Chapter 296: The Decisive Battle of Beiping (I)

Honesty is a relative word, some talk about this, some don't talk about this, it varies from person to person.

If people are shameless, what is not easy to do? It's normal to go back on your word, which big guy hasn't done it? From this point of view, Xiao Fan is definitely an out-and-out big man, and he has all the qualities that a big man should have.

A man in his twenties, after entering the court, the speed of his promotion has been soaring, there is always his reason, the leader of Duoyan Sanwei, Tuolu Huchar, must not have imagined that he had been in the wind and waves for so many years, and he was actually swept away by a young man.

The army entered the city of Baoding, posted a notice of peace as usual, announced that the imperial court had recovered Baoding, and asked the ministry to appoint the prefect as soon as possible, restore order, call on merchants to open the market, open the official warehouse to help the people who were affected by the military disaster, etc., everything was carried out in an orderly manner.

Ping'an led 50,000 forwards to pursue the Yan army non-stop, while Xiao Fan led more than 200,000 main forces to stay in Baoding City for one night, and then set off north the next morning.

After the defeat of the Yan army in the Jinan defensive battle, the chessboard of the imperial court counterinsurgency battle seemed to be alive overnight, all the way forward, winning repeatedly, the Yan army was like a declining god possessed, defeated and defeated, plus Xiao Fan's dark chess buried more than a year ago had an effect, the Yan army was poisoned and weak, which made the original unfavorable situation of the Yan army even worse, and the morale was even more lost.

Only more than 90,000 Yan troops retreated north in a panic under the leadership of Zhu Di, just out of Baoding City not far away, the rear army scouts came to report, and the southern army forward officer Ping'an led 50,000 horses to pursue.

At this time, the entire Yan army exploded, and the negative emotions such as fear, fear, and pain that had been suppressed in their hearts for a long time all broke out at this moment, and more than 90,000 people did not realize until now that the consequences of the rebellion were very serious, and they had to lose their heads.

As for Zhu Di's righteous banner of "Fengtian Jingjing", people in the world may believe it, but the soldiers of the Yan Army don't believe much, everyone is so familiar, who doesn't know who, why are you a soldier? It's just to eat food and get paid, what is the side of the Qing monarch, what is the ancestral system, these righteous and awe-inspiring slogans are shouted by you powerful figures, what does it matter to us?

Now the rebellion has created such an end, chased by the imperial army like a lost dog, the grievances of the Yan army soldiers finally broke out completely, the rebellion is to lose the head, and it is the head of the whole family, if you take us to rebel successfully, then it will be enough, now this situation is caused, and it is difficult to escape defeat if you can't return to Beiping, and the soldiers are gone.

So on the way, many Yan soldiers stopped and didn't leave, and some soldiers simply took off their armor, taking advantage of the general flag, hundreds of households did not pay attention, and secretly drove away, and some people made trouble, and had the courage to incite everyone to surrender to the court.

The incident happened suddenly, and Zhu Di didn't expect that the soldiers of the Yan Army, who had won a hundred battles, didn't even have the will to fight, and he didn't know how to react for a while.

Dao Yan was in a hurry, the backyard caught fire at this juncture, what a serious consequence was the mutiny of the army, the people who were the commanders knew it, and they didn't ask Zhu Di at the moment, Dao Yan stood up and directly ordered Zhu Di's guards to suppress it.

The guards were the most loyal people, and after more than 100 guards slashed and beheaded the soldiers who took the lead in the mutiny, the chaotic mutiny momentum was finally temporarily suppressed.

Dao Yan calmly arched his hand towards Zhu Di: "Lord Wang, it's all settled." ”

Zhu Di glanced at him, was silent for a long time, looked up to the sky and sighed, full of infinite sorrow, shook his head and said nothing, waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to continue to move forward.

Dao Yan stood on the spot and straightened up, watching Zhu Di ride a horse and gradually move away, the seven-foot-tall burly man, his body was like a dragon clock, he looked so rickety and old, the autumn wind blew, Zhu Di's hair and temples were a little frosty, a twilight heroic scene at the end of the road, adding a lot of desolation and sadness.

Somehow, Dao Yan's nose was sore, and tears suddenly flowed from his eyes, and the tears flowed more and more, but he gritted his teeth and didn't dare to cry at all.

My own ideals, maybe I can't realize it in my life, right or wrong, success or failure, the prince treats me as a countryman, how can I repay the prince?

