Although Huo Liang didn't want to accept the surrender of the man in front of him, he had no choice. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The cavalry around him were all soldiers who had withdrawn from the Hongliu River Beach, and they were the ones who watched and experienced the battle of "poor and uncertain riverside bones". At that time, Wang Jin forcibly ordered them to retreat, and Huo Liang had to accept this task even if he was unwilling, because the brothers who died in the boundless wind and snow at that time needed someone to take revenge.

Fortunately, Wang Jin was finally saved by the Tibetan reinforcements who arrived in time, otherwise Huo Liang didn't dare to imagine how angry he would be, so much so that he couldn't help but even stab the horse lance directly into the chest of the man with the color just now.

But he can't do it, not in any way.

The Ming Dynasty now needed a model for the Mongols to surrender, and even more so for the smallest sacrifice in exchange for victory in the entire Hexi battle. Moreover, the Shence army cannot arouse the anger and resistance of the Mongol Tatars now, otherwise maybe the reinforcements have not yet come, and the Shence army has already exhausted the entire army in Dunhuang. A Mongol army with lower and lower morale is what the Shence army needs most now.

And a large number of enemies raise their hands to surrender, which is undoubtedly a good choice to break the opponent's fighting spirit.

There seemed to be a flame burning in his heart, Huo Liang glanced at the head of the Semu man kneeling in front of him, he had been in the Western Regions for a long time, and with the help of the flickering fire, he recognized this as a Turkic at a glance. I have to sigh with emotion, how many years ago, the Turks knelt down and surrendered in front of the banner of the Tang Army, and how many years later, the Ming army once again slaughtered in this yellow sand desert, and the Turks became the surrenderers of the Ming Dynasty again after being majestic for so long.

Hundreds of years of humiliation, hundreds of years of weakness, have vanished at this moment.

Even Huo Liang almost forgot that he was the one defending the city, and the Mongol Tatars were the besiegers.

"Take it down!" Huo Liang waved his hand, even if he was reluctant, he had to ensure the safety of these colored people.

A dozen cavalrymen went to escort the captives back to the city, while the rest of the cavalry gathered around Huo Liang again.

The fire oil had all been ignited, and the raging fire swallowed up the entire camp at once, and even the surrounding walls were swallowed up by the flames, and even the Ming cavalry had to retreat to the surroundings.

"Commander, what should we do now?" A brigade commander stepped forward, his expression looking a little hideous in the flames.

Huo Liang licked his chapped lips and looked at the continuous camp in front of him.

The Mongol Tartar foot soldiers were probably still on the other side of the city at this time, and even on the road, so it was not known when they would return. Now these camps are lambs to be slaughtered under the iron hooves of the Ming cavalry, and even those who are calm-minded will be moved.

Not to mention the cavalry who retreated in humiliation by the Red Willow River and watched the brethren go to their deaths. There seemed to be a flame burning in everyone's chest, and the blood was rolling, as if it could burst at any moment. The shame of a boy is enough once in a lifetime; The shame of the Ming soldiers can only be baptized with the blood of the enemy and this sky-high fire!

"Kill!" There was only one word, tumbling and spewing out of Huo Liang's mouth.

"Kill!" Countless Ming cavalry tugged at the reins of their horses.

Under the moonlight, in the firelight, one after another figures rushed out, speeding along the undulating sand dunes.

Red flags, proud and even rampant, danced in the wind.

And beside these cavalrymen, the Mongolian black banner that was casually cut down, even if it was a strong wind, there was no way to re-roll up the heavy banner and flagpole, and directly smashed it to the ground.

Ashina Tumen, who was slowly walking in the direction of Dunhuang under the watchful eye of the Ming cavalry, subconsciously glanced back at the flag he had guarded, without any expression on his face. At this moment, his heart was extremely clear.

By the time flags fell, an era had come to an end.

Another era has just begun.

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A bright moon hangs high over the Gobi Desert.

