Shen Xi gave a pre-war speech to the officers and soldiers, which really boosted the morale of the army, but with the inefficient old ox pulling the cart slowly, the officers and soldiers spent a lot of physical strength to push and pull the cart, and then the sound of the trumpet was sparse and finally inaudible.

"My lord, when can I get to Yuxi River?"

Song Shu rode on a horse and asked Shen Xi weakly.

The speed of the ox cart team is indeed very slow, it is almost noon, Shen Xi roughly estimated the time, it will take about an hour and a half to reach the riverbank, plus the time to straighten out the formation on the road, it is estimated that it will not arrive until the end of Shen time, that is, at dusk.

"It's not far away, it's just ahead, big guys, work hard!"

Shen Xi sat on the ox cart and looked up at the sun hanging in the sky on the left, although it was still a little cold, but overall, the weather was good.

Shen Xi muttered to himself: "Today seems to be a day off, if I don't go out of Beijing, shouldn't I stay at home and lie on the bed at this time, leaning on Yun'er or Dai'er's fragrant body, reading a book leisurely or sleeping for a while?" ”

The more dangerous the moment, the easier it is for people to think about those simple and beautiful things, and family and love are Shen Xi's most cherished memories, even if they are famous, they are just in exchange for a plain life.

Shen Xi suddenly realized that he was actually a very easily satisfied person.

It's a pity that the place where I found it is not quite right......

"My lord, the Tatar scouts have been spotted ahead!"

The ox cart team moved forward slowly, and the cavalry assigned to the convoy continued to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, sending first-hand information to Shen Xi.

"Probe!"

Shen Xi didn't have a good deal to deal with the Tatar scouts.

In fact, the night of the Ming border army can already be regarded as elite, but if it collides head-on with the Tatar scouts, it is not the opponent of the Tatar scouts with the same strength, and the usual practice is to find the other party and run away, and the Shangguan will decide the next move.

Walking slowly is not completely without benefits, at least the fear of the officers and soldiers gradually subsided, and the knife was not on the neck and forgot to be afraid, and those Beijing soldiers returned to the careless attitude when sending the artillery, and some people began to complain: "Why hasn't the damn arrived yet?" ”

"Prepare to fire!"

Shen Xi suddenly stood up from the ox cart and raised the flag in his hand.

The other gunners who had been sitting on the ox cart for a long time saw the Ling Qi raised, and hurriedly got up to load the cannons, Song Shu looked around, and found nothing abnormal, so he couldn't help but ride his horse and ask Shen Xi: "My lord, but have you seen the Tatars?" ”

"First Shot...... Put! ”

Shen Xi didn't answer Song Shu's question, what he was thinking about at this time was: If this continues, the soldiers will be slack, first put a round of artillery to boost morale, and by the way, you can also try the idea of putting artillery on this ox cart, don't wait until you get to the battlefield to find out that it is just talk on paper.

"Boom, boom!"

The sound of the cannons was not very neat, but it was roughly consistent, and a round of cannons was released, which startled the cavalry around them, and the horses neighed.

"Your Excellency, are you playing with fire...... What should I do if I blow up my own people? Song Shu thought that there were still his own cavalry in front of him, and he was worried.

Shen Xi said angrily: "Before leaving, I told them to spread out as much as possible to the two wings, if they are still bombed at this time, they deserve it!" ”

After a round of artillery went down, the fighting spirit of the officers and men rose again, and their morale soared.

"Roar, roar, roar!"

The sound of the trumpet, which had not been up for a long time, sounded again.

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The sun was setting in the west, and the north bank of the Yuxi River was bleeding.

This was the most tragic battle between the Ming and Tatars in the war for more than a year.

Although the border army led by Liu Daxia is not as good as the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Daxia knows how to use troops, and in the case of being surrounded by the Tatars, he can organize a rigorous and effective defense, and take advantage of the Tatars' unstable foothold to successfully break out of the encirclement, and can also be orderly in the process of withdrawing troops, and retreat after fighting, without seeing any mistakes, which shows his clever use of troops.

However, the closer they got to Yulinwei, the more slackness the officers and soldiers became, and their fighting spirit plummeted...... Many people can't wait to return to the protection of the city, to take a good breath, and no longer struggle on the death line at any time like now. It was at this time that the Tatars launched their most fierce attack.

The situation faced by the Ming army in attacking the border army deteriorated rapidly.

In the absence of a way out, except for a few deserters who were looking for their own death, Liu Daxia's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were basically able to move in unison and meet the battle together.

The battle situation was extremely tragic, and in only half a day, Liu Daxia's department had already suffered a large number of casualties.

"My lord, why haven't you seen the Yulin Guard reinforcements for a long time?" There are not many people available around Liu Daxia, and this retreat has cost many generals.

Liu Daxia estimated in his heart that there were more than 13,000 soldiers and horses when he set out on the expedition, and it would be very good to have eight or nine thousand left.

"Yulinwei doesn't have many soldiers and horses, after all, it is also very important to guard the Great Wall Pass."

At this time, Liu Daxia still maintained the style of a humble gentleman and helped Zhu Hui, the prince of the country, speak, but he had already scolded the eighteenth generation of this wasted ancestor in his heart.

"My lord, the cavalry has already investigated, and there is Yuxi five miles ahead, but there is no trace of the pontoon bridge and the boat."

The herald reported the news to Liu Daxia, who was dizzy and almost fell off his horse. The lack of pontoon bridges and boats meant that the soldiers and horses of the army either went upstream or downstream along the Yuxi River, looking for a shoal to cross the river, or they could only be trapped on the shore and fought against the water.

