In early October, the season finally entered winter, but Zhu Gaoxu and others felt that it was already severe winter here.
After the Central Army set up camp at night, Zhu Gaoxu received two reports from Qu Neng, the former army.It was seen that the signature was issued one after another within the same day, but Zhu Gaoxu got it at the same time.
The general content of the first part was that Qu Neng's troops were attacked by a large number of Tatar cavalry in the north of Luhe River, and the enemy dispatched at least six or seven thousand cavalry!
Qu Neng has formed a formation to defend himself on the spot.
The second one is about the confrontation between the two sides after the Tatars cavalry and shooting attack.
Upon hearing the news, the generals of the central army determined that the enemy had taken the bait!
Everyone was excited and a little impatient; the generals were ready to march to Luyan River and do a big fight to vent their humiliation that had been almost nothing in the past two months.
However, in the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Zhu Gaoxu was awakened by the shouts outside the account, and the military situation seemed to have made new progress.
He turned over and got up.Duan Xueheng, who was beside her, also woke up, and she asked: What's wrong?
Zhu Gaoxu took a felt blanket and wrapped it in it and said: Let me ask first.
He walked to the tent door, lifted a corner of the felt curtain, and asked: What happened?
The general at the door said: The vanguard general is safe and urgently reported!
Zhu Gaoxu took the envelope, walked back to a lantern with faint light in the tent, and took out the letter to read it.
Ping An received a report from the scouts back to the camp in the middle of the night yesterday: the scouts found a large camp in the north of the Sea of Fishing (Bel Lake)!
Two of the Ming army scouts were shot to death by enemy rangers. The people who came back shouted that there were 100,000 Tatar cavalry on the north side of the Fishing Sea!
The 100,000 cavalry was a bit exaggerated. At this time, it was probably impossible for the Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty to gather 100,000 cavalry.
Zhu Gaoxu has fought so many battles and has long been accustomed to these exaggerated information.
However, he believed that scouts generally did not dare to lie about military information, mostly because they were scared, attacked and nervous by the ranger.
Zhu Gaoxu roughly speculated that the enemy army should have indeed come in a large number of people and tens of thousands of people on the north side of the Sea of Fishing.
He was so excited under the lantern for a while. When he turned around, he saw Duan Xueheng had silently put on his clothes and was cleaning up.
She looked here from time to time without asking much questions, but she was concerned about her eyes.
Zhu Gaoxu put away the letter, walked to the tent and shouted: Come on, I will send an order to the civil and military army, and go to the tent to discuss matters two minutes later.
Chen Wu's voice said: I obey the order!
Zhu Gaoxu said again: Ask Hou Hai to get up quickly, write the order of the Central Army first, and inform the army of the guard.
With Duan Xueheng's help, Zhu Gaoxu quickly put on his martial uniform.
He walked out of the tent and suddenly felt a sudden thrill!
The air seemed to be frozen, and the cold air penetrated her clothes.
When he arrived at the central army tent, eunuch Cao Fu and others also arrived and served Zhu Gaoxu to put on his armor.
Soon Qi Tai, Hou Hai, and generals Zhang Fu and Zhao Ping in the Central Army came to the tent one after another, and everyone saluted.
Zhu Gaoxu gave Ping'an's letter to everyone to circulate.People arrive at different times, but looking at the letter from Ping An, there is no need to waste time waiting.
A map was laid in the middle of the tent and placed on a felt blanket.
Zhu Gaoxu called everyone to sit on the ground, pointed to the map and tapped it twice: The Fishing Sea is here, we are dozens of miles northwest of the Fishing Sea; Qu Nengjun is in Hebei, more than two hundred miles northwest of ours.
There are thousands of main forces in Tatar, and they arrived at the north of the Fishing Sea yesterday, which is very close to us.I think the main force of the Tatar army, the fishing sea, is for us!
Zhao Pingdao: The emperor said that there are seven armies and more than 200,000 troops in the Ming Dynasty.There should be no way for the Tatar army to take our main force; is the enemy not the men who pretended to move and wanted to turn back and siege the Duke of Ba (Qu Neng)?
Zhang Fu shook his head and said: The distance between the main force of the official army and Duke Ba is only a few days away.If the Tatars pretended to move with a large number of troops at this time, they would have been a mistake.
Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment and said: Our army was eighty miles wide a while ago, burning and killing all the way.The Tatars must have known about the movement of our army without scouting.
I have a guess.
The enemy's current intention is to eat Qu Neng's troops and the troops hanging two or three hundred miles away!
However, after the Tatars tried, they might feel that they could not attack and eliminate the Quneng tribe; so it would take more time to consume the food, arrows and ammunition that Quneng lacked, and exhaust the Quneng army!
The purpose of catching fishermen is to harass and delay the speed of our army and to buy time for the Tatar army that attacked Quneng.After all, the Tatars attacked were all cavalry, and they could run if they couldn't win.
Zhang Fu took the lead in discussing Zhu Gaoxu's speculation.
In fact, Zhu Gaoxu could not completely determine what the Tatars wanted to do at this time!
He just intuitively believed that the Mongols should not be willing to fight like the Ming army; he thought of a more reasonable motivation based on this for the Mongols' movements.
Everyone was talking for a while, and Zhu Gaoxu slapped his thigh and said: First adjust the formation of each army, continue to advance north, and then see what they want to do!
He paused for a moment and said again: At this time, the two armies have gradually contacted, so there is no need to sweep the ranch anymore; our army has begun to shrink two days ago, and starting this morning, the Seventh Army will re-deploy the formation.
So Zhu Gaoxu immediately started making arrangements.
In addition to Ping An's vanguard army, there are six armies nearby, Zuoye, Zuoye, Houjun, Central Army, Youye and Rightjun, which are arranged in the word "one".
Zhu Gaoxu believes that the vanguard Ping'an Army and the right scepter Liu Sheng Army are most likely to encounter the enemy first.
Therefore, he ordered: the rear army was mobilized to the north, the vanguard was mobilized to the south; the central army and the right ye were mobilized to the north; the left ye and the left whistle were mobilized to the east.
The entire army's overall shape has been gradually gathered, becoming a formation that is easier to support each other.
At the same time, the Central Army and the Youye cavalry were ordered to take the lead in mobilizing eastward to reinforce Liu Sheng's army.
After the discussion was over, the generals surrendered.
Zhu Gaoxu left the central army's tent so that the baggage troops would come to collect the tent and marching.But he did not leave the place immediately, but just walked around outside the tent...
After thinking for a long time, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly slapped his forehead and suddenly remembered a detail, something that was very likely to be misjudgment!
The main cavalry of the Tatar Army may not have fled north; but should still be on the prairie pasture near Ruhai Lake (Hulun Lake).Qu Neng’s troops ran to Luyan River, and the direction was wrong!
The Tatar Prime Minister Tuo Huan had just confessed, and Zhu Gaoxu immediately realized that it was a lie.
But Zhu Gaoxu didn't pay much attention. Some of the specific military information that Tuohuan mentioned might be fake!
For example, the position of the main force of the Tatar cavalry.
At this time, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly woke up.
Because the main force of the Tatar Army suddenly appeared, and appeared between the Ruhai Lake (Hulun Lake) and the Fisher Sea (Bear Lake).
If the Tatars had fled north, how could they quickly mobilize the army to where?
So the most likely fact is that the main force of the Tatar army had not yet run far away and was still in the area near the Lake of Ruhai.
A few days ago, the main force of the Ming army and the grasslands on the other side of Ruhai Lake were hundreds of miles away.For some reason, neither the Ming army scout nor Hai Dongqing found out about the situation there.
Zhu Gaoxu made such a judgment now, and there is another reason: the grassland near the Lake of Sea is very large and the water and grass are plump.
Before winter began, the Tatars could stockpile a large amount of grass with grass seeds there. Without any necessity, they should not be willing to give up that place too early!
Zhu Gaoxu only thought silently in his heart and did not say it out.
He raised his head and looked east and northeast, and there was an endless wild grassland in front of him.
The terrain is generally very flat and open, the scenery is a bit monotonous and boring, and the horizon has slightly raised and undulating, probably a lava stone platform.
At this moment, the enemy's army cannot be seen with the naked eye.But in the abstract imagination, the enemy should be somewhere far away.
As the generals wish, the war is about to ignite!
Before the sun came out, the sky was getting brighter and the sound of the trumpets in the military camp had already sounded.
