At the head of Guyuan City, the chief soldiers Peng Yue and Yang Yiqing looked at the Tartar cavalry swept by the black pressure with sad faces, and the yellow dust from the horse's hooves of the cavalry was like a monster floating in the air.

"General Yang, the general's judgment was wrong, and the day before yesterday he ordered someone to send a letter from Pegasus, concluding that the Tartars would not attack Guyuan, and asked us to do a good job in the resettlement of the people in the city, and not to give birth to civil chaos, and in the blink of an eye, the Tartars came to the city." Peng Yue said in a dumb voice.

Yang Yiqing nodded slightly and said: "Don't blame the general, how can you judge the enemy's movements with full confidence on the battlefield, you and I agree with the general's judgment reasons, who knows that the Tartars will attack Guyuan without their lives?" How many people do you see the Tartars are coming? ”

Peng Yue squinted his eyes and looked as hard as he could, shook his head and said: "I can't estimate, there are tens of thousands as far as the eye can see, obviously the Tartars are pouring out of the nest, this is the forward battalion, and the follow-up soldiers and horses will definitely arrive soon." ”

Yang Yiqing frowned and said, "No matter what, hurry up and start defending the city, we have 12,000 soldiers and horses on hand, and we should be able to withstand the attack." ”

Peng Yue shook his head and said: "It's difficult, the soldiers and horses in the city are not elite, the elite are all in the hands of the general, and there are 40,000 soldiers and horses in the Tartars, and it will take three or two days to break the city." I think it's better to hurry up and evacuate the people, and in addition, we must quickly send someone to inform the general of the movements of the Tartars. The Tartars had apparently come after a night's journey, and the generals probably did not know the movements of the Tartars marching into Guyuan; Most of our soldiers and horses are infantry, and it will take three or four days to get here, and if we don't notify us in time, I'm afraid we won't be able to rush to the rescue. ”

Yang Yiqing thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, the matter of defending the city will be handed over to you, I will go to the city to arrange the evacuation, and once the shape is unfavorable, I will immediately let the people evacuate to Qingyang." In addition, I can also choose some young men to help you defend the city. ”

Peng Yue nodded and said, "Okay, I will immediately order someone to ride a fast horse to inform the general." Let's take our own responsibilities and try to hold the solid plain before reinforcements arrive. ”

Yang Yiqing nodded, glanced at the hustle and bustle of the people in the city, turned around and slowly went down the city tower.

On the evening of the 25th, the exhausted messenger cavalry left the city from the south gate of Guyuan, ran wildly all the way, and finally arrived at the garrison of Song Nan's army, which was more than 300 miles away from Guyuan, and sent the distress letter jointly signed by Yang Yiqing and Peng Yue to Song Nan.

When the news spread, the army suddenly exploded, and all the generals looked at Song Nan with a little wrong in their eyes, the general could be regarded as a serious mistake this time, Xu Tai and Jiang Bin and the three guards and horses had already set off for Lingzhou, but Lingzhou was not attacked at all, on the contrary, the direction of attack that was excluded was Guyuan, but sent a letter for help. Tartar did not attack Lingzhou according to the general's judgment at all, but directly attacked Guyuan.

In the big tent, Song Nan blushed and didn't say a word, and the generals muttered in their hearts, but they didn't dare to let Song Nan get off the stage in person. On the handsome case, the letter was lying there quietly, like a piece of evidence proving Song Nan's misjudgment, and it looked very piercing.

"Everyone, when you return to the camp, prepare to pull out immediately, the Tartars have moved, and we should also go." Song Nan said quietly.

"The last general will send 5,000 cavalry to set off first, and he can rush to the rear of the Guyuan Tartars early tomorrow morning, although he can't break the siege, but he can put some pressure on the Tartars and contain their attack." An enemy guard commander finally felt that he had a chance to show his strength, and it was obvious that General Song's resourcefulness was not clever, so this time he had to say what he thought in his heart.

Song Nan frowned and tilted his head to look at him and said, "Guyuan? You said to send 5,000 cavalry to Guyuan? ”

"yes?" The commander was also stunned, is the general confused? Where to go if you go to the original without opening and purifying?

"Why did I ask you to pull out the solid plain?" Song Nan frowned.

"This ...... Didn't Lord Guyuan Yang Yiqing and Mr. Peng send a letter for help? Let's not go to the rescue? "The generals are also confused, is Lord Song as demented as Xu Guangzuo?

"Hahaha." Song Nan suddenly laughed loudly, reached out and picked up the letter on the case and threw it in the paper basket on the side, and said with a smile: "We are going to Lingzhou, what are we going to Guyuan?" ”

"Huh?"

The crowd rolled their eyes on the ground, and their mouths were open enough to stuff a lump of cow dung.

"Don't be joking, the general is in danger, aren't we going to Guyuan to rescue? The last general Jian Yì immediately sent someone to recall the 40,000 soldiers and horses who had finished sending Lingzhou, and although it was delayed for two or three days, it was still able to catch up. General Zuo stepped forward and said.

