(Yesterday, I had something to do and I didn’t write anything. I spent the whole night coding out two chapters. Please vote red, brothers. I’m going to bed.)
The vast Yellow River is frozen for thousands of miles. In the hinterland of the Yanji Plain, along the south embankment of the Yellow River, Donglu's camps stretch for more than ten miles. The city of Jinan in the distance is clearly visible. Black smoke rises from the city, covering the sky at dusk.
The sky was getting dark, soldiers were fighting each other, and the sound of roaring horses still echoed in the wilderness. The city and the fields were full of soldiers and civilians fleeing from the city in panic. The Donghu cavalry in brown armor waved the sharp machetes in their hands.
Crazy harvest of life.
Yezier Khan, who was standing on a high place on horseback, looked at the entire battlefield. He felt a bit chilly in the evening wind. He gathered his fur and looked at the garrison that had not yet been defeated among the fleeing people. They were advancing eastwards and facing the siege.
The chasing cavalry also resisted very vigorously and asked those around them: "Which unit does that infantry belong to?"
"The leader of the Qinwang soldiers of Dongmin is Lu Jingyan, who seems to be one of Li Zhuo's five tigers. We were prepared for them to break out from the north gate, but we did not expect that they would pass through the city and break out directly from the east gate. We were unable to dispatch in time and gave them
Rushed out..." A gray-haired veteran next to Yezirhan replied.
Yejier Khan raised his head and looked at the sky. It was gloomy. It was indeed a bit unexpected that the East Fujian Army had persisted until now and took advantage of the darkness to break out of the encirclement to the east. After they captured Jinan, the army would follow the trend and turn eastward. Anyone who breaks out to the east would
It was difficult for the defenders to get rid of the entanglement of the pursuers. For ordinary defender generals, breaking out to the east was never a good choice. The defenders should break out to the southern mountains. In addition to blocking the north gate, they also deployed in the south of the city.
I didn't expect that such a deployment would fall into the air. Once it gets dark, it would be difficult to annihilate the troops in the field. Night battles in the field should even be avoided.
"Send someone to persuade Lu Jingyan to surrender!" Yejier Khan said, "Send someone to tell Lu Jingyan that if he surrenders to me, I will not be indebted to him. He will be as rich and powerful as the Southern Dynasty... In addition, send a group of cavalry to make a detour.
In Jihe County, Lu Jingyan may have led his troops to break out to Yangxin, where he could ambush them - it's really strange that Lu Jingyan was betrayed by the Zhejiang Army, and he actually believed that the Jiangdong Army would go to defend Yangxin after receiving the news... Look
Although Lin Fu's position here is low, he is also highly regarded within the Southern Dynasty."
"What should we do over there in Yangxin?" the frost-haired veteran asked.
"I have a headache," Yejierhan said with a frown. "I thought he was a small and insignificant character, but I didn't expect that the sharp thorns hurt people's necks... Send more outposts to keep an eye on Yangxin. We have to wait for Jinan.
We can only consider this difficult issue when everything is in order.”
"King Khan, King Khan," Azig rode up to Azir Khan on horseback. "That idiot Xiongqi tied himself up and knelt in front of the king's tent, waiting for King Khan to come and ask for his guilt..."
Although Na He Xiongqi was his cousin, Azige didn't like Na He Xiongqi's pretentious and lecturing manner. Xiaobotou Village and Jinhai were defeated in both battles, with only less than 1,500 cavalry left out of 5,000.
Hundreds of people came back alive, forcing the Grand Prince Ye Jiluorong to pull out 5,000 cavalry from the shortage of troops on the northern front to monitor Jinhai, and even caused the king's deputy commander Timur to be captured alive by Jiangdong's army. This is what they did
This was a defeat that was even more humiliating to the tribe than the defeat at Cangnan.
Azig thought to himself that King Khan would probably not place the majestic head on his head again this time.
"Ah..." Yezier Khan sighed softly, reined in his horse and galloped towards the king's tent, surrounded by hundreds of green armored guards, which was very spectacular.
In front of the king's tent, the magnificent figure of Xiongqi was kneeling in the cold mud with his bare chest and breasts exposed. His body was covered with freshly scarred blood scabs and his lips were bloody and blue from the cold. However, others did not sympathize with him because of this. The guards of the king's tent and
The generals who came in and out of the king's tent looked at him with contempt. Here they won another great victory in Jinan, but the five thousand cavalry led by He Xiongqi were decimated by the Jiangdong left army with three thousand soldiers.
