Wang Pu took two thousand men and horses in and out of the Horqin army, rescued Monk Zhang and Tang Sheng successively, and finally got rid of the pursuit of the Horqin cavalry, and was about to return to the camp when the sharp-eyed Lu Liu suddenly pointed to the southwest and shouted: "General, look, there seems to be our Ming army fighting with the Horqin people!" ”

"Is there such a thing?"

Wang Pu, Scarface, Monk Zhang, Tang Sheng and others turned their heads one after another, put their hands on the canopy and looked to the southwest, and sure enough, they saw a group of cavalry rushing left and right in the middle of the Horqin cavalry, the number of that team of cavalry was not very large, at most more than a thousand horsemen, which would have been entangled with the Horqin cavalry!

"Is it really the army of our Ming Dynasty?"

"It's strange, besides us, there are other Ming troops in Sanbulachuan?"

Only Tang Sheng observed intently for a long time, and suddenly shouted: "General, it seems to be Zhao Xin's thousand-man team!" ”

"Well, Zhao Xin!?"

"It's really Zhao Xin!" Tang Sheng exclaimed affirmatively, "That's him!" ”

Wang Pu's heart jumped, and a man suddenly floated in front of him.

At the beginning, Wang Pu asked Tang Sheng to select 2,000 veterans among the nearly 20,000 soldiers in Datong Town, and Zhao Xin wanted to join, but Wang Pu considered that he was already a thousand presidents, so he didn't agree! Later, Zhang Zi'an took the army of Datong Town out of the sea to meet Wang Pu, and more than 10,000 troops were suddenly attacked by the three thousand iron guards of Horqin, and Gui collapsed in an instant, only the two thousand people led by Zhao Xin were not defeated, and firmly held the camp of the Ming army.

"It's weird." Scarface shook his head in confusion, scratched his head and said, "Didn't Zhao Xin listen to the tune in front of Gonggong Zhang's account, what did he do with his soldiers in Sanbulachuan?" ”

"Good question!" Wang Pu took over the conversation and asked the soldiers around him sharply, "Brothers, why do you say that Zhao Qian came to Sanbula Sichuan with his soldiers?" ”

"General, I know!" Tang Sheng's face flushed with excitement, and he replied loudly, "I have been friends with Zhao Xin for many years, and I know who he is, he must have brought his team of thousands of people to pick us up!" ”

"Well said!" Wang Pu shouted, "Mr. Zhao Qian refuses to leave us and go back to Datong first, and is willing to risk the destruction of the whole army, and drive hundreds of miles with more than 1,000 brothers to meet us, this is our good brother!" Now our good brothers are in trouble, brothers, what do you say? ”

Tang Sheng yelled, "Get them out!" ”

"Yes, they must be rescued." Scarface said in a hideous voice, "It's a big deal to go back and forth among the thousands of troops of the Horqin people!" ”

"The general will never leave his soldiers, and we will never leave our brothers!" Monk Zhang had a sickly flush on his face, waved his arms and roared in a low voice, "General, you can give the order, even if you go to the Hades Palace and the Ghost Gate, we will follow you!" ”

"Yes, we're all following the general!"

"We swear to follow the general!"

"As long as the general says something, let's do anything!"

Monk Zhang said two words, and the more than 300 horse thieves who survived in the end all rolled up their sleeves excitedly, putting on a posture of wanting to fight with the Horqin people, they are all people who have already died once, and they are not afraid of anything for a long time! People are dead, afraid that he will be a ball!

"Good! is worthy of my Wang Pu's soldiers, they are all gentlemen! Wang Pu pulled out his sword and roared sharply, "Listen to everything, follow General Ben...... Offensive! ”

"Attack!"

Lu Liu waved the military flag in his hand forward and roared hoarsely.

"Attack!"

"Attack!"

"Attack!"

The nearly 2,000 soldiers who gathered around the banner responded with three shouts, and then followed closely with the banner in Lu Liu's hand, and killed it again!

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Pack on the hill.

