Chapter 497: Blind Obedience and Blind Faith

Ningxia, south bank of the Yellow River, north of Xiajiabao.

A big battle has begun at dawn.

7,000 cavalry under Yang Yiqing, plus 2,000 troops each from Li Hao and Zheng Ying, started a circus with the Tatars. The reason for the circus was that the number of projectiles for the soldiers under the Ming Dynasty was seriously insufficient. Coupled with the disadvantages of the number of soldiers and horses and medium and close combat, they can only adopt a maneuvering posture.

"Sir, the Tatars attacked more than 4,000 cavalry from our left flank and scattered the artillery array in front. More than a dozen cannons fell into the hands of the Tatars."

Yang Yiqing was in the Chinese army and was responsible for commanding the war. The news he learned did not look too optimistic.

Before Yang Yiqing could ask, Zhang Xun next to him hurriedly asked, "Have the shells been taken away too?"

The deputy commander-in-chief Gao Pi who came to deliver the message said, "The shells have been used up. We originally had a lot of explosives buried in the back, but the Mongolian Tatars did not enter the ambush circle. We lost at least thirty or forty brothers in this battle, and the Tatars were killed. At least sixty or seventy, but the head was not recovered."

"What a pity." Zhang Xu sighed as he listened to the battle report.

Yang Yiqing said, "Being able to kill and injure the enemy bandits and force the thieves back is the best outcome. Even if you lose a few artillery pieces without shells, it doesn't matter."

Zhang Xu said, "You can't kill people." If you take it out, it won't be considered credit. It's empty talk."

Yang Yiqing shook his head and said, "In the future, rewards based on merit will no longer be the same as in the past, and the head must be brought back. We don’t have the qualifications to make the first contribution in the battle. If we can defeat the Tatars and make them give up their plan to cross the river to plunder, it will be considered as worthy of the imperial court’s trust.”

“Haha, Yang Junmen, you are really awesome. "It's fair to think about it."

Although Zhang Nu is now on the same side as Yang Yiqing, he still cannot fully empathize with Yang Yiqing. Listening to Yang Yiqing will also mean handing over his authority to guard the eunuchs, so he naturally It is unwilling to do so.

"The report found out from the Leap Horse Platform that the Tatars and their horses crossed the river early in the morning and were forming a formation on the other side of the river. There were boats on the river to help the Tatars cross the river."

At that time. When this battle report came, Yang Yiqing was quite annoyed.

Yang Yiqing glared at Gao Pi and said, "Didn't you say that all the boats along the river had been burned? Where did the Tatars get the boats to cross the river?"

Why did Gao Pi "do not know?"

Zhang He also said angrily, "Is it not completely burned, or is there someone who wants to help the Tatars secretly? If the Tatars cross the river, how will most of our troops cross the river? Until then, they only need to send people by the river." If we keep guard, most of the remaining troops can harass the people all over Ningxia. This is a big deal."

Gao Pi lowered his head and muttered in his heart.

I need you to remind me that this is a big deal. The key is what the situation is. I don’t know. Maybe the Tatars temporarily cut down trees to build ships

Yang Yiqing also had something in his eyes. "We can no longer passively wait for the Tatars to invade," he said urgently.The purpose is probably to use our troops and horses to contain us and help most of them cross the river. If we passively fight with our troops and horses at a disadvantage, we will only be hijacked by the Tatars. You have to take the initiative to cook the utensils."

Zhang Xun asked, "Didn't I say that Uncle Xiangcheng's men and horses have already crossed the river and they didn't stop them on the other side?"

Gao Pi looked at what was not far away. There was a commotion, and he cupped his fists and said, "Eunuch Zhang, we are currently unable to get in touch with Uncle Xiangcheng's troops. Two groups of Tatars have been cut off between us and Uncle Xiangcheng's troops. The Tatar cavalry are numerous and come and go like the wind. When they saw us using firearms, they didn't fight directly, they just circled around. ”

Zhang He said angrily, “Then send someone with a blunderbuss and kill them like this, and you won’t be able to get in touch with Xiangcheng Bo’s department.”

Gao Pi was surprised "How is this possible?"

"Why not?" Zhang Nu was also very angry, "You didn't say that the Tatars were afraid of firearms. Why, the soldiers in front didn't dare to rush forward?"

Only then did Zhang He understand.

There were fewer people going, so the Tatars ignored them and could eat them raw.

There were more people going. The Tatars were afraid of the firecrackers and wanted to create a gap, but Yang Yiqing only had 7,000 people in total. It was unwise in Yang Yiqing's opinion to mobilize two or three thousand just to open a gap to communicate with Li Wei.

