Traveling through the emperor, overthrowing the empress dowager at the beginning

Late at night, Kou Yu disguised himself as a scout, quietly left the main force of the Tatar army, and headed straight for the capital.

The Tatar Left Wise King continued to lead his army to stay around the Digui army camp, trying to find an opportunity to take advantage of.

However, the Tatar army failed to achieve any results whether attacking at night or during the day.

With each operation, they left behind dozens of bodies.

Zuo Xian Wang was furious and, in desperation, he sent people to shout and curse at the camp.

But Digui also sent people to stand on the high wall to curse at them, and the curses were even more unpleasant and louder than those of the Tatar army.

Moreover, Zuo Xian Wang only dared to surround the Di Gui army camp during the day.

Once they set up camp near the camp, the Di Gui would definitely send out their elite troops to attack.

The Tatar soldiers had to dismount to set up tents, so when the Di Gui army arrived, they were in a panic and many of them were sure to be killed.

Then, Zuo Xian Wang planned to completely cut off the logistical supply of the Di Gui army, but he soon discovered that there was no one to transport food to the Di Gui army, and all the food and grass had been stored in the camp.

Ye Chen had already made all preparations to fight the Tatar army.

What made Zuo Xian Wang even more worried was that every day when cooking, the aroma of meat would always waft out of Di Gui's camp, but the Tatar army under his command had less and less to eat every day and was about to run out of food.

Zuo Xian Wang had no choice but to hope that Kou Yu could bring him good news.

As for him, there was nothing he could do.

In the capital, a carriage loaded with vegetables slowly drove into the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Kou Yu, wearing a conical hat and pretending to be a vegetable seller, got off the carriage. He was then taken to a secret room full of hope and met Yang Dechang.

Then, Kou Yu told Yang Dechang about the difficulties faced by the Tatar army.

Yang Dechang was silent for a moment, his face gloomy, and he slowly said, "Kou Yu, the armed forces I deployed in the city have been destroyed by the young emperor. For the time being, I am no longer able to cooperate with the Tatar army."

Upon hearing this, the hope on Kou Yu's face instantly turned into disappointment.

"Prime Minister, what should we do?"

Kou Yu suddenly panicked.

"Hmph, even if there were no Tatar army, I would not sit idly by and wait for death. I would find other ways to deal with the emperor."

Yang Dechang then slowed down his tone and said, "General Kou, you are injured, so go down and rest first."

"Yes."

Kou Yu was helped down.

Seven days after Kou Yu left the camp, the Tatar army's food supply was about to run out. In desperation, Zuo Xian Wang had to order a retreat.

However, just as Zuo Xian Wang gave the order, he planned to lead his troops to retreat under the cover of night.

The militia who had been in charge of surveillance discovered the unusual movements of the Tatar army and passed the information to Ye Chen as quickly as possible.

"Di Gui, gather all your cavalry and ten thousand infantry and give chase! The Tatars are running out of food. Don't let them go, chase them all the way to the end!"

Ye Chen pondered for a moment while holding the information, and then said in a voice full of majesty and decisiveness.

"As ordered!"

Di Gui quickly counted out his 1,100 cavalrymen and led them out of the camp, heading towards the Tatar army camp in a menacing manner.

The Tatar soldiers had never expected that the Digui army, who had been holding their ground, would suddenly attack in the middle of the night, and they had already lost their will to fight due to food shortages.

So, Di Gui didn't have to spend much effort and led his cavalry to attack the Tatar camp like a tiger descending from the mountain.

In an instant, the Tatar army was in chaos.

Zuo Xian Wang quickly led his personal soldiers to cover the rear, but it was difficult to gather the troops in the chaos.

Di Gui once again led the charge, leading his elite cavalry to attack all the way!

Soon, they broke through the troops gathered by Zuo Xian Wang.

In the darkness of night, King Zuo Xian had no idea how many troops were attacking him. He only felt that his soldiers were very brave and their shouts of killing shook the sky!

On the battlefield, the Tatar army abandoned their weapons and fled in all directions.

The scene of defeat was like a flood that broke through a dam and was out of control.

Zuo Xian Wang did not dare to resist and could only retreat in a hurry with his confidants and the nearly 3,000 Tatar cavalry gathered around him.

And this retreat is a retreat again and again!

Di Gui led his army in a swift pursuit without stopping for a moment, giving Zuo Xian Wang no time to regroup his troops.

One day and one night, chasing for a hundred miles!

There was no chance for Zuo Xian Wang to gather his soldiers.

Along the way, the Tatar army suffered countless casualties and their morale was extremely low.

Until Zuo Xian Wang brought a small number of personal soldiers and crossed the river by boat.

A large number of Tatar cavalrymen who followed him, faced with the charging Di Gui and the hundreds of cavalrymen around him, who were covered in blood and looked like gods of death, put up a symbolic resistance and then fled in all directions. Some of them went to find other places to cross the river, while those who were caught up knelt down and surrendered, giving up resistance.

At this point, Di Guicai commanded the infantry to start going out in all directions to encircle and suppress the Tatar cavalry who had fled and had not yet crossed the river.

In this battle, the more than one thousand cavalrymen around him were reduced to eight hundred.

Everyone was extremely tired, but also extremely excited.

In this battle, 20,000 Tatar cavalry were defeated.

It’s so refreshing!

When Di Gui returned, he brought with him more than 5,000 captives and more than 3,000 war horses.

If the Tatar cavalry had not run so fast, the number of prisoners would have at least doubled.

Outside the Digui Army camp.

Ye Chen greeted him personally.

But he watched Di Gui leading his army from afar.

He rode forward quickly, his tone dignified yet gentle: "Di Gui, you have made an indelible contribution to this great victory."

Di Gui quickly knelt down and saluted: "Your Majesty, this is my duty."

Ye Chen reached out to help Di Gui up, but saw that his body was wrapped in linen, and knew that he was also injured.

"Di Gui, go down and let the doctor treat your injuries immediately. Make sure you have a good rest."

"promise!"

After settling Di Gui, Ye Chen turned to look at Shen Qiu.

"Qiu'er, pass on my order. Kill all the Tartar captives without sparing a single one!"

"Then send all the heads of these Tatars outside Wuguan Pass and pile them up into a Jingguan!"

Ye Chen showed no mercy to these Tatars who dared to set foot on Dayu's territory.

It is also necessary to use this to deter those wealthy families who have their own private armies!

Do it all.

Ye Chen asked the Ministry of Revenue to transfer money and food to reward the army.

It was not until the morning of the next day that Ye Chen boarded the carriage and prepared to return to the palace.

This battle with the Tatars made Ye Chen deeply understand the importance of cavalry.

If there were only three or four thousand cavalrymen, none of the more than 20,000 Tatar cavalrymen would be able to escape.

Fortunately, this time we harvested nearly four thousand war horses.

It is now possible to form an iron cavalry.

"Next, it's time to deal with Yang Dechang's followers!"

Ye Chen lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked at the capital city in the distance, his eyes suddenly becoming sharp.

The crisis in the capital has been resolved, and now he has to focus on dealing with internal troubles!