Chapter 150: The Battle of Songshan

There is nothing strange about the reason why Matsuyama is called Matsuyama, but the mountain is covered with tall pine trees.

And because of such pine trees. Between the big and small pine mountains, there are only a few roads, and the only way to go south to Lanzhou, or to bypass Lanzhou, continue south, and enter the hinterland of Shaanxi.

The Ming Dynasty's management of the Big and Small Song Mountains was not too long, and even originated from Yu Qian's time in the northwest.

Because before that, it was a land of two genera.

The area around the Yellow River in Lanzhou is the border defense line of the Ming Dynasty to the north.

This is also the reason why Man Jun wants to go this way.

Although the strength of the Ming Dynasty in the northwest is thin, I don't know how much, but the local cities, checkpoints, and artillery in the cities and checkpoints have not been dismantled.

Only by gathering some militia can it hold out for a few days.

Man Jun detoured here just to be able to pass smoothly, after all, these fortifications were many years ago. A lot of things are wrong.

Nature cannot be without flaws.

It's just that he never thought that he wanted to hit the empty punch, but it hit the iron plate.

So, in the vicinity of Songshan Fort, a small hundred households, Manjun's headquarters and nearly 100,000 troops were blocked between the two mountains by Jiang Wan with more than 10,000 soldiers.

Jiang Wan camped on the road and stuck the avenue. In addition, there are a lot of logs as a base, and due to time reasons, there are no artillery guns, but there are 3,000 musketeers. In addition, some small artillery and thousands of cavalry, arranged behind the wooden barricade, took the time to counterattack.

It's just that Jiang Wan's arrangement, on the whole, is in the middle of the gauge and middle distance, and there is nothing brilliant about it.

In fact, this is also true.

If you make a count of all the generals in history, there are only a few who really have their own style and can be called famous generals, and most of the generals are actually just like Jiang Wan, whose combat style is just in the middle of the rules.

Although he is a mediocre general, such a general is the backbone of many armies.

It's just that the contrast between Jiang Wan and Man Jun's strength is too great.

If Jiang Wan had 40,000 people, relying on the terrain, he might be able to block Man Jun to death. It's just that now Jiang Wan only has 15,000 people, even if Jiang Wan has always insisted on being on the front line and has always led by example.

I gradually lost control of the situation.

"Dangdang" in the sound of gold. The Manjun army retreated like a tide. The soldiers of Ningxia Town, who did not have the kung fu to cheer at all, fell to the ground one by one, those who drank water, those who ate dry food ate dry food, and more than a dozen military doctors, with some stretcher teams, walked behind the front-line wooden barricades.

Looking at the people on the ground, looking through them one by one, some of them were already out of breath. Some were injured.

The military doctor looked at it indifferently, if it was a dead person, he would not care, if it was angry, he would see how the injury was, if it was too serious, he would not be saved at all, and he would not care.

Only a small number of people who could moan out loud or struggle loudly were put on stretchers and carried behind one by one.

Over the years, Zhu Qizhen's military medical system centered on Tai Hospital has slowly spread throughout the army. Of course, in the face of more than a million Ming troops, the number of military doctors is never enough.

There are a little more military doctors in the Beijing camp than in the border army, and there are even fewer military doctors in the border army like Ningxia Town.

It's not that these military doctors are cold-blooded animals, but the medical resources in the army have never been so many. Time cannot be wasted on these people.

And these are already corpses, or will be corpses, and after a while, someone will carry them to the back and bury them.

The situation behind the wooden barrier is like hell on earth.

After all, the wooden barrier gradually cut down some logs on the spot, which was originally extremely thin, but it was just a bully that there was no cannon on the opposite side, but if there was a cannon on the opposite side, it would have been impossible to stop it for a long time.

The tragic situation in front of the wooden barrier is even more difficult to see directly. But I saw that on the road, which was not wide, countless corpses were like road bricks, paving the entire ground. One after the other, the corpses of people, the corpses of horses, directly in front of the wooden barrier.

