The invincible general seduced him in silence, but Tang Tong, who was a tactician of war, was indifferent to all this. Instead, he was bombarded by two heavy artillery pieces. An elite artillery team lay down in the Gobi desert amid the spray of 1,300 scattering particles. Pillow.
The decline of the frontal firearms that cannot be suppressed became more and more obvious, and the frontier cavalry wearing red cloth-covered iron armor on the flanks moved more and more hastily. The cavalry's horse hips were filled with long arrows of more than one meter. Three front formations came from all directions. , trying to gallop into the formation under the leadership of the management team.
There were even some casual riders who dismounted and walked around to the mountains behind the formation, either projecting or charging into the formation.
But a few big arrows with shafts thicker than fingers and a few skilled and brave soldiers were still of no help to the war situation. What they had to deal with was not the grass bandits who had just put down their hoes from the fields, but the same people who made killing their profession. Professional soldier.
After bravely charging into the battle and being repulsed time and time again, the courage degenerated into exhorting the commander to declare retreat. The soldiers' voices were finally conveyed to Tang Mingshi's ears, and he could only accept defeat helplessly.
It's not because the position of the Marshal's Army is unbreakable. He always firmly believes that they are all soldiers, and no one is necessarily stronger than the other. And since there are more of them and fewer opponents, the Marshal's Army will not be able to hold on for long.
However, Tang Qi, who was scattered around the battlefield, was reporting that squads of Marshal Tang Jun who were coming from afar were outflanking them, making it helpless to issue an order to prepare for a retreat.
If they don't retreat, the battlefield situation will soon become one where they are few and there are many opponents. .
Tang Tong was precious about his words in this battle and did not interfere with the on-the-job command of the officers at the Corps Commander and Hundred Commander levels under the Qian Headquarters. He only issued two orders. One was to let the heavy gunman move into the barrel of the gun. Filling in a few three-money boys, the second is to stop the crooked beam's desire to attack.
But this does not mean that Tang Tong is calm and calm. His wide eyes under his hat look very nervous, and he reveals strong uneasiness from head to toe. The corners of his mouth that twitch from time to time and his fingers that have no place to rest reveal indescribable excitement. .
Only Tang Tong himself knows... If he wins, he will win!
At a certain moment, the scattered gunshots in the smoke on the opposite side of the battlefield became fierce again. The invincible general suddenly opened fire like crazy with two guns continuously. Even the Hundred Tigers Chariot that had never been used was shaking and screaming. Xiao shoots a rocket.
Tang Tong suddenly jumped up and shouted: "Crooked Liangzi! Li Baliang!"
When Wailiangzi, who was covering the sky with shields from rockets, heard the call, he felt that his boss Qian was a lunatic. When others were excited, he was indifferent; when others were scared, he jumped up with excitement.
Wailiangzi stared at the shield all the way, leaning forward, listening to the jingling noises on his body, and from time to time he would be pricked by arrows that had not finished running through the armor leaves. He ran to Tang Tong and asked: "General, what are you doing?" What's the matter?"
"Pass, prepare to pursue the enemy!"
Wailiang Zixin said that I am chasing your grandma. This is obviously the enemy is preparing to attack and fight to the death: "General?"
There was a sound of artillery fire in the distance, and scattered particles swept across the position. Most of the soldiers kept their bodies low and hid behind the shelter. A few soldiers in the formation who had no time to avoid were shot and screamed. Tang Tong ignored Wailiangzi. Confused, he just said the seemingly meaningless: "Six!"
At the same time, others had already gone back to lead the horse. Li Baliang, who fell to the ground during the bombardment, arrived late and looked at Wailiangzi with a confused look on his face. The two looked at each other and saw Tang Tong coming back with the horse. The two of them hadn't moved yet and said anxiously: "Wailiangzi led the Zuo Si to pursue the enemy, while Li Baliang led the Right Si to mount his horse to stop the enemy's cavalry from fighting with them!"
Seeing that the reaction of the two was still a beat too slow, Tang Tong grabbed the lapel of Wai Liangzi's red cloth-covered armor, almost face to face: "Either you take care of the wounded soldiers, and I will go and make contributions!"
