Section 223 Decisive Battle (5)
The Fengzhou Iron Cavalry finally arrived, overwhelmingly killed, a burst of military trumpets sounded on the battlefield, the morale of the Fengzhou army was greatly boosted, and the shouts of killing went straight to the sky, while the Jin army was like ashes, they were too tired, the other party suddenly had so many new troops, can this battle still be fought!
"Terig led the cavalry to the right and the reserve battalion to the left, Wuhai led the cavalry to the front and rear battalions to the right, and the Flying Tiger Battalion and Chahar Iron Cavalry followed me." Li Yu gave an order unhurriedly, from last night to this afternoon, the iron cavalry was almost non-stop, twenty miles away from the battlefield before stopping, at this time the Jin army scouts found them, Li Yu did not dare to slack off, after a short rest, he killed, and met two yellow, two red and four flags of iron cavalry.
The two sides gradually approached, and the Jin army immediately shot a dense rain of arrows, and the Fengzhou army did not fight back, but turned around and slowly retreated - the battlefield situation was already clear, seven thousand Fengzhou light cavalry against four thousand Jin heavy cavalry, a hundred steps away and the Jin army would definitely suffer, and now they need to drag the other party away and consume their horsepower.
Erlu actually has so many armored cavalry, this battle is not easy to fight, the stinky boy wants to make me lose face - Tiancong Khan thought about ordering to stop advancing, the Mongolian cavalry has the ability to shoot back arrows, and it is not good to catch up, he turned his head and wanted to find Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai, these two people are gone, and they must have returned to the banner when they saw the bad situation.
How can there be such a cavalry around the four Baylors? His strength must be seriously underwhelmed, and I have a chance to defeat the Four Baylors! If you don't want to move, then I'll move first-Li Yu thought in surprise, and ordered the iron cavalry to immediately turn around and start to make a large-scale roundabout movement, making a posture of looking for a gap to bypass the other party and assault the flank of its infantry, which is also the tactic of the Fengzhou iron cavalry to deal with Abatai by the Luan River.
This time, the Jin army's iron cavalry couldn't move, and the four thousand people wanted to block the wide front, so they could only follow the Fengzhou iron cavalry, but their speed couldn't keep up with the light cavalry, and they were led by Li Yu to run a few laps left and right, and the war horses couldn't bear it. In desperation, Tiancong Khan ordered the iron cavalry to retreat to narrow the defensive surface, and at the same time ordered the cavalry of the two white, two blue and four banners and the Horqin cavalry to come to meet immediately. As soon as the cavalry on both flanks of the Jin army withdrew, Asari and Borshu immediately followed with the light cavalry of the guard. Zabutu took the opportunity to lead the reserve cavalry, Shanxi cavalry and armored Fengzhou cavalry 1,000 people into the infantry battlefield, to attack the Jin army's infantry, Du Wenhuan also did not hesitate to send all the garrisons back to the battlefield, the battlefield situation suddenly changed, was pressed and beaten for most of the day Fengzhou army turned over, from defense to attack in an instant, and the Jin army reacted quickly, without waiting for the Khan to give up the offensive consciously, dense formation to protect themselves.
At this time, the morale of the Fengzhou army was high, the confidence was bursting, and it seemed that victory was in sight, and the faces of Ma Xianglin and Zhang Fengyi were also happy, and they shouted "kill the thief" to the stone soldiers. Jin Sheng rushed over from behind, dancing excitedly - how many years, the Jin army almost rode on the Ming Kingdom and beat violently, today finally raised his eyebrows, if this battle is won in the end, he is the hero admired by everyone in the Ming Dynasty, but is the Jin army so easy to fight?