The central army units successively set up camps and marched northward on the open terrain; some of the cavalry were ordered to move to the east one after another.
The vast wilderness became more and more noisy.
Zhu Gaoxu rode his horse, surrounded by guards and cavalry and civil and military personnel, and also began to march with the army.
When the sun was noon, several riders rushed towards the southeast.After being interrogated by the guards, the people came to Zhu Gaoxu's banner.
He turned over and got off the horse, stepped forward and knelt on one knee, and put something on both hands.He clasped his fists and said: General Liu reported that the enemy's large number of troops approached the right whistle army, at least 20,000 cavalry!
The generals were suddenly in an uproar.
Zhu Gaoxu picked up the report, read it first, and then passed it on to the civil and military officials around him.
After seeing it, Zhang Fu said with some emotion: An Yuan Bo (Liu Sheng, Zhu Di was granted An Yuan Bo, Gao Chi was granted An Yuan Marquis when he was in power; after Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne, he issued an order to abolish his "illegal" marquis and retain the title given by Taizong), and got a good position.
Zhu Gaoxu said: Write a military order and order the right Ye Wang Bin's troops to move closer to the left wing of Liu Sheng's army!The command of the vanguard army's Peaceful Department led the cavalry to move with the camera.
Hou Hai clasped his fists and said: I obey the order!
Zhu Gaoxu turned around and said: Let's change the way eastward to support Liu Sheng.The troops came and marched eastward!
Get order!
The military generals around him shouted happily and finally they were going to fight.
Zhu Gaoxu was not panicked.
The Liu Sheng army had about 40,000 infantry and baggage troops alone. In addition to the reinforcements of the two cavalrymen in the morning, the Liu Sheng army's total strength was even stronger.
For a while, the Tatar army could not have done anything to Liu Sheng; otherwise Qu Neng's troops would have only 20,000 people and would have been finished long ago.
At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu was even more convinced that his speculation was right in the early morning!
The Tatar Army dispatched its main force just to harass the Ming army; otherwise they should fight the Ping'an army, which is in line with the annihilation tactics of each defeat, and the Ping'an Ministry is the farthest away from each army.
After the Central Army set up camp at night, Zhu Gaoxu received two reports from Qu Neng, the former army.It was seen that the signature was issued one after another within the same day, but Zhu Gaoxu got it at the same time.
The general content of the first part was that Qu Neng's troops were attacked by a large number of Tatar cavalry in the north of Luhe River, and the enemy dispatched at least six or seven thousand cavalry!
Qu Neng has formed a formation to defend himself on the spot.
The second one is about the confrontation between the two sides after the Tatars cavalry and shooting attack.
Upon hearing the news, the generals of the central army determined that the enemy had taken the bait!
Everyone was excited and a little impatient; the generals were ready to march to Luyan River and do a big fight to vent their humiliation that had been almost nothing in the past two months.
However, in the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Zhu Gaoxu was awakened by the shouts outside the account, and the military situation seemed to have made new progress.
He turned over and got up.Duan Xueheng, who was beside her, also woke up, and she asked: What's wrong?
Zhu Gaoxu took a felt blanket and wrapped it in it and said: Let me ask first.
He walked to the tent door, lifted a corner of the felt curtain, and asked: What happened?
The general at the door said: The vanguard general is safe and urgently reported!
Zhu Gaoxu took the envelope, walked back to a lantern with faint light in the tent, and took out the letter to read it.
Ping An received a report from the scouts back to the camp in the middle of the night yesterday: the scouts found a large camp in the north of the Sea of Fishing (Bel Lake)!
Two of the Ming army scouts were shot to death by enemy rangers. The people who came back shouted that there were 100,000 Tatar cavalry on the north side of the Fishing Sea!
The 100,000 cavalry was a bit exaggerated. At this time, it was probably impossible for the Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty to gather 100,000 cavalry.
Zhu Gaoxu has fought so many battles and has long been accustomed to these exaggerated information.
However, he believed that scouts generally did not dare to lie about military information, mostly because they were scared, attacked and nervous by the ranger.
Zhu Gaoxu roughly speculated that the enemy army should have indeed come in a large number of people and tens of thousands of people on the north side of the Sea of Fishing.
