Just as Yang Xiaohu was frothing at the mouth, he saw a general walking in the distance. Everyone knew him. He was General Tang He and his general Meng Qi. This man was skilled in martial arts and brave in combat. He had a high prestige in the army, so many soldiers were a little afraid of him. When they saw Meng Qi coming, they all hurriedly made way out of the way. Little did they think that the direction Meng Qi was coming from was behind Yang Xiaohu. Yang Xiaohu didn't notice that Meng Qi was coming. Not far away, I saw Yang Xiaohu showing off his achievements.
When he got closer, he discovered that Yang Xiaohu was standing on the cutting board and talking boastfully. Meng Qi couldn't help but get angry: "Yang Xiaohu, for today's lunch you will eat the vegetables you crushed. If you don't eat them all, I will serve you with fifty military sticks." He turned around and left angrily.
Da Kui alone attacked the Yuan soldiers camp at night, burned the Yuan soldiers' food and grass, and retreated all 100,000 Yuan soldiers. This was a unique achievement in the history of the Right Army and even the Ming army. At the beginning of the Northern Expedition in the first year of Hongwu, General Chang Yuchun led The soldiers encountered more than 100,000 yuan of soldiers at Ta'er Bay in Luoyang. Chang Yuchun rushed into the enemy's formation single-handedly, followed by his subordinates who fought bravely to kill the enemy. Although the enemy was outnumbered, Chang Yuchun relied on the courage of ten thousand soldiers to defeat the enemy. The 50,000 troops of the Left Route Army defeated more than 100,000 Yuan soldiers in one blow, thus occupying Henan and Tongguan, seizing the threshold of Shaanxi, and creating an extremely favorable situation for capturing Yuan Dadu. In terms of achievements, Dakui This meritorious service is even greater than Chang Yuchun's Battle of Luoyang.
Unfortunately, Taizu had already issued an order, and Zhang Dakui could only serve as a cook and not as a general.
Tang He always had a clear distinction between rewards and punishments, but Dakui had to reward him for his outstanding achievements. Tang He did two things. First, he wrote down Dakui's achievements in a memorial list and sent people 800 miles to Yingtian, the capital. Second, he prepared preparations for Dakui. He set up a separate tent and had people dedicated to serve him, and he was entertained with wine and meat every day.
After three days of this, Tang He suddenly received a report from a spy, and Timur and Li Siqi's troops, a total of 200,000 troops, had set out from Lanzhou and headed straight for the Guanchuan River.
The Yuan soldiers arrived much faster than expected, and Tang He's right-leg army was not yet ready. Tang He immediately ordered his soldiers and horses to step up the construction of fortifications and attack the five-mile wasteland between the Guanchuan River and the Ming army's camp. The horse pit was dug to prevent Yuan soldiers from charging into the formation with their cavalry after crossing the river.
Dakui has been living happily these days. When he had nothing to do, he went to the front camp for a walk, but he saw that the soldiers were much busier than usual. On this day, Dakui went out for a stroll again. When he arrived at the front camp, he saw that the gate of the camp was wide open. , two soldiers stood chatting at the gate of the village, and saw cars and horses entering and exiting the village. Da Kui had to step aside to make way, but inadvertently heard the words of the two soldiers.
"Timur's expanded army is expected to arrive in two days... Before dispatching the troops, General Meng has paid the settlement allowance. Even if I am gone, my father and mother can still live on the settlement allowance," said a As the soldier spoke, tears shed twice on his face.
Another soldier said: "My parents died early, and there is only one uncle in the family. I don't know what happened to him."
The two soldiers were chatting with each other, but Dakui was shocked when he heard: "Kuokou Timur and Li Siqi are sending troops,"
Two hundred thousand Yuan troops invaded, and the 50,000 soldiers of the Right Army under the leadership of Brother Tang will fight to the death. We will be outnumbered by then, and how many of these Ming soldiers will survive? When Da Kui thought of this, he couldn't help but Depressed and sad.
‘What to do, what to do, just watching the right route army fall into danger,’ Dakui was worried, and suddenly an idea came to his mind.
Marshal Xu Da besieged Qingyang City. If the city was broken and Timur was defeated, he didn't know whether Timur would be able to retreat. Da Kui couldn't help but think that it would be difficult to assassinate Timur with an army of 200,000 people. However, it would be difficult to cross the city to kill Zhang Liangbi. After being captured, the Yuan army only heard that Timur was a hero. As for whether Zhang Liangbi was brave and invincible, it was unknown. However, Zhang Liangbi was not well known, and it was expected that he had no ability. As long as he killed Zhang Liangbi, Qingyang City's leader The Yuan army was leaderless, so it was natural that it would defeat itself without attacking. Thinking of this, Dakui turned around and returned to the central army.
Dakui's camp was not far from the Chinese army's main tent. When he returned to the tent, Dakui found pen, ink, paper and an inkstone and went to the table. He picked up the pen, fed the ink and wrote a letter. When the ink was half dry, he took the inkstone and put the letter on it. Pressed on the table, Dakui then turned around and left the tent...
Before noon, Yang Xiaohu brought food and wine to the door of Dakui's tent.
"Father, it's time to eat," Yang Xiaohu called out, but there was no sound for a while. Yang Xiaohu called again, but there was still no response.
Holding the food in both hands, but no one lifted the curtain of the tent, Yang Xiaohu had no choice but to turn around and walk backwards into the tent with the tray. When he turned around, he realized that there was no one in the tent. Yang Xiaohu not only smiled bitterly: "My foster father must have gone out and not returned." ," he muttered to himself and brought the food to the table, but saw the letter pressed under the inkstone. Out of curiosity, Yang Xiaohu put down the tray and picked up the letter. After just one glance, he was stunned and did not dare to delay turning around. After leaving the camp, we ran all the way towards the Chinese army's tent.
