Chapter 595: The Big Deal Comes to the Door
Qin Shuhuai probably understood, so he interrupted, "Okay, Ben Hou knows." Ben Hou asked you, since you have been entrenched here for a long time, do you know what kind of soldiers and horses have been going back and forth between Qian'an and Santun Camp recently?"
Wei Laosi immediately said, "Back to Master Hou, there was a large group of Tartars who walked from the direction of Santun Camp to Qian'an last night." Let's take a look, there are about 5,000 people. ”
Qin Shuhuai sighed, and said in his heart, since the Tartars divided 5,000 troops to Qian'an, then the Santun camp was probably laid. This ancestor Dashou is also really good, and he can't keep it for a day.
After thinking about it, he said to Wei Laosi, "Go back and tell you that the big boss will continue to guard the main roads everywhere, and anyone who sees them passing, whether it is Han or Tartar, will be intercepted." In addition, if there is any information, it should be reported to Benhou immediately. As long as you sincerely serve the court, Benhou will give you a good future. ”
Wei Laosi said with a raised eyebrow, "Yes, yes, yes! The little one obeys the order! The little one is willing to die for the emperor and the Hou Ye!"
With that, he knocked his head twice.
After the two of them returned, the generals were even more worried.
From Wei Laosi's words, they also deduced that the Santun camp had been lost. In this case, even if all the horse posts in Qian'an are intercepted, I am afraid that the Tartars of the Santun camp will soon come to reinforce after realizing that something is wrong.
Now there are more than 10,000 Tartars in Qian'an, 8,000 in Yongping, and 50,000 Tartars in Santun Camp after receiving reinforcements, although I don't know how much they lost in the siege, but they want to come at most 10,000 people, so if the Tartars come together, there will be at least 60,000 or so troops.
Although the martial arts alliance is now very strong, in the case of field battles, compared with the battle-hardened Tartar Eight Banners, there is still a bit of a gap. If you take 10,000 steps back, even if the martial arts alliance army plays an extraordinary role, and a tie with the Tartars, exchanging 60,000 for 60,000, it will still be a loss! You must know that the Tartars can have more than 100,000 elite soldiers, plus 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers, and if these 60,000 troops are defeated, there are still troops that can continue to wreak havoc in the Central Plains, but what about the Central Plains? Without these 60,000 elite soldiers, even Yuan Chonghuan's troops who were besieged in Zunhua may be trapped to death, and it will be easy for the Tartars to hit the Beijing division at that time!
At this time, it was almost dark, and more than 10,000 baggage troops who had fallen behind also rushed to Qian'an and joined the army.
So Qin Shuhuai ordered to bury the stove and cook first. He was going to go to the city after dark to find out the situation, and then make a decision.
While the army was eating, Wei Laosi came back with two other bandits.
As soon as Wei Laosi saw Qin Shuhuai, he immediately shouted, "Oh no, Hou Ye!
Meng Hu glared at him, "What's wrong, Master Hou is fine!"
Qin Shuhuai waved his hand at Meng Hu, and then asked Wei Laosi, "What's the matter?"
"Master Hou, our brother, on the official road more than thirty miles away, I saw a large group of Tartar soldiers rushing here!"
It turned out that on the way back to Wei Laosi, he happened to meet these two Jinfengzhai bandits who came to report to Qin Shuhuai, and as soon as they heard that the Tartar soldiers were coming, Wei Laosi also came and showed them the way.
As soon as he said this, the eyes of all the generals in the account suddenly widened.
Everyone has the same idea, that is, the Tartars on the other side of the Santun camp still know that Qian'an has been attacked!
Qin Shuhuai hurriedly asked, "How many people?"
A bandit brought by Wei Laosi said, "At least fifteen thousand!"
Qin Shuhuai frowned, and asked again, "What do you mean at least fifteen thousand people?"
The bandit tilted his head and thought about it for a moment, and said, "At most...... It seems to be 15,000 people. That's about 15,000 people. ”
Qin Shuhuai was very puzzled in his heart.
If the Tartars knew that Qian'an had been attacked, he wouldn't have sent just 15,000 people, right?
No, the martial arts alliance has won a three-sided battle before, and it is impossible for the Tartars not to know that they will not despise such an opponent.
The only explanation should be that because of the attack of this group of bandits, the Tartars of the Santun camp really did not know that Qian'an had been attacked! They sent these 15,000 people over, most likely for other purposes, but they just happened to come at this point in time.
It's a blind cat meeting a dead mouse!
If you can eat these fifteen thousand people, then the pressure on the martial arts alliance will be much less.
So Qin Shuhuai immediately ordered that there should be no more food! Leave 20,000 allied troops to besiege the city, and the other 30,000 allied troops go to the northwest to stumble on the 15,000 Tartars!
After a day's defeat, the soldiers of the coalition army were holding back the fire in their bellies, and as soon as they heard that there were not many Tartar soldiers who had sent them to the door by themselves, they immediately became excited again.
When it comes to fighting the Tartars, their strength is greater than that of fighting the Liukou or even the Demon Sect! Why? The Tartars are bad! How many people have they killed in our Central Plains? Now that our Ming Dynasty has declined to this point, most of them are caused by the Tartars! The leader of the alliance can say that as long as the Tartars are defeated, our Ming Dynasty will definitely be able to prosper again!
Well, the alliance leader can't be wrong, since the day we heard his name, when did he miss it?
The army immediately marched on an official road in the northwest direction.
When the Tartars were discovered, they were already more than thirty miles away, so the coalition forces set up an ambush seven or eight miles away from Qian'an. At the same time, among the 20,000 allied troops besieging the city, 10,000 were specially deployed in the west of the city to prevent the Tartars in the city from going out to rescue.
At this time, it was not completely dark, and the Tartars in Qian'an City saw the movement of the Ming army and immediately went to report to Wu Dahai.
Wu Dahai summoned the generals to discuss, and felt that Qin Shuhuai might pretend to cross Qian'an to attack the Santun camp, hoping to lure them to follow and then ambush them. Now that the Santun camp has been captured, and there are 35,000 elite soldiers plus 10,000 soldiers to guard it, Qin Shuhuai will definitely not want to shake half a point even if he arrives at the Santun camp. Therefore, if he really dared to go to Santun Camp, it would be purely boring for himself, or even looking for death. Why? Now that Santunying, Qian'an, and Zunhua all have Dajin's troops, what is it that he is not looking for death when he goes deep alone?
However, Wu Dahai felt that Qin Shuhuai was a famous general, and he should not be so stupid, so it was more inclined to the first type, that is, Qin Shuhuai wanted to lure him out of the city.
So he immediately gave the order, carefully waited for the opportunity to follow, and the army waited and saw what happened!
However, inside and outside the city were surrounded by water, and the elite of the allied army's factory guards rode everywhere, and his meticulous work could not even get out of the city, so where could he "wait for the opportunity" to follow? Qian'an City was the city of the Ming army, and there were secret roads out of the city, but was the Ming army stupid not to guard the secret roads?
The coalition forces rushed to seven or eight miles northwest of Qian'an City, where the terrain was relatively flat, and it was not strictly a place to ambush. However, because it is night, the requirements for the terrain are not high, as long as the coalition forces are far away from the official road and lie in the grass. Moreover, the flat terrain also has the advantage of facilitating the charge of the cavalry.
After a simple plan, the various departments immediately entered the ambush area and waited for the Tartars to come to the door.
That's a big deal!