Chapter 221 220 Offensive Signal

The dark figure walked quietly in the wilderness, and you could still hear the faint footsteps when you listen carefully.

This extremely disharmonious scene is taking place in the wilderness outside the silent Baoanzhou city.

The bonfires in the distance seemed to be the light attracting them to move forward.

At this time, the soldiers of Xuanfu soldiers had gradually calmed down from the slight panic after they lined out of the city, especially when the troops inside and outside the city completed their assembly, they set up their military formations to start marching quietly in the wilderness. They could only hear the sound of footsteps, which made people feel a little at ease.

They have seen their strength, at least there are so many charisma around them.

Although I still couldn't help but feel a little scared whenever I thought of the past defeats of the Ming army.

There were a large number of cavalry behind the infantry formation, but at this time they did not ride on horseback, but instead took off their horses and walked one by one, not knowing whether it was to save horsepower or to maintain a quiet environment here.

After leaving the city gate of Bao'anzhou or the military camp outside the city, all the soldiers of the Xuanfu army in the Ming Dynasty bit a small wooden stick in their mouths. The so-called "people hold a piece and horses pick the bells", and the bells on the war horses were also placed in the military camp and not brought out.

After leaving the city, the Ming army did not rush directly to the Altan army camp under the city, but walked forward from the west of the Tartar military camp. According to the current military formation, the Ming army obviously wanted to place it on the flank of Altan army and launch an attack from here.

After the infantry formation was in place, after a simple reorganization, the entire army had sat down and started to rest. At this time, the sky was still pitch black and the moon was blocked by clouds. I don’t know if it would rain. It hasn’t rained here in Xuanfu for a long time.

No one fired a torch to track the way during the entire army. They could only move forward with the hem of their robes in their hands, and judged their own trajectory from the imperceptible bonfire in the distance.

The person leading the way ahead obviously has a strong sense of space and is very good at controlling the direction.

The infantry began to rest, but the cavalry leading horses were still slowly moving forward.

Many of them had acted as patrol cavalry, so they naturally knew where they were sent. There was a Tartar military camp behind the Altan army camp, although they didn't know what was inside.

At this time, many people were already wondering whether the granary was brought there, whether their general wanted to learn from Cao Mengde's Battle of Guandu, burn Yuan Shao's military rations, and thus win the victory of the war.

Although they did not understand why the Tartars separated the granary and the military camp, they thought that what the storyteller said seemed to be true, that is, after Cao Cao's cavalry attacked Wuchao and burned Yuan Shao's military rations with fire, Yuan Shao's army collapsed without fighting.

Well, maybe the Tartars camped with Yuan Shao’s school, and the food and grass were placed separately from the army.

The Xuanfu cavalry was so confused and continued to move forward with random thoughts.

The bonfire in the distance behind them was no longer visible, and sparks appeared in front of them.

Soon, the cavalry walking in front discovered something was wrong, because the team of cavalry following them did not follow, but stopped in the middle. The cavalry, who was originally in the middle, suddenly realized that they had become the back team.

It was not until the horse in front was not moving forward, and the cavalry were behind him gradually stopped. As the small flag officer trotted over and kept shouting "Resting on the spot", the cavalry sat down.

They didn't understand why they were asked to walk over, instead of rushing over directly on horseback, as they did in the past, saving at least half of the time.

The sky is still pitch black, the moon is blocked by clouds, and it cannot cast any light on the earth.

"I'm so lucky today. No moon came out, otherwise we would have to form a formation around a longer distance to avoid being discovered by Altan's army."

This is the last side of the military formation, with hundreds of war horses gathering here to protect the senior executives of the Xuanfu Army in the central government.

Tian Shiwei looked up at the sky and said with some gratitude. Although he couldn't see other people's faces clearly, he felt that his words should be correct, and everyone should think so.

But after he finished speaking, no one else took him off. Everyone just stood there quietly, waiting for the sky to brighten.

The final result of the discussion yesterday morning was that after Wei Guangde insisted that the war must be fought quickly, everyone finally changed the time to launch the attack and began to attack Altan Khan's military camp when it was lightly dawn, thus opening the prelude to the war.

The night covers the army to march and set up formations, and launches attacks at dawn. At this time, most of the Tartars are still not awake in their sleep. The night watchmen are also the most tired time, which is more conducive to them observing the battlefield situation and issuing orders.

Before crushing the Tartars without absolute strength, it is not advisable to use the dark melee, and the risk is still too great.

Most of the mobile forces of the Xuanfu Army gathered here. If this battle was defeated and the losses were heavy, the entire Xuanfu Army would become the ranch of the Altan tribe, and the Xuanfu Army would completely lose its strength to confront the Altan tribe.

By that time, I could only ask for help from the capital and other border towns.

Tian Shiwei made a fuss about his words. No one answered him, so he could only return home in disappointment and stop talking.

I don’t know how long it took, Wei Guangde’s words came out from the darkness, “When is it?”

The marching of the Ming army has remained quiet after the departure. In order to avoid the sound of the marching attracting the attention of the night whistle of Altan, they not only went around for a long time before returning, but also deliberately slowed down. Therefore, although Baoanzhou is not far from the Tatar military camp, the time it took is not short.

"It should be the second hour of Yin, it's almost dawn."

Dong Yiyuan, who had been following Wei Guangde as a guard, whispered to Wei Guangde's question at this time.

In ancient China, instead of using the current 24-hour system, the twelve hours were used, namely Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xinhai.

