Chapter 65: The Yellow Sparrow Follows
The first to fall into decline was not Zhang Kewang, nor Guo Yan, Ren Liang and Wang Gangbaowu, but Zhang Dingguo.
This little boy was very clever, and with five hundred horsemen rushed left and right on the periphery, avoiding the opponent's main force, waiting for an opportunity to attack the opponent's infantry from the flank and rear.
But the other party's 1,000 cavalry has been biting behind him, and he has always been just a teenager, with far less experience and courage, and he was finally driven into the encirclement by the other party.
A thousand horsemen and five hundred riflemen surrounded his five hundred horsemen in a valley, and the spearmen approached from the mouth of the valley, while the thousand horsemen scattered arrows on the ridges on both sides, and sent small forces to eat away at his men and horses little by little.
Qin Chuan couldn't really see it from a distance, but it could be judged from the shouting that Zhang Dingguo couldn't support it anymore.
Immediately, he asked his 400 horsemen to wrap their horses, and under the cover of the rolling mountain beams, they touched the allied cavalry on the mountain beams north of Zhang Dingguo.
Of his 400 horsemen, 300 rode to rest all night, and although the remaining 100 horsemen ran to rob Huangcong Mountain in the middle of the night, they had slept for two or three hours before that, and rested on Huangcong Mountain for another hour, and their spirits were still very good.
And Zhang Kewang's people and the two-way coalition army, starting from the fifth watch, have been fighting intermittently until now, for three hours, and they have long been sleepy and tired.
In their opinion, those miners and homeless people in Mengjiazhuang only have the ability to throw bricks behind the wall, and if they dare to come out to fight in the wild, they can easily destroy the rabble.
In fact, the combat power of Emperor Guan's army is not stronger than that of a heavenly rogue, but they ignore one thing: this rabble is mixed with a group of wolves.
When a dog has been mixed with a wolf for a long time, it will naturally become a wolf.
The silent but swift and domineering rush of the old bandits in Jiuji Mountain can affect people very much, Guan Dijun fought with them a few times, and he didn't learn much about his skills, but he learned a lot of momentum.
Moreover, as early as two days ago, Qin Chuan had his subordinates rush to make a large number of javelins, and if there were not enough spear heads, he sharpened the wooden sticks and baked them with fire, which were also extremely sharp.
Today, the four hundred horsemen were each armed with five javelins.
It wasn't until two hundred steps away that the other party discovered the traces of Qin Chuan and the others.
When the opponent roared "enemy attack", the four hundred horsemen turned over their horses, drew their javelins and ran away.
The horses were all wrapped in horseshoe, and the sound of stepping on the ground was extremely low, and the people on horseback did not make a single shout of killing, which made the momentum of this cavalry more and more fierce.
The hundreds of allied cavalry on the ridges to the north were in disarray, turning their horses' heads, only to find hundreds of javelins whizzing at them.
In the blink of an eye, the coalition cavalrymen flipped on their backs, and hundreds of people fell in just one round of javelins.
After Qin Chuan threw out the second javelin, he drew his five-foot Miao knife, lowered his upper body, and knocked over an enemy with a long knife, dragging the long knife and cutting off the head of another enemy.
The sudden attack, coupled with two rounds of sharp javelins, made the coalition army powerless, and only one charge was chiseled through, most of the 500 coalition troops were killed and wounded, and the remaining 100 or so cavalry fled in a hurry.
The rout of the mountain beam in the north seriously affected the cavalry on the mountain beam in the south and the riflemen at the mouth of the valley, they thought that the other side had come to reinforcements, and after a short commotion, some people took the lead in escaping, and then it became a great rout, and the five hundred cavalry took the lead in scattering, and the five hundred riflemen also ran away.
Qin Chuan didn't rush to chase those riflemen, but rushed down the valley along the gentle slope, pointing directly at Zhang Dingguo's group.
Zhang Dingguo thought that his eldest brother had led his troops to rescue him, and as soon as he breathed a sigh of relief, he saw the hundreds of horsemen on the other side rushing down with great speed.
