Ming Empire

Chapter 118

After the slave-building army arrived at the city of Datong, the Ming army never stopped harassing them. Members of the special training team were dispatched every night to harass the slave-building camp in various ways.

For this reason, Jian Nu suffered enough, and arranged a large number of patrols every night, and the camp was heavily guarded.This caused a lot of trouble for the special training team's operations, and many members were killed or injured while performing their tasks.

After making up his mind to send elite cavalry out of the city for a surprise attack, Sun Chuanting suggested to Cao Yue to temporarily stop the harassment of the elite squad at night, so that Jiannu's vigilance would be lowered, and when they were paralyzed, he would hit them hard again.However, Cao Yue did not follow Sun Chuanting's suggestion, and continued to send members of the training team to harass the slave camp.

After personally arranging a large-scale harassment war again, Cao Yue summoned Zhao Tai, the deputy commander, to Xingyuan.

"Vice Chief Zhao, I will call you today because I have a very important task to entrust to you!" After Cao Yueping retreated to the left and right, he motioned for Zhao Tai to sit by the desk with him, "The people you lead are The most elite cavalry in the Datong Army, today I will order you to attack the camp at night with 8000 people away from your troops. I will arrange many troops to cooperate and respond, and I will give Jiannu a heavy blow."

"Please don't worry, Commander-in-Chief, the general will definitely complete the task!" Hearing that Cao Yue entrusted him with the task of night attack, Zhao Tai was overjoyed, straightened his body immediately, put his legs together, and accepted the task with his head held high.

Cao Yue also told Zhao Tai all about his plans and arrangements for tonight, including the supporting staff and the coordinating plan.

Zhao Tai was overjoyed after hearing this, and once again promised to complete the task, and after issuing a military order, he made preparations.

Then Cao Yue called Cao Jie, Zhao Liang and other military directors to Xingyuan, and gave orders one by one. After the generals got the order, they also made arrangements.After all the arrangements were made, Cao Yue told Sun Chuanting the plan.

Cao Yue actually made a night attack plan before discussing it with him. Sun Chuanting was so angry that he blew his beard and stared at Cao Yue, but in the end he gave in to Cao Yue's arrangement when Cao Yue was too lazy to pay attention. , Regardless of Cao Yue's ignorance of his "superior" behavior, but Cao Yue must guarantee the success of the night attack tonight, otherwise he will report to the court and impeach Cao Yue.

"Old man Sun, just wait for my good news!" Cao Yue reached out and patted Sun Chuanting on the shoulder rudely, turned around and left.

Cao Yue has already figured out Old Man Sun's temper. He is a unique and weird person, with a straight temper and a hot temper, but he doesn't have much scheming. He is just a smelly and stubborn old man, but if he goes against him , it doesn't matter how you hurt him.After Old Man Sun was happily accepted by him at the highest sound, Cao Yue knew that there was no red tape to follow when dealing with this guy.

Cao Yue's strategy is really right, Sun Chuanting is a weird person, he hates those hypocritical etiquette, he doesn't know how to cater, and his temper is very explosive, otherwise he wouldn't be sent to prison by Emperor Chongzhen for a few days The end of the year.

After arriving in Datong, he found that Cao Yue and his temperament were very right, and he yelled at him as a superior official. He felt that he had finally met someone who was like him, and Cao Yue was an outstanding general. Regardless of how this little guy yelled and yelled in front of him, he didn't look big or small, but he really enjoyed this way of getting along.

He also believed that Cao Yue would surprise him tonight.

Also, even if Cao Yue's plan is unsuccessful tonight, he will not bring this matter to the court to impeach Cao Yue.What he said just now was just a threat, and he wanted to use it to suppress Cao Yue.

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It was night, and for more than ten miles in a row, the Jiannu camp that surrounded Datong City was still very lively. Inside and outside the camp, there were teams of sergeants patrolling one after another, almost without a break.This is the case no matter which camp is in it. During this period of time, they were harassed by the Ming army's elite squad every night, and the losses were not small. The leading general who built slaves did not dare to be careless.

But it was also hard for the sergeant, who had to be on duty and patrolling every night, and dared not sleep soundly, for fear of being attacked by the elite squad of the Ming army.Under such strict precautions, sometimes they were successfully attacked by the elite squad of the Ming army, and Jiannu's morale was hit hard, and some soldiers were in a state of collapse or close to collapse.

No one could imagine how the Ming army's elite squad sneaked into their camp under such tight patrols and defenses.

Geng Zhongming's camp was adjusted to the west gate of Datong after Dorgon led the follow-up army to arrive.

Because the Eight Banners of the Han Army basically have to be the vanguard in every battle, so their camps are in front of the army, and behind or on the side of their camps are mixed with the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of Jurchen. The camp of the Eight Banners of Jurchen is in the best position. The terrain allows you to retreat and defend, and attack to attack quickly.The Jurchens arranged this way, in addition to letting the Han army and Mongols serve as cannon fodder, of course, there was also the purpose of surveillance, and they also arranged for their own troops to retreat.

Because the elite troops were almost wiped out in the city of Datong for the first time, now Geng Zhongming's troops are not very effective except for his two thousand guards, who are still somewhat combative.

Geng Zhongming's mood is very complicated. He wants to preserve his strength and preserve the nearly 2 horses he has finally regained, but he also wants to make some military exploits through hard work to impress Dorgon and other Jiannu leaders.However, when he attacked the city for the first time a few days ago, his men and horses were attacked by the Mongolian rout before they rushed near the city wall, and lost nearly [-] horses as a result.This made him feel terrified, but there was nothing he could do.

In the end, he could only hold the mentality of going all out, and was ready to fight to the death with the Datong Army.

He has no way out on the road of acting as a traitor, he can only go to the dark one way.In this battle, if he can make achievements in battle, maybe life will be easier in the future, if he loses again, he will definitely be cast aside by Jiannu.

But even if he was spurned by Jiannu, he still had no way back. Daming hated the generals who had surrendered to them, especially the three who were named King Sanshun by Jiannu.Even if they turn their backs and return to Daming, the Ming court will not tolerate the crimes they committed in the past, and they will die.

Therefore, Geng Zhongming can only fight to the death for Jiannu.He strictly ordered the men and horses under his command to raise their spirits and guard against the Ming army's sneak attack.If you encounter a sneak attack from the Ming army, you must fight back with all your strength; in the future siege, you must also use your maximum combat power to try to make Dorgon look at you differently.This is related to the future of him and his men and horses.

Of course, Geng Zhongming still hopes that his own strength can be preserved, that his camp will not be attacked by the Ming army, and that he will not lose too much when he sieges the city.But what to worry about, but what to do.

After midnight this night, when the moon completely disappeared and the sky became very dark, his camp ignited a fire again, and there was a frightening explosion.

"It's another sneak attack by the Ming army!" Geng Zhongming judged from the sound of the explosion that his camp was attacked by an elite squad of the Ming army without the report of his sergeant.

Geng Zhongming got out of the tent and prepared to send the guards to fight back against the Ming army's sneak attack. At this moment, the captain of the guards suddenly warned loudly that there was a situation.After listening for a while, the captain of the guards prostrated himself on the ground, and then reported loudly, "My lord, there seems to be a large cavalry approaching!"

"What? A brigade of cavalry is approaching?" Geng Zhongming was shocked when he heard this, "Immediately send someone to inquire. Is it the support of friendly troops, or a large-scale sneak attack by the Ming army!"

(End of this chapter)