Chapter 472: Fight for Tomorrow
Baturu sat in the tent, not knowing how long.
What happened outside the Jingcheng Pass, Baturu didn't care about it anymore, just rubbed the scimitar in his hand repeatedly.
Baturu is a Mongolian general, and the famous swords and swords collected over the years are unknown. But the most beloved and carried with me is this scimitar.
The scimitar was left by his grandfather, Mu Huali, and it was used by Mu Huali in his early years, and the iron quality was very poor. In order not to break in the battle formation in the intersection with the enemy's blades, the amount of points to build is extremely heavy, more than 30 catties! Mu Huali used this scimitar when he was young, and I don't know how much enemy blood it had drunk, and the blood seemed to have soaked into the iron, making the black scimitar slightly red.
And Baturu has been in the army for more than 20 years, and with this big knife, he has beheaded many Han people - among them, there are Han children's martial artists, there are also Han people, the old, weak and disabled, and even many women, children and children!
The Mongols don't have any pedantic rules about not killing innocents! Nothing is innocent from the enemy's side! The old and weak can produce clusters of arrows, and women can take care of the wounded, that is, young children...... Do you know that when they grow up, they won't be another Chen Dexing!?
When I thought of Chen Dexing, all the confidence and pride that my years of killing Han people had brought to Baturu gradually collapsed. Perhaps he had already seen the end of Genghis Khan's murderous cause.
If Kublai Khan had refused to leave the Central Plains, which had actually not belonged to the Great Mongolia, the heavy and bladeless Mongolian scimitar would sooner or later be cut off by the extremely sharp steel knife of the Ming Dynasty!
Baturu no longer cared about the decisive battle with Li Pu that was about to begin, because in his opinion, the victory in this decisive battle was nothing more than an illusion and an excuse for Kublai Khan and the Mongols to remain in the Central Plains. Nothing good.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise outside, and even the shouts of the generals rang out again. These sounds go from small to loud. Gradually, it spread, and it was still a little low. Then it got louder and louder, until it rang out in the night sky!
Could it be that Li Pu's army has arrived? While Baturu was guessing, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the tent. As soon as he clenched the scimitar in his hand, he wanted to stand up and call for someone to put on his armor.
The curtain of the tent was lifted. What was revealed was the red face of his own guards who were so excited that they were already red.
"Marshal, the Great Khan has arrived! The Great Khan has arrived! ”
The Great Khan is coming? Baturu slammed to his feet and was about to go out of the tent to meet him. It is one thing to be dissatisfied with Kublai Khan's policy of obsessing with the Han lands, but quite another to be disrespectful to the Mongol Great Khan. Moreover, this Kublai Khan is still the Khan of Baturu and the entire Muhuali clan wholeheartedly.
"Baturu An'a!" Kublai Khan's loud voice had already come in from outside the tent. Then the curtain was lifted again, and a huge Mongol man had appeared in front of Baturu.
Before Baturu could react, Kublai Khan walked to a hu bed and sat down, and when he saw that Baturu wanted to kneel, he waved his hand very arrogantly: "No need to kneel!" Let's get down to business. Baturu Anda, how many people do you still have? How many thieves are there in Li Pu? ”
Baturu, who was only halfway up, sat down slowly, and said in a loud voice: "Back to the Great Khan, his subordinates were defeated by Li Tan, and there were 50,000 soldiers and horses. Now there are only twenty-four or five thousand warriors left......"
"Only twenty-four or five thousand left? There were still 28,000 yesterday, did you fight with Li Tan again? ”
"It's not with the Li thief, it's Wang Dechen's traitor! took away 3,000 people, the elite of the Wang family! ”
"I see." Kublai Khan shook his head, "The Han people are not reliable after all. Turning around and slaughtering Gongchang's Wang family is! ”
"Li Pu's soldiers may have 100,000!"
"One hundred thousand? This is all the puppet Tang troops in Taiyuan City? ”
Baturu said anxiously: "It's not from Taiyuan." It was Li Pu who brought it to Niangziguan...... The company camp is dozens of miles, and the momentum is huge! ”
"How can there be so many?" Kublai Khan was stunned. He also has fine work, of course he knows how much capital Li Pu has.
Baturu smiled bitterly: "Isn't it a rich man here in Shanxi who has been attached?" When Li Pu's soldiers first left Taiyuan, they were at most 50,000. Right now...... It's estimated that there are 100,000! ”
"It's okay, it's just a rabble," Kublai Khan smiled and shook his head, "I bring 50,000 troops, and together with your soldiers, a total of 75,000, will fight with the Li thief in front of the Jingcheng Pass!" ”
"That Chen thief ......"
"Go to Shunde Road," Kublai Khan smiled, "It is estimated that the thief does not know the result of the Battle of Taiyuan, otherwise he only needs to defend Zhending City, and the Great Mongolia will lose the Central Plains." ”
If Chen Dexing stayed in Zhending City, Kublai Khan would not dare to come to Jingcheng Pass no matter what. And Baturu suffered from the enemy on his back, and the 20,000 Mongol army was completely lost - so that Kublai Khan's strategy of waving his army into the Central Plains was completely bankrupt, losing Shanxi, Hebei, Yanyun, and 50,000 Mongol troops. Although they grabbed some territory in Henan, they would definitely not be able to stop the siege of Li Pu, Chen Dexing, and a bunch of Han marquis in the north and the feudal towns of the Southern Dynasties with the remaining hundreds of thousands of Mongol troops.
