When the Xuanwu army marched again, the situation of the Datong army, which was out of the fortress at this time, was not very good. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the army set off from the north of Datong City, the people sent off, the students chanted poems, and there was a mighty baggage team following, which was quite lively. From Datong to the north, there are five quite important border fortresses nearby, Zhenbian Fort, Zhenchuan Fort, Zhenqiang Fort, Zhenhe Fort, and Hongci Fort.

The location of these castles is quite important, especially Zhenqiang Fort and Hongci Fort, which are directly related to the safety of Datong Town.

The Datong town army marched vigorously, passing through Gudian Fort, Hongci Fort, and Zhenqiang Fort along the way, and arrived at the edge of the Great Wall.

As the place where the north captives go south, the north gate of Datong Town, the Ming Dynasty built three Great Walls before and after Fengzhen, the first one was built in the 19th year of Hongwu, along the mountains, over the dangerous peaks, across the deep stream, magnificent, and later abandoned.

The second Great Wall is located at the south end of Fengzhen, not far from Fengzhen City, built in the Jiajing period, it is the wall fortress at this time, the first line of Zhenqiang Fort, from east to west, the city wall is undulating and winding along the hillside hills, a large part, located in the Pingchuan area.

The third Great Wall, also built in the Jiajing period, along the Yang and Kou, Zhenchuan Fort to the west, docked in the Zhenqiang Fort Great Wall, so that it is shaped like the glaive, the Datong City section is now defended by the side wall, just these two or three Great Wall.

Because of disrepair and wind and rain erosion, many sections of the Great Wall have been seriously damaged, and some blue bricks have been retained. Collapsed into the shape of the earth, many city bricks, in fact, are also man-made, demolished by local residents to build houses, no public morality, destruction of public property, is the accumulation of disadvantages that have been circulating in ancient and modern times.

The army marched along the edge of the royal river, and the royal river came north, plus the tributaries, near the city of Datong. There is also a neighborhood of Jincheon Fort. Forming alluvial plains, from a distance, the vast land of Pingchuan is dotted with some sparse trees. Don't talk about official ways. It is a loess surface full of shallow grass. It's also quite easy to walk.

Of course, because most of the places are yellow earth, many of them are still naked. The scenery is inevitably a little bleak, but the Datong army is all high-spirited, singing military songs all the way, passing through military forts and civilian forts, as well as countless side piers, fire road piers and so on.

Most of what they saw were broken, revealing the loess rammed wall inside, and soon, they went out of Zhenqiang Fort, and the hilly plain in front of them was the land of Gufeng Town.

There is still a lot of loess here, shallow grass is dense, and there are some poplar trees, locust trees, etc. Once, part of it was returned to Xing and guarded the boundary of Qianhusuo, part of it belonged to Xuande Wei, and part of it belonged to Yang and Weisu, but after the orthodox years, most of it belonged to the nomadic land of the Mongols.

Normally, there were some Mongols grazing cattle along the river, but by this time, they all fled.

Datong army smoothly, built a village on the site of Fengzhen, because there are not many trees around, but there are many loess, so the wall of the village is mostly rammed with loess, plus some gravel to build. Wang Pu named this village Yangwei Fort, which echoes the Zhenqiang Fort not far behind.

He built the stockade roughly, and after he led the army to leave, there were many officers and soldiers of the guard post in the rear, as well as the people, who came to build it, and continued to improve the city.

Wang Pu's expedition outside the fortress is the glory of the Datong army and people, and the Wang family is becoming more and more powerful in Datong, so the expedition has been strongly supported by the top and bottom, and the governor of Datong, Wei Jingyi, is personally stationed in Yangwei Fort, responsible for supplying the army of grain and grass, reinforcing the city, etc.

Datong town army and the mighty left Yangwei Fort, on the first day, they rode along the royal river in one breath and walked fifty miles, the first is the barracks, and a Mongolian cavalry encountered, after the battle, beheaded eight levels, the whole army up and down, morale is even higher.

Wang Pu is elated, Mei Zizi's calculations, I don't know what history will say about him this time, Wei Qing reappears, Huo Quzhi is the second?

But by the next day, Wang Pu couldn't laugh anymore.

At this time, the river was meandering, the hills were numerous, the mountains were undulating, and the army was ambushed by small groups of Mongolian cavalry from time to time.

The cavalry in the army, trying to pursue, either ambushed, or there is no return, and finally had to give up, because the Tartar cavalry harassed too much, and later, Wang Pu could only order the formation of the army, so that a day can only walk a dozen miles, or even a few miles.

Although they left the border army earlier than the Jingbian army, after leaving the border wall, they went to the confluence of Jining Haizi for more than 200 miles, and they walked less than half of the way for many days, but fortunately, the army carried a lot of grain and grass, and also marched along the river, so there was no problem with grain, grass and drinking water.

It's just that I was entangled like this by the Tartars, and I was nervous all day long, but the Datong army was very tired and tired.

On the 5th of August, the taller mountains were slowly disappearing in the rear, and in front of them were all gentle hills and meadows, and clumps of woods, and near noon, the Datong army was besieged by thousands of Mongolian cavalry, and they used their good crow soldiers to scatter the stars, which made Wang Pu feel extremely angry.

The Tartars are very flexible in this tactic, the squads of three, three, five or five, cover each other, the enemy is separated, the enemy is united, and they will never let the enemy surround and annihilate, and they are skilled in riding and shooting, and they can come immediately off the horse.

Wang Pu categorically ordered the barracks to fight, but although they were all cavalry, in fact, their riding and archery skills were not as good as the grassland cavalry, and their equestrian skills could not be compared with them.

