Chapter 88                                                             �

Altan saw that the Ming army was in a team in the south, and 30,000 cavalry started to carry lightly. He ate dry food, threw away the dry food bag, drank the water bag, and threw away the water bag. There were also all kinds of miscellaneous items on his body on the ground, leaving one or two people to clean up here.

Then he set up a formation, the flag was flying, and the bow was hanging.

It was like a landslide was about to break out, and the black clouds were pressing against the tree. It was just a thunderbolt and it poured down.

The various Tartar divisions were already alert before Altan's orders. The horns were heard one after another.

Altan held the reins tightly with his hands, letting the war horses beneath him roar and digging holes on the ground with his front hooves. It seemed that even the war horses felt the low pressure of the battle in the air and were very restless.

Altan burst into anger and wished he could give him an order to fight Zhou Shangwen here.

But he can't.

He has to think about the overall situation.

What was his attack this time? It was to break the Ming Dynasty's plan to reconcile the trap.

If Altan recruited all the troops, he would definitely not have less than 100,000 cavalry, or at least as many as 100,000 cavalry. The reason why he brought half of the main force was to attract Zeng Xian to send troops. Once Zeng Xian sent troops in advance, he would find a flaw to defeat Zeng Xian.

Now we have a decisive battle with Zhou Shangwen here.

First of all, Altan has no confidence in whether he can win or not.

Because it's very simple, the husband fights and courage.

When the Yue people fought with the Wu people, before the battle, the first three Yue people committed suicide. The Wu people were shocked and were defeated by the Yue people.

So why were everyone in Wu shocked? Then the morale was depressed?

Because the Wu people found that they underestimated the cruelty of this battle.

Although people will die on the battlefield, every soldier never thought that he would die in battle. When he fought to a certain extent, the enemy would collapse, and few soldiers would die in battle. The Yue people used 300 dead soldiers, which made the Wu people frightened, thinking that the Yue people behind him were such ordinary dead soldiers. Then, regardless of the outcome of the battle, the cruel battle would be amazing, and it would be difficult for them to go back alive.

The three forwards of the Ming army did the same thing.

These three generals fought with fewer attacks and more determination, and even more people died in this battle than the Ming army.

This is the trapped beasts fighting.

Now facing 30,000 Ming cavalry, Zhou Shangwen is also a veteran general who is famous on the frontier. The Tartars have seen the resilience of Zhou Shangwen. In the Battle of Black Water, Zhou Shangwen personally acted as bait. No matter how he fought, he would not be able to kill him.

Before today's war, Altan had to consider this issue. Will Zhou Shangwen be defeated? I'm afraid not, can he eat Zhou Shangwen next? How many casualties can there be? If not, the Xuan army of the Ming army, or even the Shanxi army, or Zeng Xian will come to reinforce?

If reinforcements are made, what will he use to attack the reinforcements?

After the battle became anxious, would the troops from all over the country really gathered to fight the Ming army here?

Altan weighed the pros and cons in his heart for a while, but he couldn't make this decision.

The same war has different meanings to each other. All the elite troops in Datong Town that were suppressed by Daming here are included at most Datong Town, while Altan has suppressed by his own political influence, with half of the country's troops even more.

It's not just Altan weighing the trade-offs.

The following parts of Altan are also weighing the trade-offs.

The political structure of the Tatars is more similar to the tribal alliance.

The forces in the hands of each tribe leader represent their status. They thought more. The troops who had just attacked the Ming army vanguard had suffered a lot of casualties, but they also gained a lot. Now Altan's main force has not been damaged, which means that the political structure can be preserved now. These gains can still be preserved.

But once the political structure established by Altan is broken, can the things obtained by damaging capital be saved?

To be honest, not necessarily.

Strategically speaking, it was like a big rich man betting against a poor boy. The rich man didn't care how much he lost, and he could make a profit by winning one hand. But in terms of political structure, the generals of the Ming Dynasty should have dared to make money more than the leaders of the Tartars. After all, the soldiers in his hands belong to the court. The people who died in the court made contributions to themselves will not have an impact on their status, but will help them, but the Tartars are different. The soldiers of each division are the capital for the leaders to maintain their status.

