The Xiedan Racecourse has been evacuated, not to mention the horses, not even the cattle and sheep are left.
The news that Wu Jie killed chiefs, herders, and landowners in Liangzhou has spread to Gansu and Suzhou. Those Xixia civil and military officials who wanted to surrender were so frightened that they were forced to work together and fight. They also told the soldiers and civilians at the bottom that Ming Ming
Wherever the army passes, the city will be massacred. If you want to survive, you must fight to the death.
In the flat valley southeast of Yanzhi Mountain, a Ming Dynasty grain transport team is being besieged.
The enemy came from the east side of Yanzhi Mountain, where the road was relatively short but rugged and desolate. Wu Jie's army's advance route was through Xiedan Racecourse on the west side of Yanzhi Mountain.
There are thousands of people in this grain transport team, 500 of them are garrison troops, and the rest are all civilians transporting grain.
They surrounded the four-wheeled vehicles and wheelbarrows as a barrier, and the grain carried by livestock were also placed outside. They had been fighting the enemy for two hours.
The civilians suffered nearly a thousand casualties, most of them shot by arrows!
The Xixia cavalry also suffered heavy casualties. Not only did the 500 Ming troops carry crossbows, but also some civilians were equipped with crossbows. These civilians came from Hehuang, and many of them were exiled prisoners. They had to participate in military training during their spare time.
"Da da da da~~"
There was a sound of horse hoofbeats and thunderous cheers from the Ming Dynasty. They finally waited for reinforcements.
But only 200 knights came, while there were more than 3,000 knights from Xixia.
"Kill it!"
The generals of both sides issued orders at the same time.
The general on the Western Xia side was named Renduo Mingyi, who came from the Liangzhou clan. Renduoquan City built in Xixia was named after the Renduo family.
When Wu Jie captured Liangzhou City, Renduo Mingyi led his troops and ran away.
But his brothers, the landowners and herdsmen in his clan, were beheaded by Wu Jie after they surrendered. Several clan members fled to Ganzhou to report the news, and Ren Duo Mingyi was so angry that he swore revenge because of Wu Jie's act of killing and surrendering.
So unreasonable!
This guy has a blood feud, and the same goes for the Ming army generals who came to help.
There are two generals under Wu Jie.
One is named Wang Jun, nicknamed Wang Kaishan in the army. He may have the wrong name, but he may not have the wrong nickname. You can tell who he is by hearing his nickname. Historically, Wu Jie was afraid that Wang Jun would surrender to the Jin Kingdom, so he directly sent him to the Kingdom of Jin.
His daughter married Wang Jun, who was almost thirty years old.
An old subordinate named Yang Zheng, Wu Jie, an old man.
In all the early victories of Wu Jiezhong, Yang Zheng participated in the whole process and performed the most difficult and dangerous tasks. In history, Yang Zheng fought against the Jin soldiers and achieved nine victories in nine battles. He was never defeated in a frontal fight. Salihe was him
Leading troops to fight and cry.
Moreover, Yang Zheng was an all-rounder in politics and military, and he was also very good at governing the people.
Unfortunately, he was so criticized by the Southern Song Dynasty fantasy novel "Yi Jian Zhi". The book said that he was cruel and murderous, and even his concubines were often skinned.
"Barbarian of Xixia, give your grandfather back his life!" Yang Zheng took the lead with a spear in hand.
His father, Yang Zhong, was killed in battle with Xixia in the late Northern Song Dynasty. It is said that he died from dozens of arrows in his body.
Yang Zheng took the initiative to stay and led two thousand knights, responsible for protecting the grain road from Liangzhou to Ganzhou. He divided the two thousand knights into ten teams, one man and two horses patrolling back and forth along the way. If they encountered Xixia, they would rush forward directly.
This is already the third battle.
The Xixia soldiers did not dare to fight head-on with the main force of the Ming army, so they always sent cavalry to attack the grain roads.
I saw two hundred Ming Dynasty cavalry rushing toward more than three thousand Xixia cavalry.
Yang Zheng didn't pay attention to such a small number of enemies. Historically, he often led the infantry to charge directly at the Jin cavalry, and the entire army used axes and long knives to chop off the horse's legs.
