Chapter 357 Rush to Reinforce

The fierce battle ended with the enemy's retreat, and the entire Zhanghe Stall burst into cheers.

Even for warriors, it is a blessing to survive every battle, let alone those non-combat sequences.

Only those fathers, sons, brothers, friends who had fallen on the battlefield, and the injured horses that replaced their owners were mourning.

When counting and reporting the battle losses, Zhu Dahe was missing. Jia Lian couldn’t help but ask: "Where is General Zhu?"

A commander returned: "Just now the enemy saw that the situation was not good. When they were escaping, I saw General Zhu Shen leading his men to chase and kill the main force..."

Jia Lian's face suddenly darkened.

He had known that Zhu Dahe was a reckless man. Considering that he was a fierce general, Jia Lian was very tolerant of him. But he didn't expect that the other party would dare to pursue the enemy without asking for instructions.

“How many people did he bring?”

The generals didn’t know this, so they could only send people to ask. The result was that all the cavalry under Zhu Dahe’s command, Basically, they were all taken away by Zhu Dahe!

The conditions at Ganning Pass are difficult, and the soldiers who can be equipped with horses are without exception capable of fighting and can be picked one out of ten.

The four to five hundred cavalrymen under Zhu Dahe can be said to be the best among the best.

It is also one of the most important things he relies on now!

Seeing that Jia Lian looked bad, the generals couldn't help suppressing the joy of victory and began to say good things for Zhu Dahe.

Because they were just on the battle formation, the brave performance of Zhu Dahe and others really made the soldiers in the Beijing camp look at them. Inspired by this, they involuntarily discarded their instinct of fear and unleashed the most wanton blood in a man's body.

This is also the main reason why the enemy fled so quickly.

Jia Lian has never been a person who likes to do useless work, so he did not dwell too much on the issue of Zhu Dahe and continued to preside over the inventory of battle damage, the placement of the wounded and the deployment of follow-up matters.

Unexpectedly, just after noon, a horse suddenly rushed back to the camp.

"We followed General Zhu to pursue the enemy's remnants. Unexpectedly, we encountered a large-scale enemy ambush in a mountain forest about fifty miles away!

Now General Zhu has been Trapped in the mountains and forests, the villain risked his life to escape and deliver a message, begging the imperial envoy to send troops to rescue my general..."

The soldier's armor was stained with blood, and when he saw Jia Lian, he knelt down and begged.

After hearing the news, everyone looked at him with suspicion.

Some people even grasped the key point immediately.

"Didn't I say that General Zhu led you to hunt down the remnant enemy? How could you be ambushed? A large-scale enemy force? Is it the people you are chasing, or others? How many people are there specifically?"

For Zhu Dahe’s personal guards who desperately rushed back to deliver the message, moving rescue troops was the first priority. But for the people in the big tent who have just experienced an inexplicable battle, understanding the situation and weighing the pros and cons is the first priority.

"It was not the people we were chasing. The group of remnant enemies we were chasing was no more than two or three hundred at most, and we killed many of them along the way.

But suddenly A large number of new enemy troops appeared. After a bloody battle, we were unable to defeat them and had to retreat into a nearby forest.

When I came out on a fast horse before, I saw those people preparing wood and fuel. , should be setting fire to the mountain, our general is in danger!

Please, for the sake of our general’s bravery in killing the enemy, please send troops to rescue as soon as possible, please..."

The soldier turned around and kowtowed heavily to Jia Lian again, looking anxious but having no other options.

Jia Lian looked deeply and asked: "How many people are ambushing you?"

"This... we don't know exactly how many people there are, at least the number of us. More than three times."

In the melee, there is no ability to clearly understand the number of enemies.

　"This is not bad..."

Everybody knows that soldiers will be more conservative in order to get them to send troops for rescue.

But there are still three times as many enemies, which shows how many enemies there are.

However, since the opponent still has so many troops, why didn’t they participate in the previous battle?

Is it the follow-up troops, or some other reason?

"Your Excellency, I believe that we cannot send troops to rescue.

" It can be seen that the goal of this group of Tatars should be to destroy our alliance with Oara.

Now that the enemy’s situation is unknown and Her Royal Highness is still here, what we have to consider now is how to ensure the safety of Her Royal Highness.

If this is a trap by the enemy, we will now Divide our troops to rescue people. If the enemy takes the opportunity to attack my camp again, wouldn't the situation be dangerous?!"

Facing the nervous looks of all the civil servants, Xiang He stood up and said loudly.

Before departure, all the civilian officials of the mission did not expect such a situation to occur.

Now that they are in deep danger, the soldiers and horses in Jia Lian’s hands are the only thing that can make them feelto the hope of safety.

If Jia Lian leads troops to rescue people at this time...

Since the situation is critical, naturally he can only bring cavalry to save people.

But if it is too little, it will not work.

If too many people go, the camp will be empty. If there was another battle in the morning, they could not guarantee that the infantry without strong fortifications could withstand the charge of the Tatar cavalry.

Once the cavalry is allowed to break through the defense line, won't they, including more than a thousand unarmed non-combatants, be at the mercy of others?

