Chapter 375: Ten-sided ambush

The smoke of war was thick, and fires broke through the night sky. Under Tai'an City, the sound of killing shook the sky.

Attacking the city at night was the suggestion of a low-ranking officer in Yang Hu's army. He was originally an officer. The military farm assigned to him by the garrison was taken away by Liu Jin's people greedy for merit and pretended to be a hidden land in the local area. He had no land to plant and had to become a refugee and fled from the garrison. When Yang Hu's army arrived in Shandong, he simply joined the army.

According to his idea, Yang Hu's army continued to attack the city day and night, especially the fiercest at night, because the guards at the top of the city could not see the specific deployment and movements of the white-clothed army under the city at night, so they could not predict the enemy's planes to prepare in advance. This method really made the defenders in the city suffer. The offensive outside the city was tight and loose, and they were constantly day and night, especially at night, unable to see the number of opponents clearly. They could not predict where to attack in the four cities and where to fight. They could only defend day and night, and were already exhausted.

Yang Hu's patience was almost wiped out. He originally planned to use Tai'an as bait to lure the Jinan defenders out of the city to fight, so the offensive was not very fierce. Unexpectedly, the Jinan defenders remained silent. The dozens of ships of food and grass he robbed from the canal and fed them to eat horses and fed them. He squandered them all. Now there is not much left. If he doesn't capture Tai'an City, the entire army will face the point where there is no food available.

Therefore, Yang Hu has given up his plan to siege the city in the past two days and attack Tai'an City with all his strength. It is necessary to take down this city, use the food stored in the city as a supply, and use the wealth and beauty in the city to inspire the increasingly decadent morale of the entire army.

Yang Hu's army had four cannons, which were transported from nearby county towns with great effort. The officers of the former garrison station who came to serve did not know how to use cannons. They only understood that when using cannons, they had to fix iron pins first, set iron trips and pile up earth walls behind the cannon carts. As for the elevation angle of the cannons, target distance, etc., they didn't know anything about the cannons, but if such a large city is placed there, each cannon can always hit the city wall or shoot into the city.

The city gate was built with heavy stones to prevent the city wall from being bombed open by Yang Hu's cannons. The city wall was covered with scars. However, when the sky general shone, the cannons in Yang Hu's army were dull. There were several barrels of gunpowder, but the iron projectiles were used up. Han Bai, the vanguard of Yang Hu's army, was unmoved, and still waved the flag and ordered the troops to attack the city with all their strength regardless of casualties.

The cannons on the city wall made a shocking sound. They spewed smoke and the flowering bullets violently suppressed the attack of Yang Hu's army. The stone throwing machines, trench bridges, and cloud ladders continued to gather towards the dead corners of the cannons. Stones, fireballs, and poisonous smoke balls were constantly shot at the city wall, and lives were constantly buried on the battlefield, but no one could take a look.

In the central army tent, Yang Hu frowned and walked around anxiously. Mu Yun, Tofu Wolf and other close generals stood silently. Yang Hu suddenly stopped and said with hatred: "A mere Tai'an City has not been able to capture it for a long time. Now the artillery has been used up. Liu Liu's army was blocked by Yang Ling and could not move forward outside the city of Dezhou. The most fatal thing is that the food and grass are about to be used up. Do I have to give up Tai'an? I am unwilling to give up!"

Tofu Wolf rolled his eyes and said, "Brother. Otherwise, I would lead all the people to search for nearby prefectures and counties. The food I found would be able to support the army for another ten days. We are now stranded and exhausted, but the defenders in Tai'an City might be even more difficult. I don't believe it, they can hold on for ten days."

Mu Yun said: "Brother, according to my opinion, we might as well rush our army to the south. The south has sufficient food and grass to supply our army. If we occupy Nanjing, we can build a royal family member of the Zhu family as a puppet, and at least we can also divide the river with the capital and govern it."

Tofu Wolf sneered: "The surname is Mudi, and it seems that he will take all the land in Shandong, with Shandong, Henan and Shanxi forming iron chains. The nonsense that strangles the throat of the capital is your idea, right? Now the winner is still not decided. You are shouting to go to Jiangnan again."

