Chapter 163: Grant You the Most Heroic Death
The battlefield was meant to be a hunting ground for murderers.
As a weak woman and child mixed in, apart from death, Li Dingguo couldn't think of any better end.
Jizig's offensive was defused, and Li Dingguo's subordinates also lost as many as nineteen people, as for the women and children who were coerced...... More than half of them were killed or wounded.
Some were killed by Jiannu, while others died under artillery.
Zhang Guofeng rolled a cigarette and lit it, stuffed it into Li Dingguo's mouth, leaned his back against the trench and whispered like Li Dingguo: "I agreed, so it has nothing to do with you." ”
As he spoke, he was about to drag the small corpse down from the top of the trench, but he didn't expect that the child was very small, but his body was heavy.
With a single effort of both hands, two bodies fell from above the trench, but the child's mother still held her son's waist firmly with her hands, and did not let go until she died.
Li Dingguo helped Zhang Guofeng pack up the bodies of the mother and son, beckoned them to be transported away, and then smiled: "Do you really want to go farming?" ”
Zhang Guofeng sighed and said, "If possible......"
Li Dingguo said: "You have been following me for so long, have you seen when I asked my subordinates to help me carry the black cauldron?" ”
Zhang Guofeng said: "No one will take the initiative to help others carry the black pot, the reason why I am willing to help you has nothing to do with our brother's feelings, but a choice I made after comparison - you stay in the army more useful than me." ”
Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry to help me carry the black cauldron, it's not too late for you to carry the black cauldron after this battle is over, Jiannu has coerced more than 90,000 Ming people, how much do you think will be left after this big war?"
The main force of the camp this time is the Mongolian cavalry, do you think they will pity the Ming people like us?
Impossible, Yun Zhao has too many requirements for this war, so it is destined to be impossible to achieve the best results. ”
Zhang Guofeng was stunned for a moment and said, "What do you say?" ”
Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Yun Zhao thinks that the strength of the Mongols is too strong, and it has threatened the Lantian people to dominate Lantian City.
If Lantian City is an ordinary city, it doesn't hurt to keep the Mongols, but Lantian City is a stronghold of Lantian County that needs to be held for a long time in the competition.
It is the location where Yun Zhao wants to set up his own banner of "driving out the Tartars", and neither Yun Zhao nor Lantian County will allow this place to be lost.
In addition, Yun Zhao has never been at ease with all the aliens except for the Ming people, so this battle is also a battle for him to reduce the strength of the Mongolian cavalry.
I heard that the caravan from Lantian County to Wusizang to do business actually brought back a lot of Wusizang "babies" from Wusizang, and he also deliberately recruited some backs in Gansu, what do you say he is going to do? ”
Zhang Guofeng frowned and said, "Mixed with sand? ”
Li Dingguo said with a smile: "That's right, except for my Ming people, people of any race forming an army alone will attract Yun Zhao's suspicion."
However, he coveted the combat power of these aliens, and it was impossible for him to kill all the people of the other races, so he also wanted to sell them to these races so that the family could let down their vigilance against him.
I have to say that his layout vision is unparalleled in the world, far surpassing Li Hongji and my former father-in-law, Zhang Bingzhong.
It is not comparable to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
His methods were so clever that he achieved his goal without anyone noticing.
This time, you look, the Mongolian soldiers must have suffered heavy casualties, and when the time comes, Yun Zhao will definitely cry and exchange pain, and the reward given must be far beyond the expectations of the Mongols.
He killed a large number of Mongols, and he had to let the remaining Mongols loyally be used by him, tsk, just such a means, this tomorrow will be his sooner or later.
However, such people are not a blessing for us.
It is better for us to go home as soon as possible after the war with a rich reward, to farm the land, to build a house, to marry a wife, to have children, and not to ask about state affairs again, so that we can die a proper life. ”
Zhang Guofeng shook his head resolutely and said: "Impossible, the county is not the kind of person Zhu Yuanzhang, his heart is far broader than Zhu Yuanzhang." ”
Li Dingguo sneered: "The broader the emperor's heart, the greater his ambition, and it shows that you still have value in his eyes."
The cunning rabbit died, the lackeys cooked, the birds were exhausted, and the twelve words of good bow hiding were the truth of twelve words, but they were not specifically used to describe a certain king.
As long as he Yunzhao becomes an emperor, whether he wants to or not, he will act according to the truth of these twelve words, and he can't help it.
Okay, don't speak, it looks like Zizig won't attack us again today, he may want to get some more Ming slaves to repeat their old tricks.
Before dawn, I'm going to strike first, so as not to put us in a passive situation again. ”
Zhang Guofeng nodded and said: "War horses, weapons, breakfast has been prepared, tomorrow the attack will be launched at one o'clock, two o'clock in the morning, Qian Shaoshao's attack should be at two o'clock, do you think we can defeat Jizige in a quarter of an hour?"
Could it be that our early attack ruined Qian Shaoshao's plan for a surprise attack? ”
Li Dingguo spat and said, "If Qian Shaoshao has less than a thousand people like us, we may attack in advance and may affect their raid on Jiannu."
