Chapter 84: The Great War of the Western Domain (14)

Che Gang was speechless for a while, stood in place and was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say, after coming back to his senses, he immediately brought a few people to follow, no matter what, he had to protect the safety of the prince, if the prince died, he would not be able to atone for his sins a hundred times.

Zhu Ao stood on a big stone behind Zhao Deyong's position, took out the arrow, put it on the hard bow, and then pulled hard, the hard bow was squeaked away, and the sharp arrow on the bowstring was like a tiger that saw its prey, squatting on the ground, ready to rush up and tear the other party to pieces!

Zhu Ao aimed at the commander of the very arrogant Hami army and shot the sharp arrow in his hand. For a long time, he has not been valued by Zhu Yuanzhang because of his humble background, in order to win the favor of Lao Zhu, he has been practicing riding archery and calligraphy hard, especially the riding and archery that Lao Zhu values.

Dai Yuzhu and Huai En didn't understand why he, who was already a prince, was so himself. Gao Shi was also very distressed when he saw his son working so hard, and persuaded Zhu Ao to take it easy many times, but Zhu Ao did not listen.

Finally, in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, Lao Zhu summoned Zhu Ao and several of his younger brothers to train in Linqing, and Zhu Ao won the favor of Lao Zhu with his excellent riding and archery skills. It was precisely because of this incident that Lao Zhu thought that he could take on a great responsibility, so he changed him from the king of Han in the hinterland of the Central Plains to the king of Su who ruled the dangerous land of the northwest soldiers.

More than ten years of hard practice finally paid off handsomely, and as soon as Zhu Ao's arrow was shot, the Hami commander fell to the ground in response, his neck was shot through, and he couldn't die anymore.

Everyone was shocked, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, no one would have believed that such a difficult arrow actually came from the hand of a vassal king who grew up in the deep palace.

When the Hami army saw that the leader was killed by an arrow from the other side, everyone began to fear, the morale of the army began to waver, and the pace of attack slowed down. As a result, the morale of the Ming army skyrocketed, and everyone shouted a counterattack to stabilize the defensive line.

Zhu Ao did not give the Hami army a chance to breathe, and shot and killed the two centurions of the other party one after another, and the temper of the Hami army was completely defeated. Some of the timid began to retreat.

Zhao De took the opportunity to shout with one of his thousands of households: "Brothers, kill!" Serve Your Highness! Then he slashed like chicken blood, and put down a dozen or so infantry of the Hami army, who were brave. This person's martial arts are good, Zhu Ao nodded secretly, and kept him in his heart.

Zhu Ao's previous wisdom and current courage infected every Ming soldier, making them have an extremely strong sense of worship for Zhu Ao, and followed this Qianhu Mountain to call out the tsunami, saying: "Serve Your Highness!" ”

Immediately launched a wave of counteroffensives and knocked down the offensive of the Hami army. Although the Hami army was brave, it was also flesh and blood, and when they saw the Ming army like crazy, their morale was taken away and they began to retreat. Seeing this scene, Timur Timur, who was supervising the battle from afar, cursed more than once, but could not change the situation, so he angrily threw his horsewhip to the ground and ordered his officers to gather their ranks, stand firm, and prepare to attack again.

Looking at the corpses on the battlefield, some of them were enemies and some of them were on his own side, Zhu Ao felt very uncomfortable, this is war, although it is exciting, although it is thrilling, it is also very cruel.

Zhu Ao raised his eyes and looked at the Hami army that began to regroup at the bottom of the hillside, knowing that they were brewing the next charge, he didn't expect the enemy to be so tenacious, after the battle just now, the casualties of the soldiers on his side were not small, if he continued to develop at this pace, he might not be able to hold out until Qu could rush back.

Something else had to be found.

Zhu Ao frowned and looked around, his eyes suddenly nailed to the banner of the Hami army two miles away, and under the banner must be their leader.

Zhu Ao's heart lit up, and he suddenly remembered a classic battle in the hit TV series "Bright Sword" in later generations, that is, Li Yunlong's first battle, defeating the Bantian United. This battle is based on real war examples, and although the writing of the novel is added, it also has a certain degree of rationality.

A wicked smile hung on Zhu Ao's mouth, and he said secretly: Maybe I can also find a way to him.

It is not unreasonable for Zhu to think so, his troops are equipped with iron mortar guns, that is, ancient mortars, and the shells fired are parabolic, which can bypass obstacles and directly hit the target.

Just now, the right guard commander Li Mian used to fight the eight formations of the Iron King of the Hami Army was an iron mortar cannon, but it was a small iron mortar cannon, and the firing range was between dozens of steps and a hundred steps.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a large iron mortar cannon with a range of about one mile, and because of its great power, it was often used to destroy the enemy's city walls.

Fortunately, Zhu Hao's army was equipped with several of these large iron mortar cannons, ten to be exact.

Advancing five hundred meters and killing the enemy's headquarters with one shot, I didn't expect Lao Tzu to be able to catch such a battle, Zhu Ao's face unconsciously showed a smiling smile.

Seeing that the prince was smirking to himself, he thought he was stunned, and said to Zhu Ao cautiously: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you?" ”

Zhu Ao suddenly came back to his senses, saw Che Gang's tentative expression, snorted, and said, "This king has already thought of a strategy to break the enemy." ”

Che Gang was surprised when he heard this, and was surprised that the prince was so smart, and came up with a strategy to break the enemy so quickly, and the joy was that he originally thought that the Ming army would not be able to support Qu Neng, as the chief of the prince's guard, he would definitely die on the battlefield, although he was psychologically prepared, but if he could live well, who would want to die? Che Gang had a flattering smile on his face, and said to Zhu Ao with a posture of seeking advice: "The prince is really wise and powerful, dare to ask the prince what countermeasures he has?" ”

Zhu Ao didn't answer his words, looked around at the Ming army beside him, and secretly thought: It's not easy to advance five hundred meters, where is my Zhang Dabiao?

When his eyes swept over Zhao Deyong, Zhu Ao's heart suddenly lit up, not that he fell in love with Zhao Deyong, who almost retreated, but that he remembered the brave Qianhu under Zhao Deyong, and immediately turned his head to Chegang and said: "Go, call Zhao De with the Qianhu who has just shown great courage to this king!" ”

Che Gang naturally knew who he was talking about, and secretly said that your kid was lucky, and he was taken by the prince, so he immediately brought two people to call the Qianhu over.