Although the battle in Datong City was fierce, it was not as thrilling as Bai Mountain. Datong general Du Renguo and the former general seal of the expedition to the west, unified five guards, seven institutes, but now most of the army is stationed on the outer Great Wall, and the high walls of Datong City are thick, so the defenders in Datong City only have two guards, Xu Tai took away 7,000 people, and the rest of the city is only more than 5,000 people.

The fire sieve originally received the order that the city gate should be opened in the west city to access the army, with his 15,000 elite division, the entire Datong city will immediately become his bag, so he didn't even bring siege equipment, and ran to the west city with a light horse, but was shot back by a rain of arrows from the Datong defenders, and the fire sieve was so angry that he secretly scolded his mother.

Boyan personally led the army to attack Baishan Mountain, although there is a suspicion of robbing merit in the fire sieve, but although the emperor's guards are not more than 10,000, they must be elite soldiers, this battle must be a bitter battle, their own soldiers will take Datong without much effort, burning and looting can make the miserable soldiers make a big profit, it is also very cost-effective, I can't think of Datong City is very tightly defended, and there is never a city to open the city to greet each other, the fire sieve is only deceived by Boyan, and the anger in my heart is unspeakable, but at this time, I can't withdraw the troops alone regardless of the overall situation, so I have to fight hard.

On the ladder with branches and branches, there were only fanatical soldiers with wine and beauty, gold and silver treasures, who were brave and brave and climbed hard, while the defenders on the city wall had already been waiting for them, so they had time to draw their bows and arrows, lift stones and throw, and the hook and sickle spears ruthlessly pushed the ladder away from the city wall several feet high, and the miserable cry of the Tartar soldiers had just arrived, and the rolling logs full of foot-long iron nails were smashed down.

Datong city wall is built tall and majestic, solid and precipitous, all kinds of city defense facilities are complete, the wall is rammed with "Sanhe soil" section by section, layer by layer, and the periphery is built with blue bricks. The height of the city wall is about five zhang, the width of the city wall is also five zhang, can accommodate the movement of the people and horses of the brigade, the battlement, the gatehouse, the corner tower, the watchtower on the city wall, stand at intervals, can lookout, conceal, shoot, respond, commanding height, constitute a complete three-dimensional defense line.

Poisonous artillery, thunderbolts, constantly spewing ruthless projectiles to the city, harvesting human lives, countless soldiers on the city shuttle back and forth, rolling wood, stones, fire oil, bows and arrows to build an impregnable line of defense, and the Tartars are like the ebb and flow of the tide, constantly frantically impacting the city, arrows are like rain, and the lives of the Ming army are also harvested.

The corpses were piled up like mountains, blood flowed everywhere, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the corpses of their partners were ruthlessly trampled like rags, and people kept falling down, becoming a dead body that was trampled on. Although the city was immovable in the attack of Tatar Yi**, Hu Zan and Du Renguo were so worried that they wanted to vomit blood.

Bai Mountaineering is the center of their real attention, if there is an accident there, God knows what kind of future it will bring to Daming? Seeing Bai Mountaineering Fang and Xiang a wisp of smoke rising, Hu Zan and Du Renguo's expressions were first happy, and then turned iron-blue.

The warning signal from Baishan Mountain shows that the emperor is unharmed, and the mountain peak has not been captured by the Tartars, and it also shows that the situation is precarious, and if there are no reinforcements, the mountain is in danger of being captured.

Hu Zan stomped his feet, and shouted to Du Renguo with blood-red eyes: "Lord Du, you should gather all the people and horses, abandon the city and gallop to help Bai Mountain." The emperor is there, the emperor must keep it! As long as we hold the hill and Yang Yiqing's army arrives, we can still take Datong back! ”

This idea is really stupid, the regular army in the city is only 5,000, plus the whole force of the volunteers and the people is not as many as the Tartars who attack the city, and the Tartars outside the city are cavalry, if they really gather the soldiers and horses to rush out of the city, not only the city will fall, but all the soldiers and horses will have to be divided by them within half an hour and swallowed in one bite.

