Mother Liu was lying on a small mare, and two very sturdy servants protected her from side to side, leading thirty Tatar knights.

At this time, the ambush on the mountain was the newly restructured 23rd Brigade of the Gansu Border Army, formerly known as the officers and soldiers of the local guard station. For example, the first regiment, the second battalion or something, are catchy, and the military ranks have not changed, and they are still small flags and hundreds of households.

Mother Liu had already put her life on the line, and prayed sincerely for this time that her wish would come true, she looked back at the back, due to the restrictions of the terrain, the tartar followed her from afar like a long snake.

She told the Shangshu to follow this very familiar path, and soon she would find a hidden cave in the mountain.

Shangshu is convinced of this, and the Han people in the border areas have a tradition of fleeing to the mountains since ancient times, and every household will even hide their grain in the mountains. After catching the turtle in the urn, he immediately returned to the grassland from another way, unaware, and when the Ming army reacted, he could only be helpless against the boundless grassland.

Since the death of King Yan, the Han people have lost the courage to go out of the customs to fight, but Shang Shu sighed deeply, how did the damn Han people invent such a terrible firearm? Relying on a strong fortress without waiting for a strong attack, it will leave corpses all over the ground, otherwise how can it reach the point of exhaustion? In previous years, you could get food and all kinds of urgently needed materials casually, and the Han border troops who fought lost their armor.

After all the hard work to obtain a musket, but there was no way to reproduce it from the withered tribe, let alone gunpowder and lead bullet, Shang Shu sighed again.

Since the tenth year of Hongwu, the Mongol army has repeatedly suffered defeats and losses, and now the civilization of the Mongols has regressed for hundreds of years, and even the technology of the Huihui cannon that once dominated the world has been lost.

There is no shadow of half a person in the wild, even the mountain birds and animals have fled without a trace, and the woods are even quieter. There was no wind. The leaves did not move, hanging there dejectedly, as if speculating on the fate of the invaders.

When Mother Liu guided a thousand Tartars across the valley, her heart was always unstable for a long time, not in a hurry, not in a panic, not in a panic, not in joy, not in sorrow, it was an indescribable strange taste, and tears flowed out from time to time. Rolling down the familiar mountains and hills, her heart was finally slowly filled.

The sky was unusually dark, and the Tatars searched twenty miles away, seeing that it was approaching dusk.

There were hills on all sides, and the layers of strict zhòng obstructed their view, and it was clear that there was no road ahead, and when the woman turned around a mountain pass, they found that there was also an empty field in front of them. Of course, there was a hill at the end of the view.

The Tatar general suddenly scolded: "What the hell is this place? ”

Shang Shu was also surprised, this road doesn't seem to lead to the deep mountains? It's like a way to another village.

It was only five miles away from Liujia Village, and Liu's mother's heart hanging in mid-air was slowly put down. The dark passage shouldn't go wrong again, right? It was hard to lead them here.

At the same time, sadness welled up in my heart, and the faces of my sons immediately appeared in my mind.

"Boys! My children. Mother Liu silently looked ahead, "I hope your yin spirit will not disperse and help the official army to avenge you." Revenge! Mother is coming with you soon, waiting for me. ”

Tears flowed down her handful, and suddenly she saw Shangshu riding a horse and chasing after her.

"It's just a hill away from seeing the big trees at the boulder's end." Liu's mother hurriedly touched her tears. Said to Shangshu.

Shang Shu asked, "Are all the people in the village hiding inside?" ”

"Yes. There were cultivated fields and houses, and in the early years, they lived in it for a year and a half, and it was an open space in the valley. Liu's mother replied calmly.

At this moment, the scout at the front shouted, "There are people in the house ahead." ”

"Good!" Shangshu's spirits were greatly lifted, and he immediately issued successive military orders, and the Tatars were well-trained to catch up, and then dispersed, using a lineup surrounded by the left and right, and led the war horses forward on foot.

"Old sister-in-law, you don't need you here, follow me to the rear army."

Shang Shu couldn't help but pull his horse and retreated, the two generals each commanded two thousand troops, and the rear army of a thousand people stopped.

After turning over the last valley mouth, the houses in front of them had some vague outlines, and one by one the Tatars turned on their horses, whistling in their mouths, brandishing bows and arrows and swords and rushing into it frantically.

After rushing a mile, the two thousand-strong troops behind them had almost arrived, but strangely, it was not a cave but a village.

"Not good!" The general immediately ordered the attack to be stopped, feeling that he had fallen for the enemy's trick!

The problem was that there was not the slightest sound around, and the Tatars were taken aback.

One of his subordinates said, "Maybe the Han people are hiding behind the village, right?" It's better to rush at him for a while, as long as the front and back can be connected, it doesn't matter, anyway, he has already rushed into the valley. ”

The general felt justified and ordered a thousand Oirats to continue the charge, while the rest remained put.

When a thousand wild and fearless Tatars arrived in the village, they saw ruins everywhere, and some houses were still emitting black smoke, and they couldn't help but look at each other, "Isn't this Liujiazhuang that you've been to?" ”

"Liujiazhuang! Isn't this a boulder? ”

"Ghost!"

