Chapter 270

Bald Meng can jump like thunder, tens of thousands of troops can not take this small beacon tower, it is a great shame, angry, bald Meng can also understand the reason, the Ming army chose more than ten zhang high dangerous terrain, although there are only dozens of people at the peak, but they have a powerful firearm, and they have already prepared food and water at the peak.

In such a terrain, it is difficult for a man to climb up, and it is difficult for his soldiers and horses to climb up, and in the past few days, there are hundreds of people who have just climbed into the air and fallen, let alone snipers.

From the beginning of the siege of the Ming Emperor's car to the present, in six days, Bald Mengke felt for the first time that this time he might be going to return in vain, originally full of confidence, after unexpected setbacks again and again, Bald Mengke's confidence was shaking.

Although the soldiers and horses withdrawn from Yangyuan had already brought the news of the arrival of the Ulzhou reinforcements, the soldiers and horses who had arrived thirty miles away since yesterday did not attack, but built fortifications thirty miles away, and only sent more than 100 horsemen to harass; This shows that the strength of the Ming army's reinforcements is not enough to pose a threat to themselves, and they still have time to catch the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty, or use the Ming army to help eat them, if they can annihilate the Ming army's thousands of soldiers and horses, then this expedition is not a failure, and it can be said that after going back, it can be said that it is deliberately trapped by the Ming Dynasty emperor to set up an ambush to annihilate the main force of the Ming army, or you can find a step down.

It was getting late, after a day of hard fighting, everyone on the top of the cliff was exhausted, and a group of ragged people sat on the ground on the west side of the beacon tower, watching the sunset slowly fall, and when the sun rose tomorrow, it would be the seventh day of being trapped on the top of the cliff.

"Song Nan, are you saying that the reinforcements from Ulzhou have arrived?" Zhengde's throat was dry, and his voice was hoarse, and he was exhausted.

Song Nan said: "Your Majesty, according to the minister's prediction, the soldiers and horses of Ulzhou will definitely arrive, and in six days, although the Ulzhou guard is mainly infantry, it will definitely be able to arrive; Moreover, the madness of the Tartar attack also showed that they were in a hurry, and the reason why they were in a hurry was because reinforcements were imminent, and they could have waited for us to run out of food and water, and then they could have breached the beacon without much effort. ”

Zhengde nodded slowly, and Liu Jin suddenly said: "Since this Jiang Bin has arrived, why don't you hurry up and attack the Tartars to rescue the emperor?" This person really deserves to die, and he actually sat back and watched the emperor being trapped and indifferent. ”

Song Nan frowned and said: "Gonggong Liu, what you said is not right, there are only 6,000 soldiers and horses in Ulzhou, but there are 20,000 Tartar soldiers here, do you let Jiang Bin take 6,000 people to death?" Jiang Bin did this precisely with his brains, the Ulzhou soldiers and horses were on the side, and the Tartars could not capture the beacon tower, so they would consider retreating, otherwise the longer the time passed, the more reinforcements there were, and the Tartars would have to consider their own heads. ”

Zhengde nodded and said: "What Song Nan said is that a rash attack with 6,000 soldiers and horses will not only not save me, but once it is defeated, it will boost the arrogance of the Tartars. ”

Song Nan was impressed by Zhengde, he still has a mind and vision, in such a situation, he can still correctly judge the shape, and not from the perspective of his own safety, which shows that Zhengde is not stupid, his behavior is just a bit of maverick rebellion.

"I don't know what happened to the war between Xuanfu and Datong? If we can delay a little longer, and the two soldiers and horses detour from the north of the Great Wall to outflank the back road, and besiege the Tartars here in the valley, maybe we can win a big victory this time. There was a glint of excitement in Zhengde's eyes.

Song Nan said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this matter is unlikely, there must be a lot of soldiers and horses for the Tartars to attack Wanquanwei and Tianchengwei, otherwise they don't have so much courage, even if the battle between Wanquanwei and Tianchengwei is over, the general soldiers of Datong Wang and the general soldiers of Xuanfu Zhu will not send troops to attack around the rear, but will only send troops from the direction of Ulzhou to help drive away the Tartars." ”

Zhengde was surprised: "Why is that? ”

Song Nan said: "It's very simple, the Tartar soldiers on both sides are blocked along the way, not to mention, the 20,000 soldiers and horses here retreat and encircle is the beginning of the disaster, the north of the Great Wall is the vast grassland, if I don't grow others, I will destroy my prestige, and the grassland will fight with tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry, and the victory or defeat is ......."

Zhengde nodded and said, "I understand, I'm just talking." ”

Song Nan said: "The most important thing now is that the emperor wants to get out of trouble, and then make plans after getting out of trouble, the emperor must not be discouraged, now it is only one step away from getting out of trouble, we must persevere." ”

Zhengde patted Song Nan on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, I won't relax, Song Nan, I have gained a lot from this trip, if I can get out of trouble and return to Beijing, I think I will be reborn." ”

Song Nan smiled, and just as he was about to speak, he heard someone exclaim, "Oops, it's bad." ”

Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see a guard standing not far away staring at a pile of ashes in a daze, Song Nan asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The guard turned his head and said blankly: "Lord Song, all our dry food has been burned to ashes. ”

Song Nan's brain buzzed, and he hurriedly got up and ran to check, the pile of ashes was the ashes of the wooden box containing dry food, presumably shot by a rocket, and the dry rice crackers, fried rice and dough cakes inside were all turned into a pile of coke.

