The six hundred and fourteenth chapter endless beacon fire (nine)
"Sir... I can't stand it anymore... Commander Zhang was wiped out and he was killed!" A soldier ran over with blood on his face and shouted loudly.
"Sir, the right wing defense line has collapsed, the Yuan and Mongolian Tatars attacked too fiercely..."
"Sir... the Yuan Mongolian Tartars appeared behind and were about to be surrounded..."
"Fellow Daoist... Go quickly..." A Shushan monk fell from the air, covered in crossbow arrows. The last sentence before his death was said to Chu Xunyu.
"grown ups……"
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Chu Xunyu had two long crossbow arrows in his body, and simply avoided the vital points. One was inserted into his thigh and the other stabbed the shoulder. Chu Xunyu was furious and cut off the handle of the arrow. His war horse was also hit by two arrows. Fortunately, Chu Xunyu was injured six times. He relied entirely on the body of the cultivator. There were Yuan soldiers on all sides. The overwhelming Yuanmeng Master attacked from the sky. A large number of Han cultivators' corpses fell down like rain. This was the moment when the Ming army suffered a crushing defeat.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had already proclaimed himself emperor, and his country was called "Ming". He began to fight south and north, completely eliminated the forces of the Yuan and Mongolian Tatars in the Central Plains. In this battle, Xu Da led the royal army to the northern expedition, and had already captured the capital of Yuan, Beiping City, and continued to move northward. He and two deputy generals Li Wenzhong and Feng Sheng, divided the left, middle and right three routes to attack. As a result, Xu Da's central army underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, and fell into the ambush of the Yuan and Mongolian army, and was trapped on the Mongolian grassland.
Now Chu Xunyu has been promoted to the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, with 8,000 cavalry and 300 cultivators under his command. As the vanguard of Xu Da's central military headquarters, he rushed to the north. As a result, he was trapped in a trap. Chu Xunyu led his troops to rush hard and wanted to break through forcibly, but the Yuanmeng army was well prepared this time and concentrated all the elite troops. Chu Xunyu's several attacks were fruitless, but he suffered heavy casualties and had to swallow the bitter fruit of another failure.
There are many reasons for the failure of this battle. Many years later, when Chu Xunyu and Mu Yuan talked about this matter, they believed that the fundamental reason was ultimately the four words "underestimating the enemy and advancing rashly". As a result, they were subjected to a stormy and powerful counterattack by the Yuan and Mongolian army, becoming the only defeat in Xu Da's life.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, a large-scale Northern Expedition was carried out. Xu Da was the commander and Chang Yuchun was the deputy general. Sun Mengqing was appointed as the military sect. More than 40 generals under his command led a number of royal troops to carry out a purge in the Central Plains. After fighting in Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Beiping, the Yuan and Mongolian forces did suffer a devastating blow, and even they fled north. Then, Chang Yuchun led his army to the south to fight south and pacify the south. Sun Mengqing led his troops to the northwest to guard Juyongguan and resist the foreign barbarians in Gansu. Xu Da was in charge of Beiping, and he was ready to attack the sun, giving the last fatal blow to the Yuan and Mongolian Dynasty. This time, Xu Da made a fatal mistake.
Xu Da was the first hero of the founding country of the Ming Dynasty. He made great achievements throughout his life. He was a famous military strategist and strategist in history. He was steady and had good military use. Many of his military strategies were incorporated into military classics and educated future generations. This was a great honor and recognition for him. After years of wars between the two sides in the Central Plains, the Yuan and Meng forces had retreated to the north. At this time, Master Gasa, who was lurking in the Yuan and Meng rulers, came from news that this person was Duan Chenyu, one of the four sons of Kunlun Yuxu.
From the Yuan and Mongolia rulers, it was found that the Yuan and Mongolia forces were mobilizing all the elite forces behind from the grassland and would organize a large-scale counterattack in the near future. Hearing this news, Xu Da misjudged that the Yuan and Mongolia forces had no power to fight back. The so-called mobilization of all elite forces was just a hurry to piece together, but they could not be made into shape. So he decided to take the lead in attacking them, attacking them unprepared, and accidentally, and disrupting their deployment first, which led to this battle.
Because of this, Xu Da's army was ambushed and trapped in a Jedi. This time, the Yuan and Mongolian forces recalled all the remaining soldiers under their command for reintegration, totaling 200,000, all of them were fierce Mongolian cavalry, and all were veterans who had participated in the war for many years. It only took a few months to retrain secretly. In addition, the Yuan Meng mage also integrated more than 1,500 people to attack, set up camp on the Mongolian grassland, waiting for the arrival of subsequent forces.