The two generals did not intend to disobey military orders, just because Tang Tong was a surrendered general. Under normal circumstances, the orders given by Tang Tong were what they wanted to do, so there would be no problem; but when Tang Tong's orders were inconsistent with their opinions Otherwise, the two of them would not subconsciously regard these words as military orders.
Only later did the soldier's instinct return to Wai Liangzi's mind. He looked at Li Baliang and quickly clasped his fists to accept the order.
The two generals had completely opposite backgrounds. One was a border citizen from Ningxia who defected to the army, and the other was a salesman from Yan'an who became a thief. Both of them had limited education, but they both knew the military orders.
Because they have suffered losses.
This truth cannot be learned by simply defeating the battle. Those who disobey military orders and escape first and survive will still run away when encountering difficult battles in the future.
Wai Liangzi and Li Baliang happened to be the two people who were killed by the first person to escape, left behind and survived.
Wailiangzi was still He Huchen's soldier during the Battle of Huanglong Mountain. During the retreat, the guerrilla general Shen Guangxian's troops broke down the second line of defense, causing him to be captured. He and his commander Dai Daozi surrendered to Liu Chengzong.
Li Baliang voted for Luo Rucai. Those things were even vague to his memory. He only remembered that before they had time to eat that day, Aimu's cavalry kicked their camp clean with a roar. When the arrow flies, he knows nothing.
When he woke up three days later, he was on a bumpy donkey cart. Luo Rucai sent someone to rescue him. Without medical treatment, he had no choice but to find a ravine and throw him away if he didn't wake up. Fortunately, he was very lucky, and he continued to work with Luo Rucai after he woke up. .
In fact, it was his identity as a salesman that saved him. He traveled around the countryside selling and purchasing goods, and he knew where there were big and good families.
They don't know what to do on the battlefield to survive, but they all know what to do on the battlefield to kill more people.
The soldiers of the Zuoba General Division were ready to go. Finally, after a short pause after the last shelling of the enemy's formation, the loud and high-pitched sound of the suona sounded in the middle of the Marshal's Army.
There were still sporadic gunfire sounds in the smoke that had not dissipated in front of the enemy's formation, and the lead pellets fired blindly punched holes in the smoke.
The artillery commander took out his cloth-covered iron armor from the baggage cart carrying shells and gunpowder. The red cloth had long been dyed black by the gunpowder, but he still put it on the chain mail without hesitation and fastened every button. , looked back at the soldiers wearing heavy armor, and gave the last order to fight in this battle.
Dust vibrated as the heavy artillery was fired. Immediately after the lead pellets and iron bullets broke through the gunpowder smoke, wooden planks were put up in the ditch, and one after another the management team wearing red armor and tassels and spears on their heads boarded the soil. base.
A bright goose feather sword belonging to the marshal's military management team was pointed straight forward on the earthen barrier. The clear blade was reflected in the smoke. The heavy gunman who completed the last shot dropped the firearm and raised his five-foot-long spear.
With the flags fluttering, it finally came to the battle stage where the muskets and artillerymen of the Marshal's Mansion were best at. Ten columns, with swordsmen in front, spears in the back, and archers on both wings, charged towards the Ming army's front line, which was still obscured by gunpowder smoke.
Contrary to Wai Liangzi's expectations, as if Tang Tong had the ability to predict the unknown, his men were not attacked by any lead pellets and arrows during the advance.
The shield surged through the gunpowder smoke, and people's eyes suddenly opened up, only to find that what greeted them was not a forest of spears and spears, but the backs of the suppressing barbarian troops galloping and beating their horses.
The Ming army ran away. When the artillery started roaring for the last time, they put the wounded soldiers on the chariots and horses, carrying as many corpses as possible and retreated northward.
Only the cavalry on the two wings served as the palace army to delay possible pursuers, but it was obvious that they could not care about the pursuers now, because Li Baliang's cavalry was already running towards them.
In the vast Gobi desert southwest of Zhangye Oasis, the two armies were divided into two groups and four groups, fleeing in pursuit over the rolling sand and dust.
