Chapter 31: People Are Like Ants, Ma Ruyun
Today is the day when the army is set off. Zhang Ping'an came to the camp gate to see off Chen Pang's army; the red military flag embroidered with the banners of each camp, and snowflakes scattered in the dark sky. A team of more than 30 small square formations were divided into more than 30 small square formations and walked out of the camp gate in turn. Although the queue was not very neat, the team showed a desire for war!
Zhang Ping'an nodded with satisfaction and reminded Chen Poe: "This time you are mainly training troops, don't fight hard with the Tartars. We have many bows and arrows, so we will shoot arrows repeatedly. If we resist, we will not keep any chickens and dogs! You only have three days this time, so don't fight!"
Chen Po nodded without saying a word, saluted Zhang Ping'an and chased the troops. Zhang Ping'an watched Chen Po's brigade disappear into the white wilderness, and then waved to Lu Deyin and chased Zhang Li and Hu Ming's brigade.
Chen Por is still a little nervous when he brought so many people for the first time, but Li Chen, Huang Zhi and Huang Wei all support him very much. He respects every instruction he issued in front of his subordinates.
At the second hour of Shen Shiqi that afternoon, they came to the Mongolian tribe. They saw less than one hundred Mongolian Tartars firmly blocking the north of the Tartar camp; about three hundred women and children were riding horses and fleeing eastward. Chen pulled out his knife and ordered Li Chen: "According to the command of the commander, flood them with arrows!"
Two short horns sounded through the air. From the front cavalry formation, six flag-holding soldiers first ran out quickly, and then rushed out six hundred cavalry archers and lined up next to the model flag bearer; Li Chen rode a horse and ran in front of the formation, holding a knife to press forward. The entire cavalry archer array slowly walked forward;
Chen Poe pointed at Huang Zhixiangdong with a saber, and Huang Zhi led a brigade of 1,000 people to the escaped Mongolian women and children in a fan shape.
Chen Pie stood up immediately, as if he wanted to let the whole army see him; he pointed to Huang Wei with a knife, and Huang Wei nodded and led the five hundred cavalry from the west toward the Tartars' flank.
Chen Pang waved his sword and pulled it around his head and pressed forward. All the cavalry followed Chen Pang slowly to press forward.
At this time, Li Chen roared: "Pull the bow two feet upwards, let it go! Let it go!"
The Mongols saw the gray sky tragically, pressing down a dark cloud, and they were covered by the entire dark cloud. The dark clouds roared and smashed towards their thin array. More than thirty Mongolians were lucky enough to escape the first arrow cloud, but their war horses could not escape. The war horses neighed and fell in the snow, and blood stained the white snowfield red. More war horses ran and threw away their owners, but wanted to avoid the bloody killing. At this time, the second wave of whistling dark clouds fell down again, and no one, nor horses avoided the kiss of the god of death.
On the Mongolian positions, there was only one flag bearer who was difficult and painful, but his eyes were firm and standing alone on the battlefield. His war horses whined lowly beside him, and his body was filled with arrows. He stood hard, trying to use his last strength to buy time for his tribes, young and old. He saw that there were no dark clouds in the sky, and because of excessive blood loss, his reaction was very slow; he felt the earth trembling, and another black cloud was pressing against the white field. The black cloud ran past him, and he saw his headless body still standing, spewing out a charming blood-colored flower from his neck. Then his headless body was crushed by the black clouds, and he was also taken into the darkness...
Chen Peng looked at the black cloud-like team with satisfaction and drowned the entire Mongolian tribe. Huang Zhi successfully surrounded the escaped Mongolian women and children. As long as they resisted a little, death was waiting for them. But they did not resist, but their eyes were full of fear. Huang Zhi quickly confiscated their weapons, with only a few small knives.
After searching the camp, Huang Wei reported to Chen Pear: "This tribe has no men, the tallest one is not higher than the wheel!"
Chen Pie nodded: "Carry it off and set up camp twenty miles north!"