He was so excited under the lantern for a while. When he turned around, he saw Duan Xueheng had silently put on his clothes and was cleaning up.
She looked here from time to time without asking much questions, but she was concerned about her eyes.
Zhu Gaoxu put away the letter, walked to the tent and shouted: Come on, I will send an order to the civil and military army, and go to the tent to discuss matters two minutes later.
Chen Wu's voice said: I obey the order!
Zhu Gaoxu said again: Ask Hou Hai to get up quickly, write the order of the Central Army first, and inform the army of the guard.
With Duan Xueheng's help, Zhu Gaoxu quickly put on his martial uniform.
He walked out of the tent and suddenly felt a sudden thrill!
The air seemed to be frozen, and the cold air penetrated her clothes.
When he arrived at the central army tent, eunuch Cao Fu and others also arrived and served Zhu Gaoxu to put on his armor.
Soon Qi Tai, Hou Hai, and generals Zhang Fu and Zhao Ping in the Central Army came to the tent one after another, and everyone saluted.
Zhu Gaoxu gave Ping'an's letter to everyone to circulate.People arrive at different times, but looking at the letter from Ping An, there is no need to waste time waiting.
A map was laid in the middle of the tent and placed on a felt blanket.
Zhu Gaoxu called everyone to sit on the ground, pointed to the map and tapped it twice: The Fishing Sea is here, we are dozens of miles northwest of the Fishing Sea; Qu Nengjun is in Hebei, more than two hundred miles northwest of ours.
There are thousands of main forces in Tatar, and they arrived at the north of the Fishing Sea yesterday, which is very close to us.I think the main force of the Tatar army, the fishing sea, is for us!
Zhao Pingdao: The emperor said that there are seven armies and more than 200,000 troops in the Ming Dynasty.There should be no way for the Tatar army to take our main force; is the enemy not the men who pretended to move and wanted to turn back and siege the Duke of Ba (Qu Neng)?
Zhang Fu shook his head and said: The distance between the main force of the official army and Duke Ba is only a few days away.If the Tatars pretended to move with a large number of troops at this time, they would have been a mistake.
Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment and said: Our army was eighty miles wide a while ago, burning and killing all the way.The Tatars must have known about the movement of our army without scouting.
I have a guess.
The enemy's current intention is to eat Qu Neng's troops and the troops hanging two or three hundred miles away!
However, after the Tatars tried, they might feel that they could not attack and eliminate the Quneng tribe; so it would take more time to consume the food, arrows and ammunition that Quneng lacked, and exhaust the Quneng army!
The purpose of catching fishermen is to harass and delay the speed of our army and to buy time for the Tatar army that attacked Quneng.After all, the Tatars attacked were all cavalry, and they could run if they couldn't win.
Zhang Fu took the lead in discussing Zhu Gaoxu's speculation.
In fact, Zhu Gaoxu could not completely determine what the Tatars wanted to do at this time!
He just intuitively believed that the Mongols should not be willing to fight like the Ming army; he thought of a more reasonable motivation based on this for the Mongols' movements.
Everyone was talking for a while, and Zhu Gaoxu slapped his thigh and said: First adjust the formation of each army, continue to advance north, and then see what they want to do!
He paused for a moment and said again: At this time, the two armies have gradually contacted, so there is no need to sweep the ranch anymore; our army has begun to shrink two days ago, and starting this morning, the Seventh Army will re-deploy the formation.
So Zhu Gaoxu immediately started making arrangements.
In addition to Ping An's vanguard army, there are six armies nearby, Zuoye, Zuoye, Houjun, Central Army, Youye and Rightjun, which are arranged in the word "one".
Zhu Gaoxu believes that the vanguard Ping'an Army and the right scepter Liu Sheng Army are most likely to encounter the enemy first.
Therefore, he ordered: the rear army was mobilized to the north, the vanguard was mobilized to the south; the central army and the right ye were mobilized to the north; the left ye and the left whistle were mobilized to the east.
The entire army's overall shape has been gradually gathered, becoming a formation that is easier to support each other.
At the same time, the Central Army and the Youye cavalry were ordered to take the lead in mobilizing eastward to reinforce Liu Sheng's army.
After the discussion was over, the generals surrendered.
