Chapter 696, hasty retreat

The Ming army was on strict alert in case the Tianzhu army suddenly attacked at this most unlikely time. But one night passed, and nothing happened. I don't know if they overestimated the Tianzhu people, or the Tianzhu people were smart and knew that the Ming Army would not take it lightly, so they didn't do this useless work.

Early the next morning, Xingfang and others saw on the city wall that the enemy army was retreating in a hurry from the waterway, and the enemy army in the north and south was like this, and the water surface of the Erhai Sea seemed to be boiling. The cavalry approached the city gate to stand guard, and in the large camp, black smoke billowed into the sky, and it was the Tianzhu people who burned heavy supplies. There was nothing suspicious about such a scene, and the enemy army must have received the news of the annihilation of the Bagan people, so they retreated in such a hurry, and they couldn't even care about the large amount of baggage and supplies. The Tianzhu people knew very well that since the Bagan people were completely annihilated, the main force of the Ming Dynasty would arrive soon, and the situation would be completely reversed in an instant. Now that there is still a little time, the Tianzhu people want to take advantage of this gap to escape from danger quickly.

The party intended to attack, but seeing that the enemy cavalry was approaching the city gate and had no chance to take advantage of it, he had to dispel this idea.

The Tianzhu people withdrew one by one, and finally, the cavalry unit in charge of the broken rear began to board the ship, and because it was the last, the scene looked a little chaotic. At this moment, the gate of Dali suddenly opened, and the Ming army poured out from the north and south gates to launch a surprise attack on the Tianzhu cavalry who were hurriedly boarding the ship.

When the Tianzhu cavalry saw this scene, they were greatly frightened, the scene was in chaos, everyone rushed to get on the raft, many people were squeezed into the water, the horses neighed and shouted, some people fell to the ground, and before they could get up, they were trampled by the feet of countless people and the hooves of horses, and the good ones were trampled to death on the spot, and the bad ones only felt like falling into hell, and life was better than death.

The Ming army took the opportunity to storm and killed the corpses of the Tianzhu army in an instant! The Tianzhu Army was completely unable to resist, and the scene was simply a one-sided massacre! The bamboo rafts fled from the shore in a panic, because they were too anxious, as a result, many bamboo rafts collided together, and many Tianzhu soldiers fell into the water, and the fateful struggled to climb back into the raft, and the bad ones sank into the Erhai Sea with a gurgling grunt.

At this time, there are still many Tianzhu cavalry failed to board the bamboo raft, seeing the bamboo raft leaving, the heart is angry, but also do not care about scolding, all of them are running for their lives, under the pursuit of the Ming army, they have splashed blood and fell to the ground, and the screams are thrilling one after another in a chaotic sound. In the end, these cavalrymen who failed to escape were either killed or taken prisoner by the Ming army. The shore was silent, and I saw corpses strewn all over the ground, and the water surface that leaned into the shore was stained red by blood, fluttering with the waves.

Xingfang was immediately on the shore of the lake, watching the sound of the enemy army moving away, and couldn't help but raise his big knife and roar. All the soldiers also raised their swords and shouted.

When the Tianzhu soldiers saw this scene, they only felt frightened, and they couldn't bear the slightest feeling of anger in their hearts.

Tianzhu's soldiers and horses returned to the camp on the east bank, and hurriedly packed up and prepared to retreat west. At this time, the Tianzhu army, every soldier from the generalissimo Kshatriya to the bottom, had no fighting spirit, and just wanted to escape from this dangerous place quickly. The whole camp was in chaos and uproar.

Duan Zhichun and a few cronies sat in their tents, looking depressed.

