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Guan Wuyuan, who has always been calm and dignified, has been having a hard time recently. He is simply restless!
Originally, after he led troops to support Jiezhou City, he became the great savior in the eyes of the officials and people of Jiezhou City. In addition, the performance of the Mongolian coalition forces in the early stage of the siege was extremely poor, and they were all easily repelled by Guan Wuyuan. This made Guan Wuyuan in Jiezhou City. The city's reputation grew higher and higher, and he became a peerless hero and the reincarnation of Wuquxing in the eyes of the officials and people of Jiezhou City. Everyone tried their best to praise Guan Wuyuan.
However, since the Mongolian coalition launched the Han surrender to attack the city, Guan Wuyuan's good days have come to an end!
The offensive of the Han surrendered troops was not as fierce as that of the Mongolian coalition. It did not pose a great direct threat to Jiezhou City, but it was more planned. It did not rush towards the city wall in a hurry, but methodically cleared the siege obstacles while Maintaining pressure on the defenders of Jiezhou City, compared to the chaos when the Mongolian coalition forces attacked the city, this is obviously the right method!
Logically speaking, Guan Wuyuan should do his best to stop him at this time, but because Zhao Junchen had given a clear order before, asking Guan Wuyuan to secretly release water when the Han troops surrendered to attack the city, Guan Wuyuan naturally did not dare to disobey Zhao Junchen's order, so Therefore, there was no full-scale effort to prevent the Han people from surrendering their troops.
In the end, it only took the Han surrendered their troops two or three days to clear the obstacles outside Jiezhou City and fill in the moat! As a result, the defensive capabilities of Jiezhou City were suddenly reduced a lot. When the Mongolian coalition forces attacked the city with all their strength, the Jiezhou defenders would have to bear greater pressure and casualties!
As a result, Guan Wuyuan naturally endured a lot of pressure. Not only did the officials and people in Jiezhou City have a huge change in their impression of Guan Wuyuan, thinking that Guan Wuyuan was a mediocre general who had done nothing, even the officers and soldiers of the Forbidden Army under Guan Wuyuan also complained a lot.
Guan Wuyuan himself is also a person who cherishes his life and fears death. After seeing that all the barriers and moats outside the city failed, he was naturally frightened. Coupled with the pressure from all parties, Guan Wuyuan has been restless and has been suffering from insomnia for two or three days. .
In the past few days, Guan Wuyuan has been looking forward to Zhao Junchen leading the army to come to the rescue in time as planned. In this case, Guan Wuyuan's pressure and worries will naturally be solved. It is a pity that the Mongolian coalition forces will no longer have any worries to attack the city with all their strength. , but the reinforcements promised by Zhao Junchen were still missing.
This made Guan Wuyuan feel like he had become an outcast.
In the early morning of this day, Guan Wuyuan knew that the Mongolian coalition forces were about to attack the city in a large scale, so naturally he did not dare to neglect anything. He appeared on the city wall at dawn to observe the actions of the Mongolian coalition forces outside the city!
However, what Guan Wuyuan did not expect was that even though all the obstacles and moats outside Jiezhou City had been cleared, the main force of the Mongolian coalition had not yet moved, and did not rush to attack the city with all its strength as expected!
Then, Guan Wuyuan observed on the city wall for nearly an hour, but there was still no movement from the Mongolian coalition!
Just when Guan Wuyuan was getting impatient, a scene that stunned him appeared!
The Mongolian coalition finally took action. Team after team of cavalry began to gather, and then ran towards the north. Tens of thousands of horses left one after another!
After seeing this scene, Guan Wuyuan felt incredible!
"Could it be that the Mongols are about to retreat?"
Guan Wuyuan murmured to himself.
On the side, Guan Wuyuan's deputy general Zhang Chengxun frowned and shook his head: "It doesn't look like retreating, but it looks like dividing the troops to attack somewhere in the north... That direction seems to be Zhenning Acropolis? Hasn't it already fallen?"
Just when Guan Wuyuan and Zhang Chengxun were secretly puzzled, there was movement again in the Mongolian camp outside the city. A large number of Mongolian troops began to gather outside Jiezhou City and took up an siege posture.
After seeing this scene, Guan Wuyuan and Zhang Chengxun knew that the Mongolian coalition forces were finally about to formally attack the city. They did not care to guess what happened to the Mongolian coalition forces, and just quickly commanded the defense of the city.
In any case, after the Mongolian coalition forces left with 10,000 troops, the pressure on Jiezhou City was somewhat reduced!
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The reason why the Mongolian coalition forces suddenly divided their forces and headed north starts from an hour ago!
However, in the early morning of that day, when the sky was still dark, Bagan sent out the exploration horses again!
Because He Zhang repeatedly intercepted and killed the Mongolian detective horses yesterday, Bagan sent a much larger number of detective horses this time. The detective horses were not only responsible for detecting the movements of the surrounding Han troops, but also responsible for tracking He Zhang's army that attacked the Mongolian camp last night. whereabouts!
Bagan couldn't wait to take revenge on He Zhang for humiliating the Mongolian coalition!
Then, only half an hour after the scouts left the camp, news quickly came back, saying that a large number of Mongolian corpses were found east of the Mongolian camp, totaling more than two hundred bodies - this is exactly what happened. This is the number of detective horses intercepted and killed by the Mongolian coalition forces yesterday!
