Chapter 61: The Mongol Cavalry
Everyone is afraid of poverty, although they take advantage of the chaos to loot a lot of money when they eat big households, but everyone pays more attention to food baggage or something. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Throw away the heavy weight of grain, what do you want to say?
The ancients were short of materials, and everyone was frugal, looking at everyone's appearance, Yang Xuan was quite annoyed at first, and then slowly understood.
To put it bluntly, in addition to carrying pots and pans, each squad also pushed a wheelbarrow and carried two loads of food, which is what the soldiers called lightly armed.
Yang Xuan explored the road in front with the cavalry of Ma Chaosuo, and led the main force to take a small road and march towards Yilong County.
It was the middle of August, the weather was unusually hot, and everyone walked day and night, and on the evening of August 20th, everyone crossed the Bauma River on a raft and walked along the country road.
Northern Sichuan is mostly hilly, the road is relatively narrow, in order to avoid being discovered by the Dashun army, everyone picks up more small roads to walk, and many places at most two or three horses pass at the same time.
It's nothing for people and animals, but the hardest thing is the men in the army, who pull the carriage and push the wheelbarrow, and it can be said that the movement is extremely difficult.
Looking at the dawn in the east, the whole army passed through the post road smoothly, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, so that it only took a day to return to Yilong County, which is the hometown of many soldiers.
Looking at the green mountains and green waters next to them, everyone seems very relaxed, talking and laughing, and some people even joke that they can hunt during the lunch break to improve their lives.
After more than ten days of marching, everyone did not get anything fishy, and birds faded out of their mouths one by one.
Everyone walked like this, and at the end of the day (nine o'clock in the morning), the sun outside was getting bigger and bigger, everyone was tired, Yang Xuan was about to let everyone rest on the spot, and Guo Chonglie, who was suddenly broken, came to report that more than 100 Mongolian cavalry appeared ten miles behind, and now they are killing in a mighty way.
It turned out that the Mongolian cavalry heard that a team of more than 1,000 people had crossed the Jialing River by ferries and rafts last night, and they were brave enough to pursue them regardless of their own people.
Everyone was taken aback, Chen Huaixi shook his head and said: "My lord, the Mongolian cavalry grew up on war horses one by one, and they are good at riding and shooting. On that day, we suffered heavy losses against dozens of Liukou cavalry outside Chengdu City, and now in the face of more than 100 Mongolian cavalry, we have no chance of winning at all. ā
Guo Chonglie wiped the beads of sweat from his face and sighed: "My lord, the Mongolian cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and moves quickly, the brothers are tired now, if they are entangled with the Mongolian cavalry, when the time comes..."
Yang Xuan frowned, looked at the narrow mountain road, and looked at the surrounding terrain, here the mountains are steep, the ravines are staggered, and there are many trees, doesn't the book of war say that the cavalry is conducive to fighting on the plains, and the infantry is conducive to fighting in the mountains and hills?
After thinking about it, Yang Xuan was overjoyed in his heart, immediately beckoned, and whispered a few times in everyone's ears, everyone was quite hesitant at first when they heard it, and when they saw Yang Xuan's insistence on this, they had to nod their heads one by one.
Guo Chonglie walked in the rear with more than 100 remnants of the defeated generals, and saw more than 100 Mongolian cavalry coming from a distance, everyone looked panicked, and threw down the flags in their hands, threw down the bedding, threw down the pots and pans, threw away the wheelbarrow or something, and spread their legs and ran to the north.
All this Mongolian Tatars are too familiar, the Han people belong to the agricultural civilization, except for the dignitaries and nobles who have horses, the average family mostly uses mules and cattle to pull goods.
The Han people seemed to have a natural fear of cavalry, and since entering the customs, no one dared to fight with the Mongol cavalry in the field, and the Mongol cavalry often defeated the Han army in the field with one as ten.
The Mongol cavalry rode on war horses, coming and going like the wind, and a Mongol cavalry could often defeat several times the elite division.
