When the Kshatriyas and others returned to the tent, a general cursed depressedly: "That's all! How abominable!"
Singer walked in, saluted the Kshatriya, and said with a heavy expression: "Generalissimo, our 'Blade of Gods' has lost more than a hundred war elephants and hundreds of soldiers."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. General Mathur said in disbelief: "What? More than a hundred war elephants were lost?" Others whispered, looking very shocked. In the past, the war elephants of the Tianzhu people could be said to be invincible. They ran rampant on the battlefield and defeated the enemy, but the war elephant troops suffered very few losses. In the past few decades, the largest loss of the war elephant force was only about twenty, and the opponent used the strategy of water attack to lead us to a low-lying area, and then dug up the river embankment to use a large amount of water to attack the elephants. The water hit our own army; but even so, the war elephant army only lost more than twenty animals. Most of the war elephants stood proudly in the torrential floods and were able to return to the shore safely in the end.
But this time it was completely different. The enemy cavalry did not use any tricks, but attacked head-on, and actually killed more than a hundred of our own war elephants. Everyone couldn't help but have a thought in their minds: These Ming soldiers were simply not human beings, they were evil ghosts from the Maha Hell. Otherwise, how could the human power compete with the war elephants known as the 'Blades of the Gods'? However, I felt very relieved to think that the enemy army could not defeat the war elephant troops after all.
The Kshatriya thought for a while and asked Singer: "Has the 'God's Fire' not arrived yet?" Singer shook his head and said, "Not yet, it should have been transported to Tengchong Mansion." What the Kshatriya said The 'God's Fire' is actually another weapon of the Tianzhu people. In short, it is equivalent to the current flamethrower. In this era, the Central Plains had a similar weapon like the 'Fierce Oil Tank'. But the 'God's Fire' is much more powerful than the 'Fierce Oil Tank'!
Tengchong Mansion. Since Tengchong Mansion fell into the hands of the Tianzhu Army, it has become an important logistics transfer base for the Tianzhu Army. The Tianzhu people's food, grass, baggage, weapons and equipment, and sick and wounded people are transported to the rear, and the support troops from the rear rush to the front line, all passing through Tengchong Mansion.
That night, although it was already very late, there was still a lively and noisy scene inside and outside Tengchong Mansion, and the light of the torches illuminated the night into day. Near the city gate, many huge objects slowly entered the city, dragged laboriously by groups of cattle and horses. That huge object is somewhat similar to the water dragon used to extinguish fires in the Central Plains, but it is much larger than the water dragon. If this thing is an enlarged water dragon, it will definitely be able to spray water very far. , maybe spraying from the bottom of the city wall to the city wall is not a problem at all.
The Tianzhu officer in charge of the escort said to the reception officer: "You have to prepare a lot of horses for me! Hurry!"
The reception official said angrily: "The team transporting grain and grass asked me for horses, and the team transporting baggage asked me for horses. Now you come to ask me for horses. Where do I have so many horses!" The escort officer said: "Whatever you do, We must find a way!" Then he pointed at the strange things about the huge water dragons and said: "These 'God's Fires' are what the Generalissimo is eager to ask for. If the military situation is delayed and the Generalissimo blames you, you will bring down the whole army. Damn it!" The reception official changed his expression and said, "Okay, okay, I'll find a way for you!" Then he said to a subordinate next to him: "You, you can go and bring all the horses here. "The subordinate responded and ran down. When the escort officer heard this, he looked very satisfied.
Soon after, more than two thousand horses were brought here and handed over to the escort officials. The escort officer immediately ordered his subordinates to hitch the horses separately. The team started off again. Due to the additional pull of more than 2,000 horses, the team's speed was obviously much faster than before!
The team passed through Tengchong Mansion and continued to move east. The road was bustling with excitement, and the fire dragon composed of the brilliance of torches stretched for several miles on the mountain road.
