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Guo Yingxian, a veteran of the Xuan Mansion, broke through the blockade of the Tartars, and was about to charge up to the high ground, suddenly dozens of arrows shot towards him, only thirty steps away, there was no way to dodge.

After all, Guo Yingxian was a battle-hardened veteran, and when there was no way to avoid it, he instantly raised his left hand and used the cavalry side plate on his arm to protect his head, and held a tiger gun in his right hand and dialed in front of him.

In this way, although several arrows were pushed away by the tiger gun, twelve or thirteen arrows should have all shot at his body, and the sound of "crackling" continued for a while.

Staring at the incoming arrows, Guo Yingxian's speed did not slow down at all, even the cavalry of the Xuanfu Army who followed behind him were all like this, and they fought with the last Tartars on the high ground with less than fifty horsemen in an instant.

Although the cavalry soldiers of the Ming Army in Xuanfu Town chased all the way, they didn't get a moment's rest, but at this moment, they were full of enthusiasm, and all of them were like wolves and tigers, and they had long forgotten life and death.

They followed the veteran Guo Yingxian all the way, and they all had the belief in their hearts to "kill the Tartars and avenge Yang Zhenshuai!" in their hearts.

As ordinary soldiers, they don't have any lofty beliefs. All they think about is "revenge", revenge for the veteran master Yang Guozhu, and revenge for those former comrades who died at the hands of the Tartars. Revenge of loved ones in the hands.

Of course, Zhang Cheng promised that if he had military merits, he would be rewarded immediately. Although Yang Guozhu treated his subordinates well, but limited by his personal financial resources, he always seemed unsatisfactory.

Moreover, Yang Guozhu himself is quite disciplined, he almost never does anything beyond his authority, even if there are a lot of military equipment, money and food in the town treasury, he only takes his own share, and has never had any other delusions.

Perhaps it was because the Ming court used culture to control military forces in recent years, and Yang Guozhu was even a little cautious in suppressing the generals in command. He usually guarded one side with a degree in everything and never did anything excessive.

It's like Zhang Cheng, who is almost omnipotent in the local area. He gathers the money, food and financial resources of the entire Xuanbei area in one place for him to open up canals, recruit brave soldiers, and build armaments. Only in this way can he go all the way to where he is today. like heaven and earth.

Therefore, these cavalrymen of the original Zhenbiao Battalion of Xuanfu are not envious. Apart from their belief in revenge, they have the strongest desire to be rewarded for their meritorious service.

Of course, in the Ming army, Zhang Cheng has long since given up the practice of recording meritorious service based on the rank of the leader. Now he is implementing a brand-new assessment mechanism here, and no longer counts meritorious deeds based on the rank of the leader.

However, the Ming court still places great emphasis on heads, so Zhang Cheng also requires that after each battle, the enemy's heads, banners, armor, golden drums, etc. should be collected, so that the whole army can claim credit.

Now on Zhang Cheng's side, the collective meritorious service system is implemented, that is, he will issue clear military orders to each battalion and general, and the execution of military orders is the top priority, and the town governors at all levels will follow the implementation of military orders. Merits and demerits will be assessed.

First, the merits and demerits are assessed based on whether the military orders are executed well or badly, and finally, the merits of the following divisions, teams, and individuals with outstanding performance are assessed.

From the beginning to the end, the enemy's head is not important, it is only used as an auxiliary for the internal merits of Xuanzhen. On the contrary, capturing and taking prisoners are much more important than beheading the head.

Therefore, the knights rode their horses and followed Guo Yingxian all the way to the high ground, never being delayed by the enemy's fall, just because they no longer had to rush to cut off the enemy's head.

If this battle is won, it will be the achievement of breaking the formation in the first battle, and this is a great achievement!
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Jialazhangjing Ermuqi originally thought that after the Ming army was divided and surrounded, there would be chaos, but everything was different from what he expected. Instead of seeing chaos, the Ming army quickly gathered together and rushed straight to where he was. .

Seeing that Niu Lu, the only one left beside him, also rushed down, but he couldn't stop the cavalry of the Ming army from rushing forward. They were like evil spirits who came out of hell, all of them were covered with colorful blood, like a madman riding a horse. Come.

"Fire the arrows...quickly shoot the arrows...shoot these stupid smart dogs to death!"

E Muqi shouted loudly, and at the same time took out his long machete and clenched it tightly in his hand, and was also ready to fight.

At this time, there were only 37 Tartar soldiers guarding his body, and the rest were fighting with the Ming army in Pingchuan below, completely unable to take this side into account.

The distance of a little more than thirty steps only allowed them to shoot a wave of arrows. Seeing that the leading general who rushed forward was like a hedgehog, with dozens of arrows stuck all over his body, he still seemed to be unaware of it. Straight up.

