Chapter 177 Conspiracy
When Liu Daxia decided to lead his troops westward, he basically ignored the rescue troops led by Chen Xi. It is true that Liu Daxia believed that Chen Xi was brave and resourceful, but with his status and reputation, he would never allow him to appear in times of crisis. He could only rely on the fledgling Chen Xi to turn the tide, which was even more unacceptable than defeating the Tatars.
Therefore, in Liu Daxia's mind, he was willing to believe in the information that the main force of the Tatars' army advanced westward. Moreover, the war reports from Ningxia Guard were so conscientious, and the war reports from Guyuan Town and Gansu Town echoed each other. Liu Daxia felt that this was the best time to prove his ability, live up to the emperor's trust, and fight back against the Jedi.
Chen Xi's soldiers have not arrived in Datong Town yet. In Liu Daxia's view, it is a sign of Chen Xi's retardation, and it is becoming increasingly impossible for him to stay and wait.
At this time, Chen Xi was actually in a state of isolation and helplessness. If he had learned in advance, he would never come in rashly as this "bait". He would definitely withdraw his troops back to Juyongguan as soon as possible and use Juyongguan natural danger to deploy defense. He might be able to survive until the arrival of reinforcements from the capital and the northwest routes, and there is no need to take risks in person.
At this time, near the former site of Damingxingheso in the upper reaches of the Haliutu River north of Xuanfu, the Tatars completed the final assembly of the troops in the northern part of the Frontier.
Dayan Khan Batumonk personally led his 30,000 troops on the left wing of the Chahar tribe, and the Khan's personal guards, and advanced towards the direction of the Beiwanquan Right Guard and Zhangjiakou Fort in Xuanfu Town.
On the south line of the Great Wall, Yi Sima, the national teacher of Dayan tribe, led 40,000 troops to take Lan County, and then headed west to the bank of the Yellow River, and headed north with the help of the former Yellow River path.
At this time, Liu Daxia had just transferred the troops in Linxian and Hequ to Ningwu Pass to assemble, so the Tatar soldiers and horses arrived near Bitumen Pass without any fear and launched a raid.
A thousand households guarding Jitou Pass were completely destroyed. The Tatars sent a cavalry to block the mountain path to Bajiao Station, and then continued to advance east along the Guanhe Valley. After rushing out of the vast mountains, they appeared in Jingping north of Shuozhou.
In order to keep the secret of the army's advance eastward, the Tatars first sent cavalry to control the mountain road leading to Shuozhou Hepinglu Guards and Mayi, and then launched an siege. A thousand-household station stationed in Jingping Station did not be wary of it. They fought hard for half a day and their entire army was wiped out. All the fourteen horses who went to various places for help were strangled by the Tatar cavalry.
The Tatars left behind two hundred-man teams to blockade, and the main force passed through the narrow zone south of Pinglu Guard and entered the Sanggan River Plain north of Mayi, and rushed for a long distance, passing through the defense areas of Andong Zhongtun Guard, Gaoshan Guard and Tiancheng Guard, and approaching Huaian Acropolis, the western barrier of Xuanfu Town.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty was not aware of it. The main reason was that the garrisons were basically huddled in the city, and there were no households in the wild to report it. The gap between the city gates was very wide. As long as the Tatars controlled the distance, the traces of the Tatar cavalry could not be found in the deserted fields.
After the excess Yulin Cang City and the severe damage to Liu Daxia's troops, the Tatars not only did not withdraw their troops, but also quietly passed through the northwest territory of the Ming Dynasty, preparing to clear the Great Wall Pass in the northern part of Xuanfu in one fell swoop, and use Juyong Pass as a breakthrough point to threaten the safety of the Ming Dynasty's capital.
Yi Simayin was about fifty years old and on the grassland, he was already a long life and had a high status among the Tatars. He was not only a national teacher, but also had his own tribe. Dayan Khan Batumonk highly praised him.
This strategic deployment to detour the Ming Dynasty was made by Yisimayin.
Faced with the Ming Dynasty's preparations, Batumonk forced the Mongolian tribes in the south of the desert to bow to the Dayan tribe, and made a promise to the leaders of the tribes such as Huosie and Yibla. The population plundered this time would be equally distributed. If they could enter the Central Plains, Dayan Khan Batumonk would be the emperor, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty would be divided into the leaders of the Tatar tribes.