Du Renguo swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and before he could speak, he roared angrily: "Stupid! If the emperor is in danger and this fortified city falls to the enemy again, who else can defeat the Tartars who have obtained supplies? The whole territory of Shanxi, and even the Jingshi are in danger! ”

The two of them turned around, only to see a team of armor soldiers hugging His Royal Highness the Acting King into the corner tower. The sound of fighting was everywhere, Du Renguo and Hu Zan hurriedly stepped forward to visit, Hu Zan said with a crying voice: "Your Highness, there is a warning signal from Bai Mountain, the emperor is in danger!" ”

The acting king also knew that what he said was reasonable, only seeing the danger and today's words, once the emperor was martyred, it would have to become a reason for impeachment, even if he was a nobleman, he would inevitably become a victim of politics, and confinement to death may be the lightest punishment.

But his roots are here, his sons and grandsons are all in the city, and the acting king has lived here for more than 100 years, except for entering Beijing the year before last, he has never even left Datong.

The acting prince's face was as pale as ash, and he muttered: "Lone knows, but the defenders of Datong are outnumbered, and it is useless to open the city to meet the enemy, but to lose the solemnity of this side to the hands of Kou."

He suddenly turned around, took out his long sword from the guard, stretched it across his chest, and shouted: "The acting king is enshrined in Datong, and he has the important task of guarding the land and the border and defending the community, and the Datong defenders must obey the orders of this king!"

Du Zongbing, Governor Hu, defend the city with all their might, not let the Tartars attack the city one by one, the lone king is here to supervise the formation, if the emperor is martyred, it is the king who is not effective in rescuing, and the lone king should apologize for his crimes, and you have nothing to do with your lords! Don't go yet! ”

Du Renguo and Hu Zan were moved, and blurted out: "Acting prince, you."

The acting king shouted angrily: "Why don't you go quickly?!" ”

The two of them hurriedly walked out of the corner tower and ran up to the city tower to command the defense of the city. The acting king walked to the side door, leaned his sword to the east, looked at Bai Shan Mountain and prayed silently: The emperor is auspicious, you must persevere! ”

The giant return cannon is as high as three zhang, and can throw a two-hundred-pound boulder out of a hundred zhang. Baishan Mountain is only more than 30 zhang high, and the throwing is six or seven pounds of mud-sealed, clay pot-type pyrotechnic weapons, so the return cannon is greatly reduced, the use of less than two zhang high thrower, with eleven wooden poles of different lengths, matched into a simple support, and because of the rapid running, can not carry the weight of thousands of pounds of counterweight hammer, by manpower to pull the rope.

Cow dung wolf poison, mixed with arsenic and other poisons and poisonous weeds of the incendiary smell of nausea, there is wind on the mountain, but the Tatars from the downwind side of the incendiary constantly throw the incendiary up the mountain, after the landing is still thick smoke, choking smoke continues to drift to the other side, many soldiers are so smoked that tears flow, unable to open their eyes.

Fortunately, this is a mountain of earth, not a wall of ashlars, and the generals immediately ordered the soldiers to dig up the earth, and the snow to bury the poisonous burning materials, and the fire continued to fall from the sky, and the mountain mobilized all the soldiers to dig and bury the ground with all their might, although many of the soldiers were smoked so that their eyes were red and swollen, and tears flowed, but they could not bear it.

Zhengde and the others didn't expect that the Tartars would use such a trick in the big tent, Yang Ling hurried back to the camp tent, and let the emperor and the leaders go into the cave to take refuge temporarily, but at this time it was a critical moment, standing on the mountain and seeing the development of the enemy's offensive, he was not in a hurry, if he stayed in the cave, although he was not scorched by this smoke, how could he endure that anxious mood?

Yang Ling saw that Zhengde and Huadang and others were reluctant to go into the cave to hide, so they had to ask someone to tear off the tablecloth tablecloth, soak it in water and cover everyone's face, Yinqi's handsome big eyes were also smoky, tears were in her eyes, and even her nose was red, Yang Ling and her had secretly agreed, and she was not at ease with this girl who didn't know the details, and had already instructed the two inner guards to pay attention to her whereabouts.

More than a dozen wooden poles, dozens of people assemble one, and the speed is also extremely fast, and the simple throwers are constantly pushed to the bottom of the mountain, and more and more incendiary objects are thrown into the mountain. Bo Yan also estimated in advance that even if God blessed, there was no wind or snow today, and the top of the mountain could be dug and buried everywhere, and the thousands of poison gas bombs he carried would not conquer the Ming army.

