Chapter 123: The Mongol Cavalry of World War II

This time it was a part of the Mongol banner that had surrendered to the Manchus. The last time a 10,000-household broke into the Great Wall, although it was expelled by the Datong General Army, it also robbed a large number of property and personnel, and it can be said that it was full of returns. This made all the Mongol soldiers red-eyed. This time, the one who broke into the Great Wall was also 10,000 households, and he also had 10,000 households, and he led 8,000 cavalry, more than 7,000 people, and more than 20,000 horses.

They actually know the Han people very well, and the reason why they dare to break through the Great Wall without more than 10,000 cavalry is because they know the army of the Ming Dynasty very well. They are not afraid of a small number of Ming troops at all, and it will take a long time for a large number of Ming troops to assemble, and the assembled Ming army can also not fight without fighting, as long as they can expel them to the Great Wall, they can go back and have an explanation. Otherwise, how could the 10,000 households calmly withdraw to the grassland with so many supplies and personnel last time. Those Ming troops were like seeing them off in the back. This made these Mongolian warriors very disdainful of the Ming army. However, they also tried not to encounter a large number of Ming troops, and it was estimated that when the Ming army should be dispatched, they would retreat early.

This time, the Mongols had already plundered a lot of grain, salt and other materials, as well as a large amount of gold and silver. According to the plan, it was supposed to retreat, but a thousand households who wanted to make a final profit led their troops out for three days and there was no news, it stands to reason that this thousand households knew the time of retreat, and if they were not in trouble, they should have come back a long time ago. And the 500 cavalrymen who went out to pursue the small group were not heard from for two days. This made this ten thousand households feel a little ominous, but he couldn't leave these more than 1,000 people alone, and it would be dangerous to wait any longer. Once surrounded by a large number of Ming troops, they are also very dangerous, and this place is under the control of the Ming Dynasty after all. This night, this Wanhu didn't sleep well. As soon as the morning dawned, he found two more thousand households, and asked them to go separately with their cavalry, and told them that they must not fight outside, and do not rob things again, because there are already a lot of things robbed this time, and now they need to find people as soon as possible and withdraw to the grassland immediately.

When Li Jing and the others rode to the Mongol camp, the Mongol camp had already started to burn the fire and cook. Li Jing didn't dare to get too close, because two groups of Mongolian cavalry were missing, they must be very vigilant, he took a small detachment and walked around the Mongolian camp. After reading the Mongolian camp, Li Jing secretly said in her heart, the Mongolian soldiers who came this time were not only 5,000, it was likely to be 10,000 households, and there were at least seven or eight thousand cavalry. This is a very powerful force, but it is not easy for us to deal with, and we must report to Mr. Zhang when we go back.

As soon as the morning dawned, Li Jing and the others found that there were two groups of cavalry, each with more than 1,000 people, leaving the camp and galloping away in two directions. Li Jing and the others crouched in the grass and waited for them to go away, and then quickly rushed back to the camp with the team. He wanted to prepare the camp early, because he didn't know if the cavalry who went out went out went to the camp or not.

After listening to Li Jing's report, everyone basically came to such a conclusion. This time, the Mongol soldiers came with 10,000 households. There should have been at least seven or eight thousand cavalry, and one and a half thousand households were wiped out by us. The cavalry that came out this morning should be two thousand households, and they came out to look for the missing cavalry.

Ouyang He said: "At least one cavalry will find here today, because the traces of the cavalry are obvious, and they will definitely follow the horseshoe prints to find it." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "If it is best to come to a thousand households today, we will consume them when they divide their troops." ”

Chen Yufeng said: "If they come this time, they will definitely send someone to deliver a letter to their camp before they attack." We should intercept them. It's better to let their big battalion not know the news. So that their camp would neither go nor enter. We'll have a chance. ”

Ouyang He said: "In this way, if they are found coming, Yang Jing and Liu Chenghuang will take two hundred cavalry, go out quietly from behind, go around behind them, take them if there is a message, and if they are defeated, they will all be annihilated." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Send the tanma out a little farther." Others continued to build fortifications. ”

The tanma released in the morning did not come back to report until noon, and Chen Yufeng felt that he should send someone out to have a look. Li Jing said: "I also feel that something is wrong, I can't have no news at all." I'll go out. ”

After lunch, Li Jing went out with a small team. He first followed the route of the Mongol cavalry that had attacked last time. Walking and walking, Li Jingjue felt that there were a few small piles of grass in front of her left, but she couldn't tell what was wrong. He alertly ordered the arquebus to be ignited and loaded with bullets. Then he ordered to go far around the pile of grass in front of them, but just as they were halfway there, the pile suddenly moved, and a group of Mongol soldiers, armed with sabers, jumped up, and these Mongol soldiers numbered more than fifty. After they got up, they brandished their knives at Li Jing and rushed over with shouts.

