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Chapter 263 The key to success or failure
(PS: I received the news today that the electricity will be shut down for another day tomorrow, but friends, please rest assured that the pure wolf has fully charged the battery. So, what, friends...?)

In fact, as early as the moment when the slave slaughter army led by Young Master Zhang suddenly came out from the upper bank of the Liuzhou River, the main force of the slave building was already doomed to suffer huge losses in this battle of crossing the river. On the north bank of the north bank, almost no Jiannu army has the ability to resist even a little bit of a surprise attack by a dog. A member of the main force of the slave army, thousands of Jiannu elite soldiers who were seriously injured in the Shanhaiguan battle, and if there is anything else, it is as high as a hill, which is extremely precious to Jiannu—— Faced with such a situation, not to mention the thousand slave-slaughter troops who were armed to the teeth, even if Xiong Tingbi was eliminated from Shanhaiguan's army by a thousand old soldiers, he could easily put Jian Nu in the six states of Hebei. Shore's team is wiped out!
For the entire main force of the slave establishment, the sneak attack on the wounded soldiers and the transport team was only the first blow. The second blow was that the plan of the slave crossing campaign was completely disrupted by the young dog. In order to rescue the wounded soldiers, they had to If the plan of crossing the river is not temporarily adjusted, the main force will inevitably be in chaos, and the main force of the Ming army, which has been watching the tigers on the south bank of the Liuzhou River, has seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to charge from the front. The situation of the army is really miserable!On the front, the main force of the Ming army led by Xiong Tingbi charged and squeezed desperately. Behind, the slave slaughter army led by Young Master Zhang slaughtered the wounded Jiannu soldiers and burned and destroyed the food and supplies of Jiannu—as we all know, the population is thin And the scarcity of food and grass has always been the two major weaknesses of Jiannu. The young master Zhang, who is so wicked that black smoke is coming out of his ancestral grave, has chosen to slash his knife on these two weaknesses of Jiannu. .Moreover, even at the waist of the pontoon bridge on the battlefield, the Ming army's fire raft team and musketeer team attacked from both sides. The main force of slavery who tried to cross the river to rescue them also suffered heavy losses and were also helpless.

The battle has come to this point, if Jiannu can calm down quickly, the strong men cut off their wrists, make up their minds to abandon the wounded soldiers and luggage on the north bank, ignore the Gou Shao slaughtered slave army on the north bank of the Liuzhou River, and take the initiative to destroy the floating bridge and fight against the main force of the Ming army, then Relying on Jiannu's powerful field combat ability, it is not difficult to repel the main force of the Ming army and reduce losses; Wan Jiannu's new force went south for reinforcements, and easily repelled the lonely young master Zhang's slaughtering slave army, and it would not be too late to meet the main force of Jiannu to cross the river.But the problem is that Dai Shan and Huang Taiji and other generals who built slaves have not yet recovered from the chaos and took correct measures. Young Master Zhang, who is best at analyzing the enemy's psychology, had already expected this before the battle, and deliberately commanded the soldiers of the slave slaughter army The brutal massacre and torture of the Jiannu wounded soldiers was used to stimulate the Jiannu generals, so that they had no time to think about other issues. They only wanted to cross the river to rescue the wounded soldiers of their own army, so naturally they couldn't make correct adjustments.

"Come on, come on, dog Jiannu, I'm waiting for you here!" In order to anger the Jiannu generals, Young Master Zhang took the lead in frantically torturing the Jiannu wounded soldiers from the very beginning, letting his own soldiers catch them one by one The Jiannu wounded soldier personally carried a knife or cut off the hands and feet of the Jiannu wounded soldier one by one, and let the Jiannu wounded soldier without limbs cry and roll by the river bank, moaning for help; The soldiers cut open their stomachs, pulled out their steaming intestines, and waved provocations. The Jiannu soldiers could not die for a while, but could only roll and cry on the river bank covered in blood, crying for help, "Help! Help! Master, Lord Belle, save us——!"

"Master, help!" More cries for help came, and the soldiers of the slave slaughtering army deliberately gathered several wounded slave soldiers who had their legs cut off, sprinkled food, poured kerosene and set them on fire. The Jiannu wounded soldiers cried out in desperation, struggling to climb out of the sea of ​​flames, but their hands were cut off by the soldiers of the slave slaughtering army, their upper body struggled outside the fire, and their lower body burned in the sea of ​​flames, screaming and wailing for ten miles can be heard.Young Master Zhang laughed wildly beside the fire, "Dog Jiannu! This is your retribution! Just burning you to death like this is already taking advantage of you! You have done ghosts, but remember to say a fair word in front of Lord Hades, Lao Tzu It's showing mercy!"

