Chapter Twenty-Six: The Numbers of Qi Are Exhausted

The convoy is all mules and donkeys pulling carts, so it goes slower than the army, and now Li Wenzhong's troops are in Lanzhou near the left and Timur to hold on to each other for half a month, presumably there are not many grain and grass belts, so the army allocated grain and grass with Tang and the army to set off together, although the grain and grass team is at the end of the team, but there are still 2,000 cavalry guards,

Lao Huo drove the car, Da Kui sat on the side, holding two big dishes in his left hand, holding a piece of meat in his right hand, eating that is called a very happy, but it is a pity that the soup and the army are forbidden to drink, otherwise there are two more mouthfuls of burning knives under the stomach, that is called a beauty, the cavalry on both sides looked at Da Kui to eat, not only a little envious, this going to Lanzhou is tantamount to going to danger, but I don't know why this group of captains is so leisurely, eating so happily,

After nearly half a month, the team crossed the Hulu River near the stone fjord east of the Guanchuan River, which is the place where General Li Wenzhong set up camp, the camp is from north to south, winding for dozens of miles, although the battle line is long, but it is on a long slope, the river beach is still a few miles away from the long slope, the Yuan soldiers are camped on the other side of the Guanchuan River, if it is a strong attack, the Yuan soldiers are bound to cross the river first, but Li Wenzhong can lead the troops to attack it when the Yuan soldiers cross the river,

Xiao is so, Li Wenzhong's subordinates also suffered heavy losses, the Yuan soldiers' cavalry and archery skills are better than the Ming army, every time the Yuan soldiers attack, they must be in the vanguard of the cavalry, when they cross the river, they are all several rounds of salvos, and then they are short soldiers, which is the advantage of the Ming army, and under the cavalry of the Yuan soldiers, it is a lose-lose situation,

Looking at the tidal flats, the corpses are all over the field and the blood is flowing like a river, Xiao is like this, the Yuan soldiers have to launch several charges every day regardless of casualties, Tang He and Li Wenzhong stood side by side on the lookout, looking at the winding river beach,

"General Tang, the Yuan soldiers' offensive is so fierce, I'm afraid that my tens of thousands of soldiers and horses will be exhausted before January, fortunately, General Tang came to reinforce, Wen Zhong is here to thank you," Li Wenzhong said from the bottom of his heart,

Tang He Zhengse said: "You and I both work for the Ming Dynasty, why did Wen Zhong say this,"

Li Wenzhong is the nephew of Emperor Taizu, his life experience is quite miserable, Taizu adopted him as an adopted son when he was a teenager, and the army called him the prince, but Tang and Zhao Wenzhong, so it also seems close,

Li Wenzhong looked at the Guanchuan River: "Now on the west bank of the Guanchuan River is Hu Linchi, the general under Timur of the Kuokuo,"

"Oh, but I don't know how many people there are in the Yuan soldiers," Tang He looked far away, but asked,

Li Wenzhong said: "According to the report of Tanmalai, Hulin Chisuo led more than 50,000 elite soldiers, followed by the 100,000 army of Timur who expanded it."

Tang He smiled lightly and said: "Now that Li Siqi is stationed in Lanzhou, and Timur does not enter the door, it seems that the two of them still have a disagreement, if Timur attacks with all his might, we will be difficult to resist,"

"In this way, Timur is not in a hurry to relieve Zhang Liangchen," Li Wenzhong was a little confused,

"Hehehe, over the years, the three of Timur and Li Siqi and Zhang Liangbi have attacked each other, and now the Yuan Court has run out, and the three of them have seized the city in vain to survive, so what is the alliance," Tang He couldn't help laughing: "In this way, the marshal will be a big deal,"

At this time, a horn sounded on the other side of the river, and in the sound of 'woo', the high slope on the opposite bank appeared black pressure on a piece of Yuan soldiers, and the Yuan army was stationed behind the high slope on the other side of the river, so that the Ming army could not see the reality and reality, which was also the superiority of the enemy generals.

