Chapter 68: The Battle of Taizhou

This Taizhou is not another Taizhou.

This Taizhou is one of the Daming border stations, Taizhou Station, not Taizhou, Zhejiang.

Speaking of which, this place is west of Zhaozhou.

It is a post station connected to Zhaozhou.

Although the post station system outside the Guan, it began to collapse after Yongle. But there is a reason why Daming chose to establish a post station here

There is a river, which is a tributary of the Songhua River, with abundant aquatic grass, and all the conditions for the passage of the brigade.

Therefore, after Yang Hong crossed hundreds of miles of Horqin grassland, he came here to rest temporarily.

There are countless roads from Daning to Zhaozhou, after all, on the large grassland, you can go however you want.

But if it is convenient for the Tai army to walk, it is best to march along the river, after all, the food and water needed by tens of thousands of troops are not a small amount.

Food can be carried, but water must be sourced from local sources.

Therefore, Yang Hong chose the road, preferring to be farther away and detour a little, but also to come to Taizhou Station.

This is a desolate small post station, and at this moment, tens of thousands of troops have gathered here and set up camp.

Under the command of Yang Hong, the construction of the camp began.

It's just that the specifications of this camp are very high, almost centered on the Taizhou Post Station, and another city has been built outside.

Although it is wooden.

This is Yang Hong's style, not thinking about winning, thinking about defeat first.

With this camp here, don't think about it, and defeat Yang Hong in a battle.

Yang Jie Pegasus enters the camp.

When he came to Yang Hong's tent, he said: "General, the Tile Thorn army has arrived, and our scouts have already exchanged hands with the Tile Thorn Scouts." ”

Yang Hong glanced at Yang Jie and said, "It's frizzy, what does it look like." ”

Yang Jie immediately cheered up and said, "The last general understands. ”

As soon as Yang Jun died, Yang Hong was certainly sad, but what worried him more was the future of the Yang family's children.

He's going to be old. The stepchildren of the Yang family all need his careful training.

After Yang Hong waited for Yang Jie's breathing to be stable, Yang Hong carefully inquired about the news of the various departments of the tile spurs, and finally marked the places where the Ming army scouts and the tile spur scouts fought one by one.

After Yang Hong took a look, his eyes focused on a blank place on the map.

There are large blank spaces on this map, without him, this is not a place where the Ming army has been haunted for a long time, the maps here are all simple, and even Yang Hong started to draw them when he arrived here.

Therefore, there is a large blank space on the map.

According to the area where he fought with the tile spur scouts, Yang Hong deduced that this blank place was most likely where the main force of the tile spur cavalry was located.

Yang Hong asked, "How do you feel about the cavalry of the tile spurs?" ”

In order to cultivate Yang Jie, Yang Hong arranged for him to be in charge of the scouts and intelligence of the whole army.

Yang Jie said with some hesitation: "General, the various departments of the tile spur are not easy to deal with, and the lower officials are worried. ”

Yang Hong said: "It's not that you're worried, it's just asking you how you fight?" ”

Yang Jie said: "Handcuffs, long knives, long spears. How else can you fight? ”

Yang Hong listened, only to feel that his son made him feel a little big.

He sighed softly and said, "It is estimated that there will be a big battle tomorrow." You're right by my side to show you how to command the cavalry in battle. ”

The next day, as Yang Hong expected. The Tile Spur army approached the Taizhou Post Station in several ways.

Yang Hong gave an order, and the army went to battle. It is about thirty miles east of Taizhou Post Station.

On a green grassland, the armies of both sides were encircled.

The Ming army divided the three guards of Wuliangha into left and right wings. The Ming army of 50,000 cavalry was the Chinese army. Although the tile spur cavalry is a little more than the Ming army, it is in terms of equipment.

The equipment of the cavalry of the Ming army far exceeded that of the Tile Spur Divisions.

The equipment of the cavalry of the Ming army was carefully built by Shaofu, especially the cavalry of the Beijing camp, which was much stronger than the armor of the border army. Compared to the Tile Thorn cavalry, it is better than I don't know how much.

Therefore, from the perspective of the forces on both sides, this is a battle of equal strength.

The cavalry did not greet each other, and at the sound of an order, the cavalry galloped over.

