary Army in Blue Leaf City, Li Yuntian secretly shook his head, and a complicated look appeared on his face: The 250,000 elite Western Expeditionary Army was defeated in the Battle of Blue Leaf City, and there were only more than 10,000 people who followed Li Zixi to retreat to Lost Bali City, which made him quite sad and worried about those soldiers whose life and death were unknown.

Among the 250,000 troops led by Song Hai this time, the main force was the 150,000 horses of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, although these 150,000 horses were the troops of the guard, but they were actually trained by the instructors of the Xiaowu Army, and its operation system was also modeled after the Xiaowu Army.

It is precisely because of this that when the soldiers of the Gyeonggi Governorate were surrounded by the troops of the Timurid Empire in three cities, they broke out with an amazing sense of resistance and combat effectiveness, which brought great trouble to the troops of the Timurid Empire.

Although the Timurid Empire won the battle of Blue Leaf City, it also paid a heavy price and had to rest in Blue Leaf City, which also provided Li Yuntian with valuable time to rescue the lost Bali City.

In Li Yuntian's view, the reason why the Western Expeditionary Army was defeated in Blue Leaf City and Blackwater City was inextricably linked to the light enemy and arrogance of the commanders.

Song Hai, Duke of Wuguo, and other generals who knew that the 200,000 Northern Yuan troops were threatening the safety of the Turpan region of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate on the border, and even divided their troops to attack Lanye City instead of taking the lead in annihilating the Northern Yuan army entrenched in Heishui City.

Such a simple truth was naturally clear to Song Hai and others, but due to the successive battles after entering the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, these generals misjudged the situation and thought that the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan army were vulnerable, and then made the decision to divide the troops.

In fact, not everyone agreed to divide troops to attack the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, and Bai An, the deputy marshal of the Western Expeditionary Army, Marquis An Yong, and the Governor of the Left Army, opposed the division of troops, believing that they should first concentrate on eliminating the Northern Yuan to prevent the Northern Yuan from attacking the rear line of the Western Expeditionary Army.

Bai An believed that the Northern Yuan had 200,000 troops and was really a big problem for the Western Expeditionary Army, and compared with the Timurid Imperial Army that came from afar, the Western Expeditionary Army should take the lead in eliminating the Northern Yuan army that was familiar with the local situation.

It's a pity that Song Hai and Yang Sanyu are too optimistic about the battle situation, thinking that the Northern Yuan Dynasty has long lost its former majesty and is simply vulnerable, so this is why Yang Sanyu attacked Blackwater City and Song Hai led his troops westward to pursue the Timurid Empire.

Because Bai An was cautious, Song Hai asked him to stay in Beshbali City to deal with the cooperation with Monte Khan, and as a result, Bai An luckily avoided the defeat of Blue Leaf City and became the only one of the three main and deputy commanders of the Western Expeditionary Army, avoiding the fate of the three commanders of the Western Expeditionary Army being killed or captured, and thus retaining the last trace of face of the Western Expeditionary Army.

It is foreseeable that after the war, the officials in the imperial court were bound to impeach the generals of the Western Expeditionary Army for their lone advance and poor command, especially Song Hai and Yang Sanyu, who were bound to be fiercely attacked by the Chinese and important ministers of the DPRK, which included both the factor of beating the water dogs and the reason why the two underestimated the enemy's rashness.

After all, the defeat of the Western Expeditionary Army needs someone to take responsibility, and more than 400,000 soldiers whose lives and deaths are unknown need someone to give an explanation, and Song Hai and Yang Sanyu are the best candidates to take responsibility.

Monte Khan and Bai An had already led people to wait for Li Yuntian at the west gate of Beshi Bali City, and when they saw a young man who looked to be only twenty-seven or eighteen years old surrounded by Li Zixi and others, Monte Khan was slightly stunned, and never thought that the Zhongwu King of the Ming Dynasty was so young.

"The last general, Bai An, meet the prince." Just when Monte Khan was stunned, Bai An had already taken the lead in greeting him, and bowed to Li Yuntian with a respectful expression.

Li Yuntian's ability to lead troops to rescue Bei Bali City this time greatly surprised Bai An's expectations, which made him invisibly have a sense of awe for Li Yuntian, you must know that this is a matter of nine deaths and a lifetime, especially the high-ranking Li Yuntian can do this, which is really commendable.

"An Yonghou doesn't need to be polite." Li Yuntian turned over and dismounted, and said to Bai An with a smile, "You assisted Monte Khan to quell a rebellion last night, so that Beshi Bali City did not fall into the hands of the enemy, which really made a great achievement. ”

"Lord Wang, the Western Expeditionary Army suffered such a great defeat, and the last general did not dare to seek merit, but only wanted to make up for his mistakes with his guilt." Bai An's heart suddenly warmed when he heard this, he knew that Li Yuntian was comforting him, so he said with a gloomy expression, it was obvious that he would also be implicated in the defeat of the Western Expeditionary Army.

"Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and Marquis An Yonghou does not have to blame himself." Li Yuntian saw that Bai An was in a low mood, so he waved his hand disappreciatively, and then said in a deep voice, "Besides, the battle of the Western Regions has just begun, how can Marquis An Yong be arrogant?" ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" Bai An was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then his face was happy, and he hurriedly bowed to Li Yuntian, he understood what Li Yuntian meant, Li Yuntian wanted to use him to march and fight in future wars, which undoubtedly gave him a chance to atone for his crimes.

In fact, after Emperor Xuande's northern expedition failed, several captured nobles followed Li Yuntian to participate in the counterattack against the Northern Yuan Dynasty after being rescued by Li Yuntian in Liaodong, and fought from Liaodong to Beizhili, and finally won rewards.

Although this is related to Emperor Xuande's refusal to hold those defeated nobles and generals accountable, the fact that he can still receive a reward after becoming a prisoner is enough to make those nobles and generals who were defeated and failed to fight with Li Yuntian, and then got nothing, envy and jealousy.

Therefore, Li Yuntian's words made Bai An's heart can't help but rise to get rid of the expectation of taking responsibility for the defeat of the Western Expeditionary Army, because Li Yuntian has been invincible and invincible in the past, so he has become a lucky general in the eyes of the nobles, whoever follows Li Yuntian to fight will definitely be able to get the merits of the war, and then soar, Bai An of course wants to fight with Li Yuntian, and in the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that only Li Yuntian dares to reuse the generals of the defeated army.