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Chapter 154 I want to negotiate
(PS: There are two updates today, and the first one is delivered. September has arrived, and the earth-shattering 360-degree ask for a monthly ticket for September.)
Jiujuling is located slightly east of the north of Xifengkou, about [-] miles away from Xifengkou. The adjacent Sanwei Yiyi Gongyi Road is one of the main roads leading to Xifengkou from the Mongolian grassland. The terrain is relatively flat, with few trees, and it is difficult for the army to hide. It is not a good ambush site. However, when it was dark, the Tatar army of Horqin Oba arrived at Jiuga Ridge, and they still boldly stationed behind Jiuga Ridge. Rest and prepare for battle.As for the reason, it’s very simple. Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th for the Han people. The soldiers and scouts of the Ming army must still be eating mooncakes in the city of Xifeng Pass to enjoy the moon. No scouts will come here at this time. Come.

In order to ensure the suddenness of the sneak attack, the Horqin cavalry did a good job of keeping secrets in this sneak attack. The soldiers and horses from all walks of life were broken up into pieces, disguised as nomads and marched in casual clothes, and they did not resume until the Kuanhe River near Daji The assembly was not only completely hidden from the eyes of the Ming army, but also from the eyes of the Mongolian businessmen who came and went. Basically, they can be unnoticed. What is lacking now is to let the Horqin cavalry who have marched here to rest for a while , and then you can safely and boldly attack Xifengkouguan City.

Coincidentally, the leader of this vanguard army of the Horqin Tribe is none other than Huang Taiji's brother-in-law in honor and Master Zhang's de facto brother-in-law - Borjijit Wu Keshan, and Master Zhang's cheap brother-in-law Wu Keshan is also A die-hard supporter of the Manchurian-Mongolian Alliance, he hated the Ming army. The reason why Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng were able to persuade Horqin tribe chief Oba to agree to attack Xifengkou this time was because they were helping the Horqin tribe annex Other small Mongolian tribes made great contributions. Another important reason is that Wu Keshan also made great efforts to attack Xifengkou and plunder food and supplies. This prompted Obama to agree to this risky plan.As for the possibility of retaliation by the Ming army, it is not considered by Oba and Wu Keshan at all. Since the two generations of the Borzigit family and the Aixinjueluo family married, the Horqin tribe has been the Ming army in Mongolia. The number one enemy of the grassland.

During the break, Wu Keshan called Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng to discuss the military situation, and asked Huang Taiji: "Sibeiler, have you paid off for the meticulous work you sent out? Has the barbarian army noticed our army's arrival?" Huang Taiji replied: "Judging from the current situation, the barbarian army probably hasn't found us yet. The beacon towers on the Great Wall have not lighted the alarm, and there are very few lights and torches on the closed wall. The barbarian army should be celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in Guancheng. And , twenty of us disguised as cattle and sheep merchants have already sneaked into Guancheng during the day, and they can cooperate inside and outside to help us open and close the gate if necessary."

"The situation is good. It seems that we are sure to win this time." Wu Keshan laughed happily.Fan Wencheng said gloomyly: "Prince, don't be too happy, there is another anomaly - in the evening, we caught a few barbarian businessmen who were about to go back to Xifengkou, and they all said that Xifengkou had a Command, not to delay the closing of the gate by half an hour during the holidays as usual! This is enough to prove that the barbarian guards at Xifengkou are still very vigilant, and such people are the most difficult to deal with."

"Then how many barbarians are there at Xifengkou?" Wu Keshan asked.Fan Wencheng quickly replied: "Three days ago, my Han spy sneaked into Xifengkou and quietly counted the number of barbarian defenders. The number was about 200."

"200 people?" Wu Keshan sneered and said with a sneer: "Our army has more than 5000 cavalry in the vanguard alone, and the army led by my father personally has 5000 people behind, just [-] barbarians. So what if we are vigilant? We can drown them all by spitting!" Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng gave a rare nod of heartfelt agreement - Xifengkou has not experienced a major battle for decades, and the army has already degenerated It has become a second- and third-rate army, and its combat effectiveness is indeed inferior to that of Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng. The master and slave had seen the Liaodong army before-of course, this must be based on the fact that the master is not the young master Zhang.

