Chapter 337: Mang Gultai's Death
In the morning light, a team quickly drove towards Tunzhen, which was the cavalry of the Dongjiang Army under the command of Liu Xingzuo's brothers.
An army of 5,000 people, everyone on horseback, all wearing thick fur coats, carrying a bow on the left side, a gun on the right back, and a long saber in their hands, in addition to being a little messy, but just looking at the weapons and equipment is definitely the elite division in the world, where is there still the appearance of being called Hanako when he was in Phi Island!
In fact, since leaving Phi Island, the Dongjiang soldiers under Liu Xingzuo have changed very much. For a long time, he has not encountered a strong enemy at all, and has successively conquered many cities in Zhenjiang Fort and Fengcheng, and has laid countless Tun villages, and now he is galloping across the Liaohe Plain in the hinterland of Jiannu, wantonly burning and looting.
No matter how weak an army is, if it experiences such a series of victories, the morale will be high. Even if the opponent is just a slave, an old, weak, woman and a child, and he wins more battles, his temperament will change, and he will be inexplicably arrogant. Now in the eyes of these Pidao soldiers, Jiannu has long been less terrible than before.
Lao Tzu has invaded the city of Jiannu, cao has been Jiannu girls, invincible in the hinterland of Jiannu, what are you afraid of Jiannu? This is the thinking of most of these Phi Dao soldiers.
What about the Eight Banners, the main force of Jiannu, their own number is several times that of them, not to mention that Jiannu used Tunzhen well water to cook, I am afraid that they have already been thinned into soft-footed shrimp, so what is so difficult about beating them?
"Brothers, attack Tunzhen and cut off the head of Jiannu to receive the silver!" Liu Xingzhi rode a horse and shouted loudly outside the team, trying his best to boost morale, completely missing the panicked look he had when he heard that the main force of Jiannu was coming yesterday.
"Kill Jiannu and get a reward!" The Dongjiang soldiers shouted one by one, and their morale was high.
"Big brother, there are more than 2,000 Eight Banner soldiers, and you have cut off so many heads, you will definitely be able to become the chief soldier!" Boosted morale for a while, Liu Xingzhi rode back to Liu Xingzuo's side and said with a smile.
Liu Xingzuo looked at Tunzhen faintly appearing in the distance, shook his head slightly, and said: "I'm afraid it may not be so smooth, I don't know how many Jiannu have eaten the food made by the well water......
Liu Xingzhi said with a smile: "Big brother, don't worry about it, Jiannu is also a human being, they can walk for a day without being tired or hungry, can they not eat, maybe all Jiannu can't walk now." ”
Liu Xingzuo shook his head, but he didn't dare to think of such an ideal. After eating the food made of croton water, at most the stomach will be stretched overnight, but the dead will not, with the strong body of the Eight Banners, at most the physical strength will be affected, and it is impossible not to walk. Moreover, it is impossible for more than 2,000 Jiannu to eat at the same time, there must always be guards on duty, and I don't know how many of these people there are.
However, Jiannu's combat power was greatly affected after all, and he was much more sure that he would destroy them, thinking of this, Liu Xingzuo secretly felt lucky.
When he was still on Phi Island, Liu Xingzuo led his army to attack several merchant ships bound for North Korea, and seized a lot of medicinal herbs on board, including some crotons. This time, considering that there would be large casualties and soldiers who would be sick after a long journey, Liu Xingzuo ordered to bring those medicinal materials to the army, but he didn't expect these crotons in the medicinal materials to come in handy! Croton is ground into powder and thrown into the well of Tunzhen, colorless and tasteless, and Jiannu will not think of it at all!
Although Liu Xingzuo was calm, he was as excited as his younger brother Liu Xingzhi in his heart, and he was eager to attack Tunzhen to see if those Jiannu had really become soft-footed shrimp.
Soon Tunzhen was in sight, and when he saw Jiannu relying on the gate wall defense in the town and did not come out to fight, Liu Xingzuo finally put his mind at ease. If Jiannu was unharmed, how could he have shrunk in the tun and would have been killed a long time ago!
"Besiege on all sides, fight into the town, and leave no one behind!" The knife pointed to the front of Tunzhen, and Liu Xingzuo coldly handed down the order!
Following his order, the 5,000 Pidao soldiers immediately dispersed and outflanked Tunzhen under the leadership of the guerrilla generals.
The town here has long been broken by the Ming army, the gate of the village was split as firewood, the wall also collapsed in many places, and the defense was weak and pitiful.
But for the Eight Banners soldiers in the town, it is better to have a walled wall than not there.
Mang Gurtai ordered that one hundred and eight banners be set aside to guard the gate of the wall, and the other four hundred and eight banners defended the walls of the wall.
At night, he sent cavalry for help, as long as he could hold for a while, he could wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and then he could surround and kill these damn dogs, which was Mang Gurtai's plan.
