Then besieged the city and moved the rescue troops, and Li Rusong blocked the Hetao

At the end of June of the twentieth year of Wanli, the Ming army besieged Ningxia City again, and Ye Mengxiong, Mei Guozhen, Wei Xuezeng, Li Rusong, and Ma Gui discussed the matter. Ye Mengxiong said: "The reinforcements from all walks of life have been gathered more than three times that of the rebels, and the imperial court decreed that Xiao Ruxun replaced Dong Yikui as the chief military officer of Ningxia, and ordered Li Rusong to supervise the military officers from all walks of life. ”

Mei Guozhen added: "In the past, our army was proud of the enemy, and there were many slackness, so that the rebels could take advantage of it. ”

After hearing this, Wei Xuezeng thought that Mei Guozhen's words were clearly ridiculing himself, but Wei Xuezeng was irrefutable and had to say: "Thank you Mei Shiyu for reminding me, Bibai is cunning and good at fighting but unexpected, relying on elite soldiers inside, strong reinforcements outside, building embankments and flooding our army, the old man feels deeply remorseful, and if you want to break Ningxia, you must first go to its reliance." ”

Li Rusong got up and said: "The last general is not talented, I hope that tomorrow I will lead the army to attack the city, demolish the enemy to build a dam, and the wanderers outside the pass are all barbarian thieves, and Bibai is regarded as a strong reinforcement. "Li Rusong and Ma Gui are both generations of generals, and their reputations are outside. And this Li Rusong is a young man who followed his father Li Chengliang to fight in all directions, brave and good at fighting, and a generation of genius Xu Weishu taught his disciples the art of war, and he was almost undefeated in the frontier for a long time. Heroic and heroic, the world's handsome. Li Rusong and Ma Gui asked for help, Ye Mengxiong, Wei Xuezeng, and Mei Guozhen were relieved and immediately agreed.

Mei Guozhen said again: "This time, there are two general soldiers Li Rusong and Ma Gui, which can be described as a victory. Yansui Dong Yiyuan, the younger brother of Dong Yikui. He once played against Bibai and won a big victory. Today's adjustment of one yuan is also a strategy, Zheng Luo endured the pain and cut love. In addition, Li Ruzhang, the fourth son of Ning Yuanbo, came with his eldest brother, and the Li family in Liaodong are all generals, and this Shilang will also be a young hero, and he must not lose his brother in this battle. The generals work together, and there is no need to worry about worshipping the thief. Dong Yiyuan and Li Ruzhang hurriedly thanked each other.

The next day, 200,000 Ming troops attacked Ningxia in batches, Li Rusong ordered to concentrate on more than 200 artillery pieces such as Fulong machine guns, large and small general cannons, large and small Lianzhu artillery, Shenwu Second General, Thunder Third General, Feidian Fourth General, Jiesheng Fifth General and other artillery pieces continued to bombard Ningxia city defense, for a time the smoke was billowing and the cannon sound shook the sky, although Ningxia built the city strongly, it was also scarred, and the rebels defended it was difficult although they also returned fire with artillery, there were still many casualties, and the Ming army took the opportunity to demolish the embankment, and then burned, and took advantage of the fireworks to cover it, and carried sandbags and ladders to climb the wall and hit the door. The rebels in the city refused to die, and the city wall was brave to resist, Li Rusong ordered all the soldiers to lead the army to concentrate on the south gate to feint, and then led the fourth brother Li Ruzhang to lead 30,000 elite soldiers around the west gate, and the fierce battle was not broken in Ningxia at dusk, Li Rusong ordered the troops to be collected in order to avoid the expansion of casualties.

After learning that the former general was Li Rusong, he sighed greatly: "I have already felt pressure on Ma Gui here, and I have heard of the name of Li Rusong earlier, he is forty years old, experienced in a hundred battles, invincible, and deeply has the style of a father." His father Li Chengliang was previously powerful, powerful Liaodong, the prosperity of the border marshal's martial arts was unprecedented, Chengliang had many heirs, all of them were tiger generals, this Li Rusong was the eldest son, and he was even more wise and brave. The generals of the reinforcements from all walks of life are elite, which shows that the imperial court is impatient. If I can win this battle, the elite of the Ming army will be lost, and I will be able to dominate the industry! So Bibai ordered the subordinate to go out of the city in the starry night to contact Bu Lost Rabbit, Zhuang Bald, and Zai Sheng, and gave gold and embroidered pythons to meet and send troops to Lingzhou, occupy the dismounted horse and block the grain road to contain the Ming army, and then Bibai can carry out a surprise attack on the whole army, which can be expected to collapse the Ming army in a war.