Seeing that the Ming cavalry that had broken out of the encirclement had been killed again, Banketu and Sogar couldn't believe their eyes, were they dazzled or the Ming cavalry was crazy? Even if it's really the soldier led by Wang Pu, he can't be so arrogant, is it really that the 7,000 cavalry of the Horqin people are made of wood carving clay?

"Big brother, these Nanming barbarians are really arrogant!" Sogar was so angry that his face turned green, "This time, the junior brother took his own personal guards to intercept them!" ”

"Good!" Banktu shouted in a deep voice, "It's time to let these Nanming barbarians taste the power of our Horqin people, this time we can't let them run away again no matter what!" ”

"Yes!"

Sogar turned his head and made a move, and rushed towards the hill bag with his hundreds of iron guards like a whirlwind of clouds.

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The sudden appearance of the Ming cavalry was indeed Zhao Xin's thousand-man team!

On the day Wang Pu led the army away, Zhang Zi'an gathered almost all the defeated troops and began to collect the cattle and sheep abandoned by the Tumert people, if everything went well, the Ming army would drive nearly a million cattle and sheep to embark on the way home, but Zhao Xin did not want to return to Datong like this, he took the initiative to ask Zhang Zi'an to go to Sanbula Sichuan to meet Wang Pu.

Zhao Xin is a man with a blood surname, and he is also a real soldier!

Zhao Xin knew that Wang Pu could not attack Sanbula River, because he was no longer the chief soldier of Datong Town, but Wang Pu still brought more than 3,000 cavalry! Wang Pu did this in order to keep the cattle, sheep and livestock in his hands, and also to keep the military salaries that all the soldiers in Datong Town had received!

As a soldier in Datong Town, Zhao Xin felt that he couldn't just return to Datong like this, and the duties of a soldier and his conscience told him that he had to go to pick up Wang Pu!

Zhang Zi'an did not stop Zhao Xin, he acquiesced.

Speaking of which, Wang Pu led his troops to attack Sanbula River in order to lure away the cavalry of the Horqin people, this incident was completely provoked by Zhang Zi'an's own initiative to send troops in advance, it can be said that Zhang Zi'an suffered by himself, Wang Pu could have done nothing, but Wang Pu still took care of it, and did not hesitate to risk his life and lead the army to the battle.

Because of this incident, Zhang Zi'an felt a little guilty about Wang Pu, so he acquiesced to Zhao Xin's request, Zhao Xin took a thousand cavalry under his command, followed the traces left by Wang Pu's cavalry march day and night, and finally arrived at the Sanbula Chuan Khan court one day later!

When Zhao Xin arrived with more than 1,000 cavalry, Wang Pu's army was fighting fiercely with the Horqin cavalry, and Zhao Xin led the army to attack the flank of the Horqin cavalry without any hesitation.

Zhao Xin's 1,000 cavalry are also veterans, and their cavalry and archery skills are not bad, but they have just gone through a long march of three or four hundred miles, and they are already sleepy and tired, and the Horqin cavalry immediately fell into disadvantage as soon as they clashed, and the Horqin cavalry quickly calmed down after the initial panic, and in turn surrounded Zhao Xin and his more than 1,000 cavalry.

Seeing that there were more and more Horqin cavalry around, when Zhao Xin thought that he would definitely die today, a deafening shout suddenly sounded in the northeast, as if thousands of troops and horses had cut through the cavalry formation of the Horqin people and rushed over, when Zhao Xin looked sideways, he saw a big flag hunting and fluttering in the wind, this big flag he recognized, it was Wang Pu's general flag!

Zhao Xin was overjoyed when he saw it, and shouted with a knife: "Brothers, we are saved, hahaha......"

Zhao Xin laughed, the Horqin cavalry in the northeast direction had already avoided it like waves, and a group of murderous Ming cavalry rushed over under the guidance of the banner, and the Ming generals who took the lead were none other than Tang Sheng, who was familiar with Zhao Xin and Datong soldiers!

"Tang Sheng, fuck you!?"

