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And Ye Yingwu laughed helplessly, squatted down and looked directly at Polo, who was trembling all over his body. It seems that the life of a drunken man has completely worn out the ambition of this Mongolian man: "Well, let me ask you a question, the deployment of Mongolian troops in the surrounding state capitals. As long as there is a deviation, you will wait to be cut by a thousand cuts. ”

Polo hurriedly kowtowed to Ye Yingwu: "Don't dare, don't dare, tell Your Highness everything the villain knows!" ”

When Polo finished speaking like pouring beans, Ye Yingwu stood up, glanced at him with some disgust, and immediately glanced at Xiao Yangzi: "Kill it." ”

As soon as Polo heard these three words, he immediately shouted in despair: "His Royal Highness King Ming, the villain really said everything he could say, not a word is bad, His Royal Highness King Ming, how can you not believe your words, His Royal Highness King Ming!" ”

Ye Yingwu clapped his hands without replying, people generally only tell the truth when they are dying, and now Polo has said everything in order to save his life, and Ye Yingwu used killing him as a threat, and let Polo himself confirm that he did not lie. But this does not mean that Ye Yingwu really intends to let go of Polo, for this guy who is a fish and a flesh of the people, bullying men and women, and does not know how much he has looted the people's fat and people's cream, Ye Yingwu does not have the slightest mercy, and even has no chance to use him after this time, the Mongols must also regard him as a shame, and naturally they will not listen to his preaching and persuasion.

A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and Ye Yingwu still stretched out two fingers with compassion: "There are two reasons to kill you, first, the guarantee I made has no effect on the beast; Second, if I don't kill you, it will be too wasteful of food. ”

Su Niang couldn't help laughing, Ye Yingwu didn't say these two sentences, to put it more bluntly, it means that Lao Tzu has run out of you, and naturally he doesn't want to keep you anymore.

And Huang Wei on the side shivered, looking at Ye Yingwu's back with some trepidation, and couldn't help but secretly congratulate himself that he hadn't done anything hurtful before, I'm afraid this is also the reason why Ye Yingwu was able to spare his life.

Xiao Yangzi had already pushed open the wing room on the other side, and commanded the two soldiers to spread out the map. Ye Yingwu stretched out his hand to Jeju Mansion and said in a deep voice: "According to what Polo said, the Mongol Tatars are heavily fortified on the front line from Xuzhou to Yingtianfu and then to Yunzhou, so that Jeju, as the capital, can be blocked behind, and form a triangle to resist the attack of our army. ”

Jiang Tie said with a smile: "It's just that they didn't expect it now, His Highness was clever and clever, and he actually outflanked him from behind, but he occupied Jeju first." ”

Thousands of clothes, sycophants are not worn, Jiang Tie patted smoothly, Ye Yingwu was too lazy to say, but said in a deep voice: "You must not be carried away by this victory, although we have taken Jeju, but there are only two thousand cavalry around us, and the lone army is deep, if it is not for the city this time, I am afraid that even the grain and grass will not be enough, and in the nearest Yunzhou, there are at least more than 10,000 Mongolian Tartar foot soldiers." ”

"Your Highness, just give orders, where Your Highness points the brothers to rush, there is absolutely no deviation." Jiang Tie's blood rushed, as if he had returned to the time when he followed Ye Yingwu and led five hundred cavalry to rampage among the tens of millions of Mongolian Tatars.

A hundred battles have been experienced in a hundred battles, and they are born to have fewer enemies and more!

Ye Yingwu nodded: "I personally led the army to attack Shandong, just to be able to successfully disrupt the Mongolian Tartars' position, and now although Jeju has been taken, after all, it has not touched the top priority of the Mongolian Tartars' defense in the entire Shandong, and the Mongolian army huddled in the line from Xuzhou to Yunzhou still has the possibility of retreating or being trapped in the beast, and now I want to turn this last possibility into nothing." ”

A pair of eyes fell on Ye Yingwu with blazing flames.