The Ming army attacked the city for several days but failed to break it. Afterwards, Ye Mengxiong, Mei Guozhen and Wei Xuezeng were promoted to the generals of the conference, and the chief military officers of each department, Li Rusong, Ma Gui, Xiao Ruxun, Dong Yikui, Jiang Xianmo, Liu Chengsi, Niu Bingzhong, Li Yun, and the generals Li Ruzhang, Ma Zhen, Dong Yiyuan, Ma Kongying, Du Tong, Wu Xian, Zhao Wu, Gong Zijing and others listened to the military orders.

Ye Mengxiong said: "In the past few days, Ningxia will be attacked, and the enemy will be broken, General Li, what do you think is the plan after the worship?" Li Rusong replied: "Back to the capital, the last general thinks that if Bibai wants to counterattack, he must first ask for help from the Hetao Departments, block the grain road and contain our army, so that he can fight back and forth with Bibai." ”

Wei Xuezeng also agreed with this view: "Although the Hetao tribes and Bibai are not affectionate, they also support each other, seeing that Ningxia is in danger, if Bibai asks for help and then promises to make a lot of profits, the Hetao Department will come out of the nest and cannot be despised . ”

Mei Guozhen disdainfully: "It's not so much about supporting each other as about using each other, and it's good to come out of the nest, just to annihilate in one fell swoop, deter the enemy, and maybe ask for surrender." Wei Xue once saw that Mei Guozhen's words were deliberately said to him again, his face was embarrassed, and he pretended to be calm.

Ye Mengxiong immediately said to Li Rusong: "In this case, Mr. Li, how are you going to deploy?" Li Rusong replied: "The last general thinks that the set will definitely attack Lingzhou from Dingbian, Xiaoyanchi and Huamachi Xisha Paikou, waiting for an opportunity to cut off our grain route, so that General Magui can set up an ambush in the right ditch to block the enemy in Huamachi." I will personally lead the elite to annihilate the enemy, so as to cut off the foreign aid. ”

After hearing this, Ye Mengxiong immediately conveyed the military order to the generals: "Order Li Rusong to lead 30,000 elite soldiers to meet the enemy in Yanchi, and let Dong Yiyuan be the vanguard to destroy the enemy." He ordered Ma Gui to lead 7,000 troops to set up an ambush in the right ditch to prevent the enemy from attacking. The rest of the generals were still stationed in Ningxia. "The generals commanded.

At this moment, Wei Xue once said: "If the enemy is defeated and leaves, he will return to the area of Shapaikou, and he can send good generals to choose the opportunity to hold this place, prevent the enemy from retreating, and wait for Li Rusong to chase him to gather and annihilate him." The old man thought that the guerrilla general Gong Zi was loyal, brave and resolute, and could lead the Miao soldiers to shoulder this responsibility. Gong Zijing, can you lead 2,000 elite soldiers? "The guerrilla general Gong Zijing received the order.

Li Rusong said: "The set is not a soldier of the death, it is not easy to gather and annihilate it, if the enemy is surprised by our army and retreats, and cannot catch up, then Gong Zijing will be besieged." Mei Guozhen said: "Gathering and destroying the enemy can sweep away the trouble of our army, and whether the enemy can retreat depends only on how General Li meets it." Li Rusong took the order.

In July, the leaders of the Hetao tribe, Bu Lostu and Zhuang Guanlai, led 30,000 cavalry to attack Xiaoyanchi, and sent more than 10,000 cavalry led by the slaughtering monk to feint and attack the Xisha Paikou of Huamachi in support of Bibai. Bu Lost Rabbit said during the march: "The Ming army is besieging Ningxia, who would have expected that 30,000 of our male soldiers will outflank the back road and block the grain road." The plunder is set to come back with a full load. ”

Zhuang Bald said: "Our army is 30,000, and when the Ming army detects it, it will feel huge and threatening, and it will set a heavy force to attack me." We have already received a heavy salute and made an appointment to attack, when the Ming army is coming, are we fighting or not? ”

Bu Lost Rabbit replied: "Bibai gave us gold to make us use it as bait, and fight to the death with the Ming army so that he can take advantage of the opportunity to use soldiers." We must not be used by Bibai, but Ningxia can not be broken, Bibai can not die, we wait for the Ming army to loot the Ming army's military rations, wait for the Ming army to attack and retreat, and tell Bibai to make it attack, if we see that the Ming army is weak, we will not be too late to attack. So Bu Lost Rabbit ordered Tu Yu Tielei to be the vanguard, and led 3,000 troops to rush ahead and seize the main road.

