He didn't need to be reminded by others, he knew that the Ming army official in front who was protected by the Ming army cavalry and boarded the ship must be a fake Ming official, and most likely the fake Ming governor of Guangxi, because that man was wearing a crimson civil official robe.
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The official robes of pseudo-Ming officials are divided into grades. Those who are above the fourth rank cannot wear this kind of crimson official robe. However, the civilian officials who appeared in the Ming army were the first to escape with the elite cavalry.
No need to ask, everyone knows that he must be the leader of this Ming army!
And being able to lead an eight thousand Ming army, and it is all regular army, is not the kind of army composed of young and strong civilians who were temporarily recruited. There are few such people in the whole of Guangxi, and this Ming army is from
They came from Wuzhou, which means that the leader should be a senior official from the provincial capital of Guangxi, and his rank must be from the third grade or above.
It would be a great achievement to catch or kill such a fake official!
But now the distance is a bit far, and the opponent is already boarding the ship. At the same time, when they get close to the river, their cavalry will not be able to charge up. Once they lose their speed, their cavalry will not be more effective than the infantry. By then, they will
I am afraid that they will be completely overwhelmed by the fleeing Ming army.
So although the fake Ming official in front was very tempting, Lu Yuzhi still resisted. After wiping the blood on the saber in his hand directly on the horse's back, he raised the saber in his hand again, and then led the cavalry
Keep trotting.
The fake Ming officials cannot be caught, but the defeated Ming troops in front of them still have to stay as much as possible, and cannot let them all run to the boat.
So Lu Yuzhi once again led the cavalry to launch a countercharge and launched an attack on the defeated Ming army troops who were fleeing toward the river!
At this time, the defeated Ming army, which had no fighting spirit and wanted to escape, saw the cavalry coming towards them. They had no courage to resist or charge directly. Instead, they consciously ran towards both sides, trying to escape.
Escape from the cavalry!
Lu Yuzhi and others were not in a hurry to kill more Ming troops at this time, but scattered them as much as possible, and then stopped them from running towards the large number of Ming troops on the river.
At this time, Lu Yuzhi and the others were like herding sheep, driving these Ming army troops everywhere!
Of course, Lu Yuzhi's cavalry was limited in number after all, and after continuous charges and fights, the horses under the cavalry were already dripping with sweat and spitting out white gas.
These war horses are originally southwest horses that are not suitable for riding and fighting. They have limited physical fitness. After such violent repeated charges and fights, the physical strength of these war horses has been almost exhausted!
In order to prevent the horse from being completely exhausted and putting himself in extreme danger, Lu Yuzhi could only watch helplessly as many of the Ming troops on the opposite side bypassed his cavalry, ran to the boat on the river, and then hurriedly climbed aboard.
vessel.
But this is no longer important, so what if some of the Ming army are defeated and run away, there will be more Ming army defeated soldiers that they can stay!
At this time, Lu Yu said: "Let them surrender, otherwise they will be killed without mercy!"
With so many fleeing Ming troops, it is impossible to kill them all in a short time, and it is impossible to stop them. If you want to keep more people, the best thing is to let them surrender on their own!
As a result, the two hundred cavalrymen continued to run by the river to drive the Ming army to defeat, and at the same time shouted in unison: "Disarm and not kill!"
When the cavalry began to shout slogans of surrender, many Ming soldiers who had no hope of escape consciously threw down their weapons, and then knelt down and surrendered on the spot!
As long as they can survive, surrender is not a shameful thing for them!
Before the Tang Army began to recruit surrenders, many Ming army troops had already surrendered to the Second Cavalry Battalion. However, at that time, the Second Cavalry Battalion simply did not have the time and energy to deal with those prisoners, so they ignored them.
But now, the Second Cavalry Battalion of the Tang Army has officially surrendered, and is still blocking their way to the river. Now these Ming Army soldiers are divided into three parts.
Some, or most of them, began to run in both directions. Just because they couldn't get on the boat didn't mean they couldn't continue to escape. You could also escape in other directions!
Some of them did not give up and continued to flee towards the river. Some of these people were lucky enough to avoid the pursuit of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion, while some were not so lucky and were killed or wounded by the sword of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion.
There were also some Ming soldiers who were completely desperate and simply put down their weapons and knelt down to surrender. There were also some unlucky ones who wanted to escape, but they ran into the front of the Second Cavalry Battalion. They had no other options at all.
The only way to survive was to surrender, so many people also surrendered.
At this time, Wei Yan, who had already boarded the boat, looked at the scene on the river with a look of sadness and anger: "They only have two hundred cavalry, only two hundred cavalry!"
There were more than 8,000 people in the Ming army before. Even though some of them had escaped and some were killed or wounded, there were still at least 4,000 to 5,000 people. However, these people were actually blocked by a mere 200 cavalry.
Don’t dare to rush forward!
As long as these soldiers have enough courage, they can completely break through the interception of the two hundred puppet Tang rebels and escape onto the ship.
But now, the defeated Ming army on the shore did not have the courage to fight at all. They only knew how to escape and surrender. They ran if they could and surrendered if they could not. No one attacked the Second Cavalry Battalion and then charged
Get on the boat to the river!
Wei Yan didn't understand, and even looked full of sadness and anger!
