Chapter 73 Decisive Battle (Part 2)

In the midst of expectation and anxiety, time passed by little by little, and after three days and nights, the day of the decisive battle finally arrived.

Early that morning, Dingzhu ordered people to burn a large poke of hot water for himself, clean his body up and down, and then he found a concubine to comb his hair and tidy up his beard. Then he walked to the side hall of the temporary headquarters and went to the Zuo Xiangshi, Li Siqi, the commander of the Privy Council, Li Siqi, the deputy of the Baoyi Army, Li Sishun, the deputy of the Baoyi Army, Daluhuachi, the Zhongyi National Saving Army, Li Hanqing, the Zhongyi National Saving Army, Yandulaha, Guo Zeshan, the other ten deputy of the 1000 households, and the thousand households enjoyed breakfast together.

Because no one knows how long this battle will take, everyone eats very slowly and chooses meat, cheese and other items as much as possible so that they can avoid unsustainable physical and energy. The red tape that usually happens when dining at the same table between superiors and subordinates is thrown aside, and no one will take it into consideration.

Everyone actually knew very well that this was a key battle. If they were lucky enough to win, they would not have the strength to make a comeback within three years. If they were defeated, there would be no more soldiers from Cangzhou to Dadu. Even if the Yuan Dynasty did not immediately destroy the country, it would probably be ten years later to reorganize the country under the control of the prince.

Prince Aiyou Shilidala is not a hero with a heart. Everyone had been ordered by Huan Timur to kill so many princes. If they go to Ji Ning in the future, they will inevitably end up in a different way. As for Zhu Butcher, there is no need to think too much. Dingzhu and He Yi are both Prime Ministers of Dayuan. Even Hama knew that he had the safety of his choice to go out of the Great Wall to join Aluhui Timur. How could they be captured? Li Siqi and Li Sishun were once the confidants of Zhao Junyong. Since the day when he rolled up his troops and artillery, he had no way to return. As for Li Hanqing, he was even more of the life and death of Zhu Butcher, and they were irreconcilable between them.

"Cangzhou City is full of flat horses. I placed thirty heavy artillery and 120 four-jin cannons on the four walls, leaving sixty spares." Seeing that everyone's expressions were extremely serious, Dingzhu put down his chopsticks and smiled and told him, "Unless Xu Da can turn out to a high mountain on the spot, we will definitely not suffer any losses on the firearm this time."

"The scout has also discovered that those who led their troops eastward to sweep the local area in the past few days will not rush back to participate in the war. Wang Xuan's Sixth Army and Aslan's Ninth Army did not appear within a hundred miles. With Xu Da's caution, he would leave one or two brigades to guard along the Zhangshui River to prevent Yue Kuocha'er from stabbing in the back. In this way, in fact, the Huai thieves participating in the war were only part of the Third Army and the Fourth Army, and the total number of troops would not exceed 50,000." Zuo Xianghe Yiu also sat upright and listed a series of specific facts to boost morale.

The Huai'an Army was equipped with a large number of firearms and was mainly infantry, so the cooperation between the brothers and neighbors below was extremely strict. The more they required tacit cooperation, the more they needed the central army's orders to be implemented clearly as soon as possible. Therefore, Xu Da could not invest too much in a battle. Sixty thousand was almost the limit. If he exceeded this number, he could not guarantee that he could command effectively.

What the two Prime Ministers of the Yuan Dynasty stated were facts and each was beneficial to their own side. However, when Li Siqi, Yan Dulaha and others heard this, there was no relaxation on their faces. They just continued to chew dry meat and cheese and drink milk tea in a hunch, as if their soul had already flown out of their body.

"I have figured it out, it's better to rely on myself than others." Dingzhu was stunned for a moment, quickly changed his mind, and added loudly, "If I win this battle, I will never take everyone back to Dadu, nor will I bow my knees to the prince. We might as well follow the example of Hebei towns in the late Tang Dynasty, and from then on each of them occupy a piece of land and live their own lives behind closed doors."

