Chapter 574: The Battle for Water (4)

In the evening [fo], Lingji Spring.

The 130,000 soldiers of the Tiance Army and the 180,000 Tatar Iron Cavalry Army had been fighting fiercely on the three battlefields around Lingji Spring for a whole day, and the sound of killing was shocking.

After the 180,000 iron cavalry army of the Tatar Department was heavily attacked by the soldiers of the Tiance Army in the strategy of attacking instead of defending, they immediately recovered the whole line, and prepared to gather the remaining 120,000 or 30,000 troops around Lingji Spring, block the Tiance Army outside Lingji Spring, and drag out the battle until nightfall.

At this time, seeing that the night was approaching, this made Liu Juntao very anxious, at this time, the officers and soldiers of the Tiance Army suffered huge casualties, but they still did not win on the battlefield, and there was not much time!

Therefore, Liu Juntao ordered all the armies to launch a continuous attack, and it was necessary to defeat the Tatar army before nightfall, and at least inflict heavy damage on the Tatar army of more than 100,000!

At this time, the staff general Yan Hu and the staff general Chen Ziping led the Yingyang Army and the Vietnamese cavalry soldiers to launch a fierce attack. The soldiers of the army continued to storm around the Lingji Spring hill, piling up the remains of fallen soldiers and Tatar corpses along the way, and the soldiers of Tiance stepped on the bloody corpses of men and animals to fight bravely again and again.

Yan Hu was unstoppable in heavy armor, and the long knife in his hand roared up like a dragon out of the sea, and the Tatars were as weak as grass mustard and couldn't help but be slashed by him one by one. Sergeant Eagle Yang followed, and his sharp weapons rained down on the recalcitrant Xianbei men. Long arrows roared in the air, devouring fresh lives from time to time.

"Kill him, kill him immediately!"

Xiao Lai pointed at the brave and invincible Yan Hu in the distance and shouted hoarsely, "Kill him at all costs!" ”

The commander of the guard, who came to the house, flew with dozens of people to kill.

Yan Hu's long knife slashed, and with a terrible scream, the long knife slashed down the chest and abdomen of a Tatar man, and red blood spurted out like a spring. "Die......" Zhao Yunhu roared and punched him, wanting to knock the man away, but before he died, the big man firmly grabbed the bloody hilt with both hands, and Yan Hu didn't push him up with the force of his arms.

The long knife was wearing a huge body, which immediately hindered Yan Hu's speed. The surrounding Tatars swarmed up.

Yan Hu glared angrily in a hurry, and kicked a big man with a knife into the air, and at the same time, three spears stabbed viciously. Yan Hu reluctantly threw away the long knife, took two steps back, grabbed the two spears with both hands at an unbelievable speed, and then flew up and kicked off the third spear handle. At this time, two war knives roared in, one after the other, and slashed at Zhao Yun's back. In an instant, I saw sparks shining in all directions, and two deep grooves suddenly appeared on the thick heavy armor. Yan Hu suddenly rushed forward, his eyes were full of golden flowers, and he opened his mouth and spurted out a mouthful of blood. More spears stabbed at him, and a roaring battle axe smashed into Yan Hu's head.

At the last moment, Yan Hu's personal guards shouted wildly, sacrificing their lives one by one, and Sun Deqi, the guerrilla general of the left battalion, led more than a dozen personal guards to kill almost at the same time.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Sun Deqi didn't care whether he would kill his subordinates by mistake, he raised his hand and pulled the trigger of the handcuff, and the war knife in his left hand was also thrown into the crowd.

The lead bullet fired by the handcuff immediately pierced the axe-wielding man, and the strong impact carried the big man upside down.

At this time, Yan Hu's eyes were also murderous, and his blood-stained face was hideous and terrifying. He couldn't hide, and with a wild roar of desperation, he kicked a corpse under his feet into the air. "Flutter...... "Several spears pierced through the corpse rolling in the air at the same time, and one of the spears was still unabated, stabbing Yan Hu in the chest fiercely.......

The heavy armor on Yan Hu's body couldn't withstand this sharp blow, and it scattered and shattered. In this short moment, Yan Hu suddenly let go of the enemy's spear with both hands, grabbed the tip of the spear that pierced his chest and neck with his left hand, picked up a war knife with his right hand, and chopped it off with a knife. Then, Yan Hu's sword slashed again, and the two of them were punished in a row: "Kill it, kill it!" ”

When the guerrilla general Sun Deqi and the surrounding guards saw that the main general had escaped, their morale was greatly boosted, and they stepped forward one by one.

Yan Hu was even more warlike, and shouted wildly: "Beat the drum, beat the drum...... Brothers, kill with me, kill ......"

At the same time, General Chen Ziping dragged a seriously injured President Qian and stumbled out of the crowd.

This Qian Zong had a spear stuck in his stomach, his leg was also cut off in half, he was covered in blood, and he screamed in pain.

He is Chen Ziping's brother when he was a stove household, a brother who grew up from childhood to adulthood, as long as he finishes this battle, he can be promoted and glorify his ancestors, but at this time he can't do it anymore and is going to die.

"Someone, someone...... Go and call the healer! ”

Chen Ziping shouted like crazy, and several guards followed, and one of them said softly: "General, he can't do it, he can't do it......"

"General, kill me, kill me......" The Qian always cried out weakly at the top of his throat, his eyes full of pleading.

Chen Ziping looked up to the sky and howled in pain, "Brother, you go well, I will avenge you......" Chen Ziping chopped it off with a knife, and blood was pouring out.

"Kill, kill me...... One is not left, one is not left......"

