"My lord, I want to conduct a night attack!" Lan Yu clenched her fists with a smile on her face and hammered the location of Timur's camp on the map.
When it comes to night attacks, Lan Yu is at the boss level. I think back then, he braved a blizzard to attack the Northern Yuan Imperial Court at night in Yuerhai, and wiped out the entire Northern Yuan Imperial Palace in one battle, almost ending the Meng Yuan orthodoxy with one fell swoop.
But now the conditions for the night attack on Timur's camp are much better than when he attacked the Northern Yuan Dynasty at night. The reason why Lan Yu has closed the city gate tightly these days is to give Timur the illusion that he will not leave the city at all. Now it seems that his actions finally worked.
After hearing this, all the generals' eyes lit up.
"Okay, sir, this is a great plan. You can see bonfires rising in Timur's camp every night. He simply doesn't take us seriously. Then attack it at night for a while and let them remember it!" "
The Timurid people lit bonfires at night. In addition to not expecting that the Ming army would sneak attack on them, another reason was that the night here was too cold. It is hot during the day and bone-chillingly cold at night, which is exactly the climate characteristic of this edge of the vast sea.
Lan Yu glanced at everyone, everyone nodded in agreement, and no one objected.
"Okay, let's make it tonight. Select 30,000 elite cavalry, eat early, get some sleep, and prepare to leave the city at night. In addition, all the horses' hooves are wrapped in cloth, the horses pick luan bells, and the sergeant titles are awarded, and prepare for the thunder. , I want Timur to have a good drink!"
"Got the order!"
...
Tamerlane's camp.
Timur was sitting in a gorgeous tent. His tent was completely different from the other tents. The other tents were white, but his tent was bright red with blue inlays, showing his unique status and importance. symbol.
Lan Yu had already noticed this tent that stood out from the crowd, and she knew without guessing that this tent must be where Timur was.
A waiter slowly opened the curtain and walked in carrying a tray with a bottle of wine. He kneeled forward respectfully, poured the wine for Timur, and then went out on his knees at Timur's wave.
After Timur waited for the waiter to leave, he used a gorgeous sword to cut off a piece of meat from the roasted lamb leg on the plate and put it into his mouth. After chewing for a few times, he took a sip from the wine glass and swallowed the delicious food.
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After dinner, Timur went to bed early. He was old, had low energy, and became sleepy early.
Who was in a daze? Timur seemed to hear a burst of shouts and shouts. At first he didn't wake up, thinking he was dreaming and ignored it. But the sound became louder and clearer, and Timur suddenly realized that this was not an auditory hallucination!
Suddenly lifting the lamb fur covering his body, Timur shouted loudly: "Here comes someone."
The captain of the guard immediately opened the curtain and came in.
Timur immediately asked: "What happened?"
"Great Sultan, Mingren seems to have made a sneak attack. We are resisting in front. Please leave here immediately, master." The captain of the guard replied.
"Sneak attack?" Timur's expression changed, and he suddenly felt that something was wrong.
When he first arrived, Timur also stepped up patrols at night to guard against Ming people's sneak attacks. But after seeing that the people of Ming Dynasty would only hide in Jiayuguan for such a long time and had no courage to leave the city, he slowly relaxed his vigilance in this regard. Unexpectedly, the Ming people were trying to paralyze him in order to wait until he was careless and attack him secretly.
"Let's go." Without thinking much, Timur left and ordered the captain of the guard to take someone to escort him away.
Timur is not stupid. His tent must have been the first target to be attacked by the Ming people. Why don't he leave now and wait for the Ming people to rush over and catch him?
Not long after Timur left here, Lan Yu took the lead and rushed here with the cavalry. Seeing the red and blue tent, Sapphire's eyes lit up, and he casually threw a thunderbolt over it, regardless of whether Timur was inside or not, he would blow it up first.
"Boom!" A ball of fire flashed inside the tent, and in an instant the entire tent was blown to pieces like paper.
Other soldiers of the Ming Dynasty also threw the Thunderbolt towards the tents and people on both sides. Along with the roars, continuous screams could be heard in the dark night.
Thirty thousand cavalrymen were thrown all the way, and it didn't take long for the entire camp to be ablaze with countless fires.
As time went by, Lan Yu saw that the Timurid people, who were originally so helpless that they were like headless flies, gradually began to become more confident in advancing and retreating. I understood that someone was beginning to command the Timurid people and began to gather troops to encircle and suppress them.
Seeing such a result, Lan Yu felt a little regretful, guessing that Timur was probably still alive, otherwise Timur's people would not have responded so quickly.
Although it is a pity that Timur was not killed, the results of tonight's night attack were also very brilliant. Lan Yu gave up when he saw the situation and immediately ordered a retreat.
The cavalry quickly left Timur's camp and headed towards Jiayuguan.