Mu Yun smiled slightly and said, "Marching and fighting are about adapting to changes. Our original plan was to seize all the land in Shandong, then go north to the capital and kill its leader. But no one expected that the court would respond so quickly that their army would no longer follow us in futile attacks, but instead defended the land and relied on the benefits of the city to compete with us. Our advantage lies in field battles, but now we should make other plans."

The tofu wolf sneered and said dissatisfiedly: "Bah! You are a hunter and you think you are Zhuge Liang, so why are you a big-tail wolf? It would be fine if Tai'an had taken it off. It wasn't you who said you wouldn't fight, but you wouldn't fight, but you would tempt the Jinan army. Now Tai'an had taken it off."

"Okay, okay, don't quarrel!" Yang Hu waved his hand in annoyance and looked outside the tent. It was already dawn. Yang Hu sighed and said, "Order Yi Chenfeng, Li Yeyin's men immediately cooperated with Han Bai to attack the city with all their might. We will fight until the sky is bright. If Tai'an still can't take it down, we will withdraw our troops immediately after the rebellion and head south!"

"Yes!" Seeing Yang Hu make a decision, all the generals in the tent bowed and said yes.

Yang Hu walked to the door of the tent, looked at the flames that kept spitting out from the city in the distance and the sounds of rushing, and shouted in his heart: "Success or failure, it's time to fight at dawn!"

"It's a success or a failure, and it's time for the battle at dawn!"

Boyan was very quick to wave his whip. Not only did he sweat a lot, but he even sweated a horse and wet his mane.

Six thousand cavalry, twenty thousand horses, thousands of miles of raids, and the target is Qinghai Lake, the rebellious general Gasbu, who has at least 40,000 ethnic groups.

They marched at an astonishing speed, traveling at least hundreds of miles a day. In order to ensure combat effectiveness, they only stopped for half a day when the troops were extremely scarce. The long-distance blitz attacked by the Mongolian cavalry was fully demonstrated by him.

Heavy troops gathered in the Datong area of ​​Xuanfu, feinting the attack on the Ming Dynasty and concealed people's eyes and ears, and led a light cavalry to attack him for thousands of miles. This passion and confidence are worthy of Genghis Khan's direct bloodline. This desperate bet is also only Boyan Mengke has such courage.

He had to make such a choice, defeat would not defeat him. But in the most difficult time, his confidant general led his troops to defect. If he was not punished as soon as possible, he would not be able to restrain other troops. What's even more terrifying is that Gasbu found Manduhai, which had long been missing from somewhere. Using her prestige and appeal, the noble tribes that originally belonged to the Manduhai family were turbulent, and some small tribes had quietly defected.

If he doesn't solve it, he can only delay the first half of the year. By this winter, all the forces that have been working hard for many years will collapse. He will die and survive. He can only fight!

The war horses galloped, and on the vast grassland, ten thousand iron cavalry were like a gust of wind, roaring like thunder, frightening birds and beasts flying far away.

As long as there is water and grass, the Mongols can do not need supplies, lightly equipped and fast horses, and cross a long distance of thousands of miles. The army approached Qinghai Lake, and the sky was still ink. Boyan Meng ordered the army to stop and rest, and after an hour and a half, they drank all the horse's milk, drank all the water, and finished the remaining little food, and then took advantage of the dawn that had not yet appeared, launching the final attack.

The vast land of Qinghai Lake is still silent in the scene. Fish leaps among the waves, the early clouds and gulls are flying low on the water, and the sound of waves hits the shore, responding to the sound of gulls that sound from time to time, empty and quiet.

There are herds of cattle and sheep in the fence on the lakeside. The land here is fertile, the grass and trees are lush, and the animals are as happy as the land. It is a vast natural pasture with fertile land waiting to be reclaimed.

At this moment, the birds in the shallow grass flapped their wings and flew high. The roe deer raised his head from the fertile grass, stared at a pair of black eyes and looked around with vigilantly, then raised his fat butt and fled in panic. In a moment, a muffled thunder suddenly rolled over from the place where it had just stopped.