"Don Boss!?"

"Brothers, kill!"

Seeing Tang Sheng leading his troops to rush over, Zhao Xin and the border army under his command were greatly demoralized, and when the two armies gathered together, Zhao Xin also saw Wang Pu in the army, and hugged his fists on horseback and saluted: "See the general!" ”

"That's it." Wang Pu Huoran solemnly said, "This is not the place to talk, let's kill it first." ”

"Yes!" Zhao Xin responded abruptly, "From now on, all the lowly posts and the soldiers under his command will be transferred by the general!" ”

"Good!" Wang Pu drew his sword and shouted, "The whole army obeys the order and heads in the direction of the camp...... Offensive! ”

Scarface, Monk Zhang turned the horse's head at the same time, and rushed towards the Horqin cavalry blocking the way like a vicious look, and within a few rounds, more than a dozen unlucky Horqin cavalry were picked off their horses by them, and these two fierce generals each led a mark of soldiers, like two sharp arrows, viciously pierced into the Horqin cavalry formation.

The Horqin cavalry desperately blocked, and Sogar also arrived in time with five hundred iron guards, but still failed to stop the fierce offensive of the Ming army, only a few months ago these Ming troops were as weak as sheep, but now they are more ferocious than the fiercest wolves on the grassland, and the conceited and brave Sogar was also stabbed in the left shoulder with a fork of Scarface, almost dying!

After paying a heavy price, the two Ming cavalry finally broke through the heavy encirclement of the Horqin cavalry and retreated to the camp like a storm.

Bandtu refused to give up, sent 3,000 cavalry to chase after him, but was attacked by the Ming army's musket team in front of the Ming army's camp, 800 flintlock muskets fired in turn and hundreds of dragon king cannons were bombarded intensively, the Horqin cavalry suffered heavy casualties, and finally threw down more than 500 corpses in front of the Ming army's camp.

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A scuffle is finally over!

From dawn, in order to avenge the black tiger, Monk Zhang rushed out of the camp with more than 700 ringing horses, and until noon, Wang Pu and Zhao Xin returned to the camp, the Ming army and the Horqin people fought for most of the day, which was a vicious battle that both sides did not expect, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Monk Zhang's Xiangma old department suffered nearly 400 casualties, Tang Sheng's 1,000-man team suffered more than 500 casualties, Scarface's 1,000-man team was in the best condition, but it also suffered more than 300 casualties, Zhao Xin's 1,000-man team suffered the most heavy casualties, because of the long-distance attack caused by physical exhaustion, and more than 1,000 soldiers under Zhao Xin finally only rushed out of more than 200 people.

In the end, there were only more than 1,700 Ming soldiers left who could return to the camp alive!

The remaining nearly 2,000 people were either killed in battle or seriously wounded, and the seriously wounded soldiers could basically be regarded as killed in battle, because the control of the battlefield was in the hands of the Horqin people, and those wounded soldiers had no chance of surviving, even if the Horqin people would not kill them to vent their anger, they would freeze to death because they could not be treated.

Although Horqin took the initiative on the battlefield, the casualties they paid were even heavier than those of the Ming army!

Before the melee began in the morning, the Horqin people still had more than 7,000 elite cavalry, but by noon when the melee ended, there were less than 4,000 Horqin cavalry with the strength to fight, and the Horqin people lost more than 3,000 cavalry, of which more than 2,000 cavalry were directly killed and more than 800 cavalry were seriously wounded.

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The camp of the Ming army, Wang Pu tent.

Monk Zhang hung his head and knelt in front of Wang Pu, just like a child crying, although the wound on his right leg was simply bandaged, but it was oozing blood again, and the red blood seeped out from the thick linen crack, and it was already red.

"General, so many brothers have all died because of their humble duties, you cut them down, ...... you."

