Blood from Daming

Chapter 205 Hard fight
Since Master Sun Chengzong was not going to retreat, Man Gui left to set up the defense of the Ming army. The Ming army occupied several small mounds. Man Gui ordered his men to cut down some branches and thorns to barely surround the position, and then waited for reinforcements 's arrival

The Ming army and Jianlu were strangely calm on the battlefield. Jianlu Zhenglan Banner's two groups of soldiers and horses surrounded the Ming army's Liaodong strategist Sun Chengzong's team, but these Jianlu did not take the initiative to attack, they should be waiting for their own When the reinforcements arrived, the Ming army did not choose to leave after suffering heavy losses, but stayed where they were, as if they were also waiting for the reinforcements to arrive.

When it got dark, Sun Chengzong was a little disappointed. Dafu Fort and Daxing Fort, which were close at hand, insisted that no one was sent out to take a look, which made Sun Chengzong have some doubts about his bunker tactics. Everyone hid in the castle and refused to come out to fight with cameras. The final result is likely to be pulled out one by one by Jianlu as nails.

Although Sun Chengzong's confidence in his center blooming and annihilating the two groups of Tartars on Hongluo Mountain has been shaken, it is already dark and Ma Kong can't see anything. If you want to leave, you have to wait until dawn. Sun Chengzong, who is sitting behind a rock in Tianxi, is resting. The officers and soldiers under the command reported that the torches all over the mountains and plains were moving towards him. Sun Chengzong suppressed his emotions after a little excitement, and asked the officers and soldiers to confirm whether it was the officers and soldiers or the Jianlu.

In the middle of the night, after paying more than a dozen rangers, he confirmed that these torched troops turned out to be Jianlu. Sun Chengzong regretted that he should evacuate. , they shouldn't pay their lives in this kind of battle with completely asymmetric strength.

Master Sun Chengzong of the Liaodong Economic Strategy of the Ming Dynasty and his subordinates Mao Yuanyi, Man Gui and others came to a small hill. Everyone sat together and looked at the star-like torches in the distance, feeling chilly. Man Gui took the initiative to provoke the topic.

"My lord, judging by the torches, the number of prisoners is at least [-] cavalry. If we don't have reinforcements in the morning, we won't be able to support them for long. My lord, we should break through overnight." Man Gui said.

Mao Yuanyi: "Manchu soldiers, the cavalry breakout will definitely alarm the Jianlu. Our cavalry can't outrun the Jianlu's cavalry at all. It will be even worse if we give up our horses and retreat. The sky will soon be dawn, and we won't be able to walk far. Being overtaken by Jianlu, this kind of evacuation is no different from suicide."

Man Gui beat the sand on the ground vigorously, and said a little excitedly: "I hate the officers and soldiers of Ningyuan, Dafubao, and Daxingbao.

Mao Yuanyi: "Man Zongbing, Yuan Shenzheng will not do anything that will never be saved. What we have to worry about now is whether we can persist until then before they come."

Sun Chengzong sat there without speaking. After a while, Mao Yuanyi couldn't help asking Sun Chengzong: "Dong Weng, what are you thinking?"

Sun Chengzong said after a long time: "For many years, the Jianlu either looted all the way or opened the city gate. How could there be so many heavy soldiers ambushing near Jinzhou this time? There should be some things we don't know."

Man Gui: "My lord, what's the use of thinking about that now, tomorrow morning, whether to stay or withdraw, just play it by ear."

Mao Yuanyi said suddenly: "Dong Weng, you mean something is going on in the west."

Sun Chengzong: "It should be that something happened in western Liaoning, but I don't know whether Horqin or Chahar is against Jianlu. It would be best if we can contact them."

Mao Yuanyi: "Dong Weng, let alone whether we can find those Mongols, even if we find them, it may be too late."

Sun Chengzong took a nap, and when he woke up it was already dawn, Mao Yuanyi and Man Gui secretly admired Sun Chengzong's calmness, Sun Chengzong stood up and looked into the distance, surrounded by densely packed Houjin soldiers sitting on the ground to rest , The horse was gnawing on the grass beside the Tazi soldiers, Sun Chengzong looked carefully at the flag of Jianlu, and secretly thought that it was Jianlu's Dabeile Daishan and his Zhenghong flag and Xianghong flag.

Man Gui came to Lord Sun Chengzong and said: "My lord, these people are Jianlu's Zhenghongqi and Xianghongqi, but I heard that Zhenghongqi and Xianghongqi were defeated in Datong last year. Forbidden, Sakhalian died in the rebellion, and there were no more than a thousand people who fled back with the red flags and red flags inlaid with red flags, which is the real "ten for one."

Sun Chengzong: "The old man of Tangbao in the imperial court has also read it, but he thinks there is too much water in it, so I'm afraid he can't take it seriously."

Man Gui: "The generals in Liaodong have done a lot of work in Shengjing. It is true that Zhenghongqi and Xianghongqi were defeated in Datong. It is said that the current Yue Tuo is a one-eyed dragon. It is thanks to Datong's deputy general Xue Yun."

