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Chapter 259 Li Huan's Ambition 【Order】

All the Tatars present looked at Han Yu with strange eyes after hearing Han Yu's words. They only knew that Han Yu hated Daming very much, but they didn't expect that Han Yu would give them such a thing. idea.

If it is true as what Han Yu said, Daming will really have to repeat the battle of Tumubao by then.

When their army appeared outside the capital of Daming, the whole of Ming would definitely be in turmoil. Even if the capital of Daming could not be breached by then, they would surely be able to plunder countless wealth along the way.

Thinking of this, many people showed excitement and eagerness in their eyes, and they looked at Han Yu with a hint of satisfaction in their eyes.

Rudal laughed and looked at Han Yu and said, "Mr. Han is right, that's what it should be, that's what it should be."

Rudar said to Dayan Khan, "Great Khan, I would like to be the vanguard. I will go meet that mighty general of the Ming Dynasty for a while. After taking his head, I will enter Shaanxi again. According to Mr. Han's As you said, how about entering the capital?"

Dayan Khan sat there quietly, looking quite calm, unlike most of the Tatars present who were excited by Han Yu's words, one by one clamoring to enter the capital.

Slightly waving his hands, Dayan Khan waited until the crowd gradually calmed down their excitement, and then slowly opened his mouth and said to the crowd: "It is not possible to go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty if you want to, let's not mention these, but Mr. Han One thing is correct, that is, no matter what, Li Huan's troops must be wiped out first, otherwise, Ben Khan's sending troops this time will return in vain."

You must know that Dayan Khan sent troops this time under the banner of avenging the two tribes of Huli and Heihe that were destroyed by Li Huan.

If Li Huan hid in the capital and couldn't come out, then that's all right. He could lead a group of people to plunder Daming and return to the grassland under such a banner, and he was able to explain to the various tribes on the grassland.

After all, he is the co-owner of the grassland, and Hulibu and Heihebu are his people. His own people were wiped out by Ming Dynasty. He, the co-owner of the grassland, must respond, otherwise it will definitely affect his life. prestige.

Now Li Huan is in Qingyang Mansion, and even led his troops to wipe out all the troops of the Suder tribe. This forced Dayan Khan to kill Li Huan, otherwise he would not be able to explain to everyone.

As soon as Dayan Khan said this, all the people in the tent said in unison, "Long live the Great Khan, long live the Great Khan, I swear to kill Li Huan, swear to kill Li Huan!"

More than a dozen people shouted in unison, which shows that the opinions of all the Tatars are highly unified on the point of killing Li Huan.

The three tribes of Huli, Heihe, and Suder were destroyed directly because of Li Huan. For these Tatars, if Li Huan is not eliminated, that is their shame.

Rudal turned to Dayan Khan again and said, "Great Khan, let me lead the troops to fight against Li Huan, and I will kill him."

Glancing at Rudal, Dayan Khan groaned for a while, his eyes fell on a big man beside Rudal and said: "Mutai, you take Wanhu under your command and go with Rudal."

Rudal and Mutai are both ten thousand households under his command, leading tens of thousands of horses. The two add up to [-] elite cavalry. Unless such a force directly collides with most of Da Ming's troops, otherwise, it will be enough to defeat Da Ming. This northwest land is wanton and horizontal.

Even if they met Li Huan's troops, the [-] elite cavalry were sure enough to kill Li Huan.

After all, according to the information obtained by Dayan Khan, Li Huan only brought tens of thousands of horses with him when he left Beijing. If Li Huan pacified King Anhua and the battle losses with Su Deer, according to Dayan Khan's estimation, Li Huan still has at most six or seven thousand battle-ready soldiers under his command.

And the combined command of Rudal and Mutai is 2 horses, which is almost three times that of Li Huan. If Li Huan can't be taken down, Dayan Khan feels that he should kill Rudal, The heads of the Mutai duo were gone.

Rudal and Mutai looked at each other when they heard the words, with excitement shining in their eyes.

