When he saw that on the hillside in the distance, the Ming army had quickly set up a four-wheeled carriage, stacked grain bags, and formed a circular defensive position, the Khan King of Abahanar, Hailigu, had a look of resentment and regret on his standard Mongolian flatbread face and squinted eyes.

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info "Fuck, such a meticulous sneak attack, and let the Ming army form a defensive position, what a fucking failure!" ”

Dajinong Galu next to Hailigu, the military advisor he trusted and relied on the most, couldn't help but scold.

Hearing Galu's hatred and scolding, Hailigu was even more inexplicably angry in his heart.

Since it was discovered that the Ming army had sent an envoy to ask for relatives and went out of the customs to the Mongolian border with the dowry, Hailigu had made a plan with Galu to snatch a large number of dowries for Li Xiao to marry the princess Ingmar of the Tumut tribe.

This batch of dowry, including a large number of money, grain, iron, cloth, salt, etc., is extremely lacking in the grassland, and is very important for the development and growth of the tribe.

Speaking of which, this Abahanar tribe, since this year, has become one of the tribes that provided Li Xiao with sheep chaos, and has the qualifications to exchange all kinds of daily necessities with the Ming Dynasty.

It stands to reason that Hailigu, the Khan King of Abahanar, should be grateful to his parents, Li Xiao, but Hailigu doesn't think so.

Because the Abahhanar were so poor and the tribe population was too small, this small tribe in the Xilinhot region of present-day Inner Mongolia was oppressed by the major tribes and the Qing Dynasty conquered Mongolia to plunder and massacre.

The population of the tribe is only more than 2,000 people, of which there are only more than 700 adult men, Hai Ligu wants to sneak attack Xu Xiu's courtship team today, so he has brought out all the more than 500 elite soldiers and horses in the tribe.

Such a decayed and impoverished small tribe naturally could not tolerate the untamed ambition of the Khan King Hailigu, who had always wanted to revive the tribe's majesty and realize the glory of his ancestor Erqijin.

Therefore, relying only on the little wool produced by the tribe in exchange for a little living materials in the Ming Dynasty, it is almost impossible to revive the tribe, so for Hailigu, only by taking extraordinary measures can the tribe achieve the fastest development and growth.

Therefore, Hailigu naturally thought of the only way for the Mongolian tribes to develop and grow over the past thousand years, that is, looting and fighting.

Hailigu, which means eagle eagle in Mongolian, the Khan of the Abahanar tribe, firmly believes that he who has taken this name should become an eagle soaring on the Mongolian steppe, looking at the world and fluttering his wings.

Rather, like a nameless pheasant, he can only live in the grass, and he is unheard.

It's just that the current Abahanar Department is the weakest among the five Inner Khalkha Mongolians, and it is powerless to bully the Mongolian tribes next to it, and as for the Qing Dynasty in the distance, Hailigu, who has been beaten out of the psychological shadow by Huang Taiji, does not dare to have any bad thoughts at all.

As a result, Hailigu pinned all his hopes on the Ming Dynasty that plundered the south.

When Li Xiao had not yet built and settled in the city on Xuanfu North Road, the Abahanar Department had repeatedly looted at the border passes, which could be regarded as a small gain, but since Li Xiao built the garrison soldiers of Jintang City, in the face of those soldiers of the Golden Wolf Battalion of Li Xiao's army with bright armor and sharp knives and guns, Hai Ligu was quite frightened in his heart, and he no longer dared to loot at the border of the Ming Dynasty as before.

As a result, Hailigu, the Khan king of Abahanar, had to honestly do business with Jintangcheng like other Mongolian tribes near the Ming Realm, and sold wool, cattle and horses in exchange for the living materials needed by the tribe, so that the entire tribe could survive and continue on the grassland.

This state of affairs, in the eyes of Heligu, who was accustomed to captivity, was as disgusting as if the wolf gave up eating meat and went to eat grass for a living, and he was quite resistant and resentful in his heart.

Therefore, when the rangers scattered across the steppe of Abahanar discovered that Li Xiao had sent a military force with no more than 100 men and dozens of civilians to the Tumut Department with six carts of expensive dowry, Hailigu could no longer suppress his ambition and desire to plunder.

He hit it off with the two of them, Dajinong Galu, who was the most trusted under him.

That is, taking advantage of the fact that this courtship team came to a place close to his own tribe, he suddenly attacked and completely wiped out this small team, and snatched all the dowry as his own.

Hailigu has always believed that in the grassland, strength is the foundation of everything.

All other so-called morality and order are deceptive things that are not worth mentioning.

