The sky was already faint, and the east showed a touch of fish belly white, and in the faint morning light, Tuo Muchi had clearly seen what was going on under his feet, and it turned out that dense pits had been dug in the huge valley.

The size of those pits and bowls is about a foot deep, not too big and not too deep, but they are fatal to the horse, as long as the galloping horse only steps into it, the horse's legs will be broken.

Historically, Li Wenzhong and Chang Yuchun relied on such a bad move to kill Yesu and Tumuchi, who were in one place in Xinkailing. also quickly deceived Mu Chi to go to the battle, and when he saw that Mu Chi was unlucky, he turned around and ran, worthy of the name of the rabbit.

Now there is no Chang Yuchun, no speed, replaced by Ma Du and the Shenji Battalion, after listening to Li Wenzhong's bad moves, Ma Du decided to add a little material to him. The wooden wedges that strapped grenades to the ground were Mado's masterpieces, and as soon as a galloping horse turned on the fuse, it would ...... Rumble! Now it seems to be working very well.

Seeing that the valley was in chaos, Ma Du smiled and ordered: "Let the musket battalion appear!" ”

Five red lines appeared on each side of the hill, and they were two musket battalions that had been hidden for a long time, and they walked in orderly steps, past the small gunners who were loading, and came to the edge of the hillside.

The cavalry of the Yuan army, who had been beaten in the valley, finally saw people at this moment, and immediately rushed towards them with their swords and horses, and they were greeted only by a crackling gun.

In fact, the musket battalion is most afraid of the diffuse and impact of the cavalry, but it is definitely not these cavalry that can't even form a shock formation. The sloping hillside allows the Shenji Battalion to stand in different steps, so that even the formation can be shot without adjusting the formation.

They had already been able to complete three strikes, and standing in five rows was to release more frequent firepower, and the Yuan cavalry who rushed towards the hillside could not even get close at a distance of thirty paces before they fell off their horses.

The small gunners also refused to lag behind, reloading ammunition and firing at crowded places, while guarding against the Yuan troops attacking from the flanks. The Yuan army finally realized that the Ming army foot soldiers standing on both sides of the hillside were not the same thing as the foot soldiers they had encountered before, and they all ran out of the valley with screams, and there was a way to live.

At the exit of the valley, Li Wenzhong, who had fled with the cavalry just now, ran back again, and also brought the 500 cavalry of Lao Qi, who had already been completely stunned and the Yuan army only cared about fleeing for their own lives, and did not even let Li Wenzhong and Lao Qi chase and kill behind him.

Seeing Li Wenzhong chasing the remnants of the Yuan army out of the valley, Ma Du immediately ordered: "Let the artillery battalion hurry up and load the artillery, and the Shenji battalion gather and get on the car, let's leave quickly!" ”

Lao Liu said: "Sir, there are still many wounded soldiers of the Yuan army in the valley, don't you make up for the knife?" ”

"No, we don't have time!" Ma Du shook his head, he saw that there were still a lot of intact horses in the valley, so he said: "Put away the horses that can be used, and have a few more horses on each car, let's go to Shangdu on the official road!" ”

According to the original plan, after passing through the new mountains, they should continue to sneak up on the grassland to the capital. Now that they have been exposed, this plan is no longer feasible, and the best thing to do now is to reach Shangdu as quickly as possible along the official road.

Of course, their risk has also increased a lot, and they may encounter heavy enemy interceptions along the way, or when they arrive in Shangdu, they will have already received the news and are waiting for their work.

The artillery and soldiers quickly got into the car, and the war horses found from the battlefield were also put on the car, and the three thousand Shenji battalion seemed to have to rush up, and at the beginning of the year, Emperor Zheng fled along this road to Shangdu, and now Ma Du understands his feelings a little.

The carriage traveled for more than an hour, and Li Wenzhong and Qi Xiang chased after them from behind, bringing a lot of empty horses.

