Chapter 70
Basically, within a radius of ten miles, you can only see the figure of the Ming army fleeing, and you can't see any shadow of the Ming army's resistance, and the new Shun king, who is happy to kill, also encourages the Shun army to pursue the Ming army, on the way Wu Junzhen's army met the main force of the fleeing Ming army on the way, and also fled together until it was driven to the territory of Yuzhou, Nanyang Prefecture, and then relieved, and followed the advice of Sun Inspector to arrange a defense and turn around to meet the Shun army.
The two sides started a big battle three miles outside the city of Yuzhou, and the leading Shun army Xiangjing Weizuo Weiwu general: Gao Yigong, ordered the Shun army to set up a formation (five heavy formations), the first heavy array is the hungry people, the second heavy array is the infantry, the third heavy array is the cavalry, the fourth heavy array is the elite cavalry, and the fifth is the family members of the Shun army.
These five major formations were majesticly and domineering in front of the Ming army's formation, and Inspector Sun looked at the enemy's formation and said, "Is this rogue still a little capable?" You can still list such a formation! What an eye-opener for the Governor! "The generals next to him thought that Inspector Sun had nothing to do? He stepped forward and said, "Master Overseer, I will wait for my life to meet the enemy's formation." But Inspector Sun had already planned his strategy, and he named the three generals of the Ming Tong Pass Guard, the Ming Shaanxi Guard, and the Ming Yulin Guard to take the lead.
Then Inspector Sun named the Ming Aid Suppression General Soldier to lead (the train battalion) to attack the fourth battle formation, and the Ming Gu Yuan Guard General Soldier attacked the fifth heavy formation, but the train battalion had just set up the chariot and saw the Liukou change formation, and shot this side with the Shun army's heavy armor soldiers holding firearms, and the Ming army immediately stepped forward with shields to meet and prepare to cut them, but unexpectedly, the Liukou light cavalry on the flank used a strong crossbow to shoot and stab to death a row of Ming troops in the line of fire! Immediately charged over, wielding a knife to slash the Ming army in front of the formation, at the moment of crisis, Wu Junzhen hurriedly asked Inspector Sun to send a large army to resist the Liukou, so that the train battalion had time to load the ammunition and pull the line, otherwise this row of chariots is a decoration.
This move was approved by Sun Inspector and also sent the Ming Qinzhou Guard General Soldier, the Ming Sichuan General Soldier Second Team stepped forward to block the Liukou cavalry, Wu Junzhen in the distance saw that there was a Sichuan army white pole soldier holding more than 3 feet long (white pole gun) when watching the battle with the Qinzhou guard horse horse cavalry Ming army to kill the past, the Shun army was first stabbed down by the white pole gun and then hacked to death by the Qinzhou guard horse foot cavalry, the advantage of the Liukou light cavalry in front of the Sichuan army white pole soldiers did not show half an advantage.
After the Kung Fu train battalion with a cup of tea was ready, the Ming Aid Suppression General Soldier hurriedly pulled out his saber and shouted, "Shoot the whole army!" After the order was issued, the artillerymen quickly lit the fire chariot with the fuse (whoosh, whoosh, whoosh), and the fire arrows shot out quickly, so that the rogue people cried and shouted, and the rogue who were shot by the fire and bullet suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat. Next, King Xinshun actually sent a Shun army iron cavalry wearing heavy iron armor, this kind of cavalry is fully armed from the face to the horse, including the horse's legs, which are made of heavy steel, and ordinary weapons can hardly penetrate their armor.
Just as this heavy iron armor Shun army slowly rushed over, the train battalion still continued to shoot a large number of sparks, landing next to the Shun army iron cavalry but as if nothing happened, blocking all the fire and arrow shots, in order to prevent the Liukou iron cavalry from approaching the train battalion, the Sichuan army white pole soldiers and Qinzhou Weiming army stepped forward to meet the enemy again, this time the white pole soldiers stabbed past but the enemy's war horses did not move! Qinzhou Weiming's army cut off the horse's leg, but the horse's leg was not cut off, but the saber was broken first, so the two sides were unable to hold each other in the fourth battle formation.
In the fierce battle, the train battalion of the Ming reinforcement and suppression of the general army was broken through by the rogue knife player holding a shield, and the Ming artillerymen were forced to give up the loading and pulling line, and could only pull out their sabers to engage the enemy, but there were many rogue soldiers, and they also used wheel tactics to make the Ming army unable to parry and be the first to rout! Seeing this, Wu Junzhen persuaded the general soldiers of the Tongguan Guard to go to help, and the enthusiastic Mingtong Pass Guard General Soldier readily agreed, but as soon as he pulled out his sword, he saw that the cavalry of the Qinzhou Wei Ming Army could not withstand the attack of the rogues and turned around and fled, resulting in a dramatic change in the battlefield situation in an instant, from the two sides fighting each other to one side chasing and killing the other!
In the face of the escape of the elite troops of the Ming army, King Xinshun commanded without fear: "The generals will listen to the order of the whole army to attack, and destroy the Ming army at all costs." Hearing this, the morale of the Shun army poured out of the nest and chased after it, and the artillery battalion of the Shun army behind cooperated with the artillery bombardment of the Ming army, so that Sun Inspector was very helpless to lead the army to flee in embarrassment, and was chased by the Liukou army for a day and a night for more than 400 miles, until the Yellow River crossed the Yellow River and entered the territory of Tongguan to prepare for the Qianhu Liukou to stop the pursuit, the Ming army died 84,000 people, and lost hundreds of thousands of weapons and baggage! The only "one pair of belongings" in the west of the Ming Empire was lost, and it became a lamb to be slaughtered, which also made the strategic problem of the Shun army solved, and the new Shun King began to expand the results of the battle and consider taking advantage of the situation to seize Guanzhong to control the Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Division.
