Chapter 429: The Battle of Ba Shang is not over
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The avenue from Tongguan to Jingzhaofu is considered flat, but there are still two rivers in the middle, one is the famous Bashui, and the other is this water (now Weinan River, also known as the River). The water flows north from the Qinling Mountains, passes through Weinan in Huazhou, and then flows into Weishui.
When the Ming cavalry arrived at the water, they were shocked to find that several wooden bridges on the water had been burned clean, and the only stone bridge had been vandalized, apparently before they arrived, it had been patronized by the Mongolian Tartar cavalry.
"Your Highness," Jiang Tie came over, "I have already found two miles to the south and north, but there is not a single bridge." The people and villagers in the city have almost run away, only some women and children are left, the old and weak, Nuo Nuo can't say anything, it seems that we have to figure out our own way. โ
Ye Yingwu only frowned slightly, what he cared about was not how to cross the frozen water, but the Mongolian Tartars burned the bridge on the water, obviously they had already judged that the reinforcements of the Ming army would arrive soon, so they had already started in advance.
In this way, the Mongol Tatars not only wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Shence army in Jingzhao Mansion, but even had made a thorough and detailed plan and came prepared.
However, Wang Jin and Tang Zhen did not have a stable foothold in Jingzhao Mansion, and they didn't know if they could support it.
"Test the thickness of the ice and cross the river!" Ye Yingwu said in a deep voice. Because the horses were heavier and their hooves were prone to slipping, the cavalry preferred to wade through the river rather than cross the river on the ice. Especially today when the clouds are spreading in the sky and the weather is a little warmer, no one can guarantee how thick the ice will be.
Ye Yingwu didn't want his people to fall directly into the ice cave, so whether the people could be relieved or not would be able to relieve themselves was also a big blow to morale.
Jiang Tie jumped to the river, took out his saber and stabbed it, and then his face changed slightly, and he looked at Ye Yingwu: "Your Highness, there should be no problem with the ice on the bank passing through the centaurs, but I don't know the ยทยทยทยทยทยท in the river." If it is thinner, there is a high chance of breaking. โ
"Remove the bridge that hasn't burned clean and spread it out!" Ye Yingwu said in a deep voice. The only way to do this is to increase the area of force so as to avoid ice breakage as much as possible.
Behind Ye Yingwu, Wu Chucai and Xiao Yangzi hurriedly went to order, and the remaining seven or eight wooden planks were all dismantled, Jiang Tie led a few people to the center of the river step by step, and they could already hear the "creaking" sound of the ice being overwhelmed, causing Jiang Tie and them to finally have to lie on the ice and move forward carefully, laying large wooden planks on the place where the sound came from along the way.
Seeing that Jiang Tie and the others had already taken three steps and made two steps to rush to the other side of the river to guard, Ye Yingwu exhaled lightly: "The whole army crosses the river!" โ
The horses, whose hooves were wrapped in cloth, were driven by the soldiers to the other side of the river. The horses also seemed to realize the danger, and they all neighed lowly, and if it weren't for the whip behind them, they would not have been able to pull and drag them over.
The first soldier stepped on the plank, and cracks in the ice were visible to the naked eye, but they were not broken. Ye Yingwu nodded, beckoned Xiao Yangzi and others to lead the war horse down the river, the war horse neighed, and the soldiers shouted before and after, and there was even a majestic momentum.
Just as Ye Yingwu had just walked through the center of the river, there was a sudden exclamation behind him.
The ice, which had already been stepped on by three or four thousand people, was finally overwhelmed and completely broken, huge cracks spread across the ice, and the icy river was already bubbling up, and the nearest few soldiers stepped on the air and fell into the ice. However, when they crossed the river, they were holding hands in front and back, so they were quickly dragged by their companions and lay on the ice, struggling to get up.
Standing on the embankment, Jiang Tie and the others suddenly stomped their feet anxiously, it doesn't matter if one or two people fall down, or even if more than a thousand people can't come over, the key is that His Royal Highness King Ming is still on the river, and it is not far from the center of the river, if these people flutter a few more times in panic and break the ice, His Royal Highness King Ming himself will not be able to protect himself!