Boyan Khan whipped his whip and jumped over the horse. Facing the cool wind on Qinghai Lake, the continuous yurt was already in front of him. What he was looking for was the largest, where the tall flagpole was erected in front of the camp. The faint thunder from afar, the first ones were alarmed were cattle, sheep and sheepdogs. They started to whine in chaos.

When Boyan Khan's cavalry kicked through the outer camp and rushed to the core of the camp, the warriors of Gasbu also got up one after another, hurriedly picked up swords and guns, and stepped onto the horse's back. They were not without scouts, there were too many races in this place. Although Gasbu's tribe was the largest power, it was difficult to guarantee that there were no challengers who could overestimate themselves.

But the raiders were too decisive and too fast. When the scouts saw their figures and drove back, they were only a little faster than them. Someone pointed to the place where the wolves rushed over on the prairie and shouted: "It's there, it's there!"

When Gathbrook looked into the distance, he saw thousands of horses galloping and rushing towards him, his momentum was as sharp as an arrow.

Gasbu was surprised and surprised: Whose horse is this? Qinghai is the intersection of the two major arteries of the Silk Road on the Land and the Ancient Tang-Tibet Road, so there are a lot of people here, including Arabs, Persians, Saurers, Aerhuns, Sistivas, Verws, and Tubans. However, their tribes were too scattered and there was no unified organization at all. It was impossible to gather into such a tiger-like subway cavalry that was uniformly arranged.

All the soldiers of various yurts stepped on the war horses and rushed towards his camp. More than 6,000 soldiers gathered behind him in an instant, and war horses were constantly galloping from far and near.

Gathbu smiled with satisfaction. It turned out that there were at least 10,000 qualified soldiers under him. After arriving in Qinghai Lake, he accommodated some small tribes of the Tatars, Oirats and other tribes scattered here, and even some Tuberan warriors.

Since miraculously obtained the Empress of Mandu Sea, Gasbu lived with strange goods, and used her prestige to send people to lobby the tribal nobles affiliated with Boyan Khan, spreading all kinds of news that were not conducive to Boyan. Some tribes have quietly defected to him. His warable soldiers are now at least 15,000, which is the greatest force in the entire Qinghai.

"Warriors, rush up and leave the invading enemy here, let their bodies fertilize our grassland, kill!" Gasbu rode a tall and strong Qinghai horse, pulled out his scimitar and issued a combat order.

Gasbu was tall and heroic, with a black and red face, and a clear outline as if it was cut by a knife. He rode a horse one head higher than a Mongolian horse, and waved his sword and pointed his sword, and was imposing. Two commanders of thousands of men were already lifting their swords and jumping out. They led their troops to shoot two wolf-toothed arrows at Gasbu and shouted to meet them.

The soldiers and horses behind also charged immediately, and the opponent's troops gathered into a sharp blade, while Gasbu's army was like thousands of arrows shooting, rolling and rushing. Judging from the posture, it was enough to swallow the opponent. At this moment, the relaxed smile on Gasbu's face suddenly condensed.

The team rushed to the ground from afar and had clearly appeared in sight. The first line of sunshine in the morning was shining above their heads. On the head was a big banner, a ferocious wolf head danced in the wind, as if it was about to devour people. Gasbu suddenly felt cold in his hands and feet: the royal flag of the Mongolian Khan, the totem of the Golden Family, and the person who came was Boyan Khan.

Wearing leather armor, an iron helmet on his head, and a beard like a halberd, Bo Yan rushed in front, and his king flag was behind him. The news sent back yesterday also said that Bo Yan was robbing the Ming Dynasty border. He... How could he appear here?

Boyan's army was so excited that he was full of blood, but there was only an extremely cold murderous intent in his eyes. There were more people and horses than them, but they did not avoid the front and flank charge. Facing the enemy who was swarming in, with a command, a piece of steel knife shone brightly and shone brightly in the sun.

A thunderous shout sounded: "The Khan conquered the rebels, those who follow him retreated to avoid death! Kill!"

Gasbu's army was stunned, and the war horses were still charging, but the hand holding the reins was involuntarily tightened, and the steel knife was still raised in the air. However, there was no such a powerful spirit.

