Seeing that they couldn't do anything to this cavalry, and seeing Li Rumei and Li Rubai's cavalry turn back to attack, the leader of the Northern Barbarians felt that they had too few people and couldn't go any deeper, so they decisively led the army to retreat. The Ming Army didn't give chase.
Seeing the Northern Barbarians' cavalry retreat, Li Rusong, Li Rubai, and Ma Hu huddled together.
"This retreat and attack is neither a win nor a loss. Will the Northern Barbarians really mobilize their main force to attack us? Why do I feel that it's not possible? "
Li Rubai was a little confused.
Ma Hu shook his head. "I'm not sure, but I can understand. We fought our way up north and even destroyed Datong. The Northern Barbarians can't not be wary of us. If we lose too badly, the Northern Barbarians will definitely not come back. If we are evenly matched and neither strong nor weak, then it would be more or less reasonable. That is what I think, but I don't know how Governor-General Xiao arranged it."
"Brother was arranged to lead the main cavalry, and General Wang was arranged to lead the main infantry. They are to prepare for an ambush in the valley behind. We are to lure the enemy and then join the attacking force after entering the ambush. Why do I feel that this is not right?"
Li Rumei furrowed her brows and thought for a while. "Governor-General Xiao didn't explain it clearly. We don't know much."
Ma Hu said, "Maybe he felt that if he explained it clearly, we would have misgivings and wouldn't be able to act well. The Northern Barbarians aren't pigs. They have brains and can think. We can't underestimate them. This is what the governor-general often tells us."
Li Rumei and Li Rubai looked at each other and didn't refute.
After that, Li Rubai and Li Rumei returned to their original territory to prepare traps and other things. They arranged for the cavalry to scout out the movements of the Northern Barbarians. Behind them, Xiao Ruxun had already chosen a place to ambush.
After the Northern Barbarians retreated with his troops, he reported what he had encountered. Naturally, he made some artistic adjustments that were beneficial to him.
For example, after many bloody battles, he had broken through the two lines of defense of the Ming Army and killed many Ming Army soldiers. However, at the third line of defense, he had been stopped by the main force of the Ming Army of 100,000 people. He had to retreat and ask for reinforcements to fight again.
His conclusion was that the Ming Army had expended too much of their strength at Datong. Now, they had no choice but to maintain a defensive stance when facing them. Even if they were defending, it could be seen that their strength had weakened. They should be much weaker than when they had attacked Datong. If they did not attack now, were they going to wait for reinforcements before attacking them?
One hundred thousand?
With regards to this number, the Great Leader naturally didn't believe it. Since ancient times, China and foreign countries had been the same. They all wanted to brag about themselves as a commander who had led a thousand people to defeat ten million people. However, there were still tens of thousands of people. Their side had only a few thousand people breaking through two lines of defense with tens of thousands of people, and even fought for a while with the third line of defense?
According to the tricks of the Han people, if they wanted to tempt us, they should have continuously shown weakness and suffered consecutive defeats. They should have wanted to show their strength to them and force them to attack. However, this time, it wasn't like that. They actually managed to stop us at the third line of defense.
This didn't seem like a trick …
Could it be that this was real? They really had expended too much of their strength and were unable to advance north. Sending people to provoke us was actually to make us think that they were good at fighting. In reality, this was to cover up their emptiness. They were trying to make us not move and wait for them to receive reinforcements before attacking us?
En, it was very possible! The teachings of the ancestors said that the Han people have always been despicable and shameless. You may look real, but it's actually fake. You may look fake, but it's actually not, it's real!
The tricks of the Han people were true and false. Since we couldn't play mind games with the Han, we had to use force. We had to ruthlessly destroy them so that they wouldn't be able to scheme. As long as we didn't scheme, we were invincible.
So, should we chase after them and kill them … … should we send out our main forces? Defeat the Han people and take back Datong?
The Great Leader of the Northern Barbarians was extremely hesitant. Until night time, more and more people were leaning towards war, hoping to take revenge for those innocent women who had died tragically. They wanted to let the Han people know how terrifying we are. The crowd was enraged and the Great Leader found that he couldn't resist the urge to go to war.
Furthermore, he was leaning more and more towards war.
Thus, he made his decision — —
Send ten thousand people to battle first!
He was still worried.
The crowd found it hard to accept this Great Leader's excessive cautiousness, but they couldn't resist his authority. Thus, they could only place their hopes on the Great General who was leading the troops to battle. They told him that everyone was looking forward to him defeating the Ming Army in one fell swoop, defeating all the Han people and bringing them back as slaves!
The Great General led the troops to attack!
This time, he easily repelled the Ming Army at the first and second line of defence. The Ming Army had even less fighting spirit than yesterday, but there was one difference. This time, the Ming Army had gathered more infantry and cavalry on that small piece of flat land. Furthermore, there were unexpected "reinforcements" — —
Thousands of crying Northern Barbarians women and young men!
One by one, they were tied up and forced to kneel in front of the formation. The Mongolian speaking people that were sent over told these Northern Barbarians — —
These are all your own people, young men and women. These are all very valuable labour. Let me tell you, if you dare to take another step forward, we will kill a hundred, a hundred more, until all of them are killed. Let's see if you dare to do it!
The Northern Barbarians Great General and the Northern Barbarians soldiers were dumbfounded.
The Han people were actually so shameless?!
They actually used our people as shields! Stop our advance? When did the Han people become so shameless? When did they learn to use such a tactic?
When Ma Hu received Xiao Ruxun's order, he immediately ordered his soldiers to threaten the Northern Barbarians. He wanted them to cry for help, to make the Northern Barbarians fall into a dilemma.
If the other party had only captured a few hundred people, then they would pretend they didn't see anything and kill their way over. However, there were thousands of men and women and all of them were young men and women. This was a very difficult decision for a tribe that placed great importance on the young.
Should they advance or not?
They didn't expect the Han people to be so shameless. What they didn't expect had yet to come. This wasn't the end. Ma Hu gave the order. Without giving the Northern Barbarians any more time to think, the Ming Army soldiers immediately ordered the Northern Barbarians to walk in front as cover. Then, step by step, they advanced towards the Northern Barbarians.
Instantly, the Northern Barbarians soldiers looked at their leader in a daze. They didn't know if they should attack or not. Should they care about the lives of their people? Should they retreat? Or should they just charge in and kill without caring about anything else?
This leader was also in a dilemma.
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