Of the 150,000 soldiers at the time of the army, there are now only 90,000 left, and tens of thousands of people have died for their own ideals. Who should bear the burden of many sins?

Dao Yan trembled his hands, folded them in front of his chest, silently recited the Buddha name, then wiped away his tears, and urged the horse to follow Zhu Di.

This great thing has already been done, so why bother with it being wrong or wrong? Success or failure, I share it with the prince, that's all.

In October of the first year of Jianwen, the Yan army abandoned Baoding, defeated and retreated to Beiping, the southern army forward officer Ping'an led 50,000 troops to pursue, the two sides were only dozens of miles apart, one side in order to annihilate the enemy, one side in order to survive, Zhu Di and Ping'an launched a rapid march.

There are not many cavalry in the southern army, there are only thousands of horsemen in the forward army, Ping An in order to drag Zhu Di into Beiping, immediately led thousands of horsemen to catch up, Baoding City next battle, Ping An has a general understanding of the combat power of the Yan army, although I can't figure out why the brave and warlike Yan army is so weak and powerless, but it is definitely a good thing for him, so Ping An Suo surname let go of his courage, thousands of cavalry dared to pursue the 90,000 Yan army.

Of course, Zhu Di knew his own strength better, and he didn't even dare to face the thousands of people in Ping'an, so he could only keep urging the team to speed up the march and not to engage the southern army.

However, after all, the cavalry was faster than the infantry, and after only one day of pursuit, Ping'an caught up with Zhu Di's rear army, which happened to be located north of Baoding, south of Beiping, and not far from the Bauhinia Pass of the Great Wall.

So Ping An was not polite at all, when the soldiers of the Yan Army Palace just turned around to face the battle, Ping An put up a cone-shaped formation of the charge, under a shout, the cavalry swept by like a cloud, wielding a war knife like a wolf into the flock, first the Yan Army was dispersed, and then turned the horse, and then charged, so repeated several times, the soldiers of the Yan Army finally despaired, so the surrender of the surrender, the collapse of the rout, the battle effortlessly, nearly 10,000 Yan troops were easily solved.

The soldiers of the Yan army who were rushing in front heard the defeat again, but their expressions had become numb, in this situation, failure is not unusual, it is rare to be able to win a battle, the soldiers did not have any mood fluctuations at all, like a puppet with only a shell, under the shouting and whipping of hundreds of households, they just buried their heads and hurried away.

Zhu Di became more and more frightened, Ping An chased more and more tightly, Zhu Di felt for the first time in his life that he was a king, but his surname was hanging by a thread, when he went out to fight Tartars in the grassland desert, he was born and died several times, he had never been so frightened and afraid, is it inevitable that he will fail now?

A day later, the Yan army rushed to the Bauhinia Pass, and when the people were sleepy and the horses were tired, the thousands of cavalry of Ping An finally caught up.

Zhu Di, who was extremely tired, still did not lose his heroic nature at this time, and his face flashed, this king is also a famous general today, and there are still 80,000 horses under his command, can't even you beat these thousands of cavalry?

Ping, you're so crazy and rude!

"Someone! Cloth back to the wild goose formation, beat the drum to meet the enemy! Zhu Di ordered loudly.

Back to the wild goose array, herringbone formation, one left and one right like the two wings of the wild goose, this array is suitable for defense, outflanking.

Ping'an rode on the horse, the wind whistling in his ears blew, and he vaguely heard the rumbling drum in front of him, the flag in the Yan army camp waved rapidly, and the Yan army soldiers spread out the formation left and right.

"General, the Yan army has set up a formation, we only have a few thousand people, I'm afraid we won't be able to please us!" A hundred households said loudly in Ping'an's ear.

Ping An raised his head, squinted his eyes for a while, and said, "What's the place ahead?" ”

"Ten miles ahead is Bauhinia Pass."

