: Reverse defense and attack

Seeing the Persian carpet on the ground, Zhang Zi'an felt a sense of heart, hurriedly lay on the carpet, rolled to the side and rolled himself into the carpet. Through the carpet and the tent, Zhang Zi'an could clearly hear the sound of horse neighing outside, and the sound of horse hooves like a tide left and turned back.

I don’t know how long it took, but a burst of rapid and messy footsteps suddenly sounded outside the tent.

Immediately someone opened the curtain and went to the account. Zhang Zian didn't know if the Mongols or his own people were entering the account. When he was frightened, a familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Eunuch Zhang? Eunuch Zhang?"

Isn’t this familiar voice the voice of the prince-consor Wang Pu?

Hearing this voice, Zhang Zian, the old castrated man, almost burst into tears. He struggled hard twice and shouted sharply: "Mr. Prince Consort, I am here."

"Oh, father-in-law, why have you been there?" Wang Pu's voice sounded, "Hurry up, help your father-in-law up."

Soon, Zhang Zi'an felt that he had been helped up with the blanket, and the Persian carpet rolled around him was stripped away in circles. When the last carpet was finally untied, Zhang Zi'an's eyes suddenly became clear. Wang Pu was standing leisurely in the tent, and Wang Pu was also surrounded by several Ming generals with a cold expression.

"Mr. Prince Consort." Zhang Zi'an shouted in a crying voice, "You are here, I almost can't see you."

"It's okay." Wang Pu persuaded hypocritically, "Eunuch Zhang, the Mongolians have been defeated, and it's okay now."

Zhang Zi'an said: "Is it really okay?"

Wang Puying said: "It's really okay."

Zhang Zi'an said: "But the border troops brought by me and the cattle and sheep of the Tumotes..."

"Don't be anxious, father-in-law." Wang Pu smiled, "You might as well go outside the tent to take a look."

"Oh, OK."

Zhang Zi'an responded and followed Wang Pu to the outside of the tent. He saw teams of border soldiers walking into the camp in a scattered formation. The little eunuch who had emerged from some corner asked in surprise: "Mr. Prince Concubine. Haven't these border soldiers been chased by the Mongols and ran to the west? Why are they back?"

Wang Pu smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, please take a look outside."

Zhang Zi'an looked in the direction of Wang Pu's finger, and after seeing it, he was overjoyed and said, "Oh my God, there are so many cattle, sheep and horses!"

"Hahaha." Wang Pu laughed, "Father-in-law, now all these cattle, sheep, livestock, horses and camels are yours. The hundreds of thousands of taels of owed wages from the Datong border army have already been settled."

When Wang Pu said this, he felt a little regretful.

It would be fine if hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep, and camels. But these tens of thousands of Mongolian horses are really jealous. However, Wang Pu also knew that things could not be done too well. If this old castrated man was so anxious, he would come across the river and destroy the bridge, and then return to Datong and take back the three thousand veterans he lent to him, it would be no fun.

After all, the time for these three thousand veterans to follow Wang Pu was shorter, and Wang Pu didn't dare to be careless.

When Zhang Zi'an was overjoyed, Wang Pu said again: "Eunuch Zhang, I have brought you something."

Zhang Zi'an asked excitedly: "The things from the prince consort must be good."

Wang Pu turned around and shouted, "Come on. Present the things."

A personal soldier had already walked up with a wooden box. There was a scimitar with gold and jade embedded on it. The scimitar was obvious that it was not an ordinary person. Zhang Zi'an narrowed his eyes and asked in a charming voice: "Mr. Is this what you sent to me?"

Wang Pu ordered his personal soldiers and said, "Open it, please check it out."

"yes."

The personal soldiers agreed, removed the scimitar and opened the wooden box. A pungent smell of lime came to their faces. Zhang Zi'an was startled when he saw it and ate, "People...human head?"

"Yes, head." Wang Pu said solemnly, "Eunuch Zhang, this is the head of Tumot Khan, and this scimitar is Tumot Khan's sabre."

Zhang Zi'anxi said: "My husband is saying that this is the head of Tumot Khan?"