There may be some accidents with one Wanhu, but Dayan Khan directly sent two Wanhu, so there is nothing to worry about.

Both of them stepped forward to salute Dayan Khan and said, "Don't worry, Khan, we will kill Li Huan."

Luming Town

After Li Huan led the army to wipe out the Surde tribe near Luming Town, Li Huan directly ordered the army to stop in Luming Town.

On the one hand, they sent people to send a message to the capital, and on the other hand, they notified Yang Yiqing to lead the army to prepare to face the main force of the Tatars.

At the same time, Li Huan also sent several sentries to contact the soldiers and horses he had drawn from various places when he sent troops.

Whether it is Sichuan, Henan, Shanxi and other places, or the army of the Guanzheng Army that is training in Xi'an Prefecture, Shaanxi, after such a long time, it has almost entered Qingyang Prefecture at this moment.

So Li Huan has been waiting for the court's response these days, while paying attention to the news of reinforcements from all sides.

Of course, Li Huan's men and horses were stationed in Luming Town, but they also meant to recuperate.

After all, after a great battle, there are still more than 8000 cavalrymen who followed Li Huan out of Beijing, which means that in that battle, more than 1000 people were killed or injured on the Ming side.

One must know that this was Li Huan's final victory, so many wounded soldiers of Ming Dynasty were able to fight again after receiving treatment. As for those who were seriously injured or directly died in battle, they accounted for more than 1000 people.

Such casualties were not light, but in comparison, the more than [-] cavalrymen of Sudel's troops were all killed, and only a few escaped. Daming's loss was nothing.

However, after the original battle, tens of thousands of cavalry were lost and there were still more than 1 people. However, after these days, the number of troops has once again recovered to tens of thousands, and the number even approaches [-].

Compared with ten days ago, there was an increase of nearly 4000 people.

Needless to say, these troops were the elite drawn from the local guards and frontier troops under Cao Xiong.

After destroying the Suder tribe, Li Huan seized as many as six or seven thousand war horses, all of which were the property of the Suder tribe.

Although the Suder tribe only has six to seven thousand people, there are nearly 7000 war horses, some of which are directly used as pack horses, and thousands of war horses carry forage, grain, and property looted by the Tatars.

However, all these things have now fallen into Li Huan's hands.Although many of the horses died on the battlefield, there were six or seven thousand horses that fell into the hands of Li Huan in the end.

If it weren't for the lack of more elite cavalry that could be recruited, these six or seven thousand war horses could double the elite cavalry of Li Huan's men.

Even so, now Li Huan's elite cavalry has expanded to more than 1 people. After repeated drills, those newly joined cavalry have gradually integrated into it.

Li Huan was standing among a hill with his hands behind his back, looking at the huge grave outside Luming Town from a distance.

The mound looked huge, and what was buried in it was the people who were massacred by the Tatars in Luming Town.

After annihilating the Su Deer tribe, Li Huan ordered that all the corpses of the people in Luming Town be found and buried. For this purpose, such a huge grave was built.

When Li Huan was looking at the mound from a distance, a figure walked over quickly. Who was it if it wasn't Lin Pingzhi who followed Li Huan out of the capital.

Lin Pingzhi received Li Huan's order to enter Ningxia first, and contacted Ningxia Jinyiwei Qianhu to inquire about the news of the Tatars.

After several years of experience, Lin Pingzhi's whole person seems to have obviously lost the childishness of a rich man, and appears extremely capable.

Lin Pingzhi strode over and saluted Li Huan, "My lord, news from Jin Yiwei."

Hearing this, Li Huan turned around, glanced at Lin Pingzhi, and saw Lin Pingzhi handing over two letters.

He stretched out his hand to take it, and under the watchful eyes of Ren Ping and others, Li Huan opened the letter, looked at it, and smiled a little at the corner of his mouth: "Your Majesty has appointed Mr. Wang Ge as the commander of the army, and now Mr. Wang Ge has caught up with Guan." The [-] troops of the Conscript Department officially took over the army and came towards Qingyang Mansion."

