Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 1020 Value

The Ming army soldiers who successfully completed the task of attacking the camp returned directly to the camp from Dabanqiao.

The wounded who witnessed their majestic march through the joint camp cheered to greet the triumphant heroes at the bridge. It was not until they saw them carrying back Qi Xiang's body that the bridge fell into dead silence.

Yu Min squeezed her way to the front and watched Master Qianhu, who had taken good care of him since the war started, lying quietly on the stretcher without making any sound. His tears flowed down hard and he couldn't stop them.

The soldiers also cried together, not only for Commander Qi, but also for the thousands of comrades who died in the battle.

Until Lu Qianhu shouted: "Don't cry, our battle is not over yet, we have to wait until it is over to cry!"

The soldiers then remembered that there were 30,000 barbarians not far away...

After the war broke out on the other side, the barbarian soldiers were also alerted, but in the end they neither crossed the river to return reinforcements nor took the opportunity to attack the Ming army camp. It seemed that they were in chaos.

Later, the Ming army learned that the soldiers of the barbarian tribes in Yunnan, because their life was very difficult, could only rely on coarse grains and wild vegetables to feed themselves. They could not eat meat and eggs all year round, and they generally suffered from severe "bird blindness", that is, night blindness. Don't dare to act rashly at night.

This is also an important reason why the 40,000 barbarian soldiers on the other side were rushed to the camp by 2,000 Ming troops and bombed. They couldn't see clearly. Only the Black Barbarian tribe makes a living by hunting, and the soldiers’ diet does not lack animal offal, so they do not suffer from night blindness. The losses of the Ming army were basically caused by them...

They continued to launch a crazy attack on the Ming army's positions. The remaining thousands of Ming troops were unable to defend the entire front and could only retreat to the inner line. Even injured people like Yu Min took up weapons, brandished a sword with one hand, and joined the defensive battle.

Although this cavalry force was small, it dealt a heavy psychological blow to the barbarian soldiers. They thought that reinforcements from the Ming army had arrived...

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Army were about to explain everything here when they suddenly found that the barbarian offensive suddenly slowed down. At this time, the soldiers on the arrow tower cheered: "Our cavalry is here!"

Although the leader of the barbarians was furious, he did not intend to cross the river again. Just sit there and wait for the main force to return.

This wait lasted two days. Two days later, Yang Ju returned to Dashanqiao with his 40,000-strong army.

However, the main force of our side had been defeated and was nowhere to be seen. How could he still be in the mood to fight again? So the leader directly paid the money to withdraw his troops and retreated to the other side on a raft.

It turned out that the Ming army came with just these thousand cavalry...

I saw more than a thousand cavalry coming down the river from the upper reaches and charging into the barbarian formation, as if they were entering an uninhabited country. It turned out to be Liu Qianhu, leading a thousand reserve teams.

At this time, the Ming army on the other side of the bridge had withdrawn without a trace...

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After daybreak, the barbarian soldiers finally recovered their eyesight and vented their anger on the Ming army.

After finally crossing the Baoxiang River, Yang Ju's nose was crooked with anger. What the hell is going on!

He had planned well, but when the Ming army had not harvested their autumn grain, he suddenly started an uprising and caught them off guard. Even if Kunming cannot be captured, it would be great if the Ming army's autumn grain could be destroyed.

He never expected that the 80,000-strong army he led would be blocked by a mere 3,000 Ming troops at Dabanqiao for five days!

Seeing that the Ming army took the initiative to withdraw its troops, he knew that the day lily was now cold. The Ming army must have rushed all the food into the city...

But we can’t just let it go, otherwise wouldn’t this incident be a joke?

For the current plan, only by capturing Kunming City at all costs can the situation be completely reversed. Although he is no longer as confident as he was at the beginning, he still has an army of 180,000 to 90,000 people. How will he know if he doesn't try? Moreover, the fact that their forty-eight troops attacked Kunming was a huge encouragement to the chieftains throughout Yunnan. It would definitely inspire more chieftains to resist the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty and let the Ming Dynasty understand that Yunnan is the Yunnan of the chieftains. Stop having unrealistic illusions about Yunnan...

So he led his army across the Baoxiang River and met with the other two armies in the Ji Chong Mountain area. After learning that they had also been intercepted by the Ming army for three to five days, Yang Ju's wounded heart felt a little relieved.

The barbarian soldiers who came first had already swept through the area and found that all the food had been collected by the Ming army, with no hair left.

This is the farthest place from Kunming City. All the food has been transported, let alone other places. Yang Ju didn't waste his efforts and led his army directly towards Kunming City.

However, the seven-day period has passed by now. Not only the soldiers and civilians who were out to collect food have withdrawn from Kunming City, but Feng Cheng also led the blocking force back to the city.

Nearly three thousand officers and soldiers were killed in this blocking operation, and the losses along the Dabanqiao road were the heaviest. Because that's where the main force of the barbarian soldiers lies. The attacks received were far stronger than the other two.

But Qi Xiang's troops also fought the most beautifully, not only wiping out more than 10,000 enemies, but also defeating the main enemy force, making a huge contribution to the success of the blocking battle.

All in all, this blockade completely achieved its strategic purpose and completely reversed the battlefield situation. Although there was still a large army besieging the city outside the city and the number of troops inside the city was less than 20,000, the morale of the Ming army was high and they were not panicked at all.

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After Qi Xiang was buried, the battle to defend the city began.

Feng Cheng thanked Xiong for leading his troops to defend the city. Not only did they repulse the barbarians who attacked the city several times, they also often took the initiative to send cavalry out of the city to harass and burn down the barbarian soldiers' camps and granaries, making them exhausted.

At this time, Xiping Hou Muying had led more than 10,000 elite cavalry to rush to Qujing from Ussa. He first sent a messenger into the city to report that 300,000 Ming army reinforcements were coming.

The messenger was deliberately caught by the barbarians so that the leader of the barbarians could see the letter he was carrying.

When Yang Ju and others saw the letter, they believed it. They had already lost hope of attacking the city, but now they completely lost the courage to siege the city, so they withdrew overnight to Anning, Jinning and other places to defend themselves, while Kunming laid siege.

Mu Ying and Feng Cheng joined forces to pursue and kill more than 60,000 of them, forcing Yang Ju to escape with the remaining troops.

The Ming army hated Yang Ju and others so much that they still pursued him, and finally captured him in Wumeng Mountain two months later. The forty-eight tribes of chieftains who followed Yang Ju in rebellion were also expelled, and all tribes were killed...

Yunnan in the winter of the fifteenth year of Hongwu was shrouded in blood.

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And these have nothing to do with Yu Min. After returning to the city, he was admitted to the military hospital again, still in the same ward as before, quietly recuperating.

Deputy Niu Baihu, Wang Zongqi and the brothers in the banner all came to see him and found that the boy had become more taciturn. He could play with a thin bone all day long, from morning to night, without saying a word.

Qi Xiang's death caused an unimaginable blow to Yu Min, and he was completely devastated.

Deputy Niu Baihu discussed with Deputy Zhang Qianhu to add Yu Min's name to the list of the next batch of returning soldiers and let him leave this damn place.

(End of this chapter)