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According to the news from the soldiers and horses an hour ago, Leiguan Town should have been taken and was waiting for his invincible iron cavalry army to advance towards Lai'an County.

The main reason is that he wants to concentrate his forces to annihilate the remnants of Zhang Shicheng hiding in Tongzhou, and the secondary reason is because of the existence of Zhu Yuanzhang in Chuzhou, and he and Zhu Yuanzhang have met several times in Xuyi and Tianchang counties, and they were all repelled by Zhu Yuanzhang's strange mountain fighting method, and lost thousands of soldiers and horses.

There was always a sense of fear about the local army led by Zhu Yuanzhang, because half of the soldiers in Zhu Yuanzhang's army were actually recruited from the Yuan army, and the Han soldiers who knew Mongolian at the time of the battle actually shouted at him to surrender to the subway cavalry he led, which made many Mongolian soldiers in the army have war-weary thoughts.

In order to ensure the absolute leadership of the army, the Yuan court constantly moved the tribes from the northern grasslands into the Central Plains, and most of the middle and lower-level officers were from the tribes, but the number of ordinary soldiers could not be supplemented from the tribes, because the Central Plains region was too large, and although the population of the tribes had increased several times in the past hundred years, it still could not meet the needs of pure army building, and could only be supplemented by the Han or Semu people.

If it is said that a hundred years ago, all the strong men of the Mengyuan tribes liked to join the army, and the current Mengyuan tribe all have a war-weariness, it is because the leaders and nobles of the major tribes now live in erosive luxury, and although the life of the people of Mengyuan at the bottom is much stronger than that of the Han people and the color people, they are in the hateful eyes of the people of the Central Plains all the time.

This fact? Hinkasor is very clear, but he is powerless to change all this, he only hopes to try his best to protect the interests of the tribe, so he does not agree with the attack on Lai'an County across the river, but he is not worried about attacking Xia'an County, as long as he can take Leiguan Town, the road leading to Lai'an County will be opened in front, and behind his 5,000 iron cavalry is more than 20,000 infantry soldiers, which is already half of the most elite troops of Puhua Timur, and after crossing the river with this kind of force, he will attack such a small county as Lai'an, If he can't take it, it will be as easy as digging into his bag in his eyes.

The sky has already darkened slightly, and there is a turning point in front of the road, and then ten miles to the north is Leiguan Town.

"Pass me the order, and our army will be able to reach Leiguan Town in a few hours, and our army will be able to repair and ...... there tonight"? Xinkasol turned his head and shouted to the herald behind him, thinking that with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, he must have already defeated Leiguan Town in several hours, so he gave such an order to his soldiers.

The local herald soldier with the colored flag immediately responded loudly, and was about to wave the flag to the rear, but he heard a burst of shouts from the front.

"Oh no! Lord Wanhu, the enemy army actually appeared in ambush, defeated the soldiers and horses of the color eyes attacking Leiguantu City, and was retreating to the official road. "A few horses galloped back in front of them, and came? Hinkasor reported to him in parallel.

When he heard this, he was immediately taken aback, and immediately shouted and asked, "Why is this happening?" Didn't Solaman say that he would be able to take down Leiguan before it got dark? I also took dozens of siege ladders from my Jiqing Mansion treasury, why couldn't I capture a temporary earth city, and was actually defeated by those Red Army thieves who even had weapons on the rusty ground, this is simply unreasonable. ”

Hearing him shout so loudly, several thousands of households on his side were angry, but they were silent, borrowing a number of thousands of thousands of Persian volunteers from Quanzhou were disapproving in their hearts, and they were forced to accept because they were afraid of being attacked by the Red Turban Army when crossing the river, so they agreed that Solaman would take the lead in attacking, and at this time, the sound of the rout from the front was several miles away, how could they not be angry.

"Sithrokar, you lead five hundred cavalry to move forward quickly, and drive the Semu people to both sides of the official road, so as not to reduce the momentum of our army's attack due to the rout." Seeing that his generals did not answer, Hinka Soor shouted loudly to one of his most trusted men, Qianhudao.

