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Chapter 181 Feint and main attack

Obviously Emperor Tianyuan was tempted.

The corners of Yesudier's mouth turned up, and he said calmly, "Your Majesty only needs to do this to defeat the Ming Dynasty..."

The light in Emperor Tianyuan's eyes grew brighter and brighter as he listened to Yesudier's words, and he kept nodding his head, obviously thinking that the other party's method was risky but very feasible.

Soon, the Mongolian army in the Mongolian camp was divided into two parts. One part, which numbered as many as 50,000, continued to retreat towards the rear, and no one knew where it went.

However, this strange phenomenon was not hidden from the Ming army.

Xu Miaoqing stood next to Zhu Gui and looked at a chess piece of the Mongolian army on the sand table in front of him.

Is it a desert? If you want to go around to the rear of our army, you don’t need to go in this direction? There is obviously a shortcut near here."

Zhu Gui was also a little confused about this strange phenomenon, but he could only send more scouts to monitor the march of this army.

But now he is looking forward to news about Xu Yingxu.

So he could only say to Xu Miaoqing: "Maybe something happened on the grassland, and they should go back to take charge of the overall situation."

"If I were the leader of this Mongolian people, even if something happened on the grassland, I would not just give up my superior strength. Instead, I would first deal with the enemy in front of me and then go back to take charge of the overall situation." Xu Miaoqing analyzed.

Zhu Gui did not comment on Xu Miaoqing's words because he could not find a more reasonable explanation. He did not believe that the Mongols were really afraid of him.

But no matter what, the current strength of the Ming army still does not have an advantage, so we can only wait and see what happens.

To the southwest from Zhu Gui's camp, four thousand troops led by Xu Yingxu were quietly lurking in a valley.

Not long ago, the 50,000 Mongolian army led by Yesudier was detouring through here.

Xu Yingxu also felt a little baffled by the scene before him, so he sent scouts to follow the Mongolian.

But at the same time, he did not forget his mission and continued to lead the remaining troops in the designated direction.

After carefully bypassing several Mongolian checkpoints, a Mongolian military camp suddenly appeared in front of Xu Yingxu.

"It should be almost here. We have looked around here. This is most likely the camp where the Mongolian leader is. If we can really break through here, we may be able to end this war as quickly as possible.

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After Xu Yingxu finished talking to himself, he ordered the army to rest in hiding and wait for dark to launch a surprise attack.

The sky in November quickly turned dark, and countless torches were raised in the Mongolian military camp.

Although 50,000 people were evacuated, there were still at least 40,000 elite Mongolian cavalry in the camp.

Xu Yingxu's cavalry only had 4,000 men. Although they were battle-hardened, the difficulty of this battle was unprecedented.

Xu Yingxu whispered the battle order and then released a homing pigeon that had been prepared in advance.

Soon Zhu Gui received the carrier pigeon, and immediately ordered the entire army to attack towards the Mongolian camp.

The rumble of horse hoofs soon attracted the attention of the Mongols, and battle reports were sent to Emperor Tianyuan's camp one after another.

"These Ming people are really well-informed. They dared to attack just after half of our army was divided. According to my order, all the armies stayed in the camp and stayed behind closed doors."

A smile actually appeared on Emperor Tianyuan's face. In his opinion, this Mingjun was obviously fooled. As long as he could hold back this Ming army, Yesudier's victory rate would be even greater.

Zhu Gui's side was originally a feint attack, but he did not expect that the Ming army was already less than a thousand meters away from the Mongolian camp, and only sparse arrows were shot.

"What does this mean? Have the Mongols given up resistance?" Zhu Gui shook his head after saying this. There are one-third of the Mongolian combat troops here. Can they really give up so easily?

Or is this troop a decoy, just to hold them back?

When Zhu Gui thought about this, he became more concerned about the whereabouts of the leaving Mongolian army.

How could he be willing to accept it if he couldn't swallow the meat that was on his lips now? No matter what the Mongols' conspiracy was, he would take this step now.

So Zhu Gui quickly commanded the troops to attack the Mongolian camp. More than ten Shenwu cannons were placed at the entrance of the Mongolian camp.

This scene made the Mongolians dumbfounded. How could such a big guy be transported to such a short distance?

But they no longer have time to think about this matter.

After a rumbling burst of artillery, several huge gaps were quickly blasted out of the Mongolian camp, and then Zhu Gui waved his hand and the Ming army quickly rushed in.

The feint attack turned into a main attack. Zhu Gui ordered a cavalry squad to protect Xu Miaoqing on the spot, while he himself led the cavalry and rushed in.

Xu Miaoqing didn't say anything this time and accepted Zhu Gui's words very quietly.

At the rear of the Mongolian army, after Xu Yingxu heard the sound of cannons as a signal, he quickly led his troops to launch an attack from the rear.

Although they do not have Shenwu cannons, they do have a thousand Yunzhou troops.

However, the Yunzhou Army had flintlock muskets, which could completely crush the Mongolian cavalry in terms of firepower.

Moreover, the frontal battlefield had attracted the attention of the Mongols, so after Xu Yongxu ordered a thousand men to ambush on the spot, he led the remaining three thousand men into the Mongolian camp.

For a moment, the Mongolian camp was in a state of panic. They did not expect that the Ming army would break through the gate so quickly. All this happened too fast.

In addition, the morale of the Mongols had already fallen to the bottom. Even though they had a strength advantage of 40,000, they collapsed at the first touch.

After being defeated like a mountain, Emperor Tianyuan sat in the tent with a dejected look on his face. He never expected that all the advantages he had gained for a month would be given away in two days.

"Why? Who can tell me why? Is it so difficult for me to restore the glory of the Great Yuan?"

"Your Majesty, leave quickly. The Ming army has already reached less than a hundred or two hundred meters away. If we don't leave, it will be too late."

A group of young eunuchs around Emperor Tian Yuan hurriedly helped him tidy up and dressed up like ordinary soldiers, and then thought about leaving from the back of the camp.

But not long after they left, they ran into the oncoming troops led by Xu Yingxu.

Then Tian Yuan Di was dispersed by them. Fortunately, Xu Yingxu didn't know Emperor Tian Yuan, so he let him go unintentionally.


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