In addition to Pan Cheng, who is still fighting in the trapped beast, several parties who are intriguing each think that they have a killer feature that is unexpected by others.

Deng She occupies the overall geographical advantage, and the Yuan army has the advantage of fighting at home. Tianshi gradually leaned towards the Yuan army, but as long as the fog did not recede, Deng She could use it in the same way. Some people want to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle to force their opponents to return to the division; Some people want to avoid the real and attack the false, so as to smash the Yellow Dragon. Each of them is trying their best to win in the end, and it will soon be known who will win and who will lose.

Uncover the dazzling surface of reality, and the essence of the truth is about to be presented in front of the generals.

What awaits them may be the excitement of a great victory, or the despair of dying, in any case, just as dust will eventually fall, and life will always wither. The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, all of this, but a little wave in the long river of history, the moment when the picture is poor, doomed many people, and will be annihilated from now on.

As Pan Cheng's anxious and hesitant face froze after such a foggy night, a similar expression appeared on another person's face.

"What?"

"A few days ago, a red thief broke into pieces and took advantage of the fog and night to sneak into our army's defense line. After being discovered by our army, they immediately made a gesture of attacking Haozhou, deceived Lord Wei Sijian, and just yesterday on the third watch, their elite sneaked attack on Yizhou. ”

Haozhou, located in the southeast of Yizhou eighty miles, the city is not as tall as Yizhou, because it is slightly closer to Guangning, although there are not many grain and grass stored in the city, but more than half of the ordnance is stored here.

Lu Qian's 12 divisions of 3,000 people were divided into five routes, of which the ones who really attacked Yizhou, but two of them totaled more than 1,300 people. The responsibilities of the other three roads are in feints and covers. According to the agreement, the day after the infiltration, they turned to the direction of Haozhou, in order to attract the attention of the Yuan army and confuse the judgment of Wei Sijian.

Clearly, the ploy worked.

Quang Ninh front, in the tent of the marshal of the Yuan Army. When they heard this, they were shocked. He couldn't believe his ears, he got up, rushed forward in three or two steps, grabbed the messenger's coat, and asked, "The red thief attacked Yizhou?" Have you lost the city? What about grain and grass? Grain and grass! ”

The messenger blushed and was frightened, and said, "The city has not been lost, but the red thief has brought a large number of rockets, grain and grass,...... Grain and grass. ”

"How?"

"Burned most of it."

He stared at the messenger for a long time, and then screamed and almost vomited blood. Nang Jia asked, "What about the Guardian?" There are thousands of people in Yizhou City, how can I be mixed into the fine work! Is there no one to guard the grain land? ”

The red thief missed, and immediately left. Lord Wei Sijian was worried that they would join up with the red thieves who were feintting to attack Haozhou, and he was sending troops to surround and intercept them. ”

As if he had remembered something, he suddenly came back to his senses, and he seized the loophole in the messenger's words and asked, "Rocket?" Can a rocket go into the center of the city? How did it ignite the grain and grass? ”

"The rocket carried by the red thief does not need a bow and crossbow, and is made of a bamboo tube, about five feet long, and there are small rockets in the barrel. When the gunpowder outside the bamboo tube burns out, it automatically emits a small rocket in the barrel, with two thrusts and a very long range, so that it can reach the warehouse in our city. ”

also heard dumbfounded and didn't know what to do. Naturally, they didn't know that this thing was developed by Deng Sheti and Lu Qianwu, and it was named Fire Dragon Flying Sky, with two layers of push, and the range could reach several miles. This time I used it for the first time, and it really had the effect of attacking its unpreparedness.

"How, how is this good?"

The burning of grain and grass will inevitably cause instability in the morale of the army. At this critical moment of the fierce battle in Quang Ninh, the disciples of Nang Jia and the generals immediately made a decision, looked around at the people in the tent, and ordered: "The news of the burning of grain and grass is forbidden to spread!" ......, the red thief only burned most of it, didn't it burn it all? Even if it burns out, Quang Ninh will be down in the near future, Pan Cheng has been running Quang Ninh for a long time, the city will inevitably be rich in storage, as long as the city is taken, there is the support of the imperial court outside, and there is local food inside, our army will not be in danger of running out of food. ”