"Whether Xiangcheng Bo and Wu'an Hou can intercept the Tatars on the other side depends on their ability. However, Cui Prince Consort also stated last night that he will not bring too many horses across the river this time. He only hopes that they will There will be more fire bombs left, which can at least scare the Tatars crossing the river."

Yang Yiqing didn't seem to expect any extraordinary performance from Li Ao and Zheng Ying, because he knew the strength of these two groups. The loss of guns and shells was also huge.

Zhang He sighed, "If we have enough fire and shells, we can attack the Tatars halfway across the river. It will probably turn the water of the Yellow River red and allow them to stay." Tens of thousands of corpses.

Yang Yiqing said, "It's good to be able to repel them. Don't make hopeless assumptions. The Tatars know that we are short of firearms, so they deploy tactics like this." The little Tartar prince will not be captured easily. "

As soon as he finished speaking, another messenger was reporting, "The Tatars are attacking from the north, with tens of thousands of men and horses." ”

“Come on, come on”

Zhang Xun was very nervous.

The Tatars came to ten thousand at a time. If they didn’t have enough firearms, they could only

Yang Yiqing immediately ordered: "Push our troops up and form a formation. Those with fire bombs and those without fire bombs will stand side by side. No fire will be fired within 200 steps. "Tripping the horse rope"

When the Tatars tried to attack, Yang Yiqing deeplyKnowing that we must stabilize our position, we used an illusion that our guns and artillery were empty, but in fact they could be fired many times, forcing the Tatars not to dare to fight the Ming soldiers head-on.

After Gao Pi and the ordering soldiers went down, the armies began to press forward as Yang Yiqing ordered.

Zhang Xuncai reminded Yang Yiqing in a low voice, "Yang Junmen, it's not our family that says that our three axes may not be able to withstand it. The Tatars may be wary now, but wait for them to test it a few more times." This time, we must be able to detect the clues. It can be said that the Guizhou donkey has no skills, and the situation is very bad."

Yang Yiqing said coldly, "According to what Eunuch Zhang said, in the past, when there were no firearms and ammunition, the Tatars came. You don’t have to fight the criminals."

"Haha." Zhang Xun continued with a wry smile, "Even if we didn’t have firearms in the past, we still had them, and we wouldn’t count on our seven thousand cavalry and the Tatars like they do now. Tens of thousands of cavalry are fighting. Even if this is within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that we will not be able to occupy the right time and location. The situation is not good. Yang Junmen, we still think about it. If we can't hold back the Tatars, they will have to cross the river. What should we do?"

Just when Yang Yiqing was struggling to deal with the Tatars, the situation of the two groups of troops outside the battlefield, Li Na and Zheng Ying, was different.

As Yang Yiqing expected, the loss of guns and shells in these two groups was not as heavy as that of local soldiers and horses in Ningxia. The ones who suffered the most were actually only the 400 people Cui Yuan brought out, and the remaining Many of the people below have not had the opportunity to confront the Tatars head-on.

However, because they do not carry heavy firearms, they basically rely on firecrackers, and their range is not as far as artillery. In fact, these two groups of troops are only suitable for mid-range combat with the Tatars. It does not have the ability to fight remotely.

Li Na's journey is now basically led by Cui Yuan. Cui Yuan personally led more than 700 troops to cross the river from the upper reaches, and before dawn, all 700 people had successfully crossed the river. and took the horses across the river.

Originally, instead of transporting horses, we could only use soldiers to cross the river, and maybe more than 2,000 people could be transported across. However, not everyone among the Ming soldiers was determined to die, and they all believed that it was dangerous to forcefully cross the river. Too big.

And without horses, the Tatars would basically have no choice but to die, and they would not even be able to escape.

If the soldiers can ride horses, they at least have the capital to escape. Therefore, both Li Wei and many of his soldiers advocated transporting horses across. Even if there are fewer people to move around, it will not lead to the rear. There are no roads.

Li Wei did not cross the river with the army. He led the remaining 1,200 troops and horses to stay on the south bank, saying that they would be reinforced at any time, but in fact, after dawn, they had lost the conditions to cross the river.

As for Zheng Ying and his group, they had no intention of crossing the river. They were still more than ten miles away from Li Wei, and after the war started, their advance was relatively slow. They even bypassed Ningxia. The Chinese army was advancing toward the lower reaches of the Yellow River, that is, the right wing of the Ningxia Division. It seemed that they wanted to wait for Li Ao and the Ningxia Division to force the Tatars along the south bank of the Yellow River.When retreating north, they took the opportunity to jump out and intercept them.

The focus of the war is whether Cui Yuan can use less than 800 soldiers on hand to block the Tatars on the south bank of the Yellow River.

