Section 189 Crusade (II)
In the early morning, the north wind of the prairie after the winter is howling, although there is no snow, but it is already cold to the bone, after the mist is blown away by the wind, a military flag appears, hunting and hunting under the cold wind, the black goshawk in the flag is more ferocious and scary. Under the banner, there are neat and dense infantry phalanxes, the phalanx is divided into two layers, each layer has five phalanxes, the front of the phalanx has a wooden shield, behind the wooden shield is a forest of spears pointing to the sky, there is a narrow gap between the infantry phalanxes that can be passed, and there are cavalry guards on both wings of the phalanx - the armored cavalry holding the black eagle banner lists the cavalry formation closely attached to the infantry formation, this infantry cavalry formation stands motionless and solemn, revealing a compelling murderous aura in the silence. Not far after the infantry formation was another cavalry formation, but it was waving the Flying Tiger Banner, and some people were pointing at the front on a small mound next to it.
"Good thing, look at the distance is really real, old horse, let me look at it for a while, my Tuba is not without money, I will pay you one if I break it." Tuba was holding a small cylinder and looking into the distance.
"You lose a fart, I dare to say that I have clairvoyance in the desert, and you can't buy it if you have money, just take a look at it and enjoy it, pay it back to me." Ma Guangyuan was very dissatisfied with Tuba, and very carefully reached out to catch it under the clairvoyance.
Li Yu looked at the front silently, last night the Fengzhou army carried out a slight harassment of the enemy camp - the so-called mild harassment is to make the other party's skin and flesh itchy, but not to feel too painful, this is Li Yu's special request, according to the meaning of the generals of Fengzhou, for this group of rabble who still can't learn to camp, a night attack on them Forget it, but Li Yu disagrees, just because the other party is a rabble, once they eat the defeat, they will run all over the ground, so it is troublesome to clean up, so it is necessary to annihilate as much as possible, And you have to beat the other party with dignity and integrity, and when you see the Black Eagle Banner in the future, your legs will be weak, and you will no longer dare to resist. Last night, these guys probably didn't sleep well, the sun was almost overhead, and they haven't caught up yet.
"They must have slept too late, and if they knew that this was the case, we shouldn't have gone to steal the horses, which made people wait so much." Hadari chatted with Tu Lichen, he finally got Li Yu's consent this time, and he could go out with the army, the role of the child king was thrown to Brother Richard, Tu Lichen felt that he was unfamiliar with life in Fengzhou, and he had to follow Li Yu in life or death, and the dozen or so people who fled together were all brave men under Amin, and Li Yu casually took them into the Flying Tiger Camp.
"Don't worry, if they don't come, we will chase them and fight them, and beat them all the same." Tu Lichen quietly glanced at Li Yu and replied - last night, he and Hadari's hands were itchy, they sneaked into the Mongolian camp and stole two good horses, and they were chased by others for a while, and finally escaped while it was dark with good riding skills.
"Li Yucha, let's just kill the past, so as not to wait for anxiety, I am familiar with old Oba, that guy is cunning and cunning, you can't hide it from him, maybe they are planning to escape." Tuba returned the clairvoyance to Ma Guangyuan, shook his head at Li Yu and said.
"I didn't want to lie to them, what could they do if they knew I was luring the enemy? Dozens of tribes and hundreds of nobles got together, and if they didn't fight, they would have to break up, they could only run with me, wait patiently, they would definitely come," Li Yu smiled proudly, glanced at the lively lamas not far away, and asked Tuba in a low voice, "We are going to fight here, what are these lamas doing here?" I've got to send someone to protect them, what a nuisance! โ
"They brought a hundred sheep, saying that they were treating the army, but in fact they came to see the direction of the wind, and these lamas were unreliable, and they turned their faces faster than turning books." Tuba said, shaking his head.
When it was almost noon, the horses' hooves and smoke and dust were billowing in the east, and the Mongolian tribes finally chased after them, Li Yu looked at them with clairvoyance for a while, and the more he looked, the more he shook his headโthe other party was inferior to the rabble, and there were many dense people, but the banners were chaotic and no formation, and the weapons were also disorganized, and there was almost no armor, and there were many women and children on horseback, and they were a little embarrassed to beat them.
