Text: Volume 12, Chapter 1, Section 5, Bloody Battle of Gubeikou (4)

After Cao Wenzhao received the order to participate in the battle issued by Sun Chuanting, he immediately set off as an army, led 20,000 soldiers to move forward, and rushed to the middle battlefield in only a short time.

At this time, the soldiers of the Qin army led by Sun Chuanting were already at the end of the crossbow, although the soldiers of the Qin army had caused huge casualties to the Mongolian iron cavalry army under the bloody battle, but their own side also suffered a lot of casualties. Moreover, in the face of the Mongols' wheel warfare, the physical strength of the soldiers of the Qin army was already seriously insufficient, and they were about to be unable to hold on.

Fortunately, Cao Wenzhao led 20,000 soldiers under his command to arrive in time and directly entered the middle battlefield in the stalemate, which made the soldiers of the Qin army breathe a sigh of relief, and the huge pressure on the front was instantly relieved a lot.

"Soldiers! Kill Hu! ”

Cao Wenzhao roared, and led dozens of personal guards to rush into the bloody battlefield, like a sharp arrow, fiercely inserted into the Mongolian army.

The 20,000 soldiers under the command of Cao Wenzhao were even more vigorous and full of fighting spirit, and the soldiers formed two indestructible huge phalanxes and instantly entered the Mongolian iron cavalry array, knocking the Mongolian army that was already in decline into retreat and casualties increased greatly.

Seeing this, Sun Chuanting also looked up to the sky and laughed, and immediately ordered one of his generals to attack, leading the 3,000 elite soldiers of the Qin army who had been assembled to counterattack together, and strive to directly defeat the Mongolian army!

The general led 3,000 of the most elite Qin soldiers into the battlefield in front of him with a roar, and after a while he passed the army of Cao Wenzhao's army, and pounced on the Mongol army, which was no longer in formation, like a tiger that had gone mad.

It's no wonder, after all, in the previous battle, the soldiers of the Qin army under Sun Chuanting suffered a lot of casualties, and the 30,000 army had already lost nearly 10,000 people! If it had been replaced by another Ming army, the army had suffered such heavy casualties, it is estimated that it would have collapsed on the spot!

Among these soldiers of the Qin army who died in battle, there may be someone's brother, maybe someone's friend, or fellow villager, everyone joined the army to serve the country and shed blood on the battlefield, and they have long been brothers who share life and death. At this time, seeing that almost one-third of the robes were able to fall under the butcher's knife of the Tartars, how could these Qin Jin Erlang not be angry!

I saw that the phalanx composed of 3,000 Qin soldiers was like a war knife, which slashed through the Mongol army and killed Hu Tulan, the leader of the Han tribe, the main general of the Mongol army.

Cao Wenzhao has been in battle for a long time and has a lot of experience, and he understood the offensive route of the 3,000 Qin soldiers as soon as he saw it, and immediately led 20,000 soldiers under his command to follow the overseer army to attack, without taking into account the casualties of the army.

At the same time, Sun Chuanting was not idle, and gathered the remaining more than 10,000 Qin army soldiers in the Qin army formation and began to reorganize the formation of the army. Only waiting for the soldiers of the Qin army to recover some physical strength a little, Sun Chuanting led the army to the lake and then killed, and fought to the death with Cao Wenzhao against the Mongols!

This battle has entered the final decisive moment!

Hutulan, the leader of the Han tribe, was surprised to see that the Ming army had launched a full-scale counteroffensive, and that the more than 20,000 Mongol warriors of his front army could no longer resist and were retreating. At this time, Hu Tulan could no longer care about the more than 2,000 iron cavalry soldiers of Cao Bianjiao's department who were about to rush to the front, after all, the tens of thousands of main forces of the Ming army in front of him were the biggest threat.

As a result, Huturan immediately concentrated all his forces, pressed all the remaining 60,000 troops on the middle battlefield, and prepared to fight with the tens of thousands of Ming troops in front. It's just that a thousand iron cavalry from the army was drawn to the right flank of the army, as long as Cao Bianjiao's department was delayed.

"The descendants of Genghis Khan must not lose this battle! Warriors! Rush with me! ”

Huturan roared and led an army of 60,000 to kill, and the entire Mongol army suddenly hugged together and surrounded Cao Wenzhao's headquarters in the center, and the 3,000 elites of the Qin army were also besieged on the other side.

Sun Chuanting, who was reorganizing the army in the rear, received an urgent report and was shocked to find that the Ming soldiers in front of him were divided and surrounded by the Mongols. At this time, Sun Chuanting didn't care whether the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Qin army had recovered their strength, and directly led the soldiers of the army into the battlefield and rushed towards the army of Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Wenzhao also led the army to counterattack at this time, and when he saw Sun Chuanting's battle flag slowly approaching, he immediately led the army to kill backwards.

Although the Mongol army besieging Cao Wenzhao's headquarters wanted to encircle and annihilate the Ming army in front of them on the spot, they could not resist the fierce attack of the Ming army soldiers at all. It didn't take long for the encirclement besieging Cao Wenzhao's headquarters to be rushed out of a huge opening, and Cao Wenzhao led the army to join the main force of the Qin army under Sun Chuanting's department smoothly.

"Sun Du! Those three thousand Qin army brothers are in front, let's hurry up and reinforce them! ”

As soon as they met, Cao Wenzhao was in a hurry to lead the army to rescue the elite of the three thousand Qin army, but Sun Chuanting looked at the fierce battlefield in front of him and hesitated.

At this time, the two sides of the battle in the middle battlefield were still in a state of stalemate, but on the whole, the Mongol army still had the upper hand, and as time went by, the defeat of the Ming army seemed to be doomed; Although the Ming army on the right-wing battlefield has achieved victory, the number of Cao Bianjiao's iron cavalry on the right-wing battlefield is too small, and more than 2,000 iron cavalry soldiers are not enough to control the decisive battle of more than 100,000 people!

