Chapter 878, Khorezm

Two days later, I led his soldiers and horses to the camp of Jinshan and joined Lou Mur.

Xiao Lou asked about the defeat, and I couldn't help but show fear on my face, sighed, and sighed: "Although I have long heard how fierce the Ming army is. But I have never seen it with my own eyes, and I think that rumors are just rumors, and this is not the case. Who knows, the truth is even more terrible than the rumors! I replied with a look of trepidation in my eyes. Then he looked at Xiao Lou's room, frowned, and said: "The Ming army is really fierce and abnormal, and its fierceness is probably no one in the world can compare with it, although our army is doing its best, it still can't be stopped!" The Ming warrior is simply the legendary devil, and his bravery is unstoppable; And those Ming soldiers, like tigers and wolves, rushed up and killed wildly, it didn't matter about life and death at all, I was also a battle-hardened battle, but I had never seen such a terrible enemy! To tell you the truth, our army didn't fall for any tricks of the other side, and was almost brutally defeated by the other side head-on! ”

Xiao Lou nodded and said, "The Ming Army is indeed a very formidable opponent!" Then he raised his head and glanced at me, and asked, "How many soldiers and horses do you have under the general?" "Alas, the remnants of the army are defeated, and there are only about 50,000 people!"

Lou Room showed a thoughtful look.

I replied: "General, with all due respect, those Khwarazm troops you brought are simply no match for the Ming army!" With that kind of temperament that wants to die, and that kind of simple equipment, confronting the Ming Xiao Army is simply sending him to death! ”

Xiao Lou nodded and said, "I naturally know this." He glanced at me and replied, "That's why I'm stationing troops here and not continuing to move east." I think Your Majesty will make us shrink our line when he learns about the situation here. I nodded.

For the next few days, Xiao Lou and I Ta anxiously awaited the order of Ye Hugo. The order finally arrived, but it was not an order for them to withdraw and shrink their defenses, but an order for them to continue the attack. When the two received this order, they were surprised and looked at each other. The envoy said: "Your Majesty hopes that the general and the general Da Lazy can defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop and regain the lost territory, and I hope that the general will not disappoint Your Majesty." ”

Xiao Lou Room frowned and asked, "How could Your Majesty give such an order?" There are 500,000 Ming troops here, of which 200,000 are directly subordinate legions with strong combat power. With the remaining tens of thousands of remnants defeated, the 400,000 Khwarazm army with low morale with different intentions, and the people's army that was temporarily put together, how could they be able to defeat the Ming army? Please go back and persuade Your Majesty to give up this attempt! ”

The messenger said unhappily: "How did the general become so cowardly? ”

Xiao Lou was furious, but he was afraid of the identity of the other party's messenger, so he barely held back and said, "I'm not cowardly! I have been fighting on the battlefield for more than ten years, will I still be afraid of death! It's just that I don't care if Xiao Lou is dead, but if this battle is defeated again, then not only the Mongolian region may completely fall, but Khorezm is afraid that it will not be able to be saved! Can you afford such consequences? ”

The messenger said unhappily, "How can I bear this matter?" Isn't this the responsibility of the Great General? All wars must be won and lost, but the general has an army of 400,000 but has no fighting spirit, this is too much to say, right? ”

Xiao Lou couldn't hold back any longer, and shouted angrily: "Isn't what General Ben said just now clear enough? ”

The envoy snorted and said, "This envoy is conveying His Majesty's military order, so don't make excuses to prevaricate!" Otherwise, the power of heaven will come, and I am afraid that the general will not be able to afford it! Then he turned and walked away. Lou was so angry that he couldn't.

I replied, "General, what should we do now?" ”

Xiao Lou said angrily: "What else can I do? Can we still disobey the Holy Decree? He turned to me and replied to the generals: "Give the order immediately, and the army will start early tomorrow morning." The generals looked at each other, and they all agreed and left the tent.

