Chapter 114
Fan Wencheng was slightly stunned: "What does it mean?"
"Sun Chengzong is moving!"
Huang Taiji sighed and said, "According to the information I have, Sun Chengzong has completed the integration of Yang Guodong, Hou Shilu, Ma Shilong and other troops!"
The military abolition of the Ming Dynasty and the low combat effectiveness of the border troops were actually the main reason for the civil officials, which is the distrust of civil officials and military officials who have been cultivated for a long time.
But, who do you want to go with this?
Seeing that Chongzhen had withheld Yuan Chonghuan and wanted to punish him, Zu Dashou was so scared that he ran to Guangning City in one breath. Later, the misunderstanding between the two sides was finally eliminated. However, the Guanning Army did not work hard.
In other words, in name, this strategic comprehensive counterattack was directed by Sun Chengzong, who commanded 200,000 to 300,000 troops from three armies, with Zu Dashou, Liu Zhilun and Lu Xiangsheng as commanders.
But in fact, only Liu Zhilun's troops were more than 10,000 troops, and Lu Xiangsheng's troops were less than 30,000 troops. Under the leadership of Huang Taiji, the main army of Jiannu came out of the pass, leaving only Amin and less than 16,000 troops under his command to defend the fourteen passes on the Great Wall defense line. More than two-thirds of these more than 6,000 troops were either the Ming army or the Mongolian minion army. The real elite of Jiannu's Eight Banners was only more than 6,000 troops.
After repeated tests, Yang Guodong, Ma Shilong, Hou Shilu, Liu Ce, Zhang Chun and other civil and military ministers began to fully counterattack Yongping Prefecture.
Amin couldn't reach the full counterattack of the Ming army. It can be said that the current Great Wall defense line is in a hurry!
Hearing this, Manguertai said with some dissatisfaction: "So what? Just rely on those defeated generals..."
Before Manguertai finished speaking, Yue Tuo retorted: "The defeated general under his command? He said it easily. If the Ming army is 200,000 to 300,000 Ming troops are still standing, how many people can you kill? You will be exhausted to death!"
"you……"
"Okay, don't say anything more!"
Huang Taiji was even more irritable.
At this moment, a guard holding the sea holly came in and handed the eagle letter to Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji's face changed drastically after reading the contents on the pigeon.
Huang Taiji is also an old bird who has fought for half his life. It is easy to see that the letter is true or false, but it is very easy to see if it is true or false.
"Your Khan, I just found out that the capital sent 50,000 kilograms of gunpowder to Kuanhe City!"
"What? Fifty thousand pounds!"
When Huang Taiji heard this, he took a deep breath.
Even if the heaviest 5,000 kilograms of red cannons, each cannon shell consumes 20 kilograms of gunpowder, then 50,000 kilograms is enough for the Liu family army to fire more than 2,500 shells.
If it is a red cannon weighing 3,000 kilograms, it can fire more than 10,000 shells.
Huang Taiji actually didn't know that it was. This was not 50,000 kilograms of gunpowder, but 50,000 kilograms of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, but they didn't want it.
Liu Mingyu has Zhang Yingjiu, a master who can make gunpowder, and can make more powerful granular gunpowder. If you have steamed buns, you don’t eat steamed buns. This is Liu Mingyu’s style of doing things.
Fifty thousand kilograms of saltpeter and sulfur are enough for Liu Mingyu to prepare more than 60,000 kilograms of granular gunpowder.
Whether it is 50,000 jin or 60,000 jin, it actually means little to Jiannu.
Huang Taiji did not get angry at the people around him, but immediately ordered: "Ajige, Haoge, Duoduo, Abatai, Manguertai!"
"The slave is here!"
"Spread all of your people and find this convoy as soon as possible!"
"yes!"
Huang Taiji looked at the bells with a solemn look on his face: "If Lu Xiangsheng gets this batch of gunpowder, we don't have to fight against the Tianxiong Army anymore. Even if he can use fire, we will bury him!"
"Abide by the order!"
...
