Chapter 467: Defeat the Strong with the Weak and Call for Help
[Stuck for a day, forgive me]
The kiln is located in the northeast of Huainan, west of Haozhou, the famous Shouzhou kiln is derived from here, famous for celadon, but also the first yellow glazed porcelain, in the Tang Dynasty was listed as one of the seven kiln capitals.
The kiln began in the Sui Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and finally flourished in the late Tang Dynasty, only flourished for more than 300 years, since the Song Dynasty has been rarely fired, to the Yuan Dynasty Shouzhou kiln firing process has been lost, once prosperous on the kiln has also declined.
However, Shangyao is the main road from Huainan to Haozhou, where the Huai River and the Yao River meet, forming a relatively narrow land passage.
At this time, the main road of Shangyao had been occupied by a large military camp, which was the army led by the Mongol general Wang Baobao to crusade against Zhu Yuanzhang.
Although the army led by Wang Baobao was only 30,000 people, it was a rare elite division in the Mongolian army.
Now that the Mongol three-way army has faintly formed a siege of Haozhou City, even if Zhu Yuanzhang now perceives the attack of the army, he is already unable to escape.
There was still one day before the army came to the city, and Wang Baobao was ambitious to take the lead, and he was summoning the generals to discuss how to capture Haozhou.
The three-way army, only his army carried a large number of trebuchets and other siege equipment due to the geographical convenience.
Although the 80,000-strong army led by Tuhuan Timur himself consisted of the Su Guards, the Mongol Army, and the Tanma Red Army, although it was an elite division, it was conducive to fighting on the plains, fighting against each other, but it was not specialized in siege warfare, and it was inconvenient to carry heavy siege equipment when it came from long distances.
The only thing that can compete with Wang Baobao is to answer the 40,000 soldiers and horses led by Badulu and Polo Timur father and son, but Wang Baobao speculates that they came all the way from Sichuan Province, and they are on boats, so they should not carry too many siege equipment, and Wang Baobao is still very confident in grabbing the first merit of breaking the city in front of them.
Wang Baobao was full of confidence, and ordered his generals to make food when they were hungry and set off when they were ugly, and they must be under the city of Haozhou tomorrow to catch Zhu Yuanzhang off guard.
Wang Baobao had just made a plan, and the generals had not had time to go down to arrange the deployment, when the Chinese army came to report, saying that Badulu had sent people to ask for support.
Hearing the report, Wang Baobao stood up unexpectedly, looked at Zhongjun in disbelief and asked, "What did you say, say it again?" ”
Answer: Badulu sent someone to ask me for help? Is there any mistake?
Who in the Manchu Dynasty doesn't know that I am at odds with the father and son of Badulu, and the two sides are simply enemies, even if Badulu loses it, I am afraid that he will not ask me for help even if he loses Badulu, right? What's more, the emperor made careful arrangements for the encirclement and suppression of Zhu Yuanzhang this time, with the intention of completely annihilating Zhu Yuanzhang and the party.
In addition to Zhu Yuanzhang's chaotic party and some threats here, who else can threaten the 40,000 troops in the hands of Badulu?
After confirming that it was correct from the mouth of the Chinese army again, Wang Baobao suppressed the excitement on his face, waved his hand violently and said, "Someone has come." ”
With a little effort, a general with crooked armor and staggered into the Chinese army's tent, saw Wang Baobao kneeling on the ground with a puff, and crawled a few steps with tears and hugged Wang Baobao's thigh: "Lord Commander, you quickly send troops to save our marshal......
Wang Baobao reached out and grabbed the man's shoulder, stared into his eyes and asked, "Who are you?" What happened? Let's take it personally. ”
The man hugged Wang Baobao's thigh, with tears in his eyes, and said in an anxious tone: "Lord General Soldier, the last general will answer the loss of Marshal Badulu's account of thousands of households. Lord Commander-in-Chief, my little marshal Polo Timur led 10,000 soldiers and horses as the vanguard, and did not want to fall into the ambush of Zhu Yuanzhang's chaotic army, and the little marshal Polo Timur was hit by more than 20 arrows and died on the spot......"
"What? Is Polo Timur dead? Wang Baobao was taken aback, he and Polo Timur can be said to be enemies in the previous life, and the two of them did not look at each other when they were pleasing to the eye, but now Wang Baobao heard that Polo Timur was killed in battle, and his heart couldn't help but feel sad that the rabbit died and the fox died.
Ao Riqileng nodded vigorously, choked and said: "The little marshal unfortunately died in battle, the old marshal was in pain, and waved his army to fight against Zhu Yuanzhang's rebellious party, but he didn't expect that our army was attacked by Zhu Yuanzhang's army, and our army responded to the battle in a hurry, but Zhu Yuanzhang's army was overwhelming, and our army was invincible. Our 30,000-strong army was trapped in Dajin Mountain, fighting hard for a day and a night, and it was already precarious. Lord Commander-in-Chief, the marshal of my family, please take the sake of the vitality of the Mongolian people and quickly send troops to rescue, otherwise, our 30,000 soldiers who retreated to Dajin Mountain ......"
As he spoke, Ao Riqi cried with a whimper.
Wang Baobao frowned and looked at Ao Riqileng and asked, "How many soldiers and horses does Zhu Yuanzhang have?" It was possible to ambush the 10,000 pioneers of Polo Timur and defeat your marshal? ”
Ao Riqileng said with tears in his eyes: "The small one doesn't know how many soldiers and horses Zhu Yuanzhang has, when the army comes, it is overwhelming all over the world, and the small one is estimated to have at least fifty or sixty thousand people." ”
"Nonsense." Wang Baobao glared and shouted: "According to the report of the spies, Zhu Yuanzhang is only 50,000 chaotic people, and he still has to defend Haozhou, how can there be 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses to fight with you?" ”
Ao Riqileng kowtowed like pounding garlic, and shouted with tears in his eyes: "Lord Commander, the last general will never dare to lie and deceive. The marshal of my family estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang's chaotic party received the news of the attack of the imperial army, and he did not dare to stay in Haozhou and wait for death, so he poured out of the nest, maybe they wanted to flee to Jingzhou to temporarily avoid the imperial court's extermination, and as a result, they collided with the army led by the marshal of my family......"
Wang Baobao listened to Ao Riqileng with a dark face, and paced back and forth in the tent.
If he was Zhu Yuanzhang, he would definitely abandon the city without hesitation when he learned that Tuhuan Timur had raised an army of 150,000 to besiege Haozhou.
From Zhu Yuanzhang's point of view, it is indeed a good choice to temporarily avoid Jingzhou. was bumped into by the father and son of Badulu and Polo Timur, and also played an ambush of Polo Timur, which can only be regarded as the bad luck of Badulu and Polo Timur father and son.
Wang Baobao paced a few steps, suddenly stopped, turned to look at Ao Riqilen and asked, "Do you have any tokens with me?" ”
"Yes", Ao Riqileng replied repeatedly, as if he had just remembered, and hurriedly took out a letter from his arms and presented it with both hands.
Wang Baobao reached out and took the envelope that had been soaked in blood, checked it, and the fire paint on the seal was not damaged, so he tore open the envelope and pulled out the letter paper in it.
'Expand the general army of Timur, the military situation is very urgent, please send troops to help the court as soon as possible. Dali comforted Marshal Sidu and replied that Badulu was lost. ’
There was only a short sentence on the letterhead, but it was stamped with the handsome seal of the answer to the loss of Badulu.
Looking at the letter, Wang Baobao raised his eyebrows, and shouted outside the tent: "Someone is coming, ......" (to be continued.) )