Li Wenzhong rode side by side with Ma Du, and he asked, "You haven't encountered enemy troops along the way?" ”

"No, I haven't even seen a ghost shadow for a long time, so I can only say that we were too unlucky yesterday."

"I hope that our luck will be better today, if no one intercepts us, we will be able to arrive in Shangdu tonight by taking the official road, and the Tartar Emperor will be caught off guard." Li Wenzhong clenched his fists and was secretly excited.

"Didn't you say that Xinkailing is Prince Yuan's defense area? He's going to watch us clean up his old man? ”

Li Wenzhong's excitement immediately decreased a little, but his smile did not decrease, "Don't say it, the prince of Tartar may just look forward to us to clean up his Laozi, let's clean up his Laozi, and he will be the emperor." ”

"This prince won't be so unscrupulous, it's all fucking here, and there's nothing to fight about. In my opinion, the emperor who sat in the tent and went to court should not be. Ma Du suddenly lowered his voice and asked, "Have you thought of a way out?" ”

Of course, Ma Du asked him how to escape if he couldn't capture Shangdu or was defeated by the Yuan army, but Ma Du didn't believe that Chang Yuchun and Li Wenzhong had not calculated in advance.

When Emperor Zhizheng fled from Dadu, to be precise, he brought 60,000 households, and later Xue Xian and Fu Youde captured 10,000 households when they went out of the customs to pursue, and the remaining 50,000 households allowed Emperor Zhizheng to raise 100,000 soldiers. Excluding the 40,000 people of Tuomuchi and Prince Yuan, there are at least 60,000 soldiers to fight in Shangdu, and it is not surprising that 5,000 against 60,000 is lost.

Li Wenzhong nodded, "If it doesn't go well, we will transfer from Shangdu to Quanning, according to the agreement between me and the marshal in advance, plus the confirmation of the prisoner last night, the marshal is indeed in Quanning." However, there is not much time left for us, if Lan Yu's battle in Daning does not go well, he is very likely to return to Daning, so we have to hurry up. ”

"Hey...... Well, I knew you wouldn't fight an unprepared battle. ”

Li Wenzhong sighed and said, "Don't be too happy too early, if we are defeated, your Shenji Battalion will not be able to keep up with the speed of the cavalry even if you ride in a car...... You can't blame me for being ruthless. But don't worry, I will definitely bring you, Tang Ding, and Chang Mao! ”

Ma Du frowned and gritted his teeth: "Never!" ”

As Li Wenzhong guessed, Chang Yuchun is indeed in Quanning at the moment. Just last night, he broke through Quanning City, and after breaking the city, he did not stop those Yuan army deserters, but only sent people to follow behind, and sure enough, he found more than 30,000 troops stationed in the field, and Chang Yuchun immediately took 8,000 cavalry to attack the enemy camp.

I have to say that there are still two strikes in the hands of the prime minister, this time it is rare that he did not run away at the first time, and immediately organized soldiers and horses to fight with Chang Yuchun after receiving the early warning.

But where is he Chang Yuchun's opponent, and thousands of people were killed by Chang Yuchun in less than half a day. In fact, it's not really cowardly and incompetent, it's just that he feels sorry for the soldiers in his hands.

He doesn't have Wang Baobao's ability to fool the four generals of Guanzhong for his own use, if he has no soldiers, I'm afraid he can only go to Emperor Zhizheng to be a prince with an empty title. couldn't put all the blood in the hands of Chang Yuchun, the killing god, and immediately organized the troops and horses to retreat with more than 20,000 people.

Chang Yuchun did not pursue, his cavalry losses were equally serious and the men and horses were tired, and after fleeing quickly, he immediately returned to Quanning.

June was as hot as fire, and Chang Yuchun only felt that the iron armor of his whole body seemed to have been burned in the blacksmith's furnace, and the hot people were in pain. Passing by a small river, he could no longer bear it anymore and jumped directly from his horse into the water.

The cool river water poured on the hot armor, and you could hear the sound of hot iron entering the water. He took the river water and wiped it on his face, and immediately it turned into pale red blood and slipped from between his fingers......