Wang Pu took off the armor on his body with the help of Lu Liu, and asked, "Do you know that you are wrong about this?" ”

Monk Zhang wept and said, "I know that I am wrong. ”

"Tell me about it." Wang Pu sat down on the woolen blanket and asked, "What are you doing wrong?" ”

Monk Zhang said: "The lowly position should not go to the Horqin people to avenge the black tiger and fight hard, if it weren't for the lowly position, there would not be this fierce battle in the morning, so many brothers would not have given their lives in vain!" ”

"That's not right." Wang Pu shook his head and said, "It seems that you don't know what you did wrong at all. ”

"This ......," Monk Zhang wondered, "Could it be that the humble position is wrong?" ”

"Of course not!" Wang Pulang said, "Manly husband, there is revenge and revenge, this is a matter of course, your good brother Black Tiger is dead, of course this revenge must be avenged, this is right!" ”

Monk Zhang scratched his bald head and asked, "Then I don't understand the humble position." ”

Wang Pu said: "Monk, your mistake is that you shouldn't treat the Black Tiger as your brother, you never remembered what General Ben once said, our army is a collective, and everyone in this army is a good brother, so it is not your business to avenge the Black Tiger alone, nor is it the business of the seven hundred brothers under you, but the business of all of us, do you understand?" ”

Monk Zhang thought about it carefully, nodded first and then shook his head immediately, he seemed to have some understanding, but after thinking about it carefully, there was a mess in his mind.

"You just think about it here, you can't get out of this tent or eat until you understand it!"

Wang Pu put down these words, put on a tiger skin, turned around and walked out of the tent.

Although Monk Zhang is just a rough man and doesn't know a few big characters, Wang Pu knows that he has two outstanding qualities, one is ruthless, and the other is perseverance! As the commander of an army, there is no one who does not like such subordinates! With such a subordinate, you can safely entrust him with the most difficult battles, and you can also entrust him with the darkest things to do!

But Monk Zhang also has a shortcoming, that is, he does his own thing!

Although Monk Zhang has now become Wang Pu's subordinate, and it seems that he is respectful and obedient to Wang Pu, when it comes to death, Monk Zhang will reveal his true form and make his own opinions! This is absolutely intolerable to Wang Pu, so he wants to take the opportunity to knock Monk Zhang and forcibly pour the concept of "our army" into his mind.

Once the concept of "our army" takes root in Monk Zhang's mind, the first thing he thinks of when he encounters things will be "we" instead of "me", as for "our army", it is actually Wang Pu's army, when Monk Zhang implants this concept in his mind, it also means that he has been completely loyal to Wang Pu!

From now on, he will do whatever Wang Pu asks him to do, he will never go west if he asks him to go east, and even if he is asked to cut off Emperor Chongzhen's head, he will not hesitate to execute!

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Outside the tent, more than 1,700 soldiers who had survived were sitting around dozens of roaring bonfires, talking and laughing loudly while gnawing on large pieces of mutton.

If you want to avenge the brothers who died in battle, you must eat well, sleep well, eat when you should eat, drink when you should drink, laugh when you should laugh, just wait on the battlefield, and then vent all your hatred on the enemy.

When Wang Pu appeared surrounded by Lu Liu and more than a dozen personal soldiers, the soldiers who were resting stood up one after another and welcomed Wang Pu's arrival with warm eyes.

Today's vicious battle has made all the soldiers have a new understanding of Wang Pu, think about how bad the situation on the battlefield was at that time, Wang Pu as a horse master, today's royal relatives, but again and again with the brothers back to the chaos, all this is just to rescue the trapped brothers!

Wang Pu only heard about the robbery of the Dharma field in order to save the bearded man, and no one saw it with their own eyes, but today, Wang Pu led his troops into the siege three times in order to save the trapped brothers, but they experienced it themselves! Therefore, they worship Wang Pu, and they are willing to serve Wang Pu as a soldier and sell their lives in their hearts!

In the crowd, I don't know who cheered first: "General! ”

Immediately afterward, all the soldiers began to cheer.

"General!"

"General!"

"General!"

The chaotic cheers soon converged into neat shouts, and the huge cheers rose one after the other, reaching the clouds.

