Chapter 480: Tang Thief is invincible
No need to be reminded by others, he knows that the Ming military official in front of him who was protected by the Ming cavalry and boarded the ship must be a puppet Ming official, and it is very likely to be the puppet Ming governor of Guangxi, because that person is wearing a crimson civilian official robe!
The official robes of the pseudo-Ming officials are graded, there are no more than four grades, and they can't wear this kind of crimson official robes, and the civilian officials who appeared in the Ming army were the first to escape by the elite cavalry, and they all knew that they must be the main generals of this Ming army without asking!
And to be able to lead an 8,000 Ming army, and it is also a regular army, not the kind of army composed of young and strong people who are temporarily recruited, there are few such people in the whole Guangxi, and this Ming army is from Wuzhou, so it also shows that the leader should be a senior official from the provincial capital of Guangxi, and the grade is afraid to be from the third grade or above.
If such a puppet official is caught or killed, it must be a great achievement!
But now the distance is a little far, and the other party is already boarding the boat, and at the same time, after approaching the river, these cavalry of their own will not be able to rush up, once there is no speed, then their cavalry will not be stronger than the combat effectiveness of the infantry, and then they are afraid that they will be completely overwhelmed by the rout of the Ming army that escaped.
So despite the great temptation of the puppet Ming official in front, Lu Yuzhi still held back, and after wiping the blood stains on the saber in his hand directly on the horseback, he raised the saber in his hand again, and then continued to trot with the cavalry.
The puppet Ming officials can't catch it, but these Ming army routs in front of them still have to stay as much as possible, and they can't all run to the ship.
So Lu Yuzhi once again led the cavalry to launch a counter-charge, and launched an attack on the Ming army that fled towards the river!
At this time, the Ming army, which had no fighting spirit and wanted to escape, saw the cavalry coming towards them, and they had no courage to resist or rush directly at all, but consciously ran to both sides to avoid the pursuit of the cavalry!
Lu Yuzhi was not in a hurry to kill more Ming troops at this time, but to scatter them as much as possible, and then stop them from running towards the large number of Ming ships by the river.
At this time, Lu Yuzhi and them were like driving sheep, driving these Ming army routs everywhere!
Of course, Lu Yuzhi's cavalry was limited in number after all, and after continuous charging and fighting, the horses under the crotches of the cavalry were already drenched in sweat and spewing white gas.
These war horses were originally not suitable for riding and fighting, and their physical strength was limited, and after such a fierce repeated charge and fighting, the physical strength of these war horses was almost consumed!
In order to avoid the complete exhaustion of the horse's physical strength and put himself in extreme danger, Lu Yuzhi could only watch as many of the opposing Ming army routed bypassing his cavalry, running to the boat by the river, and then hurriedly climbed onto the boat.
But it doesn't matter anymore, even if some of the Ming army routs run away, there will be more Ming routs they can stay!
At this time, Lu Yu said: "Let them surrender, otherwise there will be no mercy!" β
With so many fleeing Ming troops, they can't be killed in a short time, and they can't be stopped, if you want to leave more people, the best thing is to let them surrender by themselves!
As a result, the two hundred cavalry were still running by the river to drive away the Ming army, and at the same time shouted in unison: "Disarm and don't kill!" β
When the cavalry began to shout the slogan of surrender, many Ming soldiers who were already hopeless in escape consciously threw down their weapons, and then knelt down on the spot and surrendered!
As long as they can survive, surrender is not a shame for them!
Before the Tang Army began to surrender, many Ming troops had already surrendered to the Second Cavalry Battalion, but at that time, the Second Cavalry Battalion simply did not have the time and energy to deal with those prisoners, so it ignored them.
But now, the Second Cavalry Battalion of the Tang Army has officially surrendered, and it is still in front of them fleeing to the river, and these Ming soldiers are divided into three parts.
Some of them, and most of them began to run to both sides, and if you can't get on the boat, it doesn't mean that you can't continue to escape, and you can escape in other directions!
Some of them were lucky enough to bypass the 2nd Cavalry Battalion, while some were unlucky and were killed or wounded by the 2nd Cavalry Battalion.
There are also some Ming soldiers who are completely desperate, and simply put down their weapons and then kneel down to surrender, and some unlucky people want to escape, but they directly hit the front of the second cavalry battalion, they have no other options at all, and they can only surrender if they want to live, so many of them also surrender.
At this time, Wei Yan, who had already boarded the boat, looked at this scene by the river and showed a look of grief and indignation: "They only have two hundred cavalry, only two hundred cavalry!" β
There were more than 8,000 people in the Ming army before, even if some of them had run away before, and some of them were killed and wounded, but there were still at least four or five thousand people, but these people were blocked by only 200 cavalry and did not dare to rush over!
As long as these soldiers have enough courage, they can completely rush through the interception of these two hundred pseudo-Tang thieves and escape onto the ship.
But now, the Ming army on the shore has no courage to fight at all, they only know how to run and surrender, run if they can, surrender if they can't, no one will attack the second cavalry battalion, and then rush to the river to get on the boat!
Wei Yan didn't understand, and even his face was full of grief and indignation!
When he ordered the retreat, he already expected that there would be a big rout and heavy casualties, but he was also prepared in advance, the boats by the river were already sailing, as long as the army fled to the boats, then the landlubbers of the pseudo-Tang thief army were helpless at all.
