I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 405: Bite Tumen Khan!
"Young Master!"

A lieutenant rode back and reported to Xiao Ruxun.

Xiao Ruxun, who was about fourteen or fifteen years old, had a gray face. Sweat flowed down her forehead and temples, leaving streaks of water. The gray stains on her face were layer upon layer of dust and sweat, which got wet and dried, dry and wet again, and finally formed a layer of sweat.

His eyes were bloodshot, revealing determination and ferocity.

"Did Tumen Khan escape?"

"They haven't run away. They are more than ten miles ahead of us. We can see their silhouettes through the telescope."

"how many people?"

"More than thirty people."

"A few more are missing."

"Yes, Master. We encountered several bodies on the road. They should be the missing ones."

"Damn Tumen Khan, he can really run!" Xiao Ruxun exhaled, pulled the reins and cursed breathlessly.

A lieutenant colonel in front turned and gestured.

"Stop. Tumen Khan stopped to rest. Let's stop to rest as well. Eat and drink water, and feed the horses."

Xiao Ruxun immediately pulled the reins, gave a loud order, and then urged his mount to rush forward and stand side by side with more than a dozen cavalrymen.

A cavalryman was looking into the distance with a telescope. When he saw Xiao Ruxun riding over, he handed the telescope to him.

"Master, look, they stopped."

Xiao Ruxun raised the telescope and looked in the direction he was pointing. More than 30 people got off their horses and were lying or sitting on the ground, drinking water and eating. Some people struggled to get up and feed the horses water and food.

One of them looked disheveled but very familiar; it was the target Tumen Khan.

He seemed to be aware that someone was watching him from a distance, and he looked over here while eating.

"About twelve miles." Xiao Ruxun made a rough estimate.

The experienced lieutenant next to him nodded and said, "Master, you are right. It is between twelve and fifteen miles away."

"Keep an eye on it. I'll call someone to take your place in fifteen minutes."

"Okay! Master, you should also go and have a good rest."

Xiao Ruxun rode his horse back to his team, leaned forward on the saddle with his upper body, and tried to get off the horse, but his waist was stiff and he had no strength to lift his right leg, and he almost fell off the saddle.

Fortunately, the personal soldiers saw that something was wrong with him, and they ran over quickly and helped him off the horse.

Xiao Ruxun supported himself with the help of two personal soldiers, swung his legs back and forth, twisted his waist left and right, and slowly recovered.

He sat down nearby, munching on some hard biscuits, drinking some boiled water, and listening to the report from the military academy.

"Master, we have lost fifteen men. Ten of them are too seriously injured to ride their horses. I left five of them to take care of them at the ranch we passed by an hour ago."

Xiao Ruxun ate the biscuits quickly. The biscuits were hard and dry, and he ate them too quickly. The water in the leather bag choked him and he rolled his eyes.

"In addition to the fifteen horses that were lost, nine horses just died. Three horses per person is not enough."

Xiao Ruxun finally finished the half piece of dry biscuit that was left over from last time, gulped down a few big gulps of water, stood up, lifted up his leather armor, and started peeing on the grass outside.

The rest of the cavalrymen also finished eating and drinking. Some were packing their horse gear and luggage, while others, like him, stood outside and urinated.

"Xia Qinian, take your men to replace King He Ye in front."

Xiao Ruxun spoke loudly while peeing.

"Yes!"

After peeing, Xiao Ruxun shuddered and turned to the military school and said, "We must replenish the lost twenty horses. I just looked ahead and there should be a ranch. When we pass there, we can buy twenty horses from them."

After saying that, Xiao Ruxun took out a handful of silver coins from the leather bag next to the saddle and counted out forty of them to give to the military academy.

The lieutenant took the silver coin and put it in his arms, "Master, we can just requisition their horses directly, why bother with so much trouble and pay for them."

"Requisition, you might as well say rob! When we were at Xishan Military Academy, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince told us to always pay attention to military discipline.

This Mobei will also be the territory of our Great Ming in the future, and the herdsmen here will also be the people of our Great Ming in the future. This time we abide by military discipline and rules, and next time we come, the herdsmen here will know that we are the benevolent and righteous king's army, and they will naturally join us enthusiastically. "

The lieutenant did not comment, but Xiao Ruxun looked serious and did not dare to disobey the order.

"Master, don't worry, I will definitely give them some silver coins. But if we continue like this, I'm afraid there won't be enough silver coins."

"I borrowed these silver dollars from everyone. If they are not enough, I can use my jade pendant to buy more. Don't worry, Crown Prince is wise. This time we chased Tumen Khan for thousands of miles. Even if we don't catch this old dog in the end, His Highness will reward us handsomely. You don't have to worry about me not being able to pay back these silver dollars."

