Chapter 34 Heroes Escape 2
At this time, Zhu Weiyuan and Zhao Qingyang, who were in the left and right star positions at the front of the chess array, were all transferred to the hinterland to besiege and kill, and the left and right wings of the front of the chess array were extremely empty, although Lu Zhufeng led the Dragon and Tiger Army to intercept and kill in the middle position, most of the Jurchen soldiers and horses who retreated from the chess formation were still defeated and fled from the left and right wings. This is Fang Guolian's cleverness, when the overall situation changes and the enemy retreats, let Lu Zhufeng lead the dragon and tiger army with strong combat effectiveness to intercept and kill again, consume some more enemies, but make the enemy have a gap to escape, and not fight to the death. At this time, in the Tianyuan chess array, most of the hundreds of thousands of Jurchen soldiers and horses had been consumed, and the two sides were almost stepping on the corpses and fighting fiercely.
Nurhachi, who was watching the battle from a high place, suddenly saw the opponent's formation on the battlefield changing violently, the whole situation was agitated, and his own soldiers and horses had already shown signs of defeat, so he couldn't help but be shocked, and wanted to transfer all the iron cavalry to attack again.
At this time, the strategist Li Yingsheng had already seen the true intention of the other party to set up this chess formation, and hurriedly stopped Nurha's equator: "King Khan, you must not attack this formation again, our army has sixty or seventy thousand horses and horses broken in it, and it is already very unfavorable, if you send troops to go again, the casualties will be even greater." Even if the opponent's formation is crushed and all the men and horses are wiped out, but our 200,000 army, I'm afraid that more than half of it will be folded in it, and the jade will be burned, and the gains outweigh the losses! Li Yingsheng's voice trembled in the last few sentences.
Nurhachi was suddenly reminded by Li Yingsheng's words, and he was shocked for a while. Li Yingsheng then said: "King Khan, our army has now been defeated from the formation, and it is not conducive to attacking again, and the matter has come to this point. Moreover, this place is very close to the border pass of Dushikou, if the army of the Ming Dynasty takes the opportunity to attack, the consequences are unimaginable, and the king of Khan is invited to withdraw his troops quickly. Nurhachi looked at the battlefield in front of him angrily, unwilling and hesitated for a while.
At this time, there was a sudden report from the horse: "King Khan, the big thing is not good, among the mountains and forests on the north and south sides, I found countless flags haunting, and it seems that there are Han brigades of soldiers and horses in motion." Nurhachi and Li Yingsheng were taken aback when they heard this. Nurhachi came to his senses: "These Han people set up this formation to lure and trap us, and then copied us and other back roads with a large army, and fell into the tricks of the Ming Dynasty." ”
Although Li Yingsheng had doubts, he also said to himself: "The border guards of Dushikou will deliberately refuse these Jianghu people and horses outside the pass, and when they are defeated in a decisive battle with our army, they will then raid with soldiers and horses at the border pass, it seems that the imperial court has been planning for a long time, and the ambition is the king of Khan, and I can't afford to delay any longer, please ask the king of Khan to withdraw quickly." Seeing that the situation had come to this, Nurhachi categorically ordered the whole army to respond to the defeat and retreat quickly. Li Yingsheng saw the Jurchen soldiers who had retreated from the chess formation, trampled on each other in a panic, and there were countless dead and wounded, so he hurriedly offered advice to Nurhachi, and used 30,000 elite iron cavalry to meet the retreating men and horses from both sides, but they were not allowed to enter the formation. At the moment, the soldiers and horses of the two armies in front and behind the Jurchen were in a mess, but they didn't know that the flags in the mountains and forests on the north and south sides were just Sun Qi's plan to feint with suspicious soldiers in advance.
As soon as the Jurchen soldiers and horses retreated, they immediately fulfilled all the heroes in the Tianyuan chess array, and the so-called defeat was like a mountain, although the Jurchen army was not completely defeated, but it had no fighting spirit, and was in a passive position, and the pressure of the chess array was immediately relaxed. Sun Qi saw that tens of thousands of Jurchen soldiers and horses were coming, but they did not attack the formation, as if they were responding to the defeated enemy in the formation.
