Chapter 34: Scuffle

The Mongols did not find Zhang Qiang's army, there were some trees around it, and many displaced people scattered and fled on the periphery.

After a period of panic, seeing that they couldn't escape for a while, Lin Yangyang and He Jin sent the old battalion to slash and kill the displaced people who were blocking their team, and at the same time gathered those who had combat effectiveness and gradually formed a resistance trend.

Send the personal guards cavalry to fight the Mongol cavalry and disrupt the opponent's attack.

The main forces of the two sides collided in less than half an hour, and the Mongol cavalry could not deploy, so they could only run away from the sides, harassing the Liukou infantry, fighting with the Liukou cavalry, and from time to time rushing to the Liukou infantry to demonstrate, and see the opportunity to rush and kill.

The two sides were inseparable within two miles of Zhang Qiang's troops.

Although the Mongols were flexible, brave, and had a reputation for being invincible in the past, as a rogue, they still had some ability to fight with the Ming army for so many years, and suppressed the ferocious attacks of the Mongol cavalry.

But a discerning person can see at a glance that the Liukou did not hold out for long, and at the first opportunity, more than a dozen people fled from the battlefield through the gaps in the Mongol cavalry.

When it comes to escaping, no one beats the rogue.

Finally, the Mongols broke through the barrier of He Jin and others, and a group of Mongolian cavalry shouted and rushed to the hillside where Zhang Qiang and other Ming troops were located, and they were greeted by a team of spearmen led by Xuanyuan Longfei.

More than a dozen archers in the "bouncing" spearmen team took the lead in shooting arrows at the Mongolian cavalry, several Mongolian cavalry were defenseless, and in an instant, people turned their horses on their backs, and the momentum stopped, and the other Mongolian cavalry pulled their horses' heads and continued to attack Xuanyuan Longfei's team.

In the rugged hilly terrain, which was still blocked by small trees and rocks, the Mongol cavalry was not as strong as before, and they bent their bows and arrows to shoot arrows at the spearmen.

At this time, Xuanyuan Longfei, who was riding on a war horse, was dressed in a white robe and covered with chain mail, raised his saber and shouted: "Raise the shield."

The knife players who followed the gap in the queue behind the spearman stepped forward one after another, raised their shields, and protected the pikemen, and heard a ding-dong sound, and the arrows of the Mongols were pierced on the shields in the hands of the sword and shield, and only a few unlucky ghosts were shot on the cotton armor and cloth armor on their bodies, and they snorted, shook their bodies, and then stood up again, letting the blood flowing from the wounds stain their bodies red, and gritted their teeth to support them.

"Javelin throwing."

Xuanyuan Longfei raised it again and shouted, at this time the Mongolian brigade had rushed to the pikemen thirty paces, the pikemen threw the javelins in their hands hard, the Mongolian cavalry was hit, they were on the horse, and they rushed over in front of them, the target was too obvious, and at this time they were ready to draw the bow and shoot the second wave of feather arrows, this time, they lost more than a dozen horses.

The rest of the Mongolian cavalry turned their horses and tried to pass in front of the battle array, but they unfortunately ran in front of the sword and card players led by Du Ge, and the sword and card players threw their short axes, javelins, and bones in their hands, and smashed down five or six Mongolian cavalry, and the Mongolian cavalry scattered, and were shrouded in the bows and arrows thrown by Zhou Congee's archers flying behind the spearmen and behind the sword players.

At once, more than 30 cavalry were lost again, and only 20 or 30 cavalrymen escaped with wounds from the attack range of the Ming army's long-range troops on the Ming army's position in Zhang Qiang's column.

The Mongol cavalry was so discouraged that they did not dare to run back, so they ran out of the midst of the displaced people and pursued them.

A cheer broke out on the Ming army's position, Zhang Qiang showed a satisfied smile on his face, this time he was a little sweaty palms, and his nervous body was about to fall off the war horse.

