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From the morning, the attack of the Quanzhou volunteers had been smooth, but when he encountered the two thousand Red Turban Army led by Tang He, Solaman began to have some headaches.

This time, in order to make Quanzhou truly in the hands of the volunteers, Saifuding and Amiridin had no choice but to go north to assist Jiqing Mansion in attacking Lai'an County, which was captured by the Chuzhou Rebels, at the request of Puhua Timur, the political affairs of Pingzhang in Fuzhejiang Province, and Puhua Timur also agreed to the request of the two volunteers to expand the number of soldiers.

After the failure of the last million-strong army encirclement and suppression operation in Jiangnan, the number of troops in the hands of the Mongol and Yuan officials headed by Puhua Timur was greatly reduced, and the suspicion between the nobles of different tribes became increasingly obvious.

This time, the Chuzhou rebels will take An, and all the Mengyuan officials and garrisons in Lai'an County will be killed cleanly.

Meng Yuan Tieqi has strong force in the plains and even jungle battles, but for the water war in the past hundred years, there has been almost no growth, and the land under the jurisdiction of Xuqing Mansion is definitely one of the most important military towns, and that Zhang Shicheng is also facing each other in Tongzhou, and he also has ambitions for the nearby cities.

Puhua Timur did not have the slightest certainty about the water war, so he refused to spend his own troops alone to cross the river to recover Lai'an County and capture Chuzhou, thinking that the volunteers under Safuddin and Amiridin were proficient in water, and they were also extremely hostile to the Han people, and on the premise of allowing the volunteers to expand their army, they borrowed these 10,000 volunteers from the south.

Sorahman, a middle-aged general in his 40s, was thrilled by the fact that his volunteers had gone to sea several times to plunder more than a dozen large and small islands overseas.

As long as the troops were sent to attack Lai'an County, Safuddin and Amiliddin could quickly gain absolute control of Quanzhou and more than a dozen nearby county capitals, which was the condition that Puhua Timur had promised, even if the soldiers who were proficient in water could also calmly retreat into the river to avoid greater losses.

The crossing of the river had been extremely smooth, but after the 2,000 soldiers of Natanghe retreated into the small dirt city in front of him, they stopped the tens of thousands of troops here, and could not advance at all, which made Solaman extremely angry.

If the county government of Lai'an could be attacked, Puhua Timur even promised that he could send officials from Persian descendants to serve, which was another important reason to induce Safuddin and Amariddin to agree to send troops.

"Why do these lowly red turban ghosts resist to the death? The second siege team attacked? Solaman yelled angrily.

The herald on his side immediately waved two herald flags of different colors in his hand, and the two thousand sesame volunteers immediately roared and waved their shields and scimitars to launch a second round of charges in front of the earthen city to replenish the lost forces under the earthen wall.

At this moment, a hundred households beside him suddenly became alert, and he turned his face to look at the official road coming from the northeast of the city, only to see smoke and dust rising from there, and immediately turned his face to Solaman and reported loudly: "General, it seems that the reinforcements of the red turban thieves are coming!" ”

When Solaman heard this, he said with some disbelief: "Nonsense! Lai'an County is an hour's journey away from this town, why are there so many cavalry here? Among those red turban thieves, the cavalry is the rarest, and if they can come at this moment, there will be only a few hundred at most, so why panic? ”

As far as he knew, the Red Turban Army was short of equipped horses, not to mention that Lai'an County was defending by the river, and there would not be a large number of cavalry galloping to help, in fact, it was true, and the total number of horses owned by all the garrisons in Lai'an County was only a few hundred.

When he turned his head to look, he saw that there was really a large amount of smoke and dust on the official road in the distance, and he couldn't help but laugh again: "This must be a plan by the Han squad to reinforce the suspicious formation, and a small number of red turban cavalry engineers want to confuse General Ben with such a posture, it's really ridiculous!" ”

"Dusnow, you lead the cavalry to kill the Red Turbans who want to confuse us! The siege must not stop, and we will not have to worry about taking the town in front of us in one go! Solaman burst into laughter and immediately gave the order for his men to attack the ground.

