In September of the 14th year of Zheng, in order to exterminate the righteous army and open up the grain route leading to Dadu through the Grand Canal, the prime minister of Meng Yuan took off his relatives and marshal the kings of the grassland, the provinces of the Central Plains, the khanates of the Western Regions, and the subject country of Goryeo, a total of 400,000 troops, known as one million, and marched south to the Gaoyou Righteous Army.

For a time, the banner covered the sky and the sun, and the military horses stretched beyond the boundary, and the whole of China was shaken.

Zhang Shicheng organized the righteous army to resist day by day, but there were too many soldiers and horses in Mengyuan, and most of them were elite troops drawn from all over the country, Zhang Shicheng couldn't resist, and within a day, the army had already arrived at Gaoyou City.

Hao Renshuai's 3,000 cavalry came from afar to support Zhang Shicheng, but he didn't use 3,000 soldiers and horses to fight hard with 400,000 troops, he asked for a reputation for impatience and justice, and signed a few contracts with Zhang Shicheng, which was enough, he expected that Zhang Shicheng would not die, and it was not his own territory that he would get rid of, and he would not be able to lose his troops and fight with the enemy.

Zhang Shicheng had already killed the red eye and refused to give up, and put Gaoyou's more than 100,000 troops under the city to meet the 400,000 army of Tokto.

In the Mengyuan army array, the army of the steppe kings was the mainstay, mixed with Asu, Huihui, Gaochang, Slavic, Goryeo and many other soldiers, with a variety of appearances and banners, just like a multinational coalition army.

Zhang Shicheng had long tiger eyes and long hair, sitting on the Chinese military horse, holding the long Miao knife in both hands, quite a bit of imperial spirit, he said to Hao Ren Hao Ren:

"Brother Xian, your layer by layer resistance, with the means of delaying and waiting for change, is no longer effective, Tokhov has already hit my capital, and now there is only a battle against the water!"

"The enemy is powerful, I am afraid that it will be difficult to defeat for a while, Sun Tzu said, 'the good fighters of the past, first for the invincible, in order to wait for the enemy to win, can win in the enemy, can not win in their own way', King Cheng according to the city to defend the city, Guozuo with troops outside, disperse its troops, as long as Gaoyou is not broken, there is always a means to defeat the detachment, I have sent the army Liu Bowen to the capital to separate the detachment of the monarch and the minister (Liu Bowen is on the way to dig the grave), if the detachment loses momentum, the defeat of this million army, it is as easy as a hand!" Hao Ren quoted scriptures and said catchily.

Hao Ren's boasting of a divisive plan is simply nothing.

He had read the story of the battle against Gaoyou in the literature of the stall, and he had a general understanding of the war, so he boasted that he used the relationship between the monarch and the minister to strengthen Zhang Shicheng's determination to resist, and also for his own ability.

Anyway, sooner or later, he will lose his position, so he simply bragged and said that he used his own tricks, and when the time comes, what will happen to him, who will be able to verify it? The princes of the world, don't bow their heads yet?

"According to the strategy of the virtuous brother, when I have fought for this while, I will defend it according to Gaoyou, I hope that the plan of the virtuous brother will work as soon as possible!"

Zhang Shicheng also wanted to defend according to Gaoyou, but there were as many as 100,000 soldiers who had retreated from various places, and Gaoyou did not have so much food to feed these many people, and he was trapped in Gaoyou, so Zhang Shicheng decided to fight with Tokhtar for a while under Gaoyou City.

"I will hold down the position with King Cheng and take King Cheng back to the city!" Hao Ren said.

"Take care, good brother!"

"King Cheng take care!"

Before he been, the two sides beat drums and cheered, and as soon as the battle began, hundreds of thousands of people on both sides rushed to kill each other, and the scene was extremely tragic.

Zhang Shicheng's three younger brothers, Zhang Shixin, Zhang Shiyi, Zhang Shide, and Li Bosheng, were military generals, but in their early years, they were engaged in selling smuggled salt, and lived a life of licking blood on the knife.

The Tokhtar army, spearheaded by the Mongol kings and the Western Regions khanates, has been living in the steppes, and its combat effectiveness has basically remained at the level of Genghis Khan's time, not as corrupt as the Mongol soldiers in the Han region. The fight was like drinking, and he screamed with excitement.

The Mengyuan multinational army fought with the Gaoyou Righteous Army for two hours, and the Gaoyou Righteous Army gradually could not support it, and the Righteous Army retreated like a tide.

The first to retreat was the infantry, Zhang Shide, Zhang Shicheng and others led the cavalry to resist desperately, covering the retreat of the infantry, and the Gaoyou Righteous Army could no longer control the situation, and the whole line retreated.

"Brother Xian, help me block them and cover my entry into the city!" Zhang Shicheng was covered in blood and ran into the city in embarrassment.

