As dusk approached, Yun Zheng sent someone to order Qu Zhi's troops to return.
When Qu Zhi's troops joined them, they immediately retreated and followed Wang Qi and his men to escort the food and fodder forward overnight.
The army carefully protected the food and fodder and continued to move forward with torches.
Afterwards, the spies reported that an enemy force was coming from the Yellow Sand Sea, and it seemed that they wanted to burn their food supplies.
Upon receiving the news, Yun Zheng immediately ordered people to start preparations.
However, even until the second half of the night, the enemy did not come to burn the food and fodder.
Yun Zheng smiled bitterly and ordered everyone to set up camp on the spot.
He knew that his plan had been seen through by the enemy.
The enemy will not come to burn the food and grass.
The enemy pretended to be fooled and tricked them!
...
...
Plans cannot keep up with changes.
Now, we have to re-plan.
Afterwards, Yun Zheng ordered his men to call generals including Qu Zhi into the tent.
"Everyone, are you interested in playing big?"
Yun Zheng asked everyone straight to the point.
When everyone heard Yun Zheng's words, their eyes suddenly lit up.
Want to play big?
"Your Highness, what are your plans?"
The warmongering Qu Zhi was the first to ask.
"Your Majesty, just tell us what your plan is! We will all follow your lead!"
"that is!"
"The prince wants to raid the Beihuan royal court, we will follow him!"
“…”
Then, everyone spoke up.
There was a gleam in everyone's eyes.
Just like a hungry wolf seeing its prey.
"You guessed it right!"
Yun Zheng's eyes flashed with brilliance, "I really intend to trample the royal court on my horse!"
boom!
As Yun Zheng's voice fell, everyone except Qu Zhi felt a buzzing in their heads.
They just said it casually, does Yun Zheng really want to do this?
Is it true that horses trampled on the royal palace?
Yun Zheng glanced at everyone calmly, "Why, weren't you all so excited just now? Are you dumbfounded now?"
Facing Yun Zheng's gaze, everyone was stunned.
After a brief moment of absence, everyone shook their heads and their eyes regained their luster.
Qu Zhi asked with a smile: "Your Highness, Jia Yao is probably on this side of the Modong Corridor, right?"
Yun Zheng's plan was seen through.
The first person Qu Zhi thought of was Jia Yao.
"Who cares if she's here or not!"
Yun Zheng nodded. "Since our plan has been discovered, we have no choice but to resort to force! We have a strong army, so why should we be afraid of these cavalrymen who don't even have complete armor?"
"right!"
Qu Zhi nodded, "It would be a shame to withdraw like this!"
It’s not like they haven’t fought hard with the enemy before.
They defeated all the elite troops led by Hu Jie!
Are you still afraid of these soldiers who were temporarily recruited and do not even have complete armor and weapons?
“It’s really a loss!”
Yun Zheng nodded, "Order people to cook at 11:00 a.m. and send out troops at 11:00 p.m.! Except for the remaining 5,000 people, give them 5,000 war horses and order them to guard the food and grass! The rest of the people, all launch the assault!"
If the enemy army delays like this, the Mongols and Zhenhe people might have already joined them.
Now, the enemy certainly has the advantage in terms of military strength.
They also want to recruit 5,000 infantrymen to serve as cavalry.
"Your Highness, are you just going to launch a surprise attack like this?"
Qu Zhi asked in surprise: "This doesn't seem like your style, does it?"
Yun Zheng has never liked head-on confrontation unless it is absolutely necessary.
Every battle has some ingenious strategies.
If Yun Zheng's plan is followed, they will have 33,000 cavalry.
If the reinforcements from the Mongols and Zhenhe could not arrive in time, the enemy's number would be smaller than theirs.
Even if the enemy's reinforcements arrived, their morale was high and they were not afraid of the 40,000 enemy troops who had gathered in a hurry.
They were far superior to the enemy in terms of weapons and equipment as well as morale.
It is not impossible to launch a direct frontal assault.
But it is hard to say how many casualties there are.
After all, the enemy's numbers are so large that even if you have a fire poker in your hand, you might be able to kill some of them.
As soon as he heard Qu Zhi's words, Yun Zheng knew that Qu Zhi had some ideas, so he said, "Tell me what you think."
Qu Zhi chuckled and said immediately: "Didn't the enemy try to trick us? Let's do the same to the enemy!"
"Go on."
Yun Zheng smiled.
It seems that Qu Zhi may have the same idea as me.
Qu Zhi immediately said, "I think we can send out a few thousand elite soldiers and pretend to cross the Yellow Sand Sea to attack their royal court. In this way, the enemy will definitely send troops to stop us! If the enemy dares not come, we will really go straight to the royal court!"
As long as the enemy's forces are divided, their frontal forces will be reduced.
In this way, even if they force a surprise attack, the casualties will be much smaller.
Listening to Qu Zhi's words, everyone nodded.
Qu Zhi's plan is quite good.
Yun Zheng nodded slightly, then frowned and said, "I think so too, but I have some concerns."
"Um?"
Qu Zhi was puzzled, "What are you worried about, Your Highness?"
"I'm worried that the enemy has made preparations for both scenarios."
Yun Zheng frowned, "If the enemy has evacuated all of their rear areas, and even moved the royal court, if we charge forward like this, the enemy might not pay any attention to us, or even see through our intentions."
"No way?"
Qu Zhi's eyelids jumped. "If they move again, I'm afraid they won't have anywhere to move to, right?"
"If it were me, I would have made preparations for both scenarios." Yun Zheng said, "Beihuan is definitely not sure of winning now. Their actions in the past few days have been very strange. They may even be deliberately delaying us to buy enough time for the tribes in the rear to migrate."
When attacking a country like Beihuan, the most feared thing is that they will keep migrating.
Once the Beihuan tribes migrated, it meant that they could no longer obtain supplies from the Beihuan tribes.
Jia Yao has done this once before!
It's not impossible to do this again.
Anyway, they can't stay in the Beihuan territory forever.
The people of Beihuan have migrated away, but they can migrate back!
"That's possible!"
Wang Qi touched his chin and said, "If this is true, then our plan to raid the royal court may not be realistic."
"That's what we said, but we have to try!" Huo Gu was full of fighting spirit. "At worst, we can defeat the enemy's defenders in front of us, so that this trip won't be in vain!"
"right!"
Qu Zhi nodded, "Anyway, the enemy will definitely suffer more than us!"
"We can't think of using surprise troops to attack the royal court!" Yun Zheng said in a deep voice: "We can defeat the enemy in front and then push forward directly! The elite troops crossing the Yellow Sand Sea are just pretending to attack the royal court, but their real goal is to go back to the rear of the enemy from the Yellow Sand Sea. When we launch an attack from the front, these elite troops will rush out from the rear of the enemy!"
The enemy's actions in the past few days have been very strange.
It doesn't look like he's going to fight them to the death at all.
If the enemy wants to protect the rear, we should be ready to fight them to the death!
If that elite force were to fail and have no supplies, they would most likely be killed by the enemy.
"Your Highness, what you said makes sense!"
Qu Zhi's eyes flashed with brilliance, and he immediately asked for battle: "Your Highness, let me lead this elite force!"
"good!"
Yun Zheng readily agreed, "Don't we just have 7,000 extra war horses? I will give you 7,000 elite soldiers and 14,000 war horses to ensure the combat effectiveness of your army!"
A man and a horse wandering in the yellow sand sea for a long time must have damaged their combat effectiveness.
One more horse means a guarantee.
"yes!"
Qu Zhi accepted the order with excitement...
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