Li Rusong had to return the horse, and his brother Li Ruzhang said: "Big brother, 30,000 captives are equivalent to our army, and a big war is inevitable, but after the first war, there may be little left of the eldest brother's army." Li Rusong saw that Li Ruzhang was worried, so he explained it: "Fourth brother, you have not encountered more than 10,000 enemies since you trained in the military, and our army does not have to fight with the enemy with all its might. A few tribes in the Hetao, 30,000 people are already all belongings, how can they fight to the death with our army in order to rescue Bibai, bluff and wait for an opportunity to move. All we need to do is concentrate our forces and annihilate their vanguard troops, and then we can act as we please. Li Ruzhang suddenly realized.

On the other hand, Magui and Mazhen led the troops to set up an ambush in the right ditch, and the monk of the set department had passed the mouth of the sand pai, and the army of Magui died down, waiting for the monk. The monk went all the way, always felt uneasy, stopped when he walked, the leader of the subordinates asked the monk, the monk said: "We are defenseless through the mouth of Shapaikou, all the way, there is no shadow in all directions, but always feel that there are Han scouts, even if the Ming army besieges Ningxia, how can the rear be defenseless?" All I was worried about was an ambush. The leader of his subordinates advised the monk to be suspicious and not to worry, and he was willing to persuade the front to march into the army, and the monk had to march again.

Ma Gui saw that the slaughtering monk was approaching, and secretly ordered the whole army to let go of the front of the enemy, and when the slaughtering monk's army passed, Ma Gui immediately ordered the whole army to assault, "galloping" Mazhen took the lead, the department roared out, the slaughtering monk panicked, the whole army fell into a melee, and the front of the set was rescued, and was broken by the Ma Gui army. Seven thousand cangtou troops of the Ma Gui Department, wrapped in a green scarf on the head, wearing light armor, following Ma Gui for a long time at the border, seeing death as home, extremely brave, under the assault it caused a huge impact on the slaughter of the monk's department, the slaughter of the monk was slashed by the Ming army, and the dead and wounded have reached two thousand, the slaughter monk broke through and reorganized the cavalry, withdrew from the right ditch, and rushed to the lower horse pass.

Ma Gui led the army to chase the monk to the area of the horse pass, the monk was angry, led the cavalry of the headquarters to Ma Gui to kill, Ma Gui saw this and ordered the whole army to get on the horse and divide into three roads and three batches to hedge with the enemy, the monk department rushed to the cavalry, the front of the Ming army had many arrows falling from the horse, the second batch of the Ming army also covered with cavalry, the pioneer Ma Zhen ordered the first batch to hold the three-eyed gun ambush close to the horse's body, and when the enemy approached, they all held the three-eyed gun and shot at the ignition shot, each gun scattered bomb covered a wide area, the set of casualties were numerous, the horses were panicked, the Ming army finished shooting and waved the three-eyed gun as an iron rod, rushing to kill the enemy formation, The follow-up Ming army took up the melee. Mazhen was brave, the Ming army was strong, the enemy spirit was restrained, and the fighting spirit dropped greatly, and Magui led the army to besiege when he saw this. The slaughtering monk department was defeated due to the collapse of morale, and most of the people were allowed to be slaughtered by the Ming army like lambs to be slaughtered, and the slaughtering monks led the remnants to flee to Shaming Prefecture.

Ma Gui continued to pursue, the monk was forced to wander around Shaming Prefecture, the monk thought, more than 10,000 cavalry has been less than 3,000, the morale has collapsed, and there is no more will to fight, and can not fight with Ma Gui again. Ma Gui was in hot pursuit, only the return of the army to try to meet with the rabbit to have a chance to live, so he ordered the headquarters to immediately turn around and retreat eastward, the monk ran all the way, Ma Gui chased out twenty miles and no longer pursued, Ma Gui's department fought fiercely for a day and was also sleepy and tired, hungry and thirsty, and led the army to the nearby fortress to rest. After the monk noticed that Ma Gui was no longer pursuing, he felt at ease.

At the same time, Dong Yiyuan, the chief officer of Li Rusong's vanguard, kept inquiring about the movements of the troops, and finally found out where the vanguard was located, Dong Yiyuan immediately sent someone to report to Li Rusong, Li Rusong learned that the commander Ma Kongying and Du Tong led 5,000 troops to assist Dong Yiyuan, and Li Rusong and Li Ruzhang led the army to press. Li Rusong ordered Dong Yiyuan to inform him that after the rendezvous, he would immediately encircle and annihilate the earth and iron mines, and not allow most of the enemy to escape.