Hao Ren has been in Gaoyou for more than half a month, and has received quite high courtesy from Zhang Shicheng, everyone is a rebel, and it is indeed a little uninteresting not to do some decent resistance at this time!

Since we are acting, let's play it more seriously, there are many advanced weapons, we must always show them, and when Zhang Shicheng makes a comeback in the future, we can sell weapons.

"King Cheng will go first, and I will block him with you!" Hao Ren said in a big way.

Hao Ren's army was a half-moon-shaped army, which opened a big hole in the Chinese army, letting go of Zhang Shicheng's army, and the cavalry troops that had escaped could not see the end at a glance, and the front was in a straight line, and the tide followed the rout.

The city gate was too narrow to accommodate the large army to retreat into the city in groups, and many Gaoyou's cavalry ran along the city wall to both sides of the city gate, and some ran back with the moat.

In front of Hao Ren's army, there were 500 infantrymen, and on their shoulders carried iron drums with a diameter of more than one foot wide and a length of more than two feet, and each iron drum was loaded with thirty-six rockets. ”。

A swarm of bees is recorded in the Song Dynasty's "Wujing General Essentials", which is the prototype of rocket artillery in later generations, but after the Qingfeng army will improve the gun/powder in the workshop, the power is far greater than the current general rocket.

"Swarm, fire!"

Hao Ren gave an order, five hundred bees swarmed, spewing dazzling flames, and in an instant, more than 10,000 rockets were fired at the cavalry that pressed over.

The charging Mengyuan soldiers suddenly encountered a powerful firepower blow, and in an instant, they turned on their backs, were injured by countless arrows, and the momentum of the advance was slightly sluggish.

The suspension bridge behind Qingfeng's army was squeaked up, and Hao Ren knew that his little strength was against an army of 400,000, unless Yue Wumu was alive, if he didn't run at this time, he would die and have no place to be buried.

"Brothers, get on your horse and rush out with me" Hao Ren gave an order, and the long knife was already unsheathed, and five hundred "swarms of bees" dropped the iron bucket, turned over and jumped on the horse's back, and used the crossbow, followed Hao Ren, along the city wall, and rushed eastward.

The west of Gaoyou City relied on Gaoyou Lake, and Meng Yuan's army came from the north of Gaoyou, and Hao Ren's cavalry could only run eastward, running through the city wall and then retreating south before escaping the encirclement of the army.

The army of hundreds of thousands of Mengyuan rushed over like a tide, drowning Hao Ren's army, like the sea drowning a fine sand, Hao Ren's army, how easy is it to rush out before the Mengyuan army is encircled?

Although Hao Ren's army retreated, the army maintained a formation, the whole formation was about an obtuse triangle, a long side of the triangle was parallel to the moat, Hao Ren was at the apex of the small corner of the triangle army formation, followed by Wu Liujiu's 1,000 crossbowmen, Hu Dahai and Geng Zaicheng each led 500 cavalry to be the short side of the triangle army formation.

The Hand Crossbow of the Qingfeng Army is improved!

A hand crossbow is a small machine, through the principle of moving the pulley, the power of the hand crossbow winding is weakened a lot, it is an ordinary woman, and the crossbow string can also be moved to the card slot, the crossbow arrow is shorter than the bow and arrow, improving the shooting power, and the range is ten steps farther than the compound bow of Menggu.

Hao Ren took such a crossbowman and took turns to open the way in front.

Geng Zaicheng took five hundred pear flower gunners, rode a horse and held a fire-breathing pear flower spear obliquely, protecting the outer edge of the triangle army formation, preventing the Mengyuan cavalry from rushing into the military formation, Hu Dahai led five hundred earth-shaking thundermen, and after the break, did not let the Mengyuan cavalry break through the military formation.

Although the cavalry of the Mongol and Kipchak steppes and the Mongol kings were extremely brave, they suffered countless casualties under this powerful and orderly firepower, but they could not break through Hao Ren's army.

Gradually, the cavalry of the Qingfeng army broke out of the encirclement before the encirclement of the large army, and retreated south along the moat, and the Gaoyou Righteous Army at the head of the city also covered the Qingfeng army with artillery, catapults, and bows and crossbows.

The Mengyuan cavalry that suffered a blow, like a chicken blood, followed behind the Qingfeng army, biting and not letting go, constantly throwing bows and arrows into the Qingfeng army's military formation.

The cavalry of the Qingfeng army is mostly Han horses, and their speed and endurance are not as good as the Mongolian horses of Mengyuan, and after running for more than ten miles, the horsepower is gradually overdrawn, and the distance between them and the Mengyuan cavalry is getting closer and closer.

The horsepower is like this, if you run for more than ten miles, I am afraid that the war horses of the Qingfeng cavalry will run out of strength, and then be eaten by the Mengyuan cavalry. (To be continued.) )