They betrayed Boyan for a long time, and their deep-rooted obedience mentality and the sacred and inviolable golden family were deeply rooted. Suddenly, they found out that the target of their war was their former obedience and obedience. They were immediately confused and didn't know what to do.

If the news of the advance of Boyan Khan early, if Gasbu and his loyal generals could make pre-war mobilizations for them, the soldiers who had fully considered their personal and family futures should be able to muster up the courage to fight to the death as a enemy. But now when the Khan first appeared, their first reaction was to obey and retreat.

The huge waves of chargers have become Qinghai Lake tide slowly slapping the embankment. Boyan took the lead, holding his sword tightly in his hand, waved his hand in a low voice, and shouting and killing like thunder. His cavalry was like scissors tore a piece of tight cloth and rushed over from the soldiers coming up. The target: Gasbu!

The iron cavalry was running at lightning. The generals and confidants who were loyal to Gasbu were around him who were swearing to death to death when they saw that the situation was not good, immediately drew their swords and rode forward, and the shiny scimitar spears collided in an instant, like waves flooding the reefs.

The cavalry on both sides attacked, and the land was used exclusively for the Mongolian cavalry, and they were wedged directly like an axe and a chisel. The well-trained warriors on both sides knew how to cooperate with each other and echoed each other. They were equally brave and good at fighting. However, the morale of Gasbu's army could not compete with the six thousand dead soldiers of Boyan Khan in any case.

The war horses neighed, the crowds were surging, the fierce fighting, the sword and spear were waving, the target of the blocker was the wolf-headed banner, and the target of the charger was also on the flag. It pointed there, and the charger and the blocker were facing there. Under its flag, there were swords and guns everywhere. People kept falling off the horse in the roar. Whether it hurt the vital points or not, falling off the horse would be dead.

"kill--!"

He shouted and shouted in anger. Boyan was red with his eyes, staring at his former subordinates with fierce eyes, galloping on his horse, and flashing with his sword. There were countless soldiers falling in front of his horse. Gasbu also participated in the battle himself, holding his sword and jumping over the horse, lying among the crowd. Both of them were watching the right eyes, but because of the dense obstruction of the troops, they could not rush together for a while.

In front of us, swords and spears flashed, flags and horses flew past, and figures constantly fighting blocked each other's sight, but the eyes of the two were never blocked by them. They could always find each other's figures at the fastest time.

Boyan Mengke's sword was crossed, and the red and sapphire on the knife shone out a day's confusion. A knight who was coming was cut in half by him. Then he stepped on the kickstand and jumped up. He used the horse's stance to charge, slashed the horse's head with a sharp knife, splitting the horse's head into two, and laughed loudly in the blood mist in the sky: "Gasbu, come and fight me!"

Gasbu's eyes were red, and he didn't think about the challenge. He roared like a thunderous roar, turned his horse's head, clenched the steel knife tightly toward Boyan. The soldiers fighting around him unknowingly quieted down, under the wolf's head. The sword light was like lightning, thunder, and horses were like dragons, and only these heroes were reflected...

The rising sun is like fire, and the sound of killing outside Tai'an City is shaking the sky.

Yang Hu's siege was in full swing, and he never expected that the battle at dawn under Tai'an City was not with the defenders in the city, but with the reinforcements that suddenly arrived.

He roamed Shandong and rarely encountered decent opponents. When he gathered troops to attack the city, due to his rapid action, the officers and soldiers from all over the country had to be transferred to the commander commander. When the commander commander received the news, he had already succeeded and fled far away. The speed of the officers and soldiers was never as fast as his marching speed, so he had never encountered decent opponents.

This time the troops besieged Tai'an City. After half a month of attack, he also considered whether the court would mobilize reinforcements to attack. Therefore, there were horses surveillances in all major traffic roads outside Tai'an City forty miles away. As soon as there was a situation, he immediately returned it. With his current strength and speed of mobile warfare, whether it was choosing to fight or leaving calmly, it was easy to get out of hand.

However, this possibility is very small, because local soldiers in Shandong are now guarding various cities. If they do not dispatch troops from other provinces and draw these troops to attack themselves, they will risk jumping out of the siege and counterattack other empty cities. If they are defeated, the left and right will only kill some soldiers. If the court loses the battle and loses the city, the commander will most likely be in prison. He doesn't believe anyone dares to be so crazy.