Therefore, the Tartars did not want to fight the Ming army in a decisive battle, not just for tactical considerations.

However, many generals of the Ming army, whether they don’t know how to fight or have other selfish intentions. Even because the recruitment system is prevalent, they gradually regard their own troops as their capital. It is difficult to exert such advantages in national strength and system.

If Zhou Shangwen tells about this advantage, he may not be able to clearly state it. However, after years of war, he has long summarized the tactics of playing to play to his advantages.

Just like now, Altan's hesitation is reflected in the formation of troops.

The advantage of cavalry lies in their speed and initiative. However, Altan did not take the initiative to attack. Perhaps he felt in his heart that now he and Zhou Shangwen are both people with identities. When fighting, it is not to let people from below. How come you want to live to the death? This is a little unfriendly.

Zhou Shangwen was not used to him. Seeing that the Tartars were slow to move, he laughed and said, "The Tartars are timid." Without saying a word, he slapped the horse off.

But Zhou Shangwen was not careful, and Ma Fang led the team to the front of him. Instead of Zhou Shangwen, he became the attacker of the entire army. When Zhou Shangwen was young, he was also the best in the three armies, but now he is old and in his seventies, he can ride a horse, dance a knife, and eat meat. It is already good.

If you want him to perform on the battlefield as if he was young, it would be a bit too much.

Ma Fang is the first brave general under Zhou Shangwen's subordinate, and Zhou Shangwen's three sons are not opponents. Zhou Junzuo is also considered a general. However, he cannot survive a round with Ma Fang, and even reported that Ma Fang's nickname is Prince Ma in the army. He is famous.

So Ma Fang charged forward and joined the Tartar cavalry, and was immediately out of power.

Altan's hesitation made Zhou Shangwen take the lead, so he naturally showed no mercy.

Seeing this, Altan made up his mind instead. With the order, the front team of the Tatar cavalry was the back team, and the back team was the front team, and it actually ran away.

It can be said that the two armies confronted each other, and the real confrontation was the first three armies, which fought with Ma Fang and the Central Army.

If at this time, generals would naturally be overjoyed and chase after him, but they didn't know that they would have fallen into the trick of the Tartars. Zhou Shangwen had such rich experience. As soon as the Tartars stick out their butt, they would know what he was trying to pull. Isn't it Mangu's gang?

The Ming army's horsepower was not as strong as the Tartar cavalry. If they chased them hard, there would be problems over time. Once the horsepower was problematic, when the Tartars turned around and killed, the advantage would be in the hands of the Tartars. At that time, even if they dared to fight to the death, they might not be able to fight many Tartars.

Although Altan was afraid in a bet, his response was within the standard.

However, in the face of such a situation, the mediocre generals could not see the tactics of the Tartars. If they chased after them, they would naturally be defeated. If they went to the next level, they would not chase them. However, after the Tartars broke into contact with the army, they once again had the initiative at a strategic level. The biggest problem for Zhou Shangwen was that they could not grasp the position of the main force of the Tartars.

So Zhou Shangwen’s decision was to pursue.

Zhou Shangwen not only chased, but also sent a lot of horses to all forts along the way, allowing all infantry soldiers to send troops to prevent the Tatars from blocking the Tatars' road, but set up camps in the way of retreating the Tatars. He made great efforts, as if he blocked the checkpoints and blocked the Tatars' inside the pass.

These camps became Zhou Shangwen's supply stations. If the Tartars attacked the camp, it would naturally be impossible to capture it. You should know that each camp was at least one or two thousand people. Zhou Shangwen's army was only half a day away from the Tartars army. If the Tartars could break through the camp that the Ming army had prepared for a long time within half a day. In the Battle of Clinburg, Altan would not have fought so frustrated.

He followed the Tartars with his cavalry and was neither far nor near, and even fought one or two times a day.

This kind of pursuit can also be said to be a drop-off attack.

If Altan can accept his own failure, Zhou Shangwen can also accept it. This kind of guest-like pursuit will send Altan out of the wall.

However, Zhou Shangwen himself refused to accept it, and he knew that Altan was unwilling to accept it. So both sides were secretly setting up a showdown near the side wall, but it depends on who can plot against whom?
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