Now seeing that these more than 100 officers and soldiers are so embarrassed, the horn sounds, everyone ignores the rugged road, everyone disperses at once, and the troops are divided into three ways to outflank the defeated generals of the more than 100 remnants.
The discarded items on the road blocked the way, and in order to escape for their lives, the other party actually burned the grain and baggage on the road, burned the dead branches and trees, and saw that the other party was so discouraged, and the cavalry of the Dashun army was even more complacent.
It seems that this is a heavy load of officers and soldiers, and these officers and soldiers have a lot of supplies, which is much more convenient than plundering the surrounding villagers.
After Li Yutian and Ma Ke surrendered to Li Zicheng, everyone did not dare to rob in Beizhili, Henan, and Shaanxi, which were already controlled by the Dashun army, and now they came to the front line in Sichuan, and happened to rob in rich Sichuan.
But the Sichuan people are different from other places, there are many hills in northern Sichuan, many large families are built on the mountain, to rob the villagers must attack the cottage one by one, so it is not only difficult to give full play to the strengths of the cavalry, but also very difficult to attack.
Now in the face of a group of officers and soldiers who have lost their support for the cottage, it is simply prey in the wilderness, and the Mongolian flag bearer starts a hunting drama like a hunter.
The gang of laborers panicked, and the officers and soldiers in front were even more panicked, and they saw the pennant a mile away from the north constantly fleeing north, and it seemed that the panic had spread throughout the entire army of the other party.
Some Mongolian riders have jumped off their horses, snatching the grain and baggage left over from the road, everyone lives in the border land all the year round, and the mainland is so rich, these days to see the Sichuan people living comfortably, many people have moved their minds.
Seeing his subordinates like this, Wu Lihan did not restrain him, everyone came to Sichuan from Liaodong, the most important thing is to survive, for money, food and baggage are thrown everywhere, this is money, how not to make people excited.
But Ulihan doesn't want to be short-sighted like ordinary riders, this logistics force is still so rich, then its main force should be more money and food, if you catch up, gold and silver, it is everything.
Ulhan agitated again and again, rushed to the front, and everyone saw that the well-informed Ulhan was still like this, and one by one they were like chickens, regardless of the rugged road in front of them, and chased after them one after another.
It seems that this is really the case, the first materials are scarce, and in the end, in order to escape, the other party is a burden of abandonment.
Seeing each other like this, Wu Lihan and the others laughed wildly, and everyone hurried up and trotted all the way, causing the people in front of them to cry wolves and howl, and even crawl.
The other side now burrowed into a long, narrow ravine, which was not wide and was not developed as farmland like other ravines, with rocks in the ravine and dense forests on both sides.
Wu Lihan frowned slightly, if the other party set up an ambush on both sides, he might not be able to take advantage of it.
The riders next to him chased after each other, and seeing that his soldiers were still so brave, Ulhan shook his head again and again for being too cautious.
The Dashun army has occupied Shunqing for more than ten days, and has already leveled the nearby officials and troops for more than 100 miles, and now they are only facing a group of bandits, or smuggler salt dealers, how can they be so cautious?
Besides, the Mongols are hunters, the Han are the prey, no matter how many prey, how can any hunter be afraid of the prey?
Ullihan raised his horsewhip and rushed forward desperately, although the speed had slowed down due to the dangerous road, the opponent was obviously tired of running.
On the front pass, some had already thrown their weapons on the ground, and some were lying on the ground and gasping for breath.
Victory was at hand, and Ulhan, ashamed of his caution, gave vent to his frustration by swinging his whip and striking two sluggish Mongol soldiers.
The crowd was encouraged, and under the leadership of Ulihan, one by one they whistled and charged forward as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
After running for more than a mile like this, seeing that the terrain in front of them was gradually opening up, and seeing that they were about to catch up with each other, everyone took off their sabers one after another, beat their horses and rushed over, preparing to cut down these exhausted officers and soldiers.
At this moment, these laborers suddenly turned their bodies to face them, and some of them even showed a hideous smile.
Ulihan was wondering, why were these prey so bold, didn't they want to live, and they still wanted to oppose the Mongol knights?