Sithrokar responded, but he had some questions: "My lord, what if the soldiers are too chaotic to listen to orders?" "Once this army is formed, it is very difficult to obey the command, and it is difficult to get these people to obey the order.

"If you disobey the military order, you will be killed! Otherwise, our army will inevitably be dragged down by these routs and will not be able to attack! Hinkasor shouted angrily.

He was right, this was the only way to get the Semu army out of the way.

Solaman led the remaining 8,000 soldiers to discard a heavy load all over the place, and the formation was also disorganized, and the Red Turbans who followed followed them roared and hurried after them, and shouted and cursed. This made Solaman feel a little sour in his heart.

"These red turban ghosts are also pretending to be too similar, and they are in hot pursuit, hoping that this time they can hide from Puhua Timur, as long as they can return to Quanzhou, they will no longer ask for orders to go out, whether it is the Yuan Court or the Dragon and Phoenix Song Dynasty, I can not afford to provoke the ground, the two kings obviously let me come to die!"

All the soldiers of the color eyes only knew that the Red Turban Army had tens of thousands of people who were now killing behind them, and nearly a thousand people had died under the opponent's Yuan cavalry, which made the main general order to retreat, and the two thousand soldiers who defended the city in Lei Guantu City who resisted the siege of tens of thousands of people also joined the attack formation, if they did not retreat, they would only be at risk of being eaten by the other party.

The Semu soldiers have a great advantage, if they have a great advantage in fighting, they will have the confidence to continue, just like the previous tens of thousands of people attacking a small city, because this time it is only for Jiqing Mansion to play the vanguard, there is no need to pay the price of the total annihilation, which is why all the Semu soldiers will run back desperately.

At this moment, hundreds of Mengyuan iron horsemen galloped from the front of the official road, and all of them murderously bent their bows and arrows and pointed at the Semu rout, one of them was dressed in the uniform of a thousand generals and shouted more than two hundred paces away: "The volunteers in front of the army obey the order, Lord Xinkasol Wanhu gives the order, and the Semu soldiers all avoid the wings, and the red turban thieves will be confronted by our army." If there is a shock to the army, it will be killed! ”

When Solaman heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said in his heart: "I wanted to do this, but I didn't expect that? Hinkasor gave such an order. With a wave of his subordinates flanks, his heralds immediately gestured to the sides, signaling that the seemingly chaotic rout would be divided into two sides.

Tang He led 5,000 soldiers, including soldiers who rushed to the ground from Lai'an plus his mine officers and defenders who only had more than 1,200 people left, and at this time they were all replaced with the Pu knife brought by the reinforcements from Lai'an, which would be the first line of defense against the cavalry of the Yuan army.

Pu knife plus rattan ground shield, this is the most headache of cavalry charge, one is to use the rattan shield to block arrows, and second, if it is a close combat, you can rely on the Pu knife hand to quickly cut the opponent's horse legs, so that the opponent's cavalry becomes infantry, that half of the battle situation completely changed.

For foot combat, the Pu knife is a little heavy, which is not conducive to long-distance attacks, but fortunately, this is only a fight in front of Lei Guan Town, and Shang Yu is leading a crossbow army to follow closely, and the hill is also properly arranged, just wait for the people of Semu to escape from the official road in the middle, and when the Yuan court cavalry appears, they can act according to Shang Yu's plan.

Eight thousand soldiers and horses in the midst of continuous rout suddenly gave way to both sides of the official road, and rushed towards the road they came from. Hinkasor was even more furious, but he could not command the Semu army, and even Puhua Timur only borrowed it.

If Solaman is one of his generals, I'm afraid? Hinkasor will inevitably cut off his head with a single knife to relieve the hatred in his heart.

"Order, all the cavalry accelerated, and quickly dispersed the formation of the Red Turban Thieves with strong arrows, and then divided and annihilated them." This is one of the most effective methods for the Mengyuan Iron Cavalry to destroy the opponent's infantry for more than a hundred years. When Hinkasor thought about it, the other side must have hastily met the enemy, and he must have not expected that the cavalry he led would suddenly appear, and he would inevitably win this first battle, so as to buy time for the more than 20,000 infantry in the rear.