As Young Master Zhang expected, seeing his precious soldiers being slaughtered and tortured by Young Master Zhang in this way, and hearing the wailing and crying of his wounded soldiers screaming for help in the fire sea butcher knife, the slave generals including Huang Taiji and Dai Shan And all the soldiers who built slaves were completely crazy. Regardless of the powerful firepower of the slave army's rifled muskets, which were dense enough to tear the enemy into pieces, they kept on commanding the army to cross the river for rescue, but they were killed by the slave soldiers on the narrow pontoon bridge. The powerful firepower was like the wanton slaughter of pigs and sheep. The corpses on the pontoon bridge were piled up to a thickness of more than half a foot, and the corpses on the river surface were floating densely, like fish passing by. ten miles away.Coupled with the fact that the main force of the Ming army charged and squeezed frantically on the south bank, the Jiannu soldiers whose morale had collapsed retreated one after another and crowded beside the south bank of the Liuzhou River. The biting river tumbling for help brought a lot of bleak scenes to the Liuzhou River, which was already full of slave soldiers.

After the war, one of the things that Young Master Zhang regretted the most was that when the Battle of Liuzhou River started, he had only a thousand slave-slaughter soldiers by his side, so he gave Jiannu a chance. Otherwise, if Young Master Zhang’s slave-slayer army was full If the manpower is full and the ammunition is sufficient, then Young Master Zhang is absolutely confident that he will be able to wipe out the main force of the slave establishment in the battle of Liuzhou River!The generals who built slaves, including Daishan and Huang Taiji, don't even think about escaping the clutches of Young Master Zhang!
The brutal massacre lasted for more than four hours. None of the more than 6000 Jiannu and wounded soldiers on the north bank of the Liuzhou River were spared. They were able to flee for their lives in all directions, and all the food, grass, and equipment were burned. Although the soldiers of the thousand slave-slaughter army of Young Master Zhang did not suffer much loss, their ammunition was almost wiped out. The Liuzhou River, which was full and wide, was almost blocked by the corpses of slave soldiers!Seeing that the time had come, Young Master Zhang decisively ordered the army to be assembled, mounted his horses and ran away, and retreated on the way to and fro—it was impossible to run any longer, and when Yuetuo's [-] Jiannu new force came to reinforce, Xiong Tingbi's main force would not be able to cross the river For reinforcements, Young Master Zhang's thousands of troops were about to be dumped by Yuetuo's new force, so Young Master Zhang wisely chose to retreat immediately, and asked the old man to lead the main force of the Ming army to trouble Jiannu's army crossing the river.

Without Young Master Zhang's firearms blocking the river, the river was almost blocked by the corpses of his own soldiers. The main force of slavery crowded on the south bank of the Liuzhou River found the flood outlet at once. Although Dai Shan and Huang Taiji tried their best to restrain the soldiers, or the slave slaughter army chasing Young Master Zhang, they were helplessly panicked. The order of retreat previously set was already in chaos. Every soldier who built slaves was scrambling to cross the river to escape, crowded , trampled on each other, and the main force of the Ming army behind was rushing desperately with blood red eyes, which directly accelerated the collapse of the main force of the slave building. In the end, Huang Taiji and Daishan had no choice but to step on their The corpses of the army soldiers blocked the river, and ran to the north bank to regroup and restrain the defeated soldiers.The main force of the Ming army desperately drove the defeated Jiannu soldiers across the river, hacked and killed the Jiannu soldiers who had no time to escape. The cries of the Jiannu soldiers on both sides of the Liuzhou River and the cheers of the Ming army's victory shook the mountains and reached the sky.

When it was completely dark, the [-] Jiannu led by Yue Tuo finally rushed to the battlefield for reinforcements and stabilized the defeat of the Jiannu. The main force of the Ming army also gave up the pursuit and retreated to the rear to regroup. Of the [-] Jiannu troops that participated in the war, less than half of them were able to finally escape, and all the food, grass, and supplies were burned. It will be a more difficult situation.Faced with such a huge loss, the Jiannu regent Baylor Daishan cried out loudly, "Zhang Haogu, little mad dog!", vomited blood, passed out on the spot, and was rescued by Jiannu generals After waking up, Daishan's first words were, "Zhang Haogu, you little mad dog! You and I are inseparable from each other! Send the order, the whole army will hunt down Zhang Haogu, the little savage, and he must be captured alive and brought back to me. Cut him into pieces with your own hands!"