It turned out that this was a thousand Mongolian cavalry, and when they were resting in front at noon, their tanma found that a tanma was coming in this direction, and these people ambushed this tanma here, but the tanma was attacked and dismounted, and then committed suicide by killing himself. But a musket was captured by them. Their Qianhu looked at the musket, although they didn't know how to use it yet, but they saw that the workmanship of the robbery was very exquisite, and they knew that this must be a very powerful weapon. Otherwise, those Mongolian Andas of their own would not suddenly disappear. In order to learn more about the situation, they want to continue to set up ambushes here and try to catch them alive. But I didn't expect Li Jing to see the flaws. When Li Jing and the others were about to go around, they felt that Li Jing and they only had a dozen horses, and they had fifty people, although they would suffer a little loss under the horses, but it was no problem to deal with these Han people, and not far from here were their cavalry, and they would soon support them as soon as they made a move.

Li Jing was a little angry when she saw that only about 50 Mongolian infantry had surrounded her. The command straddled the gun and drew the saber. Ten people lined up in a horizontal row and rushed over. It should be said that the Mongol soldiers who could be sent out to set up ambushes were all elite soldiers, and although they did not ride horses, they all had a certain combat effectiveness. But they didn't know who their opponent was, and if they knew who they were, they wouldn't have rushed over so recklessly. Li Jing: After they met with them, there were only a dozen Mongolian soldiers still standing. Li Jing knew that the situation was not good now, and shouted: "Quickly solve them." Again, these men rushed over and cut down all these brave Mongol warriors.

At this time, not far away, the Mongolian cavalry resting in a bush heard the shouts of killing here, and they all mounted their horses, and hundreds of horses soon rushed over. Li Jing and the others beat their horses and left, but these Mongolian cavalry were in hot pursuit. Originally, Li Jing and their horses were all good horses selected by Yan Boju, but in the face of these Mongolian cavalry, they couldn't take advantage of the speed. Li Jing thought that she should report a message to her family first, but she came out too far away, and she was afraid that the gunshots would not be heard at home. At this time, Li Jing had an idea, took out a **, lit a fire twist and threw it back, and after a while, the Mongolian cavalry chased after the landing point of **, and greeted them with a bang and an explosion, and a horse was directly blown up, and then the horse and the person rolled on the ground. Li Jing kept throwing **, and after blowing up a few horses along the way, these pursuers stopped chasing.

Li Jing's method is really effective, and the explosion of ** was really heard at home.

Chen Yufeng immediately organized everyone to enter the position and ordered Liu Chenghuang to take a hundred cavalry to meet the direction of the ** explosion.

When Liu Chenghuang received Li Jing and them, he returned to the camp with Li Jing and them.

This time, Zhang Zhimu and they faced a prepared Mongolian cavalry.

The cavalrymen who pursued Li Jing were so afraid of the terrible explosive thing that they had to rein in their horses and take their brother's corpse to the camp. Seeing that Chinohe said that these escaped people had something that could explode and kill both horses and people, this Chiho felt a little uneasy. Because he also heard an explosion in the distance, but he didn't expect this thing to be so powerful. What made him even more disturbing was that a dozen cavalrymen could easily kill fifty Mongol warriors, who were specially trained warriors to carry out special tasks. However, this also made him firmly believe that the dozen or so people who had just escaped were the people who went out to chase and kill the five hundred cavalry. If you follow them, you will know where the five hundred cavalry are going. So he ordered the cavalry to follow their horseshoe prints. When they saw Zhang Zhimu and their camp from a distance, they all stopped.

Blind attack was not the style of the Mongol cavalry, and he sent his scout horses around the camp to get a general idea of the situation. It was, he judged, a camp for a large caravan. hired a very powerful dart board to bodyguards, these dart masters are all martial arts masters, so it is not easy to deal with. But they are not worth mentioning in front of the Mongolian cavalry, if the Mongolian cavalry of the brigade can't even deal with a caravan, let alone the Mongolian iron cavalry is invincible in the world.

Therefore, this Qianhu decided to take this camp today, but he did not dare to be careless, and prepared to adopt the classic tactics of the Mongol cavalry, first using bows and arrows to shoot continuously, killing and suppressing the opponent, and then sending cavalry to rush to the front of the rejection horse and use a rope with a hook to hook the rejection horse and run to the sides, drag the rejection horse away, and then the cavalry attacked head-on while dividing the troops to the left and right sides.

