484 Generation Tianjiao (2-in-1)
Listening to Bolonahal's strong refusal, the commander of the Heshute Department did not dare to say much, after all, his identity is far from that of the Mongolian Dataiji, and if he talks too much, he may not even be able to save his life.
As a result, the more than 20,000 Mongolian cavalry who fled still marched forcibly in the night and rushed towards the city of Yiju.
At this time, on the periphery of Yiju City, there have been crashes, rushing cars, building cars, ladders, stone throwers and other siege equipment, and various horse rejection and guardrails have also been erected to prevent the city from choosing to break through forcibly.
As a big city on the border of Liaodong, Yizhou was originally designed to prevent the Tartars from falling, so how difficult it is for the Ming army to recapture it now.
As the saying goes, ten times the siege, five times the attack, and the double is the battle, Shen Yichen led 40,000 Ming cavalry to leave, and nearly 10,000 were sailors who controlled the sea fleet, and Zhu Yi actually controlled only 60,000 siege soldiers and horses.
The two-to-one difference in strength seems to be a big lead, but in fact, it is placed in the ancient city attack and defense battle, without the slightest advantage.
Under the circumstance that he did not have any advantage, Zhu Yi could only build as many siege equipment as possible to reduce the casualties of the siege soldiers. As a result, when everything was ready and only the east wind was owed, bad news came from the rear Shanhaiguan, and the Zhongguo Gong Shi Heng led the army to defeat outside the Saiwai, and 80,000 armored soldiers of Wuliangha crossed the Yanshan Mountains and marched towards Ningyuan City.
Ningyuan City is located in the middle of the West Liaoning Corridor, with Yizhou City in the north and Shanhaiguan in the south, and its importance is self-evident. In order to concentrate superior forces, Shen Yichen took the Tiansheng Khan in Yizhou City in one fell swoop, and even Ning Yuanwei, who was defending the city, transferred a lot.
There are only 2,000 of the 5,400 people left in the first guard, and they are absolutely unable to resist the 80,000 Uliangha people who carry the power of victory.
Shipping can break through the geographical restrictions, but after all, the existence of a stronghold is still needed, otherwise it is impossible for more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to float on the sea, and the next fleet does not have the capacity to accommodate so many people at the same time.
Ningyuan City must not be lost, otherwise if Yizhou City cannot be defeated in a short period of time, then the 80,000 armored soldiers of Wuliangha Sanwei will definitely go north to invade from the rear, and the siege will become a counter-encirclement.
In addition, the 10,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion transferred by Zhu Yi to Shanhaiguan were taken over by Shi Heng, the Duke of Zhongguo, and taken to the outside of the Saihai Expedition, with heavy losses, which means that Shanhaiguan could not get any reinforcements from the Ming army, and the defense was empty, and it was very likely that Wuliang Ha Sanwei would take advantage of the situation to go south and seize the pass in one fell swoop!
Shanhaiguan has the title of the first pass in the world, and it is the most important checkpoint between the Ming Dynasty and the Liaodong defense line.
Zhu Yi couldn't afford such a risk, considering that he had built some partition fortifications, it was also very difficult to break through first, and after thinking about it again, he dispatched 20,000 soldiers and horses to Ningyuan City to assist in defense.
At the same time, he ordered a part of the lower fleet to stand by in the sea area outside Ningyuan City, and once it was discovered that the main forces of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei had a tendency to move south, they would immediately transfer their troops and horses by sea to the Guannei to assist in the defense of Shanhaiguan to ensure that these two military towns would not move!
If in the eyes of outsiders, Shen Yichen inherited the bloodline of military generals and has extremely high military talent, then Zhu Yi, who is the eldest son of Zhu Yongyan, the Duke of Chengguo, can be called a military genius.
After only taking a sea ship to transport troops, he was already keenly aware of the advantages of shipping in the deployment of troops, and applied it to the actual battle between Ningyuan City and Shanhaiguan. At one time, Zhu Yi still didn't understand why Shen Yichen wanted to promote the ban on the sea despite public opinion, and to continue to implement the order of Emperor Zhu Qizhen to supervise the completion of the next fleet.
Now he understands that the ocean is the future!
The transfer of 20,000 soldiers and horses left only 40,000 Ming troops besieging Yizhou City, in order to avoid being seen first, Zhu Yi ordered to build as many tents and banners as possible to create a scene of thousands of troops and horses.
The preparations for the siege were still in full swing, but the news of the fiasco outside the Chungkook Gongshi Hengsai obviously made the atmosphere more cautious. Even though it was late at night, Zhu Yi still did not rest, and was walking around the camp.