When he landed, the soldiers on the shore were anxious to rush up, but Ye Yingwu yelled: "Stop!" Jiang Tie, spread out with people! โ
Seeing Ye Yingwu's serious face, Jiang Tie didn't dare to make a mistake, so he hurriedly waved his hand, and the soldiers on the embankment, on the ice, and on the opposite bank all subconsciously held their breath and looked at Ye Yingwu nervously. Ye Yingwu exhaled lightly, but walked cautiously towards the heart of the river:
"Is the river deep?!"
The soldier holding the ice was slightly stunned, and slowly probed downward with his numb body that was already frozen, and then trembled and shouted: "Your Highness, the river is up to your shoulder!" โ
Ye Yingwu nodded, and said unexpectedly: "Twenty people around, take off the outer layer of armor and go into the water, lift the plank, and let the people behind cross the river!" โ
For a moment, there was only the sound of the howling wind, as if even the breath had dissipated.
No one moved, obviously everyone was frightened by Ye Yingwu's order to almost die, as southerners, they still have a natural sense of rejection of the cold. Ye Yingwu sneered, quickly took off his outer armor, and then pushed away Xiao Yangzi who stepped forward to stop him:
"No one goes into the water, then I come!"
"Plop!" With a bang, Ye Yingwu had already jumped into the water, and the icy river water robbed him of the sensation of his lower body almost instantly, but he still gritted his teeth and carried the floating plank. Although he didn't know what the situation was in Jingzhao Mansion, Ye Yingwu knew that there was not much time left for himself and this support army!
His Royal Highness King Ming is in the water!
In an instant, the eyes of all the Ming soldiers were already red.
Xiao Yangzi jumped into the water for the second time, and immediately after, whether it was the head, the ten generals, or the soldiers, rushed into the water. The sons and daughters of Jiangnan are not afraid of water. Even if the water is colder, His Royal Highness King Youming is carrying it with him in front, but the flame burning in his heart is hot!
"Wu Chucai, take people, cross the river!" Ye Yingwu gritted his teeth and roared.
After the break, Wu Chucai's face was already red: "Cross the river, cross the river all!" โ
One by one, the soldiers carefully led the war horses from the wooden planks supported by the shoulders of His Royal Highness King Ming and his brother Robe, and at this moment everyone subconsciously looked up into the distance, and there was a faint fire beating and burning in their eyes.
When Jiang Tie and the others lifted Ye Yingwu up with all hands and feet, Ye Yingwu was already dizzy and almost lost his intuition. Although he has been training with the guards for a few months, after all, he is still a weak scholar who is powerless, and there is no way to compare with these strong and strong embryokillers, the long journey is already gritting his teeth and persevering, but just now he plunged into the ice river to support it for so long, it would be strange if it was okay.
"Ahh Ye Yingwu sneezed, but he was much more sober.
Xiao Yangzi and the others lit the fire, and at the same time brought all the cloaks of the guards, and wrapped Ye Yingwu in a sturdy knot. And except for the sentry riders who were scattered, all the soldiers were already standing under the horses respectfully, and everyone looked at Ye Yingwu with admiration.
Even the rest of the soldiers who also went into the water with him struggled to untie the clothes wrapped around their bodies and put them on Ye Yingwu. In their opinion, the life of His Royal Highness King Ming is much more valuable than the lives of the five thousand people present, if something happens to His Royal Highness King Ming, what kind of face do you have to see Jiangdong's father?!
"Your Highness!" Jiang Tie and the others all knelt directly in the snow, and there was already a cry in their voices. Ye Yingwu's dizzy appearance just now made them, the old men who only know how to dance knives and guns on weekdays, are about to burst into tears, but they are in a hurry but they don't know what to do.
Even Xiao Yangzi's intestines were repentant, why didn't he insist that His Royal Highness King Ming bring Princess Yang with him, at least at this time there can be someone who has an idea.