The enemy can be despised strategically, but the enemy cannot be ignored tactically. For Huang Taiji and others, the Horqin tribe is going to attack a solid pass city, and there are a large number of reinforcements behind the pass city. If this pass cannot be taken quickly, That little pervert, Young Master Zhang, will bring the army over for reinforcements in a short time. The battle at Xifengkou will inevitably turn into a war of attrition. Lin Danhan, who has been bribed by grain and pig iron, will also take the opportunity to copy Horqin's lair, so this battle can only be done quickly. The battle must be decided quickly and must not be delayed.In view of these circumstances, Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng, master and slave, quickly provided Wu Keshan with a perfect attack plan-approaching Xifengkou under the cover of night, and by the middle of the night after the third watch, most of the defenders of the Ming army had already fallen asleep At this time, send dozens of experts to climb up the wall and open the door from the inside.If it is discovered, then the main force will attack the closed gate head-on to attract the attention of the defenders, and provide opportunities for the secret agents who have sneaked into the closed gate to open the closed gate from the inside!

Wu Keshan was very satisfied with Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng's plan, and after a short rest, Wu Keshan's [-] cavalry first put muzzles on the horses, wrapped the horseshoes in sackcloth, and trotted towards Xifengkou.It was the Mid-Autumn Festival at that time, the moon was as bright as the moon, and the ground was as bright as day, which greatly facilitated the march of the Horqin army. In the shadow of the mountain, there is a whole team, just a piece of cloud covers the bright moon, and the wall of Xifeng Pass in the distance is suddenly dark, only a few lanterns and torches illuminate, and the torches in the team can hardly be seen, let alone The beacon towers on both sides were used for calling the police, and the scouts sent earlier also reported: "The barbarians didn't find us, and even the patrol team didn't move much."

"Okay!" The progress was surprisingly smooth, and Wu Keshan couldn't help being overjoyed, and quickly waved to the fifty Tatar cavalry who volunteered to serve as the death squad.They successfully reached under the wall, but it was still pitch black, and there was no movement. Fifty Tatar soldiers quickly got off their horses, took out the hemp rope with a hook that they carried with them, and threw the iron hook onto the wall, pulling it firmly. The most valiant Tatar soldier immediately bit the steel knife, pulled the hemp rope with his hand to climb up first, never thought that just halfway up the hemp rope, the hemp rope thicker than his wrist suddenly broke, and the Tatar soldier also fell to the ground. On the ground, the other Tatar soldiers were so frightened that they quickly climbed down together.

After a long time, there was no movement on the closed wall again, and the group of Tatar soldiers stood up one after another, picked up the hemp rope that was suddenly broken just now, and found that the fibers at the break were uneven, not as if it had been cut by someone, but As if worn off.The group of Tatar soldiers yelled that they were unlucky, and threw a hemp rope with a hook on the wall of the barrier, and pulled it firmly again. The iron hook on the wall suddenly slipped and was pulled up by gravity, and the two Tatar soldiers fell down again—but there was still no movement on the wall.In this way, this group of Tatar soldiers inevitably became a little suspicious, thinking that they were not optimistic about the almanac when they went out today, and they were committing disaster.After a little discussion, the group of Tatar soldiers shifted their positions, found a sparsely lit wall, and threw three hemp ropes with hooks onto the wall.

"I don't believe you will break it again!" The first Tatar soldier who fell half to death cursed secretly, and once again climbed up the wall first, and the other two hemp ropes were also pulled by several Tatar soldiers, and climbed up the wall at the same time.But it was probably because the Tatar soldiers really didn't read the almanac when they went out today. When they climbed halfway up the city wall, two of the three hemp ropes broke at the same time, and the other one was slid open with an iron hook. The unlucky guy gritted his teeth and fell off the wall again, completely messed up.After repeatedly confirming that there was still no abnormal movement on the wall, the group of Tatar soldiers picked up the broken rope and checked it fearfully. Saw through with a saw.

"Haunted? Why is our rope worn down so quickly?" Many Tatar soldiers with low education levels lowered their voices and exclaimed.Some sensible people who don’t believe in ghosts and gods also said, “Big-headed ghosts who are bothering your mother, is there someone who is afraid that we will take advantage of our tricks and tamper with our rope?”

