Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume VIII Troubled Times

Chapter 4 The Strange Soldiers Go North to Fight Hu Cai

Section 5: Scuffle (2)

Gai Zhou Wei.

Lu Ying and Huang Fuming led more than 40,000 soldiers of the Feiyu Battalion and the Yulin Battalion to line up outside the south gate, and the endless military array stretched for several miles and was magnificent, while Chen Xu, the garrison of the Feiyu Battalion, and Li Genqi, the garrison of the Yulin Battalion, each led their gunners to be busy in front of the formation, preparing to bombard the city head and kill and injure the Jiannu troops. At this time, the two artillery battalions with a total of 80 big Buddha cannons had been lined up, and one after another the muzzles of black holes pointed at the head of the city, which frightened the few soldiers of Zhenglan Banner Jiannu on the head of the city.

Seeing that the gunners of the artillery battalion were almost ready, Lu Ying ordered the artillery battalion to open fire immediately, and at the same time ordered the Feiyu battalion to garrison Tian Qing and Liu Heihu to lead the soldiers of the B and C battalions to prepare for the siege.

Lu Ying stared at the Jiannu banner on the head of the city and said fiercely: "General Lao Huangfu leads the soldiers of the Yulin Battalion to prepare for support, once the soldiers of the Feiyu Battalion attack the city unfavorably, the soldiers of the Yulin Battalion must immediately go up!" ”

Huang Fuming clenched his fists and said, "Don't worry! The soldiers are ready! ”

Then, Lu Ying said to Tian Qing and Liu Heihu: "When attacking the city, it must be swift!" The army must defeat the Gaizhou Guard as soon as possible and cut off the retreat of Zhenglan Banner Jiannu, only in this way can we force Amin's troops to withdraw as soon as possible, and we can act at the opportunity! ”

"The last will be ordered!"

A moment later, with Lu Ying's order, the eighty cannons in front of the army began to roar, and in an instant, the wall of Gaizhou Weinan was shrouded in fierce artillery fire, hundreds of Zhenglan Banner Jiannu and the strong men who were temporarily forced to defend the city suffered heavy casualties in an instant, and the defense facilities on the head of the city also turned into ruins in the fierce artillery fire.

Half an hour later, seeing that most of Jiannu's defensive forces had been destroyed, Lu Ying ordered Tian Qing and Liu Heihu to immediately lead their troops to attack.

A swan whistle sounded, Liu Heihu took the lead in leading the soldiers of the C Battalion to line up, and then stopped eighty steps away from the city wall, and the soldiers of the army began to shoot continuously at the head of the city. The Jiannu soldiers who survived the fierce fire of the Hanwei Army Artillery Battalion had no time to rejoice, and as soon as they came out, they were shot down by the sharp fire of the soldiers of the C Battalion.

More than 7,000 bird-gunners continued to shoot, forming a firepower output with almost no intervals, beating the Jiannu soldiers on the head of the Gaizhou Acropolis extremely embarrassed, and no one could show their heads at will, except for the dead people who were already drenched in blood on the ground, of course! As a result, under the suppression of the soldiers of the C Battalion, the Jiannu soldiers defending the city were unable and unable to fight back at all, and were completely passively beaten.

At this moment, Tian Qing, the garrison of Battalion B, saw the opportunity and immediately led more than 7,000 soldiers of Battalion B to rush to the southern city wall. I saw that the soldiers divided into more than a dozen huge long dragons, rushed towards the city wall, and soon crossed the horizontal formation of the soldiers of the C battalion, and rushed to the foot of the city wall in a blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Liu Heihu ordered the soldiers of the whole battalion to stop shooting, and then retreated a hundred paces and the whole battalion was on standby, giving up the battlefield to the garrison Tian Qing and the soldiers of the second battalion under his command.

Tian Qing led a hundred guards to supervise the battle under the city, brandishing a war knife in one hand and shouting loudly: "Rush up for me!" Kill, kill all the Tartars, and recapture Gaizhou City! ”

At this time, the soldiers of the second battalion had completely fallen into a state of rage, climbed along a dozen ladders to the head of the city, and after a while, they successfully landed in the city, roaring and pounced on the only hundreds of blue flag Jiannu on the head of the city.

For a while, there were all kinds of killings on the city, and the hundreds of Zhenglan Banner Jiannu were also brave, and they still did not retreat when they were already in a desperate situation, but killed with the soldiers of Battalion B who climbed the city wall. However, in the face of more and more soldiers of the Hanwei Army who climbed to the top of the city, the Zhenglanqi Jiannu, who had only a few hundred troops, gradually couldn't resist, although they were still desperately resisting, they were still inevitably divided and surrounded by the soldiers of the Hanwei Army. As for the strong men who were forcibly driven to the head of the city by Jiannu to guard, they had all escaped by this time.

The bloody encirclement and suppression immediately began, and when Tian Qing led his guards to the top of the city, there was no longer a living Zhenglan Banner Jiannu soldier on the city.

"Hurry up and open the gates! The rest of the soldiers will follow me into the city! ”

Tian Qing roared, and led more than 2,000 soldiers to rush into the city of Gaizhou, and occupied the treasury and the remaining three city gates in the city. At the same time, hundreds of soldiers of the second battalion also opened the southern city gate, and Lu Ying and Huangfu immediately led the main army to rush in when they saw this.

At this point, it only took more than an hour for Lu Ying and Huangfu Ming's generals to recover the Gaizhou Acropolis and cut off the road to the north of Zhenglanqi Jiannu.

