Chapter 16: Hidden Arrows Are Hard to Defend Against
The two divided the labor, one killed the enemy and the other grabbed the horse, so the arrangement seemed good.
It is possible that the war horses of the Houjin Army have experienced many sprints today, and in order to prevent the war horses from losing their strength, they are trotting at this time, and the horses are not fast.
Huang Han was completely sure of shooting the enemy with a close-range sneak attack.
However, even if the enemy is shot off the horse, the war horse may not stop, and there is a great possibility of working in vain.
Huang Han nodded, and agreed to Xiao Song's participation in the war. The two of them were dozens of steps apart, each hiding behind a tree, watching the Houjin army hurry by.
Sure enough, the people who returned to the camp in victory were relatively scattered, and there were still small teams after the big team was over, and these procrastinators were all Tartars.
This is the road that the Houjin army has walked, and they think that the Ming army has been defeated and fled without a trace, and it should be safe to take this way back, so they are quite slack.
Huang Han continued to wait patiently, and when he found that two horsemen with captured war horses appeared leisurely and appeared, and there were no Houjin troops nearby, he decided to attack them.
The Tartars are not equipped with iron armor, and they should be wearing sheepskin jackets on the outside and inside of the leather armor, such equipment is not able to withstand the direct shooting of the armor-piercing cone, and Huang Han thinks that leaving these two Tartars is nine out of ten.
One of the two Tartars on the official road was a chatterbox, and he was foaming at the mouth of his companion in Mongolian, and it was clear that both Tartars had been given a horse and a Ming soldier in full gear.
Because Huang Han had already seen the bloodstained armor on the Tartar's spare horse, it must have been at least two Ming cavalry killed by these two Tartars.
The saying that the dark arrow is difficult to defend against is not wrong, and the Tartar, who was chatting happily, suddenly heard a cracking sound, and then noticed that an armor-piercing cone suddenly appeared from the neck of his companion.
It turned out that Huang Han's direct shot at close range was accurate and ruthless, and an arrow directly pierced the neck of the Tartar cavalry who was close to him.
Huang Han succeeded with an arrow, and the arrow directly sank into the Tartar's neck, which was only protected by a layer of leather, and he knew that the Tartar was dead, and then the second arrow shot at the Tartar.
Suddenly changed, the frightened Tartar hurriedly bowed down, but unfortunately the action was not completed quickly enough in a hurry, and it was not standard enough.
The fast-flying armor-piercing cone hit the left shoulder of the Tartar, and because of the powerful weight of the arrow, it may have broken the bone, and the Tartar let out a terrible scream, and his legs reflexively slammed into the horse's belly, and the horse immediately "slack" and raised its hooves and jumped forward.
Song Pengfei, who was really seeing behind the big tree about thirty steps away from Huang Han, saw the war horse coming in his direction, and rushed out with a lasso waving a lasso.
At the same time, Huang Han's third armor-piercing cone shot out, and the feather arrow hit the back of the tartar's heart.
At this time, the war horse of the Tartar was just caught by the lasso thrown by Song Pengfei, like a sudden brake, the two front hooves of the war horse took off in the air, and once again let out a "slippery" neigh, which was worthy of standing.
The Tartar on the war horse fell motionless from his horse on his back and fell from his horse, and he should have died on the spot.
Song Pengfei turned over on the horse, clamped the horse's belly, and the horse ran up again to catch up with the war horse in front.
He reached out on his horse and grabbed the reins of another war horse, and whistled in his mouth, and the war horse obediently stopped, followed by two other war horses as if they had received orders, and also stopped.
This is the characteristics of horses, four horses together, soon there will be a horse is the leader, and the head horse of the horse herd is the same meaning, the horse is organized and classed, Song Pengfei can find the head horse through observation, and the other war horses that subdue it will follow.
Seeing that Song Pengfei really intercepted the four war horses, Huang Han was of course happy, and he shouted: "Xiao Song is good, we can't delay, let's carry the two Tartar corpses into the woods first." ”
"Don't worry, master, I know it's dangerous here." Song Pengfei agreed, and the two of them cleaned up the battlefield with their hands and feet, and the total time of this ambush battle was no more than five minutes.