But it was said that more than 3,000 Xixia cavalry took turns shooting arrows at the 200 Ming Dynasty cavalry. They were divided into ten teams to outflank and cruise, but they did not dare to engage in close combat. They shot an arrow and immediately distanced themselves.
Yang Zheng faced more than ten times the number of enemies, but he still charged in separate units.
Moreover, they were divided into four teams, and each team was divided into two small teams to cooperate with each other. The fifty riders rushed in one direction and rushed in four directions at the same time, moving forward without stopping at all.
Invincible!
Yang Zheng personally led only two teams of fifty people. He withstood a hail of arrows and bit the enemy in front who was still trying to run away after shooting the arrows.
There were more than three hundred Xixia cavalry, and they kept turning their heads and shooting arrows, but the arrows fell on the human armor, and the vests had no lethality. Another group of enemy cavalry, about three hundred cavalry, also shot arrows at Yang Zheng from the side, but they could not
Dare to rush over and attack in melee.
Yang Zheng only focused on the enemy in front, and didn't care about the enemy on the side. If he caught up with an enemy, he would kill him with his gun.
Less than ten minutes.
More than three thousand Xixia cavalry were defeated by these two hundred Ming cavalry.
Ren Duo Mingyi also had armor, and even his war horse was covered with leather armor. But he was running away very fast at the moment. This kind of charge by the heroic cavalry was too terrifying, and no Xixia cavalry dared to block it.
Not to mention the equipment issue, the momentum was completely defeated.
The Xixia cavalry went back wherever they came from, running wildly along the remaining mountains of Yanzhi Mountain. But when they were about to reach the mountain pass, a river blocked the way. It was a small river flowing down from Yanzhi Mountain, irrigating a narrow farming area that stretched for hundreds of miles.
bring.
If it's a dry season, you can ride across it on horseback.
But now it is spring, and the snow on Yanzhi Mountain has melted, causing the water level of the creek to surge.
The Xixia cavalry fled in panic along the river bank. Seeing the Ming Dynasty cavalry approaching, some of the cavalry jumped into the river. For those Xixia cavalry without iron armor, they might still survive by jumping into the river to escape, but sooner or later they would be doomed if they kept running away.
One cavalryman jumped into the river, but the generals and officers did not dare.
They are all wearing iron armor!
"The thief will die!"
Yang Zheng went straight to Renduo Mingyi, because this guy's armor was the best.
Renduo Mingyi looked back and saw Yang Zheng challenging someone. He was so frightened that he whipped his horse to speed up.
After catching up to the foothills of Yanzhi Mountain, we ran along the gentle slope for a while, and the mountain became increasingly steep. Renduo Mingyi found that there were Ming troops blocking the way to the west, and there was a river to the east, so he had no choice but to abandon his horse and climb up the mountain.
Yang Zheng got off his horse, hung up his spear, took off the iron rod, and used his hands and feet to catch up.
Renduo Mingyi also abandoned his spear and was out of breath climbing the mountain. Seeing that Yang Zheng was separated from his soldiers and that the other Ming soldiers were still far away, he turned around and slashed at Yang Zheng with his sword.
Yang Zheng grabbed the bush with his left hand and swung the iron rod with his right hand, hitting the enemy general's calf hard.
"ah!"
Ren Duo Mingyi screamed, and his tibia was directly smashed and fractured.
Yang Zheng struck out with the stick again, hitting Ren Duo Mingyi on the waist. The force penetrated and seemed to break the intestines.
"Bang!"
There was another muffled sound, and the iron rod hit his chest hard.
Renduo Mingyi fell down with blood spurting from his mouth. As soon as he lay down, he received another severe blow on his helmet.
Yang Zheng felt comfortable all over, and the smile on his face was particularly ferocious.
His grandfather was killed by the Xixia people, his father was killed by the Xixia people, and his brother was also killed by the Xixia people!
Yang Zheng dragged the corpse of the enemy general down the mountain. When he saw some prisoners on the way, he immediately scolded: "I told you not to keep any of them, why are you tying up these offal?"