"Light up the wolf smoke and inform Kubai, Sun Fuhu, Asari, and Haishan, and now you can act." Li Yu sighed and returned the clairvoyance to Ma Guangyuan.
"Forget it, you take it and use it first, I'll go forward, Sun Shoufa and Manzhu are not watched, and Ding Qiming also has to take the practice hand." Ma Guangyuan waved his hand and trotted down the mound.
The Mongol tribes found that the opponent was in front of them, and the number did not seem to be large, and after a slight break, they launched an attack without a whole team - the enemy was on the opposite side, killing our people, robbing our property, and instigating the tribes and slaves to rebel, they must be killed, first a few small Taiji couldn't help but rush forward with hatred, and then more and more people followed with anger, and no one even listened to the old Oba shouting - this leader is not good, as soon as the meeting is held, hundreds of people get together to shout and shout and kill, and no one dares to say a soft word, There are only two ways in front of him, either fight with the other party, or break up and flee for their lives, knowing that the other party is playing tricks, but he has to lead this group of rabble to follow behind the butts of others. Forget it, let's just cover your head and fight like this, it's better than scattering the gang and being stabbed one by one, Lao Oba figured it out, and after an order, the Mongol departments launched a tidal attack.
The first thing that greeted the Mongols was three consecutive rounds of firearms, and dozens of cavalrymen who rushed in front fell to the ground on their backs, and the Mongols were frightened for a while, which was what they were most afraid of, but they could no longer restrain their horses, so they could only rush up. Ding Qiming and Jin Guoding finished firing a volley, and crawled into the passage between the phalanxes with firearms, and with the sound of a hurried trumpet, the spears in the phalanx stretched forward, turning the phalanx into a big hedgehog covered in thorns.
"But it's suffocating Lao Tzu, brothers, it's time to work, there is nowhere to escape from this place, all cheer up and kill the Tartars for Lao Tzu." Sun Shoufa held a spear and shouted, he returned to the infantry from the cavalry, but he was also convinced, the cavalry was really not what he could do, he ran for more than half a month in one breath, and almost never got off the horse in the middle, and the cavalry jumped up and down to grab things as soon as they arrived at the place, and his group of infantry became Luo Huan legs, and he barely recovered after a day of rest, or did his infantry work well.
"The officials look at the flag, and the soldiers listen to the numbers, they are all veterans, don't think about it and want the Shaanxi people in the left camp to see jokes." Man Zhu and Hou Shijie are holding a big knife in one hand and a whip in the other, scurrying around in the team, the right battalion of the infantry army is an old unit, and all of them are veterans of Shanxi and Zhili who have seen blood, but most of these guys have a history of being deserters, so they still have to keep an eye on it.
The Mongols rushed up, but in front of the dense spears, they knocked people on their backs, and as soon as the first row of spears in the phalanx was withdrawn, the spears in the second row were pierced, and they couldn't dodge if they wanted to, and the archers in the array listened to the rhythm of the trumpet, and threw arrows desperately, and the sharp arrows like dense raindrops fell into the crowd of the opposing party, causing a burst of screams. The Mongols who rushed in front could not retreat, those who fell behind could not keep up with the rain of arrows, and the cavalry who rushed into the gap between the phalanxes was even more unlucky, and they tripped over the stumbling rope or were stabbed by the spears on both sides before they rushed a few steps, and the momentum of the Mongol attack was resisted by the infantry phalanx. The frustrated Mongols were red-eyed and struck their opponents with their superior mounted archery, which provoked even more fierce retaliation, and their arrows sharpened from bones and stones did little damage to their iron-clad opponents, but the sharp iron-tipped arrows of the opponents could easily penetrate their thin clothing.
On the prairie, horses are neighing, people are howling, arrows are raining back and forth in the air, and dead bodies are everywhere in front of the Fengzhou army. Old Oba was anxious and threw more people into battle, the Mongol cavalry howled and outflanked the Fengzhou infantry from both flanks, and the Chahars bravely met it, they had a psychological advantage over the rebellion, and the opponent was not afraid of being outnumbered, and a more fierce battle began. The bitter and bitter nobles personally rushed up with the slave soldiers, killed a group and immediately came up again, the Chahar people who were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers were a little unbearable, and were pressed back step by step, and the infantry formation also appeared to be shaky under the continuous impact of the Mongols, the five sentinels in the front row retreated to the back, and the five sentinels in the back row pressed up to continue the fight to the death.
