Zhen Lingdan smiled and said nothing after hearing Chao Xing's words. After all, there were too many people involved, and he didn't know what to say, so he coughed lightly and changed the topic and said, "Let's go back to the topic, Yili Is the city in the inner city easy to capture?"
Chao Xing nodded and said, "The reason why they built the city is the first reason for the change of customs I just mentioned, and the second is to prevent wind and sand, not really to defend against the enemy, so the city wall is not too strong and there is no need for artillery. A catapult can be destroyed. When foreign enemies invade, they should go out to the city to fight as a defense."
Yili made the conditions of Libibi and Tatars worse, with more wind and sand and fewer grasslands, so Chao Xing could understand this. Since this is the case, the number of cities is definitely not a small number, because as long as the population gathers, it will block the wind and sand. Infringement, it is necessary to build a city to block the wind and sand. Zhen Lingdan raised her own guess, and Chao Xing gave a positive answer. Indeed, Yili spread the city in the inner city, and even Chao Xing, who had been to Yili, could not say Too clear,
Zhen Lingdan suddenly smirked when she learned about the situation and asked, "Brother Chao, you said that if you were from Yili, I would only shoot a gun and not attack, and open a gap in the encirclement, what would you do? .”
"The enemy should be several times more than our army, so you should escape. On the contrary, if you are afraid of them now, how dare you confront us head-on? If there is a gap, you will definitely run away in a hurry." Chao Xing said ,
Zhen Lingdan nodded and said, "Then let me ask again, is there a very strong and large capital in Yilibali?" Chao Xing seemed to understand, and replied with a smile: "Of course, there is, Yilibali is the one. The capital we named him according to his capital is Yilibali, which is a strong city.”
Zhen Lingdan stood up and said to the map: "Tomorrow we will drive out of the city. There are many Mongolians in Yiliba. They are nomadic people. As long as they are middle-aged men, they can fight, and even children ride on horseback. You can also kill our Ming soldiers with bows and arrows, so their troops are easy to expand and they can even go into battle without training. However, no matter how fast they are, they cannot recruit a large army within a few days. All bows, arrows, sabers, food and grass need to be prepared. , Let's give them the time to prepare, defeat them one by one and force them to the capital, and then catch them all in one go."
"I have two problems. First, after the division of troops, if the remaining enemy forces come to one of our teams to fight hard, I am afraid that after we divide the troops, we will not be able to deploy troops in large-scale formations. The enemy's cavalry will suffer. Secondly, why don't we directly attack Huanglong and directly take down the enemy's capital and destroy the regime of Boyan Bell? Wouldn't it be faster?" Chao Xing asked,
Zhen Lingdan replied: "One, the enemy does not have the courage to do this now. You said it is easy to attack Huanglong. We just want to put pressure on him. Send troops and horses to drag the branches between the horsetails and the flags are high to confuse the enemy. They think this It is a large army that is approaching their capital. If nothing unexpected happens, Beyan Bell will shrink his troops as soon as possible and defend Kyoto. Our advance troops will not attack the city after they arrive. The construction of Gaozhai and the enemy will be exhausted. When the strategies around us are implemented, we will be implemented. , I had another trick, so because he reduced his troops, the various troops and horses will be particularly relaxed after we divided the troops. I think as you said before, just one shot to break through the city wall and you can force them away."
"As for the second point, why don't we go straight to Huanglong now? What we want is to defeat Yilibali, rather than overthrow the regime of Boyan Bell. Defeating him personally is not the purpose, conquering their entire nation is our foundation, and we can only fight all in one place
Only then can they completely let them stop and surrender to our Ming Dynasty. In short, just one sentence, either don’t hit them, or if they want to hit them, they will be beaten and changed them at once." Zhen Lingdan waved her fist and said with a hint of wind.
Chao Xing said with a little doubt: "You have said everything. If nothing unexpected happens, what if something happens? We don't have many soldiers and can't stand such trouble." Zhen Lingdan smiled and said
: "The army is going on a dangerous path, and the war is unexpected. There is also a gambling game. If the bet is right, we will win a great victory. If the bet is wrong, the soldiers and I will die together. Let's see
Can Boyan Bell guess my intention? This is a contest about luck, and I have no regrets if I lose."
Chao Xing nodded heavily after thinking for a long time and said, "I will play this bet with you." The two pointed to the map and began to construct an offensive plan until sunset.
After preparing for a day, on the third day, the Ming army left the city, divided into four groups, pretending to be a large army and approaching Yiliba's capital. The other three groups distinguished those small cities to attack. The battle situation was as Zhen Lingdan predicted.
It went very smoothly, and Yilizhan did not resist any decent resistance at all. Often, the Ming army had already fled in a hurry before they even arrived. The Mongolian men, women, young and old all rode horses, and they were not vague when they ran away.
As long as you arrive at a city, you can enter the empty city to rest, because there are still people in the city, and they have already run away.
Fifteen days later, the Ming army gathered in various ways and tried hard to capture the city. The army that had first arrived had built the city wall. The Ming army entered calmly and did not rush to attack the city. For one thing, Zhen Lingdan did not issue an order.
Secondly, I really couldn't attack the city because Yili surrounded the capital of the country. They all shouted to go to the city to take refuge, and some even entered the city with the name of joining the army.
In the past, only by catching strong men could he replenish his troops,
But even so, no one can enter the city, and the gate is tightly closed, because three days ago, the capital was already overcrowded, and now the city is more infiltrated than outside the city.
Through the people in Yiliba, Zhen Lingdan looked up at the city and smiled: "I have traveled all over a country and finally saw a decent city."
"Yes, it's probably a bit difficult to attack, let alone so many people across the front. What if Boyan Bell gathers all these people together to deal with us together, aren't we going to the trap?"
Chao Xing looked at the people under the city with concern several times more than him and said,
Zhen Lingdan shook her head and said, "This is one of the major reasons why I want to take this strategy. If we first attacked Huanglong's surprise attack on his capital, we would probably not have captured the capital, but were surrounded by people on the outside and were attacked on both sides. Now
, We have no worries anymore, we just need to firmly surround it, with the cooperation of firearms and crossbows and stone catapults, do we still need to be afraid of these unarmed Tartars? And we can't even get out of the city, they also
Being blocked in the city, the capital is certainly strong, but these people around the city are our first wave of weapons. It is very likely that after a wave, we can enter the capital without bloodshed."
"We are enemies, and there are tribe members in the city. When encountering dangerous people, the first reaction is to run to their relatives. You want to." Chao Xing looked at Zhen Lingdan in surprise.
Zhen Lingdan nodded coldly: "If I am not a member of my tribe, why should I have good thoughts? Brother Chao should not blame me, that's what I think."