109th Ambush
The heavy snow fell intermittently for more than ten days, and the Fengzhou army, with the help of the people of Karaqin, found a leeward and hidden foot of the mountain and camped. There are still some groups of Karaqin tents around the Fengzhou army, these Karaqin people find the Fengzhou army camp for three days and two ends to entangle, and keep saying that they will follow the Fengzhou army wherever they go, even if they go to Fengzhou, they will admit it, they are really afraid! Some time ago, these guys had a hot brain, saw the money, and did everything to the end, and they reported to the Fengzhou army, ran errands and led the way, and they killed and robbed, and sat on the ground to share the spoils.
The heavy snow is a good thing for the Fengzhou army, it is difficult for the Jin army in the pass to organize a large-scale military operation in this bad weather, at this time it is relatively safe, the tired Fengzhou army and the Chahar people can just take a rest, Li Yu has already considered withdrawing the army, the pass is a mess, he doesn't want to wade into the troubled waters, Bai Xianzhi was also frightened when he entered the pass, he wished he would slip away immediately, he made up all the nonsense to deal with Datong, and said that no one took care of the food after entering the pass, you can't let me fight hungry.
Li Yu didn't plan to come in vain, gathered the officers of Fengzhou and Chahar, pointed to the map and said: "We have been sending troops for a month, it should be time to go home, but we have to do something before leaving, and when the snow is light, we will send troops to bring the Jin army's grain platform in Karacheng, the Jin army is not familiar with the road, and there is wind and snow to block it, they dare not chase too far, and we quickly retreat to Fengzhou with livestock and property." ”
"Let's do it! Haishan has been staring at it these days, and the thousands of animals are still outside the city, and this is the meat that is delivered to the mouth. Man Dahai said excitedly that his hundreds of people had already arrived at the Fengzhou military camp, and they had been thinking about the livestock and belongings of Kara City these days.
"Let's do it together, follow Li Yucha is oil and water, how about we split the account five or five, four or six points, you take the lion's share." Tuba rubbed his hands excitedly.
"Tuba Jinong, don't forget your business, immediately send someone to inform the Great Khan, just say that we are leaving, and ask him to send someone to pick us up." Li Yu glanced at Tuba and said.
"Snow is not conducive to the siege of the city, if the Karaqin people retreat to the city of Karaqin, what are you going to do?" Liu Xingzuo reminded.
"If you have the opportunity, you will attack the city, and if you don't have the opportunity to evacuate immediately, this battle must be resolved quickly, and you will never stay under the city." Li Yu replied decisively.
Before dark, the snow suddenly lightened, Li Yu immediately ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and set off, the horn sounded, the Fengzhou army and the Chahar people, who had already been ready to set off, put away the camp tent and stepped on the war horses, and galloped in the direction of Karacheng.
The next day near noon, the Fengzhou iron cavalry suddenly appeared near Karacheng, the Karaqin people guarding the ranch were only two or three hundred people, almost instantly drowned by the iron cavalry, Karacheng immediately rushed out of more than a thousand cavalry to counterattack, but their strength was too weak, there were almost no armored soldiers, and the weapons were only bows and arrows and a small number of knives and spears, Li Yu ordered Bai Xianzhi to command Zhang Chuanjie and Terig two battalions to be on guard, and Zhao Ji commanded Wuhai and Qiu Xian two battalions to outflank and attack, and then he took the guard battalion to meet the Karaqin people.
The battle ended quickly, the disparity in strength between the two sides was too great, the armored cavalry of the personal guard battalion almost rampaged through the Karaqin crowd, the Karaqin people had few arrows, and they could not pose a threat to the enemy with the clusters of arrows sharpened by animal bones and stones, and Qiu Xian and Wuhai shot them down one by one from the rain of arrows from their wings, and the Karaqin people retreated in a hurry, but the gate of the Karaqin city was closed and blocked without hesitation, and the Karaqin people had no way to escape had to dismount and surrender.
When the Fengzhou army began to collect the spoils, Tuba arrived panting with Chahar people, and when he saw Li Yu, he complained that he didn't leave him a little to fight, they were indeed too mysterious to fight the Jin army, but they were still quite good at fighting the Karaqin people, Tuba patted his chest and asked for battle, and the hard work of attacking Kara City was covered by the Chahar people, Li Yu of course couldn't ask for it, and was very surprised how Tuba's character suddenly improved.