A general said: "What the prince said is very true. This person's head is easy to use, and he turned quickly, and then he added, "The red thief burned the city, and it can be seen from far and near, not only can I not wait for it to be leaked, but the prince, I also need to guard against foreign news entering the army." ”

"Outside martial law, no one is allowed to enter. ......, Zhugong, the city of Quang Ninh collapsed again and again, and the reinforcements of Luyang Panren were defeated by our army. Naha attacked Liaoyang fiercely, causing Yang Wanhu to retreat for another 30 miles yesterday. To conquer Quang Ninh, it will be here for a day or two, please return to the base camp and restrain the troops. Nang Jia got up and looked around, "This king personally went into battle and supervised the battle." ”

The generals agreed with a bang, and were about to disperse, when they suddenly heard a rush of footsteps outside the tent.

The guards came in and said, "A messenger has come from Shenyang." Behind the guard, a man with a disgraced face fell to the ground, weeping bitterly, and cried out: "Lord, the big thing is not good! ”

Nangjia's heart sank and asked, "How?" ”

"So that the prince can know that in the fierce battle the night before, a part of our army mutinied, Xiangye was seriously wounded, the whole army was defeated for thirty miles, and Shenyang was almost unprotected."

It was like a basin of snow poured down, cold from head to toe.

It turned out that the night before, Naha launched a general attack of the three armies, the sound of artillery was earth-shattering, and the firelight illuminated the night fog. After Nairawu captured Dongmu Mountain, he led 8,000 men, all elite, willing to brave arrows and stones, charged into battle, charged into battle three times, won three times, fought until dawn, and saw that he would completely defeat the red scarf on the opposite side, and pierce it into the heart of the Goryeo battalion.

As long as he rushes into the heart of the Goryeo camp, there will be Naha out in front of the Goryeo camp, and there will be Narawu, and he will definitely be defeated.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Naha's army, which had been driven as the vanguard of the left wing, suddenly defected, took off their uniforms, and clamored for a mutiny. Chen Hu, who was sitting in Liaoyang, didn't know when he arrived at the front line, and at this time, there was a river show on the right side of the red scarf, desperately blocking Nairawu; There is Qing Qianxing, borrowing the camp to block Naha's exit. On the left, there was Chen Hu, who personally led Liaoyang to be fierce, and with the cooperation of the Qianqian army, he swept out, and did not retreat with several arrows in his body, and forcibly broke the Chinese army out of Naha, and cut it into two sections.

Subsequently, Qing Qianxing counterattacked on all fronts, and the Yuan army fled in a big rout. The Liaoyang army pursued and killed for dozens of miles, for a whole day, and only stopped at the bottom of Shenyang City. In this battle, the Shenyang Yuan army suffered countless casualties, the nickname of "Uncle Raising Divine Arrow" was well deserved, Chen Hu's arrows were not missing, when he rushed to defeat the enemy, he shot Liu Tan Ma Chi with one arrow, two arrows fell on his handsome flag, and Naha came out of the mount with three arrows.

Naha was born seriously wounded, and because he fell off his horse, the rout on the left could not be restrained, and was trampled by the horses.

As for why the Qianqiu army defected to the army, this has to go back to the front and talk about before Deng She left the army. Zhao Timur's envoy to Shenyang was unsuccessful, and he came back to report that the Qianqian army had sent out to Naha to ask for food, but Deng She did not care at that time. Later, Nangjia attacked Guangning, the situation was urgent, he had to go out of the city to rescue, at this time, he brought up the old matter again, sent Li Shousheng of the Capture and Robbery Division to infiltrate Shenyang City, and rebelled against the Qianqian army.

Otherwise, how could he rest assured and boldly leave the important town of Liaoyang alone, do his best, and go to Guangning?

It must be known that this Qianqian army is different from the regular army of the Yuan army, and more than ninety percent of them are Han Chinese. They have no food and no salary, and they live entirely on plundering and taking food, so most of them are ruffians and fierce people among the displaced people, and they have nothing in their eyes for any righteousness and loyalty.

Deng She promised to give them food, pay them, and if they wanted, they could also be incorporated into the regular army system, very good conditions, people do not destroy the heavens and the earth for their own sake, and seeing that the development trend of Liaoyang is very prosperous, covering the land of several states, and there is half of the country of Goryeo, the future is great, they are naturally willing.