Ma Guangyuan was unhurriedly holding the bird gun to shoot, and several personal soldiers continued to hand over the reloaded gun to him, and the old horse was full of interest and addiction, while still teaching Ding Qiming and Jin Guoding, these two people took turns with their subordinates to attack each other with firearms, and they were fighting hard but were called by Shangguan to listen to the class, and they were a little anxious to scratch their ears and cheeks.
"Taizu's training requires 'the front team to be sparse and the rear team to be dense', this is not good for the fire gun, the fire gun must be fired in a dense salvo, otherwise it will be difficult to even meet the human hair, what have you realized after fighting for so long? of, I missed again, and I got another gun. Ma Guangyuan looked relaxed, glanced at the two of them and said, "What are you anxious about, do you really think of yourself as a sentry chief?" You two have guerrilla titles on your heads, it's time to use your brains to think about things! โ
"You still have to get a few cannons, the power of the guns is too small, the range is not enough, the Hongyi cannon can't be used in field battles, that thing is too heavy and the rate of fire is too slow, we will go back and ponder the Franc machine, about 500 catties on the gun carriage to keep up with the march, can hit more than a pound of iron, the range is 2,000 steps, hit three guns in a row, if the front digging trench is better, you can hit five guns, such a thing will work." Ding Qiming pondered and said.
"Actually, the bird guns are not bad, but the number is too small, if there are hundreds of guns divided into several teams to shoot continuously, the effect will be good. Today, there is a stupid guy who filled too much gunpowder, not to mention blowing up his chamber, and made himself covered in blood. Jin Guoding continued.
"Yes, yes, write these down," Ma Guangyuan nodded, pointed ahead and said, "But your brains are not enough, we can't just fight from the front, but also think of hitting from the side, we all have horses, we can run after the fight, if some big guys can be thrown into the pile of people along the horse's momentum, it would be better if he can't be blown up, and he can be scared half to death, go back and think about whether you can make some horse guns, I'm talking about horse guns, not three-eyed guns." โ
Ma Guangyuan spoke energetically, boasting about himself, Lao Zhao and Terrig in the praise painting department only know cavalry, Lao Bai has a little skill in cavalry and infantry, but he knows nothing about firearms, only his old horse is proficient in infantry, cavalry, and firearms, so he is the boss of the Wuxuan battalion.
The three of them were blowing, the situation in front seemed to be not good, under the repeated impact of the Mongols, the left battalion sounded the call for help, and then the right battalion of the infantry army also sounded the call for help, the two infantry battalions were obviously about to be unable to bear it, and they all issued flags asking the whole army to shrink the formation.
"Whoever made them shrink, issued a flag order to the battalions not to take a step back, each outpost contracted on its own, let the passage open for the Mongols to enter the battle, each outpost fought for the battle to strangle the enemy who entered the battle, the more people who came in, the better, and then clean up together." After Ma Guangyuan gave the order, he casually picked up a riding spear and walked into the formation, and Ding Qiming and Jin Guoding immediately drew their knives and followed behind.
With the issuance of the order, the outposts that were overwhelmed shrank into a dense circle formation, spearmen, sword players and archers cooperated with each other to desperately defend their own formation, and the Mongols divided and surrounded the Fengzhou army, but the Fengzhou army became more flexible in its own battles, and contracted on its own when it could not withstand it, and cooperated with friendly forces at every opportunity, and twisted the opponent caught in it into powder, and the Mongols fought around the island-like circle formation, but they couldn't move each other. The Chahar cavalry retreated to the rear to join the Flying Tiger Cavalry, and the two elite cavalry combined to multiply their strength, and in turn began to outflank the Mongols, invincible everywhere, the Mongols had an advantage on the surface, but they became more and more passive, and more than 10,000 people were trapped in the battlefield and could not extricate themselves.
The situation of the Mongols was not good, they surrounded the Fengzhou infantry army, but in turn they also fell into the formation and were surrounded by the other side, the most fatal thing was that the cavalry was crowded in a circle and had to slow down the horse, and once the cavalry slowed down, it became a live target for the opponent's spearmen and archers, which made the Mongols suffer a sharp increase in casualties. Old Oba sensed that a crisis was coming, and he quietly sent someone to inform some familiar Taiji and Noyan, and prepare to escape.