Early the next morning, Xiao Lou and I Da led a large army out, and 450,000 soldiers and horses rushed towards Zhaozhou in the east. Halfway through, Xiao Lou received a report from Da La's messenger and learned that the more than 100,000 people's army led by Da Lao had crossed Hedong City and approached Pi Shou River City. This Hedong City, like Pi Quilt River City and Ta Lae Main City, is located on the north bank of the Luju River, about 600 miles downstream of Pi Quilt River City. By the way, the so-called Yuju River, which is the name of ancient Chinese, and the modern society is the Krulun River in Mongolia, a city in the lower reaches of the river, everyone must be familiar with it, that is Manzhouli City in Inner Mongolia, China. Naturally, there was no Manchuria in this era, and the location of the Jingbian City in this era was probably the current Manchuria City.

It's far away, let's get down to business. Xiao Lou Room learned that Da Lao had led the army across Hedong City, and his mood couldn't help but feel better, and he immediately spread the news to the whole army, and the army's heart was greatly excited. These Khorezm troops all looked highly motivated, not at all like the previous listless and deadly appearance. It turned out that in order to boost morale, Xiao Lou reported to the whole army, saying that gold and silver treasures were piled up in Victoria and other cities, and beautiful oriental women were everywhere, as long as the Ming army was defeated, the gold and silver treasures and beauties would be plundered at will. As the saying goes, wealth is moving, and there must be brave men under the heavy reward, as soon as the Khorezm soldiers heard that Xiao Lou was such a Ming Dynasty, they were obsessed with wealth and confusion, and they forgot their fears, and they just wanted to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop in order to rob him of a full bowl. There is no need for Xiao Lou to supervise the march, the army marches very fast, and drives directly to Zhaozhou.

Yang Peng in Dading Mansion stood in front of the map, looking at the Mongolian region on the map, with a thoughtful expression.

Ya Yu Guanyin walked to Yang Peng's side, glanced at the Mongolian region, looked back at Yang Peng and smiled; "Is the eldest brother still worried about the war in Mongolia?"

Yang Peng smiled: "Of course, I am still a little worried. ”

Ya Yu Guanyin smiled: "Big brother, you are playing me!" I didn't see you frown in the previous critical situation, are you still worried about the current war? Yang Peng looked around, bent down to the ear of Ya Yu Guanyin, and said mysteriously: "Tell you a secret, I didn't care before it was actually pretending!" ”

Ya Yu Guanyin was stunned for a moment, and then knew that the eldest brother was joking with him, so he glanced at him angrily. Yang Peng saw that she was as beautiful as a flower, and couldn't help but kiss her red lips. Ya Yu Guanyin was relieved, grabbed Yang Peng's palm, and said angrily: "You seduce me!" I can't stand it now, what do you say? ”

Yang Peng smiled evilly, and suddenly bent down and picked up Ye Yu Guanyin, Ye Yu Guanyin exclaimed in surprise and punched him in disgust. Yang Peng's heart was moved, and he hugged Ye Yu Guanyin and walked quickly to the dormitory. Naturally, it is difficult to go into detail about what happened after that.

But let's turn our attention back to the western region of Mongolia.

The army of Khorezm led by Xiao Loumur and the 50,000 Jin army led by Alta entered the Yinshan Mountain in the west of Zhaozhou. From a distance, I saw that many soldiers and horses were lining up with their backs to Yin Mountain. Xiao Lou's heart moved, and he immediately ordered the army to stop advancing, and lined up on the spot, and after messing up for a while, the army formation was finally arranged. Although the formation of 450,000 troops is far from neat, the scale is huge, but it is also very amazing.

A scout galloped in front of Xiao Lou's room and hurriedly reported: "General, Yang Yanzhao, the general of the Ming Dynasty, has personally led an army of 100,000 to meet the battle. ”

Xiao Lou nodded and ordered, "Explore again!" The scout said yes and ran down.

Xiao Lou Room glanced at the Ming army array in the distance, only to see that the military was like a mountain, and the sword was as strong as a forest, although it was still far away, but a strong murderous aura had already come to his face!

Xiao Lou looked back at his own army, and couldn't help but beat a little drum in his heart, and then thought of the military order of Ye Hugo, and felt that his side was four times the enemy's army, although the enemy army was strong, but the Han people had a good saying, two fists are invincible to four hands, the portal can't hold up the wolves, with four times the strength of the enemy's army, at least it will not lose to them.

As soon as he thought of this, he settled down, raised his right hand and waved forward, and the 450,000 army immediately set off, slowly approaching the Ming army in front.

