Liaodong General Yang Wen is a real founding hero and the second generation of the Ming Dynasty, his father Yang Xing followed his fellow villager Zhu Yuanzhang to revolt very early, and the official was the head of the official army, but unfortunately he was killed when he attacked Jiangzhou.

At that time, Yang Wen was still a minor and could not join the army, so his uncle Yang Wang replaced his father, but Yang Wang was also unfortunately killed when he attacked Panyang Lake two years later.

Two close relatives and elders died in battle, Yang Wen secretly ran out of the house the next year, and had to quarrel to go to the battlefield, so Zhu Yuanzhang personally gave him a magic gun, that is, a fire gun, and Yang Wen started his military career from then on.

However, the young Yang Wen did not have any outstanding talents, there was nothing proud of him in civil and military affairs, and his appearance on the battlefield was very ordinary, so he was not accepted as a righteous son by Zhu Yuanzhang like Mu Ying Li Wenzhong and his father, and he was regarded as a little-known person in the younger generation.

Then there is the general in the army who is worried that once Yang Wen dies in battle, the Yang family will be extinct, and he intends to protect his life, either ordering him to transport grain and grass or staying in the rear army, and he has hardly experienced any bloody battles.

After Zhu Yuanzhang announced the founding of the country, Yang Wen was recalled to live at home for a while, and Hongwu granted him the post of Imperial Tomb Guard for 100 households in the third year, which is not only an affirmation of the Yang family's loyalty, but also a trust in Yang Wen himself, but it also shows that in the mind of Comrade Zhu, Yang Wen is just an ordinary general.

Since then, until the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Yang Wen has been in the south as a military attaché, rarely has the opportunity to lead troops to fight, at most quells a small-scale uprising of the displaced people, but also as a deputy general, never realized the long-cherished wish of leading the troops alone, and is depressed all year round.

In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Yang Wen, who had worked hard for fourteen years before being promoted to a thousand households, followed the general Fu Youde to conquer Yunnan, and the opportunity that he had been waiting for for many years finally came, and in the second year, he was promoted to the hereditary commander of Jianchangwei because of his military exploits.

In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Jianchangwei commanded the rebellion of Yuelu Timur, and Yang Wen followed Lan Yu, who was about the same age, to go to the conquest, and Yang Wen played a great battle in this battle. He led 20 knights to defeat 200 enemy cavalry, and after the battle, he was promoted to the governor of the right army, and was named the general of the hussars and the hereditary commander.

Yang Wen, who stood out from this, was very lucky, Hu Weiyong and Lan Yu were not implicated in the two cases, and the tragic death of a large number of heroes and generals caused a great lack of senior generals in the Ming Dynasty.

Appreciated by Zhu Yuanzhang in his later years, Yang Wen had the opportunity to lead the troops as the main general, and successfully quelled rebellions in various places.

Just when Yang Wen was in high spirits. Unlucky, he met Xu Hao and was beaten violently, and then he was suppressed by Wu Gao for more than a year.

Now that Wu Gao has been demoted and transferred, the King of Liao stays in the capital, and Yang Wen has become the highest-ranking general in Liaodong.

Yang Wen, who was eager to repay the emperor's kindness, did not wait for complete control of the generals and the whole army under his command, so he obeyed Li Jinglong's dispatch out of Shanhaiguan and led 80,000 Liaodong troops to forcibly attack the important town of Yongping.

And Xu Hao, who was sent to aid Yongping at this moment, was standing at the head of the city and remembered the send-off poem that Zhu Yuanzhang had made for Yang Wen.

"The general is bold in the southern expedition. Hanging Qiushui Lu Qian knife at the waist. The horses are singing and the armor is solemn, and the wind is moving and the flag is getting higher and higher.

