Chapter 102(1/2)
: Thousands of hard work
Wang Pu brought two thousand men in and out of the Korqin army, rescued Zhang Monk and Tang Sheng one after another. He finally got rid of the Korqin cavalry. When he was about to return to the camp, the sharp-eyed Lu Liu suddenly pointed to the southwest and shouted: "General, you see, it seems that our Ming army is fighting with the Korqin people there!"
"Is there anything wrong?"
Wang Pu, Scarface, Monk Zhang, Tang Sheng and others all turned around and looked southwest with a tent in their hands. Sure enough, they saw a team of cavalry rushing left and right between the Korqin cavalry. The number of cavalry was not large, and at most it was more than one thousand cavalry. Now they were already entangled with the Korqin cavalry!
"Is it really our Ming Dynasty army?"
"Strange, in addition to us, Sanbulachuan has other Ming troops?"
Only Tang Sheng observed for a long time and suddenly shouted: "General, it seems to be Zhao Xin's Thousand-man team!"
"Well, Zhao Xin!?"
"It's Zhao Xin!" Tang Sheng shouted affirmatively, "It's him!"
Wang Pu's heart thumped, and a man suddenly appeared in front of him.
When Wang Pu asked Tang Sheng to select two thousand veterans among nearly 20,000 soldiers in Datong Town, Zhao Xin wanted to join, but Wang Pu thought that he was already the Qianzong General, so he did not agree! Later, Zhang Zi'an led the army of Datong Town to Yanyehai to meet Wang Pu. More than 10,000 troops were suddenly attacked by the three thousand iron guards of Korqin. In an instant, Gui collapsed. Only the two thousand people led by Zhao Xin were not defeated and firmly defended the Ming army camp.
"It's really strange." Scarface shook his head in confusion and said, "Didn't Zhao Xin listen to the order in front of Eunuch Zhang's account? Why did he bring his troops to Sanbulachuan?"
"Good question!" Wang Pu took the conversation and shouted at the soldiers around him, "Brothers, why did you think President Zhao Qian brings his soldiers to Sanbulachuan for what are you doing?"
"General. Bei Zhi knows!" Tang Sheng's face was flushed with excitement and responded loudly, "Bi Zhi and Zhao Xin have been friends for many years. Knowing his character, he must have brought his Thousand-Man team to meet us!"
"Well said!" Wang Pu shouted, "Zhao Qian refused to leave us and returned to Datong first. He would rather risk the destruction of the entire army and lead more than a thousand brothers to pick us up hundreds of miles. These are our good brothers! Now our good brothers are in trouble. Brothers, what do you think you should do?"
Tang Sheng shouted: "Save them!"
"Yes, you must rescue them." Scarface said with a grim voice, "At worst, you can go to the Korqin people's troops to kill him back and forth!"
"The general will never leave his soldiers, nor will we leave our brothers!" A trace of sick flush flashed across Monk Zhang's face, and he waved his arms and shouted in a low voice, "General. Just give orders, even if you go to the Hall of Hell or the Gate of Hell, we will follow you!"
"Yes, we all follow the general!"
"We swear to follow the general to the death!"
"As long as the general says something, let us do whatever we do!"
Monk Zhang said two words. In the end, more than 300 surviving horse thieves all rolled up their sleeves excitedly and put on an attitude of fighting against the Korqin people. They were all dead for a time and were no longer afraid of anything! People died and were afraid of him as a ball!
"Okay! I am worthy of being my Wang Pu's army, all of them are man!" Wang Pu Keng drew his sword and shouted loudly, "Listen to everyone, follow me...attack!"
"attack!"
Lu Liu waved the military flag in his hand forward and then shouted loudly.
"attack!"
"attack!"
"attack!"
Nearly two thousand soldiers surrounded the banner responded three times, and then followed the banner in Lu Liu's hand and rushed back again!
On the hill.
Seeing that the Ming cavalry who had already broken through the encirclement and killed him again, Banktu and Sogar couldn't believe their eyes. Was they dazzled or the Ming cavalry crazy? Even if they were really the soldiers led by Wang Pu, they could not be so arrogant. Do they really think that the 7,000 cavalry of the Korqin people were made of wood carvings and clay sculptures?
"Brother, these Nanming barbarians are so arrogant!" Sogar's face turned green with anger, "This time I took my own guard to intercept them!"
"Okay!" Banktu shouted in a deep voice, "It's time for these Nanming barbarians to taste the power of our Korqin people. This time, no matter what, they can't run away again!"
"yes!"
Sogar turned around and rushed towards the hill with hundreds of iron guards like a wind storm.
The Ming cavalry that suddenly appeared was indeed Zhao Xin’s Thousand-man team!
On the day when Wang Pu led his army, Zhang Zi'an gathered almost all the defeated soldiers and began to return to the cattle and sheep abandoned by the Tumotes. If everything goes well, the Ming army will drive nearly one million cattle and sheep on its way back in two days, but Zhao Xin did not want to return to Datong like this. He volunteered to Zhang Zi'an to go to Sanbulachuan to pick up Wang Pu.