Soon, he saw clearly the appearance of the leader of the man, who was raised by Mengjiazhuang's surname Qin!
Zhang Dingguo was taken aback, his remaining more than 200 subordinates were in a mess, and after seeing that the valley mouth was unimpeded, Zhang Dingguo shouted "withdraw", and then pulled the reins of the horse and took the lead in running towards the valley mouth.
As soon as he rushed out a few steps, a sharp javelin broke through the air, piercing the war horse under his seat, and the war horse fell to the ground with a scream, and he hurriedly jumped with his head in his hands, and rolled out on the ground more than ten times.
It was not easy to come back to his senses, and he struggled to raise his head, and found that the son of a bitch surnamed Qin was leading three or four hundred cavalry, chasing after him from behind, and cutting his people to the ground one by one, even those who knelt on the ground and surrendered and begged for mercy were cut in half by the sweeping long knife.
They didn't even spare the captives!
Immediately afterwards, the bitch, like a pack of wolves, silently caught up with the five hundred defeated riflemen, and did not charge, but only took out the javelins from behind the saddle.
Zhang Dingguo once heard his father-in-law say that when encountering javelin cavalry, you must not use spears and infantry to go up, and you can only use swords and shields to top in front, and archers to shoot in the back, or use archers and cavalry to consume the opponent from afar.
It's something that only archers can deal with.
He also heard from a deserter that in addition to the invincible archers, the Mongols also had a kind of javelin cavalry, and that the Ming army without heavy shields was as casual as Taxigua.
He didn't believe it before, but now he does.
The group surnamed Qin only threw two rounds of javelins, and most of the 500 riflemen were killed and wounded, and then a charge was gone.
Zhang Dingguo retracted his gaze, glanced at the valley, and saw that a war horse not far away was bowing his head to arch the body of his master, so he ran over, grabbed the reins of the horse and turned over to the horse.
The horse seemed unwilling to leave the owner's corpse, raised its hooves and neighed, and was kicked on the stomach a few times by Zhang Dingguo before spreading its hooves and running.
Qin Chuan heard the scream, looked back, and couldn't help laughing.
He never thought of killing Zhang Dingguo, since the other party could survive, then ...... Reluctantly adopted this famous historical general for Zhang Bingzhong.
"Lao Li, go and get him back, I want to live."
"Okay."
Li Dingliang is more than 1.8 meters tall, and his two arms are longer than other people's legs, so this job is the best for him.
Qin Chuan retracted his gaze and looked at the mountain beam not far away that was in full swing.
That was the main battlefield of Zhang Kewang and the coalition forces.
Zhang Kewang didn't have time to pay attention to him, but Guo Yan, Ren Liang, Wang Gangbaowu, as well as Ba Shanhu, Li Biaofeng, Tongtianzhu and others, all looked at him with hideous faces, eager to eat him alive.
This son of a bitch has just killed more than 800 of their subordinates.
But they could only watch, and they couldn't divide their troops to slaughter this son of a bitch.
"Hey."
Qin Chuan smiled and waved at them.
"Sweep the battlefield, don't leave anything for them, bring back the scattered war horses, cut off the heads of those old bandits and take them away, let's transport the things back to Zhuangzi first, and then come out to play with them."
After seeing that the other party was indifferent, Qin Chuan was bored, and simply asked his subordinates to clean up the battlefield and temporarily withdraw their troops.
Zhang Dingguo's horse didn't seem to be very obedient, and he was quickly arrested, and in the face of Li Dingliang, who was strong and strong, the little doll had no power to fight back.
In later generations, Qin Chuan admired Li Dingguo, who killed the Manchus to the bust.
Unexpectedly, the future anti-Qing celebrity will now fall into his hands.
For Li Dingguo, who is still a little doll, of course he can't show any admiration, but he is very interested.
Under Zhang Bingzhong, Li Dingguo can become a generation of famous generals, and he should be able to do it under his own command.