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While the Tatar soldiers were suspicious, on the pitch-black city wall, a wicked voice asked with a low smile, "Master, the Tatar soldiers dare not climb the city walls anymore, do you want to kill them?" Another gloomy and treacherous voice He replied: "Don't worry, it's useless to kill these little soldiers? If you play with them again, if you delay for another quarter of an hour, Mangui's reinforcements will be a little closer to Xifengkou."

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After being terrified for a long time, the group of Tatar soldiers gave up their plan to climb the wall with ropes, and began to climb up with human ladders.But when the Tatar soldiers were standing on the shoulders one by one, a vague voice from a Ming soldier came from the wall, shouting in Mongolian: "Get out of the way, I drank too much at night, I need to put some water."

"Let the water go? I'll let it go too. I'll shoot farther than anyone else." Another Mongolian soldier of the Ming army replied in Mongolian.As he spoke, two streams of warm, salty water fell from the sky and poured them on the heads and faces of the Tatar soldiers, shaking them from side to side. The Tatar soldiers were drenched, but they dared not publicity.But the two soldiers of the Ming army didn't know that they were the subordinates of that bad guy, so it was fine if they pissed on his face. One of the soldiers accidentally knocked a stone on the arrow stack, which happened to hit a Tatar On the head of the soldier, he was smashed to the point of bleeding, but he didn't even dare to shout, he just gritted his teeth and endured it.

"Damn, why are you throwing stones? There are Tatars down here?" The Ming soldier scolded at the beginning.Another soldier of the Ming army retorted: "So what if I throw it away? I still want to throw it away, I'm happy!"

Cursing, the Ming army soldier simply pushed down all the stones on the surrounding arrow stacks, hitting the Tatar soldiers with bruises all over their bodies, but they dared not scream out loud.After finally waiting for the Mongolian soldier of the Ming army to vent his anger and the wall to become calm again, the group of Tatar soldiers slowly dismantled the ladder, lay down on the ground, covered their wounds, and moaned in pain in a low voice.At this time, a soldier of Wu Keshan came over and shouted in a low voice: "What are you doing? Why don't you go up the city wall? The eldest prince is furious!"

"It's haunted, it's haunted." Dozens of Tatar soldiers scrambled to be the first, and lowered their voices, telling the strange things they encountered.Wu Keshan's personal soldiers didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly took a broken rope and went back to report, while the unlucky Tatar soldiers continued to lurk in the dark, waiting for opportunities and other orders.

After going back and forth like this, when Wu Keshan and Huang Taiji knew what happened before and after the failure of touching the city, it was already close to the fourth watch.Seeing that the precious time was being lost bit by bit, and touching the city was extremely unsatisfactory. Wu Keshan, Huang Taiji, and Fan Wencheng couldn't hold back. , began to line up and slowly approached the city wall, only waiting to line up outside the range of the bow, arrow and musket to launch a strong attack.But at this moment, Huang Taiji, Wu Keshan and the others felt their eyes light up. Numerous torches and lanterns were raised on the closed wall, illuminating the inside and outside of the closed wall. At the same time, the beacon towers around Xifengkou rose. The smoke was ignited, and the flames were blazing, officially transmitting the alarm signal.

"We've been discovered, attack!" Wu Keshan yelled, and was about to order the sound of the war drum.A soldier next to him exclaimed, "Prince, look at the tower!" Wu Keshan, Huang Taiji and the others looked up in surprise, only to see a huge white flag raised at the Zhaori Tower at the entrance of Xifeng , is waving in the wind under the light of torches-what does the white flag mean, I guess everyone knows it?

"The barbarian defenders intend to surrender? Or are they planning to negotiate?" Wu Keshan, Huang Taiji and others looked at each other.At this time, a Ming army general who was so fat that he was almost spherical stood on the edge of the city wall, waving a small white flag in his hand, and shouted with a crying voice: "Don't shoot arrows! Don't shoot arrows! I am Yu Zongbing from Zunhua , I surrender, I want to negotiate with you! I want to negotiate with you!"

(End of this chapter)