Chapter 16: The Prancing Horse Swings the Sword
This was a very perfect ambush battle, more than a dozen scouts of the Xingtian Army found these Tartar sentry riders with binoculars one step in advance, and set up this ambush on the way they had to pass, plus these Tartar soldiers themselves were very arrogant and careless, and they did not find the enemy to set up an ambush in advance, and broke into their ambush circle straight up, and as a result, they were completely solved without much effort.
The telescope played a great role in this battle, so that the scouts could find the enemy's traces much earlier than the enemy, grasp the initiative, and take this Tartar sentry team by surprise, if it weren't for this, with the quality of the scouts of the Xingtian Army, it would be impossible to wrap up such a small group of Tartar sentry horses without paying a considerable price, and it was impossible to ensure that all the Tartar sentry horses were left here.
It is precisely because Xiao Tianjian spends a lot of money and constantly buys high-clarity crystal stones to polish and manufacture telescopes to equip the troops, so that the Xingtian Army goes north this time, and the scout team can always find the Tartar sentry cavalry one step in advance, so that the team can avoid the sentry of the Tartar sentry horse, so that they have been advancing until they are so close to the battlefield and have not been discovered by the Tartars.
When the scouts returned to the back of the mound, the two Tartar soldiers who were not dead were horrified to find that behind this earthen beam and forest, there was actually a large number of men and horses stationed in the black press, and this group of centaurs did not play any banners, so that they could not judge the origin of this group of centaurs, but from the perspective of armor and equipment, this group of centaurs was obviously very different from their enemy Ming army.
The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty mostly wore red mandarin duck battle jackets, the armor was basically not much different from the Qing army, most of them were placket cotton armor, which was lined with iron leaves, and the officers were mostly armor or scale armor, and the senior generals were exquisite water mill mountain armor, which was mainly red as the main tone, and the helmet was mostly an eight-petal iron helmet, and the iron helmet of the Qing army had a towering iron rod on it, with a red tassel on it, like a lightning rod towering above their heads, but this strange team of people and horses was based on a blue-black military uniform. Each infantry had high leggings on their legs, and most of the generals were given armor, but the armor was also painted blue-black, which could be distinguished from the various feathers on the iron helmets on their heads, and the back flags worn by some officers.
What made the two Tartar sentries even more shocked was the neatness of the army of men and horses, thousands of people gathered in such a small place, although it could be seen that they were all sitting on the ground and resting, but each of them did not take off their armor, the horses did not take off their saddles, and sat neatly and silently on the ground, even if the cold wind blew through them, but no one made a sighing sound, and no one spoke in the ranks, everyone looked at them coldly with a cold expression of indifference like death, It was as if they were dead.
These two Tartar soldiers are old soldiers, and they can see at a glance that this unknown army is an extremely elite army of soldiers, far from being comparable to ordinary Ming officers and soldiers, so thousands of people gathered here, but they were stunned that they could not discover their existence in advance, once these thousands of fierce soldiers suddenly entered the battlefield, they did not dare to think about what consequences would be brought to their Qing army, so both of them were stunned.
The two Tartar soldiers looked at this unknown group of men and horses in amazement, how could they not figure out how so many soldiers and horses could touch the distance only a few miles from the battlefield, but they did not find it.
But their doubts were answered immediately, and several scouts of the Heavenly Army dragged them back behind the mound, and immediately tied them to two trees, and a young officer strode up to them, glanced at them contemptuously, and sneered: "I guess you are very confused! In this case, Lao Tzu let you die today, Lao Tzu is the invincible Xingtian army in the world, and he is here to deal with you wild boar skins! Hmph"
Xiao Tianjian also learned that the two Tartar sentry riders had been captured, and the sound of the guns from the scout team just now had reached his ears, but because it was the time of artillery fire on the eastern battlefield at this time, a few guns did not seem abrupt, so there was no need to worry too much about being discovered by the Tartars in the distance, but at the same time, it also meant that they had not been hiding here for long, and the Tartars had the possibility of discovering them at any time.
So he got up and walked to the front of the army, glanced at the two Tartars tied to the tree, turned to the large number of people of the Xingtian Army who were sitting on the ground, and shouted: "The sons and daughters of the Xingtian Army have heard clearly! Although we have rebelled against the imperial court, we are still the sons of the Han family after all, and for the Dongyu Tartars, they are our enemies, and you have all seen how the Tartars have scourged our Han people along the way! Now is the time for us to kill the Tartars, to the east of us, there is a group of good men of our Han people who are fighting with the Tartars, can you watch them be killed by the Tartars like this? ”
When they saw Xiao Tianjian walking in front of them, a team of non-commissioned officers stood up in advance under the orders of the officers, and after listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, these subordinates of the Xingtian Army immediately raised their arms one by one and shouted, "Can't!" Kill slaves! Kill slaves! ”
The voices of thousands of people gathered together, and suddenly it was like a rolling thunder sounding on the flat ground, and a huge wave of sound soared into the sky, startling the crows in a forest far away all flapped their wings and flew up, of course, this sound wave also spread far away, and it was impossible for the Xingtian Army to hide its whereabouts anymore.
After Xiao Tianjian heard the earth-shattering roar of the soldiers, he raised one hand high and clenched it into a fist, and the roar of the soldiers stopped abruptly, and in an instant, everyone's body was ignited with a raging battle intent, and his eyes were full of a kind of fanaticism.
Along the way, Xiao Tianjian and the officers continued to instill an idea in the group of soldiers under him, that is, they are all Han Chinese, and their real enemy is the Jiannu Tartars, and the soldiers are all born with mud legs, and they don't know much, but they are very simple and very easy to be bewitched, not to mention that Xiao Tianjian repeatedly instilled in them the ferocity of the Tartars, instilled in them the national consciousness, and when they arrived at this place, the soldiers were about to forget their identity. All that remains is the desire to kill the Tartars.
In addition, this time Xiao Tianjian mobilized all the elite people in the army, almost everyone has experienced many major battles, the combat experience is already very rich, and the courage has become quite large, so although there is no serious fight with the Tartars, some people will be a little nervous, but this does not mean that they are afraid of the Tartars, and when it is really time to go into battle, these generals have already put down all their thoughts, and only clenched the weapons in their hands, waiting to step on the battlefield and fight with the Tartars.
"Hit our banner of punishment! Use the blood of these two Tartars to sacrifice the flag, and get ready to go! After Xiao Tianjian glanced at the faces of all the soldiers, he saw a pair of fiery eyes, at this time, after an hour's rest, the war horses were also fed with essence, whether it was a person or a horse, they had recovered from the fatigue of the overnight march, burning with a raging fighting spirit, he nodded with satisfaction, and shouted loudly with a wave of his hand.
I saw two flashes of knife light, and the two Tartar sentries tied to the tree didn't have time to beg for mercy, and the heads were chopped off, and the bones rolled to the ground, and the blood in the headless cavity soared out of the old high, and the banners of Xingtian that were rolled up were shaken away by the flag-bearers in the wind, and with the strong cold wind hunting and hunting, suddenly in the entire Xingtian Army, all kinds of military flags, recognition flags, and life flags were fluttered, and the sound of hunting was made with the wind.
Situ Liang raised his waist knife high, waved it forward, and shouted loudly: "Cavalry battalion!" Follow me! After saying that, as soon as his feet knocked on the horse's belly, the war horse immediately started, and slowly ran forward, and more than a thousand cavalrymen immediately pulled their saddles and kicked on, turned over and jumped on the war horse, and pulled their spears and halberds from the ground, followed by Situ Liang and jumped across the earthen beam.
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