My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 488 The Battle of Xinghe

The moon is dark and the wind is high at night, when murderers and arsonists.

There are so many dark clouds in the sky tonight that you can't even see any stars.

Arutai raised his head and glanced at the dark sky, feeling that God was helping him.

The cold wind blew in the grassland at night, and the war horses' mouths were stuffed with wooden sticks, and their hooves were wrapped in rags to minimize the sound of the advancing army.

A few miles ahead is Xinghe City, and Arutai plans to launch a surprise attack on Xinghe tonight.

When passing through Wuli Town, the vanguard troops sent by Arutai swarmed in and directly took control of the entire town. Those who dared to resist were killed on the spot.

Then the army passed through the quiet town and rushed towards Xinghe City.

It was already late at night, and there was silence outside Xinghe City. Only the whistling wind blew by. There were lights on the city, and the Ming army soldiers patrolling the city could be vaguely seen.

Arutai stood on horseback in the darkness, looking at the top of Xinghe City from a distance, but found nothing unusual.

So an order was given, and then a team wearing Ming armor came out. This team was Arutai's shrewd preparation. A considerable number of them were Han people, and the remaining Mongolians were also like the Han people. They all look alike, and some are even proficient in Chinese, so they can pass themselves off as Ming soldiers.

This team is not large in number, only 200 people in total, but it is enough, because if there are too many, it is likely to arouse the suspicion of the defenders at the top of the city.

The general who led this team was named Wu Cheng. This man's ancestors had taken refuge with the Meng Yuan, and later followed the Meng Yuan in defeat and retreated to the grassland. However, they were loyal to the Meng Yuan. When he was young, Wu Cheng had hidden his identity and entered the Ming Dynasty to spy. Intelligence, so he knows all aspects of Ming Dynasty very well.

I saw Wu Cheng leading his army to run wildly and soon arrived at the gate of Xinghe City.

Their arrival immediately attracted the attention of the defenders at the top of the city, but Wu Cheng and the others were holding torches. By the light of the fire, the defenders at the top of the city quickly saw the Ming army armor they were wearing, so they relaxed their vigilance.

"Hurry up and open the city gate. We have urgent military matters and we need to see General Wang!"

Wu Cheng held the torch high and shouted toward the city.

"Who are you, and why do you come here late at night?"

I saw a general on the top of the city leaning out and asking.

"We are the defenders of Dongsheng City. Yesterday Arutai led an army to raid Dongsheng City. We are about to break the city. General Huang sent us to Xinghe to move reinforcements. Please open the city gate and let us meet. General Wang!"

Wu Cheng replied loudly again.

Dongsheng City is to the west of Xinghe, and the two cities form a triangle with Datong. The three respond to each other. If one place is attacked, the other two cities can quickly rescue.

"What? Arutai attacks Dongsheng City?"

The guard at the top of the city was also shocked when he heard this. After a moment of silence, he immediately ordered the city gate to be opened.

Wu Cheng, who was under the city, did not expect that he would be able to trick the city gate into opening so smoothly, which made him ecstatic.Then the city gate of Xinghe slowly opened, and the suspension bridge in front of the city gate was lowered.

Wu Cheng almost didn't think about it and rushed into the city first. He wanted to control the city gate as quickly as possible to buy time for the army behind him to enter the city.

The opening of the Xinghe city gate was also seen by Arutai from behind, so the moment Wu Cheng rushed into the city, he immediately ordered the [-] troops to move together, and everyone's eyes were gleaming.

For the grassland people, Daming is a land of wealth and oil. As long as they can enter the city, all the money, women, and food in the entire city will be theirs.

Therefore, there was no need for Arutai to urge them. Everyone scrambled to rush to the city as quickly as possible.

However, no one noticed that after Wu Cheng and others rushed into the city gate, there was no sound behind the city gate, and there was not even a cry of killing. It was as if Wu Cheng and the 200 people under him were killed by something. Was it swallowed by a monster?
It wasn't until the thousands of people at the front finally successfully crossed the suspension bridge and entered the city through the city gate that they were shocked to discover that they saw only a pile of dead bodies behind the city gate, including Wu Cheng and his men. The horses were all shot into hedgehogs.

What is even more shocking is that behind the city gate is actually an urn city, and there is another city gate behind the urn city. Only through this gate can you truly enter Xinghe City, but this city gate is now tightly closed. The entire Wengcheng is like a prison. Once you get in, you can't get out.

"It's hit!"

The Tatar general who was charging at the front was the first to react and shouted immediately, but unfortunately, after the cavalry charged, it was difficult to stop, especially when the cavalry kept rushing in at the city gate, they couldn't stop even if they wanted to. .

In the end, the small urn city was crowded with Tatar cavalry, and even a stampede occurred. To make matters worse, on the walls around the urn city, arrows from the Ming army rained down, and there were also rolling logs and stones, which hit the Tatars. Weeping for father and mother, there were heavy casualties.

It was only then that Arutai, who was charging outside the city, finally realized that something was wrong. After all, the Tatar cavalry who rushed in screamed repeatedly, and the Ming army at the head of the city did not panic at all, and even the city gate was kept open.

So Arutai hurriedly ordered and finally asked his cavalry to stop charging. However, tens of thousands of people had already rushed into the city, and the city gates were blocked by the Tatars themselves. The Tatars inside screamed. The sound was so continuous that even if you wanted to escape, you couldn't escape.

"retreat!"

Arutai realized that he had been tricked, and he immediately gave the order very decisively.

But by this time it was already too late. Wang Huan, who had been in ambush for many days, personally led a group of cavalry and came out from another city gate and charged into the Tatar army like a sharp arrow.

Wang Huan's goal was not to kill the enemy, but to entangle Arutai so that the opponent could not retreat smoothly, because Zhu Di from behind had also received the news and was coming quickly.

Arutai wanted to retreat, but Wang Huan's army had successfully entered his army. The two armies were entangled together, and they could not distinguish between ourselves and the enemy under the cover of night.

In this case, sometimes even one of his own people would be accidentally injured, let alone retreat. Therefore, although Alutai kept anxiously giving orders to get rid of Wang Huan's entanglement, it was of no great use.

Even Arutai himself was almost in danger. A Ming army cavalry came out of nowhere and almost rushed in front of Arutai. Fortunately, he was blocked by another Tatar cavalry.

The danger in front of him made Arutai break into a cold sweat. At the same time, he also secretly regretted why he chose to raid in the dark night?The battlefield is now so chaotic that it is difficult to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy.

But Wang Huan, who was in the chaos, was very excited, because this was exactly the effect he needed. Zhu Di had given him an order before. As long as he could entangle Arutai's army, he would have done a great job. Now he is outstanding. Completed the task.

At this moment, a rumble of horse hoofbeats came from behind Xinghe City. It was obvious that Zhu Di's army had finally arrived.

(End of this chapter)