Chapter 739: The Battle of the Great Wall (Finale)

The thirteenth beacon tower and the fifteenth beacon tower broke almost at the same time, and the Tartar soldiers and horses swarming up on the stairs poured up like a flood that opened the gate, and the two Ming troops, whose numbers had been sharply reduced, were suddenly disrupted, and the Tartars who rushed up were cut into two sections from the middle, and they were cut and killed like melons and vegetables.

Song Nan sighed secretly, knowing that the defeat was decided, the two Tartars joined forces, and the number of enemy and horse soldiers on the city head would be even more disparity, even if their own soldiers were brave, they were definitely not opponents.

"Withdraw, General, at this moment you will make a bloody way north along the city wall, or you may be able to escape." Xu Tai whispered in Song Nan's ear.

Song Nan felt a strong unwillingness in his heart, as if he was about to explode, his heart was depressed, and he vomited a stream of blood from his mouth, and everyone around him was busy supporting him to ask, Song Nan waved his hand and gritted his teeth and said: "I'm fine, I am determined to fight to the death, and I will never have the idea of escaping." I am the commander of the army, and I will not be able to escape alone if I lose this battle. Sue sΓΉ brothers, those who can withdraw should withdraw quickly, and those who are unwilling to withdraw will stay and die together, and drag a few Tartars on the road before they die. ”

All the soldiers were taken by Song Nan's momentum, who did not pity the lives of those in high positions, ordinary people would order their subordinates to sacrifice their lives to protect and escape at this time, and there were few high-ranking officials who were willing to let their subordinates escape and were determined to die here. The name of this young man in his twenties in front of him has already resounded all over the Ming Dynasty, but everyone does not know him deeply, it is rumored that this person is cunning and refuses to suffer a loss, many people offended him and were killed by him, but it is difficult for you to associate this person in front of you with rumors, this is the man who never gives up. With this alone, looking at the Ming Dynasty, there are very few things that can be done.

"I'll fight to the death with the adults, and never take a step back." Xu Tai was originally a bloody man, but at this moment, he was even more aroused to fight for his life, and shouted loudly when he heard the words.

"Swear to follow the adults to the death." The soldiers and guards shouted in unison.

Song Nan smiled and nodded, the back of his hand slowly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and his eyes looked southwest from the battlefield where there was a lot of fighting. For the first and only time since he crossed over here, Song Nan felt a sense of pride in protecting this great river and mountain; Although the deep-rooted individualism of later generations told him that it was actually unwise to do so, for some reason, he still felt that this choice was the meaning of his own crossing.

Song Nan's thoughts were chaotic and galloping like a galloping horse, and everyone saw Song Nan patrolling the great mountains and rivers in the southwest, and they all subconsciously followed him, and suddenly a personal guard shouted: "Look, it seems to be reinforcements." ”

Everyone was startled, and looked in the direction he pointed, but saw the noisy dust rising between the mountains in the southwest, and the foggy patch, and the sharp-eyed soldiers saw countless small black dots under the dust and smoke, and they were rushing towards the foot of the Great Wall.

"It's reinforcements, it's reinforcements that have arrived." Xu Tai's voice changed tone, and his hoarse throat carried the howl of a wild wolf on the prairie.

Song Nan closed his eyes and took a long breath, opened his eyes and looked carefully, making sure that the qiΔ“ in front of him was not an illusion, only in this short moment, the figure of the Ming army brigade running over was clearly visible, the banner full of Shu was also clearly visible, and the shouts of killing heard in his ears were also clearly audible.

Nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Shenshu Battalion, the Jing Battalion, the Yangwei Battalion, and the Ningxia Guards and Horses of the Northwest Guards led by Jiang Bin and Ma Ming finally arrived on the battlefield.

"Reinforcements have arrived, brothers are killed." The Ming soldiers at the head of the city let out an earth-shattering cry and burst out with endless courage, and under their fierce attack of death, they actually recaptured the steps of the thirteenth and fifteenth beacon towers again, and drove the bald soldiers and horses off the Great Wall again.

The bald Meng Ke was about to climb the Great Wall from the two places where he broke through, and the huge momentum of the Ming army reinforcements arrived so that he was stunned, and in the blink of an eye, the road ahead was blocked again, and a large number of Ming troops in the rear arrived, and the bald Meng Ke hurriedly ordered to stop the siege, shrink the soldiers and horses to occupy a high ground to make a defensive posture.

At meal time, Jiang Bin, Ma Ming, Zhang An and other generals led the army to the Great Wall, and seeing the fierce battle at the head of the city, Jiang Bin immediately ordered Ma Ming to lead the Shenshu battalion and the northwest guard to quickly board the stairs under the beacon tower for reinforcements; Nearly 10,000 troops quickly climbed the Great Wall, and the battle situation at the head of the city was immediately reversed, and the soldiers of the Shenshu Battalion, who were good at hand-to-hand combat, were the best at fighting in this kind of narrow area.

Urus knew that his life would be in danger if he stayed on the city wall any longer, so he hurriedly retreated along the ladder to the outside of the Great Wall as soon as possible, he was not confused, his father Khan was besieged in the Great Wall, he would not run to die with him, there were still more than 30,000 soldiers and horses outside the Great Wall who had not yet climbed the Great Wall, and that was the safest place.

