Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Last Stand
Abai got accurate information that the commander of the Ming army was indeed Xiao Bozhi, a homeless man in Liaoyang.
According to the Tanma report, the Ming army came from downstream, and there were no other Ming troops in the rear. This means that Xiao Bozhi's army is a lone army.
Zuo Meile Ezhen Duokana immediately asked for battle: "Liaoyang has always been rampant, this time he dared to advance alone, and he clearly regarded my big gold as a hero, the third elder brother, the slave will lead the troops to capture him and send him to the Khan King with a thousand knives!" ”
"Little Thirteen, you go and find out for yourself!"
Abai didn't believe that Xiao Bozhi's troops would be alone, so he asked his cousin Chaohar to take people to explore again, and Chaohar once again confirmed that Xiao Bozhi's troops camped on the banks of the Anping River were indeed a lone army, and their camp was very simple.
"Third elder brother, that Liaoyang has no place to send it to the door by himself, if I don't receive this credit with the white flag, it will become a joke of the Eight Banners!"
The lord humiliated his ministers to death, thinking of the various bad deeds of Liaoyang without a state in Jianzhou, and the grievances of his own master, Duokana couldn't wait to eat the thief alive.
"Little Thirteen" Chaohar also asked his cousin to fight, no more, as long as he gave him a hundred red armor to swing his teeth, he promised to be the first to break into the camp of the Ming army and cut down the stateless general flag of Liaoyang.
"Third elder brother, the soldiers are very fast, the Ming army knows that our army has come here, if it is not broken early, I am afraid it will slip away." Cherge was also very tempted to annihilate Liaoyang Wuzhi.
Seeing that Duokana and the others were actively seeking to fight, and thinking that Xiao Bozhi's department was only more than a thousand soldiers, it was not difficult to annihilate it, Du Anchao and Suo Hun, the two who were a little afraid of it, did not say anything to stop it.
At this point, Abai did not hesitate any longer, and immediately conveyed the military order, ordering all the five Jiala, burying the pot and eating a full stomach, and immediately go south, in order to annihilate the Xiao Department in one fell swoop.
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There was no large-scale battle that day, and when the main force with the white flag arrived at the periphery of the Ming army's camp on the bank of the Anping River, it was already in the afternoon, and it was only a little more than an hour before it got dark.
After discovering that the Jin army was approaching his camp, Xiao Bozhi ordered Wei Xuewen to lead the cavalry to engage the Jin army in a tentative battle, but neither side could inflict significant casualties on the opponent.
As more and more Jin troops arrived, Wei Xuewen had to retreat, otherwise it was likely to be surrounded by the Jin cavalry, which was far superior to them.
At the suggestion of Duokana, Abai ordered the fifth Jialasuo Hun to block the return road of the Ming army's southward retreat, and ordered the third Jiala Anchao to deploy on the west road of the Ming army, and personally led the first, second, and fourth three Jiala nearly 5,000 soldiers and horses to line up on the northern front.
"The people of the Ming Kingdom often fight against the water, but unfortunately, how many can succeed? When the third prince of Dajin led the army south, how many people of the Song army drowned in the river, and the one who led the troops went first, and did not hesitate to cut off the hands of the climbing soldiers, hehe..."
Cherge was influenced by his father's Eyidu, and he liked to read the history books of the Han people, so he saw at a glance that the Ming army was planning to fight against the water, but he didn't think so.
Abai, who did not have much experience in commanding troops, also knew that he had to beware of night attacks by the Ming army, so he ordered all his troops to be more vigilant.
That night, sure enough, the Ming army went out of the camp to attack at night, but because the Jin army had already prepared, the Ming army failed to capture, and only used the firearms they carried to ignite part of the camp tent of the Jin army.
What is particularly odious is that at night, the Ming army fired "flower cannons" similar to those between the Ming people in all directions towards the Jin army camp from time to time, which made the Jin army's fire prevention work aggravated, and also exposed the deployment of the camp to the eyes of the Ming army.
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The next day, the two sides unanimously made arrangements for a decisive battle.
But what neither side expected was that there was morning fog in the area of the Anping River, and the visual distance between them was less than 50 zhang.
The appearance of the morning fog may be related to the rain of the previous two days, in the fog, only the sound of horns and suona on both sides can be heard rising and falling with each other.
The Ming army adopted a preemptive strategy, and the Jin army on the northern front, which had the largest deployment of troops, was the first to be attacked by the Ming cavalry, and the two sides fought in the fog.
Half an hour later, the shouting stopped, the battlefield calmed down, and the two sides of Ming and Jin broke away from the battle, but no one knew the results of the two sides.
At that time, the first Jiala with a white flag drove hundreds of Han Aha to launch a tentative attack on the Ming camp.
The infantry in the Ming army camp immediately drove the enemy with firecrackers, the fog was too great, and the rainy weather for several days, the guns and fireropes were affected by moisture, resulting in some of the Ming army's firecrackers failed to fire, and there were reservations, so the attack on the Jin army failed to cause much damage, but the Jin army also failed to break through the Ming army's defense line.
After losing more than 100 armorers and two or three hundred Han Ahba, the third armor resolutely withdrew his troops.
Obviously, because of the fog, both sides were cautious enough about the upcoming decisive battle.
At that time, the fog cleared little by little, and the two sides were finally able to see each other clearly, and the battle that had been brewing for a long time finally began.
The most elite first armor with the white flag, under the command of Ezhen Gurto, launched an attack on the weak point of the Ming army's camp that had been tested earlier.
This time the attack was clearly with all its might, and the Ming army no longer retained, firing all the firearms that could be used.
For a time, the sound of explosions in front of the two armies was incessant, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air.
The charging Jin army was hit by the dense firearms of the Ming army, and the losses were not small, but they successfully advanced with an absolute superiority in troops.
The Jin soldiers who rushed to the front could already see the Ming army reloading gunpowder behind the improvised wooden fence.
At this time, I heard a sharp trumpet sound in the Ming military camp, and then I saw many soldiers in the rear suddenly rushing to the front, and then suddenly squatting on the ground motionless.
This move puzzled Jin Bing, but the thought of confusion flashed, and they were already preparing to run into the wooden fence.
"Vertical!"
The soldiers, who were already so nervous that they could hardly breathe, finally waited for the order.
In an instant, the soldiers who had already squatted on the ground subconsciously raised the spears in their hands diagonally, and the cold spearheads pointed directly at the Jin cavalry who were swarming towards them.
A spear with a handle stretched out from between the wooden fences made the golden soldiers who rushed to the front stunned, they had never seen such a long spear, but the astonishment quickly disappeared, looking at the sharpened wood, they seemed to understand something, and their faces turned white in an instant.
But it was too late.
"Phew!"
The instinct to survive caused the golden soldiers in front of them to beat their horses one after another, trying to avoid those spears, but the speed of the horses that had been raised, even the most skilled soldiers could not make a sudden turn.
Rushing too fast means a warrior, it means victory, but it also means that they will die first.
The golden soldiers shouted in fear, they didn't want to die, they desperately grabbed the reins of their horses, trying to make the mounts under them stop, but everything they did was in vain. All they could do was watch themselves plunge headlong into the glowing spear.
In the sound of "poof", in an instant, dozens of golden soldiers were directly pierced by straight spears on their horses, some of them broke away from the war horses as if they were nailed in mid-air, and some continued to rush forward with the spears on their chests by inertia, until they hit the wooden fence more than one person high.