Chapter 900: Retreat
"Then what kind of Ming army do you think this is?"
"I can't see it on the banner at all. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Shi Tingzhu looked at the faces of his colleagues again, and had to reply stubbornly: "I can only be sure that this is not the Ming Dynasty's economic division, but if it is said to be a local regimental training, there is no reason to wear heavy armor to carry out sharp soldiers and train such sharp cavalry." ā
Yue Tuo pondered: "Could it be the cavalry transferred from the south by the Ming Kingdom?" ā
"Impossible." This time more people shook their heads.
"Beizi doesn't know." Shi Tingzhu said: "The northern border trouble of the Ming Dynasty has always been much more serious than that in the south, there are not many garrisons in the south and most of them are weak brigades, with 200,000 southern troops may not be able to defeat a military town in the north, Nanzhili, Fujian and Zhejiang, Liangguang, Yunnan and Guizhou, there are no strong soldiers, only Sichuan has strong troops, but the number is not large and all are infantry. ā
"I know, Whitepole Soldier."
The bloody battle of the Hunhe River was just a few years ago, Yue Tuo was still a brother in his twenties, and the difficulties and bloodiness of breaking the formation seemed to be still in front of him, he asked with a gloomy face: "What time is it?" ā
"Back to the master." One of the white armors replied, "The end of the hour, the beginning of the moment." ā
"Fast forward!" Yue Tuo made up his mind and ordered loudly: "Our department will assault the Ming army in a semi-circular formation, and attack its rear formation with sharp soldiers, I will lead the swing of the teeth on the left wing shoulder, Shuo Tuobeizi on the right wing shoulder, Sakhalian Beizi will lead the bottom Jiala, and the general soldiers will lead the guards in each armor, no horse armor soldiers and no horses to follow, the Han army will stay, and monitor the Inner Mongolia soldiers. ā
"Yes, Beizi!"
"Minions obey!"
Everyone received the military order, and at this time in the Jianyu did not dare to question or disobey the military order on the battlefield, after receiving the military order, no one dared to hesitate for a moment, and they all answered loudly at the first time.
Yue Tuo's military orders are also very clear and clear.
This is also the characteristic of a good battlefield commander, which should be as complex as possible when considering and as simple and clear as possible when giving military orders.
Flags waved, drums and trumpets sounded, and Yue Tuo set up an array of cavalry urging the formation.
The semicircular array is divided into five parts, the left and right, the front and the back, the two red flags and the banner of the Han army flutter respectively, wearing iron and silver armor, and the swinging tooth horn with a small flag on the back shuttles in each formation, urging each Niu Lu to move forward bravely, and each Niu Lu is true, and Bashiku also commands his subordinates, following the banner to gallop forward.
The array of thousands of people is placed in a wide front, the middle is convex in front, the two wings are slightly behind, in the first two rows are armored cavalry, in the Jurchen Eight Banners of 60,000 bannermen, at this time those who can wear armor are mainly soldiers above twenty and forty years old, and there are also bannermen who can wear two pieces of cotton armor or chain mail, they are either formal bannermen, or the unqualified Yu Ding, these bannermen are also armed as much as possible, armor and weapons are often polished, in addition to bows and arrows, they also practice horsemanship and weapons, At this time, they had no sense of fear in their hearts, even if the Ming army in front of them was brightly armored and neatly lined up, and the successive victories of the Houjin for many years had made them completely awe of the Ming army.
With the Jurchens in front and the Han army behind, the wide battlefield had almost no undulating terrain, no rivers, ferries, roads or villages, no detours, and no ambushes...... As far as the eye can see, it can be observed within ten miles, and if there are ambushes within twenty miles, smoke and dust will appear, and there is enough time for them to withdraw from the battlefield.
The cavalry of the brigade went to the left front, and the Jurchen array was also well maintained, although it was not as standard as the sense of distance and linear array deliberately practiced by the cavalry of the merchant group, and it still maintained a fairly neat array under high-speed running.
With the impact of the cavalry, a large area of turf was trampled by the horses' hooves and flew up, there was a lot of floating dust on the turf in summer, thousands of people and horses galloped, and the smoke and dust immediately diffused, and it was only a layer of mist in the near distance, and if you looked at it from a distance, it was a column of smoke and ash that rose into the air.
The Jurchens did not ride fast, and Yue Tuo did not give the order to speed up, he wanted to see how the Ming army and the Mongols reacted.
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"Ming Jun, Jurchen?"
Led the cavalry to check the situation is the brain, this noble Mongolian Taiji in the pursuit of the merchant cavalry last year out of a big ugly, more than 3,000 people chasing more than 200 people, has never been able to complete the work, not only the task failed, and finally in Mobei was driven over by the main force of the merchant army counterattack, a big defeat and loss, and then because of the supply, a lot of herdsmen died along the way, and when the brain returned to the royal city of Chahanhot, more than 3,000 herdsmen and soldiers who went with him on the expedition finally only came back 1,000 hanging zero, More than 2,000 people remained on the long journey.