The battle on Zhang Ping'an's side seemed boring. The Mongolian Tartars basically did not resist and all surrendered! Zhang Ping'an complained to Zhang Li and Hu Ming: "Just just tried the prisoners, and the Tartars said that there were even fewer people in the east. I won't go anymore. It's so boring! You take the extra horses away, and I'll take the rescued people back. You move quickly. Try to come back tomorrow!"
The next afternoon, Chen Piao and the others returned to the camp. Zhang Ping'an heard the scout report and walked out of the camp to welcome him ten miles south. Zhang Ping'an looked out on the hill and saw the scouts patrolling the left and right sides of the army. He nodded with satisfaction. When he saw Chen Piao and their team, Zhang Ping'an felt relieved. The teams that had experienced battles were different. Especially the queues were much stronger than when he set out. Moreover, Zhang Ping'an saw that there were model soldiers and flag bearers from time to time, and immediately formed an array. It seemed that Chen Piao and the others were practicing arrays from time to time during the marching.
Chen Po and the others also saw Zhang Ping'an's Grand Marshal's Flag (this was embroidered by more than a dozen women in the camp in two days). Zhang Ping'an specially asked Long Xiucai to write the Zhang character in seal script. Chen Po, Li Chen, Huang Zhi, and Huang Wei rode to Zhang Ping'an.
When Zhang Ping'an saw that they were still five feet away, he strangled the horse and raised his hand to him. Zhang Ping'an replied and asked him: "Did you have any casualties, brothers?"
Chen Pie replied: "There are no dead brothers, but seven people fell off the horse and injured, none of them were serious! Only two people with broken feet, and the bones were also collected. It would be fine if they were kept for two months!"
Zhang Ping'an smiled and said, "Okay, okay. But you won't have a long rest. When Zhang Li and the others come back, we have to leave! Chen Xiucai is good! Everything is ready. How are the morale of brothers?"
Chen Poe said: "As long as you say you go to the Duoyan tribe, even if you leave today, you probably won't complain! After all, you are going to save their relatives."
Zhang Ping'an said: "That's good! You tell your brothers that you will set off the day after tomorrow. Go and save their relatives! Let's prepare! Let's go back to the camp!"
Zhang Ping'an now has his own central army tent with luxury. A three-meter-high commander's flag stands in front of the tent, and a huge sand table is placed in the tent.
Zhang Ping stood quietly in front of the sand table, closing his eyes and pondering. No one was talking in the tent, and even the woman pouring milk tea in the tent stopped pouring the tea. The personal soldiers outside the tent seemed to feel the unique atmosphere in the tent; he took the initiative to walk out ten more steps and signaled to passers-by.
Zhang Ping'an pondered for a full hour and began to think repeatedly about the sand table. When Zhang Ping'an's eyes were clear, everyone excitedly pricked up their ears and prepared to receive the task; but Zhang Ping'an then shook his head and looked at the sand table again.
Suddenly they saw Zhang Ping'an slap himself. When everyone was still wondering, Zhang Ping'an suddenly slapped the table with great confidence: "I have decided! I'll talk about my plan first. Everyone add it!"
Zhang Ping'an swept his eyes in the big tent and saw everyone looking for war: "We are many people now. I read the statistics of Long Xiucai. We now have more than 7,000 war horses, and our weapons are sufficient. There are nine thousand young and strong men and craftsmen. I decided to be the battle technique of the tiger and the rabbit. Zhang Li brought a full battalion, as the vanguard of the entire army, and set off tonight. Explore the roads for the entire army and ambush the Tartar scouts. If you meet the Mongolian Tartar camp, the small one will be destroyed directly; if you can't eat the big camp, you will be destroyed together with Hu Ming. To strengthen your scout team, Hu
The two hundred scouts of Ming will be given to you one hundred first. Hu Ming, who is full of staff, owes one hundred scouts teams, which is the second wave; he follows Zhang Li, but you still have to set out with Zhang Tong and Yu Guangcai's newly established baggage team. Zhang Tong, Yu Guangcai, you are old brothers, although your qualifications are not as good as them, through these battles, you still have the ability. You must take good care of more than one hundred craftsmen who are accompanying the team, and you have too few veterans. I will ask Xu Yian to bring fifty personal soldiers to help you. You will also select five or six hundred people to train troops in the marching. Here!"
