Chapter 335: Counterattack
A high-pitched, loud, breathtaking eagle chirping!
Fan Zhong picked up the bow with his backhand, recognized the buckle and tied the string, looked at the moon in a style, and shot more than ten arrows in a row, each arrow knocked down a Tatar soldier, and the action was done in one go, as fast as lightning.
It turned out that Chen Yuan ran back to mighty, but he was angry and impatient, and he lost his sister, and no one was kept. had to order Fan Zhong and them to be sent back to China.
Returning to Weiwu, Chen Yuan conveyed the previous will of Zhu Di, leaving only Wu Cheng to lead 50,000 people to guard, and the rest went to Xinghe to encircle and suppress Arutai.
Hearing that they could fight, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui, two war maniacs, naturally immediately agreed, and immediately counted the people and went on the road. King Han pressed the Chinese army, and King Zhao personally was the vanguard.
Hearing that Xinghe was in a bitter battle, Chen Yuan immediately deployed, let people investigate, and found out the grain and grass place in Arutai, but the defense was very weak, so he asked people to make a surprise attack.
Chen Yuan planned to send Fan Zhong to go, but he knew that Zhu Gaosui was unhappy, he was more interested in fighting the war than being the emperor, so he immediately led 800 people, lightly armed and simple, and detoured back to the east from the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the goal was their grain and grass. The soldiers are fast, and when there are more people, it is easy to be discovered, and it is difficult to achieve the effect.
"Good kung fu!" Zhu Gaosui praised and immediately killed a Tatar soldier who was about to escape.
The fire was already raging, and there was constant shouts of soldiers and the sound of burning fire.
The flames reflected Fan Zhong's face red, he heard the praise, smiled honestly, and then said: "Thank you Lord Wang, the minister is just a small skill of carving insects, Lord Chen, Lord Chen said that as long as the grain and grass are burned, we will retreat, and the chasing soldiers will arrive in a moment, and there will be no delay." ”
Zhu Gaosui was a little unsatisfied, and went to fight for a while.
Fan Zhong was very helpless, put away the arrow, and said quickly: "Lord Wang, go quickly!" , Arutai sent someone. ”
Zhu Gaosui looked over, and sure enough, he saw dust and smoke billowing from the west. The Tatar cavalry was extremely fast, thirty miles, and it would be there in a moment.
Arutai's grain and grass was burned, seeing the raging fire in the east, he sighed in his heart, making him angry and hateful, grain and grass is their root, has always been heavily guarded, not far from himself, plus the Ming army is losing and retreating, the Ming army on the western front and Tuhuan are coming at any time, overstretched, he thinks that the Ming army has no troops to fight the grain and grass in his east for the time being, so he is careless.
Arutai arrived, the flames were monstrous, reflecting the sky, knowing that he was powerless to return to the sky, and he was no longer able to extinguish the fire, so he had to vent all his anger to the attacking Ming army, and he must kill them.
Zhu Gaosui was bold, facing hundreds of times his own Tatar army, without fear, his hands and body had already scattered hanging colors, although the injury was not serious, he should not be careless, licked his dry lips, and showed an excited light.
"Lord Wang?" Fan Zhong and others protected Zhu Gaosui and asked what to do.
"I'm afraid of a fart, Lao Tzu has 800 people, so what, just like Zhang Liao defeated the 100,000 army of Eastern Wu with 800 people. We used 800 people to burn the grain and grass of Tatar, which is so relieving that it can be famous for eternity. Zhu Gaosui laughed.
The words sounded exciting, but the Tatar soldiers who were coming in front of them, Zhu Gaosui, and they were about to retreat.
"Surround them, kill them!" Arutai didn't know who came to burn the grain and grass, and he was so angry that whoever it was, he had to kill them all.
