"Lord Wang, the gate of the southern city has been lost, and our army has retreated to the street market to start a street battle with it, blocking the enemy's attack!" At noon, when Li Yuntian was discussing the next move of the Ming army with Bai An and Tuhuan Timur, Lin Xin walked in quickly and reported a bad news.

Li Yuntian bowed his head slightly when he heard this, and then continued to discuss with Bai An and Tuhuan Timur, in fact, the reason why the Ming army in Nancheng lost its position was not only the ferocious attack of the attacking enemy, but also related to Li Yuntian's battle plan.

In Li Yuntian's view, once the city wall could not withstand the attack of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan soldiers, then let the Ming army retreat to the street market and engage in street battles with them.

Street fighting is an indispensable training subject for the Xiaowu army, and since Li Yuntian arrived in Kansai, all the Ming troops in Qinglong City have been trained in street fighting.

It is worth mentioning that there is a simulated training ground for street fighting in Qinglong City, which is the daily training place for the soldiers of the Guanxi battalion of the Xiaowu Army, and the Ming army of Qinglong City is trained at this training ground.

Li Yuntian is different from other generals, not only attaches great importance to field combat, but also attaches great importance to street fighting, in fact, compared with field combat, street fighting is more brutal, if it can be properly used, it will inflict heavy casualties on the enemy army.

Sure enough, in the face of the street fighting that the Ming army was waiting for, the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan soldiers who attacked the city were very uncomfortable, and it was difficult to advance for a while.

Faced with the scene in front of him, Wen had to do something very simple, that is, to invest more troops to participate in the street battle, and wanted to use the numerical advantage to win the street battle.

Soon, Wendu found that his hand had a limited effect, and it was impossible to launch an attack in the city's streets, so those reinforcements were blocked by the troops in front of them, and their role became limited.

However, due to the large number of soldiers of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, they had a numerical advantage in street battles with the Ming army, so they pushed forward little by little.

Although Wendu was in a hurry, there was no good way, whether it was the soldiers of the Timurid Empire or the soldiers of the Northern Yuan, they were not good at street fighting, so they could only advance gradually.

"Lord Wang, do you want the cavalry to attack?" In the afternoon, when the soldiers of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty occupied half of the market in the southern city, Bai An asked Li Yuntian for instructions in a deep voice.

The cavalry in the city are now gathered in the camp in the west of the city, and as long as Li Yuntian gives an order, they will rush out of the west gate and attack the Wendu main formation outside the south gate.

"There's General Laobai." Li Yuntian bowed his head slightly when he heard this, and said to Bai An in a deep voice, this attack is led by Bai An, and if he can break through the formation where Wendu is located, it will disrupt Wendun's military deployment.

However, it is not easy to achieve this strategic goal, Wendu has 50,000 cavalry around him, Bai An has to break through the blockade of these cavalry to see the position of Wendu, it is foreseeable that the enemy's cavalry will definitely protect Wendu's position.

Li Yuntian actually knew very well in his heart that unless the cavalry of the Ming army played for a long time, it would be difficult to get rid of the entanglement of the enemy cavalry, let alone attack the main formation where Wendu was located.

There is one thing that Li Yuntian has no way to say, that is, he wants to use the battle of the ancient city of Dunhuang to defeat the cavalry around Wendu, the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty rely on cavalry the most, and Li Yuntian must find a way to eliminate as many of them as possible.

And the destruction of cavalry can only be done on the battlefield, and it is clear that no general will order the cavalry to attack the city.

In other words, Li Yuntian wanted to use the cavalry of the Ming army to fight the cavalry of the Timurid Empire, and there was no strategy to speak of in this kind of cavalry confrontation.

"Lord Wang, take care!" Bai An bowed to Li Yuntian and left expressionlessly, this battle can be described as very dangerous, he doesn't know if he will come back alive, so it can be regarded as saying goodbye to Li Yuntian.

For Bai An, after the defeat of the Western Expeditionary Army, he has earned money by surviving until now, and perhaps dying on the battlefield is his best ending.

After Bai An left, Li Yuntian frowned and looked at the map hanging on the wall, secretly thinking about the route of retreat, in case the Ming army could not hold the ancient city of Dunhuang, he had to lead the troops to transfer, and could not fight a war of attrition with the enemy.

In Li Yuntian's view, Yangguan is undoubtedly the best choice for evacuation, but there are already 20,000 garrisons in Yangguan, and there is no room for the troops he brought, so he can't let him abandon some soldiers.

Moreover, once he retreated to Yangguan, Li Yuntian could be said to be in a desperate situation.

Outside the sun is an endless desert, which means that Li Yuntian has no way to retreat after arriving at Yangguan, and Wenton, who has suffered heavy losses in the ancient city of Dunhuang, will definitely attack Yangguan with all his might, otherwise he will not be able to explain to Khordu Khan.

As soon as Yangguan was broken, Li Yuntian could only lead the army into the desert for temporary refuge, and then food and water would become a problem, so retreating into Yangguan was a double-edged sword.

Outside the South Castle.

"General, the cavalry of the Ming army rushed out of the west gate and killed our main formation." A cavalryman came at a gallop, stopped beside Wen Du, who was discussing the progress of the battle with the generals beside him, and shouted loudly.