In fact, the tactics of the Mongolian cavalry are very effective, when the general defenders do not understand their tactics, they will feel the pressure from the front, and transfer the troops on both sides to support the front, and when the Mongolian cavalry suddenly divides their troops to attack both sides, it is too late to return to defense.

But he knew of a man who had come from hundreds of years later and knew all about their tactics as their enemy.

When Chen Yufeng found out that the Mongolian cavalry had arrived, he sent Yang Jing and Liu Chenghuang with 200 cavalry to quietly go around, and even avoided the scout horses of the reconnaissance camp they sent and went around behind them.

The thousand households of the Mongolian cavalry suddenly felt that they should send a message back to the ten thousand households who were waiting in their camp. So he sent two horsemen back to deliver the letter. The two cavalrymen happened to meet Yang Jing and Liu Chenghuang, who were waiting for them, and Yang Jing said to Liu Chenghuang: "How about the two of us." ”

Liu Chenghuang said: "Okay! ”

The two of them opened their bows and arrows, and the two arrows flew out directly, shooting down the two horsemen who were galloping on their horses. Yang Jing and Liu Chenghuang and others got four war horses, because the Mongol cavalry were all double-ridden.

The Mongol cavalry here had lined up in a horizontal formation, lined up and slowly moved forward, and then began to speed up and prepare to use the speed of the horse to bypass the horse rejection and grazing, but when their horses were still far away from the rejection, the horses began to fall continuously, and the cavalry in front of them would also trip the horses that could not dodge behind. Some horses have their legs trapped in the pit and are broken, some have fallen into the pit and broken their legs, and some have tripped over the horse ropes. Despite the considerable losses, the cavalry rushed over and fired rows of bows and arrows at the camp. However, the musketeers were crouching in the trenches with their shields against them, and they could not hurt them at all. Zhang Zhimu and the others also hid in the wooden command post, leaving only the observation post on the tower to observe the enemy's situation. This round of charging Mongolian cavalry lost more than 200 horses, this Mongolian thousand households were very distressed, and at the same time aroused his hatred, he thought that despite the losses, he still shot a lot of bows and arrows, generally speaking, these bows and arrows will definitely give the other side a lot of damage. He ordered another attack, and the Mongol cavalry again fired rows of bows and arrows, but despite their careful stepping, more than a hundred horses could not return. Such a loss of anger Qianhu screamed, and he shouted that he would definitely attack the camp of the Han people today and kill all the Han people here. This time he ordered that after the archers had finished shooting their bows and arrows, the cavalrymen who followed behind them should go up and drag away the horses. This time, the Mongol cavalry fired a batch of bows and arrows at the camp at the cost of losing more than 100 horses, and the subsequent cavalry also hooked the rejecting horse, but the cavalry who hooked the rejecting horse was unlucky. They did not drag the horse away at once, as they had done before, because the rope that dragged the horse was tied to the saddle, and some of them dragged the horse at once, and some of them broke the rope at once. But the rejection horse did not move. Hundreds of horses were lost, and one or two hundred heroic Mongol knights were injured and killed, and they did not even pull away a single horse.

The thousands of households who are angry about this matter are in a mess, and so many people have been killed and injured, and the other party has not shown up yet. This time he ordered not to drag the horse, but to directly adopt the tactic of frontal assault and then divide the troops into two ways, and the cavalry in the middle of the attack should use the impact force of the horse to knock away the rejection horse, or cross the rejection horse. This all-round attack will definitely rush into the camp in one fell swoop.

It was a collective charge of more than 1,500 horses, and the dust kicked up covered the horses and cavalry behind. When the cavalry in front of them rushed to the front of the rejection, they fell down four or five hundred horses, and the cavalry who rushed to the front of the rejection resolutely exercised battlefield discipline, and although they sacrificed many horses, they still divided to both sides. Then the cavalry of the charge rushed directly to the horse, and the good horse directly crossed the rejection horse on behalf of the horse. However, most of the cavalry directly collided with the rejection horse, and the powerful impact of the horses knocked the rejection horse in front of them into chaos, but the cavalry who crashed into the rejection horse was like a death squad, they knew what the result of the galloping war horse crashing into the rejection horse, but they rushed up without hesitation, without any hesitation, and the cavalry who fell down were either dead or wounded.

The cavalry that crossed the rejection was still a minority, and the cavalry behind also had to slow down, otherwise they would crash together.

At this time, Chen Yufeng ordered the musketeers to open fire. The musketeers in the trenches opened fire together with the musketeers on the towers. It was more than a thousand muskets firing at once. Soon the cavalry on the horse was gone.