The ability of the leading governor to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers undoubtedly has a great effect on morale, and many soldiers looked at Zhu Yi's figure walking in front of them, and the respect and excitement in their eyes were simply overflowing.
Prestige and respect do not arise out of thin air, they rely on the accumulation of little by little on weekdays, and it is obvious that Zhu Yi has also done a perfect job on the road of commanding the army.
"Governor Zhu, you have been tired for a day, why don't you go back to your tent and rest, and leave the matter of patrolling the camp to your subordinates."
The person who said this sentence was as early as when Zhu Yi was patrolling the border Datong Mansion, and he had already followed the Wei commander on the left and right, and he knew Zheng Yongning. During this period of besieging Yizhou City, Zhu Yi supervised the construction of siege equipment and arranged various fortifications almost day and night.
As a result, Ningyuan City was in a hurry, and Zhu Yi dispatched troops and generals in various ways, trying to distribute materials to ensure the supply of the two armies of soldiers and horses, and came to inspect the barracks at night. Even if he is an iron man, he can't withstand such a hard work, Zheng Yongning really can't stand it.
"It's okay, I can still hold on."
Zhu Yi replied indifferently, he has never shown his mood fluctuations, and the six words of joy and anger are vividly displayed.
As a subordinate general who has followed him for many years, how could Zheng Yongning not understand the temperament of Shangguan, so he continued to advise: "Zhu Dudu, the last general ......"
But as soon as he opened this mouth, Zhu Yi interrupted: "It is also the key to the unification of the entire Mongolian steppe, as long as he is killed or captured in Yizhou City, then the Tartars will fall apart overnight, and from then on, the northern border of the Ming Dynasty will have one less confidant." ”
"What do you think Pontus's fatigue is worth compared to the results of the battle?"
After that, Zhu Yi looked at the grassland further west, and continued to add: "In addition, the old Shen Pavilion has led his troops to set up an ambush in the Chahar grassland for many days, and it stands to reason that the battle report should have been sent a long time ago, but now there is no news. ”
"We not only have to deal with it first, but we also have to be prepared for the defeat of Shen Ge Lao, and hold on for a while."
Zhu Yi said everything about this, Zheng Yongning naturally couldn't persuade anymore, so he could only sigh and continue to patrol the camp.
But at this moment, a bright light rose from the northern sky, and then exploded with a "bang" to illuminate half of the night sky. Gunpowder began to be used in the Sui and Tang dynasties, until the Ming Dynasty was used on a large scale in the military, and the early warning cloud-piercing arrow was one of them.
"Enemy attack?"
Looking at the gorgeous fireworks, Zhu Yitong's hole was instantly enlarged, theoretically Shen Yichen led his troops to set up an ambush to send reinforcements, if he was victorious, it should be the Ming army from the west, and there would be no early warning of the cloud-piercing arrows.
Then there is only one answer, the worry in his heart has come true, the winner is the main Mongolian cavalry!
"Enemy attack, combat readiness!"
Realizing that the situation was wrong, Zheng Yongning, who was standing behind Zhu Yi, immediately opened his throat and called on the soldiers and horses in the military camp to mobilize.
You must know that in ancient times, it was an extremely terrifying thing to encounter a night attack, and the soldiers were under high-intensity mental pressure during the war, even a simple nightmare could cause a large-scale camp roar, and often the enemy collapsed first before he could do anything.
That's why, even though Zhu Yi was exhausted, he still insisted on patrolling the camp every night, just to calm the morale of the army and let the soldiers of the Ming army realize that the commander was advancing and retreating with him.
The prestige of the commander of the army and the effect of being close to the people were vividly displayed in the camp of the Ming army at this moment. After a short period of panic, most of the soldiers immediately began to put on their armor to find weapons, and then obeyed the orders of the low-level officers in the queue to assemble, and the whole process was always maintained in a controllable state.
At the same time, in the city of Yizhou, Tiansheng Khan, who had already fallen asleep, heard the sound of footsteps outside the door, and immediately jumped up from the bed vigilantly, and then took out the waist knife placed next to the pillow.
"Who's outside the door!"
With an angry roar, the figure on the door paper stopped under the light of the courtyard lights.
"The Great Khan is me, Boromo Luohai."
Hearing that it was Bo Luo Mao Luohai, his tense nerves slowly relaxed, and he asked, "What happened so late?" ”
"The cloud-piercing arrows of the Ming army appeared in the western direction, and I guess it was the tribal soldiers and horses led by Da Taiji who came to help."
"The Ming army sent a cloud-piercing arrow?"
