Text: Volume 12, Chapter 1, Section 6, Bloody Battle of Gubeikou (5)
Just when the battlefield outside Gubeikou Pass became more and more intense, suddenly the armies of both sides were shocked to find that the entire Gubeikou Pass City in the distance was emitting billowing smoke, and it was engulfed by the sky-high fire almost in the blink of an eye.
The scorching fire instantly rushed up to the castle tower, enveloping the originally majestic castle tower in black smoke, and it didn't take long for it to collapse with a huge roar, completely turning into ruins.
At the same time, countless Mongol soldiers jumped from the high city walls screaming, and many of them were still on fire, escaping a group of "living people"!
The armies of both sides, which were several miles away from Gubeikou, saw this scene, and they all felt chills, and they seemed to be able to feel the rolling heat wave in the city.
At this time, Sun Chuanting and Cao Wenzhao were both stunned and looked at the burning Gubeikou Pass in the distance, and there was only one thought in their hearts, that is, the task given to them by Zhenguo Bus had failed, and Gubeikou was gone!
"Soldiers! There is no life in this battle, and I fight with the Tartars! ”
Sun Chuanting was the first to roar, and then rushed out with red eyes, and the soldiers of the Qin army behind him also roared and followed closely behind, regardless of life and death, killing the Mongolian iron cavalry in front.
And Cao Wenzhao also shouted loudly: "War! Until you die! Follow me! ”
More than 10,000 soldiers of the Ming army roared in unison and rushed forward behind Cao Wenzhao.
More than 30,000 soldiers of the Ming army, under the leadership of Sun Chuanting and Cao Wenzhao, burst out with huge combat power, and actually continued to attack against the offensive of the Mongolian iron cavalry, killing the Mongols who had the advantage in strength and retreated.
At the same time, Cao Bianjiao, who had already led his iron cavalry soldiers into the battlefield, also saw the burning Gubeikou, and immediately became furious, shouting loudly: "How can my Ming city pass be trampled by the Tartars!" Soldiers, kill with me! I'd rather die than retreat! ”
There were only more than 1,000 people left in the Ming army's iron cavalry at this time, and they roared angrily and followed behind Cao Bianjiao to charge again, and continued to advance in the Mongolian iron cavalry formation like a wave, rushing towards the Chinese army where Hu Tulan, the leader of the Han Dynasty, was located, and the Mongolian iron cavalry along the way could not resist and retreated one after another, making Hu Tulan feel cold and constantly retreating to the left flank of the battlefield.
At this moment, there was a sudden exclamation from the left flank of the battlefield, and Huturan hurriedly looked over, only to see that thousands of Mongolian iron horsemen on the left flank had fled one after another, and the battle flag of the leading commander had disappeared, obviously dead. However, the remaining more than 3,000 Ming army iron cavalry on the battlefield on the left flank frantically killed the location of Hu Tulan, the leader of the Han Division.
In the blink of an eye, the situation on the battlefield took a sharp turn for the worse, just now Hu Tulan was shocked when he saw the fire burning in Gubeikou, and constantly comforted himself in his heart that it must be the siege army that took the city, but there were some accidents temporarily; Not long after that, Huturan had already fallen into the front and back of thousands of Ming army iron cavalry, and he was in a desperate situation for a while.
Cao Bianjiao also found more than 3,000 iron cavalry soldiers killed from the left flank battlefield at this time, and was overjoyed, and with a cheer, he ordered the whole army to charge at full speed, and more than 1,000 iron cavalry soldiers quickly whipped their horses, and instantly increased the speed of the war horses to the fastest.
The cavalry formation composed of more than a thousand iron cavalry soldiers was like a galloping arrow, and it slammed into Hutulan's location!
"Block them!"
At this time, Hu Tulan shouted at the only two remaining commanders around him, and the two commanders glanced at each other, and they were also out of the way, one led more than 2,000 Mongolian iron cavalry to meet the enemy, one led the army to meet the iron cavalry of Cao Bianjiao's department, and one led the army to meet more than 3,000 iron cavalry soldiers killed from the battlefield on the left flank.
"Kill!"
The final bloody battle has begun!
Cao Bianjiao took the lead in rushing into the oncoming Mongolian iron cavalry, and the iron cavalry soldiers behind him also charged forward bravely. The more than 1,000 Mongolian iron cavalry who came to meet them were completely unable to resist the Ming army's iron cavalry soldiers who had fallen into a rage, and were killed and wounded. Even the commander who led the army was picked off his horse by Cao Bianjiao with a shot, and was trampled by thousands of horses on the spot, and there was no corpse left!
On the other side, more than 3,000 Ming iron cavalry soldiers who had just joined the middle battlefield also collided with the Mongolian iron cavalry that met the attack, and almost instantly scattered more than 1,000 Mongolian iron cavalry in front of them, and they were completely swallowed up by the anger of the Ming army soldiers in an instant!
"It's over!"
Huturan only had time to think of such a thought in his heart, and the Chinese army, which was only guarded by more than 2,000 Mongolian iron cavalry, was hit by two high-speed charging Ming iron cavalry.
For a time, the blood of the Chinese army of the Mongolian army was flying and the sound of killing was shocking, Cao Bianjiao and 5,000 soldiers of the Ming army vented their anger on the Mongolian iron cavalry in front of them, and the more than 2,000 Mongolian iron cavalry had no room to fight back, and were completely in the situation of being slaughtered.
