Chapter 1077: Decisive Battle - Martyr's Broken Wrist
"Did Xilu really run away like this? Even if they were all people who sent troops to attack the camp last night, but they were frightened by Master Fangzheng, right? Qin Sen looked incredulously at the empty Xilu position in front of him, and then at Fang Zheng, who was sitting on horseback with a constipated expression on his face.
"Is the 'miracle' shown by Master Shangzheng yesterday really having such a big effect?" Zhu Suohai also muttered to himself.
"The people in the kingdom are not very religious, so you don't believe that miracles have such a great effect; But the reason why these Western captives in front of them broke and fled was because of the miracle last night. Li Mingfang said.
"Did they recognize Master Founder?" Qin Sen glanced sideways at the old man again: he didn't look very distinctive, especially now that he was old, anyway, it would be absolutely impossible for him to recognize this bald old man as the person who performed the miracle last night.
"No, it's not that I recognize Master Founder, but that I recognize the flag behind us." Li Mingfang glanced back at the several large flags raised by the standard-bearer beside him.
Under normal circumstances, a guard of the Ming army is to play three flags: the Ming national flag, the flag of the guard, and the surname of the commander. The DPRK army, which also participated in the war yesterday and today, unfurled four flags, and in addition to the above three, it also unfurled the flag of the Korean National Army invented by Zhu Fangyuan last year.
But at this time, both the Yongming Left Guard and the Korean Army have raised an extra flag, which is a swastika flag, representing the swastika flag of Buddhism.
Before Xu Huizu fought this war, he collected a lot of information about Samarkand, and he carefully inquired about human geography for every detail he returned from Samarkand, so he knew Xilu very well.
As he learned more and more, he became more and more confused: why did Xilu believe in religion so much? 6 I thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with the reason, but I remembered it deeply.
Last night, he was also very surprised when he learned that Fang Zheng had shown a 'miracle' and that Xi Lu had been scared away, but then he reacted and wondered if he could take advantage of this in today's head-on battle with Xi Lu.
Therefore, when he found out that Salha was leading the cavalry into battle, and these people who had participated in the attack on the camp last night to scare away were handed over to Tieletai to command to block the Ming army, he decisively ordered Yongming Left Guard and the Korean army to bring a few monks, unfurl the Buddhist swastika, and charge them, and successfully scare them away and open the gap.
"The Xilu, who are very religious devout, will not think that only Master Fang Zheng himself can show miracles, but that the whole of Buddhism is supported by miracles, so they will collapse."
"Moreover, the general who commanded the army was Tieletai, not Salha, and it was also one of the reasons why these Western captives were about to collapse at the touch of a button. If Salha had led them, and had seen the swastika banners of our army from afar, he would have known that something was wrong, and replaced them; But Tieletai probably didn't know about this, or because he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he was suspicious, and he didn't think of it at the first time, let alone replace them, so that our army could successfully break through the Western Prisoners. Li Mingfang continued to explain.
With his explanation, more than 10,000 of their horses had already run into the Xiyu position. Qin Sen interrupted him and said, "Okay, it doesn't matter now. Divide your forces quickly, sweep behind the western captives on both sides, and annihilate them completely; At the same time, send a message firework to inform the friendly forces that we have opened a gap in the front of the Western Captives, so that they can hurry up! ”
Li Mingfang was very dissatisfied with Qin Sen treating himself as his subordinate: In terms of power in the country, I am much higher than you! But because Qin Sen's second brother was the commander of the Jinyi Guard, he didn't dare to offend him, so he could only obey the order and command the Korean army under his command to divide his troops to eliminate the Western Prisoners.
Qin Sen himself commanded more than 1,000 people in the post and more than 1,000 Korean troops to rush to the left and right guards of the government army, and while running, he also let the soldiers shout: "Xiyu is defeated!" ”
When the soldiers of the left and right guards of the government army heard this shout, their morale immediately increased! They were originally skeptical when they heard the news told by Cao Xing, but when they heard the shouts from outside, they immediately knew that it was true, and they cheered happily, and at the same time, their morale doubled, and the thousands of households under their command also let their soldiers do their best to block the Xiyu.
On the other hand, the morale of the Western Prisoners suddenly dropped, and when they saw that their own front blocking the enemy had lost their fighting spirit, they turned their horses and planned to flee.
Salha's hands and feet were also cold for a moment. The front blocking the Ming army was punched a gap, which not only meant that the plan to eliminate the left and right guards of the government army had failed, but also that the 40,000 or 50,000 infantry who were blocking the Ming army were difficult to escape and were likely to be wiped out by the Ming army. And these forty or fifty thousand people were wiped out by the Ming army, which means that half of the elite main force in the hands of 1 has been wiped out, and they are no longer able to compete with the Ming army.
At the same time, it also represents a large gap in their combat deployment, through which the Ming army can eliminate them everywhere, but it is difficult for them to reorganize the formation, and even difficult to counterattack. Therefore, the battle has been lost by this time.
But Salha was reluctant to give up. Of course, he did not admit that the battle had been lost, nor did he not give up continuing to besiege the left and right guards of the government army, but he wanted to rescue Yesbu and Tieletai, even if only part of it.
But when he stopped some auxiliaries and wanted to take them and the main cavalry to the rescue, he saw the banner from Jesbo's headquarters: Don't rescue us, quickly lead the soldiers to retreat!
"No!" Salha screamed and decided to ignore his orders and rush to the rescue, at least Jesbu himself! Jesbou was so kind to him, almost as much as his father, and indeed his godfather, that he could not afford to see Jesbou die here. What's more, there are not many people rushing in the Ming army now, only more than 10,000 people, and there are more than 20,000 soldiers in his hands who obey orders at this time.
But Jesbou looked at him and seemed to be disobeying his orders, and his expression suddenly became anxious, and he asked the Bannerman to send him another message: 'You must go at once!' These soldiers in your hands are very important and must be saved! ’
'This expedition to the Ming Kingdom is indeed defeated, but the Samarkand Kingdom cannot be defeated like this! The tribes of Central Asia will definitely rebel after hearing that the Great Khan has lost the battle, and the more soldiers who will suppress the rebellion, the better.