Chapter 261: Prairie Pursuit
On the grassland north of the naturalized city, the army under the banner of the Qing army migrated north, the Eight Banners and the officers of the Green Battalion rode horses, the Green Battalion soldiers walked on foot, the auxiliaries and low-level clothed servants drove mules and horses, pushed the vehicles, the women and children of the banner people sat on the cars, and the palace maids and eunuchs followed Kangxi's Chinese army on foot. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the middle of the procession, the Qing army escorted several prisoner vans. On one of the prison carts, Prince Burni in prison clothes stood on the prisoner cart, and on the other prisoner carts were Lama Azari, Narisong, and several cronies of Buni and Azari Lama. Prince Burney hid for a night, and when it was dawn, he still couldn't escape the search of the Qing army, and was searched out of the rockery. As for Na Risong, in order to save the little prince, after he released Hai Dongqing, his hiding place was also exposed, and a team of Eight Banners surrounded the courtyard where he was hiding. After killing three white-armored soldiers, Risong was wounded and captured, and also fell into the hands of the Qing army.
"With these rebellious ministers and thieves, you still have to waste food to feed them, why don't you kill them with one sword?" A Qing army leader asked indignantly.
A Qing army leader beside him said: "If Tu Zhongtang hadn't seen through their tricks, I'm afraid we would have been killed by them in the Naturalization City!" Why didn't you kill them? ”
Mingzhu snorted coldly: "These people are all hostages!" With them in their hands, the Mongols threw a rat trap and did not dare to let go of their hands to chase and kill us! If we kill them, we won't want to make it to the North Sea alive! ”
At this moment, someone from behind came to report: "Report to your lord, the Mongols and the puppet Ming cavalry have caught up!" There are more than 10,000 cavalry! ”
"The rear army dismounted!" Mingzhu shouted.
In fact, the Manchurian Eight Banners cavalry are heavy infantry on horseback, and when they are on horseback, they are semi-heavy cavalry, why can they only be semi-heavy cavalry, because war horses are not armored. Dismounted, they were hoplites. The Eight Banners defeated the Mongols, relying on some of the Eight Banners to dismount and form a formation, and the other part to wait for an opportunity to charge.
The Eight Banners who were responsible for the task of breaking the rear turned over and dismounted one after another, sprinkling thistles on the grass outside, with an infantry formation in the middle, pikemen in front, and archers in the middle.
After about a quarter of an hour, 10,000 Ming cavalry and Mongolian cavalry appeared in front of the Qing army.
The Ming soldiers dismounted one after another and formed a neat infantry formation; The Mongol cavalry rode on both flanks to contain the Qing cavalry. The flying cavalry artillery behind the Ming cavalry also arrived, and the gunners unloaded the gun carriage and quickly set up a three-pounder gun, aiming the muzzle at the Qing formation. There were also some Ming dragoons wearing green military uniforms who scattered, armed with muskets, and slowly approached the Qing army.
"The thief's ranged handyman!" Seeing the scattered soldiers of the Ming army, the Qing army staff leader screamed in surprise.
Zheng Xianjun's skirmishers still used old-fashioned rifled guns and were not equipped with Mini bullets, but for the Qing archers, Zheng's skirmishers were undoubtedly the biggest enemy.
"Let the cavalry dispatch and disperse the Minggou's long-range gods!" Tuhai ordered.
The stragglers of the Ming army had approached one hundred and fifty steps away from the Qing army's formation, and pulled the trigger on the Qing army's formation, and with a deafening burst of gunfire, the white smoke rose up, and the Eight Banners of the formation immediately fell a large piece.
The skirmishers did not have time to reload, and the cavalry on both flanks of the Qing army had already rushed out. Seeing the Qing cavalry rushing over, the stragglers picked up their guns and turned around and ran. The Mongolian cavalry covering the two wings immediately stepped forward, and in the gallop of horses, the Mongols shot a row of random arrows, and the rain of arrows fell into the formation of the Eight Banners Cavalry, although it could not cause much damage to the Eight Banners soldiers wearing thick armor, but it played a harassing role, and some arrows hit the war horse, and the wounded war horse suffered pain, and the Qing soldiers on their backs fell off their horses.
After shooting a row of arrows with their bows, the Mongols turned their horses, pulled their horses and left. While retreating, the Mongols also turned around from time to time to shoot arrows.
While the Mongols were dragging the Qing cavalry, the Ming stragglers had already galloped back into their infantry formation.
The "boom" three-pounder cannon spewed out bright tongues of fire, and the cannonballs whistled and landed in the Qing cavalry formation, immediately setting off a bloody storm.
The cavalry of the Qing army did not dare to attack the infantry formation of the Ming army, but only rode their horses in circles around the periphery, but the Mongolian cavalry came out again, and the Mongols dismounted one after another, took out their foot bows, and shot several rounds of light arrows from a distance to harass the Qing army. When the Qing army approached, the Mongols mounted again. At the same time, in the infantry formation of the Ming army, the stragglers of the Ming army, who had retreated to the center, loaded their bullets and fired a row of bullets at the Qing cavalry one hundred and fifty paces away.
The three-pounder cannon finished reloading and erupted again.
"You can't fight like this!" The gap in weapons gave the Eight Banners a headache. The opponent can beat himself, but he can't hit the opponent, although every round of shelling, every round of rifled gun shooting, the loss caused to the Qing army is not large, but it affects the morale very much, seeing the companions around him fall one by one, but he can't shoot the opponent, how to fight this battle.
However, the Qing army did not dare to retreat, they were responsible for the task of breaking the rear, if they ran away, a large number of women, children, old and weak would be caught up by the Ming army.
The two sides held each other for an afternoon, not so much as holding each other, in fact, the Ming army could shoot the Qing army, and the Qing army was powerless to fight back, so they could only stand there and be beaten in vain. When it got dark, it was estimated that the bannermen of the brigade had already gone away, and the Qing army retreated.
At night, the Ming army and the Mongols set up camp on the steppe. As soon as the camp was set up, a Qing army official, escorted by more than a dozen Goshha, came to the gate of the Ming army camp.
The Qing envoy who came was named Alantai, about forty years old. Alantai saw Abunai and saluted: "Respected prince, our emperor is willing to assimilate the war into a jade silk, as long as you don't chase us anymore, we can return the little prince and the living Buddha to you." ”
"Wu'er is really in your hands!" Abnay was furious, "Do not hurt him!" If he was missing a single hair, the old man would have killed all the dogs! ”
Alan Tai laughed: "As long as you stop chasing and let us live, when we arrive in Beihai, we will naturally put the little prince and the living Buddha back, as well as a few of their cronies, we promise not to hurt them a single hair." ”
"Stop the chase?" Zheng Xi sneered, "Hmph! What qualifications do you have to negotiate with us? Kang Mazi is almost finished, how can we let the tiger return to the mountain? ”
Alantai turned his head and looked at Zheng Xi coldly: "Lord Zheng, it's not your son in our hands, naturally you don't hesitate to live and die of the little prince!" If you insist on going your own way and insisting on chasing our army, then in the chaos of the army, if you accidentally injure the little prince, I am afraid that the Mongols will be unhappy. ”
Zheng Xi sneered: "Even if we don't chase after us, do you think you can escape to the North Sea?" The Mongols in Mobei have always been unconvinced, will they let go of this good opportunity to destroy you? ”