Chapter Seventy-Three: Bluffing "Hehehe, interesting." Looking at the loose formation of the Tartar soldiers under the light of the torches, Zhang Chi couldn't help but laugh. Sure enough, once the Tartar soldier left the horse, he was really weak. To deal with such an enemy, as long as you give yourself 5,000 elite soldiers to destroy ten times the enemy.

Don't talk nonsense, just listen to Zhang Chi yelling: "Kill!" He drew his saber tied to his horse's back and rushed forward. The soldiers behind him also roared, and beat their horses to follow. Morale is arrogant, nothing more than that.

The formation of the Tartar soldiers was too loose, and in the face of the Ming army that rushed to the front, they couldn't resist it at all, and they were rushed into chaos by others in an instant.

"Block, you must block Ben Khan!" I was furious, wielding a jeweled scimitar and moving around.

The generals around him also realized that this battle was a matter of life and death, and if they lost, so many people would have no chance of survival. In this case, it is better to give it a go, even if it is death, it will not make these southern barbarians feel better. As a result, one by one, the tribal warriors with strong martial arts rushed to the front.

It's a pity that battles with a huge disparity in strength will not be easily reversed because of the best efforts of the inferior side. Although it was also a casualty of the elite men and horses of the Xuanfu that caused Zhang Chi to suffer casualties for a while, the casualties of the Tartars themselves still rose sharply.

This battle was full of joy, and Zhang Chi, who had been fighting back and forth on a war horse for a quarter of an hour, only felt comfortable all over his body, and he hadn't enjoyed it so much for a long time.

"My lord, there are traces of the Tartar brigade fifty miles to the north." A horse came in a hurry to report, looking a little flustered.

Zhang Chi frowned, "Did you ever know?" ”

"My lord, it's too dark to see real, but the sound of horses' hooves is like rolling thunder, and there must be a lot of people!" Tanma's expression was a little afraid, after doing Tanma for so many years, he had never heard such a loud sound of horses' hooves, but he was afraid that there were 50,000 horses.

The muscles of his cheeks shook and he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter. This place is already the Tartar's sphere of influence, and it is very likely that there will be a large reinforcement.

You must know that the Tartars are all soldiers, and once they arrive at the tribal gathering area where the water and grass are abundant on the grassland, it is easy for them to gather nearly 10,000 horses in a short time.

Less than 200 miles north from here is Jining Haizi, where many Tartar tribes gathered. According to the calculation of the distance, if the Tartars can still keep a few war horses when they escape from the mouth of Wayao Fort, it is indeed enough to move to the rescuers.

After a little pondering, Zhang Chi had a plan in his heart. Although the Tartars had reinforcements, these reinforcements were ordinary Tartar people, and although these herdsmen were proficient in mounted archery, they could only be regarded as ordinary troops. Compared to the Tartar elite who are surrounded now, it is really different.

"Someone." Zhang Chi let out a loud shout, and a member of the subordinates who had been following behind him immediately rushed forward. "Send 5,000 men and horses to form a formation in the north twenty miles, even if you fight to the point of one soldier, you can't let Tartar reinforcements come."

The general did not hesitate, and immediately turned around and summoned his generals to draw troops and horses and start rushing north.

As soon as the five thousand men and horses moved, the pressure on the Tartars was suddenly relaxed. Such an obvious change naturally can't escape the eyes of a person who has fought on the battlefield all his life, and he understands it after a little pondering. Najib did not live up to his hopes, and he must have appeared with reinforcements, otherwise the Han would not have put down such an obvious advantage and sent troops out.

"Tell the warriors that our reinforcements will arrive soon, and the fall of the Ming army is not far off!" I replied in high spirits, and my tense mood for a day and two nights finally relaxed.

"My lord, Zhang Chi surrounded the main force of the Tartars fifty miles ahead, if you guessed correctly, it is very likely that the Mongolian Great Khan will be among them." After receiving the report, Wang Chonggu's heart can be regarded as steady. The purpose of this battle is to answer me, the soul of the Tatar people.

For the cavalry, fifty miles is not a distance at all, since the main force of the Tartars has been bitten by Zhang Chi, it is impossible for them to get out in a short time, and they will lead more than 15,000 horses under their command to kill them, and it is time for the Tartars to be annihilated.

Thinking of good things in his heart, Shen Chongming smiled and said to Wang Chonggu: "Lord Wang, since this is the case, let's not rest, all the Tartars will be wiped out before dawn!" "This is said very imposingly, maybe this is the so-called general's demeanor.

"Report, the Ming army has been found ahead!" The knight leading the way in front of him struck his horse back. However, the news reported was of little use, and the large area of fire Bahannaji himself could see clearly. neat and orderly, it is definitely not your own people who have fled all the way.

"Send a thousand men to the front, and the rest scatter the horses everywhere, and be sure to disrupt their formation." Bahannaji's face was majestic. After experiencing such a big battle, it was a lot of gain for him, and he wiped away the last bit of childishness on his body overnight.

There are indeed many Tatar herdsmen living near Jining Haizi. But this time, I led 50,000 horses and horses out on the expedition, and most of the soldiers were taken away.

Although Bahannaji, who rushed to one tribe, sent many people to gather warriors, it was impossible for every tribe to notify them because of the urgency of time, and second, he really couldn't draw manpower.

