Chapter 299: Catch them all
At the head of Mayi City, Cao Jue and Liu Wenyuan stared blankly at the battlefield not far away, unable to say a word.
The defenders and people at the head of the city also stared at the outside of the city one by one.
On the battlefield outside the city, Jiannu was already in a state of collapse.
The 1,000 Mongol cavalry was fine, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they immediately ran, and they ran as fast as they could.
Qinchuan lacked horses, and the war horses were given to the outflanked Luo Da Niu and Luo Da Niu's 4,000 troops, as well as the 1,500 troops of the tiger and leopard battalion, so Li Dingliang's Guan Emperor army did not have military horses.
Two legs certainly can't outrun four legs, but Batu and Zhao Shengcai did not blindly chase after them, but went to the northeast, diagonally to cut off the retreat of the Mongol cavalry.
About half of the Mongol cavalry escaped, while the rest were forced to the west, where Shuozhou and Jingping Fort, as well as the Guanshui Mountains and the Great Wall.
In other words, these Mongol cavalry fled into a large pocket, and if the Ming troops in Shuozhou and Jingpingbao had the guts, they would have been blocked in the pocket and killed.
In contrast, the fate of Jiannu was much worse than that of the Mongol cavalry.
After only three rounds of artillery bombardment, nearly 200 of the 1,500 flag-bearers on the frontal battlefield were killed on the spot, and as many as 6 or 700 were wounded and fell to the ground.
After a complete rout, the wounded soldiers fell into bad luck.
The unwounded Jiannu were also destined to die, because most of them wore iron armor, and many had two or even three layers of armor, which were very heavy, not only ran hard, but also ran very slowly, and it was difficult to remove the armor without help.
Emperor Guan's army had good food, strong training, and his physique was no worse than that of Jiannu, and he only wore cotton armor on his body, so he quickly chased after him.
Jiannu's horses were left two hundred paces away, and these two hundred steps became a slaughterhouse.
Qin Chuan's order to all the imperial troops was: except for the Jiannu generals, the rest of the wounded soldiers and prisoners should not be left.
So, when Emperor Guan's army rushed over like a pack of wolves, all the living mouths encountered along the way became ghosts.
Hundreds of musketeers chased and loaded their ammunition, and after loading, they raised their guns and fired, and the slower Jiannu also fell down one after another.
The knife player and the spearman chased after him directly, slashing and slashing from behind, killing two hundred paces with a river of blood, and the remains of severed fingers were scattered all over the ground.
Feng Yilong took the lead, leading several of his younger brothers and a dozen or so personal soldiers to chase after him, ignoring the enemies encountered on the road, and only speeding up his horse and going straight to the more than 1,000 war horses left behind by Jiannu.
Some Jiannu rushed in front of him, turned over on their horses, and then jerked their horses and galloped in the northeast direction.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Jiannu guarding the war horses hurriedly cut off the reins of some of the war horses nailed to the ground, dispersed the war horses, and then rode their horses away, and ran away in the blink of an eye.
After Feng Yilong arrived, he took a few younger brothers and his own soldiers with a total of twenty horsemen, cut off the reins of the remaining seven or eight hundred war horses, and then drove these war horses in the northwest direction.
Jiannu, who was running slowly, was suddenly dumbfounded.
War horses are tools for escaping, and without mounts, they are doomed.
Some people desperately chased after the war horses, but on the way, they were slashed and killed by Feng Yilong and others, and some ran to the east without their lives, while praying that Lord Ye Chen could lead his troops to rescue in time.
After Feng Yilong and others drove those war horses back, the Guan Emperor army behind them mounted their horses one after another, some to chase the 1,000 Mongolian cavalry, and some to chase the Jiannu who was running desperately in the wilderness.
There were 1,500 flags with red flags, and less than 300 people finally captured the horses and fled.
Among them were Rausa and a few of his personal guards.
Raussa was not dead, but he was shot twice in the chest, one of which had a bullet that had penetrated through a gap in the armor and between two ribs in his chest.
At that time, some of his own soldiers immediately put him in the saddle and led him to gallop wildly.
After running for a while, Rausa relieved himself and glanced behind him.
The field behind them was empty, with only a dozen or so riders following behind them.
Seeing this, Rausa closed his eyes and looked up to the sky and sighed.
His 1,500 vanguards were almost completely wiped out.
"Master Rausa, run away." A guard next to him saw that he had suddenly slowed down his horse, so he hurriedly urged.
Rausa shook his head: "I can't run away anymore." ”
"Why?"
"The surname Qin is notoriously insidious and cunning, our retreat is blocked nine times out of ten, if we venture eastward, we will only run headlong into his ambush."
"Ah...... So what should I do? ”
"Cross the Sanggan River, go south, and take a detour to find Yue Zhibeile."
"Yes...... My lord, here they are. ”
The guard's face suddenly changed, and he pointed in the direction of the east, and said in a difficult voice.
Rausa turned his head to look, and saw a black line appear in the wilderness, with a looming roar of horses' hooves, rushing towards them.
"Alas......"
Rausa sighed again, then pulled the reins of his horse, shouted "go", and rushed in the direction of the Sangan River.
The black line on the east side is Liao Sangun's tiger and leopard battalion.
Fifteen hundred horsemen, sweeping all the way from east to west like pulling nets, are bound to wipe out all the soldiers and horses on Laussa's way, and not let go of a single fish that slips through the net.
When Lausa just fled in the direction of the Sanggan River, Liao Sangun put down the binoculars in his hand, pointed in the direction of Lausa, and said: "There is a general among the Jiannu, let go of a shot and inform the brothers on the other side of the river, Tong He, take your brothers to chase after them, don't let them run away." ”
"Yes."
A sturdy man roared behind him, and with thirty-six horsemen, he quickened his horse and pursued in the direction of Laussa.
Another man raised his flintlock pistol and fired an empty shot into the sky.
The sound of the gunfire was extremely loud in the wilderness, and several groups of tigers and leopards cruising on the other side of the Sanggan River immediately surrounded in this direction.
Rausa finally found a shallow section of the river, and as soon as he stepped into the river, the thirty-six tigers and leopards behind him chased after him, and after thirty or forty paces, they drew their javelins and threw them vigorously.
Raussa glanced back just in time to see a javelin whizzing towards him, and hurriedly lowered his head, which narrowly grazed over his head and fell into the river.
The other Jiannu were not so lucky, or they were stabbed alive by the javelin, or fell into the water because the war horse under the crotch was stabbed.
By the time Raussa fled across the river, he was left with only three guards.
At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was heard from all sides, and dozens of tigers and leopards rode from all directions towards Lausa, who had just stepped onto the riverbank.
"Warriors! Kill it! ”
With red eyes, Rausa raised his waist knife and rushed out on his horse.
"Kill!"
The three guards followed him with their weapons held high.
As soon as he rushed out of a dozen or so steps, more than a dozen javelins came at him.
One of them slammed into the head of the horse under Raussa's crotch.
The horse screamed and tumbled to the ground, and Laussa was thrown to the ground and dizzy.
As soon as he got up, the back of a long knife smashed into the back of his head.