Chapter 41: The Mantis stalks the cicada (4)

The bloody storm blowing on the battlefield made Katun as excited as the baby smelled milk.

After the order to attack was issued, he jumped up and down to greet the Jurchen men who had just got off the horse and rested: "Get up quickly, you lazy men are going to fight, get up quickly!"

When he heard that he was going to fight, the Jurchens jumped up like an orange on a clockwork, and their honest face immediately showed a ferocious expression. Following the Liao King will only become stronger and stronger, and will only become richer.

For the Jurchens, the strong will always be the primary position in life philosophy.

This time, the Jurchens even joined the army with their own war horses. The Sanwan Wei and Lalu Wei were both one and two horses. They marched with one horse and fought with one horse, so Zhu Zhi first asked the Yulin Right Guard, who had a single horse, to rest for a while, and invested the 30,000 Wei and Lalu Wei.

Katun pulled out his 20-pound big knife and sent out a signal of a cone-shaped assault array. Thousands of bloodthirsty Jurchen men arranged into a formation according to Cao Dian.

The cone assault has very high requirements for the leading generals and is also very dangerous for the generals. However, the advantage is that it can break through a little bit and cause the enemy soldiers to collapse on the entire line. This is Katun's favorite.

With a cannon, Katun raised his knife and shouted: "I won't say anything stingy. Anyway, Your Highness asked us to kill the people on the other side, so we will go. I wish you all the brothers a happy kill today." The subordinates burst into laughter, and the horses walked slowly with their belly.

Squatting on the ground, Luo Wen licked his dry lips, and ordered his men to organize a team of two thousand people. Yanshan Central Guard and Duoyan Wei each left a thousand households. These people looked decisive and knew that the victory or defeat was reversed. They wanted to stop the Liaodong Army from pursuing them to death.

Luo Wen stood up, flew onto a horse, turned his head, and shouted with all his strength: "Shajia knows that many of you and me are going to die here today. The only one at home can stand up and retreat with the brigade.

"After saying that, he glanced at him and none of the two thousand people left the list.

Luo Wen nodded and said, "Since you don't want to withdraw, then you are all heroes, it's nothing to die, your head is covered with scars that are big. But King Yan cannot die, he still has great achievements to complete.

There is nothing that can't be left behind in the Sa family. I just hope that the day when the great cause is successful, the names of the warriors can be visited by Lingxiao Pavilion and also visited by the people of the world. Okay, let's not be nonsense. Come on, let's go and kill you." After saying that, he turned his horse's head and set out towards the sunset.

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The Liaodong army was fighting more and more, and the two thousand people he fought less and less, but the Liao king's flag could never reach it. Luo Wen was injured all over, with arrows and knife wounds. But at least three Jurchen households died.

There were still a hundred cavalry around him, all of whom were bloody. These men from Yan land faced powerful enemies without fear.

When the third hundred household was chopped over by Luo Wen with an axe, Katun felt that he was about to explode, and he shouted: "Leave that person to me. Leave him to me."

"The cavalry in front made way out, Katun jumped to the place where Li Luowen was arrowed and shouted: "Yu, who are you? Leave a name to send you to the West."

Luo Wen smiled contemptuously and replied: "I am Luo Wen, the commander of His Highness King Yan. Are you worthy of fighting with me?"

Katun's anger was completely aroused. He was so obsessed with the Han people and so he wanted to become a Han man. Therefore, he hated others the most saying that he was a Tartar, and Katun no longer answered. He urged the horse to move forward; Luo Wen grabbed the horse's belly and held an axe to fight.

The two used all their strength to chop at each other, and the weapons collided in the air. Luo Wen lost too much blood and was exhausted, and could not resist Katun's sharp attack. The axe flew into the air with the loud noise. The two horses kicked in the wrong way, Katun waved his backhand, and blood splattered.

Luo Wen's head rolled into the rolling smoke and dust.

The war horse rushed out far away with the headless corpse. The corpse remained sitting for a long time. The battlefield suddenly became quiet, and the soldiers of both Yan and Liao armies stopped. Looking at the corpse.

Suddenly a gust of north wind blew, and Luo Wendi's body fell off the horse.

All the Jurchens shouted: "Katun, Batulu." Then they rushed forward and split the more than 100 Yan soldiers following Luo Wen.

After being blocked by the Yan army, which was charged to death for two thousand times, Zhu Di's troops on the other side had slowly retreated. Zhu Zhi asked Tiexuan: "Look at Dingshi, will our army continue to pursue?"

Tie Xuan looked at it and said, "The Yan Ni Zhan Banner is not chaotic, and morale has not declined. It is not a wise move to pursue it at this time."

