"Could it be...fire attack?" Ru Taisu muttered to himself, but no matter how hard he racked his brains, he could not imagine how to use fire attack to break such a majestic pass built with bricks and stones.
The words are divided into two parts, each expressing one branch. Not to mention Zhu Su's order to the rear army, which had lost touch with the front army, to turn around, but here at Yingzui Gorge, Ye Wang's troops were suddenly attacked by Hong Boyan Timur, and the whole army could not help but panic. However, the guardsmen at this time were far from comparable to those peasant soldiers later. The Dingliao Guards were in the Fourth Battle of Liaodong and had experienced hundreds of battles. They quickly regained their composure. Ye Wang, the general on horseback, shouted: "Everyone, raise your shields!"
"Raise your shield! Raise your shield!" The general's command was conveyed, and the Dingliao guards in the front row quickly raised their shields to block the rain of arrows fired by the Yuan army above the gorge.
However, before Ding Liaowei could take a breath, the second wave of five thousand cavalry from the Yuan Army had already arrived like thunder. The gunmen in Dingliao Guards stood up in a hurry, and with Ye Wang's "Fire the gun!", there was a crackling sound like fried beans, and the cavalrymen who were rushing down the mountain suddenly lost their lives and casualties.
However, most of the cavalry successfully charged in front of the Ming army, even though the Ming army soldiers in the front row were all squatting on the ground, holding their shields with their shoulders to resist the impact of the Yuan army's cavalry. However, the impact of the cavalry attacking from top to bottom was so astonishing. In an instant, the dense formation of Dingliao Guards was smashed to pieces by the Yuan army.
"Array! Array! Gather towards me! Brothers, stand firm first!" Ye Wang shouted.
However, this place has turned into a meat grinder. The Ming army and the Yuan army were mixed together, engaged in a bloody and cruel melee. Although the narrow terrain of Yingzui Gorge is convenient for setting up ambushes, such terrain is also not conducive to the Yuan army's best use of riding and shooting attrition tactics. Seeing the scene descending into a melee, with the Wang family's men and carriages even slowly retreating, Hong Boyan Timur suddenly became extremely anxious. "Idiot! Why are you entangled with these Ming troops! As long as we capture those princes of the Zhu family, this Ming army will collapse without a fight!"
As he spoke, he urged the war horse under his crotch and rushed towards the carriages with his personal guards. Seeing the commander's flag moving, the Yuan troops immediately rushed to the carriages.
"Your Majesty, the Yuan Army...all the Yuan Army are rushing towards these chariots!" The Dingliao Guard general responsible for guarding the chariots shouted to Ye Wang for help.
"Idiot! What's the point of guarding a few empty carriages!" Seeing that the general was a fool, Ye Wang couldn't help but curse. "Abandon those carriages! We will take this opportunity to regroup!"
"Oh, oh!" The general just woke up from a dream. Yes, aren't these carriages empty? It is indeed a bit stupid for him to lead his people and stay close to the empty carriage. He quickly abandoned the carriage and struggled towards Ye Wang's location.
"Huh? You actually abandoned the carriage?" Hong Boyan Timur saw it from a distance and was suddenly a little surprised. But now the arrow is on the line, and perhaps these Ming troops were frightened out of their wits. A group of Yuan troops still rushed towards the carriage, and a Semu deputy general quickly rushed to the front of the carriage.
"Sir, please check." This lieutenant general was very knowledgeable and did not go to check inside the carriage himself. Instead, he firmly guarded the carriage and waited for his immediate boss, Hong Boyan Timur, to accept this great achievement. Hong Boyan Timur nodded to him, then stood up and dismounted amid the Yuan army, and opened the curtain of the carriage.
However, after a moment, his complexion turned into the color of pig liver.
Inside the carriage, there was no figure of the Prince of the Zhu family. There was only a huge piece of paper pasted on the back panel of the carriage, which read in Chinese: "The good dog is indeed obedient. Grandpa will go now."
Those present were all nobles from Yuanting in the past. How could anyone not understand Chinese? Seeing the coach being called "dog" and remembering how he had everything under control just now, some generals immediately turned their heads.
Hong Boyan Timur's face turned white and green for a while, but as the head coach of the Yuan Army, he still knew how to keep a certain calmness. He walked quickly to the other carriages, as if he still hoped to gain something from the carriages.
"Empty! Empty! Empty! They are all empty!" However, when the curtains of three carriages were opened in succession, they were still empty carriages, with only those humiliating notes on them. Hong Boyan Timur shouted to the sky angrily, and even threw the felt hat on his head to the ground in anger.
He couldn't believe that his well-thought-out strategy ended up being tricked like this.
"Sir! The Ming army has established a firm foothold and launched an offensive against us!" At this moment, a Han soldier reported.
Hong Boyan Timur turned his head in horror, and suddenly discovered that while he and his men were swarming towards these carriages, the Ming army had somehow got out of the quagmire of melee and had gathered together. Now, they are launching an attack against the Yuan army with their backs against a cliff. The advantage they finally gained through ambush is gone.
"Damn it! Damn it!" Hong Boyan Timur was furious. At this time, he could see clearly that there were not many people in this Ming army, just a few thousand soldiers. It's ridiculous that just in case, he mobilized 20,000 soldiers from Shanhaiguan.
He was about to use his anger to give an order and let his men crush this Ming army, but suddenly the alarm bell rang loudly in his heart: "That's right! The note said, 'Grandpa will go now.' Where are they going?"
"Could it be that..." Looking at these thousands of Ming troops fighting hard, Hong Boyan Timur suddenly felt as if he was enlightened.
"There are only a few thousand Ming troops here, so where are the rest of the main Ming troops?"
"There are tens of thousands of remaining soldiers of the Dingliao Guard, plus an unknown number of personal guards brought by Prince Zhu. I am afraid that those Ming troops who are still behind are the main force! Ye Wang and others are just bait!"
"They asked Ye Wang to march quickly and got into our ambush half an hour in advance. They have been fighting for a long time now, and there is no trace of the Ming army in the rear. It is a taboo for military strategists to separate the front and rear armies at this point, unless... "
"They deliberately want people like Ye Wang to hold us back, and then the rear army will turn around and attack Shanhaiguan from behind!"
Thinking about this, Hong Boyan Timur couldn't help feeling like he was dead. If Shanhaiguan, which currently has only 20,000 defenders, is captured by the Ming army, the left prime minister (Naha Chu) who is fighting at the front will not be able to protect his retreat. It will be a disaster!
By then, Hong Boyan Timur will also be blamed!
Thinking of the cruelty in Naha, Hong Boyan Timur couldn't help but shivered in excitement. With this fear, he quickly shouted to the generals around him: "Quick! Don't get entangled with these Ming troops!"
"All the troops, follow me back to Shanhaiguan to aid at once!"
(End of chapter)
