Text: Volume 12, Chapter 2, Section 4, The Red Hot Spring Plains (2)

Hot Springs Plains.

The commander of the North Korean army, Li Zhe, led an army of 400,000 troops to the north, and the Korean army like a torrent could not be seen at a glance, and it looked like it was also extraordinary and magnificent!

Li Zhe was wearing exquisite armor, and he wore a well-crafted heavy cotton armor outside, standing on a hillside under the escort of a group of personal soldiers and generals to watch the marching army, everyone was full of confidence in their hearts and full of confidence in the battle situation.

"In this battle, my Great North Korea will definitely be able to inflict heavy losses on the Ming Army and play the national prestige of our Great Korea, maybe we can also stand up for prestige in a battle, so that the Ming Dynasty will not dare to underestimate our country!"

Li Zhe is constantly looking forward to a better future in his heart, and has even seen the grand occasion of his victorious army returning to Wang Wei City in triumph, and seeing countless Korean people welcoming and cheering, even his brother, the king of North Korea, Li Liang, is celebrating himself with tears in his eyes.

Just when Li Zhe was in a good mood, he suddenly received an urgent report from Tanma: the advance of the army encountered the Ming army stationed in the Hot Spring Plain, and after a fierce battle between the two sides, the Korean Tanma was defeated, and only two of the dozens of people were injured and fled back!

"Humph! A bunch of rubbish! ”

Although the Tanma in front suffered a big loss, it still did not affect Li Zhe's good mood, after all, compared to the confrontation of hundreds of thousands of troops, these are only insignificant subsections, and they will not affect the trend of the battle situation at all.

"Probe!"

After sending away the heralds, Li Zhe led the generals back to the Chinese army and joined the 400,000 army to go north together.

A day later, the Korean army came to the hinterland of the Hot Springs Plain, and in another half a day's journey it was possible to reach the nameless fortress garrisoned by the Ming army.

In fact, if the Korean army had been replaced by the Ming army, it would have arrived as early as yesterday, and the enemy army would not have been given any time to prepare. However, after all, the North Korean army is not as good as the elite and powerful Ming tiger wolf, and the 400,000 North Korean army marched only 20 miles and walked for more than a day, and the commander Li Zhe was still very satisfied, thinking that the Korean soldiers under his command had already performed beyond the norm, and he was not worried about the slow movement of the army at all!

Seeing that the nameless fortress garrisoned by tens of thousands of Ming troops was about to arrive, the commander of the Korean army, Li Chol, not only did not order the whole army to speed up its advance and arrange troops under the city as soon as possible, but instead ordered the 400,000 Korean troops to camp on the spot and wait until the soldiers and horses of the army had finished lunch and rested before marching.

Some of the generals who accompanied the army felt that it was inappropriate, so they suggested that Li Zhe should not march as soon as possible, so as to prevent the Ming army from gaining enough time to strengthen its defenses.

However, the commander Li Zhe did not take this suggestion seriously, and loudly reprimanded the general who made the suggestion in front of the rest of the generals, saying: "Don't you know that there is a cloud in the art of war: a tired army cannot attack a city, and a victorious army cannot advance to the extreme!" This marshal fights with soldiers and rule of law, what are you making noise here? What do you think you are, dare to teach Ben Shuai a lesson! ”

"The last general will not dare!"

The general's face was white and red for a while, and he hurriedly admitted his mistake and begged for mercy.

Li Zhe didn't have the heart to pay attention to the general who spoke up, so as not to affect his good mood. So, surrounded by the generals, Li Zhe swaggered back to the big tent of the Chinese army to prepare for lunch.

After a while, the 400,000 Korean army set up a very simple camp, without even a camp wall, but just piled up some carts and miscellaneous items with the army on the outermost, and the middle was full of slightly messy tents.

At noon, countless cooking smoke rose from the huge camp of the Korean army, and countless North Korean soldiers with large pie faces were eating lunch in groups, and the rice pot was boiled with a paste of grain, wild grass and many other things, which looked like pig food and made people unappetizing, but those North Korean soldiers ate extremely sweet.

In the big tent of the Chinese army of the North Korean army, the commander Li Zhe and more than 20 generals are pushing the cup and changing the lamp, and there are not only barbecues, various dishes, and fine wine on the table of everyone, but also nearly 30 beauties around them to accompany the wine, which can be described as extremely luxurious, and the soldiers outside the big tent of the Chinese army form a sharp contrast.

After three rounds of drinking, Li Zhe and the generals were already slightly red and a little drunk, and at this time, the soldiers and soldiers outside the big tent had also finished lunch and were sleeping in their respective tents. There were only a few soldiers in the entire Korean battalion who were in charge of guarding, and they didn't even send out to probe the horses!

Commander Li Zhe and the generals dispersed after they were full of wine and food, and each returned to his tent to rest in the Chinese bottle, and then led the army to continue to advance in the afternoon.

In the blink of an eye, the originally bustling North Korean camp became silent, almost no one was moving around the camp, and there was no other sound in the surrounding wilderness except for the whirring wind.

