The great winter over the mountains and mountains, the kind of cold and pain that people who have not experienced will never be able to understand.

Of the 5,400 people who set out, only about 4,000 people were left who actually crossed the mountains for more than 100 miles to reach this valley.

Nearly 1,000 people fell in this rolling world of ice and snow.

None of the musketeers were armoured. Those who cross mountains and mountains in winter have to wear iron armor, because they are afraid that they will not die fast enough.

The linen clothes on the Ming army's body were torn into tattered beggar outfits by mountain rocks and branches, and even Wang Xiao was no exception.

Wang Xiao had slipped down the hill twice along the way, and if it weren't for his physical fitness, he might not have been able to come here.

The most casualties of the Ming army were typhoid fever in the extremely cold temperatures at night.

Every morning, many people who slept with each other last night could not get up again, and were left on the mountain forever.

After eight days of torture, the patience of the Ming army has also reached the limit. If they can't find their enemies, they will vent their anger and fear on their own people.

Fortunately, they finally found it.

The Ming army with red eyes helped each other out of the mountain, and they silently looked at the cattle and sheep all over the valley in the distance, as well as the endless tents.

"Drink water and eat dry food."

Wang Xiao, who was unshaven, tore off the rags on his body and beckoned the Ming troops around him, "Eat the dry food, don't keep it anymore." ”

In winter, there was nothing to eat in the mountains, and the dry food carried on the body became the life of the Ming army.

When I was in the mountains before, I was reluctant to eat all kinds of food, even if these dry foods were hard enough to be used as bricks.

But now, there's no need to save.

"Taisun."

Yu Qian, who came with him, watched Wang Xiao slowly beckoning everyone to eat, and eagerly persuaded, "What are you eating at this time, what should they do if they run away!" ”

Wang Xiao tore hard as a rock-hard dry food, "There is snow in this winter, and there are mountains all around. Where do you let them run? ”

"But they'll gather their forces and prepare to resist."

Wang Xiao broke a piece of dry food and handed it to him: "You didn't go to the battlefield before?" I didn't see those Mongols, even half of the children pulled up the mountain to fight, how could there be any defenders here. ”

"It's all old people, children, and women. Whatever they prepare, what can they prepare. ”

Wang Xiao's words were not wrong.

There are a lot of people in this big camp, but there are only a few hundred who can really fight, and they are all the guards of the kings and grandsons of those leaders.

By the time they received the news and hurriedly assembled, Wang Xiao was already ready and lined up a long line of skirmishers and slowly moved forward.

Hundreds of cavalry rushed out of the camp and launched a desperate charge.

After a few rounds of volleys, the counterattack of the Mongol cavalry was routed.

Next, the camp full of old people, children, women, cattle, sheep and horses, like young girls, opened their arms to the strong men of the Ming army who had not eaten meat for several days.

The Ming army rushed into the camp to drive away the crowd and gathered everyone together and imprisoned them. Those who dare to resist are shot directly.

Cattle, sheep and horses are also gathered and ready to be disposed of.

Those captured princes, princes, and their families are all important prisoners of war, and they will be brought back to Shuntianfu in the future to be sent to Taimiao to offer victory.

"Taisun, the emperor said that these letters should be burned."

Many documents were found in the king's tent in the camp, among which were letters exchanged between Zhu Gaoxu and Mahamu. Some are even many years old.

Mahamu is also uneasy and kind, and it is conceivable what he wants to do with these letters.

"Why burn it?"

Wang Xiao shook the letter in his hand: "These are all evidence of the treason of the King of Han. He collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, and of course he should be punished. ”

"However, the emperor said he would burn it."

Wang Xiao stuffed the letters into Yu Qian's arms, "I didn't say that I would take it out now, and it would not be too late to take it out when the old man was gone." ”

No one in the Mongol camp fled except for those who ran to the mouth of the Three Gorges to report the news.

They know very well that this kind of weather and this kind of environment, and running out is a death. If you don't see the sun tomorrow, you'll freeze to death at night. All chose to be prisoners.

In the evening, Wang Xiao, who had arranged for the night duty, returned to his tent, but saw Yu Qian sneakily carrying two jars of wine.

"Why don't you go for fun?"

Wang Xiao pointed to the group of tents not far away that were bright with fire and laughter.

"Those girls don't take a bath all year round, and their bodies stink to death." Yu Qian threw a jar of wine to Wang Xiao, "I'm the same as my grandson, I'm not interested." ”

After almost ten days of work over the mountains and mountains, the Ming army, which had gone through hardships, needed to relax. So the indescribable things naturally arise.

Wang Xiao can't control this kind of thing, and he doesn't want to care. He just doesn't get involved in it himself.

"You didn't harass the rescued Hermes-Epitek, did you?"

The Mongols plundered the frontier and cultivated grass valleys almost every year, and captured many Han men and women to go back to be slaves.

Life as a slave can only be described in one word, and that is that life is worse than death.

The Ming army rescued many Han women in this camp. Seeing their tragic experience, Wang Xiao did not have the slightest guilt for what Ming Jun did at this time.

Yu Qian Meimei poured a big mouthful, "There is a military judge, no one dislikes that their heads are superfluous." ”

Wang Xiao patted the mud seal on the wine jar, "You can have fun tonight, but you have to fight tomorrow." I will leave you a thousand men to guard the camp, and if my side is defeated, you will set fire to everything here at once. ”

"It's all burned?"

"Hmm." Wang Xiao nodded slowly: "Not a single grass is allowed to stay!" ”

At noon the next day, the Mongol reinforcements withdrawn from the mouth of the Three Gorges arrived at the entrance of the valley.

The Ming army occupied the favorable terrain on the slopes of the mountains on both sides, and the situation turned into them going up the mountain to attack the Ming army and defending, and the offensive and defensive sides changed sides when comparing the Three Gorges Pass.

