"Ma Shilong was blocked outside the Anbian Station, fought with thieves, lost three battles and three defeats, and heard that there were tens of thousands of thieves, what do you think?"

Hong Chengchou took the battle report in his hand, raised it weakly, and let the people below tell him, his mind was in chaos, and looking at the blue sky outside the tent, it was extremely hateful. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Ma Shilong was defeated in Anbian and encountered the main force of the Sixth Brigade led by Chen Da, so he naturally estimated the combat effectiveness of the thief army with his old battalion soldiers and horses, but where there were 2,000 backbone of the old battalion, at least ten times as many displaced people as this would be recruited, so Ma Shilong thought that the thief army in front of him had tens of thousands of horses, which was not wrong at all.

However, a partial division of Yang Jiamo under the command of the Gansu General Military Officer fled from the defeat of Lanzhou and Ganzhou, saying that Gansu Town also had an army of 50,000 or 60,000 thieves and occupied Lanzhou and other places, and even the king of Su did not know his whereabouts.

Hong Chengchou knew that his end was coming.

Yang He was the main caretaker, and as a result, the homeless people sat down, and the court was furious and asked him for his guilt.

What will happen if you lose a prince of the court as a result of your own efforts?

"Your Excellency the Governor, the Mongol Tartars entered the Kou for nothing more than money and food, but the thief army occupies the state and county and captures our army and people, it is indeed necessary to divide the territory for a long time, and the lesser of two evils, let's go back to the division as soon as possible to quell the chaos."

Yang Jiamo can't wait any longer, he is the chief military officer of Gansu Town, the place where he is stationed, the thieves are rampant, and the whereabouts of King Su are unknown, even if Hong Chengchou does not give the order, he has to return to the division to rescue, otherwise once the court is held responsible, he will not escape death.

"Why is General Yang like this, if he insists on returning to the division, and the Mongolian Tatars take the opportunity to enter the army, the big thing will be suspended." Zhang Hongye shook his head and said distressedly.

Zhang Quanchang also said kind words to convince him, "There are twenty or thirty thousand Mongolian Tatars in front of you, if the general army insists on leaving, it will be a failure." ”

After all, now under the command of Hong Chengchou, there is only one chief military officer like him, if he leaves with the 4,000 men and horses in his Gansu town, the Ming army occupying Lingzhou will have no available field mobile forces, and can only let the Mongolian Tatars gallop through Ningxia.

Yang Jiamo got up with a wry smile, walked to Hong Chengchou, knelt down on one knee and pleaded, "Please also ask the governor to have mercy on me, this time to aid Ning, my station is lost, if the court asks, the last general will not escape death, if the army is withdrawn now, it can still make up for the merits, if the governor allows, the last general will bring the troops back to the division, if the governor does not allow it, the last general can only reluctantly lead the troops back." ”

Although he was commanded by Hong Chengchou, Gansu Town was in trouble, and he had no choice but to return to his division, and he couldn't stay if he was forced to stay.

"That's it, that's it," Hong Chengchou waved his hand sadly, "There is no need to say more, I know that most of your subordinates are border residents in Gansu Town, and if you hear the turmoil in the west, you have no intention of fighting, in this case, you can lead the army back." ”

It's useless to force them to stay, these soldiers are already like arrows, if they delay any longer, they may mutiny in front of the battle, it is better to let them go back first and stabilize the place.

"Governor Xie." Although Yang Jiamo got permission, he didn't have a smile on his face, after all, the situation had reached the point where it was out of control, the thieves started from Yanan, all the way to Qingyang, Pingliang, Gongchang, and the soldiers spread all over the entire Shaanxi Trilateral Town, even if he reluctantly returned to the division, he could only occupy some territory and deal with the thief army.

If you want to regain the lost territory on a large scale, you have to return to the main forces of the three sides to send troops to the imperial court to reinforce it, but now the will of the imperial court cannot be transmitted, it is said that it has been nearly half a month, and there is not even a trace of news.

"Since General Yang insists on leaving, but there is also a need to rely on me," Hong Chengchou even today, he also wanted to make a final desperate fight, and said decisively, "Shajingkou is the place where the Mongolian Tatars enter the pass, I want to raise the whole division to move eastward, recover this place, and block the retreat of the Mongolian Tatars, but as soon as the general army leaves, I will lack a major general, if I can get the help of the general army and recover this place, then Ningxia Town will be stable, and the city will not be lost." ”

"How?"

"If you dare to die for the governor, I will fight to the death in Gansu Town." Yang Jiamo knew that this was Hong Chengchou's only request to release people, and if he didn't agree, I was afraid that the officers and soldiers of Gansu Town would be able to go back, but he was destined to be used by the governors of the three sides to establish his authority.

"Okay, the armies listened to the order, tonight the three watches made dinner, selected two thousand elite cavalry dead soldiers as the leader, directly broke through the Mongolian Tartar camp, first broke its main force, and then went straight to the manhole, completely cut off the retreat of this Mongolian Tartar, I have sent a message to Ningxia left and right Zhongtunwei, abandon the station, the whole division goes south, the army is flanked from the north and south, be sure to open up the contact."

Hong Chengchou is going to fight to the death, after he arrived in Lingzhou, properly arranged the city defense, monitored the movement of the Mongols day and night, but found that the enemy in front of him, without any rules, every morning to camp in one place, and then divided into small groups everywhere to attack, plundering the local population and goods, returning to the camp at dusk, and despising the nearby Lingzhou City.