He Zhang had sent the heads of some Mongolian horses to the outside of the Mongolian camp last night, so Bogen did not expect that these horses were still alive, but some abnormal conditions of these horses' bodies caught Bagan's attention!
That is, all the Tanma corpses were left with only their underwear, and all their shirts had been taken away!
After He Zhang killed the Mongolian Tanma, why did he deliberately take away the Mongolian Tanma's shirt?
There is only one explanation, and that is that He Zhang wanted to use the uniforms of these Mongolian warriors to disguise his Han army as a Mongolian army, and then use this to achieve a certain goal!
After thinking of this, Bagan suddenly became wary!
However, before Bogen could figure out where He Zhang's goal was, the scouts once again received a shocking news - Zhenning Acropolis had been lost!
After learning the news, Bagan felt dizzy for a moment!
You know, Bagan hoarded most of the Mongolian coalition's food and grass in Zhenning Acropolis!
Now that Zhenning Acropolis has been lost and the Mongolian coalition has lost most of its food and grass, how can they continue to fight?
Not to mention that there are a large number of ordnance and military horses in Zhenning Acropolis!
Then, Bagan finally knew He Zhang’s goal—that was Zhenning Acropolis!
Bagan even thought he had found the reason why Zhenning Acropolis fell! That is, He Zhang's troops disguised themselves as Mongolian warriors and managed to deceive the Mongolian defenders of Zhenning Acropolis, which ultimately caused the failure of Zhenning Acropolis!
To a certain extent, Bagan's guess was not wrong. He Zhang did use disguise to capture the Zhenning Acropolis, but He Zhang captured the Zhenning Acropolis before he attacked the Mongolian camp!
Under Zhao Junchen's calculations, the purpose of deliberately letting Mongolian detective horses discover these corpses with their shirts taken away was to further mislead Bagan's judgment and make Bogen mistakenly believe that He Zhang's method of conquering Zhenning Acropolis was just opportunistic. He Zhang Its own strength is still very weak!
Obviously, Zhao Junchen's plan succeeded!
After thinking about this, Bagan felt that he had been humiliated by He Zhang, so he was naturally furious!
I originally thought that He Zhang's appearance was not a serious problem. Who would have thought that He Zhang actually broke through the Mongolian coalition's only fulcrum and retreat in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and also took away most of the Mongolian coalition's food and grass?
In anger, Bagan wanted to cut He Zhang into pieces with a thousand swords to vent his hatred. He immediately sent 10,000 cavalry to Zhenning Acropolis, vowing to wipe out He Zhang's army in the shortest possible time!
Then, the scene that Guan Wuyuan saw appeared!
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At the same time, the main force of the border troops under Zhao Junchen had hid in a valley in the east of Gongchang Mansion.
Last night, not only did He Zhang and the cavalry have an extremely hard time running back and forth, but Zhao Junchen and the main force of the frontier army also marched all night, without any chance to rest, and they were busy all night.
In order to show the enemy's weakness, the main force of the border army could not be detected by the Mongolian coalition forces. Therefore, Zhao Junchen divided the main force of the border army into two parts. A small force focusing on logistics left Gongchang Mansion along the original road. By the way, the traces of the main force of the border army entering Gongchang Mansion were cleared, and most of the troops as the main combat force were hidden, hiding in the blind spot of the Mongolian coalition's sight.
Fortunately, Gongchang Mansion has a vast territory and is one of the largest state capitals in the Ming Dynasty. The internal terrain is also complex, with hills and ravines everywhere. Although Zhao Junchen's frontier army is large in scale, with a total of fifty thousand people. There are many, but it is not difficult to hide!
When the news that the Mongolian coalition forces were divided to attack Zhenning Acropolis reached Zhao Junchen, the exhausted Zhao Junchen couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly: "It seems that the plan was successful, and the Mongols were finally attacked." Misleading, the true strength of our army was not discovered because of the loss of Zhenning Acropolis! Moreover, although the Tianshui Rebellion this time disrupted our planned plan, in a way it was a blessing in disguise. The Mongolian coalition forces are divided into two areas... In this way, as long as He Zhang and the others hold on at Zhenning Acropolis for a few days, after the Tianshui rebellion subsides, we can divide them and defeat them, and the chance of winning will actually be even greater!"
After hearing what Zhao Junchen said, all the civil and military officials present nodded in agreement and said in unison: "Such a blessing in disguise is really God bless our dynasty, God bless the Imperial Envoy!"
The plan to show weakness to the enemy has been initially successful so far. Most of the civil and military officials breathed a sigh of relief and were slightly excited, but their voices were all weak and spiritless.
Obviously, after working all night, everyone was exhausted and reached their limit.
In fact, as the person in charge of the overall situation, Zhao Junchen is more exhausted than most people!
Everyone present had only been busy for a few days and stayed up all night, but Zhao Junchen had never had a good rest since entering Shaanxi-Gansu. He was overtaxing his efforts and energy almost every day for this war.
At this time, Zhao Junchen felt that his heart could no longer beat, and his trachea seemed to be tightly grasped by a hand, making it difficult to breathe.
However, just like He Zhang last night, Zhao Junchen was unwilling to show his fatigue in front of everyone. He just glanced at everyone slowly and said: "Now that the big thing has been decided, our plan has been initially successful. Everyone is busy. It's been a hard night, so let's seize the opportunity to rest now! In two or three days, we will probably be busy again, and it will be difficult to rest by then!"
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