"General! The Quanzhou colored soldiers have all dispersed, and behind them are actually Pu Dao soldiers, how will this be good? "That thousand households named Sislokar are galloping back at this time? Hinkasor reported loudly.

"It's actually Park Daobing, this is easy to do! It is most effective to use fire oil arrows against these Pu Dao soldiers, Si Si Luokhar, you lead a thousand people to come forward and set fire to the vine shields of those Pu Dao Hands, and see how they can resist the attack of our army! But Hinkasor immediately gave the order to attack.

"After the order, all the cavalry followed a hundred paces behind Lord Sislokar's soldiers and horses, waiting for the order of the general, and completely crushed the red-turban thieves entrenched in Lai'an County."

Sislokar obeyed the order, and after the fire oil arrow was lit, it shot at the target, even the stone would burn a pillar of incense for a while, although the vine shield could defend against arrows, but it was the most afraid of fire, and he thought while giving the order: "Before? Lord Hinkasor suffered a big loss from the small temple monk Pu Dao Hand, and lost thousands of cavalry in vain, so he spent a lot of financial resources to make this kind of fire oil arrow made of black oil, to deal with the red turban thieves in this county, but it is a bit of a feeling of killing chickens with a knife. ”

After the rattan shield of the Pu Dao Men in the front row caught fire, Shang Yu realized that something was wrong, and immediately discussed with Hu Dahai to order the three thousand Pu Dao Men in front of him to retreat a hundred steps back and return to the front of the crossbow soldiers.

"Brother Shang, why don't you release the crossbow yet? Do you have to wait until the swordsman can't defend against the arrows before you are willing? Hu Dahai asked anxiously at this time.

Those soldiers holding rattan shields are all veterans of Chuzhou who have been in battle positions for a long time, so they will be arranged to face the Yuan army's iron cavalry in the front army, but if there is no rattan shield protection, they will not be able to deal with the attack of the Yuan cavalry at all, and there will even be a large number of casualties, which makes Hu Dahai quite worried.

Shang Yu didn't answer at this time, but shouted to the herald: "Herald! Immediately fire the erected crossbow forward. ”

Then he turned around and said to Hu Dahai: "General Hu, at this time, they will only speed up after the rear army, if they are shot and killed in the front, I am afraid that the rear will not come to die, so I will order the Pu Daomen to retreat, the range of the crossbow is second only to the ballista, about 300 steps, this time I will let this group of Yuan cavalry annihilated." When Shang Yu said these words at this time, he thought of all the villagers in Lijia Village, his hometown in Quanzhou, so his tone of voice showed a cold and piercing hatred.

Hu Dahai was slightly stunned, he had never seen Shang Yu have such an expression, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He also knew that the mountain village where Shang Yu lived when he was a child was slaughtered, so he was able to save Zhu Yuanzhang's life, and Shang Yu's hatred for the Yuan army was naturally unforgettable.

"Can you really kill all the thousands of cavalry attacking in front of you?" Although Hu Dahai has experimented with these crossbows in the army, he has never measured that he can shoot as far as three hundred steps, and these are also some semi-finished products, otherwise there would not be only more than 100 of them, all of which are made of hardwood, which is a kind of auxiliary weapon of Shang Yu when studying ballistas, and in the end, due to the poor effect on the siege of the city, and because of the discovery of iron ore, Shang Yu will hand it all over to Hu Dahai.

Looking up at the front, a picture of Shura's hellish landscape appeared in front of Hu Dahai, as if Hu Dahai had been killed for a long time, and the corpses and blood had seen countless and couldn't help but be shocked by the tragic scene in front of him, and he was almost about to fall from the horse, fortunately, Tang He returned from the front army at this time and held Hu Dahai up, but he was also shocked by the powerful lethality of the crossbow in front of the formation, and his face was extremely pale.