Wang Pu was distressed when he saw it, and hurriedly ordered the cavalry battalion to return, gather in the infantry formation, rely on the infantry cover, and wait for the Tartars to retreat.

This is also the status quo of the cavalry of the Central Plains at this time, generally speaking, the cavalry of the Ming army encountered the Mongolian cavalry or the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, they were all hiding in the infantry vehicle array, and formed formations on all sides in the wilderness.

For example, the infantry is in the middle, and the cavalry is protected by the tactics of the two wings, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there are fewer and fewer, and the cavalry that can fight like this is a well-known strong army, although the infantry combat effectiveness of the Datong Army has improved, but the combat effectiveness of the cavalry has not been improved.

Although the Guanning cavalry and others have this ability, the main general is reluctant to spend this money.

Day. The Datong army suffered a setback, although there were few casualties, but its ability to march had been curtailed.

On the 6th and 7th, the Datong army was besieged by a large number of Mongolian cavalry, and on the 8th, a large group of Mongolian cavalry gathered in the four fields, eyeing each other, and the number was afraid that there were as many as four or five thousand. Wang Pu was unwilling to be pestered like this. Ordered the main barracks to fight, but it was just ......

"Hateful Tartars, hateful Raven Soldiers!"

Wang Pu shouted and scolded.

The situation in front of him made him very annoyed. I saw a stream of Tartar riders. Passing by your own cavalry. They galloped in groups, and every time the bowstring sounded, it rained down like arrows. There are some throwing axes, iron bones and other weapons in the middle.

These Tartars have superb riding skills, all kinds of actions on the horse are incredible, and on the back of the bumpy horse, they are all very good, in terms of riding and archery ability, how can the cavalry of the Datong Army be like these steppe cavalry? Your own cavalry kept being hit by arrows, but few of them hit the opponent.

It may be that they learned from the Manchurian Tartars, and their arrows also used more and more arrows with strong armor-piercing and bloodletting ability, and the arrows were large and heavy, with three-edged blood grooves, but fortunately, the soldiers in the main barracks had excellent armor, which effectively reduced casualties.

The two sides were fighting, and many people dismounted to fight, shooting arrows at each other, or fighting together.

Ground archery, their own side is also not as accurate and ruthless as these Tartars, only hand-to-hand combat together is good, but there are not many opportunities for this kind of cavalry, the cavalry on both sides fight, overall, although their own side is not one-sided to be beaten, but it is obvious that they are at a disadvantage.

Wang Pu was anxious, although he has paid more attention to the infantry over the years, but in his bones, the cavalry in the barracks is his treasure, seeing the more losses, how can he not feel distressed?

He ordered the infantry to support, but as soon as the infantry moved, the Tartar cavalry quickly rushed from both wings, and even went around to the back, Wang Pu could only order the infantry to stop, and defend in formation, and finally, Mingjin was even more helpless to withdraw the troops, let the cavalry battalion come back, and let the infantry protect on all sides.

Wang Pu's courageous battle, it was obvious that he failed again, the cavalry suffered more than 200 casualties in this battle, and more than 100 war horses were lost, which made his heart hurt unspeakably. He would never let the main barracks fight again.

The Datong army formed a formation and defended it on all sides, and the whole army shrank into the formation, in addition to the cavalry, there were many people who transported the baggage and stood in fear, they were elated from the beginning, to the current inner panic, and the change of mood was only a few days.

Alas, the Tartar is really fierce, and it seems that this plug is a mistake.

After the Datong army formed a formation, thousands of Mongolian cavalry did not attack again, and they also knew that the Ming army in front of them was not what it used to be, and they all had sharp Xuanzhen bird guns in their hands, and they could break heavy armor in a hundred steps, of course, they would not rush forward to die.

However, according to the plan in advance, it is a victory to entangle the Datong Army and the Jingbian Army on the road, and it is best for them to travel for a month and a half years, so that they will withdraw before they reach the Naturalization City.

Ideally, when they are halfway there, they will have no food and grass to continue, or they may be wiped out.

After that, the two sides stared at each other through the military formation, and they did not fight each other again, but it did not mean that the Tartars on all sides stood still.

There were still some small groups of Mongolian cavalry galloping around the military formation, screaming strangely, sometimes rushing up and shooting a few arrows, putting pressure on the Datong army in the formation, trying to attract them to fire, while the large group of cavalry was eyeing the rear and moving at any time.

Sandwiched by the aftermath of victory, the appearance of these Tartars with their teeth and claws is still very scary, and they seem to have goosebumps all over their bodies when they look at them with vicious, inhuman eyes.

However, the new battalion of the Datong Army has been trained, especially many of them have gone through the bloody battle in Jinzhou, and their psychological quality is very good.

It seems to feel that this Ming army is different, after the stalemate between the two sides for half an hour, there were four whistles, and in the sound of roars, thousands of Mongolian horsemen trapped in the formation scattered away, and in the blink of an eye, they disappeared into the hills and bushes.

Seeing the Tartars retreat, Wang Pu regained his spirits, but his face was very bad and his mood was very bad, and he recruited the battalion officers and generals to scold: "A group of rice buckets, a bunch of fasting waste, how did you do it...... I think that my Wang Pu crisscrossed the north and south, fought in the south and the north, was born and died, and even made the Tartars frightened by the daughter river, why is the battle like this now? …… The prestige of my Datong army has been lost by you! ”

The generals hung their heads, facing Wang Pu's saliva, they didn't dare to make a sound, they knew that the general was in a bad mood, in the past in the Datong army, Wang Pu always smiled and smiled, and now the thunder was furious, obviously very angry.

They didn't dare to speak out, it didn't mean that Wang Pu let them go, so his eyes fell on the face of the general Wang Zheng, and shouted: "Colonel, don't you have anything to say?" (To be continued.) )