Chapter 238: Cavalry Hedge

The battle could not be fought like this any longer, and Zoerbi had completely lost confidence in defeating the Ming army, and he immediately ordered the heralds to blow the horn of the army.

In fact, the Chinese army of the Tartars did not issue the order to withdraw the troops, and the Tartars who rushed into the battle could not hold back, and the attack of the birds that escaped from the Ming army was the consensus of every Karaqin Tartar.

The momentum of the ancient war was particularly important, the Karaqin people were knocked out of their spirits, and one or two adult horses were still painted among the 1,000 horsemen who returned, and at least four or five percent of the Tartars left on the battlefield were not dead.

At this time, the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" came, and they did not look at the battlefield strewn with corpses in front of the infantry array, bypassing these obstacles and directly attacking the Chinese army in Zhuoerbi.

The Karaqin people lost one-third of their men and horses, and one-third of them had just fled back to their own formation, and they were in a state of panic when they found that the Ming cavalry was murderous and swept away, and there was no fighting spirit at all.

I don't know which Tartar who had entered the pass with Jiannu to burn and loot suddenly realized, and he shouted:

"The 'Red Flag Army', that's the 'Red Flag Army', no wonder they are so powerful, it turned out that the 'Red Flag Army' came to the prairie to take revenge."

All the Tartars noticed the dazzling red, and they all saw clearly that the wordless red flag was sweeping in the northwest wind, and more Tartars were terrified, and they shouted and shouted: "It is really the 'Red Flag Army' who has come to the steppe to take revenge, and we are in trouble." ”

Zhuoerbi was okay, he was afraid of the firearms of the Han people, but he was not afraid of cavalry battles with the Ming army.

He saw that the cavalry of the Ming army had been killed far away from the infantry formation, and it was obvious that it had long exceeded the range of firearms in the Ming army's battle array.

Zhuo Erbi was very experienced, and the enemy cavalry was so close that he could not turn around and run at this time, because this directly gave the Ming cavalry a chance to cover up and kill later.

The Karaqin people had already suffered a loss, and their morale was severely damaged at this time, and it was not the perfect time to play Mangu tactics, because Zhuoerbi could not confirm how many of his men would return to fight again after distancing themselves from the Ming army.

After all, there is a small half of the cavalry here that is not his direct line, they are subordinate to Burgadu and other large and small Taiji, and once they start to escape, they may become scattered.

Since you know that the Ming cavalry will lose a lot of men and horses if you come up and run away directly, it is better to hedge up and gamble with superior forces, if you defeat the Ming cavalry, the Karaqin people still have a chance to turn defeat into victory.

Zhuo Erbi brandished the Mongolian sword and shouted: "The 'Red Banner Army' came to Karaqin to find bad luck, we can't hide, sons, they don't have many people, let's rush up and fight with them, and the warriors will rush with this Taiji!" ”

The Karaqin people had no illusions, and realized that they should be the target of the "Red Banner Army" when they appeared here.

Immediately, several commanders and centurions also shouted: "The eagles of the prairie are invincible, and the warriors are killed!" ”

The vast majority of the 1,000 Chinese cavalry in Zhuoerbi were descendants, and their equipment was even better.

These light cavalry did not suffer a blow, and the morale was still there, and at this time, seeing Taiji personally charged, everyone shouted and sprinted, and the 1,000 cavalry who fled back saw that they still had the advantage of strength, and once again mustered up the courage to participate in the charge.

At this moment, there is no strategy or strategy in the cavalry duel, and the brave wins the narrow road!

In the face of the Tartars who exceeded the number of knights of the "Red Banner Army" by several hundred, Hanzi, Yang Danian, Wang Zhanpeng, Yuan Siming, Sang Yu and other cavalry officers were not worried but extremely excited.

Riding a tall horse, the Hanzi took advantage of the speed of the horse to throw out three throwing spears one after another, nailed two Tartars on the spot, and crashed into the Karaqin cavalry group in an instant, he wielded a long-handled battle axe like chopping melons and vegetables, the Tartars were invincible, and the splashed blood dyed the originally red Hanzi even redder.

Wang Zhanpeng, Sang Yu, Wang Zhicheng, Yang Danian, and so on were all unambiguous, and everywhere they passed, there were people rolling and blood soaring, and the two armies were only staggered once, and the Karaqin Tatars realized the huge gap between the equipment and combat effectiveness of the two armies.

They felt that they had suffered too much, and the arrows they shot before approaching the Ming army were far superior to the Ming army in terms of quantity and quality, but unfortunately they did not see a few Ming troops fall off their horses.

The arrows and throwing spears and throwing axes from the Ming army caused at least two or three hundred Karaqin light cavalry to be planted, and it seems that the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" was better equipped than the Jurchen cavalry, and the Karaqin people had no confidence in winning at this time.

When the two armies met for the first time and fought in the first round, the Karaqin people no longer had a numerical advantage, because the "Red Banner Army" was not good at cavalry and archery, and most of them were experts in hand-to-hand combat.

The 800 veterans of the knights of the "Red Banner Army" all had all-steel cuirass, which was sturdy and much more flexible, and when the two armies staggered, they invariably chose the target to be killed, and basically no one was empty-handed.

It's just that some knights are unlucky, because the enemy horses they fancy are also the objects chosen by the robes, and in the end, they can only be won by two or three people equally.

There was a huge disparity in strength, and only more than 100 cavalrymen of the "Red Banner Army" who returned to their horses after the first round of charging and killing fell off their horses, while the Karaqin Tartars had lost a small half of them again.

Zhuo Erbi, who was shot into the chest with a feather arrow in pain, looked left and right, and found that there were less than half of his troops, and then looked at the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" that had been killed again by the whole team, and it seemed that there were no less than his own men.

He was full of heart and gall, he screamed hoarsely, his voice was already a little trembling, this Tai Ji was out of his mind, and he was also stimulated by the huge casualties of his direct family, and he had a desperate intention.

"Warriors, hard battles are inevitable, for the honor of Karaqin, follow this Taiji Chong!"

It's a pity that most of the Karaqin Tatars, who have no sense of honor, did not obey Taiji's orders this time, they rushed, but in the wrong direction, there were six or seven hundred who bypassed the Red Banner Army's shock formation and went in the direction of Qingcheng.

Most of these people were not members of the direct tribe of Zorbi, and today they were temporarily under the command of Zorbi when they were ordered to participate in the battle, and they found that their side had no chance of winning, so they decisively chose to slip away.

There are three to five hundred Tartars who are the children of the Zhuoerbi tribe, and they follow Taiji Zhuoerbi to the Ming cavalry group without turning around, and without exception they hit the steel plate.

On the battlefield, three or four cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" fought a Karaqin Tartar, how could these hundreds of light cavalry survive? In the screams of despair, the Tartars fell one after another.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Ming army, which already had the advantage of strength, began to encircle, the Karaqin people were even more panicked.

"It's hopeless, brothers, run." Even Zolbi's personal guards couldn't hold back and let out a deflated shout.

"Brothers, protect Lord Taiyoshi and quickly retreat." It is possible that a pro-soldier general was directing the retreat.