Chapter 25: Take the initiative
"I'll answer it!"
Zhu Qizhen took two steps forward and came to Luo Tong and the others, with a solemn look on his face.
"The so-called Jiangshan Sheji is the land of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, it is also the thousands of people of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the more than 40,000 soldiers who followed me and fought bloodily.
"Meng Fuzi once said that the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light. If I only think about saving my life, then I really ignore the society of the country! ”
"I have said more than once, since I am sitting in the position of the commander, I will be responsible for the soldiers to the end, British Princess, the evacuation will be arranged by you, and I will be left in the last batch, this matter is decided, you don't need to say anything!"
"Luo Qing's family, divide your people into several groups, responsible for leading the way, you go with the first batch, and return to Juyongguan to prepare for the arrival of the army."
Seeing the emperor's determined look, Luo Tong was finally convinced.
So, he no longer insisted, but just saluted and said, "Obey the order!" ”
In fact, when the generals met to discuss the evacuation list, a group of meritorious generals led by the British Duke did not mention the emperor.
At that time, Luo Tong thought that these people's brains were broken, how could there be a reason to let the emperor cover your retreat in this world?
Now, he finally understood.
At this moment, he felt fortunate that he could assist a generation of virtuous monarchs.
The generals returned to their tents and began to prepare for the evacuation.
Before dawn, the first batch of evacuees of the Ming army, totaling more than 5,000 people, led by Luo Tong, headed towards Juyong Pass.
The rest continued to be nervously busy, preparing for the attack of the Warats.
Nowadays, those who burn kilns, cut wood, and build trebuchets are becoming more and more skilled, and they have made great progress compared to a few days ago.
Sure enough, just after the hour, the gate of the Warat camp opened, and groups of cavalry came out in formation.
Unlike yesterday, this time, the formation of the Warat people is more scattered, and it seems that they are very afraid of the lime bullets of the Ming army.
But they didn't know that the Ming army had already arranged trebuchets in various positions in the camp, no matter how they dispersed, as long as they got close, lime bullets would fall from the sky, which could be called full coverage without dead ends.
The result is obvious, and once again the Warats have returned in vain.
For three days in a row, he was repelled by lime bullets every time, and he was about to collapse at first, so he simply repaired a war letter and sent it over.
Zhu Qizhen took the battle book, opened it and looked at it twice, and couldn't help laughing.
The war book scolds the Ming army for not talking about martial arts, and actually uses anti-human weapons, and after the scolding, it is about to fight, which probably means that you dare not go out of the camp gate, let's gather soldiers and horses to fight a decisive battle.
Zhu Qizhen laughed enough, and said to the messenger of Warat: "Do you still have the face to say me first?" When you Mongols were fighting in all directions, you created plagues in every city you visited, what should you say about these methods? ”
Since the rise of Genghis Khan, the Mongols have no longer targeted the steppe, but the sea of stars.
It was only Kublai Khan who went south to the Central Plains, and the other three khanates went on expeditions to Central Asia, West Asia, and Europe, and the Mongols never talked about martial virtue when they fought wars, they would smear the arrows with fresh dung, and after hitting the enemy, the wounds would be infected by bacteria, and the fatality rate was very high in ancient times when the sanitary conditions were poor.
When attacking and plundering cities, the most common method is to use catapults to throw all kinds of corpses into the city, both the war dead and all kinds of livestock, causing the Black Death epidemic in the city, and no matter how strong the walls are, they will eventually collapse and fall.
In the face of Zhu Qizhen's questioning, the Warat envoy seemed a little at a loss, so he had to bite the bullet and said: "I also said first, if His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has the courage, he will go out to the camp to fight, if he is not brave, then hurry back to the capital with his tail between his legs!" ”
"Presumptuous!"
Fan Zhong's eyes widened and he roared, stepped forward and grabbed this person by the collar and walked out.
"Wait!"
Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said, "Don't embarrass him." ”
"Your Majesty!" Fan Zhong obviously couldn't swallow this breath, "This person is too rampant, he doesn't give him some color to see, and he thinks that we are vegetarians!" ”
"The two countries are at war, and they don't cut each other, every word he says means that they are the first, and if they want to be angry, they must also find the first."
"But ......"
"Alright, let the people go!"
"Yes!"
The Warat envoy patted the dust on his body and arched his hand: "His Majesty the Ming Emperor is broad-minded, and he admires the small!" ”
After Zhu Qizhen laughed, Zhengse said: "Go back and tell Yexian that I have just burned three thousand catties of lime powder here, let him attack casually, I won't go anywhere, just wait here!" ”
The Warat Emissary snorted coldly and turned to leave.
Fan Zhong was puzzled: "Your Majesty, just let him go?" ”
"Or else? Do you want to keep him to eat? ”
"No, the ......"
Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said, "I can't sit still yet, and the person who is in a hurry now is him, not us." ”
Fan Zhong thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, most of the five military camps have been evacuated, so it's better to take this opportunity and withdraw too!" ”
"Do you think that Yexian will really watch me withdraw to the capital division?"
Zhu Qizhen shook his head and said: "He knew that I would not go out of the camp for a decisive battle, so he deliberately said some cool words, so that I thought that he had nothing to do, so he could evacuate with confidence, I bet that as long as I walked out of the camp, I would chase after him immediately!" ”
After hearing this, Fan Zhong scratched his head and said, "In this way, our army can only hold on?" ”
"Stick?" Zhu Qizhen shook his head again and said, "Pass the order to go down and move the trebuchet out of the camp, this time, we have to take the initiative!" ”
On the west bank of the Fushui River, Warat Camp.
"Report to the Taishi, there is movement in the Ming army."
He also raised his eyelids first, and said happily: "What movement?" ”
"They're moving the trebuchet out!"
"What?" He also wondered first, "Where did you transfer to?" ”
"Moving in the direction of our position!"
He couldn't help but shudder first, and said angrily: "The little emperor of the southerners deceived people too much!" ”
"Big brother, give me another 5,000 cavalry, this time I will definitely take the head of the little emperor!"
Boyan wrapped a strip of cloth around his injured left eye on his face, and his expression was very hideous.
Also hesitate at this time, let's fight, people will throw lime bombs in your face.
Don't fight, people are ready to come to your door and throw lime bombs in your face.
In fact, Boyan is even more miserable, and he has been sprinkling lime on his face in his dreams these past few nights.
The lime powder was sprinkled into the eye, and the pain in the heart was burned, and after rinsing with water, one eye was burned, and the feeling in the dream was very real.
When I woke up, I found ...... Hey, I'm fucking blind in one eye!
Who can stand this kind of anger!
"Big brother, let me go!"
After thinking about it for a while, he finally nodded and said: "Well, you remember, don't be reckless, and do everything you can to destroy the trebuchet of the Ming army!" ”
Boyan took the order, ordered 5,000 cavalry, and fought all the way out of the camp.