Jing Da Chu cousin Ziwu, a native of Huayang County, Chengdu Prefecture, Sichuan, is currently the post of the chief soldier of Xuanfu, this person's reputation in the army can only be regarded as average, far less than Xie Erjian, Qi Jingtong, Wang Lin'er, and Yu Dayou, these first-line famous generals, and even inferior to Xie Sangun, Yu Linsheng, Feng Guoqing and other second-echelon generals, however, Jing Dachu can also be regarded as a qualified general, especially good at defense.

Because of this, after Xu Jin expelled me from the customs that year, he ordered Yu Linsheng to take over the post of the general soldier of Datong, and Jing Dachu, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, was able to continue to stay in office.

Knowing people and making good use of them is a quality that a commander must have, Xu Jin naturally knows the ability of the generals under his command well, Jing Dachu is good at defense and not good at attacking, so Xu Jin left him in the Khan Court and was responsible for defensive tasks.

Defending means sitting on the cold bench, if you are lucky, you may have merit to take the initiative to find the door, if you are unlucky, you can only watch your colleagues make meritorious contributions.

Coincidentally, in this Northern Expedition, Yu Linsheng, Pei Xingjin, and Xie Sangun, who are also the commanders of the border towns, have all made great contributions, especially Xie Sangun, who has become the most powerful rookie general in the limelight, but Jing Dachu's performance has been mediocre, and he has almost not achieved an inch so far.

However, Jing Dachu has always been broad-minded, and has never sought merit but no fault, using a fashionable word to describe it as "Buddhism", he is also very envious of his colleagues who continue to make meritorious contributions, but he has never blushed, so he doesn't care about Xu Jin's arrangement at all.

Xu Jin asked him to defend the Khan Court, and he set up camp by the Luan River in the southwest of the city. The reason why this position was chosen was that it was convenient to get water, second, it was easy to defend, and third, the direction in which the enemy soldiers would attack was likely to be west.

Generally people who are good at defense are very stable and do things more carefully, Jing Dachu is such a person, this afternoon received Wang Lin'er's Pegasus good news, and the other generals were happy and envious, but Jing Dachu noticed that the good news also mentioned that Batai led about forty or fifty thousand people to flee.

Although the possibility of Batai's remnants attacking the Khanting was very small, and there was a high probability that they would flee north into the Gobi, Jing Dachu still raised his precautions tonight, so Batai was discovered by the sentry of the Xuanfu soldiers as soon as he led his troops to a range of ten miles.

"Kill!"

In the night, the Tatar cavalry under the command of Batai carried torches and slaughtered the camp of the Xuanfu army like a tide, and the sound of horses' hooves shook the ground and the mountains, and it was impossible to tell how many people there were.

Fortunately, at this time, the terrain advantage of the camp selected by Jing Dachu was revealed. Because the left side of the camp is the Luanhe River, there is no need to worry about the left flank being attacked, the Tartars can only attack from the front and the right flank, and the rear of the camp is ten miles away from the Yuan Shangdu, the Tartars are worried that the Ming army in the city will come out to support, and they do not dare to go around to the rear of the camp to attack.

As a result, the camp was attacked only on the front and right flanks, so the pressure was greatly reduced.

Boom Boom Boom ......

The Xuanfu Army's ten Franc cannons and ten bowl guns roared and spewed flames, and the whistling cannonballs cut out scorching flames in the night, smashing into the Tartars' horses, blowing people on their backs and shattering their limbs.

At this moment, Batai was riding on horseback, bare his chest, and under the light of the fire, a pair of narrow wolf eyes flashed with a green and faint cold glow, grinning teeth, a fierce expression, and his nostrils were whirring and panting, like a beast that chooses to devour people.

Batai thought that he would succeed in a sneak attack tonight, but he didn't expect the Ming army to be so alert, they were discovered as soon as they approached, so they simply lit torches and launched a fierce attack. Fortunately, the firepower of this Ming army is obviously much weaker, and it is not comparable to the 30,000 elites of the Ming army that they encountered before.

Batai stretched out his crimson tongue and licked his lips, and his gloomy gaze crossed the camp of the Xuanfu army and looked at Yuan Shangdu in the distance. Although it is ten miles away, you can faintly see the lights on the city, the commander of the Ming army is in the city at the moment, hehe, as long as you extinguish the Ming army in front of you and kill into the city, you can cut off the head of Xu Jin, the commander of the Ming army!

As soon as he thought of this, Bartai was so excited that his blood accelerated, and he involuntarily stretched his neck and let out a series of howls. He lived in the wolf's den until he was more than three years old, and although he returned to live in the human world, he still had some habits, and he would howl at the moon like a wolf at night when the moon was in the sky or when he was excited.

Hearing Batai's howl, the soldiers under his command all launched a fierce attack on the camp of the Xuanfu army like chicken blood, because whoever dared not fight hard, maybe General Batai's mace would hit his head in the next second.

The Xuanfu Army was the first batch of border troops equipped with flintlock muskets, but the firearms armament rate could not be compared with that of the Beijing Army, only about 2 into 5, that is, about 5,000 guns, and only 10 Franc machine guns.

Of course, the 5,000-pole flintlock pole was not vegetarian, and the Tatar cavalry could only attack from both sides, so the price was very heavy, and the Tartars who rushed in front fell one stubble after another like wheat, and more than 1,000 people were killed and wounded in just half a burnt of incense.