There will always be a kind of unicorn in the world, and the ants in the burrow will not escape. Where did the big bronze pillar come from, and the courtyard celebrated the spring in the depths of the day. ”

After reading it, Xu Hao shook his head. Just like the poems of the first emperor, the siege level of the Liaodong Army commanded by Yang Wen can be called lackluster, not to mention the single means of siege, and the morale is not high. It was far inferior to the officers and soldiers who attacked Beiping, and there was no threat to the defenders at all. The soldiers in front of him stood lazily at the head of the city one by one, facing the black and oppressive enemy troops outside the city. There is no nervousness.

Xu Hao smiled and said, "If Yang Wen learns that I am coming, I'm afraid that the scattered enemy army will change its appearance." ”

The generals and captains who defended the city laughed when they heard this, the rumbling war drums sounded, and the Yan army only shot a few rounds of bows and arrows under the city, and the Liaodong army retreated like a tide.

Xu Hao instructed: "The Liaodong Army has always been good at field warfare but not resistant to attacking fortifications, and it is not surprising that it has no intention of attacking the city, not to mention that Yang Wenchu is inconvenient to force the soldiers to the death. However, the Liaodong Army that came from afar would not be good at resting, and everyone lived in poverty. Well! Hurry up and send people around to inform the people to hide, after a long battle, Yang Wen will definitely indulge the soldiers to plunder everywhere when he leaves. ”

Yuan Cheng, the commander of the guards, said: "What the lord said is extremely true, every time the beggar army comes, it must plunder the neighboring county town, especially the Tartars and Jurchen savages inside are the most vicious, and the Han people are nothing more than robbing some property, but they even have to rob people, and if they don't obey, they will cut down people's lives. ”

Xu Hao said: "I said why the city is overcrowded. ”

Mu Hui put down the clairvoyant mirror and said: "Sure enough, the Liaodong soldiers have always been ridiculed as a beggar army, and they don't even have uniform military uniforms, and they are even worse than Mongolian Tatars." ”

Xu Hao shook his head and said, "It's not so much that Yang Wen led the troops out to fight, but that he brought them out to make a fortune." The roads in eastern Liaodong are not smooth, the soldiers are not well trained all the year round, and they are not familiar with each other, and the large army does not have a high-prestige general to command, so it is easy for the army to be disheartened and flee for their lives. ”

Yuan Cheng said: "It's a pity that the lord only brought more than 5,000 soldiers, and the defenders of the whole city are only 5,000 people, otherwise my 30,000 soldiers are enough to defeat the 80,000 beggars army under the city." ”

Xu Hao said: "No! It's not that the prince doesn't pay attention to Yongping, but the first emperor has worked hard to manage Liaodong for more than 20 years, and finally stabilized the situation. ”

Suddenly, there was lightning and thunder in the sky, the wind was fierce, and soon it rained heavily, and Mu Hui hurriedly ordered his subordinates to move the gunpowder and others to the warehouse.

Yang Wen outside the city sighed helplessly, in fact, he was not attacking Yongping, but preparing to surround but not fight, and ordered the whole army to rob the nearby people to create momentum, so that the Yan army could not go south to support King Yan.

Unexpectedly, Tiangong was not beautiful, he only brought grain and grass for a few days, and the pouring rain all night showed no sign of stopping, and the whole army that lacked food and clothing became chickens, and Yang Wen had to order the withdrawal of troops.

This heavy rain spread a wide range, and it rained almost all of Hebei, and it actually rained for seven or eight days in a row.

Thanks to Yang Wen's early departure, three days later the rain rolled up the yellow mud and poured out, filling the roads and ditches, and dozens of mudslides occurred near Yongping alone, and the raging flood washed away the embankments and villages, and even the water in the city was as deep as three feet.

The northern wilderness has become a water town, and Xu Hao, who was caught off guard, saw that the heavy rain did not stop the next day, so he ordered the Yan army to help the government rescue the affected people, and sent a fast horse to report the entire territory of Beiping Mansion in time.

