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Chapter 263 One Person Reaches Thousands of Armies 【Order】

Several Tatar generals nearby glanced at Cai Changming with disdain when they saw this scene.

Maybe in Dayan Khan's place, he would look highly at a scholar like Cai Changming, but for the tribal leaders like them, weak scholars like Cai Changming were not taken seriously by them at all.

Humu looked at Rudal and said: "Patriarch, if you want me to say, we recruited those defeated soldiers under Mutai, and then swarmed up, then no matter how powerful Li Huan is, he has only one person, and we will fight with our lives If you fight, you can also kill him."

At first they were overwhelmed by Li Huan's bravery, but now that they came back to their senses, these people couldn't help feeling ashamed and indignant when they thought about it. The awe towards Li Huan was gone, replaced by an incomparably strong murderous intent.

Only by killing Li Huan can they feel at ease, otherwise, once they are targeted by such a brave man on the battlefield, wouldn't they only have a dead end.

Rudal looked around at his generals, took a deep breath and said, "Blow the horn, gather all the broken soldiers under Mutai's command, and prepare the army for battle."

When Humu and the others heard the words, their faces immediately showed excitement, and they passed the order with excitement.

Soon the sound of the desolate horn was heard, and the defeated army under the wooden platform fled around like headless chickens on the battlefield, as if waking up from a dream when they heard the familiar sound of the horn.

The Tatars on the grassland didn't mention anything else, at least their strength was not bad. After hearing the sound of the horn, they began to gather in an orderly manner.

Almost an hour passed, and the soldiers and horses that had been scattered were finally gathered together.

At the same time, after some inspections, Rudal also obtained specific information about these defeated soldiers.

Originally Mutai had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, if we add the guards and private soldiers kept by Mutai, there will be a lot more troops.

However, after some statistics at this moment, Rudal found that there were only about 6000 soldiers left from the original tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Although this is a large number, in comparison, only about half of the 1 people were left in less than half a day, and almost 5000 people lost their lives, which was completely beyond Rudal's expectations.

Not only Rudal, Humu and other generals also said in disbelief: "How is this possible? It's only half a day. Why did you lose so many soldiers and horses?"

Rudal gritted his teeth and said: "Mutai is a waste, the warriors in my grassland died because of his carelessness. I want to report to the Great Khan that this war crime was committed by Mutai."

So many troops were lost in the First World War. Although most of them were from the Mutai tribe, as the vanguard appointed by Dayan Khan, Rudal still had to bear certain responsibilities, and now he pushed everything to his death At least he can take less responsibility on the wooden platform, can't he?

Hu Mu and the others showed serious expressions on their faces when they heard this. Dayan Khan was able to dominate the grassland relying on his absolute strength. Not one or two tribal leaders on the grassland died at the hands of Dayan Khan.

Even though Rudal has tens of thousands of soldiers and is an official of ten thousand households, there are hardly many people on the grassland who can compare with him.

But if Dayan Khan is willing, he can crush his tribe at any time and take his head.

"Patriarch, the plan for now is not only to shift the responsibility to Mutai, but we also need to take credit for it. Otherwise, it may be hard to explain to Da Khan."

Rudal nodded slightly, and his eyes fell on Cai Changming who was beside him.

After glancing at Cai Changming, Rudal suddenly said, "Mr. Cai, in your opinion, how can the patriarch satisfy the Great Khan?"

Hearing this, Cai Changming hurriedly bowed to Rudal and said, "Lord Wanhu, there is a precedent of Master Wanhu's defeat in Mutai, as long as you can win the battle against the Ming army, Sir Wanhu, even if you can't win the battle against Li Huan." Human head, as long as you can win for a while, it is enough to hand over to the Great Khan."

Rudal glanced at Cai Changming indifferently and said: "So you also think that the patriarch should fight the Ming army?"

Cai Changming took a deep breath, looked around at the Tatar soldiers with low fighting spirit and low morale, suppressed the idea of ​​suggesting to retreat, and said to Rudal: "It is not Cai who can decide such a major matter, but the Lord Wanhu, please decide for yourself."

Humu on the side seemed to be quite satisfied with Cai Changming's attitude, and said with a sneer, "It's very good to be a slave, and you should have the consciousness of being a slave. Say what you should say, and don't say what you shouldn't. It's about my Tatar's decision, how can you, a slave, intervene."

Cai Changming hurriedly lowered his head, took a step back subconsciously and nodded repeatedly: "What General Humu said is true."

Rudal looked up at the fortress built with earthen walls in front of him.