The Tianxiong Camp was different from the dullness of the Jiannu Camp. The Tianxiong Army was very excited at this time. You should know that they were facing the main force of Jiannu, with more than 2,000 archers standing in the front, almost six or seven Niulu.
During this period, the military strength comparison was basically about one v8, and more than two thousand Jiannu archers were enough to easily defeat a field corps of 20,000 Ming army.
Before the battle started, the Tianxiong Army could withstand at most two or three thousand Jiannu. As a result, after the Tianxiong Army suffered three or four thousand casualties, more than 200 wheelbarrows defeated the Jiannu vanguard camp. In the subsequent pursuit, there was no disadvantage at all. Basically, one was changed. Everyone kept falling down, and several layers of corpses were stacked on the ground, and blood was flowing.
Looking at the Jiannu corpse lying all over the ground, the Tianxiong army still cheered loudly. They won. They really repelled the seemingly invincible Jiannu Eight Banners in the field, and they did it!
Lei Shisheng drooled: "There are so many heads! If you cut off these heads and send them to the capital to report victory, it would be impossible for the capital to not be shaken!"
Some Tianxiong soldiers couldn't wait to leave the queue and stepped forward to cut their heads. These are all military achievements!
In fact, the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army were like farmers after the harvest at this time, and they were almost dancing.
Unlike all the excited Tianxiong soldiers, Lu Xiangsheng was very calm. He gave a cold order: "Get out of the camp immediately and set out to target Kuanhe City!"
Lu Xiangsheng knew very well that time was not on the side of Tianxiong Army, or it could be said that he was not on the side of the Ming Dynasty. The Tianxiong Army had less than four days of food left. Although two or three thousand horse corpses were seized today, some of the war horses were still some, even so, the consumption was only slightly more than four days.
Persisting for four days and persisting for eight days is also of little significance to Lu Xiangsheng.
Once the food is exhausted, then the Tianxiong Army will naturally collapse without the need for Jiannu to defeat him. Therefore, we must take advantage of the newly defeat of Jiannu and immediately rush to Kuanhe City to join the Liu family army.
Although there is not much food in the Liu family army, it may not last long. If there is a city that sticks to it, it is always better than a safe place to stick to it.
Ping Anbao is just a place name. It was previously the location of a foreign herds office where Kuanhe guarded Qianhu Station. If Qianhou Station is one broad, Baihou Station is one security. But at least Kuanhe City still has a city, but Ping Anbao Station is only one security name.
As the saying goes, people die for money, and birds die for food.
Lu Xiangsheng ordered the camp to set off, but he didn't even have time to clean the battlefield, but the soldiers below were not happy.
"Mr. Lu, don't cut the head? How can this work?"
"Yes, if we don't cut off our heads, why should we report the victory to the court and ask for rewards?"
"If there is no head, then this battle will be in vain!"
"This is a piece of money, and it's not easy for you guys!"
Lei Shisheng stepped forward and said carefully: "Mr. Lu, why don't you give them half an hour... no, three quarters of an hour..."
Lu Xiangsheng's face turned pale and shouted angrily: "The soldiers don't understand, you don't understand either? Are we going to fight this time to cut off our heads and report to the court for victory and rewards? Draw the camp immediately and set off immediately!"
"yes!"
Thunder Shisheng was so scared that he didn't dare to breathe.
Lu Xiangsheng was gentle and elegant, and rarely got angry. Now he was really anxious.
Lu Xiangsheng said angrily: "You are the gang general of the Right Camp. Don't you know how much food there is in our army? When Jiannu reacts, all of our Tianxiong Army will become Jiannu's spoils!"
Lu Xiangsheng immediately remembered why Liu Mingyu established the Military Law Department alone and the significance of the Military Law Bureau. It seems that the Military Law Bureau must be established in the military.
"Yang Kai!"
"The last one will be here!"
"From now on, you will also serve as the Tianxiong Army Officer Law and order each department to set out immediately, otherwise the military law will be enforced!"
"yes!"
