Text Chapter 547 Alternate Retreat
Dolgon himself took the lead, and his white robes rose with the wind, like white clouds chasing the sun, and the dust raised by thousands of cavalry shot rapidly into the low air, and did not disperse for a long time......
The sound of hooves was chaotic, the queue was neat, and in a few moments, it was already separated from Hauge's yellow flag by a layer of sand.
The four thousand cavalrymen with white flags swept across the sand and rushed to the bloody battlefield, not to save, but to kill, to create more blood.
Wang Junzhuo raised his sword and fell, cutting down a Jurchen cavalryman, he urged the war horse, and was about to chase the next unlucky Jurchen cavalryman, when he suddenly saw the cavalry in the distance, and his heart was unconsciously moved: The Jurchens have really increased their troops!
While he rushed forward, he shouted: "Brothers, the Jurchens have increased their troops, quickly, solve the red flag first, and then go back and pack up their reinforcements!" ”
"Kill...... Kill ......"
The wolf cavalry responded, the scimitar in his hand obviously increased his speed, and even the basic defense was abandoned, and he only attacked desperately, fighting out one of them......
Kill the Jurchens, since the Great Khan was alive, they have never been so happy!
The Jurchens were surrounded by more than a dozen encirclements of various sizes, facing enemies on all sides, but in a desperate situation, they showed extraordinary combat effectiveness, and the tiger cavalry and wolf cavalry had to pay the price for stepping over their corpses.
The battle became more and more fierce, both sides were grabbing time, the red flag had to wait for their own reinforcements, they were close to the left of the battlefield, and the tiger cavalry and wolf cavalry had to rush to annihilate the red flag as much as possible before the Jurchen reinforcements arrived.
Unlike the Han Chinese, nomads will never be passive on the battlefield, and fighting is life and death.
Attack, kill...... The wolf cavalry, from the commander to the soldier, is purely nomadic, without any variegation, and on the battlefield, they are more effective than the tiger cavalry.
Attack, kill...... In the dictionary of the Jurchens, there is no retreat, no timidity, since they came to this world, battle is most of their lives.
Although they were small in number and were divided into clusters by the tiger cavalry and wolf cavalry, they formed a circular formation, and moths threw fire at the outer Destiny Army......
Wang Junzhuo's strategy of quick victory, in the face of the Jurchens' desperate attack, completely bankrupt, not only did not annihilate the red flag, but most of the encirclement still has a tendency to expand.
With the addition of the white flag, the numerical advantage accumulated by the tiger cavalry and the wolf cavalry was wiped out in an instant.
More than 4,000 new troops with white flags, together with the remaining red flags in the core, began to dominate the battlefield.
Dolgon did not rescue the soldiers with red flags in the encirclement, and he was very familiar with the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Dajin Kingdom, and he would never collapse for a while.
He first used the common arrow-shaped formation to divide the entire battlefield into two, and then used the cavalry on the left and right flanks to push it flat on both sides, squeezing step by step, while rescuing the red flag, he also had to wrap the tiger cavalry and the wolf cavalry in turn.
The white flag showed a huge impact, the tiger cavalry and the wolf cavalry could not resist the first wave of the offensive, and were forced to take a defensive position, the cavalry gradually concentrated in one place, and the red flag that was originally surrounded in the core, the pressure suddenly decreased.
The red flag was at the end of the crossbow, and almost all of the soldiers were wounded and almost collapsed, but relying on the momentum of reinforcements with the white flag, they were holding on to their breath, but they were more fierce than the cavalry with the white flag.
In terms of numbers, the tiger cavalry and wolf cavalry were not less than the Jurchens, but after a long battle, everyone was tired, and even the war horses made a "whirring" wheezing sound.
In the blink of an eye, the Jurchens had gained the upper hand!
The tiger cavalry and wolf cavalry are also nomadic cavalry, which is not much different from the training method of the Jurchens, but after they entered the Han land, they have begun to settle down and live a life of animal husbandry, and there is no complete system, and their combat effectiveness has declined.