Yang Hong was not afraid at all, and immediately waved the flag, and a group of cavalry rushed forward, and thousands of horsemen on each side collided together.

Both sides watched from afar.

This tentative encounter, the battle of more than 100,000 people, first of all, needs a large field, because in the grassland, a radius of dozens of miles, except for a few rivers, there is no other obstacle at all.

And even if there is enough space, the entire battlefield will be divided into several parts.

It is necessary to test the strength of the other party before dispatching troops.

The results are also out.

Draw.

All armies that can be singled out as the vanguard are the best of all armies. But this is the kind of army that has not achieved a good start for both sides.

Instead, they were scorched together.

I also suddenly had a bad feeling.

The combat effectiveness of the Ming cavalry increased faster than he expected.

also swept his eyes across the battlefield first, and immediately decided the main tone of this battle, that is, starting from the two wings, since he found that the Ming army was not easy to deal with, he started from the enemy's weakness.

So where is the weakness of the Ming army, that is, the two wings of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei.

Ye Xian's actions were seen by Yang Hong.

Yang Hong couldn't help laughing, and said to Yang Jie beside him: "Attacking the enemy's weakness may not be a way, but it shows the cowardice of the thorns. Today's tile spurs are not the same as the tile spurs of five years ago. ”

"There is a sentence that you must keep in mind, that is, husband fight, courage also."

"Don't forget it at any time. Be cautious before fighting, but don't think too much about standing on the battlefield. ”

Yang Hong said solemnly to the heralds: "Go down with the order, take me as the arrow, and go straight to the front first." ”

Since he also wants to attack the weak with the strong first, and the main direction of attack is placed on the two wings, then Yang Hong will decide the winner in the middle.

He also knew that the three guards of Wuliang Ha were not too reliable.

But Yang Hong also knew that Wu Liangha would not betray easily, not that they didn't want to betray. And there is no good end to frequent horizontal jumps between the tile spurs and the Ming Dynasty.

So before the Ming army collapsed, they would find a way to hold on.

So how to show Uliangha that the Ming army has the advantage, that is, to aim at the Tile Thorn Formation.

And this is a cavalry duel, not a foot soldier.

Both sides were moving at high speed, and Yang Hong had no intention of staying in the formation, he charged with the brigade, but to see how powerful the Tile Spur Cavalry Headquarters was.

The Tile Thorns attacked first, and the Ming army attacked later. Almost instantly, the army was caught in a brutal battle.

Countless cavalry mixed together, forming a long battle line that was more than ten miles wide. If you look down from the sky, this long battle line slowly turns into an arc. But it was the main formation, and it was broken through by the Ming army.

"Great Khan, recall the cavalry on both wings." A tile spur general was covered in blood and said: "Yang Hong didn't spare his life at all, he was simply begging for death." ”

He also suddenly opened his bow and shot the general with an arrow, saying: "Those who dare to shake the heart of the army have such people." ”

It is also clear that the current situation is that both sides have invested almost all their forces, just like a line, depending on who breaks first.

There must be no retreat order.

And the pride of the first is not allowed to retreat at this moment. He slowly tightened the armor on his body and said, "Sons, follow me." ”

He also brought his own soldiers to join the war group first.

At this moment the reserves of both sides are exhausted.

All that remains is the fight of each other's soldiers.

Up to the first, Yang Hong, down to the ordinary members, are all fighting hard. Especially in the afternoon, even the most organizational skills were almost lost.

can only let the thousands of households below fight on their own.

This battle, fierce battles, until the evening, when night fell, the two sides could no longer fight, and then slowly withdrew their troops.

The battle was fierce, and both sides were exhausted.

also Mingjin first withdrew the troops, counted the dead and wounded, and also lost his heart first. Nearly 10,000 soldiers were killed in this battle, tens of thousands of people were wounded, and it is not known how many will die from their wounds.

I also knew that the blood shed by the Ming army would not be less than that of the tile thorns, and even more.

But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty and the Tile Spur are not a country of size at all.

Ye Xian secretly said in his heart: "I probably went east this time, and I probably did something wrong." It's just that he didn't know that Fu Wushuang didn't go alone, and the bad news he encountered would not be just this one.