Guan Wuyuan, who has always been calm and dignified, has been having a hard time recently. He is simply restless!
Originally, after he led troops to support Jiezhou City, he became a great savior in the eyes of the officials and people of Jiezhou City. In addition, the performance of the Mongolian coalition forces in the early stage of the siege was extremely poor, and they were easily repelled by Guan Wuyuan. This made Guan Wuyuan in Jiezhou City.
The prestige of Zhoucheng is getting higher and higher, and he has become an unparalleled hero in the eyes of the officials and people of Jiezhou City. Wuquxing is reincarnated, and everyone is doing their best to praise Guan Wuyuan.
However, since the Mongolian coalition launched the Han surrender to attack the city, Guan Wuyuan's good days have come to an end!
The offensive of the Han surrender troops was not as fierce as that of the Mongolian coalition, and the direct threat to Jiezhou City was not great. However, their siege was more planned. They did not rush towards the city wall in a chaotic manner, but swept the siege in an orderly manner.
Obstacle, while maintaining pressure on the defenders of Jiezhou City. Compared with the chaos when the Mongolian coalition forces attacked the city, this is obviously the correct method!
It stands to reason that Guan Wuyuan should try his best to stop Guan Wuyuan at this time, but because Zhao Junchen had given a clear order before, asking Guan Wuyuan to secretly release water when the Han troops descended to attack the city, Guan Wuyuan naturally did not dare to disobey Zhao Junchen's order, so he also
There was no effort to prevent the Han people from surrendering their troops.
In the end, it only took the Han people two or three days to clear the obstacles outside Jiezhou City and fill in the moat! In this way, the defensive capabilities of Jiezhou City were suddenly reduced a lot. By the time the Mongolian coalition forces
When attacking the city with all their strength, the Jiezhou defenders will have to bear greater pressure and casualties!
As a result, Guan Wuyuan naturally suffered a lot of criticism and pressure. Not only did the officials and people in Jiezhou City have a huge change in their impression of Guan Wuyuan, thinking that Guan Wuyuan was a mediocre general who had done nothing, even the officers and soldiers of the Forbidden Army under Guan Wuyuan also had many complaints.
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Guan Wuyuan himself is also a person who cherishes his life and fears death. After seeing that all the barriers and moats outside the city failed, he was naturally frightened. Coupled with the pressure from all parties, Guan Wuyuan has been restless and has been suffering from insomnia for two or three days.
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In the past few days, Guan Wuyuan has been looking forward to Zhao Junchen leading the army to come to the rescue in time. In this case, Guan Wuyuan's pressure and worries will naturally be solved. It is a pity that the Mongolian coalition forces are about to attack the city with all their strength without any worries, but Zhao
The reinforcements planned by Junchen are still missing.
This made Guan Wuyuan feel like he had become an outcast.
In the early morning of this day, Guan Wuyuan knew that the Mongolian coalition forces were about to attack the city on a large scale, so naturally he did not dare to neglect anything. He appeared on the city wall at dawn to observe the actions of the Mongolian coalition forces outside the city!
However, what Guan Wuyuan didn't expect was that although all the obstacles and moats outside Jiezhou City had been cleared, the main force of the Mongolian coalition had not yet moved, and did not rush to attack the city with all its strength as expected!
Then, Guan Wuyuan observed the city wall for nearly an hour. As a result, the Mongolian coalition forces still showed no movement!
Just when Guan Wuyuan was getting impatient, a scene that stunned him appeared!
The Mongolian coalition finally made a move. Team after team of cavalry began to gather, and then ran towards the north. Guan Wuyuan made a rough estimate and found that the Mongolian camp had left tens of thousands of horses in a short period of time!
After seeing this scene, Guan Wuyuan felt incredible!
"Could it be that the Mongols are about to retreat?"
Guan Wuyuan murmured to himself.
On the side, Guan Wuyuan's deputy general Zhang Chengxun frowned and shook his head: "It doesn't look like retreating, but it looks like dividing the troops to attack somewhere in the north... In that direction, it seems to be Zhenning Acropolis? Hasn't that place already fallen?"
Just when Guan Wuyuan and Zhang Chengxun were secretly puzzled, there was movement again in the Mongolian camp outside the city. A large number of Mongolian troops began to gather outside Jiezhou City and took up an siege posture.
After seeing this scene, Guan Wuyuan and Zhang Chengxun knew that the Mongolian coalition was finally about to officially attack the city. They did not care about guessing the Mongolian coalition's intention to divide their forces, and just quickly ordered the soldiers to defend the city.
In any case, after the Mongolian coalition forces left with 10,000 troops, the pressure on Jiezhou City was somewhat reduced!
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The reason why the Mongolian coalition forces suddenly divided their forces and headed north starts from an hour ago!
But he said that in the early morning of that day, when it was still dark, Bagan sent out the exploration horses again!
Because He Zhang repeatedly intercepted and killed Mongolian detective horses yesterday, Bagan sent more detective horses this time. The detective horses were not only responsible for detecting the movements of the surrounding Han troops, but also responsible for tracking the whereabouts of He Zhang's troops!
Bagan couldn't wait to take revenge on He Zhang for humiliating the Mongolian coalition!
Then, only half an hour after the scouts left the camp, news quickly came back, saying that a large number of Mongolian corpses were found east of the Mongolian camp, totaling more than two hundred bodies - this is exactly what happened.