"General, but we only had five hundred cavalry when we crossed the river? If the other side really kills a large number of troops, then the losses of our army will be very huge. Baihu Dusnow reminded Solaman a little unconvinced.

"Don't worry, Allah will bless us to victory, let these red turban ghosts see the divine might of the invincible army of Yisi Fahang under Allah's blessing, kill them all and come back, believe me that the whole army will come to this town to drink and chat later!" Solaman spoke as if he was already in the middle of Leiguan Town, with an extremely arrogant look on his face.

Seeing that Solaman was so sure, Du Snow nodded and went away, leading five hundred colored cavalry to meet the official road.

If this time, if this strategically located mine town could not be captured, if the army went directly to the territory of Lai'an, then it would be exposed to the enemy, and there was no real repair of the place by the soldiers, so Solaman was so anxious to take the earthen city in front of him.

At this time, Tang He led the soldiers to still struggle to stop the attack of the volunteers at the head of the earth city, and the smoke and dust in the distance were still flying in the sky.

Blood splashed around him, and Tang He shouted: "Our reinforcements will arrive soon, and the whole army will be ready to go out of the city with me to pursue the enemy later!" ”

"No!" All the soldiers standing on the wall showed excitement on their faces and shouted, the Red Army rebels between the city suddenly increased their momentum at this time, this is the second time Tang He encouraged morale, and this effect is extremely obvious, these soldiers are the veterans brought by Tang He and Zhu Yuanzhang a few years ago, the so-called veterans are the soldiers who survived many bloody battles with the enemy, these people will also be afraid of death, but they are not afraid of fighting.

At this time, a ten-division commander shouted to Tang He not far away: "General Tang, you see that those lustful ghosts seem to have sent cavalry to meet our reinforcements. ”

Tang He kicked down a soldier with a sword in the throat in front of him, took a few steps back and looked in the direction of the northern official road, and saw that there were only hundreds of cavalry on his face, and his face couldn't help but smile, but then his complexion changed greatly.

"Not good! Although four hours had passed, it was impossible to send reinforcements from the county government to Leiguan Town so quickly without horses! General Hu has only a few hundred cavalry, although there are not many cavalry, but they can delay time, but if Lei Guan loses, the gate of Lai'an will be open to the Yuan court, if the Jiqing Yuan army takes advantage of the situation to cross the river to attack, it will be unimaginable! ”

Thinking of this, Tang He already had the idea of death in his heart, even if he was struggling to die, he would not abandon Leiguan Tucheng and go, not to mention that if Tucheng was broken, nearly 1,000 ordinary people in the town would suffer misfortune, which was also another reason why he was struggling to defend the city.

Turning his face to look, all the soldiers who were so inspired by his words were struggling to guard the head of the city, he sighed secretly in his heart: "Let me live and die with this city!" ”

In the shouting of killing, Tang He led the soldiers to fight hard in the blood splash, and after about a pillar of incense, when the corpses on the city were already stacked, he suddenly heard the ten-captain tremble in surprise again: "General Tang, our reinforcements are really powerful!" Look at the only few horsemen left of those colored cavalrymen! And they are fleeing back in panic. ”

After hearing this, Tang He also raised his eyes in surprise, only to see several Semu cavalry in the distance, with blood red on their bodies and no idea where the injuries were, were struggling to flee back into the Semu Volunteer Army, while hundreds of cavalry were chasing them behind.