After arranging the defense of the city, Lu Ying and Huang Fuming stood on the south city wall and looked into the distance, both of them breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

"Commander, I think we should send out the three thousand iron cavalry in the city to pick up the soldiers of the Cen garrison?"

Lu Ying thought for a moment and said, "It's okay!" Then let You Dagui, the garrison of the Yulin Battalion, lead the troops to attack, and let the soldiers bring some corpses of Jiannu in the city, which may be able to hit the morale of the Jiannu army at that time. ”

It didn't take long for You Dagui to lead three thousand iron cavalry soldiers to rush out of the south city gate, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared into the field in the distance.

At the same time, Gaizhouwei is five miles to the southeast.

Cen Shaomin, the garrison of the Feiyu Battalion, led nearly 10,000 iron cavalry soldiers to gallop across the field, and fought a bloody battle with more than 13,000 Jiannu iron cavalry of the Zhenglan Banner led by Amin. At this time, the armies of both sides were already exhausted, and the casualties on both sides were very large, if it were not for the fact that the two iron cavalry armies were extremely brave elites, I am afraid that they would have collapsed on the spot.

At this time, Cen Shaomin's right shoulder was slashed and his left leg was also hit by an arrow, but he still struggled to follow the cavalry formation, and fought with the soldiers of the army against the Jiannu army. Although at the beginning of the battle, the iron cavalry soldiers were raided by the 15,000 army of Amin's department, and the casualties of the soldiers were not small, but as a member of the Hanwei army, there was a pride in the hearts of every iron cavalry soldier, that is: blood will not be shed, and the truce will not be sworn to! The iron cavalry soldiers may face difficulties, they may encounter strong enemies, and they will even be outnumbered and defeated, but no one will choose to retreat, no one will choose to escape, and the 10,000 soldiers of the whole army are still fighting under the leadership of Cen Shaomin after losing nearly one-third, and they are still defending the territory under their feet with their own blood, as well as their glory as a son of the Han family!

At this time, Amin was anxious, seeing that the iron cavalry of the Hanwei Army, which was successfully raided by his own army, was still fighting, without the slightest sign of rout or retreat, the shock in his heart had reached the point of no return.

"Why haven't these Han people retreated? So what method did Liu Yunwei use to turn the cowardly Han people into a brave iron army! ”

Maybe Amin couldn't understand why the soldiers of the Hanwei Army, who were also Han Chinese, were so heroic? That's because Amin doesn't know that being brave and fearless and indomitable are the qualities of the Han family's children, and they have long been melted into the blood of the Han family's children, but under the wrong environment, these qualities have been hidden. And Liu Yunwei just used one victory after another, with continuous glory, and with the blood of Jiannu Tartars, to dig out these qualities.

Therefore, the Han people who should have been cowardly in Amin's eyes will become a strong and powerful warrior of the Han Army!

"If this continues, it won't be long before the army of Hanwei Army's foot soldiers arrives, and then a surprise battle will turn into a melee! No way! This battle can no longer be fought, and must first withdraw to Gaizhou City. ”

Thinking of this, Amin ordered the whole army to charge, preparing to repel the iron cavalry of the Han Wei army, and immediately led the army out of the battlefield. At this moment, a large number of Mongol routs suddenly appeared on the north side of the battlefield, and they kept circling around the periphery of the battlefield, looking extremely frightened. Seeing this, the soldiers of Zhenglan Banner Jiannu who were charging into battle were also shocked, and they didn't know why those Mongol routs did not obey the orders of the banner owner and returned to Gaizhou to guard the city first.

Amin looked at the Mongol rout that was gathering more and more outside, and had a bad premonition in his heart: "Could it be that something happened to Gaizhou City?" And also! Why hasn't the army of foot soldiers of the Hanwei Army appeared now, even if they climbed, they should have climbed there! Isn't that right? ”

Thinking of this, Amin suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and he couldn't care about anything else, so he directly ordered the whole army to leave the battlefield and retreat to the Gaizhou Acropolis in the north.

But how could Cen Shaomin let Amin get his wish? Seeing that the Zhenglan Banner army was slowly retreating, he immediately led the army to rush forward regardless of casualties, and stubbornly entangled the rear of the Zhenglan Banner army, resolutely entangled with the Jiannu army.

Amin was furious when he saw this, and sent people to order the thousands of Mongolian iron cavalry that had gathered outside the battlefield to participate in the battle, preparing to concentrate his forces to inflict heavy damage on the iron cavalry of the Han Wei army, and then rush back to the Gaizhou Acropolis as fast as possible; On the one hand, he ordered the Zhenglan Banner army to turn over and return to the battle, and cooperate with the Mongolian iron cavalry that was about to participate in the battle to flank the iron cavalry soldiers of the Hanwei army.

Just when Cen Shaomin was engaged in a melee with the Blue Banner army of Amin's department and the Mongolian Iron Cavalry, the sound of horns suddenly came from the north side of the battlefield, and then a battle flag of the Great Bright Sun and Moon Jin Tao appeared in the sight of everyone on the battlefield.

Looking at the bright red battle flag, Cen Shaomin roared excitedly, thousands of iron cavalry soldiers roared with all their might, and the morale of the iron cavalry army of the Hanwei army was suddenly greatly boosted, and they attacked the Jiannu army of the Zhenglan Banner and the Mongolian iron cavalry. And Amin looked like he wanted to cry without tears, and a Hanwei army iron cavalry appeared in the north, which was already able to explain everything! The army of Amin and the Mongolian iron cavalry were even more mournful and demoralized, and in the blink of an eye, deserters appeared, and the formation of the army began to collapse.