Zhu Zhi nodded. If he attacked with all his might at this time, there was no doubt that Zhu Di's troops would be defeated, but the Liaodong army might also be retaliated by the Yan army, which was trapped in the beasts.

Zhu Zhi had a strong voice in his heart: It was not yet time, and there were still 500,000 troops in the south waiting for Zhu Di to resolve it. In this triangular game, neither the court nor the King of Yan should have fallen too early.

Zhu Zhi suppressed his strong desire to win a great victory and chose to withdraw his troops.

The battlefield that was once noisy and flesh-flying finally calmed down.

The crow fell down, trying to peck at the flesh of the corpse; the corpses were everywhere on the battlefield, and the blood no longer flowed, slowly penetrated into the ground to form a huge dark color; the ownerless horse wandered around, looking for its master among the pile of corpses.

As the sun sets, people and horses pull out long shadows on the earth, adding a bit of desolation and solemnity to the battlefield.

Because the Liaodong Army occupied the battlefield, all the wounded were treated and all the bodies were recycled. Among the pile of corpses, the ambulance found Lu Bo, who was seriously injured, and Zhu Zhi personally held his hand and sent it to the ambulance carriage.

Lu Bo said with a weak breath: "Your Highness, Lu Bo is useless, he has lost his reputation as a Liaodong Army."

Although Lu Bo is not the direct descendant who started his own business, Zhu Zhi said this, but he could only ruin his conspiracy and plan. He held Lu Bo's hand tightly and said, "The general is wrong. In today's battle, the famous general of Ningyuan Wei will be so powerful that in the world. In the future, no one in Yan Ni dares to solve Ningyuan's tiger beard.

"Looking at Lu Bo and entering the carriage with a smile, Zhu Zhi held a helmet in one hand and fist in the other hand and pounded his chest plate on his chest, and gave a deep Liaodong military salute to Lu Bo and all the wounded soldiers around him.

The battle of Shahe ended with a tragic victory of the Liaodong army, and more than 1,800 Liaodong officers and soldiers were buried on the banks of the Shahe River.

The Guangning defenders fled, with little casualties, only 350 people killed; the Dingliaon Central Guards were killed; the most severe loss was the Ningyuan Guards, with 900 people killed, and in the end only 2,300 war soldiers could walk out of the battlefield.

The entire army was twice as injured, and 600 people were unable to return to the team after recovering from injuries.

The Yan army suffered even more heavy losses. There were 2,400 bodies thrown on the battlefield alone, and 700 seriously injured people stayed on the battlefield. These people were difficult to survive under the medical conditions at that time.

Tie Xuan chose a place with a higher terrain and dug a large pit to bury the fallen Yan army.

While Zhu Zhi ordered the troops to clean up the battlefield, he pulled Tie Xuan and Qu Neng aside.

Yang Wen led the left guard of Guangning to run for twenty miles before stopping. When he sent the scout back to the battlefield to reconnaissance, he realized that Zhu Zhi led his army to join the battlefield in time and defeated and won.

Yang Wen was so scared by the news that he opened his mouth and couldn't close it. Didn't Zhu Zhi break his hand? Why would he bring the army here? And he didn't inform him at all. How could Yang Wen think something was wrong?

Just when he was in a dilemma, Tie Xuan and Qu Neng led a thousand Yulin Right Guards to chase him up and sent a verbal order from the King of Liao to ask Yang Wen to return to the camp to speak. Yang Wen thought about how dare he go. He said that he would go back to Shanhaiguan for treatment after being injured, so he wanted to continue his journey.

Tie Xuan did not answer, and ordered the right guard of Yulin to surround the left guard of Guangning. He also read out the orders of the Liao king in public. Yang Wen escaped at the last moment, causing heavy losses to his subordinates. He ordered him to bend over and surrender and wait for his defeat.

As soon as this order was announced, the entire Guangning Left Guard exploded the camp. Pang Jin angrily denounced this as a life-threatening person and ordered his subordinates to catch Tie Xuan. But when Qu Neng came out and shouted loudly, the situation immediately reversed.

The two thousand households of Guangning's left guard were from the Yulin Right Guard. The veterans had long hated Yang Wen, a mediocre person. This battle was caused by his indecisiveness to live, fear of death and indecisiveness.

Two thousand households took the lead, Guangning Zuowei immediately stood on Tiexuan's side.

Yang Wen's five hundred direct guards wanted to resist, but Tie Xuan shouted: Yang Wen refused to obey the orders of the King of Liao and regarded it as a rebellion. This is a great deal.

In order to clear his relationship with Yang Wen, the officers and soldiers of the left guard of Guangning rushed forward without waiting for Qu to take action and immediately dismissed Yang Wen's personal guards. While resisting desperately, Pang Jin persuaded Yang Wen to find a way to escape and go to the court to ask for an explanation.