They believe that since His Royal Highness King Ming has spoken out, he will naturally be able to do it. And Su Niang glanced at her husband with some concern, after all, unlike these killers who licked blood with knives and had been holding back in the rear for too long, her main purpose this time was to protect Ye Yingwu, just raid Qingzhou, and endure the danger to Jeju Su Niang, but Ye Yingwu was not satisfied, and actually set his eyes on the main force of the Mongolian Tartars, this is not ・・・・・・

Slowly holding Su Niang's hand, Ye Yingwu glanced at her, and then said in a deep voice: "The grain and grass of the Mongolian Tartars are concentrated in Yunzhou, as long as we have good luck, we can burn all this to ashes, and when the time comes, I will see that the Mongolian Tartars still have the ability to resist!" ”

"No!" A group of generals agreed with a bang.

"Tell the brethren to get some rest, block the news, and leave tomorrow morning." Ye Yingwu waved his hand.

Jiang Tie remembered something and looked at Ye Yingwu: "Your Highness, what about Huang Wei?" ”

"Give him a chance to perform, and see if he has the ability to hold on to this Jeju." Ye Yingwu chuckled, this can be regarded as his final test for Huang Wei, "In addition, the Divine Guard Army behind is ordered to speed up the march and try to arrive in Jeju tomorrow morning." ”

When Jiang Tie and the others left, Su Niang Huo Ran turned to Ye Yingwu: "Husband, this is too risky, the concubine body does not agree!" Moreover, the sisters of the back house and the ministers in the court will not agree to the husband and the king being in such a risk, what is the difference between attacking the city garrisoned by tens of thousands of troops with 2,000 cavalry and sending ・・・・・・! ”

patted Su Niang's hand, Ye Yingwu said lightly: "How big a risk is this, I also know that it is not comparable to the attack on Qingzhou and Jeju, but this risk, I have to take it, because I don't know how long Sichuan and Shu can hold out, and I don't know how long the Mongolian Tatars in Xuzhou can hold out, because there is no way to control any battlefield, so I have to let Daming occupy the greatest advantage on the battlefield where he is." ”

Seeing that Su Niangqiao still had a strong sadness on her face, Ye Yingwu laughed: "Okay, Su Er, don't worry, fight big with small, for a certain person, for Jiang Tie and their guards, it can be regarded as commonplace, when a certain took them from Macheng and Luzhou to fight all the way out of the bloody battle, which time was there more than the Mongolian Tatars?" Therefore, in this small group of cavalry raids, the Mongol Tatars also have to weigh and weigh against Shang. What's more, with light troops, as long as you take it by surprise and advance quickly, even if you have thousands of troops, you can't resist it. ”

Ye Yingwu's insistent expression made Yang Xu nod in compromise. And Ye Yingwu stood up and stretched his waist and pushed the window open. Jeju City had been awakened by this sudden war, and the streets of the city were filled with panicked crowds, and it was only by this time that most people did not know that the city had changed hands.

"You don't see, the final army of the Han Dynasty, the weak crown is the captive, please Changying; You don't see it, Ban Dingyuan is far away, and the peerless light cavalry urges the battle clouds. Ye Yingwu leaned against the window and muttered, "Huo Quzhi crisscrossed Hexi with 800 light horses, Chen Qingzhi ran rampant in Heluo with 8,000 white robes, this time it's the turn of a certain person, all the Chinese heroes and martyrs are on top, please be sure to bless a certain one, this battle is related to the success or failure of the life and death of the Lianghuai battlefield, the success or failure of the life and death of the Ming Dynasty, and the five thousand years of China's vast national fortune!" ”

This battle cannot be lost.

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When Ye Yingwu was worried that there were only two thousand people, Wang Jin also looked at Hangu Guan in front of him and shook his head. Although the Mongolian Tartars did not expect that the Ming army would abandon Luoyang, and swept towards the mountains and Hangu, but because in the area of Tongguan and Jingzhaofu, it was the lifeblood of the Mongolian Sichuan and Shu army to transport grain, so Mongolia had already arranged in this Hangu Pass.