Ba Zhi said angrily: "How did things come to be like this?!" The situation was originally very good, but how could it have completely changed in an instant? All of a sudden, the people of Bagan were wiped out! ”

Duan Jiang frowned and said, "That Shi Liancheng can't help but be brave, and even more cunning than the most cunning fox!" Don't talk about the people of Bagan, when we got the news that the Bagan people had defeated the Ming army and were pursuing the victory, didn't we have any doubts, and we thought that the Ming army was really defeated! Who would have thought that this was a trap designed by Shi Liancheng, with the purpose of annihilating the Bagan people in one fell swoop! As a result, the Bagan people crashed into the encirclement of the Ming army, a big battle, and the whole army was annihilated! Alas! ”

Everyone was depressed. Ba Zhi said angrily: "It's also to blame the Bagan people for being too useless!" Their strength is far above the Ming army, even if they are raided, they should not be wiped out in an instant! ”

Duan Jiang smiled bitterly: "It's no wonder that they're not to blame!" Da Ming is sharp, invincible! The field front, even the Khitan army in its heyday, could not take advantage of it at all, let alone the Bagan people! ”

Ba Su said: "In fact, if the Tianzhu people can capture Dali as soon as possible, the situation will not become what it is now!" What kind of Buddha's kingdom, as a result, an army of five or six hundred thousand faced tens of thousands of enemy troops, fought for so many hours, but did not make any progress! ”

Duan Zhichun raised his hand and said, "Okay, don't say these useless words!" The two stopped talking.

Just then, the curtain was lifted, and a soldier entered. Chao Duan Zhichun hugged his fists and said: "General, there is an emergency, Generalissimo Tianzhu invites you to go over to discuss the matter." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Ba Su said angrily: "I don't know what happened again!?" ”

Duan Zhichun stood up and said to everyone: "You stay here, and I will come when I go." And they all agreed together.

Duan Zhichun left the camp tent and headed towards the big tent of the Tianzhu army. When he came to the tent of the Tianzhu army, he saw Kshatriya and his generals all looking panicked, and there was an uninvited guest standing under the tent, who was Haotian (that is, Mo Haotian, Haotian is his pseudonym) who had previously contacted both himself and God. Duan Zhichun had a bad premonition in his heart, and he hugged his fists towards Kshatriya and said, "Generalissimo! ”

Kshatriya pointed at Mo Haotian and said, "Haotian came to report to us, saying that there are 400,000 Ming people's troops on the way!" ”

Duan Zhichun was shocked when he heard this, then calmed down and looked at Mo Haotian. Mo Haotian said: "My people got news from within the Ming Army, and there are currently 400,000 Ming People's Army on the way, according to the time, it should not be far from here." ”

Duan Zhichun frowned and said, "Your Excellency's news is really well-informed!" Is this news reliable? ”

"Absolutely reliable!"

Kshatriya said a little at a loss: "More than 200,000 Ming troops can't deal with us and the million army of the Bagan people, and now there are 400,000, this, this ......?!" Kshatriya's face was pale, and it was evident that he had panicked to the extreme. The generals in the big tent also looked panicked. Not long ago, these people were talking loudly, with a posture of being high in their eyes and no one, but now they were like frightened birds, and like deer and sheep that heard the roar of a tiger, they were so frightened that they didn't know what to do. The big difference between before and after makes people laugh and sigh.

Duan Zhichun hugged his fists and said: "Generalissimo, the enemy army that Haotian Gongzi said is the people's army, not the main force of the Ming Dynasty!" Mo Haotian nodded, "Exactly!" ”

Kshatriya waited for the word 'people's army' to come to mind, and Kshatriya hurriedly asked Mo Haotiandao: "Haotian Gongzi, what do you mean by people's army?" Is it any different from the Ming army we are encountering now? ”

Mo Haotian said: "Of course it's different. The generalissimo may not know that these people's troops were not soldiers not long ago, but just ordinary people. These 400,000 people's troops are the people temporarily recruited from the people by the Ming side, and they are not the same as the real Ming army. ”

Everyone understood, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Mathur said: "It turns out that it is just ordinary people who temporarily take up arms! Don't worry! Akar frowned and said, "But if they hold back and let the main Ming force under Shi Liancheng arrive, we will be in big trouble!" When the people heard this, they couldn't help but be worried, and Kshatriya frowned and said, "We must retreat quickly!" The generals nodded.