"Second brother, it's too late." Huang Taiji cried and said, "I have already sent troops to hunt down Zhang Haogu's little barbarian, but that little barbarian is too cunning and escaped too fast. When we find him, His mad dog army has already crossed the Liuzhou River from the Gaotaibao Ferry, and burned the bridge, so that we can never catch up again!"

"Ah—!" Daishan screamed again, crying bitterly: "I can't kill that mad dog. I won't withdraw my troops. I can't go back and explain to my father! Eighth, you send someone to Xiong Tingbi The old barbarian is going to fight, I want to fight him here, either Zhang Haogu, the little man, will die, or I will die! I will die with him--!" Crying, Daishan jumped up again, determined to ride Get on the horse and go to Young Master Zhang to challenge him one-on-one, and fight to the death with Young Master Zhang!

"Second brother, calm down!" Huang Taiji hugged Daishan from behind, crying and said: "Second brother, our food and grass have been burned by Zhang Haogu, and Yue Tuo's food and grass are only enough at most. We have spent fifteen days, and we have already lost, and we can no longer fight! If we continue to fight, our 2-strong army and Yuetuo's [-]-strong army will no longer be able to withdraw back to Liaodong——!" However, Huang Taiji couldn't suppress the pain in his heart, his feet went limp, and he fell to the ground with Daishan in his arms. The two brothers cried in each other's arms, and the other Jiannu generals also cried bitterly, with tears in their eyes.

To put it bluntly, Huang Taiji finally dispelled Dai Shan's idea of ​​going to Young Master Zhang for a one-on-one duel. After calming down, Dai Shan looked around at the generals and found that there was another brother missing. He hurriedly asked, "Where is the seventh brother? Not here? Could it be that he...?"

"The seventh brother personally led the charge to rescue our wounded soldiers, but was hit by Zhang Haogu's little mad dog's musket..." Mang Gurtai replied, wiping his tears: "Fall into the river, we even killed him. None of his remains have been rescued." Before he finished speaking, Daishan cried out again, "Seventh—!" He burst into tears again.Huang Taiji, Babuhai and other Nuerhachi princes couldn't help but burst into tears, and wept bitterly again.So far, among the sixteen sons of the old Jiannu Nuerhachi, six have died directly in the hands of Young Master Zhang, and one of them committed suicide indirectly because of Young Master Zhang...

After finally persuading Daishan's tears again, Huang Taiji was afraid that Daishan would cry again and shake the morale of the army, so he quickly changed the subject and said: "Second brother, our situation is very critical now, and the barbarian's navy is rushing to the battlefield day and night , ready to stop us, but our [-] army has only half left, and the food and grass are only enough to last for half a month. There are still the main force of the barbarians chasing us, and they may encircle us at any time. If the barbarians succeed this time, the rest of us An army of [-] is probably even more dangerous." Speaking of this, Huang Taiji added in his heart, "If the barbarians are really allowed to succeed again, I'm afraid we are extremely lucky to be able to escape back to [-] of our [-] troops."

"Then what should we do?" Daishan asked, wiping away tears.Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and replied: "The only thing we have to do is to be prepared. One is to send fast horses day and night to ask Father Khan for help, and ask Father Khan to issue a final call-up order to recruit our last reserve team to come to meet us; the second is to speed up the withdrawal. , Before the Manzi Navy arrives at the blocking battlefield, withdraw to Liaodong to avoid being encircled by the Manzi."

"Uncle Ba, are we still too late?" Yue Tuo, the eldest son of Daishan who respects Huang Taiji very much, questioned: "If we ask grandfather for help, no matter how fast we are, the time it takes to go back and forth plus the time to call up the reserve army , Grandpa’s reinforcements will take at least 25 days to reach Jinzhou. Is this in time? Also, the main army of the barbarians is still biting our tails behind us. Will the barbarian navy withdraw from the encirclement before the encirclement?"

Huang Taiji, who has always been resourceful, could no longer answer his nephew's question this time. He gritted his teeth and pondered for a long time. Suddenly, Huang Taiji sighed and said slowly: "Yue Tuo, you are right, we are running out of time, but we still have time. There is a danger, but there is also an opportunity, and there is still an army that can determine the success or failure of this battle! If they fall to us, then we can hope to withdraw to Liaodong smoothly and keep our last main force of [-]! But if they fall Xiang Manzi, then our last [-] main force will all die without a place to die!"