More than 300 poison pyrotechnic canisters were thrown up the mountain, the smoke of gunpowder rose on the top of the mountain, Boyan continued to assemble and throw, while organizing the army to attack the mountain again, the smell of arsenic burning was too choking, the Ming archers and Duoyan Sanwei soldiers with tears in their eyes were greatly affected, and the Tatar army soon attacked the middle of the mountain and started hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army.

The number of improvised return artillery was increasing, and more and more smoke bombs were thrown up the mountain, and the Ming army rushed to the mountain pass to block the Tartars, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers digging and burying smoke all over the mountains, and as a result, the smoke on the mountain was getting bigger and bigger, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was further weakened.

Everyone understands in their hearts that it is a matter of time before the mountain is broken, and the only hope in their hearts is that this is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army has tens of thousands of troops in the nearby Great Wall Pass, and what they can do now is to kill the enemy as much as possible and try to gain time.

Even if you can't encircle and annihilate all the Tartars who fought with the cavalry, you can also severely defeat Boyan, so that his vitality will be greatly damaged, and he will win the decisive victory, if the reinforcements are a moment late, then they can only collect the corpses for everyone.

Hua Dang and the others are not stupid, and by this time, they have also seen that the so-called plan to use themselves as bait and lure Boyan into an ambush is very fake, but at this time, Bai Shan is fighting on all sides, and all the soldiers are crowded together to fight for their lives, even if they regret it, they can't gather their own army or flee.

The defenders trapped in Baishan Mountain have reached the end of the mountain, the fire guns have been exhausted, the arrows have been shot empty, and the only way to use knives and guns is to fight hand-to-hand, and the Tartars are approaching the top of the mountain step by step, compressing the Ming army to the middle. Yang Ling only ordered the sword and shield thousand-man team and the two hundred guards of the Great Interior to guard the big tent, and all the other officers and soldiers had been sent to block the enemy on all sides, and even the reserves were not left.

The Ming army is retreating step by step, to be precise, it is the fierce and desperate Tartar who tramples on the corpse in the slaughter and poke inch by inch to attack the mountain, just at this critical moment, there is a faint sound of hooves in the distance, the officers and soldiers who block the enemy on the west side are condescending, and you can see a large group of cavalry galloping forward, the bright armor, flying flags, it is clearly the Ming officers and soldiers.

As for how many reinforcements are still unknown, the news of the arrival of reinforcements has made each other's morale rise and fall significantly, even with the fierceness of the Tatar soldiers, they can't help but be greatly frustrated, and the whole army is a little discouraged.

Boyan got the news and felt a pang in his heart, what he was most worried about finally happened, if the Ming army arrived to complete the encirclement, not only would it be difficult to succeed in a desperate bet, but also under the internal and external attacks, if he did not break through in time, then the whole army would be annihilated, and it would be over.

Only one step away, as long as there is another half an hour, Zhengde is the thing in his own bag, and he will return to the desert like this? Boyan's nose was sour, and he yelled frantically: "Hadan Battle, bring your people, be sure to stop the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty, I only need half an hour, only half an hour!" ”

The terrible screams made the surrounding relatives and tribal leaders twitch, and the reserved stormtroopers numbered 6,000 men, commanded by his blood alliance brothers Hadan Batel and Xu Yuegan, respectively, who were invincible in the desert steppes with Boyan and were the most heroic and warlike generals.

Hadanbaatle also knew what it meant to fight for less than half an hour for the entire grassland, he pulled out his bright steel knife and shouted: "Follow me to meet it, even if it is a sandstorm, the Ming army must firmly block them, rush!" ”

The three thousand elite horsemen shouted in unison, drew their bright scimitars, and rushed towards the galloping Ming army without hesitation. Relative to the galloping brigade of the Ming army, the three thousand Tatar elite cavalry is like a sharp knife, if the two armies collide, the Tartar elite cavalry that waits for work and fights against the water can spread a long hole in the loose formation of the Ming army, and can go straight into half a mile to start a strangulation.

