It turned out that according to the deployment of Fan Nan, the Minister of War and the governor of Hedong appointed by Emperor Dayin, he ambushed twelve Zhechoufu totaling 16,000 people in Hongtao Mountain and Heituo Mountain respectively.
At the same time, ten Zhechoufu totaling 20,000 people were deployed in Shuozhou City and Wuzhou City, forming a huge pocket with a total of 36,000 people.
All the troops in Hedong Road were deployed in this ambush, ready to fight against King Zhelan's 13,000 Tatar troops.
At the same time, the only 1,000 cavalrymen of Shuozhou Prefecture left the Zishui River Valley and took the initiative to attack the outskirts of the Tatar camp near Canglang Lake, attracting 2,000 Tatar cavalrymen to chase them all the way into the Zishui River Valley.
In order to confuse the Tartars into entering the encirclement, the Shuozhou Zhechoufu had to hold the Tartars for three days on the line between Jingbian Army and Wuzhou City.
As the beacon towers lit up one after another, the troops at ten beacon towers including Yanqingdun and Douziling were all withdrawn to the Jingbian Army.
Zhong Dahu and his nine squads, less than two hundred people, were on full alert on the city wall.
The vanguard of the Tatars, Captain Timur and Ogeduo each led a thousand cavalrymen to pursue the 1,000 cavalrymen from Shuozhou Prefecture who came to harass them for sixty to seventy miles, passing through a series of deserted beacon towers and directly arriving in front of the Jingbian military town.
Two thousand Tatars pursued lightly and at a very fast speed, and the distance between them and the large army of King Zhelan in the rear was extended to more than fifty miles.
King Zhelan's vanguard of 3,000 troops had just entered the Zishui River Valley, and the rest of the main force was still outside.
Therefore, Yang Jian, the commander of Shuozhou Zhechoufu, decided to let Zhong Dahu hold out in Jingbian Military Town for three hours before retreating.
The Tartar army was like a long convoy traveling on the road, stretching for a long distance.
The Jingbian Military Town is like a traffic light on the road.
Hold on for three hours, forcing the Tartar troops in front to stop and the troops behind to catch up.
In this way, all the Tartar troops can be ambushed.
In order to give Zhong Dahu the confidence to hold out for three hours, Yang Jian said that he would take the cavalry back to Shuozhou for rest first, and he would send a thousand infantry to reinforce.
But who knew that Timur and Ogeduo formed a group of five Tatar centurions and took turns attacking the Jingbian Army's city wall.
After two hours, Zhong Dahu had run out of arrows and lost half of his men, but Yang Jian's reinforcements had not yet arrived.
"Sir, please retreat quickly! Otherwise, all our brothers in the Jingbian Army will be killed here!" The deputy advised again with a look of despair.
"Retreat? We've been stationed at Jingbian for several years. How could we be captured by the Tartars before we've even held our position for three hours?"
Zhong Dahu's eyes widened, "No, I, Zhong Dahu, can't afford to lose this person!"
The deputy added, "Sir, the Tartars are so fierce, and we have fought for so long and tried our best."
"If you're afraid of death, take those thirty riders and retreat first."
Zhong Dahu waved his hand and said resolutely, "Even if I am the only one left, I must wait for three hours."
After repeated persuasion failed, the deputy had no choice but to stay and continue fighting.
At this time, the Tartars did not wait for Zhong Dahu and others on the city wall to catch their breath, and another wave of 500 people launched an attack.
They rushed to the city wall and shot arrows, and the arrows were like locusts.
The Dayin soldiers on the city wall were unable to raise their heads due to the dense firepower.
Zhong Dahu hid behind the wall, cursing.
The arrows in the military town had been used up, so they could only wait for the Tartars to climb up and then engage in close combat from a high vantage point.
Just as the Tatars, under the suppression of arrows, easily reached the bottom of the city wall and were about to break down the gate to climb into the city, a huge black line appeared several miles behind the Jingbian military town.
"Sir, the reinforcements are coming!"
The deputy's eyes were filled with tears and he shouted excitedly.
"Damn it, brothers, our reinforcements have finally arrived. Guard the city walls and don't let the Tartars take even a single step forward."
Zhong Dahu roared, "Kill!"
He stood up from behind the wall and just in time saw a Tartar climbing up with a simple wooden ladder outside, so he took a spear and stabbed him down without hesitation.
The leather-armored Tartar let out a wail and fell down, knocking over many of his companions on the ground.
Seeing their leader so brave, and with the arrival of reinforcements, the morale of the remaining less than a hundred soldiers was greatly boosted, and they stood up and fought back.
For a moment, the Tartars who had climbed up fell down like dumplings.
"What's going on? They say Dayin's soldiers are afraid of death and fighting? But we've been fighting for more than two hours, why haven't we taken it down yet?"
Behind the Tatar army at the city gate, Ogede asked Timur with a depressed look on his face.
Timur was also quite annoyed.
He and Ogeduo formed a pincer attack on the 1,000 cavalrymen from Shuozhou.
But these thousand cavalrymen from Shuozhou are too cunning.
He may not be good at fighting, but he is definitely the best at running away.
As soon as they saw the Tartar cavalry coming out, they immediately turned their horses around and ran away.
Timur and his companions rode non-stop for fifty or sixty miles, and except for being left with nothing, they didn't leave a single person behind.
The two thousand Tatar cavalrymen chased into the Zishui River Valley. When they reached the Jingbian Military Town, the one thousand Shuozhou cavalrymen had disappeared.
It was thought that the Dayin defenders in Jingbian Military Town would abandon the city and flee when they saw so many people coming.
But Timur encountered stubborn resistance and failed to capture the city after fighting for two hours.
The original plan was to camp outside Shuozhou City tonight, but ended up being stopped by the Jingbian Army.
"Not all of Dayin's soldiers are vulnerable!"
Timur frowned as he looked at the Dayin soldiers fighting hard on the city wall.
More than a month ago, he led a hundred cavalrymen to fight against the soldiers of Jingbian Military Town, leaving behind nearly thirty people and more than twenty war horses.
There was also the Dayin soldier named Zhao Muyun who attacked from behind, shot Hun Gudu to death, and almost shot himself to death.
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