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Chapter 199: Defeat 3

In the following days, Wang Zhen insisted on going north. Even though his accomplice Peng Deqing advised him to stop him with the celestial phenomena, Wang Zhen refused to listen and still forced everyone to move forward.

In the camp of Watshu, Ye Xian was quietly looking at the map hanging on the wall, with his fingers dotted on it from time to time.

Below him, there were generals with thorns. Just now, spies had already reported that the Ming Dynasty had approached Datong with nearly 500,000 troops. Because of this, the atmosphere in the entire tent was a bit solemn, after all, the enemy had 500,000 people.

Hearing this news, he quickly summoned the generals who accompanied the army to his tent to discuss matters.

After taking his eyes off the map, Yexian turned around and sat cross-legged in his position. Then he asked: "I have told you just now that the Ming army has sent 500,000 troops and directly rushed towards Datong. The general of my Wasat is here. Of course, there is a way to command the troops. Everyone also has their own ideas and tell me what we should do next?"

“What else can I do?”

The first speech was Tuotuo Wuhua, dancing his fists, and said fiercely: "We will kill them as much as they come. Are you still afraid that they will not succeed!"

Yexian looked at Tuotuo Wuhua with some contempt and said lukewarmly: "Your method is the barbarian. The Ming army has finished fighting, and our soldiers have almost been consumed. What is the difference between a tragic victory and a defeat?"

As soon as he said this, several generals couldn't help but chuckled.

Tuotuo Wuhua said this and didn't speak at the moment. He just looked at Yesian with some dissatisfaction. In his eyes, those so-called strategies were not done by the warriors. The warriors should face each other openly and do it with real swords and guns.

A general was a little embarrassed. After all, Tuotuo Wuhua was also Tuotuobuhua's younger brother, and a prince, so he asked, "Taoshi, the lower official just heard the information that there was a 500,000 army in the Ming Dynasty. I wonder who was the commander of the army?"

Yexian smiled slightly, and finally someone asked the main point and said, "The commander of the army is not someone else, he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yingzong of Ming!"

Many people took a breath. Although they were not born when Emperor Yongle beaten the thorns, there were records and they also knew a lot about Xuanzong. So in their hearts, the Emperor of Ming was brave and warlike, and Yingzong became the same person as the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

The general just now pondered for a moment, but he didn't expect that this time it was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty who was personally expeditioned. He couldn't help but look up at Yeshen. He saw that Yeshen was smiling slightly now, without the urgency of the enemy army approaching. Instead, he gave people a little expectation. He then asked, "I wonder who holds the military power of this 500,000 army?"

There is no good general, even a million lions are just a group of sheep.

Yexian smiled slightly, sighed, and said, "It's not someone else who commanded the troops, it's Wang Zhen!"

Not many generals below have heard of Wang Zhen. They are confused at the moment. Look at me, let me see you. Although Tuotuo Wuhua knows Wang Zhen, she only knows that Wang Zhen is very powerful in the Ming Dynasty. Based on his personality, how can he study what kind of person Wang Zhen is?

He took all the expressions of the generals below into his eyes. Yexian also knew that these people did not know Wang Zhen, so he said, "Wang Zhen is now the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty except the emperor. However, he is a eunuch. Do you know what the eunuch is?"

"Ha ha……!"

The generals below all burst into laughter. They all knew everything about eunuchs. Of course, in their eyes, they also looked down on such men who looked down on them from time to time.

The anger of the entire tent suddenly eased. The tension that the Ming army was approaching suddenly disappeared a lot.

After everyone laughed, the general just now said, "Compared to it, the Grand Master already has a strategy to retreat to the enemy, right?"

"good!"

Yexian didn't go around the circle and continued: "If the Ming Dynasty commanded the troops, we might have to worry about it, but this time the commander was Wang Zhen, which gave us a great opportunity, because this person would not command the troops at all. The 500,000 troops in the Ming Dynasty were just a group of sheep in his hands, and they were simply not as good as the wolf on our grassland!"

"and……!"

