Lugou Bridge.

The cowardly Xue Qianhu Ashu stroked a stone lion beside him gloomily, and the mist-shrouded river flowed beneath his feet.

"Flowing water and falling flowers are gone in spring!"

He sighed sadly.

Well, this style of painting seems a little wrong!

He was a cowardly soldier, a descendant of the fiercest Mongol legions, whose ancestors had followed the Great Khan through Eurasia and swept through countless nations, swift and heavily armoured scimitars that made all enemies tremble before them, but now he chanted mournful words on wet mornings like a melancholy poet, and his thin body and fair skin were clearly out of reach of warriors......

Of course, it's mostly fucking pots.

But in fact, the cowardly Xue army has already made great strides forward on the road of the Eight Banners, not to mention this time, even in the later period of Kublai Khan, he no longer counted on this army, but established another guard army. The bravest Mongol warriors inevitably fell into decay after leaving the cold and barren Mongolian plateau and enjoying the world as conquerors. Although they all had the highest fortune and the best land, and even consumed one-seventh of the Yuan Dynasty's finances in a year at most, these not only did not inspire their courage but even destroyed their fighting spirit.

It is said that the cowardly Xue army at this time is actually just a group of parasites waiting for the Great Khan to eat, drink and have fun, they have not been on the battlefield for many, many years, and it is not only them, the Mongols who moved inward are actually similar, as for Chakhan Timur......

He can't really be said to be a Mongol.

He is a barbarian, the barbarian who was wiped out by the Mongols, he is not a Mongolian prince, he is just a Mongolian civilian, his starting is no different from those who rebelled, they were all developed by pulling the flag by himself with more than ten people and seven or eight guns, but he is from the Yuan Dynasty, but even if he has become the number one warlord of the Yuan Dynasty, he is actually despised within the Yuan Dynasty.

It's because the background is too low.

Therefore, Polo Timur did not like him, because Polo Timur was a genuine nobleman, and Yang Feng was the descendant of the new clin that he chopped with a ship knife after tearing up Meng Ge.

And the reason why these high-born cowardly warriors have not completely become the children of the Eight Banners with a five-meter hard bow is that the Great Yuan Dynasty has only lasted for a hundred years, if you really want to compare, at this time they will definitely not be stronger than the Eight Banners in the early years of Qianlong, and may even be weaker, after all, the Eight Banners in the early years of Qianlong can also rely on the Sauron people to support the field, but at this time, the Mongols in the interior can only rely on the Semu people, plus the blood transfusion of the left-behind tribes in the northeast and hometown.

Cowardly Xue Jun?

That's just a legend.

"Big brother, are there really reinforcements?"

His brother said cautiously.

This was already the morning of the second day after the Battle of Hexi, and the fiasco of Naha's departure meant that the Wu-Yue Northern Expeditionary Army would be in the city this afternoon.

But the Great Khan did not run away.

It is said that the Great Khan got a report from Polo Timur that the reinforcements had arrived in Xuande, and it was a full 100,000 iron horsemen, not only Polo Timur, but even Li Siqi and others chose to be loyal to the Great Yuan Dynasty, so the Great Khan decided to stick to Dadu and wait for this powerful reinforcement, in addition, it is said that several Great Khans in the Western Regions have also decided to form a coalition army to rescue, of course, just listen to this, everyone knows what the relationship between the two sides is.

However......

"Who knows! Even if we run, where can we run! ”

Ah Shu said sadly.

His brother bowed his head.

Indeed, even if they run, where can they run? They have lived here for a hundred years, they have been under the service of others since they were born, they are used to living a life of fine clothes and food, can they still go to graze in the ice and snow of Helin? Anyway, they don't know how to graze! They can neither farm nor herd, they can only reach out for food and open their mouths.

"Alas!"

Ah Shu sighed.

At this moment, his expression changed.

"What sound?"

His brother exclaimed at the same time.

It was the sound of horses' hooves, the sound of countless horses' hooves trampling the ground, and even they felt the tremor of the ground, the two Ashu brothers looked at each other, and then they waved back, and the cowardly warriors who were on standby at the bridge stepped forward one after another, one by one with bows, arrows, knives and spears clustered on the bridge and looked at the mist in front of them tremblingly, a hazy shadow in the mist became clearer and clearer, and the trembling of the ground under their feet became clearer and clearer.

Suddenly, a war horse burst out of the mist.

A man on horseback dressed in gray and without armor looked at them for a moment.

"Run!"

A scream suddenly came from behind Ah Shu.