This sentence made the spirit come to the spirit in an instant, you must know that the two things of the cloud-piercing arrow and the beacon fire are fundamentally different in terms of transmission distance. The beacon fire can be used day and night, and the black smoke billows through the sky, even if it is dozens of miles away.
The highest distance of the cloud-piercing arrow is dozens of meters, and you can't see any firelight and sound if you can't see any firelight and sound in Yizhou City, and the cloud-piercing arrow launched by the Ming army can be seen in Yizhou City, which means that the enemy found by the other party is very close, and the probability is within five miles!
At this time, the soldiers and horses that can gallop to the aid of Yizhou City are only the main forces of the Mongolian tribes led by Bolonahal, it seems that the Ming cavalry led by Shen Yichen has been defeated, and the grassland is still the grassland that belongs to the Mongols!
"Bo Luo Mao Luohai sent an order to go down, open the city gate and break through the whole army!"
Tiansheng Khan also keenly seized the fighter first, and if he didn't break through in time with the Ming army riot at night, then even if he escaped by dawn, the casualties of the clan's sons would be doubled.
The nomadic nature of the Mongols made them not care about the gains and losses of one city and one pool, since Shen Yichen didn't know what method he used to mobilize more than 100,000 Ming troops to besiege Yizhou City, then just return this city to him.
Wait until you meet with the 80,000 armored soldiers of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei, and then come to compete with this champion of the Ming Kingdom!
As the two armies began to mobilize, the silence of the night was gradually replaced by beacon fire and noise, and 10,000 Ming soldiers were urgently dispatched to the west of the city of Uiju to line up against an unknown number of Tartar cavalry attacking from the direction of the grassland. The other 30,000 soldiers and horses still surrounded the city of Uiju like iron buckets, preventing them from escaping first.
The mobile cavalry was evacuated by Shen Yichen, and the drawbacks brought by it began to manifest at this time, Zhu Yi could not predict the main attack direction that would break through the siege first, and the speed of the transfer of foot soldiers was far less than that of the Mongolian iron cavalry, so he could only evenly disperse his forces to besiege the city.
However, Zhu Yi was most worried not about Yexian in Yizhou City, he was more worried about the unknown number of Mongolian cavalry attacking from the grassland. It is absolutely impossible to defeat the opponent of Shen Yichen's 40,000 Daming Iron Cavalry, and it is absolutely impossible for him to be weak, can 10,000 foot soldiers stop it?
If it can't be stopped, then the remaining 30,000 Ming Tiger Ben will all face the situation of being attacked by the enemy, and when the time comes, it is not to prevent it and break through first, but to consider how to withdraw to Ningyuan City and even Guannei by himself and others!
On the Liaoxi Plain, the scouts and small outposts of the Ming army, which were the first to warn, have been quickly cleared by Boluo Mao Luohai. The emergency rush of hundreds of miles to the aid of Yizhou City caused the troops of only more than 20,000 people to lose one or two thousand war horses, which is currently worth more than 20,000.
But Bo Luo Mao Luohai still didn't dare to have any stay, he knew that the Ming army's early warning cloud-piercing arrow had been launched, and the other party must be preparing for war at present, and if he wanted to achieve the established strategic goal, he couldn't give the Ming army a chance to breathe!
The war horses still tried their best to gallop in the grasslands of western Liaoning, but the next scene made Boluo Mao Luohai feel desperate, a wall of fire composed of torches appeared on the periphery of Yizhou City, and the heavily armed Ming army was like a great wall of steel, welcoming the arrival of himself and others.
How can it be!
Bo Luo Mao Luohai's eyes widened, and he looked ahead with a look of disbelief on his face, the speed of his surprise attack may not be as fast as Shen Yichen on the grassland, but it is definitely not much slower.
In such a short period of time, how did the Ming army assemble in an orderly manner in the middle of the night, and complete the deployment and wait for the battle?
The chaotic scene of the Ming army in the First World War of Tumubao is still vivid, is it possible that only a year has passed, and under the command of Shen Yichen, the same group of people can be reborn and become the elite of the tiger?
No one can tell Bo Luo Mao Luo Hai Answer, and at this point, it is already ready to be fired. He took a few deep breaths to stabilize his mind, and then pointed to the hazy city of Yiju in the distance and said: "Mongol sons, the Great Khan is in that city in the distance, do you want to bear the shame of defeat and be a coward for the rest of your life, or do you want to be a warrior in order to recast the glory of the Great Yuan?" ”
"Warriors! Warrior! Warrior! ”
The existence of the Heavenly Saint Khan in the city of Yiju is like a beacon that inspires the soldiers of the Mongolian tribes, and the memories of the former Jin Gotema across the desert come to mind, sweeping away the fatigue of defeat and fleeing, and they are still the proud wolves on the grassland.