Since the rise of the Jurchens, they have continued to draw supplies from the Han people, and have transitioned from nomadism to farming, but the combat effectiveness of the Jurchen cavalry has not only not declined, but has also increased a lot.
The Jurchen Eight Banners are composed of "Niu Lu", each Niu Lu has 300 cavalry, which is formed in the way of "drawing ding", and the cavalry after the formation is no longer engaged in production, but completely engaged in military training, which is a big step forward compared with the original half-civilian and half-army, and also the people and the army.
The battles of the tiger cavalry and the wolf cavalry have declined, but the combat effectiveness of the Jurchen cavalry is rising.
Wang Junzhuo and Gao Yigong gradually fell into a predicament, and the two wings of the white flag had begun to outflank them from the periphery, wanting to swallow them in one bite.
Gao Yigong saw that the battle was extremely fierce and had reached the expected goal, so he waved the flag to Wang Junzhuo and asked about the battle status of the wolf cavalry.
Wang Junzhuo was fighting hard, and after listening to the report of his own soldiers, he said: "Time to fight another pillar of incense, let General Gao rest assured that we will protect the path to break through." ”
Gao Yigong categorically refused, and let the pro-soldiers play the flag: At most, within a quarter of an hour, whether you are defending or attacking, you must go all out, and you must not show flaws......
Wang Junzhuo can't do it, Gao Yigong is the main general of this battle, when to retreat, Gao Yigong has full power, he is dissatisfied, but he doesn't dare to disobey, he can only vent his anger on the Jurchens.
Dolgon seemed to have calculated the intentions of Wang Junzhuo and Gao Yigong, and concentrated his heavy troops to the south, leaving only a small number of cavalry with white flags in the north, plus the remnants of red flags.
Wang Junzhuo originally only cared about rushing and killing, consuming the Jurchen cavalry, but at this time he also discovered that something was wrong, Dolgon was obviously going to annihilate him completely, and if the battlefield was in a stalemate, there was also Hauge's yellow flag.
His heart moved, and he hurriedly waved the flag to Gao Yigong, asking to break through to the north.
Gao Yigong was stunned, although the white flag has gathered heavy troops in the south, it is impossible to completely trap the tiger cavalry and wolf cavalry, besides, there is a red flag in the north, Wang Junzhuo is crazy?
He immediately gave an order in the language of the flag: do not make any extraneous branches, and immediately retreat to the south!
Wang Junzhuo defended: there were heavy troops with white flags in the south, and he first pretended to retreat to the north, which could not only disrupt Dorgon's deployment, but also allow him to retreat, which looked more like the end of the road, which was not a retreat, but a rout.
Gao Yigong thought for a moment and felt that Wang Junzhuo was reasonable, so he waved the flag, and the two sides broke through separately.
Wang Junzhuo finally gave up the battle, and called for the wolf cavalry to break through to the north in an all-round way, trying to get out of contact with the Jurchen cavalry.
Dolgon was also stunned, which one was the opponent playing? Haug's cavalry is waiting to the north!
Since you are looking for death, then don't blame me for being ruthless, he immediately asked the soldiers with white flags to follow, even if he let go of the tiger cavalry, he had to leave this cavalry who didn't know whether to live or die.
Originally, the number of cavalry on both sides was about the same, and the cavalry with white flags only had an advantage in physical strength, and did not have the strength to defeat the tiger cavalry, and at most they competed for attrition.
But Wang Junzhuo wanted to get out of the battlefield, and suddenly the situation on the entire battlefield was driven.
The defeat was like a mountain, and the Tiger Cavalry, who had a high level of merit over there, also began to break through, but the direction he chose was the south.
Dolgon was not surprised, the Mandate of Heaven army was originally from the south, and the army was defeated and escaped, naturally in the direction of his lair, he estimated that with the number of people with white flags, it would be difficult to surround these two cavalry at the same time.