The Huosie tribes themselves were at a disadvantage in the competition for the grasslands in the south of the desert. After years of war, the population and livestock were seriously damaged. If they did not go south to rob, they would probably not be able to survive this winter. Dayan Khan proposed such conditions, and in the face of the Ming Dynasty, the tribes no longer insisted, reached a reconciliation, and cooperated with the Dayan tribe to send troops to the Ming Dynasty.
The Tatars won several consecutive victories, and the Ming Dynasty lost the most important border city in the northwest three sides. However, in Yisimayin's view, this city was like a chicken rib, and it was a pity to abandon it. Because the Yulin Cialis is close to the Hetao area, it belongs to the sphere of influence of the Tatar Fire Sieve Ministry, and the foundation of the Dayan tribe is close to Xuanfu Town.
Moreover, if you want to invade the Ming Dynasty capital, if you detour the Yulin Guard, the subsequent supply line will be too long. However, if you can break through the northern pass of Xuanfu Town and destroy the Great Wall, the Dayan tribe can use a very short distance to complete the supply of food and supplies. First, concentrate all the efforts to seize all the city blocks of Xuanfu Town, stabilize the rear, and then send troops to attack Juyong Pass. If you break through Juyong Pass, you can attack the Ming Dynasty capital.
Yi Sima is very famous on the grassland. In the eyes of ordinary herdsmen, the national teacher is not only a wise elder, but also an embodiment of gods. He is familiar with military strategies, proficient in a variety of words, and can even communicate with ghosts and gods. Just when the Tatars thought that the Ming Dynasty was about to appear and reenact the scene when Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty conquered the grassland, Yi Sima advocated sacrificing the interests of small tribes, demarcating the sphere of influence to annex the small tribes, and then making full use of the resources of the small tribes to meet the basic needs of marching and fighting.
It was precisely because of the fishing plunder of small tribes by the Tatars that many Tatar tribes that had lost their homes and property moved south. Yi Sima took advantage of the situation to mix a large number of spies in it. Liu Daxia's three-sided governor's office submitted a memorial to the court to request resettlement, and Shen Xi immediately realized that the Tatars had the intention to attack actively.
Shen Xi's advice to Xie Qian made Xie Qian show off in front of the emperor, but the final result was that the military actions followed by the Tatars were different from Xie Qian's speculation, Xie Qian could not justify himself, so he could only push Shen Xi and let Shen Xi lead his troops to fight.
Yi Sima Yin never thought that his plan would be found out in advance by the Ming Dynasty. The reason why the result of the battle was so brilliant was that he used the spies who had infiltrated the Yulin Cang City to cooperate with each other at the critical moment and defeated the Yulin Cang City in one fell swoop. Then he cooperated with the main force led by Dayan Khan Batumonk to pursue Liu Daxia's troops relentlessly.
After the main force of the Ming army retreated across the Yellow River, Batumonk immediately followed the Huangpu River and the ten-mile long river to the north, walked to Habuqigou, Wuliang Taigou entered the Yellow River, crossed the Yellow River from Lama Bay and returned to the Chahar area, and then waited for an opportunity to go south.
Yi Sima Yin led his tribe and tribal armed forces such as Huosie, and detoured southward, detoured by Yongning Prefecture and Lan County, and acted as if he was invading Ningwu Pass.
When Liu Daxia drew troops to defend Ningwu Pass, Yi Sima quickly adjusted his troops and unexpectedly walked into the hinterland of Datong Town. Taking advantage of the fact that all the troops in the northwest of Daming could only be stationed in the city and could not retreat, and the contact was almost cut off, achieving unexpected results, and appeared in the area east of Datong Town.
As for the Tatar cavalry that are rampant around Ningxia Town, they are basically tribes such as Yibla in Mongolia in southern Mongolia and reinforcements invited from the Oirat. The total force is only 20,000 cavalry. However, since the grassland is basically one man, two horses or even three horses, the impression is that the cavalry is surging for dozens of miles, creating the illusion of siege of tens of thousands of troops.
On September 17, Yi Sima completed the integration of his troops and horses, and his pre-war deployment was basically achieved.
In Yisimayin's conception, the next focus is Huaian Acropolis, Xuanfu, Zhangjiakou Fort, Juyongguan and the capital.
The first step is to break the Huaian Cang without bloodshed. In addition to obtaining a strategic fulcrum, you can also obtain the seizure of food and supplies from Huaian Cang to solve the shortage of materials faced after the raid of thousands of miles. Then, the troops were divided into two groups, heading to Xuanfu Town, cutting off the road from Xuanfu to Zhangjiakou Fort, and the other group went to Zhangjiakou Fort, and cooperated with the army led by Dayan Khan Batumonk to capture Zhangjiakou Fort.