The Jin army's infantry is definitely less than 10,000 now, our strength is more than 15,000 people, and there are 1,000 armored cavalry, the opponent's iron cavalry has been dragged by Yuzi, this battle is seventy percent sure - Du Wenhuan thought in his heart, and ordered the Shi Yan soldiers and the Xuande guard garrison to attack from the front, the right battalion of the infantry army, the rear battalion and the Dongsheng guard garrison to attack the left flank of the Jin army, the front battalion, the left battalion and the Fengzhou guard garrison to attack the right flank of the Jin army, and the cavalry and the garrison of the Barbarian Mountain battalion to meet everywhere.
Ma Guangyuan resolutely opposed, the Jin army's combat power and resilience are amazing, he learned when he was in Liaodong, concentrating troops to annihilate one of them, and expelling it from the battlefield is a great victory, this kind of scattered forces will not work. Du Wenhuan was very disapproving, thinking that Wai Sanque Yi was already very cautious, the two were still arguing, the front had already started, Ma Xianglin, Sun Shoufa and Du Hongfang took the lead in attacking, Ma Guangyuan shook his head and ran to find Li Yu - Shi Yanbing and the Northwest Qin Army were a little ignorant, in contrast, Zhang Chuanjie and Man Zhu repeatedly fought with the Jin Army, and they were very cautious and intensively formed formations, only sending a small number of soldiers to test the attack, looking for the flaws of the other party, and there were also a large number of officers and veterans in the guards who were extremely familiar with the Jin Army, and they all fought steadily and steadily, There was no rush to pounce. In fact, as soon as the Flying Tiger Banner appeared, the command of the old commander was shaken, and only his nephew Du Hongfang, his old subordinate Sun Shoufa obeyed him, plus a vengeful Ma Xianglin, and the Fengzhou army preferred their commander to personally command the battle.
The offensive of the stone soldiers and the left battalion and the rear battalion of the infantry army soon collapsed, and they were killed and wounded by the opponent's guns and arrows in front of the Jin army's infantry formation, and it was almost impossible to advance an inch - at this time, the Jin army was like the previous Fengzhou army with no way to retreat, and they worked together to grit their teeth and fight, this battle could not afford to lose, once defeated, although everyone had horses, but the infantry on horseback could never escape the hunt of the opponent's cavalry, and the hometown was five thousand miles away, and if you wanted to go home alive, you must defeat the opponent. The Great Belle Daishan and the Three Belle Mang Gurtai personally came to the front to supervise the battle, which boosted the morale of the whole army, and the Jin army turned from offensive to defensive, and quickly formed a dense formation under the cover of the chariot, and the spearmen and archers in heavy armor were waiting for the battle, and the guns that had always been rejected were also placed in front of the formation. Shi Yan soldiers and the left battalion of the infantry army, the rear battalion rushed up and hit the head and broke the blood, the opponent's cannon did not want to hit the death, no one cared about the occasional explosion, the Fengzhou army could not suppress the guns at all, the Ming army's five or six fighting strength of the bow could not resist the strong bow commonly used by the Jin army, the arrows were sprinkled down like raindrops, and the foot soldiers in light armor were shot by countless arrows, Ma Xianglin was defeated first, Sun Shoufa and Du Hongfang wanted to hold on for a while, Du Wenhuan couldn't stand it, and ordered the two to collect the troops immediately, and at the same time sent people to collect the carts left by the Jin army on the battlefield, heavy armor.
Ma Guangyuan came in a hurry at this time, brought back Li Yu's order, left part of the troops to contain the middle and left flank of the Jin army, and the main force attacked the two white flags on its right flank with all its might.
"The commander said that he would go all out to deal with the cavalry of the Great Khan of the Jin State, and still asked the old commander to command our army on his behalf, and he also said that the Great Belle of the Jin State and the Great Silk of the Three Beylers appeared on the left flank and the middle of the Jin army, and they were afraid that it would be difficult to shake it, so he asked our army to attack the two white flags on its right flank with all his might." Ma Guangyuan wiped his sweat and said.
