Chapter 125: The Battleable Side and the Peace(15)
Ma Gui and Gao Jue finally led their subordinates out of the Mongolian Chinese army camp, although Chataiji was lucky not to die because of the poor power of the three-eyed gun brought out by Gao Jue from Desheng Fort, but he was still injured, and he was shot in the left shoulder socket and had to be treated quickly.
The military order he received was only to repel the enemy, since the Ming army had retreated in fear, he had already completed the task, and he had to guard against the sneak attack of the Matthew division who was actually 300 miles away, Chataiji just shouted a few times behind the Ming army and then withdrew the troops, and ordered his subordinates to clean up the battlefield and prepare for the Ming army to come again, and he hurried to deal with the injuries.
The three-eyed gun is more miscellaneous, which can be steel balls, small pieces of cast iron, crushed iron sand, etc., or lead bullets. Either way, it should not be overlooked: iron bullets can cause tetanus, lead bullets are extremely poisonous, and Chataiji is injured in the shoulder socket, so he naturally does not dare to take it lightly.
Ma Gui and Gao Jue fled by the way, and ran ten miles away, and after confirming that there were no pursuers coming, they hurriedly counted the casualties, and as a result, there were twenty-one fewer soldiers in the Ma family, and fifty-three fewer in the Gao family, and the casualty rate was quite small in this era, both of them were annoyed and gloomy.
"The enemy general just now is Chataiji, known as the first master of Mongolia, when he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he was called 'Little Jebe'...... Straight lady thief, really has some ability! Ma Gui spat hard, spit out a mouthful of bloody spit, and said, "But Deputy Gao Tuan, what's the matter with your hand?" I saw you rushing so close and letting go of the gun, and said that the scourge of Chataiji was finally about to die on the spot, why did he turn around and get up again? ”
Gao Jue has always wondered about this stubble, so he took out the three-eyed gun and looked at it, and then snorted hard, annoyed: "This broken gun...... General Ma, you see. As he spoke, he handed the three-eyed gun to Ma Gui.
Ma Gui took it, looked at it a little, and also looked angry: "Where is this broken gun, in order to prevent the explosion of the chamber, this broken gun thickens the inner wall of the gun tube - it is not easy to explode the chamber, but in this way, the charge will be less, I am afraid that there will be as much as half, so I can only install this bit of gunpowder, how powerful is it enough to kill, I am afraid that even a bird will not be able to kill!" Bah! Break it! ”
Gao Jue smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that this thing shouldn't be used as a firearm at all, it's completely used as a short weapon." But then again, this kind of is already calculated, at least it won't blow up at will. The eldest young master of my family came to inspect the defense this time at the holy will, and paid special attention to firearms, and the result was that the three-eyed gun that exploded was really ...... Alas! ”
"Alas, what a great opportunity...... Ma Gui shook his head helplessly: "If you can kill Chataiji, it will be to cut off my arm, then the old prisoner will definitely be so angry that he will attack Desheng Fort, it's a pity, it's a pity!" ”
Gao Jue also smiled bitterly: "What can we do now, I'm afraid the losses we caused to me are nothing, and whether we will send troops to attack the city during the day is still between the two." It's just that our own casualties are not small, but this group of horsemen under the command of my eldest young master took a lot of money to get out, and the effort is not less than money, this time I lost more than 50 numbers to him in the first battle, and I don't know how to explain when I go back. ”
Ma Gui is actually more distressed than Gao Jue, because in his opinion, although Gao Jue's riders can be seen to have undergone strict training and have a good foundation, after all, they have not gone through any battle formations, and it is easy to replenish. But their own soldiers are different, these are all selected from the veterans, many of them don't look at only in their twenties, but they are veterans who started from the boy soldiers at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and they fought for more than ten years before they were accepted into the soldiers.
He only had a total of 300 soldiers on hand, and if he always lost so much, he didn't need a few battles, and the soldiers would be over.
The two of them looked sad, sighed for a long time, and after a while, Ma Guicai said: "It's almost dawn, let's hurry back to the pass, otherwise I will answer that if we really want to launch an offensive, Zhenqiang Fort is too close, maybe it will also be regarded as a target, and it will be difficult to do it at that time." ”
Gao Jue agreed, and then said: "I thought about it, although the loss we caused to me is not big, but I don't seem to have been hit by anyone in the past few years, right?" Maybe he really can't help but attack the city, in this case, can we also attract the attention of Ma Zongrong to the north? ”
"It should definitely be calculated, but it's hard to say what the effect will be." Ma Gui thought for a while and said: "What you just said is not wrong, although the northern captives have often returned to the south to plunder in the past few years, and have even been beaten back by our Xuanda army, but to say that their real losses are not big, especially the Chinese army led by me was sneak attacked, it seems that there is really no ......."
When he said this, he frowned again, and hesitated: "But I replied that this old captive is an old treacherous and cunning person, you see that we stole the camp this time, he only sent the guards to meet the attack from beginning to end, and the camps of the next departments were unmoved at all, I wondered, people like him...... It's really not like a master who will raise troops out of anger, and our abacus is only afraid that it will be too satisfactory at the beginning. ”
Gao Jue was not a serious general of the Ming army in the end, so it was not good to express his opinion on this issue, so he just responded vaguely, and then said: "No matter what, we will do our best after all." ”
"yes, we'll do our best...... Hey, how come there are Tartars in front? Ma Gui said and was suddenly taken aback, pointing forward.
Gao Jue hurriedly raised his eyes, but saw a Mongolian cavalry running in the direction of Zhenqiang Fort in front of him, coming towards them, and couldn't help but be taken aback, and was about to shout "enemy attack", but he was stunned again, and hesitated: "No, General Ma, look at their appearance, it doesn't look like they're coming to trouble us, it's like they're ...... Defeated? ”
Ma Gui looked at it, but saw that the Mongolian cavalry in front of him was only two or three hundred horses, most of the leather armor was torn, and the cloak was scattered, many people were injured when they saw it, and even a few people even had no weapons, only a horse bow hanging on their backs.
Obviously, it can't be that they are looking for bad luck.
"This is a defeated soldier." Ma Gui is a "veteran" who has fought for several years, and said with certainty: "And he lost very badly." ”
Gao Jue actually fought with the eldest master of the Gao family before, but it was mainly against the Japanese Kou, mainly small-scale battles, and he didn't know much about the war in the northern Xinjiang, so he was just surprised: "Where did they eat the defeat?" How did you come from the east......"
When he said this, he suddenly looked at Ma Gui with wide eyes, and it happened that Ma Gui also looked at him with wide eyes.
The two glanced at each other, and suddenly exclaimed in unison: "Mr. Ma? ”