Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 967 Transporting the Heroes

Pingzhang Mansion is in the Yazhong.

After hearing the messenger's report, Dalima felt completely bad. No longer as calm as before, he lost his voice and asked: "Who did it? Duan or Yang Ju?!"

"No, it's the Ming army!" the messenger said timidly.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Erdun roared after hearing this: "Even if the Ming army has passed Puding, there is still Pu'an Village, and Luoshan City is ahead. Did they fly over with wings?"

"They disguised themselves as broken troops, bypassed Pu'an Village and Luoshan City, sneaked into Shengjing Pass, and launched a shameless sneak attack while the defenders were not paying attention! The defender, Ah Rixi, and the following were all killed in the battle!" the messenger reported.

"What?!" Darima's head was buzzing, and she suppressed the feeling of spinning and asked him: "Where did the rout come from?"

"They are under Marshal Yaozhu. They were severely damaged in Puding and had no choice but to retreat." The messenger replied.

"Then why didn't you retreat into Pu'an Village and Luoshan City? Why did you flee back to Shengjing Pass?!" Erdun asked loudly.

"Because the Pu'an and Luoshan tribes defected before the battle, he did not dare to go to Pu'an Village and Luoshan City." The messenger replied bravely.

"Damn it! The four lines of defense that Pingzhang had carefully built for twenty years were all destroyed by him..." Erdun said incompetently and furiously: "What the Ming army couldn't accomplish without the death of 100,000 people, let him do it alone." Done!"

"..." Although Dalima did not say a word, the blow he received was not light at all.

As Erden said, since he took office, he has focused on building a peripheral defense line. Huge sums of money were spent to build this fort, a village and a city, just to take advantage of the geographical advantages and natural dangers to block the Ming army from Yunnan and make them frustrated. It plays the role of a soldier who can subdue others without fighting.

Dalima was also very satisfied with these three peripheral lines of defense and believed that 'even if the Ming army used the whole country to attack, it would have to use 200,000 troops, cost tens of millions, and last two years! If there are enough food and soldiers, the destruction of the city will be out of reach. ’

Precisely because he was confident in one fort, one village and one city, he only stationed five thousand soldiers and horses at Shengjing Pass. Just like the wooden doors in the security doors of later generations, few people lock them, so there is no need.

The result is now telling him that the three outer lines of defense have been lost in succession... Who else can withstand it? Anyone with high blood pressure will directly suffer from cerebral hemorrhage.

Although Darima did not have a cerebral hemorrhage, she could not recover for a long time.

He sat there until dark, then asked in a hoarse voice: "How many troops does the Ming army have?"

"I don't know." The messenger shook his head.

"Who is the leader of the team?" Darima had no choice but to ask again.

The messenger still didn't know.

"Where is Biting Zhu? Is he back..." Darima asked irritably.

"Oh, Marshal Yaizhu and his son are missing. Only Deputy Marshal Huo Chi came back with thousands of remnants. He also brought the news." The messenger hurriedly replied.

"Humph, I ran away in fear. I'll be dead if I come back." Erden spat.

"If we find him and cut his father and son into pieces, it will be difficult to understand the hatred in my heart!" Darima said through gritted teeth.

"Yes!" Erden responded loudly. Mongolia respects the right, and he, the marshal on the left, finally has the opportunity to take charge.

"Also, I'm ordering all armies to cancel their operations tomorrow and stay put for the time being." Darima said again dejectedly.

"Ah?" Erden asked in surprise: "Why don't we take back the defense line? At least we have to take back Shengjingguan, otherwise we won't be able to sleep well." "I will give you 10,000 soldiers and horses, you go and seize it." Rima glanced at him.

"How can that small amount of troops be enough?" Erdun immediately stopped: "The natural danger of Shengjing Pass is that one man can't open it without ten thousand men. An army of 50,000 is simply not enough."

"You also know that it's a natural hazard, so why are you yelling about it?" Darima said feebly: "Since it has been taken away by others, it is their natural hazard. If we take it forcefully, the loss will be too great."

As he spoke, he closed his eyes in pain and said: "Let's let the army set up defenses on the Bailong River to prevent the Ming army from crossing the river. This way, at least we can have a favorable location."

"..." Erden said in his heart that the geographical advantages of Bailongjiang are too average. Not to mention compared with Shengjingguan, even with the forts, villages and cities, they are far incomparable.

But Pingzhang is right. If you go to Shengjing Pass at this time, the opponent will have the advantage, and it is an absolute advantage. Therefore, it is more appropriate to set the battlefield in Bailongjiang.

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Dalima had no intention of attacking Shengjing Pass, but the Ming army over there would not be polite.

Two days later, Xuande Hou Jin Chaoxing led an army of 20,000 people and arrived at Shengjing Pass.

The other 10,000 troops were divided into two sections by him, one stationed in Pu'an Village and the other stationed in Luoshan City.

Coupled with Puding Fort, the fortress built by the Yuan army at a huge cost became an invincible fortress for the Ming army to protect its logistics line.

All of a sudden, the difficulty of maintaining the army's supply line suddenly dropped by several levels.

Another unexpected surprise was that the Ming army discovered in Shengjingguan Panku that there were actually fifty thousand shi of grain stored in the Guancheng grain depot!

Enough to feed an army of 100,000 for a month!

And this is 50,000 shi of grain in Yunnan. If it was transported from Huguang to here, people would eat horses' chews along the way and float without any loss. At least 100,000 shi would have to be prepared to transport the 50,000 shi.

It is not difficult to understand why when Marquis Xuande met Marquis Xiping, he repeatedly praised him as the most wise general in the Ming Dynasty and the most blessed general in the Ming Dynasty.

I have to admit that Xiping Hou's trick to outwit the border requires a bit of luck to succeed. If you are a bit unlucky, your success will be on the verge of failure or even the entire army will be wiped out.

After all, no one could foresee that the defeated troops who fled into Shengjing Pass would flee as soon as they heard that the Dongguan City Gate was breached, and would also take the three thousand defenders in the city with them...

As long as Biting Pillar pays a little more attention and gathers and reorganizes the defeated troops, their performance will not be so fragmented.

However, Yaozhu no longer wanted to worry about this. He knew that after meeting Darima, he would definitely die, and his death would be ugly.

So when he heard Ah Rixi say that Dalima had led a large army and would arrive at Shengjing Pass in the near future, Yaizhu had the idea of ​​​​escape.

As soon as it got dark, he sent a team of soldiers to Qujing on the pretext of delivering a message to Pingzhang. He and his son mingled with the team, left Shengjing Pass, and fled.

When the Ming army attacks, the soldiers can't find their commander, so how can they still be eager to fight? Of course, they have to flee...

Biting Zhu's escape was also unpredictable. So how can we say that there was no luck involved in the success of this surprise attack?

What if he didn't escape, but brought his men to rescue Dongguan City. Judging from the situation at that time, it is likely that the Ming army will be unable to withstand it...

But there are no ifs in this world, it’s always about the results.

Of course, luck is also a part of strength. Since ancient times, who has been able to achieve great things, who is not a person who is full of luck and seems to have divine help?

That’s why there’s the saying, ‘When times come, heaven and earth are all united, but heroes are not free when they are gone’…

(End of this chapter)