Just as Qataiji led Anda's Suwei army away, Anda's confidant Huo Tun Ruolang came in a hurry with seven or eight personal guards. He saw the Great Khan standing at the door of the sweat tent with a torch. Without having time to think too much, he shouted from a distance: "Great Khan, the incoming enemy only has about a thousand cavalry. The general has already gathered his troops, and we can send troops to repel them immediately!"
Ida was furious and shouted: "Bastard! Didn't you receive the order from Ben Khan! Why didn't you obey my order and guard the camp? Who asked you to come!"
Huo Tun Ruo Bulang was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly replied: "But the Ming army only has a thousand riders, so the general feels..."
"So what if there are more than a thousand cavalry of the Ming army in the sneak attack?" I answered furiously, glaring at Huo Tubu Lang with a pair of tiger eyes: "The elite soldiers of Ma Taishi have not appeared so far. How do you know that this cavalry is not here to disturb me?" Daying, the troublemaker who creates opportunities for Master Ma Tai’s massive attack?”
After all, Huo Tun Ruo Bulang is a man who has been on the battlefield for a long time. After being scolded by Anda like this, how could he still not understand Da Khan's worries?
It turns out that Anda didn't regard the mere thousand cavalry stealing the camp as a big trouble at all. The reason why he ordered all the ministries to guard their camps and ordered Qataiji to lead only the Khan's guards to fight was that he was afraid that the cavalry would not be able to defeat them. It is the leading force of the Ming army's sneak attack tonight, but the real main force is hiding in the dark, waiting for the opportunity. When they focus all their energy on this small but elite sneak attack force, and then suddenly attack in large numbers, that will be the real big trouble. , if one of them fails, he will suffer heavy losses, and it is not impossible that the whole army may even be defeated.
With Anda's rich combat experience leading the army, such concerns are certainly not unreasonable. The imperial envoy's flag hangs on Desheng Fort in front. According to the custom of the people, since there are imperial envoys stationed here, and most of these civil servants and imperial envoys are as timid as mice, it stands to reason that Desheng Fort should have a large army gathered there. How come there are only two of them? Three thousand soldiers and horses? Isn't this too abnormal?
However, Ma Fang, as the commander-in-chief of Datong and the number one general of Xuanda Sanzhen, has not shown up yet. This more abnormal situation naturally makes An Da more suspicious.
During the day, he was even worried that Ma Fang would not come for him, but would attack Xin Ai and Qie Jin on the left and right wings, so the cautious old king Khan immediately sent someone to warn them both. But according to the distance, the messenger must still be halfway there.
But at this moment when the Chinese army encountered a stolen camp, Anda immediately misjudged it, thinking that Ma Fang was still targeting himself. In Anda's opinion, Ma Fang must have deliberately sent a group of cavalry to disrupt his camp, and then took advantage of the situation to cover up the massacre.
After all, according to An Da's experience, he felt that from the Ming army's point of view, defeating Xin Ai or cutting off one of them was not enough to force him to retreat, but as long as his Chinese army failed or the losses were too large, he would definitely retreat.
This is determined by the Mongolian system: Although Anda is a right-wing Mongol Khan, if his own headquarters suffers excessive losses, his authority will be affected immediately. If the losses reach a certain level, even if he No matter how great the prestige has been established over the past few decades, it may collapse due to the decline in the power of the direct lineage, or even lose the throne of the Great Khan.
Mongolians have always been about speaking with strength. Only with big fists can you speak toughly. Otherwise, even if you are the Great Khan, no one will obey your orders. There are so many descendants of the Golden Family. Is it possible that every one of them can speak with strength? Are they all sweats, or are they all worthy of being sweats?
It was precisely because of this cautious mentality that the old and strong Anda did not order an immediate counterattack and annihilate the enemy. Instead, he ordered each of his direct subordinates to defend their own camps. He only sent Qataiji to lead the Khan's camp. The guards went to meet the enemy, and his order to Qiatarji was only to "drive him out as soon as possible". The purpose was to stabilize the camp as much as possible and prevent Ma Fang from having a good opportunity for a sneak attack. .
After Huotun, people from other ministries also came over to ask if the edict just now was really issued by the Great Khan. I replied naturally and sent it as usual, and at the same time once again asked them to take more precautions to deal with Master Ma Tai who might appear at any time.
However, what I didn't expect was that this time the Ming army really took the wrong medicine. The cavalry that came to attack Anda's Chinese army had no back-up plan at all - Commander Ma Fang, whom I was worried about, was far away at the moment. Hundreds of miles away.
In fact, this time, the Ming army's response to the Anda army's pressure was different from the past in many ways. Because Gao Pragmatic's little wings gave Xuanda Sanzhen more than 2,000 war horses and more ordinary pack horses, Wang Chonggu, Fang Fengshi and Ma Fang therefore adopted a different strategy from the original history, no longer content with sticking to the Great Wall border. Instead, they choose to take the initiative on a relatively weak road and strive to promote peace through war.
In order to ensure the smooth advancement of this strategy, Fort Desheng not only added Gao Pragmatic, a half-hearted imperial envoy, as a bait, but also took the initiative to send troops for sneak attacks and provocations because they were worried that I would not take the bait or see through the Ming army's strategy.
Let's not talk about the situation where Anda sat in the center and held the camp tightly, let's talk about the situation where Qataiji led the Suwei troops to meet the enemy.
Anda's Suwei army usually maintained a scale of one thousand cavalry. Qataiji left a hundred men to protect the Khan, and he led 900 cavalry to fight the invading enemy. Although the Chinese army camp I answered stretched for several miles, it was nothing to the cavalry. Qataiji soon saw the enemy in front.
Just by meeting each other from a distance, Qataiji knew that this cavalry was indeed not here to "kill the enemy and perform meritorious service", because the cavalry in front did not pursue and kill the Mongolian soldiers who were dispersed by them, but divided into two groups. The group in the front just fought bravely to kill the Mongolian soldiers who came forward to block them, while the group following behind either threw firecrackers directly at the Mongolian army's felt tents and haystacks, or simply lit up rockets and fired randomly at objects suitable for igniting fire. .
However, when Qataiji appeared with Suwei's personal troops, this situation immediately changed, and it was a change made proactively by the Ming army - Ma Gui was Ma Gui after all. He sensed an organized team coming towards him from the sound of hoofbeats. He followed the sound and saw at a glance that the Suwei soldiers with white flags on their helmets were coming towards him.
Without saying a word, Ma Gui immediately reined in his horse and shouted: "The Jinghua Cavalry Throw away the fire certificates, everyone is moving closer to me, and the three-eyed guns are ready to be fired!"
Over there, Qataiji originally planned to take advantage of the chaos to launch a surprise attack. Seeing that Ma Gui reacted so quickly, he was surprised and immediately made a change in tactics. I saw a cry from his mouth. He already had the knife in his hand and put the scimitar into the sheath with a "swipe" sound. He held the bow and drew an arrow. He casually glanced at Ma Gui. When the bow string was fully drawn in an instant, he shouted loudly: "Suwei's army, look at the direction I'm calling!"