At this time, the Tianzhu people on the road did not know that there were two thousand knights in black clothes and black armor hidden in the forest not far from them, watching them.
"General, this is the transportation team of Tianzhu people. Do you want to attack?" An officer asked Zhanjin National Road. Zhan Jinguo stared at the huge objects being transported on the road, shook his head, and said: "These things should be siege equipment, not food and baggage, don't act rashly!" The officer promised.
The Tianzhu people passed by the Xuanjia Army with those huge 'God's Fire', and the distance was only a few feet away at the nearest moment. However, the night was deep and the mountains were extremely dark. Therefore, although the two sides were very close to each other, the Tianzhu people did not notice the Yanyun Xuanjia Army hiding nearby.
A Tianzhu man broke away from the group and ran towards the nearby woods. When Zhan Jinguo saw this scene, he couldn't help but become nervous and thought to himself: 'If they are discovered, although they are not afraid, but if they fight together, Tengchong Mansion will definitely be alert, and the plan to raid Tengchong Mansion will probably fail! 'However, facing the situation in front of him, Zhan Jinguo had no choice. He raised his right hand and immediately ordered an attack when the situation was not right. The Zhanjin Kingdom had already planned at this moment. They would first eliminate the Tianzhu people in front of them with a thunderous force, and then rush towards Tengchong Mansion. They only hoped that the defenders of Tengchong Mansion had not yet reacted, and they would succeed or fail. We can only leave it to fate!
I saw the Tianzhu man walking to a tree at the edge of the woods and stopping under a tree. Then there was a rustling sound, which was particularly clear in this silent night. It turned out that he had left the group to urinate. The officers and soldiers of the Xuanjia Army held their breath for fear of being discovered by him. The time it takes to urinate is only a dozen seconds, but to the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army, it feels like a year.
The Tianzhu man trembled, pulled up his pants, turned around and left. Everyone couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, a ray of moonlight was projected from the sky, shining behind the tree, revealing a stern face. It turned out that behind the tree where the Tianzhu man was peeing, there was actually a black armored warrior hidden. The two sides were so close that the Tianzhu man was unaware of it.
Soon after, Tianzhu's team had gone far.
Zhan Jinguo secretly breathed a sigh of relief and immediately gave the order, leading two thousand Xuanjia troops out of their hiding place and running towards the east gate of Tengchong Mansion.
Although it was night at the moment, the people of Tianzhu were busy transporting food and baggage, so the city gate was still wide open, and there was a busy scene at the city gate.
A team transporting grain and grass was coming out of the east city gate, and the escort officer was cursing. He was blaming the officials of Tengchong Prefecture for giving all their horses to the transport team transporting the 'God's Fire'.
At this moment, the official suddenly heard the sound of thunder and looked up at the night sky. At this time, the moon had already hidden into the clouds, and the night sky was dark, and nothing could be seen. The official frowned and cursed: "Why is it thundering at this time! I hope it doesn't rain!" Hearing the rolling thunder getting louder and louder, he couldn't help but become more worried and said: "No. A thunderstorm is coming. What we are transporting is food and grass, and it would be bad if it gets wet in the rain." At this point, Yan Nian immediately ordered the team to stop advancing and prepare to return to the city and wait for the rain to pass before embarking on the road.
At this time, the sound of rolling thunder came closer. What surprised the officials was that the earth seemed to tremble slightly. The officer's heart suddenly moved and he cursed: "Damn it, I thought it was a thunderstorm, but after a long time I thought it was the cavalry! I don't know whose cavalry it was, but it was running wild here in the middle of the night!" He thought it was a cavalry team from his own side that came down from the front line. force. Then he ordered the team to move forward.
At this moment, countless majestic, tall and ferocious warriors in black clothes, black armor, and black cloaks were seen rushing out of the darkness. The Tianzhu people outside the city gate suddenly saw such a scene and couldn't help but be stunned. They couldn't help but think: Do we have cavalry like this?