This is also a big truth, because even if he can beat Xu Da, he will still not be tolerated by Tuhuan Timuer and his son. It would be better to just rely on one's own troops and become a larger vassal state, then judge the situation and seek other ways out.

Everyone heard it, and the expressions on their faces were finally a little more vivid than before. They stopped chopsticks one after another and responded with a forced smile, "Actually, there is nothing wrong with being a vassal state. When King Li Keyong of Jin was born, he never let down the Tang Dynasty."

"Yes, the emperor is wise, we are the best generals, and the emperor is stupid, and we can also protect the land and the people."

"The butcher Zhu happened to be named Zhu, just like Zhu Wen back then."

Everyone had read very little books. Soon, following Dingzhu's words, they linked the current situation with the Huang Chao Rebellion in the late Tang Dynasty. Huang Chao's Daqi had also entered Chang'an, but in less than two years, Huang Chao was disgraced. However, he was once defeated by the governors of various places under Huang Chao. Later, he lived a very comfortable life. He wanted to give some money and food to the court, but he gave some, but he didn't want to give it to him, and closed the door and robbed men and women on his own territory. The court did not have the courage to interfere too much.

Thinking of this makes people feel a little excited. At this moment, a few roars of cannons suddenly came from my ears, "Room." "Room" and "Room", just like a thunderbolt of the sky, shaking the eaves of the house.

"Xu thief was betrayal and fired in advance." Li Hanqing's face turned pale, he rose up and prepared to go out to control his team.

"It's an empty cannon. This guy can't help but rush me to go out for a decisive battle." He Yi pressed his shoulder and announced loudly.

"Boom." "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" followed by still sounds of artillery bombardment, but no one heard the horse neighing. Obviously, He Yi's judgment was very accurate. Xu thief was clamoring cannons to urge the battle, rather than launching an attack on Cangzhou City in advance.

"Then I will go and fulfill him." Dingzhu wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and stood up hard. "According to the original arrangement, the Zhongyi National Rescue Army followed the Central Army, and Gui I will directly dispatch the other troops, followed Prime Minister He and the two Lords Li, let's go and we will never stop with Xu today."

"I will never stop until I die." Except for Li Siqi, the other generals stood up and roared angrily with gritted teeth.

Anyway, they were all desperate sooner or later, so why both of them were dragging on? Soon, all the troops gathered together and rushed out along the two gates of Cangzhou City, east and south, and used the rear army to reach the southeast corner of the city, and a large formation of inverted characters was arranged obliquely.

This is the array plan determined by Dingzhu and He repeatedly deduced on the sand table. It can maximize the use of artillery on the south wall and the east wall and several horse-faced cannons to suppress the enemy. Xu Da's camp was originally located about ten miles southeast of Cangzhou City. He led troops from that direction and could face the Yuan army heading.

"Boom." "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" Huai'an army was still firing artillery in the air, with a slow pace and echoing each other. They were not firing cannons to urge war, but used the loud sound of artillery to spread some kind of emergency or important news. The distance between the teams they came to participate in the war was indeed a bit far away. It was difficult for every soldier to hear it clearly with the flags and drums alone.

"What was Xu's idea?" Before he could arrange his own army formations neatly, He Yi felt a sense of ominousness in his heart, and he quickly handed the rear army to his deputy. The left chief of the Secretariat Termu Tong led him to personally ride a horse to the Central Army to remind Dingzhu.

"It seems that it is not just Xu's Third Legion and Wu Yongchun's Fourth Legion are coming." The two brothers Li Siqi and Li Sishun were also very keen intuition. They arrived at the central army almost at the same time as He Wei, and discussed with Dingzhu in a low voice with a little nervousness.

"It's true that Wu Liangmou may have returned, no, it's not Wu Liangmou's Fifth Army. The flags are different and the number of people is too small. Look east, it's east." Dingzhu held a large telescope that he bought with a lot of money, trying to distinguish the opponent's flag.