The first earth wall was almost destroyed by the impact of the Mutai tribe, and the corpses of both sides could be vaguely seen behind the collapsed earth wall.

However, tens of feet away, there is still an earthen wall, and it can be seen that soldiers of the Ming army are stationed behind the earthen wall.

Thinking that the wooden platform hit the seemingly inconspicuous earthen wall before, and the people led by Li Huan to kill him turned their backs and suffered heavy losses, but Rudal did not dare to underestimate the existence of this earthen wall.

Originally, it was just an earthen wall, and it was nothing at all. As long as they wanted to, they could completely tear it down.

The point is that the existence of Li Huan has become Rudal's confidant, and what he is worried about is that Li Huan will take the opportunity to fight out. If the defeat of Mutai's troops repeats at that time, then he really can't explain to Dayan Khan .

His gaze crossed the earth wall and landed on the side of the earth wall. Suddenly, a bright light flashed in Rudal's eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Since the Ming army is disadvantaged after attacking the earth wall, why don't we go?" To deal with those cavalry of the Ming army?"

Speaking of which, Rudal laughed excitedly and said: "Siege of cities and land is not the director of our prairie boys, but horseback riding and archery and cavalry charge are our strengths."

Hu Mu and other Tatar generals also looked surprised when they heard Rudal's words, and said: "The patriarch is wise."

Rudal laughed unceasingly, and at the same time said to the crowd: "Pass my order, the army is ready to move out, and follow me to surround and kill the cavalry team of Daming."

Here Li Huan had already retreated behind the second earthen wall. Hundreds of cavalry surrounded Li Huan to meet the reverent eyes of all the Ming soldiers.

Cao Xiong led a group of people to greet Li Huan and the others with big strides. When Li Huan and the others walked over, with Cao Xiong as the leader, everyone gave a military salute to Li Huan and shouted at the same time: "General! Mighty, Daming is mighty!"

Thousands or even tens of thousands of soldiers shouted in unison. Not to mention anything else, the momentum alone was so amazing that the cavalry who followed behind Li Huan subconsciously straightened their spines. He looked at the figure walking in the forefront with a reverent gaze.

Li Huan took a deep breath and shouted: "The Ming army is mighty, long live the Ming Dynasty."

"The Ming army is mighty, long live the Ming Dynasty!"

After this battle, the morale of the army can be said to be high. Even these infantry who were originally selected from the local guards now seem to have been reborn, and their momentum is a little different.

Li Huan tidied up and washed off the blood on his body. He used several buckets of water to wash away the blood on his body.

Putting on the washed armor, Li Huan and Cao Xiong stood in front of the second earthen wall and watched the movement of the Tatar army several miles away.

Li Huan put his hands behind his back and said calmly: "Cao Zongbing, what do you think the Tatars will do after this incident?"

Cao Xiong pondered for a while and said: "My lord, the Wanhu Guanmutai was beheaded by my lord, and the soldiers and horses under his command were even more defeated. It stands to reason that the other Wanhu Rudal should retreat first to regroup the army. , After stabilizing the morale of the army, we can consider other things."

While talking, Cao Xiong secretly glanced at Li Huan, and found that Li Huan didn't look at him, but looked indifferently into the distance.

Cao Xiong went on to say: "Now the Tatars obviously have no intention of retreating. Judging from the situation, the other party seems not to be planning to retreat. Maybe there will be a big battle waiting for everyone."

Only then did Li Huan look away, nodded at Cao Xiong and said, "General Cao is right, let General Cao take charge of this place to prevent the Tatars from attacking."

Cao Xiong couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words, and subconsciously said to Li Huan: "General, you..."

Li Huan smiled and said: "I will sit in the cavalry to prevent Rudal from making trouble for our cavalry."

Cao Xiong wasn't stupid, Dang even came to his senses and said: "The general means that Rudal may attack the cavalry on the flanks, and it is very likely that he will not launch a frontal charge?"

Li Huan said calmly: "On the battlefield, everything is changing rapidly, and anything can happen, so we can only choose the greatest possibility to gamble."

With that said, Li Huan turned around and walked not far away, and got on his horse.

As Li Huan got on his horse, Li Hu, Li Guo and other personal guards also got on their horses together, together with Xu Ying and other hundreds of surviving cavalry surrounded Li Huan.

Looking at the back of Li Huan going away, Cao Xiong's eyes flashed with determination and he shouted at the several generals beside him: "Cheer up for this general, don't let the general look down on us."

Pingyu Ridge

As a hill that is not very famous in Qingyang Prefecture, tens of thousands of troops are stationed at this moment.