Catching up with the burning eyes of the soldiers of the three armies, Wang Pu also felt a thousand feelings in his heart, what kind of pay will have what kind of return, from the beginning Wang Pu really regarded himself as a member of this army, and regarded himself as a good brother of all the soldiers, today, his efforts have finally paid off!

Strict discipline has been branded, and the iron-blooded military soul has been cast, but these are not the things that make Wang Pu the most happy, what makes Wang Pu the most happy is that these soldiers finally really regard him as their good brother, and really regard him as their only commander!

Wang Puhuoran raised his hand, and the cheers of the soldiers like a landslide and tsunami came to an abrupt end.

Wang Pu stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, which were blown by the north wind, and said loudly: "Brothers, there is a sentence that General Ben must tell you, the Mongolian cavalry is powerful enough, it was invincible in the world hundreds of years ago, and there are hundreds of countries destroyed by them alone, but so what? ”

"Just today, right here, more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry failed to stop our 2,000 people, and let us kill three in and three out, as long as we want, we can still kill him seven in and seven out, Changshan Zhao Zilong was just like that! In front of us, no matter how powerful the Mongolian cavalry is, it is just a fart! ”

"Hahaha......"

Wang Pu's words fell, and the soldiers burst into laughter.

When the laughter of the soldiers stopped, Wang Pu continued: "Brothers, we are the strongest army in the world, and we are the real masters!" Pure gentlemen! ”

Listening to Wang Pu's impassioned words, the soldiers puffed up their chests one by one.

It's not a lie, today's battle really makes these veterans proud, that's more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry, not 10,000 pigs to be slaughtered! But they were stunned that among the more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry, they traveled back and forth three times, three in and three out, and the Mongols were stunned that they failed to eat them, and they were stunned to fight a bloody way and come back alive!

After today's battle, the confidence of these veterans is bursting, there is no Mongolian cavalry in their eyes, as Wang Pu just said, from now on, the Mongolian cavalry is a fart in front of them, not even a fart! Now they have only one psychological opponent, and that is Jiannu!

However, these veterans believe that one day Jiannu will also be trampled under their feet!

It is said that confidence is tempered by thousands of hammers, but today's fierce battle can withstand at least 300 hammers, and Wang Pu's words are at least 100 hammers!

"Brethren." Wang Pu finally said, "Eat well, drink well, sleep well, and we will go home when we nourish our spirits!" ”

Originally, Wang Pu was planning to break through early this morning, but Monk Zhang's unauthorized actions disrupted his plan, and now the brothers have just gone through most of the day's fighting, and their physical strength has been seriously overdrawn, and there are many brothers who are injured and want to be bandaged, so they have no choice but to rest for another night, and wait for tomorrow to break through again.

However, Wang Pu did not regret fighting this battle.

Today's hard-fought battle made Wang Pu have more confidence in the army under him, so many Horqin cavalry failed to stop more than 2,000 Ming army cavalry, Wang Pu has enough reason to believe that tomorrow they can easily get rid of the Horqin people's obstruction and return to Datong calmly.

However, Wang Pu was obviously too optimistic, he didn't expect that another even larger Horqin cavalry was rushing to the Sanbula Chuan Khan court day and night, and after dawn the next day, everything changed!

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The next morning, Wang Pu was awakened by a piercing "squeak" sound, before he got up, the closed curtain was lifted, and the dazzling strong light pierced in through the curtain in an instant, stabbing Wang Pu's eyes painfully, Wang Pu quickly closed his eyes, frowned and asked Lu Liudao, who bent down into the tent: "Liu'er, why is it so bright outside?" ”

"General, it's snowing!" Lu Liu sighed, stomped his feet, and then said, "It's so big snow, it's knee-deep!" ”

"What, what do you say?"

Wang Pu was shocked, and quickly turned over and sat up.

