"I hope you can come with me." Zhu Di said sincerely. "The three Duoyan guards under your command are originally Meng people. They are fighting at home in this grassland and desert."
"You and I will divide our forces and march westward, and the momentum we use will surely make Yesudier avoid going eastward."
Xu Yungong thought for a while and did not answer Zhu Di's question about borrowing troops. Instead, he asked: "Your Highness intends to march westward. Could it be that he wants to go straight to Huanglong and use attack instead of defense?"
"This court official has also thought about it, but it doesn't work. Many Mongolian people live in pursuit of water and grass, and don't care about the city. Yesudie'er has not established a capital, and where can he be found in the vast grassland?"
"Even if we are lucky enough to find him, he will avoid it when we attack him; when we evacuate, he will come back again. In this way, our Ming army will be reduced to exhaustion. This is a tactic commonly used by the Mongols."
"Now that we are waiting here, we still have the city wall of Qiangchang to rely on. If we take the initiative to go west and are dragged by it, how can we easily escape? Although our Ming Dynasty destroyed Yuanting Sheji, Yuanting is actually in decay, but Wala is new. …Your Highness should think twice.”
Xu Yungong advised sincerely.
"I know your concerns." Zhu Di nodded. "If our Ming Dynasty wants to gain a foothold in the grasslands, it must rely on cities. Without cities, Mongolian people will come and go like the wind. Even if they can be expelled temporarily like the Han Dynasty, they will not be able to completely control this vast land."
"But that's the situation under ordinary tactics. Our Ming army is mostly infantry, and its horse power is not as good as that of the Mongolian army. It also relies on baggage supplies and is not accustomed to the climate... But if our Ming army is like the Mongolian army, we only send a small force. , with full power, it comes and goes like the wind, going deep behind enemy lines, breaking out the stronghold and seizing the flag. So what?"
"This..." Xu Yungong hesitated. "Your Highness, you want to learn the Mongolian tactics?"
"It's not about learning from Mongolia, it's about learning from the Han Dynasty." Zhu Di corrected. "Emperor Wu Zeng said: 'The enemy can go, so can I.' The Mongols are good at running and attacking, so why can't we Han people? In terms of the method of running and attacking, the champion marquis and his hundreds of cavalry went deep into the Xiongnu, hundreds of years earlier than the Mongols! "
He stretched out his hand and pointed at the imposing cavalry he had brought behind him.
"Over the past few years, my king has been training soldiers and buying war horses in Shuntian. These more than a thousand personal guards have become proficient in bows and horses, and are brave and good at fighting."
"Moreover, they are well-equipped. Each of them has one man and three horses, and they are all equipped with swords, crossbows, fire guns, and thunder. They are far beyond the comparison of the Mongolians. Even if they encounter Mongolian troops several times their size, they can still defeat them." Charge and defeat them. Such elites are enough to turn Wa La upside down."
"If the hinterland is unstable, can Ye Sudie'er still have the leisure to covet the territory and covet the territory?"
"I don't know how to fight, so I just follow His Highness's orders." Seeing Zhu Di's confident look, Xu Yungong decided to believe him this time.
"What does Your Highness need me to do?" Xu Yungong asked. "If you want to advance with light cavalry, although these soldiers under my command are elite, they are very lazy."
"It may be difficult to hide your whereabouts..."
"It doesn't matter." Zhu Di chuckled. "You don't need to do anything, as long as you are like this, like this and so..."
…
Yijinaicheng, north of Ganzhou, was the largest foraging site set up by the Ming Dynasty in Wei Di (Xuda fiefdom). In the past, many tribes recruited by the Ming Dynasty gathered around it and opened up pastures near the city. grazing.
But now, most of these pastures are abandoned and no longer inhabited. The remaining shepherds took their cattle, sheep and wealth and hid in this fortified city on the grassland.
The reason is that there is a group of Wala bandits lurking near here. In just a few months, three small tribes have been murdered by him, and their people and animals have been wiped out.