"Ningyuan Army?!" Yue Tuo was the first to react.Dai Shan then came to his senses and exclaimed, "Yes, if those idiots in Ning Yuan follow the orders of the old savage Xiong Tingbi and send troops to stop us, then we will die!"

"But if they help us, then we don't have to worry about being surrounded by barbarians." Huang Taiji said darkly: "I'll bet my head that Zhang Haogu's little mad dog must also understand the success or failure of this battle." The point is that he doesn't have much power in his hand, and he can't suppress Ningyuan's army. So he must be racking his brains, trying to find ways to get Ningyuan's army to use for him, at least let Ningyuan's army remain neutral - because even if only Ningyuan's army Keep a neutral attitude, and he can calmly encircle and injure us!"

Speaking of this, Huang Taiji concluded firmly: "So this time our breakout battle and the barbarian's encirclement battle, the key is who can win the support of Ningyuan's army! Ningyuan's army will help the barbarian, then we will be wiped out! Ningyuan If the army helps us, the barbarian army will have to waste all its previous efforts, and it will no longer be able to annihilate our last [-] main force!"

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The key to understanding this is not Huang Taiji and Young Master Zhang. Xiong Tingbi, who has also experienced many battles, also understands this truth. Write a letter to Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, asking Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, to abandon the previous suspicions for the sake of the righteousness of the family and the country, send troops to stop the defeated army of Jiannu, and annihilate the last main force of Jiannu. Base!Just when Xiong Tingbi had just finished writing this letter, the exhausted Young Master Zhang rushed into Xiong Tingbi's Chinese army tent with a smile all over his body and face.

"My son-in-law, Zhang Haogu, pay homage to my father-in-law." Young master Zhang smiled and knelt down on his knees, kowtowed and said: "My son-in-law congratulates my father-in-law, and congratulates my father-in-law. Hit the crowd, smash the Jiannu! There are many Jiannu casualties, and the Liuzhou River has been cut off. This battle is enough to be recorded in the annals of history, and the achievements of the father-in-law will last forever!"

Xiong Tingbi wanted to chop people with a knife, but after the battle, Xiong Tingbi, who personally went into battle to kill the enemy, was too tired to even raise his arms. I know that scolding is useless.Gritting his teeth for a long time, Xiong Tingbi sighed, and said to Young Master Zhang with a rare kindness: "Zhongzheng, it's not my father-in-law who said you, and my father-in-law also knows that you are doing it for the sake of Daming and the billions of people in Daming, but you killed too much. It’s too much, if you go on like this, be careful that you will be punished by God in the future! Does Bai Qi, Lord Wu An know? In the first battle between Qin and Zhao, he murdered 40 Zhao soldiers for the sake of Qin, but when he was finally forced to commit suicide , Aren’t you shouting out the words of repentance that the sky wants to kill me?”

"Mr. Wu'an killed Han people, so of course he will be punished by heaven—but my son-in-law is different. What my son-in-law killed was a Jian slave, a beast!" Young Master Zhang plausibly said: "Meng Gong, the famous Song Dynasty general Meng Taishi, killed Jian There are more real ancestors of slave girls, more than 60, has he been condemned by heaven again? My son-in-law is willing to learn from Grand Master Meng, punish and build slaves, and eliminate a great harm for China!"

Xiong Tingbi was speechless, and after a while he shouted: "You bastard, I can't beat you, get up and sit down. I ask you, how should we fight next?"

"Father-in-law, why do you ask questions knowingly?" Young Master Zhang sat up with a playful smile, found a chair and sat down comfortably, and said lazily: "My son-in-law believes that with the eyes of my father-in-law, I shouldn't be unable to see—" ——In the next battle, the key to the success or failure of the battle is no longer us, nor the desperate Jiannu, but the malignant tumors in Ningyuan! If they find out, rein in the precipice, and stand by our side, then we will win, and Jiannu will definitely win Extermination! But if they persist in their obsession and continue to fall to the side of Jiannu, and send troops to make trouble at critical moments, then we don’t have to fight this battle, and we can reduce the casualties and losses of our soldiers by withdrawing our troops now.”

Xiong Tingbi snorted coldly, knowing that his son-in-law and himself had seen the crux of the problem, he asked again: "Then what do you think should be done? Use the army to suppress it? Or persuade them with kind words, show them righteousness, and advise them not to make mistakes again and again. Wrong, missed a major court event?"