Liu Daxia lamented in his heart: "It's a pity that I'm not Han Xin, and I'm not Zhao Wangjun on the other side." ”

How many cavalry the Tatars came, I can't count at all, because the main purpose of the Tatars going south is to plunder, plus the Tatars are divided into different tribes, and the tribes control their own armies, so it seems very messy, and I don't know which soldiers and horses are the main force of the Tatars, how easy is it to sneak attack the other party's royal tent?

If it is hard, the Ming army really has no chance of winning, just wait for their own side to be exhausted, and the Tatar heavy cavalry will charge, and defeat is doomed.

Today's Ming army is more suitable for defending the city than attacking the city, which is also the result of guarding the border passes for a long time.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, those famous ministers and good generals have long been ancient, and now they can only rely on those hereditary military households to guard the border, but the problem is that since they do a good job and do the same thing, those generals who have iron jobs naturally have no heart to study how to fight a good war, and they do not learn any military books and strategies, and the soldiers do not practice, resulting in a sharp decline in the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

The Tatar cavalry repeatedly attacked the Ming army's defense line with spears and shields like crazy, as long as there was a gap, hundreds of horsemen launched a surprise attack on this gap, and the Ming army could only retreat as a whole, and once again flattened the defense line, leaving dozens of hundreds of corpses in front of the position.

Initially, the killings were a bit far away from Liu Daxia, but as time went on, Liu Daxia's banner of the Chinese army was often disturbed by Tatar cavalry.

"The fighting power of the Tatars is truly extraordinary." At this point, Liu Daxia also had to grow the enemy's ambition and prestige.

With the passage of time, the Ming army still resisted while retreating to Yuxi in a planned way.

Most of the border soldiers knew that Yuxi was behind them, and they could return to the Great Wall after seven miles of Yuxi. After entering the Great Wall, they walked eight miles to the Yulin Acropolis, where Yansui Town was stationed, so at this time they still maintained enough fighting spirit and constantly waved the weapons in their hands.

However, when the army withdrew to Yuxi, looking at the wide river, most of the people had weak legs.

Didn't you say that there would be reinforcements, and there would be pontoon bridges and boats to facilitate our crossing of the river?

At this moment, there were cavalrymen wearing the uniforms of the Ming border army on the other side of the river coming towards Yuxi, but they only glanced at it from a long distance and rode away.

The soldiers on the north bank of the Yuxi River scolded their mothers and informed Liu Daxia of the situation: "My lord, there is nothing on the river, and there are no reinforcements, we may not be able to go back to Yulin City......

When Liu Daxia learned that the cavalry sent by Yulin City did not even dare to get too close to the riverbank, his heart was half cold. Now there are pursuers in front of them, and there is no way to retreat, and it is clear that they are in a desperate situation.

The veteran Liu Ning played: "Your Excellency, your subordinates cover you to cross the river, Daming can't do without you." ”

Liu Daxia shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The blood of the soldiers is spilled on the battlefield, how can the old man have a reason to live!?" Speaking of this, Liu Daxia pulled out his sword with a "swish", preparing to personally engage the Tatars, "The handsome flag will not fall, and the soldiers will not disperse!" ”

On the battlefield, the handsome flag is the soul of the three armies, as long as the handsome flag stands, that is to say, the three armies are not chaotic, even if they are temporarily in adversity, the battle situation has a chance to reverse.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

At this moment, a loud noise was heard from nowhere.

Others looked at the horizon, a little inexplicable, why did it thunder on this sunny day? Only Liu Daxia heard the sound of the cannons, and immediately guessed whether reinforcements had arrived.

But then the news came that the other side of the river was still empty, and no one had come to build a bridge, but the Tatar offensive seemed to be less fierce than before.

The Tatars were clearly a little jealous of this sound!

"Take the water as the boundary, form a square circle!"

With the issuance of Liu Daxia's military order, the Ming army changed its formation, Liu Daxia was located in the center of the formation, and the periphery was armed, with spears, bows and arrows outside, and mobile troops inside, forming the most dense defensive formation.

The square circle formation is a formation created by Sun Bin, and its biggest advantage is that it can always form a superiority in strength in the defense of the local area, and block the passage in the formation by sacrificing mobility to prevent the enemy from impacting.

After that, the Tatars rushed forward again, and even if they had an absolute advantage in overall strength, they could not break the formation as soon as possible due to the limitations of mobility and shock power.

"Kill the enemy and repay the country!"

The Tatar cavalry stormed down several rounds in a row at any cost, and the formation of the Ming army finally began to show signs of disintegration......

At this moment, a neat trumpet sounded on the other side of the Yuxi River.

I saw a vague figure, standing tall, shaking something in his hand, and below him was a row of inexplicable creatures that looked like cows and turtles......

The reason why I am not sure that it is a cow is because these cows have shells on their backs, and there are "tumors" growing on the shells, and the strangest thing is that there are people next to the "tumors".

"My lord, it's reinforcements, and the reinforcements are finally here!"

Liu Daxia was on a horse, and he didn't hear the herald's report clearly, and his position was still some distance from the river bank, and the square circle array gathered the soldiers densely, and when he turned around to look, he couldn't see what the situation was on the other side of the river.

"Reinforcements? It's good to be here, but it's a pity...... It's always too late. Liu Daxia was sad, if he had come an hour earlier and built the pontoon bridge, at least half of the soldiers and horses would have withdrawn to the south bank of Yuxi, but now, even if the reinforcements arrived, the army led by himself could only end up in annihilation. (To be continued.) )