Tuba really worked hard this time, the Chahar people quickly arrived at the city, Li Yu didn't bother to care about him, ordered the Fengzhou army to retreat and guard, and at the same time ordered the scout search range to be expanded to forty miles. After finishing all this, he saw Liu Xingzuo, Bai Xianzhi and Ma Guangyuan on a high ground, looking at Karacheng and cooing, so he leaned over.
Bai Xianzhizheng said: "This kind of short and broken small earth city should be easy to attack, but unfortunately we don't have siege equipment, if there are a few ladders, and then transfer some bows and arrows, three-eyed guns to cover, we will definitely be able to take it down before dark." ”
"No, the city wall is too slippery on a snowy day, the ladder is not easy to use, the bow and arrow are not powerful enough, and the three-eyed range is not enough, or the bird is good, that thing can hit far and shoot accurately," Ma Guangyuan thought for a while, and shook his head and said, "Actually, these are not the best, the siege or artillery is easy to use, I have seen the kind of Hongyi cannon, which can beat the brick city wall into a depression, this kind of earth city should collapse, but that guy is too heavy to be used in field battles, or five hundred catties to one thousand catties of franc machine is easy to use, light, fast rate of fire, although the power is not large, But it is enough to deal with the earth city and wooden fence on the grassland, but the range is shorter. ”
"General Ma Shen is very proficient in firearms?" Li Yu asked curiously.
"I'm a fugitive, but General Li still calls me Lao Ma to listen to the ear," Ma Guangyuan waved his hand and continued, "When I was in the Beijing camp, I learned a little bit from the Taixi missionaries. ”
"The Chahars have begun to attack the city, and sure enough, it is still their old way, piling up earth bags to attack the city." Liu Xingzuo shouted, everyone hurriedly looked towards Kara City, where it had been a piece, dense arrows flying around the city and under the city, and people were constantly rushing to the city to throw soil bags in the rain of arrows, but most of the people who rushed up were shot down, and the people behind threw the fallen people together with the soil bags regardless of it.
Bai Xianzhi shook his head and said: "How many people will die in this kind of fighting, Tuba only takes advantage and refuses to suffer, this time it won't be crazy!" ”
Everyone talked about Tuba's sudden selfless feat, but Ma Guangyuan silently took out a small cylinder from his arms, fiddled with it and held it up in front of him, Bai Xianzhi immediately shouted: "Old Ma, where did you get the clairvoyance, this is a baby, let me see." ”
"My wife forced me to join the Western Church, which was given to me by the Western missionary," Ma Guangyuan said a little embarrassedly, and then adjusted it for everyone to take turns to watch, while constantly reminding, "I'm just the one, don't break it." ”
Everyone wiped their hands with excitement and consciously lined up to watch, Li Yu was squeezed to the last one at a young age, Bai Xianzhi and Liu Xingzuo couldn't stop being amazed after reading it, Li Yu excitedly took the clairvoyance, but after looking at it for a while, his face changed, Ma Guangyuan was afraid that his baby would be lost, so he quickly reached out to help Li Yu hold the clairvoyance.
"**** Tuba, he has also done this lack of morality." Li Yu let go of his clairvoyance and rushed to the city in a rage.
Tuba is triumphantly commanding the siege at this time, so he will not use his own people to attack the city, the Fengzhou army has something to do, usually cleaning the battlefield, sheltering prisoners These miscellaneous things are generally handed over to them, Tuba has nearly a thousand Karaqin captives in his hands, of course, he will not waste it, and he uses a big knife to escort these people to plow snow and take soil, and then force these prisoners to carry the loaded soil bags to the city. The people in the city didn't look good, and they didn't care about the life or death of these captives, and desperately shot arrows to intercept - after the Fengzhou army was killed, the leaders and nobles of the Karaqin tribes fled here for their lives, these people had a deep hatred for the Fengzhou army, and their fighting spirit was tenacious, plus one hundred and ten Zhushen Eight Banner soldiers supervised the battle, and shot the prisoners who rushed up all over the place, Tuba didn't care about it, and drove the captives to the city over and over again, Tuba saw Li Yu and said happily: "Li Yucha, you see that this soil bag is half as high as the city wall, I have three or four thousand earthen sacs and nearly a thousand corpses here, and the siege is enough, oops,......"