Wang Pu smiled slightly and continued, "In the first month of the 15th year of Chongzhen, Eunuch Zhang, you received a secret report that Tumote's tribe was unable to survive the winter due to natural disasters. It is possible that the pass was destroyed and invaded Datong in the first month. The father-in-law decided to take the initiative and lead more than 10,000 elite troops into the desert to attack Naturalization, beheading thousands of levels, and personally killed Tumote Khan, capturing more than one million cattle, sheep and animals. He returned with great victory."

Wang Pu’s meaning was obvious. He clearly wanted to give this great contribution to Zhang Zi'an.

In fact, this was also agreed by the two of them at the beginning, and Wang Pu did not intend to ask for this credit. All he wanted was the three thousand veterans of Datong. Besides, this credit might not be a good thing to fall on Wang Pu. Emperor Chongzhen was suspicious by nature. If it weren't for Wang Pu's accidental riot last time, he might have been under house arrest now.

"This is this..." Zhang Zi'an was already excited and blushed, and said incoherently, "Mr. Prince Concubine, what are you going to say in our family? This is really, really, great."

When Zhang Zian was so happy that he didn't know how to get better, Zhen Youcai protected him from more than a dozen cavalrymen to the camp.

Facing Wang Pu and Zhang Zi'an, Zhen Youcai bowed with fists and said, "See the general, see Eunuch Zhang."

Wang Pu waved his hand and asked, "How is the matter checking?"

Zhen Youcai said: "I have already found out that this group of Mongolian cavalry is indeed from Korqin."

"Are they really a Korqin?" Wang Pu frowned, "Our army's surprise attack on naturalization was not even a Tumot people knew about it beforehand, and it would be even more impossible for the Korqin people to know. Eunuch Zhang's army arrived in Yanyehai today. Even if the Korqin people knew the news in time, it would take at least two days to wait for them to send troops here. How can this time be calculated incorrectly?"

Zhen Youcai turned his head and looked at Zhang Zi'an and said, "You have to ask Eunuch Zhang about this."

Zhang Zi'an looked embarrassed and said ashamed: "Mr. Prince Concubine, aren't you worried about your safety? So he brought the army to Yan'ehai to pick him up two days in advance."

"That's it." Zhen Youcai said, "Eunuch Zhang led his army to Yan'ehai two days in advance, which means that the time when the Korqin people learned the news was two days earlier than we expected. With these two days, the regular iron cavalry of the Korqin people arrived at Yan'ehai."

Wang Puqiang suppressed the anger in his heart and said in a deep voice: "It seems that the plan is about to be adjusted."

Wang Pu's original complete plan was like this: first attacking naturalized, then driving the Tumotes eastward, and attacking Zhang Zi'an's army in the Yanyehai area in the east and west to complete the encirclement and annihilation of the Tumotes.

The people of Korqin will definitely not stand idly by after they know the news. When the Korqin army arrived at Yanyehai, Wang Pu and Zhang Zi'an had already returned south with a large number of spoils. Of course, the people of Korqin will not give up, and they will definitely follow and pursue. Wang Pu happened to fight a head-on battle with the Korqin cavalry in the area of ​​Amitabha Mountain based on the Great Wall!

This decisive battle is the highlight of Wang Pu's entire plan. Through this decisive battle, he will achieve the purgation of the three thousand veterans and eight hundred horse thieves under his opponents, transforming them from a group of veterans who are used to escape and a group of free and casual horse thieves into strict disciplines and dare to fight and fight subway bloody warriors.

Because Wang Pu knew that if he could defeat the brigade of Korchin cavalry in a head-on decisive battle, the confidence of these veterans and the thief would be greatly improved. Only when the confidence was enhanced would they not fall into a disadvantage in their momentum when facing the Jiannu cavalry next spring.

But now, since Zhang Zi'an sent troops two days in advance, Wang Pu's plan has been completely disrupted!

Zhen Youcai said: "General, since the vanguard of the Korqin people has appeared, their large groups of people are probably not far from here. It is estimated that their large groups of people will arrive at no more than three days at most. The situation now is that our army has more than a dozen 100-man teams scattered on the grassland, and Eunuch Zhang has thousands of defeated soldiers not gathered, and hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses scattered on the grassland without gathering."

