Chapter 151: Bloody General's Ridge
Hundreds of torches approached in the starry night, but the Yanmen closed the city gate but did not move.
Xu Haibing, who was about forty years old, was naturally very cautious, he did not let the soldiers open the door in a hurry, but waited for this group of people whose origin was not clear to arrive under the city pass before asking loudly: "Who is coming?" ”
"Cypriot foreign businessmen, go to the mainland to do business."
"What kind of horses are you selling?"
"Naturally, it is a superior horse, and Wu Hou is also quite happy."
"Then Cui Shoubei is there?"
"In.... At! I'm Cui Rui! Cui Rui was pressed against the neck by a sharp blade and replied tremblingly in the dark night.
Although Cui Rui's voice sounded a little trembling under the fright, the soldiers at the head of the city were all unimpressed.
Xu Haibing saw that the information was correct, so he beckoned his subordinates to open the door. The heavy Yanmen Gate Gate opened, and countless soldiers in full iron armor poured out of it, Xu Haibing slowly rode out and looked at Cui Rui and his party who were pushed forward.
"Cui Rui, what kind of fame are you doing, why do you look like this." Xu Haibing frowned and looked at Cui Rui's swollen half of his face and said.
"Harm, this cold horse is about to skate, but I will die of pain." Cui Rui covered half of his swollen face, which was naturally beaten by Bao Yuanqian and his party yesterday.
Xu Haibing looked at the hundreds of Mongolian people and frowned and wondered: "This is three hundred?" ”
The people of his army knew at a glance that the number of people was small in hundreds.
"I am the Arutai Taishi cowardly Xue Minhan (thousand households), cowardly and reckless." Before Cui Rui could explain, Bao Yuanqian rode out and arrogantly threw Xu Haibing a waist card and said: "There is a slight change in the strategy this time, and my master knows that the key point of Yanmen Xiongguan is related to the overall safety, so he has sent more than 200 people to assist General Xu on the original basis. ”
Bao Butong pinched the reins and gurgled on the ground, waiting for Xu Haibing's reaction, he wanted to take Xu Haibing immediately, but Bao Yuanqian warned him that the situation in Yanmen Pass was complicated, and it was not a problem that Xu Haibing could solve.
Xu Haibing listened reasonably, carefully checked that these people were all dressed as Mongolians, and his faces were no different, so he nodded and let his cronies lead them into the customs.
Just as Bao Yuanqian's team entered the customs, a man stepped forward and stopped: "Commander Xu, who are these people?" Why did hundreds of Mongolians enter Yanmen south without informing me? ”
"Oh, it turned out to be Liu Tongzhi. These are all horse dealers, who want to do business with us. ”
It is very common for these border generals to disregard the jurisdiction of the imperial court and privately do business with the Tatars to make money, and they have been repeatedly banned.
Then Liu Tongzhi frowned and said, "Ma Shang? When did this Yanmen Pass become the habitat of merchants since ancient times? ”
Seeing that Xu Haibing was silent, he looked at the sparse team again, and wondered: "Why is this team mixed with Chinese and Chinese?" If these Mongolian people are horse merchants, who are these Han people in the rear? ”
What he was referring to was naturally the men and horses of Wu Gao and his own soldiers following behind, Xu Haibing did not notice the small number of Han people in the rear of the team, and now Liu Tongzhi also asked Cui Rui: "Aren't there more than ten people when you go out of the customs?" Why so many people? ”
Cui Rui smiled embarrassedly: "These are the soldiers of the border guard, escorting me and waiting." ”
The light was dim, and Xu Haibing couldn't look at his face one by one, and when he saw his henchman Cui Rui saying this, his eyes flickered, and he waved his hand and said: "In this case, let's go to the building immediately to discuss matters, and Liu Tongzhi and Zhang Yanshi will also come together, this is a big deal." ”
Liu Tongzhi snorted coldly and walked away.
Bao Yuanqian and the others were led by Xu Haibing to go deep into Yanmen Pass and climb the steps. Along the way, he can probably see the appearance of this Yanmen Pass, which has an urn city, an inner city, and an outer city. @
The whole Yanmen Pass is like the command of Datong, built on the mountain, the steps are steep and narrow, and the terrain is extremely dangerous.
This pass building is on the cliff, and you can overlook the entire brightly lit Yanmen Xiongguan.
