Chapter 266: Yingzhou Victory 5

Another autumn is here. On the prairie, the sky is high and the air is cool and the breeze is comfortable. [+New^^+

Tens of thousands of Tatar troops rested in Guyuan City for a day and a night. Early the next morning, after a full meal, the soldiers immediately rushed south and besieged Xuanfu City.

However, due to the heavy damage to the Tatar army in the battle last night, they were then attacked by the Ming army one after another, and the troops lost when attacking Guguan, the Tatar army at this time had been reduced from the original 60,000 to less than 40,000.

However, even with 40,000 people, this number was several times more than the defenders of Xuanfu City. Because in Xuanfu, the number of Ming troops in the Xuanfu was less than 10,000, so the gap between the two sides was very big. In this case, even if the Ming army could rely on the strong city to defend, it should be difficult to withstand the Tatars' attack.

Soon, the Tatar army had already arrived outside the city and was ready to attack the city. At this time, all the soldiers in Xuanfu City were also ready for a big battle. It can be said that at this time, both sides were rubbing their hands and punching the enemy, but no one knew what the real result would be. After all, on the battlefield, the situation was changing rapidly and no one could calculate everything.

At this moment, Zhu Houzhao was wearing military uniform, with a cold and solemn armor, and a grim expression, but she was standing at the top of the city, looking at the Tatar army outside the city coldly.

Yes, he finally saw the Tatar army with his own eyes, which made him a little excited and nervous. You know, it was this team that had plagued the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years. Almost from the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the threat from the grasslands outside the border did not stop for a day. The Ming Dynasty also paid an extremely huge price for this. Not only did it have to station heavy troops on the border, but it was also burned, killed, robbed and plundered by these barbarians every year. The losses in it were really immeasurable.

Therefore, from a long time ago, Zhu Houzhao had a dream in his heart. He dreamed that he could become Wei Qing and Huo Qubing in the Han Dynasty, and be able to release the horses and kill all these barbarians, so that they would never dare to raid the border of the Ming Dynasty again.

And now, he is not far from his dream, at least he has taken the first step and faces the Tatars head-on on the battlefield.

"In this battle, I must fight these Tatars to make them frightened. I want them to keep this sore point in their hearts forever, so that they will never dare to invade our Ming Dynasty easily!"

Zhu Houzhao said with his fists tightly clenched, then turned around suddenly, glanced at the generals behind him, and then decisively ordered them to prepare for defense. Everything went as planned, everyone must fight to the death, and there was no cowardice to fight.

The generals were also excited and excited at this time. After all, they were guarding the border from the dragon at this time, which was a rare opportunity in a thousand years. I believe that after this battle, no matter what the result of the battle was, I think it would definitely be a brilliant past that they would talk about all their lives.

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Soon, the sound of the Tatars' horns sounded, and the Tatar army began to launch a siege. They first launched dozens of wooden siege towers and prepared to attack the city top directly. At the same time, the remaining many Tatar soldiers carried ladders and rushed down the city wall from all directions. They were also preparing to rely on the ladders and climb up the city wall. In addition, more Tatar soldiers directly pulled the rope hooks and prepared to climb the city wall with the rope hooks. In short, in just a moment, all the Tatar army moved. In front were soldiers siege cities and behind were army covered by archery. In short, this time, the Tatars set up a formation that they would not give up until they achieved their goal. They were determined to take down the Xuanfu City.

Faced with the attack of the Tatars, the sound of drums and cannons were heard in Xuanfu City, and all the defenders were involved in the tenacious city defense battle.

First, the Ming army scattered to the top of the city, and while resisting the Tatar army that siege the city, they used poison arrows and muskets and poison sand to fight back against the Tatar army. Such a tactic naturally caused great casualties to the Tatars. Later, when the Tatars' siege wooden buildings approached the city wall, they used cannons to bombard the wooden buildings. This made the wooden buildings not only fail to complete the mission of siege, but instead collapsed into a pile of rotten wood, and I don't know how many Tatar soldiers were killed.

Afterwards, the Ming army on the top of the city wore masks. After that, they used the same trick again. Poisonous smoke and fog were thrown out, but a large area of ​​poisonous smoke and fog was created outside the city. This caused great obstacles and troubles to the Tatars, because thousands of people were poisoned in an instant, and many soldiers died on the spot, and more were struggling in pain. This made their siege unable to continue at all, because as soon as they approached the city wall, they would inhale poisonous smoke, and the situation was like being sent to death.