Farther away on the outskirts of the battlefield, Gao Yingdeng was leading his troops to the battlefield.
Just a moment ago, Gao Yingdeng, who was sure of victory, was surprised that Tang Tong had held back twice as many enemy troops, creating opportunities for a perfect annihilation.
Tang Tong has brought the battle to this stage. It doesn't matter what kind of combat effectiveness the reinforcements have. This Ming army has already lost.
Because politics is a game, war is a tool, using a tool is behavior, and behavior has its purpose. Therefore, there is only one way to win the war - to achieve the purpose.
As for casualties, losses, and enemy kills, all numbers are just representations of quantifying the results of the war for intuitive reference.
In this battle, Gao Yingdeng didn't know what the purpose of the Suppressing Yi Army was in sending troops south, but after all, the purpose of the Suppressing Yi Army was not to retreat without being beaten.
Now that Tang Tong has not been annihilated, has not retreated, and has successfully lured the enemy to fight, there is no doubt that the winner of the conflict is Tang Tong.
Even if there is only one person left in Tang Tong's Qian headquarters, and only one person in the Ming army is killed, it is the Ming army that loses the battle.
Since they lost, their morale would definitely be affected, not to mention that they were already frightened when they failed to achieve their goal with double the force on the front.
As long as they see the reinforcements from the Marshal's Mansion arriving on the battlefield - Gao Yingden thought to himself, the order given to him by the Grand Marshal can be easily fulfilled.
Just at this moment, Tangqi scattered around the periphery brought news that the situation had changed: "General, the enemy troops from Gaotai came out in two directions, one to the south and one to the west."
There was no specific number of troops divided between the two groups in Yijie, which was relayed back by the flags of Tang soldiers alternately. However, Gao Yingdeng knew the number of enemy troops on Gaotai. There were six thousand to ten thousand Ming troops, which was by no means a number that he could deal with independently.
Even in Liu Chengzong's strategy of luring the enemy, he did not take into account the army's withdrawal... This is a very outrageous thing in itself. The enemy army spent so much effort building fortifications, how could they all come out of the fortifications?
Tang soldiers can't go wrong with a victory.
It is true that the accuracy rate of Yijie is not high, but it is for complex information over long distances. This kind of simple information only contains enemy movements but does not contain accurate quantities, and the transmission distance is still short, so it is difficult to make mistakes.
The two enemy forces, the one from north to south, wanted to meet the defeated Zhenyi Army, which Gao Yingdeng could easily guess; while the one from east to west seemed to be trying to block Gao Yingdeng's retreat, which was also easy to understand.
But something wasn't right.
Gao Yingdeng's march stopped. While he asked Tang soldiers to send the information to Liu Chengzong in the rear, he secretly thought about the reason why the enemy troops were out in full force.
He lured the enemy. Tang Tong himself was marching outside the cover of Tangqi. After the war between the two sides, his position was also discovered by the enemy Tangqi. It seems understandable that Li Hongsi tried to gather troops to eliminate him.
But the problem is that the Ming army should not only have control over the movements of the Marshal's army, but also Mo Yujing, who led the Mongolian soldiers to build a dam in the upper reaches of the Heihe River.
Gao Yingdeng thought to himself, they surrounded him with water, but left the fortifications built on the high platform to Mo Yujing? This makes no sense.
Thinking of this, he ordered the Tang soldiers: "Tell President Tang Qian the news, spread out to the east, and wait and see on the high platform. They should have reinforcements coming."
Today's battlefield situation has become several semicircles with Tang Tong's tribe as the center. To the north of Tang Tong is the retreating Zhenyi Army, and to the north is Gao Yingdeng who is trying to intercept. Gao Yingdeng was actually killed by Li Hong Si surrounded.
Fortunately, with Tang Qi's help, Gao Yingdeng had a full understanding of the conditions he was in.
There was only one problem before him. Within a limited time, he had to choose the optimal solution from several options such as annihilating the Zhenyi Army, joining Tang Tong, and escaping from the encirclement.
