Chapter 29 Reinforcements Suddenly Arrived
The two thousand Ming border troops rushed towards the fort at the fastest speed under the leadership of the thousand general Ding Yueqian, and the dozens of Mongolian cavalry who stayed outside the fort all showed surprised and panicked expressions when they saw these approaching Ming troops, and the arrival of the support army was really a bit unexpected to them.
As Ma Qianyuan and Yang Chen said, the Tatars who had been fighting with the Ming army for many years had already figured out the habits of the Ming army, and knew that for the sake of safety at night, even if they received the news of encountering the enemy from the beacon fire, as long as the pass was not threatened, the defenders would have to wait until dawn before they were dispatched. Therefore, in their calculations, they still have a lot of time to clear the remnants of the enemy in the fort.
But it's just over the night, why did the Ming army reinforcements come? This is completely counterintuitive. But the events before them did not allow them to think further, and one of the remaining men immediately ran to the wall of the fort, and climbed into it along the rope, and he had to tell Bohur the terrible news of it.
And the remaining dozens of Mongolian soldiers, as long as they still have the strength to fight, have mounted their horses, raised their bows and arrows and aimed ahead, waiting for the Ming army to enter their own range, and then attack head-on.
Although they are far inferior to this Ming army in terms of strength, the fierce character flowing in their veins makes them fearless, even if there is a huge disparity in strength, they dare to fight. And in their understanding, the Ming army is heavy on defense and light on the vast grassland outside the Great Wall, which is their home field, and they can win more with less, and defeat the strong with the weak!
Why are reinforcements coming at this time? If you want to talk about the reason, it is still in the people themselves.
In order to catch all the fish that slipped through the net of the Tasu tribe before, they divided a part of their men and horses to detour to the vicinity of Datong first, intending to attack back and forth. However, in this way, it alarmed the defenders of Datong.
If it were at another time, with Yang Yiqing's usual steady character, even if he knew that the Mongols were haunting the neighborhood, as long as he didn't really send troops to attack his own city fortress, he would turn a blind eye and let them toss around on the grassland. But now there is a special guest in this Datong city, after he learned about it, he couldn't bear that someone dared to show off his might so much outside the country, and immediately ordered Yang Yiqing to send troops to break the enemy.
In desperation, Yang Yiqing had to send an elite cavalry of 2,000 people out of the city to sweep away the enemy.
The number of troops in this Mongolian army was already limited, and when they were completely defenseless, they were naturally defeated by Ding Yueqian in the first battle. And Ding Yueqian, who was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue, then saw the beacon fire lit in the direction of Baobao Fort, and their morale was high, and they didn't think much about it when they wanted to make greater contributions, so they turned to go straight to Baoan Fort. And because they were already outside Datong City, the time to come to help was faster than the transfer of troops from the city, and in just over two hours, they had already arrived near the fortress.
When the soldiers of the Ming army rushed to the front, saw that there were only dozens of Mongolians in front of the security fort, and heard the faint sound of killing from the fort, they did not hesitate for a minute, urged the horses under their hips, held bows, arrows, knives and guns high, and killed the handful of enemies in front of them.
The reason why Ding Yueqian dared to directly charge the Mongols on the grassland was not only because he had just won a victory and was in full swing and because he had confidence in his cavalry, but also because he saw the weakness of this Mongol army from the current situation - there were only a few dozen defenders in this security fort, and these enemies had not been able to fully control the whole fort for two hours, which showed that their combat strength was really limited.
In that case, let's be confident and bold to defeat them head-on!
With this in mind, the whole army of the Ming army let out a burst of shouts in the full-speed sprint, and rushed towards the poor dozens of Mongolian people in front of them with murderous energy.
And this time, the dozens of Tatars guarding in front of the fort were completely dumbfounded. Originally, they thought that the Ming army should stop the momentum when it approached, and then send some men to test it first, so that they could shoot some Ming troops with accurate archery, so as to reduce their morale and buy a certain amount of time for the people in the fort.
But the enemy didn't follow the routine at all, and without any preparation, he directly attacked the whole army, killing them by surprise, and many people raised their bows and arrows with their hands trembling slightly.
But the enemy had already been killed, and they had no choice, and when the Ming army rushed into range, they could only shoot arrows in a shout.
To say that these Mongolian archery skills are really good, dozens of arrows shot past, almost none of them missed, the Ming cavalry in front of the horse suddenly more than 20 people were injured by arrows, and five or six people fell directly from their horses. However, this casualty was insignificant to the two thousand cavalry, and it could not keep them at all. At the same time, the Ming troops armed with bows and arrows had also raised their bows and fought back.
