Chapter 241: The Situation That Gets Out of Control

It's not that I don't know the danger of being in the middle of the pass.

It was only when the soldiers really came to the city that they felt that it was impossible to conquer Juyong Pass.

And there is another purpose first, which cannot be accomplished, and the marching posture of Baoding Hou Mengying is already impeccable.

At this moment, I also let go of the delusion of attacking Beijing City.

It's just that the army is stationed under the Yongguan Pass, but the troops are divided and plundered, and the army sweeps the four fields, and the area south of Xuanfu is also cleaned into a white land.

After all, no matter how strong the walls are, it is impossible to bring everyone into the city.

By the time Meng Ying arrived, she had already returned with a full load.

This time, it was decided not to return from the original road, but to the north to return to Longmensuo, and then to the east, along the northern foot of Yanshan. Marching in a northwesterly direction.

The reason for this is also an issue that has to be considered first.

That is the carrying capacity of the pasture.

The ecology of the grasslands is thinner than many people think. Even weaker is the resilience of the grasslands, and in other places, if the vegetation on the ground is destroyed, when they recover on their own, it will only be a few spring rains, and in some places even overnight, the ground will be covered.

But on the steppe, this is not the case.

If the vegetation on a piece of grassland is destroyed, if left unchecked, it will take a long time to recover, and it will even develop into a bad place, and this bare ground will evolve into a desert little by little.

And the existence of hundreds of thousands of horsemen marching from the grassland is itself a great destruction of the grassland ecology.

First of all, if it was a Han Chinese, I probably wouldn't care about this. But as Mongols, they have to live on the steppe, and there are some things to avoid as much as possible.

Therefore, he decided to leave from the northeast, first to the Luanhe valley, and then back to Daning, and it was not too late to make other plans.

Now Meng Ying naturally followed behind, unhurriedly, the two sides presented a posture of sending off guests, more than ten miles apart, when marching, each other could see each other's smoke and dust, under the green mountains, looming.

The two sides also showed a tacit understanding, when the two sides were more than 100 steps away, they slowed down, confronted each other for a while, and then left each other.

Meng Ying was afraid to kill a horse gun first, and when he also left the northern foot of Yanshan first, he was ready to return to the army.

It's just a thing that no one thought of, and it happened suddenly.

It's right next to an unknown small river in the upper reaches of the Luan River. It is one of the few open areas in the mountains, and several peaks avoid it, and a valley seems to be visible from all directions. It can be gathered in all directions.

This small river flows northeast and then joins the Luan River. This small river looks a lot like a seasonal river. Because in the whole valley, there are traces of river washing, and large pieces of stones have smooth edges and corners. It's just that the creek has only a shallow bend. Even if the horse can pass, the deepest part can not reach the legs, and the widest part is only one or two feet.

However, even this is one of the few water sources in the vicinity, and it is not only animals who like to come here to drink, but also people.

At this moment, dozens of Tartar cavalrymen dismounted here, their legs on the cobblestones, first holding water in their hands, drinking a breath, and then using water bladders, and began to fill the water.

At this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of arrows flying by.

I don't know from where, more than a dozen cavalry soldiers rushed over, and the tile spur cavalry was caught off guard, and a dozen people in a company were shot to the ground. They were also surprised.

Because they have reached a tacit understanding with the Ming army Tanma, there are few fights. From a distance, you can shoot a few arrows at most. The sudden attack of this group of Ming troops was beyond their expectations.

However, on the battlefield, any idea was superfluous, and after the Tile Spur cavalry got on the horse, the two sides began a fierce battle around this stream.

First there was an exchange of bows and arrows, and then a hand-to-hand encounter.

Both sides fought hard.

It already feels wrong.

The Watt Thorns felt that when they met this group of Ming troops, it seemed that they were not in the same group as the Ming army chasing behind.

And the Ming army on the opposite side also felt that the Tartar on the opposite side did not seem to be an ordinary Tartar, but a hard stubble.

Yes, they all guessed right.

At this moment, they have met new enemies for each other.

This group of cavalry was not under the command of Meng Ying, but the cavalry of the two departments of Liaodong, Haixi, and Liaodong, with a total of 40,000 cavalry.