Under the night, with the light of the fire, you can clearly see the word Wang on the banner with the word Shuai flying high.

Needless to say, the commander-in-chief of this large army was Ge Lao Wang Yangming, who was appointed by the emperor as the commander-in-chief of the three armies because of Li Huan's recommendation.

To be honest, it is very rare for Wang Yangming to act as the commander-in-chief of the army with the elder of the pavilion.

Tens of thousands of troops are stationed in a camp that stretches for more than ten miles. If this is an ordinary general, it may not be possible to set up a reliable camp.

Generally speaking, if a civilian official like Wang Yangming commands the army, then the generals in the army will definitely be dissatisfied.

After all, as a warrior, he is led by a civil servant who doesn't know much about martial arts. If he were a warrior, he would have opinions in his heart.

This point, when Wang Yangming took over the new army that Li Huan had left in Shaanxi, he noticed the subtle atmosphere in the army.

That is to say, as the commander of the army, Guan Zheng and some of Li Huan's remaining generals gave full support to Wang Yangming because of their trust in Li Huan, which allowed Wang Yangming to control the army.

Otherwise, if Wang Yangming suddenly entered the army, he would really be unable to control tens of thousands of troops for a while.

Although they said that they had a lot of trust in Li Huan, the generals like Guan Zheng still felt a little guilty about the elegant Wang Yangming as the commander-in-chief of the army.

It was a matter of life and death for tens of thousands of troops. If Wang Yangming, the chief general, was unreliable, all the soldiers would die by then, and even their generals might lose their lives.

However, after Wang Yangming took over the army, after the march, Wang Yangming marched and set up everything well. Although he was a little rusty at the beginning, Wang Yangming seemed to have a natural talent in the army, and he was very relaxed. Then tens of thousands of troops were dispatched like arms.

Whether it was marching formations, setting up camps on weekdays, or dispatching troops and horses during the march, such complicated matters seemed so easy in Wang Yangming's hands.

It can be said that in just a few days, Wang Yangming conquered these generals with his own ability and charm, and gained the recognition and support of these generals.

In the handsome tent, Wang Yangming was sitting in front of the table at the moment, and in front of him was a map that was spread out.

The map is densely covered with marks that have been drawn. It goes without saying that these must be left by Wang Yangming in his daily life.

There was a sound of footsteps, and a figure walked into the tent. It was Guan Zheng, the commander who was left by Li Huan to train in Shaanxi.

Guan Zheng walked into the big tent and saw Wang Yangming was lost in thought on a map. Guan Zheng seemed to be familiar with such situations.

As the commander-in-chief of the army, Wang Yangming took over the army himself. Every time he set up camp, when he came to report the military situation, he would see Wang Yangming sitting there, either scribbling on the map or flipping through military books.

To be honest, at first Guan Zheng thought that Wang Yangming was someone who talked about war on paper like Zhao Kuo, even if he was proficient in the art of war, if he really wanted to dispatch troops and control the army, he would definitely be unable to do what he wanted.

However, Wang Yangming convinced Guan Zheng with his own ability, so now seeing Wang Yangming sitting there looking at the map, Guan Zheng stepped forward and saluted Wang Yangming: "I will see you, sir."

Wang Yangming raised his head, glanced at Guan Zheng, waved his hands and said, "Commander Guan doesn't need to be formal, but the camp is set up?"

Guan Zheng said seriously: "Back to your lord, everything is set up in accordance with your orders, no matter whether it is a clear whistle, a dark whistle or even a ranger, they have been sent out, and there will be no accidents in safekeeping."

Wang Yangming smiled and said, "Commander Guan personally supervised the handling, so I can rest assured."

Speaking of which, Wang Yangming signaled Guan Zheng to take his seat and said, "I just took a look at it. Pingyu Ridge is almost a hundred miles away from Luming Town. According to the current marching speed, if there are no accidents, we will arrive at Luming in three days. town."

Guan Zheng nodded and said, "Your Excellency's words are true. With an army of tens of thousands plus a large amount of labor and food, it's not too slow to be able to travel thirty or forty miles a day."

Wang Yangming stroked his beard and said, "It is indeed not slow, but the speed is not fast enough."

Slightly stunned, Guan Zheng said subconsciously: "My lord, could it be that something happened to the general?"

You must know that since Wang Yangming took over the army with the imperial decree, the march on this road has been unhurried, stable, and full of stability and sophistication. It is precisely this way that Wang Yangming conquered these generals in the army.