The Tianzhu people soon knew the answer. They saw those fierce black warriors rushing into the crowd, slashing with their swords. Blood and flesh flew everywhere for a while, and screams were heard. The people of Tianzhu were horrified and finally reacted, screaming and running towards the city: "Enemy! Enemy!..."
Yang Zaixing led the Xuanjia Army and drove the Tianzhu people into the city. At the same time, he threw torches on the carriages filled with grain and grass on the road, and fire broke out. The Xuanjia Army rushed into the city and immediately divided into several teams and rushed towards several grain storage places in the city. They killed anyone they saw on the road. Seeing that the enemy came suddenly and fiercely, the Tianzhu people were not sure how many enemies had entered the city. Every time As soon as they encountered the Xuanjia Army, they were defeated in one place and fled in all directions! There were screams and shouts in the city, and the panic spread quickly like the flames of a prairie fire!
The guard ran out of the bedroom with his trousers held up. He was horrified when he saw the flames rising up from the fire in many places. He quickly put on his armor and led his soldiers out of the station towards the nearest grain storage location. On the way, they encountered a fierce attack by a group of black cavalry. In an instant, the soldiers were killed and they were knocked upside down. Seeing that his opponent was as fierce as a demon, the guard general was so frightened that he couldn't care about anything else and hurriedly turned his horse's head and ran for his life.
Tens of thousands of Tianzhu troops were killed by the Xuanjia army and fled in all directions, while fires were raging in various places where food was stored, and it became a prairie fire that was unstoppable. …
The Kshatriya was awakened in the middle of the night, and saw General Singer with a worried look on his face: "Generalissimo, it's not good, Tengchong Mansion was raided, and our food and grass baggage suffered heavy losses!" The Kshatriya was shocked, and Huo Ran He stood up, stared and shouted: "What did you say?" Zinger repeated it again. The Kshatriya was at a loss for a moment. After calming down, he said angrily: "What on earth is going on? Why did the enemy army suddenly appear in Tengchong Mansion? What kind of army attacked Tengchong Mansion?"
Zinger shook his head and said: "The specific situation is not clear yet. I only know that it is a black cavalry. But now our enemies are only the Dali Army and the Ming Army. The Dali Army cannot have such combat power, so it must be Ming Dynasty Army."
Kshatriya felt unbelievable. He looked at Singhal and frowned: "Is this possible? Tengchong Mansion is so far to the west. How could the Ming army move back and forth for hundreds of miles silently? Are they really evil ghosts? ?" Zinger said: "The urgent report from Tengchong Mansion will definitely not be false. As for the specific situation, I am afraid we have to wait for further information. The current information is insufficient, and it is inaccurate to speculate out of thin air."
The Kshatriya asked: "How much was the loss of food and grass baggage?" Singer said: "The report only said that the loss was huge, but the specific situation is not very clear."
The Kshatriya thought for a moment and said: "I think at most half of the food and grass baggage was lost. It will not have a big impact on our attack plan." Singer nodded. Kshatriya glanced at Singer and said: "The attack plan remains unchanged. Another part of the cavalry will be sent to strengthen the security of the supply line. We can no longer give the enemy an opportunity!" Singer bowed and agreed.
Early the next morning, the Kshatriyas conveyed the attack order as usual, and all armies were mobilized. The camp was crowded and noisy.
However, at this moment, a messenger horse hurried into the military camp and arrived in front of the big tent. The knight on the horse suddenly reined in the horse, and the horse neighed and stood up. The knight dismounted without waiting for the horse to stop completely, ran to the Kshatriya, saluted, and said urgently: "Generalissimo, there is an urgent report from Tengchong Mansion!" Then he took out a letter, ran to the Kshatriya, and presented it with both hands. . The Kshatriya then reported, opened the envelope, took out the letter paper, unfolded the letter paper and read it. All the generals in the tent looked at Kshatriya and saw a look of horror and disbelief suddenly appearing on his originally calm face. All the generals were shocked, and no one could help but feel bad.