"That is the General's Ridge, and the General's Ridge is the place where the Yanmen artillery is erected." On the way, Jiang Wei reminded Bao Yuanqian and the others in ventriloquism, "Once Yanmen is tightened, the artillery of Jiangjunling can immediately hit inside and outside the pass, suppressing the enemy on low ground." ”
Bao Yuanqian looked and saw that on the top of the hill behind the already dangerous Guanlou, there was a rather steep fortress, which was guarded by a brick city wall, and the inside was also brightly lit by torches, and the wall could be seen faintly.
The muzzle of the inner black hole is dense, and the entire fortress is like a lonely fortress hanging outside.
He thought in his heart that what Wu Gao said was true. There were 3,000 defenders in Yanmen Pass, and there were 1,7800 people under the actual control of this Xu Haibing. Even if the deception is successful now, if you start to do it, the sudden change in the pass will be instantaneous, and the artillery on the General's Ridge will fire a salvo into the pass. _o_m
If that's the case, the hundreds of people will be quickly suppressed from the offensive, and if they wait for Xu Haibing to gather superior forces to counter-encircle, they will immediately fall back.
"It seems that it is unrealistic to have no blood, it depends on whether we can capture Xu Haibing and other rebellious generals and minimize casualties." Bao Yuanqian's heart was awe-struck.
They soon marched to the top of the gate, which was large enough to accommodate dozens of people sitting in the open air.
Xu Haibing sat in the main seat first, and Liu Tongzhi and another Zhang Yanshi were also present, although they disdained to be in the same league with Xu Haibing, but in the face of such a horse dealer with many horses, they naturally wanted to get a piece of the pie.
If you have money, you don't make money, bastard!
"Brothers, since the cowardice has arrived tonight, I would like to inform you of a decision that I have been thinking about for a long time." Xu Haibing looked at the Tatars and his cronies around him.
"As you know, the imperial court has always taught us to be loyal and patriotic among our courtiers." Xu Haibing patted his chest and said: "I, Xu Haibing, am a rough person, but I also understand this truth, and I don't dare to slack off in the slightest. Therefore, in order to live up to the court's kindness, when Yan rebelled against the army, he repeatedly helped the court to attack and harass Yan Rebellion. ”
"What am I trying to do with Xu Haibing, isn't it just to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country?" Xu Haibing's voice suddenly choked up a little and said: "But if it has changed today, the traitor of the past has become the Son of Heaven, and the former Son of Heaven has become a concubine." In the end, we, the generals who are honest and hard-working, will also be stigmatized by the old party of Jianwen. ”
Xu Haibing slapped the table and said with tears in his eyes: "But what did we Qiu Ba do wrong, didn't we also want to be loyal to the monarch and patriotic in the past?" But why did the change of power of their Zhu family affect Chiyu, and let us, the courtiers who are honest and hard-working, become victims of the alternation of imperial power? ”
"Even if I'm an ant, I can't be trampled to death like this, right? If I don't follow the order to ask Yan to govern me, I am disobedient, but I am ordered to ask for Yan, but now it has become the old party of Jianwen to make meritorious service for the crime. What kind of loyalty and patriotism, in the end it is just a tool of the imperial power..."Xu Haibing suddenly stopped his tears, and looked at everyone with a grim look: "So this commander thought twice and decided to cooperate with Tatar Arutai and raise troops against Ming!" ”
His words were earth-shattering, and his cronies and subordinates were also moved.
"Xu Haibing, you!!" That Liu Tongzhi and the two of them took the case, and glared angrily: "You are so bold, you dare to collude with the Mongolian people to make trouble!" ”
Xu Haibing was not angry but laughed: "Guts? I, Xu Haibing, were forced by the imperial court to come to this point today, what else do I dare not do! ”
"Crackle!" He threw the sprinkling weapon angrily, and the Ming troops in ambush around him rushed out one after another, heading straight for Liu and Zhang!
The two of them saw the shadows of the swords around them, and knew that they had won the Hongmen banquet, Xu Haibing took advantage of his greed, and deceived the two of them here under the pretext of selling horses and collecting money, so as to completely control the Yanmen Pass.
"Adults, go away, be careful!" Although Liu and Zhang did not have many personal soldiers, Xu Haibing obviously did not mobilize many soldiers, and both sides were mobilizing soldiers and horses for each other, but Xu Haibing looked at Bao Yuanqian.
In order not to startle the snake, Xu Haibing can indeed mobilize a small number of soldiers, and now he is in a stalemate with Liu Zhang and the others, so he naturally looks at Bao Yuanqian and his party, which is why the people of Alutai Fortress entered Yanmen.
The aim is to tilt the balance of strength.
After capturing and killing Liu Zhang, and then killing his subordinates at all levels, the command system collapsed, and the soldiers quickly controlled Liu and Zhang's soldiers and horses without orders.