Yesen paused and then said, "This man was just using his own heart and couldn't listen to the words of the generals below. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty trusted him very much and gave him all the rights. Therefore, the so-called emperor's personal expedition was just a decoration, so there was no need to worry about it. In addition, our spies also found an important information, that is, their food and grass were not prepared at all, and the food and grass behind could not be transported at all."

Speaking of this, he stood up first, pointed to the map with his hand, and said fiercely: "I plan to give up Datong and lure the enemy into the deep. When they lack food and morale are greatly reduced, they will catch them off guard!"

"Didn't that spit out the meat you ate in your mouth again?"

Tuotuo Wuhua muttered in a low voice.

Surprisingly, Yesen was not angry, but smiled and said, "If you want to fish, you naturally need to have bait. The 500,000 army of the Ming Dynasty is just a big fish. If there is no bait, how could this fish be hooked? As long as you eliminate these 500,000 people, the Ming Dynasty will have no resistance. At that time, our army will be able to drive straight down. The Ming Dynasty will be under our tile thorns!"

The grassland is the biggest threat to the Central Plains. The Central Plains have always wanted to classify this grassland under their territory. Similarly, the grassland also thinks that the Central Plains are a beast, so they naturally want to attack the Central Plains from time to time. Not to mention anything else, the wealth and prosperity of the Central Plains are envied by everyone. After hearing this, all the generals showed excitement on their faces. They all came from different tribes, so they naturally hoped to bring more wealth to their tribes.

So, after this, the order was quickly passed, and the soldiers of the tile tile began to retreat. In order to confuse the Ming army, the retreating tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile

After seeing the information sent back by the spies, Wang Zhen was overjoyed and hurriedly found Yingzong and handed the information to Yingzong for a look. He said happily: "Master, this thorn has now begun to retreat in a hurry. The spy has reported that a lot of finances and armor have been abandoned along the way. I thought that the thorn must be afraid, so I retreated in a hurry. I thought we should go north immediately now, take advantage of the victory to chase the thorn, and eliminate the thorn in one fell swoop!"

Yingzong was naturally overjoyed when he saw the information. He didn't expect that his army would withdraw as soon as he arrived at the thorns. He felt bored that he had won much before he even fought. However, it was considered a victory no matter what, so he said: "It is best to defeat the enemy without fighting. As you said, we should go north immediately and recover the lost territory!"

So the entire army continued to march northward and head straight to Datong without waiting for the food and grass to arrive.

When Kuang Kun and others heard this information, they didn't believe it at the time, but they were still suspicious when they looked at a lot of collected armor and some property, and they were also a little uneasy! So a group of people carefully studied the property and armor. After looking at the things carefully, they realized where the problem occurred. The armor was all broken armor and helmets, and the property had a lot of gold and silver. Just imagine how could the most important and easiest thing to take away without taking away after the plunder of the tiller?

So they immediately told Yingzong about their discoveries, but how could Yingzong, who was confused by "victory", believe this? He scolded Kuang Kun and others and then knocked them out of the camp. Kuang Kun and others had no choice.

So, on August 1st, the Ming Dynasty's army successfully entered Datong, but now Datong has no previous scenes. Just like after the locusts crossed the border, the entire Datong was completely emptied. Not to mention any property, even the pruning branches in the barracks were moved empty, leaving the Ming Dynasty a completely empty city. This situation made Kuang Kun and others even more suspicious that the tile thorn was definitely not a hurried retreat, but a planned and organized retreat, and this retreat was just to attract the Ming army to chase.

But Yingzong and Wang Zhen knew the key here. They arrived in Datong. Although Datong is now an empty city, it can be considered as a recovery of a city. The spies came to report that the army of Wats continued to flee north. If he was a good general, all he had to do now was to wait for the arrival of supplies and then head north. However, Wang Zhen had taken care of these things. He thought that the Wats were afraid of Yingzong's personal expeditions, and did not wait for the arrival of supplies. He immediately rushed to the north and chased Wats, without considering whether this was the Wats' strategy.
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