Li Yu kicked Tuba in the stomach, Tuba sat down on the ground, and the Chahar people around him were stunned, but they didn't dare to move - they had been following Li Yu's ass for a long time, and they unconsciously had a sense of awe for Li Yu, Li Yu pointed at the Chahar people and shouted: "Aren't the Karaqin people human?" You also do this kind of hurtful thing, and you are not afraid of Tengger's retribution? Immediately stop the siege, let all the prisoners go, and not one of them will be left. ”
Tuba opened his mouth and wanted to say something, Li Yu waved his hand to signal him to shut up, the scout's urgent report came, and thirty miles to the south appeared the baggage troops of the Jin State, seeing that the banners were inlaid with yellow and red flags, about more than 1,000 people, escorting more than 3,000 people and vehicles, and were driving towards Karacheng.
"Tuba, aren't you ruthless enough? The baggage of the Eight Banners of the Golden Kingdom has come over, and there must be a lot of oil and water, do you want to catch a handful? Li Yu asked Tuba mockingly.
"If your Fengzhou army dares to fight, I will dare to fight, let's divide the account in three or seven, forget it, divide the account in two or eight, you will take the lion's share." Tuba gritted his teeth and agreed, but he kept an eye on it and took the initiative to ask for a small share of the spoils, so Li Yu was embarrassed to let him do heavy work.
The trumpet sounded, the Fengzhou army quickly turned around and went south, the Chahar people followed in a chaotic manner, and after a while, the city of Kara returned to calm, and the people in the city finally breathed a sigh of relief, the battle just now had exhausted their courage, and they no longer had the courage to take a step out of the city.
The Jin army from Da'ankou walked swaggering on the snow, everyone's pockets and skins bulging, and the thousands of Han people in the Guannei who were escorted were driven by livestock and carts in the middle of the team. Yue Tuo, Haoge who led the team laughed all the way very easily, this is the territory of the Karaqin people, there is nothing to worry about, at the beginning of the month, the Karaqin people came to report, a group of people with the banner of the Ming army, the banner of Chahar and the banner of the black eagle rushed into the grassland to loot, the leader of the Karaqin tribe Su Budi judged that it may be the people of Tumut that Humba Tulu came, he saw the banner during the battle of Zhaocheng, as for how these people would get together with the Ming army and the Chahar people, he also couldn't say, but someone entered his territory to rob his livestock and property, This is what he can't tolerate, he asked Tiancong Khan to send troops to exterminate this gang of thieves, Tiancong Khan carefully inquired about the person who reported the news, and confirmed that this was a gang of swaggering horse thieves, the Ming army and the Chahar people are cowards, and they never have the courage to make trouble under his nose, and the Tumut River is nearly two thousand miles to here, and the Tumut people will come here when they are crazy, and the most important thing is that such a big piece of fat in Karacheng is placed there but it is safe and sound, which fully shows that this group of people is not strong enough, what else can this not be a horse thief? The Belle of the Jin Kingdom and the leaders of the Mongols are also dissatisfied with Subudi, the battle in the Guannai is so easy, you can grab whatever you want, the big guy is busy working to make money, and the fool will go out of the customs for you to fight horse thieves, Subudi found that he was going to cause public indignation, and he didn't dare to mention this matter anymore, in fact, he himself was reluctant to leave the Guannei, how many times can he encounter such a good opportunity to make a fortune in his life?
Yue Tuo and Haoge were ordered by Tiancong Khan to escort the 400 taels of silver and more than 10,000 stone grains collected from the Yongping Mansion back to Liaodong, and by the way, they brought back the craftsmen they had captured and a small piece of their family, and the people who got the opportunity to go home with the yellow and red flags were very satisfied with this, they had already grabbed enough, and they wished to go home as soon as possible. It's almost time to arrive at Karacheng, the soldiers of the Eight Banners are more relaxed, they have their own grain platform there, they can take the opportunity to rest and recuperate, and then go home along the Daling River Valley to Yizhou.
However, at this time, an accident happened, the vanguard in front fled back in embarrassment to report, there was an enemy situation in front, and then the news came from the left and right wings and the rear, there was a chaotic army rushing towards them, Yue Tuo, Hao Ge was startled, they understood that they had been ambushed, Yue Tuo immediately made a judgment, this group of people have the courage to besiege thousands of Eight Banner soldiers, then it will never be an ordinary horse thief, but an army with a certain strength, maybe Kara City has an accident, there is no one here, there are few people, and it must not stay for a long time, It is necessary to fight your way out of the encirclement immediately. Yue Tuo and Hao Ge briefly discussed, the two hundred elite cavalry of the two banners were led by Hao Ge to break through the gap, and Yue Tuo commanded the other Eight Banner soldiers to escort the chariots and Han people, and rushed behind Hao Ge.