However, Mang Gurtai didn't expect that these damn Ming army attacks so fiercely, without temptation, the whole army pressed up at once, and launched a fierce attack on Tunzhen from all sides, and for a time it was in a hurry.
There are only 500 soldiers of the Eight Banners who still maintain their combat effectiveness, and the Ming army on the opposite side is as many as 5,000, and the difference in strength is ten times.
The battle at the gate was particularly fierce, thousands of Ming troops launched wave after wave of fierce attacks on the gate, the one hundred and eight banners guarding the gate suffered heavy casualties, and Mang Gurtai sent dozens of Goshha around him to barely block the onslaught of the Ming army.
The gaps in the walled wall were in danger one after another, and Mang Gurtai had to send the reserve troops in his hands one after another, and finally even the bannermen who had been pulling all night had to be sent up.
"Everything that can be sent has been sent, I hope to withstand it for a while, and wait until the reinforcements arrive." Mang Gurtai sighed.
"I can definitely wait, the other armies are not far from us." Azig said.
Mang Gurtai originally had more than 10,000 troops in the right four banners, but he sent out to intercept the Ming army that was holding the people hostage, but fortunately, the distance between the teams should not be too far, and he only asked the reinforcements to find them, and it would not take long for them to arrive.
"Let's go, let's kill the dog too!" Mang Gurtai lifted a large knife and said to Azig with a smile.
Azig nodded, spear and silently followed.
The big sword slashed one after another, slashing several Ming troops one after another, and seeing the Ming army attacking the gap in the wall, Mang Gurtai laughed.
After laughing, he looked at his side, and suddenly felt sad, more than a dozen people who followed him, and now there was only one brother Azig left.
"Damn Minggou, he actually resorted to despicable tricks." Squatting down and closing the eyes of a dead Goshha, Mang Gurtai couldn't help but curse. If it weren't for the Ming army who put laxatives in the well, how could their two thousand elite bannermen end up like this. Most of the more than a dozen flagmen who died in the battle were weak because they had been stretched all night, and some even pulled them in their pants......
"Alas, the two armies fought in every possible way, and the Ming army cannot be blamed for this." Azig lifted his spear and sighed.
"What are you talking about......" Mang Gurtai turned his head angrily, his eyes widened suddenly, and he saw the sharp tip of the spear slamming towards him. He squatted and hugged the corpse of Goshha who died in battle, where could he hide?
With a "poof", the spear pierced through Manggultai's throat and came out from the back of his neck.
Mang Gurtai stared at Azig with wide eyes, at his half-brother, but he could no longer speak, and blood flowed from the corners of his mouth.
"Fifth brother, don't blame me, I am also acting on orders." Azig crouched down and sighed softly in Mangultai's ear.
"If you want to blame yourself, you have to go against the starling. You don't want to think about what virtues you have, what qualifications do you have to be a Great Khan? If the Dajin Kingdom falls into your hands, it will really be over. If you die, there will be no leader among the people who oppose starling, Daishan's old fox is indecisive and not enough to succeed, and Dajin Kingdom will definitely be able to survive under the leadership of starling, and it will definitely be able to rise again! ”
After saying that, Azig stood up, turned his wrist sharply and pulled out the spear, blood spurted out, Azig avoided it, glanced at Mang Gurtai's corpse with a complicated expression, and left the gap here, and in the distance, the Ming army killed the wall again.
"Hey, there are no slave guards here?" Liu Xingzhi was very surprised to see his subordinates effortlessly rushing into Tunzhen from the gap, and they didn't even encounter a little obstruction, and there were only more than ten corpses of Jiannu at the gap.
"Haha, so many Jiannu corpses." His soldiers cheered and scrambled to cut off the heads of the corpses on the ground.
"Don't move!" Liu Xingzhi suddenly shouted, and a corpse on the ground wearing luxurious armor attracted him. Looking at the armor style, it is clear that it is only suitable for the owner of the Eight Banners to be worn, and Liu Xingzhi, who has been mixed in the Jiannu for many years, is very clear about the level of Jiannu's clothing.
Could it be that it is at the level of the owner of the Jiannu banner? Liu Xingzhi was ecstatic in his heart.
Pushing away the subordinates in front of him, Liu Xingzhi squatted in front of the corpse to watch carefully, this person died under the spear, his entire neck was pierced by the spear, and his head was intact.
With a beard on his face and a fierce appearance, this person's appearance looks familiar, and Liu Xingzhi immediately recognized it, this person is Mang Gurtai, one of the four major Beiles of Jiannu!
developed, and a wave of ecstasy surged into Liu Xingzhi's heart. Mang Gurtai, the owner of the Blue Banner of Jiannu, one of the four major Baylors of Jiannu, is second only to Huang Taiji in Jiannu!
That's a real deal! And the credit came too easily, it was like picking it up for nothing.
As for who killed Mang Gurtai, Liu Xingzhi didn't want to investigate it at all, since the corpse that Lao Tzu saw, of course, was killed by Lao Tzu.