When it approached a stone's throw away from the Ming army, a wolf's tooth arrow suddenly flew from the opposite side and plunged into the ground in front of the army. The army immediately stopped.

Xiao Loumur turned his head and commanded General Yikhwarazm: "You immediately lead the enemy army to storm the enemy formation!" I'll lead a team to follow up! The Khorezm general bowed down and rode down, and with a roar, the sixty thousand horsemen immediately broke away from the army and converged in front of the army.

I replied to Xiao Lou's side and whispered, "Why is the general in such a hurry to attack?" ”

Xiao Lou whispered: "The Ming warriors are brave and invincible, I can't give them time to come out and challenge." Otherwise, the morale of the army will be frustrated, and the battle behind will be difficult to fight. I suddenly realized and said admiringly: "The general is wise!" ”

The Khorezm general's name was Yin Fansi, and after receiving the military order from Xiao Lou's room, he immediately gathered 60,000 cavalry and lined up in front of the army. Yin Fansi raised the bend and howled loudly, and the 60,000 cavalry also raised their scimitars and howled loudly, and the huge sound rolled in the sky like a sea and tide, which was also very thrilling!

Yin Fansi shouted in Khorezm language, and at the same time waved his scimitar forward, and 60,000 Khorezm war horses roared and rushed up, forming a huge tide in an instant and rolling towards the Ming army in front, and the earth trembled violently.

The Ming army was originally going to attack, so the army formation was dominated by cavalry and crossbows. But he didn't expect the enemy to dare to attack first, so Yang Yanzhao immediately ordered to change the city defense and counterattack formation. The elite of the 100,000 directly subordinate legions of the Ming Dynasty immediately changed their formations as soon as they received the military order, and from a distance, it seemed that the general formation of the Ming Army had changed as if it had changed its magic. Xiao Lou Room and I Da in the distance couldn't help but be amazed when they saw such a scene.

The Ming army quickly changed its formation, the Mo Dao Army and the Ming Iron Cavalry retracted into the military formation, the light cavalry still lived on the two wings, and the heavy infantry holding a huge tower shield and the heavy infantry holding a four-meter spear quickly rushed to the front, lined up into a three-way tower shield spear defense line, and in a blink of an eye, the shield was like a wall, and the spear was like a forest.

The rumbling cavalry tide has rushed between the two sides, and the Ming soldiers in the army formation raised their crossbows and sent out a wave of arrow rain against the enemy, only to hear a loud whining sound, and the dense arrow rain flew over the spear shield wall and only flew towards the rushing enemy tide. In an instant, the tide of the enemy army stirred up countless ripples, many Khorezm war horsemen turned on their backs, and the momentum of the impact wave was inevitably reduced a few points, but the rolling cavalry wave still swept towards the Ming army array.

The Khorezm cavalry fired arrows at the Ming army formation, and for a while, the arrows flew all over the sky, falling into the Ming army but did not seem to have any effect.

After a while, the rolling iron hoof wave rushed in front of the Ming army, and in the blink of an eye, the waves crashed on the shore, and the rolling waves hit the Ming spinning thread heavily! The power of such a charge is more than that of the waves of the ocean, as if nothing in the world can stop such power!

However, the power of the huge impact soon stopped, and the Daming defense line was unmoved under the impact just now, without any damage!

"Fight back!" With Yang Yanzhao's roar, several rows of four-meter-long spears stabbed out at the same time, and when he landed, he saw people turning on their backs, and the Khorezm cavalry tried to counterattack, but in the face of the jungle-like four-meter spears, their counterattack could not reach the opponent at all! The spear forest continued to advance, and the Khorezm cavalry fell down in rows, completely in the midst of being slaughtered, without the ability to resist, and the spear of the forest was even more terrible than the scythe in the hands of the god of death!

At this moment, only a cannon sound was heard in the Ming army's array, and thousands of fierce warriors with heavy armor and iron armor were as majestic as towers, wielding this big axe and rushing out of the gap between the guns and the forest! Slammed into the middle of the Khorezm cavalry and slashed with great ferocity! I saw that the flesh and blood flew on their backs, and the Khorezm cavalry could not resist at all, and fell one by one under the drastic sword, and the terrible screams rang out! There are Khorezm cavalry fighting back, but the scimitar slashing at the body of those tower warriors has no effect at all, and those tower warriors are invulnerable!

