Chapter 587: Wanton Revenge
The cavalry of the Ming army continued to make persistent efforts, following the trails left by the Houjin army transport team along the way, pursuing how many different captures and captures were made almost every day.
A large number of Han people who were coerced by the Houjin army were rescued, fled over the mountains and across the Lingnan Mountains, these ordinary people were really desperate to survive, if it were not for the timely arrival of the Ming army, one or two adults might have died on the long road of more than 2,000 miles.
Along the way, many Tartar tribes were discovered, and of course they were slaughtered by the retaliating Ming army, and all the Han people who became slaves were freed.
Many Tartar tribes are deliberately concentrated in this area, the reason is very simple, the vast majority of the young and strong people in their tribe followed Jiannu to enter the customs and rob the Ming Dynasty.
In order to meet the relatives who had grabbed a lot of good things and returned home as soon as possible, the children of the Tartar family tried to get as close as possible to the route of the imminent return of the army.
Often, the women, children, and old people of the Tartar tribe hurriedly ran out of the yurt when they heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, and they thought that their relatives had returned with a full load.
Who knew that it was the murderous Ming cavalry attacking, because there were basically no young adults, the Mongolian tribes lost their resistance, and in order to retaliate, the Ming army refused to let go of a single Tartar man and woman, and killed them all!
Time was urgent, and even the yurts were dismantled and all burned down.
Killing, destruction, and deterrence are the themes of this time, and the Ming army not only kills people but also prevents fires along the way, and finally half of the sky is burned red on the grassland.
This is not an exaggeration, this year is already dry, and it is the end of August when paraquat is yellow, the wind and fire will soon burn the prairies, and when the Houjin army chases after them, they only see a piece of scorched earth.
When the Tartars robbed the Ming Dynasty, they should have laughed hideously, and they didn't know how to feel when they saw their hometown become a black scorched earth?
After seven days in a row, there was not a day empty-handed, and due to the disparity in strength, the Ming army did not suffer much loss in the men and horses that went out of the pass.
The convoy was too easy to fight, and each attack could get at least 1,000 horses and a large amount of gold and silver treasures, which made the Ming army smile from ear to ear for the past few days.
The Ming army was to let the Han people take away the donkeys, ploughing cattle and other big animals that pulled the carts, and left the horses to pull the carts to transport the captured good things, and now one person has at least three war horses and horses, and the "Red Banner Army" has more than four.
The young musketeers and cavalry also selected more than 2,000 young men who could ride horses and knew how to serve livestock, and requisitioned them for military service, and more than 2,000 people assisted the "Red Banner Army" in feeding horses and managing spare horses, so that more cavalrymen could let go of the fight.
Yang Danian, the deputy general of Jizhen, had the heaviest responsibility, he did not participate in the attack and kill the transport team, but led the 300 cavalry with the best horsemanship and the strongest combat effectiveness to concentrate 900 Arab war horses, and opened a distance of more than 200 miles with the main force to find out whether the pursuers were approaching.
These people and horses are all non-commissioned officers, and there are dozens of warriors and warriors at the level of warriors, and Gu Kui and Lei Mingchun, the two warriors around Huang Han, are also among them.
Attitude is everything, and the 300 non-commissioned officers of the "Red Banner Army" who stayed behind the large army to report on the movements of the pursuing troops saw Gu Kui and Lei Mingchun coming to serve as liaison officers, and everyone could feel the heavy responsibility and was extremely careful.
Non-commissioned officers have at least two self-generated short guns and a clairlife mirror as standard.
Yang Danian's small but fine team had 300 clairvoyant mirrors for observation, and even a rabbit from the direction of Zhangjiakou could not escape the gaze of so many pairs of eyes.
The small number of outposts and messengers that appeared in the enemy could not pass through the monitored roads at all, because the Jiannu contingent of less than 100 people, even the men and horses of Gebush's Xianchaoha battalion, could not survive if they were attacked by the cavalry non-commissioned officers concentrated by the 300 "Red Banner Army".
Huang Han never wanted to care about his head, and he had to grasp what position the Houjin army had reached after chasing after him.
Yang Danian found that there were thousands of pursuers and would quickly send people to gallop to report the news, and when the main force chose to run away, there should still be a distance of more than 100 miles from the pursuers.
Moreover, it is impossible for the three hundred non-commissioned officers to tolerate the enemy's cavalry easily galloping all the way to pursue our army, and they will take advantage of the speed advantage of the Arabian war horses under their crotch and their own equipment advantages to launch intermittent harassment battles and slow down the Jin army's advance speed.
After the break, Yang Danian, who had been following Huang Han from birth to death, was not only loyal to the "Red Flag Army", but also had rich combat experience, a calm personality, and a thoughtful mind.
The first to investigate were the shrewd, capable, brave and warlike Sang Yu and Wang Zhicheng, who each led a cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" who had served for more than two years to explore the Houjin Army's route home, and all the plans for the encirclement and annihilation of the movement came from their proposals.
At noon on the eighth day of the pass, that is, on August 21, the cavalry of the Ming army arrived at a place called Three Mountains.
Calculate the distance from Zhangjiakou has more than 1,000 miles, and then there is a three-way intersection, the road to the east is Liaoxi, and the small road to the south is the Daming side wall.
The three non-commissioned officers under Sang Yu ran back to find the main force, and Le Zizi returned a good news to Huang Han.
Instead of a convoy in front of it, there was a large chaotic camp, which was confirmed by observation to be a material transfer station in Jiannu, and there were too many Han people in it, and I am afraid that there were thirty or fifty thousand people.
There should be more than two Niulu soldiers in the Jiannu armor soldiers, and many Tartar soldiers may reach two or three thousand.
Sang Yu had already contacted Wang Zhicheng, and they were going to lead their men and horses to cross the camp of the Houjin army to hold the escape routes of Jiannu and Tartar to the north and east, and the main army could launch a surprise attack at high speed.
More than 10,000 cavalry of the Ming army, who had high morale, learned that there was a camp of the Houjin army not far ahead, and the materials inside were piled up, and they screamed with excitement one by one.
The rush battle kicked off, and Huang Han couldn't do it if he wanted to take the lead in the kill, so he was surrounded by a general young musketeer cavalry and nine personal guards such as Yan Congyou, He Yongqing, Gu Jixiang, and Ge Daben.
Fang Zhenghua laughed and led his subordinates to the Houjin army camp with Lou Yun, Zhang Chao, Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong, Sun Yingyuan and other generals, and the blood mist rose until the killing.
Jiannu and Tatar did not expect to be attacked in the hinterland of the steppe, their camp was not closed at all like the Mongol tribal settlement, and was rushed to pieces by more than 10,000 cavalry at once.
Many Tartars and Jiannu saw red flags flying high, and saw the knights of the Ming army who were like dragons and horses, and there were thousands of troops and horses, all of whom chose to flee in all directions without exception.
The Houjin army guard here is famous, this person is named Wunag, who is the first scum among the Mongols to be a slave of Nurhachi, and is one of the number one executioners of the Houjin.
In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, he led more than 10,000 Tartars and Jiannu coalition troops to attack Juehua Island, and dozens of generals such as Yao Fumin, Dusi Wang Xiaxe, Ji Shideng, etc., were martyred, and more than 20,000 Ming soldiers and civilians and merchants were slaughtered.
The barbarians also burned more than 2,000 warships, merchant ships, and fishing boats frozen in the port, and burned down the Tunliang City on Juehua Island.