However, the Ming army didn't seem to see Hadan Battle's intentions, and still met it quickly in a loose formation. Yang Ling, Zhengde, Huadang and others saw the Ming army horse team on the top of the mountain, they couldn't help but feel refreshed, the most surprising thing for them was that this was a team of all cavalry, and it was clear from the mountain that their number was several times more than the three thousand Tatar cavalry who rushed up, where did this kill a heavenly soldier?

A handsome flag in the hands of a strong flag bearer, the galloping horse with the wind swept the banner hunting, he has to control the horse with both feet, firmly grasp the flagpole with both hands, and insert the pole handle into the collar next to the saddle to be fixed, the flag has only one big word: "King"!

Wang Zi Shuai Qi took the lead, the flag bearer rode forward, suddenly immediately crossed the bow, three arrows in one hand, the Tatar cavalry galloping on the opposite side immediately had three people fall off the horse, these three arrows are like a command, the Mongolian elite cavalry on the opposite side have bows and arrows, and the rain of arrows is overwhelming.

This elite commander is none other than Wang Shouren, the deputy general of the third pass who led two guerrilla generals to hide and seek outside the pass and the fire sieve. Because he led his troops outside, entangled with the fire sieve, and was bound to defeat due to lack of mobility, Yang Yiqing concentrated most of the cavalry in the defenders from all walks of life, and temporarily formed a full cavalry team and handed it over to him for command.

Wang Shouren's total strength is about 20,000 people, especially above the fire sieve, but he rarely fights with the fire sieve head-on, after all, the cavalry is not a one-time effort, and his army's combat power is still far behind the fire sieve department, but what makes the fire sieve headache is that the Ming general is reluctant to follow, no matter where he wants to attack, this army always follows behind and takes advantage of the fire to rob.

Huo Sifted Qi just wanted to find him for a decisive battle, but the other party couldn't avoid the move, and when he was forced to do so, he led him into the mountains and canyons to fight a bad battle by relying on the location.

In the only battle on the plains, Huo Sieve wanted to crush the main cavalry of the Ming army in one blow, but he didn't want Wang Shouren to dig a horse trap in the snow, and the nail board, even the front end was sharpened like a thorn, the tail wing was nailed to the horizontal board, and the thin log with the soil pit was dug underneath.

The front side of the war horse stepped on, the back log was raised high, and the war horse that ran for the first time pierced through, the two armies have not yet handed over, not only suffered heavy damage, but also the cavalry did not dare to rush, the Mongols were invincible in the world by not relying on swords and guns, but sharp arrows and fast horses, fast horses lost their advantage, it was simply self-abandoning half of their martial arts, after this battle, the fire sieve saw the banner of the king and had a headache, and simply played hide and seek with him.

Now Wang Shouren came to the vicinity of the rejection gate with the fire screen from afar, and suddenly lost the trace of the fire screen department in front, this place is mountainous, Wang Shouren thought that the fire screen had a way to learn, and he also wanted to ambush to deal with him, so he ordered the army to camp near the mountain, with his back to the anti-Hu Fort, and sent a scout horse to check the whereabouts of the fire screen.

The beacon fire was ignited, followed by the return of the exploration horse, and the dense horse's hooves disappeared in the valley road of the Rejection Gate Canyon, and there was no trace of it, but the Daming banner was still held high on the pass of the Rejection Fort, Wang Shouren suddenly felt suspicious: although the fire screen has been patrolling the passes everywhere, but he is as cunning as a fox, if he sets up an ambush, there is no risk of ambushing tens of thousands of horses and horses in the Daming Pass, and the peaks on both sides of the valley road are steep, and there is no one to hide, and the people of the fire screen can not go to the sky and the earth?

As soon as he thought of this, Wang Shouren immediately gave up the task of tracking the fire sieve, pulled out the camp and knocked on the pass, and entered the customs from the Kanghu Fort several miles away from the rejection gate. When they asked the guards on the beacon tower, they only knew that the beacon fire had strengthened the security of this pass, but they didn't know where the Tartars were tackling the problem.

When Wang Shouren heard the news, he immediately galloped to Datong and took a few sharp weapons from the guard. He also knew that the emperor and Duoyan Sanwei were discussing an alliance in Baishan Mountain, although the idea of speculating that the Tartars had easily entered the customs and attacked Baishan Mountain was too bold and a little unbelievable, but it was a matter of interest, and it was always good to be on guard, and it was a big deal to return to the army to rest.