After a day of fierce and brutal fighting, of the nearly 120,000 Jurchen soldiers and horses that had previously entered the Tianyuan chess array, only more than 40,000 people rushed out of the chess array at this time, and the remaining nearly 80,000 people were all consumed in the chess array. As soon as the Jurchen soldiers retreated, the heroes wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, Sun Qi saw that the goal of rejecting the enemy had been achieved, and he was afraid that he would change again, so he waved the flag to stop the group of heroes, and still maintained the Tianyuan formation in case of accidents. Lian Qiying and others, who were watching and cheering from the rear, immediately thundered with joy when they saw the enemy retreating. Lu Zhufeng, who was in the front line, saw that the Jurchen soldiers and horses were retreating like a tide, and his killing spirit was not exhausted, knowing that there was no danger in the chess array, he relied on the horse to be fast, so he simply gave up the Dragon and Tiger Army, single-handedly, and killed the enemy with his tail. Fang Guolian saw him on the Tianyuan high platform, it was too late to stop, he shook his head and smiled bitterly, and let him go.
Lu Zhufeng leaped and rushed into the enemy's group, and the iron bamboo swept through, as if entering a no-man's land. Those Jurchen soldiers saw Lu Zhufeng's own family chasing and killing, and their souls were scattered, fleeing in all directions. The Jurchen generals each witnessed the defeat of the first warrior Sodannu, and they were already afraid of Lu Zhufeng, and they did not dare to have a big future to welcome them, which made Lu Zhufeng kill more easily.
Sun Qi saw it on the Tianyuan Platform and exclaimed, "What a Lu Zhufeng!" What can Changshan Zhao Zilong do when he is alive! "Lu Zhufeng rode into the Jurchen army alone, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, invincible, cruising at will, no one could stop him. Among the Jurchen soldiers, there were good archers, and from time to time cold arrows flew in. Lu Zhufeng was fighting when he suddenly felt a pain in his left leg, and he had already been hit by an arrow, and in a fit of rage, he was not too calm, and rushed to the place where the enemy was densely populated, so that those sneak attackers rarely had a chance to release dark arrows.
Lu Zhufeng went back and forth between the conflicts, and suddenly saw a big flag in front of him, with a white horse standing under it, and a person on the horse, dressed well, like a leader, and his heart was happy, so he drove the horse to rush towards this person. There were Jurchen soldiers who besieged him, and he couldn't stop Lu Zhufeng's bravery, and in a blink of an eye, he had rushed to the front of the man. The man suddenly saw Lu Zhufeng coming straight to him, he couldn't help but be shocked, led the horse to hurry away, and more than a dozen Jurchen generals warned in unison, in order to save the person riding the white horse, he actually pestered Lu Zhufeng to fight hard and not let him approach. Seeing this, Lu Zhufeng guessed that the person must be an important figure in the Jurchen army, where would he let him go, Tiezhu swept with all his strength, killed two generals in a row, and drove the "Dark Cloud Tuoyue" to gallop to the white horse, and the iron bamboo more than two feet long poked forward, and then provoked the person's body. The Jurchen soldiers who could not be rescued around exclaimed in unison: "Lord Wang! "That prince has already died.
Lu Zhufeng knew that he had killed a big leader among the Jurchens at this moment, and he was happy in his heart, but he also suffered from an arrow wound in his leg, so he no longer fell in love with the battle, and returned to the horse to take the big banner again, and returned to the chess array. The heroes saw Lu Zhufeng coming with the flag and cheered in unison. At this time, the Jurchen soldiers and horses retreated from the chess formation and walked far.
Seeing that Lu Zhufeng was rampage, he killed the general and captured the flag, and even picked one of his own uncles among the more than 100,000 troops, and immediately his heart and gall were broken, and he almost fainted. Li Yingsheng was shocked, and hurriedly ordered someone to protect Nurhachi, and led the army to retreat. After this battle, the Jurchen soldiers and horses lost more than 80,000 people, both in terms of troops and fighting spirit, which greatly damaged the vitality of the tribe led by Nurhachi. Since then, it has taken more than 30 years for Nurhachi to gradually unify the Jurchen tribes and establish the Houjin.