It happened that the Chinese army's tent had just been cleared. As soon as the generals left, Yang Xiaohu ran into the tent in a few steps.
"Uncle Tang, my adoptive father has gone to Qingyang," Yang Xiaohu hurriedly handed the letter in his hand to Tang He.
"When did you leave?" Tang He couldn't help but asked anxiously.
Yang Xiaohu replied: "I went to deliver food to my adoptive father. When I entered the camp, no one was there, but I only saw the letter left by my adoptive father."
Tang He didn't ask any more questions. He opened the letter and looked at it carefully.
"Brother Tang, I've heard that the expansion army is not far from here, and the war is about to break out. In today's situation, Qingyang is the most important one. Zhang Liangbi, the guard of the Qingyang Yuan Army, is really a treacherous person. Let's go here now. Qingyang helped our Ming army to get rid of this scourge. The hearts of the Ming Dynasty ministers and the brotherhood of the two brothers. The day Qingyang city was destroyed was the time when Timur retreated and his brother Zhang Dakui bowed his head, "
Looking at this letter, Tang He felt like his whole body was burning. He did not explain at the moment, but hurriedly ordered Yang Xiaohu: "Xiaohu, take my general order and ride a fast horse to chase your adoptive father. When you see him, you must let him... ...." Tang He paused when he said this, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "When I saw him, I told him that there were two purposes for expanding the country. One was to relieve the siege of Qingyang, and the other was to rush to Yingchang. Even if Qingyang City is defeated and the army expands, the troops may not retreat, so I told him not to take any risks." He took off the tiger talisman from his waist and handed it to Yang Xiaohu.
Yang Xiaohu replied: "Yes," he turned around and left, but Tang He called out urgently: "Wait a minute."
Yang Xiaohu couldn't help but turned around in confusion and looked at Tang He, but he didn't know what Tang He meant.
"After meeting your adoptive father, you must first persuade him not to go to Qingyang to take risks, and then you go to Marshal Xu Da to report the military situation here, and tell him to expand the area where Timur and Li Siqi join forces, and the Guanchuan River is the largest. If you can stay for a month," Tang He said again, "You just stay with the marshal and there is no need to come back again."
Yang Xiaohu was stunned when he heard this, but then he clasped his fists and saluted: "I will go after my adoptive father right now, but after reporting the military situation to the marshal, Xiaohu will definitely return to the right army." After that, Tang He said What? He turned around and ran out of the Chinese army tent.
Dakui walked all the way east, left the Chinese army camp, passed by the main camp and headed eastward. When Yang Xiaohu reported the message to Tang He, Dakui had already left the Ming army camp and was walking on the post road leading to Qingyang. There was no one around, so Dakui immediately started running wildly. He felt the wind in his ears along the way, and the scenery on both sides seemed to be flying backwards. Now that Dakui's skills were even more refined, he ran like the wind and lightning.
Even if Yang Xiaohu rides a fast horse to chase him, he may not be able to catch up with Da Kui's pace. The so-called fast horse has fast short-distance sprint and good endurance. However, no matter how good the horse is, its endurance is limited, and its speed will slow down if it gallops less than a hundred miles. decline.
At dusk, the mountains and forests were silent. Standing at the edge of the forest, Dakui had a panoramic view of Qingyang City.
After two months of attacks, smoke was everywhere outside the city wall. Although there was a truce at the moment, the pungent smell of gunpowder still filled the air. It seemed that the Ming army had tried its best to attack the city, but Qingyang City had thick walls and tight defenses. The army paid a huge price in casualties. After several battles over the city, Qingyang City has still not been captured to this day.
Under the cover of night, Da Kui rushed towards Qingyang City. In the night, Da Kui passed by the camp of the Ming army. Except for the night patrol soldiers, there was no movement in the camp. After two months of fighting, the soldiers Already tired at this moment, the whole camp was so silent that one could hear a pin drop. In this case, the Yuan soldiers in Qingyang City must also be in the same situation.
Dakui rushed to the bottom of the city and looked up at the city. He saw that the battlements on the city wall were incomplete, and several large gaps had been blown out in some places. This shows the ferocity of the siege.
Zhang Liangbi first surrendered to the Ming army, and then defected with his troops to defend Qingyang City. He must have known what would happen if the city was destroyed. He would definitely die without a burial, because the Ming army would not accept him again. Zhang Liangbi had to beg for surrender, so for this plan, Zhang Liangbi could only resist stubbornly.
After finding the angle between the west city gate and the city wall, Da Kui hid in the shadows and waited for the opportunity. Not long after, he heard a sound of footsteps coming from the city. This should be the sound of a patrol planning and passing by. Da Kui had been in the army for a long time and knew full well that According to the rules of patrolling the city in the army, when the footsteps faded away, Dakui immediately climbed up the city with his hands and feet.
When he was in Suzhou, Dakui often competed with Brother Meng in martial arts. Brother Meng was a disciple of Southern Shaolin and knew Shaolin martial arts very well. During the discussion, Brother Meng once talked about a unique skill in Shaolin martial arts, which is ' "Hanging pictures on the wall" and "hanging pictures on the wall" are one of the gecko's wall-walking techniques. The body sticks to the wall with its arms and legs spread out, and uses the protruding parts of the wall to borrow force, so that it can be hung on the wall for a long time.
At this moment, Dakui slowly climbed up the city using the method of a gecko swimming around the wall. Before he reached the top of the city, Dakui stopped. After listening carefully to make sure that no one was on the wall, he quietly climbed to the top of the city. There was a place every dozens of steps on the city wall. Lanterns or torches illuminated every detail on the city wall. The entrance to the nearest city defense ladder was still dozens of feet away. Da Kui quickly ran towards the city defense ladder.