Of course, Wang Jin looked at the increasing number of Mongolian troops at the Hangu Pass, and also understood that in fact, his goal had been achieved, and it was enough to contain the attention of the Mongolian army. But Wang Jin is not the only one who pursues such a little.

Especially in this turbulent era when the national war, even His Royal Highness King Ming has gone north.

In the hearts of many people, this is a world of chaos and great disputes, but in Wang Jin's eyes, this is a world of heroes and leaders. If there was no such war, maybe he would have been just a Wang family yaman who had done nothing all his life, and it was precisely because of Ye Yingwu and because of the Mongolian Tartars that he had come to this point.

But these are far from enough, soldiers who do not want to be generals are not good soldiers, and generals who do not want to expand their territory are not good generals. Daming was able to make up his mind to the Northern Expedition this time, Wang Jin naturally would not let go of this good opportunity to drop pie in the sky, his eyes fell on the map, and what he cared about was not Hangu Pass at all, but Jingzhaofu further west and farther away, the big city that symbolized the prosperity of China, the capital of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it had a more widely spread and praised name - Chang'an.

Five hundred years ago, it was the center of the world.

Wang Jin didn't mind taking Jingzhao Mansion and taking the honor of recovering this city as a pearl on the laurel of his military exploits, although there was already Luoyang there before, but it was far from enough.

(Author's note: In the Song Dynasty, Luoyang was Xijing, and Xi'an was Jingzhaofu, which was different from Xi'an as Xijing and Luoyang as Tokyo in the Han and Tang dynasties.) ）

The entire Hangu Pass has been bombarded by flying thunder cannons over and over again, and there is not even a trace of anyone on the city, Wang Jin exhaled lightly: "Order, attack the city in the front compartment!" ”

The sword and shield men marched forward, while the crossbowmen behind continued to suppress the Mongol soldiers at the head of the city.

"Get up to town, quick! Can't let the southern barbarians rush out of the gate! Asutai pushed the Mongolian soldiers beside him, and countless soldiers ran along the upper city trail towards the city. And Asutai also followed with a knife, but his brows were constantly furrowed.

I have to say that the arrival of the Southern Barbarian did surprise him, because although the official title of Asutai is the commander of ten thousand masters, the number of Mongolian soldiers in the entire Hangu Pass is not even three thousand, and most of these three thousand are Han soldiers, and most of the rest are soldiers of Mongolian affiliated ethnic groups such as Semu people and Tang Wuren, and the real Mongolian cavalry is less than a thousand.

Wanting to rely on these people to defend Hangu Pass, Asutai, who had not experienced a large-scale siege battle, had no confidence at all, especially when the flying thunder cannon was raging at the head of the city, Asutai's courage was almost cut off little by little.

But no matter how many southern barbarians there are under the city, they must also take people to stay here, because just east of Hangu Pass, there is a grain and grass convoy that has just crossed the river to the south, once Hangu Pass is broken through by the southern barbarians, then this grain convoy will suffer a catastrophe nine times out of ten.

Arrows whistled overhead, and Asutai ran behind the battlements, and quietly poked his head out to glance at the Hangu Pass, where the rolling red tide swallowed the white plain. As a young general born in the heyday of Mongolia, Asutai became one of the few young commanders in Mongolia because of his family's nobility and outstanding ability, but this does not mean that he participated in many major wars.

Especially when Asutai was on the Western Front before, he was mainly responsible for leading the army to deter the Ögedai Khanate, and the two sides were far from the point of saber rattling. But now what Asutai is facing is a real war, and it is the defense of the city that the Mongols are not good at.

What's more, their opponent is no longer the Song army, which was also not good at attacking cities more than a year ago, but the Ming army, which already has a lot of experience. The Shence army went north from Xingzhou all the way, Tangzhou, Dengzhou, Yingchangfu, Luoyang City, one by one the world's famous fortified cities were stepped on by the Shence army, so to say that in the siege ability of the Ming Dynasty, the Shence army is definitely the one standing at the peak.