But such a madman came. Yang Ling actually transferred all the soldiers far away in Qingzhou. Most of the soldiers in the court were infantry. According to the usual circumstances, when their troops arrived, they had already cleaned up the army. Everyone had a full meal, sang a small song, and left leisurely. But what was even more crazy was that Yang Ling actually mobilized all the cavalry in various armies to fight the front war. The subsequent brigade of infantry could not even see the shadows.

So Yang Hu was shocked and laughed when he heard the news. He could not imagine that the cavalry guarded in each city usually did not exceed 3,000 people. Should such a team of cavalry leave the brigade come to fight or die?

But he couldn't laugh soon, because Yang Ling transferred all the cavalry, and the speed was not slower than Yang Hu's exploring horses. When his people rushed back to report the news, all the cavalry arrived at the same time.

Their men arrived at the ground almost at the same time, from different places and on different roads, but appeared in the same place at the same time, and even in some relatively far places, such as Qingzhou, the troops and horses continued to hold the imperial envoy's military orders along the way, and along the way, they collected cavalry from various cities. When they gathered near Tai'an City, a cavalry team of 28,000 people had formed. With the help of the nearby mountainous terrain, such a team was enough to withstand the charge of the White-clothed Army at least five rounds.

Xujialou, Qiujiadian, Taipingzhuang, Laoquekou..., they came so quickly. They occupied an important intersection around Tai'an. Without waiting for Yang Hu to react, they immediately began to sprinkle thorns on the road, place deer antler wood, then dig a trap and set up a horse-resisting rifle...

The soldiers were so fast that they had done it, but they didn't take the opportunity to attack, but they pretended to be like defending? Could it be that they wanted to marching quickly with cavalry, quickly seize the important roads with the same flexible maneuverability, and then defended and waited for the infantry to arrive? Is it too late? Yang Hu was puzzled by the strange actions of various officers and soldiers.

It was impossible to think for a long time. Yang Hu decided not to think about it. He decided to go. Where to go? In all directions, except for Jinan, the road was empty and there were no ghosts. There were all officers and soldiers blocking the other roads. This time, his generals under his tent said: "If you don't take this road, there will be ambush!"

The heroes have similar views, and Yang Hu also means this. Since he has already decided to go south and develop to Jiangnan, it is just in place. Yang Hu decided to gather his troops to break through Taipingdian, and then choose the way out of Shandong and go south.

The horse explorer flew around and reported to Yang Ling about the actions of Yang Hu's army. Yang Ling and the cavalry in the Jinan defenders gathered. There are now about 8,000 elite cavalry. They are quietly waiting behind a hillside next to the road. Yang Ling stood on the slope, looking at the flames under Tai'an City, and listening to the horse explorer's report.

Hearing that Yang Hu had stopped siege, Adni said anxiously: "Yang, start a charge immediately, use your three thousand iron cavalry to tear a gap, and then throw grenades in large numbers. This will cause chaos within them. Take this opportunity to order all troops to attack together, and the bandits will be defeated."

Yang Ling smiled slightly and said, "Wait a minute!"

After a moment of hard work, there was another reward for probing the horse: Yang Hu's army moved, and looked at the direction of movement, to escape from Taipingzhuang, and the siege troops were retreating and gathering.

This time, the two guerrilla generals who were commanding the cavalry were anxious. They looked at Yang Ling eagerly, and Yang Ling smiled and waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, wait a little longer."

Adni's plan is good, but the troops that have temporarily joined forces have one of the biggest weaknesses: they do not want to be subordinated, and integration is not conducive. Although Yang Ling had expected it, he had ordered several generals to be selected from the cavalry teams sent by each unit to serve as head coaches. This is a temporary integration. It is hard to predict whether the army will be defeated if it encounters a crazy counterattack from the bandit army. He dare not take this risk.