Although Xu Yungong brought Duoyanwei here for rescue a few days ago, as soon as Duoyanwei arrived, these Wala thieves disappeared immediately, leaving Xu Yungong to miss them.
Xu Yungong patrolled the surrounding area with his troops and horses, but found no trace of the thieves, so he went to rescue another forager that was burning with smoke. Yiji Naicheng still dared not open the city. The herdsmen were like frightened birds, hiding in the city and not daring to leave the city. It has been two months now.
At this time, Yiji was located eighty miles east of Naicheng City, in a huge wind-eroded rock wall.
"Damn it, those herdsmen who surrendered to the Han people contracted the Han temperament and became as cowardly as cattle and sheep."
Next to Ugqiha Shiha, a muscular Mongolian man with a round waist slapped a sand scorpion that was about to crawl up his trouser leg to death, his tone was full of irritation.
"Headman, they must not dare to leave the city anymore. Why should we wait here anymore! The warriors of the grassland should be hovering in the sky like falcons, how can they squat in a dark corner like beggars begging for food? waiting……"
"The wolf will stare at the prey and wait for the moment when the prey relaxes its vigilance. Instead of wandering around impatiently." Ugqiha Shiha glanced at the Mongolian general, raised his head and drank the last sip of strong wine. After shaking the wineskin to make sure that not a drop could be poured out, he threw the wineskin into the desert.
This time, his army was the largest in the Ming Dynasty's plunder. After finally keeping a close eye on Yijinaicheng, he was naturally unwilling to give up easily. As one of the most trustworthy leaders around Yesudier, his slender eyes revealed a sly and cruel look like a wolf.
"Wait a minute, it's been two months. We haven't shown up for two months in a row. They probably thought we were no longer here."
"Xu Yungong has left. No one will be our opponent. As long as the turtle climbs out of its shell, we can dig out its meat without having to waste our efforts to crack the turtle's shell..."
"But it's only two months now. The cowardly Han people always hoard a lot of food and grass in the city. Sometimes they can't eat it all in a year or two..." A general said worriedly.
"It's okay. The Han people can stay in the city for a year or two, but now the people in the city are Mongols." Ugqiha Shiha said. "Even if people still have food, it's impossible for sheep to go without grass for two months."
"As long as we remain calm and don't show up, there will definitely be tribesmen who will risk their lives to go out of the city to graze their herds... By then, we will be able to destroy this forager. All the loot found here will belong to you and the warriors under your command. .”
As a Mongolian, he understands the habits of Mongolians very well. Now that winter is approaching, fattening cattle and sheep is now the top priority for herdsmen living on the grasslands. It would be fine if there were people surrounding them outside the city, but now they were hiding, and it seemed like everything was peaceful outside the city.
In this case, the Ming generals in the city would definitely not be able to suppress the restless Mongolian tribes, and could only choose to let them out of the city to graze.
And as long as they leave the city, Ugeqi Hashha is very sure that he can plunder them all quickly. Then, these herdsmen who lost their wealth were driven away as the driving force to attack Yijinai City.
Yiji Naicheng is located in the middle of the six settlement cities that have been built in the Ming Dynasty. On this departure, he had promised the Great Khan that he would destroy this hateful Ming army's foraging field and cut off a series of connected roads and foraging fields from the Ming Dynasty to Hara and Lin.
In this way, the power of the Ming Dynasty on the grasslands will be greatly reduced, and the Great Khan can quickly absorb the tribes in the eastern grasslands that originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and use them as a driving force to attack Yilibaili together with the Timurid Empire.
The Ming Dynasty was so powerful now that even the great Yesudier Khan felt great pressure under the power of the Ming Dynasty. Only by uniting with the rising brother Timur Empire in the west and jointly attacking the Ming Dynasty from two directions can we hope to regain the glory of the Golden Family.
Although Yesudier hated Kublai Khan and his descendants, he never forgot the territory owned by the Yuan Dynasty.
(End of chapter)