Zhao Xin is a bloody man and a real soldier!
Zhao Xin knew that Wang Pu could not attack Sanbulachuan because he was no longer the general of Datong Town, but Wang Pu still brought more than 3,000 cavalry! Wang Pu did this to save the cattle, sheep and animals he had obtained, and also to protect the military pay that all the soldiers of Datong Town had received!
As a soldier in Datong Town, Zhao Xin felt that he could not return to Datong just like this. The responsibilities of the soldier and his conscience told him that he had to pick up Wang Pu!
Zhang Zian did not stop Zhao Xin, and he acquiesced.
Speaking of which, Wang Pu led his troops to attack Sanbulachuan to lure the cavalry of the Korqin people and land. This was entirely caused by Zhang Zi'an's own initiative to send troops in advance. It can be said that Zhang Zi'an suffered it himself. Wang Pu could have kept it aside, but Wang Pu still took care of it, and he was willing to take risks and lead the army to fight.
Because of this, Zhang Zi'an felt a little guilty towards Wang Pu, so he accused Zhao Xin of his request. Zhao Xin took the thousand cavalry under his command and followed the traces left by the cavalry marching of Wang Pu's troops. Finally, Wang Pu rushed to the Sanbulachuan Khan Temple in one day!
When Zhao Xin arrived with more than a thousand cavalrymen, Wang Pu's army was fighting fiercely with the Korqin cavalry, Zhao Xin led his army to attack the flanks of the Korqin cavalry without any hesitation.
The thousand cavalry under Zhao Xin was considered veterans, and their cavalry skills were pretty good, but they had just passed a long march of three or four hundred miles and were already trapped in the crowd. As soon as they fought with the Korqin cavalry, they were at a disadvantage. After the initial panic, the Korqin cavalry quickly calmed down and in turn surrounded Zhao Xin and his more than a thousand cavalry.
Seeing that there were more and more Korqin cavalry around him, Zhao Xin thought that he would die today, and suddenly there was a deafening shout in the northeast direction, as if thousands of troops were storming through the Korqin people's cavalry formation. When Zhao Xin looked back, he saw a big flag flying in the wind. He recognized the big flag, which was Wang Pudi's flag!
When Zhao Xin saw this, he was overjoyed and shouted: "Brothers. We are saved, hahaha..."
Zhao Xin was still laughing, and the Korqin cavalry in the northeast had already been separated and avoided like waves. A team of murderous Ming cavalry rushed over under the guidance of the big flag. The Ming general who took the lead was nothing else. It was Tang Sheng, who was familiar to Zhao Xin and Datong soldiers!
"Tang Sheng, it's you!?"
"President Tang!"
"Brothers, kill me!"
Seeing Tang Sheng rushing over, Zhao Xin and his soldiers under his command were motivated. At the moment, the two armies gathered together, and Zhao Xin also met Wang Pu in the army, and bowed to the horse's back and said, "I'm not going to see the general!"
"Forget it." Wang Pu said suavingly, "This is not a place to talk, so let's fight out first."
"Yes!" Zhao Xin responded with a loud bang, "From now on, all the soldiers under Bei Yi and his command will be transferred to the general to condemn him!"
"Okay!" Wang Pu yelled, "The whole army obeys the order and attacks in the direction of the camp!"
Scarface, Monk Zhang turned his horse's head at the same time, and rushed towards the Korqin cavalry who were blocking the way. In a few rounds, more than a dozen unlucky Korqin cavalry were taken down by them. The two generals each led a fierce baron, like two sharp arrows, and plunged into the Korqin cavalry formation fiercely.
The Korqin cavalry fought to the death to block it, and Sogar arrived in time with 500 iron guards. However, they still failed to block the fierce attack of the Ming army. Just a few months ago, these Ming troops were as weak as sheep, but now they are more cruel than the most fierce wild wolves on the grassland. Sogar, who was extremely brave, was stabbed in his left shoulder with a fork in his face, almost dead!
After paying a heavy price, two Ming cavalry finally broke through the heavy encirclement of the Korchin cavalry and retreated back to the camp like a wind storm.
Banktu refused to give up and sent three thousand cavalry to chase after him. As a result, he was hit by the Ming army's musket team in front of the Ming army's camp. The 800 flintlock muskets were shot in turn and the intensive bombing of hundreds of Dragon King cannons, the Korchin cavalry suffered heavy casualties and finally threw more than 500 bodies in front of the Ming army's camp.
A melee is finally over!
From dawn, in order to avenge Heihu, Monk Zhang led more than 700 former troops out of the camp, and after noon, Wang Pu and Zhao Xin joined forces to return to the camp, the Ming army and the Korqin people fought for most of the day. This was a fierce battle that both sides unexpectedly had suffered heavy casualties.
