After passing the Xuanfu to the southeast, the road became narrower and narrower, and the north side was close to the foot of the mountain, and there were Yanghe rivers flowing endlessly on the south side, so the entire army could only march in columns, and could not be effectively deployed at all.
Just when everyone was wondering why Zhu Qizhen chose such a broken road, they came to Leijia Station, and then the entire terrain became open.
To the north of Leijia Station is Babao Mountain, and to the south is a spacious field.
On the southern edge of the wilderness, the Yanghe River gurgles from the valley in the northwest, and the Sanggan River bubbles from the valley in the southwest and merges into the Wuding River (Yongding River).
This kind of terrain is convenient for large troops to deploy, and it is a good battlefield for a decisive battle with the Warat soldiers.
Therefore, Zhu Qizhen decided to stay here, induce the Warat soldiers to attack, and wait for an opportunity to annihilate them.
However, most people didn't know Zhu Qizhen's idea, so when the army stopped here, many people were quite puzzled.
At this time, Wang Zhen came forward, "The army is about to return to Beijing through Juyong Pass, but the baggage is far behind, and I am afraid of accidents, so everyone wait for a while, and when the baggage team catches up, it is not too late for the army to set off again!"
” When almost everyone heard Wang Zhen's words, they were so angry that they wanted to scold their mother: Since they are almost at Juyong Pass, why don't they go in?
Do you have to wait for that baggage team?
However, precisely because this place is not far from Juyongguan, no one has raised any objections: Anyway, there will be two or three days to enter the city and return to Beijing, so why bother with that leisure?
Offend Wang Zhen, the big eunuch?
So the army stopped at Leijia Station, and at the same time, the three major battalions were waiting in line according to the garrison under Zhu Qizhen's order.
When it comes to why the three major battalions are so powerful, Zhu Di's continuous construction of military formations during the expedition to Mobei can be said to be one of the important reasons.
The Shenji Battalion, the 3,000 Battalion, and the Fifth Army Battalion are firepower units, cavalry units, and infantry units, each performing its own duties and exerting its tremendous effectiveness through mutual cooperation.
Even when the emperor personally recruited and stationed, the arrangement of the three battalions was also very exquisite: the three battalions as the firepower troops were on the outermost, the three thousand battalions as the cavalry troops stayed in the middle, and the five military battalions as the infantry team were in the innermost, surrounding Zhu Qizhen and the hundred civil and military officials.
Therefore, it is no wonder that Zhu Qizhen has such self-confidence, and with the cooperation of such a powerful combat power of the three major battalions and advanced formation combat ideas, he feels that there is no reason not to win in the field battle.
This is also the reason why he refused to set up ambushes in Harrier Ridge, Xuanfu Chengnan and other places, in that case, how could he have a chance to confront Warat head-on and completely annihilate it?
In the past, Emperor Taizu and Emperor Chengzu didn't all become famous in such a fight?
And I have to do that kind of great feats and become a generation of saints who surpass my father!
Everyone followed Zhu Qi and waited quietly, but Ji Ling's heart became more and more anxious, because he knew the news of the loss of Huailai and other places in advance.
When Ji Ling was ordered to investigate the movement of Warat before, he still wondered why Warat had to send the vanguard to rush to the front, but now he understood that Warat wanted to take the lead and cut off the back road of the army back to Beijing, so it seems that they have also made full preparations!
Although Ji Ling couldn't think of what the Warat army was planning for the time being, he always had an ominous premonition: they must have a plan, otherwise they wouldn't have followed all the way with a great disadvantage in numbers!
Ji Ling's guess was not wrong, Warat did come prepared, and the leader of Warat who led the southward expedition this time had already hatched a bold plan in his heart.
Ye Xian, whose full name is Zhu Ru Yexian, is now the leader of the Mongolian Warat Tribe.
His father, Turos, had already unified the eastern part of Mongolia before, and after his father died in the fourth year of orthodoxy and inherited the position of the leader of Warat, he conquered the Jurchens one after another, unified the three Mongolian tribes, and subjugated Korea.
Of course, the Mongol Great Khan at this time was not Yexian, but a Mongol named Totobuhua, because he was a descendant of the authentic Golden Family, but that was limited to that.
Because under the strong pressure of Yexian, he can only be a puppet honestly, and at the same time he will be named "Taishi", and put all the power in the hands of Yexian, and even this time to attack the Ming army in the south, he was coerced to come here, which can be said to be a bit embarrassing.
Moreover, there were also two very powerful younger brothers: the second Boyan Timur and the third Saikan King, who also played a very important role in helping Yexian usurp power and conquer other tribes.
This time to attack the Ming army in the south, these three brothers actually went out together, which shows that he also attached great importance to this war, God knows how long he has been preparing!
However, he also knew in his heart that Mongolia at this time was no longer as glorious as it used to be, and the Ming Dynasty was an extremely powerful existence for himself, so he did not dare to act rashly at first, and he was cautious in every move.
It wasn't until the Ming army was defeated and retreated under Yexian's attack, and tens of thousands of people were lost in the battle of Yuyang and Kou, that Yexian discovered that the Ming army was not as strong as he imagined.
Therefore, Yexian's courage gradually increased, and he began to plan to defeat the 200,000 elite forces of the three major battalions of the Ming army, instead of grabbing something and running away as usual.
So he also retreated the army outside the ambush first, preparing to give the Ming army a fatal blow there, but the Ming army was not fooled, but waved his division to return to Guannai.
Unwillingly, he followed behind like this, exploring the truth and finding the loopholes of the Ming army at the same time, so he was pleasantly surprised to find that this Ming army was strong on the surface, but in fact it was not so difficult to deal with.
Therefore, he also sent his younger brother Boyan Timur to seize Huailai and other important strongholds in advance, cutting off the back road of the Ming army back to Beijing, and at the same time gradually shrinking his forces, trying to have a real decisive battle with this Ming army.
"Big brother, the Ming army stopped at Leijia Station, but the defense is very tight......"
After the king of Sai Magazine, who had been acting as the vanguard in front, inquired about the news, he immediately told Ye Xian, "But their baggage troops are still lagging behind and have not arrived ......"
The king of Saiban had a shaved head, his face was full of thick beards, and he was dressed as a very serious Mongolian, and he had always felt that his third brother was "the same as the inside and the outside", brave and unscrupulous, but this time he found out the situation so clearly, and he felt very satisfied at first, "Okay, since that's the case, let's deal with their palace troops first!"
” "In addition, you go and occupy the water source of the Wuding River first, and then cut it off in time at my order, I must let their hundreds of thousands of troops go and not return this time!"
also looked at the king of the journal first, and said very confidently.