high official

Chapter 1224
In Daxing, Wang Xian had been fighting with Zhang Fu's army for most of the day.

At this time, the difference in the quality of the two armies was manifested. The soldiers under Wang Xian came from afar and fought endlessly, but they could still maintain a strong combat effectiveness. However, Zhang Fu's army was exhausted after only half a day of full pursuit. , couldn't keep up with Wang Xian's footsteps.

Wang Xian could even stop the army for a while and wait for the pursuers. If this momentum continues, Zhang Fu's army can be dragged to death.

"Grandpa, you can take this opportunity to beat them!" Zhang Yi and others asked for battle: "Defeat Daxing's army, so as not to be attacked by the enemy!" Jin Yiwei has sent the news that Zhu Zhanji led the army to the south to Wang Xian's army!
Wang Xian was unmoved, and continued to move eastward at a leisurely pace, as if he wanted to fight Zhang Fu to the end.

When the soldiers were puzzled, they saw several horses galloping towards them from the north under the banner of Xu Huaiqing.

The fast horses were led to Wang Xian, and immediately the knights didn't care to dismount and salute, and reported loudly: "My lord, Yang Rong has led an army of 20 and escorted [-] civilians, and has already started transporting grain and grass from Tongzhou to the capital! "

"What?!" Wang Xian's shocked expression changed drastically, and he asked in a voice, "Where is General Xu now?!"

"My general has led his army to kill him!"

"This bastard!" Wang Xian cursed loudly, then fell into silence with a dark face.

All the generals around did not dare to speak out, for fear of disturbing Wang Xian's thoughts.

At this moment, it was completely difficult for Wang Xian to maintain a calm mood.He had to re-examine whether he underestimated the enemy too much from the very beginning!
"My lord, your strategy is correct. The enemy is strong and we are weak. Our army has no other way. Only by breaking through the barrier as soon as possible and taking Tongzhou can we completely turn the tide of the battle!" Said in a loud voice: "If we don't break through Zhangjiakou in the first place, use more than [-] strong troops from outside to attract the main force of the government and army, and sneak across the Zijing Pass at night, we will be trapped in Hetao! After a long time, the generals will return. The army's morale is scattered, and it will be defeated without a fight!"

"Hmm..." Wang Xian nodded and sighed, "We really have no choice."

"And it's impossible for the officers and soldiers to be all idiots. At least Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi and others are worthy of their reputation." Mo Wen comforted: "We can think that Tongzhou is the gate of the capital, so Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi can naturally Think about it! Since Tongzhou is related to the survival of the capital, they used a hundred thousand troops to escort them, which is also the meaning of the title!"

"Yeah, I shouldn't underestimate the heroes of the world!" Wang Xian said, but laughed and said: "This is the most interesting way! In the Central Plains, how can there be no master match?!"

"Grandpa, just make up your mind! I won't even frown when I go up the mountain of knives or into the sea of ​​fire!" Zhang Yi and the others shouted loudly when they saw that the coach had cheered up.

"I'm sorry everyone, it's my commander who was too aggressive to put you in danger!" Wang Xian smiled apologetically to everyone. The situation in front of him is indeed extremely dangerous. Thousands of horses, entering the vicinity of the capital with more than 2 troops, is tantamount to dancing on the tip of a knife!

Hearing this, the generals were about to comfort Wang Xian, but saw him raise his eyebrows, and changed the subject: "But if we want to defeat the strong with the weak, we can only resort to dangerous tactics! Since we have chosen this path, we can only The risk is over!"

"Don't get entangled with them, the army will go north to Tongzhou immediately!" Wang Xian roared, giving orders to his soldiers!

All the generals were shocked when they heard their fate, and they all knew that the coach was going to put all his eggs in one basket!

Because once the army chooses to go north to Tongzhou, if there is no magic trick to turn the world around, it will soon be surrounded by the three-way official army of the prince, Zhang Fu, and Yang Rong!
However, the generals showed no signs of fear, instead they howled excitedly: "Yes!"

After a series of unbelievable victories, all of them firmly believe that their coach has a pair of insightful eyes that can see through the surface of the battle situation and reach the root of the victory or defeat!They must be able to guide them to defeat powerful enemies and achieve the final victory!

Under this crazy and even blind trust, [-] cavalry immediately turned their horses and galloped north!

Before leaving, Wang Xian sent someone to send a message to the Shandong reinforcements, telling them to play by ear... Now that the battle situation is complicated and the outcome is unpredictable, it is no longer predictable by ordinary people, and he can only give such a vague order , Let Erhei and Deng Xiaoxian judge for themselves.

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Tongzhou.

Under Yang Rong's strict order, Li Xian led [-] cavalry in the city to face Xu Huaiqing.

Now, the officers and soldiers of the Forbidden Army guarding the food and grass only need to summon up all their energy to guard the safety of the food transportation team.The task of driving away Xu Huaiqing's [-] cavalry was all given to Li Xian's [-] cavalry.Li Xian's army is composed of the elite cavalry of Hu Ben, Hussars and other guards. Even though they are not as capable as Xu Huaiqing's subordinates, it is still not a problem to cling to their backs with a large number of people and a new force!

Now, Xu Huaiqing and his [-] cavalry could no longer enter the land of no one, and it was even difficult for them to get close to the army's grain transport team.There are too many cavalry of [-], and they are divided into several teams, outflanking, intercepting, and supporting each perform their duties, and they are not given a chance at all!