And Huturan was also very sad, before he could escape, he was hit by Cao Bianjiao, and was stabbed to death by Cao Bianjiao with just one shot, and the remaining two thousand Mongolian iron horsemen were slaughtered in a blink of an eye!
With the fall of the handsome banner of the Mongolian Chinese army, the entire Mongolian army fell into panic, and tens of thousands of Mongolian iron horsemen who were fighting with the main army of the Ming army in front of them turned around and fled, and fled in all directions of the battlefield.
Seeing this, Sun Chuanting and Cao Wenzhao immediately supervised the onslaught of the army, led the main force of the Ming army to launch a charge, and did their best to entangle the defeated Mongolian iron cavalry army and expand the results as much as possible.
At the same time, when Sun Chuanting was leading the army to chase and kill the enemy, he dragged a herald over and shouted loudly: "Tell the iron cavalry soldiers to pursue the enemy immediately!" Kill me all! ”
The herald turned and ran, and immediately went with a few of his companions to give the order.
Then, Sun Chuanting shouted: "The soldiers chase after you and kill Hu!" ”
Tens of thousands of Ming soldiers were eager to regenerate two legs, and they roared and chased after the fleeing Mongolian iron cavalry, and almost all the Mongolian soldiers who fell behind were cut to the ground, and then they were dismembered by the angry Ming soldiers.
And for those Mongolian soldiers who have run away, the Ming soldiers are to gather the musketeers and archers, where the Mongolian soldiers gather more, they shoot where, for a while the casualties of the Mongolian army increased sharply, and the remaining routs were even more panicked, and fled towards the depths of the steppe, like a lost dog, embarrassed.
At dusk, the battle that had lasted all day finally came to an end, Sun Chuanting and Cao Wenzhao led the Ming soldiers to carefully clean the battlefield, and then came to the front of Gubeikou Pass.
At this time, the Gubeikou Pass was still in flames, and the soldiers of the Ming army could feel the continuous heat wave two miles away from the gate. In the face of the fire in Gubeikou Guancheng, Sun Chuanting and Cao Wenzhao actually sweated profusely in the cold early spring, and their hearts were extremely heavy.
Sun Chuanting said with a gloomy face: "When the prince of Zhenguo asked us to defend Gubeikou, and at the same time hit the Mongolian army hard, but now although the Mongolian army has been defeated by us, Gubeikou has been abolished, how can we send a bus to Zhenguo!" ”
Cao Wenzhao opened his mouth, but he never spoke, just sighed constantly.
At this moment, Cao Bianjiao on the side suddenly shouted: "Sun Du, Zongzhen!" Look there! ”
Sun Chuanting and Cao Wenzhao were shocked when they heard this, and hurriedly looked in the direction of Cao Bianjiao's finger, only to see that on the burning Gubeikou Pass, there was a section of the city wall that was not on fire, and a bright red Ming battle flag was erected there steadily, swaying in the wind in the flames, as if announcing to the soldiers of the Ming army who lived for the rest of the war: "The city has not been lost!" The territory of the Ming Dynasty has not been lost! ”
"How so?"
Cao Wenzhao looked at Sun Chuanting very strangely, and didn't understand why there was a city wall in Guancheng, which had been completely engulfed by fire, not on fire?
At this time, Sun Chuanting actually pointed to the section of the city wall that was not on fire in the distance and cried, and said, "Look! What is that! ”
Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao were taken aback when they looked at Sun Chuanting's appearance, and hurriedly looked in the direction of their fingers.
I saw that on the left and right sides of that section of the city wall, there were dozens of corpses that had been burned into black char by the fire, and these corpses were entangled with each other, forming a wall to block the fire on the left and right of the Ming Battle Banner! Moreover, the discerning people knew at a glance that these people hugged each other when they were alive, protected the battle flag of the Ming Dynasty with their bodies, and then were swallowed up by the fire alive, everyone endured the pain of burning their bodies, but no one avoided it, everyone stood firmly in place like a monument, and did not leave half a step!
Judging from the remaining armor on those corpses, these warriors who used their lives to protect the Ming battle flag were the Ming defenders guarding Gubeikou!
That night, Sun Chuanting ordered the Ming army to set up camp two miles outside Gubeikou, and then ordered Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao to lead the Ming army soldiers to Guancheng to fight the fire.
The 30,000 soldiers of the Ming army stayed awake all night, and it took a whole night to extinguish the fire in Gubeikou Pass.
Early the next morning, Sun Chuanting and Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao and other Ming generals boarded the city wall, and personally buried the Ming soldiers who were martyred on the city wall.
At this time, Cao Bianjiao next to him suddenly saw a line of small characters written on the Ming battle flag, and everyone stepped forward to take a closer look, only to see eight words written on the battle flag: "Huaxia is not dead, Han Road is Yongchang!" ”
Five miles south of the Hara River Loop, the Hanwei Army Pacesetter Battalion Battalion.
After Liu Yunwei led the army north, he fought several times with the 300,000 Mongolian iron cavalry led by Oba, and taught the Mongolian Tatars a hard lesson.
After Liu Yunwei learned about it, he was about to lead the soldiers of the pacesetter battalion to follow him north, when he suddenly received a good news from Sun Chuanting.
After Liu Yunwei read the good news, he couldn't help but look up to the sky with his eyes slightly red and sighed, and said to Guo Yi beside him: "Give the court a fold, and ask for credit for the soldiers of the whole army below Gao Mingxuan, who are guarding Gubeikou!" I ask Your Majesty for permission to posthumously confer titles on all the soldiers! ”