"My son-in-law really wants to use force to suppress it, but our strength is insufficient." Young Master Zhang put away his hippie smile and said seriously: "With our current strength, it is just enough to join forces with the navy to wipe out the last main force of Jiannu. We don't need any troops to prevent Ningyuan's army from rebelling! Moreover, Ningyuan City has high trenches and deep trenches, and there are red barbarian cannons to help out. It is impossible for us to take Ningyuan and quickly cut off those cancerous tumors in a hurry! So now we only have One option is to use all means to stabilize the malignant tumors in Ningyuan, and not ask them to send troops to help in the battle, as long as they remain neutral, we are [-]% sure to wipe out the remaining main force of slavery."

"You are indeed my son-in-law. Although he is not very filial, he still makes sense." Xiong Tingbi nodded in satisfaction, handed the letter he had just written to Young Master Zhang, and said, "Look, what I said, Can you persuade those rebels who lost their way to return? If not, give me some advice."

"My son-in-law obeys." Young Master Zhang respectfully agreed, but as soon as he took a closer look at the letter, Young Master Zhang's eyes widened, and he screamed: "Wealth and honor cannot be promiscuous, poverty cannot be moved, and might cannot be subdued? The people are the most important thing, The society is second, and the king is the lightest? The one who wants to be loyal is the country and the king? Father-in-law, you can probably deceive my dumb-headed young master Shi Kefa with your empty talk, and want to convince Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou that they are selfish A cancer of self-interest... Excuse my son-in-law for making a mistake, just dream about it!"

"Bastard bastard, what are you talking about?" Xiong Tingbi was furious, and roared: "Yuan Chonghuan was born as a Jinshi at any rate. I taught him with the theory of sages and persuaded him to rein in the precipice and find his way back. Why is it just a daydream?"

"Father-in-law, have you ever heard a saying that if the arrow is on the string, you have to fire it?" Young Master Zhang said with a wry smile: "Yuan Chonghuan colluded with the slaves, resold the army food, embezzled the army salary, deceived the superior and the inferior to exclude dissidents, and regarded the Liaoxi army as domestic slaves." , regarded the court's decree as nothing, and secretly directed Ning Yuan's mutiny to kill Liaodong governor Bi Zisu, which one is not a capital crime of beheading and punishing the nine clans? For him, in fact, he and Jianu are already tied to a rope. Grasshoppers, If you build a slave, he will benefit; if you build a slave, he will live; if you build a slave, he will die! If you use this kind of nonsense to deceive him, if you treat him as a three-year-old child, you will be so stupid as to help us Destroy his protector, Liaodong Jiannu, so that Jiu Qiansui, Dongchang, and Zhenfusi can kill him without fear, and execute him Ling Chi?"

When Young Master Zhang said something, Xiong Tingbi's face turned ugly, and in the end, Xiong Tingbi's old face simply turned blue.But fortunately, for the sake of his daughter and grandson, Xiong Tingbi still didn't get angry in the end, but after gritting his teeth for a long time, Xiong Tingbi asked: "In your opinion, how should we persuade Ningyuan's army?"

"The only way is to cheat!" Young Master Zhang replied decisively: "Cheat Yuan Chonghuan into thinking that the imperial court has forgiven him, even if Jiannu is destroyed, they won't ask him to settle accounts with Qiu Hou, and also fool Yuan Chonghuan into thinking that, After destroying Jianshou, he can continue to enjoy the glory and wealth, continue to be able to get promoted and get rich, marry a concubine, and continue to be a high-ranking official with rich salary and lawlessness. Only in this way can he be persuaded to remain neutral at the next critical moment and annihilate the main force of Slaves for us Create an opportunity!"

"Cheat?!" Xiong Tingbi growled with veins twitching on his forehead, "You bastard, can you stop playing these crooked tricks? I'm already sixty this year, can you give me credit and don't let me be ashamed after death?"

"Father-in-law, it's not that my son-in-law wants you to be safe at the end of the festival, but that there is no other way to eliminate the hidden danger of Ningyuan except for fraud." Young Master Zhang said in a deep voice: "Father-in-law, don't forget that when our army When going north to pursue Jiannu, Ningyuan suddenly sent troops to stop us, what should you do? If Ningyuan's army didn't stop us from the front, but suddenly stabbed us in the back and cut off our food road, then let's not talk about annihilating the remaining main force of Jiannu, no If it is reversed and wiped out by Jiannu, then we should also call Amitabha."

Xiong Tingbi stopped talking, and stared at Young Master Zhang with a gloomy expression for a long time. After thinking for a long time, Xiong Tingbi finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, tell me, how should we lie?"

(End of this chapter)