In this case, even if there are some casualties, the casualties will be manageable.
But now, the situation has changed beyond his expectations!
The four or five thousand troops behind him were blocked by just two hundred thief cavalry, and the most important thing was that his own army did not dare to rush over!
"Damn, how could they do that!" Wei Yan, this hates iron but not steel!
When he saw that more and more Ming soldiers began to kneel down and surrender, and the fleeing soldiers did not flee to the river to board the boat, but ran towards the banks of the river, he finally sighed.
Facing a group of generals behind him who retreated one step slower than himself and boarded the ship smoothly, he said weakly: "Sail and go!" β
The more than 4,000 troops on the shore could not come back, they either surrendered or fled, but they just couldn't come back.
The ships set sail one after another, and then Wei Yan's whole face was still very ugly, and at the last moment, the soldiers who successfully escaped to the river and uploaded were afraid that there were less than 2,000 people.
And among the 2,000 people, it has to include the 500 people of the Fubiao battalion who were sent by him to board the ship before, and if you deduct the 1,000 people of the personal soldiers and descendant troops led by the generals, the ordinary soldiers who finally successfully retreated and boarded the ship will be less than 500 people.
Of the 8,000 troops, only more than 2,000 people remained, and more than 5,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or separated, which was a complete fiasco!
With such a fiasco, how should I explain to the Governor Wang Yue!
After sighing again, Wei Yan looked at the river rolling under the boat, took a deep breath, and then said loudly: "Tang thieves are invincible, although today's soldiers are fighting desperately, they are still invincible to the thieves' firearms, and they are sorry to lose today, what kind of face does this official have to face the emperor, in the face of millions of people in Guangxi, today there is only one death to repay the king's kindness!" β
After saying loudly, he looked at the river under the boat again, and then gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, and jumped down!
But his shouting before diving had already attracted the attention of countless people, and when he jumped into the river, someone immediately shouted: "My lord, no!" β
At the same time, more than a dozen people on the boat jumped down to save people in an instant!
There are more than a dozen people who jumped down to save people, and it is difficult for this Wei Yan to die!
In a few minutes, I was pulled onto the boat by a group of people!
After this Wei Yan got on the boat, he shouted: "Bold, are you waiting for this to damage my Wei Yan I's name?" β
At this time, someone hurriedly stepped forward and said: "My lord, don't take your life lightly, please leave it to be useful to fight the thief!" β
"Yes, the thief army is now ravaging Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, and it is the time when adults need to fight against thieves, how can they commit suicide!"
At this time, Wei Yan's new master Wu Nuanzhi also stepped forward with a straight face and said: "My lord, forgive the villain's false words, my lord is a protΓ©gΓ© of the Son of Heaven, the governor of Guangxi, and the commander of my army, this life is already His Majesty's, it is the people of Dawn, and it is our soldiers, how can you beg for death in vain for the sake of your own name, you have died for a hundred, but what should the Son of Heaven, the people, and the soldiers do?" β
Wei Yan listened to everyone's words, opened his mouth and wanted to refute something, but in the end, there was no exit, and finally he just sighed deeply again and said: "Alas, today's defeat, this official will not forgive his sins, and he will personally go up to ask His Majesty to surrender!" β
Hearing Wei Yan say this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief!
At this time, Wei Yan also secretly said in his heart: Nima, the water is really cold in this winter, and you have to drink a big bowl of medicine to avoid the wind and cold, otherwise, this old bone of this official can't stand it!
But although it's a little colder, but this scene is finally over, by the way the bastard took the lead, the main one will apologize for his death after the fiasco of the army, and there are often people who act like this after losing the battle, but they can't die!
Because in the end they will always be saved!
That's right, as early as the moment he gave the order to retreat, Wei Yan already knew that he had to commit suicide once, otherwise, it would be difficult to write this guilty fold!
There are so many ways to commit suicide, but now in this case, diving is the safest, many of his own soldiers are proficient in water, and now it is only by the river, this water is not deep, at most it is to the chest, as long as you are not unlucky to go home, it is really difficult to drown!
But even if such a play is acted, it is still not easy to write this excerpt of the guilt, after all, no matter what, it is a fact that the 8,000 army was defeated miserably, and only more than 2,000 people were left to come back!
Your own losses cannot be reduced, because the expedition of 8,000 troops is something that many people know, and it is impossible to fake it.
However, it can be slightly exaggerated the strength of the puppet Tang thief army, saying that there are fifteen thousand, no, at least 20,000 thief troops are coming, and the thief army has at least fifty thousand-pound heavy cannons, and there are also two or three hundred bowl-mouth cannons of hundreds of catties.
There are thousands of fine riders!
And everyone is not afraid of death!
Our army fought to the death and did not retreat, more than half of the battle was killed, and in the end it was really impossible to fight before retreating.
If you lose this battle, you can't say that you are too incompetent, you can't say that you are too incompetent, then you can only say that the enemy is too strong.
So, it didn't take long for Wei Yan to write an excerpt, and then sent a clipper south to Wuzhou!
In addition to pleading guilty and shirking on this fold, in order to emphasize the strength of the pseudo-Tang thief army, he also wrote the sentence he shouted before diving, 'Tang thieves are invincible'!