National War (11b)

Kublai Khan received an urgent report from the Baoding Garrison Envoy and immediately convened his ministers to discuss countermeasures. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This is another despicable and shameless method of the thief, when he was afraid that the soldiers and horses of the Great Yuan would go south, he funded Naiyan to rebel in Liaodong. Now, after Nai Yan was exterminated, he repeated his old tricks and tried every means to create chaos within Dayuan. Therefore, the Great Yuan Dynasty must nip this fire of resistance in the bud as soon as possible, once the Taihang bandits gain momentum, the bandits who are ready to move everywhere will rise up. In that way, the Great Yuan Dynasty will not only be unable to send troops south to crusade against the remnants of the Song Dynasty next year, but even its own safety will become a problem.

Kublai Khan took a personal photo with his eyes, and the civil and military officials immediately gave the greatest support to the suppression of bandits. The military department, the household department, and the engineering department moved one after another, and artillery, money, food, and generals were quickly prepared. A few days ago, there were 300,000 troops, and more than 100 generals of various nationalities followed Kublai Khan's squad to return to the court, and it was not very difficult to transfer troops and send generals. Moreover, according to the battle report sent by Zhending Mansion, there were only more than 3,000 broken captives in the Taihang group, and the rest were thieves who had gathered temporarily. This kind of victorious and undefeated battle is willing to be fought, the Great Yuan Dynasty pays the most attention to military merits, and the main generals are rarely allowed to increase their officials and enter the knighthood after a victory, and their entourage can also make a lot of money on the battlefield. The benefits are the same three wars on the grassland, but the risk is half smaller than fighting with Naiyan.

After some balancing, Yuxi Timur's nephew, Zhongwanhu Tenggercheng was appointed as the marshal of the thief, and Zhang Guoliang of the Mongolian Han army was appointed as the deputy marshal of the thief, and the two took 5,000 Mongolian warriors who had just withdrawn from the grassland, 5,000 Han troops who had just entered Mongolia, more than 20 bronze artillery guns improved by Li Guida, and integrated Zhending, Dingzhou, and Qizhou, three 10,000 households, more than 20,000 "elite soldiers", and archers from several nearby states and counties.

Contrary to the expectations of the Yuan army, the thieves in Taihang Mountain not only fled from the wind, but instead opened an offensive posture on the bank of the Hutuo River.

"General, the surface of the river has frozen, and according to the local savages, the ice is thick enough for a feasible person!" A scout ran up to Tengger to give his report. Winter is the dry season, and the narrowest part of the Hutuo River is only more than three zhang wide. wanted to use this small river ditch to block the Yuan army, and the bandits on the opposite side obviously miscalculated.

"Order, order Zhao Wencheng to lead two thousand-strong teams to attack the opposite bank first!" Tengger did not hesitate to send out the Pathfinder Stone. Since he came to Zhending, he sent Zhao Wencheng, a Han army in the city, to be timid and afraid of death, and was suspected of passively avoiding war. For generals who have made mistakes, Tengger has always liked to give them a few more opportunities to wash away their shame.

"Two thousand-strong teams?" Zhang Guoliang, a million households of the Han army, asked suspiciously. The Song army on the other side of the river had at least 20,000 troops, and Zhao Wencheng led 2,000 men to charge, purely to send them to death.

Zhao Wencheng took a thousand people to land and invite the battle. Archers line up along the coast to prevent the opponent from counterattacking. The artillery was swinging back, ready to bombard the enemy's main position. The cavalry reorganized their mounts and were ready to attack at any time! Tengger raised his voice and repeated his command again.

Zhang Guoliang didn't dare to contradict the boss, called the herald, and laid out the order to the letter. A moment later, Zhao Wencheng stepped onto the ice with two thousand cannon fodder.

This section of the terrain is low-lying, and the snow blown by the mountain wind covers the ice with a thick layer. The soldiers of the Zhending Wanhu Office bent their waists, listened to the sound of the snow creaking under their feet, and moved forward step by step. Feathered arrows were constantly being fired from the opposite bank, nailing the soldiers who could not escape into the snow, but the attackers did not dare to speed up and rush across the line of death. In the weather where the dripping water turns into ice, once there is an ice hole under the feet, the person who falls into it has no hope of climbing out of the water alive.