As a result, one defection of these thousands of people at the critical moment caused Naha to be caught off guard and returned defeated. Thinking that Naha returned to Shenyang after being defeated, he was seriously injured and lying on the couch, and he was expected to be angry and scolded a few words: "Deng is a thief!" ”

He was first defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang and was captured alive; Then Guan Duo was defeated, and the army of 200,000 was wiped out; Now he has become a defeated subordinate of Deng She, and he is seriously injured and almost died. Counting carefully, he fought with Da Song many times, and he lost several battles that decided his fate. It can be predicted that Deng She won this battle, following the death of Guan Duo, the departure of Sha Liu Er, and the siege of Guangning, many people thought that the idea of the decline of the red scarves in Liaodong would inevitably change.

At first, he suddenly screamed, and finally couldn't help but be shocked, frightened, and desperate, and spurted out a mouthful of blood.

Nang Jia picked up his sword and looked around in a daze, and sat down in a daze. Cut off the grain first, and then defeat Naha, to this day, no matter how stupid a person is, he can predict Deng She's next move. As expected, the sound of hurried footsteps sounded again, and the scouts who had been released from afar ran in a panic: "Report,...... Lord Wang, the red thief Yang Wanhu and Monk Li traveled day and night, and traveled sixty miles in a hurry last night, and another thirty miles in the morning, less than thirty miles away from Guangning. ”

Yang Wanhu and Monk Li's department, there have already been scouts to investigate clearly, all of them are the elite of the red scarf, ranked among the five ya, known as good at fighting, and recuperate for many days. Compared with the current Yuan army, although it annihilated most of the military horses in Luyang, and almost broke the city of Guangning, it fought fiercely for several days, with many casualties and exhausted military strength. If the two rounds the match, the victory or defeat is self-evident.

The general who turned his head quickly said: "Yang Wanhu's department is coming, what about Wuping Deng's cavalry department?" Oh, if he covers up from behind, our army, our army ,......"

He fell to the ground, and in an instant came up with a countermeasure, saying: "Please give the order of the prince to step up the attack on Quang Ninh." Even if Deng rebels 100,000 troops and horses attack, as long as our army insists on a period of time, it will inevitably be able to wait for reinforcements from Liaoxi and other places. ”

"Ridiculous! Most of our army's grain and grass were burned, and the city of Quang Ninh collapsed in many places. Counting on reinforcements from Liaoxi? Zhang Jujing died, the family treasure was discouraged, and the Deng thief cavalry was so proud, who would have the courage to save our army? ”

"Cowardly as a mouse! The foot soldiers available to the Deng thief were only 20,000, and the cavalry was no more than 10,000. Our army still has more than 100,000 horses, as long as Guangning is captured, half of them enter the city to hold on, and half of them build fortifications outside the city. The generals fight, the soldiers dare to die, the red thieves, what a worry! ”

"What if there is not enough food and grass?"

"Not to mention that there must be grain and grass in the city, let's say that there are tens of thousands of Han in the city, and there are more than 20,000 in Pan Cheng's department, all of which are two-legged sheep! Will it not be enough for my army of 100,000 to eat? ”

People eat people, everyone has heard of it, but all of them are from families of meritorious relatives, except for a few special hobbies, they never thought that there would be a day when they would eat human flesh. Listening to the terrible words of the general, I couldn't help but change color in shock.

The general was impassioned, knelt on the ground, drew his sword and inserted it through the woolen carpet, and asked for his life passionately: "The red thieves of Yang Wanhu's department in front are all foot soldiers, so there is no need to worry. Only the more than 10,000 cavalry of Wuping Deng thief must prevent him from galloping vertically and horizontally, messing up our position, and delaying our army's attack on Guangning. As long as the prince gives the last general 5,000 men and horses, no matter how many people he comes, the last general will refuse the enemy a hundred miles away, and he will not let Wu Ping's soldiers enter the defense line of our army. ”

"Ridiculous! Deng thief broke Yizhou, defeated Daning, broke Huihe, and broke Wuping, which can be called elite. How can you win with this kind of underestimation of the enemy? If you are defeated, you will die with one life, what should we do with more than 100,000 soldiers in our army? ”

The generals who resolutely opposed it argued with reason, and they said to Nangjia: "The last general will wait for the world to receive the emperor's favor, and it is not a pity to die." If there is chaos today, there will be thieves everywhere. Tanma Chi is the support of my Taizu Emperor Longxing, and he is also the only remaining strength of my Great Yuan, these more than 100,000 soldiers, but they can't be easily sent to death! Lord Wang, I need to save some vitality for my Dayuan. ”

The brazier in the corner of the tent, the burning coals, and the faint light made out a joyful, angry and sad expression. As he hesitated to hold his sword, he saw that the fog outside the tent was heavy, and many large flags from far and near, with different colors, looming in it.