Although they were all Ming troops, because of the different locations, the fighting styles were different, especially after the establishment of Haixi, there were a large number of Jurchens in the Haixi army.

Among the 40,000 cavalry, more than 10,000 are Jurchens, and the style of these Jurchens has also penetrated into the cavalry of the Ming army, that is, they can use horses and feet, like to use heavy arrows, like to shoot arrows at close range, and the archery is very accurate, and they like to shoot people in the face the most.

And so on, the style of these Liaodong troops was different from the other parts of the Ming army.

Of course, many laymen can't tell the difference, but the scouts sent by the tile spurs are all elite soldiers, and as soon as they hand them over, they will notice that they are tired.

Similarly, on the side of the Liaodong cavalry, they did not expect to encounter resistance from the tile spurs here.

In this era, there is a big delay in the transmission of information.

From the Xuanda battlefield to Liaodong, it must first be transmitted to Beijing, then to Shenyang, and then to the army, and the decision of the army will first be transmitted to Beijing, and then to the Xuanda battlefield.

After Cao Yi repeatedly confirmed that he had no intention of going south, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat when he heard about the battle of Bauhinia Pass. Immediately rescript the main force of Liaodong and Haixi, and rode 80,000 steps into Shanhaiguan to rescue Beijing.

But Shi Heng raised a problem, that is, now Beijing is safe and sound, the real problem is Xuanda, if from Shenyang to Shanhaiguan, then to Beijing, and then out of Juyongguan, the speed is too slow.

If you start from the Liaohe Hetao, go directly to the outside of the pass, and then go to Xuanda, but four or five hundred miles, if the cavalry is in a hurry, you can arrive in two or three days.

Even if you slow down for five days, you'll have absolutely no problem.

Look at the situation outside the mouth, if Beijing is in danger, you can enter the Beijing division from Xifengkou, and if there is no problem in Beijing, it is not too late to go directly to Xuanda.

Cao Yi finally decided to divide the troops into two routes, he led the infantry from Shanhaiguan, and let Shi Heng lead the cavalry outside the pass.

The reason why this is so is that if the foot soldiers go to the Shanhaiguan, they don't need to bring baggage, just take the baggage along the way, and they don't need to set up camp, after all, it is an inner line march.

But if you march outside the mouth, it will be much more troublesome.

Although Tokhtar Buhua has already disengaged from the Ming army. However, the area outside the mouth, after all, is not the area controlled by the Ming army, and it is likely to encounter uncertain dangers.

The cavalry reacts quickly, and even if it encounters it, it has a chance to escape, but the foot soldiers can't.

After Shi Heng received the order, he set off immediately, but he arrived here in three days, and it was not far from the side wall of Xuanda.

As Cao Yi expected, the road was not smooth.

Because of the southward movement of the Tile Thorn army, the morale of the nomadic tribes in the grassland has risen greatly, and the arrogant people are actually grazing their cattle forty or fifty miles outside the border wall of the Ming Dynasty.

Shi Heng didn't think of this either.

Because in his impression, within a hundred miles of the side wall, there has always been a no-man's land.

It's just that what kind of person is Shi Heng? In any case, he dares to fight, can fight, and can fight, but it is impossible to eliminate the tyrannical element in his character.

So along the way, Shi Heng didn't camp much at all, he just went all the way to kill all the way, in Shi Heng's words, it was to protect the secrets of the march.

Whoever has seen the army will be killed.

As for the horses they grazed, they were included in the army, and the cattle and sheep were fed for the soldiers, but as for the people, I am sorry, not a single one was left alive.

However, in the face of these nomadic tribes, many tribes have only a few hundred strong men, and the killing is naturally like chopping vegetables and melons.

The Mongols have never had a uniform military uniform, and the clothes on their bodies are all self-brought, and these horses that go out to explore the horses, if you don't look carefully, are no different from the cavalry of ordinary tribes.

Therefore, when the Liaodong cavalry saw it, they didn't think much about it at all, so they wanted to make a vote, anyway, no matter what kind of Tartar it was, all the heads of the Tartars were credits.

It was only after the two sides handed over that they felt that it was extremely tricky.