Ye Yingwu slowly opened his eyes, looking at the faces full of worried expressions close at hand, Huo Ran shouted: "You old men, what are you doing so close to Lao Tzu?!" โ
Seeing that Ye Yingwu's words were still very energetic, Jiang Tie and the others immediately breathed a sigh of relief. And Ye Yingwu's disgusted gaze was more like a life-saving straw in their eyes. Looking around, Ye Yingwu said in a deep voice: "It's all for me, when and where is this?" โ
Xiao Yangzi hurriedly said: "Your Highness, we are still on the east bank of the water, you fainted just now about a cup of tea, and it won't be long." โ
Ye Yingwu exhaled lightly, it was worth wasting this little time to let everyone cross the river. At that moment, he was struggling to stand up, so frightened that Xiao Yangzi and the others hurriedly stepped forward to help. Ye Yingwu held on to the trunk of the tree and said in a deep voice: "There are still a hundred miles of land from Bashui, and it will take two hours for us to rush over, hurry up and organize people and horses to set off, and by the way, scatter the sentry horses, and be sure to find out the battle situation!" โ
"But Your Highness, your body ยทยทยทยทยทยท" Wu Chucai and Jiang Tie had worry on their faces with capital letters.
"What the hell is it, saving soldiers is like fighting fires, if you grind any longer, the daylilies will be cold!" Ye Yingwu's face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, and he lifted the clothes on his body that he didn't know how many layers he had wrapped. These clumsy embryokillers actually picked up indiscriminately, so Ye Yingwu ripped them off as soon as he pulled them.
Jiang Tie suddenly gritted his teeth: "Xiao Yangzi, you take your personal guards to protect Your Highness, Lao Wu, let's go!" โ
Wu Chucai nodded, and Ye Yingwu just wanted to refute, but Xiao Yangzi couldn't help but wrap the clothes scattered on the ground around Ye Yingwu. Your Highness has suffered from such cold, how can you blow the wind again. Looking at the insistence of the guards, Ye Yingwu could only sit down helplessly.
In fact, I really have some weakness in my limbs.
At that moment, I was really desperate, I haven't felt so hearty for a long time.
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The two thousand Mongolian cavalry on the Bayuan never imagined that when they raised their sabers and rushed towards the group of Ming cavalry that had been killed from the north of Lintong, the sound of dense horse hooves accompanied by the sound of arrows breaking through the air had come from behind, and it was getting louder and closer.
"Not good!" The cavalry in the back row subconsciously turned around, and their pupils contracted suddenly.
A sharp arrow pierced their backs, and the Mongolian cavalry fell to the ground in the arrows shot from the side and rear, the war horses neighed in pain, and ran around in the originally neat ranks.
The horses neighed, the arrows flew sideways, and in an instant the whole barren was in chaos.
The cavalry of the Ming army who killed the brigade north of Lintong had already rushed into the range of the crossbow, and pulled the trigger at the same time without hesitation. Although the crossbow can be controlled with one hand and is easy to hit the target, it is limited by the range, so that these Ming cavalry are ready to be baptized by the Mongols first, but who would have thought that the Mongols themselves will be in chaos first, and in a panic, some cavalry turned their horses to meet the cavalry led by Tang Zhen, while the rest continued to gallop forward.
It wasn't until the Ming army's arrows were about to arrive that the Mongolian cavalry hurriedly released the arrows that had been stretched for a long time. The arrows roared, and the sabre and the upright lance collided fiercely in the next moment, like the lava from a volcanic eruption roaring into the sea, the blood-red flowers bloomed on the white carpet, and the red and black flags were chaotic like ants.
The wind was like a knife, and the scattered arrows were whistling around him, making it almost a luxury to speak, but whether it was to survive or to defeat this enemy, Tang Zhen had no choice. At that moment, he pulled the reins of the horse, the war horse neighed, and the person stood up, and the knife in Tang Zhen's hand pointed straight to the side: "Don't fall in love with the war, rush to the barland!" โ
The group of cavalry around him had been waiting for Tang Zhen to give an order, and at this time they hurriedly followed him to turn their horses' heads. However, the sound of the wind and the sound of fighting became louder and louder, and the cavalry in front could not hear the order that the shout was basically torn apart by the wind, and still rode forward.