Seeing that Zhu Gaosui still wanted to charge, Fan Zhong complained, he was not afraid of death, Zhu Gaosui died, his young master couldn't get out of it, how could he let Zhu Gaosui play the striker. Fan Zhong hurriedly urged, Zhu Gaosui snorted at the Tatar soldiers, and shouted: "Forget it, let's run, spare this kid Arutai for the time being." The whole force suddenly picked up the pace.
It's just that it's not a question of them being able to run if they want to. In the vast grassland, it was difficult to discern the direction, and with the dark clouds covering the sun, they could only find one direction to run.
Zhu Gaosui and the others were all burning things, so they lacked bows and arrows, and they fled in a hurry for only a quarter of an hour, and the people and horses behind them were like a tide, and the hooves roared like thunder rolling to the ground, and the Tatar iron riders pounced like a tide, and the howl of "oh oh oh" was earth-shattering. If you run any further, you can only be stabbed by the pursuers from behind with a spear, or split in half with a knife, Zhu Gaosui Huo Ran turned around and held down the saber under his ribs.
"Don't run, you can't run anymore." Zhu Gaosui drank.
Fan Zhong and the others turned around one after another, and used Mao to push away the bows and arrows shot from the opposite side, he was highly skilled in martial arts, and the soldiers were different, and after a while, many soldiers were shot and fell off their horses, constantly wailing.
The pursuers were scattered throughout the body, tens of thousands of iron horsemen, forming two sleek and swift arcs, attacking them, as long as they were killed, hundreds of their soldiers were ruthlessly devoured, and they would be strangled and killed as soon as they fought!
"Kill them, kill them for me!" Arutai was on horseback, pointing at Zhu Gaosui and roaring. He had been chasing for more than ten miles, and he could still feel the heat of the burning grain and grass.
"Boom, boom." Suddenly, several roars came from behind.
Arutai was shocked, and when he looked back, his Chinese military tent was full of dust and smoke, and the dirt was flying, and it collapsed with a bang, thinking that if he was in the military tent, he would be submerged, he scolded: "Bastard, which bastard, made a mistake, didn't you say that there was no artillery?" Where to fight? ”
"Taishi, it doesn't seem right, my subordinates reported that there is no gunpowder." A'er looked at the military tent and muttered, cold sweat broke out behind his back.
Stumbled and ran again: "Taishi, the big thing is not good, Zhu Gaoxu in the west is coming, we are caught off guard, and we can only face it." Unexpectedly, the Ming army who was cowering in the city also came out, seized the artillery, and then shelled the big tent of our Chinese army. ”
After Arutai seized the artillery, he set up a military tent near the artillery, and while shelling the Ming army, it was also important to guard it. Just when he was transferring his heavy troops, the Ming army actually captured the artillery at this time and immediately bombarded it with artillery.
"Abominable Zhu Di-" Arutai stretched out his hands and raised his head to the sky and roared, just as the eagle was hovering in the air, and was startled and flew away, and the sound was a little sad.
It turned out that Chen Yuan and Zhu Gaoxu only brought 10,000 advance troops and marched rapidly. The baggage troops remained behind, and according to Chen Yuan's deployment, once Zhu Gaosui succeeded and saw the firelight, he immediately launched an attack on Arutai, so the Tatars were caught off guard.
Zhu Di has also been waiting for an opportunity in the city, Zhang Ying and they have been fighting and nesting in the past few days, holding their breath, when they saw Arutai going east, there was a Ming army fighting in the west. Zhu Di immediately sent Zhang Ying to attack and recapture the artillery, and ordered Li Ying to prepare gunpowder, turn around, and bombard the big tent in Arutai.
"Boom, boom." Li Ying lost the artillery and was demoted by the company by several levels, and the sense of shame and anger made him command the artillery and fire fiercely at the Arutai military tent. In just a quarter of an hour, more than a hundred cannons exploded there, and there was razed to the ground, and poor Tututu An was looking for a way to escape, and was squeezed to the ground by the soldiers running around, and he was too old to stand up because he was too old to move,
was hit by a cannonball, and his brain was full of blood, "Taishi-" He let out a muffled snort of pain, and he didn't blink an eye.