Song Pengfei led the horse and walked in front, and Huang Han carried a horse chopping knife and inspected the surroundings to confirm that there was no one nearby before following into the forest.
Even so, the cautious Huang Han suddenly walked back from time to time to notice whether he was being followed, and he also used branches to clear the traces on the ground, which was better than nothing.
Before dark, the two men stripped the tartar naked in the woods, cut off their heads, threw their headless bodies into a depression, and continued on their way.
For the sake of safety, the two of them stayed as far away from this official road as possible, and continued to walk with torches when it was dark, until midnight before stopping to rest.
Feeling out of danger, the two lit a campfire, ate a barbecue, and finally had time to take a look at the loot.
It is known that the equipment of four war horses and two Tartars was captured, but I don't know what good things the four war horses carried?
After all, Song Pengfei has a young heart, he ate some things in three or two bites and began to turn over the blankets on the horses, and finally found that there were really a lot of seizures.
The two of them got seventy or eighty taels of silver and more than five taels of gold, and also got two pairs of chain mail, which may have been captured by the Tartars from a Ming military attache or a family member.
There are also two Mongolian riding bows in the seizure, two Kaiyuan bows, which are commonly equipped by the Ming army, as well as two Mongolian scimitars, a Ming army-style chopping knife, a knife stick, and two Qi knives.
Now Huang Han is relatively wealthy, he can be regarded as rich in money and grain, with two bags of horse feed, dozens of miscellaneous grain cakes, and more than ten catties of horse meat, more than 200 feather arrows, armor and weapons have far exceeded the equipment needs of two people, and even cowhide combat boots have four pairs of spare.
The official road was to rob the Houjin Army, and now the two of them have skyrocketed in value, and being robbed by others is a veritable failure.
Of course, Huang Han wants to keep the interests in his hands, and the money and equipment exchanged for these lives will become the capital for his foothold in the Ming Dynasty, so of course he must be cautious.
Both of them are actually locals, and they generally know the roads in this area, and with five war horses to transfer, they can take the small road to Yongping Mansion, and they will sprint through when they have to take the official road.
The next morning, Song Pengfei carefully inspected the situation of the horses one by one, fed the war horses with black beans, and the captured sack of wheat should also be the horse feed prepared by the Tartars, and also let the five horses eat a few bites.
Then he tightened the saddle and belly strap and chew again, and then he was relieved to go on the road boldly.
The two of them have five war horses to transfer, if they don't meet the Houjin army, it should be easy to run more than 200 miles in a day.
Huang Han guessed that running out for one or two hundred miles should be the sphere of influence of the Ming army, and Jiannu had just taken the Santun camp and attacked Yongping Mansion at the beginning of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen.
At this time, the wind in Beizhili was loud, the soldiers and civilians were panicked, the Ming army was probably defending the city, no one should dare to go out of the city, and the big families in the countryside should also run to the city at this time.
After the Jin army broke through the side wall, captured the Santun camp, those fortifications built according to the danger were not able to stop the enemy, Yongping Mansion already belongs to the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, there are only a handful of dangers that can be held here, and it is not far away to say that there is no danger to defend!
The Ming army could only choose to stick to the city to protect itself, and let the Houjin army gallop in the mountains, as for the fate of thousands of ordinary people? I'm afraid I can only resign myself to fate.
Huang Han is like an arrow, refusing to entangle with anyone on the road, relying on riding skills and the advantage of being able to change rides, and using speed to resolve dangers.
Along the way, not only did they find ordinary people fleeing with their families, but they also discovered several enemy situations.
It is an established strategy not to entangle and pass quickly, the two of them fight like flying and just move forward, often when the enemy perceives something, the five war horses have long disappeared in front, and the knight is dressed strangely, whether it is an enemy or a friend, and the Jin army can't figure out the situation for a while.