Nowadays, the Ming border army does have a big gap with the Mongolian people in riding and shooting, especially when shooting arrows at the enemy when riding a horse and sprinting, its accuracy is even more uncontrollable, those arrows are completely uncontrolled, high or low, there is always a lot of deviation.
However, the number of arrows shot by the Ming army in this round was one or two hundred, which was more than the Mongolian people in front of them. Even if the rain of arrows shot is not very accurate, the numerical advantage alone is enough to make up for everything.
Faced with the indiscriminate arrows in the face, the Mongolian people had to drop their bows and arrows and show their scimitars to resist and respond. But even so, more than a dozen people were injured by stray arrows, and a few fell from their horses.
Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, and there was also the intention of releasing another round of arrows, the Mongolian people were completely panicked. Because the closer they get, the higher the likelihood that they will hit themselves. In such a situation, they had to grit their teeth and fight: "Kill!" In a howl, the remaining dozens of Mongolians rushed back towards the Ming army like desperate wolves, hoping to temporarily hold back the other party with their own riding ability.
But judging from the results, it is clear that they are overthinking. The Tatar elite outside Datong City with more than 200 troops before were all killed and fled by Ding Yueqian, how could these dozens of them be able to stop the Ming army that was rushing to kill with all their might?
With just one face, these dozens of people were swallowed up by the Ming army, and they were all killed without even hindering the speed of the other party's rush. Although they also fought hard to kill more than a dozen Ming soldiers during this period, this did not affect the momentum of the Ming army at all.
In fact, this is also the result of the wrong tactics they used. If they used the strategy of the Mongols to deal with the Ming army while fighting and retreating, even if there were only a few dozen people, it would be enough to entangle with the 2,000 Ming army for a while. However, they knew very well what the purpose of the Ming army was, and their retreat would not attract the pursuit of the Ming army at all, and the other party would only go to the fort immediately. It was precisely because of the sudden reversal of the offensive and defensive momentum that these dozens of Mongolian people could only give up their strengths and weaknesses and end up with the annihilation of the entire army.
And their sacrifice is almost meaningless. The Ming army did not stop for a moment, and they had already killed directly under the fortress wall, and with Ding Yueqian's order, hundreds of elites had quickly dismounted and climbed straight up along the rope.
As long as this group of people enters the fort and then opens the fort gate, the victory or defeat of this battle will naturally be divided!
And just as they were rapidly climbing up, a group of Mongolian people suddenly emerged on the fortress wall, and with a shout, one after another arrows condescendingly shot at the enemy below, and immediately killed the Ming army who was hanging on the rope by surprise, and many people were hit by arrows and fell.
Just as the reinforcements rushed in with all their might and annihilated the Mongols outside the city in one fell swoop, the Mongols who had rushed into the fort had brought the terrible news to Bokhur.
At this time, Yang Chen and the others in the bunker were already on the verge of collapse-
Because after seeing Yang Chen's bravery, Bohuer immediately changed his strategy, so that people were not in a hurry to attack the fort, but to release arrows to hurt people outside. This is much safer and more lethal than rushing straight to the past.
The previous forced assault on Fort Security had already cost Bohur too many of his clansmen to add a large number of casualties for the sake of this last small group of enemies. Anyway, he only wanted to kill all these people, and he didn't have to capture them alive, so he simply shot them all outside with a bow and arrow.
As a result, Yang Chen and the others inside suffered. The enemy's arrows outside came one after another, and the only thing they could do was to dodge and block, and soon, two more soldiers fell from the arrows, and the others were also somewhat injured, even Yang Chen was also hit by an arrow in his foot because he wanted to save Huang Feng beside him, which seriously affected the speed of action.
As for Tana and several other Mongolians, the situation is not very good, except for Tana because someone maintains, until this time there is still no damage, the other several have also been hit by arrows, Qinggele was hit by two arrows in a row, but he still stood guard with his sword, without the slightest intention of retreating.
Although their fighting spirit has not yet collapsed, everyone knows in their hearts that they will not last long. Unless something miracle happens, I'm afraid I'm going to die here.
The miracle suddenly came when everyone thought they would die, and when the Mongolian man came to Bohuer's side with a frightened face, the Mongolian people outside had actually heard the shouting and killing sound outside the fort, and everyone was surprised, why did the Ming army reinforcements come so suddenly and in time?
And after learning that there were more than 1,000 Ming troops coming, even Bohuer was a little panicked, he was in the fort at this time, and the horses were left outside, and it was impossible to get out. Now the only way to protect oneself seems to be only one - that is, to learn from the people of the Ming country and guard this small security fort.
With this idea all his life, he could no longer care about the people who were still struggling in the bunker, leaving only about 20 people to continue to attack, and he led the others to rush to the fort wall in a hurry, trying to prevent the Ming army from entering the fort. However, with their little strength, it is obviously extremely difficult to stop the Ming army.