Zhang Ping'an pointed with a small wooden stick: "Li Duoyan's Tartar Camp, camping a hundred miles away, Hu Ming was guarding the camp!"
Zhang Ping'an handed the empty bowl of milk tea to the eldest sister of the Wang family, who quickly filled it with him. Zhang Ping'an drank the hot milk tea and then said to Huang Zhi: "I watched your crossbow soldiers' drill yesterday, which is very good! You must practice quickly! Chen Xiucai told me that all your camp will be equipped with crossbows tomorrow. On the way to go, you must keep practicing, run for five miles, quickly line up, and shoot three arrows in a volley! Your camp will follow me!"
"Chen Pang led Li Chen, Huang Wei's Third Battalion and Fifth Battalion are here, and they are camping in the mountains east of the Duoyan Tatars. I'll think about it again on the road! Let's talk about it when I arrived at Zhang Tong and Yu Guangcai's camp!"
Zhang Ping'an said: "Long Xiucai and Wu Tianxing stayed behind! This time I handed over the remaining 1,500 people of the 2,500 people saved by Zhang Li and the others; you send them all the remaining weapons. Especially Wu Tianxing, don't do it every ten days like the official army; instead, you are full and practice every day! If you can't do it well, you know what the consequences are! Also, let the blacksmith in the camp give us more arrows; the carpenter hits the arrow shaft! This matter will be done by Long Xiucai! If anyone is disobedient, they will be slaughtered directly! Let's camp thirty miles east together!"
Seven days later, Zhang Ping'an convened a combat meeting in the tent of the commander who was built by Zhang Tong and Yu Guangcai, who was called the "Forward Camp" by Zhang Ping'an. All the leaders of the individual battalions were all here.
Zhang Ping'an whispered: "Let's have a meeting!" Everyone in the tent stood up according to the regulations stipulated by Zhang Ping'an.
When Zhang Ping'an saw everyone's serious implementation of the regulations, he nodded happily and said, "Sit down! It's good to know the regulations so quickly. I'm very happy! This time I will praise Zhang Li first! He led the first battalion to complete the mission successfully, breaking 34 Tartar camps along the way; captured nearly 3,000 Mongolian Tartars! Two thousand six hundred horses were seized. It laid a good foundation for our victory in the battle against the Duoyan tribe! Therefore, Zhang Li's first battalion became the first official battalion name: Eagle Camp!"
Zhang Li stood up proudly and excitedly, saluted Zhang Ping'an first, and then looked around to the other commanders. Seeing everyone's envious eyes, Zhang Li raised his head smugly and sat down to listen to Zhang Ping'an's battle arrangements.
Zhang Ping'an continued: "Although Zhang Li arrested most of the Mongolian Tartars, with these old and weak, the Duoyan tribe dared not act rashly against us Ming people! So I said that Zhang Li tribe has made great contributions! I know everyone is very tired, but we don't have time to wait! I have made up my mind!"
"I order!" Zhang Ping'an looked around the tent, saw everyone standing up in one go, and nodding.
"The first eagle battalion of Zhang Li's troops will stop the Tatars from fleeing south!"
"Yes! Grandmaster!"
"Hu Ming's troops, stop the Tartars from fleeing north!"
"Yes! Grandmaster!"
"Chen Pang led Li Chen's troops, and Huang Wei's troops were on the front battlefield; Huang Zhi's troops and my personal military camp were in the middle! Zhang Tong and Yu Guangcai's troops escorted all the Mongolian Tartars, and even those who were sick had to be taken! We set out at the Ming Yin time, do you understand?"
Chapter completed!