But Yang Wen was so scared that he collapsed to the ground, and even Pang Jin had no courage to escape.

In the end, Yang Wen and Pang Jin were both captured, and most of the personal guards surrendered. Qu Neng entered the Guangning Left Guard to act as the chief general. He led his troops back to Cangting to protect the retreat route. Tie Xuan escorted Yang Pang and the others back to the front camp.

When Yang Wen and others were taken to the camp, Zhu Zhi was sitting in the middle of the chair, with the generals on both sides. Zhu Zhi's face was as cold as frost, and it was terriblely cold.

Yang Wen was so scared that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to beg for mercy: "Your Highness, your highness, victory and defeat are common in military affairs. Please spare the general. Rong Mo General made meritorious service!" Seeing that his boss was so soft, Pang Jin closed his eyes angrily.

Zhu Zhi snorted coldly: "The commander is incompetent. It affects the three armies. If you are spared, how can I be worthy of the court and the more than 1,800 dead Liaodong soldiers outside?"

Yang Wen was so scared that he quickly took a few steps forward, and said in a crying voice: "Your Highness, please spare me. Mr. Geng must have lost 80,000 people, so he will not be guilty of..."

"Shut up!" Zhu Zhi shouted loudly, stopping him from continuing, "In Liaodong, you have personally issued a military order to the king.

If I hadn't received the news that Yan Ni had secretly arrived in the north and arrived in time, would you think you would not have been wiped out? If you never retreated, you could still be remembered in history even if you died in battle. But you actually left your brothers who were fighting hard and ran away alone, and you would not be spared.

Come on, let me push him out and kill him!"

When Yang Wen heard the word "kill", he was even more frightened and shouted even more: "I am the second-rank governor appointed by the court, you have no right to kill me!"

Zhu Zhi squeezed out a sneer on his cold face: "Then see if I can kill you or not! Please give me the emperor a clerk!" A military adviser next to him took out a booklet, and the generals below quickly knelt down.

Zhu Zhi opened a page and said, "The Thirteenth chapter of the Ancestral Secretariat: When encountering police in the frontier, the soldiers and horses of the vassal kings and vassal kings and vassal horses are controlled by the king. The military officers of the vassal belong to the king's control during the war... The king is adept at killing and decisive. Yang Wen, are you convinced?"

Yang Wen collapsed to the ground, and two guards came forward to drag him out. After a while, a head was presented to Zhu Zhi. Zhu Zhi waved his hand and said, "Send it out and bury it with your body."

It was Pang Jin's turn, and Zhu Zhi said, "I heard that General Pang just resisted the will of orphans and wanted to let Yang Wen run away?"

Pang Jin did not expect that Zhu Zhi would kill a second-rank general. His face looked very ugly and sighed: "Mr. Yang is as kind as a mountain to the last general. Now that Mr. Yang has gone, Jin is unwilling to live alone. Please come down and have a good time."

Zhu Zhi said expressionlessly: "It's easy to die, where are you here..."

Ni Lei stepped out and said, "Your Highness, Yang Wen's failure in this battle was improper command, and he has been imposed. It's just that General Pang has always been brave in fighting, but he is just confused for a moment and will not die of crime. I would like to ask Your Highness to be kind and spare General Pang's life." He said that and fell to the ground.

At this time, Tie Xuan understood and also listed: "Your Highness, General Pang has always been strict in leading the troops, and his assessment results have always been outstanding. He is only stupid and loyal to Yang Wen for a moment. Please be kind to your highness."

Zhu Zhi knew that in the past two years of Yang Wen's arrival, some of his confidants had been arranged in the Liaodong army. Now that the tree fell and the money was scattered, if these people were killed, it would bring unstable factors to the army, leaving Pang Jin's effect might be greater.

Zhu Zhi stood up and said, "General Pang, loyalty to the public and private laws. Loyalty to the court is the public heart, loyalty to Yang Wen is the private affairs. You must distinguish the importance of this." As he said that, he walked to Pang Jin and personally untied him.

At this time, Pang Jindi's will had collapsed. He knelt down dejectedly: "Thank you for not killing, Your Highness's words are like enlightenment, and you are confused."

Zhu Zhi helped him up and said, "It's good for General Pang to know his mistake, and the left guard of Guangning is still under your command."

Pang Jin looked at Zhu Zhi in surprise and said, "Your Highness. Can you trust me?"

Zhu Zhi smiled and said, "The Liaodong Army is the army of the court, and you are also a general of the court."

Pang Jin said: "Your Highness is so elegant that you dare not take responsibility. Although you are confused for a while, you finally made a mistake. Please take back Chengqi and give Jin a punishment."