"Bauhinia Pass?" Ping'an thought for a while, then his eyes lit up, and he drew his knife out of the sheath with a bang, and said with a cruel smile: "Bauhinia Pass is a good place, good feng shui, suitable for burying people, don't look at the fact that we only have a few thousand people, and we will soon fight a scene of tens of thousands of people, brothers, do you believe it or not?" ”

Fighting bravely in peace, often taking the lead, regardless of safety, the soldiers were convinced by him, willing to die for him, and nodded one after another when they heard the words: "We believe what the general says!" ”

Ping An laughed heroically: "Good! Let's see how our thousands of people killed tens of thousands of them without leaving a piece of armor, brothers, Yan rebel rebellion is about to be pacified, and there is not much time to win military exploits right away, today it is said that sell your strength, Lao Tzu will take you to a splendid future, and say that you will be crowned with a wife and a shadow, and the lintel of your ancestors will be glorified, and now you will not sell your life, and you will be a poor military household for the rest of your life, and your children and grandchildren will not be able to turn over! ”

The eyes of the cavalry behind him suddenly turned red, and they drew their swords out of their sheaths one after another, howling like beasts: "Kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!" Kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions! ”

Ping An laughed and shouted: "Beat the flag out for Lao Tzu, rush!" ”

A gold-embroidered banner with black background and white edges was erected high, and Ping An kicked the horse's belly violently, and the horse rushed towards the Yan army formation, and the cavalry behind him did not hesitate and followed.

Zhu Di stood in the Chinese army, his eyebrows were condensed, and with a wave of the command flag in his hand, the Yan army maintained the formation and went head-on.

Ping An rode on his horse and charged quickly, looked left and right, and then laughed disdainfully: "Can the mere Hui Yan Array stop Lao Tzu?" Joke! ”

As he spoke, the thousands of elite horsemen of Ping An and the Yan army were getting closer and closer, and the wind and clouds changed color in the sky, and the murderous aura was surging, a hundred zhang, ten zhang...... Ping'an raised the steel knife in his hand, his eyes were bloodshot and red, the snowy blade trembled slightly, and a faint cold light was refracted in the sun, closer, closer and closer...... The moment the two armies came into contact, the steel knife held high by Ping An mercilessly slashed at a general in armor.

Boom!

The two swords collided, stirring up a few sparks.

At the same time, the two armies finally collided fiercely.

Rumble!

Like a stormy case, the sound shocks the sky, like a landslide and the ground cracks, and the sound curbs the clouds.

The cavalry rushed into the Yan army formation, and immediately the screams were endless, and after setting off a blood-colored shower, the cavalry rushed through a bloody road, reined in their horses, turned around, and continued the second charge.

Ping An shook the sword, his eyes were surprised, the hand holding the knife was slightly numb, looking at the general who was fighting with him in front of him, Ping An raised his sword and shouted: "Good skills!" Who will come? ”

The general of the Yan army on the opposite side waved his long sword lightly and snorted coldly: "The left wing of the Jingnan Army is in command, and Zhang Yu is also!" ”

Ping'an smiled: "Zhang Yu, what a man!" Here, a few more tricks! ”

After saying that, he urged the horse to step forward, and slashed at Zhang Yu with another knife.

The two sides fought together, the battle was very fierce, from time to time some people screamed and fell from their horses, and some people were cut down to the ground, on the black soil of the plains, red blood flowed everywhere, stumps and broken arms flew up in the crowd, fell, and a piece of fresh life was instantly extinguished and disappeared.

Zhu Di stood under the banner of the Chinese military marshal, looking at the fierce fighting between the two sides not far away with an expressionless face, with indifference in his eyes.

The command flag in his hand is like the urging post of the king of Hades, and he waved it lightly twice.

"Close, outflank!"

Knock knock!

The war drums sounded rapidly again, and the soldiers at the left and right ends of the Huiyan array quickly moved towards the formation, blocking Ping'an's back road, and unknowingly forming a complete encirclement of Ping'an.

Ping'an and Zhang Yu were fighting, seeing the black Yan soldiers swarming behind him, Ping'an's heart tightened, and under distraction, Zhang Yu swept by with a sword, and Ping'an's left arm was drawn out of a long blood groove.

A cavalryman covered in blood galloped over and shouted: "General, Yan Reverse has closed the formation, let's break through!" ”

Ping An shouted violently: "When did Lao Tzu run away in battle? Keep killing the enemy, fight the fleeers, slash! ”

"General, if we continue to fight, we will all die here!"

"Lao Tzu said that a few thousand people can still fight a scene of tens of thousands of people, don't you believe me?"

"This ......"

As soon as Ping'an's words fell, a black cavalry suddenly rushed out of the Bauhinia Pass in the distance, the cavalry did not play a banner, nor did they have a unified armor, wearing Mongolian robes of different colors and styles, raising a slightly curved scimitar in their hands, shouting and galloping towards the battlefield of the battle.