"That's right, Mr. Xiang is right. Zhu Dahe did not respect the orders of the imperial envoy and took the initiative to pursue him. The imperial envoy has not yet investigated him for the crime of disobeying the military order.

Now He is incompetent and trapped, how can he let the imperial envoy take the risk of sending troops to rescue him!"

Xiang He spoke, and other civil servants began to express similar views.

Several generals remained silent.

For one thing, they belong to the Beijing camp and are not familiar with Zhu Dahe.

The second one has just seen the powerful combat effectiveness of the Tatar cavalry, and is not familiar with the Gobi terrain.

If they agree to rescue people, if Jia Lian sends them there, they are not sure that they can rescue people, and then it will be in vain...

See inside the account None of the people in the army were willing to send troops to rescue. The kneeling soldier looked sad and suddenly said: "Please ask the imperial envoy to lend me five hundred war horses, and we will rescue the general ourselves!"

Zhu Dahe brought out a total of 1,500 elite soldiers this time. In addition to the cavalry, there were nearly a thousand infantry.

It was just because the generals followed Zhu Dahe to pursue the enemy, and the remaining ones were not of sufficient rank, so they did not enter the tent to discuss matters.

But the personal guards believed that if Jia Lian and others did not save him, other people under their general would definitely rescue him.

But after running for dozens of miles, the day lilies were getting cold, so I said this

"How dare you be rude to the imperial envoy! "

"You are so outrageous, there is no place for you to interfere in this matter!!"

How could a group of high-ranking officials allow a pawn to talk back, and they immediately started scolding them. .

Jia Lian took a look at the soldier who still looked stubborn despite being scolded by everyone.

It is said that if a soldier is raging, a general will be raging in a nest. From the soldiers, we can also know the general's ability to lead troops.

This person dared to borrow five hundred war horses from him, which shows that he is very confident.Every soldier is willing to save people.

"The general has already taken care of this matter. You go down and rest for a while, and be ready at any time."

" It seems that from Jia Lian's tone, there is still a chance of improvement. , the soldier went down with great gratitude.

Waiting for him to leave, Jia Lian looked at everyone in the tent and said: "I have to report this to the princess, and we will discuss here first whether to send troops to rescue. If so, how to rescue. ."

After speaking, Jia Lian stood up and left without making his position clear.

After a while, Jia Lian came back, and the result of everyone's discussion naturally remained unchanged.

It’s just that there are many more reasons not to save people than before.

Jia Lian waited for them to finish their speech before saying: "First, General Zhu and his soldiers are the elites who have been tempered by our dynasty for thousands of years. If they are allowed to be burned to death in the mountains and forests by the bandits and sit idly by, Reasonable, not to mention that I feel uneasy, and it is not an act to unite people's hearts.

Secondly, there are still more than a thousand soldiers under Zhu Dahe stationed west of the river bank.

As far as I know, Zhu Dahe is deeply supported by his soldiers. If he knew that we would refuse to save him, I am afraid that the morale of the army will be in chaos.

At that time, let alone work together to protect the safety of the princess and resist foreign enemies, I am afraid that We started the chaos ourselves.

Third, Her Royal Highness the Princess ordered us to send troops to rescue, and we are determined not to let our brave generals fall into the hands of the enemy."

Jia Lian's words were said to be explanations, but they were actually decisions.

Because of the first two points, everyone can still discuss countermeasures, but when Jia Lian moves out the princess, it means that his decision has been made.

In this way, no one dared to raise objections.

"After I leave, the affairs of the account will be temporarily handed over to Commander-in-Chief Xiang He, and the rest of the people should work together to assist."

"What, the imperial envoy will personally lead the troops Go rescue? This is absolutely inappropriate!!"

As soon as they heard that Jia Lian was going to personally lead troops to rescue people, Xiang He and others immediately quit.

Soldiers are dangerous and dangerous, which makes people naturally fearful.

In the morning, if Jia Lian had not judged the danger in advance, occupied a favorable terrain to lay out defenses, and calmly commanded when the terrifying Tatar cavalry rushed over, how could they have done this? Easily keep the enemy at bay and win the battle?

At this moment, Jia Lian is the backbone of all of them, and they naturally do not want Jia Lian to take risks.

"That's right, I think we can just leave this matter to a few commanders..."

But Jia Lian had made up his mind and rejected their proposal on the grounds that several commanders had not fought against Tatars in the Gobi.

In this way, the people present couldn't help but add a layer of gloom in their hearts. They thought that Jia Lian was either worried about leaving his family fortune (cavalry) to others, or he was guilty of being greedy like Zhu Dahe. A reckless mistake leads to a disregard for the overall situation.

"Don't worry, the general will act accordingly. If nothing can be done, we will not force the rescue.

During this period, in order to prevent the enemy from invading, you can All the carriages escorting supplies were arrayed in front to prevent the enemy's cavalry from being attacked and to step up the construction of fortifications.

And the general had already sent people back to Ganning Pass to request military support from General Wu.
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In addition, Wala also stated that the relief army will arrive in one day at the latest.

So, we only need to hold on for one more day at most to avert danger."

Hearing what Jia Lian said, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to cooperate with Jia Lian in dispatching troops for rescue.