Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 405

The Mongolian tribes continued to chase and intercept the Ming Dynasty's Western Expeditionary Army all the way.

These Mongolian cavalrymen have been staring at the Western Expeditionary Army like a pack of wolves, and as long as they look at the right time, they have to come up and take a bite.

As for the Great Ming West Expeditionary Army, they were fighting in addition to fighting, and they were determined to die at this moment, and they were not afraid of reducing their numbers, nor were they afraid of annihilation.

But just like this, the fighting power of the Guanning Army broke out. The Guanning soldiers who were able to fight from the west of Jiayuguan to the current Shazhouwei area, and survived were either extremely strong-willed or relatively good martial arts veterans.

Therefore, the further you go to the back, although the Western Expeditionary Army with the Guanning Army as the main body has a serious reduction in personnel, its combat effectiveness is even more sturdy.

But after arriving at Shazhouwei, Mongolian Lin Dan Khan's reinforcements also arrived, and the number of Mongolian cavalry intercepting the westward advance of the Western Expeditionary Army suddenly increased to four or five times that of before.

Zhu Youjian couldn't help but clenched the steel knife in his hand. Under the strong wind, he stared straight ahead like a falcon at the Mongolian cavalry and tents that could not be seen, and waited until the sun gradually fell below the horizon After that, he immediately led the cavalry of the Western Expeditionary Army here and rushed into the enemy camp that was several times larger than himself.

The current Western Expeditionary Army can only rely on surprise attacks to defeat these Mongolian cavalry when they are outnumbered.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian, who was determined to die, took the initiative to ask Zu Dale for this pioneer's job, and brought three thousand dare-to-die men to kill the Mongolian Lindan Khan's cavalry.

The Tartars of Mongolia's Lindan Khan had just arrived in the Shazhouwei area, and their foothold was not stable. In addition, other Mongolian tribes were also somewhat dissatisfied with Lindan Khan's ambition to unify Mongolia, so they sat back and watched the Lindan Khan's tribe being attacked by the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty.

Unable to defend in time, the Tartars of Lin Dan Khan's tribe suffered heavy losses and had to temporarily take shelter in the Acropolis of Shazhou.

As a result, the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty successfully arrived at the Shazhou Acropolis. The difference from the attack on Yumen Pass was that the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty had reduced to more than [-] cavalry, so it was difficult to adopt a strong attack method.

Zu Dale and Zhu Youjian decided to take advantage of the soft soil in the Shazhou area and dig pits to enter the city.

But the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty was no better than the imperial guards. They didn't have special engineering shovels or even hoes, so they had to dig the soil with bare hands. After several days of fierce fighting, they dug a passage, buried explosives and blew up the city of Shazhou city ​​walls.

After a fierce fight, the Shazhou Guard was also recaptured by the Western Expeditionary Army. However, because the Shazhou Guard had the main force of the Tartars from the Lindan Khan tribe and other Tartars, the Western Expeditionary Army's own losses also reached thousands. people.

There is a vast desert between Shazhouwei and Hamiwei. The Mongolian Tartars no longer appear frequently, but the lack of water and disease caused the non-combat attrition of the Western Expeditionary Army to be even more severe.

When the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty arrived near Hamiwei, the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty had no more than five thousand horses.

At this time, the Mongol Tartars had assembled more cavalry in Hamiwei, and Mongolian Lindan Khan, who was unwilling to lose the northwest to the Ming army, also sent larger reinforcements to Hamiwei.

Looking at the densely packed Mongolian Tartar army in front of him, Chief Prosecutor Zhu You sighed, and smiled at Zu Dale: "Zu Junmen, it seems that we will really sleep here forever."

Zu Dale also had a wry smile, licked his dry lips and said: "After the drums are beaten, order the whole army to drink up the last bag of water, leaving only one horse for each person, and kill the rest of the horses for the whole army to eat." One last meal of meat, and then you will be loyal to Daming here!"

"Just be loyal here!"

Zhu Youjian couldn't help shouting loudly, and the other Western Expeditionary Army also shouted loudly.

From Jiayuguan to Hamiwei, they have traveled a long distance, and they don't know how many Tartars they have killed. At this time, the only thing they can pursue is to make the flower of their life bloom more brilliantly before death. When a person is no longer afraid There is no fear of death.

kill!

Zu Dale first patted his horse and charged towards the Tartar army on the opposite side. Although he can be regarded as the commander-in-chief of the second rank now, he doesn't need to regard himself as a commander-in-chief in the current situation where there are only more than [-] riders. , need to stay in the army to command the overall situation, now it is better to take the lead and make your own death more heroic.

The horse roared, and the spear pointed straight at the enemy's head. When the blood spurted out, Zu Dale simply wiped his face, and continued to kill at the center of the enemy's camp.

Zu Dale's personal soldiers and generals also came to kill them. The commander worked so hard, so they were naturally unambiguous. Those who can survive to this day are not weak in horseback riding and hacking. Such a Guan Ning army can't take advantage of any advantages, and it doesn't even have the advantage of numbers to suppress these Guan Ning troops.

Zhu Youjian also raised his simple knife and came to kill. Seeing more than a dozen Tartars bent their bows to shoot, he also clamped the horse's belly familiarly, and fell sideways on the side of the horse. After avoiding a shower of arrows, he suddenly got up and bullied He got closer, and then the blade directly cut through the tartar's neck.

After fighting till the end of the day, Zu Dale, Zhu Youjian and others withdrew after the Tatars also suffered thousands of casualties at the expense of their own [-] cavalry.

Looking at the bloody knife in his hand, Zhu Youjian, who was panting heavily, couldn't help laughing in surprise at Zu Dale, who was also covered in scars and almost couldn't stand steadily on the ground.

Looking back at the other officers and soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army, most of them were standing or sitting on the sand, some were gnawing on unfinished horse bones, and some put the mouth of the water bag next to their mouth and beat it desperately, hoping Seeing that a drop of water may fall, some simply lie on the ground, looking at the blue sky with their eyes, thinking of their distant hometown.

And here, more and more Mongolian Tartars gathered. They ran around and gradually surrounded all the more than [-] cavalry of the Western Expeditionary Army.

However, these Mongolian Tartars did not attack immediately, but marched hand in hand, slowly advancing towards the Western Expeditionary Army, and their bows and arrows were drawn perfectly, as long as there was any change in the Western Expeditionary Army, they would immediately be hit by thousands of arrows.

The Mongolian Tartars surrounded the Western Expeditionary Army on three sides, only the direction of Hami Acropolis was not surrounded.

Obviously, the Mongolian Tartars wanted to completely cut off the retreat of the last [-] cavalry of the Western Expeditionary Army.

However, the [-] cavalry including Zu Dale and Zhu Youjian had no intention of retreating. After seeing these Mongolian Tartars getting closer and closer to them, they also stood up one after another, and began to climb up one after another. On the back of the horse, he raised the weapon in his hand, took the rein, and focused his eyes on Zu Dale and Zhu Youjian.

Zu Dale and Zhu Youjian didn't say anything, moreover, Zu Dale flicked his whip first and rushed towards the Acropolis of Hami, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly followed, and other cavalrymen followed suit.

The Mongolian Tatars also surrounded them.

But at this moment, the sound of crackling bullets and the sound of horseshoes suddenly came from behind.

Zhu Youjian and Zu Dale couldn't help but look back, only to find cavalry from the Imperial Guard appearing behind them. These cavalry were very skilled in demonstrating their shooting ability on horseback. Those Mongolian Tartars were like living targets. The cavalry shot down one after another.

(End of this chapter)