The people around laughed, "Master, if you can't pay it back, you can give me the jade horse you bought last month as collateral."

"Bah, you murderer, you're going to blind your mind!" Xiao Ruxun cursed with a smile.

"Report! Tumen Khan is moving again!"

"Get on the horse!" Xiao Ruxun shouted, grabbed the saddle bridge, climbed on the horse, raised the whip, and said hurriedly: "Go, go! Follow me!"

Tumen Khan led the remaining troops to flee again. He looked back and saw black shadows in the distance as small as ants, moving towards this side quickly.

Tumen Khan whipped his horse hard and cursed angrily: "Damn you, these lingering ghosts!"

The two groups chased each other and ran all the way until night. They were so tired that they tacitly stopped more than ten miles apart, lit a bonfire, set up sentries, and had a good rest.

The night on the grassland is very quiet, and the chirping of insects is very sparse, sometimes far away and sometimes near.

The starry sky is like a mirror, and the stars seem to be reflecting the lights of the world.

The Milky Way is like a long thread, running across the night sky.

Xiao Ruxun squinted his eyes, leaned on the horse's legs, and took a nap.

"Young Master!"

Someone was pushing him.

Xiao Ruxun woke up immediately, opened his eyes and saw that it was Xia Qinian.

He lowered his voice and asked softly, "What's the matter?"

"Master, King He Ye and I went forward to scout and found that Tumen Khan did not set up any sentries to monitor us."

Xiao Ruxun immediately regained consciousness and said in a lost voice, "How is that possible?"

"Master, there really isn't one. King He Ye and I, along with four Night Guards, kept moving forward and heard them talking by the campfire. That's when we discovered the outer sentries they had set up.

I discussed with Lao He that it might be the sentry who was monitoring us, so he ran away quietly. "

Xiao Ruxun's eyes sparkled in the night, "No matter if he ran away or was careless, now is a godsend opportunity for us!"

"Yes, Master Young Master, without any sentries monitoring us, we can get to them right under their noses."

"We can't have too many people, fifty is enough. When we get close, send some people to scare away their mounts first, and the rest just charge in. The main force will wait ten miles away, and we will take the opportunity to attack them and we will definitely kill Tumen Khan!
"Old Xia, call all the Ye Bushou soldiers, and select twenty or so brave and cautious fighters. Take off your leather armor, and sneak over with light gear."

Xiao Ruxun made a prompt decision.

"it is good!"

Everything was arranged quickly. Xiao Ruxun, wearing an archery suit, carrying a bow and quiver, and equipped with two steel knives, followed Xia Qinian, He Yewang and more than fifty other night warriors and brave warriors, tiptoed to the outskirts of the Tumen Khan camp, then lay on the ground, and crawled forward cautiously like a lizard, stopping from time to time, holding his breath, and observing the movements in the camp ahead.

It took more than half an hour to climb the nearly two-mile distance.

In the meantime, Xia Qinian and He Yewang took four skilled night sentries and divided into two groups. They quietly took out the outer sentries and finally sneaked to a place less than a hundred meters outside the camp.

Xiao Ruxun found the place where the Northern Tartars' mounts were concentrated and made a gesture to King He Ye. He nodded in understanding and went around there with more than a dozen of his men.

"No!" A man stood up beside the campfire, and his voice woke up the people around him.

"Khan, what's wrong?"

"The sentry monitoring the Ming army has not reported in over an hour."

The guards and attendants around him also realized that something was wrong. Someone said, "Great Khan, I will send someone to check it out right away. You get everyone up and get ready. If anything goes wrong, immediately protect the Khan and leave."

Xiao Ruxun knew it was at this moment, he turned around and nodded to Xia Qinian and others, took out a strong bow and arrow in the dark, slowly straightened up, drew the bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at the Tumen Khan who was anxiously standing beside the campfire.

It hit him right in the chest.

Xiao Ruxun put the bow back into the bow bag, drew out the steel knife, and shouted: "Kill the northern barbarians!"

At this time, Xia Qinian and more than 40 experts had passed him and rushed forward. Another expert lit a flare and released it into the sky. Amid the deafening shouts and screams, a little red light quickly cut through the night sky and rushed straight into the sky.

At the same time, in the southern part of Ordos, 3,000 miles southwest, 200 miles north of Jingbian City, near Baichengzi where the Heishui River and Hongliu River meet, Huang Taiji, with 10,000 troops, slowly approached the allied forces led by Lang Taiji.

A big war is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)