"Then penetrate the Ming defense line in front of you and welcome the return of the Great Khan."
Bo Luo Mao Luohai immediately pointed at the battle formation of the Ming army, and then urged the war horse to slowly start to accelerate, and he still took the lead in the decision.
"Immortal Heaven!"
The surging Mongolian battle horn resounded in the sky, and 20,000 Mongolian cavalry tightened their reins, followed behind the commander without hesitation, and launched a charge again.
At this time, the Ming army's slightly thin battle formation, against the backdrop of torches, had many young faces, showing immaturity and nervousness. After all, they didn't know that they were actually facing a group of remnants of the defeated generals, and they thought that the Ming cavalry was defeated, causing the main force of the Mongolian army to attack and rush to the aid of Yizhou City at night.
I don't know how many Mongolian iron horsemen exist in the endless night, and whether I can still see the sun tomorrow.
But the duty of defending the land, the fighting spirit of the soldiers, and the bloody nature of the children of the Han family made them hold the spears and steel knives in their hands tightly and take root in the black soil of Liaodong. The veterans and junior officers in the team watched the Mongolian iron cavalry sweeping towards them like a wave, and they continued to encourage and cheer them on.
"Boys, stand firm, don't wait to be knocked away like a!"
"The Great Khan of Mongolia is trapped in the city by us, and a group of small fish and shrimp dare to come to call for battle?"
"Shen Ge Lao said that a Tartar has five taels for the first time, and Lao Tzu is still waiting for this money to go back to marry a daughter-in-law, and no one is allowed to rob Lao Tzu!"
"Lao Tzu has been fighting with this group of miscellaneous people in Liaodong for more than ten years, which time is not the crying father who beat them up and called his mother, this person is a ball."
With a shout, soon the Mongolian cavalry had already charged in front of them, and then only slogans such as "coming", "steady", and "mighty Ming army" were left one after another.
In order to withstand the impact of the cavalry, countless Ming soldiers put the tail end of the spear against the ground, and the whole person pressed on the spear, trying to slow down the pace of the enemy with their own flesh and blood.
The battle formation of the Ming army standing at the forefront was instantly overwhelmed by iron hooves, and soon the second row of the battle line collapsed, and then the third row broke through. Thousands of meters of defense line were staggered under the fierce cavalry impact, but none of the Ming soldiers flinched back, they still maintained their formation, and the charge of the Mongolian iron cavalry was forcibly stopped!
"Kill the horse's leg first, then kill the Tartar!"
Once the cavalry loses its speed advantage, its combat effectiveness will plummet, and the infantry will go from being powerless at the beginning to being able to fight with them.
Bo Luo Mao Luohai also never expected that the seemingly thin battle formation of the Ming army actually withstood the charge of the Mongolian iron cavalry. It seems that the long-distance run consumes too much horsepower, and the war horse is simply unable to increase the speed to the maximum, let alone the possibility of charging back and forth.
If he could, Boluo Mao Luohai would never let the Mongol cavalry rush into the Ming army in formation, and the continuous consumption of cavalry shooting around was the tactic that the Mongols were best at.
But the problem is that Bo Luo Mao Luohai has no choice, he must use the fastest speed to break through the enemy's defense line, so that the Heavenly Saint Khan in the city can also break through smoothly first. Now that the matter has come to this point, it can only fight to the end and annihilate the Ming army on the spot with its numerical superiority!
Almost at the same time as Boluo Mao Luohai launched an attack, the gates of Yizhou were wide open on all sides, but only countless Mongolian cavalry emerged from the west gate, and the other three gates did not even place suspicious soldiers to attract the attention of the Ming army.
Tiansheng Khan did not live up to his reputation as a steppe hero, and he didn't bother to play tricks at all, let alone let the Mongolian reinforcements help him attract firepower and create an opportunity to abscond alone.
No matter how many Ming troops besieged the city, they always believed that the Mongolian iron cavalry could fight their way out of the siege head-on. The result of this domineering and self-confidence is that even if the Inner Mongolian cavalry in Yizhou City has been besieged for half a month, their morale is still like a rainbow, as if a sharp sword is out of the sheath.
At this time, he also rode on the standing horse first, and the cowardly Xue Jun who was upgraded from Wara's personal guard next to him put down the ghost mask and was full of murderous spirit, and a generation of Tianjiao was nothing more than this!