Song Nan shook his head and waved his hand and laughed: "No, no, the Tartar is deliberately leading us to be fooled, can't you see it?" The feint attack on Guyuan led me to Guyuan, and then they turned around and headed north, and this time again, with the advantage of cavalry foot strength, they threw our army away from the journey of six or seven days. When we come to our senses, Lingzhou has been broken. ”

"This ...... No way. All the generals were dumbfounded, and there seemed to be some truth in what the general said, but he always felt that it was too complicated to think about things, obviously the Tartar army attacked Guyuan, Yang Yiqing and Peng Yue both sent letters for help, but he was still stubborn.

Song Nan stood up and shouted, "Obey all the orders and go to Lingzhou immediately." ”

General Zuo shouted: "General, you can't do this, once Guyuan is lost, the responsibility will be great." The general can't let the city attacked by the Tartars not come to the rescue, but go the other way, how can he explain it in the future. ”

Song Nan frowned and shouted, "Stupid, you dare to disobey?" ”

General Zuo knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "I don't dare to be humble, but I don't want the court to punish the general. ”

Song Nan was angry and shouted, "Do you want to eat the board?" To tell you clearly, the Tartar is a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain with a false shot, can't you turn your elm head? ”

"I think it's unlikely, how can a Tartar be so smart? It is better to believe the truth than to believe the false, and we cannot gamble with the more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Guyuan. ”

Song Nan laughed angrily, unwilling to talk to him more, and shouted: "Come on, drag him out to beat ten boards, read that he is the first offender, he will not be dismissed, and next time he shouts, he will be directly dismissed for 100 households." ”

The guards dragged the surnamed Zuo away, and played ten boards in the table tennis outside the tent, General Zuo was ashamed and angry, and the generals also had different faces, but after all, the military order was like a mountain, and they didn't dare to say much. At that moment, the army quickly marched out, taking advantage of the last ray of light to go on the official road to the north all the way north, but it was getting farther and farther away from the war-torn Guyuan.

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At the head of the Guyuan city, the Tartars began to cut down trees from the mountains in the east in the morning and began to knock and beat, and in the evening, dozens of trebuchets and hundreds of ladders have been built, and the Tartars have actually learned to temporarily build siege equipment, which is the first time in the impression of the Ming army. Moreover, this shoddy trebuchet can still easily throw dozens of catties of large stones onto the high city head of Guyuan.

If you want to give these catapults a name, they should be called Russian-style trebuchets, because this is part of the cooperation between the Bald and Rakshasa countries, and hundreds of craftsmen were sent to learn the construction methods of wooden siege equipment that have long been eliminated by the Rakshasa countries, all in order to deal with the Ming Dynasty.

Dozens of trebuchets rumbled and threw stones at the head of the city, from evening until dark, and the rest of the Tartar soldiers turned into craftsmen, and by the early morning of the 26th, dozens of trebuchets were added to the city.

In the morning, the first official siege of the Tartars began, under the cover of trebuchets, thousands of cavalry of the Tartars carried ladders and quickly charged to the city, and the Ming army at the head of the city braved the rain of stones to fight back; Although the Tartar offensive is ferocious, it always feels a little wrong, as if it retreats at the touch of a button, and it doesn't intend to fight hard.

This point was also keenly perceived by Peng Yue, who commanded the battle, but he didn't have time to think about why, the Tartars' attacks were wave after wave, as if they were agreed in advance, and they only invested thousands of soldiers and horses each time; But the hundreds of annoying trebuchets played a great role, and after a day and a night of bombardment, half of the city tower was smashed, the battlements were smashed bare, and the city head was full of stones, and the soldiers had to climb the tower to attack in order to defend, and thousands of people were stoned to the head and bleed, killing more than 300 people.

There were also more than 1,000 casualties among the Tartars, but none of them were killed in the city, but were killed and wounded by bows and arrows on the way, and the two sides spent a day and a night, and on the night of the 26th, the Tartars took advantage of the night to launch a fierce attack. Perhaps the follow-up soldiers and horses of the Tartars had arrived, and this time the intensity of the attack was a hundred times more ferocious than the slow rhythm of the dog tearing the sheepskin during the day; Hundreds of ladders climbed up the city, and the Tartars swarmed up to capture a section of the western city wall hundreds of paces north of it.

Peng Yue personally led thousands of soldiers to fight bloodily, and only then did he snatch back this section of the city wall. And after that, the Tartars died down again. Both sides are tired enough, this kind of siege posture is completely a kind of attrition battle, and both sides are a little unbearable. Especially after this last ferocious attack, Peng became more and more aware that Guyuan could not be defended, and if the reinforcements did not come, the Tartars would only need to go crazy a few more times, and the city would be broken.

However, after the Tartar attack was repulsed, he received a message that the cavalry who had rushed back from Song Nan's camp to deliver the letter brought back a message that stunned him, and Song Nan asked the soldier to bring back a handwritten letter with a small number: "The Tartars feint, no need to panic, just hold on." ”

"Feint, feint to attack your mother." Peng Yue scolded, the thrilling scene just now is still in his mind, it is not a feint attack at all, the Tartars are reluctant to invest in soldiers and horses, there are only more than 10,000 people attacking, if you add another 10,000, the city will be broken long ago.

"Song Nan, you bastard." Peng Yue's heart. scolded Song Nan's ancestors for eighteen generations, and hurriedly took the letter to Yang Yiqing.