Tang Zhen couldn't take care of them for a while, all he had to do was to save the combat strength and lives of most of the people. Fortunately, as Tang Zhen's side moved, the cavalry on the periphery and behind the broken rear also hurriedly followed, and 1,7800 of the 2,500 people followed.
The war horse panted in the wind, this is not the time to care about the horsepower, one by one the horsewhip was pulled down fiercely, and the spurs did not hesitate to stab the body of the war horse, in the wind, in the rolling snow powder, blood flowed down the combat boots and horse legs, but soon formed a layer of pink thin ice.
Bayuan is the highest place between Lintong and Bashui, and to the east of Bayuan is Bashui and the famous Baqiao. The main task of the 2,000 Mongol cavalry just now was to attract the attention of the Ming cavalry, so they did not cross the Baqiao. Now the cavalry of the Ming army rushed to the plain, which was actually equivalent to keeping the back road of retreat, as long as a part of the elite was dispatched to drag the Mongolian Tartars, the rest could retreat calmly.
Rushing all the way to the barland, Tang Zhen slowly reined in the war horse. Panting and exhausted men and horses stopped near him.
"Yu Hou, look!" One of them pointed to the battlefield under the barren and said.
After almost a quarter of the people fell, the Mongolian cavalry that had served as a decoy finally came to their senses, a thousand-man team blocked the stormy attack of the Ming cavalry brigade, and the rest surrounded the hundreds of cavalry regiments that had not had time to follow Tang Zhen's retreat with the cavalry brigade that had not had time to follow Tang Zhen's retreat.
The cavalry of the Ming army continued to fall, and the red flags that had once hunted and danced in the wind also disappeared from sight.
Suddenly, the cavalry of the Ming army on the barian army stepped forward one after another: "Marquis Yu, let's stand on a high place now, and we will definitely be able to catch the Mongolian Tartars off guard!" โ
"Yes, Marquis Yu, you can't watch these hundreds of brothers being bullied by them!"
"It's too late to rush down now!"
Several heads and ten generals turned their eyes to Tang Zhen. In an instant, they all had a look of humiliation and anxiety on their faces. Suddenly turning the horse's head from the battlefield in full swing, leaving the brothers who charged in front and retreating here, for every Ming army soldier who is determined to kill the enemy, it is nothing less than an indescribable shame. They can't afford to watch the flesh and blood of the robe in exchange for their own respite.
To live together, to die, should also be together!
"Presumptuous!" Two words were struggling to come out of his teeth, and Tang Zhen's face was gloomy.
He served as Du Yuhou when the Shence Army was still the left wing of the Tianwu Army, and his seniority in the army was older than many of the veterans who were tempered by the Northern Expedition later, plus Tang Zhenyun was Wen Yunwu, resourceful, and the training of the new army on weekdays was often Wang Jin sang with a white face, and Tang Zhen sang with a red face, so this Du Yuhou's prestige in the army was even higher than Wang Jin.
"Stay and both guard the Baqiao, both of them will monitor the Mongol Tatars on the Bayuan, and the rest will come with so-and-so." Tang Zhen said in a deep voice, "No matter what method these four hundred people use, no matter what kind of enemy they face, they must defend the Baqiao for a certain person, and if the Baqiao is lost, the military law will be engaged!" โ
"No!" The four people who were pointed by Tang Zhen's hand hurriedly responded.
And Tang Zhen urged the war horse to rush down first in the face of the wind. The soldiers behind also didn't care about the war horses and themselves were extremely tired, the horses in their hands were flat, the red flags were fluttering, and they were waiting for their own families to keep up.
How can a good man shrink his head and watch Brother Pao Ze fight bloodily here, he should kill him vigorously! (To be continued.) )