Among the cavalry, there are two big flags, one side is a big Hu character, the other side is the Shang character, Tang He couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw this: "It was General Hu and Shang County Cheng who brought cavalry to help, I think it must be Shang Yu's virtuous brother who ordered all the cavalry to carry a five-string bow, otherwise it would not be so easy to kill the cavalry!" ”

Solaman was calmly watching the battle in front of Lei Guantu City, but after hearing the sound of horses' hooves shaking the sky, he couldn't help but wonder: "Could it be that so soon, Du Snow will come to the aid of the Red Turban Cavalry to repel it?" ”

When he turned his face in the middle of the army, he saw that the last of the Semu cavalry had fallen from his horse with an arrow, and he was only about 200 zhang away from the right flank of the Semu Rebels.

"Herald! The right flank quickly organized a defensive formation, and the opposing cavalry must not be allowed to break through into our army, and the siege team in front quickly retreated! Solaman reluctantly gave the order.

At this time, although the number of the Semu volunteers was large, dozens of times that of the Red Turban cavalry, if the opponent broke into the army with speed and sprint, it was enough to tear the army apart, which made Solaman have to give orders to defend and withdraw the siege team.

Facing the retreating land army, Tang He finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the ten-division commander next to him stepped forward to hold him. Tang He, as the main general, has been standing at the head of the city, and the soldiers have changed twice, but he has never retreated to rest, and his physical strength has long been overdrawn, but this time he looked at the position of the cavalry outside the city.

"General Tang, did you order our army to go out of the city to pursue, and cooperate with the reinforcements to kill the demons at the same time?" The hundred households guarding the east of the city rushed over and asked Tang He loudly.

Tang He gasped and looked out of the city, but after a while, he turned his face and said with a big smile: "No, it will take at least some time for a large number of reinforcements from our army to arrive, you see that our cavalry team is hunting on the periphery, and we are ordered to rest in batches, and it will be our turn to leave the city soon." ”

Solaman was half angry at this time, and the hundreds of cavalrymen were clearly shooting arrows around the Colored Eye Army in a circle, and they were all shot from a hundred and fifty paces away, but the accuracy was excellent, and the leather shields in the hands of the colored soldiers were shot through, and then they were shot into the body by arrows, and hundreds of people were hit by arrows for a while.

And if the Colored Eyes soldiers swarmed up to get close to the cavalry, the cavalry immediately galloped away, and at a different angle, the Colored Eyes invaded in another direction. And the Colored Eye Archer's arrows lost their strength when they shot a hundred paces away, and they could not reach the front of the Red Turban Army cavalry at all, which made all the Colored Eyes soldiers scream.

"Aren't all of their soldiers born with divine powers? What is it that an arrow can be fired from outside the range and can also shoot through the leather shield of our army? Solaman roared and looked at the small group of cavalry running around the periphery.

"Brother Shang! You're a good idea! If you hadn't thought so, I would have only come with the army, and I wouldn't have been able to arrive so quickly, and General Tang has been able to defend the city in the face of tens of thousands of people this time, which is really embarrassing for him! Hu Dahai said with a laugh in the cavalry.

Shang Yu grabbed the reins of the horse tightly, but said with a solemn face: "General Hu, you are not optimistic at this time!" If the Semu generals attack Leiguan Town to the death at this time, we will still not be able to expel the enemy army, and we will lose Leiguan Town. ”

"At present, the tens of thousands of people on the other side are just the advance team of the Yuan army, if the thousands of reinforcements behind us are consumed in the battle with the Semu people, they will definitely face the next Yuan army, how can we make the Semu people mess up and let them become routs, so as to keep us from coming to Anxian County!" Shang Yu didn't have a trace of excitement on his face when he said this.

"Brother Shang, do you mean to let these lustful volunteers go?" Hu Dahai asked with some surprise.

"Yes, if they are not allowed to cross the river and return to the east bank, the next step must be for the Yuan army to cross the river, and we must maintain the strength of the army this time." Shang Yu immediately nodded and replied solemnly.

He had already carefully looked at the equipment and formation of the nearly 10,000-colored soldiers in front of him, compared with those elite colored soldiers in Quanzhou City, these soldiers were obviously too different, they were all old or newly enlisted, and the formation was also relatively chaotic.