Chapter 15 The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada
Lin Luo nodded and replied to Xiao Tianjian: "It's basically clear, a few Tartar sentries captured yesterday have been recruited, this time the Qing army entered the customs, a total of more than 70,000 troops, of which less than 30,000 soldiers in armor, the rest are mostly followers or clothed slaves, mostly auxiliaries, this time Dolgon and Yue Tuo brought the main force to Julu, just to kill Lu Xiangsheng, and after solving Lu Xiangsheng, they will attack the soldiers and horses led by Gao Qiqian!" They brought this time the white flag with Dolgon as the banner owner and most of the soldiers and horses with the white flag inlaid with Duoduo as the banner master, as well as some of the troops of the red flag led by Yue Tuo, and then there were some Han troops and Mongolian soldiers with red and red flags in the two Mongolian eight banners! The total number of troops is roughly more than 30,000!
In addition, a part of the soldiers and horses with red flags led by Du Du stayed in the area of Neiqiu County, guarding nearly 100,000 men and women and a large amount of food and property that they had captured since they entered the Kou, and the rest of the Tartar soldiers were divided into troops to loot around Zhending Mansion.
On the whole, the Tartars didn't notice us, but focused their main attention on the soldiers and horses stationed in the Jize area, and sent thousands of soldiers and horses to surround Julu County, while monitoring the movements of Gao Qiqian. ”
Xiao Tianjian turned around and went down the mound, found a leeward place and ordered Tietou to open a map, and after looking at it carefully, he pointed to the map and said: "It seems that we have made no mistakes in our arrangement this time, Lin Luo's scout brigade and Situ Liang, your cavalry battalion have made a great contribution!" Otherwise, this time we will rush in, not only will we not be able to help, but we may be surrounded by Tartar soldiers!
Since we have found out these news, then we will plan it well, the Tartars did not find out the existence of our main force, it is our advantage, we must make full use of this advantage, not only to rescue Lu Xiangsheng's official army, but also to let the Tartars suffer a loss! ……”
Xiao Tianjian and the generals did not make any pomp, and sent orders to order the soldiers and horses in the army to rest on the spot, and sent more scouts to block the surrounding areas to prevent their existence from being discovered by the Tartars, while he, Li Xin and the generals sat on the ground and began to discuss.
About a quarter of an hour later, Xiao Tianjian, Li Xin and the generals reached an agreement, got up and clapped their hands, threw away the small branch they were holding, and said, "That's it!" Everything that should have been arranged just now has been arranged, you don't have to be afraid of the Tartar soldiers, they are the same as us, they are all raised by their mother's father, they are flesh and blood people, of course, they are a little overestimated by them! Hehe! They will still die if they are hit by a cannonball, and if it hurts them, they will be afraid! With the quality of the soldiers of our Xingtian Army, they are not worse than them, they are not afraid of death, and our soldiers are also not afraid of death! And in terms of equipment and tactics, they are not our opponents, since they are here, they will beat them up for me, so that when they hear the name of our Xingtian Army, they must be ten times more careful!
In addition, I would like to emphasize one more point, this battle is related to the reputation and future of our Heavenly Army, and I cannot tolerate any of you being careless or afraid, and I will kill me until you are soft! That's all! Wait another quarter of an hour and you're ready to go! We're going to cross the Xiaozhang River tonight to rest! ”
After hearing this, the generals immediately slammed their heels together and saluted Xiao Tianjian: "Obey the orders of the marshal!" ”
Xiao Tianjian waved his hand and said, "Go down and prepare!" ”
Only then did the generals disperse, and they all rushed to their respective soldiers and horses with their escorts......
Seven or eight Tartar rangers watched the battlefield to the east, listening to the rumbling cannons and shouts from the battlefield with their ears pricked up, while slowly urging the horses to cruise outside the battlefield, inspecting the area to the west of the battlefield, their task was to sentry the surrounding situation, to prevent the Ming army from suddenly appearing to support Lu Xiangsheng's troops, but for these dozen sentinels, the direction sent to them this time was a bit of a feeling that they had nothing to do.
In their opinion, at present, their Qing army has gathered tens of thousands of troops in this area, with the courage of the Ming army, they do not dare to cross this side to seek their own way to death, although this is not far from Shunde Mansion, but the number of Ming troops in the city of Shunde Mansion is limited, and they do not dare to send troops to Julu to find death, and the only one who has the strength to fight against their army at the moment is the Ming army of tens of thousands of people stationed in the south of Julu County, so let them go west to sentry, for their group, To put it bluntly, it's just to let them come out and grab some things along the way, and if they're lucky, they may meet some people who haven't had time to escape, so they will have women to play with.
Therefore, this group of Tartar sentry rode on the road quite casually, and they would brag to each other about some things after this battle, and inevitably talk about how many Han women they had spoiled along the way, and from time to time burst into laughter, all with arrogant looks on their faces, slowly urging their mounts to march westward.
But when they came to a mound and a forest a few miles away from the battlefield, the leader of the group suddenly became alert, raised his hand to stop the sentry behind him, and began to look around vigilantly.
After the leader of the team stopped their laughter, the rest of the sentry riders were also immediately alerted, and immediately began to organize their equipment, the three of them took out their riding bows, drew arrows and put them on the bowstring, while the other people took off their big guns or sabers and shields, and quickly completed the preparations for battle, and began to look around nervously.
At this moment, from the bushes to their left, several arrows suddenly flew out of the bushes, and rushed straight towards these Tartar sentrymen, who immediately exclaimed, and hurriedly turned their horses or waved their weapons to block, but this from the bushes was too close to them, but only twenty paces away, and did not give them much time to prepare.