"What do you mean?" He asked first.

was also speechless at first, only Nuonuo.

Nangga made a decision: "Order, order!" Tell him to stop searching for the red thieves who have mixed into the rear of our army, straighten out the military horses, and immediately prepare to meet the retreat of our army! ”

"Lord Wang! We can't withdraw, and as soon as our army withdraws, Liaodong will be lost. The general handed over the school tears, smashed his head like garlic, slammed his head, ignored the blood flowing all over his face, and shouted loudly, "Hundreds of thousands of elites, looking at the wind and retreating, our army retreated, in vain achieved Deng Reyi's momentum, the people of Liaodong heard it, but I am the great yuan?" The people of the world know it, I am a great yuan! ”

Weisi people, who am I with?

Since ancient times, the words of the school are of course reasonable. Tens of thousands of Tanma Red Army left without a fight, and Liaodong has not returned to the Mongolian people since then; When the world hears about it, it will inevitably deepen the impression that Meng Yuan is about to die, and it will definitely increase the arrogance of King Xiaoming, Liu Futong, and even Zhang Shicheng and Xu Shouhui.

Nang Jia said: "Needless to say, immediately retreat the whole army." ”

The generals were relieved. The general stood up suddenly, pointed at his halberd angrily, scolded the surroundings, and said, "I am really ashamed to be with you!" He sighed, looked at the capital from afar, and burst into tears, "The minister wants to fight to the death, but everyone in his generation is greedy for life, and now there is only one death to repay the saint and repay the country." "Swing your sword and kill yourself.

"Among the Han people, there are also good men."

The general who committed suicide was a Han man, who was originally from a family of Han army generals. Nangga couldn't stop him, and seeing that he was dead, he had to order him to be carried down and buried thickly. He turned to look at the crowd, and he didn't know that the words of these people who advocated the withdrawal of troops seemed to be loyal and patriotic, but in fact they were nothing more than greed for life and fear of death.

He comforted himself: "The will of the people cannot be violated. ”

The Yuan army retreated, and Pan Cheng at the head of the city was stunned. Yang Wanhu and Li Monk soldiers who were advancing at full speed divided into two routes, 5,000 people rushed to Luyang, and 15,000 people bypassed the ruined Guangning. The remnants of the defeated Quang Ninh soldiers climbed the city wall, and they were invincible when they saw the dragon spirit and tiger fierce, and the continuous banners reflected the fog red.

Lu Qianxi successfully rendezvoused the military horses that had feinted to attack Haozhou, and disrupted the rear army formation of Wei Sijian. Deng Sheliu Li Ye was stationed in Yizhou and other places, with 12,000 light soldiers, traveling hundreds of miles a day, galloping through the dust and mist, crossing the big river, passing through the mountains, and appearing in front of Tanmachi who retreated in a hurry.

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1. When the gunpowder outside the bamboo tube is burned out, it automatically emits a small rocket inside the barrel, with two thrusts and an extremely long range.

The Song Dynasty invented rockets that were fired by gunpowder instead of bows and crossbows. This rocket can be said to be the prototype of modern solid-propellant rockets, because it has the basic structure and launch principle of rockets.

In the Ming Dynasty, on the basis of this single-stage rocket, a multi-stage rocket was invented, called "Fire Dragon Out of the Water". "A five-foot-long bamboo tube is carved into the shape of a dragon, and there are two front and rear bazookas on the outside of the dragon's body, which is the first stage. The dragon's body is equipped with the 'Divine Rocket', which is the second stage. ”

During the battle, "the dragon body can fly two or three miles away by the power of the first-stage rocket, and after the first-stage rocket is burned, the burning line ignites the second-stage rocket in the dragon's body, and the second-stage rocket then flies out from the dragon's mouth." ”

Rockets played an important role in ancient warfare. "In the famous Battle of Huang Tiandang, Han Shizhong once shot the canopy on the Jin Bing warship with a rocket, and set fire to it with a small boat, resulting in 8,000 people surrounding the 100,000 army of Jin Wushu for 48 days."

