The Mongolian tribes continued to encircle and block the Ming Western Expedition Army.

These Mongolian cavalry were staring at the Western Expedition Army like wolves. As long as they were watching the right time, they had to come up and take a bite.

In addition to fighting, they fought. At this moment, they were determined to die, and were not afraid of reducing personnel or annihilation of the entire army.

But it was precisely this that the combat effectiveness of the Guanning Army exploded. The Guanning soldiers who could survive from the west of Jiayuguan to the current Shazhouwei area were either extremely strong willpower or relatively good martial arts veterans.

Therefore, the further we go, although the Western Expedition Army, with the Guanning Army as the main body, has suffered serious losses, its combat effectiveness is even stronger.

But after reaching the Shazhou Guard, the reinforcements of Mongolian Lin Dankhan also arrived, and the Mongolian cavalry that intercepted the Western Expedition Army to advance west suddenly increased to four or five times as much as before.

Zhu Youjian couldn't help but hold the steel knife in his hand tightly. Under the fierce wind, his eagle-like gaze stared straight at the Mongolian cavalry and tents in front of him. After the sun gradually fell below the horizon, he immediately rushed into the enemy camp several times his own with the cavalry of the Western Expedition Army here.

Now the Western Expedition Army is outnumbered, and can only defeat these Mongolian cavalry by surprise.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian, who was determined to die, took the initiative to ask Zu Dale for the errand of this vanguard and brought three thousand death-death men to the cavalry of Lin Dankhan of Mongolia.

The Tartars of the Lindan Khan tribe of Mongolia had just arrived in the Shazhouwei area and had not yet established a firm foothold. In addition, the other Mongolian tribes were also a little dissatisfied with Lindan Khan's ambition to unify Mongolia, so they watched Lindan Khan's tribe be attacked by the Ming Western Expedition Army.

After being unable to defend, the Tartars of Lin Dan Khan's tribe suffered heavy losses and had to temporarily avoid Shazhou Acropolis.

The Ming Western Expedition Army successfully arrived at the Shazhou Acropolis. The difference between attacking Yumen Pass was that the Ming Western Expedition Army had reduced its troops to more than 10,000 cavalry, and it was difficult to take a strong attack.

Zu Dale and Zhu Youjian decided to use the soft soil in Shazhou area to dig holes and enter the city.

But the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition Army was no better than the Imperial Guards. They did not have special engineer shovels or even hoes. They could only dig the soil with their bare hands. After a few days of fierce battle, they dug out a passage, buried it and then collapsed the walls of Shazhou City.

After a fierce battle, the Shazhou Guard was also recaptured by the Western Expedition Army. However, because the Shazhou Guard had the main force of the Lin Dan Khan tribe and other Tartars, the Western Expedition Army suffered losses of thousands of people.

There is a vast desert between the Shazhou Guard and the Hami Guard. The Mongolian Tartars never appeared frequently again, but the non-combat reduction caused by water shortage and disease to the Western Expedition Army was even more severe.

By the time the Ming Western Expedition Army arrived near Hami Guard, the Ming Western Expedition Army had only more than 5,000 cavalry.

However, the Mongolian Tatars had already gathered more cavalry to the Hami Guard. The Mongolian Lindan Khan, who was unwilling to accept the northwest, also sent larger reinforcements to the Hami Guard.

Looking at the dense Mongolian Tartar army ahead, Zhu Youshang sighed and smiled at Zu Dale, "Zu Junmen, it seems that we will really sleep here."

Zu Dale also smiled bitterly, pursed his dry lips and said, "After the drum beat, I ordered the entire army to drink the last bag of water, each of which was left with only one war horse, and kill all the rest of the war horses. The entire army ate the last meal of meat, and then let's be loyal to the Ming Dynasty here!"

"Just be loyal here!"

Zhu Youjian couldn't help but shout, and the other Western Expedition Army also shouted loudly.

From Jiayuguan to Hamiwei, they traveled a long journey, and they didn't know how many Tartars they killed. At this time, the only thing they could pursue was to let the flower of their life bloom even brighter before death. When a person is no longer afraid of death, there is no fear.

kill!

Zu Dale first slapped his horse and killed the Tatar army opposite. Although he is now a second-rank general, under the current situation where there are only more than 5,000 cavalry, he does not need to regard himself as a general officer and needs to stay in the central army to command the overall situation. Now it is better to lead by example and make his death more heroic.

The war horse roared and the spear was oriented straight towards the enemy's head. When a burst of passion burst out, Zu Dale just wiped his face and continued to fight towards the center of the enemy's camp.

Zu Dale's personal soldiers and generals also came with him. The commander worked so hard that they naturally did not be vague. Those who could survive until now had both horseback and chopping. Although the Mongolian Tartars were good at riding and shooting, they could not gain any advantage in such a Guanning army, and they did not even have the advantage of the number of people to suppress these Guanning army.

Zhu Youjian also raised his Park Knife and came over. When he saw more than ten Tartars bent their bows to shoot, he also clamped the horse's belly with familiarity and fell sideways to the side of the horse. After avoiding a rain of arrows, he suddenly got up and approached him, and then the blade directly cut the Tartars' neck.

After fighting and fighting until the sun was sunny, after killing thousands of Tartars at the cost of the two thousand iron cavalry on his side, Zu Dale, Zhu Youjian and others retreated.

Looking at the bloody knife in his hand, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but laugh at Zu Dale, who was also covered in scars, almost unable to stand firmly on the ground.

Looking back at the other officers and soldiers of the Western Expedition Army, most of them were standing or sitting on the sand. Some were gnawing on the unfinished horse bones, some placed the mouth of the water bag at the mouth and slapped them desperately, hoping that a drop of water would fall, while others simply lay on the ground, looking at the blue sky and missing their distant hometown.

And here, there were more and more Mongolian Tartars gathering. They ran around and gradually surrounded the more than 3,000 cavalry of the Western Expedition Army in the middle.

However, these Mongolian Tartars did not attack immediately, but advanced in unison, slowly advancing towards the Western Expedition Army, and the bows and arrows were pulled very well. As long as there were any abnormal movements in the Western Expedition Army, they would be immediately hit by thousands of arrows.

The Mongolian Tartars surrounded the Western Expedition Army on three sides, but only the direction of Hami Acropolis was not surrounded.

It is obvious that the Mongolian Tartars wanted to completely cut off the retreat of the last three thousand cavalry of the Western Expedition Army.

However, the three thousand cavalrymen including Zu Dale and Zhu Youjian had no idea of ​​retreating. After seeing these Mongolian Tartars getting closer and closer to them, they also stood up one after another, and began to climb onto the horses one after another, raised the weapons in their hands, held the reins, and focused their eyes on Zu Dale and Zhu Youjian.

Zu Dale and Zhu Youjian didn't say anything, and Zu Dale threw a whip first and rushed towards Hami Acropolis. Zhu Youxiao was also hurriedly following him, and other cavalry followed him.

The Mongolian Tartars also surrounded this side.

But at this moment, there were suddenly crackling sounds of bullets breaking through the air and horse hooves from behind.
Chapter completed!