Not only the loss of personnel is heavy, the loss of war horses is also very serious, they brought out more than 5,000 horses, most of them are excellent war horses, only a few are miscellaneous horses, although there are many horses of the Mongols, in fact, there are a number of excellent war horses, not everyone has a share, even if they now have a considerable amount of Mongolian tribes, in the fourth year of the Apocalypse to the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there is still about 20% of the war horse gap in the Eight Banners, this is the case of "no horseless follow-up", quite a lot of bannermen on the battlefield are on foot, It is only when the armoured cavalry dismounts and fights on foot that these bannermen will be used as stakes to hold the horses for the armoured men, in case they run around the battlefield or are captured by the enemy.
Until the seventh year of the Apocalypse, after Lin Dan Khan moved westward, a large number of left-wing Mongolian tribes attached to the Jurchens, and the Eight Banners had enough war horses, and even the banners were fully equipped.
"The whole army retreats!"
Da Brain Mao didn't think about it for too long, and as soon as he saw the merchant army moving to the north, he didn't hesitate at all, and gave the order directly.
All the Chahar nobles and generals were of the same mind, and after receiving the military order, the people were relieved and began to flee with their horses' heads.
Due to the long distance and the early issuance of military orders, the cavalry did not panic too much, and the situation of people and horses hugging and trampling did not appear, and a large force of more than 10,000 cavalry completed the battlefield transformation in almost a short time, and then quickly broke away.
I have to admit that the Mongols fled very resolutely, decisively, and very quickly, showing very good horsemanship.
In terms of the lesson of escaping, their score is excellent.
After the brain-haired people fled, the scolding and wailing of the Bahrain department inside the fence could be heard behind them, but that was none of the business of the Chahar people.
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Cao Shixuan was standing in the crowd, of course he had horses, but Shi Tingzhu considered that Cao Shixuan was a military officer in the guard, and he had not held a real position in Liaozhen, and he had never led soldiers to the battlefield, so he asked him to stay and lead the garrison of the Han army without horses.
All the Han army is standing in a horizontal formation, most of the Han army is holding long weapons such as guns and spears, looking at the distant battlefield with worried eyes, on both wings are Jurchens with bows and arrows and long weapons, they are wearing two short armor or long armor bannermen, there are also a small number of flag slaves in the team, their weapons are very poor, most of them are in the military camp miscellaneous work, on the battlefield they also have the opportunity to participate in the battle, if the performance is excellent, will be recorded by the master, there will be a chance to carry the flag in the future.
"The Mongols ran away!"
A Han soldier shouted in the direction of due north.
Cao Shixuan's body was shocked, and he hurriedly looked in the direction of due north.
Sure enough, there was a lot of smoke and dust on the other side, and many of the Mongols were showing their excellent riding skills, and they had no difficulty in turning and riding wildly on the battlefield, and they ran quickly under everyone's noses.
The Bahraini Mongols in the fence erupted in a fierce shouting and crying, and a Han soldier scolded hatefully: "The dog deserves it, and it will be good to slaughter them in a while." ā
Cao Shixuan turned his head to look at the Han army and said, "Let the masters hear it in a while, you should be careful that your life is not guaranteed." ā
The Han army lowered his head and didn't dare to speak out.
The status of the Han army is getting lower and lower, and the Mongols have always been relied on by the Jurchens, although they have also been oppressed and hit in terms of economic treatment, in the past two years, there are many Zhenyi who have fled without filling their stomachs, and the Mongols are starving, but in terms of military and political status, Mongolia is more and more than the Han army, and the Han army is more and more reduced to cloth and banner slaves, but Mongolia has established the left and right wings, and the foreign vassal Mongolia is very preferential.
Cao Shixuan didn't bother to pay attention to these things, he continued to observe the situation on the battlefield.
The same is true for the Jurchen bannermen, they have set up a neat array, these bannermen and Yu Ding are actually most of the battle formations skilled, there is no difficulty for them to put into a suitable array, a small array of Niu Lu formed a large horizontal formation, this is the best formation for the impact of the cavalry array, not only a large array, on both sides and in the middle of the horizontal array, as well as the rear wings have a small round formation, the bannermen are holding spears and big knives, or holding a bow to guard.
"Our army has retreated."
Cao Shixuan wiped the sweat on his forehead and felt extremely thirsty.
The Jurchen officers who stayed behind had the same feeling, and people kept wiping their sweat and drinking water.
At this time, the officers saw that the Ming army had stopped the queue and was readjusting, so they ordered the bannermen in armor to sit down and rest, and everyone heard a loud noise, and all the armor-wearing people put down their weapons and sat cross-legged on the ground to recover their strength and drink.
The grass was very soft, and Cao Shixuan also wanted to sit down a little, but as an officer, he could only meet it.
The rumbling of the cavalry was heard again, and a large expanse of turf was splattered, leaving a dark patch behind the cavalry.
A group of Jurchen nobles and senior officers are not very good-looking, they want to attack the tail of the tail, first hit the Ming army, and then hit the Mongols, as a result, the Mongols decisively staged a good show of turning the battlefield to flee, so the Ming army stopped and guarded, the Jurchens did not make up their minds to attack the Ming army with thousands of bright armor and neat arrays, and the other consideration was that the cavalry hedging damage rate on the battlefield was too high, and the Jurchens rarely used large troops to carry out such tactics. The life of each bannerman in armor is precious, especially for a small tribe like the Jurchen.
Yue Tuo decisively chose to retreat slowly, originally the distance between the two armies was far apart, and after slowly pulling apart, there was no way to fight in a hurry, and the battlefield was suddenly separated again.
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