Volume 1 The Battle of Luchuan Chapter 94 Mengyang City Finale (Part II)
Thinking of this, Jiang Yu was silent, he stood in the north tower of Mengyang City, this city tower was built by Sijifa to imitate the model of the Ming Dynasty city, when he built it, he did not expect that one day, this city tower would become the most powerful fortress of the Ming army against the Luchuan army.
Looking into the distance from the highest point of the city tower, there is the bamboo tower of Bilu Village and the forest sea south of the Indoji Great Lake, and the endless green, dark green, and light green leaves gather into the waves in the sea, surging in the early morning wind of the Luchuan River.
As the leaves swayed, a huge rustling sound swept over the world, accompanied by the sound of the leaves rubbing against each other, and countless nameless birds flew out of the forest, facing the light spreading on the skyline, and at the same time with a crisp birdsong.
Jiang Yu imagined that in this primitive jungle, those Luchuan villages in the early Ming Dynasty and the 15th century AD were thus blended into the shade of the leaves of the mountains and forests without a trace, and at the same time sheltered the mountain people living in the mountains and forests.
The abundant Luchuan mountain forest, abundant water and grass, rich resources, every small village is occupied by newly built bamboo buildings, countless newborns fill a primitive jungle that has yet to be explored, and in time, they will become warriors armed with knives and guns, fighting for Luchuan.
The Luchuan Kingdom, which rose to prominence at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and was revived again during the Xuande period, had hoped to become a great kingdom from the Indochina Peninsula to northeastern India, but the forces from the Central Plains ruthlessly stopped the expansion of the Luchuan Kingdom, whether it was the Yuan Dynasty that was about to fall or the Ming Dynasty, which was also betting on the fortunes of the country.
It was a war that changed the world line, but it ended up being unknown in the jungle of Luchuan.
Until many years later, there was no peace here, people no longer remember the name of Luchuan, unfamiliar place names replaced the memories of the past, and the Jinsha River, where a bloody battle once broke out, became the Irrawaddy River that made everyone unfamiliar, and no one remembered this great era.
All of them will disappear into a few historical records.
For the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Yu's mood is "dazed", he is at a loss for the absurdity of time, when the years pass, what precipitates is the inexplicable things in the long river of time, the Ming generation, the Wenchen who was knighted for his military exploits is known as the "Three Kings", compared to Wang Ji of the three expeditions to Luchuan, Wang Yue who swept the northern Xinjiang, Wang Shouren's military exploits may still be the smallest.
But in later generations, how many people remember the "two kings" before Wang Shouren?
This is the ruthlessness of the years, and it deserves to be mourned by future generations.
Jiang Yu looked at the skyline, which was lit up by the morning light, and at the same time, it was also a quietly changing world line.
The soldiers from Mang Castle had taken over the northern defense line of Mengyang City, while Bai Qianfan led the elite to Bilu Village to garrison, which was the most important stronghold and defense line of the Luchuan Army in Mengyang City facing the southwest of the Indoji Great Lake.
No matter how he calculated, Bai Qianfan couldn't hold Bilu Village, but under Jiang Yu's deliberate misinformation, and after seeing Bird's ability to defend the city, Bai Qianfan still decided to believe Bai Qianfan and handed over his back to him.
This is a road of no return, Jiang Yugang almost looked at the back of Bai Qianfan leading the troops out of the city with tears in his eyes, for a few months, Bai Qianfan thought to himself that Jiang Yufan was obedient to Jiang Yu's needs, and deployed a huge amount of military rations, but why didn't Jiang Yugang play another obedient role in front of Bai Qianfan? An obedient and capable subordinate constantly sent troops to fight with the small forces of the Luchuan Army in the forests of Mengyang Mountain, and paid a lot of money to maintain the stability of the defense line of Mengyang City.
In Bai Qianfan's view, this is a sign of Jiang Yu's loyalty and trustworthiness, regardless of the sacrifices of his subordinates, he must complete his task; But in Jiang Yu's view, this is just a training for the army of Mang Castle, although Mang Castle paid the price of the death of soldiers who did not have other defense line soldiers, but in exchange for the tempering of the military quality of the recruits and Bai Qianfan's trust.
And the top of this trust is that Jiang Yu took the task of guarding the northern city of Mengyang City, and Bai Qianfan led his subordinates to Bilu Village.
In addition to his trust in Jiang Yuran, there are two main reasons why Bai Qianfan made this decision, one is that the defense of Mengyang City is quite weak, and the city defense fortifications may not be as good as Biluzhai with complex terrain; The second is that there is still most of his troops in Mengyang City, with a total of 2,000 people, led by a thousand households, and Mengyang City is commanded by Pingyi Wei and Ma He is the commander-in-chief.
But Bai Qianfan didn't understand one thing, he thought that the Biluzhai defense line and Mengyangcheng were one, and once the Biluzhai defense line collapsed, Mengyangcheng would not be able to defend it, so guarding Biluzhai was the top priority.
In Jiang Yu's eyes, Bai Qianfan's death in the chaos was as important as defending Mengyang City. No matter how the defense battle of Mengyang City is fought, and what the result is, one goal that cannot be changed is to solve Bai Qianfan.
Only if Bai Qianfan stays in Mengyang City, it is the safest, there are many high-ranking officers left behind, not to mention Jiang Yu, there is no one who can act rashly in Mengyang City and attack Bai Qianfan; But once Bai Qianfan left Mengyang City, then he fell into the same situation as the Luchuan Army.
From Mengyang City, you can attack the Luchuan army, so you can naturally attack Bai Qianfan; After Bai Qianfan listened to Jiang Yu's words and left Mengyang City, he actually fell into a desperate situation.