"Just in time." Wen Du suddenly showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth when he heard this, thinking that Li Yuntian was desperate to win by surprise, but how could this be so easy, so he said murderously to the generals on the side, "Pass on the general's order, the cavalry attack, and be sure to destroy the cavalry of the Ming army!" ”

Wen knew that there was a lack of cavalry in Guanxi, and the cavalry in the ancient city of Dunhuang was probably the main force of the Ming army's cavalry in Guanxi, so as long as this cavalry was eliminated, then the border of Guanxi would be the world of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan cavalry.

"Obedience." Hearing this, several generals bowed to Wendu, immediately turned on their horses, and galloped towards their respective cavalry teams.

Soon after, under the intently gaze of Wendu, the cavalry units of the Ming army, the Timurid Empire, and the cavalry troops of the Northern Yuan Dynasty slammed head-on into each other like two torrents flowing in opposite directions, and then fought together.

"Lord Wang, the strength of these cavalry of the Ming army is not weak." Looking at the cavalry in the struggle, a general opened his mouth and said to Wendu, it can be seen that the cavalry of the Ming army also has very rich combat experience, and they are not inferior in the battle with the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, which can be described as equal.

"King Zhongwu is indeed different from those of the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty, the generals of the Western Expeditionary Army are disdainful of the Guanxi Army, but King Zhongwu appreciates it and tries his best to win it over."

Wen Du nodded when he heard this, stared at the Ming cavalry who were fighting bravely with an expressionless face, and said in a deep voice, "If it weren't for the addition of the Kansai Army, they would definitely not be able to hold on to now." ”

"King Zhongwu does have a song to win people's hearts, just take the Dunhuang City in front of him as an example, I heard that the servant army originally stationed here has all fallen to the Ming army, which has brought a lot of trouble to our army."

At this time, another slender and long-faced general nodded with deep sympathy, Ale and the Western Regions soldiers under Meng Hu fought extremely bravely, which made him puzzled, and he didn't know what benefits Li Yuntian had given them to make them work so hard.

This general never imagined that those soldiers from the Western Regions had to fight desperately with the enemy troops outside the city in order to protect themselves, otherwise what awaited them would be a dead end.

On the surface, it seems that Li Yuntian designed and calculated Ale and Menghu, but in fact, the root of this matter lies in the Timurid Empire, the Timurid Empire, like the Mongol Empire back then, acted more bloody, and I don't know how many small countries were wiped out by it, and the people in the country were killed.

It was precisely because of this bloody style of the Timurid Empire that after the death of King Amman, the soldiers of the Western Regions under Ale and Menghu had no way to retreat, and had to fall to the Ming Dynasty and fight for their own survival.

"What if King Zhongwu will win the hearts of the people again? It's not that he's helpless now, can't anyone save him this time? After listening to the words of the slender and long-faced general, a stout general on the side sneered disdainfully, in his opinion, Li Yuntian could not escape this time.

Wen Du couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and felt a little uneasy, just like a general who had just said that unless the reinforcements that fell from the world could save Li Yuntian, the words just fell and killed Bai An and Tuhuan Timur, and now the stout general was talking too much again, which couldn't help but make him vigilant.

However, Wen Du soon found himself suspicious, and there was nothing unusual after the stout general finished speaking, which made him can't help but smile bitterly, he has been tormented by the battle of the ancient city of Dunhuang and became suspicious.

"General Yu, the Ming army of Qinglong City attacked our army's camp on the night of two days ago, and our army was defeated, and the privy envoy has already led the army to meet the general."

Wendu's happy mood did not last long, and while he was chatting and laughing with the generals on the scene, a dusty herald was brought to him by the guards, and he knelt on one knee and whispered a deep message.

"What?" Wen Du was taken aback when he heard this, he never thought that there would be such a big thing in Qinglong City, he was a little hard to believe for a while, he didn't understand that the Ming army in Qinglong City would have such a big courage to go out of the city and sneak attack, Taiping was a unit that was quietly transferred away by taking advantage of the night, how could the Ming army in the city know?

Moreover, the war that happened two days ago was only sent by Taiping today to report it, presumably Taiping was not far from the ancient city of Dunhuang at this time, even if he asked him to go back and recapture the camp outside Qinglong City, it was impossible, it seems that this was deliberately done by Taiping, and its purpose was not to return to Qinglong City.

At this point, Wen Du had no choice but to acquiesce to the arrival of Taiping, and his mood immediately became bad, if the Ming army of Qinglong City followed Taiping, then the war in Dunhuang City would definitely change dramatically, and this hateful guy should flee to other places.

At this moment, Wen Du did not know that Lu Minen of Qinglong City already knew about the battle in the ancient city of Dunhuang, so he was very annoyed by the arrival of Taiping, thinking that it would attract reinforcements from the Ming army.

Therefore, Wen Du made a decision and ordered Taiping not to come to the ancient city of Dunhuang, but to go straight to Yumen Pass to station.

In order to besiege Li Yuntian in the ancient city of Dunhuang, Wen Du almost transferred the troops of Yumen Pass, and the army under Taiping could just be stationed at Yumen Pass to strengthen the military force of Guanmen.

Wen Du would not have thought at this time that his decision would inadvertently save Taiping's life.