Because his own strength was not enough, he had to start doing business under the strong pressure of Li Xiaojun, pinching his tail and pinching his nose, which was of course very helpless and infuriating.

But seeing this small courtship team that came to the grassland, Hailigu, a hungry wolf, of course thought that he could completely eat this very weak little team.

As for this sneak attack, if it is negligent and not secretive, whether it will attract Li Xiao's revenge in the future, Hai Ligu can't care much about it.

After all, people eat for money, birds die for food, if you can only live a life of grievance, it is better to fight.

Of course, in order to ensure the success of the plan, Abahanar and Galu planned for a long time and carefully designed a sneak attack plan.

That is, when the courtship party came to the nearby Abahanar tribe, and took advantage of their rest and camp at dusk, to launch a sneak attack, then these Ming people, who had unloaded their armor, were tired and slack, and wanted to rest well, should be their best targets.

Moreover, if he could wipe out all these defenseless Ming people, prevent them from escaping alive, and let this small team disappear silently into the vast grassland like the ocean, then Li Xiao would not have any evidence, and it would be impossible for him to know which tribe made the sneak attack, and he would be able to enjoy the fruits of this looting with confidence.

It's just that the seemingly perfect plan went wrong when it was just launched.

Babhanar Khan Hailigu, who led all the elite cavalry to move in full force, never expected that he had just left the territory and was not far away, but he actually encountered the patrol rangers sent by this courting team, which completely exposed his sneak attack plan, and finally let the Ming people who were camping get the news and quickly made defensive preparations.

Thinking that before he set off, he also solemnly sacrificed to the Immortal Heaven, hoping to obtain the favor and good luck of the gods, but he didn't expect that his team of more than 500 people could only fight hard with the Ming army that had made a defensive posture, Hai Ligu couldn't help but be angry in his heart.

"King Khan, what should we do, are we going to attack hard?"

Beside him, Jinong Galu's voice sounded low.

Hai Ligu's eyes were as hideous as a hungry wolf, and he whispered: "Hmph, our army has been planning for so long, and even planned to completely tear off the face with that Li Xiao to attack this courting team, and now that this team has been surrounded, how can it be reasonable?" ”

Hai Ligu looked up at the sky, looked at the heavy afterglow of the sky, and continued: "If you don't take advantage of the fact that the weather is not dark, step up the attack on the Ming army, and wait for the sky to get dark, and then want to attack, but you can only wait for the dawn." ”

As soon as he finished saying this, he shouted and ordered: "Sons, listen to Ben Khan's orders, take advantage of the fact that the sky is not dark, immediately attack the whole army, and when you reach the firing range, immediately throw arrows, and shoot all the Ming people who are as timid as rats hiding behind the fortifications into hedgehogs!" ”

As soon as the order was handed down, the Mongol cavalry let out a high-pitched howl like a wolf's howl, and immediately drew their bows and arrows from all directions, and rode straight up the hill.

By the time the Mongol cavalry began to attack, Xu Xiu's defensive arrangements had been completed.

He had Makata and a dozen other men stay in an inner circle surrounded by tents, with horses, food, and other valuables such as silk that had been unloaded from the wagons.

As for himself, he led more than 100 Ming soldiers and more than 30 sturdy people as temporary porters to guard the outer defensive circle composed of grain bags and carriages.

When he saw the Mongolian cavalry howling and attacking the mountain, Xu Xiu, the supreme commander of the courtship team, had a gloomy face like iron.

However, on his lips, a sneer floated.

Hmph, you ungrateful Mongol Tartars who attacked our army, if you think that you can wipe them out so easily, but it is pure wishful thinking!

Speaking of which, if Xu Xiu wanted to defend against the Mongol cavalry with bows and arrows, he would need to have equally powerful archers or musketeers to counteract the rampant offensive of the enemy, which was five times his strength.

But now there are very few archers in this courtship team, and there is not a single firecracker, so how should Xu Xiu guard this temporary camp?

This question is the most uneasy thing in the heart of Xu Xiu's princess Makata, who was staying in the inner circle of the defensive position with several people, looking at Xu Xiu's princess Makata, who was commanding back and forth.

However, Makata soon saw that in the hands of the Ming soldiers who were squatting in the outer circle, many of them were draped in a lit fire rope and held a round black ball with a wooden handle in their hands.

Of course, Makata didn't know that what these Ming troops held in their hands was their real guarding weapon, throwing thunder in their hands.

I think that a few months ago, Jin Tongwu, the general who defended the island of Ocean Island, was able to successfully defend Zhenhai Fort on Ocean Island with only a force of more than 1,000 people because of this thunder, so that as many as tens of thousands of Qing troops returned in vain, and finally Li Xiaojun, who came to help, made all the dumplings.