After all, this is the first time that his troops have faced the Mongolian cavalry in the field, although it is only about eighty horses rushing over, but Zhang Qiang is still worried that the soldiers in his hands will not be able to withstand the pressure in his heart and collapse, and he will flee, he shouted again and again to let his musket team prepare, not to kill the Mongolian cavalry, but to kill those rebel soldiers who dare to throw down their weapons and run away, his own soldiers, because he knows that if he does not stop the escape, his troops will collapse like He Jin and Lin Yangcheng's troops, then he has only one way to escape.

But Xuanyuan Longfei, Du Ge, and Zhou Congee made Zhang Qiang very satisfied with their performances, and they looked naïve, but they still blocked the Mongol attack.

Although this army is not afraid of the rogues, but the Ming people are afraid of fighting the Qing army in the field, this is a fact that no one can change, at this moment, he knew, his troops after a month of training, still persevered.

After that, some Mongolian cavalry did not come to harass his troops, but drove some homeless people from all directions, the homeless people revolved around his troops, but could not escape, these homeless people about 3,000 people, there are escaped Liukou veterans, there are also Liukou cavalry, and there are some soldiers on the periphery of the Liukou, more are homeless, they are more and more pressed to Zhang Qiang's position, want to get close but don't dare, want to run out, the outside is full of Mongolian cavalry galloping, from time to time by the Mongolian cavalry shooting, panicked.

The Mongols clearly wanted to let these rogues rush Zhang Qiang's team, and then, like the old camp of the rogues, rush in and destroy Zhang Qiang's troops in the melee.

But they couldn't do anything for a while, on that side, although Lin Yangcheng and He Jin's old camp was chaotic, but their rogues were not uncomfortable at all in the face of such chaos, but they became more and more courageous, and they restrained most of the Mongolian cavalry troops, how to say that they also rebelled against the Ming Dynasty army for decades, and they have long been accustomed to this kind of chaotic fighting, and they have come to experience.

But these displaced people still caused some trouble for Zhang Qiang, and they were forced by the Mongols to have no choice but to intensify the attack on Zhang Qiang's Ming army and want to escape to the hillside.

Wei Wuji's musketeers were placed dozens of paces behind Zhang Qiang's musketeers, and with the support of the cavalry, they used their muskets to strike at the homeless, and in front of them were Zhou Congee's archers, who were already under Zhang Qiang's command, and the pikemen, as well as the sword and card players, dropped a lot, shooting wave after wave of bows and arrows into the middle of the ranks of the homeless.

Zhang Qiang didn't want to fight like this, but there was no way, his troops were in the middle of the formation of the two sides fighting, and from time to time they would be attacked by the Mongolian cavalry, and the main combat object was the homeless.

Although the homeless people were brave and seemed to be fearless of death, they just couldn't get within thirty paces of Zhang Qiang's troops.

Whenever they came close, they were repelled by javelins and bows and arrows.

At the critical moment, Zhang Qiang would be divided into four teams, and the volley of twenty-five musketeers in each team would kill and injure a large number of people, and then retreat in a panic, stampede, and pushed and injured them a lot.

In the end, there were even some low-ranking officers who had seen the form clearly and organized some homeless people to counterattack the Mongol cavalry, and the effect was not bad, causing a lot of casualties to the Mongols, and the Mongols had to retreat and carry them far away.

Some of the rogues in the middle took the opportunity to rush out, causing the Mongol cavalry to chase them down from afar.

At this time, it is impossible to say that Cha Jiuer does not know and does not feel sorry for the losses of his subordinates, so he can only recall his cavalry and step up the siege of the old camp of Liukou.

In the distance, four or five miles away, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Guangbi's Han military banners watched from afar, while slowly approaching the battlefield.

Liu Guangbi frowned and asked cautiously: "My lord, if you do this, aren't you afraid that Mongolian Taiji will sue Beile Ye?" ”