The scene of Lu Xiangsheng getting angry really scared the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army, but there were also relatively far-reaching positions. I didn’t see Lu Xiangsheng getting angry or heard Lu Xiangsheng’s orders.
They continued to clean the battlefield, and even fought and fought for the head. This scene fell in Lu Xiangsheng's eyes, which was to commit crimes against the wind and fight against him, the commander.
"Execute military law!"
In desperation, Yang Kai had to wave his hand and give an order, and a sharp arrow shot over, landing at the feet of the unreasonable guys. He was so scared that the guys were so excited that they stopped quarreling and looked at this side foolishly.
Yang Kai roared: "Stop the head and go back to your position, otherwise you will die!"
Although the soldiers of Tianxiong Army were extremely unwilling to give up the spoils everywhere and returned to the queue in shame. Some of them tied their heads to their waists and refused to throw them away. Yang Kai was really angry and snatched a strong bow and shot out a bead. Three Tianxiong Army soldiers who would rather disobey the military order than throw away the spoils were arrows in their throats. They fell to the ground and twitched a few times, and turned into corpses. Now everyone knows that Lu Xiangsheng is not joking with them. They hurriedly threw away the spoils, followed the large army, and continued to advance.
Fortunately, Jiannu's attention was focused on the convoy of 50,000 kilograms of gunpowder. They expanded their search range, and even more than 100 miles from the south line of Kuanhe City Great Wall, there were Jiannu's cavalry everywhere.
However, the closer it is to Kuanhe City, the fewer Jiannu cavalry. The fewer Jiannu cavalry does not mean that there is no one. However, the number of cavalry in the Tianxiong Army is as high as four or five thousand cavalry, especially war horses, has now exceeded more than 6,000.
In the decisive cavalry battle, this group of cavalry is naturally not the opponent of Jiannu's cavalry, but it is naturally more than enough to deal with dozens or hundreds of whistle cavalry in Jiannu.
After a day and a midnight, until the next morning, we finally arrived at the Yangshulin west of Kuanhe City, and looked across from the position of the Third Regiment of the Liu Family Army (the waterfall river, which is recorded in the Ming Dynasty as the Leopard River).
On the morning of the second day of March 3, the Tianxiong Army and the Liu family army met successfully. At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng issued an order to build a camp along the riverside on the west bank of the Leopard River in the Yangshulin.
Upon receiving the news of the arrival of Tianxiong Army, Liu Mingyu brought Chen Tianze, Liu Fugui and others under his command to pay homage to Lu Xiangsheng.
When Liu Mingyu arrived at the Tianxiong Army camp on the west bank of the Leopard River, Lu Xiangsheng did not wait for Liu Mingyu in the tent, but directly reconnaissed the enemy situation with Jiannu camp in the south.
"I will pay homage to you, sir!"
"Gongchen is coming just right!"
Lu Xiangsheng seemed to be in a very good mood. He was actually full of spring breeze on his face and even laughed.
Liu Mingyu said, "What are you laughing at?"
"I'm laughing at Jiannu's cowardice!"
"cowardly?"
The generals of the Tianxiong Army were a little puzzled.
How fierce and fierce is Jiannu? Why is it related to cowardice?
Liu Mingyu nodded: "No, Jiannu is just too cowardly!"
Yang Shien was once Liu Mingyu's immediate boss, but now Liu Mingyu is higher than his level, so he is a little unhappy. He dared not refute Lu Xiangsheng, but dared to refute Liu Mingyu: "How could Jiannu be cowardly?"
Liu Mingyu pointed to Jiannu's camp and smiled: "The Liu family army and Tianxiong army combined are less than 40,000, especially the Liu family army. The soldiers are only six or seven thousand. Jiannu clearly has an absolute advantage in military strength, but he dared not take the initiative to attack. This shows that they have lost the confidence to defeat us in a head-on confrontation, and instead tried to rely on the right geography to defeat us! It is not a group of cowards who bully the weak and fear the strong, what is that?"
"General Xiao Liu said it well!"
Chapter completed!