Chapter 176: Queen Mother! Your Highness has been martyred!
According to what the Mongol cavalry learned about the horses, the Ming army set up three or four fortresses along the way.
These improvised forts were stockpiled with large quantities of necessities such as grain, grass, and gunpowder.
As long as these fortresses can be destroyed, even if the supply of the Ming army is completely cut off, it can greatly damage the morale of the Ming army!
Moreover, even if there are retreating Ming troops in fishing, they can lose their supply ability and slowly die in this vast grassland!
After receiving Wang Baobao's order, his younger brother Toyin Timur led 20,000 cavalry to rush towards the Ming army in the south and south.
Wang Baobao led the Mongolian Janissaries on the left and right flanks and the elite cavalry of various tribes to launch a full-scale attack on the Ming army in the fishing sea!
"Your Highness! Your Highness!"
"Wang Baobao's army has really been killed!"
After Zhou Dexing, Guo Ying and others deployed their troops and horses, they found that the Mongolian iron cavalry was preparing to attack, and immediately came to report to Zhu Han.
At this time, the fishing camp was already in chaos, all the Mongols had fled to the north, the Ming army was also disrupted, and the unit structure was fighting separately, even after making a assembly, there were still many Ming soldiers who did not find their own belonging troops.
Zhu Han knew that the situation was urgent, and immediately ordered the war drums to be beaten.
Winter! Winter! Winter!
With the rumbling war drums sounding, the Ming army relied on the ruins left by the Yuan army and launched a defense.
Thundered!
Bang!
With the sound of artillery, the Ming army immediately opened fire hastily on Wang Baobao's army, which launched the attack.
In an instant, the Yuan army was hit by artillery and killed dozens of people!
But.
This casualty was nothing to tens of thousands of cavalry, and it did not stop the attack of the Yuan army.
The two sides fought fiercely on the front line with the fishing sea as the main camp.
The Ming army was equal in numbers with the Yuan army led by Wang Baobao.
Both sides had their own advantages, and the Ming army had the advantage of strong training of soldiers and horses, but Wang Baobao's army was all cavalry, with flexible mobility, and could wait for opportunities to find loopholes in the Ming army on the battle line, and then launch a deadly surprise attack.
The two sides fought fiercely in the fishing sea.
Countless muskets, cannons, bows, arrows, and spears come and go on the battlefield.
The two sides fought for more than an hour, but they did not distinguish the slightest victory.
Even though the Ming army was raided by Wang Baobao's soldiers and horses and was slightly disadvantaged at first, with excellent psychological quality and training, the Ming army quickly stabilized its position.
Wang Baobao frowned, looking at the Ming army who was getting stronger and stronger, and couldn't help but show a worried look in his heart.
His sister Zhao Min also followed Wang Baobao's side closely at this time, looking at the Ming army that was getting stronger and stronger, Zhao Min finally couldn't help but persuade beside him, "Brother, this is the true level of the Ming army, if they continue to fight like this, they will fight stronger and stronger, and it will be more and more difficult for us to win!"
Zhao Min has been lurking in the Ming Palace's mansion for more than a year, so he is naturally familiar with the style of the Ming army that dares to fight and is not afraid of death.
She had warned Wang Baobao before that she had to seriously consider the Ming army's Jedi counterattack ability.
At this time, Wang Baobao also knew that the situation was urgent.
If it continues to fight like this, I am afraid that if the Yuan army wants to retreat, there is no guarantee.
However, Wang Baobao refused to give up.
After another hour of fighting, the Mengyuan army was even more declining.
Wang Baobao frowned tightly and glanced at the gradually dim sky.
Finally, in desperation, Wang Baobao waved his hand and gave the order to withdraw the army.
"Withdraw!"
With a sound of the horn of retreat!
Wang Baobao's Mengyuan Praetorian Guard had to abandon the attack and withdraw from the battlefield after an attack was frustrated.
The soldiers of the Ming army looked at the Mongol cavalry that receded like a tide, and finally disappeared into the grassland.
They went through a tough battle, and then they completed a Jedi defense.
The Ming army knew that it had won another victory, and the whole army suddenly let out a tsunami-like cheer.
Zhu Han looked at the soldiers of the Ming army who had won a big victory again, and knew that from now on, the remnants of Mengyuan would no longer have the courage to fight with him!
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Wang Baobao led the remnants of the defeated army to return to the rear of Mengyuan, and when he saw the Yuan soldiers returning one by one in despair, the Empress Dowager Qi of the Great Yuan Dynasty was shocked.
She greeted Wang Baobao, who had returned, and asked in a trembling voice, "Taishi, why did you come back?" What about Your Majesty? Where is Your Majesty?"
Wang Baobao didn't say a word, and the rest of the generals were not very good-looking, and the Empress Dowager Qi suddenly realized that something was wrong, her heart sank, her mind was dizzy, and she fainted in front of Wang Baobao.