The old team of Zhang's Xiangma was killed and killed nearly 400 people, Tang Sheng's Thousand-Man team suffered more than 500 casualties, Scarface Thousand-Man team had the best situation, but more than 300 casualties, and Zhao Xin's Thousand-Man team suffered the most casualties. Due to the long-distance raid, more than 200 soldiers under Zhao Xin finally rushed out.
In the end, there were only more than 1,700 Ming soldiers who could return to the camp alive!
The remaining nearly two thousand people were either killed in battle or seriously injured. The seriously injured soldiers can basically be regarded as dead in battle, because the control of the battlefield is in the hands of the Korqin people, and the injured soldiers have no chance to survive. Even if the Korqin people will not kill them to vent their anger, they will be frozen to death because they cannot receive treatment.
Although Korqin took the initiative in the battlefield, their casualties were even heavier than those of the Ming army!
Before the melee began in the morning, the Korqin people still had more than 7,000 elite cavalry, but at noon, the melee ended. The Korqin cavalry with the power of one battle had less than 4,000 cavalry. The Korqin people lost more than 3,000 cavalry, of which more than 2,000 cavalry were killed directly. More than 800 cavalry were seriously injured.
The Ming army camp, Wang Pu’s tent.
Monk Zhang knelt in front of Wang Pu with his head down, just like a child crying loudly. Although the wound on his right leg was briefly bandaged, it was bleeding again. The red bloodshot oozed out from the thick linen, and a large area of it was already moistened.
"General, all so many brothers died because of humble positions. You should cut down the humble positions, howl..."
With the help of Lu Liudi, Wang Pu took off his armor and asked, "You know you are wrong when you say so?"
Monk Zhang shed tears and said, "I know I'm wrong."
"Tell me," Wang Pu sat down on the wool blanket and asked, "Where are you wrong?"
Monk Zhang said: "Beizhi shouldn't have tried his best to find the people of Korqin to avenge the Black Tiger. If it weren't for Beizhi, there wouldn't be this fierce battle in the morning, and so many brothers wouldn't have lost their lives in vain!"
"No." Wang Pu shook his head, "It seems you don't know where you are wrong."
"This..." Zhang Monk said inexplicably. "Is Bei Zhi wrong?"
"Of course it's wrong!" Wang Pu said, "A man is a real man. It's natural for him to take revenge and revenge. Your good brother Heihu is dead. Of course, you have to take revenge, that's right!"
Monk Zhang scratched his bald head and asked, "That's the humble rank, I don't understand."
Wang Pu said: "Monk, your mistake is that you should not regard Heihu as your brother alone. You have never remembered what this general once said, our army is a collective, and everyone in this army is good brothers. Therefore, avenging Heihu is not your own business, nor the seven hundred brothers under your command, but all of us. Do you understand that? "
Monk Zhang thought about it carefully. He nodded first and then shook his head immediately. He seemed to have figured it out, but after thinking about it carefully, his mind was filled with mucus.
"You just think about it here. I didn't understand that I was not allowed to leave this tent or eat!"
Wang Pu said this and put on a tiger's cloak and turned around and came out of the tent.
Although Monk Zhang is just a rough man and doesn't know a few big words, Wang Pu knows that he has two extraordinary qualities. He is both cruel and persevering! As the commander of an army, no one doesn't like such subordinates! With such subordinates, you can hand over the most difficult battle to fight to him, and you can hand over the darkest things to him!
But Monk Zhang also has a shortcoming, that is, he will do his own thing!
Although Monk Zhang has become a subordinate of Wang Pudi, he seems to be respectful and obedient to Wang Pu, but when it comes to death, Monk Zhang will reveal his true colors and make his own decisions! This is something that Wang Pu absolutely cannot tolerate, so he has to take the opportunity to hit Monk Zhang and force the concept of "our army" into his mind.
Once the concept of "our army" has taken root in Monk Zhang's mind, when encountering problems, the first thing he thinks of would be "us" instead of "me". As for "our army", it is actually Wang Pu's army. When Monk Zhang implants this concept in his mind, it also means that he has completely loyal to Wang Pu!
From then on, he would do whatever Wang Pu asked him to do. He would never go west when he asked him to go east. He would even cut off Emperor Chongzhen's head without hesitation!
Outside the tent, more than 1,700 soldiers who had survived their lives were sitting around dozens of burning bonfires, gnawing on mutton and laughing loudly. These were veterans, and they had long been used to the bloody storm on the battlefield. Life and death were as ordinary as eating and sleeping.
The brothers who died in life and death were not feeling well, but they understood one truth better: crying and wiping tears could not solve any problem. If you want to avenge the brothers who died in battle, you must eat, sleep and rest. Eat when you should eat, drink when you should drink, and laugh when you should laugh. Just wait for the battlefield and then vent all the hatred on the enemy.
To be continued...