Not to mention that the soldiers and civilians in the rear were suffering from fighting against rare floods, and the casualties and losses were not small, and the hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line who were facing each other between the two armies could not compete with God, and they were all soaked in water.

After the weather cleared, King Yan ordered the army to be reorganized, and Zhang Fu led the Shenji battalion to retreat because of the gunpowder, and led the generals to sacrifice to heaven and earth.

In the face of the defeated general Li Jinglong, Zhu Di, who had increased his strength to 200,000, was confident that he would defeat the officers and soldiers who claimed to be one million but did not exceed 600,000, even if there was a Wuding Marquis Guo Ying among the enemy generals.

Therefore, from noon on the same day, the Yan army began to be busy building pontoon bridges to create the illusion of trying to cross the river, and Zhu Di personally led an army of 40,000 to march northwest along the river.

Unexpectedly, the official army had already ambushed a group of soldiers and horses on the opposite bank, and when the Yan army vanguard crossed the river, they rode horses and swarmed up.

Zhu Di didn't care at first, 5,000 Mongolian cavalry was enough to fight against nearly 10,000 Han cavalry, but unexpectedly, the leader of the army was Chen Hui, a general who vowed to avenge his subordinates, and there were three brave and warlike Qu Neng father and son around him.

One-third of the Han Chinese, one-third of the Mongols, and one-third of the Jurchens in the Liaodong cavalry, Li Jinglong promised to win the battle and did not hesitate to reward him, but everyone was desperately competing for the lead, and in a blink of an eye, most of the Mongolian cavalry who fell into the river were killed and wounded, and the remaining men and horses hurriedly turned their heads and retreated, and the officers and soldiers followed the howl to the other side of the river, leaving thousands of corpses floating on the river.

Zhu Di gasped, this was the first time that he had been face-to-face with an invincible official army, looked at the Jurchens with braided hair, and said angrily: "Who dares to retreat for this king!" ”

Suddenly, the eunuch dog rushed out of his side, and rushed forward with a spear, and Gu Yun also stepped forward when he saw this, and the three of them beheaded seven officers and soldiers in a row, which boosted the morale of the rest of the Yan army, and they desperately met the enemy and blocked the charge of the official army.

Just when the two armies were inseparable, Li Jinglong commanded more than 200,000 troops to come in formation, and Zhu Di sneered and ordered the whole army to meet the enemy.

Generals from all walks of life of the two armies rushed from the rear to help in the battle, and the deafening war drums and horns resounded throughout the world, and a fierce battle lasted for more than two hours.

The sky gradually became dark, and tens of thousands of cavalry such as Chen Hui's subordinates were completely defeated by the warlike Yan army, and Zhu Di led 30,000 elite cavalry to attack victoriously, trying to defeat Li Jinglong's Chinese army in one fell swoop.

Suddenly, the officers and soldiers in front showed their killer features, and a swarm of 1,000 bees that could hold 100 projectiles showed their hideous faces, and after igniting the gunpowder, 10,000 bullets sounded like a buzzer, and the range could be four or five miles away.

Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers held bronze firearms, spraying sparks towards the Yan army, and the kicking boat buried in the ground in advance flickered into the air with firelight, spinning rapidly and spewing out countless fragments.

Zhu Di watched the guards in front of him and behind him continue to die tragically, his heart was dripping blood, and most of the 30,000 Mongolian cavalry who relied on the world to dominate the world had already been killed and wounded before they rushed in front of the enemy.

The dog wiped the blood from his face and shouted, "Take the prince away." ”

The remaining guards hurriedly escorted Zhu Di and fled backwards, and at this time, Chen Hui rushed over with a hundred people on horseback, and said sharply: "Capture King Yan alive." ”

The dog stepped forward and struggled to kill the two officers and soldiers, but he was slashed in the chest by Chen Hui, and before he died, he shouted that the prince should take care, vomited blood and fell to the ground. (To be continued......)