Since the wolf cavalry threw themselves into the net, it was them, and they were just right to pay for their lives with the red flag!
He waved the banner and gave orders to the soldiers, concentrating heavy troops to encircle and suppress the wolf cavalry, and at the same time sent an order to Hauge: the enemy army has been routed, prepare to intercept!
Wang Junzhuo's flight to the north just gave Gao Yigong a chance, and the Jurchen cavalry basically gave up the encirclement of him, and he easily broke through the defense line and left Dama Mountain.
Wang Junzhuo, who was over there, only made a short break to the north, and after gathering the soldiers, he turned his head to the east, looking like he had crossed the Yellow River.
Dolgon saw that the situation was not right, but there was nothing to be done, there were too few cavalry in the north, and it was still more than ten miles away from Hauge's yellow banner, so it was not enough to intercept it.
Can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, all the cavalry, are following behind the chase, once the wolf cavalry force across the Yellow River, the rear army will be hit hard.
Who knew that Wang Junzhuo only galloped east for four or five miles, and suddenly turned the horse's head, but he went south.
"It's not good, the wolf cavalry is going to go around in circles with me!"
Dolgon wanted to take a shortcut, but the army was behind the Tiger Cavalry just now, basically in a parallel position, so how could there be a shortcut at this time?
Wang Junzhuo played Dolgon enough, so he fought and retreated, and the various divisions were broken alternately, so that the war horses and soldiers could rest a little, while the Jurchen cavalry behind them attacked at full speed and consumed more.
The battlefield gradually moved away from Dam Mountain, advancing towards Hada Mountain in the south, Wang Junzhuo ran wildly in front, Dolgon chased fiercely behind, he wanted to break through from both sides several times, wrapping the wolf cavalry, but Wang Junzhuo's department was also a cavalry, and he did not have much advantage in speed.
However, after the wolf cavalry was cut off alternately, it affected the speed of escape, and was gradually caught up by the Jurchen cavalry.
If the front army of the wolf cavalry gave up the rescue, he ate this part, and finally let out a bad breath, if he rescued, then swallowed it in one bite, the wolf cavalry has been fighting for so long, this will be the end of the crossbow......
In front of Hada Mountain, a cavalry suddenly flashed out, shouting and rushing towards the battlefield, Dolgon was taken aback: if there is really an ambush, the Han people are treacherous!
He was about to retreat, but he found that the ambush in front of him was a little familiar, hey, why did he carry the banner of a tiger's head?
Dolgon looked at it, and sure enough, it was the Tiger Cavalry, and even the broken armor and freshly dried blood stains on the soldiers' bodies could be seen!
It turned out that there were such a few cavalrymen, and they dared to come to death?
Dolgon was overjoyed, although he was extremely tired with the red flag, but his warriors with the white flag were in high spirits, and it was the best time to annihilate the enemy, no matter who was on the other side, the people who offended the Dajin Kingdom never retreated.
The Jurchen cavalry advanced at full speed, and the tiger cavalry avoided the wolf cavalry, but they caught up from the front, and the two torrents collided again.
Wang Junzhuo saw the tiger head banner not far away, hurriedly urged the horse over, and said loudly: "General Gao, our department is covering the retreat of the general, why did you come back?" ”
"The Metropolitan Governor once said that the Heavenly Mandate Army can't give up its companions, even if there is only one person," Gao Yigong said loudly: "What's more, you are in danger in order to cover the retreat of the tiger cavalry, how can the wolf cavalry leave you alone, quickly, your troops will leave the battlefield first!" ”
"Then you ......"
"You guys rest in front for a while, and then our troops retreat, and then you come up!"
"If we retreat alternately, we may all be stared at with white flags......"
"You're stupid," Gao Yigong pointed to Hada Mountain with his hand, "the Metropolitan Governor is in front of you......"