A fiery red light constantly streaked through the darkness, piercing the silent and beautiful picture of the starry moon and the Gobi Desert, and directly submerged into another undulating sand dune. A moment later, firelight and smoke rose up.

"Boom, boom!" The flames soared into the sky, and the roar was endless.

Hundreds of tigers rushed together and bombarded the Mongol cavalry scattered in all directions. The Mongol cavalry, frightened by the new firearms of the Ming army, had no intention of approaching the enemy at all, and retreated farther away, or it would be more appropriate to describe it as fleeing.

"Rush forward!" One of them rushed up the steep hill with a knife in hand.

Stones were constantly rolling down the hillside, and there were many Mongol soldiers resisting on the hillside. Because the slope of this hillside is relatively large, although the Ming army tried to suppress it with bows and crossbows and firearms, the effect was not very good.

After all, there are several beacons of the Tang Dynasty not far away, since the ancients chose this place to build beacons, it can naturally show that this place is originally a dangerous place. Hundreds of years of wind, frost, rain and snow have worn away the traces of most of the city walls, making the two mounds look completely connected with the surrounding sand dunes.

And now, the Mongol army was waiting between the heavy sand dunes between the two beacons, but it was clear that the surprise they had planned at the beginning did not have an effect, and the Tianxiong army was clearly prepared, and not just a simple preparation.

From the beginning of the use of firearms to directly disperse the cavalry attacking the two flanks, to the current bow and crossbow suppression for strong attacks. It seems that the Tianxiong army has already arranged such a tactic, and the Mongols are just in time to send themselves to the door.

However, at this point, the Mongol cavalry could still retreat, and the foot soldiers could not outrun the Ming cavalry roaming around the periphery and ready to pounce at any time, so these Mongol foot soldiers relied on the steep mountains and sand dunes around them, obviously intending to resist stubbornly.

Those who can be selected to encircle and send reinforcements are naturally the elite of the Mongolian foot soldiers, and their loyalty to Mongolia is naturally far greater than those outside Dunhuang, so the Ming army did not expect them to surrender. What's more, these people surrendered, and the Tianxiong Army didn't get much credit in the first place, wouldn't it be discounted again?

After all, for the Tianxiong Army, its main task is to defend Sichuan and Shu. Sichuan Shu is the upper reaches of the river, occupy Sichuan Shu will be able to go down the river to threaten the south of the Yangtze River, the history of the conquest of the southern dynasty, generally will take Sichuan Shu first, one is to open up a new road for the attack, and the other is to prevent the enemy from retreating into the mountains of Sichuan and Shu to defend to the death.

When Guanzhong was recovered by the Ming Dynasty, the Tianxiong Army invisibly became the only one among the main forces of the Ming Dynasty who did not engage the enemy. Everyone wants to have the opportunity to get ahead and show their might, and the Tianxiong Army is naturally no exception.

Still in the old heaven seems to favor them, the Shence army marched west, and the Tianwu army had to defend Heluo, so the Tianxiong army became the best candidate to enter the pass. This was followed by bloody battles in Hexi, which pushed the Tianxiong Army to the forefront all of a sudden.

It is a great opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and the Tianxiong army naturally shares the same hatred.

While the first group of charging soldiers fell one after another among the Mongol arrows, the second group had already rushed forward with a roar. The artillery and thunderbolts were aimed at the hill where the figures of the Mongol soldiers flickered, and the crossbowmen and firecrackers were even more red-eyed, and they were about to charge with the foot soldiers with their crossbows and firearms.

"Go around and kill!" A brigade commander of the Tianxiong Army drew his horse fiercely, and thousands of cavalry caught up with him, making a circle in an attempt to find the weak flank of the Mongol Tatars.

"The military heart is available." Looking at the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army who rushed towards the enemy one after another, Gundam muttered.

Zhang Jue nodded, the last battle in the dunes, the Tianxiong army relied on the hills to get out of the formation, and finally defeated the Mongolian cavalry that surrounded them, but because they didn't know if there was an ambush, Zhang Jue and Gundam did not dare to order the pursuit.