The third step is to destroy the city blocks along the Great Wall, demolish the Great Wall, so that the rear has no worries, and then lead troops south to encircle Xuanfu.
After taking down Xuanfu City, they immediately advanced to Juyongguan and broke through Juyongguan; at that time, some troops were left to guard against the troops in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty to return to the rescue, and the main force of the central army marched forward and approached the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
Yisimayin's plan was closely linked, which was very vicious. Since he used a plan to earn the Yulin Cang City, he was regarded as a god by his Tatar soldiers and horses... It was the place where the Tatars hated him in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi. Now that he has avenged his previous shame, Yisimayin's reputation has almost reached its peak.
Liu Daxia was almost led by Yi Simayin. When he arrived at Ningwu Pass, he found that there was no main Tatar force. He miscalculated the situation around Ningxia Guards, thinking that the Tatars' central army was close to Ningxia Guards and Gansu Towns, so they went in a completely different direction. Liu Daxia personally led the main force westward and once again distanced himself from the Tatar troops led by Yi Simayin.
"The soldiers are not bloody, and one battle will be successful!"
Before the Huaian Acropolis was attacked, the Ming defenders in the city did not realize that they were facing the 40,000 main forces of the Tatars. They thought they were facing only the scattered soldiers and yelling soldiers who had been infiltrated from a valley. They did not even send out a distress signal and were besieged from all sides.
On the morning of September 18, the offensive and defensive battle in Huaian Cang began. Although the defenders in the city fought to the death, it was still difficult to stop the siege of 40,000 Tatar soldiers.
The Tatars were prepared to fight and were well prepared for siege equipment. Most of them came from the Ming army in Yulin Acropolis. The Tatars even plundered a hundred Ming-cast Folang cannons from Yulin City and used Folang cannons to assist in siege.
Although the Folang machine cannon is not very effective in siege, with this new firearm with huge lethality, the final hope of Huaian Acropolis Company was shattered.
On September 19th, early in the morning, after a day and night of bloody battles, the city walls fell, and then the Tatars launched a bloody massacre. There was no living in the city in just half a day.
In order to prevent the news of his troops' advance eastward leaked, Yi Sima ordered the city to be massacred. All military and civilians in the city would be killed, and blood would flow into a river.
Amid the cheers of the Tatar soldiers, Yisimayin rode a tall horse and led his personal guards and main generals into the city to accept the fruits of victory.
Huaian Cang City, the commander-in-chief of the Guard Office.
Yi Sima Yin stood under the plaque in the yamen lobby, and the plaque "Loyal and mighty" fell to the ground. In front of Yi Sima Yin were ten thousand households and thousands of households who had just finished killing and came to report their lives.
There was a silence in the lobby of the yamen.
Yi Sima Yin was flipping through the official documents on the table. All of these documents were war reports and military secrets of the Ming Dynasty. Yi Sima Yin knew Chinese characters and believed that he was proficient in Central Plains culture. After breaking through the city blockade, he naturally wanted to know the next military trends of the Ming Dynasty and therefore made fine adjustments to his plans.
"The National Master, no living person or animal in the city left a living person. The 19,200 ranks of the heads were killed, and all of them were displayed. Please tell me!"
Outside the yamen lobby, a female Tatar general wearing a red cloak and looking a bit rough between her eyebrows and eyes came in.
Among the Tatar tribes, women have always believed in power. Women have a low status on the grassland and have always been regarded as wealth by men and can even be sold.
However, no one dared to disobey this female general, because she was not only brave and resourceful, but also made great contributions to Dayan Khan in the Tatar civil war in the past few years. It was Huo Ling, who Chen Xi knew.
Huo Ling is the only female Qianhu in the Dayan tribe. If she weren't a woman, Dayan Khan Batumonk even had the intention to sign her into Wanhu. Huo Ling has always followed Yi Simayin, and Yi Simayin is the patriarch of Huo Ling. Huo Ling has followed Yi Simayin twice to serve as a mission to the Ming Dynasty and has a deep understanding of the culture of the Ming Dynasty.
Yi Sima raised her head and was holding an emergency document in her hand. He did not comment, but just looked at Huoling.
Nearly 20,000 people were killed in this Huaian Acropolis alone, only one-fifth of whom were officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the rest were military families and civilians.
Chapter completed!