"Kill-" Outside the city of Xinghe, the clouds were thick, the wind was bleak, and the Ming army and the Tatar army fought a decisive battle again.
Arutai had to give up those hundreds of people, and if he didn't go back in time to stop the team from resisting, then he would be eaten by the Ming army in Xinghe.
Zhu Gaosui and the others escaped, and Zhu Gaosui laughed: "Haha, Arutai, you have fallen for Chen Yuan's scheme, your people are afraid of being killed." Brothers, charge me and capture Arutai alive. After saying that, he took the lead.
Fan Zhong and others were afraid that Zhu Gaosui would lose, so they also followed.
For them, Arutai is like a big lion with a little lice on it, which can't be shaken off, can't shoot to death, you say it's not angry. He didn't want to care about them, so he and A'er and the others immediately went to the east to organize people and horses, and simply occasionally set up a bow and shot a few arrows, which were easily dodged by Zhu Gaosui and them.
So there was a strange scene on the grassland, more than 600 horses chased tens of thousands of cavalry, Zhu Gaosui chased and shouted: "Capture Arutai alive." "It made Arutai's nose crooked, and I really wanted to turn the horse's head and skin this hateful fellow alive.
Outside Xinghe City, Zhu Di was wearing armor. After the adjustment, his spirit recovered, the gray hair in his ears was gray, but he was not angry and arrogant, and the fierceness in his eyes was the same as when he was young.
Chen Yuan wore a white robe, a little elegant. He is not a general, so he didn't rush to kill, he came straight to see Zhu Di.
"See Your Majesty."
Zhu Di smiled on his stern face and patted Chen Yuan's shoulder: "Good boy, I didn't disappoint." ”
"Thank you Your Majesty for your care, and I am fortunate to have fulfilled my mission."
"Very good, you have done another great thing, I don't even know how to reward you."
Chen Yuan said modestly: "The minister leads the money issued by His Majesty, and does things for His Majesty, without asking for rewards." ”
Zhu Di smiled: "Merit is to be rewarded, otherwise, wouldn't others say that my rewards and punishments are unknown?" But I've married you twice, and I haven't figured out how to reward you yet. Okay, it's good that you're back. I've been beaten enough by Arutai and A'er Beggar these days, so it's good that you're here. ”
"Excuse me!" Chen Yuan said suddenly.
Zhu Di frowned, waved his hand and said, "Retreat, what's the matter, just say it." ”
"The minister can't resist King Zhao, King Zhao he-"
Zhu Di's heart tightened for a moment, seeing Chen Yuan's grim expression, and then looking at the east there was a faint sound of shouting and killing, as if he heard a familiar voice, he immediately understood what was going on: "Nonsense, just nonsense, the commander of the first army, regardless of his own safety." He immediately asked Zheng Heng to lead his troops to the east to meet him, and sighed to Chen Yuan and said, "Get up, Gao Sui doesn't even listen to me, you are just a civil official, and you can't stop it." ”
"I'm ashamed." Chen Yuan sighed, the surprise attack was a strategy he set, and the surprise was a decisive battle. But the risk is also very high, with Fan Zhong, he will not be at ease for the rest of his life, but it is true that the Ming army is unavailable. Therefore, Fan Zhong had to be allowed to go, but the militant Zhu Gaosui, the commander of the first army, insisted on being the commando captain. He was so scared that he was going to die, if Zhu Gaosui had three long and two short, Zhu Di would have to pick his own skin, so he asked for guilt in advance.
Speaking of which, the Zhu family are all militants, Zhu Yuanzhang was neutral from the army, and Zhu Di was in addition to Jingjing, and he also personally conquered Mongolia six times. Zhu Zhanji's personal expedition in the back, as well as Zhu Qizhen's personal expedition that did not succeed. All in all, the emperors in the middle of the Ming Dynasty were warlike, and it was also the reason why the history books of later generations spoke highly of the Ming Dynasty. This was not found in other dynasties.