The army has just galloped to Shuiqingzha, there are still a few miles away from Datong City, and the sound of fighting on the earth-shaking steps was heard in the distance, and at this moment the smoke was also lit on the Baishan Mountain, Wang Shouren was familiar with the local terrain, and immediately ordered the army to abandon the road, and took the small road to gallop to the mountain, which could be arrived when the mountain was broken.

Seeing the soldiers in the mountains from afar, Wang Shouren didn't know whether the emperor was dead or alive now, and he was also terrified, so he immediately jumped his horse and took the lead and led the army to gallop. As soon as the Tartars rained down with arrows, the soldiers took off the round shields hanging next to the saddle to resist, Wang Shouren held a bow in his left hand and a shield in his right hand, and shouted on the horse: "Release the god rocket!" ”

The soldiers who rushed to the front were all carrying strange weapons, and these firearms taken from the anti-Hu Fort were all light rockets, including a swarm of bee arrows, eagle arrows, fire crossbow meteor arrows, long snake arrows, except for the heavier forty-nine arrows and the hundred tigers that had to be carried in small carts or in pairs, all of which had been collected by him, and the soldiers were tied to their chests with straps, about twenty boxes.

The soldiers who rushed to the front lit the flint in the rain of arrows, and rockets flew out with a sharp roar. There is no need to count on the accuracy of the rocket, especially on a fast horse.

Fortunately, the Tatar cavalry in front was lined up in a dense formation of sharp knives, which was simply a live target. Qi Jiguang, a famous general in later generations, described the rocket as having a very interesting saying, to the effect that when the rocket is launched in the army of 10,000 horses, there is no need to aim at all, and the rocket is left to fate, and we can't guess the direction of shooting, and the thieves can't guess it, which is really interesting and wonderful.

This cluster of arrows is mainly fast, fast arrows are fired in succession, several times faster than the most clever archers of the Tartars, sharp arrows shoot horizontally and vertically, and there are dancing dragons flying forward, the two armies are getting closer and closer, the Ming army fell dozens of soldiers in the arrows, but the Tartars were shot by rockets to kill nearly 100 people, the most puzzling thing is those crooked and twisted arrows flying out, some actually bypassed the enemy in front of them, and shot the cavalry behind.

The more than 100 war horses that lost their riders suddenly disturbed the unstoppable charging formation of Hadan Battle, and the momentum of destroying the mountain was stunned, and then the two torrents staggered and killed together, the shouting of killing was deafening, the sound of white-bladed collision was endless, and the crazy soldiers on both sides rushed forward with fast horses to fight for their lives.

There was no one-on-one hand-to-hand combat in this kind of hedging of the horse team, and often as soon as the blades of the two knights were handed over, the two horses had already crossed by the stirrup, and as soon as they had joined hands with the new opponent, they would again staggered shoulders, handing over the enemy to the riders who rushed behind them.

At this moment, only killing can prevent oneself from being killed, and these ordinary and insignificant soldiers, regardless of whether they were humble or trivial, resolute or cowardly, insidious or downright, burst out at this moment with a majestic cry of mountains and rivers, stirring up a wave of heart-stirring rush.

In the battlefield of grinding meat, what I heard was a piercing tooth sore friction sound, because the Ming army's riding skills were not as good as the Tartars, and the saber wanted to play a sharp attack advantage, which needed to rely on arm strength, waist strength and the impact of the war horse.

Nearly 5,000 cavalry in front of them are maces, and their arm strength does not move the maces of real pure iron, so they are all thick and thin wooden hard and heavy pear wood sticks, and the head is nailed horizontally and vertically with many thick iron nails of the little finger that is half a foot long, colliding with the opponent's sharp saber, and the sound of "sigh" is endless, and the hook of the iron nail can also be used to effectively delay the speed of the opponent's swing.

The light mace that stabbed forward with the left and right blocked the warrior's own skill weakness, and the absolute superiority in numbers suppressed the brave and good battle of the Hadan Baatyr elite cavalry, and the huge waves surged forward, and the three thousand Tartar elite cavalry fell into the vast sea of nearly 20,000 Ming troops.