On top of the wooden barrier, one of Jiang Wan's hands was already hanging on his chest. The bandage hanging from his right hand was already stained red in large swaths. Obviously, Jiang Wan injured another hand, but he was still taken the lead again and fought with the enemy.

Several generals came over, and one of the military doctors untied Jiang Wan's bandage, looked at Jiang Wan's injured arm, and said, "General, if you do this again, don't want your hand." ”

Jiang Wan seemed to hear it, but he didn't seem to hear it. He asked, "Haven't the reinforcements from Lanzhou arrived yet?" ”

"The Lanzhou messenger said that he had already set off, but there were only five thousand people." A general said, "What is the use of this person?" ”

Jiang Wan said: "Needless to say, there are not many garrisons in Lanzhou, when will the old soldiers in the town arrive?" ”

Jiang Wan is not right.

Yes, there were not many troops on the Lanzhou side, but no, Lanzhou did not fully support him. Jiang Wan didn't think much about it and devoted himself to serving the imperial court, but Lanzhou had to think a little more.

If Jiang Wan can win the battle and block Man Jun here, it will be the best.

And if you can't?

Ningxia is empty, Lanzhou is empty, it can be said that from here to the Guanzhong Plain, there will hardly be any enemies.

You must know that in the interior, such as Henan and other places, all the troops in a province are only 350,000, and these inland guard troops, even if they have been reorganized.

The combat effectiveness cannot be compared with that of the border army.

They can't afford this consequence.

For the sake of their black yarn hats, they refused to fully support Jiang Wan.

The old soldiers placed in Ningxia Town, as mentioned above, each of the strong men on the nine sides is a good source of soldiers. Apparently Jiang Wan is fighting these people's ideas.

"My lord, time is too short." The general said bitterly.

Even in this era, after the mobilization order is issued, it will take time, and reconvening these sources of troops is by no means a simple matter of pulling people out and dividing them into battle.

It can be easier to pull people out, just to defend the city, but it is not possible to pull them out and fight the enemy.

Jiang Wan said: "Okay. Believe in the imperial court, the Beijing camp has already sent troops. Whine less. Maybe reinforcements have arrived. ”

Jiang Wan didn't believe this sentence himself.

He just wanted to boost morale, and he already had a certain death in his heart.

Although Jiang Wan is not as good as his grandfather, his desire to serve the court is average. As mentioned before, Jiang Wan was the commander-in-chief of Ningxia, and he was on the route of Manjun's eastward advance. Although the imperial court has issued an order to exterminate Manjun, how to implement it and to what extent it will be carried out is something he can measure.

Now most of the situation is self-inflicted.

It's just that Jiang Wan has no regrets, but the soldiers under his command are not like this. After two days of fierce fighting, there were many casualties, and morale was shaken.

Jiang Wan could only appease the soldiers below with such a paleness.

However, Jiang Wan is uncomfortable here.

Man Jun wasn't too comfortable either.

The number of casualties under Man Jun's command was higher than that of Jiang Wan, but the tens of thousands of horses and horses who followed him in Juyan were not killed in battle, and most of the people who died were the men and horses he was holding in Gansu.

Sent the men and horses of the headquarters as the overseer team, and pressed these horses to attack the wooden base.

This is the secret of Manjun's heavy casualties and not wavering.

However, today Man Jun has already sent his headquarters to attack the base. The reason is very simple, it is worried about long nights and dreams.

Although there has been no news of Wu Jin from the rear, the shadow of the tree of human life, Wu Jin's unfathomable actions in the Battle of Montenegro have earned him the nickname of a Wu madman.

No one knows what crazy moves Wu Jin will make this time. Man Jun naturally didn't want to drag on here for too long.

In the big tent of the Chinese army in Manjun.

His gaze swept over the generals kneeling on the ground, including the generals of his headquarters and the generals of the various ministries who were coerced. His eyes were as cold as knives, and his tone was as cold as his gaze, and he said, "What else do you have to say?" ”

"The general spares his life, the general spares his life. Give me another chance. "The people below kowtow like pounding garlic.