"See? Hundreds of horsemen in the east are under the banner of the Ming army, you can take them with a knife, I will follow you with the team, and we will break through to the east. Yue Tuo said, Hauge nodded, and with a wave of his hand, he led the elite horse to the east.
Zhang Chuanjie came with five hundred Datong cavalry murderous, unlike other Ming troops, the vast majority of Bai Xianzhi and Zhang Chuanjie's gang of people are criminals, ruffians, and thorns who were driven out of the customs by Shangguan, and few are serious people, even Bai Xianzhi himself admits that he is a gathering of scum here, Fengzhou's days are bitter and there has been a plague, and the thousands of scum who have gone out of the customs have run away timidly and died weakly, and now they are basically a group of outlaws who are still in Fengzhou, and those who have done thieves in the customs can point out dozens of them. The lawless days of Fengzhou are just their appetite, and fighting for Fengzhou is a matter of course for them, they have never met with the Jin army, and they have been staying with the flying tiger riders of Baiyintu and a group of cowhide coaxes for a long time, and they can't talk about how much they are afraid of the Jin army, and when they see the Jin army rushing towards them, they are not only not afraid but are a little excited, and the opportunity to show their faces has come.
"Little fresh meat is here, brothers, kill people!" Zhang Chuanjie has been with this group of scum for a long time, and he is also full of gangsterism, shouting at the top of his voice, and then leading this group of excited screaming Ming troops to rush towards the Jin army cavalry.
The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, the first wave of arrows of the Jin army poured on the Ming army, according to the past practice, the Ming army should be in a hurry at this time with the three-eyed gun, and the Jin army wearing heavy armor is not afraid, the range and power of the three-eyed gun are not enough, they just need to keep shooting rounds of heavy arrows to hit each other, after the Ming army has given themselves the courage of the three eyes, they will see the casualties of their companions will be a mess, and then scatter in a hurry, then the Jin army can calmly shoot arrows at their backs, and defeat them in one fell swoop- The Ming army did not dare to fight hand-to-hand, this was the unanimous consensus of the Jin army.
Hauge was surprised to find that after the first wave of arrow rain in the Jin army at a range of 100 steps, more than a dozen people on the other side planted their horses, but they did not slow down at all and return fire with three eyes, but accelerated the speed of the horse and rushed over, the distance between the two sides was too close, the Jin army had no chance to continue riding and shooting, and hurriedly abandoned the bow and drew the knife to prepare for hand-to-hand combat, and in an instant, the two sides collided together, and immediately blood splashed, people turned over on their horses, and the five hundred Ming troops in groups of three or five entangled the two hundred Jin army elite cavalry and beat them to death, where did the Jin army ever see such a desperate Ming army, In a moment, thirty or forty people were cut down by the other party in a daze.
"This is a horse thief, everyone be careful." Haoge shouted, his father Khan was right, this is a group of horse thieves who swaggered and deceived under the banner of the Ming army, they dared to fight hand-to-hand, cruel methods, and the weapons used were not the heavy riding spears and light knives commonly used by the Ming army, but maces, plate axes, tripping horses, iron whips and some unnamed weapons, and the way of playing was not rules, groups of gangs blocked the Jin army to stalk, Haoge saw with his own eyes that a white armor with a yellow flag just approached the other party, and was hit by an egg-sized pebble in the face, covering his face, a mace and a plate axe smashed over, and the head of the white armor was gone, which is the Ming army, it must be a gang of rotten thieves.
Zhang Chuanjie's battalion has been training with the Fengzhou cavalry for a long time, and the Ming army's style of play has long been forgotten - after Baiyintu trained them for a period of time, they thought that they could only be regarded as infantry on horseback, and could never reach the standard of cavalry, and Zhao Ji pointed out the way out for them "each has its own strengths, and fights more and less", so they gradually formed their own style of play, which looks chaotic, but in fact, they have a clear eye, each looking for a suitable weapon, each practicing their own unique skills, and when fighting, they pay attention to the cooperation of three or five people, and never play falsely, Just greet the other party's fatal place, and the Jin army will naturally suffer a loss if they deal with them in the same way as they did in the past against the Ming army.