Du Wenhuan thought for a while, nodded and ordered: "Withdraw the right battalion, rear battalion and Dongshengwei of the infantry army on the right flank of our army, and join up with the front battalion, left battalion, artillery battalion and Fengzhou Wei of the infantry army to attack the right flank of the Jin army. ”
"The commander also ordered that if the Jin army retreated, our army must not pursue, and immediately retreat to Kuku and Tun, without hesitation." Ma Guangyuan lowered his voice and said again.
Du Wenhuan was stunned for a moment, and then sighed softly, before today, he would definitely secretly laugh at Li Yu's cowardice, but now he also felt that he was not confident, the Jin army was too tenacious, and he was afraid that he would have to pay thousands of more lives to defeat them, could Fengzhou afford this price?
The fourth Baylor is also coming up, and the big Baylor and the third Baylor are also in the formation now, can I defeat them? There is still an hour before the sky is about to get dark, maybe Sibeile will take the initiative to withdraw the army - Li Yu removed the clairvoyance from his eyes, the garrison cavalry of Asari and Borshu joined his iron cavalry, the Fengzhou cavalry has reached 10,000 people, and the cavalry of the Jin army and the Horqin cavalry are also together, the number is about 9,000, and the strength of the two sides is not much different, but the Jin army except for the Horqin cavalry is poorly equipped, most of the other banner cavalry are wearing heavy armor, and most of the Fengzhou cavalry is wearing leather armor with iron sheets, The garrison cavalry and Chahar cavalry were very few and even lightly armoured, and they would definitely suffer a loss in a hard encounter with the iron cavalry of the Jin army. The Fengzhou cavalry adopted a tactic of constant movement and roundabout, dragging the Jin army to follow, gradually compressing the Jin army to two miles away from its infantry formation, and forcing the opponent to change horses twice, but the retracted Jin army's defensive surface was smaller, and the strength was more concentrated but invulnerable. Wuhai and Terrig successively led people to provoke and want to lure the other party out, but they were all shot back by random arrows, and the Jin army also attacked several times, but soon retracted, and one of the leaders was actually Turai, Li Yu recognized this big brother, and hurriedly led the Flying Tiger to meet him, Turai obviously also recognized the little brother, waved his hand at him and withdrew.
Both sides are jealous, do not dare to attack easily, the situation seems very dull, Li Yu is quite satisfied with this, the initiative of the battlefield is controlled in hand, the number of Jin troops is at a disadvantage, and they are not familiar with the battlefield, the bow and arrow will be greatly reduced after dark, they must retreat before dark, and after the four beylers hit the wall, there is no choice but to withdraw the army - after the Azig on the south road is defeated, the Jin army has no strength to continue to fight thousands of miles away from the rear, and there are fewer people to die in Fengzhou, this result is very good!
A cold wind blew, a few drops of rain hit his face, Li Yu glanced at the sky, the dark clouds were slowly pressing overhead, the Chahar people around him, Darhan, and the martyrdom suddenly changed their faces, Li Yu asked softly: "You two grew up on the grassland, will this day change?" ”
"Master Jinong," Darhan noticed that Li Yu's face was displeased, and immediately changed his words, "Humbaturu, the black clouds are rolling, the wind is getting stronger and stronger, and a rainstorm is coming. ”
"Yes, Humbatulu, maybe the effort of a meal will be down, and it will not be small, maybe it is the people of Jin who have angered Tengger." Martyrdom also said.
"If the rain comes, the cavalry will not be able to fight." Terige said worriedly.
Li Yu looked at the sky for a while, waved his hand and ordered: "Order our army to march south in a cavalry formation and join the infantry army as soon as possible." ”
Tiancong Khan also looked up at the sky at this time, it was going to rain, the newly surrendered Tumut Taiji Omulun concluded that a heavy rainstorm was coming, and the civil and military ministers thought that Erlu began to retreat south, which clearly implied that he would not pursue, and the Jin army should also take the opportunity to retreat north to the Bokdo Pass, the casualties in this battle were too great, and if they continued to fight, they would lose both.