"Xu Haibing, you really live up to my trust, you are really a "good minister of the auxiliary country"! ”
Just when Xu Haibing pinned his hopes on Bao Yuanqian and his party, he heard a familiar voice. A man dressed as a Ming sergeant walked out, and when he looked at the firelight, Xu Haibing broke out in a cold sweat!
"Wu Gao!!"
Xu Haibing's soul was full of death, and under that helmet, he saw a face that he didn't expect!
"Buzz!" At the same time as he was shocked, the sound of countless sharp blades coming out of their sheaths sounded, and their targets were directed at him!
And among them is black.
The old man in the robe did not use the blade, but his body was faster than everyone else, he jumped up and jumped up like a goshawk fighting a rabbit, and rushed straight to Xu Haibing!
Xu Haibing was shocked, this distance of dozens of steps was actually killed by him in two breaths, this person is not a ghost!?
The wind was stuffed into claws, and when the strong wind cut Xu Haibing's face, a harrier turned over and retreated half a step in an instant!
"Bang!" A loud bang with the smell of gunpowder rang out at the same time.
Although this Xu Haibing was shocked, after all, he was also an old and spicy person, and in a hurry, he actually pulled the handcuff that Fang had secretly lit.
No matter how strong the wind is, it is a person, not a god, and he has to temporarily avoid the edge in the face of the power of firearms.
Just taking advantage of this stall, I suddenly heard a dull gurgling sound, and when Feng Saizhang looked at it again, the stone chair of Xu Haibing actually fell backwards, and even the person with the chair buckled into the ground and disappeared..
"Damn, I left my hands behind!" Bao Yuanqian caught up and slashed on the ground and pounced.
Liu Tong knew that this group of people were not complicit with Xu Haibing, so he said loudly: "General Ridge is Xu Haibing's henchman and deputy general leading the artillery array, and you are all cavalry who took advantage of his late reaction to quickly rush up and take General Ridge!" ”
Zhang Baishi led people to slash and kill all the way: "We led the troops to resist Xu Haibing's rebels, and you quickly led people to seize the highlands of Jiangjunling, otherwise under the salvo of ten thousand artillery, we will definitely fall into the situation of being attacked from inside and outside!" ”
Jiang Wei said: "All the warriors of the Zarayier Division, divide and grab the ridge!" ”
Wu Gao had already led his own troops to ride around the Guanlou and rushed straight to the General Ridge.
Bao Butong, Gao Shouzheng, Lu Gangfeng, Bao Yuanqian, and Jiang Wei each led a part of the horses to follow.
Xu Haibing's change was naturally known to the rebels, and he had already gathered his soldiers and horses in the inner and outer cities to hide. The troops led by Xu Haibing in Yanmen Pass all mutinied for a while, and they rushed to the Guanlou from the inner city.
Liu Zhang and the others hurriedly gathered half of the soldiers and horses, and blocked the two entrances of the inner city, and for a time the shouting of killing shook the sky, and the two sides slashed together, and people continued to fall.
Blood covered the entire snowfield, forming a river of blood.
"Hurry!!"
Just when Bao Yuanqian rode his horse to attack the General's Ridge, he saw a signal flickering on the General's Ridge, and a cold cannon suddenly launched between the battlements!
Countless rebels have set up firearms at General Ridge and are ready to attack!
"Oh no, they're all scattered!!" Bao Yuanqian made a decision immediately, he had seen this formation!
It was at the time of the siege of Navarat that he knew the power of these firearms. It's just that it was Warat who was hit by the cannon at that time, and now it's himself!
Countless horses scattered and rushed towards the commanding heights of General Ridge, and a "Release!" suddenly sounded on General Ridge, "Release!!" ”
I only heard dozens of cannonballs, and hundreds of rockets and divine fire crows roared in!
"Boom!!"
The roar of the Divine Fire Crow exploded, and although it didn't hit them, the splash of flames and fierce fire oil knocked down Wu Gao's personal soldiers, who were in the lead.
They were caught in the oil, and the horses were thrown off their horses in a panic, and in an instant their tendons were broken.
Wu Gao put on armor and charged, and the three arrows in his body did not retreat, and the horse was overturned and fell to the ground, and he was pulled on the horse by his own soldiers to escape the catastrophe.
"Boom!!" The cannonball's huge solid bullet rolled down like a bowling ball was even more powerful, and it bounced irregularly with the arc of death.
"Shhh The horses screamed.
