Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 198 Zhang Yu still died in the battle

Yongle five years.

February [-]th.

Capital.

Royal Palace.

Fengtian Temple.

This February is extremely cold. The heavy snowfall just stopped yesterday, so many officials were shivering from the cold before the morning court meeting today.

Zhu Di specially gave each official a robe, which greatly moved the officials.

After the morning court officially began, Zhu Di sat on the dragon chair, and Zhu Gaoxu sat on the prince's seat below and to the left of Zhu Di.

Yesterday, the father and son received the news of the great victory in the Western Region.

Therefore, at the beginning of the court meeting, Jin Zhong, the Minister of the Ministry of War, bowed out and reported: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of War received a military report from Cao Guogong last night. Cao Guogong, Pinghou and other officers have successfully defeated Timur. Er's Eastern Expedition army has completely established a foothold in the Western Region."

"Tell me in detail." Zhu Di said loudly.

Therefore, Jin Zhong gave a brief account of the battle between the Ming army and Timur's army around Yili City in the past three months.

Just at the beginning of November last year, the Ming army regained the entire territory of Turpan, and pursued the victory to regain the Bali City.

Later that month, Zhang Yu and Li Jinglong discussed and decided to take advantage of the cold winter to raid the inner city.

In the middle of the next month, Li Yuan took advantage of the ice to cross the narrow part of the Yili River and circled to the west of Yilibaili City.

More than ten days later, Zhang Yu, Li Jinglong and Li Yuan attacked Yilibaoli City from front to back. However, due to the fierce fighting, Huozhen, who was in his 50s, was wounded and died in the battle.

After that, Zhang Yu and Tan Yuan garrisoned Yilibaili City with ten vehicle-mounted artillery, while Li Jinglong and Qiu Fu garrisoned Turpan City and sent troops to deliver good news to the court.

When Tamerlane learned that the Ming army had captured the royal city, he suddenly made a counterattack and planned to surround the inner city of Yili.

Just before he ran out of ammunition and food, Zhang Yu used a strange trick. Although he failed to kill Timur on the spot, he caused his right arm and leg to be broken, and he fell into a coma due to excessive blood loss.

A few days later, Timur awoke from his coma.

When he learned that the town he had previously occupied had been captured by Zhang Yu's troops, he was furious and immediately ordered his troops to massacre the people around Yili City.

Then he surrounded the city with heavy troops and bombarded the city gates with dozens of slingshots.

Zhang Yu's troops were besieged for more than 20 days and had already run out of ammunition and food.

In order to prevent the people in the city from having different intentions, Zhang Yu divided some troops to patrol the city, picket the restless elements, and prevent anyone from collaborating with Timur inside and outside, and Kaicheng surrender.

At the same time, he repeatedly sent a rescue team ranging from a dozen people to nearly a hundred people out of the east gate to ask for help from Li Jinglong's troops who were temporarily stationed in Turpan City.

However, these rescue teams were all killed by ambushes sent by Timur on the road, and no one survived.

The ambush troops sent by Timur did not circle from the northern desert to the east of Yili city at the same time, but there were three groups of teams, each with 1000 people.

Timur's original plan was to surround Yili City and force Zhang Yu's troops to surrender.

If the ambush troops in the east of the city and the army in the west of the city jointly attacked the inner city, Zhang Yu's troops would probably be defeated earlier, but Timur did not do this because he expected that Zhang Yu would be on guard.

In fact, this was also the case. After the first wave and the second wave of ambushes sent by Tamerlane merged, they attacked Yilibaili City several times from the east gate.

They found that the defensive strength of the east gate was no weaker than that of the west gate, so they gave up the siege and implemented the plan of siege and reinforcements formulated by Min Min Fuhua.

On the other hand, Timur was very smart. He sent people to build heavy catapults day and night and bombarded the city with stone cannons.

Zhang Yu's troops were besieged for more than 20 days. They ran out of ammunition and food and could not hold on for a long time. In the end, the inner city was captured by Timur's army.

After the city was broken, Tan Yuan died fighting hard. Zhang Yu, who was hit by a poisonous arrow, retreated to the city with Li Yuan and others under the cover of his own soldiers, and then engaged in street fighting with Timur's army.

Min Min set up an ambush to catch Zhang Yu. Zhang Yu knew that he was poisoned by an arrow. Even if he could temporarily repel Timur's army, he would not be able to get timely medical treatment for a while, and he would inevitably die.

Therefore, Zhang Yu decided to die together with Min Min.

The battle between the two sides was very fierce. In the end, Zhang Yu used the single-shot short-barreled handgun given to him by Zhu Gaoxu for critical moment self-defense, and hit Min Min Buhua in the chest, causing the opponent to die on the spot.

