Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 137

Xu Heng's three [-]-man teams have different combat strengths: the leader of the [-]-man team is composed of [-] elite frontier troops, [-] the most elite Shenji Battalion, and [-] emperor's personal guards.

Xu Heng's most elite combat forces were all sent out, and they didn't even defend the city.The defense of Yuantu City was temporarily replaced by two thousand personal guards sent by the emperor.

Xu Heng, Fan Guang, and Xu Tong are all sitting in the headed [-]-strong team, which is also one of the two main forces for the night attack on Polo.

The [-]-man team at the rear left is the [-]-man Shenji Battalion led by the governor Tao Jin.

The [-]-person team at the right rear is the Five Thousand Heavens Guard under the command of Chengshan Hou Wangtong, and the five thousand Shenji Battalion is assisted.

Except for Tao Jin who is relatively peaceful, the remaining generals in command are all in great need of military merit.

The most urgent thing is Chengshan Hou Wangtong. His own Marquis was only restored verbally by the emperor, and he still needs to make new achievements to officially confirm it.

As for Wang Tong's Tian Cewei, although he was included in the emperor's personal guard, Tian Cewei was suppressed by the King of Han for 20 years after the King of Han exterminated his family.

Most importantly, the name Tiancewei was also very problematic.Back then, why the King of Han insisted on calling Tiance Guards by name, it was because Tang Taizong Li Shimin was the general of Tiances and opened the Tiances Mansion.So the King of Han felt that the name Tian Cewei was a good fortune, and he also wanted to replace the eldest son with the second son as the prince like Li Shimin did.

If this is done, how can Tiance Guard survive? He can only be suppressed by the emperor everywhere, and he can't stand up for more than 20 years.

After waiting so hard until Emperor Jingtai ascended the throne, and Zhu Qiyu was extremely short of manpower, in order to dig out his cronies, he had already reached the point where he had to drill holes in mountains, Tiancewei finally ushered in a turning point.

Moreover, Tian Cewei is now the emperor's personal guard, and he will be rewarded 20 taels for beheading a Tartar.

So now Wang Tong is leading Tiance Guard, very anxious to rush up and chop off the head.

This is the current morale situation of the [-] Ming army led by Xu Heng.

The Ming army has a characteristic, that is, it never disappoints people when the food and salary are sufficient and the information is not at a disadvantage.

This also led to the joke of later generations: Jurchen is dissatisfied with ten thousand and invincible;

But he said that after dark, he decided that the Ming army would not attack, so he withdrew to his camp with [-] cavalry.The [-] main force gathered together, preparing to rest overnight in An Ansheng, and then act accordingly tomorrow.

After Yexian withdrew back to the camp, the [-] Ming troops separated from Yexian and Polo no longer had any worries. Under the leadership of the governors Tang Jie and Liu Dexin, they began to cooperate with Xu Heng's [-] main force and marched towards Polo step by step. pressing.

Polo stayed in the big camp, feeling very sad in his heart. It was so dark outside that he couldn't understand what the Ming army was doing.And now I don't know what to do:
Fall asleep?Then the heart is too big, it is impossible to sleep.

Lead the cavalry to rush out?Where to rush, who to rush?People who are not familiar with the place of life, who are in the dark, what should they do if they rush into a private house, what should they do if they hit a wall, what should they do if they step into a ditch?
Build fortifications?Repairing fortifications at night, I have never heard of a fool doing this.

Polo had no choice but to look at the two brothers, but the two brothers also stared at each other, unable to explain why.

It was the first time that Polo met a strange opponent who insisted on fighting at night, and it was also the first time that he fought so uselessly.

While Polo was struggling, the [-] Ming troops slowly advanced to one mile away from the edge of the Polo camp, and then continued to advance without stopping. It took two full hours, and finally the Polo camp was [-] paces away.

At this time Xu Heng was no longer silent, and ordered three teams of ten thousand people to attack the opposite side with catapults.

So a hundred catapults launched an attack at the same time, and in each round of salvo, 100 yuan of stones were smashed into Polo's camp.

In fact, under normal circumstances, the catapult is useless and cannot cause any damage.