Now they are one step closer to Dunhuang, but the distance for the soldiers to trek in the Gobi Desert is also long, so Zhang Jue and Gao Da are not sure how long these thin soldiers can support them, or whether they can fight with the Mongolian Tartars.

The battle situation in front of them shows that Zhang Jue and Gundam are a little more worried. The soldiers of the Tianxiong Army, who went forward one after another, replied to their main generals with their backs, and the fighting spirit of the Great Tomorrow Xiong Army is still there!

The powerful power of the arrows of the hundred tigers has made the Mongolian cavalry like a bird with a frightened bow, and just now the arrows of the hundred tigers have not been released, and the Mongolian Tatar cavalry has begun to retreat. Therefore, the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works, who went out with the army and slept in the open on the road because of the wind, food, and sleep, now also have a happy look on their faces, and it is even more accurate to describe it as "full of red light".

"The resistance of the Mongol Tartars is not enough." Zhang Jue said in a deep voice, "It stands to reason that the Mongolian Tatars can't be stupid enough to want to use this little step to stop us. What's more important is that it stands to reason that the Mongolian Tartars should have set up an ambush, but the posture in front of them looks like the Mongolian Tartars are defending. ”

Gundam was stunned and squinted at the battlefield ahead.

Zhang Jue handed him the clairvoyance in his hand: "Take a closer look, the Mongolian Tatars have a very detailed arrangement between these hills, including the two abandoned beacons with crossbowmen on top and bottom, and trenches and even earthen walls have been dug around the beacons to strengthen the defense of the nodes at both ends of the entire defense line." ”

The main purpose of setting up an ambush is to surprise and attack it unprepared, rather than relying on the defense line to strictly defend it, so the army generally does not build a large number of buildings when setting up an ambush, thinking that the appearance of any artificial facilities may destroy the overall environmental coordination and integrity of the entire ambush site, which makes it easier for the enemy to find out that there are ambushes here, and then turn the ambush into a strong attack.

This is already contrary to the original purpose of the ambush, and a general with a little common sense would not do it.

Although there is a serious shortage at the grassroots level of the Mongolian Tatars, Gao Gao and Zhang Jue are far from being arrogant enough to think that the Mongolian generals have become a group of waste, so it is absolutely impossible for this to be a decision made by the incompetence of the generals. The Mongols' dedication to this line of defense can only illustrate one problem, the purpose of the Mongols waiting for the Tianxiong army here is definitely not to set up an ambush but to defend. An attempt was made to delay the advance of the Tianxiong army through orthodox defense.

"This shows that the Mongol Tatars have not been able to send enough troops." Gao Gao said in a deep voice, "Whether it is Dunhuang, or Tubo and the Western Regions, there must be something big wrong, resulting in no way for the Mongolian Tartars to arrange ambushes, otherwise this area is actually more suitable for ambush than defense, and the soft sand dunes and the surrounding Gobi Desert are definitely not a good place for defense." ”

Zhang Jue subconsciously shivered, and Huo Ran turned his head to look at Gundam: "Maybe the Mongolian Tartars planned to defend here instead of setting up an ambush at the beginning. Because no one has ever really confirmed that the Mongol Tatars were preparing to encircle and send reinforcements in the first battle of Hexi, all of this is our speculation. ”

"What did you say?!" Gundam frowned. It's not that he didn't hear what Zhang Jue said, but because he was frightened by what Zhang Jue said, even if he was a veteran of the battlefield, Gundam's heart paused suddenly at this time, and the expression on his face changed greatly.