Kshatriya put down the letter, was silent for a moment, raised his head and ordered: "Send the order, the army will suspend the attack and wait for the order." The generals were very puzzled, but the orderer had already promised and ran down.
General Mathur asked in confusion: "Generalissimo, why did you stop the attack?"
Kshatriya frowned and said: "Tengchong Mansion was raided, and all the food and supplies were destroyed!" Everyone was shocked when they heard this. In fact, Kshatriya was also shocked. Although he had received the report, he thought that Tengchong Mansion was At most, half of the food and grass in Tengchong Mansion was lost. No matter what, I never expected that all the food and grass in Tengchong Mansion would be destroyed!
The Kshatriya looked at the dusty herald and asked: "Is all the food and grass really destroyed?" The herald nodded shyly and said: "The enemy suddenly appeared in the middle of the night. Our army was caught off guard. Although we tried our best Resist, but there is no way to resist!" At this point, the herald's face showed a look of fear, "They are like evil ghosts coming out of the Maha Hell! They are all wrapped in darkness, extremely fierce, blocking The people in front of them turned into corpses in the blink of an eye! There were fires and blood everywhere, and the ears were filled with screams and the terrible sound of horse hooves! They should not belong to the world, they should all be The devil sealed by Buddha!"
After listening to the herald's narration, everyone couldn't help but look at each other, and they couldn't help but feel fear in their hearts.
Kshatriya frowned and asked: "Did the enemy troops send out many troops?" Everyone looked at the herald. The herald showed embarrassment and muttered: "There are only two or three thousand enemy cavalry..."
Everyone was stunned, then shocked and annoyed. Mathur shouted: "Did I hear wrong? The enemy only has two or three thousand people? You have twenty or thirty thousand defenders, but you can't defeat the opponent's two or three thousand people." ! And let them destroy all the food and grass! It's so embarrassing, so embarrassing!" The other generals were also excited and yelling. At this moment, the generals didn't care so much about the destruction of the food and baggage, but they found it difficult to accept that the friendly forces were defeated by one-tenth of the enemy. Facing the anger of the generals, the herald was terrified and wanted to defend his side, but he did not dare to speak.
It took a while for the tent to become quiet, but the generals still cursed loudly from time to time. Their words were so vicious that they could be compared to those scolding shrews in the Central Plains.
The Kshatriya had a gloomy face and said to the herald: "We are the race chosen by the gods, and we are the warriors of the gods! Today, you were defeated by the enemy, and the defeat was so ugly. How can I spare you? !”
The herald's heart trembled, and he hurriedly said: "Generalissimo, we have tried our best! The general has already died in the battle, and the losses of the brothers have also been huge!"
Everyone was shocked, and the scene became silent. The faces of everyone were very ugly. They did not want to believe that what the herald said was true. They did not want to believe that the warriors of the gods could not defeat the enemy. They would rather believe that what they thought before was that their defenders were negligent and that the enemy caught them by surprise. But even so, it is unjustifiable for ten times the force to be defeated by the enemy. However, if it is explained in this way, it can be taken for granted that the defeat of this battle was not a crime of war, but was caused by the negligence of the defender. But after the herald said this, such a fig leaf no longer existed. Everyone was extremely angry and wished that all those shameful guys would die.
The Kshatriya said with a gloomy face: "If you lose, you will lose. Why are you trying to defend yourself?" The herald lowered his head and agreed. Kshatriya added: "Don't say what you just said! You have to remember that the truth of this matter is that the enemy attacked us with several times the force. Our army was caught off guard. Although we fought bravely and killed most of the opponent, after all, We were outnumbered and finally defeated!" Everyone looked at each other, and General Mathur opened his eyes and shouted loudly: "Yes! That's it! The enemy attacked our army with several times the cavalry. Although our army's combat power is far superior to the enemy's, Above, but they were outnumbered and caught off guard by the enemy, so they were defeated in the end!" All the generals agreed. For a moment, it seemed as if the truth of the matter was really what it was.