So, the battle ran from early morning until afternoon. After leaving behind thousands of corpses, the Tatars had no choice but to withdraw their troops and retreated ten miles to camp and camp, preparing to wait until the poisonous smoke at the city was gone before siege.

However, what the Tatars did not expect was that at this time, they had encountered the trouble they had encountered before in Guyuan City, that was, the water sources near their camps were poisoned, which made them unable to draw water nearby. In desperation, they could only order the soldiers to save water as much as possible to prolong the use of their water bags. However, in this way, the poisoned soldiers were a little miserable because they obviously needed a lot of drinking water, but now there was no water for them to drink. Therefore, due to the lack of water, many soldiers eventually died innocently.

It was obvious that this situation made Prince Boyan very distressed. Later, he was thinking about withdrawing the army back to the river next to Guyuan City again, because it seemed that only such a way could ensure the drinking water problem of the army. However, in that case, they retreated too far, a hundred miles away from Xuanfu. Going back and forth, not only took time, but also made the army extremely tired. Such a way to attack from time to time is obviously not a good idea.

However, if he doesn't leave, he will fall into a dilemma of water shortage, so he is really a little confused now.

So, after he was so entangled, the time gradually reached the evening. Then, at this time, Boyan hesitated for a moment and prepared to attack the Xuanfu again while the night was shining. If the effective results were still not achieved, he would withdraw his troops and retreat to Guyuan. In this way, at least he would not have any regrets.

After making up his mind, Boyan ordered the army to have a good meal, and then took advantage of the night to rush towards Xuanfu City again.

However, what Boyan didn't expect was that this time, when they rushed to Xuanfu City, they suddenly saw that the Ming army had sent a team out of the city to fight. The situation seemed to be that the Ming army was about to give up the defense of the city and wanted to fight them head-on, fighting with them.

At this moment, Boyan was a little overjoyed. You know, his army had suffered heavy losses at this time, but no matter what, there were still 30,000 people, and the Ming army's team was less than 5,000. How could they fight against their own army?

So, when Boyan saw this situation, he was filled with excitement and quickly ordered the army to rush towards the Ming army. He wanted to repeat the old story of capturing Guyuan City, prepare for the Ming army's road to return to the city, and then eat the Ming army alive and take down the Xuanfu city at the same time.

However, what the Tatars did not expect was that the Ming army was not afraid of their charge at this time.

All the Ming army leaned against the city and lined up their formations. While using bows and arrows and muskets to fight back against the Tatars, they slowly retreated, giving the Tatars the illusion of fear of war. Later, when the Tatars were about to attack the army, they suddenly saw the front row of the Ming army suddenly flashed, and then dozens of cars were pushed out from the Ming army's team.

However, this time the car launched by the Ming army had no flames or swords and guns, and there were only a large bundle of bamboo tubes on it, which made the Tatars a little confused, and they didn't know what the Ming army was doing.

Then, at this time, just as the Tatars were wondering, they suddenly saw the Ming army behind the cars suddenly raised fire, as if they had lit something on the car. Then, the Tatars saw a large area of ​​fire rising from behind the cars, and then they heard a harsh sound of "chicking" through the air, and then the bamboo tubes on the cars were dragging their long flame tails and flying towards their formation like sharp arrows.

Speaking of which, the dense array of rockets of the Ming army were really powerful. In less than a quarter of an hour, thousands of rockets flew out together. Then, while the rockets illuminated the night sky, they fell into the Tatar formation, and immediately exploded. While killing countless Tatar soldiers, they once again formed a heavy poisonous smoke zone on the battlefield. This made the Tatars be smashed head-on again, and countless injuries were damaged. The rest were poisoned and injured. The entire team seemed to be in a mess and was in chaos.

Then, at this moment, in the night sky in the southwest direction, a group of Ming army pegasus attacked, rushed into the Tatar army in an instant, and fought hard. At the same time, the northeast direction, the sound of cannons was shocking, and another group of Ming army arrived. Then, at this moment, the Ming army defenders of Xuanfu also rushed to cover the killing. So, in just a moment, the Tatars were trapped in a state of being surrounded on three sides, and instantly fell into the cage that the Ming army had already built for them.

"Kill, the winner is here, and you will make achievements, right now!"

At this moment, among the Xuanfu defenders, a young general raised his arms and shouted, taking the lead to rush forward. Who was Zhu Houzhao? (To be continued.)
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