At this moment, a scout hurried into the tent and hurriedly reported: "Generalissimo, we have found a large enemy army approaching in the east!" Boundless, as if there are hundreds of thousands of horses! ”

Although everyone had already obtained Mo Haotian's information, they couldn't help but be shocked when they heard this. In fact, in everyone's hearts, they were more or less skeptical of Mo Haotian's information, thinking that his information was not necessarily accurate, but now that they heard the scout's exact report, they finally knew that all this was true.

Mathur raised his eyebrows and said to Kshatriya: "Generalissimo, since the enemy army has come, simply defeat them in one battle first, and then retreat!" Several generals chimed in. The others looked at Kshatriya, waiting for his instructions.

Kshatriya pondered: "Since the enemy army has already come, I am afraid that it will be disadvantageous to retreat in a hurry!" The enemy army is only a civilian army, and our army will definitely defeat them in one go, and it will be a good thing to frustrate their spirit! The generals agreed very much, and they all clamored to let the Ming people know how powerful they were. The Tianzhu people learned that the Ming army in front of them was only a temporary conscripted civilian army, so they couldn't help but sprout and became arrogant.

Kshatriyas immediately led the army out of the camp and went to meet it. After that, more than 300,000 Tianzhu troops came to a meadow between the mountains. Looking up, I saw that the grass in front of me was also full of troops, and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops had also arrived.

Kshatriya looked carefully and saw that although the Ming army in front of him was playing the banner of the Ming Dynasty, the military appearance was far less neat than that of the Ming army, and the color of the armor was also mottled.

When Kshatriyas and others saw this scene, they couldn't help but feel relieved. Kshatriya raised his blade, and hundreds of thousands of Tianzhu troops shouted in unison, soaring into the sky one by one, looking very excited and arrogant.

As for the Ming People's Army, they were a little nervous, but a considerable number of them also showed excitement. Under the leadership of Yang Guihua, the 400,000 people's troops lined up in formation and were ready for battle. Yang Guihua, the governor of Sichuan, recently received an order to command the 400,000 people's army to fight in Dali.

Yang Guihua had previously received an order from Shi Liancheng to lead a 400,000-strong army to raid the camp of the Bagan people on the eastern shore of the Erhai Lake, and the order said that there were less than 100,000 enemies on the eastern shore of the Erhai Lake, but what he saw in front of him was far more than 100,000, and there were hundreds of thousands, which seemed to be no smaller than his own in terms of scale alone.

Yang Guihua couldn't help but worry, he was worried that the civilian army under his command would be difficult to deal with such a large scale of enemy troops, after all, the civilian army was not the main force, although they had also carried out military training, but it was not comparable to the regular army, and they had never really been on the battlefield, let alone fought against the alien army on the battlefield.

Woowoo...... The sound of enemy trumpets streaked across the sky. Yang Guihua came back to his senses and saw that the enemy army was mobilizing, obviously preparing to attack, and immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle.

At this moment, I saw a torrent gushing out of the enemy battle array in the distance, and at the same time, a huge roar like a sea tide came!

These Ming civilians had never faced the charge of the enemy's cavalry, and they couldn't help but get nervous when they saw the enemy cavalry rushing up like a tide. Yang Guihua shouted: "Don't be afraid! You people of the Ming Empire, the Ming Empire is powerful in the world, you must not fall into the majesty of the empire! The hearts of the Ming people couldn't help but surge an impulse, and I don't know who howled loudly, and the people couldn't help but howl one after another, and the roar was majestic for a while, as if the sound of the enemy's war cavalry charge was covered.

Kshatriya, who was immediately under the banner of Shuai, couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the enemy army burst out with amazing momentum, and he only felt incredible. But Yang Guihua secretly breathed a sigh of relief, only feeling that the fighting spirit of the people's army seemed to be much stronger than he had expected.

Yang Guihua came back to his senses, and when he saw the enemy cavalry rushing towards him, he immediately raised his right hand and shouted, "The shield hand is ready to resist the impact!" Crossbowmen get ready to shoot! "Here is a brief explanation, the composition of the Ming People's Army and the regular army is completely different, the Ming regular army, only divided into cavalry, infantry, artillery three arms, of which the infantry often has the responsibility of archers, but in the Ming People's Army is different, there is no cavalry, artillery, infantry is divided into archers, long swords, shields, etc., each performing its own duties, this approach is also to take into account that the general people do not have much training time, they can not learn a variety of combat skills like the regular army, Therefore, they all only learn the same, and strive to be proficient in the same, so that they can play a big role on the battlefield.