Therefore, the current Xu Xiu is to copy the tactics of Jin Tongwu guarding Zhenhai Fort that day.

In this courtship team, each soldier was issued with three hand-thrown grenades, so that there were more than 300 hand-thrown grenades that could be used to guard defensive positions, but the number was considerable.

This kind of hand-thrown thunder, each for the pig iron shell 8 catties, containing 6 catties of black powder standard specifications, in this way, the weight of a single hand to throw thunder, and a standard men's shot put weight is almost the same, because you can hold the wooden handle to throw, trained adult males, flat throwing distance can reach nearly 20 steps.

And in such a condescending place, if you throw it down the slope, the distance of a single soldier throwing thunder will only increase greatly, Xu Xiu estimates that throwing nearly 40 steps should be completely possible.

And what is going on is that those Mongolian cavalry, because they are attacking and throwing from the back, the distance that the arrows can shoot is much less than that on the flat ground, and the attack power will also be greatly reduced because of the insufficient distance of the fall.

If an elite cavalry archer can shoot a distance of 60 paces on flat ground, then he will only be able to shoot 40 to 50 paces away when attacking from his back, because he has to counteract the effects of gravity.

That is to say, the range that the Ming army on the defensive position could attack was basically overlapping with the range that the Mongol cavalry attacking from the back could shoot.

Of course, from the point of view of pure mathematical calculations, it seems that the range of the Mongolian cavalry is slightly longer, but you must know that this is the data that can only be achieved by the most elite marksmen, and if you average it, the attack range of these Mongolian cavalry is about 40 steps.

Moreover, the firearms workshop had calculated that the effective killing radius of this kind of single-handed thunder could reach about 5 meters, which means that the hand-thrown thunder thrown by Li Xiaojun was enough to attack the Mongolian cavalry that could enter the firing range.

Therefore, the current Xu Xiu pinned all his hopes on whether he could hold this defensive position on this thunder.

"Everyone, listen to the orders of this officer, and when the enemy cavalry enters the firing range, immediately throw hand and throw thunder. Be careful, regardless of whether the explosion is blown up or not, each person can only throw one, remember to remember! ”

Xu Xiu's order was quickly passed on, and it was remembered by every soldier who was waiting for it.

Xu Xiu was a delicate person, and he had calculated that if this wave of more than 100 hand-thrown thunderbolts was thrown, it would be enough to completely defeat the attack of the Mongolian cavalry.

Then, in the darkness of the night that followed, it was impossible for the Mongol cavalry to launch a second attack.

Therefore, if the remaining Mongol cavalry wanted to attack a second time, they had to wait until dawn to carry out.

In that case, the remaining 200 hand-thrown thunders will be able to exert their power again.

From the foot of the mountain, the hedgehogs gathered everywhere, and there were more than 200 Mongolian cavalry who went up the mountain to attack, and they formed an unplanned black ring, constantly coming towards the mountain, and they were getting closer and closer to the Ming army who were nervously guarding the position.

One hundred steps.

Xu Xiu didn't say anything.

Eighty steps.

Xu Xiu was still watching nervously.

Sixty steps.

While the soldiers in the defensive position were nervously swallowing spit, Xu Xiu's teeth were gritted loudly, but he still did not give the order.

The Mongol cavalry, which rode on horseback, soon reached a distance of fifty paces.

"Ready!"

Xu Xiu shouted.

The Ming army guarding immediately began to light the fuse on the hand-thrown thunder with a fire rope.

While the fuse was burning, the Mongol cavalry had quickly rushed to a distance of only more than forty paces from the defensive position.

"Cast!"

With Xu Xiu's loud shout, more than 100 fuses burned and thundered, like a group of black birds that suddenly flew away, flapping their wings and flying towards the mountainside.

At the same time, the Mongolian cavalry, which had already rushed ahead, shot out nearly a hundred sharp arrows at the defensive position.

More than 100 hand-thrown grenades were thrown, and about 80 of them exploded smoothly.

Violent explosions rang out violently, and the blinding yellow flames stretched into a web of death, powerful shockwaves and screaming fragments, with a devastating and violent force, tearing all those or things who dared to stop them to pieces.

Looking down from the defensive position, you can clearly see that the Mongol cavalry that entered the range of hand-thrown thunder attacks, the men and horses suddenly turned into a rafflet rain of flesh and blood, together with the weeds and gravel on the slope, in the thick of choking smoke, in the terrible screams and the sorrowful screams of the horses, flying in all directions, very terrifying and bloody.