The Fengzhou army has not suffered many casualties so far, and the infantry army is full of veterans, who are very fierce but have no, although they are encircled, they still fight well, they understand that as long as the formation is not defeated, the chance of survival is still very great. Sun Shoufa guarded a sentry formation, standing at the front with a spear in his hand, and there were already five or six opponents who rushed over by him, and one of them fell with his hair floating out, which made him very sad that he actually killed a woman. However, the battlefield will not give him time to be sad, a nearby whistle array is blowing a contact number, is approaching him, looking at the triangular whistle flag should be the right battalion Tie Biao's whistle, this guy is too dishonest, and he still wants to fight back. Sun Shoufa ordered to move closer to the other side as well, and a dozen of the musketeers who had hidden in the formation crackled for a while, and the Mongols fell a dozen or so, and immediately dodged in horror - it was too easy to beat a man on horseback at such a close distance. As soon as Sun Shoufa and Tie Biao met, Sun Shoufa immediately erected the camp flag, beckoned the sentinels to move closer to him, and launched a fierce counterattack against the Mongols, this scene was staged everywhere on the battlefield, Ma Guangyuan, Man Zhu, Hou Shijie, Ma Danian, etc. all used this method to strangle the opponent, and the strength of the Mongols was constantly consumed in the melee.
A little more than an hour into the battle, a few pillars of wolf smoke suddenly rose from behind and on the flanks of the Mongols, and then one after another trumpets sounded, and black eagle banners appeared on the horizon in the distance - the Mongols were going to be out of luck.
Li Yu put the bow in his hand into the sack, and laughed faintly, this battle is thrilling, the powerful Flying Tiger Battalion, with the cooperation of the Chahar Iron Cavalry, has actually controlled the initiative on the battlefield, those Mongolian old and weak women and children are vulnerable in front of them, and almost everyone can shoot a stone bow The Flying Tiger Cavalry can easily defeat them with a rain of arrows.
"Uncle Yuzi, let's go up!" Hadari pleaded eagerly, and Turichen, who was next to him, also drew his long knife and was eager to try.
Li Yu nodded, Hadari shouted excitedly, and pulled Tu Lichen to pat his horse away.
The ensuing battle was much simpler, the left battalion of the cavalry and the right battalion of the cavalry of the Mongolian tribes were surrounded in a roundabout way, the Xuande battalion and the Xinghe battalion arrived, and the 2,000 elite cavalry rushed the exhausted opponent into chaos without much effort, and the Mongolian nobles no longer dared to fight, and they rushed to flee for their lives. After Sun Shoufa and the two battalions of the infantry army of Man Zhu took advantage of the situation to eliminate the remnants of the enemy in the formation, they regrouped, stepped on their war horses and continued to pursue the fleeing enemy. And at this time, the rebels' sworn enemy Chahar Khan also led his troops to arrive, he would not give up this rare opportunity to beat the water dogs, the Chahar people chased the Mongolian rebellion and rushed to fight, Fengzhou and Chahar coalition army chased all the way, captured countless along the way, and only stopped at the side of the Xilamulun River in one breath - except for a few nobles who escaped from the river with their retinue, almost all the others were annihilated, and the power of the Jin State in Mongolia was dealt a heavy blow.
Finally, I saw the river again, and the winding Xilamulun River was still flowing, like a yellow ribbon coiled on the grassland, and it seemed so silent under the green cluster. Li Yu's eyes were red, and he pulled Hadari to the river, first picked up a handful of water and sprinkled it on his face, then put the double-edged plate axe on his body with both hands at the water's edge, and fell to the ground on his knees.
"Hadari, get on your knees! Uncle Kuru's ashes were sprinkled in the river, telling Grandpa that we had come back to see him. Li Yu couldn't control it anymore at this time, and tears fell into the river one after another.
"Grandpa, Uncle Savage and I are back to see you, we miss you!" Hadari wiped away a handful of tears and clasped his hands together and shouted loudly into the river.
Meng Ke came over quietly, knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times, and he couldn't forget the kind old man he had seen in Beitunzi.
"Uncle Kuru, Hadari has grown up, I have children, we are all fine, don't worry, are you okay over there? When there is no more fighting, I will be here with you. Li Yu choked up.