"It's definitely not Wu Liangmou." Li Hanqing has been following the Huai'an Army for many years and can clearly remember the characteristics of each legion to recognize the flag. Wu Liangmou is young and bold, and has a broad mind. Therefore, in addition to the standard number of flag recognition, his Fifth Legion usually raises dozens of tiger flags with wings to show off his strength in martial arts.

Xu Da and Wu Yongchun were much lower-key than him. One of them was the standard shield in the Huai'an army, and the other was the crossed double swords. Through the telescopes they had collected at high prices, He Wei, Li Sishun, Li Hanqing and others could easily distinguish them. Xu Da took out all the strength of the Third Legion. Wu Yongchun commanded about six brigades. The two soldiers were slowly gathering from the southwest and southeast directions toward the city of Cangzhou. The team from the east was under another banner, a bright moon, a rising sun, and an endless land and ocean, the sun and the moon rose together, shining on China forever.

"Boom." Another cannon was called out, Dingzhu, He Wei, Li Siqi, Li Sishun and others, their bodies shook at the same time, and their faces became extremely solemn.

"It's Zhu Butcher, the first legion of Zhu Butcher, he may have come in person." Li Hanqing's reaction was stronger than anyone else, and his teeth were chewing.

He had a deep memory of the flag recognition. Back then, Zhu Tuhu's ship had the same flag on it and crossed the river to fulfill the agreement with Tutuo. As a result, the gunpowder ship he carefully prepared was useless. Prime Minister Tutuo vomited blood on the spot and died immediately.

He hated that person, that flag, hated that person who was angry with his proprietor to death, hated that flag ruined his dream of becoming a general and a prime minister. If it were not for Zhu Thief's rebellion, he believed that under Tuotuo's guidance, he would be able to take the same position as He Yi, even if it was not smooth, at least he could compete with Han Yuanshan, the left chief of the Secretariat. Now, he could only shake his tail and beg for mercy under Dingzhu, and was also guarded as if he was guarding against the thief.

In an instant, Li Hanqing even forgot his ambition to compete for the future. He struggled and wanted to start the team and pounce on him, breaking the guy under Riyue's banner, regardless of whether he was Zhu Butuhu himself or not, his arm was tightly held by two Mongolian warriors who suddenly walked over. No matter how hard he struggled, it was difficult to move forward.

"General Li is sick and talks nonsense. Come and send him back to the city to find a doctor to treat him." He Wei's face turned pale and ordered Qiexue behind Li Hanqing.

"I'll send my orders to you from now on. From now on, the Zhongyi National Rescue Army will be handed over to Shalaban until General Li recovers." He did not give Li Hanqing a chance to resist at all, and Dingzhu tacitly added.

"Yes." Several Qixue agreed in unison, raised Li Hanqing, dragged him towards the city gate, and no matter how hard this person struggled and shouted, he would never relax.

Wanhu Shalaban, deputy of the Zhongyi National Saving Army, came out of the crowd like a ghost, passed by Li Hanqing, bowed to Dingzhu, "The last general is here, and the last general will not let down the right prime minister."

"You?!" Li Hanqing's eyes widened, his legs dragged on the ground, and he instantly lost all his strength. After thinking hard for so long, he had been planning how to betray others and how to get the greatest benefits. However, he did not expect that someone around him had already betrayed and had already planned to replace him.

"Drag on, if he dares to disrupt our morale, he will be killed immediately." Dingzhu did not look back and urged loudly. Then, he raised his telescope and continued to look carefully towards the east.

Although Li Hanqing is a man with ambition, his knowledge is not bad. The battle flag slowly approaching from the east is indeed owned by the First Legion. The team under the battle is not large in size. At most, it is just a cavalry brigade with two thousand people. However, everyone in the team is wearing a silver-wire soft armor, and the shining light on the iron helmet makes it shine and cold.

"It's the First Legion Guard Brigade." Dingzhu heard Zuo Xianghe's trembling voice analyze in his ear, "Xu Hongsan's general flag is inside, in the middle of the team, the one next to the Sun and Moon flag next to him, the burly guy should be Zhu Chongjiu."