Suddenly everyone was in a stir, and the sky was dark. The general who got the news was shocked and scolded: "Oh no, I was fooled." That ghost old woman didn't have a good heart, this is obviously Liu Jiazhuang, she dared to say anything about Jushiya. ”

As soon as he wanted to give the order to retreat, he heard a whistling from far and near, and the general said blankly: "What's wrong?" ”

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Bang Bang Bang! Bang Bang Bang!

Cannonballs roared from the sky like comets with halo tails, and angry sparks erupted from the muzzles of the guns and poured down from the hills on either side.

After a crazy night, Shang Shu trembled with anger, and suffered until the afternoon of the next day, when less than 500 of his subordinates fled back one after another, and more than 3,000 people were buried in such a mess.

His beard was almost up to the sky, and he ordered Liu's mother to be thrown in front of him, raising the horsewhip and smoking it indiscriminately, completely losing his mind.

Most of the people are dead, and his Shangshu will naturally come to an end, and the whole family will become slaves when he returns.

The whip was whipped on Liu's mother's body without a head, and Liu's mother didn't seem to feel any pain. With a smile of relief on his face.

"I'm cǎo your ancestor! What the hell is going on? The national scolding of the Han Chinese has also become a mantra for the Mongols.

"I'm cǎo your old lady, bring cold water." Shangshu roared.

Cold water poured on her body, Liu's mother trembled, a cold air penetrated into her brain, and she suddenly sobered up, with countless golden snakes flashing in front of her eyes, and her ears were like thunder and earthquakes.

"Do you want to say it? How did you get in touch with the military? How many officers and soldiers came? The desperate Shang Shu has a premonition that he can't go back, the problem is that even if he dies on the battlefield, the family can't change the fate of being a slave, and there are too many nobles eyeing him. Not to mention that there are several feuds.

Mother Liu opened her blood-red eyes a slit, squinted silently, and gradually regained her consciousness.

She wanted to use the last of her strength to roll over, open her mouth and bite the enemy a few times. However, the body was so painful that he couldn't even move, so he could only scold hoarsely: "You robbers who eat people and don't spit out bones, I can't wait to kill you all one by one, and I can't wait to bite off the flesh of you dog tartars." Didn't you kill all my sons? Didn't you kill all the people in Liujia Village? Didn't you burn down the house?

Kill people one at a time, and set a fire in one place. Why do you kill people and set fires? I want to skin you alive! You wait, I, the Han people, will never let you go, and the official army will definitely kill you dog robbers. ”

Liu's mother desperately rolled over, trying to hug a tartar and bite him a few times. Shang Shu suddenly screamed, "I'll kill you." ”

Pulling out the scimitar and stabbing it hard, Liu's mother's consciousness disappeared in an instant, and she smiled with a vengeful smile until she died.

"Your Excellency!"

The panicked Tartar soldiers ran over, looking terrified. "Oh no, the army of the national division met the army of the Ming Dynasty and killed 20,000 people. We have withdrawn from the mouth of the Great Wall, and we have no way out. ”

"I'm cǎo your ancestors for eighteen generations." Tartar Shangshu scolded frantically at the corpse, looking desperate.

The Ming army is three hundred miles away from here, and Zhang Fu, who is frowning, still can't adapt, even if the commander who leads the troops to fight doesn't have to be on the front line, he doesn't need to hide in the safest place, right?

There were not generals at all levels and personal soldiers waiting to obey orders, but hundreds of staff officers accompanying the army, hurrying and busy, marking the news they had just received on the huge military map one by one.

This time, he listened to his brother-in-law's advice and adopted the strategy of luring the snake into the hole, luring the Tatars to the hinterland of the Great Wall and annihilating them, but he did not expect to underestimate the speed of the Mongols' march and the unpredictable means of surprise attacks.

In addition, even though the communication methods were perfected in a targeted manner and various plans were drawn up in advance, the hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers still could not do what they commanded, and many mistakes occurred.

"No wonder he insists that generals must receive education and training, and sure enough, the so-called military literacy is very important."

The experienced Zhang Fu understands Xu Hao more and more, as the world becomes more and more stable, the older generation who have fought all their lives without a teacher is gone, and they grew up in peacetime, and the young people with rich and noble families are not as good as the generation, and they can at least be systematically trained when they are sent to the military academy, and the province has to pay a heavy price to exercise properly on the battlefield.

This is the same as reading and reading, if you don't study, you won't understand the truth. A qualified general does not just read a few military books and learn some experience in marching and fighting from his father.

Of course, the military academy cannot solve a problem, and there are all kinds of drawbacks, but that is a good way, Zhang Fu thinks that it is much stronger than martial arts, and from the experience of these years, the better the middle and lower-level officers, the stronger the combat power of the soldiers.

A staff officer strode over and said, "Marshal Qiyu, the 50,000 elites of General Song have captured 100,000 Tatar old and weak women and children, please deal with it?" ”

Zhang Fu said softly: "I don't have food to feed them, and the Governor's Mansion has issued an order to exterminate Hu and let them disappear into the grassland." For the sake of the dead people, blood debts and blood are paid! ”

"Yes!" The young staff officer was visibly excited, gave a solemn and solemn military salute, turned around and strode away with high morale.

Zhang Fu looked embarrassed and muttered: "I lost a lot of people and killed 100,000 women and children, so I should return to Beijing after the crime, right?" (To be continued......)