The Mongol tribes continued to encircle and intercept the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

These Mongol cavalry were like wolves staring at the Western Expeditionary Army, and as long as they were looking at the right time, they had to come up and take a bite.

In addition to fighting or fighting, the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty had an attitude of going to the death at the moment, and they were not afraid of attrition, nor were they afraid of the annihilation of the whole army.

But it is precisely like this that the combat effectiveness of the Guanning army broke out, and the Guanning soldiers who can survive from the west of Jiayuguan to the area of Shazhouwei are either extremely strong willpower or veterans with relatively good martial arts.

Therefore, the further back on, although the Western Expeditionary Army, with the Guanning Army as the main body, was seriously reduced, its combat effectiveness was even more powerful.

But after arriving at Shazhouwei, the reinforcements of the Mongol Lin Dan Khan also arrived, and the Mongol cavalry that intercepted the westward advance of the Western Expeditionary Army suddenly increased by four or five times as much as before.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but clench the steel knife in his hand, under the fierce wind, his eagle-like eyes stared straight at the Mongolian cavalry and tents in front of him, and when the sun gradually fell below the horizon, he immediately rushed into the enemy camp several times larger than himself with the cavalry of the Western Expeditionary Army here.

The current Western Expeditionary Army was outnumbered, and could only rely on surprise attacks to defeat these Mongol cavalry.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen, who was bent on death, took the initiative to ask Zu Dale for this vanguard errand, and led 3,000 people who dared to die to kill the cavalry of the Mongolian Lin Dan Khan.

The Tartars of the Mongolian Lin Dan Khan had just come to the Shazhouwei area, and their foothold was not stable, and the other Mongolian tribes were also a little dissatisfied with Lin Dan Khan's ambition to unify Mongolia, so they sat back and watched Lin Dan Khan's army being attacked by the Ming Western Expeditionary Army.

Unable to prevent it, the Tartars of Lin Dan Khan's department suffered heavy losses and had to temporarily take refuge in the Shazhou Acropolis.

The Daming Western Expeditionary Army also successfully arrived under the Shazhou Acropolis, which is different from attacking Yumen Pass, because the Daming Western Expeditionary Army has been reduced to more than 10,000 cavalry, and it is difficult to take a strong attack.

Zu Dale and Zhu Youzhen decided to take advantage of the soft soil in the Shazhou area to dig pits and enter the city.

But the Ming Western Expeditionary Army is not as good as the Praetorian Guard, they do not have a special sapper shovel, not even a hoe, can only dig the soil with their bare hands, and after a few days of fierce fighting, dig out a passage, and then bury explosives and blow up the city wall of Shazhou City.

After a fierce battle, Shazhou Wei was also recaptured by the Western Expeditionary Army, but because there was the main force of the Tartars of the Lin Dan Khan Department and the other Tartars in the Shazhou Guard, the losses of the Western Expeditionary Army themselves reached thousands.

There was a vast desert stretch from Shazhouwei to Hamiwei, and the Mongol Tatars did not appear frequently, but the lack of water and disease caused the non-combat attrition of the Western Expeditionary Army to be even more severe.

By the time the Daming Western Expeditionary Army reached the vicinity of Hamiwei, the Daming Western Expeditionary Army had no more than 5,000 horsemen.

At this time, the Mongol Tatars had already gathered more cavalry to Hamiwei, and the Mongolian Lindan Khan, who was unwilling to be taken away by the Ming army in the northwest, also sent a larger reinforcement to Hamiwei.

Looking at the dense Mongolian Tatar army in front of him, Zhu You sighed and smiled at Zu Dale: "Zujunmen, it seems that we will really sleep here for a long time." ”

Zu Dale also smiled bitterly, pursed his dry lips and said: "After the drum is beaten, I will order the whole army to drink the last bag of water, each person will only keep one war horse, and the rest of the war horses will be killed, and the whole army will eat the last meat, and then be loyal to the Ming Dynasty here!" ”

"Be loyal here!"

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but shout, and the other Western Expeditionary Army also shouted loudly.

From Jiayuguan to Hamiwei, all the way to the long journey, they don't know how many Tartars they have in their hands, at this time the only thing they can pursue is to make their flower of life bloom more brilliantly before death, when a person is no longer afraid of death, there is no fear.

Kill!

Zu Dale first patted his horse and killed the Tartar army on the opposite side, although he is now regarded as the chief military officer of the second grade, but in the current situation of only more than 5,000 horsemen, he does not need to regard himself as a chief military officer, he needs to stay in the Chinese army to command the overall situation, and now it is better to take the lead and make his death more heroic.

The war horse roared, the spear went straight to the enemy's head, and when the blood spurted out, Zu Dale simply wiped his face, and continued to kill at the center of the enemy camp.

Zu Dale's pro-soldiers and generals also followed and killed, the commander is so hard-working, they are naturally not ambiguous, they can survive until now, the ability to ride horses and slash is not weak, although the Mongolian Tartars are better at riding and shooting, but when encountering such a Guanning army, they can't take any advantage, and they don't even have a numerical advantage to suppress these Guanning troops.

Zhu Youzhen also raised the Pu knife to kill, and when he saw more than ten Tartars bending their bows to shoot, he also skillfully clamped the horse's belly, fell sideways on the side of the horse's body, and after dodging a rain of arrows, he suddenly got up and approached, and then the blade directly cut through the Tartar's neck.

After fighting until the sun was exposed to three poles, and after the Tartars also suffered thousands of casualties at the cost of two thousand iron horsemen on their side, Zu Dale and Zhu Youzhen withdrew.

Looking at the bloody knife in his hand, Zhu Youzhen, who was panting, couldn't help but smile at Zu Dale, who was also covered with scars and could hardly stand on the ground.

Looking back at the other officers and soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army, most of them were standing or sitting on the sand, some were gnawing on the uneaten horse bones, some were putting the mouth of the water bag on the side of their mouths and slapping desperately, hoping that a drop of water would fall, and some were simply lying on the ground, looking at the blue sky with their eyes, missing their distant hometown.

And here, more and more Mongol Tartars gathered, they ran around, and gradually surrounded all the more than 3,000 cavalry of the Western Expeditionary Army.

However, these Mongol Tartars did not attack immediately, but marched in unison, advancing slowly towards the western expeditionary army, and the bows and arrows were well drawn, and if there was any change in the western expeditionary army, they would immediately be subjected to a salvo of arrows.

The Mongol Tartars surrounded the Western Expeditionary Army on three sides, and only the direction of the Hami Acropolis was not encircled.

Obviously, the Mongol Tartars wanted to completely cut off the retreat of the last 3,000 cavalry of the Western Expeditionary Army.

However, Zu Dale and Zhu Youzhen and other 3,000 cavalry did not have the idea of retreating, after seeing these Mongolian Tatars getting closer and closer to themselves, they also stood up one after another, and began to climb on the back of the horse one after another, raised the weapons in their hands, held the reins, and focused their eyes on Zu Dale and Zhu Youzhen.

Zu Dale and Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything, and besides, Zu Dale rushed towards the Hami Acropolis with a whip first, and Zhu Youxiao also hurriedly followed, and the other cavalry also followed.

The Mongol Tartars also came in this direction.

But at this moment, there was a sudden crackling sound of bullets breaking through the air and the sound of horses' hooves from behind.

Zhu Youzhen and Zu Dale couldn't help but look back, but found that the cavalry of the Praetorian Guard appeared in the rear, these cavalrymen were very skilled in performing their shooting ability on horseback, and those Mongolian Tartars were shot down by the Praetorian Guard cavalry one after another like live targets.