In an instant, two sentinels were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, they were shot in the throat by the crossbow almost at the same time, and there was no chance to struggle, and another sentry was hit by an arrow in the chest, the arrow pierced through the chain mail in his cotton armor, and nailed deep into the lobes of his lungs, but it did not kill him on the spot, he screamed in pain and threw the saber in his hand and lay on the horse's neck.
"Enemy attack! Kill them, kill them all! The leader reacted quickly, dodging an arrow that was shot at him, and immediately brandished the spear in his hand and roared loudly.
The remaining few Tartar soldiers are also quite fierce, the sneak attack just now killed two of them, and seriously injured one, so that they only have five people left who can fight, but they did not flee immediately because of this, in this case, in their opinion, there are definitely not many enemies, with their remaining five people, it is enough to deal with it, suffered such a big loss, how can they get it back, find out who attacked them, otherwise their people will die in vain.
So the remaining five Tartars rushed their horses towards the bushes, screaming one by one to find the enemy who had attacked them and slay them under their swords.
But as they rushed into the bushes, several more men stood up in a ditch in front of them, each carrying a polished groomed firebolt, which slowly adjusted its direction as they moved, and then began to fire one after another.
Caught off guard, several Tartar soldiers couldn't dodge this time even if they had the ability of the gods, and suddenly two more people were immediately shot, one of the Tartars was shot in the armpit, and the projectile directly shattered his ribs, crashed into his chest, and beat his lung lobes to pieces, he just had time to scream, and then spurted out a mouthful of blood with broken foam, and one hit the war horse, fell to the ground and convulsed violently, and the other was shot in the abdomen, and the intestines were knocked out on the spot, and he also fell off the war horse, He rolled on the ground in pain, and looked at the wound on his stomach in horror, and hurriedly tried to stuff the intestines back into the broken belly, his eyes were full of fear.
Although these sentry horses did not wear heavy armor, but each of them still wore a piece of cotton armor, which was lined with a piece of chain mail, under normal circumstances, even if they were shot or arrowed, the damage to them was limited, but the kind of bullet they received today was powerful and terrifying, and it could almost be said that they were directly knocked off the back of the war horse, and the cotton armor and chain mail were like paper paste in front of such a bullet, and they were killed at once.
There were two other Tartar soldiers who were not shot, but the horses were hit by the bullets, and the wounded horses jumped up and jumped up with a neighing and screaming, and immediately threw one of the Tartars off the horse, and then the horses stepped on the knee of the unfortunate Tartar soldier with one hind hoof, and only a crisp sound of bones was heard, and the lower leg of the Tartar soldier was flipped at a strange angle, and the Tartar soldier hugged his leg and screamed in pain like a pig.
He didn't expect that before he could give the enemy a photo, he would lose six people at once, leaving him alone who had not yet been hit, so he knew that he was planted today, and he didn't care about the brothers under him, so he immediately turned his horse and wanted to escape.
At this time, from the bushes a few neighing, a few horses rushed out, the rider on the horse stabbed the horse's belly with the spurs on his heels, and the sore horse flew towards the remaining two Tartars, and one of the riders threw out a short axe, which spun and flew to the Tartar's Tunda, but the short axe did not hit the Tartar, but hit the head of the horse on which the Tartar sat down, and the horse was hit by this, and even if it neighed and fell, the Tartar overturned to the ground.
The moment he fell off his horse, he threw off the horses, and stood up with a roll, but the spear in his hand was thrown into the distance, so he immediately pulled out the waist knife at his waist, stared at the bull's eye and spun around, trying to find a war horse and flee.
But at the same time, the wounded Tartar soldier was also lifted off by the frightened war horse, and after falling off the horse, the Tartar soldier immediately turned over and jumped up, and ran to this Zhuanda, because the incident happened suddenly, and the spare war horses brought by these Tartar soldiers were also frightened, and ran in all directions, so that they could not immediately seize the empty horse, and several sneak attackers quickly rushed over and surrounded them in the middle.
Seeing that it was impossible to take the horse and flee, the two Tartar soldiers immediately raised their waist knives back to back, and spun to resist the sneak attackers.
A few of the sneak attackers did not engage in close combat with them, but threw bows and arrows at them from a distance, or threw axes at them, and some of them took out the ropes they had prepared, and were ready to throw them.
As a result, the two Tartars were also thrown to the ground, and one of the Tartars was shot through the spot with an arrow in one leg, and the other Tartar was hit by an axe, and his tendons were broken and fell to the ground.
Then the Zoda was caught in the rope, and the raider sped away as soon as he slapped the horse, and the horse dragged the Zoda and flew up, and was dragged to the ground and rolled all over the ground, and was immediately dragged to the flesh, and let out a scream worse than the killing of a pig.
A sneak attacker encircled the horse, slashed over the Tartar soldier who was still lying on the horse's back with an arrow and tried to escape, looked around, raised his hand and commanded a few of his subordinates to start cleaning the battlefield, chasing the fleeing Tartar horses, quickly chopping off the heads of several Tartars, stripping them of their armor, leaving only their sleek and bloody headless corpses and a few dead horses.
As for the two wounded Tartars, they were directly tied up and dragged behind the horses, and dragged in the direction of the mound, and by the time they were dragged behind the mound, the two Tartars were already dragged to a bloody pulp, and they were miserable.
(Who said I was the Klan in this chapter, I'm in a hurry!) Hey! )