The Timurids also chased them for a certain distance and then stopped the pursuit hastily. Shrink your troops to prepare for Ming's attack.
Lan Yu returned to Jiayuguan and found out after counting the losses. Thirty thousand cavalry attacked at night and lost less than a thousand people. Compared with the results of the night attack, such a negligible loss was simply a great victory.
On the other side, except for sending his generals to rectify the troops and count the losses, Timur himself has never dared to show his face. Because he was also afraid that if he was attacked again, it would be very dangerous for him to be exposed.
After daybreak, Timur saw the miserable situation in the camp and couldn't help but rub his face hard with his hands. Almost half of the entire camp was destroyed, and the section from the edge to his tent was almost flattened. There were dead bodies and wounded soldiers all over the ground, and there were unburned fireworks everywhere, making it a devastated scene.
A dozen generals came over with sad expressions.
Timur took a deep breath and asked sharply: "Tell me, how big is the loss?"
All the generals were silent for a while, and finally the one at the front spoke: "Great Sultan, we have lost nearly 100,000 infantry and 30,000 cavalry. There are also tens of thousands of horses and hundreds of thousands of cattle and alpacas missing, but He must have been frightened and ran away last night. All we need to do is send someone to look for him and he can be found quickly."
It can be recovered, but how much can be recovered is not certain.
But even if they could all be recovered, the losses of infantry and cavalry alone were enough to make Timur furious and spit out a mouthful of blood.
"puff!"
"His Majesty!"
"The great Sultan..."
Timur only felt a buzzing sound around him, and his vision became increasingly blurry. He knew very well that of the 250,000 infantrymen, there were only 50,000 left, and they were no longer able to attack Jiayuguan.
Holding on to the last trace of clarity, he made the last decision before falling into coma.
"Retreat... retreat!"
Timur sent troops from Yilibaili in May and arrived at Jiayuguan in mid-June. After three months, he was defeated by Lan Yu and had to return to Yilibaoli.
When Lan Yu saw that Timur wanted to retreat, he immediately sent cavalry to pursue him, and Timur also sent out cavalry to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
Both the cavalry and the horses were heavily armored. Although their charging speed was much slower than that of the Ming Dynasty's light cavalry, their defense was impregnable. The Ming Dynasty relied on the advantages of firearms and armored cavalry to fight back and forth, but it was not easy to take advantage. In the end, Timur's army stumbled and retreated to Yili.
Although Timur was sober when he returned to Yili, the defeat was a huge blow to him. On the one hand, he immediately ordered to recruit more soldiers and horses, and on the other hand, he took advantage of the period before the soldiers and horses arrived to recover from his condition.
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Beijing.
Cold winds were blowing, and mist enveloped the capital in the morning. The sun has not yet come out, but the sky is gradually getting dim. A burst of rapid horse hoofbeats came faintly from the west, and gradually became clearer.
The sergeant at the city gate noticed the movement and immediately stood up, slashed his sword and shouted: "Stop! The city gate is not open. No unauthorized entry is allowed. Anyone who violates will be killed!"
Faced with the sergeant's shouts, the cavalry did not slow down at all.
The sergeant only heard the same loud shout coming: "Great victory at Jiayuguan! The Xinguo public formation killed 200,000 people, and Timur retreated at the same time..."
Great victory at Jiayuguan?
Before the sergeant could react, the captain behind him stood up and immediately shouted: "It's a rush hour of 800 miles, open the city gate quickly!"
When the messenger saw that the city gate was still closed, he had to rein in his horse and wait for the city gate to open.
When the school captain saw him, he wanted to step forward to inquire for some news with his smiling face. As soon as he took a step, he was stopped by a look from the messenger soldier.
The captain's hair stood up all over his body when he was stared at by this look. A cold current penetrated from his tailbone to Tianling Gai, making him shiver uncontrollably.
"This brother..." The captain stood there, smiling and trying to get close.
But he saw that the messenger ignored him at all. When he saw the city gate opened, he galloped his horse into the cave with his legs crossed.
"Great victory at Jiayuguan! The Xinguo public formation killed 200,000 people, and Timur retreated at the same time..."
The captain froze in embarrassment, only to hear the messenger's continuous voices getting smaller and smaller.
Drink~spit... The captain spat fiercely in the direction where the messenger disappeared, and You cursed to yourself: "Isn't it just a victory? What's the big deal?"
Seeing that the boss was unhappy, the sergeants around him hurriedly gathered around and comforted him: "It's true, he's just a big-headed soldier, and he dares to embarrass our general. If our general hadn't opened the door kindly, how could that man dare to break into the capital, no matter how great he is?" ?”
"...We are also good generals. If it were another person, he would be more handsome..."
Amidst all the compliments, the captain lost most of his anger. He waved his hands in a magnanimous manner and said: "Forget it, forget it, don't care, don't care..."