The battle of Tianyuan outside the Dushikou Pass ended with the Jurchen army unable to hold on and retreating. Fang Guolian and Sun Qi saw that the enemy had gone far, so they went down the Tianyuan high platform, and the heroes greeted them like gods, and they were very excited to each other. At this time, the chess array was full of corpses, and there were even some ownerless wounded horses, lying there neighing, swords and guns were horizontal, blood penetrated the black soil, miserable, and the air was full of bloody gas, which was disgusting.
In the fierce battle for nearly a day, the heroes were exhausted and suffered heavy casualties. In the fierce battle, the bow was hit by a stray arrow for a long time and was seriously wounded, Sun Qi was busy with someone to take care of it, and then hurriedly asked the horse to retreat to prevent the Jurchen army from returning. After meeting Lian Qiying and others, they retreated all the way, and after meeting with the men and horses in the rear, Sun Qi ordered the team to do a temporary post-battle rest and count the casualties
At this time, Han Mengchao's horse was exhausted to death, and the exhausted Han Mengchao fell down, coupled with more than a dozen wounds on his body, Han Mengchao vomited a mouthful of blood and passed out. Everyone was shocked when they saw this, and Gu Sichen hurriedly took an emergency pill with Han Mengchao. In this Tianyuan battle, Han Mengchao led the Tianlong Array back and forth in the big array, rescued from all sides, and pinned down and consumed most of the enemy's main forces, which was really the most bitter and tiring one. Of the more than 9,000 people who participated in the battle, only less than 5,000 survived at this time, nearly half of them were broken, and at this time they were lying on the ground indiscriminately, no one was without scars, they all gritted their teeth and struggled to survive, Gong Ying'er and other people who did not participate in the battle in the rear were busy waiting for the potion in the rear.
More than 30 hall masters of Liuhetang, including Hong Jinshan, Han Zhen, Zhao Sishuo, and Gai Yunyan, were killed in battle, more than 100 incense masters were killed, and more than 1,700 elites from each branch hall were killed. More than 2,500 heroes were killed in battle, and more than 20 village owners such as Lei Tianbao were killed in battle. When Sun Qi sniffed the water umbrella and described the situation in detail in the pass, he and the group of ambitions were at ease. After resting for a while, Lian Qiying ordered Shui Ming Umbrella to go to the gate to call the pass, and released a ringing cloud arrow to inform the people in the Liuhe Hall in the pass, and the heroes outside the pass were ready to enter the pass. There was not much time, the gate of the city was wide open, and most of the officers and soldiers were withdrawn, and the guard was loosened. When Sun Qi, Lian Qiying and the others saw it, they each breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that this was the power of the Liuhetang people who were constantly reinforcing from the Guannei.
As soon as the gate of the border gate opened, more than 20 horses galloped out from inside, and when they got closer, the group of heroes realized that it was the two hall masters who came with people to greet them. The two hall masters saw that most of the people outside the gate were unharmed, and they were all happy, and they hurriedly met Lian Qiying and Sun Qi. A hall master said: "Please ask the hall master and Mr. Sun to lead the people and horses to enter the customs quickly, and the situation in the customs is controlled by my Liuhe Hall." Lian Qiying and Sun Qiyi were overjoyed when they heard this, and immediately ordered Zhu Weiyuan and Luo Kun to take the lead, and Lu Zhufeng, Zhao Qingyang, and Bu Yuan to rear, and the team entered the customs in an orderly manner. Although there were officers and soldiers on guard, they were no longer as nervous as before, and they all looked at the heroes with admiration, and they were all amazed, how could the Jianghu men and horses, which were less than 10,000 people, repel 200,000 Jurchen iron horsemen.
As soon as Lian Qiying and Sun Qi arrived at the pass, they saw Zhang Weicheng leading more than ten personal soldiers to bow their hands down at the pass, and said: "In the next Zhang Weicheng welcomes all the heroes to enter the pass. The words are different from what they were before. Looking at these exhausted, haggard, but still fighting spirit, creating a miracle and returning home, Zhang Weicheng's face was full of astonishment and surprise. Lian Qiying returned the salute on the horse, did not say anything, and led the people to rush in. After a while, all the people and horses entered the customs, and even Qiying, Sun Qi and others felt a little at ease.