Ren Ping and Lin Pingzhi were all taken aback when they heard the words, with surprise on their faces.

Even though they were stationed in Luming Town, they knew very well about the movements of the Tatars.

In addition to the Tatars rushing forward at first, but later uncharacteristically, they did not rush southward in a swarm, but advanced in an orderly manner.

The nearly [-] cavalry were divided into two parts, one part was running towards Yang Yiqing's troops, and the other part was slowly pressing towards Qingyang Mansion like Mount Tai pressing down on the top.

If the Tatars spread out to loot everywhere, Li Huan could choose to attack them one by one, but unfortunately the Tatars did not divide their forces at all, which made Li Huan helpless.

Tens of thousands of fine cavalry are indeed a force that is not weak, but it also depends on who it is compared with. Nearly [-] Tatar cavalry overwhelm it, which is almost a six-fold disparity. No matter how confident Li Huan is, he cannot I think I can beat the Tatars.

Now knowing that Wang Yangming has come and took over the [-] troops from Guan Zheng's Department, and is heading towards Qingyang Mansion, not only Li Huan, but everyone who heard the news showed joy on their faces.

Li Huan opened another letter, then frowned.

Lin Pingzhi and Ren Ping, who had been paying attention to the changes in Li Huan's expression, felt their hearts sink. It must be some bad news.

Li Huan took a deep breath, glanced at Ren Ping and Lin Pingzhi and said, "The Tatars have divided their troops."

Ren Ping was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he reacted and said, "Could it be that they came running after us?"

Li Huan nodded slightly and said: "Jinyiwei's secret report, just yesterday, suddenly two households were separated from the majority of the Tatars, led by Mutai and Rudar, and they were running at a very fast speed. Coming to Luming Town, if there are no accidents, we should be able to approach Luming Town tomorrow evening."

Ren Ren said solemnly: "Dayan Khan actually sent more than [-] people from two thousand households here. It seems that he wants to hit us hard in one fell swoop."

Li Huan walked towards the war horse not far away, quickly got on the horse and said: "Go back to the camp and call the generals to discuss matters."

Soon, in the camp, Li Huanduan sat in the commander's tent, where more than a dozen generals of all sizes gathered in the army.

Ren Ping, Xu Ying, Chen Ang, Cao Xiong and other generals were all present. At this moment, everyone has already heard the news that more than [-] Tatars are rushing to Luming Town.

Everyone's faces were full of dignified colors. There were [-] Tatars, but they should not be underestimated. One negligence would lead to a big defeat.

They had an advantage in numbers before, and in addition, these generals, one by one, rushed to kill the enemy with their own arrows, and killed the Suder tribe by surprise.

It can be said that they relied on the right time, place and people, and various advantages to annihilate the Sudel tribe. Even so, they paid a considerable price.

That was only a few thousand men and horses from the Suder tribe, and now they were about to face more than [-] elite Tatar horsemen, no one dared to take it lightly.

Especially after the [-] fine riders, and most of the Tatars who Dayan Khan personally sits in the town, the whole army may be overwhelmed at any time.

Cao Xiong, as the commander-in-chief, can be said to be the highest-ranking officer present besides Li Huan, at this moment he said, "General, the Tatars are coming, what should we do?"

All eyes fell on Li Huan.

Li Huan sat there with a dignified expression. Hearing this, he slowly raised his head, glanced at everyone and said, "Do you have any countermeasures?"

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and ask them to think of some strategies, so the truth is that it is really difficult for them.

What's more, they couldn't think of any strategies. Facing tens of thousands of cavalry, the most common tactics of water and fire were simply not ready to be used. not.

After thinking about it, it seems that there is only one way to do it, and that is head-to-head.

But all fools know that this is obviously the most unwise choice. If they have a large number of people, they will be head-to-head. Now it is obvious that the Tatars have an advantage in numbers. As for the defeat, I am afraid that there will be a heavy price to pay.

Seeing the reaction of the crowd, Li Huan said to Cao Xiong: "General Cao, what happened to the governor ordering you to build twelve earth walls on four sides?"