The two sides are even more striking. As they rushed to both sides, they soon found that the defenses on both sides were weak, and after rushing past a rejection, they could charge directly into the camp. When they rushed in, they found that they seemed to have rushed into a horse pen. To their panic, the door had been closed when they rushed in. They can't rush out even if they rush left and right. At first, there were only a few muskets against them, and they did not move these musketeers and did not shoot. But the cavalrymen could hear the gunfire in the direction of the frontal impact, and they knew that if the gunfire on that side stopped, their end would come. So they desperately wanted to rush outward, but after the leader was killed, these Mongolian warriors were not brave, and they were honestly immovable.

After the gunfire in front stopped, more and more musketeers surrounded the two groups of cavalry. Zhang Zhimu told Lu Chengxiang that as long as they surrendered, they could avoid death. Lu Chengxiang shouted for a while, but the Mongols didn't move. Yan Boju said, "Are you speaking Mongolian? How could they not understand it? ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that they were still holding on to the face of the Mongol warriors, and they had to defeat them from the heart. said to Lu Chengxiang: "Tell them that they have surrendered to the Manchus once, and they are no longer warriors." It's okay to surrender again, so don't hold on to your face. ”

Lu Chengxiang said in his heart, I didn't expect this Zhang to be so damaged, and the scolding was scolding them in their hearts. After Lu Chengxiang finished shouting these words, some of these Mongolian warriors lowered their heads. Zhang could only say: "If you don't surrender again, you will kill them immediately." Waiting for Lu Chengxiang's words to shout again, these Mongolian warriors threw down their blades one after another, dismounted and surrendered. More than 300 Mongol cavalry were captured on the left and right flanks.

Chen Yufeng said: "These Mongols can be killed. They are all inhuman brutes. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Wait a little longer. Circle them together first. ”

The Qianhu, who was directing the charge in the back, heard the sound of "bang" muskets in front of him, and knew that he had been fooled, and that the people were fully prepared and were waiting for them with their nets open. As soon as he saw that the general situation was gone, he took a dozen guards and ran out on horseback. In fact, the lookout post on the tower had already seen them run away. But Chen Yufeng said: "Leave them alone, just hand them over to Yang Jing and Liu Chenghuang." ”

Yang Jing and Liu Chenghuang heard the sound of muskets coming from the direction of the camp and knew that a fight had started, so they slowly narrowed the scattered encirclement. In a short time, they saw about two dozen horses running towards them. Yang Jing: They surrounded them at once. At this time, the two guards of Qianhu rushed up, and Yang Jing picked them all with two shots. These thousand households saw that there were more than 200 muskets aimed at their own people, but they could not defeat them without muskets, so they had to dismount and surrender.

On the horse that surrendered to the guards, Yoo Chenghuang found the lost musket of the sacrificial probe horse. After asking where the horse had died, they rode over, found the body of the martyr, and carried the camp on horseback.

This battle was fought very beautifully, and the crossbow thunder and ** were useless, and they completely defeated the thousand cavalry.

After cleaning the battlefield and counting it, a total of more than 600 Mongolian cavalry were killed and more than 300 were captured; More than 1,400 unwounded horses were captured, and more than 600 dead and wounded horses were captured. However, the rejection of the horses in the first and second rows in front of the formation was damaged a lot by the tactics of the Mongolian cavalry desperately colliding. Fortunately, morale is high now, and it will be repaired soon.

Yang Yulin asked Zhang Zhimu: "What is the use of keeping those Mongols for you, and you have to send people to watch them, and waste food." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I'm afraid that someone will be accidentally caught by the Mongols, so that they can be used instead." If there is no need to change people, give Li Dong and them to mine ore and let them work for reform. ”

After cleaning the battlefield, Zhang Zhimu led everyone to cremate the remains of the martyrs first, and then picked up the ashes. and so on brought back to the kiln and buried in the martyrs' cemetery. In the end, the bodies of the Mongol soldiers were dragged far away, loaded on wood and set on fire.

That night, the Mongolian Wanhu was really unhappy, and only one of the two teams of cavalry sent out today came back. The group that came back turned around for a day and found no trace of the Mongol cavalry they were looking for. This Mongolian household, today must decide whether to leave tomorrow or not, if he doesn't leave, he is afraid that he will not be able to leave.

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By the way, I recommend "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty", similar to this article, it is also a "technology flow" through the novel, but it takes place in the Southern Song Dynasty, Yashan, Anti-Yuan, Restoration, and European World Wars.