If it weren't for the quick eyes of the few maids next to them, I was afraid that they would have fallen to the ground.
Wang Baobao's mood was very heavy, and he said coldly to a few maidservants, help the queen mother to go down and rest!"
Wang Baobao knew that after this battle, the Ming army would only make their defense more solid, and if they did not succeed in this raid, they would never have a chance to defeat the Ming army on the battlefield.
Wang Baobao said to the generals on the left and right:
"Pass the order, let the departments step up their vigilance, and don't let the Ming army catch up and sneak attack us!"
Subsequently, he sent the remaining elite cavalry to defend the Ming army on a large scale.
Wang Baobao was already in a state of being frightened, and he didn't dare to let the Ming army find out his whereabouts, Wang Baobao.
In fact, these last Meng Yuan elites already had a very great fear of the Ming army.
Everyone knows that if the Ming army catches their tracks and chases them, then this last shelter will be gone.
Now Wang Baobao has pinned all his hopes on his younger brother Deyin Timur, as long as Deyin Timur led the cavalry of Meng Yuan can destroy the supply lines of the Ming army on the grassland, and when our Ming army retreats, they will fall into chaos and hunger due to lack of supplies.
At that time, Wang Baobao will still have a chance to make a last stand.
At this time, Wang Baobao did not realize that even if it was the logistics soldiers and horses on the logistics line of the Ming army, it was definitely not something that the Mobei Mongolian cavalry could deal with!
On the Mobei steppe, Tayin Timur led 20,000 cavalry.
After leaving the fishing camp, he went all the way south to launch a sneak attack on the Ming army fortresses along the way.
However, these Ming fortresses withstood the sneak attack of Deyin Timur with their own firepower and excellent fortifications.
Seeing that the raid was fruitless, Timur couldn't help but feel anxious in his heart.
He can only make an all-in gamble at the end!
He knew that the Ming army was in the southernmost part and had a largest fortress, which was close to the desert Gobi.
As long as the first fortress that entered the steppe could be destroyed, the Ming army retreating in the Gobi Desert would no longer have the ability to resupply.
Therefore, the southernmost fortress of the Ming army is very important, and Timur made a quick decision!
Abandon a few small fortresses along the way, and lead 20,000 elite cavalry straight to the south.
After three days and three nights of running, when Timur led 20,000 Mongolian cavalry to kill, no one in the Ming army in the "steppe fort" thought that such a huge Mongolian cavalry would suddenly appear in front of their fortress.
As the commander of the grassland fort, Ying Changwei commanded Luo Guanzhong to immediately order the signal of vigilance!
Winter! Winter! Winter!
As the war drums sounded, all the Ming soldiers on the fortress immediately put on their armor.
One by one, the soldiers of the Ming army took up arms and prepared for battle.
Tayin Timur led an army of 20,000 cavalry to kill in front of the steppe treasure.
He looked at the man-tall earthen fortress in front of him, and a smug smile appeared on his lips.
This fortress was obviously much larger than the few Ming army forts he had encountered, and there must have been more grain, grass and military supplies hoarded in it.
As long as they can destroy this fortress, the Ming army will lose most of its grain and grass, and will eventually be unable to pass through the Gobi Desert safely.
Tayin Timur did not stop and ordered his soldiers and horses to attack immediately.
The cavalry of the 20,000 yuan army was divided into three routes, and it was also a move to encircle and three to lack one.
They lined up from the east, west, and north, wearing armor one by one, holding simple ropes, and holding shields in their hands, to attack the Ming army's steppe fort.
Seeing this, Luo Guanzhong immediately roared, "All artillery, without my order, are not allowed to fire."
In this vast grassland, even tens of thousands of people seem to be sparse, and only when the Mongols approached, the small artillery deployed by the Ming army was lethal enough.
Otherwise, the artillery fired too far, and each shell could only destroy one or two enemies even if it hit, while if you put these Mongols at close range, you can use powerful shotguns, and each shell can eliminate at least a dozen, if not dozens, Mongol soldiers.
Luo Guanzhong had only 3,000 soldiers under his command. And Tayin Timur had 20,000 Mongol elites in his hands.
The battle between the two sides can be described as tragic and anxious!
The Mongol cavalry played the fighting style of their ancestors who were not afraid of death, they rushed to a place of more than a dozen paces with the artillery and muskets of the Ming army, and then I used the bow and arrow in my hand to launch round after round of shooting at the Ming army.
These bows and arrows all used armor-piercing arrows at such a close distance, and many Ming soldiers, even wearing armor, were wounded by these heavy bows and arrows.
However, even the Ming soldiers who were seriously injured by bows and arrows did not show weakness one by one, they endured the pain in their bodies and continued to launch a counterattack with the muskets in their hands.
Li Shan and Li Zhong were the musketeers in the team, and the two brothers worked closely together, Li Shan fired at the front, relying on the fortifications of the fortress to fire muskets at the Mengyuan enemy, while Li Zhong was nervously reloading gunpowder in the rear.