Mao Yuanyi: "Man Zongbing, you mean that the current Zhenghongqi and Xianghongqi have tens of thousands of bannermen, so their combat effectiveness should drop a lot."

Man Gui: "Replenishing [-] lieutenants, the strength of the slaves will definitely decline, but Jianlu implements the military merit system. In order to get more rewards from the population, the new bannermen may be even more ruthless and lethal. .”

At this time, the sky was already bright, and Sun Chengzong, Mao Yuanyi, and Man Gui could clearly see Yingzhi ten miles away. Houjin Dabeile Daishan’s Zhenghongqi and Xianghongqi began to move their bodies and eat some dried beef and mutton to satisfy their hunger. Waiting for the order of Dabeile Daishan, always ready to destroy Sun Chengzong and his subordinates.

At this moment, the officers and soldiers under his command reported to Sun Chengzong that the flag of the Ming army appeared in the southeast. Sun Chengzong, Mao Yuanyi, and Man Gui quickly looked to the southeast. There were many flags of the Ming army vaguely about a dozen miles away. The establishment of this Ming army should be around 1 people. Judging from the direction and personnel, it should be Ningyuan's reinforcements.

The appearance of the Ming army in the southeast caused Jianlu to blow the horn of attack. Jianlu attacked Sun Chengzong's Ming army from four routes, Abu Tai in the south, Baduli in the east, Jueshan in the west, and Yuxi in the north. Dabeile Daishan personally led the formation. Daishan's second son Shuo Tuo led [-] bannermen with red flags to face the Ningyuan reinforcements in the southeast, while Dabeile Daishan led about seven or eight thousand Jianlu as a mobile force in the north.

Jianlu's troops in each direction to attack Sun Chengzong were about 3000, and [-] Jianlu squeezed towards the besieged Ming army. , Jueshan's cavalry entered the Ming army's attack range first, and Mao Yuanyi's central army defended to the west. The number of officers and soldiers was about [-]. Their biggest support was the three shallow horse traps dug last night.

Some trees set up a frame to cover the body of the Ming army in the west. When Jueshan’s cavalry entered the range of the Ming army’s attack, they were immediately affected by the trapping ditch. Come down, the [-] Ming troops are all strong men selected in the army by Sun Chengzong, the Liaodong economic strategy. If the white-armored soldiers can practice, the other Tartars are probably far behind.

The Ming army sent out the eagle feathers in their hands first, and hundreds of Tazi soldiers who gathered in the first ditch were immediately hit by arrows. However, the soldiers of Dabeile Daishan were not many well-armored and deadly, only about [-] people fell down. Most of the rest didn't hurt their vital parts. Almost at the same time as the Tartar soldiers fell, Jianlu also shot his first arrow.

Nearly 40 Tartar soldiers put a lot of pressure on the Ming army. Although the Ming army was covered by trees, due to the poor fortifications, [-] people were shot by the Tartar bows and arrows, and at least ten of the Ming army were killed. Shot dead on the spot.

At this time, the Tartars began to shoot arrows at Sun Chengzong's troops from the east, south, and north. Under the command, he continued to shoot and kill the tartar soldiers who were attacking slowly.

What Sun Chengzong is most concerned about now is whether the reinforcements in the southeast can move closer to him. In the distance, the Ningyuan Ming army and the [-] red-flagged Tartars led by Daishan's son Shuo Tuo fought together. After a while, the flags of both sides were in chaos. However, Sun Chengzong saw that several banners had been moving in his direction.

When Man Gui commanded the Ming army to release the fifth arrow, the Tartar soldiers in the north rushed through three ditches, and the swarming Tartar cavalry fought hand-to-hand with the coalition forces of Man Gui and Mao Yuanyi. There were less than 600 soldiers. The human cavalry coalition fought a life-and-death struggle against the Tartars, who were five times faster than themselves, and they could not retreat because behind them was the important minister of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Chengzong, Sun Chengzong, the governor of Liaodong.

A soldier of the Ming army leaned against a tree trunk and hacked to death three Tartars in a row. When he cut the thigh of the fourth Tartar with his broadsword, his back was severely chopped off by the Tartars who came up behind him. With one blow, the soldier of the Ming army fell to the ground where he was fighting.

None of the seven soldiers of the Ming army who stood dead on a gap retreated. After killing about [-] Tartars, they all died in their combat posts. After Mr. Sun agreed, he took the remaining soldiers and slightly wounded soldiers to launch a major counterattack against the Tartars in the north.

The Northern Tartar Army, already at the end of its strength, was led by Sun Chengzong's personal captain to fight a counter-charge with 400 men, and dealt a fatal blow to the scattered Tartar soldiers, beheading more than 100 Jianzhou Tartars. The Ming army also cooperated with the soldiers of the Chinese army's personal battalion to fight back, and finally drove the Tartars out of the sinking ditch.

(End of this chapter)