Several North Korean soldiers in charge of guarding were listlessly leaning on top of a large cart, staring blankly at the empty fields around them, and everyone's hearts were full of dissatisfaction. After all, almost the entire army is now asleep, and only a few people are on guard in the cold wind, and anyone will be a little dissatisfied in their hearts.

As a result, several people began to complain, constantly cursing their superiors in various vicious words. When a few people scolded to the happy place, they also let out bursts of wanton laughter from time to time.

Suddenly, the North Korean soldiers on guard heard a faint roar coming from the south side of the camp. Several people looked at each other, all of them were a little suspicious, this is the sound that can only be made by the rapid march of the army!

According to what a few people knew, there were no more soldiers and horses on the south side of the army now, and all the armies had already gathered here, so who else would approach the army from the south?

One of the soldiers couldn't help but whisper: "You say, could it be the Ming army coming from the south?" ”

"What nonsense are you talking about! The Ming army was stationed in the nameless fortress in the north, and now that they know that our hundreds of thousands of troops are about to be killed, I don't know what it looks like to be scared, how can they suddenly run to the south of the army! ”

The soldier's words were immediately reprimanded by his companions, causing the rest of them to burst into laughter.

"However, the Ming army has an army of iron cavalry! Maybe it's going to the south of us. ”

At this time, everyone put away their smiles, and the expressions on the faces of several people were a little unnatural for a while.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

At this moment, the south of the North Korean camp sounded the sound of alarm drums, and the whole camp suddenly boiled, and countless soldiers rushed out of the tents, running around the camp in panic, screaming in alarm.

Seeing this, the vigilant North Korean soldiers immediately dispersed, and also joined the chaotic army, scurrying around the camp.

And although the commander Li Zhe ordered the whole army to meet the battle as soon as he received the alarm, how could the North Korean army, which was extremely lax, line up to meet the battle in a short period of time? At this time, in the face of the sudden attack of the Ming army's iron cavalry, there was no preparation at all, and he could only resist with human life, only in this way could he gain precious time!

At the same time, Yang Xingzhou, the general of Xuanfu Town, led 3,000 iron cavalry soldiers of Xuanfu Town to rush into the camp of the Korean army. The iron cavalry soldiers looked at the Korean camp where there were no horses, no camp walls, no trenches, and even reserves and guard soldiers and horses, and they were extremely excited, and their hearts were full of incredulity!

You must know that even the guards in the Ming army, the garrisons in the interior, and the soldiers and horses that have rotted to the bones are marching outside, they will not be as defenseless as the Korean army, at least they must set up camp and make some preparations. Of course, whether you can guard against it or not is a matter of course, but at least what should be done will be done.

At this time, Yang Xingzhou, the leading general, roared excitedly, and led three thousand Xuanfu Town Iron Cavalry soldiers to trample through the horse from south to west, and the cavalry formation composed of three thousand Iron Cavalry soldiers spread out as much as possible, forming a horizontal plane with a width of two miles, and swept through the camp of the Korean army!

The North Korean soldiers along the way suddenly exploded their nests and fled screaming, these North Korean soldiers had no intention of turning over to face the battle, and even most of the soldiers did not even have weapons in their hands, and some soldiers were still naked!

When Yang Xingzhou led the army to break into the camp, he was still worried that he had fallen into the trick of the Koreans, because in Yang Xingzhou's heart, no army would show such a huge flaw, and gold ingots would not fall from the sky!

However, what Yang Xingzhou didn't expect was that today he and the three thousand iron cavalry soldiers under his command really saw a bunch of gold ingots!

It turns out that there really is such a lax enemy army in the world!

"Soldiers! Kill! ”

The 3,000 iron cavalry soldiers had gone crazy at this time, and the pleasure of the horse joint camp made the blood and excitement of these elite soldiers and horses in Xuanfu Town surge and excited, and the soldiers even thought that they could completely kill the 400,000 Korean army in front of them with their own strength!

Soon, the general Yang Xingzhou led the iron cavalry army to rush out from the west of the Korean army camp, Yang Xingzhou rode on the galloping war horse and looked back, only to see that the Korean army in the camp was still panicked, and did not gather troops to counterattack at all. Even the Korean cavalry that I had just seen in the camp did not assemble, and they were still fighting separately in the camp and panicking.

"One more round! Soldiers, rush! ”

After a rush to kill, the iron cavalry army of Xuanfu Town not only killed and injured at least tens of thousands of North Korean soldiers and horses, but also did not have a single casualty among its own 3,000 iron cavalry soldiers, which was unimaginable to everyone before!

With such a result and such a situation, how can the soldiers end here!

As a result, 3,000 Xuanfu Town Iron Cavalry soldiers followed behind General Yang Xingzhou, completed the turn to the west of the Korean army camp, and rushed into the Korean camp again from the northwest direction, starting the second round of horse company camps!

At this time, the North Korean commander Li Zhecai gathered more than 10,000 soldiers and horses for counterattack, of which there were only 500 cavalry!