These solid bullets rolled down from a high place, I don't know how many horse legs were broken, and several Zarayier cavalry were thrown off their horses, and before they could get up, they were smashed into meat sauce by a solid bullet from behind, four!
Bao Yuanqian hated the ground, they still had a bad move, but they didn't expect that this Xu Haibing actually had a general's ridge artillery array!
Countless people and Wu Gao's own soldiers rushed up on horseback, but the general ridge was steep, and it was not easy to ride a horse up the mountain in ordinary times, and now it is even braved by artillery fire.
When the horses heard the sound of artillery fire, they involuntarily braked their hooves, which made it more difficult to sprint on the steep slopes, and although they grabbed the ridge, they were limited to the halfway point of the mountain by artillery fire.
"Ahh I only heard another round of rockets and Divine Fire Crows, and more than a dozen Menghan cavalry were overwhelmed by the Divine Fire Crows, becoming struggling fire men!
Under the dense rain of arrows, they fell one after another. _o_m
The ground offensive was frustrated, and they retreated one after another.
The rebels on the mountain ridge heard a deafening taunt, one after another, piercing the eardrums!
They boasted about the whistle and got carried away with sarcasm about the frustrated attack on Bao Yuanqian and others.
Bao Yuanqian rode the Jedi Pull Horse and raised his front hooves, hanging and hanging to dodge the bullet of a solid cannon. He immediately looked at it with a horizontal knife, and saw that a person on the mountain ridge was Xu Haibing, who was stepping on the battlements with one foot and looking at him coldly.
It turned out that there was a secret passage leading directly to the General's Ridge under the stone chair, and this Xu Haibing thought about the back road, and once there was a change, he would directly retire to the General's Ridge and suppress the army in the city with artillery fire. In this way, the inside should be combined with the outside to control the situation in Yanmen Pass.
"I noticed that you were abnormal, but fortunately, Lao Tzu is a good player!" Xu Haibing snorted: "Continue to shoot and press them to the death near the Guan Tower, they won't be able to carry it for long at the end of the canopy." ”
Seeing that Bao Yuanqian's offensive of hundreds of people was suppressed and retreated, Xu Haibing gave an order, and the artillery array on the General's Ridge targeted Liu and Zhang, who lived in two city gates.
"Bombard the inner city gate for me, and catch the turtle in the urn!" Xu Haibing said coldly.
"My lord, this... This will inadvertently injure the brothers who are besieging the city. A pawn wondered.
Xu Haibing laughed, "What we are trying to do is a big thing, how can we be a woman's kindness?" Accidental injuries on the battlefield are just a common thing, but if you can blast open the city gates, it can be a big thing! ”
When those soldiers heard this, they aimed their cannons at the officers and soldiers of Liu Zhang's subordinates who were guarding the inner city!
"Boom!" A series of cannonballs whistled through the air, only to see dozens of cannonballs flying into the inner city, and in an instant, the solid bullets cast in iron smashed the inner city wall into thousands of holes, and the rubble cracked!
"Ahh
"My lord, the artillery array of General Ridge is attacking us!!"
Those terrible solid bullets killed and injured dozens of people, although they also injured many of their own people by mistake, but Liu Zhang and the others were already few soldiers, and now they were bombarded from behind by the Jiangjunling artillery array, so they naturally messed up and couldn't hold on for a long time.
Another round of artillery fire came, and a cannonball bounced straight into the hole in the city gate, smashing a big hole in the city gate!
"I can't stand it, my lord!!"
"Why haven't you taken General Ridge yet!!"
Bao Yuanqian looked at the battered Liu Zhang Erbu and was anxious. @
He looked at the wind on the side and said, "Senior Feng, is there a countermeasure?" ”
Feng Saizhang looked at the jet-black Jedi where Bao Yuanqian was sitting, nodded and said, "You can take a risk, but do you have the guts?" ”
Bao Yuanqian said proudly: "Why don't you dare? At such a moment, if you save your life and spare your life in vain! ”
Feng Saizhang nodded and said: "I know that you sit down on a good horse is the best, you and I gallop together to cover each other, and rush to the General's Ridge while they are bombarding the city tower!" ”
"You and me?"
Feng Saizhang said: "Exactly, you and I go to the mountain." I'll take care of the rest! ”
Bao Yuanqian thought in his heart that even if the two of them rushed to General Ridge, they would be alone, but when he heard Feng Saizhang firmly believe in it, he could only trust Senior Feng.
"Boom, keep banging me!" Xu Haibing laughed on the General's Ridge and said proudly.
"The general has changed! There are two fast horses about to rush up the mountain!! His cronies exclaimed, pointing downward.