Almost at the same time, the man drew his sword from the saddle in an instant, and behind him the same cavalry rushed out, and with a dialect they did not understand, all the horsemen drew their slender knives in a wild run, and in the blink of an eye rushed to the bridge deck of the Lugou Bridge, surging on the stone slabs. At the same time as the cowardly warriors collapsed behind, Ah Shu hugged his head and squatted beside the railing screaming out of fear, and then the torrent of cavalry surged, instantly crashing into the scattered cowardly warriors, the slender knife pierced the mist with a cold light, and harvested the limbs or heads of the cowardly warriors with splashing blood light.

And in the mist behind them, the torrent of cavalry continued to pour out as if endlessly, and Ah Shu crouched by the railing with his head in his hands and screamed incessantly.

I don't know how long it took, but a war horse next to him suddenly stopped, and then more war horses stopped.

"There's still a living Tartar here!"

A middle-aged man on horseback looked at him and said.

A cavalryman next to him immediately drew his sword, and Ah Shu pounced on the man's horse without hesitation, hugged the horse's leg, and then cried and said: "General, general, the villain is willing to lead the way for the general, as long as the general doesn't kill me, I am willing to open the city gate for the general!" I'm a cowardly Xue Qianhu, and those people on the city wall won't doubt me! ”

"Are you a cowardly Xue Jun?"

Zhang Dingbian said with some surprise.

He is not a fool, of course he will not be in the Daimyo and Wang Baobao after Lu Zhen and others open Dongchang, the biggest advantage of the Han army over Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng is that there are enough war horses, they fought thousands of miles from Xiangyang, and defeated hundreds of thousands of enemies along the way. Captured on the battlefield, collected from those Mongol Semu people along the way, and contributed by Han landlords and warlords, Chen Youliang had nearly 100,000 various war horses and pack horses, and there were also a lot of camels, so Zhang Dingbian began to prepare to learn from Li Cunqiao after being blasted away by Lu Zhen in Dongchang before the street battle ended.

With 30,000 cuirassiers and dragoons, 60,000 horses and more than 5,000 camels, he attacked the capital in a long-range cavalry attack.

He had no enemies along the way.

Polo Timur's army withdrew to Shanxi, all the Mongol and Semu armies in Hebei were all concentrated in Daming and other places, and the remaining main force of Tu Timur stayed behind to defend the Dadu to Haijin line, and from the Han army-controlled area to the north through Zhending Baoding to Dadu There was no Mongol and Semu army at all, only the Han people and the landlords including the Khitan Jurchens were armed, and the latter two were actually Han people in the Yuan Dynasty, as long as these people promised not to liquidate them, they would not hesitate to defect and then purge those old and weak women and children of the Mongol and Semu.

That's what Zhang Dingbian did.

He galloped forward at a speed of more than one hundred and fifty miles a day, receiving the Han landlords' armed forces along the way, and then they were responsible for providing food, responsible for the cleansing of the superior people in the places left behind, and acting as guides, while his army continued to advance, even if there was no shortage of food, and bypassed as much as possible without even entering the city,

In this way, he rushed all the way to Dadu.

Because many of the landlords' armed forces actually defected before he arrived, almost no one went north to report to Tu Timur, and some sporadic news the latter could not be sure in a short time, and Tu Timur was not interested in this, after all, Lu Zhen's army was about to block the door, and as a result, Zhang Dingbian arrived at Lugou Bridge, and Tu Timur was not aware of it.

"Don't be surprised, this cowardice is just a name, it is no longer the courage of the ancestors, even the rich Han people can spend money to buy it!"

A man beside Zhang Dingbian said with a smile.

"Brother Shi, Brother Shi, it's my Ashu!"

Ah Shu looked at him and said excitedly.

"Uh, it's really you!"

His brother Shi said unexpectedly.

"Since it is your deceased, spare him, let him lead the way and open the gates of the city, and after entering the city, forgive the sins of his family, and forfeit his property and land."

Zhang Dingbian said.

"Marshal, please!"

Ah Shu stood up excitedly and said with a humble face.

Since this is simple, taking advantage of the fact that the fog has not dispersed at this time, the Han army forward, who has crossed the Lugou Bridge, under the leadership of Zhang Dingbian, under the leadership of a guide from the Zhending historian, and under the guidance of the cowardly Xue army Qianhu Ashu, quickly arrived outside the capital, Ashu immediately stepped forward to call the door, of course the defenders in the city would not not know him, because the fog could not see whether the cavalry beside him was his own people, so he opened the city gate without doubt.