Excited, trembling hands, personally cut off the head of Mang Gurtai, and ordered his subordinates to remove the armor and helmet on Mang Gurtai's body, Liu Xingzhi couldn't take care of attacking Tunzhen anymore, and withdrew from Tunzhen with his own soldiers. With the head of Mang Gurtai, who cares about those Jiannu in Tunzhen?
Liu Xingzhi didn't care, but other Dongjiang officers and soldiers cared, and many Dongjiang soldiers entered Tunzhen along the gap, and for a time the town shouted to kill Zhentian. Many Dongjiang soldiers were pleasantly surprised to see that the Jiannu who faced them had indeed become soft-footed shrimp! Suddenly cut off the weapon of Jiannu on the opposite side, and then kicked over the Jiannu in front of him, and quickly took two steps forward to cut it down, this head came so easily!
For a while, the Dongjiang soldiers who attacked the town were like a rainbow, and the soft-footed soldiers of Jiannu who were blocking the road were killed in various houses, and more heads, and the gold and silver property that Jiannu carried with him should be in the house. As soon as they rushed into the courtyard, many Dongjiang soldiers frowned, the yard was full of feces, and the smell was really strong, making it difficult for people to breathe smoothly at all.
Damn Jiannu, it's so dirty and disgusting!
Half a mile outside the town, Liu Xingzuo was watching the battle in the midst of hundreds of cavalry guards. The success of the Dongjiang soldiers in attacking Tunzhen did not make Liu Xingzuo happy, on the contrary, he looked a little worried.
Jiannu was indeed poisoned, but the resistance was still fierce. If it goes on like this, I don't know when I want to completely annihilate the Jiannu in Tunzhen. But this is only a Jiannu, and most of them have been poisoned and pulled overnight, so they can't be taken quickly, if other Jiannu come to help, I'm afraid I won't be able to please at all.
Liu Xingzuo realized that the gap between the combat strength of the Dongjiang soldiers under his command and the main force of Jiannu was so big, if he had been replaced by the Praetorian Guard, would he have already destroyed the Jiannu in Tunzhen?
"Big brother, big brother." At this moment, Liu Xingzhi rode over and shouted excitedly as he ran, and Liu Xingzuo suddenly frowned.
"Didn't you let you attack Tunzhen, why did you run back?" Liu Xingzuo asked dissatisfiedly.
"Big brother, do you know who I killed? Mang Gurtai! Liu Xingzhi shouted excitedly with a human head.
"What?" Liu Xingzuo was really shocked. Mang Gurtai was actually in the town, and he was killed by his younger brother Liu Xingzhi, why can't he believe it.
But after seeing the head, Liu Xingzuo didn't dare to disbelieve it, he had been in Jiannu for many years, and he was also a high-level Jiannu, and he could often see Mang Gurtai, so he naturally recognized Mang Gurtai's appearance.
"Good, good job!" Liu Xingzuo looked at his younger brother with great satisfaction.
"Hehe...... Liu Xingzhi rubbed his hands and smiled, not mentioning that he picked up the head himself.
"Leave the heads behind, and then you will lead the troops into the town and destroy the Jiannu in the town as soon as possible!" Liu Xingzuo said in a deep voice.
"Huh?" Liu Xingzhi was stunned, and he had to go in and fight again. With the head of Mang Gurtai, he is no longer interested in entering the town to kill those ordinary Jiannu Liu Xingzhi.
"The Jiannu in the town has been poisoned, and we will inevitably send people to find reinforcements, and we must take Tunzhen before the Jiannu reinforcements arrive." Liu Xingzuo said patiently.
"Okay." Liu Xingzhi agreed, and turned the horse's head unwillingly. At this moment, a horse galloped from a distance like a fly, and the flag fluttering behind it was the sentry horse that had been dispatched!
Jiannu reinforcements are coming, this is the news brought back by the sentinels.
Liu Xingzuo couldn't help but sigh, if he had another half an hour, he would be able to completely take Tunzhen and kill all the slaves in it. And now, there is only one way to evacuate.
Through the battle with Jiannu in the town, Liu Xingzuo realized the huge gap between the Dongjiang army and the main force of Jiannu, if the Jiannu in the town was not poisoned, with the 5,000 soldiers under his command, it was definitely not the opponent of Jiannu.
Now that Jiannu reinforcements are coming, if they leave late, I'm afraid they won't be able to leave. can only be cheaper Jiannu in Tunzhen!
The gong sounded, and the Dongjiang army withdrew from Tunzhen like a tide, each mounted a war horse, and galloped towards the south under the leadership of Liu Xingzuo's brothers.
Perhaps because of the great losses, the remaining Jiannu in Tunzhen did not come out to chase after them, allowing the Ming army to withdraw into the distance.
After another moment, a large brigade of cavalry appeared in the west, and Jiannu's reinforcements finally arrived.