Each hour is two hours, and the first and the first and the first and second moments are divided into five hours each. In this way, there are ten moments in one hour, namely the first and second moments, the second and third moments, the fourth moments, the first moments, the first moments, the second moments, the second moments, the third moments, and the fourth moments.

Among them, the first calving time is the shortest, and the other four calving time is the same.

The second hour of Yin is about 4:30 in the morning in the next generation. According to the past situation, the sky at Mao time in Xuanfu will be slightly bright, which is 5 o'clock.

In just half an hour, the eastern sky will gradually light up, and that time is the time for the battle to take place.

But at this moment, an inappropriate voice was still heard in Wei Guangde's ears.

"Mr. Wei, the risk of a decisive battle with the Mongolian Tartars in the wild is too great. I don't think it is necessary. We can wait until the Datong Army arrives on the battlefield.

As for the problem of shortage of food in the army, since the military ration is in Huailai County, we can collect grain on the spot and reduce the food for soldiers during this period. As long as the army reunites in the decisive battle of the Tatars, I think Altan Khan will defeat the military power of our army without fighting."

The person who spoke was Liu Dazhang, perhaps because he was in border towns all year round, and he was used to seeing the Tartars coming and going like the wind, which helped them to ride horses for a long time, making the Ming army always on a weak side.

Well, after all, it was just that my courage was beaten away.

Liu Dazhang's words made many people who were looking forward to winning this battle feel a chill in their hearts for no reason.

In fact, although Liu Dazhang had previously expressed support for the war with Altan's army, his subsequent performance was very hesitant, basically opposing any plan to go to war, and his willingness to not want to start a war was extremely obvious.

But no one around expected that it was already this time, and Liu Dazhang was still saying such despicable words.

Yes, the army has completed the assembly and has already begun. At this time, it is still hesitating whether to fight.

However, what was unexpected was that Wei Guangde's attitude was extremely firm at this time, "It's impossible. He has arrived here. If he retreats, the Xuanfu Army will be really finished. No one is willing to fight against Altan's army in the future. If this happens, I will not be allowed to talk about it today."

Wei Guangde, who was very polite to Liu Dazhang yesterday, showed a firm side at this time.

"Wait all, if you are tired, you can get off the horse and rest for a while."

Wei Guangde continued.

According to the previous plan, Ma Fang was actually under control of the war.

Yesterday afternoon, the Ma Army in Xuanfu was divided into two teams, led by Ma Fang and Liu Huan.

The combat plan is not much different from the plan Ma Fang considered before, but the attack time was adjusted to avoid the impact of the night on command.

Not far from them, there was a row of tall black shadows, which were war drums carried by carriages.

Time was lost every minute, and Wei Guangde, who was riding on the horse, had already seen the light in the sky.

It's about to dawn.

"Catch a fire."

Just a few miles away from Wei Guangde and the others, in front of a large group of black shadows, the leader suddenly whispered.

After the words came, a man behind him took out a fire note where many people covered their bodies. The soldiers next to him had already piled up a pile of fire-induced objects. As the man gently shook the fire note, when the flames rose, he used the fire note to dance in the air for two times to report to the others behind him.

Afterwards, he squatted down without hesitation and lit the fire-burning object on the ground. The flames grew from small to large and soon started to burn violently.

Obviously, not only dry firewood is piled up on the ground, but also tung oil or other "temperature oil" produced by military towns should be poured in.

After the fire on the ground was ignited, dozens of fires appeared one after another in the back.

"superior."

It's still the same sound, very simple, just one word.

But after the words came to his mind, more than a dozen figures were already coming out. When they passed by the fire, they all waved on the fire with torches in their hands. After the torches burned, they had surpassed the people standing in front of the queue.

The sound of horse hooves began to sound, and in the quiet wilderness before, followed by the barking of dogs.

The horse speed went from slow to fast, and soon they approached the fence of the Tartar military camp. The few people in front had seen a wooden stake on the ground that was inserted into the ground, and a dog tied beside the stake.

Without too much hesitation, they pulled out the saber with one torch and the other. As the horse passed by the big dog, the blade struck the barking dog's body.

Then more than a dozen torches were thrown out by them, some fell in front of the fence, and some fell to the ground after touching the fence.

The torch did not go out immediately, just under the light, the dozen people were already holding the ropes of the horses in their hands and began to dance. When the force was appropriate, he threw out the ropes in his hand.

The rope flew to the wooden fence, and most of them successfully put it on it, and then they began to beat the horse and retreat, and began to pull the not-solid wooden fence.

"Linse Mix"

At this time, the sound of Tartar soldiers had already been heard in the wooden fence. Perhaps because of the fierce barking of dogs just now, but it became quiet again. The soldiers who were patrolling the night thought that their companions had something to pass by, so they asked in the camp who was outside?

However, the answer was only a "boom". After the wooden fence was dragged by more than a dozen strong soldiers, at some point, a large number of torches appeared behind them. Under the torches were human faces, helmets and fiery red armor.

"Boom"

As the horse team accelerated, the sound of horse hooves gradually became louder and the earth began to tremble slightly.

The soldiers who were dragging to the wooden fence had turned their horses and became the first cavalry to rush into Altan Khan's camp.

“There is a fire on the east side.”

The quiet crowd suddenly a guard outside reported to the inside loudly.

Everyone here knows that the Ming army has started the attack and they have been waiting for the arrival of this moment.

However, what surprised everyone was that after the guard reported, Liu Dazhang, the general of Xuanfu, who should have issued the order, had not made any movement for a long time.

Wei Guangde was riding on one side of Liu Dazhang, and on the other side was Tian Shiwei, deputy general of Xuanfu.
To be continued...