At this time, the soldiers of the Eagle Yang Army and the Vietnamese Cavalry Army had gone crazy, and in the face of the continuous fall of their comrades, everyone fell into madness, the horizontal formation had been disbanded, all the bird gunners had their bayonets on their bayonets and launched a charge, and even some wounded mine-throwers rushed into the Tatars directly with the burning earth-shattering thunder, and they all perished!

"Great Khan, you go quickly, I will stay to block the enemy, you go quickly."

Dragging a bulleted leg, the commander of the guard, commanded several attendants to move towards the north of Lingji Spring.

Now there are more than 100,000 Tatar troops, only the 6,000 heavy armored guards and iron cavalry on the side of the Chinese army are still complete, and the rest of the army is already on the verge of collapse.

At this time, the battle in the northwest was unfavorable, and the Eagle Yang Army and the Vietnamese Cavalry Army were launching a final attack; The battlefield in the middle is in a stalemate, although the Tatars are still on the offensive, but the huge casualties have made the Tatars unable to hold on for long, and they may collapse at any time; On the eastern battlefield, more than half of the 30,000 elite iron cavalry have been lost, and under the onslaught of the Changshui Army, they have begun to rout!

As the killing sound of the Tiance Army became more and more dense, it was earth-shattering. After the commander led the 6,000 heavily armored guards to retreat northward, he commanded the last 200 men left by the Chinese army to launch a final counterattack: "Warriors, fight to the death, fight to the death......"

The trumpets sounded, the horses galloped, and the two hundred Tatar iron cavalry swept down, and then they were drowned by the angry Ying Yang Army and the Vietnamese cavalry soldiers, and more than 200 Tatars quickly disappeared without a trace like a splash in the torrent.

The Tatar defense northwest of Lingji Spring was broken through by the Eagle Yang Army and the Vietnamese Cavalry Army, and the staff general Yan Hu and the staff general Chen Ziping did not wait for the soldiers to take a breath, and immediately commanded the two soldiers to attack and kill to the south to support the middle battlefield.

"Go, go, kill, fight, continue to fight......"

At this time, the middle battlefield was like a Shura hell, and the 30,000 soldiers of the Longxiang Army and the Zhichong Army suffered huge casualties, and they had already been killed with tens of thousands of Tatar iron cavalry, and the soldiers of each department fought desperately and bloodily under the leadership of Shangguan.

Liu Juntao took the lead under the protection of fifty heavily armored personal guards, and although his presence in the killing array could boost the morale of the soldiers, it also brought great danger to his life.

Liu Zi'an, Zhang Yuqing and others dissuaded Liu Juntao several times not to rush to the forefront of the battlefield, and it was better to stand behind and command.

Liu Zi'an said: "Du Xian only thought that his rush and killing could boost morale, but he didn't expect that if he was seriously injured or killed, it would be a devastating blow to the army and the dynasty. If the governor is seriously wounded and dies, the morale of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in our army will be demoralized, and they will have no intention of fighting, and it is very likely that the whole army will be annihilated. And the defeat of the army will directly affect Shanxi and millions of people in Shanxi, so the governor should not personally experience the danger, so as not to encounter accidents and endanger the country's society! ”

Liu Juntao was furious when he heard this, and he excitedly pointed to the bloody battlefield and shouted: "Who am I, Liu Juntao? What is the difference between me and the heroic emperor's soldiers? I'm just a warrior guarding the frontier. Could it be that if I die, Da Ming will be in trouble? Could it be that I, the millions of soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, can't defend the frontier, and I can't defend the Ming Society! ”

In the face of the murderous Liu Juntao, no one dared to dissuade him.

These fifty heavily armored guards are the elite selected by Liu Juntao personally from various battalions, and these people are fierce horses when they get on their horses, and fierce generals when they get off their horses, all of them are ten people who block them with one block.

At this time, Liu Juntao and fifty heavily armored guards were like a group of fierce tigers, braving like locust arrows to fight into the horse formation, and even rushed hundreds of Tatar iron cavalry to retreat one after another, and the morale of the surrounding Tiance army was greatly boosted, and they launched a counterattack one after another.

At this moment, there was a huge cheer on the eastern battlefield, and the 30,000 elite Tatar cavalry were completely defeated, and the soldiers of the Changshui Army chased the soldiers to the north, driving more than 10,000 Tatar troops to crush in the direction of Lingji Spring.

General Sun Xu also led the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army to follow up, constantly harvesting the Tatar iron cavalry that had fallen behind.

Almost at the same time, the battle flags of the Eagle Yang Army and the Yue Cavalry Army were raised on the Lingji Spring Hill, and the battle flags of the Great Ming Sun and Moon Jintao also fluttered in the wind, and they were defeated!

Suddenly, tens of thousands of Tatar iron cavalry troops on the battlefield in the middle were in turmoil and began to retreat one after another.

The generals at all levels of the Tatar Department still wanted to lead their troops to break out of the siege, or lead their troops to recapture the Lingji Spring Hill, but they were immediately defeated by the soldiers of the Longxiang Army and the Zhichong Army, and tens of thousands of Tatar troops fled to the north like locusts in the sky.

After nightfall, the spring finally fell silent, and the battle ended.

In this battle, more than 4,900 officers and men of all departments of the Tiance Army were killed, Yu Ming, a guerrilla general of the right battalion of the Zhichong Army, was killed, four thousand generals including Fan Jing, the commander of the left battalion of the Yingyang Army, 12 generals were killed, and more than 30 sentinels, captains, and captains were killed!

In this battle, the Tatar department lost more than 70,000 people, captured more than 20,000 people, and the remaining 80,000 iron horsemen fled back to the city of Hara Manglai, and the fleeing Balai merged the troops and horses with the defenders, reorganized the 180,000 army, and prepared to fight again.