After Dong Yiyuan met with Ma Kongying and Du Tong, Dong Yiyuan led 4,000, and Ma Kongying and Du Tong each led 3,000 to live about 3,000 respectively, and launched a surprise attack on the Tufu Iron Mine. The set of 3,000 cavalry roared out, the Ming army lined up, first with 30 exterminating cannons, tiger squat cannons fired continuously, and then with a strong bow and crossbow to slow down the enemy's edge, when the two armies were close, the Ming army bird gun lined up in multiple sections of shooting, the set of heavy casualties, at the same time Dong Yiyuan ordered the soldiers to attack with ten chariots, Ma Kongying, Du Tong led the two wings of the fine cavalry to outflank. In the melee, Tu Yu Tielei was beheaded by Dong Yiyuan, and then Li Rusong, Li Ruzhang's army arrived, Li Rusong ordered to fire a gun to demonstrate and then ordered the whole army to attack, the Ming army was huge, seven or eight out of ten casualties were killed, and the fighting spirit was lost, and they fled one after another. After the war, Dong Yiyuan asked for orders to pursue the enemy, waiting for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with Bu Lost Rabbit and Zhuang Bald. Li Rusong agreed and ordered the army to follow.

Bu Lost Rabbit and Zhuang Bald Lai heard that the forward Tu Yu Tie Lei had died and was almost wiped out, and immediately ordered the whole army to evacuate, Zhuang Bald Lai said: "The number of Ming troops is equal to ours, and the food has not been robbed, how can we be willing?" Bu Lost Rabbit said: "The Ming army is equivalent to our army, which shows that the Ming army has already been prepared, Huamachi to Lingzhou must have set up countless ambushes, you and I only have these horses, whether it is for the rescue of the worship or looting the military food, the people and horses will have nothing, I Bu Lost Rabbit will never take this risk, you Zhuang Bald Lai is not good, take the troops to evacuate immediately!" "The teams received the order to lose the rabbit, and nearly 30,000 cavalry turned around and retreated.

On the way to withdraw the army, Bu Losttu joined the remnants of the slaughtering monk, and the set galloped to the mouth of Shapaikou, at which time the mouth of Shapai had been occupied by the guerrilla general Gong Zijing with 2,000 troops. There is no danger to defend Shapaikou, and Gong Zijing's troops can only delay the moment at most, so they have to hope that Li Rusong's troops can catch up as soon as possible. Bu Lost Rabbit saw that he was several times larger than the Ming army at Shapaikou, so he ordered the whole army to attack, and surrounded Gong Zijing, Gong Zijing gathered the whole army to form a circle formation, and the outer shield was supplemented by two rows of spears. With this round formation, he circled the enemy, and ordered the bow and arrow to shoot into the needle, and hit the shield with throwing stones.

Gong Zijing confronted the Mongols for a long time, and the casualties of the soldiers in the formation gradually increased. The disparity between the enemy and me is too large, and the Ming army's defense array gradually can't resist and fall into a melee under the charge several times, at this time Li Rusong's army chased after him, Bu Lost Rabbit saw Li Rusong's whole army attacking, and urgently ordered the whole army to withdraw and escape, Gong Zijing died in the chaos, Li Rusong, Li Ruzhang's department chased and killed ten miles, and won many heads. Li Rusong returned to Ningxia, and Ye Mengxiong rewarded the whole army.

In the city of Ningxia, Bibai learned that Bu Lost Rabbit, Zhuang Bald, and Zai Seng were defeated, and they did not dare to send troops easily, and their sorrow was difficult to dissipate, and Bi Chengen advised: "Father, don't worry, our army can still be called strong and strong, and we must not sit idly by, it is better to go out of the city and fight to the death in the Ming army and withdraw from the Guanwai." Bibai is deeply worried about the loyalty of the Ningxia soldiers: "Most of the people in Ningxia City are inspired by us, if they withdraw from the Guanwai, those generals and soldiers will see that the general trend has gone, they will surrender the city, and even plot to behead my family, even if some of them are willing to go out with me, there will be changes over time, and those leaders will also see the opportunity to try to bully me." Do not get out of the plug. ”

Bi Chengen persuaded again: "Even if we withdraw from the Guanwai, there is still the elite of the headquarters, who dares to act rashly, and then expand it should not be a problem." Bibai still pinned his hopes on the internal and external attack: "Heaven gives Ningxia, don't give up lightly, fortunately, Bu Lost Rabbit, Zhuang Bald Lai These people have little damage in battle, and they should ask for help from the rabbit again, contact the leaders of the nine surrounding departments, and the internal and external joint attack will become a big thing." Bi Chengen bitterly advised Bi Bai to withdraw from the customs as soon as possible as the best choice, and it was difficult to escape when it was too late. Bibai roared angrily: "Stick to Ningxia is still sitting in the eye of the chess game, hold the door of life, occupy this place is the Ming frontier defense is useless, according to Ningxia is the only opportunity to occupy the northwest, tear the soil and claim the king, I will never give up!" You don't have to say any more. Bi Chengen had no choice but to take the order.