Seeing the changes in the battle situation, the escort team of the officers and soldiers cheered, and their fear of Xu Huaiqing suddenly eased a lot.Under the urging of Yang Rong's envoy, they all prepared to go on the road again...

"I can't go on like this!" Xu Huaiqing was so anxious that he couldn't think of any good solution.

At this moment, dozens of Jin Yiwei rushed out from the horizontal stabbing and came in front of Xu Huaiqing.

Xu Huaiqing saw that the leader was Zhang Dong, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Why are you here, kid?!"

Zhang Dong is the surviving newcomer of Jinyiwei in Hulu Valley, the successor of Shi Wan, who has grown extremely fast in the past few years, and has become a commander of Jinyiwei.Wang Xian knew that he was cautious, so after he transferred Wu Wei and others out of the capital, he left him to secretly lead the lurking Jinyiwei camera in the capital.

Apparently, Zhang Dong also knew that the most critical time had come, so he brought his spies and appeared in broad daylight!

"General, I'm here to support you." Zhang Dong grinned at Xu Huaiqing, revealing eight snow-white teeth.

"That's all you have?!" Zhang Dahai looked at the people around Zhang Dong, and thought to himself that even if everyone was a master, it would be useless!

"There are still 500 troops, all elite spies of Jinyiwei," Zhang Dong said lightly, "I let them lie in ambush in the distance, waiting for the general to dispatch at any time!"

"It's still a drop in the bucket..." Zhang Dahai pouted.

"Great!" Xu Huaiqing said happily, "How much explosives do you have?!" Xu Huaiqing didn't ask if he had any, but asked how much, obviously he had already guessed the original purpose of Zhang Dong's trip.

"A lot..." Zhang Dong really replied: "Originally, we wanted to mix into the grain transportation team and blow up a lot of votes!" He said with a somewhat embarrassed smile: "Who knows that we are a step late, the officers and soldiers have already Let the general be beaten into a turtle..."

"Is it enough to blow up the bridge?!" Xu Huaiqing interrupted Zhang Dong and asked in a deep voice.

"What bridge?" Zhang Dong asked cautiously.

"Yongtong Bridge!"

"No problem." Zhang Dong said confidently: "As long as that kind of bridge explodes at a specific location, it will fall down as soon as it explodes. It doesn't need much explosives!"

"If you have extra explosives, try to destroy the ice on the left and right sides of Yongtong Bridge. The larger the damage area, the better!" Xu Huaiqing ordered in a deep voice, "Go! I will lead the army to kill in half an hour!"

"Uh..." Zhang Dong wanted to say something, but when he heard that it was only half an hour, he turned around and left, racing against time to prepare.

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With Zhang Dong's help, Xu Huaiqing's confidence increased greatly, and he shouted to the soldiers under his command: "Children, cheer up! Let them see what a real cavalry is!"

The soldiers responded with a bang, cheered up, turned their heads to look at the moon one after another, and used their riding and shooting skills to shoot at the pursuers behind them!

Li Xian and his [-] cavalry had just seized the initiative, and were about to defeat the [-] cavalry in one go, when they suddenly encountered a head-on blow!The cavalry in the front screamed and fell to the ground with their horses. The cavalry in the back were caught off guard and tripped a lot. This made them angry from embarrassment. They desperately mobilized their horses to catch up and fought back with bows, arrows and muskets!
After all, it was Daming's trump card elite. Although Li Xian's men's muskets were far inferior to Xu Huaiqing's, their riding and shooting skills were comparable.Once they got aggressive, Xu Huaiqing and the others were really troubled, so they could only desperately mobilize their horses to distance themselves from the enemy.

Seeing the indomitable Xu Huaiqing forced to retreat, Li Xian and others were extremely excited, excitedly urging his subordinates to chase after them, even if they couldn't be wiped out, it would be a great victory to drive Xu Huaiqing far away!
However, Xu Huaiqing refused to run away, and just retreated east along the official road. Li Xian had no choice but to follow behind.However, he wasn't too worried, he was only ten miles away to Tongzhou, where could Xu Huaiqing escape?

After chasing and fleeing like this, when they reached Yongtong Bridge, Xu Huaiqing's five thousand cavalry quickly crossed the bridge!Li Xian didn't even think about it, so he led his subordinates onto the bridge. Who knew that he had just passed the bridge when he heard a loud noise behind him, almost at the same time his feet trembled violently, and a fierce wave of air engulfed him. The crushed stone and ice shards rushed towards his back!
The soldiers around Li Xian wailed and fell off their horses. Fortunately, they were surrounded by soldiers who blocked the impact of the explosion for him, preventing him from being overturned and dismounted...

Even so, Li Xian was still so shocked that his ears were buzzing, and his eyes were completely dark.After he regained his eyesight with great difficulty, he saw Xu Huaiqing and others who had fled turned around and came back!Li Xian couldn't help looking back hastily, and his liver and gallbladder were torn—I saw that the river surface ten feet away behind him was full of floating corpses of people and horses and large pieces of broken ice... and the Yongtong Bridge, which originally spanned the river, only The bridge piers on both sides of the river are left, but the bridge body on the river is gone...

(End of this chapter)