Wang Pu nodded and said, "The 100-man team and the defeated soldiers can be gathered soon. However, if you want to gather all the cattle and sheep abandoned by the Tumots, it is impossible to have two days and time."

Zhen Youcai said: "What's worse is that after bringing these nearly one million cattle and sheep, the speed of our army's marching will inevitably be greatly affected. Bei Yi thought it would take at least three days to go back to the Mida Mountain Pass from Yanyehai, which means we still need five days to return to the south of the Great Wall, but the Korqin people's cavalry will catch up with us within three days."

Zhang Zian was so scared that his face turned pale and said in a trembling voice: "What should I do?"

Zhen Youcai said in a deep voice: "Now we only have two roads to go. First, give up all the cattle, sheep and horses, collect the people and horses, and immediately return to Shidatong, so that we can still return to the south of the Great Wall before the brigade of Korqin cavalry catches up; second, we can gather and bring all the cattle, sheep and horses, but at that time the brigade of Korqin cavalry also rushed to Yanyehai, so let's wait here to die!"

Zhang Zian neither wanted to stay here to die nor gave up the cattle, sheep and horses he got. For what he said: "Mr. Zhen, is there no other way?"

Zhen Youcai smiled bitterly and said, "I thought there was no other way."

"No." Wang Pu suddenly said, "We still have a third way!"

"Um?"

“Huh?”

Zhen Youcai and Zhang Zian turned their heads to Wang Pu at the same time. The two of them had different expressions. Zhen Youcai was surprised, but Zhang Zian was secretly happy.

Wang Pu said coldly: "We cannot abandon the cattle and sheep we have, nor can we stay here and wait for death."

Zhang Zian asked, "What should we do?"

"It's very simple." A trace of inexplicable heat flashed through Wang Pu's eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "Attack Sanbulachuan!"

"Ah! Attack Sanbulachuan?"

"this……"

Zhen Youcai and Zhang Zi'an looked at each other, unable to believe their own ears. You must know that Sanbulachuan is the location of the Khanate of the Korqin people, and the strength of the Korqin people is far stronger than the Tumotes. More importantly, now attacking Sanbulachuan is no longer a surprise attack, but a head-on attack!

"General." Zhen Youcai asked carefully, "Don't you really want to attack Sanbulachuan?"

"Why isn't it true?" Wang Pu asked back, and suddenly turned to Zhang Zi'an, "Eunuch Zhang, there is no other choice now. Only by actively launching an attack on Sanbulachuan can you lead the Korqin cavalry away. Only then can you have time to calmly collect the cattle, sheep and animals of the Tumote people and then safely return to Datong."

"This..." Zhang Zi'an finally said a conscience, "Your son-in-law, don't need to lead the troops personally. Anyway, it's not really going to attack Sanbulachuan, but just to lead the Korqin cavalry. So I thought it would be enough to send a capable general to lead the troops."

"No, I'm not relieved to send someone else." Wang Pu shook his head, "I must lead the troops to go in person."

"This..." Zhang Zi'an was suffocated and said dryly, "I wish my husband a victory in the flag."

Wang Pu bowed to Zhang Zi'an and said solemnly: "Eunuch Zhang, I've said goodbye."

Zhang Zi'an quickly said, "I will send you my husband to the prince."

"No need." Wang Pu raised his hand and said, "My father-in-law should arrange people to gather cattle, sheep and animals as soon as possible."

"Then..." Zhang Zi'an retreated embarrassedly and said, "Your Majesty must be careful on the way."

Wang Pu bowed again, turned around and left.

After Wang Pu walked away, Zhang Zi'an pulled down his face and shouted sharply: "Come."

The little eunuch who was in charge of the army responded to the tent and asked in a charming voice: "Godfather, what are your instructions?"

Zhang Zi'an said in a hatred: "Call those useless things to our family."

The little eunuch said in surprise: "Godfather, what useless things?"

"Bastard!" Zhang Zian said angrily, "Who else is the other deputy generals who only take the lead in escaping, generals and guerrillas? Are you trying to anger our family to death?"

"Ah, no, my son would never dare to have such an idea. My son would go and call Deputy Li and the others here."
Chapter completed!