Zhu Qiyu had already promised his generals that they could act cheaply to a certain extent. Generals such as Shi Heng, Sun Boring, and Fan Guang were all eager to make meritorious deeds, so they spontaneously reached an agreement.
Zhu Qiyu sent trusted eunuchs to serve as supervisors to each of the camp's generals. Each supervisor brought with him one to two hundred emperor's personal guards. In fact, whatever the generals do, the emperor can stop them at any time.
But this time the generals chose to go their own way, Zhu Qiyu chose to acquiesce, and the supervisors chose to pretend to be blind.
When Ye received the news first, he was not very surprised. He and the emperor had done so much, how could they leave without a head-on fight?
But Ye Xian had no one around him who could discuss the matter. Boyan Timur and other generals had already started packing their luggage and preparing to run away. The Supreme Emperor was anxiously waiting to return to his Forbidden City so that he could start a political struggle and take back his power. .
The most fundamental problem of Ye Xian's Oara regime was exposed at this time: everyone from top to bottom was a group of warriors, and not a single literate person. As a scholar, although if you don't use it well, you will get yourself into trouble, but if there are no civil servants to give advice, it will definitely not work.
In the end, I had to pull Xi Ning over and use it reluctantly. After all, most of the eunuchs with some respect in the Ming Dynasty had read some books in the inner library, and Xi Ning also knew the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty.
And the most important point: Xi Ning is a Jurchen and does not share the same heart with the Ming Dynasty. Now that she has rebelled, she is a real rebel, without any reluctance.
Xi Ning entered the Chinese army's tent, and when he saw Ye, he inquired seriously first, and then hurriedly replied: "Grand Master, I'm afraid we don't have much food and grass for the Wala army, right?"
Hearing this, Ye Xian shook his head helplessly: "There is still enough food and grass to last for fifteen days. Considering that the army has to withdraw to the Datong line in order to get effective supplies.
It would take five days at the earliest to evacuate from Beijing to Datong. So we had to set aside at least five days’ rations to eat on the way back.
In other words, we can only stay under the city of Beijing for ten days at most.
This new emperor, who has lacked great virtue for eight lifetimes, only gave us 600,000 taels of silver, but refused to provide us with food and grass supplies. The problem now is that with the money we have, we have nowhere to buy food. When the food and grass are gone, we will have no choice but to retreat.
Xi Ning, tell me, now all the Ming army is out in formation, what is the purpose? How should we act to get the most benefit? "
Xi Ning replied: "I don't understand military matters. But I know that we must not send the Supreme Emperor back.
This old slave is not just being alarmist. Once the Emperor is returned, his life will be short-lived. "
"How do you say this?"
"The old slave has been in the court for a long time and is well aware of the cruelty of power struggles in the court. And the situation in Wala is not much better than that of the Ming Dynasty.
Among the nobles of Oara, between you and Alazhiyuan, and the external Khan Tuotuobuhua, are you and them really close and working together to fight together? "
He shook his head first. In fact, he couldn't even fully control his younger brothers. As for Alazhiyuan and Tuotuobuhua, they were just pretending to be superficial and superficial.
Xi Ning continued: "The greatest role that the Supreme Emperor played in the Grand Master was not to blackmail the Ming Dynasty and ask for rewards from the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty; nor was it to open the city gates so that the Wala army could attack the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
On the contrary, the greatest role of the Supreme Emperor was to deal with political opponents within the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. In view of the Supreme Emperor's prestige among the grassland tribes, as long as the Supreme Emperor is around, neither Alazhiyuan nor Tuotuo Buhua will dare to attack you.
But once the Supreme Emperor is gone, the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty only needs a little encouragement. If the old slave wants to come, whether it is Tuotuo Buhua who is used as a puppet of the Great Khan, or Alazhiyuan who has always been subordinate to the Grand Master, they will not mind. Let Taishi disappear from the political arena of Meng and Yuan Dynasties. "
When Xi Ning said this, he suddenly broke into a cold sweat. He had been dazzled by the huge victory recently. He always felt that his prestige was extremely high and he had never thought about being betrayed.
If you think about the problem from the perspective of being stabbed in the back, then you are facing the Ming Dynasty's main force of more than 200,000, which is four times as many as yourself.
To the north is Tuo Tuo Bu Hua's 30,000-strong army, and to the west is Alazhiyuan's 30,000-strong army.
As for the south, even if there is no one in the south, I can't be stupid enough to run to the south. The Ming Dynasty still has at least 150,000 real elites in the south. More than two months have passed in Tumubao. God knows whether the ridiculous new Ming Dynasty emperor has mobilized the southern Ming army to return.
Looking at it this way, it might really lead to a Ming Dynasty version of being besieged on all sides. And Taishi Yexian, who has always been going smoothly and winning steadily, is very likely to become the overlord of Western Chu who suddenly rebels against his relatives.
Thinking of this, I became more and more scared. Although Ye Xian hasn't read many books, he also knows the story of Han Xin's plank road construction and secret assassination of Chen Cang. The famous general Zhang Han made such a big joke and was ruined because he firmly believed that the main force of the Han army would never appear.
So who can dare to say that the main force of the Ming Dynasty in the south will definitely not appear on the battlefield in the north. In more than two months, it seemed a bit difficult for Ningyang Marquis Chen Mao's army to rush back to the capital, but if they just rushed to Daomaguan in southern Shanxi to deploy defenses, it was really not impossible.
At this point, I have figured out that I absolutely cannot hand over the Supreme Emperor's all-powerful amulet for a mere one million taels of silver.
So he immediately ordered the 40,000 cavalry under his command to immediately go out of camp and form a formation to confront the Ming army. The remaining 10,000 cavalrymen guarded the camp.
As for Boyan Timur's 10,000-strong army, there is no hope at all.
The Wara cavalry were experienced in hundreds of battles and moved quickly. In less than an hour, they set up their formation.
A Ming army of 100,000 infantry and cavalry faced off against 40,000 pure Oara cavalry.
From the general to the soldier, Wala didn't really want to fight. After finishing the formation, I didn't want to fight at all.
Now even the ordinary soldiers in Oala can see that the previous great victories in Shanxi were all based on ambushes and sneak attacks, which made the Ming army lose its footing.
Once the Ming army was fully prepared, positioned, and had an absolute advantage in strength, it would be impossible to attack with pure cavalry.
To attack the Ming army's formation, you need to break through three layers of fire defense. Between a thousand and five hundred steps away from the Ming army, you first have to be baptized by artillery; if you rush within 300 steps, you have to face the Ming army's firepower. Bed crossbow; then rushed within a hundred steps, and there were three more volleys of various firearms of the Ming army.
Even if he resists all three rounds of attacks, he still has to overcome three levels of horse resistance. Even if they resisted the horse, they could not stop the brave Oala cavalry. Next, the Ming army formed a formation of chariots.
Each chariot is wrapped with forty cowhide sheets, which cannot be penetrated by arrows, cut by swords, or knocked over by horses.
Even if they destroyed the car formation and rushed into the Ming army's ranks, the impact of the cavalry would have been completely offset by the multiple defenses, and the next step would be close hand-to-hand combat.
The number of people is one to three. Basically, it is a Wala cavalry fighting against a Ming army cavalry and two infantry. These two infantrymen may be holding firearms, divine arm crossbows, or spears.
Without a rush of speed, how can one fight against three against three, and face open and hidden arrows that may attack at any time.
Fortunately, they just let the army come out to confront each other first, and had no intention of starting a war with the Ming army.
Ye first stayed in the camp and continued to discuss the next action plan with Xi Ning.
(End of chapter)