"Leave a few ashore, leave a few ashore. Let the wolf cubs who come first eat the meat, and the old wolf behind will swallow the bait! Zhang and his entourage rode on a blue and white mule and shouted at the archers under his command. The Orion-turned-archers reluctantly raised their wooden bows and fired their hard-won feathered arrows into the air.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" The sound of the arrows was urgent. The Zhemu Bow made under the guidance of the Broken Army was different from any other variety used by the Song and Yuan dynasties in the past, with a short manufacturing cycle, long range and fast rate of fire, but it was far inferior to the Angle Bow in terms of armor-piercing ability.

Most of the feathered arrows were off target. Zhao Wencheng approached the river bank under the protection of his cronies, waved the treasure knife in his hand, and took the lead in rushing towards the Liukou.

"Kill!" The cannon fodder who explored the path saw the cheapness and was in a great spirit. At such a close distance, it is impossible to shoot such a slow-moving target, and it is clear that the bandits have not been rigorously trained.

"The archers stepped back, the pikemen stepped forward, and surrounded them! Grenadiers get ready to fight the archers on the opposite shore! Zhang and his entourage shouted and waved the order flag.

The archers retreated, making way for an open space on the bank of the river. The two spearmen were armed with sharpened wooden sticks more than a zhang long, and squeezed from the flanks towards the Yuan troops who had landed on the shore. The two thousand-strong teams led by Zhao Wencheng immediately became straw bags for practicing assassination, and the opponent's weapons were so long and dense that the soldiers under his command were dressed as sugar gourds before they could see the opponent's appearance clearly.

The archers recruited from all over the country couldn't bear to see their companions slaughtered, and began to shoot at Taihang Haojie across the riverbank. The mountain wind blowing along the river caused most of the feathered arrows to fall halfway, and a small number of those that floated across the river bank also lost their sights, knocking down the crowd of people who were fighting without distinguishing between friend and foe.

At this moment, more than forty wooden shelves were rolled out on the high slope on the other side of the river. Su Erhu waved the flag, and the black-pressed projectile broke away from the cloth pocket and fell to the north of the Hutuo River. Violent explosions rang out, and when the smoke cleared, hundreds of corpses fell on the north bank of the river. The archers recruited by Tengger from all over the country were blown to the ground, and they did not care to support the soldiers who crossed the river first.

"Retreat, retreat, pikemen scatter and retreat!" Zhang and his entourage shouted. With the reins of a mule, he took the lead and ran into the dense forest. The pikemen took a few steps back, threw down the worthless sticks, and ran into the mountains, ignoring the slightest military honor.

The Yuan army, which had already piled up the artillery mount, lost its target in an instant, and more than 20 bronze artillery blew up the south bank of the river into smoke and dust, but it failed to cause much damage to the Taihang Qunhao, but killed more than 100 Han troops who were in place.

The trebuchet commanded by Su Erhu continued to exert its might, and a new round of grenades fell into the main formation of the Yuan army with the wind. The two thousand-man detachment, which had been too close to the riverbank, were blown apart, and the soldiers who were lucky enough not to die lost their weapons and ran around like flies without a head.

"Artillery, artillery blow up those trebuchets! Stupid, dumber than a pregnant roe deer! Tengger was so angry that he grabbed the leather whip and rewarded the artillery team with more than a dozen whips. When dealing with Naiyan in Liaodong, the Yuan artillery was almost invincible. Who would have thought that after encountering bandits, they would suddenly become clumsy.

The beaten artilleryman Qianhu did not dare to complain, and beckoned his brothers to quickly change the bombardment target. By the time they adjusted the angle of the artillery and finished loading the ammunition, Su Erhu had already abandoned the improvised trebuchet and drilled the valley with the thief.

The howling mountain wind swept across the river, rolling up pink snow. In the icy snow, lay Zhao Wencheng and more than 2,000 brothers under his command. Confused, dead and blind.

The opponent fled without a fight, and all the tactics prepared by Tengger in advance were null and void. The artillerymen put away their gun mounts, and the cavalrymen jumped off their horses and joined the dejected foot soldiers, preparing to cross the river in a gloomy manner. The casualties of 2,000 people were not large, but at the cost of 2,000 casualties, they did not hurt a single cold hair of the opponent. This result was enough to shake the confidence of the commander of the soldiers.

"Cross the river, cross the river quickly, two legs can't run four legs, besides, they can't run the monk to the temple!" Zhang Guoliang, the deputy marshal of the capital, loudly encouraged morale. "Kill into the deer city, and the treasures in the city are up to everyone!"

"Then there has to be a life flower!" There were soldiers muttering quietly. The rabbit died and the fox was sad, and Tengger's behavior of letting the Han army send him to death made everyone feel cold.

