Chapter 1197: The Fall of Jiayuguan Pass
There was no Gansu during the Ming Dynasty, Ningxia and Shaanxi. The Ming Dynasty merged these three places into an administrative area and called the Shaanxi Chengxun Government and Envoy. Since Shaanxi was an important place in the northwest border of the Ming Dynasty, bordering the Tatars in the north and facing the Western Regions, it deployed heavy troops to guard the country, and local guards bloomed everywhere. Four of the so-called nine-sided important towns were in Shaanxi, namely Yulin Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town and Gansu Town. Each town had a general. If necessary, the court would also send a governor to manage these border towns, such as Yang Yiqing, the three-sided general system, which had two general systems.
If Shaanxi is the northwestern border of the Ming Dynasty, then Gansu is the border of the border, especially Suzhou and Ganzhou, which is located in the most dangerous border area. The Tatars are in the north, Turpan is in the west and south, and the Yibula tribe is in the south, which is almost all the tripods, making it difficult to even take a breath.
Jiayuguan, known as the world's most powerful pass, is located in the middle of a canyon ten miles west of Suzhou City. The two Great Walls of Chengguan cross the Gobi Desert, connect to Heishan Xuanbi Great Wall in the north, and connect to the world's first pier in the south. It is called the throat of Hexi. It is a transportation fortress on the ancient Silk Road and is known as the key to the link.
Jiayu Pass was first built in the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. It consists of an inner city, an outer city, a Luocheng, an Wengcheng, a moat, and a Great Wall on both sides. It has a dangerous terrain and a tight defense, and is known as the world's most powerful pass.
However, at this time, the world's most powerful pass was actually broken, the moat was filled, the city gate was destroyed, the city smoke was everywhere, and arrows and weapons were scattered everywhere, corpses were everywhere, with blood stains, which was terrible.
Rumble...
Amid the sound of horse hooves like thunder, a cavalry rushed from west to east to outside Jiayuguan City, and it was the five thousand cavalry led by Xie Sanqin and Yisana.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Xie Sanqin was shocked. Didn’t he say that Jiayuguan is the most powerful pass in the world? Why was it broken? Are the guards in the city just eating a meal?
At this time, the city was filled with fire, and there were faint shouts of killing and fighting. The battle was obviously not over yet, and it was probably in the stage of street fighting. Xie Sanqian no longer hesitated. With a command, all five thousand cavalry dismounted and carried their swords to kill the city. Because the streets were narrow and not suitable for riding horses, infantry battles were obviously more beneficial.
Xie Sanqi took the lead and led five thousand brothers into the destroyed city gates one after another. But he saw that Weng City was in a mess, with corpses everywhere, some of which were burned black, and the air was filled with the smell of sulfur and tinder. It can be seen that the battle was so tragic. After passing Weng City, it was the outer city. The streets were also in a mess, and some buildings were burning.
"Sir, look!" A soldier suddenly pointed at a burning building at the end of the street with a sad and angry look.
Xie Sanliang looked up and saw that his eyes were split in an instant, and the blue veins on his neck were bulging. It was anger that rose from his heart and evil stretched toward his gallbladder!
I saw that the burning building was the Guerrilla General's Mansion in Jiayuguan, and a "Beijingguan" was clearly piled up in front of the gate of the General's Mansion.
The so-called Jingguan is a small hill built with human heads to shock the enemy's courage and at the same time boast about its combat effectiveness and military merits. The Americans during World War II also did this, but they used the Japanese helmets to replace their heads.
At this time, Jingguan, standing in front of the guerrilla general's mansion, was a real human head. The blood stains on it were not dry yet. The bloody and ferocious human heads formed a pyramid-shaped nearly two meters high, which was creepy.
However, at this moment, all the Ming army, including Xie Sanqian, were not afraid at all, but only endless anger, because it could be seen that these were the heads of the defenders in Jiayuguanzhong and their robes!
"Kill!" Xie Sangu roared and rushed to the inner city like an angry mad beast. Five thousand brothers shared their hatred of the enemy and followed closely with great anger.
The battle in the inner city was not over yet, and a group of Turpan soldiers were searching for the remaining defenders in the city. A Turpan soldier of about 30 people met Xie Sanliang and others head-on. They were first dazed, and then they rushed over with a clamor. They were probably overwhelmed by victory, and regarded Xie Sanliang and others as lambs.
Xie Sanqian grinned and smirked. He accelerated to meet him. He swung his waist knife out of lightning and flew up at the same time. Wherever the sword light passed, the head-in-chief Turpan soldier split his head on the spot. The headless corpse was kicked away, knocking another Turpan soldier behind him to the ground.
Bang bang bang bang...
The personal soldiers behind Xie Sanqian pulled the plate machine, and the remaining dozens of Turpan soldiers were all over.
Xie Sangut penetrated his eyes with blood. He waved his hand with murderous intent. Five thousand brothers scattered into the streets and alleys, killing the Turpan soldiers everywhere. Instant gunfire sounds one after another.
Then what surprised Xie Sanqian was that there were not many Turpan soldiers in the city, only a few hundred, so the battle ended quickly, so that Pei Xingjin, the general of Yulin who came to the back, did not even have the chance to take action.
"What a strange thing, as far as I know, there are at least two thousand guerrilla generals stationed in Jiayuguan. How could it be defeated by such a few Turpan people?" Pei Laopi said inexplicably.
Isana said disapprovingly: "What's so strange about this? Maybe it's a traitor."
Xie Sanqian shook his head and said, "It is unknown whether there was a traitor, but judging from the traces along the way, Turpan has dispatched less than 20,000 troops this time."
Pei Xingjin's heart moved and blurted out: "Will the main force of Turpan have crossed Jiayuguan and attacked Suzhou and Ganzhou?"
Xie Sanliang nodded and said, "This is possible."
As soon as Xie Sangun finished speaking, he saw a hundred households under his command leading a group of people. There were twelve people in this group, and they looked miserable. The leader was wearing a blue official robe, about thirty years old, and he was actually a civil servant. The remaining eleven were soldiers wearing mandarin duck battle jackets.
"Sir, I found twelve living ones." Baihu walked to Xie Sanliang and bowed to report.
The civil servant was covered in blood at this moment, and his official robe was almost as if he had been beggars. Half of his sleeves fell off, revealing a fair but strong arm. He was also holding a blood-stained waist knife in his hand.
Judging from the official robe, the civil servant's rank was no longer clear. He stood in front of Xie Sanliang with neither humility nor arrogantness, first handed his waist to a soldier behind him, and then clasped his fists and said, "I dare to ask what are the two generals?"
Pei Laopi looked up and down at the civil servant with his eyes slanted, looking like an old god. Because the person in front of him was wearing a blue official uniform, he thought that his official position would not be too high, and he was only a fifth-rank rank, but the general was a second-rank military officer. Even if he was a noble and low-ranking military officer, the general looked down on the existence of a fifth-rank civil servant.
Xie Sanqian was young after all, and he did not have the heavy bureaucratic atmosphere in his bones. In addition, his brother-in-law was also a civil servant, so he did not have the same opposition to the civil servants. What's more, the civil servant in front of him dared to use a knife to chop against the Turpan people. Obviously, he was not a greedy scholar who was afraid of death, so he politely bowed back and said: "I am the general Xie Sanqian, the acting general of Jizhou Town, and this is Pei Xingjin, the general of Yulin."
The civil servant was shocked. Two generals suddenly came from Jiayuguan. Even if the general of Yulin was not the same, why did the general of Jizhou, seven or eight thousand miles away, come? Isn't this a joke? Or is it a dream?
Chapter completed!