Jing Dachu was so scared at the moment that he was sweating behind his back, the attack of the Tatar cavalry was like a wave, wave after wave, and I don't know how many people and horses were behind, fortunately it was found in time, otherwise I am afraid that at this time, I would have been trampled through the camp.

"General Jing, the commander ordered you to block the enemy army for an hour, otherwise the military law will deal with it."

At this time, a herald galloped into the camp and came to Jing Dachu to deliver Xu Jin's order loudly.

Jing Dachu couldn't help but secretly complain when he heard this, and at the same time secretly wondered, ten miles behind the camp is the city, and the marshal wants to send troops to support, and it only takes about two quarters of an hour to arrive, why wait for an hour?

However, the military order is like a mountain, and there is no room for bargaining, Jing Dachu can only bite the bullet and say loudly: "The last general obeys the order, and the Xuanfu army swears not to retreat, and lives and dies with the camp." ”

The herald saluted, turned his horse and galloped out of the camp, heading back to the city.

"General Jing, the marshal let us stand in front, he himself...... It won't be an opportunity to abandon the city and flee for your life, right? Deputy Chief Soldier Wang Yuehu whispered suspiciously.

Jing Dachu's face sank, and he reprimanded in a low voice: "Bold, shake the army's heart at this time, do you want to die?" ”

Deputy Chief Wang's face changed slightly, and he quickly closed his mouth in amusement.

Jing Dachu slowed down his tone and said: "Deputy Chief Soldier Wang, the handsome man is called Xu Changsheng, the use of soldiers is unpredictable, these years of fighting in the south and the north, he has not tasted defeat, I have only heard that he personally risked the arrow and stone, risking his life, I have never heard that he abandoned the army and fled for his life, and he will have to say such bastard words again in the future, otherwise the general soldier will spare you, and the other soldiers under the command of the commander will not spare you." ”

Wang Yue couldn't help but shudder, with Xu Jin's prestige in the army, if his words spread, it is estimated that without Xu Jin's order, the other generals may have already broken themselves, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "General Jing, if you don't choose what you say at the next time, your subordinates deserve death." ”

Although the relationship between Jing Dachu and Wang Yue is not close, the well water does not interfere with the river water, and he is more Buddhist, but he did not take the opportunity to rectify the other party's intentions, since Wang Yue admitted his mistake, he did not continue to hold on.

Deputy General Wang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, probably in order to make up for his merits, he took the initiative to invite Ying to lead the cavalry to fight, but was rejected by Jing Dachu, although he was a little tight at present, but he could barely hold on, and he would not send cavalry to fight unless he had to.

The tragic battle was carried out under the cover of night, the Tartar cavalry followed one after another, although the casualties were not very large, but they were getting closer and closer, and the rain of arrows was thrown wave after wave, and the Ming army finally died, and the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, and they had to slowly shrink the battle line.

Time passed minute by minute, and the corpses of the Xuanfu army were already strewn all over the ground, both Tartars and Ming troops, and the blood stained the nearby Luanhe River red.

"Fire!" Jing Dachu's voice was hoarse, but the cannon did not sound.

"Lord Commander, the cannonballs are running out, the brothers in front of you have suffered heavy casualties, and they can't stand it, so let's withdraw!" A thousand households rushed over to report loudly.

Jing Dachu was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "How long have we been doing?" ”

"It's been more than an hour." The leader of the pro-soldiers replied.

As mentioned earlier, Jing Dachu has never asked for merit, but he has no fault, since the marshal asked him to keep for one hour, he will definitely not force himself to keep two hours, and when he heard that the time was enough, he immediately ordered loudly: "The whole army retreats." ”

Jing Dachu gave an order, and the Xuanfu army began to fight and retreat, however, the Xuanfu army was already out of support, and the Tatar cavalry seized the opportunity to rush under the retreat, and suddenly the formation was in chaos, so the retreat became a rout, and the soldiers scattered and fled for their lives.

Jing Dachu couldn't help but cry out when he saw this, but he couldn't care so much at this time, so he threw away twenty artillery pieces and fled under the escort of his own soldiers. Fortunately, Batai's target was Xu Jin, so the soldiers chased and killed for a while and then rushed straight towards Yuanshangdu.

At this moment, Xu Jin, the commander of the three armies, was standing calmly on the head of the city with his hands behind his back, his robes hunting in the night wind, and the generals behind him stood solemnly, waiting for the order to be issued.

Seeing a fire dragon coming towards him in the southwest direction, Huang Jin, the supervising army, couldn't help but turn pale, and reminded in a trembling voice: "Grandpa Guo, it seems that General Jing's army has been defeated, and the Tartars are coming to kill here, hurry up and go down to the city, the sword and arrow have no eyes!" ”

Xu Jin said calmly: "Come on, send them to prison first!" ”

Huang Jin couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, but his life was important, and he didn't refuse at the moment, so he hurried down the city under the escort of the guards, and then rushed to the north of the city, went out of the city from the north gate, and fled to Longgang Mountain behind the capital of Yuanshang.

At this time, Batai couldn't wait to kill outside the city, and when he saw the lights on the city and the banners waving, he was not only not surprised, but overjoyed, and immediately ordered to launch a siege.

At the head of the city, Xu Jin gently spit out two words: "Open the cannon!" ”