Xu Haibing looked in a panic, but saw a horse as black as ink, and a horse galloping towards the snow with dark clouds!
These two horses are the only good horses in ten thousand, climbing the mountain and crossing the water like walking on the ground, and when they attack the mountain, they are not afraid of artillery fire and strive to be the first.
"Shoot them at me, shoot them at the hell!" Xu Haibing saw that the two horses had crossed the middle of the mountain, and hurriedly commanded.
I saw countless rockets flying down, and Bao Yuanqian and Feng Saizhang Gu galloped side by side!
The two horses charged like Limbo in the air, and the horses were extremely fast.
Dodged countless arrows during the gallop, but there were still a few rockets stuck in the horse, Bao Yuanqian heard the Jedi gasping heavily, knowing that it was injured, he was distressed, but this situation was no longer able to turn back.
At this time, they had already rushed to a place extremely close to the mountain, and they could even see the dense armor leaves on the rebels' bodies!!
"Kill!!" Bao Yuanqian shouted angrily.
"Boom!!" Several solid bullets were dropped, and they came straight to Erma!
These are solid.
The bouncing is aimless, and the bouncing is non-stop.
There were even two rounds that whistled down around Bao Yuanqian, and the hot heat roasted Bao Yuanqian's heart was shocked, and if he was hit, everyone would be shattered immediately!
Just as he was rejoicing, another solid bullet came straight at him, and he was shocked to see the wind and horses rushing in front of him.
"Shhhhh Dark clouds stepped on the snow, and a mournful roar sounded.
He saw that the belly of the horse with dark clouds and snow was pierced by solid bullets, and his stomach flowed to the ground, and he fell to the ground with a wail, seeing that he could not live, while Feng Saizhang jumped out of the horse and jumped behind Bao Yuanqian.
Bao Yuanqian saw in a trance that there seemed to be tears in the corners of Feng Saizhang's eyes, and he didn't dare to keep his hands at the moment and riveted his strength to clamp the horse's belly.
The Jedi hissed, like Lu Yuejian, and his long body jumped over the battlements of General Ridge!
"It's our turn." The wind sounded faintly from behind Bao Yuanqian.
Before Bao Yuanqian could answer, when the Jedi was in mid-air, he only felt a huge force grabbing his waist and lifting him, and his body seemed to be stopped and thrown up, and the whole person floated in mid-air.
If it was in the past, he would have been at a loss, but now that he first entered the room, his reaction was no longer what it used to be, and he suddenly understood the meaning of the wind.
He soared in mid-air and drew the long knife at his waist, and just as he lost his center of gravity, a black shadow fell at his feet. He suddenly felt that the soles of his feet seemed to have stepped on something in the air, and after borrowing the force, he stabilized his center of gravity and rushed straight to Xu Haibing, who was shocked!
Xu Haibing's own soldiers stabbed countless spears, and he was a little panicked in the face of the cold and awe-inspiring tip of the gun, after all, his current skills are not light, so he will be stabbed into a hornet's nest if he is hit by a group of guns!
Who knew that at this moment, a black shadow beside him pounced and grabbed his belt and lifted it violently, lifting himself to the ground and raising his feet above the group of guns, and he stepped on the tip of the stabbing spear to borrow strength.
This step is a success, he seems to be able to really be like Uncle Bao captured Ugqi that day, stepping on the head of the gun and using his strength to pounce on Xu Haibing after heavy protection!
The adjutant general of Xu Haibing saw Bao Yuanqian coming to kill, and drew his knife and slashed away.
Who knew that Bao Yuanqian came to a stroke, and a harrier turned over in the air to dodge the cronie's knife, looked back at the volley and slashed back, cutting the man's head away!
At the moment when the person's corpse was separated, Bao Yuanqian also completely lost the thing he borrowed from, and landed firmly in front of Xu Haibing, and he was terrifyingly cold.
Xu Haibing's eyes widened but he didn't dare to move, because a long knife stained with blood was clamping his neck at his throat!
The surrounding soldiers did not dare to go up, their own deputy was beheaded, and the main general was captured alive, and they didn't know what to do for a while without two backbones.
Xu Haibing swallowed his saliva, and looked at the half-human, half-ghost Bao Yuanqian in front of him, Bao Yuanqian, who was just right, stepped on things in the air and borrowed his strength like a flying swallow, and now he had put the long knife on his neck in an instant, is this person a ghost?
"General Xu, are you still fighting?" Bao Yuanqian's hellish cold voice sounded, and Xu Haibing broke out in a cold sweat.