After hearing Wang Yangming's words, Guan Zheng naturally wondered if something happened to Li Huan, otherwise, why would Wang Yangming sigh like that.

Wang Yangming smiled slightly and said: "Just now, the sentry sent out by us brought news that during the day, two ten thousand Tatar officials from households led twenty thousand soldiers and horses to Luming Town, and one of them faced the mighty Dawu. The general's troops launched a fierce attack."

Guan Zheng couldn't help but change his expression slightly when he heard the words and exclaimed, "Is the general all right?"

No wonder Guan Zheng was so worried, but he knew that Li Huan's real combat power was actually only the more than ten thousand cavalry who accompanied Li Huan to the expedition.

Even the more than ten thousand cavalry, to be honest, Guan Zheng dare not say that they can be compared with the same number of Tatar cavalry.

After all, all the Tatar cavalrymen are real prairie men, skilled in bow and horse, and the cavalry under Li Huan's command cannot be compared with the Tatars by virtue of bow and horse skills alone. The advantages of weapons.

Once they fight, Guan Zheng doesn't think that Li Huan can get anything cheap.

Glancing at Guan Zheng, Wang Yangming smiled lightly and said, "Commander Guan can rest assured that the general is not only safe there, he even beheaded the Tatar vanguard Wanhu Guanmutai in one battle, and defeated Mutai's soldiers in one battle. Horses wiped out thousands of enemies, which greatly shocked the hearts of the Tatar troops."

Guan Zheng stood up suddenly, his face was full of astonishment, and then he realized that he couldn't help but clapped his hands and praised: "Okay, okay, the last general knows that the general will not disappoint."

Wang Yangming stroked his beard and laughed lightly.

After venting the excitement in his heart, Guan Zheng gradually calmed down, looked at Wang Yangming and said seriously: "My lord just lamented that I was not marching fast enough. Could it be that he is going to help the general?"

Wang Yangming looked serious and said: "If my expectations are correct, most of the Tatars will arrive in Luming Town tomorrow, and the pressure on the general will inevitably increase sharply, and even fall into danger. "

Exclaiming, Guan Zheng couldn't help but look at Wang Yangming and said, "Then what should we do, Mr. Wang, you must think of a way. The general's combatable soldiers are not more than ten thousand, so how can the Tatars have tens of thousands of troops?" opponent."

Wang Yangming stroked his beard, and said solemnly: "March in a hurry, the only plan for now is to order the army to drop their luggage and lightly pack, and rush to join the general at the fastest speed!"

It's a new day

On the left wing of the fortress built with earthen walls, smoke billowed from the kitchen. A group of soldiers were busy eating, and suddenly there was an extremely sharp and extremely sharp sound of beeping.

The sound of throbbing spread all over the place, almost alarming all the soldiers.

"Quick, quick, enemy attack..."

Almost at the same time as the sound of the blare came, the generals in the army shouted endlessly.

Countless soldiers gobbled up their food and at the same time grabbed the weapons beside them and rushed to their horses.

Li Huan strode out from the big tent wearing armor, Li Hu, Li Guo and others also surrounded Li Huan in armor and got on their horses.

Xu Ying rushed to Li Huan and shouted: "General, the sentry sent out a warning, the Tatars are coming."

Li Huan's expression was extremely calm. Hearing this, he just nodded at Xu Ying and said: "As expected, pass on the order, and the army will gather to fight with me."

Xu Ying nodded excitedly, clasped her fists and saluted, "The last general takes orders."

Obviously, everyone in the army had expected the Tatars' attack, so even when they got the news of the Tatars' attack, there was no chaos. Instead, all the soldiers gathered in an orderly manner at a very fast speed.

It's just a cup of tea, tens of thousands of cavalry have gathered in one place under the restraint of a group of generals.

Li Huan took the lead and Xu Ying and several generals stood at the forefront of the army, especially Li Huan's handsome flag appeared at the front of the army and fluttered in the wind.

A group of soldiers saw the commanding flag fluttering in the front, and recalled the deeds of Xu Ying's soldiers who chased and killed the Tatar rout under the leadership of Li Huan yesterday. , although Li Huan's figure could not be seen, the morale of the army was raised only by seeing the handsome flag.

As the Tatar army approached, the ground shook, and the momentum of the galloping horses was extremely terrifying. If ordinary people were a little timid, just such a movement could make people feel frightened and uneasy.

Li Huan watched from a distance, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and murderous intent in his eyes. Since the Tatars chose to attack the flanking cavalry, Li Huan was not afraid, and the worst would be a fight.