On the 1st day of October, a team of demoralized Ming troops carried (the commander of the three armies), under the leadership of Sun Inspector, the remnants of the defeated army passed through Tongguan and prepared thousands of households to walk in the direction of Tongguan Wei, the generals in the whole team were listless, even Wu Junzhen was walking silently, Ma Wei was a little hungry and took out a piece of bread wrapped in paper from his chest to satisfy his hunger.
After swallowing, Ma Wei wiped his mouth, walked to Wu Junzhen's side and asked, "Brother Wu, we've been gone for so long!" How long will it take to return to Tongguanwei? The last time I came out, someone escorted me, but now it's good, and the whole army doesn't even have a hundred horses! Thinking of this, Ma Wei thought to himself; This time, when Inspector Sun goes back, I am afraid that he will inevitably be scolded by His Majesty!
At this moment, the commander of the Mingtong Pass Guard in the Tongguan Acropolis is talking with several wealthy businessmen and squires in the north of the city: Gu Qingyuan, "Lord Commander Wei, you have made a lot of benefits in our hands in the past few years, and even your position as the commander of the guard is still supported by us in the back, a few months ago, you asked us to offer food to supplement the military rations, and now when do you plan to return it?" As soon as the words fell, I saw the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei replied a little disappointed: "Hey! Now that the Governor has gone on an expedition to Liukou, he can only control the affairs of Tongguanwei alone, and he can't get food to return to you for the time being, but he will be able to deduct some silver taels from Tongguanwei's income account book, what do you think? ”
Hearing this, the rich merchants and squires immediately became anxious, and Gu Qingyuan was the first to speak, "Lord Commander Wei, don't you treat us as monkeys?" The last time you asked us to borrow food, some soldiers broke into people's houses and looted their finances, and then caused the epidemic outside the city to spread to the city, don't think we don't know? If you really don't want to give? Then we can only tell the Overseer about it. ”
Originally, the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei spoke to them very calmly, but seeing that the other party was reluctant to get the food, and he couldn't take out so much food to pay back, he had to reply ruthlessly, "Okay, even if you want so much food, then give me a time, right?" ”
Next, Gu Qingyuan set out the time, limiting him to get the food within three days, otherwise he would turn his face, the commander of the Mingtong Pass Guard reluctantly agreed, and got up and walked out of the lobby to the outside of the mansion, and the soldiers saw this and hurriedly asked, "Lord Commander Wei, what's wrong with you?" I saw that the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei angrily clenched his fist on the feet of the stone lion outside the mansion and muttered in a low voice: "Damn Diao Min, dare to threaten this general, if it weren't for the handle of this general, this general would definitely destroy this group of Diao people to relieve the hatred in his heart." But the unsuspecting soldier asked, "What are you talking about, Commander of the Guard?" What's the handle? ”
The commander of the Mingtong Guanwei who reacted realized that he had leaked his mouth, and quickly stopped and replied, "Oh, it's nothing, let's go back to the guard command post!" "But as soon as you walked out into the street, you saw a large number of soldiers returning? The commander of the Mingtong Guanwei was a little surprised, thinking; Could it be that the Overseer has returned with the army of the Eastern Crusade?
At this time, four generals riding tall horses came over with embarrassed faces, and the commander of the Mingtong Pass Guard fixed his eyes and took a closer look, it was actually the "Four Generals of the Qin Family"? It looked like he was in a depressed mood as if he had lost a battle, which not only made him suspect that Inspector Sun's mood was not much better at the moment?
So the commander of the Mingtong Pass Guard hurriedly rushed back to the guard command post, and sure enough, he saw Inspector Sun, who was full of vicissitudes of life, was washing his face with water, he walked forward lightly and saluted: "The last general will see the Inspector, I waited for the defenders to wait day and night, and finally waited for the Inspector to return triumphantly!" As soon as these words came out, Inspector Sun immediately stretched his face, threw his handkerchief into the basin, and scolded, "Hmph, triumphant!" Damn the rogue, the Governor's plan to encircle is completely out of the air! The unbelievable commander of the Mingtong Guanwei said attentively: "That rogue is just using a small skill of carving insects!" As long as we regroup again, we will be able to wipe out the rebels in one fell swoop? But Inspector Sun said, "This governor plans to gather all the grain in Tongguanwei again, can you go and prepare it?" ”
Knowing that Inspector Sun wanted food again made him in a dilemma! After all, the food owed last time has not been returned, this time it is better to collect grain again, the tuntian has been occupied by the rich merchants and squires, and at present, the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei cannot receive any food at all, and the Tongguanwei granary is only enough for the use of the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, which is not enough for the army to use! Therefore, he suggested, "Master, there will be a matter that I don't know whether to talk about or not. You also know the last time you encountered the epidemic, and now there is no harvest of fertile fields! I can't make up too much food! Why don't you send some military rations from all over the country for the use of the army? What do you think? ”
Inspector Sun was stunned on the spot, he looked at the commander of the Mingtong Pass Guard with contempt and said, "You let this governor transport grain from all over the country?" Good idea! But have you ever thought that the long journey to transport grain in various places is too long, and before the grain arrives, there may have been movement long ago, and there are so many rich merchants and fertile fields outside the Tongguan Acropolis, so they really can't receive the grain, so ask them for it, and all the consequences will be borne by the governor. ”