Chapter 100: Step by step
The Pisces Village camp was filled with people all night long, and the wheat stacks were getting fewer and fewer.
When the sky was slightly bright, Song Pengfei and Hanzi took the main force of the Red Banner Army to lead the horses and drive the cattle back to Zunhua on the mountain road, this team was also fully loaded, all the cavalry were on foot, and the war horses were either loaded with silk, cloth, and iron or a few bags of wheat.
It is inevitable that they will not be able to move quickly, but fortunately, the chances of the Jin army after encountering a large force are very low.
The mountain road is long, and the large-scale cavalry raid cannot be carried out, and it is not conducive to cavalry warfare, and most of the people such as Hanzi and Yang Hanwei, Yang Guoen, Huang Sifang, etc., are martial artists.
Their infantry combat skills are stronger as long as they are not large-scale military formations, because small-scale infantry engagement is almost inseparable from group fighting, and martial artists are of course like fish in water, and they will definitely not suffer losses when encountering small groups of enemy troops.
Huang Han took Wang Zhanpeng and Wang Zhicheng to communicate with the people who were constantly coming and going, asked them about their living conditions and population structure, and encouraged everyone to live tenaciously, and advised everyone not to be thieves.
The soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" of Yang Danian and Yuan Siming established a cordon ten miles outside the mountain pass.
In order to prevent a large force of cavalry of the Houjin Army from easily reaching Pisces Village, Yang Danian set up an obstacle at a relatively dangerous crossing less than two miles outside the mountain pass.
They piled up the forty or fifty pace-wide crossings with firewood and felled trees, leaving only a passage that was only wide enough to pass side by side through two riders.
Yuan Siming was originally going to pile up six or seven hundred carts here as a roadblock, but when he found a large force, the Jin army set fire to block the enemy when he was attacking.
However, the common people led by Qiao Anshan were reluctant to those carts, they were ready to disassemble all the carts and carry them away, and hundreds of strong laborers took the initiative to assist Yang Danian in collecting dry firewood, and made every effort to cut down trees as roadblocks.
The common people all know that Huang Han can lead the men and horses to retreat early in the morning, and he can't take the risk of staying behind in person, and he doesn't need to bother to cut down trees and pile firewood in order to block the Houjin army.
Obviously, this red flag fluttering team is for the safety of the people, so that the people have time to move more food and get more supplies.
I am afraid that nearly 10,000 Han people rushed to Pisces Village to transport grain, and the "Red Flag Army" established an image of loving the people in the hearts of the people.
The glorious image of this completely different army has remained in the hearts of these villagers, and it is believed that soon these ordinary people will spread the story of the "Red Flag Army" to all the mountain villages in the south of Yanshan.
The Houjin army was not as strong as imagined, and Huang Han waited until noon with two general bannermen and horses without finding any enemies to kill.
At this time, the common people even dismantled the carts and carried them to the mountains, and there were no valuable materials left in Pisces Village, only more than 300 slick headless corpses.
Huang Han thinks that the common people have not gone far, and if they stay for an hour, the safety of the common people will be more guaranteed, and it is impossible for Jiannu to attack thousands of troops as soon as they appear, so they will always send scouts to report on the battlefield of Pisces Village.
In fact, except for the small basin mountain where Pisces Village is located, the road conditions here are very bad, and it cannot meet the needs of thousands of troops and horses.
How can the more than 100 soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" be busy in vain after preparing for most of the day? It is necessary to kill a few Jiannu sentry horses to find some unhappiness for the Houjin army, and slow down their march as much as possible to be worthy of the long time spent here.
Santun Camp City is very important, guarding the road to Longjing Pass, and it is also the way home for the Houjin army.
The garrison Wakda has to confront the very restless Ming troops stationed in Zunhua City, and he also has to send men and horses to escort supplies, and there are really not many troops that can be drawn.
But the place where Huang Han attacked was the place where it must be saved, and it was the main artery where the Later Jin army transported the fruits of looting outside the pass. It was a loss for Jiannu to be cut off by the Ming army for a day, resulting in a large amount of food and supplies stranded in Santun Camp City.
Dredging the transportation line to repel the Ming army was the only choice, and Wakda could only send Niu Lu Ezhen Lamazhang to lead 800 Tartar cavalry and 308 banners of armored men to arrive.
The task of Lamazhang is to open the road from Santun Camp City to Longjing Pass, as long as the Ming army is expelled, so that they can not threaten this artery for transporting materials, the most important thing is to preserve the strength, and it is necessary to do what you can to kill and injure the Ming army.
Niu Lu really did what he could, he was cautious along the way, and sent three sentry horses to the main force fifteen miles to investigate the road conditions.
The first group of 10 Tartar commanders led 10 horsemen to explore the road under the supervision of a Jiannu vest, the second wave of 20 horsemen led by two Jiannu white armor soldiers, and the third group of 46 cavalry Jiannu armor soldiers led by a Bashi Kuba Yala.
Huang Han was very bad, he didn't think about expanding the results again, he just wanted to get a little cheap and slip away.
When the ten-man Tartar light cavalry appeared in view, Yang Danian's general banner cut off their return route and rushed north to kill, and Yuan Siming's general banner followed the road to the south to meet the head-on.
Since they basically greeted each other with bows and arrows and throwing guns, the "Red Banner Army" only paid the price of five minor injuries and completely annihilated the 11 Houjin troops who fell into the encirclement.
The second group of Houjin army sentry horses actually found a large number of Ming troops cutting off the road, because the enemy who could only see was doubled with their own, and the white armor soldiers who led the team ordered to slow down and follow, and quickly sent two of their men to contact the rear team.
Soon the Jiannu behind knew that a well-equipped Ming army was waiting for work not far ahead, the specific number is unknown, it is certain that it will not be less than a hundred horsemen, as for how many Ming troops are hiding waiting to ambush the Dajin army, only God knows.
The situation ahead is so sinister, of course, the main general Rama Zhang will take every step of the way.
The speed of their march was even slower, and when they encountered the steep terrain, they simply sent Bayala to lead the elite infantry to dismount, holding leather shields and iron shields in formation, and occupy the dangerous points in the form of foot combat.
Unlike the Tartars, their warriors were basically all-round in foot and cavalry combat, and they often practiced foot combat and breaking formations.
It's a pity that Jiannu completely scared themselves, and they didn't find the Ming army at all in what they thought was an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack place, and they waited until the sun was in the west, and the main force of Jiannu rushed to the blocking point arranged by Huang Han.
Seeing Jiannu coming cautiously all the way, Huang Han knew that the "Red Flag Army" with the two general flags should have no chance to take advantage of it anymore, so he decisively set fire to it and retreated.
Seeing that the road was blocked by the raging fire, the frightened Niu Lu Ezhen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He has been in battle for a long time, and when he saw that the Ming army set fire to block the road, he knew that he would not face a vicious battle, and the enemy should have run away.