Faced with such a situation, Bahannaji showed his courage and wit in front of everyone, and immediately impressed the several tribal leaders who gathered around him.

To put it bluntly, it's just a bluff. The number of men and horses gathered was 5,000, but the number of horses gathered was 60,000, and Bahannaji planned to take advantage of the night to drive the 60,000 horses with 5,000 men and horses to pretend to be the arrival of a large force of reinforcements. He was fifty percent sure that this plan would succeed in scaring off the Ming army. Of course, the other five achievements are that the scheme was discovered by the other party.

Fortunately, this risky move easily deceived Zhang Chisa's nearby Tanma. If you want to blame it, you can blame Bahan Naji's gathering of the right time, place and people. Of course, his own territory is very familiar, even with his eyes closed, it is impossible to make mistakes on the way, let alone rush without lighting a torch to take advantage of the reflection of the snow. This is for the sake of location.

As for the time of day, it's even simpler. Although the sky was dark, there was snow on the ground, and the scenery in the distance was hazy, and the specific situation could only be inferred and guessed by one's own imagination. This is also the main reason why Tanma was deceived. He could only hear the rumbling of horses' hooves, and although he couldn't see it too clearly, from experience, he almost immediately decided that it was the Tartars' brigade coming.

And the people refer to my answer. As the Great Khan for many years, Altan has always been very popular with the Tatar tribesmen, and when he heard that he was in danger, the leaders of several tribes began to gather men and horses to meet and rescue without thinking, otherwise as long as it dragged on for another hour, Alta was very likely to be captured and killed.

With these conditions in mind, it makes perfect sense that this bluff can succeed.

General Zhang Chi, who led the troops to block, didn't really see the situation not far away, but he looked hazyly at a large number of people rushing towards him, and his heart couldn't help but lift. Grandpa God, how could there be so many reinforcements from the Tartars, could it be that I had expected such a day and made preparations in advance?

Without allowing him to think too much, a group of people rushed forward. With a loose military order on his head, although the generals had no bottom of the battle in their hearts, they didn't dare to think about the retreat, so they could only grit their teeth and urge the horses to meet them.

The violent impact did not hurt the general. How to say that he is also a veteran of the border army, and a saber in his hand is also a tiger and a tiger, and he directly passes through the Tartar soldiers who rushed to the front and bluffs into the horse formation.

The situation in front of him immediately made him dumbfounded, it turned out to be a large number of war horses with no body, not to mention the Tartar soldiers, who didn't even have a saddle on their backs!

shouted that he was deceived, and the general immediately thought of reversing the horse's body and rushing out of the horse formation to report to Zhang Chi. But it was easy to get in and difficult to get out, and when he turned the horse around in great danger, his eyes were full of galloping horses, and it was not easy to rush out, but he could only be helplessly carried forward by the herd of horses.

Ten thousand horses galloping with the flow is no better than that of a knight, and once they gallop, unless the head horse is captured, they can only wait for the horses to get tired and stop, and manpower alone cannot stop them from moving forward.

In the face of such a formation, although the five thousand horses sent by Zhang Chi were not bad, they were also chaotic by the horse formation in an instant. The luckier ones also turned their horses' heads around and drifted with the tide, and the miserable thing was that they were knocked off the horse's back in an instant, turned into blood and water under the horse's hooves, and melted into this fertile meadow.

Fortunately, such a sacrifice was not completely useless, and being blocked like this, the speed of the entire horse formation gradually slowed down. It's not something you can get back to speed as fast as you can in a few breaths.

Bahannaji, who followed at the end, also breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly sent someone forward to keep the speed of the horse formation at the status quo, and kept an eye on the head horse to catch it at any time.

The reason for this was not because it easily broke down the formation laid out by the Ming army, but because the speed of the horse formation slowed down. Originally, the speed was so fast, just to be able to come to the rescue in the shortest possible time. But when it came to the end, Bahan Naji remembered a crucial thing, and that was how to stop this horse formation!

You must know that some of the people and horses I encountered in the past were marching on foot, and once they couldn't stop the horse formation and collide with it, it would definitely be a catastrophe for this team. But whatever hinders the horse's progress can only be destroyed under the horse's hooves.

At this time, seeing the speed of the horse formation slowing down, Bahan Naji was grateful to the poor five thousand Xuanfu at that moment, saving his life.

The voice got closer and closer, and Zhang Chi immediately realized that something was wrong, it seemed that the five thousand men and horses he sent did not play a big role. The occurrence of such a situation can only show that the Tartar reinforcements are coming fiercely, and for safety reasons, the best way is to temporarily avoid their edge. After all, my life is expensive, and the brothers under my hands are all baby bumps. I can't afford to put my brothers' lives in vain for the sake of the overall situation of Raushzi.

"Mingjin, collect the troops!" Zhang Chi's command was short and powerful, and his face was a little ugly. When the soldiers left Xuanfu, there were 30,000 brothers, and these successive battles lost more than 10,000 people, and these were all their own brothers.

As soon as the gong sounded, the soldiers of the Ming army who were fighting immediately used all their strength to intensify their attacks, and the Tartars who had just been boosted by their morale were defeated and retreated.

Nor did they get entangled, with the orders issued by the generals at all levels scattered in the crowd, the soldiers began to withdraw in a panic.