"It's Zhu Chongjiu. There is no one else except Zhu Chongjiu. I saw him in Xuzhou back then." Li Siqi's voice sounded dry and tight, with a faint tremolo.

Zhu Chongjiu is here

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le='background-image:url(/img/1451896411574/32846786/7716016545893951725.png)'>He came from the sea, and Wu Liangmou rushed to the east a few days ago. Not only to sweep away the fortresses of the powerful Shihou, but also to pick up Zhu Chongjiu and open the way for the guard brigade.

Zhu Chongjiu came, and he actually left Huaiyang, secretly left Xuzhou, and secretly came to the front of the battlefield. He wanted to command the battle himself and bury Dayuan with his own hands.

Zhu Chongjiu came. When he left, Huai Yang was safe and sound. Zhang Shicheng did not send troops. Zhang Shicheng actually gave up the best opportunity in his life and was willing to be trampled by him forever.

In an instant, Dingzhu could not believe his eyes and ears, but just watched the team in the distance get closer and closer. The iron-armored black-faced general in the team is like a god descending, with sunlight surging behind him.

"Expel the Tartars and restore the mountains and rivers." I don't know who led the head, but a sound slowly rang in the bright spring day.

At first, it was a little thin, but in a flash, it became extremely loud, like a giant dragon that had been sleeping for many years, suddenly jumped up from the abyss and made its first long whisper after waking up.

"Expel the Tartars and restore the mountains and rivers."

"Expel the Tartars and restore the mountains and rivers."

"Expel the Tartars and restore the mountains and rivers."

Amid the loud "dragon roar", the Huai'an army that came to participate in the war quickly moved closer to each other, fighting flags flying in the wind.

The king's army has not seen him. This is the first time since Jianyan's transit south, the Han army has stepped onto the land of Yanzhao. Before that, the remnants of the Chinese had been struggling to endure the heavy Hu dust for more than 230 years.

Man talks about Beiqunkong, China is not without heroes, but heroes have grown up a little longer, but they will eventually soar to the sky.

After all, I will give me a powerful man. But how many men of the Han family will forget the shame of Jingkang, the will of Wu Mu, and the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains north of the Yangtze River, inside and outside the Great Wall, and the ancestors and ancestors overcome all obstacles and seized back from the mouths of beasts and poisonous snakes.

This is "the capital of Yao, the soil of Shun, and the seal of Yu". It has never allowed outsiders to steal, nor can it be defiled by civilized enemies. Even if the beasts and poisonous snakes succeed in the collusion of traitors, even if the black clouds cover the sky, even if the corpses are everywhere and the sea of ​​blood is surging, one day, the sun and the moon will rise to the sky again and illuminate this proud land.

This is not the fate of a powerful person in the book, nor is it the collision and revenge between nations, but the civilization must defeat the barbarism and the creator must defeat the robber.

Otherwise, humans will fall into the abyss of darkness forever.

"Expel the Tartars and restore the mountains and rivers."

"Expel the Tartars and restore the mountains and rivers."

Listening to the earth-shaking shout, Dingzhu suddenly felt guilty and looked sideways and found that He Wei, Li Siqi and others were all seeing men on their foreheads, with pale faces as paper.

"I, Dayuan, established a tripod from the Emperor of Heaven, unified the world, and the virtues were brought to the people." He opened his voice and tried to lead his personal soldiers to boost morale, but found that the sound of shouting was so weak.

When the Yuan Dynasty established its country through killing, it slaughtered the grassland and Yanzhao, Bianliang and the two Huaihe Rivers, and the Khitan, Jurchens, Dangxiang, and Han people, and slaughtered nine out of ten houses and empty houses. It slaughtered the fertile soil in northern China for many years without smoke. What kind of face does it mean that it is said that its virtue is to be the people.

If more than 60% of the people were massacred, it could be called a virtue rule, then all the jackals, wolves, tigers and leopards in the world would be all Bodhisattvas who ate the feta and drink blood to be born into Buddhas.

