"Your Highness...you want to lure Ma Heima and make him leave the camp and fight a tough battle with us?" The martial arts student was stunned and felt a little frightened.
"We thought that His Highness dug this trench because he wanted to make a step forward and force Ma Heima to give in and ask for help..."
"Ma Heima is not a coward. He will not take the initiative to ask for help unless he truly fights a battle." Zhu Su shook his head, and for the first time, there was a bit of worry in his eyes.
"And...if you continue to bluff, it's already too late."
"We have been delayed for a long time... If we continue to delay, we can no longer afford to delay."
Zhu Su felt very worried when he thought that Zhu Di was now facing the siege of Timur and Shaharu's troops alone. Zhu Di was able to capture Miransha's position all because of three words, "time difference". He broke through Miransha before Shaharu could support him.
Now, Ma Heima's reliance is precisely because he has the initiative in the "time difference". As long as Timur and Shaharul break through Zhu Di's troops, even if he really has a hundred thousand troops as enemies, then You can also break it easily.
Time waits for no one. If you want to take back the initiative, you must make Ma Heima's subordinates feel that they are in danger and will be destroyed at any time.
As Zhu Su had expected, since Zhu Su issued the surrender declaration, the camp under Ma Heima's headquarters has fallen into a panic position.
Now, they no longer doubt the strength of the Ming army. Nowadays, the trenches dug by the Ming army are getting closer and closer. Every day, they have already seen how the more than 10,000 Shendu and Persian "engineering soldiers" responsible for digging trenches work.
Even if more than 10,000 people can be dispatched to dig trenches, then the main force prepared to fight can't be even more?
If there weren't tens of thousands of soldiers, would they dare to dig such a long trench? Dare to surround their camp of 30,000 people?
Will the general who dares to instruct his envoys personally persuade them to surrender in front of the battle line and give them an ultimatum?
"Your Highness Ma Heima, make your decision!" A very experienced veteran of the Timur Empire put his hands on the table bank and leaned forward, urging Ma Heima.
"The people here must be the main force of the Ming Dynasty. We were all deceived by the despicable Ming people!"
"After they received additional troops from the local area, they used suspected troops to attack His Royal Highness Prince Miransha, making Sultan Timur mistakenly think that they were the main force of the Ming Dynasty, but the real target of the main force was actually us..."
"That must be it... Akito has always been so despicable. We have already lost the opportunity to encircle them with the Sultan because of hesitation, but now we can still save it... But if Your Highness Ma Heima hesitates again, we will be killed by Akito Completely defeated!"
The other generals also nodded, worry flashing in their eyes. Thirty thousand versus one hundred thousand, they had heard of the Ming Dynasty's defeat of Yuanting and Oara in Central Asia. Even these arrogant soldiers and generals of the Timurid Empire could not guarantee that they could definitely defeat the Ming Dynasty's 100,000 soldiers and horses. What's more, the King Zhou of the Ming Dynasty opposite was so confident...the generals of the Timurid Empire even suspected that the Ming people in front of them had far more than one hundred thousand troops.
The people of Ming Dynasty were countless times more despicable than the Mongols of the Golden Horde or the Persians. There is nothing unusual about hiding one's true troop strength.
Ma Heima was still meditating, but the gloominess on his face was thicker than the previous few days, almost dripping with black water.
As more and more trenches were dug, and they got closer and closer, his pressure was increasing day by day, but now the Zhou Wang Zhusu on the opposite side actually took the initiative to persuade him to surrender... This made his pressure close to critical.
However, the doubts in his heart still did not disappear. He thought for a long time and said, "Perhaps that King of Zhou is really deceiving us? If they really have a hundred thousand troops, why didn't they attack my camp directly from the beginning."
"And to dig so many useless deep trenches, you must know that most of us are infantry, and these trenches are not of much use to us. Digging deep trenches is time-consuming and laborious..."
"What's so hard to guess!" The veteran with some qualifications stood up proudly and relied on his own experience to give guidance to Ma Heima. "These Ming people's deep ditches are not to guard against us, but to guard against the Sultan's reinforcements!"
"Most of the Ming people are despicable, but they are also very cautious. They have long been prepared for the Sultan's attack, so they dig trenches as they advance. Once the Sultan's cavalry surrounds them, the trenches behind these Ming people can block the cavalry... "
At this moment, the logic was successful and self-consistent, and the generals in the Maheima camp suddenly realized that they looked at this veteran as if they were looking at gods.
It turns out that this is what the broken ditch is for!
Ma Heima was also startled. He had never thought that the trench was not used to deal with himself, but to defend against reinforcements. Some of the doubts in my heart have gone away, but I still can't bear to ask for help.
"In this case, tonight, we will test these Mingren first."
"If I lose, I will ask my grandfather for help..."
Ma Heima finally relaxed. If there is no fight, even if Akito really has a hundred thousand people, his grandfather will definitely blame them for being cowardly afterwards.
But if it is found out that these Ming troops are really the main force, it means that grandfather was deceived by their suspected soldiers. Then you won't continue to criticize him harshly?
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Because the trenches were dug, the Ming people did not even set up tents on the front line, but directly built residences in the trenches using materials such as planks and furs. This was the first time even Ma Heima had seen such a novel "camp". He couldn't tell where the Ming people's headquarters and main troops were located. He could only lead about three thousand elite infantrymen towards He quietly walked over to a section of the trench where there was light.
When he thought about it, this section of the trench could only hold a few hundred people at most. The three thousand people he brought with him were enough to kill all the Mingren anyway. In fact, in his opinion, even this inexplicable pocket-shaped trench dug by the Ming army was full of loopholes. This is a plain, and the Ming army's troop deployment outside the trenches can be seen at a glance, and there are no people outside the trenches. This means that all the Ming army is using such trenches to hide their troops.
But how many people and horses can be hidden in such a long trench?
As long as one section is attacked casually, because the trench layout is too narrow and thin, the trenches in other sections will not be able to support in time. A truly powerful regiment should form in groups, help each other, and maximize the strength of the army... If the troops are scattered in the trenches like this, what is it if it is not asking for death?
It's just that with this kind of spread out formation, it's meaningless to capture only one section. It's also very troublesome to attack in an all-round way. He can't figure out Zhu Su's intention, so Ma Heima didn't waste his troops to test it before.
Maybe he was too suspicious. The King of Zhou of the Ming Dynasty was just a loser who didn't know how to fight... An idea came to Ma Heima's mind, thinking that if the Ming army general was really so stupid, he would put in some effort and fight one by one. It would be better to fight and seize all these trenches.
Capturing and killing a prince of the Ming Dynasty, such an achievement was enough for my grandfather to establish himself as the heir.
While wandering in the outer world, Ma Heima heard the whispers from the soldiers on the left and right: "Your Highness, Ma Heima, stay away from the trenches dug by these Ming people."
"There are only five hundred steps to go."
(End of chapter)