Zhu Gaoxu left the central army's tent so that the baggage troops would come to collect the tent and marching.But he did not leave the place immediately, but just walked around outside the tent...
After thinking for a long time, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly slapped his forehead and suddenly remembered a detail, something that was very likely to be misjudgment!
The main cavalry of the Tatar Army may not have fled north; but should still be on the prairie pasture near Ruhai Lake (Hulun Lake).Qu Neng’s troops ran to Luyan River, and the direction was wrong!
The Tatar Prime Minister Tuo Huan had just confessed, and Zhu Gaoxu immediately realized that it was a lie.
But Zhu Gaoxu didn't pay much attention. Some of the specific military information that Tuohuan mentioned might be fake!
For example, the position of the main force of the Tatar cavalry.
At this time, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly woke up.
Because the main force of the Tatar Army suddenly appeared, and appeared between the Ruhai Lake (Hulun Lake) and the Fisher Sea (Bear Lake).
If the Tatars had fled north, how could they quickly mobilize the army to where?
So the most likely fact is that the main force of the Tatar army had not yet run far away and was still in the area near the Lake of Ruhai.
A few days ago, the main force of the Ming army and the grasslands on the other side of Ruhai Lake were hundreds of miles away.For some reason, neither the Ming army scout nor Hai Dongqing found out about the situation there.
Zhu Gaoxu made such a judgment now, and there is another reason: the grassland near the Lake of Sea is very large and the water and grass are plump.
Before winter began, the Tatars could stockpile a large amount of grass with grass seeds there. Without any necessity, they should not be willing to give up that place too early!
Zhu Gaoxu only thought silently in his heart and did not say it out.
He raised his head and looked east and northeast, and there was an endless wild grassland in front of him.
The terrain is generally very flat and open, the scenery is a bit monotonous and boring, and the horizon has slightly raised and undulating, probably a lava stone platform.
At this moment, the enemy's army cannot be seen with the naked eye.But in the abstract imagination, the enemy should be somewhere far away.
As the generals wish, the war is about to ignite!
Before the sun came out, the sky was getting brighter and the sound of the trumpets in the military camp had already sounded.
The central army units successively set up camps and marched northward on the open terrain; some of the cavalry were ordered to move to the east one after another.
The vast wilderness became more and more noisy.
Zhu Gaoxu rode his horse, surrounded by guards and cavalry and civil and military personnel, and also began to march with the army.
When the sun was noon, several riders rushed towards the southeast.After being interrogated by the guards, the people came to Zhu Gaoxu's banner.
He turned over and got off the horse, stepped forward and knelt on one knee, and put something on both hands.He clasped his fists and said: General Liu reported that the enemy's large number of troops approached the right whistle army, at least 20,000 cavalry!
The generals were suddenly in an uproar.
Zhu Gaoxu picked up the report, read it first, and then passed it on to the civil and military officials around him.
After seeing it, Zhang Fu said with some emotion: An Yuan Bo (Liu Sheng, Zhu Di was granted An Yuan Bo, Gao Chi was granted An Yuan Marquis when he was in power; after Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne, he issued an order to abolish his "illegal" marquis and retain the title given by Taizong), and got a good position.
Zhu Gaoxu said: Write a military order and order the right Ye Wang Bin's troops to move closer to the left wing of Liu Sheng's army!The command of the vanguard army's Peaceful Department led the cavalry to move with the camera.
Hou Hai clasped his fists and said: I obey the order!
Zhu Gaoxu turned around and said: Let's change the way eastward to support Liu Sheng.The troops came and marched eastward!
Get order!
The military generals around him shouted happily and finally they were going to fight.
Zhu Gaoxu was not panicked.
The Liu Sheng army had about 40,000 infantry and baggage troops alone. In addition to the reinforcements of the two cavalrymen in the morning, the Liu Sheng army's total strength was even stronger.
For a while, the Tatar army could not have done anything to Liu Sheng; otherwise Qu Neng's troops would have only 20,000 people and would have been finished long ago.
At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu was even more convinced that his speculation was right in the early morning!
The Tatar Army dispatched its main force just to harass the Ming army; otherwise they should fight the Ping'an army, which is in line with the annihilation tactics of each defeat, and the Ping'an Ministry is the farthest away from each army.
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