A chill also rose from the bottom of E Muqi's heart, his eyes were full of disbelief: "Minggou, when did he become so fierce and fearless of death?"

Er Muqi had already felt the murderous aura rushing towards the Ming army, but he didn't dare to show the slightest timidity in front of all the Tartar soldiers under his command.

He raised his long machete and shouted loudly: "Kill, kill all Nikan!"

"kill……"

The less than forty Tartars shouted together, and rode their horses towards the approaching Ming cavalry formation. They were all Qing warriors who stood up to ten, so Jialazhangjing Emuqi stayed by his side to protect them. .

At this moment, they also knew that it was time to fight for their lives, and they all roared and screamed and ran down the high ground. A row of long spears and knives were erected in front of the horses. The same thing as before, the Tartars still did not forget to throw a pole. Javelins, throwing axes, etc.

But there was only one javelin coming towards Guo Yingxian, and he easily blocked it with a swing of the spear. The horses of the two sides staggered, and the fight became one. In the shadow of swords and guns, knights turned over and fell off their horses one by one.

Whether it is the soldiers of the Ming army or the soldiers of the Tartars, they are all trying their best to fight together desperately. The Ming army wins because of the large number of people, but the Tartars have sufficient strength, and their horses are stronger than the Ming army. Too much.

But after all, two fists are hard to beat with four hands, no matter how powerful they are, they only have two legs and two arms after all, so how can 38 Tazi soldiers be opponents of more than [-] Ming cavalry.

After only two or three rounds of fighting, the defeat of the Tazi soldiers was settled. However, none of them turned around and ran away. They let out bursts of roars, as if they were asking for help from their own knights who were intercepting and killing the Ming army.

However, with the battlefield so far, almost every inch of land is filled with soldiers from both sides fighting each other. Even if you just kill the enemy on the opposite side, another enemy will rush from nowhere.

It's not just about riding horses to fight, but now there is no distinction between horses and horses, there are soldiers from both sides everywhere, many of them even embrace each other, and they all died together.

When they were dying, they still maintained the movements of biting each other, picking their noses and digging their eyes, which shows the intensity of the battle. Many soldiers from both sides embraced each other's horses after they fell from their horses, and stepped directly into a pile of wreckage .

This area of ​​Pingchuan, which is several miles around, is like hell at this moment, the ground is bright red, and the remains of soldiers from both sides are everywhere.

There are also many unowned war horses running around, and from time to time, they find the body of their masters on the ground, licking them non-stop, as if they want to wake up their former masters.

The fighting on the high ground was coming to an end. Although the whole area of ​​Pingchuan seemed to be dominated by the Tartars, on this high ground, the Ming army had the upper hand. Over a hundred elite Ming cavalry surrounded the only three remaining Tartars. It can be killed at any time.

Guo Yingxian didn't seem to have the patience to play with them, he rode his horse like a hill, raised the tiger spear in his hand obliquely, and shouted in a deep voice: "Kill!"

More than a dozen soldiers of the Ming army rode their horses and galloped up. In a split second, the Tartar Jia Lazhangjing and the last two Tartar soldiers fell off their horses without a sound.

But Guo Yingxian didn't dare to rest here, after all his subordinates were still fighting the Tartars desperately, and just as they were about to lead the army to charge down the high ground, they saw a group of cavalry rushing towards them, billowing smoke and dust.

Taking a closer look, the cavalrymen who charged were not a group, but rushed all over the mountains and plains. They were all dressed in red armor, wearing bright red cloaks and cloaks, and bright red flags were flying in the wind.

"Boys, Marshal Zhang's reinforcements are here."

Hearing Guo Yingxian's roar, all the knights on the high ground looked up, all excited, and roared loudly.

Guo Yingxian was also very excited. Although he killed Jialazhangjing of the Tartars, his side was still at a serious disadvantage on the battlefield.

After all, they were separated by thousands of Tartars from the very beginning. The first battle was unfavorable, and it was not easy before the whole army collapsed. Looking at the situation on the battlefield now, it is obvious that our side suffered heavy casualties.

If they continue to fight, there will be more disasters than good luck!
However, he is not afraid now, because his own reinforcements have already arrived, and the distance of more than [-] steps can be approached within a few minutes. Guo Yingxian, thinking of this place, swung his tiger spear vigorously and shouted: "Kill, kill, kill the shameless tartar!" !"

"Kill...kill the Tartars..."

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After receiving the news that the Tatars had captured Bijia Mountain, Ma Shaoyu, Zan Hua, the army aiding the Liao Dynasty, and the head of the Ministry of War, hurriedly ordered the fishermen to row their boats into the sea and stay away from the small Bijia Mountain Island.