He Xiongqi can't afford to lose this face, but millions of athletes from Donghu can't afford to lose it.
He was playing this cruel trick, bah, why would it be weird if King Khan spared him?
Azir Khan rode his horse to the tent, reined in his horse and looked at Nah Xiongqi who was kneeling in the mud to plead guilty, and asked: "If I give you another five thousand cavalry, are you sure that you can wipe out the Jiangdong Left Army?"
Na He Xiongqi was shivering from the cold. He looked at Azir Khan with confusion. His frozen brain slowly started to work. He was silent for a while, then he opened his lips that were cracked and bleeding from the cold, shook his head and said
: "If you give me another five thousand cavalry to fight against the Jiangdong Left Army, I will still suffer defeat."
If he ignored the following offenses, Azig wanted to whip him, but he said such unambitious words, and the generals on the left and right looked at him angrily.
Azir Khan's face was as dark as water, and he couldn't tell what he was thinking. He asked: "Then how many soldiers do you need to be confident?"
"In addition to the 5,000 cavalry as the main force, 3,000 side troops are also needed to support them in a field battle to win. If the Jiangdong left army takes refuge in the city, it should not be attacked as a last resort except to besiege the city..." Na He Xiongqi said.
Azir almost couldn't hold it back. The third prince next to him, Ye Jiduo, whipped him over with a horsewhip and said, "What the hell are you talking about? You're a dog at your age. It took eight thousand elite cavalry to defeat Jiangdong's left army."
, the Donghu people have lost all their face to you..." The whip was fast and hard, adding another bloody scar to Nahe Xiongqi's scarred body, and he cursed, "The brave general Tamerlane who was given the sword by King Khan himself.
I mean, if you are thrown into Jinhai, do you still have the nerve to come back alive?" He turned over and dismounted, took out his knife and wanted to chop Na He Xiongqi to death.
"That's enough." Yejierhan's voice was not loud, but he had enough prestige to stop the furious Yejiduo Dy. He turned over, took off his pure fox fur, and put it on Nahe Xiongqi's body.
, said, "I can tolerate you losing battles, but I can't tolerate you fighting stupid battles. Since breaking the border, we have won again and again, and the Southern Dynasty soldiers have been vulnerable, but you have been arrogant since then. That is a complete fool!"
In the last sentence, he stared sternly at the generals around him, "Then whether He Xiongqi fought a defeat or a stupid battle in Jinhai, we will discuss it after he returns. What do you think of my arrangement?"
"It's all based on the orders of King Khan..." Ye Jiduo didn't dare to offend his second brother's majesty, and he and the generals all obeyed.
The great and powerful old man Qi burst into tears, grabbed the fox fur draped on his back, and wanted to kowtow to thank him. As soon as his head dropped, he fainted.
The military doctor ran over and felt the powerful breath, and said: "I fainted."
"Have a good treatment. Before the discussion, if Na He Xiongqi dies, you don't want to live anymore." Yezirhan said coldly, and two guards came out and carefully sent Na He Xiongqi to the tent for treatment.
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After dark, it suddenly snowed again. Although it made the long journey more difficult, it also provided convenient conditions for standing out from the encirclement of the Japanese soldiers.
The Donglu troops gathered Linqing rebels and attacked Jinan for twelve days before attacking, and suffered heavy losses of troops and generals. According to the rules, the Donglu troops who first broke the city and participated in the siege had to enter the city and plunder for three days to reward their achievements. The Donglu troops could be sent out.
The chasing cavalry was also very limited. As long as they escaped across the Jihe River at night, they could rest for a while.
Lu Jingyan thought in his mind that the several wounds on his body were in severe pain, but they were not fatal and could be tolerated. He sat on a knee-high stone, chewed dry food and rested for a while. In the dark night where he couldn't see his fingers, he didn't know how many people there were.
Keep up, how many of them get separated, go in the wrong direction, and will only fall into the death trap again.
"Captain, will Jiangdong Army really be in Yangxin?" Lu Jingyan's personal guard Bu Renxian followed him closely, fearing that he would get separated from Lu Jingyan in the dark night.
Many people couldn't see the road at all. Lu Jingyan thought of a way. He tied spears into a long stick with a length of seven or eight feet and let everyone lead each other while humming Jiangxi polls in a low voice. Even if someone fell and fell behind, he could
Hearing the sound, I scrambled to keep up. I heard that before the Jiangdong Left Army won the great victory in Cangnan, they marched for hundreds of miles in a snowy night. I don't know what method they had to prevent people from getting separated...