When he ordered the retreat, he had already expected that there would be a big rout and heavy casualties. However, he had also made preparations in advance. The boats on the riverside had already set sail. As long as the army fled to the boats, the Puppet Tang Dynasty would be in trouble.
The landlubbers of the rebel army are completely helpless.
In this case, even if there are some casualties, the casualties will be within a controllable range.
But now, the situation has changed beyond his expectation!
The four to five thousand troops behind us were actually blocked by a mere two hundred rebel cavalry. And the most important thing was that our own army didn't even dare to charge over!
"Damn it, how could they do this!" Wei Yan hates iron!
When he saw more and more Ming soldiers began to kneel down and surrender, and the fleeing soldiers did not flee to the river to board boats, but ran towards both banks of the river, he finally sighed.
Facing a group of generals behind him who were only one step slower than him in retreating and successfully boarding the ship, he said feebly: "Let's set sail and go!"
The more than 4,000 troops on the shore could no longer come back. They either surrendered or fled, but they just couldn't come back.
The ships set sail one after another, and Wei Yan's face was still very ugly. At this last moment, the number of soldiers who successfully escaped to the river and uploaded them was probably less than 2,000.
And among these two thousand people, there must be included the 500 people from Fubiao Battalion who he sent to board the ship before. If we also deduct the thousands of personal soldiers and direct troops led by the generals, and the ordinary soldiers who successfully retreated and boarded the ship in the end,
I'm afraid there are less than 500 people.
In the end, only more than 2,000 people were left out of the 8,000-strong army, and more than 5,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or separated. This was a complete and utter defeat!
With such a disastrous defeat, how should I explain it to the Governor-General Wang Yue?
After sighing again, Wei Yan looked at the rolling river water under the boat, took a deep breath, and then said loudly: "The Tang thieves are absolutely invincible. Although today's soldiers fought desperately, they were still defeated by the thieves' weapons.
, I am defeated today. How can I face the emperor and the millions of people in Guangxi? I can only die to repay your kindness!"
After speaking loudly, he looked at the river water under the boat again, then gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and jumped in!
But his shouting before diving had already attracted the attention of countless people. When he jumped into the river, someone immediately shouted: "Sir, no!"
At the same time, more than a dozen people on the boat jumped in to save others!
More than a dozen people jumped down to save people. It was difficult for Wei Yan to die!
Within a few minutes, I was pulled onto the boat by a group of people!
After Wei Yan got on the boat, he shouted: "How dare you, are you trying to ruin the reputation of Wei Yan I?"
At this time, someone hurriedly came forward and said: "Sir, don't commit suicide, please save yourself for a useful life to fight against the thieves!"
"Yes, the bandit army is now raging in Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. It is the time when adults are needed to fight against the thieves. How can you commit suicide!"
At this time, Wei Yan's new master Wu Nuanzhi also stepped forward with a serious look on his face and said: "Sir, please forgive me for lying. As a disciple of the emperor, governor of Guangxi, and commander of our army, this life has long been your majesty's. It belongs to Li Ming."
What belongs to the people belongs to us and our soldiers. How can we risk our lives and seek death just to clear our name? You have died a hundred times, but what should the emperor, the people, and the soldiers do?"
Wei Yan listened to everyone's words and opened his mouth to argue, but in the end he had no words. In the end, he just sighed deeply again and said: "Alas, I can't forgive today's defeat. I will personally plead with Your Majesty.
Condemned!"
Hearing Wei Yan say this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief!
At this time, Wei Yan also thought to himself: Damn, the water is really cold in this winter. I have to drink a big bowl of medicine later to avoid the cold. Otherwise, my old bones will not be able to bear it!
But even though it was a bit colder, the scene was finally over. Damn, the bastard in the past took the lead. After the army was defeated, the master was going to die to apologize. People often acted like this after losing a battle, but it happened
Still not dead!
Because they will always be saved in the end!
That's right, from the moment he gave the order to retreat, Wei Yan already knew that he had to commit suicide once, otherwise, it would be difficult to write this apology note!
There are so many ways to commit suicide, but diving is the safest in this situation now. Many of my own soldiers are proficient in water, and they are only on the river bank now. The water is not deep. At most, it can reach the chest. As long as you are not
If you are so unlucky, it is really difficult to drown!
But even after such a drama, it is still difficult to write this apology excerpt. After all, no matter what, it is a fact that the eight thousand army was defeated miserably and only more than two thousand people came back!
Our own losses cannot be reduced, because the expedition of eight thousand troops is known to many people, and there is no way to fake it.
However, we can slightly exaggerate the strength of the puppet Tang thief army. It is said to be 15,000. No, there are at least 20,000 thief troops attacking. Moreover, the thief army has at least fifty heavy cannons and hundreds of kilograms of bowls.
There are also two to three hundred cannons.
There are thousands more capable riders!
And no one is afraid of death!
Our army fought hard and refused to retreat. More than half of them were killed in the battle. In the end, we retreated when we really couldn't defeat them.
If we lose this battle, we cannot say that we are too incompetent. We cannot say that we are too incompetent, then we can only say that the enemy is too strong.
So, not long after, Wei Yan wrote a letter and sent a clipper south to Wuzhou!
In addition to pleading guilty and evading words, in order to emphasize the strength of the puppet Tang traitor army, he also wrote the sentence he shouted before diving into the water, "The Tang traitors are absolutely invincible"!