"Order the whole army to attack, be quick! Defeat them before the rainstorm comes," Tiancong Khan pondered for a while before saying, the ministers were suddenly shocked, Tiancong Khan was angry, and shouted loudly, "Heavenly luck is in my Dajin, Salhu, Shenyang, Guangning, Dalinghe, God has always been helping us, rushing up, defeating this hairy boy of Erlu!" ”
The iron cavalry of the Jin army was immediately activated, accompanied by the sound of heavy horses' hooves, and the black pressure galloped towards the Fengzhou cavalry, and Wuhai, who was covering the retreat of the army, laughed, pointed to the Jin army's cavalry formation and shouted: "Report to the commander, Jin Kou is pressing on me, and the front and rear battalions of the cavalry are about to launch a counterattack." ”
"With the Flying Tiger Battalion, the Front Cavalry Battalion, the Rear Battalion, and the Chahar Cavalry as the front team, and the right battalion of the cavalry, the reserve battalion and the garrison cavalry of each guard as the rear team, the whole army turned, the heavy armored soldiers were in front, the light armored soldiers were in the rear, and the columns were attacking in a dense cone formation," The triangular red flag in front kept shaking, Li Yu shook his head helplessly and ordered, Sibeile still couldn't let go of this face, and then he raised his lance and shouted: "Flying Tiger Battalion, follow me!" ”
The Fengzhou cavalry swept quickly in front of the Jin army's cavalry formation, using the speed advantage to kill the Jin army's flank, just when the Jin army was in a hurry to transfer troops to block, and a gap was briefly exposed in the front, the Fengzhou cavalry made a beautiful emergency stop and turn, with the two elites of the Flying Tiger Cavalry and the cavalry front battalion as the forerunner, and broke into the Jin army's cavalry formation, Tiancong Khan was taken aback - the other party suddenly inserted a knife into the formation, and the weakest Horqin cavalry and Tumut cavalry were completely exposed in front of the Fengzhou iron cavalry at this time.
Almost at the same time, Ortai hurriedly ran to Du Wenhuan and shouted: "Old handsome, Jin Ko's atrocities have angered Tengger, a heavy rainstorm is coming, don't let go of these bandits!" ”
"Order the front battalion of the infantry army, the left battalion and Dongshengwei to attack immediately, and there is no need to wait for our army on the right flank to meet," Du Wenhuan was so excited that his hands were trembling, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, the rainstorm was coming, and the arrow array of the Jin army would lose its effect, then we would decide the winner in hand-to-hand combat, the people of Fengzhou were not afraid of this, he waved his fist and shouted, "Let Ding Qiming shoot all the sub-guns, throw it hard with thunder, and give me a bloody path!" ”
On the battlefield, the trumpets of the Fengzhou army and the Jin army sounded almost at the same time, and both sides wanted to gain an advantage before the rainstorm came, and after a short attack of guns and arrows, they collided face to face, and the bloodiest hand-to-hand combat of the day began instantly.
The Fengzhou cavalry suddenly killed, and the Horqin cavalry and the Tumut cavalry had nowhere to hide, so they had to meet it head-on, but the front team of the Fengzhou cavalry did not take these two or three thousand rebellions in their eyes, and rushed straight to open a bloody road and continued to attack. Terrig led the rear team of Fengzhou cavalry up and fought against this group of miscellaneous soldiers. Omulun's people have been suffering in Daqingshan for several years, and they have long been destitute, with weak soldiers and thin horses, and poor weapons, and they have been beaten and scattered in an instant.