It seems that the Ming army is not in his eyes, this time, Hong Chengchou broke the cauldron and decided to have a decisive battle with the Mongolian Tatars, anyway, there is no way out, there is a Mongolian army peeping on the side for a day, Hong Chengchou does not want to completely free up his hands to go south to quell the civil unrest, and now the situation, I don't know what the trouble has become, anyway, it has completely lost contact with the mainland.

I have to say that the Mongols occupied a big advantage on three sides, although they lost in the siege of Lingzhou, but the main force was not lost, plus they had strong mobility, they did not look at the Ming army at all.

He arrogantly placed the camp in the northwest of Lingzhou more than 20 miles, and selected iron horsemen to attack everywhere every day to plunder all kinds of wealth of the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning, the Mongolian Tatars did not dare to be so arrogant, after all, outside Lingzhou City, they had learned the elite combat effectiveness of the Ming army, but soon, they saw that the Ming army lacked horses, and among the twenty or thirty thousand troops, only one-tenth of them had horses, which doomed the Ming army to be unable to surpass them in mobility.

Therefore, after looting around Lingzhou City, they were no longer satisfied with this gain, and began to bypass Lingzhou City and go deep into the interior to plunder, of which 30,000 households on the left wing, under the leadership of their chief governor, went around the city to the south to plunder the place.

The main force of 20,000 iron cavalry led by Lin Dan Khan went north to plunder the hinterland of Ningxia Town, but in his rear, only 300 people were sent to monitor the movements of the Ming army.

During the day on this day, the Ming army first sent out 500 cavalry, divided into several routes, out of the city to intercept and kill the Mongol spies, and then, with more than 1,500 cavalry, went out of the eastern city to bypass behind the Mongol Tartars, first cut off the retreat of the Mongol army, and killed a small force of Mongol Tatars transporting people and materials.

Subsequently, the 5,000-foot army of Gansu Town and Ningxia Guard, which was camped in the east of Lingzhou, followed, and 12,000 Lingzhou defenders under Hong Chengchou's personal command went out of the city and went straight to the Mongolian camp.

At this moment, in the Mongolian camp, there was no general in the town, and there were spies who fled back to deliver letters, but they could not find the commander and the commander of the thousand commanders who could call the shots, and they could only go out to look for it, so it was a delay in time.

After finding Lin Dan Khan, it was almost dusk, Lin Dan Khan heard the letter and immediately led his troops to rush back, after all, the money and grain he plundered, the population and livestock, all imprisoned in the camp, this is the life-saving food and grass of the Hetao tribe for the winter, and it must not be lost.

When he hurried back to the camp all the way, he looked at the ashes in anger and the Ming army more than 2,000 cavalry rushed into the camp with torches, and the 3,000 iron cavalry stationed there were killed everywhere, after all, the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian Tartars could not beat the cavalry of the Ming army, plus the Ming army set fire everywhere as soon as they rushed in, and these soldiers and horses guarding the camp had to fight the fire again, so they had no intention of fighting a decisive battle.

"Chase, we must wipe out all this Ming army to relieve the hatred in my heart!" Lin Dan Khan couldn't sit still any longer, watching the last cavalry of the Ming army disappear into the dim sky, he was furious, urging the exhausted cavalry around him to catch up.

Walking to five or six miles, he was able to catch up with the rear guard of the Ming army, and after killing for a while, he eliminated more than 100 people of the Ming army, but in this way, he was still not angry, and continued to catch up with more than 5,000 cavalry from his cronies.

Maybe it was because the Ming army's war horses were weak, or maybe the soldiers of the Ming army were physically exhausted, and after continuing to run for four or five miles, the cavalry of the Ming army, which was less than 2,000 people, finally couldn't run, so they lined up in front of them.

Seeing this, Lin Dan Khan laughed and said, "Kill this group of Ming troops." ”

The two exhausted cavalry finally fought together, but the Ming army still had a slight advantage in the first wave of impact, after all, their equipment was better than that of the Mongolian Tartar cavalry, not only equipped with good armor, but also the advantage of long weapons when impacting.

The Mongolian Tartars are almost some animal skin jackets wrapped in vital points, holding scimitars, and a small number of them are holding long hammers, so they naturally suffered losses, but fortunately, they are numerous, and they are proficient in fighting immediately, and soon take advantage of the advantage in numbers to kill the Ming army and retreat again and again.

But the advantage is only this, after all, the Ming army got the death order, and the generals of the trilateral military towns this time already knew that there was no way to retreat, so the cavalry of the various divisions also stood up and fought to the death with the Mongolian army in front of them under the stimulation of the general's death.

At this time, the 17,800 Ming infantry who had been ambushed for a long time came out from behind the hill after three huge cannon shots.

The cavalry lost the impact of high-speed maneuvering, and took up close combat, but instead of the opponent of the infantry, in the midst of the regiments, the Mongol cavalry constantly fell off their horses and were disarmed by swords, while some of the intelligent cavalry on the periphery took the opportunity to flee and rushed out of the gap between the infantry and the army.

Lin Dan Khan also made a quick decision, knowing that he was ambushed by the Ming army, and under the hard work of the dead guards, he chose a gap and escaped, and the Mongolian cavalry who fell into a desperate battle was naturally difficult to spare, and they were surrounded by the Ming infantry regiments who arrived. (To be continued.) )