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Chapter 572 General, We Didn't Lose, Did We?
Sapphire has always kept a distance of fifty miles from Waisi's army.

This distance is not far or close, you can catch up in an emergency, and you can slowly follow it when you are not in a hurry, so as to give the opponent enough oppression.

Of course, the reason why Lan Yu didn't catch up was definitely not because he was cowardly, but because he didn't want the other party to wait for work.

After all, if I rushed to catch up rashly, I would have to march in a hurry, and by the time I caught up with the opponent, I would be too tired and exhausted.

However, Waisi's army suddenly set up camp, which gave him a pleasant surprise.

"What do you want to do, do you want to intercept and kill us halfway?"

"Back to the general, I can't see it yet, but we should know it when we catch up tomorrow.

Sapphire frowned and thought for a while when she heard this.

"Pass the order down, open your belly to eat tomorrow, and set up camp when you are thirty miles away from the other party!"

"promise!"

The next day, Lan Yu stopped after only fifty miles, and ordered people to dig trenches and erect horses and other objects at the same time.

Because if you go further, you will enter the opponent's attack range, and you have traveled twenty miles on your side, so it seems that you are at a loss.

The most important thing is that the opponent is clearly prepared and did not give him a chance to sneak attack at all.

Moreover, the vast grassland stretches as far as the eye can see, and there is no place to sneak attack at all.

Waisi laughed triumphantly when he saw that Lanyu had set up camp thirty miles away from him.

"What kind of bullshit famous general, he dare not leave so far away from us, fortunately, I ordered someone to prepare the battle flag and war drum early!"

"My lord, don't underestimate the enemy. The reason why Lan Yu is called a famous general must have something extraordinary."

"We haven't dealt with Lan Yu before, it's better to be more stable!"

"Crap!"

"This general has his own ideas in his heart!"

"Tomorrow, if Sapphire continues to dawdle like this, this general will personally lead the team to kill his army, and let him know how powerful this general is!"

When the crooked thoughts were fantasizing about crushing Sapphire's army in one fell swoop, Sapphire had already received a telegram from his subordinates.

"General, a letter from General Zhang Yi, saying that Chagatai has been surrendered!"

"What?"

When Lan Yu heard this, she jumped up from the ground in shock and snatched the telegram from the messenger.

After reading the telegram, Lan Yu cursed bitterly.

"Zhang Yi, the bastard, actually picked up the merit of destroying the country for nothing!"

"The old man is also confused, why chase after this little bastard if you have nothing to do, just stay behind and look for opportunities to destroy Chahetai, won't it be over!"

"General, what should we do now? Shall we tell the Chagatai army on the opposite side that their old Khan has surrendered to our Daming?"

Lan Yu lost the merit of destroying the country, and she was extremely regretful in her heart, how could she let go of the military merit that she saw and saw?

"Need not!"

"Even if you tell them, they won't believe it!"

When the communications soldier heard this, he thought about it, and it was really possible.After all, Chagatai does not have such a fetish of real-time communication as theirs. It may have been half a month when their messenger came over.

"Isn't there still a big battle?"

"Of course!"

The signal soldier said with a look of regret.

"Ugh!"

"This war could have been avoided..."

When Lan Yu heard this, she wished she could kick this guy out.

This bitch is speaking human language?
He ran out for so many days with [-] soldiers, and if he didn't kill a single person, what would you let them take as military merit!

After one night, Sapphire ordered the whole army to move out again.

Lan Yu was even more ruthless this time, and stopped after only ten miles, and ordered the soldiers to rest where they were.

At the same time, they sent people to scout ahead to see what happened to the army on the opposite side of Chagatai.

Wai Si, who was twenty miles away, saw Lan Yu stop again, and immediately cursed in anger.

"This cowardly sapphire, what kind of a famous bullshit general, cowardly as a little sheep!"

"My lord, Sapphire is calculating our foot strength!"

"Although our 5 people are all cavalry, the best distance for cavalry to charge is within five miles. If we march for twenty miles in a row, the physical strength of our horses and soldiers will be affected, and we will not be able to exert our best combat effectiveness!"

"It's up to you to say this, how can this general not even know this truth?"

"The reason why this general is fighting Lan Yu is because he wants to wait for work with ease!"

Hearing the words, the crooked lieutenant offered flattery for the first time.

"Master is wise!"

Hearing the words, there was a little satisfaction on his face.

"Humph!"

"Since he is so cowardly, then General Ben will personally lead someone to kill him!"

The crooked lieutenant hurriedly dissuaded him.

"My lord, let's wait for work at leisure, and wait for Sapphire to march again!"

"If he takes a day off, why don't the army have to wait for him for a day?"

"You have to know, we are going to rescue Bei Yuan, not here to play house with Lan Yu!"

"Uh uh..."

The deputy general was speechless when he heard this, and he suddenly realized that Waisi's words made sense.

They had no choice in this battle. If they wanted to rescue Bei Yuan without distraction, they could only deal with the Lan Yu army who followed behind.

Otherwise, even if they rendezvous with Bei Yuan, they will face the attack of Sapphire and other Ming troops.

"It's still an adult's thoughtfulness!"