Marshal Tengger of the thieves didn't care about the feelings of the soldiers, and although the price paid for the first battle was a bit big, it at least showed that the ice surface of the Hutuo River could be surpassed. Under his orders, more than 6,000 Tanma Red Army led their mounts and took the lead in stepping on the ice.

The ice was frozen hard, and the horse's hooves fell with a crisp echo. After following the Tanma Red Army, the Han army and the Mongolian army walked down the river bank one after another.

"Alright, ignition!" Zhang Erxing, who was ambushed in the snowdrift, gave an order, and dozens of thieves whose lips were purple from the cold ignited the fire at the same time. A cloud of green smoke rose from the snow and swayed into the river at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Quick, get ashore!" Zhang Guoliang couldn't go to ask the coach anymore and ordered loudly.

The panicked Yuan troops pushed each other and squeezed towards the north and south banks, and the soldiers behind did not know what was happening in front of them, and instinctively rushed forward. The ice beneath their feet was so smooth that the soldiers who collided with each other could not hold their balance and fell into a rolling gourd.

Just as they were throwing into a ball, "Boom, boom, boom!" "The gunpowder, which had been buried in clay pots under the snow beforehand, exploded one after another, and quickly plowed the ice from south to north. Broken ice, snow and the limbs of the Northern Yuan soldiers flew into the air alternately. The ice in the middle of the river could not withstand the force, and a black crack cracked "quack, quack, quack".

"The river is cracked!" Someone cried loudly.

"The river is cracked!" The soldiers scurried in panic.

At this moment, the Yuan army couldn't care about catching the despicable bandits who lit gunpowder on the shore, and they no longer wanted to listen to the command of Tengger and others. Pushed away his companions under the control of the instinct of survival, and ran desperately towards the shore. The chaotic footsteps were like a hammer, causing the cracks in the ice to widen rapidly, and the icy river rushed up, sweeping the soldiers who had slipped on both sides of the crack downstream.

"Cluck!" The ice surface, which could not bear the pressure, completely collapsed, and a death trap more than two miles long and two feet wide appeared in the middle of the Hutuo River. The Northern Yuan soldiers, who stood in the middle of the river and had no time to escape, fell into the river like dumplings, and their thick cotton armor was soaked by the river water, and immediately became heavier than a stone.

"Help!" Several soldiers who were only five steps from the shore desperately waved to the survivors on the shore. Two or three soft-hearted soldiers turned back to the rescue, but before they could hold their companion who had fallen into the water, their feet slipped, and they themselves fell into the river. In winter, the river water is as cold as a knife, piercing the ribs straight into the heart. In a few moments, their cries froze in their throats.

Over time, the river has widened and expanded. The soldiers, who had already escaped death, ran up to the dirt bank one after another, fearing that the residual ice under their feet would break again. The soldiers who cried and struggled in the river became less and less powerful, and in despair, watched as the river flooded their nostrils.

One, two, three, hundreds, thousands of blue-black hands stretched out of the river to the sky. Maybe at the last moment of their lives they tried to grab something, maybe they stretched out their hands just to show their presence. Everything is no longer important, in the fourth winter of Xiangxing, these thousands of hands are forever fixed in the memory of the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

"Copper head, iron tail, tofu waist. We're just going to break its waist pole this time, and there's a big dish to be served next! Zhang and his entourage stood on the hillside two miles away, pointing at the river in the distance. The Taihang heroes around him were thunderous with joy, and they were all encouraged by the fact that the general owner of the village had effortlessly eliminated thousands of yuan troops.

"The chief village owner thinks the Yuan army will catch up?" Teaching captain Wang Bo asked puzzled. According to the tactics taught at the Breaking Military Academy, if the soldiers lose more than a third of their soldiers, the commander's best option is to abandon the pursuit and let the enemy leave. Instead of chasing after it in order to save personal face. One or two command mistakes can be tolerated, but mistakes are made again and again in disregard of the common sense of the use of troops, and according to the military regulations of the broken army, this kind of general is absolutely unforgivable.

"Tengger is also a famous general, and is highly expected by the Yuxi Temur family. I'm a bandit, so it doesn't matter how I lose. And he can't afford to lose once! Zhang and his entourage grinned, turned around and gave the order to Qunhao, "Quickly march and run towards Li's nest." Leave a team of neat feet for the Tartars to chase, don't let them chase them away! ”

The heroes agreed, raised colorful battle flags, and led the men and horses to sing. Tengger, who was wandering on the south bank of the Hutuo River, heard the singing, and his eyes immediately narrowed into a line. The wounded lone wolf gritted his teeth like a vicious order: "The whole team, the whole team catches up." Kill into Lu County, never seal the knife! ”

Stimulated by the double stimulus of revenge for their companions and the promise of robbery, the Yuan army regained some morale. Soldiers with war horses stepped on their horses, and soldiers without war horses spread their legs, braving the cold wind in the mountains, chasing the songs of the bandits.