At the same time, he even ordered the sentry in the watchtower on Xiaobijia Mountain to send an order to the guard of Bijia Mountain, Du Si Huang Jingong, asking him to burn the grain stored on Bijia Mountain immediately, and not leave a single grain for the Tartars.

After arranging all this, Ma Shaoyu still couldn't calm down. He also knew that there was a stockpile of grain here, but Daming tried his best to collect it from all over the place, and spent all his efforts to transport it here.

Now, if it was really burned, how would he, Ma Shaoyu, explain to the court and the emperor?
But if he didn't raise fire to burn the food, if such a large amount of food and grass fell into the hands of the thieves, he, Ma Shaoyu, would be even more dead than redeemed!

At that time, he not only lost the crime of hoarding grain, but also added a major crime of hoarding grain to the enemy.

If this is the case, even if the hundreds of officials and the emperor can not care about him, the governor of Jiliao Hong Chengchou and the governor Qiu Minyang who are in Songshan will not be able to spare him.

The lesser of two evils!
Ma Shaoyu gritted his teeth and became ruthless, and simply refused to do anything else, it would be better to just burn him to the ground, instead, he would be clean.

Moreover, he had already thought about how to report to the court, that is, to attribute all the responsibility to Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao.

Of course, Liu Zhaoji, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, was sitting in Gaoqiao, close at hand, but failed to rescue him.

As the commander-in-chief of an army, it cannot be said that he didn't know the importance of Bijia Mountain, but he was so negligent that the army's grain storage area was taken advantage of by the Tartars.

As the fishing boat rowed in the sea, Bijiashan Island gradually came into Ma Shaoyu's field of vision, and he seemed very anxious looking there.

In fact, he was also unwilling in his heart, but there was no way out of everything.

Now he still doesn't know that Zhang Cheng has led the army back to help. All Ma Shaoyu knows is that Liu Zhaoji, the general soldier of Liaodong, led his army to rescue Bijia Mountain, trying to stop the Tartars on the way, but was defeated by the Tartars .

But to this day, there is still no reinforcements coming from Gaoqiao, Tashan and other places, although Wu Sangui, the commander of Ningyuan, had also deployed guards along the way according to Hong Duchen's order.

But they are usually good at charging, and on the real battlefield, how can they be the opponents of the Tartars' elite cavalry?

It was based on his judgment of the entire battlefield situation that Ma Shaoyu firmly believed that there was no possibility of holding on to Bijia Mountain. Once the Tartars came to the opposite coast, they could attack Bijia Mountain at any time.

This judgment is also an important fundamental reason why he made up his mind to burn the food and grass to avoid capitalizing on the enemy.

Looking at the surprisingly peaceful Bijia Mountain, Ma Shaoyu was also full of suspicion, and couldn't help muttering in his heart: "Why hasn't the fire started yet?"

He is now floating in the sea and refuses to leave, the only thing he needs to do is to see Bijia Mountain stockpile of grain completely ignited and burned down, otherwise, he will not be able to write this memorial to the imperial court.

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There used to be more than [-] guards on Bijia Mountain, but the entire island has a wide area, and the food stockpiles are also stored in three different mountains of different heights according to local conditions.

In this way, the convenience of storing grain everywhere needs to be guarded. After all, in order to transport the grain and grass up the mountain from the sea, there are still a large number of civilians living on the island.

Although they are all from local military households in Liaodong, it is hard to say in Liaodong today that no one must have colluded with the Tartars. Even if this ratio is more common among high-level generals, there is no guarantee. There must be none of these military households.

After all, the food storage here is related to the life and death of the entire Liao army, and I dare not be careless, so the defenders on the island are actually guarding against these civilians to a large extent.

In their view, the defense outside the island is the responsibility of the defenders in the fortresses of Songshan, Xingshan, Gaoqiao, and Tashan, not their responsibility.

But even so, several stone walls were still built at the end of the overpass. After all, apart from the 500 officers and soldiers on the island, apart from four to five hundred guarding the granaries, there are still half of them stationed at the end of the overpass. A section of Pingchuan Valley.

Behind about six or seven stone walls is the camp of the defenders. After all, the island is very windy, even in this section of Pingchuan valley, so most of them live in stone houses instead of military tents.

Now, the two stone walls in front have been breached by the Tartars, but the guards only attacked the slaves with guns from behind the stone walls, so the damage was not serious. However, seeing the Tartars attack more and more fiercely, Bijia Mountain seems to be unable to defend .

When Du Si Huang Jingong was in a hurry, an armor chief beside him suddenly stabbed him, and said: "Huang Du Si, look over there is the signal of Ma Zanhua!"