Singhal said to the Kshatriya: "Generalissimo, all the food and grass have been destroyed. This matter is very serious. How should we deal with it?"
The scene fell silent, and everyone looked worried. Although the battle of Tengchong Mansion can be whitewashed, the lost food and grass cannot be recovered. Everyone here is a veteran on the battlefield, so they naturally understand what it means to have all the food, grass and baggage destroyed.
Kshatriya frowned and asked, "How much food and grass are there in the military camp?"
Xinger said: "There are still three days of food and grass."
Mathur said loudly: "Generalissimo, let's continue the attack! As long as Longwei Pass is captured, the food and grass problem will be solved!" The generals discussed in a low voice, some seemed to agree, and some seemed to be opposed. Li only felt that he was in a dilemma and could not make a decision for a while.
He looked at Zinger and asked, "What do you think?"
Zinger frowned and said: "If we continue to attack, it is really difficult to guarantee that we can break through Longwei Pass within three days! If we cannot break through the pass as scheduled, our army will be in a bad situation! What is even more worrying is the movement of the Ming Army. , since they raided our grain and grass storage base, is the army already nearby? I think this is very possible! If the opponent's army is already nearby, our army's situation will be dangerous!"
The Kshatriya nodded with deep understanding and said: "Our army is short of food and grass, so we can only retreat temporarily!" Although the generals felt unwilling to do so, they also felt that it was indeed not good to stay at Longwei Pass in this situation. It would be safer to retreat temporarily. The Kshatriya raised his head, glanced at the generals, and ordered: "Send an order to all armies. After the cavalry is broken, the army retreats to the west!" All the generals agreed in unison.
The dragon's tail was closed, and the defenders were ready for battle. The officers and soldiers of the Dali army all looked a little panicked. After several days of fierce fighting, the fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers of Dali had dropped to the bottom. It was a miracle that they had not escaped yet. Huang Xin saw the expressions of the Dali Army soldiers and was worried. He suspected that if the enemy launched an attack, these Dali Army soldiers would immediately turn around and flee for their lives. At that time, we could only rely on our soldiers to resist the enemy's attack. However, there are not many soldiers under his command, and they are all just cavalry. They are good at field combat, but not in positional warfare. Facing the wave-like offensive of the Tianzhu army, it may be difficult to withstand it! Huang Xin felt that whether he could hold the Longwei Pass today was a question.
However, just when Huang Xin was worried, a lookout soldier pointed outside the city and shouted: "The enemy has retreated! The enemy has retreated!" There was great excitement in the shout.
Huang Xin and others quickly looked outside the city, and sure enough they saw the enemy troops breaking camp and retreating to the west. People on the city wall cheered, and Huang Xin was also very excited, secretly thinking it was a fluke. After calming down, he murmured: "Zhanjin Kingdom must have succeeded!"
It turned out that not long ago, Yang Peng learned about the location of the Tianzhu people's grain and grass transshipment base through Hua Xu, and made a battle plan accordingly. The first step in this combat plan was to raid Tengchong Mansion. At the same time, Huang Xin led 10,000 warriors to rush to Longweiguan Pass. The purpose of raiding Tengchong Mansion was to cut off the Tianzhu people's supply line, and to rush to Longwei Pass to prevent the Tianzhu people from breaking through the pass first. If such a thing happened, then even if they broke through Tengchong Mansion and destroyed the Tianzhu people's grain and grass supplies, there would be no How meaningful it is. If these two goals have been achieved, then you can proceed to the next step. Whether it is a raid on Tengchong Mansion or a rush to rescue Longweiguan, it is not the purpose, but to create conditions for the real battle plan.
The Tianzhu army was forced to retreat because their food and grass were destroyed, and they retreated directly towards Tengchong Mansion.
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