"Humph!"

He curled his lips in disdain.

"You General Daoben are willing to compete with Sapphire for fame?"

"We really have no choice. Once the rescue of Beiyuan fails, our Chagatai will be the next target to be destroyed!"

"Ming people have a good saying, when lips are dead, teeth are cold, and Bei Yuan is our lips!"

As soon as Wai Si said this, no one objected to his decisive battle with Lan Yu anymore.

However, Waisi didn't push it too hard, but formed a formation and marched at a speed of ten miles per hour.

Traveling at this speed can maintain the physical strength of the horses and soldiers to the greatest extent.

When Lan Yu learned that Waisi had led the army over, she immediately ordered people to put on armor, line up in formation, and waited for the opponent to come to her door.

When the distance between the two sides was only five miles, Wai Si immediately ordered people to stop and rearranged their formation.

Lan Yu saw how stable the opponent's young general was, and she was secretly vigilant, not daring to be careless in the slightest.

"I can't see that old thing Chahetai has given birth to a good grandson!"

"What the general said is that although Wai Si is young, he does things without haste and has the demeanor of a famous general."

Sapphire nodded upon hearing this.

"Yes!"

"It's just a pity, he was born in the wrong place. If he was born in Daming, maybe he would have a different world!"

There was no letter of war between the two armies, and no envoys exchanged news. It was just that after the melodious horn sounded, the Chagatai cavalry led by Waisi launched an attack.

Waisi was able to take on the heavy responsibility of rescuing Beiyuan at a young age, so there must be something special about him.

He divided the army into three groups, and let the left and right households lead 1 people each to attack Lanyu's left and right wings.

Sapphire sees the tricks here, and orders the shield hand to protect the left and right wings, and at the same time arranges the musketeer to hide behind the shield and wait for the opportunity to shoot.

As for the frontal confrontation, the small-caliber artillery carried by the army is mainly used, and [-] musketeers are used as supplementary firepower.

There are 1 pure cavalry troops, and he will lead them personally, rushing out at critical moments to expand the results of the battle.

The battle between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out, and as the Chagatai cavalry rushed into the attack range of the firecrackers, the firecrackers in the Sapphire Army fired in unison.

A round of gunfire sounded, and a row of cavalry immediately fell on the ground.

The horses neighed and the warriors howled.

But Chagatai's army was not scattered, and continued to charge according to the established tactics, and soon approached the Blue Jade Army's position.

After the Chagatai cavalry fired a round of arrows, Sapphire's army also suffered a certain number of casualties.

But fortunately, there were shieldmen and shield chariots in the front and on the left and right sides, so the cavalry in Chagatai had no way of attacking, which ensured the integrity of their formation.

Therefore, he can bear a little loss.

But what worried him was that the main frontal force of Chagatai hadn't been dispatched yet. Once Wai Si led the rest of the team to launch a general attack, even if Lan Yu could win in the end, he would have to pay a huge price.

Waisi has been watching the situation on the battlefield, and seeing that Daming's firearms are so sharp, not only has a longer range than bows and arrows, but even the rate of fire is almost equal to that of bows and arrows, which fills him with worry.

Moreover, Sapphire's style of play made him too uncomfortable, all of them were huddled in their shells, so that his cavalry could not give full play to their advantages.

If placed in the past, their cavalry can also take advantage of maneuvering and shoot arrows from all angles to torture the enemy.

But now the range of their bows and arrows is too short, and they can no longer play the light cavalry guerrilla strategy invented by their ancestors.

As a last resort, Waisi can only gamble on the fighting will of the Ming army!

"Warriors!"

"As long as we carry a few rounds of firecrackers from the Ming people, we can rush into their camp and chop them to death like melons and vegetables!"

"Although this general is the grandson of Khan, I am willing to be the first to charge!"

The Chagatai cavalry, who had already been frightened by the dense firecrackers of the Ming army, heard that the chief general Wai Si was about to take the lead in the charge, and all of them shouted like chicken blood.

Seeing that the morale on his side had been boosted, Wai Si immediately grabbed his horse's belly and rushed out first.

"Warriors!"

"Whoever breaks the camp of the Ming army first will be rewarded with [-] sheep!"

Seeing that the main general rushed out, the others immediately followed up with howls.Hearing the reward issued by Waisi again, they rushed forward like crazy one by one, and quickly passed Waisi and rushed to the front of the team.

Seeing that the opponent had finally launched a frontal attack, Lan Yu immediately ordered people to fire artillery.

It's just that he overestimated the artillery and underestimated the bravery of the Chagatai cavalry on the opposite side.

Artillery actually doesn't do much to deal with prairie cavalry.

Except that the flames and sound of the explosion can disturb the opponent's horses, it has almost no effect on the cavalry of Chagatai, and there is no obstacle to their advancement.

Fortunately, the intensive shooting of the firecrackers is still effective. After rounds of firecracker shooting, the frontal battlefield has already fallen to the enemy.

However, what surprised Lan Yu was that the Chagatai army on the opposite side did not have the slightest intention of retreating, but still charged forward fearlessly.