In Li's nest, the Yuan army bit the tail of the Taihang group. After more than half an hour of competition, the heroes couldn't support it and abandoned the formation. Tengger and Zhang Guoliang, who were red-eyed, hacked to death all the wounded and captured bandits, and commanded the army to continue the pursuit.

Zhang Ji, who was three miles away, fought again with Taihang Qunhao. The combat effectiveness of the bandits and rogues who served as the blocker was so poor that the Yuan army of the brigade had just stopped, and before they could launch a charge, they took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield.

Stop-and-stop, almost the same rhythm. Within two hours, Tengger commanded the army to forcibly march twenty miles, from the Hutuo River, all the way to the outside of the city of Lulu. The moment the blue-gray city wall fell into view, Tengger's heart felt a sense of relief. When he enters the county seat, he can atone for his sins, and the reputation of his family can be preserved. But at this time, the feeling of relaxation spread along the heart to the whole body, shoulders, back, thighs, almost every joint, every inch of bones are lazy and can't lift the spirit.

"Boom, boom, boom!" The only two small cannons on the city wall spewed flames, knocking out the Northern Yuan soldiers who rushed to the front. Immediately afterwards, archers and pikemen came out of the city, and the weapons in their hands carried a cold light, making people feel cold to the bone.

"It's cold, it's cold!" Tengger felt dizzy. How to dispatch soldiers to attack the city, how to set up ladders, and where is the most suitable position for artillery erection, these things that are easily twisted by hand have become blank in an instant. He felt dizzy, his body tingled, and all his strength was withdrawn from his body inch by inch.

"Artillery, grenades, bows and arrows, hurry up and say hello. Hold on until dark and we'll win! Zhang and his entourage ordered loudly in the enemy building.

The seven artillery pieces that the Yuan army fished out of the river fell far behind the large group, and before they arrived, the exhausted Northern Yuan soldiers could only be beaten.

Taihang Qunhao stood on the city wall, condescending to vent his anger. The Northern Yuan soldiers and horses were forced to retreat again and again until they were out of the range of the artillery. Surprisingly, the Yuan army, which had hastily assembled in one place, did not set up camp, but instead turned around and withdrew farther away.

"What's going on?" Teaching captain Wang Bo was dumbfounded. Now, he found that the courses he had taken did not correspond to the situation in front of him. From beginning to end, Dazhai advocated that his party was like a fairy, and calculated every step of the Yuan army to the forefront.

"Holy shit, these bastards get wet with water. If you don't hurry up to bake the fire, you have to march forcibly. It stopped after walking for half an hour, and stopped for half an hour. The hot body was blown by the mountain wind three times, and even the iron-beaten man became a soft-horned shrimp! Zhang and his entourage glanced at Wang Bo and explained in a chattering manner.

"Lao Tzu's territory, heaven will help me!" Zhang Erxing smiled and cheered up the brothers, "They are still far away, and the more the dog bares his teeth, the more sick he is." When the whole battalion was sick and lay down, Lao Tzu went up and slashed one by one, and was pulled by the plate! ”

"Heaven help us!" The crowd laughed out loud. Goose-feathered snowflakes flew down with the laughter and landed all over people's faces.

Ten days later, Marshal Du was ambushed on the way to withdraw and died on an unnamed dirt slope on the south bank of the Hutuo River. The nearly 30,000 yuan army that traveled with them only fled back to more than 2,000 people. Zhao Wencheng and Zhang Hongxiang of the Han army, and Li Ji of the ten thousand households of the Tanma Red Army were killed in battle, and Zhang Guoliang, the deputy marshal of the thief capital, went to Dadu alone to ask for guilt, and was beheaded by Kublai Khan to show the public.

Under the command of Zhang and his entourage, the volunteers at the northern foot of Taihang returned to the division to counterattack. Lianke Zhending, Lincheng, Lingshou, and before the arrival of the second wave of Yuan troops, they ransacked the above cities and safely withdrew to the mountains.

Inspired by this force, the eight-character army and the loyal and righteous army in the Taihang Mountains attacked one after another, turning thousands of miles of Taihang into a burning knife, which was inserted in the heart of the Northern Yuan.

The world is in turmoil, and the dormant heroes have risen one after another.

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