The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 392 Battle of Zhangjiawan

At this moment, half of the eight large Fu ships had already raised their sails, and the remaining half were still raising their sails. The entire fleet was in a dangerous situation where it could neither advance nor retreat.

Pei Dahu took a pair of binoculars from Yang Tong and looked towards the east. In the wilderness two miles away from the pier, a large group of bandits appeared, estimated to be more than a thousand people. The elite cavalry of the old camp in front was holding a large banner with the word "Tang" on it, and there were at least a hundred horsemen. The bandits behind were also pushing the captured Kaiyuan field artillery.

"These damn ghosts are still lingering! Lin Yu, you stay on the boat and protect the Queen and the Crown Prince! The rest of you, follow me up and kill them all!"

The soldiers and pacification troops who had just boarded the Fu ship jumped off the sampan one after another. More than 600 Kaiyuan soldiers were holding various weapons. They were all filled with grief and anger. They didn't care about the formation and rushed towards the bandits with red eyes.

"The Heavenly Khan has been kind to Khorchin, and even more so to me. In the 47th year of the Wanli reign, when the Emperor was still the general of Kaiyuan, he treated me like his own sister. Now that the Great Qi is in trouble and the Empress and the Crown Prince are in danger, my clansmen and I naturally cannot stand idly by."

The Khan of Korchin put away his saber which was still dripping with blood, reined in his horse and walked in front of Pei Dahu, staring at the scar on his face.

After not seeing him for many years, the head servant was still murderous, but he was obviously a little older.

"Little sister, you came at the right time,"

Pei Dahu leaned on his goose-feather knife, looked at the dense corpses of the bandits, and gasped for breath.

A hearty battle of revenge. As the saying goes, the army that is in despair will win. From Pei Dahu to Yang Tong, everyone is determined to die. Before they die, they want to avenge Emperor Wu Ding.

After the Khorchin cavalry joined, the elite Mongolian cavalry and the Kaiyuan soldiers fought together, and their combat effectiveness suddenly increased by a century. More than 1,500 bandits could not hold out for half an hour before they began to collapse completely. More than 700 were killed, 100 were captured, and the rest all fled.

Like the Jianzhou Jurchens, the elite Mongolian cavalry under Bumbutai were also equipped with the new weapons distributed to them by Kaiyuan. The bandits that were defeated were the same group that participated in the siege last night, and their leader was Li Ziming.

The bandits had about 10,000 troops entrenched in the area around Tianjin, and the explosion had limited impact on them. However, after learning of the death of Emperor Zhenbao, Li Ziming became furious.

After killing Yuan Keli, he was still not satisfied. When he heard that Liu Zhaosun's wife and children were trying to escape from Zhangjiagang, he did not bother to gather a large group of troops and led the vanguard to chase them.

Li Ziming originally wanted to wipe out this group of desperate government troops and capture Jin Yuji and Liu Kan alive, but he did not expect that the Mongols would suddenly stab him in the back.

Not only Li Ziming, Kang Yingqian also did not expect Bumbutai to appear in Zhangjiagang at this time.

In fact, the north had already been corrupted by then.

After a series of events including Zhang Chun's rebellion, the bandits' eastern expedition, and the Wanggongchang explosion, Man Gui was killed in battle, and his elite troops were lost at the gates of the capital. The entire Jizhou defense line became riddled with holes. If it were not for Bumbutai's efforts to maintain it in the north, the Mongolian tribes would have invaded the capital long ago.

Lin Yu brought Wei Zhao down from the Fu ship to help Yang Tong and the others clean up the battlefield. Next to Wei Zhao followed a younger brother recruited from Shaanxi. He was a dark-skinned boy, as taciturn as Lin Yu. Lin Yu didn't know his name was Li Zicheng.

Bumbutai and Kang Yingqian were whispering something when the big man Lin took two steps at a time, striding over the corpses on the ground, and came in front of the two of them, interrupting them:

"Khorchin Khan, how is my brother Wu Xiao?"

(End of this chapter)