Chapter 158: Persistence
On the first night of May in the fourth year of Tianshun, Boyan Bell was drowsy on horseback, he had not dismounted for more than ten days, eating, drinking, and sleeping on horseback, Boyan Bell was embarrassed by his beard, and his mental state was also very sluggish, and Boyan Bell was still like this, not to mention ordinary soldiers,
Boyan Bell swayed his body back and forth on the horse's back, leaning back and forth with the horse's bumps, if it weren't for the belt to tie his body, maybe he would have quickly planted the horse, if he didn't know it from afar, he would have regarded Boyan Bel as a knight who died on horseback,
Suddenly, the whistle rode a fast horse to report, and Boyan Bell's body was shaken up, straightened his waist and raised his eyebrows, "What's wrong?" ”
The sentry horseman's voice was trembling: "Twenty miles away, the traces of the Ming army have been discovered, and they are still approaching. ”
"What." Boyan Bell was shocked, the Ming army was still in a position of about 100 miles half a month ago, he had been running for so many days, and his body was out of shape, why not only did he not get rid of the Ming army, but the distance was getting closer and closer, this is unreasonable,
Boyan Bell ordered to speed up the march, and the soldiers were not happy at this time, and someone shouted: "Great Khan, if we go any further, I am afraid that we will not fight with the Ming army, and we will be defeated if we go away." ”
"What's the matter?" Boyan Bell looked at the surrounding guards and his face was angry, he didn't shout at all, and if he continued like this, he would not be defeated, but suddenly the army was unstable and the people were discouraged, maybe it would cause a mutiny, they must be suppressed, otherwise he would have to die in the rebellion of his own soldiers, Boyan Bell clearly realized,
Boyan Bell slammed the horse's belly, the horse had been with Boyan Bell for a long time, and the master had a heart-to-heart connection, and rushed towards the person who was shouting just now, Boyan Bell took out his waist knife and cut off the head of the man, holding the head in his hand, and let his mount trample the headless corpse planted under the horse into flesh, and Boyan Bell raised the head and shouted: "This should be the case with those who disturb the hearts of our army." He paused and continued: "Brothers, we are tired, and the enemy is even more tired, and we must drag the enemy down in the run. ”
Boyan Bell said a few more words, in short, it was to preach that this was not an escape, but a strategic means, how good it sounded to be said, the soldiers from the herdsmen were gradually confused, they felt that what Boyan Bell said was indeed reasonable, this was indeed a good strategy for the soldiers to surrender without a fight, so they no longer calmed down the uneasiness in their hearts again, and continued to walk with Boyan Bell, even if it was a road to the black,
The next day, the sun was not yet in the sky, but a faint sunlight shone on the sand, the sand showed a strange white, Boyan Bell took a deep breath, this is the most comfortable time of the day,
The desert in the early morning is quiet, the wind will not be too strong, the temperature will not be as hot as noon, nor will it be as cold as the night, the desert in the early morning is a little cool, this is definitely the most comfortable moment, the light breeze in the air blows by, and Boyan Bell's heart is also relaxed,
The sound of horses' hooves sounded in the distance, and the instant connection was particularly deafening in the quiet morning, and the soldiers of Boyan Bell raised their drowsy heads one after another, patrolling around the direction where the sound came, and looked back at his team, after a robbing of the strong man, the team has expanded to more than 40,000 people, but this time the wind and sun rushed, many people fell, and two or three thousand fled at night, but the rest of the people were enough,
The sound of horse hooves in the distance should be a large group of horse bandits, there are many horse bandits in the desert of the Western Regions, a dozen people at the few, hundreds of people at most, and the largest is not more than a thousand people, relying on intercepting the caravan to ask for protection money or directly robbing the caravan to live, Boyan Bell scolded: "Damn, even the horse bandits came to call me out, today I have to export my evil anger fiercely, or I really think that Lao Tzu is muddy, don't blame me for having a black hand, this is what you sent to the door yourself." ”
Boyan Bell ordered to line up to prepare for battle, shouting loudly to clean up the horse bandits who came to the front, the soldiers were also ambitious to think that the horse bandits who came were not eye-catching, and they all wanted to raise their eyebrows and exhale a hand, these days they were chased by the Ming army too embarrassed, and now they can have a good time, so the soldiers roared angrily, and the horse's nose continued to spew hot air, and the horse's hooves dug back the soil ready to rush to the enemy army that was about to appear behind the dunes,
Behind the sand dunes, a flag tip gradually rose, Boyan Bell couldn't help frowning, when had I never seen bandits playing chess pieces, could it be that the answer was soon revealed, several flags were revealed, some were written Ming, some were written righteousness, and there was a big Chao character, Boyan Bell looked at Da Xuan and understood, where are the horse bandits, this is clearly the Ming army, the Ming army led by Chao Xing caught up,
It is indeed the team of the Ming army, Chao Xing and his soldiers are also frosty, their cheeks are thin, it seems that they have suffered a lot along the way, but it is not easy to think that the army of tens of thousands of people can catch up with the opponent a month later than Boyan Bell,
Along the way, there were soldiers who kept falling, but Chao Xing did not stop the pace and speed of pursuit, and the soldiers had changed from simple anger and orders to paranoia and even lived for only one thing, that is, to catch up with Boyan Bell and kill him, there was no reason for this, just because he was still persisting after all kinds of hardships, and gradually formed a habit of perseverance.
The soldiers of Boyan Bell saw clearly that the comer was not a horse bandit, and the excitement gradually disappeared, followed by endless fear, because they were afraid of the eyes of the Ming soldiers, and the eyes of the Ming soldiers revealed a sense of longing and restlessness, like a wolf that had finally caught up with its prey, the air froze, and the smell of killing seemed to be able to be smelled with their noses,
Although the Ming army is more tired than Boyan Bell's army, but this is still a one-sided battle without suspense, the Ming army slaughtered the enemy like a wolf into a flock, Boyan Bell saw that the big thing was not good and fled in a hurry, the generals ran away, and the enemy soldiers had no intention to fight down, so they threw away their armor and captured it, and it was a complete victory.
When Chao Xing collected the body, he found that Boyan Bell had run away, and he was respectful and angry for a while, and he was so angry that Boyan Bell's ability to escape for his life was really not small, and he escaped from the Ming army again and again, and he was in the chaos of the two sides fighting, so angry Needless to say, that is, Boyan Bell fled again,
Chao Xingjian pointed at the West and shouted: "Thief, next time I catch up with you, your grandfather Chao won't beat you out of green, even if you haven't eaten leeks." ”
Boyan Bell naturally couldn't hear the curse of Chao Xing, he didn't care about anything now, he just galloped wildly, so that he regarded the personal guards who followed him behind him as the Ming army chasing after him, and he could only run with his life without looking back.