As for the founding of the country, the people were divided into four levels, including the ranks of the court, the imperial examinations were abolished, the tax was included, and paper was exchanged for gold. The iron-arms were not allowed to fall into the people. In this way, what was the case, which was not to lead animals to eat people or act against the contrary.

Even Dingzhu himself couldn't convince himself, so what could he use to boost morale? He used the "civilization and martial arts skills" of his ancestors and parents to convince his opponents and tell the world.

"Fire the artillery, fire the artillery demonstration, notify the city and fire the artillery demonstration immediately." Hearing that Dingzhu said the less and less the voice, the left prime minister He Yiu no longer dared to delay, and snatched a black flag from the master's guard, held it high above his head, and shook it hard.

"Boom boom boom boom boom." "Boom boom boom boom boom boom." "Boom boom boom boom boom."

On the two walls of the east and south, hundreds of large and small cannons roared in anger, and the dark bullets flew out, smashing the ground to pieces.

The distance is too far, and the four-pound cannon cannot reach the toes of the Huaian Army, and the heavy cannons cannot be chased. This bombardment is simply to interrupt the ashamed and inexplicable shouts in the wilderness.

The effect was quite good. When the first shelling sounded, the Huaian army's shouts stopped abruptly, but soon, a loud military horn replaced the shouts, and once again passed through the ears of all the Mongolian Yuan soldiers on the city and under the city like a dragon.

Accompanied by the loud military trumpet, the movement speed of Huai'an soldiers also suddenly accelerated. The teams accelerated the assembly near Xu Da's central army commander's flag while moving, while Xu Da himself rode his horse to the east, towards the high-rise flag of the sun, moon, rivers and mountains. From a distance, he raised his hand to Zhu Chongjiu, "Repay, lord, all the Third Corps, the 401, 402, 403, 404, and 405 Brigades of the Fourth Corps have been ordered to assemble. Please make an announcement."

"Brothers, thank you for your hard work." Zhu Chongjiu raised his hand on his forehead and quickly returned a standard military salute. Then he ran high-speed, and shouted, "You are still in command of this battle. You will continue to fight as you should. I will come here to cheer for you and observe the enemy's surrounds."

"As for the order." Xu Da was stunned for a moment, then pulled the reins of the war horse and galloped back under the commander's flag. Soon after, another inspiring suona sound came from the Central Military Bureau, "Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da

"Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da

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The sound of suona was responding from a distance to the generals of each brigade, and the rhythm of the team's marching changed in an instant. In addition to artillery, each brigade was divided into three, and each regiment bloomed like flowers in the emerald green fields, turning into medium-sized hollow square formations.

The hollow square arrays approached each other, with their shoulders leaning against their shoulders and their horns leaning against their horns. They slowly stopped three miles away from the Yuan army. The heavy artillery on the city wall could already hit this position, but the destructive power of the heavy artillery to the hollow square array was almost negligible. Unless it happened to hit someone, the shells would burst into pieces of dust and smoke in vain.

It has never been the style of the Huai'an Army just because he was beaten but not fight back. In a blink of an eye, the direct artillery regiments of the Fourth and Fifth Corps had already launched long-distance suppression on the city. Their eight-jin cannons were carved with rifles inside like the six-jin cannons. Their accurate head and power were far superior. As long as the slow horse pulling the cart was unloaded and pulled away, the end of the car body was pressed down, and the special positioning anchor was bolted to connect with the special positioning anchor.

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d-image:url(/img/1451896411599/32846786/-4043163558889628980.png)'> You can lift the muzzle, adjust the firing angle, and fire out the flame of revenge.

"Bang." A huge flowering bullet flew out of the muzzle, swept through the blue sky, and smashed into Cangzhou City.

"Boom." The entire Cangzhou City was shaken and shaking, with thick smoke rolling in and rushing straight into the air.

"Boom." "Boom." "Boom." "Boom." Immediately afterwards, more eight kilograms of flowering bullets hit the city walls of Cangzhou, horse faces, enemy towers, scrams, bricks and stones flying across the sky, and the remaining limbs and minced meat splashed like rain.
To be continued...