The only way to solve this desperate situation is to hold Bilu Village, but if Bai Qianfan can defend Bilu Village with 800 elite soldiers under the attack of 20,000 Luchuan troops, then Jiang Yugang naturally recognized the identity of the son of the plane of Bai Qianfan, who was guarded by Meng Yang of the Ming Dynasty.
And if Bai Qianfan is not the son of the plane, then it is impossible to take this Bi Lu Village, what depends on the geographical advantage, and breaking them one by one is naturally based on the ghost words after the revised false information. After Biluzhai was broken, Bai Qianfan had two ways to choose.
The first way was naturally to retreat to Mengyang City, at this time his situation was no different from that of the Luchuan army, and Jiang Yugang, who was in charge of garrisoning the northern city, naturally wanted to kill him; And if Bai Qianfan expected that Jiang Yugang was going to do something to him and chose to flee directly, then he would be a deserter as a garrison of the Ming Dynasty, and the end would be even more miserable than being assassinated by Jiang Yugang.
Things have come to this point, Jiang Yugang only needs to do one thing, to hold Mengyang City as much as possible, and drag it to Wang Ji's support.
Wang Ji's support will be the final key to the battle of Mengyangcheng, and at this time, Jiang Yugang only knew that if the fastest speed, the true and false pieces of information should have been sent to the barbarian temple camp.
As for whether there will be any accidents along the way, whether the information can be received by Wang Ji, and whether Wang Ji will send troops according to the information, Jiang Yuxuan has no idea about this.
In fact, the first thing is very dangerous, if Jiang Yugang can see the transmission trajectory of this information from Mengyang City to Mansi Village, there is a high probability that he will feel shocked, five routes, there are actually four routes on the road problems.
There are those who have had an accident and have been attacked by wild beasts and have survived, there are also those who have fallen from their horses and are seriously injured, and they are desperate to die in the uninhabited jungle, and there are also those who have recognized the wrong path and are stuck in the jungle and cannot find their way.
In the end, only one of the five lines of transmission and four alternatives successfully reached the Mansi Zhai camp in time, and the last herald, Duo Zi'an, gave his life almost unknowingly for the transmission of information.
In addition, the transmission of information in the barbarian temple village also has a lot of luck component, if it weren't for the fact that Wang Ying, the garrison of the big battalion, was uneasy because of Zhang Rui's previous communication, and was suddenly broken down by false information, the real information would not have been transmitted to Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji so quickly.
But Jiang Yuyan naturally had no way of knowing these things, he could only quietly think about the arrangement of the task, deduce the process of information transmission step by step, and then deeply worried about the unreliability of each link, as if there was a fire roasting him in his heart, and he would not be able to be at peace for a while.
Even if Bai Qianfan left Mengyang City with illness under his persuasion, this kind of good news did not make him feel a little relieved, but he still couldn't breathe.
Jiang Yugang really seems to have a pair of clairvoyance, able to see the barbarian temple village a hundred kilometers away, and see whether Wang Ji has sent troops to support.
He nervously calculated again and again in his heart, if the troops were sent from this time, when would the troops of the Mansi Village arrive in Mengyang City, the result of the calculation was sad, and there was a high probability that they would need to guard Mengyang City for a day and a night.
With this low city wall, Jiang Yuyan deeply doubted that he would not be seriously injured if he jumped directly from the city tower at this moment, could he really stop the Luchuan army for a day and a night?
While Jiang Yu was worried, the mighty team had already driven out of the barbarian temple village, and when the pioneers who were originally walking in the front heard the sound of drums behind them, the teams stopped in an orderly manner, and after sorting out the formation, they began to spread out like both sides of the road, leaving space in the middle of the road.
At the sound of the metal ornaments on the horses colliding with the cavalry's armor, a cavalryman quickly passed through the middle of the road and began to move towards the front of the entire team.
Looking at this cavalry team, many soldiers showed a look of pride and nervousness on their faces, proud that this is the most powerful cavalry team in the Luchuan area at the moment, representing the top combat effectiveness of the Ming army; The nervous thing was that it was the first time they had seen such a long cavalry procession, and they had walked for a long time without seeing the end of the line.
This was the first time that cavalry had been used on such a large scale in the Fourth Expedition to Luchuan, and many had never seen a battle in which such force had been put into it. What a formidable enemy, and what an urgent task, requiring so many cavalry to participate in it?
Officers with slightly higher ranks, on the other hand, tend to know more about military affairs, and worry prevails in their emotions. They were clear about the direction of this troop transfer, and this was in the direction in which they came, which was the rear and transit center of the entire Luchuan war.
What went wrong, was it Mengyang, or was it Longchuan and Nandian farther away? The officers and veterans did not know, but they knew that if something went wrong in the rear, it was a more terrible thing than the war on the front line, where defeat would lead to the collapse of the material transportation system, and the army would be without food for three days, and it would be defeated without a fight.
The higher-level officers felt that it was difficult to breathe because of the urgent military orders and the sense of oppression, and they knew that this time out of the army, Jing Yuanbo mobilized all the cavalry of the Mansi Village, and crossed the vanguard to advance. In addition, the whole army actually arranged different marches and repairs according to the load, completely breaking the original marching formation.
This is a huge risk, and once it is attacked halfway, it is very likely to lead to the confusion of the entire army, and it is completely incapable of fighting halfway.
But at the same time, the people who understood among them vaguely understood one thing: Jing Yuanbo made this arrangement, and it was likely that he didn't think about anything else at all, but just for one thing, and rushed to the destination in time, Meng Yangcheng.
It's the speed of life and death.