The Khorezm cavalry was even more panicked, some people did not obey the order to turn around and flee, this time, the atmosphere of fear quickly spread to the whole army, all the Khorezm cavalry turned around and fled for their lives, no matter how you Yin Fansi roared, it was useless, Yin Fansi himself was also carried by the rout and ran back.

I looked palely at the Khwarazm cavalry who were swarming back; Lou Mu saw that the 60,000 war cavalry had collapsed in an instant, and his face was shocked, and he immediately regretted that he should not have illusions about these Khorezm people, his own Khitan elite could not win in the face of the Ming elite, not to mention these useless wastes.

These thoughts flashed in Lou Mu's mind, and then he shouted at me: "I answer, quickly send cavalry to drive the rout to both sides, don't let the rout disrupt the Chinese army!" ”

Only then did I react, and hurriedly led the cavalry under my command to gallop out of the military formation, meet the rout, and drive all the rout soldiers who fled to both sides.

At this moment, the war drums in the Ming army roared loudly.

Xiao Lou couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart, and hurriedly raised his head to look at the opposite side, the Ming Dynasty array slowly separated, and the two thousand tall and majestic heavy armor of the Ming Iron Cavalry lined up in three rows and slowly walked out of the military formation.

Xiao Lou's heart was shocked, and he shouted urgently: "Attention! The enemy is about to charge! All the shieldmen go to the front, and the crossbowmen are at their disposal! ”

The Khorezm army quickly moved, and countless shields quickly poured forward, lined up in a heavy shield curtain, and the crossbowmen were ready to attack.

At this time, the Daming war drums sounded rapidly. The two thousand Great Ming Iron Horsemen began to activate, and it took a moment before they fully charged. The soldiers of the Khitan army couldn't help but show fear on their faces when they saw the Daming Iron Cavalry rushing towards them, as if the peaks were surging. The iron hooves are flying, the momentum is like a rainbow, and the Daming Iron Cavalry is under the leadership of Duan Zhixian, and it is close to the enemy battle formation!

Seeing that the Daming Iron Cavalry had entered the firing range, Lou Mu hurriedly shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

The crossbowmen hurriedly released their arrows, and in an instant, a dark cloud composed of countless arrows covered the sky and flew towards the Daming Iron Horse! Arrows rained down, and the ground was covered with a forest of feathers in an instant! However, such a dense rain of arrows hit the body of the Daming Iron Rider and there is not much difference from the real raindrops, let you storm and rain, I will take a leisurely stroll! The iron hooves roared, and the murderous aura was soaring, constantly approaching the Khitan army's array!

The Khorezm crossbowmen desperately fired their arrows, but they couldn't stop the Ming Iron Horsemen at all.

In the blink of an eye, two thousand Ming iron cavalry had already rushed to the front of the Khitan army's battle array. When the Khorezm soldiers saw the enemy soldiers like tigers and horses, dragons and tigers, majestic and majestic, they couldn't help but be terrified! Before the battle, the Khorezm army actually began to retreat! Seeing this scene, Lou Room was shocked, and hurriedly ordered all armies to strictly guard the front!

At this moment, the steel torrent formed by the Daming Iron Cavalry slammed into the enemy army! In an instant, the defense line composed of the shield was smashed into pieces, and in the face of the powerless power of the Ming Iron Cavalry, the defense line of the Khorezm army was no different from the paper paste. The Daming Iron Cavalry instantly tore apart the opponent's defense line, crashed into the enemy's thicket, trampled the flesh and bones with iron hooves, the wolf stick roared all over the sky, the corpses of the Khorezm army accumulated blood and flew ghosts crying wolves, the great array shook, and many Khorezm people couldn't help but throw away their weapons in fear and turned around and fled for their lives.

At the same time, the two wings of the Ming Dynasty also attacked from both wings, killing the Khorezm army, and the main force of the Ming Dynasty also launched a full-scale attack. The Khorezm army was defeated like a mountain, running wildly, and it was already out of control. At this time, Xiao Lou couldn't care so much, and led 50,000 Khitan troops with me to retreat north, throwing hundreds of thousands of Khwarazm people to the Ming people, so that they could bear the sharp blades and spears of the Ming army!