An officer said: "The military order is that Xixia generals and officers will not be retained. These tied up are just soldiers."
"Kill them all together. If something goes wrong, I will accept the punishment." Yang Zheng said.
The officer hesitated for a moment and then called on the soldiers to kill the prisoners. This was something that everyone would not talk about until they died in their stomachs.
…
Ganzhou City.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
Wu Jie's army continued to bombard the city wall, and the remaining defeated generals in the city were frightened.
Many of them had escaped from Liangzhou, and they all ran very fast on horseback, taking away all the horses and livestock from Xedan Racecourse along the way.
Now there are nearly 100,000 horses in the city, and other livestock have no fodder at all. Soldiers kill cattle and sheep for meat, and many livestock have even starved to death.
"I'm going to the Western Regions, will you leave?" Wei Mingyan asked directly.
The generals were silent.
Wei Mingyan said angrily: "The Ming army has artillery, and the city wall will collapse sooner or later. We can't fight in the open field, so why do we all stay here and wait to die? Yelu Dashi also wrote a letter to you, right? As long as he goes to the Western Regions, he will divide Give it to the pasture. They are full of foreigners and they will definitely treat us well!"
A general said: "My family members are all in Blackwater City. I only brought my son and nephew here. If I are to flee to the Western Regions now, will I leave my family behind?"
Wei Mingyan said bluntly: "My family members are in Ganzhou City. If we break out now, the old, weak, women and children will definitely not be able to escape. Like you, I will lose my family, but when I go to the Western Regions, I can marry many foreign women. You have already I heard that even if you surrender, you will be killed, and the enemy general is a madman!"
The general lowered his head and thought, as if he couldn't bear to leave his wife and children.
"I am willing to follow the general to the Western Regions." Another general said. This man's hometown is in Suzhou. On the way to escape, he can pick up his family and even take away his belongings.
Several more generals from Shazhou and Guazhou agreed.
Wei Mingyan looked straight at one person and asked, "Where is your Zhang family?"
The Zhang family is a common surname in the Hexi Corridor, and many civilians have the surname Zhang. Although the person in front of you is not a direct descendant of Zhang Yichao, he is also a descendant of Zhang Yichao's clan.
"Let's go." This Zhang family member sighed.
Near dusk, the Ming army stopped shelling and retreated to the camp one after another.
The Ming army camp was divided into two locations, both of which were set up by the Black River, otherwise it would be difficult to obtain water.
Just when the Ming army returned to camp for dinner, all the gates of Ganzhou City were opened, and countless generals rushed out with their cavalry. They deceived the soldiers and said that the army was going to massacre the city, so that the civilians who could be allocated land and pastures were also deceived by them.
Flee to the Western Regions.
The Ming army also announced to the city that ordinary soldiers could be allocated farmland, pastures, seeds and livestock, but the Xixia soldiers in the city did not dare to believe these words.
Not only the Xixia soldiers were fleeing, but also many old, weak, women and children, as long as they could ride a horse, were fleeing.
Anyway, there is no shortage of horses in the city, and the entire Xiedan Racecourse has been moved here.
They ran wildly along the north bank of the Black River, setting fire to grain, grass and houses before leaving.
Wu Jie sent out all his cavalry to pursue him, and sent his infantry to occupy the city and put out the fire.
More than 30,000 Xixia soldiers and civilians who fled slowly were intercepted by the Ming cavalry. Most of them were old, weak, women and children, and there were also many Xixia infantrymen who were not good at riding. They suddenly fled on horseback and could not run fast at all.
The escaped Xixia soldiers and civilians came to Suzhou without stopping.
Those with family members went to pick them up, while those without family members robbed civilians, ransacked Suzhou City, and continued to escape.
Five thousand Ming Dynasty cavalry came after them, but those guys did not dare to fight, abandoned a large number of people and supplies, and continued to flee westward in panic. Then, they looted and looted in Guazhou and Shazhou, burning down all the houses in the two cities.
Benhami went to seek refuge with Yelu Dashi.
Yelu Dashi is about to have a decisive battle with Seljuk!