"You all must remember that the goal of sending troops this time is to completely control the three guards of Duoyan in the hands of the court, not just to kill."
Zhu Zaijing stood up and came to Ma Fang, facing many generals.
"So the ultimate goal is to surround Duoyan Guards and capture their leaders and nobles!"
Everyone looked serious when they heard this.
Zhu Zaijing understood very well that the means for big countries to deal with such small forces were mainly to control their superstructure.
Just like what America did to her younger brothers in later generations, if the younger brothers start to be disobedient, replace them with someone who is obedient.
After all, there will be traitors in any group at any time who can be bribed and controlled, right?
Of course, this is due to the superiority of military power, and Ming Dynasty cannot yet go to war outside the Great Wall as it pleases.
So Zhu Zaijing is going to make a sneak attack this time!
Catch him off guard.
Who asked you to live so close to the Great Wall?
"Ma Fang, how many cavalry can Jizhou Town provide?"
"Your Majesty, I can bring out five thousand war horses!"
Ma Fang knew the importance of war horses in the border areas, so he often used his connections on the grasslands to buy Mongolian war horses.
By mobilizing some more from other places, five thousand war horses can be assembled.
Plus the two thousand cavalry brought by Zhu Zaijing.
There are two thousand Zhejiang troops and one thousand internal troops, with a total strength of ten thousand.
It's more than enough to raid Duoyan Guard.
Moreover, the Great Wall has so many exits that troops can be mobilized for support at any time.
If Duoyanwei was far away, Zhu Zaijing would hesitate about the difficulty, but it is so close now, and support from other parts of the Great Wall is not a problem at all.
"Mr. Ma's intelligence says that the total number of troops Duoyan Guard can take action is fifteen thousand!"
"If we attack suddenly and catch them by surprise, they will definitely not be able to use so many troops in a panic!"
"If they can organize thousands of people to resist in the blink of an eye, they are considered powerful!" Qi Jiguang agreed from below.
Zhu Zaijing observed the expressions of each general. It was obvious that the words of Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang, two famous generals, made them more confident.
Zhu Zaijing himself was also confident in this operation.
"Cavalry", "raid".
These two words together are so terrifying.
In the next few days, Ma Fang began to mobilize war horses, while Qi Jiguang was training the Zhejiang army to prepare for the first battle on the grassland.
Three days later, several of Ma Fang's informants determined Duoyanwei's location and situation for the last time.
Zhu Zaijing led his troops northward in two directions.
Half of the seven thousand cavalry followed Zhu Zaijing and half Qi Jiguang. Two days later, the army arrived at Xifengkou.
Ma Fang personally took the remaining half of the cavalry to Qingshan Pass.
After discussing with Qi Jiguang, Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang decided that in order to achieve Zhu Zaijing's goal of capturing as many of the top leaders of Duoyan Guard alive as possible, the cavalry would divide Nie Men in two groups.
Zhu Zaijing also needed the Duoyan Three Guards to serve as a strategic buffer zone and response point outside the Great Wall, so he did not give the order to kill the soldiers.
What Zhu Zaijing wants is the obedient Duoyan Three Guards, who are not a burden that can be beaten by any tribe on the grassland if half of their strength is lost.
Therefore, Duoyan's strength cannot suffer heavy losses, otherwise the role of his strategic buffer zone will be gone.
Otherwise, Zhu Zaijing would have asked seven thousand cavalry to bulldoze their stronghold directly under the cover of night.
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Outside the Great Wall.
The grasslands in March are frighteningly cold.
Although there was no ice or snow to be seen, the chill was enough to freeze everything to pieces.
The wind was so strong that not a single star could be seen in the midnight sky.
Battle stood outside a yurt.
From a distance, he looked like a sculpture, standing motionless, the scimitar in his hand being beaten by the dust blown by the strong wind.
This yurt is his residence.
The woman laughing inside is his wife.
But the man inside was the only thing that didn't belong here.
Battle.
The father who gave himself such a name that means a warrior, if he knew that his son was so cowardly in another world, would he be so angry that he would survive? Give yourself a whip?
He was so cowardly that he didn't dare to kill the adulterer and adulterer in the yurt he had built piece by piece.
The wind is strong, the night is dark, and the heart is cold.
Battle could hear the dogs and men inside laughing.
The machete in his hand seemed to encourage him to slit their throats.
But Battle didn't dare.
Because the man inside is Dong Fox.
The leader of the Duoyan Guard.
The survival rules of the Mongols are similar to those of wolves: the strong are respected.
The strong one can dominate everything in the tribe.
Of course that includes women.
Of course, Dong Hu would not occupy his wife openly, not because he was embarrassed, but because it would damage his prestige.
So he usually chooses the woman who will come to him when he goes out at night.
Because he is a horse breeder.
Responsible for the horse breeding work in the tribe.
It is now the beginning of March, and the food and grass for the winter are almost exhausted, but the horses eat an astonishing amount.
He needs to go out and find grass that has just sprouted green heads for the horses to eat.
This way they won't go hungry and will grow stronger in the summer.
And Battelle was gone for several days.
This gave Dong Hu the opportunity to sneak in.
"damn it!"
Battle spat on the ground with hatred and contempt.
"They know everything! Except for me, they don't know! Everyone knows that my woman has been occupied by him!"
"I was the last one to know about this!"
"I can kill both of them. Anyway, I don't have a child with that woman yet, so I won't have any psychological burden."
"right!"
Battle's eyes glowed red, like a wolf.
"Not only these two people, but everyone else deserves to die too!"
"They kept it from me, no one told me!"
"I finally determined what is that strange thing in their eyes when they look at me?"
"It's ridicule! It's contempt! It's the reflection of my trampled dignity in their eyes!"
Not far away, Dong Fox's horse seemed to sense Battle's murderous intent, and began to panic, trying to break free from the reins that tied it.
"I want to chop off Dong Fox's head! I want to insert the scimitar my father left for me into that woman's belly!"
"No no no no"
"They don't deserve it! They don't deserve me to tarnish my father's relics!"
Battle walked over and came to Dong Fox's horse.
There is a bag on the horse's back.
This bag is used by people to store miscellaneous things. A lot of messy things are put in it. If nothing else, there will be knives and so on.
The flattery was panicked and backed away in fear when he saw the murderous human being in front of him.
Barter has been working with horses since he was a child. He quickly stepped forward and grabbed the reins to control it.
I looked through the bag and sure enough there was a knife inside.
It's enough to suddenly rush in and stab the couple to death!