He himself was also hit by an arrow, but fortunately he finally received reinforcements led by Li Jinglong.

Previously, Timur knew that Cao Guogong Li Jinglong stationed in Turpan City would definitely send troops to assist Zhang Yu's troops.

Therefore, as early as when he ordered the attack on Yilibaili City, he had already sent an ambush of 1000 troops across the northern desert to the east of Yilibali City, and ambush from Turpan to Yilibali City. on the only way.

Therefore, several reinforcement teams sent by Zhang Yu were all killed by these ambush soldiers.

Later, Timur considered that 1000 men would be unable to withstand Li Jinglong's thousands of cavalry, so he sent two groups of ambush troops, each with 1000 men.

In this way, the messengers Li Jinglong sent to communicate with Yili City and the scouts to spy on the military situation were all killed in an ambush by Timur.

When Yili City was besieged for 15 days, Li Jinglong discovered that the messengers and scouts he sent had not returned for more than half a month, and finally realized that something must have changed in Yili City.

Because there is a distance of more than 1000 and [-] miles from Turpan City to Yilibaili City, even a [-]-mile expedited trip of changing horses and people would take two days.

There is a prerequisite for the six hundred mile rush, that is, there are enough inns on the road to change horses and people, but Yili City and other places have just been occupied by the Ming army, and there is no time to build inns.

Temporary resting places were only set up in key towns. As for the two hundred miles close to Yilibali City, they were destroyed by three groups of ambushes sent by Timur.

Therefore, at present, Li Jinglong and Zhang Yu are exchanging information. Without encountering interception, at the speed of cavalry, a round trip from the two places will take at least six days, that is, more than 200 miles a day, and this is already relatively fast. .

Therefore, when Li Jinglong discovered that no one of the messengers and scouts had returned after half a month, he knew that Yili City had been attacked by the enemy.

At this time, he was no longer a military rookie, not to mention he was already proficient in the art of war.Coupled with the battles during this period after entering the Western Region, he has grown up rapidly.

Therefore, on the day he realized something was not going well, Li Jinglong first sent a thousand-man light cavalry team led by Qiu Fu as a vanguard to Yili City to rescue Zhang Yu.

After that, Li Jinglong sent someone to convey the general information to the Marquis of Xining, and on the other hand he gathered the troops and gathered the scattered officers and soldiers. On the next day, he personally led 500 cavalry, [-] horse-riding magic soldiers, [-] infantry, and [-] soldiers. Thousands of cavalry auxiliaries composed of Annan people, totaling [-] people, galloped to support the inner city under the starry night.

Li Jinglong led the army, and after six days of day and night attacks, they encountered the light cavalry team he had sent before two hundred miles away from Yilibaili City.

Of the original 1000 people, there were now only more than 400 fighting soldiers and more than 200 wounded who could no longer fight. More than [-] people were killed by Timur's ambush.

Li Jinglong learned from Qiu Fu that more than 300 cavalry were killed by Timur's ambush, and he was furious. However, he did not let his anger cover his reason, but soberly sent a large number of scouts to detect Timur's ambush ahead.

Although he and Zhang Yu had been to Yilibali City before, they were not familiar with the terrain of this area.

Moreover, Timur sent three groups of ambush troops, totaling 3000 people. These ambush troops were well-equipped and all elite soldiers.

Although Timur's troops had fought a battle with the vanguard troops sent by Li Jinglong before the ambush, their troops did not lose many people, with more than [-] men left to fight.

What troubled Li Jinglong the most was that there were more than 200 people in Timur's ambush who were also equipped with firearms such as blunderbuss.

After questioning the ambush prisoners captured by Qiu Fu, Li Jinglong learned that these firearms were made for Timur by the craftsmen under Husada.

Husada had long seen that the Ming army's firearms were very sharp, so he recruited nearly a hundred craftsmen to imitate the Ming Dynasty firearms. Later, Husada withdrew and took the inner city, and all the craftsmen he took away were intercepted and arrested by Timur. .

Timur sent people to bring craftsmen to Arima City to imitate firearms. Due to the limited number of craftsmen, the conditions for making fire guns in Arima City were also limited, so the number of fire guns made by these craftsmen was also limited.

It can be seen from this that Timur had high hopes for the ambush, and Min Min's plan to siege the city without spending money was reasonable.

Li Jinglong's troops had the advantage in numbers and carried ten vehicle-mounted general cannons.

Even so, it took him three full days to kill all the more than 600 ambushes of Timur's tribe.

That's right, they killed them all, leaving no one alive.

Because he has no extra food to feed these prisoners!
After Li Jinglong led the reinforcements into the city through the east gate of Yilibaili City, he found that only Li Yuan's troops and Zhang Yu were still leading the people in the city to engage in street fighting with Timur soldiers.