This made Sapphire's subordinates a little panicked. After all, they were just a group of miscellaneous soldiers, temporarily drawn from various guards, and had never experienced any big battles at all.

Sapphire didn't panic, she was a little excited inside.But as soon as he saw the miscellaneous soldiers under his hands, Lao Lan's heart suddenly turned cold.

"Everyone hold your ground!"

"The cavalry is ready, ready to charge and kill the old man at any time!"

"promise!"

The soldiers in the Blue Jade Army felt a lot more at ease when they heard this, and it wasn't until then that they remembered that they also had elite cavalry on their side.

Although the number of people is a bit small, they are equipped with complete equipment. Everyone is covered with armor, even the horses are wearing iron armor. Ordinary bows and arrows can't hurt them at all.

Wai Siqiang held the firearms of the Ming army, and led the warriors of Chagatai into the front of the Ming army.Just when he thought it was going to be a massacre, he suddenly saw the shieldmen of the Ming army retreating in front of him, and while retreating again and again, he wanted to open a passage on both sides, as if welcoming them to attack the camp.

While he was in a daze, he suddenly saw a gray-bearded veteran riding a tall horse covered in iron armor, holding a long spear and rushing towards him.

Behind this veteran, armored cavalry rushed out like a tide, and quickly met his army.

Seeing this battle, the Chagatai cavalry panicked and yelled in panic.

"Iron Buddha!"

"Da Ming has an Iron Buddha!"

Waisi was also dumbfounded when he saw so many iron Buddhas. This kind of iron Buddhas in full armor was designed to attack the light cavalry on his side.

As soon as the Iron Buddha led by Sapphire rushed out, they strangled together with the Chagatai cavalry, without giving the opponent any chance to breathe.

The Chagatai cavalry retreated to the rear while shooting arrows and hacking at the Iron Buddha in vain.

Waisi stood a little far away and thought urgently. After a brief struggle, he made a decision that shocked everyone.

"Warriors!"

"Charge with me!"

The chagatai cavalry, who were in a panic, suddenly heard the commander's order, one by one, one by one, ten to one hundred, and soon spread throughout the entire battlefield.

In addition, Waisi's armor and horses are very iconic, and there are two flag bearers on the side, so other cavalry can easily identify the position of the general.

The other cavalry left the Iron Buddha in front of them one after another, caught up with the footsteps of the general, and followed closely behind the general.

As Waisi galloped between the two armies, there were more and more cavalry behind him. When they were almost assembled, Waisi took advantage of the mobility of the light cavalry and circled around the Sapphire army. The left side of the army rushed in.

In fact, Waisi originally wanted to attack the rear of Lan Yu's army, but when he took a look around the rear, Lan Yu had piled up all the baggage in the rear, and there was no chance of assault at all.

As a last resort, he chose the relatively weak left wing, and then forcibly broke through the formation during the gap between firecrackers, stepped on the corpse of his companion, stepped into the Ming army camp, and started killing the Ming army frantically.

The musketeers in the Blue Jade Army saw their opponent rushing into their formation and instantly became a mess. They were so exhausted that they even trampled on each other.

It wasn't until Sapphire returned with the heavy cavalry that the flustered Chinese army gradually stabilized.

But because the heavy cavalry moved slowly, it was difficult to catch up with Chagatai's light cavalry, and Sapphire could only watch helplessly as the opponent escaped through the gap opened.

A battle lasted less than an hour, and the corpses of more than 1 horses and soldiers left in Chagatai withdrew.

Sapphire also suffered heavy losses, as many as 3000 people were killed in battle, and more than 1000 people died because they trampled on each other in panic.

Although Sapphire won the battle loss, Sapphire was not happy at all.

Because compared to other armies, his losses are the most in Ming Dynasty!

"Quickly send a telegram to the emperor grandson, telling the Chagatai cavalry that they have found a way to deal with firearms!"

"General, we didn't lose, did we?"

"We didn't lose, but the wrong way of playing is already the means that can cause the greatest damage to us!"

"Once this son is allowed to escape alive, it will cause immeasurable losses to Daming!"

While Lan Yu was cleaning up the mess, Wai Si was also thinking about the confrontation just now on the horse.

Although he paid a heavy price on his side, and the elite of more than 1 people hated the battlefield like this, he seemed to have found a way to restrain the Ming army.

As long as the formation is spread out more when facing the Ming army next time, the opponent's artillery will be useless.It's just that the firecrackers of the Ming army are difficult to deal with, and they shoot fast, far and accurately.

If you don't take a few waves abruptly, you won't be able to rush to the opposite position at all.

But if you have 10 people, and you can withstand the early losses, you can still eat all the 5 people on the opposite side!

When Wai Si fled, several other generals also caught up.

"My lord, what shall we do next?"

"What else can I do, of course I'm going back to Chagatai!"

"go back?"

"We're not going to rescue Bei Yuan anymore?"

Wai Si didn't want to rescue Bei Yuan in the first place, but it was just because of his grandfather's order and his worries.

Now seeing that he suffered such a big loss, he immediately withdrew his troops without hesitation.

"What a fart to rescue, if we continue to rescue, we will be beaten and disabled first!"

(End of this chapter)