Although Hangu Pass is strong, for the Shence Army, it just consumes more time.

And for Azoutai, it is to stand on the edge of life and death.

"Captain Wan, what should I do, the Southern Barbarians are about to rush up, our crossbowmen don't even have a way to aim, it is estimated that there are two or three thousand crossbowmen in the Southern Barbarians, and their arrows don't seem to be used up at all!" A commander of a thousand came in quickly, a look of anxiety on his face.

Asutai already regretted letting the soldiers rush up, who would have thought that the arrows of the southern barbarians were raining down, and they had been pouring down until now, and the two or three hundred crossbowmen on the city of Hangu Pass were not people's opponents at all, and the large trebuchets and other equipment defending the city had been almost blown up by the flying thunder cannons, and there was no way to fight back for a while.

How did the Southern Barbarians manage to have so many arrows?

However, Asutai didn't have much time to think carefully, and the commander who was still reporting to him in a hurry just now didn't know when his body was already full of arrows. And the tide of the Ming army has been getting closer and closer, and ladder trucks are spreading from the left and right.

Exhaling lightly, Asutai stood up and said in a deep voice: "Pass on a certain order, open the city gate, and the cavalry will charge with you!" ”

For Asutai's question, Wang Jin can answer. Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it has been embarking on the Northern Expedition, although on the surface it seems that the Ming Dynasty has been adopting a strategic policy of going south in the short term, and it is a defensive posture for Mongolia in the north, but it does not mean that the Ming Dynasty has not the slightest preparation, and the household department has built a large number of granaries in Huainan and Jiangnan, taking advantage of this year's peace and no war and hoarding grain, even including the money and grain left over from the last large-scale fundraising, have also gathered into these granaries.

With the discovery of the iron ore in Taiping Prefecture (now Ma'anshan), the prison will be excited, but also full horsepower, one by one military workshops have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. In order to be able to supply enough bows, crossbows, arrows and blades to the front line as soon as possible, all the workshops in Huainan were set up around the official road.

But in fact, the output of these workshops in Huainan is limited, even if Mongolia finds it, it does not have much effect, no one will be suspicious because of some small weapons workshops, what the Ming Dynasty really relies on is the large workshops between the hills and mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, these workshops all adopt the assembly line production method pointed out by Ye Yingwu, but not only the production of cold blades such as bows and crossbows, including simple firearms such as thistle terrestris and earth-shaking thunder, such workshops alone, from Nanjing to Lin'an There are full twenty, It can supply three armies the size of the Shence Army to carry out more than ten arrow rain attacks similar to this Hangu Pass, not to mention that there are at least seven or eight supporting small workshops around each workshop.

Therefore, although the war started suddenly, the grain and grass and arrows reserved by the various departments of the Ming army were not enough, but with the continuous supply of pipelines and water divisions in the rear, the Ming army became more and more free to fight, and even in order to meet the needs of the front line, the imperial court has begun to requisition the caravan carriages of private merchants, and these merchants are also absolutely cooperative with the imperial court.

After all, for them, Daming won the battle, and they also had business to do. Since the opening of the seven trade towns, so that many people have made a lot of money, the merchants in the south of the Yangtze River have been greedy for the land and money in the north for a long time, and they hope that the Ming Dynasty will seize the recovery of their homeland.

What's more, in fact, most of the businessmen in Jiangnan were also families who moved south during the Jingkang Rebellion, after all, the south was still a wild land back then, and only a few state capitals in Jiangnan were developed, and the population was actually not much. Therefore, for these families, the ancestral graves of the family are all in the north, and the ancestral teachings passed down from generation to generation are also the ancestral teachings passed down from generation to generation.

The more these businessmen who are running around outside with their heads up, the more superstitious they are, and they naturally hope to go to the grave of their ancestors and get the blessing of their ancestors.

Therefore, since the war between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia and the northward movement of the armies, it is not surprising that cattle and sheep are connected and traffic is busy on the road from Xiangfan, Lianghuai to Yingchangfu and then to Luoyang. (To be continued.) )