"Even if the Jiangdong Left Army is not in Yangxin, it is still operating in the north of Yangxin," Lu Jingyan said with certainty, "After joining the Jiangdong Left Army, you can return to Eastern Fujian..."
Bu Renxian looked at the dark night in front of him. Most of the people around him were the Eastern Fujian soldiers who escaped from Jinan together. There were also other defeated and fleeing people who could barely keep up after they escaped from the East City Gate with the Eastern Fujian soldiers.
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At this time, someone was groping behind, and kept asking passers-by: "Is General Lu Jingyan here? Is General Lu Jingyan here?"
"I'm here, what's the matter?" Lu Jingyan responded.
Someone stumbled from behind to the front, and when he got very close, he saw the appearance of the person clearly. He was white, fat, with no beard on his chin. He was a chamberlain. Lu Jingyan had some impression that he seemed to be the eunuch in charge of Prince Lu's Palace. Jinan was the only one in Prince Lu's Palace that had
The eunuch's chamberlain.
Lu Jingyan asked: "General Zhenguo asked you to come to me?"
"Little Zuo Guitang is the steward of Prince Lu's palace. The prince was killed by the Donglu. Only the general Zhenguo and the princess of Prince Lu's family are left to escape," Zuo Guitang said with a tearful tone, "Can General Lu
Send a cavalry to escort the general Zhenguo and the little princess to Linzi? At this time, we still need you, General Lu, to come to the rescue. As long as the general Zhenguo and the little princess are fine, I am willing to work for you, General Lu...
"
"These two people are all people who have finally escaped from Jinan. Does Manager Zuo think I still have the ability to mobilize them?" Lu Jingyan said coldly.
After Zhao Jinlong abandoned the south gate, Lu Jingyan led his troops to rush to the south gate to help but failed, so he wanted to withdraw a group of Eastern Fujian soldiers into the inner city to hold on. At that time, the Eastern Fujian soldiers had not suffered much damage, and there were no captured soldiers between the north city and the inner city.
Cutting through the blockade, there was enough time to retreat into the inner city without losing anything. Who would have thought that he led his troops from Nankuo City to the south gate of the inner city. All the four gates of the inner city had been closed tightly. King Yuan Jiancheng of Lu even ordered an attack on the inner city.
When these foreign troops were shooting arrows, Lu Jingyan was too cold to prevent an arrow from hitting his shoulder blade. One of his lieutenants was shot to death on the spot.
Even so, the inner city could not hold on for a day. King Lu Yuan Yicheng failed to escape. King Lu's younger brother, general Yuan Jianhai and Yuan Yicheng's youngest daughter escaped from the north gate of the inner city and joined Lu Jingyan. Inner City
Since it was lost, Lu Jingyan had no point in holding on to the North City Gate. He held it until dusk, broke out from the city to the East City, and then broke out from the East City Gate.
Lu Jingyan naturally has no favorable impression of the people from Prince Lu's family, but Yuan Jianhai is a descendant of the royal family, especially since Yuan Jiancheng is dead and only has a little daughter left. Yuan Jianhai is the only male in Prince Lu's lineage. If he
If you can escape, you will naturally inherit the title of King Lu.
Yuan Jianhai wanted to send cavalry here to escort him to Linzi, but Lu Jingyan refused without thinking. He now wanted to join Lin Fu. If the two soldiers cooperated in one place, they might be able to restrict the Donglu from advancing eastward.
How can the precious cavalry be wasted on escorting Yuan Jianhai?
At this time, the sky was turning white, and Jihe County in the distance appeared before his eyes. It turned out that he had traveled to Jihe County overnight. Lu Jingyan stood up and found a high ground to look at the remnant soldiers who fled eastward and the elite soldiers who stayed with him in Jinan.
There are less than 2,000 people left here, and my heart bleeds just thinking about it. Maybe moving westward to Jinzhong with Yue Lengqiu before the war is the right choice...
Lu Jingyan was also confused about his choice for the first time, but he was not allowed to have time to be confused. The sound of horse hooves was like the thunder rolling faintly in the sky. First, dozens of horses appeared between heaven and earth, and occasionally hundreds of horses, and thousands of horses appeared like a tide.
Like Donglu cavalry galloping from the direction of Jihe County. He never expected that the Donglu chief Yezier Khan expected that he would lead his troops to flee to Yangxin. Instead of sending troops to pursue him in the dark, he sent a group of troops to pursue him in the dark.
Relying on their fast feet, the cavalrymen quickly detoured back to Jihe County to rest and wait for Lu Jingyan's troops to pass through Jihe.