Over the years, the Yuanmeng forces have recruited 300,000 new soldiers on the grassland, equipped with more than 1,000 young Yuanmeng masters, and trained for two years. They were originally used to protect Yuanmeng's lair. After discussion, the senior rulers of Yuanmeng decided to put them into this counterattack. Because the war has been defeated over the years, the entire tribe has fallen into a low atmosphere. It is very necessary to use a victory to awaken the morale of the entire nation. Moreover, if we can regain Yuan Dadu with this attack, it is just around the corner. Therefore, if we want to counterattack, we will do it to the end and completely expand the scale of this battle, and give the Ming army a heart-wrenching counterattack.
However, Xu Da's first attack did shock the Yuan and Meng forces, because all this was carried out secretly and kept strictly confidential and little known. However, we can not worry about this issue now. Since Xu Da personally attacked and was too deep and had the potential to go deep, we would go with the flow and attack head-on, and directly eat Xu Da's central army, or even... kill Xu Da. Xu Da is the god of war in the Ming Dynasty. If he dies, the army of the Ming Dynasty will be in chaos within two years. This is the ultimate opportunity for the Yuan and Meng forces to counterattack the Central Plains.
The news of Xu Da being trapped responded to the sky, and the government and the people were shocked. Unexpectedly, the Yuanmeng Dynasty's counterattack was so fierce. Moreover, according to the news sent back by Master Gasa, the subsequent 300,000 Yuanmeng's subsequent fire was mobilized from west to east and moved to the battlefield. The 200,000 people who were ambushing in front of the round were annihilated in one fell swoop. Zhu Yuanzhanghuo summoned everyone to discuss matters in the main hall, and he must rescue Xu Da's troops at all costs.
When Xu Da entered the ambush circle, he had already keenly noticed something was wrong and immediately ordered the army to stop advancing, set up camps on the spot, dug up fortifications, and then asked Chu Xunyu to take the eight thousand cavalry to inquire ahead, and at the same time sent a whistle to send a cavalry to the left and right wing Li Wenzhong and Feng Sheng to move closer to him. As a result, the Yuan and Mongolian army decisively launched a raid at this time. The ambush army arranged in advance along the way was difficult at the same time, and Xu Da's troops were cut into several sections in half. Chu Xunyu
The cavalry led by him were trapped in front, and Li Wenzhong and Feng Sheng were also attacked, seriously dragging the pace of their central army's reunion. Xu Da's central army was surrounded by enemies and surrounded. Fortunately, he had commands and remained calm in the face of danger. He kept fighting on the spot and retreated, hoping to cater to the left and right wing troops. However, the Yuan and Mongolian army had a very fierce offensive and had prepared for a life-and-death battle. He had no intention of giving Xu Da a breather. He was determined to let Xu Da explain it completely here.
The city of Yingtian was in chaos, which was an unexpected change. I never thought that the Yuanmeng forces had such a huge elite combat power. Liu Bowen and Zhu Sheng offered ideas at the same time, advocating one to cut off and one to rescue. The situation was tense at this time, and the person who was most likely to rescue Xu Da was Chang Yuchun, but he was far away from the other end of Shenzhou and had no hope in a short period of time. So Liu Bowen suggested that Sun Mengqing's troops be transferred from Juyongguan immediately, directly plagiarized the retreat of the Yuanmeng's encirclement army, and cooperated with Xu Dali to save the situation. Zhu Sheng saw that the most critical thing at this time was the arrival of the subsequent troops of Yuanmeng.
Come on, that is a powerful combat force. We must block reinforcements and cut off their turn. However, they are far away on the grassland behind the desert. It is the old nest of Yuanmeng. It is too far away and is not the scope that the Ming army can cover. It is really difficult to deal with. So Zhu Sheng suggested asking for help from the cultivation world. There are many anti-Yuan forces formed by Han monks in the desert. For example, the Evil Ji Sect, who was Jingzhushui, is the first leader in the desert. He hopes to build a line of defense in the desert, delay the reinforcements' advance, and provide time for Sun Mengqing to rescue Xu Da.
Against this background, it led to the largest battle of cultivators in human history. All those who participated in the battle were cultivators, totaling more than 700 people. Under the awareness of national justice, they abandoned the prejudice between righteousness and demons, abandoned the previous private hatred, and gathered together. Kunlun, Shushan, Emei, Bohai Sword Sect, Mojia, Gongshu, Legalists, Lumeng Sect, Hongdao Sect, Jieyuan Sect, Lunqu Sect and other cultivators who could rush to the battlefield near the northwest were summoned. Leader of the Eagle Sect, who was familiar with the terrain of the desert, a flesh-and-blood Great Wall was built on the grassland far away from the Central Plains. Facing a total of 300,000 vicious Yuanmeng cavalry and a thousand Yuanmeng masters, they fought a desperate battle...
Chapter completed!