The first thing he gave up was to annihilate the suppressing barbarian army. There was no time for him to surrender, clean up the battlefield, or completely kill nearly two thousand troops, otherwise he would lose the chance to escape from the encirclement.
There are two opportunities to escape from the encirclement. The first is to abandon Tang Tong's troops and turn westward, where they may run into the Ming army marching westward and have a high chance of joining Liu Chengzong.
The second is to join Tangtong, but then it will be too late to go west. You must rush into the Ming army, or run eastward from the only direction that is not closed in the encirclement, and there may be a collision with the guards who are rushing from Ganzhou. The enemy troops are coming.
There is no surefire solution.
At this juncture, Tang Tong, who received the intelligence, actually sent a message to Gao Yingdeng, asking him to leave him alone and withdraw directly to the west.
Gao Yingden was stunned for a moment while holding the letter. For the first time, he felt that this surrendered general who came from the army not only fought well, but was also very affectionate and righteous.
But in fact, this was not because Tang Tong was thinking about friendly forces. On the contrary, he was afraid that waiting for Gao Yingdeng to rescue him would hold him back.
Faced with this situation, Tang Tong, like Gao Yingdeng, has many choices on the surface, but in fact there is only one optimal solution.
He thought about surrendering, but even though he was on the innermost side of the encirclement, his own troops, including those in Gao Yingdeng's camp, were in danger. However, in a large battlefield, the fact that they were surrounded just showed that the general marshal had succeeded in luring the enemy.
The Ming army would do this. Tang Tong believed that reinforcements from the east must have arrived. Gaotai Camel City would soon have new garrison troops stationed in it, allowing Li Hongsi to free up his forces to attack.
However, Li Hongsi took the lead to go south without waiting for the two armies to converge. It was obviously Liu Chengzong's plan to lure the enemy that was a huge success... He originally wanted to lure one army and weaken the defensive strength of the fortifications. Now tens of thousands of troops have moved out, and Gansu is evenly matched. The situation soon breaks down with a fight.
This means that surrendering to the Ming army is not a wise choice, so the remaining options are to surrender, join Gao Yingdeng to break out, or break out alone.
On the one hand, Tang Tong did not think that Gao Yingdeng would definitely come to save him. On the other hand, even if Gao Yingdeng came to save him, in Tang Tong's view, it would be a waste of time. When the time comes, no one can escape when the troops are united.
In fact, it was Tang Tong who wanted to abandon Gao Yingdeng, because Gao Yingdeng had a larger target, more troops, and his marching speed was obviously slower.
Both of their armies were heading west. Tang Tong didn't have to run faster than the Ming army, he just needed to be faster than Gao Yingdeng. The one who was intercepted by the Ming army must be Gao Yingdeng, and he could lead his army to join Liu Chengzong smoothly. He can even turn around and participate in the battle to rescue Gao Yingdeng.
Unexpectedly, Gao Yingdeng was so moved by his letter that he gave up the option of retreating to the west and made up his mind to join Tang Tong first and then break out to the gap on the east side of the encirclement.
The messenger rode over on fast horses in the Gobi: "Mr. Tang Qian, General Gao ordered you to gather your troops and horses quickly and march to the northwest. He reassured you that the Marshal's Mansion will not leave any of his subordinates behind."
Tang Tongguang wanted to slap him twice.
If he didn't send a message, Gao Yingdeng might not come to rescue him. It would be better to send a message. When the order came, it would be disobedient for him to lead his troops and run to find Liu Chengzong.
Half an hour later, Tang Tong, who gathered his troops and marched northwest, saw the affectionate and righteous Gao Yingdeng.
Gao Yingdeng still had a letter in his hand, which he handed to Tang Tong when they met. On it was clearly written information from the Chinese army: Tangqi Department had discovered that a Ming army in Gaotai Luotuo City had a full strength of four thousand men. The man-carrying camp is advancing westward, trying to cut off the retreat of your camp.
Gao Yingdeng smiled and said to Tang Tongtong: "Let's go. To the west is the car camp that we can't chew down. Let's go east... The next battlefield will be the commander's."
good afternoon!
(End of chapter)
