Chapter 33: The Battle of Xiangyin

After a day of fierce fighting, after cleaning up the mess. It's already getting dark.

Dozens of arm-thick candles illuminated the tent at a glance. It's just that the light of the candle jumps erratically, shining on He Tengjiao's face, which looks a little cloudy.

He Tengjiao looked at the generals below, sighed slightly for a long time, and said, "Let's go down." ”

The following generals, such as amnesty. They saluted and retreated. made He Tengjiao feel powerless.

This is not the first time, Luo Dai and He Tengjiao have not faced off here for a long time, but the two sides have also clashed several times in just a few days.

He Tengjiao was in a hurry.

The results of the water battle at Dongting Lake have already been passed on. He Tengjiao is not an idiot either. He immediately felt that the situation was wrong, and he was also urged by Changsha to let him go to Yueyang as soon as possible to supervise the battle, if he couldn't do it, Longwu meant that he would be replaced.

As for who to replace, there is no need to say at all.

Before, Luo Dai had been hiding with him, slippery and slippery, He Tengjiao couldn't catch Luo Dai. Now I don't know what kind of madness Luo Dai had, and he was finally caught by He Tengjiao. He Tengjiao naturally wanted to step up the attack. But I don't want to, the gap between the strength of the Ming army and the elite of the Xia army is quite large.

Luo Dai fought back and forth, in fact, it was just one move, relying on the camp to defend, and when the Ming army could not attack, he would take more than 1,000 elite cavalry to counterattack.

But this monotonous tactic is almost invincible. He Tengjiao first boosted morale, and then severely punished and executed several officers. But the gap in strength is not something that can be filled with feet.

Now He Tengjiao is also a little depressed.

Blessings and disasters do not go alone.

Just when He Tengjiao just wanted to be quiet, he heard someone outside hurriedly barge in and say, "The superintendent is not good." News came from Yueyang, and the thieves bypassed Yueyang and went south by boat, and there were more than 1,000 ships covering the sky and the sun. Even the thief general went south. ”

"What?" When He Tengjiao heard this, he immediately felt like a thunderbolt from the sky. Said: "When is it?" ”

"It was a few days ago."

He Tengjiao was furious and said, "It's been a few days ago, why did the news come now?" ”

"The messenger said that the thieves were so tightly sealed that he could not go from the lake at all, and that he had come over the mountains."

He Tengjiao couldn't care about anything else for a while, he had already gotten enough information from this intelligence. He said: "Give the order to go down and immediately pull out the camp." Back to Xiangyin. ”

"Yes." Immediately agreed, but did not wait for the order to go out. Then I heard another man break in from outside, and said, "My lord, come and see." ”

He Tengjiao strode out

, I looked to the south, but saw a burst of fire rising into the sky, turning a large area of the sky red.

It is the direction of Xiangyin.

He Tengjiao only felt a pain in his head, and the whole person almost couldn't stand and was about to faint. Immediately supported by the left and right, he said: "My lord, please cherish it, and now it is indispensable to adults, keep the green mountains here, and I am not afraid of no firewood." ”

He Tengjiao took a deep breath, pushed away the person who was holding him, gritted his teeth and stood firmly, and said secretly in his heart: "Yes, now is not the time to be discouraged, I still have tens of thousands of troops, although Xiangyin is not guaranteed, but it is not yet the time when the mountains and rivers are exhausted." ”

"I'm going back to Changsha."

It's just that the fact is that He Tengjiao can ask for whatever he wants.

Almost at the same time, countless shouts of killing came out for a while. Voices erupted from different directions, one after another, and He Tengjiao could hear it just by his ears, at least in the north and west. The north side is naturally Luo Dai's department, but the west side does not know who it is.

But this did not prevent his heart, as if sinking into an ice cellar.

A thought subconsciously popped up in his heart: "Changsha, I'm afraid I can't go back." ”

At this time, Luo Dai couldn't hold it anymore. He had been waiting for this day for a long time. He swept his gaze, and the soldiers behind him could not see the edge, and the rows of torches seemed to be about to set fire to the sky.