In the face of the dense rain of bullets of the Ming army, the Mongols, who were demoralized and discouraged when they learned of the loss of the large camp, had almost no intention of fighting.

Again and again, in exchange for corpses all over the ground. If it weren't for the lack of supplies, they would have scattered and fled long ago.

Mahamu used all the tricks he could.

Night attacks, make-up sneak attacks, strong attacks, luring the enemy, and even learning from Wang Xiao to detour from a distance.

But no matter what kind of trick he used, Wang Xiao was unmoved, and he stuck to the entrance and exit of the valley.

Even if the Mongols who went around killed the base camp, the fire was lit there, and Wang Xiao did not waver in the slightest, like nails nailed here.

Three days later, the Ming army, which had already run out of lead bullets, loaded spears on the barrels of their guns and fought the Mongols in close combat, sometimes even rolling down the mountain with the Mongols rushing up.

The intensity of the battle was no less than the previous Ming army's storming of the Three Gorges Pass.

On the fifth day of the fight, there were less than a thousand people around Wang Xiao who could still move.

They still threw stones, threw wood, and even threw large snowballs all the way down to block the valley.

Even so, Wang Xiao did not mobilize the people guarding the camp behind him.

Under Wang Xiao's training and funding, the quality of the sergeants of the Shenji Battalion is already close to that of the modern army. The level of casualties and the courage to fight to the death are the best in the world.

Finally, on the afternoon of the sixth day, Wang Xiao, who was standing on the hillside with a saber full of gaps, saw the big red Ming army flag waving in the wind in the distance.

The Ming army that rushed over from the mouth of the Three Gorges finally arrived.

The blocked Mongols completely collapsed at this moment.

A small number of people ran for their lives in the mountains on both sides, and most of them sat directly on the ground and waited to surrender.

In the end, only Mahamu and more than a thousand soldiers around him were still resisting.

Wang Xiao put his knife in both hands and silently watched the cavalry of the 3,000 battalions roar past under his feet and rush straight to Mahamu.

Surrounded by many personal soldiers, it was Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han who was wearing armor all over his body.

As if feeling Wang Xiao's gaze, Zhu Gaoxu squinted his eyes and turned his head to look at the halfway slope on the side.

After meeting Wang Xiao's gaze, Zhu Gaoxu slowly raised his hand and made a throat-cutting motion.

He couldn't take it anymore.

Wang Xiao's sudden showdown forced Zhu Gaoxu to a dead end. In order to think about the throne for decades, he made up his last decision.

The world says that Zhu Gaoxu is very similar to Zhu Di, not about the face, but about the personality.

Like Zhu Di, when facing a difficult situation, Zhu Gaoxu did not think about how to protect himself, but gave it a go.

Zhu Gaoxu was determined to slaughter the waste of Mahamu first, and then launch a mutiny to ascend the throne directly in front of the battle.

When Lao Tzu killed his nephew, he led the hundreds of thousands of the most elite soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty to kill back to the pass and seize his own world.

This is Zhu Gaoxu's character, like Zhu Di, he either doesn't do it, or he does it absolutely!

Wang Xiao looked at him silently and didn't say a word.

When his gaze swept over a personal guard beside Zhu Gaoxu, Wang Xiao nodded imperceptibly and slowly.

There is one thing that even Yu Qian, who is Wang Xiao's confidant, doesn't know, only Xu Bin, who is in charge of Wang Xiao's money, knows. Long before the army was dispatched, Wang Xiao had a secret expenditure of up to 80,000 taels of silver here.

This money was used by Wang Xiao to buy a confidant and guard next to Zhu Gaoxu.

It was not enough to buy it with simple money, and the only son of the guard was quietly arrested when he was sick and went to the hospital, and then announced that he had died of illness.

Facing his son as a hostage, 80,000 taels of silver for settling in, and Wang Xiao's promise to give his son a good future in the future. The guard finally chose to take refuge in Wang Xiao.

When Zhu Gaoxu bribed the people around the prince to poison him, Wang Xiao had already made this plan.

If you can buy my people, then of course I can buy your people.

It doesn't matter if you're loyal or not, it's just a matter of whether the price you offer is enough.

When he came to Zhu Di's Chinese army camp, Zhu Di, who had a ruddy face and was in an excellent state, laughed, "Good, good." You've fought this battle well! ”

The wish of many years was about to be fulfilled, and Zhu Di felt as if he was about to float.

He felt that this was the most proud day of his life, even more complacent than when he attacked Ying Tianfu.

In the future, it will be recorded in the history books that he Zhu Di defeated the Mongols, crossed the difficult river that had not been visited by the sons and daughters of the Han family for 500 years, and came to the Wolf Juxu Mountain, where the hussar general once sacrificed to the sky!

In this life, there are no regrets.

The generals in the army looked at Wang Xiao's eyes with admiration.

As the heir to the throne, he not only turned the tide of the war in one fell swoop, but also laid the foundation for victory. He also personally led the troops to the front line and fought bloodily.

For these generals, what they need is an emperor like Wang Xiao who values the army, not an emperor who values Wenchen like the crown prince.

"When you get to Wolf Juxu Mountain, you and I will go up with you when you worship the sky."

Zhu Di didn't know how to reward Wang Xiao.

Gold, silver, jewelry, titles, fiefs and so on don't mean much to Wang Xiao, who is the grandson of the emperor. So he decided to give a part of the honor of sacrificing to the sky to Wang Xiao.

Just when the entire Ming army was celebrating the victory with thunder, an explosive news came back.

In the final encirclement and suppression of the remnants of Warat, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of the Han Dynasty, who had great achievements, personally rushed into battle, but was killed by the guards around him at the last moment!