In the Poyang Lake water battle at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, rockets and firearms played a key role in determining the victory or defeat of the war.

"Shang (Zhu Yuanzhang) personally led the boat division to the expedition, armor, armor, flags, artillery, firecrackers, rockets, thistles, large and small muskets, large and small generals' barrels, large and small iron cannons, magic arrows and reed mats as a circle, five feet around, seven feet long, pasted with paper cloth, silk and linen wrapped, stored gunpowder twists and firearms, the name is 'helpless', with a rod on the mast, the two ships helped, ignited the fire line, burned the suspension cable, "helpless" fell in the enemy boat, the firearms were fired, burned and helpless. ”

Fierce moments:

"The cry moved the heavens and the earth, the arrows rained, the cannons thundered, the waves stood up, the flying fire shone brightly, within a hundred miles, the water was completely red, 20,000 or 30,000 people were burned and drowned, the corpses were like ants, and the sight was endless", Chen Youliang's ship was "burned and drowned, the smoke and flames blocked the sky, it was impossible to distinguish from the distance, the sonic shook the valley, the army floated on the water, and the waves drifted."

His soldiers, including Chen Youliang's two brothers, "burned 60,000 people who drowned", "At the end of the day, the northeast wind rose, and the upper order was to use seven boats to carry reeds, store gunpowder, and sokcho as people, and decorate them with armor, and ordered the soldiers to dare to die, and set fire to the wind and set fire, and they had to reach the enemy's boat, and hundreds of boats in the water village were burned, and the smoke and flames were all in the sky, and the lake was completely red, and the brothers Youren, Yougui and Pingzhang Chen Puluo were all burned to death. ”

2, in fact, it is nothing more than greed for life and fear of death.

There are many Han people who are loyal to the Yuan, and there are also many Mongolian people who are greedy for life and afraid of death. To give an example, Liu Futong got into trouble, and the right prime minister at that time took off "to take his younger brother Timur as the first to know the affairs of the Privy Council, and asked for more than 100,000 guards", "a total of more than 300,000 elite soldiers, thousands of gold and silver silk cars, and hundreds of millions of dollars in the north and south of Henan, and there is no such person in the prosperity of the front and rear soldiers".

Timur also garrisoned Shahe first, and one day, "the night terrors in the army also jumped the horse first." When the official of Runing refused to listen to his actions, he drew his saber and said: "Mine is not my life." 'Abandoned military supplies, equipment, and grain transportation, and the vehicles were piled up, and only 10,000 people were scattered, and they reached the foot of Biancheng. ”

"Night terrors in the army" means that you are scared of yourself and frightened the battalion. This position is very high, and non-Mongols can't do it, so because of the frightened camp, "the prancing horse escapes first", and others hold it, so he draws a knife and cuts people, asking: "Mine is not my life?" ”

Even so, the result of such an absurd rout was only: "The court thought that it would not practice soldiers, and ordered it not to be replaced." Timur also returned first, entered the city at night, and was still the imperial doctor. ”

And just before the defeat of Timur, there was an equally absurd rout.

When the court heard the red scarf, it ordered the Privy Council to lead 6,000 Asu troops with Zhihe and Bald Chi, and each Han army to fight against the Red Army. A speeder, green eyes back to the back, Su number is fierce, good at riding and shooting, and Xu Zuocheng of Henan Province marched into the army.

"The three generals indulge in wine, and the sergeants are in charge of plunder. When the horses of the Heguo army saw the large formation of the Red Army, they raised their whips and said, 'Abu! 'O Ab, go away. So all the departments left. So far, Huai people have been said to laugh. Subsequently, He Zuo died in Shangcai, and Xu Zuocheng was punished by the imperial court. The Asu army is not accustomed to water and soil, and more than half of them have died of illness. ”

Seeing that the red scarf was powerful, he didn't fire an arrow, turned his head and left, just like that, the army was still "plain and fierce".