The shield-bearer was ready for the onslaught, while the archer put the arrow on the string and waited for the general's order. Only a small percentage of these archers of the Ming People's Army were equipped with crossbows, and the vast majority were equipped with low-cost longbows. The power and range of the longbow are far less than the Divine Arm Bow (Song Crossbow), but it is better than the low cost, the cost of ten longbows is only worth one Divine Arm Bow, so it can be equipped on a very large scale, and the power is not small. Among the 400,000 Ming people in front of them, archers accounted for one-tenth.

The Tianzhu cavalry charged bravely, all of them were very excited, and they didn't take the Ming People's Army in front of them seriously, they only regarded them as prey like pigs and sheep, thinking that they didn't need to directly impact their battle formation, they would be frightened and collapse and flee when they saw the charging momentum of their own cavalry, and then they could let go and slaughter! Seventy or eighty thousand horsemen were like a torrent, and the whole earth trembled under their iron hooves! Tianzhu cavalry originally exceeded 100,000, but at this time only 70,000 or 80,000 came, that is because when the army retreated from the west bank of Erhai Lake, they were responsible for breaking the rear, but they were attacked by the Ming army out of the city with heavy casualties, and only 70,000 or 80,000 were left.

The rolling torrent composed of Tianzhu war cavalry has entered the range of the archers of the Ming People's Army. With Yang Guihua's order, only a loud buzzing sound was heard, and the dense arrows flew into the sky violently, flying towards the torrent of enemy cavalry that was rushing, like a large black cloud, instantly obscuring the sun!

In the blink of an eye, the arrows fell into the middle of the enemy cavalry like a dense torrential rain, and in an instant, I saw people on their backs, stirring up countless ripples! However, this did not stop the enemy from charging, and the rolling tide was still rushing fiercely! As the saying goes: 'When two armies clash, they are only three arrows away from the enemy.' 'The crossbowmen of the Ming People's Army only had time to send out three waves of arrows, and the wave of enemy cavalry had already poured in front of them! The soldiers of the People's Army all widened their eyes and raised their hearts to their throats!

In an instant, the waves crashed on the shore! In a violent crash, the first shield defense line of the Yanyun People's Army collapsed! Then the second and third lines were followed, and the three shield defenses collapsed in an instant under the fierce charge of the enemy's war horsemen!

Fortunately, Yang Guihua had long expected that the combat power of the civilian army was incomparable with that of the regular army, so a total of six shield defense lines were arranged (while the shield defense lines arranged by the regular army generally did not exceed three, which was enough to resist the impact of the heavy armored cavalry)! The Tianzhu War Cavalry broke through the three shield defense lines of the Ming People's Army in one fell swoop, and the power of the charge had already consumed more than half, and then continued to rush forward, trying to break through the remaining three defense lines in one fell swoop! They hurried their horses and wielded scimitars, while the shieldmen resisted hard, and the scene was full of flesh and blood, the shieldmen suffered heavy casualties, and the fourth and fifth lines of defense were also broken through one after another!

Yang Guihua was shocked to see that the fourth and fifth shield defenses had also been broken through, and he ordered all the pikemen to assault the enemy with spears. He didn't know if the order was right or wrong, but at this moment, the situation was urgent, and he couldn't care so much.

Tens of thousands of pikemen rushed forward at the order, and everyone was scared and excited, and they only felt as if they did not listen to their own command, and rushed forward to attack the enemy. Just when the Tianzhu war cavalry was about to break through the last line of defense of the shield hand, tens of thousands of pikemen rushed up, stabbing with spears, stabbing people above, stabbing horses below, Tianzhu soldiers saw that they suddenly rushed out of countless enemies with spears to stab indiscriminately, and they were a little flustered, and they saw horses neighing and shouting at the scene, and people turned over on their backs!