Now it's a surprise attack of more than 10,000 cavalry, and so many war horses are running like the earth dragon turning over, which is still a hidden fart.
Do you think Qian Shaoshao can really be powerful enough to pull out all the open and secret sentinels under Jiannu's subordinates?
Even if they pull it out, they will at least blow up the wall and open a dozen roads, right?
Rest assured, if we attack a moment in advance, we will only cover them, not expose them. ”
Zhang Guofeng nodded and said: "Okay, that's it, I'll arrange tonight's harassment and sneak attack on Jizige, you take care of your spirits, and we will rush together tomorrow." ”
Li Dingguo closed his eyes and said, "Okay, you remember to wear two more layers of armor, this time it's really dangerous." ”
Qian Shaoshao did not ride a horse, but lay on a carriage, and his eyes never left the hourglass on the table from the time he set off.
In order to prevent being discovered by Jiannu in advance, the time requirements for this march were extremely strict.
The speed of the march of the army should not exceed the speed at which the Jiannu rangers retreated because it was dark, and they should keep a relatively reasonable distance.
Jiannu's scout camp was twenty miles away from Jiannu's camp, which was their farthest warning range at night.
The Mongol cavalry marched at night to within five miles of the camp camp, and then selected hundreds of ten-man teams with the best cavalry and archery skills to sneak into the rear of the camp and be responsible for sniping all the camp and preventing the camp from lighting a beacon fire to warn the camp.
Of course, the above is the best state, as for whether it can be done, only God knows, regardless of whether Yue Tuo and Du Du are the first to perceive, the Mongol cavalry's attack on the camp of Jiannu must be fully launched.
Arriving at the waiting area, tens of thousands of cavalry dismounted together, fed the horses with concentrated feed, and drank some water to rest.
So many people stood in the darkness that only the sound of the snort of the war horses could be heard far and wide in the night.
As soon as the people pass through the boundless, plus nearly 20,000 war horses, under this starry night, it is like a high platform protruding from the flat ground.
Qian Shaoshao looked at Battle and said, "In the past few years, you have worked these cavalry. ”
Battle said in his characteristic hoarse voice: "It's all arranged by the master." ”
Qian Shaoshao smiled and said: "Congratulations, as long as this battle is won, the tribe I promised you will be honored, and I will prepare the grassland for you in advance wherever you want." ”
Battle said: "Under the Yin Mountain! ”
Qian Shaoshao said with a smile: "Elechuan, under the Yin Mountain...... You chose a good place, why, are you thinking about retirement now? ”
"The Mongols, like eagles, cannot stop, and if they do, they will die."
I wanted to raise the cattle and sheep to be fat, so I kept going north to Mobei to see, I heard that there is a big lake there, called Beihai. ”
Qian Shaoshao sighed and said: "You are mistaken, the Beihai you said has been occupied by the Jungar Mongols, and if you want to be there, you have to fight." ”
Battle smiled and said, "My master, what will you reward Battle after this battle?" ”
Qian Shaoshao said: "Beauty and shepherd slave? ”
Battle shook his head.
Qian Shaoshao said again: "Cattle, sheep and pasture? ”
Battle continued to shake his head.
Qian Shaoshao smiled and said, "Bows and arrows, weapons? ”
Pointing to the short guns and grenades in the carriage, Bartel said, "I want both, as many as the stars in the sky." ”
Qian Shaoshao pondered for a moment and said, "Is it okay to have 100,000 catties of gunpowder, 50,000 catties of cannons, 5,000 guns, and 10,000 grenades?" ”
Hearing this, Battle was overjoyed, jumped off his war horse and kissed Qian Shaoshao's boots respectfully, stood up and said: "I will take these Mongolian eagles to smash Yuetuo's joint venture, and strive for the greatest merit for my master, please remember that as long as you need it, Battle is here, as long as your feather arrows leave the bowstring, the direction in which the feather arrows fly is the direction of my Mongolian eagle's attack, no matter who the enemy is." ”
Qian Shaoshao laughed and said, "I want to make Lantian City my city!" ”
Battle put his hand on his chest and bent over, "It will be as you wish." ”
Qian Shaoshao looked at the hourglass on the table and said in a low voice: "Go, the time is up, no matter what we want, we must win the Manchu Qing to have a future." ”
Battle jumped on his horse, looked at the white of the fish belly on the horizon, and shouted at his own soldiers: "Eagles of the steppe, let's go!" ”
The cavalry brigade moved slowly, Qian Shaoshao was fully clothed, and he also jumped on the war horse, and thought to Xu Wu beside him: "Can you help me watch those people kill Battle?" ”
Xu Wuxiang said lightly: "He will die as bravely as a Mongolian eagle, after he dies, can you control the army?"
An army without a commander can easily be defeated. ”
Qian Shaoshao chuckled and said, "He has never been the leader of this army. ”
Xu Wu thought, "I will let him be killed by the last feather arrow shot by Jiannu at the last moment before victory comes." ”
Qian Shaoshao slowly urged the war horse and smiled: "This should be a hero's death!" ”