The hearts of the people are cold, the dry food is burned, and they don't know how many days they will be trapped, how good is this.

Song Nan's face was gloomy, and he turned his head to look at Liu Jin and said, "Father-in-law Liu, you are responsible for keeping the dry food and clean water, why don't you store the dry food in a safe place when the rocket hits?" ”

Liu Jin's face turned pale, he was so panicked at that time that he forgot about it at all, and only cared about protecting the emperor from the rocket attack, but it caused such a catastrophe.

Song Nan shouted: "Wan Zhi, see if the bucket is okay?" ”

Wan Zhi jumped into the pit, and after looking for a long time but didn't find it, Song Nan was even more anxious, he could hold on for a few days without food, and he was afraid that it would be over in one day without water to drink under the scorching sun, and it seemed that the bucket would definitely be burned.

"Bucket...... It was hidden by the slave family. Dai Su'er walked over from the other side and said softly.

Song Nanxi said: "Are you hiding?" ”

Dai Su'er nodded and said: "After we take water and wet the cloth strips and seal your mouth and nose, you go to the north to defend against the enemy, I saw that the bucket was exposed, and I was afraid that it would be burned by rockets, so I buried it on the edge of the pit with stones, and I almost forgot about it just now." ”

Song Nan was overjoyed, and hurriedly followed Dai Suer's instructions to find the bucket buried against the pit wall in the southeast of the pit.

Zhengde praised: "Yes, there is no chaos in the face of danger, the heroine among women, Song Nan, your handmaid is a talent, no wonder you take him with you." ”

Song Nan smiled: "Doesn't the emperor know her?" She is the slave and maid given by the emperor to the ministers. ”

Zhengde was stunned for a moment and looked at it carefully: "Oh, it turned out to be Dai ...... The daughter of Dai Milling? ”

Song Nan said: "Exactly, the emperor has a good memory." ”

Zhengde said: "I only remembered after looking at the beautiful mole between my eyebrows, I have been in a panic for the past few days, how can I have the heart to carefully see the appearance of a servant girl." ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Su'er is doing a good job this time, the water here is our life-saving holy water, hmm...... From now on, the water will be kept by you and distributed according to the amount, and I can rest assured that you are careful. ”

Dai Su'er blessed and said, "Obey." ”

Song Nan turned to Liu Jin and said: "Father-in-law Liu, you still have to concentrate on taking care of the emperor, this kind of thing is not your master, let's go hungry, we will all die here if we have no water to drink, hey, I shouldn't have handed over such an important matter to Father-in-law Liu, I don't blame you for this, it's my fault." ”

Liu Jin was angry and remorseful, looking at everyone's expressions, they were obviously despising their own incompetence, and they couldn't even see the food and clear water, although Song Nan's words didn't seem to be blame, but the contempt and ridicule in his bones were obvious.

Liu Jin didn't care about the opinions of Song Nan and others, but if the dry food was ruined, Zhengde would also starve, and the emperor would definitely be dissatisfied in his heart; The peak was trapped for several days, everyone has their own use, Song Nan is the backbone of the main thing, and now a servant girl is more durable than himself, in the emperor's mind, he may have become synonymous with uselessness.

However, Liu Jin has his own ability to turn the situation around, after sincere self-blame, Liu Jin said to Zhengde with tears: "The slave will not let the emperor starve, the slave and the maid still have meat on the body, if the emperor is hungry, the slave will cut the meat on the body to let the emperor eat, the slave and the maid are powerless to resist the enemy, and they are clumsy, this is the only thing the slave can do for the emperor." ”

Everyone almost threw up, this guy is so good at sycophancy, it is shameless, Song Nan sneered secretly, but listened to Zhengde and said: "That's it, Xiao Jinzi, and no one blames you, didn't you just burn dry food?" I don't believe it, the Tartar soldiers can't kill me, and I will be starved to death? ”

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Jiang Bin was so anxious that he was stationed thirty miles away from the Tartar army, but he saw that the emperor Song Nan was trapped in Xinping Fort and could not be rescued, which was tantamount to a kind of torture for Jiang Bin; Several times he wanted to give the order to attack the Tartars regardless of Yiqiē, but reason told him that such an attack would only bring about its own destruction, not only could not save the emperor, but would also cause a big deal; Once the Ulju army is destroyed, the reinforcements that come in the future will also lose the capital to fight with the Tartars due to lack of troops.

Standing on the top of the mountain peak at sunset, looking at the fireworks rising from Xinping Fort in the distance, Jiang Bin knew that it was a signal from Song Nan, that it was Song Nan telling himself, they were still alive, and the emperor was still alive.

Although he could only launch an attack by waiting for reinforcements from the brigade to arrive, Jiang Bin could not remain indifferent, he understood that the emperor was trapped in the enemy army, and if he only waited for reinforcements, he was afraid of being liquidated afterwards; Even if it is out of strategic considerations, it cannot be forgiven, and Song Nan's plea is probably useless, he must do something to distract the energy of the Tartar and prove to the emperor that he has already begun to act.

Looking at the sun sinking in the west, Jiang Bin turned his head to Ma Ming of the Thousand Households of the North Thousand Households and said, "Ma Thousand Households, are they all ready?" ”

Ma Ming had a bandage hanging from his arm, which was the injury of Yangyuan in the first battle, one arm was almost broken, and now it has just been connected.

"Lord Jiang, the selection of personnel has been completed, a total of five hundred warriors." Ma Ming said.

Jiang Bin nodded slowly: "Go back to the camp and practice it for them." ”