Looking at Baturu's stiff expression, Kublai Khan laughed heartily and said, "It seems that the destiny is still on my side, and I am the true son of heaven!" Li Pu and Chen Dexing have such an advantage, they can't even break me in one fell swoop, and when I eradicate Li Pu, Chen Dexing will be alone, and it will not be difficult to clean up. ”
Baturu was so encouraged by Kublai Khan, as if he also had a little confidence, looked at Kublai Khan and said: "There may be a decisive battle tomorrow, what is the plan of the Great Khan?" ”
Kublai Khan half-closed his eyes, as if he was thinking carefully, and after a while, he said seriously: "The Han people's art of war says: Win with the right and win with the odd." My army of 50,000 is already strange so far, and tomorrow's battle will be won with the right one! As long as my Daxu appears in front of Jingcheng Pass, Li Pu's 100,000 rabble will surely collapse without a fight! ”
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At night, the mountain breeze swept by, blowing countless bonfires into chaos, and the light of the fire shone on the faces of thousands of Tang soldiers, and a piece of light and shadow swayed.
These young or old Han warriors have just had a full meal, and everyone is full of expectations, not only because the years of Hu Lu's oppression of China will soon pass, but also because these people will soon be the heroes of the restoration of the Tang Dynasty.
Although the Chinese say that "the prince will be Xiangning has a kind", but this famous saying actually has another meaning, the commoner man followed the Ming Lord to open the country and prosper the country, and what he asked for was the slightest opportunity to become the prince general! Just like the scholars in the Chengping era, what he asked for was the opportunity of "going to Tian Shelang in the morning and ascending to the Tianzi Hall at dusk".
As for the thousands of soldiers and scholars who can't be princes and generals in troubled times, and can't be Jinshi in peacetime, what should they do?
For the warriors, is that the bones wither after the success? is a scholar, is the later writer Lu Xun's Kong Yiji?
Now Chen Dexing has given thousands of Han soldiers who participated in this great era a reward method that almost everyone has a share, and the soldiers give land! Instead of looking at the unattainable generals and princes.
With this reward of "Fengshi Bestows Land", whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, it can be regarded as embarking on the road of no return to militarism - the Shijue system made by Chen Dexing is actually the king and the soldiers share the world, which is similar to Tsarist Russia and Dide. When the first generation of emperors was there, it was fine, but when he was gone, the army owned the country......
As a time-traveler with a vision for posterity, Chen Dexing did not choose the most perfect, advanced, fair, and long-term development system to transform China. Instead, he did everything he could, doubling the fierce medicine that could inspire the will of the warriors to this dying and struggling nation, and it had reached the point where he completely ignored the future!
But right now, the fighting spirit of the Han warriors has indeed been stimulated to the highest! Even the soldiers of the Eastern Tang Dynasty, who had just copied "Chen Dexing's militarism", were waiting for the decisive battle with red eyes at the moment!
Around the camp where Li Pu was located, more torches and bonfires were lit at this moment, reflecting half of the sky in red.
Under the firelight, you can see rows of three-bow bed crossbows and piles of heavenly thunder arrows, as well as the figure of the Tang Army's artillery soldiers who are busy preparing for battle around the bed crossbow!
In the camp, you can see the men and horses of the Tang Army Brigade forming a queue and leaving the camp to the east. The torch lit by the marching army is like a fiery dragon in the mountain road, circling and dancing, stretching its claws!
Li Pu's army was stationed on both sides of the Mianman River west of Niangzi Pass, and the battalion went down twenty or thirty miles, while Li Pu's own camp was the closest to Niangzi Pass, the farthest away from the preset battlefield before Jingcheng Pass. Therefore, it was only the middle of the night, and the army was about to march.
The brigade was well organized, and even if it was opened at night, there was not much disorder. Now on the battlefield, it is obviously a high-morale, well-trained elite! It's just that compared to the well-equipped and well-trained Chen Jiashi Jue Army and the Eight Banner Army, they are not strong enough. And in tomorrow's battle, the enemy they faced was a little stronger than Li Pu expected.
"This is the Mianman River, this is the Gantao River," Kublai Khan tapped on the sheepskin map and said to the surrounding Mongol generals in the Jingcheng Pass, "In the third year of Gaozu, the Han general Han Xin fought a battle on the side of the Mianman River and defeated the Zhao army, which was several times more powerful than him.
And now, I'm going to fight against the water. dispatched 10,000 cowardly Xue troops, changed into the leather helmets of ordinary generals, covered them with leather robes over willow leaf iron armor, branded the banner of the Baturu Division, and then closed the 40,000 troops on the left wing of Kulu (the new force brought by Kublai Khan). I will definitely be able to lead Li Pu to use his elite to attack, and when his elite strength is exhausted, I will fight Jiu Jiu Bai Xuan again, and throw all the army into a counterattack, and I will definitely be able to defeat Li Pu. Because although Li Pu's army is numerous, it is mostly a rabble, even his elite, and it is not as good as Chen Thief's Shijue and Eight Banners, as long as he defeats his front, he will definitely be able to win a big victory! ”
Kublai Khan stood up, looked coldly at the solemn officers in the tent with the corners of his mouth strained, and he raised his head to the sky: "Genghis Khan is watching us from the immortal heaven...... The fate of the Great Mongolia depends on tomorrow's fight! (To be continued......)