"What's wrong?" Lu Liu scratched his head a little at a loss, and whispered, "The villain is saying that it's snowing outside, it's so snowy." ”

"It's broken! This goddamn thief! ”

Wang Pu cursed hatefully, hurriedly put on a tiger skin and got out of the tent, first closed his eyes to adapt to the dazzling light outside, and then suddenly opened his eyes, and all he saw was white, except for the gray sky, there was only white earth left, except for gray and white, there was no other color between heaven and earth!

Lu Liu followed out of the tent from behind and whispered, "General, the villain is not wrong, right?" ”

"Ugh." Wang Pu sighed, "It's a big trouble now." ”

Lu Liu asked in a low voice, "General, what's wrong?" ”

Wang Pu smiled bitterly: "This thief is really going to make trouble, it doesn't snow in the morning and it doesn't snow in the evening, but it snows heavily at this time, and it's really a big trouble now." ”

"General, I figured it out!" When Wang Puzheng shook his head, Monk Zhang came out of the tent again, this guy sat on an empty stomach all night last night, and now he finally figured it out, shouted and rushed out of the tent, rushed to Wang Pu and shouted, "General, I have figured it out." ”

"Monk." Wang Pu said angrily, "What do you want to understand?" ”

Monk Zhang said: "I want to understand where the lowly duty is wrong, the lowly duty should not only take the old brothers from before to take revenge, the lowly duty should first report to the general, and then let the general take all our brothers to avenge the Black Tiger and them!" General, did you mean what you said yesterday to your humble position...... Huh, what's the sound? ”

Monk Zhang suddenly said something inexplicable, and then listened attentively.

Wang Pu frowned and said, "What is the sound?" ”

Monk Zhang listened intently for a while, and suddenly shouted: "Cavalry, a lot of cavalry!" ”

"Cavalry?" Wang Pu's heart jumped and asked, "Where is it?" ”

Monk Zhang Huo Ran turned his head, pointed to the northwest and said in a deep voice: "Over there!" ”

Wang Pu looked in the direction of Monk Zhang's finger, he didn't know if he didn't see it, he was startled when he saw it, only to see that a faint black line really appeared in the middle of the gray and white of the heaven and earth, Wang Pu could clearly feel that the black line was slowly squirming, and in less than a moment, the black line had become much thicker.

There is no doubt that it was not some black line, but a large group of cavalry!

I don't know when, Scarface, Bearded, Tang Sheng and Zhao Xin have come behind Wang Pu, Bearded has been a horse thief on the grassland for many years, and is most familiar with everything on the grassland, so he said in a condensed voice at that time: "There are at least 20,000 Mongolian cavalry, the distance is thirty miles, and the direction of the march is ours!" ”

The expressions of Scarface, Tang Sheng, Zhao Xin and the others suddenly became solemn.

20,000 Mongolian cavalry and several thousand Horqin cavalry on the opposite side are two completely different concepts, that is not only the difference of nearly ten times the strength of the troops, but also has a huge impact on the psychology of the officers and men of the two armies, in the real battlefield, the difference in strength reflected may even exceed 20 times!

What's worse is that the heavy snow that fell last night will seriously slow down the speed of the march, in the knee-deep snow, the war horses can't run much faster at all, if Wang Pu orders a breakthrough now, in the end, I'm afraid that no one will want to return to Datong alive, on the way, they will be caught up by the Mongols and shot one by one!

"Herald ......" Wang Pu took a breath and shouted in a deep voice, "The whole army will retreat to the mountains and camp first!" ”

"Yes!"

Scarface, Bearded, Tang Sheng, Zhao Xin, and Monk Zhang agreed and took the order.

Before the arrival of the Mongol cavalry, Wang Pu withdrew to the mountain with his army, and ordered the bearded man to send a team of 200 muskets to defend the mountain pass in the south, and then pulled out the two mortars captured from the Horqin people.

Since it is no longer possible to break through, then now we can only retreat to the mountain, where at least the Mongol attack can be blocked by the favorable terrain, with a thousand muskets with beards, plus those two mortars, the Mongols want to hit the mountain is simply wishful thinking.

(To be continued)