At the end of the day, the battle on the Great Wall was coming to an end, the reinforcements were like wolves and tigers, and the tens of thousands of Tartar soldiers who climbed the city wall were all driven away, and the three-mile-long pass area, the corpses of the city were piled up like a mountain, and in the subsequent cleanup, a large number of Tartar corpses were thrown down from the top of the high city wall, and the dull sound of heavy objects falling to the ground was unconscious, and the soul of the people was scattered.

Lang Zhong in the army dressed Song Nan's wounds, Song Nan put on his armor again, and led the generals to patrol along the Great Wall. ”

Song Nan raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, you have worked hard, this battle has played the majesty and dignity of our Ming soldiers, who said that my Ming army is not the opponent of the Tartars, our less than 20,000 soldiers and horses against more than 100,000 Tartars, stubbornly withstood their attack, dragged until the reinforcements arrived." My brothers, living or dead, are my heroes of the Ming Dynasty, and I will reward you for your merits, and after this battle, you will be treated like heroes. ”

"General, General." The soldiers shouted loudly, tears streaming down their eyes.

Ma Ming led more than a dozen generals to kneel down in front of Song Nan and plead guilty, Ma Ming said: "It's too late for the rescue of my humble duties, please punish my lord." ”

Song Nan waved his hand and said, "It's a little late, but it's just the right time, I think you must have your considerations." ”

Ma Ming said: "That's the case, the humble post could have arrived half an hour earlier, but the humble post and the commanders of the embassy led only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, I am afraid that I will not be able to solve the difficulty of the Great Wall, I heard that Lord Jiang's soldiers and horses are behind him, so I waited for a while, and the soldiers and horses of Lord Jiang and the generals of Ningxia Wei came in a hurry. ”

Song Nan didn't want to accuse Ma Ming of stupidity at this moment, this half an hour was a fatal half an hour, in this half an hour, the Ming army killed more than 3,000 people, and it was the heaviest half of the hour. But Ma Ming's consideration is not completely unreasonable, if he rashly leads 20,000 soldiers and horses to come, if the Tartars have broken through the pass, it is a tactic of adding oil, and there is no return.

Song Nan waved his hand and led the generals to the top of the No. 15 beacon tower, looking down, but seeing that more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were densely trapped by the Ming army on a mountain bag, Jiang Bin was directing the soldiers to arrange a formation to prepare for the attack.

Song Nan led people down the city wall and came to the Ming army's formation, Jiang Bin came up from afar and laughed: "Brother, you are so powerful, such a few soldiers and horses are really defending, I thought I would come to collect the corpse for you." Ma Ming, this bastard, actually stopped halfway to wait for me, and was scolded by me. ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Do you want to collect the body for me?" Am I so easy to die? Now this bald beast has become a turtle in an urn, and I will clean him up later. ”

Jiang Bin laughed and said: "No matter how your brother cleans him up, feed him horse manure, this old thing has run thousands of miles, and was finally blocked by us; I'm afraid this man is a rabbit, so he can run. ”

"No matter how cunning a fox is, he can't fight a good hunter, and if he is told to run, isn't he running into a dead end?" Xu Tai said with a smile.

The generals laughed loudly, looking at the Tartar soldiers and horses on the mountain bag, as if watching a piece of big fat meat.

"Brother, you rest first, I'll deal with this old thing, and keep the five flowers tied up and send it to you." Jiang Bin spat at the palm of his hand.

Song Nan waved his hand and said: "Those who see it have a share, all departments will bring some men and horses to participate in the attack, and after taking this thief leader, I will also give you all a share of credit in front of the emperor." ”

The generals were overjoyed, the general is a person who knows his heart and mind, who doesn't want to take down the bald man with his own hands can make a great contribution, but it is not good to take the lead due to the limitation of the level, the general is not bad, everyone will attack together, and everyone will share the credit in the future, and everyone will have a share of the rain and dew.

"Come on, beat the drums, attack." Jiang Bin shouted.

The war drums were pounding, the Ming army was in the formation of a shocking roar, dozens of teams of Ming army formations began to launch from the four sides of the mountain, they blocked the front with shields, spears like forests stretched forward, this is exactly a kind of phalanx that Jiang Bin explored in Ulzhou to deal with the Tartar cavalry charge, although there were only more than 10,000 Tartar soldiers on the top of the mountain, but they did not forget that these are the elite cavalry of the Tartars, and there are still thousands of war horses in their hands.

When the Ming army attacked in formation, the Tartar soldiers on the top of the mountain also reacted quickly, the archers were in full array, and thousands of cavalry also mounted their horses to prepare, but the Tartar soldiers did not particularly panic. When the Ming army climbed halfway up the mountain, several war horses suddenly rushed down from the top of the mountain, and stopped on a flat ground halfway up the mountain, and a Tartar officer shouted loudly: "I, Dayan Khan, have something to say to Song Nan, the general of the Ming army." ”

The same words were shouted three times, and the Ming soldiers heard them clearly, and quickly returned the words of the Tartar to Song Nan. The generals laughed and scolded: "Is this guy going to surrender?" ”

Song Nan smiled and said: "No matter what, people are also the lords of the Tatar country, if we have something to say, we can't be without grace, I'll listen to what he has to say." ”