It was Zhu Qiyu who forced Jinyiwei's military craftsmen to build a hundred catapults, which were specially used to make trouble for the opponent at night.

The purpose is not to smash people to death, but to make the opponent's soldiers unable to sleep peacefully.

This stupid method really worked. Polo's army couldn't rest at all.After all, there will be stones falling from the sky at any time, who will bear it.Although the chance of being hit is very small, who would gamble with his life?

In fact, the range of the catapult is at most three or four hundred steps, but it is completely dark everywhere. How can the soldiers of Wala bother to study the range of the catapult? They only know that there is a lot of movement, and there are waves of stone rain Smashed into the camp.

Therefore, the stone-throwing tactics with heavy thunder and little rain successfully affected the mentality and sleep of the Polo army.

The three Polo brothers couldn't sit still after receiving the report from the soldiers.King Saihan persuaded: "Brother, let's retreat, we can't fight, and we can't sleep. Sitting is not an option. Wouldn't that be sitting and waiting for death?"

How about we also learn from the Ming army, gather [-] cavalry and retreat slowly.Anyway, the Ming army is advancing slowly, so we will consume it step by step, and when it is dawn, we will attack with the whole army to eat up this Ming army. "

Polo asked helplessly: "I also want to withdraw, but what about the food and grass? What about the luggage? Besides, we have 2 people, and the Ming army on the opposite side has 6 people during the day. I don't know how many people are out there now. How to eat them?

They used those chariots to surround themselves like a hedgehog, how to fight?Fighting against the Ming army under the walls of Beijing is much more difficult than in Datong and Xuanfu. "

"Why don't we give up the food, grass and supplies first, and let's grab them back tomorrow?"

Hearing this, Polo reprimanded angrily: "You are stupid, they burned it for you directly, what are you going to grab tomorrow? Are you grabbing ashes?"

King Saihan replied helplessly: "Then what to do, anyway, don't let me charge against the Ming army now. If you want to charge, let your subordinates go, and my subordinates will not use it for such a meaningless sacrifice."

Just when the three Polo brothers were in a dilemma, the Ming army stopped again and stopped advancing, but fired a round of volleys with trebuchets every two quarters of an hour.The Ming army just didn't want Polo's army to sleep well, but they didn't want to fight face to face either.

The two sides were at a stalemate, but this also relieved Polo, at least there was no need to debate whether to fight or retreat.

It has been consumed like this, and finally survived until there is only one more hour, and the sky will gradually dawn.The Ming army stopped throwing stones and began to retreat slightly.

Polo sighed, this difficult night was finally coming to an end.Polo secretly vowed in his heart that tomorrow, no matter what he said, he would retreat five li, and set up camp next to the main Oala army on the north side of the camp.

I blame my elder brother for insisting on camping so close to the city wall of Beijing. If he had camped ten miles away from the city like his elder brother, the Ming army would not have dared to get so close.

Thinking of this, Polo ordered his own soldiers to pass an order, and the army began to take turns to rest, and at dawn they packed up their luggage and retreated.

It's a pity that Polo's order killed thousands of soldiers.In fact, if the army persisted for another hour, the matter would pass.

The Wala army had marched from Zijingguan in a hurry, and arrived at the foot of Beijing in three days, already exhausted.After being tossed about by the Ming army again yesterday afternoon and the whole night, the soldiers were exhausted physically and mentally.

When Polo gave the order to take turns to rest, the soldiers relaxed completely, and all sat on the ground with their heads tilted to sleep.

Zhu Qiyu arranged the previous series of absurd actions, waiting for this moment, waiting for Polo's misjudgment at the last moment.

Less than half an hour after Boluo's order was conveyed, a cavalry force composed of three thousand emperor's personal guards suddenly rushed out from the north side.

Xu Heng's team of [-] soldiers drove into the Polo camp from the east, with [-] elite Shaanxi frontier troops and [-] emperor's personal guards forming cavalry.

Wang Tong's [-]-strong team also opened up their chariots, and the [-]-day guard cavalry made a detour and entered the Polo camp from the south.

The remaining more than 5 Ming troops followed behind the cavalry and began to speed up. Relying on the protection of the chariot formation, they rushed towards the Polo camp from the east and south.

(End of this chapter)