After yesterday's battle, the Tatars had more than 1 men and horses, and affected by the death of thousands of Guanmutai and the casualties of thousands of Tatar soldiers, the morale of the Tatars was sluggish, while the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty also had more than [-]. Although the number of people is a little short, the morale can't stand up.

If they dare not fight the Tatars head-on under such circumstances, I am afraid that the high morale will collapse accordingly.

Looking at the huge Tatar army in front of him like a torrent, Li Huan roared loudly: "All soldiers, follow me to kill the enemy, the Ming Dynasty is mighty, the Ming Dynasty is mighty."

"Da Ming is mighty, the general is invincible!"

Xu Ying yelled loudly, and then the hundreds of cavalry under Xu Ying's command who fought bloody battles also shouted, and then the whole army shouted.

"Da Ming is mighty, the general is invincible!"

With Li Huan leading the way, tens of thousands of cavalry began to speed up. When the horses under him galloped forward, their ears were filled with the sound of wind and the shouts of soldiers.

As the distance between the two sides got closer, Li Huan laughed loudly and said to Li Guo who was beside him: "Come on the flag!"

In Li Guo's hand, a large flag several feet long was handed directly to Li Huan. The large flag weighed several hundred catties and only an expert in the army like Li Guo could carry it.

But such a big banner is as light as nothing in Li Huan's hands.

The big flag fell into Li Huan's hands, and Li Huan saw the big flag waving in Li Huan's hand, and there was a sound of hunting through the air.

"shoot!"

As the two sides entered the range, the archers from both sides immediately fired a volley.

It can be imagined that thousands of cavalry shot arrows one after another, and the two sides had not yet collided with each other, but the rain of arrows had already covered the sky, and the sky was filled with darkness.

The flagpole in Li Huan's hand swung away violently, and the arrows that were falling like a torrential rain were instantly blocked by Li Huan's flagpole.

There were screams of soldiers from both sides falling to the ground with arrows, but at this moment, no one cared about it. They just tried to stick their bodies to the horse as much as possible, and tried their best to make themselves less eye-catching, so as to reduce the risk of being shot by arrows. Likelihood of hitting.

But with such a dense rain of arrows falling, no matter how much you dodge, you can only resign yourself to fate.

To be precise, under the first wave of arrow rain, there were almost very few people who could survive in the area covered by the arrow rain.

The people on both sides fell down in an instant, and under this wave of arrow rain, whether it was the Tatars or the Ming Dynasty, there were no fewer than hundreds of casualties.

However, under this rain of arrows, there was an area in the Ming army with few casualties, which was exactly the area where Li Huan was located.

Most of the arrow rain in the air was blocked by Li Huan with the flagpole. Even if some of the arrows fell, they would only cause extremely weak casualties.

"kill!"

As the two sides collided in one place, the collision of blood and flesh, the collision of weapons and flesh, the screams, the sound of killing, and the neighing of horses mixed together, interweaving a bloody battlefield scene.

Li Huan took the lead, with the flagpole in his hand several feet long, dancing like this, those Tatar soldiers who bumped into Li Huan head-on were naturally unlucky, let alone bumping into Li Huan, even if they tried their best Throwing away the mace, machete, and hammer in his hand is of no avail.

The several-foot-long flagpole stretched out like a long dragon in Li Huan's hands. Where the flagpole passed, a large number of Tatar cavalry were swept away and fell off their horses.

In such chaos, once the horse falls, the possibility of surviving is very slim.

And part of the soldiers following Li Huan opened their eyes wide, watching Li Huan's heroic and heroic posture sweeping all directions in disbelief.

When they came back to their senses, they rushed up one by one screaming like chicken blood, and attacked Li Huan on both sides with Li Huan as the center.

Like an invincible arrow, Li Huan led a group of men and horses into the Tatar army abruptly, and it seemed that his posture really seemed to pierce the Tatar army.

Among the Tatar army, the sharpshooters selected from Rudar, Humu and many other Tatar armies watched from a distance as Li Huan's handsome flag penetrated into the army for more than a hundred feet. , but also fell into the siege of the army.

Normally speaking, the enemy commander should be extremely happy when he is surrounded.

However, Rudal, Humu and others all looked solemn, looking at Li Huan who was rampaging among the army with apprehension on their faces.

"Damn it, isn't this Li Huan a monster? Why does he have such terrifying force? It's almost like a single man can defeat a thousand troops. I'm afraid that Agula and Nari Song who are beside Da Khan may not be his opponents."

Even if you have seen Li Huan's heroic figure killing all directions before, seeing it again is still extremely shocking.

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