With the addition of Li Jinglong's army, the entire battle situation was immediately reversed.

Timur knew that the situation was over, so he ordered his troops to retreat.

But how could Li Jinglong let Timur go, and immediately sent people to pursue the victory.

Originally, Timur dispatched [-] troops in his eastern expedition. After a battle with Hudada and Mahama who were defending the royal city, more than [-] people were killed and more than [-] were injured.

Although his second son Shahei later brought [-] reinforcements from the country, in fact, excluding auxiliary troops, Timur's actual combat troops were less than [-].

After more than 20 days of hard fighting with Zhang Yu's troops, and three ambushes sent out, there were only about [-] soldiers left to attack the city. Most of the other soldiers were wounded soldiers with frostbite and siege injuries, and they died directly on the battlefield. less than one-fifth of the soldiers.

After Yili City was captured by Timur's army, Zhang Yu's tribe and Timur's tribe continued to fight in the streets, and Timur's tribe lost some soldiers.

By the time Li Jinglong led the reinforcements and arrived at Yilibaili City, Timur had less than [-] soldiers capable of fighting, and most of them were exhausted, and their fighting will was weak.

The Ming army took advantage of the victory and pursued it with high fighting spirit. The Timurid army soldiers just wanted to escape back to Alima City and did not want to die in Yiliba.

Because Timur himself had limited mobility, he could only escape in a carriage. After all, the speed of the carriage could not match the light cavalry. In the end, Tamerlane and his carriage were bombarded to pieces by the Ming Dynasty's vehicle-mounted generals.

When Timur's soldiers saw that Timur was killed, many of them chose to surrender. Only Shahei, the second son of Timur who accompanied Timur on his eastern expedition, led his own soldiers and fought to the last soldier without surrendering. Die from exhaustion.

In the battle of Yilibaoli, Timur's army was defeated and the Ming army won a complete victory.

Timur was killed by the Shenji soldiers with a vehicle-mounted general's cannon, his second son Shahei was killed in battle, and his minister Min Minbuhua was killed by Zhang Yu.

After this battle, he also tried to suppress the local forces around the inner city.

However, it was a pity that Zhang Yu was treated by the doctors accompanying the army for several days, but eventually died of his injuries.

During the treatment, Zhang Yu dictated and Li Jinglong wrote for him a memorial to Zhu Di and a letter to his children at home.

After Jin Zhong said this, he immediately took out a letter and a memorial from his sleeve pocket.

Li Xing bowed and quickly handed the memorial and letter to Zhu Di on the dragon throne.

With tears in his eyes, Zhu Di slowly opened Zhang Yu's memorial.

In the memorial, Zhang Yu reported the list of meritorious soldiers who defended Yili City this time. He highlighted Li Yuan, who had previously led a strange force to help him capture Yili City. He also defended the city with him this time. He is a talented general. I hope His Majesty the Emperor can reuse this person in the future.

Later, he mentioned that General Liu's killing of people and grabbing food was done without telling Tan Yuan. He, as the commander-in-chief, was responsible for this oversight, and Tan Yuan, as Liu's immediate superior, was also guilty of unforgivable oversight. , but the crime does not lead to death, I hope that His Majesty the Emperor can give Tan Yuan a lighter sentence. After all, Tan Yuan has sacrificed his life for the country and died in Yilibaoli City.

Zhu Di held back tears, closed the memorial, and then took Zhang Yu's family letter.

He hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not open the letter from home, but asked Li Xing to hand it over to Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu is Zhang Yu's son-in-law.

He understood what Zhu Di meant, so he opened the letter in front of the ministers.

In his letter home, Zhang Yu said to his children that the current emperor is an eternal sage. Our Zhang family’s ability to marry the royal family is a blessing cultivated by our ancestors for generations. You must do your best to assist your majesty and the prince to repay the royal family. Long En, don’t lose the face of the Zhang family’s ancestors.

That's right, Zhang Yu's letter to his family before his death was really just a few simple sentences.

But these few words made Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu and his son decide to give the Zhang family the same wealth and honor as the country. Zhang Fu continued to uphold Zhang Yu's aspirations throughout his life and did his best to serve Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu. During his lifetime, Zhang Fu laid the foundation for Zhang Yu's family. The family has the status of the first nobleman in the Ming Dynasty!
Zhu Gaoxu received the letter, turned around and reported to Zhu Di: "Father, Tan Yuan's tribe killed people and took food, all because of Liu Zongqi's crime under his command. I would like to ask His Majesty Father to order Liu Zongqi to be beheaded in public, and to posthumously grant the title of Zhang." Yu, Huozhen and other meritorious soldiers who died in battle."

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