Zhu Kuangye waved his hand and said categorically: "I don't need to thank you for my part, I'm just a little worried about the current situation of the Fourth Army." According to you, the Fourth Army should be in front, as long as the encirclement is broken and the two armies meet, things can be done, so then there will be a battle. ”

Jiang Yansi should be solemn.

The Ming army began to prepare for the surprise attack.

However, Zhu Kuangye and others did not know that Ding Sijing's Fourth Army was no longer here, but was on the west bank of the Yellow River, about 20 miles away.

It was the interval of these twenty miles that made Zhu Kuangye and others fall into the siege of the Liao army.

After Ding Sijin sent Jiang Yansi, the Fourth Army suffered several attacks from the Liao army, and although it repelled the Liao army with its sharp firearms, the firearms were gradually exhausted.

Ding Sijin knew that once the firearms were exhausted, the Fourth Army would face a situation of hand-to-hand combat with the Liao army.

In hand-to-hand combat, the physique of the Ming soldiers was significantly weaker than that of the Liao soldiers.

What's more, the Liao army was twice as numerous as the Ming army.

After thinking about it, Ding Sijin planned to fight to the death and break through to the east, with the purpose of crossing the Yellow River to the east and entering Yanyun of the Ming Kingdom, so that the Ming army that united Yanyun was enough to strike a counterattack on the Liao army.

That night, all firearms were gathered, and the Fourth Army, in accordance with Ding Sijing's order, launched a surprise attack on the Liao army in the east.

Originally, the assault went smoothly, and the Fourth Army quickly broke through the Liao army besieged in the east with grenades, breaking out of the encirclement.

But just ten miles away from the Yellow River, it was intercepted by the 20,000 leather room army in a north-south direction.

Yelu Shuo had already calculated that the Quasi-Ming army was very likely to break through to Yanyun in the east, so he secretly transferred 20,000 tribal troops to replace the 20,000 Pi Room army in the south. The leather room army was transferred to the bank of the Yellow River to set up an ambush.

Fortunately, Ding Sijin launched a breakthrough at night, otherwise, this ambush alone. can wipe out the Fourth Army.

When the Fourth Army broke through and fled to the Yellow River, it was caught off guard by the Pi Room Army who were ambushed here.

The firearms were exhausted, and the Ming army could only use their swords to fight the Liao army hand-to-hand.

The leather room army is the foundation of the Khitan state, and seven or eight out of ten come from the descendants of the eight Khitan tribes.

A decisive battle with such an army of this magnitude does not have to think about the morale of the enemy at all, it is only a matter of personal physique and armament.

At this time, the Ming army had run out of ammunition and food.

When it was extremely critical, Ding Sijin led the personal guards to take the lead. Rush to the front, and at this moment, a stray arrow slashes right across its cheek. Immediately, the blood came down, and Ding Sijing, who was half covered in blood, touched it with his hand, knowing that it was a skin injury, but he didn't take it to heart. Continue to lead the pro-guard to assault the Liao army.

The soldiers of the Ming army were so heroic when they saw the commander. They all put life and death out of the way, and they used their flesh and blood to withstand the attack of the ambush Liao army.

The two sides reached a stalemate, and the Liao tribe army that arrived took the opportunity to surround the Fourth Army again.

After this night of fierce fighting, the Fourth Army completely lost the ability to take the initiative to break through again, and was firmly held hostage by the Liao army on the bank of the Yellow River.

The Fourth Army ran out of ammunition and food, but food was not a problem, and in a desperate battle last night, the Fourth Army resisted. Then there is room to clean up the battlefield, and there is no shortage of wounded or dead horses on the battlefield. Horse meat alone can't starve people to death.

But the problem is that soldiers can't eat horse meat.

It's like a well-bred dog at home, and one day you can't bear to kill it and eat its flesh no matter how hungry you are.

What's more, war horses are the most reliable comrades of soldiers on the battlefield.

Many soldiers would rather starve than be cruel enough to eat horse meat.

But if you don't eat, you don't have physical strength, and without physical strength, you mean death on the battlefield.

Ding Sijin gave orders several times, but there were few servants, and in the end, Ding Sijin could only slaughter the wounded horses with his own hands, and then roasted them and took the lead to eat meat, so as to force his soldiers to obey.

You can imagine how poignant this process is.

A few hours later, Zhu Kuangye led 5,000 men to launch a surprise attack on the Fourth Army's detention place yesterday.

The combat power of this cavalry "scout team" is undoubtedly powerful, even against the Liao State leather room army, it will never be behind, but the premise is that the number is equal.

And there are 20,000 Liao tribes' troops here, and the most important thing is that there is no fourth army in the middle to meet, and Zhu Kuangye's department has completely become a suicidal assault like a moth to a fire.

The Liao army that encountered the assault was inexplicable, and even Yelu Shuogu couldn't figure it out when he heard the news, and then he thought that this was the place where the Ming army was originally stationed, and then he realized that this cavalry wanted to join the Fourth Army.

In the face of the fat meat that took the initiative to send to the door, Yelu Shuogu would never let it go.

He did not mobilize the tribal army in the north and south directions of the Fourth Army, but only relied on the 20,000 tribal army in the west to surround the cavalry of the Ming army.

For such a layout, Yelu Shuogu thought that he had looked up to this Ming cavalry very much, but Yelu Shuogu didn't know that even if this Ming cavalry was a piece of fat, it was also a piece of fat with bones inside. If he wasn't careful, the bones were enough to break a few of his front teeth.

The battle has begun, with 20,000 tribal troops against 5,000 Ming troops, the number does sound four times, but the Ming army is concentrated on a little assault, while the Liao army is a plane defense, in terms of units, the Ming army occupies a local advantage, and the Ming army's grenades are like crazy throwing without money.

That is, in a quarter of an hour, the cavalry of the Ming army broke through to the north for more than five miles.

The Liao army could not resist the sudden attack of the Ming army at all, and could only be forced to retreat to both sides as if it had been stabbed open by a sharp blade, but when the Ming cavalry rushed through, the Liao army filled the gap like a tide back, so Zhu Kuangye's department was completely surrounded by the Liao army.

And Zhu Kuangye and others, who rushed into the depths of the Liao army's camp, have also discovered the reality that the Fourth Army is not here at all.

But it was too late, and in the face of the Liao army that surrounded him, Zhu Kuangye fell into despair.

And Jiang Yansi's face was even pale, Zhu Kuangye had consulted him before the war, and his answer was that the Fourth Army was here.

Now it has put these more than 5,000 Ming troops in a desperate situation.

"Commander Zhu, incompetent in his humble position, harming the whole army, and willing to lead a battalion under his command to open the way for the forward, and then die." Jiang Yansi burst into tears and immediately pleaded guilty to Zhu Kuangye and suggested breaking through.

The anger in Zhu Kuangye's heart could not be expressed in words.

Although he said that he was a little careless, if Jiang Yansi had not given a categorical answer that the Fourth Army was here, with Zhu Kuangye's experience, at least he would definitely send scouts to investigate before the assault, and even if he didn't send it, it would not be a surprise attack by the whole army, and one or two thousand reserves would have been left in case of accidents. (To be continued......)