Seeing the Qing army retreating, Tu Yuan wanted to take advantage of the situation to pursue him, but Chang Yu ordered him not to pursue him. Wang Zhengnan was confused and bowed to ask for advice. Chang Yu looked up at the sky and sighed softly: "Although the Tatars retreated, they were not defeated. The army is victorious." As long as we are not exhausted, let’s see if we can get any benefits if we continue to pursue you!”
Wang Zhengnan looked at the bottom of the mountain with a stunned expression. As Chang Yu said, the Tatars only retreated when they saw that it was pointless to attack the mountain. They were not defeated by the Ming army and retreated. Therefore, they advanced and retreated in a controlled manner when retreating, and they did not disperse in a rush. Instead of turning around and running away, they cut off alternately and then slowly withdrew.
Moreover, although the fighting was extremely fierce when they attacked the mountain just now, the Qing army relied on its superior strength to suffer very little damage. There were originally 300 cavalry attacking from the front of the mountain road, but now there were more than 200 left. Even if the infantry retreated from the two wings, the strength of the troops was obvious. Several times as many as the army!
If you pursue him at this time, you will easily fall into a siege. If you follow Tu Yuan's courage in normal times, you can advance and retreat freely, but it is different now. There is snow all over the ground and the horses are not moving, and he and his tribe are already exhausted, let alone Without the convenience of the location, once trapped, the consequences would be disastrous, and Chang Yu would never take the risk.
To put it bluntly, it was because the soldiers and horses were too tired!
I ran for dozens of miles to Xingshan Fort in one breath. Just when I took a breath, there was a fierce fighting with few against many. Although the Tatar army was blocked at the foot of the mountain, they were already exhausted. The fighting has only relied on will. It was hard to resist.
Although Wang Fuchen and other reinforcements came one after another from behind, they were even more exhausted. Tu Yuan and others were still breathing for a while on the mountain road. They rushed to the ground and joined the battlefield. Let alone take a breath, they didn't even have the time to fart. , at this time, he could only howl with his hoarse voice a few times to show off his momentum. If he really joined the battle group, it would almost be like giving away his life!
Tu Yuan was not a brave man. He wanted to lead his troops to pursue him while he was still strong, but he calmed down after being stopped by Chang Yu. He looked at the Qing troops slowly retreating down the mountain and slowly gathering together in formation. He knew the dangers involved, but he was unwilling to do so after all. When he saw the injured Tatars rolling down the mountain road and trying to shoot, his arms suddenly felt numb and weak, and he couldn't help but curse. Sentence: "Useless stuff!"
The soldiers around them thought they were to blame for their inability to kill the enemy, and they all lowered their heads: "My subordinates are incompetent..."
"I'm not scolding you, I'm scolding my useless arm. You just killed a few dogs and the Tatars are already sore and weak." After hearing this, the subordinates couldn't help but laugh and said: "General, you are killing like crazy. There are probably twenty Tatars in the minority... The general is so powerful that I have been unable to lift my arms for a long time, and I have been gritting my teeth to hold on..."
When the Tatars retreated, Ji Jike led his troops to pursue the enemy. The more than a hundred Tatars in the castle were attacked by him and Wang Fuchen. Although they resisted bravely, they could not overturn the situation. In the end, they were killed in pieces. After being surrounded and going into the jungle in the mountain, Ji Jike chased for a while before withdrawing his troops to come back for reinforcements. He saw that the Tatars who were attacking the mountain had withdrawn their troops and formed formations at the foot of the mountain.
"If you don't take the opportunity to kill," Ji Jike said, grabbing a war horse next to him and turning over.
Chang Yu glanced at him: "Do you still have the strength?"
Ji Jike looked back at the soldiers around him, hesitated to speak, and finally sighed: "The Tatars retreated and refused to disperse, as if they are still determined to be traitors!"
Chang Yu glanced down the mountain and sneered: "I don't care if he is a thief or not, just come up if you have the guts." As he said that, he rode his horse down the mountain road. The soldiers gave way one after another until they reached Tu Yuan's side. He saw that he was staring at the bottom of the mountain. In a daze, he said: "Why are you still covered up? You are tired, cold, or scared?"
Tu Yuan heard the sound, took a long breath, and said calmly: "Lost, although there are tens of thousands of enemies, there is no single enemy!"
Pfft, Chang Yu almost choked and couldn't help scolding: "When it comes to showing off, you are unparalleled in the world!"
Tu Yuan grinned, and then looked fiercely at the enemy formation down the mountain: "When I regain my strength, I will take the enemy general's dog head and come over here!"