Looking from the top of the mountain, the forward and two wings of the Ming army were still charging, but the center of the team was emptying like a turbid wave, agitated. Xu Yuegan's 3,000 cavalry also rushed up, using the advantage of arrow rain to slightly block the Ming army's offensive, and then also fell into the encirclement of the Ming army.

It was another bad battle, Wang Shouren only led a few hundred people to rush out of Xu Yuegan's interception formation, and thousands of soldiers and horses roaring on both wings rushed straight to the wool Daxu in front.

Under the Wool Banner were the Tatar Khan, who had no longer the protection of a large army, and the leaders of the various tribes.

Capture the thief and capture the king first!

If you want to save me, you will save it, and you will save the enemy first!

If Wang Shouren lifted the horse to the mountain, he could not give full play to the advantage of cavalry on the slope of the mountain, and rushed to the middle of the mountain, he would inevitably dismount and fall into a bitter battle with the Tatars attacking the mountain, even if all the Tatars were finally wiped out, whether the safety of the emperor could be guaranteed in the chaotic army was also unknown.

Sure enough, the Tatar leaders who commanded the attack on the mountain had already paid attention to this Ming cavalry when they rushed in, and immediately gathered a large army to counterattack back as soon as they saw the danger.

Boyan and all the personal soldiers around the leaders of the various alliances added up to more than 1,000 people, but these people were the bravest of the Tatar warriors, and they immediately brandished their weapons and stopped in front of the leaders to fight with the Ming army.

The corpses and horses were scattered all over the place, the severed heads and stumps were unbearable, the blood was mixed with mud, and the original white ice and snow ground had long been unable to see its original color, and the blood was like vomiting.

When Yang Ling saw the opportunity, he immediately said to Xu Tai and Mahalu, who were stained with blood: "Victory or defeat is here, gather a large army, impact the enemy in the front, and welcome General Wang's soldiers and horses close!" ”

Xu Tai received the order and immediately gathered the officers and soldiers who were still breathing, except for the foot soldiers, all of them got on their horses and rushed down the mountain. Holding a heavy iron hammer, Mahalu also beckoned the remnants of the three guards, and rushed down the hill with a roar, and two armies of different costumes rushed out in a staggered manner, billowing smoke and dust, spears and steel knives shining with a murderous aura.

Surrounded by Wang Shouren in the center to form a large and a small two attack semi-circles are the 6,000 iron cavalry of the Tatar reserve army and the 1,000 elite soldiers of the leaders of the alliance such as Boyan Khan, and on the outside are the Tatar soldiers who have returned to help, wrapping them in the middle, and rushing down from the mountain are more than 8,000 cavalry of the Ming and Duoyan Sanwei, trying to take advantage of the Tatar anti-encirclement formation has not yet formed, open a gap to welcome the reinforcements up the mountain.

The horses' hooves galloped, the tremors trembled, the charging knights let out a terrifying roar, and everywhere in front and behind were a mixture of warriors and enemies, different languages, erupting into similar beastly roars.

Zhengde was enthusiastic at the top of the mountain, and he was eager to try, but unless he let Yang Ling's corpse be on the spot, he had a breath of air, how could he let Zhengde go to war?

At this moment, Shen Lei rolled, shouted to kill the sky, the flying fox crossed the direction, and saw a branch of men and horses rushing through the snow from afar, this cavalry armor was distinct, all of them were long-handled broadswords, people were like tigers, horses were like dragons, the four hooves of the war horses were flying, and the horse's belly seemed to be close to the ground.

There are not many cavalry, but more than a thousand people, the formation drags on for a long time, and they do not pay attention to the cooperation between each other, and they don't even fight a battle flag, which looks sparse, but for the Tatar soldiers who have lost their belief in victory, this sudden appearance of another unit completely destroyed their fighting spirit: the reinforcements of the Ming army began to appear in a steady stream!

Under the protection of more than 1,000 personal soldiers who swore to fight to the death, Boyan Mengke and the leaders really went out of the siege, and met with more than 5,000 people and horses who were waiting to be attacked and returned in time at the foot of the mountain, at this time their personal soldiers had lost only more than 300 people, Boyan's heart was like a knife and fried in oil, he knew that this gamble had completely failed, and if he didn't leave at this time, I was afraid that the whole army would be mourned here.

The desolate and agitated trumpets sounded, and the Tatars gave the signal to break through and retreat

(To be continued)