Li Wenzhong stared at the other side and said slowly: "Today is the last charge of the Yuan soldiers, and the offensive will be terminated before the sun sets," Li Wenzhong said and pointed forward: "General Tang, please see, the elite cavalry in the Yuan army at the head of the queue is well-equipped, and the soldiers on the horses and horses are all guarded by iron armor, and the swords and guns cannot be injured,"

Tang He just nodded, and Li Wenzhong said again: "Followed by sword and shield soldiers, covering pikemen behind, whether it is a forced crossing of the beach or a land battle, its queue is very tight,"

The two of them watched the Yuan soldiers start to cross the river before they arrived at the riverbank, the river was not deep and reached the belly of the horse, and then they saw that there were thousands of soldiers in the rear of the Yuan army who pushed more than 100 artillery pieces to be erected on the opposite bank, and its purpose was obvious, that is, to take advantage of the time when the army crossed the river, to cover it with artillery, so that if the Ming army wanted to attack and kill the Yuan soldiers when they crossed the river, they would pay the price of blood.

The drums of war sounded, the Ming army Dazhai opened a walled gate in the north and south, there were 10,000 fine horsemen in each of the two walled gates to wait, the horn horn on the other side of the river was urgent, the Yuan soldiers were stepping up to cross the river, at this moment the Ming army did not move, slowly after the Yuan soldiers thousands of cavalry arrived on the shore, and then about 20,000 sword shield men and pikemen also crossed the river,

After half a month of bloody battles, both sides have experience, the Ming army in front of the village is the buffer zone, once the Yuan army enters the artillery range of the Ming army, then it is the time of the war, the Yuan army is in front of the tidal flats, the neat three phalanxes are in a zigzag configuration, the cavalry is in front, and there is a 10,000-person square team on the left and right to protect the flanks,

'Boom' a cannon sounded, and nearly 30,000 soldiers shouted and launched a charge against the Ming army.

Li Wenzhong looked coldly at the rushing Yuan soldiers and said to Tang He: "This is the army of the Yuan soldiers who dare to die, once it rushes into the place of the army tent one stone's throw away, there will be a large army crossing the river in the future, and life and death are all at the place of a hundred zhang," Tang He did not say anything when he heard this, but just stood on the watchtower with Li Wenzhong to watch the battle,

The Yuan soldiers rushed extremely fiercely, the cavalry raised the dust in the sky, and half of it was rushed in an instant in just five miles, and after the tea time, the Yuan cavalry had rushed to the place of two arrows in front of Dazhai,

There is no need for Li Wenzhong to order, there are already standard-bearers waving the red battle flag, the Ming army Dazhai for a time the cannon rumbling gunsmoke, hundreds of artillery guns in turn, only to see the Yuan cavalry in the distance roaring bursts of fire, in an instant, people on their backs turned over and suffered heavy casualties,

Such a fierce artillery bombardment, did not resist the offensive of the Yuan cavalry, the sound of artillery did not stop, the Yuan cavalry has rushed to the land of a hundred zhang, the Ming army standard-bearer waved the battle flag again, the fence of the Ming army Dazhai has countless arrows stretched out, the Ming army crossbowmen in the fence open the bow and arrows only waiting for the order,

More than ten soldiers on the lookout platform held round shields in front of Li Wenzhong and Tang He, Li Wenzhong said: "The armor of the Yuan soldiers is abnormally strong, and our crossbow arrows have little effect," Tang He nodded and said: "So we still need to try a good strategy, if you fight hard, I am afraid that both sides will lose,"

Sure enough, a round of arrow rain shot, to the Yuan soldiers is like scratching the boots, a burst of eager war drums, 20,000 Ming elite cavalry from the north and south of the two gates along the slope rushed down, for a time the sound of hooves rumbling swords, the cavalry on both sides collided fiercely like two torrents, the Yuan cavalry at best had 8,000, but the Ming army was 20,000, such a disparity in strength, it was a close match,