"Don't lose big at the expense of small things. You are just an enemy general who is not worthy of risk in our eyes. If Ao Bai is here, hey, even if you don't go, we will have to whip you over. !" Chang Yu chuckled.
Tu Yuan's face was full of expression: "Since the Lord cares about that guy so much, I will sacrifice the dog's head before the Lord's case in the future!"
"If that day comes, we'll guarantee you a promotion and a title!" Chang Yu looked into the distance and said calmly, but Tu Yuan looked disapproving: "I don't value promotions and titles or other humble positions. I just want to kill that Obai. Let’s see how brave this most powerful warrior of the Tatars is and whether I can kill him with my sword!”
"There must be a chance. We also want to see which of you can kill the other..." Before he could finish his words, Tu Yuan started shouting: "
Since I killed that stupid guy..."
Chang Yu interrupted him with a smile: "Don't rush to brag, let's solve the immediate problem first."
"When I recover a little, I will kill him. Today I will..." Tu Yuan was aroused by Chang Yu, and his expression became a little excited.
"No hurry." Chang Yu waved his hand to stop him: "Go back to the mountain to rest. If he dares to come back again, I will kill him today. If he doesn't have the courage to come up, I will kill him today!"
So, Tu Yuan cursed and led his troops back to the abandoned fort to rest. After all, they could shelter from the wind and light a fire to keep warm. They could even boil water for drinking. The fool was drinking from the northwest wind outside.
Of course, not everyone entered the abandoned fort to rest and recuperate. Wang Fuchen was forced to lead more than 20 people to patrol the mountain road to guard and monitor the Tatars at the foot of the mountain. He also had to clean up the battlefield and drag the corpses of the Ming soldiers who died in the battle back to the abandoned fort. This seemed like It was quite a hard job, but Wang Fuchen and others worked very hard, and could not even hide their joy. The reason was simple, because it was a fat job for them, especially those Qing army corpses, from clothes to weapons to everything on their bodies. As long as you can take the property, never let it go!
This is an unspoken rule in the army, and it is also a way to motivate and reward soldiers. However, some need to confiscate part of it, or confiscate the whole thing and divide it equally, but Chang Yu has the final say here, and whoever gets it does not need to confiscate it!
The fire in the abandoned fort was burning even more fiercely. Groups of Ming soldiers gathered around to warm themselves or bandage their wounds. Some of them were cleaning up the battlefield and counting the damage.
Tu Yuan glanced at the city gate to the north from time to time. Over there, Wang Fuchen's people were dragging corpses back from the mountain road. Every time they dragged back a corpse, Tu Yuan couldn't help gritting his teeth and cursing secretly.
"How many have been folded?" Chang Yu looked at him for a while and asked. Tu Yuan's face was gloomy without raising his head, and he squeezed out a few words through his teeth: "There must be seven or eight."
"With dozens of cavalry to defeat the Tatars' 300 cavalry, Black Tiger Camp is really a magic weapon." Wang Zhengnan couldn't help but sigh, but Tu Yuan snorted: "If it was really a magic weapon, seven or eight people would not have died in the battle with all the soldiers." hurt!"
"What the hell, you really think that you are a god of war. You can kill the enemy with just one breath. Just look at them..." Chang Yu pointed to a broken wall not far away, where there were piles of The bodies of the Ming army were found.
"All dead?" Tu Yuan raised his eyebrows.
"It's almost the same. Almost all the hundreds of people died in the battle." Ji Jike sighed and looked to another place, where two corpses were lying.
"Who is it?" Tu Yuan didn't recognize him.
Ji Jike sighed: "The tall one is called Luo Sansheng, and the stronger one is called Guimenguan. They are patrols outside Tashan Fort, and they were also the first to arrive here for support. There were more than a hundred of them, and only one survived. More than ten..."
Tu Yuan was silent.
Chang Yu was silent as he looked at the two sentences about the corpse. He didn't know Luo Sansheng, but he had met him before and seemed to have spoken to him before. The person who was still alive just now had turned into a cold corpse...
Yes, he died like that. It can be said that he died to save his ancestor Da Bi, or he died to kill the enemy. In the worst case, he died to protect his family and country!
No matter how he died, he had fulfilled his duty as a soldier after all!
There were more than a hundred of them, and they were the first to arrive at Zu Dabi's most critical moment. They fought desperately to save him and successfully held off the Tatars until reinforcements arrived.
But they also paid a heavy price for this. Almost the entire army was wiped out, and only a dozen people survived.
