The army passed through Tongguan and arrived at Fenglingdu in Shanxi.
Chen Xunping on horseback raised his right hand, pointed at the ferry in front and asked Zhang Sancha beside him, "Do you know the origin of the name of the ferry in front of you?"
"Origin? Isn't it just a ferry?" Zhang Sancha asked puzzledly.
Hearing this, Chen Xunping laughed and said: "This place is called Fenglingdu. Legend has it that this is where the tomb of Nuwa is. Since Nuwa's surname is Feng, future generations will call this place Fenglingdu."
"So this is how Fenglingdu got its name." Zhang Sancha suddenly realized it and said with admiration, "I didn't expect you know so much, Marshal."
Chen Xunping laughed proudly and said: "Actually, Fenglingdu is not just this kind of talk, there is also a legend, which is also related to the origin of Fenglingdu."
"Commander, please stop showing off." Zhang Sancha urged.
Chen Xunping looked at the Yellow River flowing downstream in front of him and said: "It is said that the tomb of the famous Prime Minister Feng Empress next to the Yellow Emperor is also here, so later generations called the ferry in front of them Fenglingdu."
"Commander, where did you hear about these things? Why have I never heard of them?" Zhang Sancha asked curiously.
Chen Xunping said with a smile: "Before coming to Fenglingdu again, I personally took people to Fenglingdu and learned these two stories about the origin of Fenglingdu from the people nearby."
"So Commander, you left the camp some time ago and came to Fenglingdu?" Zhang Sancha thought of Chen Xunping's departure from the camp.
Chen Xunping said: "My lord has entrusted the first step of the Tiger Flag into the Central Plains. I couldn't help but be careless."
At this time, a man rode over from the direction of Fengling Ferry.
Call!
The visitor took the reins in his hand, stopped in front of Chen Xunping, and said, "Commander, the boat is ready and ready to cross the river at any time."
Chen Xunping nodded, turned his head and told the ordering soldier beside him: "Send the order, and the army will board the boat and cross the river."
The order was quickly passed on.
One after another, soldiers lined up to board the ship docked at Fengling Ferry.
"Report!"
The Ming army quickly arrived at the camp where the Ming army was stationed in Lingbao.
"General Qi, the rebels have begun to cross the river."
Wang Xingshan, the general who defended Lingbao City, stood on the city wall and said with an ugly face: "It's a few days faster than I expected, but the imperial army has not arrived yet. How can I guard Lingbao?"
Siluke
When the Tiger Banner army was gathering on the front line of Tongguan, Henan Governor Guo Zengguang went to the imperial court and asked the imperial court to send troops. At this time, Wang Xingshan was sent to station in Lingbao.
"General, why don't we rush to the other side of Fenglingdu and find a way to attack the rebel army halfway across the river? Maybe we can delay it for a few more days." General Lu Dongliang suggested beside him.
Wang Xingshan shook his head when he heard this and said: "It's useless. We have an army of tens of thousands of thieves and a cavalry of tens of thousands. With just the few thousand men I brought, I can't defend the shore at all." All we do is use Lingbao City to delay the rebel army."
He came to Lingbao with only 2,000 troops and horses. Including the troops and horses in Lingbao City, there were less than 3,000 defenders in total.
"I heard that the rebel army carries sharp artillery and is good at attacking cities. Even important towns like Yulin City and Datong Town can't stop it. Small towns like Lingbao may not be able to hold on for long." General Lu Dongliang was worried. say.
Today's Tiger Flag is no longer as unknown as it was in the early days.
The Tiger-Charactered Banner that captured the land in Guanzhong was already famous, and even the Ming officers and generals with a little sense did not dare to underestimate the Tiger-Charactered Banner's army.
Based on Tiger Character Banner's past record, no one dares to treat Tiger Character Banner as an ordinary bandit.
Wang Xingshan sighed and said: "How can I not know what you said? Now that there are no reinforcements, all I can do is delay as much as possible to buy more time for the court."
Facing the tens of thousands of Tiger Flag troops invading Henan Prefecture, he was determined to die.
"We are willing to live and die with the general."
General Lu Dongliang and a group of generals knelt in front of Wang Xingshan worriedly.
Wang Xingshan put his arms around Lu Dongliang's arms and said, "Generals, please rise. Wang cannot bear such a great gift."
With his support, Lu Dongliang and the generals stood up.
"Report, the enemy is less than thirty miles away."
There is news that the Ming army's sentinel brought back the tiger-character banner army.
Not long after the scouts brought back the news, a group of more than a dozen black riders appeared outside Lingbao City.
"It's a thief, a thief," someone shouted from the wall of Lingbao City.
Wang Xingshan took a few steps to the edge of the female wall and looked outside the city.
A stone's throw away from the city, more than a dozen riders were lined up, and one of the riders was holding a large black flag.
"Listen, people on the city wall. My general has a good life and does not want Lingbao City to be massacred. I hope that the officials in the city will open the city and surrender as soon as possible." Among the cavalry, someone shouted to the top of the city with a big iron trumpet in his hand. road.
When Wang Xingshan, who was standing on the female wall, heard these words, his face sank and he ordered: "Give me arrows to shoot at these rebels and drive them away."
The archers on the city wall received the order and began to draw arrows at the black riders below the city.
Arrows flew out from the top of the city and fell towards the black knight.
However, the Black Cavalry kept a sufficient distance from the city wall, and all the arrows fired from the top of the city missed, and each arrow missed in the open space not far in front of the Black Cavalry.
"People on the city wall, listen, our 50,000-strong army of the Tiger Flag will be at the city gates soon. You don't have much time left to think about it. Surrender as soon as possible if you want to survive." The cavalry holding iron trumpets continued to shout towards the city wall. .
What was waiting was indeed another rain of arrows from the city.
Without orders from above, the archers on the city wall missed arrows one after another even though they knew they could not shoot the enemies outside the city.
"General, let the archers stop. Continuing to fire your bows will only waste arrows. It is better to stay and deal with the incoming bandits." General Lu Dongliang advised.
There are a few archers in the city, and there are not enough arrows.
In his opinion, it was a waste to waste too many arrows for a dozen thieves and cavalry, and if the archers continued to shoot, it would be difficult to hurt the thieves outside the city.
"Let them stop." Wang Xingshan also discovered that the archers on the city wall were doing useless things, so he went down the slope and asked the archers to stop shooting.
The black knights outside the city kept trying to persuade the people in the city to surrender.
One person said he was tired, and another person continued. The tin trumpet was passed back and forth among several people.
"General, do you think you should send a group of cavalry out of the city? I don't have much to say. If you can kill these thieves outside the city, it will not only boost the morale of the army, but also prevent them from continuing to deceive people." Lu Dongliang suggested.