Tie Xuan came out to smooth things over: "Your Highness, General Pang is polite. The rewards and punishments are not clear about the way to govern the army. It is better to let General Pang go to the military academy to serve as a general of the gun and stick. When the time is right in the future, then use the general's courage." Zhu Zhi thought about it and nodded in agreement.

The Liaodong Army rested for two days, ended the battle within the pass, and slowly retreated to Shanhaiguan. The battle of Shahe still ended. Fang Sheng led the Tongzhou Guards in the territory, and was ordered to sneak attack the Cangting Ferry. When they arrived at the south bank of the ferry.

It happened to happen that the Fuzhou Guard and Guangning Left Guard arrived here. Fang Sheng gritted his teeth and beat him, but naturally he couldn't get any advantage. He turned around and retreated.

Zhu Zhi promoted Zhuang to serve as the commander of the Guangning Left Guard New Territory, and the Guangning rear guard was cancelled due to his escape. Yulin Right Guard, 30,000 Guards, Lalu Guards, Fuzhou Guards, and Guangning Left Guards cooperated with Dingliao Right Guards to guard the Shanhaiguan route.

The number is still the first army and is handed over to Qu Neng for command. Other garrisons that suffered losses were withdrawn from Guangning for rest.

In order to commend Ningyuanwei's spirit of fighting to the death, Zhu Zhi awarded Ningyuanwei the title of "Guanning Hu Ben" with guilt, and based on the remaining backbones, he joined the 300 military academy graduates who graduated this year, expanding Ningyuanwei into a truly top-level guard organization of 10,000 people, and all armor and weapons are given priority.

Zhu Zhi wrote the Battle of Shahe into a memorial to report to the court, which included evidence of Yang Wen's greed for food, grass, military pay and land, as well as his bad deeds in the Battle of Shahe, and was also the commander-in-chief of Ningyuan Guard Lu Bo, who was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Metropolitan Commander.

The court was naturally very angry at Zhu Zhi's decree first and then report, but he was mobilizing the army to fight the Northern Expedition at all. Besides, Zhu Zhi turned defeat into victory, weakened Zhu Di's strength, and indirectly cooperated with the court's rebellion.

The so-called winners were not condemned, and the court had to express their gratitude and agreed to Zhu Zhi's request. The key point is that the court did not send a new governor to Liaodong, which is equivalent to acquiescing Zhu Zhi's actual control over Liaodong.

After suffering a great loss in Liaodong, the Yan army returned to Peiping for only half a month to repair it, and then joined the battle against Li Jinglong on the southern front. Li Jinglong thought that the Yan army had been defeated, so he led 200,000 troops to arrive in advance before the gathering of all the troops.

Although he had just lost the battle, the Yan army was born nemesis against the Southern Army. Zhu Di lured the enemy into depth, first defeated the governor Xu Kai, and then fought fiercely with Li Jinglong at the city of Zhuozhou. At first, he fought in Zhengcunba, and the Yan army beheaded 20,000.

Li Jinglong was unfavorable at the beginning of the battle, and it was more unlucky to fight again, so he fled to Dezhou alone. The Yan army rushed to attack the southern army camp. The 200,000 army gathered by the imperial court two months collapsed in an instant, and countless soldiers, war horses and baggage fell into the hands of the Yan army.

Zhu Di chose to surrender the strong stroke to supplement the losses and put the others back, including the guards of Yingtian Xiaoling. Zhu Di issued a notice to denounce Emperor Jianwen not to place the ancestral tomb first, and actually transferred the soldiers guarding the tombs to fight, which was simply unfaithful and unfilial.

After the court found out, Jianwen was so angry that he did not attend court for three days, but the handle fell into the hands of others, so he had to scold Qi Tai to relieve his anger.

As the second year of Jianwen approached, the Yan army in Jingnan and the Southern Army that were fighting against rebellion stopped their military operations. The Yan army returned to Peiping to celebrate the victory, the Southern Army hurried in Dezhou, and Zhending and others licked their wounds waiting for the arrival of spring.

Amid the snowflakes all over the world, Zhu Zhi finally had a comfortable New Year with his family in Guangning for three years.

History is still slowly rolling forward according to its own design, and Liaodong has become his own world again. The economy is thriving, the military is still extremely powerful, and the politics is full of both sides. Zhu Zhi is really not dissatisfied with it.

Zhu Zhi held the stove and, accompanied by his two beautiful wives, ate wine to stay up to the New Year. The red fire made the two wives look like flowers and jade. Zhu Zhi stretched out his comfortable body and looked at the snowflakes outside the window, and his thoughts drifted thousands of miles away.
Chapter completed!