"Kill! Capture the Tatar chieftain alive, the destiny of the King of Han! ”

Looking at the open city gate in front of him, Zhang Dingbian pulled out his knife and roared.

Suddenly, all the Han cavalry hidden in the fog surged forward, and it was immediately found that something was wrong on the city wall, but unfortunately the general trend had gone, and the surging cavalry torrent instantly stepped over the Yuan army that tried to step forward to block it, and went straight to the palace under the leadership of Ah Shu, and the 30,000 cavalry dragging a dragon for more than ten miles followed.

Rushing into the capital, they quickly diverted and began a carnival of killing.

Nothing can stop them.

These 30,000 are all the most elite soldiers of the Zhang Division, all of whom have been honed by more than ten years of war, and they are armed with flintlock pistols, short guns, black powder grenades, and even disassembled mortars and howitzers on their camels, and even three-pounder field guns are disassembled and mounted on them. Cavalrymen with spears and sabers rushed forward in the capital, trampling all those who dared to resist them under the hooves of their horses, the sound of muskets resounding through the land ruled by aliens for centuries, and the fire of grenade explosions shone in the early morning mist. The superior people who rushed out of their homes in terror were crucified to the ground with spears, and the last defenders of the Great Khan, who wore the sign of the cowardly warriors, fell in pieces in pieces in a flurry of muskets, cleansing the land with their blood for centuries.

And the striker personally led by Zhang Dingbian soon arrived outside the imperial city.

Spirit Star Gate.

"Quick, load the cannon!"

Zhang Dingbian shouted excitedly.

He met stubborn resistance here, because the time was too early, the gates of the imperial city were not opened, and when his army arrived, the guards of the imperial city quickly completed the defense of the city walls, and then fired outwards with bows and arrows and firearms.

With his roar, a group of camels that followed was immediately brought in, and the artillerymen stepped forward to quickly untie a light field gun, which was actually a three-pounder bronze cannon, and the barrel and gun carriage of several hundred catties could be disassembled and transported, and soon the small cannon with the muzzle of which was difficult to fit into the fist was assembled, and then quickly loaded with ammunition, and immediately aimed at the city gate and sprayed flames. However, at a distance of two hundred meters, a shell close to the speed of sound flew by in an instant, and there was immediately a hole in the oak-clad iron gate, and the gunner immediately cleared the chamber thirty seconds later, the second shell flew out, this shot should have hit the bolt behind the door, and the gate shook suddenly, but it still did not open.

At this moment, another twelve-pounder mountain howitzer was also assembled, and then quickly fired, although the short-barreled howitzer did not do this, but it was still powerful at a distance of only two hundred meters.

The gates slammed again.

Then the field artillery opened fire.

Then the howitzer fired.

At the moment when the eighth shell hit, the heavy city gate suddenly opened back.

"Fire!"

Zhang Dingbian said.

The dragoons who were already lined up beside him immediately pulled the trigger, and the Mongol warriors who were shooting arrows on the walls fell one after another, and at the same time as the infantry reloaded, the field guns and howitzers that raised their muzzles opened fire almost simultaneously, the former shattering a battlement of arrows, and the latter firing a spherical flowering projectile that crashed into the tower with a flaming tail.

"Rush!"

In the sound of explosions overhead, Zhang Dingbian pointed at the knife in his hand, and the cavalry torrent that had been impatient for a long time immediately moved forward, and the shooting of the dragoons began again, under the cover of them and the artillery, the cavalry quickly rushed across the moat and crashed into the imperial city, and then rushed up the city wall along the horse road, with the collapse of the enemy army, the dragoons outside also surged, and even the artillery pushed the cannon to rush to the next city gate.

But Chongtianmen had no defenders.

Zhang Dingbian unceremoniously blew open the main entrance of this palace with a gunpowder bag.

Then the Han army poured into the palace.

However......

"No?"

Zhang Dingbian exclaimed in disbelief.

Tu Timur was not in the palace, and it was Timur of Huai who stayed in this palace and did not spend it.

"Dashuai, we have all been deceived, the Great Khan has fled outside the pass last night, what is holding on to most of them is waiting for reinforcements, what Polo Timur and Li Siqi's coalition army has arrived in Xuande, these are all fake, they are all deceitful, the people who deceived us here to lie to Zhang Shicheng are not in a hurry to pursue, and then the Great Khan got out safely, we were all deceived, he had already arranged for the Huai King to supervise the country, and then he abandoned us and fled."

Ah Shu said with grief and indignation.

Zhang Dingbian stood there stunned......

"Chase, chase, don't let Zhang Jiusi's people take the lead!"

He let out an angry roar.