Wu Keshan, Manzhu Xili did not dare to escape, and the right battalion of the cavalry to kill together, the backbone of the cavalry right battalion is the Yansui cavalry, not good at riding and shooting and known for its ferocity in hand-to-hand combat, eating a burst of arrows from the Horqin people, Zhang Ding was furious, led the elite cavalry into the crowd and slashed wantonly, the sentry commander Xiao Sigui killed the rise, and rushed to Wu Keshan's Daxu first, Wu Keshan is known for his bravery, and took the initiative to lead the bow and arrow, which hit Xiao Sigui's cheek. Xiao Sigui howled in pain, pulled out the arrow from his mouth casually, and suddenly his face was full of blood, he wiped his face and waved a steel whip to pounce on the opponent, Wu Keshan was frightened and was smashed off the horse by a whip, several slave soldiers jumped off the horse, dragged up the master who passed out and ran, Zhang Ding led people to rush over, and the crazy Xiao Sigui, Wu Keshan's guards, his relatives were killed, the other party's Daxu was also trampled on the horse by them, Manzhu Xili saw Wu Keshan's Daxu fall, frightened to the soul, surrounded by slave soldiers fled in a hurry, and the Horqin cavalry also collapsed.
"Speed, speed, keep rushing down and kill the enemy! Two pillars, blowing the trumpet, blowing the trumpet non-stop! Wu Xian, kill the leading enemy general! Li Yu kept shouting, his left and right hands alternately holding bows and shooting hard, too close to the Jin army, only twenty or thirty paces away, he and Mo Rige, the two masters of cavalry archery, almost missed arrows, Tu Lichen was worried about the loss, and led the guards to hold swords and shields around them. Wu Xian let go of his hands and feet, his riding and archery skills are not good, but his light skills and swordsmanship are first-class, as soon as he finds an opportunity, he jumps out of the formation with a shield, moves and jumps into the enemy group, sneaks up on the opponent's officers and standard-bearers, and then jumps back to the formation with his head.
The cone-shaped array of the Fengzhou cavalry tore apart the cavalry formation of the Jin army, and fought forward to assault, and the arrows of both sides went back and forth like shuttles, dense as rain - the use of strong bows and heavy arrows at close range can break the iron armor, and the iron cavalry of the Jin army could not take much advantage in this kind of melee, and there was an endless stream of arrows on both sides. The horn of the Jin army sounded for a long time, and constantly transferred troops to surround the Fengzhou iron cavalry, but the weakness of insufficient troops appeared again, the Fengzhou cavalry was tens of thousands, and the attack strength was amazing, as long as the speed did not slow down, the Jin army could not stop them.
"Stop them, don't let them run, Turai, take the white-armored soldiers and kill them!" Tiancong Khan was anxious, the other party suddenly disrupted the deployment of the Jin army with a sudden blow, and was cutting the Jin army into two sections, the Jin army had to turn around and encircle the other party, but the speed of the heavy armor was too slow, and there was chaos when it suddenly turned, and the Jin army's blocking was not effective, and the Fengzhou cavalry rampaged for a while.
The Jin army also hit the red eye, Turush, who was inlaid with a yellow flag, turned his heart sideways, and led dozens of iron cavalry to meet the Fengzhou cavalry forward and rushed straight over, the heavy armored cavalry had the advantage in the collision, and the Fengzhou light cavalry knocked people on their backs, and more Jin soldiers also rushed to follow suit when they saw this, this barbaric style of play caught the cavalry front camp in front of the rush, and was forced to retreat again and again, and the pace of the Fengzhou army's advance stopped.
Wu Hai, the former battalion officer, was furious, rushed to the front and shouted to follow me, pulled out a short knife and stabbed into the buttocks of his war horse, the war horse screamed in pain and rushed towards the oncoming Jin cavalry, at the moment of collision, Wu Hai violently lifted the reins, and the war horse jumped high and kicked the armored war horse on the opposite side to the ground, and then continued to rush forward frantically, knocking over three horses in a row before falling to the ground, Wu Hai jumped up at the moment when the horse fell to the ground, swung a knife to kill an enemy horseman, and then kicked on the back of the opponent's horse, jumped up in the air and pounced on the rushing Jin army officer.
Wu Hai condescending knife frightened Turush, he hurriedly rolled sideways to hide under the horse's belly, Wu Hai slashed into the air, his body lost control in the air, three riding spears pierced his body almost at the same time, Turush turned on his horse, and then beheaded Wu Hai with a knife.