He could give a death order and order all reinforcements to kill their chief generals before they arrived, but he could not unreasonably stipulate that any reinforcements would kill their chief generals if they failed. The first battle must be fought by themselves, and they would fight beautifully and neatly, and to beat the tiger down the mountain into a dog falling into a group of evil wolves.

The transformation comes from morale. The Ming army lacks land and is morale. If you look closely, except for the cold and calm subordinates of his cavalry, the officers and soldiers in Dezhou and Jinan were somewhat nervous. This was just to take the formation himself. The mentality of other reinforcements can be imagined. It can only turn into a bad battle to rush to attack.

But what about the White Army? What kind of army is the White Army?

Yang Ling sneered a sneer on the corner of his mouth and said lightly: "They can fight hard, but they can't fight hard. Ruthlessness and hardness are two different things. The cruel and ruthless outlaws do not mean that they will spare their lives. When they feel desperate, they will also escape. Those who can fight hard battles cherish their lives without fear of death, never speak of failure lightly, and the military discipline is as strict as iron. The white-clothed army is a group of bandits. Can they do it?"

Yang Ling raised his hands behind his back and said, "Xin Guixi, the border troops suddenly purged the army and transferred them during the war. If there are 100,000 people, how long will it take?"

Xin Guixi was the commander of his three thousand iron cavalry, a guerrilla in the border army. He was stunned for a moment and thought for a while before he carefully said: "The military order was issued to the entire army, and the assembly and rectification were completed, and the camp was set up and the camp was set up... It took about an hour."

Yang Ling smiled and said, "The border army is well-trained, and it will take an hour to assemble a hundred thousand troops, let alone this group of bandits who do not know the military discipline? If they can't attack the city, their momentum has declined. Suddenly, they are trapped and their morale will be unstable. If they gather in a hurry, their formation will be chaotic! The upper one is eager to retreat, but the lower one is eager to escape. At this time, stab it in its confidant, hum!"

The first ray of sunlight had already shone on the top of the mountain, and suddenly it was bright before my eyes, the mountains and trees were green, and it was different. Then, the first ray of sunlight that was emitting was blocked by the clouds, and the sudden light dimmed again.

Yang Ling Zhensheng said: "Xin Guerrilla, order your troops to charge, and while his army gathers together, they cannot deploy effective attack formations, quickly cut open their stomachs, go in and throw grenades everywhere, and blow him over! One camp will be in chaos, and a hundred horses will be in shock, and tens of thousands of horses will be in shock. By then, they will be unable to stop an effective counterattack except for fleeing all the way."

Xin Guixi bowed his hand and said solemnly: "Abide by the general's order!" Then he brushed his battle robe and strode down the mountain. A strange cloth bag was embroidered on the harp ribbon, each grid, with a row of short wooden handles inserted into the grid, and it swayed gently with his body movements, looking a bit heavy.

Peng Xiaoyang held a black cannon and looked at Yang Ling with a stubborn head and thoughtfully. Seeing that he was not paying attention to himself at all, he tiptoed down.

Yang Ling recruited generals from the army in Dezhou and Jinan again, and discussed with the two for a long time. Before the two were ordered to leave, Yang Ling smiled at Adni and said, "Let's go, let's walk up and see clearly..."

"Look...what do you see?"

"Look at the 100,000 troops falling like a mountain!"

"Oh, don't worry, I always feel that the number of chargers is a bit thin," Adni sighed.

Yang Ling said disapprovingly: "What are you going to worry about? War is not just about punching, football, weapons, supplies, money and food, but also about psychology and human nature. I also observed all the way, savoring the combat style of the sound horse thieves, the white-clothed army, and the quality of the soldiers, so that I dared to be so sure."

Yang Ling pulled up his woman's warm and soft little hand and said proudly: "Besides, the commander-in-chief's words and deeds are seen by his subordinates, so the more we are in the battle, the more calm we should be. Look, the mountain over there is the world's largest mountain Taishan. Those who are the commander must have the psychological quality of Mount Tai collapse without changing color."

"Boom~ Rumble~~!" There was a loud noise from the sky, and the ground under your feet trembled. It happened that the thick clouds floated out of the sky, and thousands of sunlight came down, and the eyes were bright, as if the thunder broke the sky a crack.
Chapter completed!