Before dawn, Cui Yuan and Xu Shen headed downstream with more than 700 soldiers. Because they had to cross several mountain passes in the middle, the team was not walking along the river, and they had to beware of Tatars along the way. Human sentry.

"Cui Prince Consort, the Tatars have appeared. The sentry cavalry failed to capture the Tatars and went to the northeast. I guess the Tatars will soon know that we are coming."

Xu Shen appeared beside Cui Yuan's horse.

Cui Yuan just waved his hand reluctantly and said, "It doesn't matter, I've expected it a long time ago."

For soldiers like Xu Shen, riding a horse and traveling quickly is quite adaptable. Cui Yuan Although my riding skills are not bad, I haven’t trained for a long time and it’s a bit overwhelming.

The team even had to accommodate Cui Yuan to keep the marching speed from being too fast, otherwise it would be boring to leave the coach behind.

Cui Yuan has become a powerful figure in the hearts of this group of people through his battle with Shigou City. Many of these people are willing to follow him across the river, mostly because of Cui Yuan's face, and they know that , Cui Yuan will definitely be generously rewarded by the court afterwards, and if he follows Cui Yuan into danger, even if he is defeated and escapes, he will not be held accountable when he returns to the pass of Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, the group of people who stayed on the south bank of the Yellow River would be regarded as cowards even if they could escape unscathed.

Xu Shen saw Cui Yuan's weak but persevering look, and said with emotion, "Cui Yuanma is the only hero I have ever seen in my life. You could have stayed at the rear, and you would have been rewarded with many military exploits." , but he is willing to take the lead, his mind is unparalleled."

After Cui Yuan heard this, he felt that it was somewhat useful, which meant that he was recognized.

Although he himself knew that Xu Shen was just flattering him, because Xu Shen said more than once that he wanted to go to the capital with him, and even wanted to enter the Yanwu Hall with Cui Yuan.

Cui Yuan is a real person, he said, "I don't know what other people are like, I have no choice."

"You have no choice" Xu Shen didn't understand.

You are already a relative of the Ming Dynasty, but you can’t help yourself. If you want to be a coward, who can stop you? It’s the emperor who asked you to rush forward risking your life and hold you accountable. They also went after Zhu Hui and Li Nuo.

"Alas" Cui Yuan sighed and suddenly raised his head to face the eastern sky in front of him.

For him, it seemed like a beautiful past, the innocence and innocence he once had, and the carefree life he once had, but now

Xu Shen saw With Cui Yuan's expression on his face, he just kept silent.

After all, Cui Yuan felt that Xu Shen was one of his own, so he explained, "It was the princess who asked me to go to the Yanwu Hall. It was the Minister Wang of the Ministry of Household Affairs who appreciated me and gave me military strategies to help me improve. Your Majesty appreciates it." Duke Baoguo asked me to go with the vanguard army, and Uncle Xiangcheng asked me to fight with the vanguard army. Only today's battle is probably what I wanted to do.Chosen. But whether you choose or not, the result will be like that. ”

Only then did Xu Shen realize that everything Cui Yuan had experienced on the battlefield had been driven away.

This is even more difficult to comment on.

Cui Yuandao "If the Tatars go north to cross the river, hundreds of miles of fertile land and hundreds of thousands of people around Ningxia will suffer. That is a dereliction of duty on the part of the military. But someone also told me that the Tatars did not cross the Yellow River south last year. But in Ningxia, it was also very difficult. At that time, Anbianhou led his troops to fight hard with the Tatars, and finally forced the Tatars back. "

Xu Shen was stunned for a moment. How could this temporary coach still compliment others at a critical moment? The key is that this person is not in Ningxia, or even in the northwest.

Xu Shen looked slightly embarrassed and said, "Marquis Anbian is indeed a hero, and everyone admires him endlessly. "

Cui Yuan nodded and said, "He also told me that the Tatars are not invincible. As long as they listen to Cai Guogong, the Tatars will be blown away like paper shells by the wind. This is what I thought. Since every move of the Tatars this time was planned by Cai Guogong, then if we ambush on the north bank of the Yellow River, we will definitely be able to surprise them, defeat them, and ensure the peace of the people. ”

“Cui Prince Consort, you are saying that you are not very confident, just because Cai Guogong said so.” The chain dropped, which scared him.

“Yeah. "

Cui Yuan nodded calmly, "Although I don't know how he arranged the battle on the Yellow River, but since even Yang Zhongcheng, the governor of Ningxia, thinks that I should lead the troops across the river, then I think this is the place. The right choice, I believe in both Cai Guogong and Yang Zhongcheng. So we must win. ”

Xu Shen was almost speechless.

I had already shouted in my heart.

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