After a scuffle, the Ming People's Army suffered heavy losses, but the Tianzhu War Cavalry did not take much advantage.

Kshatriya was shocked when he saw that the cavalry was difficult to break through, he didn't expect that these civilian armies would have such a strong combat effectiveness, although they could not be compared with the regular army, but as a common people, they were enough to shock!

Kshatriya ordered the cavalry to retreat, and then ordered the infantry to attack in full. Hundreds of thousands of Tianzhu infantry troops, in the earth-shattering war drums launched a comprehensive attack on the Ming people's army, only to see the mountains all over the field, like wolves and tides, as if there was no end. In an instant, the rain of arrows fired by both sides flew staggered in the sky, and the soldiers on both sides fell to the ground one after another, and the armies of the two sides were getting closer and closer! Fighting everywhere, the sound of killing on the battlefield shook the sky, the Tianzhu soldiers deceived the other party is the people's army, and fiercely rushed to kill, while the Ming people's army was red-eyed, and regardless of Yang Guihua's command, just frantically wielding weapons and fighting with the enemy! In the midst of the flying flesh, the soldiers on both sides fell in a pool of blood!

Yang Guihua looked at the scene in front of him, shocked and worried, shocked that the red-eyed people's army was actually not afraid of death, worried that he would not obey orders in such a chaotic battle, and he really didn't know what the result would be. Fortunately, the enemy army has no rules, otherwise the situation would be really serious!

This good battle lasted for half a day, and the two sides fought a difficult battle without distinguishing the winner or loser!

Seeing that it was difficult to defeat the Nationalist army as he wished, Kshatriya was worried that the main force of Shi Liancheng's Ming army would take the back route, so he ordered a retreat. Yang Guihua saw that the enemy army was retreating, and his own civilian army was chasing in a chaotic manner, so he couldn't help but be very nervous, and hurriedly sent all the heralds around him to order the soldiers and horses to stop the pursuit! The two sides quickly disengaged! Yang Guihua couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the enemy retreating, and his troops and horses were restrained, and then a feeling of annoyance rose in his heart. But if you want to vent but don't know how to vent, although these people's troops fight indiscriminately and don't listen to orders, but how to say that they are only people's army, and it is very commendable to be able to fight with hundreds of thousands of Tianzhu troops!

The Tianzhu army quickly retreated, and everyone was dejected, looking deflated. Speaking of which, they were not defeated, but still had a slight advantage, but the opponent was only the people's army, which made these Tianzhu people, who claimed to be the people of the gods, unacceptable in their hearts no matter what.

Matur exclaimed unwillingly: "If the war elephant troops were here, they would have been annihilated long ago!" "It turns out that Tianzhu's war elephant troops are still in the camp outside Fengyu County, at the beginning, Kshatriya in view of the small number of Ming troops in Dali City, and mainly siege operations, the war elephant troops are not very useful, and the transfer is very troublesome, so the war elephant troops are left in the camp outside Fengyu County. At this moment, everyone thought that they could win a big victory by using the war elephant troops, but they could only imagine.

The Tianzhu army retreated to the camp, cleaned up a little, and hurriedly pulled out the camp and retreated. Flames raged behind them, and the Tianzhu people burned all the grain and grass that they could not take away.

At the same time, the main force led by Shi Liancheng had already entered Longwei Pass, and the army was marching north in a hurry! Shi Liancheng had already expected that the Tianzhu people would retreat westward from the north bypassing the Erhai Sea after receiving the news of the annihilation of the Bagan army, so he would lead his army north along the west bank of the Erhai Sea to cut off the retreat of the enemy's army in one fell swoop. Shi Liancheng is ambitious, not only does he want to completely annihilate the Bagan people, but he also wants to completely annihilate this Tianzhu army that dares to attack!

The Ming army marched north along the official road on the west bank of Erhai Lake, and everyone was exhausted due to many days of continuous fighting, but their morale was like a rainbow! On this day, the Tianzhu army was retreating in a hurry along the northern part of Erhai Lake. A scout hurried to report: "Generalissimo, it's not good! The main force of the Ming Dynasty led by Shi Liancheng has already left Fengyu County! ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.