Two muskets were reloaded and fired in turn in their hands, and one after another the Mongol soldiers fell in front of them.
However, even with such heavy casualties, the Mongol soldiers who launched the attack did not retreat in the slightest.
Soon, layers of corpses filled in the trench in front of them.
After round after round of attacks, the Mongol soldiers finally rushed to the earthen wall of the steppe fort!
At this time, the muskets in the hands of the brothers Li Shan and Li Zhong had become hot and hot because of the continuous firing.
Finally, after Li Shan loaded some gunpowder, the red-hot musket did not continue to be used at all, and the red-hot barrel ignited the freshly loaded gunpowder instantly.
Li Shan knew that this was because the barrel had been overheated after firing for a long time.
From now on, they must wait for the firearms to cool down, otherwise they will easily explode.
Looking at the Mongolian soldiers who climbed in densely enough from the wall, Li Shan's face finally showed a burst of nervousness, and Li Zhong also had the same expression.
And at this moment, a mocking voice sounded behind them.
"Li Er, you two, are you scared!"
"Without the musket, I think you're as cowardly as if you don't have an egg!"
The two Li brothers turned their heads.
I saw that the person who spoke was the brother Aqina and Saith Heixing who they laughed at two days ago, that is, the brother of the Han name Zhao Jin and Zhao Bao.
I saw these two brothers from the Jurchen tribe, one holding a ghost-headed knife and the other holding a mace, covered in bright armor and stomachs, showing a provocative smile.
Li Shan and his brother were furious, "You dog Tartar, you dare to laugh at grandpa, tell you, even if grandpa doesn't have a musket, he can kill a Mongolian Tatar like a big knife in his hand and cry dad and call mother!"
Achina and Seth Black continued to smile sarcastically and said, "Hehe, I'll show you first, who is Grandpa!"
"Who is a hero, who is a grandson, let's kill more Mongols than whoever!"
The brothers Achina and Sethhei also paid more attention to the two of them, and immediately grabbed the ghost head knife and mace in their hands, and killed several Mongol soldiers who had climbed the earthen wall.
After only a few muffled pops, a cloud of blood mist rose up on the earthen wall.
Several Mongolian soldiers in front of the two brothers suddenly had their heads blooming and fell to the ground.
Li Shan and Li Zhong saw that these two Ming soldiers from the Jurchen tribe were so brave and did not show weakness, they threw down the muskets in their hands and drew the matching knives on their waists, and started a fight with the Mongolian soldiers.
A fierce battle unfolded on the earthen wall.
However, under the one-man high earthen wall, a slope was quickly piled up with various corpses and thrown soldiers.
On this slope, the Ming army and the Mongol soldiers fought a fierce battle for blood.
Luo Guanzhong stood on the highest sentry in the fortress, looking at the Mongolian soldiers around him who were densely packed and surging up like a black tide, and at this time he was already in a state of mind that looked at death as home.
All fronts have been broken through by the Mongol soldiers, and they have become a fighting ground for will!
On the low earthen wall, soldiers on both sides engaged in the fiercest hand-to-hand combat.
A personal soldier beside Luo Guanzhong ran up from below and said to Luo Guanzhong, "My lord, the camp walls everywhere are already in an emergency,,,,,
Luo Guanzhong interrupted the words of this personal soldier with a wave of his hand, and said to him, "I have already seen that every camp wall is in an emergency, and I have no extra soldiers in my hands, go and tell everyone that whoever wants to live, let them kill three Tartars each!"
"Whoever wants to live must show the momentum of not dying!"
"Come with me and kill these Tartars!"
Luo Guanzhong looked at the vast Gobi Desert in the south, and suddenly remembered the wish he made when he was in Hangzhou to write from Rong.
At that time, he thought that he wanted to follow the example of Ban Chao and Huo Quai's expedition to Saiwai and raise the prestige of the Han Dynasty for thousands of miles.
Now that he has come to this desert grassland, facing a Mongolian enemy several times his size, he can be regarded as having fulfilled his original wish.
Luo Guanzhong watched the red military flag rising high behind him, symbolizing the Ming Dynasty...... I thought about it again.
"Now under my command, there are not only Han soldiers, but also Jurchen soldiers, and even some soldiers from Mongol origin, and now in the face of the siege of Mengyuan, no one retreats, and it can be regarded as my Luo Guanzhong's good way of leading the troops, worthy of the Daming Road!"
Thinking of this...... Luo Guanzhong must not let these soldiers look down on him at this critical moment.
He drew the matching sword in his hand and said to the few remaining soldiers around him, "Everyone come with me!"
With Luo Guanzhong's order, several pro-soldiers also roared angrily, took out their weapons, and protected Luo Guanzhong and rushed to the earthen wall where the battle was fiercest.
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