"Although this is definitely not a good place to defend, but if you want to support us, you must defend on this Gobi, so compared to other places with a flat river, this piece of sand dunes is undoubtedly the best choice that can be made," Zhang Jue clenched the hilt of his knife, "Then again, what can force the Mongol Tatars to sacrifice their precious forces to stop us in this place." ”

"The Mongol Tatars are determined to take Dunhuang." Gundam subconsciously turned his head sideways to look in the direction where Dunhuang City was located, "This is the only way to Dunhuang, although the sand dunes are located on the side of the road, it is definitely not that easy to make a detour, so the Mongolian Tatars will make up their minds to block here." Even what they took out were elite soldiers, you can imagine how much effort the Mongolian Tatars spent in order to stop us. ”

"However, I have not received any news of the fall of Dunhuang until now・・・・・・ Zhang Jue said in a deep voice.

The roar of the artillery in front of him had covered all the sounds between heaven and earth, and countless flames rose and burned from between the sand dunes, and in the midst of the firelight, a Ming soldier ran forward with a roar. Although there were constantly stray arrows flying by their side, although there were constantly Mongolian soldiers jumping out to fight and even simply jumping up with their bare hands to hug a Ming soldier, causing the two to roll down the hill, no one could deny that the Tianxiong army had completely grasped the initiative and had broken through the Mongolian defense line.

"Because of the siege of the Mongol Tatars, the news sent by the six gates and the Jinyi guard has been half a day or even a day ago, so who can guarantee the safety of Dunhuang now?" Gao Gao said in a deep voice, feeling that his scalp was numb, and cold sweat broke out on his spine, "Without further ado, there is not much time left for you and me, no matter whose hands Dunhuang is still in its hands, we must do everything possible to rush over." ”

"Youtu!" Zhang Jue stomped his feet and roared.

The guards behind him hurriedly sent the map, and by the light of the fire, Zhang Jue looked around Dunhuang carefully, stretched out his hand and knocked on a marker: "If this simple enough map has not deviated much in distance, then we are now in this place, thirty miles away from Dunhuang・・・・・・!" ”

"The six doors and the brocade guard don't deviate much in the drawing of the map." Gundam looked up confidently at the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield below, "It's still too late to assemble at this time, our baggage convoy can follow behind, send a brigade to protect, and the rest of the army will give up all captures and go directly to Dunhuang!" A thirty-mile march is a few hours. ”

"But we must consider that the soldiers have not yet ・・・・・・" Zhang Jue suddenly felt a little difficult, the Tianxiong army had just experienced such a battle, even if it was originally full of energy, now I am afraid that it will be somewhat tired, if the army marches directly and urgently, what happens will add chaos to Dunhuang.

Gao Gao was silent for a moment and looked at Zhang Jue: "Junyu, the old man has fought all his life, and now he is definitely not relying on the old to sell the old, but when it comes to Dunhuang, there is an inexplicable palpitation, and the resistance of the Mongolian Tatars is so weak, the old man always feels that something will inevitably happen in Dunhuang." ”

The wind was blowing the white beard of Gundam, Zhang Jue's eyes were hot, and he nodded solemnly.

The veteran generals in their sixties are still wearing armor and going into battle without saying anything, what do they have to complain about as young students?!

"The Tianxiong Army is our children in Sichuan and Shu, and the soldiers of Sichuan and Shu have endured hard fighting since ancient times. What's more・・・・・・" Gundam pulled out his sword, Huo Ran turned his head to look in the direction of Dunhuang, "At this moment, it is the time for the Ming Dynasty to employ people, and it is the time for the Tianxiong Army to take charge alone!" ”

After a pause, the old general laughed and instigated the war horse: "Junyu, although there are tens of millions of people, I will go!" What's more, it's our defeated men! ”

I have never seen this old general who supports the sky of Sichuan and Shu have such a high-spirited moment, Zhang Jue only has a feeling of blood rolling on his head, and he tugged on the reins of the horse fiercely, and closely caught up with the figure of Gundam: "A certain Zhang Jue accompanied the old general, kill the past!" ”

The Sichuan Shu Tianxiong Army has never lacked hot-blooded good men, so there is no shortage of hard-fought heroes!

Although there are tens of millions of people, I will go! (To be continued.) )