As for the left-wing battlefield.

Sun Chuanting looked at the battlefield with a worried face, and the battlefield with the earth-shattering killing sound on the left flank swelled up with a strong worry in his heart.

Five thousand Qin army iron cavalry is definitely at a disadvantage in the face of ten thousand Mongolian iron cavalry, and the fierce battle has reached this point, and the five thousand iron cavalry soldiers will definitely suffer a large increase in casualties, as for how long they can support it, even Sun Chuanting can't say it. However, one thing is certain, once the 5,000 Qin cavalry on the left flank are defeated, then the entire Ming army in the middle will face a flank attack by the Mongolian iron cavalry army on the left flank, which will be fatal!

"The only chance to win now is to completely defeat the main Mongol army in the middle before the defeat of the iron cavalry on the left flank!"

Sun Chuanting frowned, gritted his teeth secretly, and said to Cao Wenzhao on the side: "There is no advance or retreat in this battle, you and I can only defeat the Tartars by striving forward!" Kill! Kill it! ”

Cao Wenzhao is also a veteran of the battlefield, how can he not see the key to this battle? Immediately said loudly: "Good! The last general will join Sun Du to kill the Tartars and make meritorious contributions! ”

After speaking, the two joined forces and led nearly 20,000 soldiers under Cao Wenzhao and more than 10,000 Qin soldiers under Sun Chuanting to move forward, and more than 40,000 Ming soldiers rushed forward with a roar, and once again entered the middle battlefield, rushing towards the more than 2,000 Qin army elites who were besieged in front.

Huturan saw from afar that the soldiers of the Ming army had once again entered the middle battlefield, and he was also impressed by the bravery of the soldiers of the Ming army, and praised: "In addition to the Hanwei army and the Dangkou battalion in the Ming army, there are also elites who dare to fight!" ”

After speaking, Hu Tulan ordered to leave 10,000 iron cavalry to continue to besiege the more than 2,000 elite Qin troops, and the remaining 50,000 iron cavalry started again and launched a fierce charge towards the 40,000 Ming army soldiers.

At the same time, Cao Bianjiao was leading more than 2,000 iron cavalry soldiers to fight a bloody battle with 1,000 Mongolian iron cavalry who came to block it.

In the fierce battle, seeing that the situation on the battlefield in the middle was becoming more and more unfavorable, Cao Bianjiao was very anxious, and he wanted to immediately hack all the 1,000 Mongolian Tartars in front of him.

"Kill! Kill all these Tartars! Kill me! ”

Cao Bianjiao roared wildly, the spear in his hand had already been dyed red with blood, but it was still flying up and down, harvesting the lives of one Mongolian Tartar after another.

It didn't take long for Cao Bianjiao to kill a Mongolian commander with one shot, and the Mongolian iron cavalry who came to block it lost its command in an instant, and collapsed and fled in all directions under the onslaught of more than 2,000 Ming iron cavalry soldiers.

"Rush forward! Fight in the middle! ”

Cao Bianjiao didn't pay any attention to the shrimp soldiers and crab generals who fled in all directions, but regrouped his cavalry and continued to charge towards the middle battlefield.

In the blink of an eye, Cao Bianjiao led more than 2,000 iron cavalry soldiers to crash into the Mongolian army on the middle battlefield, killing the main Mongolian army that was charging on their backs, and instantly broke a huge gap in the waist and ribs of the Mongolian army!

"Good!"

Seeing this scene, Cao Bianjiao immediately cheered, led his iron cavalry soldiers to continue the onslaught, and rushed towards the Chinese army of the Mongol army, which frightened Huturan and retreated again and again.

And Sun Chuanting and Cao Wenzhao were also excited, leading the main army of more than 40,000 Ming troops to attack all the way, and fought with the Mongolian army that rushed up.

At this time, the armies of both warring sides were already crowded on the middle battlefield, and the Mongolian iron cavalry army could not run at all, and there was not much advantage in the face of the main army of the Ming army, which was equal in strength. At this moment, the two sides are just bleeding each other, and it depends on which side can't support it first!

Gubeikou Guancheng.

General Gao Mingxuan has led the only hundreds of remaining Ming soldiers to withdraw into the pass, the pass of Gubeikou has been completely lost, even the city gate has been opened, more than 10,000 Mongolian troops have already rushed into the pass.

The loss of Gubeikou is imminent!

General Gao Mingxuan looked at the Mongolian Tatar soldiers galloping back and forth in the pass with a gray face, and a monstrous anger rose in his heart, and he suddenly shouted at the more than 100 wounded soldiers behind him: "Go and move all the gunpowder and sulfur out of the warehouse, and burn the city to Lao Tzu!" ”

The more than 100 wounded soldiers were stunned when they heard this, and they couldn't believe their ears.

Gao Mingxuan saw that none of the wounded soldiers received the order, and he was immediately angry: "What are you doing in a daze!" Lao Tzu would rather burn the city with a fire than leave it to the Mongol Tartars! This is the city of the Ming Dynasty, and it is better to burn it than let the Tartars take it for themselves! Burn it for Lao Tzu! ”

Only then did the more than 100 wounded soldiers react, and they all turned around and ran away with a roar, running towards the treasury where the supplies were piled up.

At this time, Gao Mingxuan looked at the Mongolian iron cavalry that was getting closer and closer, and shouted to the remaining Ming soldiers around him: "Brothers! Kill me! ”

More than 200 soldiers of the Ming army, under the leadership of Gao Mingxuan, launched a charge towards more than 10,000 Mongolian iron cavalry who had already entered the pass!