The two sides who were fighting fiercely were stunned by this sudden accident, and the two sides unconsciously stopped, and looked at the group of Mongolian cavalry in the distance like a black cloud, and Mount Tai rushed over like a black cloud.

Zhu Di stared at the Chinese army carefully for a while, suddenly gasped, and exclaimed: "Duoyan Sanwei!" How did they get in? ”

Dao Yan said with a shocked face: "How could it be them?" ”

Zhu Di turned his head to stare at him, and said in a deep voice: "At the beginning, 20,000 taels of gold failed to buy them, how could they suddenly appear now?" ”

Dao Yan's face twitched, and his face instantly turned pale.

When Zhu Di saw Dao Yan's face, his heart sank in vain, as if he had fallen into an abyss, and his hands and feet were as cold as a dead man.

Duoyan Sanwei is not a living Lei Feng, he will not help him for no reason, these snobbs have penetrated into the eyes of money, and they will not do anything that is not beneficial.

Since they didn't help him, and now they are involved in this war, who will they help?

Soon, Duoyan Sanwei gave him the answer with actions.

In an instant, Duoyan Sanwei rushed to the middle of the battlefield, formed a formation, charged, raised his sword, and slashed down...... With extremely frightened and terrible screams, the soldiers of the Yan army lay down countless corpses.

Nearly 50,000 cavalry charged in formation, and it was the most powerful and brave cavalry in the world, how could the Yan army be able to stop it?

In less than the time of a pillar of incense, the Yan army was killed by Duoyan Sanwei.

In the Chinese army array, Zhu Di's desperate voice came: "The whole army retreats quickly!" Don't fall in love with the war, return to Beiping! Fast! ”

There was no need to give an order at all, the Yan army had already been killed by Duoyan Sanwei and trembled, and they retreated in horror.

Duoyan Sanwei did not chase after him, let the Yan army retreat, they dismounted, and didn't even have time to pay attention to the peace to greet them, drew their knives and walked around the battlefield, cut off the heads of the dead Yan soldiers, and hung them next to their own saddles.

Duo Yanwei commanded Tongzhi Tulu Kuzar to get off the horse, walked in front of Ping'an, stroked his chest with his right hand, bowed to Ping'an, and said, "Immortal Heaven blesses your lord." ”

Ping'an's face turned blue, and he forcibly resisted vomiting, pointed to the Mongolian soldiers who mutilated the corpses of the Yan army, and said, "They ...... What are you doing? ”

Tarukar turned his head to look, and then laughed like a simple old peasant, two rows of white teeth glowing in the sun.

"Cut off people's heads, receive a reward from Marquis Xiao, a head is a reward, hehe, there is silver everywhere, God doesn't take it, but suffers from its guilt......"

Peace: "............"

These miscellaneous ...... who got into the eyes of the money, "But the heads you cut off, including the enemies killed by my brothers, is this considered a meritorious service?" ”

Treukhuzar showed a distressed expression, hesitated for a moment, and said tentatively: "Or, how many heads will I give back to you?" Do you want it? ”

Ping'an's hands and feet were cold, and he panicked from the heart, he was not afraid of killing, but if he wanted to carry the bloody human head and swagger away...... "No need, you guys, vomit...... Take it, and give it to you for nothing! ”

Delu Kuchaer was as happy as if he was something, and said with a smile: "The Han people are really bold, I have made this friend of yours, and I will give you a few beautiful women next time......"

As soon as he was safe and had not yet spoken, he added, "...... Head. ”

"Vomit ......"

In October of the first year of Jianwen, the Yan army was defeated in front of the Bauhinia Pass, this battle was due to the sudden intervention of Duoyan Sanwei, the Yan army suffered heavy casualties, and after returning to Beiping City in a panic, the remaining soldiers were less than 60,000, and the wounded were countless.

At the beginning of November, Xiao Fan led more than 200,000 troops to join the Ping'an forward, and the Duoyan Sanwei cavalry of Tulu Kuchar, after the combined army, a total of 350,000 horses marched in three ways, and the rear soldiers came to the city of Beiping and surrounded the Beiping regiments.

The final decisive battle in Beiping is about to begin, and the rebellion of Zhu Di, who is in turmoil in the world, will also get the final ending here.

(To be continued)