Luo Dai didn't act immediately, although he was holding back a belly of anger in his heart and wanted to vent. But I also know what to prioritize.

He Tengjiao is not a fool.

During the confrontation with Luo Dai for several days, He Tengjiao defended Luo Dai very tightly. If Luo Dai attacks first, he will not be able to get any benefit in the face of the iron wall. But letting the other side attack first from behind He Tengjiao can catch him off guard.

However, Luo Dai was also unwilling to give up all the credit to Deng He. Just listening to the shouting and killing, you know that Deng He and He Tengjiao's subordinates have handed over.

Deng He waited for work, and if he didn't make a move, he would hit seven inches above him, and several camps of He Tengjiao fell into chaos. And at this time, even if He Tengjiao still intends to guard against Luo Dai, he has no ability.

If this matter is not attacked, it will be when.

"Kill." Luo Dai turned on his horse, and thousands of cavalry divided into several teams and killed.

Luo Dai was used as a bait, and it was not without a price. The soldiers under his command suffered a lot of losses, plus some were injured and lost their combat effectiveness, and the personnel who stayed in the camp were only a few thousand men and horses who could really fight. However, these thousands of cavalry, under such a surprise attack, are enough to lay the tide of the battle.

As soon as Luo Dai left the camp, he saw that the west seemed to be spreading a line of fire. For a time, Luo Dai had a kind of hero who saw the same thing, water and fire were ruthless, and water and fire were also the most commonly used in the art of war

The focus is on killing the enemy, but on destroying the camp.

Almost all the soldiers carried several torches, as well as a lot of fire-causing things, and attacked the Ming army camp, without saying a word, they just set fires.

At this time, it also showed the problem of the quality of the Ming army.

First of all, in the camp, there are many isolated trenches and roads.

Encamping a large army is a science. Many seemingly useless things have their own functions, such as the spacing of the roads inside the camp. It seems to be just a road for soldiers to pass through, but in fact, it also plays the role of a fire belt.

It's just that the inheritance of ancient knowledge is very problematic, and these things are only known to the children of the Jiangmen family. The layman knows what it is, but he doesn't know why. Because of this, the matter of camping in the village seems to be good, but it loses its true meaning.

Although He Tengjiao is a minister who knows the army in the eyes of the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, in the eyes of real generals, he is a real layman.

I don't understand these details at all. And many times success or failure is contained in the details. Therefore, the Ming camp quickly lost control in the face of the enemy who set fire everywhere, and the raging flames seemed to be a fire dragon, frantically rolling the entire camp in.

Luo Dai is also contributing to the trouble. For a time, the fire raged for miles.

It's just that because of the wind direction, Luo Dai hardly dares to get closer. Because Dongting Lake is on the west side, westerly and southerly winds prevail here at night. In summer, the southerly wind is normal, while the westerly wind is caused by the temperature change of Dongting Lake.

As soon as the wind blew, the fire spewed tongues of fire to the north.

For a while, Luo Dai could only give up the battle and retreat for a while, even so, many people were swept up in the fire.

Luo Dai said secretly: "In this battle, He Tengjiao is a part, and he is crippled if he is not dead." ”

It seems to be because of the high summer temperatures. So when the fire was swept away, it was so powerful that even the people who set it were astonished. And what should He Tengjiao, who bore the brunt of the attack, be. He was stunned at the moment. For a while, no orders were given.

He also knew that he couldn't do anything.

When the fire first started, he still had the ability to control it, but at that time, his attention was still on resisting Deng He's attack, and in just a moment, the fire spread and could not be replicated, and it became what it is now.

Under the fire, the Ming army's military discipline was not good. It's already collapsed at the moment.

"Withdraw, retreat east." He Tengjiao gave the last order, he didn't care about Changsha at the moment, he first had to ensure that the army in his hands could survive tonight. At the same time, he also took the guards with him, and without saying a word, he fled from the fire.

He Tengjiao is a person who wants to do great things, so he will die here. It's just that his movement is too big, and he has long been seen by Luo Dai.

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