Cao Xiong was taken aback when he heard the words, then he reacted and said: "Back to the general, the construction has been completed according to the general's order."

Speaking of which, Cao Xiong seemed to have reacted, thinking that Li Huan ordered him to supervise tens of thousands of horses under his command more than ten days ago, and recruited many young and strong people from the people in all directions, and forcibly built a road with a height of one person and three feet. Wide earth walls, these earth walls are divided into four sides, and three walls are built on each side, with a radius of more than ten miles.

If it wasn't for him to follow Li Huan's orders to take out a large amount of food to recruit the young and strong, the soldiers and horses under his command alone really couldn't be built in more than ten days.

Thinking about it now, Cao Xiong suddenly understood that Li Huan ordered him to supervise the construction of these earthen walls, most likely to deal with the Tatars.

Cao Xiong was able to think of these things, so naturally Chen Ang, Xu Ying and others could also think of them.

Ren Ping said with a little bit of surprise: "The general, do you mean that we use these earthen walls to resist the Tatar cavalry?"

Xu Ying frowned slightly, and said with a bit of puzzled look on his face: "General, how can the earth wall compare with the city wall? We can retreat to the city."

After all, Wanning County, which is the closest to them, is only tens of miles away, and all of them can enter the city in at most one morning. Even the city walls of the county cannot be breached by Tatar cavalry.

So Xu Ying was quite puzzled. If Li Huan was to defend against the Tatars, why did he abandon the city walls and instead let Cao Xiong spend so much manpower and material resources to create such earthen walls that obviously don't have much defensive power? .

After all, in Xu Ying's opinion, the function of those earthen walls was at most to slow down the Tatar cavalry's charge, and even if the Tatars were willing to work hard, it was not impossible for the Tatars to destroy those earthen walls.

What Ren Ping and Xu Ying said made many Ming army generals in the big tent show curiosity and doubt.

Li Huan glanced at Xu Ying and said: "The city wall is indeed extremely safe. With the help of the city wall, we can even guard it for several months, and the Tatars have no ability to break through the city."

The crowd nodded approvingly, because they added up to more than 10 horsemen, but if there is enough food and grass to defend a city, even if [-] Tatars come to attack, they are confident to defend it for several months.

However, after Li Huan finished speaking, he said again: "Nadayan Khan is not a fool, we hid in the city, do you think the Tatars will attack the city?"

Cao Xiong said meaningfully: "Unless their heads are broken and the cavalry attack the city, what price will they have to pay to break the city?"

Said Cao Xiong said: "If it were me, I would never go to attack the city."

Li Huan looked at Cao Xiong with a smile and said, "If you don't go to attack the city, Mr. Cao, what would you do with so many Tatars?"

Cao Xiong didn't even think about it and said, "What else can we do? Since the Tatars can't see the hope of destroying the city, they will definitely send some troops to stare at us, block us in the city, and at the same time send some troops to disperse Looting."

Li Huan looked righteous and said: "What Cao Zongbing said is true. The reason why I didn't retreat into the city was to let Cao Zongbing build this simple earth wall fortress, so that the Tatars could see how the fortress was broken. , take down our hope."

Xu Ying immediately reacted and said: "Are you trying to restrain the Tatars and prevent the Tatars from harming the people of our Ming Dynasty?"

Hearing this, Li Huan nodded slightly with a smile on his face, then shook his head again.

Amidst everyone's puzzlement, a stern look flashed in Li Huan's eyes and he said: "This Governor wants to keep them all, and then find a way to eat them."

When everyone heard the words, they all looked at each other in dismay, you looked at me, I looked at you, there was a faint flash of disbelief in their eyes.

No one thought that Li Huan would eat all the Tatars who would commit crimes in the future.

Gulu swallowed, and Cao Xiong looked at Li Huan and said, "General, this... I'm afraid it's a bit impossible, that's 2 Tatar cavalry, we're going all out, and there's more than [-] infantry and cavalry in total. Just by these earthen walls, like leaving these Tartars?"

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(End of this chapter)