This is the number of missing horses from the Mongolian coalition forces yesterday!
Bagan originally did not expect these horses to be alive, but some abnormal conditions on the bodies of these horses caught Bogen's attention!
That is, all the Tanma corpses were left with only their underwear, and all their shirts had been taken away!
After He Zhang killed the Mongolian detective horses, why did he deliberately take away the shirts of these Mongolian detective horses?
There is only one explanation, and that is that He Zhang wanted to use these Mongolian war robes to disguise his Han army as a Mongolian army, and then use this to achieve a certain goal!
After thinking of this, Bagan suddenly became wary!
However, before Bogen could figure out where He Zhang's goal was, the scouts once again received a shocking news - Zhenning Acropolis had been lost!
After learning the news, Bagan felt dizzy for a moment!
You know, Bagan hoarded most of the food and grass for the Mongolian coalition in Zhenning Acropolis!
After the fall of Zhenning Acropolis, the Mongolian coalition forces lost most of their food and grass. How could they continue to fight?
Not to mention that there are a large number of ordnance and military horses in Zhenning Acropolis!
Then, Bagan finally knew He Zhang's goal - that was Zhenning Acropolis!
Bagan even thought he had found the reason for the fall of Zhenning Acropolis! It must be that He Zhang's troops put on Mongolian jerseys and disguised themselves as Mongolian warriors, and managed to deceive the Mongolian defenders of Zhenning Acropolis, which ultimately caused the
The fall of Zhenning Acropolis!
To a certain extent, Bagan's guess was not wrong. He Zhang did use disguise to defeat the Zhenning Acropolis, but He Zhang captured the Zhenning Acropolis before he attacked the Mongolian camp!
Under Zhao Junchen's calculation, the purpose of deliberately letting Mongolian detective horses discover these corpses with their shirts taken away was to further mislead Bagan's judgment and make Bogen mistakenly believe that He Zhang's method of conquering Zhenning Acropolis was just opportunistic. He Zhang
Its own strength is still very weak!
Obviously, Zhao Junchen’s plan succeeded!
After thinking about this, Bagan suddenly became furious!
He originally thought that He Zhang's appearance was not a serious problem. Who would have thought that He Zhang actually broke through the Mongolian coalition's only fulcrum and retreat in the Ming Dynasty, and also took away most of the Mongolian coalition's food and grass?
In anger, Bagan wanted to cut He Zhang into pieces with a thousand swords to vent his hatred. He immediately sent 10,000 cavalry to Zhenning Acropolis, vowing to retake Zhenning Acropolis in the shortest possible time and wipe out He Zhang's army!
Then, the scene that Guan Wuyuan saw appeared!
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At the same time, the main force of the border troops under Zhao Junchen had hid in a valley in the east of Gongchang Mansion.
Last night, not only was He Zhang and the cavalry running back and forth, which was extremely difficult, but Zhao Junchen and the main force of the frontier army also marched all night, without any chance to rest, and they were busy all night.
In order to realize the plan of showing weakness to the enemy, the main force of the border army could not be detected by the Mongolian coalition forces, so Zhao Junchen divided the main force of the border army into two parts, and a small force focusing on logistics left Gongchang Mansion along the original road.
By the way, traces of the main force of the border army's march into Gongchang Mansion were cleared away, and most of the troops as the main combat force were hidden, hiding in the blind spots of the Mongolian coalition's sight.
Fortunately, Gongchang Mansion has a vast territory and is one of the largest state capitals in the Ming Dynasty. The internal terrain is also complicated, with hills and ravines everywhere. Although Zhao Junchen's frontier army is large in scale, with a total of fifty thousand people.
There are many, but it is not difficult to hide!
When the news that the Mongolian coalition forces were divided to attack Zhenning Acropolis reached Zhao Junchen, the exhausted Zhao Junchen couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly: "It seems that the Mongols were misled after all, and they did not
Because of the fall of Zhenning Acropolis, we discovered the true strength of our army! Moreover, although the Tianshui Rebellion this time disrupted our planned plan, in a way it was a blessing in disguise. It actually allowed the Mongolian coalition to divide its forces into two.
In this way, as long as He Zhang and the others stick to the Zhenning Acropolis for a few days, and after the Tianshui rebellion subsides, we can break it up, and the chance of winning will actually be even greater!"
After hearing what Zhao Junchen said, all the civil and military officials present nodded in agreement and said in unison: "Such a blessing in disguise is really a blessing from God to our dynasty, and God bless the Imperial Envoy!"
The plan to show weakness to the enemy has been initially successful, and most of the civil and military officials breathed a sigh of relief and were faintly excited, but their voices were all weak and spiritless.
Obviously, after working all night, everyone was exhausted and reached their limit.
In fact, Zhao Junchen is more exhausted than most people!
Everyone present had only been busy for a few days and stayed up all night. However, Zhao Junchen had not had a good rest since entering Shaanxi and Gansu. He was overtaxing his efforts and energy almost every day for this war.
At this time, Zhao Junchen only felt sore and weak all over, and even his heart could no longer beat.
However, like He Zhang last night, Zhao Junchen was unwilling to show his fatigue in front of everyone. He just glanced at everyone slowly and said: "Now that the big thing has been decided, our plan has been initially successful. Everyone is busy.
It's been a good night, and there hasn't been much going on in the past few days. You should seize the opportunity to have a rest! In two or three days, we will probably be busy again, and it will be difficult to rest by then.