The Ming army pursued all the way for dozens of miles, killed and captured countless Khorezm people, and the remaining Khorezm people dared to stay and fled all the way to Jinshan. However, the 50,000 Khitan army led by Xiao Loumur and Alta did not lose much, and fled north to the southern shore of the North Sea. The so-called North Sea is what is now Lake Baikal.

The 50,000 Khitan troops fled to the south bank of the slain and were frightened, and an urgent report came from the southeast, and the hundreds of thousands of people's troops led by Da Lao had just encountered Cao Jun and mutinied, and the whole army was annihilated. Xiao Lou and I looked at each other, flustered, and didn't know what to do.

It is said that Nada Lazy was ordered to lead the hundreds of thousands of people's troops who had been temporarily cobbled together to march westward, preparing to fight with Lou Mur to defeat the Ming army and regain the lost territory, but why did there be a mutiny?

It turned out that these hundreds of thousands of people's troops were not willing to join the army, and all of them were arrested by local officials, and these people's homes were more or less looted by the Khitan government in the name of collecting money and grain, and everyone was angry with the Liao court. And this was expected by Cao Jun, so when the two armies were facing each other, Cao Jun ordered his soldiers to shout to the opposite side in Khitan, Jurchen and Chinese, enumerating the crimes of the Liao court and Ye Hu Huge, and asking them not to die for the enemy.

Returning to the Ming Dynasty, the hatred in the hearts of the Khitan soldiers was aroused, and with the defection of a Khitan soldier, hundreds of thousands of Khitan soldiers turned against each other, and the crowd was fierce for a while! Seeing the situation, Da Lazy hurriedly led dozens of soldiers to flee for their lives. The hundreds of thousands of people's troops immediately bowed down in front of the Ming army and begged for the Ming army to take them in. Cao Jun immediately took them in and reported the matter to Yang Peng.

After Yang Peng received Cao Jun's report, he immediately praised Cao Jun in a flying pigeon message, and ordered the hundreds of thousands of civilian troops to be temporarily under Cao Jun's command.

Xiao Lou felt that the situation was very eyed, and he was worried that the Ming army would take the opportunity to attack the Beihai region, so he sent several waves of envoys to ask His Majesty the Emperor for help, and sent people to Jinshan to collect the Khorezm army.

Soon after, the officers sent to Jinshan to collect the Khwarazm army fled in disarray. When Xiao Lou saw this scene, he was shocked and asked what happened? The officer was shocked and said: "Khorezm, they have rebelled!" Xiao Lou was shocked.

What's going on with this Khorezm man-made rebellion? It turned out that after the defeat of the army, the remaining 100,000 Khorezm troops fled to the Jinshan camp one after another. Everyone was shocked and decided where to go. When someone even shouted: "The Khitans are no longer good, why do we still have to work for the Khitans?" It's better to go back to your hometown, drive out the Khitans, and restore our Khorezm country! As soon as these words came out, everyone responded, and immediately elected Yin Van Si as the king and prepared to return to the Khorezm region. At this moment, the envoy sent by Xiao Lou to collect the remnants of the army arrived, and everyone simply did not stop, and surrounded the Khitan envoy and prepared to kill them all. But he didn't expect that the other party was in a hurry and desperate, and several people were washed away.

Yin Fansi immediately led the army to leave Jinshan and march west, preparing to recover the homeland of Khorezm.

When Xiao Lou received such a report, he had no choice but to quickly report the matter to Yehu Huge, and at the same time sent someone to inform the Khitan army guarding the Khorezm area, asking them to be careful. Xiao Loumur himself was worried that the Ming army in the south would take advantage of the great victory to attack north, if that was the case, he felt that he would definitely not be able to hold it, and he could only give up the Beihai region.

However, for many days, not a single soldier of the Ming army was found to have entered the sight, and the news from Victoria said that the Ming army was stationed in Victoria and other places, and there was no sign of sending troops. Xiao Lou and the others finally felt a little more at ease. Soon after, the edict of Brother Ye came and reprimanded Xiao Lou and I Ta fiercely, but did not punish the two, so that I was killed as the commander's guard, and Xiao Lou was immediately rushed back to the Khorezm area to deal with the situation, and granted the right to make a decision on the spot. After receiving the order, Xiao Lou did not dare to delay and immediately set off for the west.

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