Chapter 689: Flying Army
The Tartars of the outer domains who were forced to rush into battle did not have any loyalty to Jiannu, and Jiannu did not have any feelings for them, and they had to collect more than half of the seizures as filial piety when they robbed the Ming Dynasty.
These Mongols will increase their loyalty if they can get benefits from Jiannu, and if they don't have the benefits, they may lose their lives at any time, these people will not hesitate to choose to flee, Jiannu dares to stop them, and the Tartars dare to wield Mongolian scimitars to slash and kill.
The five thousand foreign feudal Tartars were forced to reluctantly launch a charge due to the power of Jiannu, and everyone was very passive and kept jogging to delay time, and they all wanted to see the effect of the Han army's charge.
If the Han army breaks through, they will speed up and participate in covering up the battle to expand the results and share some credit.
If the Han army was beaten to a mournful mass, the Tartars would directly take a diagonal line to avoid the "Red Banner Army" array, flee eastward, quickly leave the battlefield, and then gallop north until they fled back to their hometown.
To the surprise of the Tartars, the Han army did not attack the "Red Banner Army" and turned back to attack their ranks.
These Tartars also belong to the cannon fodder driven by Jiannu, and they understand that the Han army is on the verge of defection.
The Mongols were not optimistic about today's battle, and now they are even more optimistic, seeing that the Han army launched a counter-charge, none of the Tartars were willing to fight hard, and they all chose to break.
The changes were too fast, and the Wakda Division, which was leading the trotting of 3,000 Red Banner men and horses in the back, had no time to react, and in the blink of an eye, the Mongolian light cavalry who found that the situation was not good and turned around and fled rushed into disarray.
The cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" advancing in formation was divided into left and right flanks to press the formation, and kept jogging, Huang Han was overjoyed to see that Wu Xiangbu was fighting back as promised, and took the lead in leading the defectors to charge to the Tartars.
The Chinese army issued a cavalry raid order with a banner, and the cavalry of the small 20,000 "Red Banner Army" immediately pounced.
The cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" who were arrayed like a wall all pulled down their armor and looked even more ruthless, and the aura of the steel torrent formed by 20,000 horses was very sufficient, which made Dolgon and Duoduo, who were watching from the rear formation, feel depressed.
They had been closely watching the battle with a clairvoyant mirror, and they had no confidence in winning this battle, but when they saw that the situation was as bad as Snaken delayed time, they immediately issued an order for the whole army to retreat north.
The two Dolgon brothers actually had the strength to compete with the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army", but they knew that even if the cavalry won the battle, they could not avoid Shuozhou City being captured by the infantry of the "Red Banner Army", and in the end the Qing army still ended in defeat.
They refused to consume their descendants just to fight off a part of the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" and chose to avoid the battle.
The cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" began to rush and kill, the infantry lagged behind, and the artillery could not bombard, Huang Han was really worried that Dolgon would fight with the cavalry regardless of gains and losses, and if he took Shuozhou City and defeated the two white flags, the cavalry would lose more than half, which would be a crushing victory.
The cost of training a self-generated soldier is limited, half a year is enough, and the cavalry that has trained combat skills no less than that of the Tartars cannot become an army without three or five years of hard training.
Losing too many cavalry in Shanxi, the next series of battles for Korea and pacification of Liaodong will turn into a crushing of the Qing army, and it will be difficult to inflict mass destruction.
Obviously, the Qing army did not want to fight and began to escape, the "Red Flag Army" was destined to fight another cheap battle, and the small losses and large gains were already predictable.
The cavalry wanted to run, and it was tens of thousands of well-trained Jiannu and Tatar cavalry who began to flee, and there were no motorized troops and machine gun strafing, so it was too unrealistic to rely on 10,000 or 20,000 cavalry to encircle and intercept them.
At this time, Huang Han suddenly remembered the Air Force, which could not produce airplanes in this era, but it could develop and produce hot air balloons! Gaining experience, you can even study airships.
Using fierce fire oil as fuel, he made a burner that can adjust the size of the flame by opening his own golden finger, and trained a "flying army" that can use hot air balloons to take off into the air.
In addition, the "flying army" in the sky can observe a radius of 20 miles with a clairvoyant scope, and the field of vision in the vast steppe is even broader, and the enemy's cavalry group will be discovered by its own side as early as possible, and the "flying army" can convey the specific location of the enemy army to the ground troops through the flag.
The cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" is about equivalent to having clairvoyance, and can always be the first to discover the enemy's traces, even if the number of men and horses is not superior, they can also achieve accurate attacks, so that they can maintain absolute superiority in local wars.
In the face of danger, the "flying army" can use the wind and wind direction to cross the pass to reach the rear of the enemy, and can also use ceramic jars filled with fierce fire oil to ignite and throw them into the pass.
The fire fell from the sky, and there was a fierce fire oil to help burn, and the burning of the company camp would happen overnight, how could the backward Jiannu and Tartar deal with the blow from the sky?
Song Pengfei served as the deputy commander-in-chief of this battle, and when he saw that the commander-in-chief seemed to be distracted, he didn't know what to ponder again, coughed, and said:
"General, the Qing army is unwilling to fight a decisive battle with our army and chooses to evacuate, and the subordinate thinks that ordering the cavalry to chase the ass and cover up for a while and intercept a part of the Qing army's horses is the best result. Please instruct! ”
Huang Han came back to his senses and said with a smile: "The Qing army is actually more afraid of death, and this result is expected.
Our first task is to rescue hundreds of thousands of Han people and seize the food and supplies in Shuozhou City, as long as we can do this, we will win a big victory, as for how many enemies we can kill, do our best! ”
Fang Jingcheng, the eunuch of the prison army, was also draped all over his body, he clenched his fists on the horse, and respectfully asked: "General, I implore you to agree to our family's pursuit and killing of Jiannu, our family has been watching dryly, and it is really itchy to have unbearable hands." ”
Zheng Zhihui, who saw that the victory of the Ming army was a foregone conclusion, was excited at this time, and saw that the kung fu eunuch Fang Chengcheng was about to go into battle to kill the enemy and said: "General, it is rare for us eunuchs to have a good man like Fang's father-in-law, so let him go!" ”
Huang Han thought about the next development of the "Flying Army" at this time, and was in a good mood, and told Fang Jingcheng: "You have to be careful, you must not die in battle, otherwise Benjue will not be able to explain to the Son of Heaven and Fang Zhenghua!" ”
Fang Jingcheng laughed and said: "Our family will not die easily, our family will follow the general to set foot in Liaodong and kill the slaves and destroy the country!" Let's go too! ”
At this time, the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" was no longer in formation like a wall, but formed many battle queues, divided into circles to chase and intercept, their goal was clear, to strive to kill more enemies, to give up the fast Qing cavalry, and to kill the intercepted enemy cavalry.
Although Huang Han also wanted to ride a horse to kill and move his muscles, he found that Song Pengfei, Zheng Zhihui, Liang Tingdong and other civilian and military generals had been staring at him, knowing that there was no such possibility.
He knew that the current high-ranking position was not to mention fighting in person, and he couldn't even use Minnie's gun to kill the enemy, and it was impossible for the personal guard battalion to tolerate the enemy being so close to the master of the family, and he was destined to only watch his subordinates kill the enemy from a distance in the future.