Chapter 300: Another Small Victory
Liu Guozheng shouted: "Li Xihan, don't patronize the Jiannu on the shore, help pull the water up, if it is washed away, it will be a big loss." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Everyone in the pro-soldier team knows water, and the best ones are Liu Guozheng and Li Ximing, two southerners who have been half-hung sailors.
The short confrontation was only a moment, and the elite of the seventy-seven horsemen with the yellow flag had already broken and sunk into the sand, but it was a pity that the Huang family's private soldiers only found seventy-two corpses, although Liu Guozheng and Li Xihan rushed into the river to pull the corpses as soon as possible, but unfortunately five corpses may have rushed downstream, and seventy-seven war horses were all recovered.
Azig, who was waiting for news in the tent of the camp ten miles away, felt inexplicably palpitated, feeling upset and uncomfortable, such a feeling was unprecedented? What's going on?
He asked one of the guards in a loud voice, "Has the messenger sent to Ningyuan's camp returned?" ”
These messengers set off with two horses before dawn, and the official road was quite easy to walk, and it was only more than eighty miles to gallop on horseback, and it was already afternoon, why was there no one in sight?
At this moment, Huang Mingli was sneering and reading the letter of help written by Azig's scribe in Chinese characters, the handwriting was very neat, it seemed that this scribe was a Ming scholar.
There are only eleven messengers in a team, how could Huang Mingli let the fat in his mouth fall off, and naturally swallow it in one bite, there is no difficulty, but it is too little.
Azig fidgeted and asked the guard messenger over and over again if he had returned? Suddenly remembering the men and horses he had sent out to find the crossing point, he asked, "What about Takba?" This slave is how to do things, and he doesn't know how to send someone to ventilate for most of the day. ”
At this moment, a cow named Na Na Ka stumbled in.
He was the general in charge of patrolling the south of the camp, and when he was wandering outside the camp with a hundred and ten cavalry, he vaguely heard the sound of fire from the south, and followed the sound to find the scene where Takba and his men were slaughtered, and found that there were thousands of Ming cavalry cleaning the battlefield.
It turned out that Qing Getai and Ma Shihu were hiding behind the forest five miles away with their men and horses, and when they heard the crackling of the adults here, they knew that they had done it with Jiannu, and immediately ambushed their troops and went to the river to kill.
More than 3,000 cavalry were spectators, and when they appeared happily, the battle situation by the river had already settled, and the Huang family horses were smiling and grinning to collect the war horses, so they had to dismount and pick up the armor and clothes on Jiannu's corpse, and cut off the head with the pigtail of Jiannu with a knife.
Everyone was very careful and refused to cut off Jiannu's pigtails, so as not to have nonsense when reporting merits.
Ma Shihu looked at the color of these armor flags and said happily: "My lord, what you killed this time was the yellow flag of one of the three flags on Jiannu, that is the elite of Jiannu, and it was bullish before!" ”
Qinggeltai said hatefully: "These miscellaneous pieces also have today, thinking about how cruel they were when they slaughtered the Nekhalkha people. ”
There are too many tribes in the Mongolian tribes who have suffered a big loss from the three banners, but their combat effectiveness is not the same level as others, and every time they encounter it, they add new hatreds to old hatreds.
Qing Getai saw that the number of horses of the Huang family was less than that of the cavalry with the yellow flag, so he wiped out all these dozens of invincible Jiannu cavalry, and he had infinite admiration for Lord Huang who personally commanded him.
At this time, more than 100 Jiannu cavalry came from afar in Hebei, and Qinggeltai took the initiative to ask for orders: "Lord Huang, please fight, there are only more than 100 Jiannu on the other side, and the soldiers under the command of the lowly often cross the river from here to familiarize themselves with the situation and know to pay attention to safety." ”
The Mongolian cavalry did not have the equipment of the Huang family, but unlike Lord Huang Sheng who led the team to build a bridge in the water, they couldn't play, they all waded through the water and crossed the river, and they were indeed very familiar with it here.
The speed of the Huang family engineers erecting pontoons with sealed pontoons and prefabricated wooden planks on the river surface of only seventy or eighty paces is getting faster and faster, and they cooperate tacitly to put down one sealed pontoon after another and throw down 80 pounds of iron anchors used to fix them.
There is a pull ring on the sealed pontoon, which is fastened with fasteners and anchor chains, and the position of the anchor chain buckles can be freely adjusted according to the depth of the river, and it is also quite convenient to recycle.
With fifty sealed pontoons, it was possible to erect a pontoon bridge over a hundred-pace-wide river capable of passing armored fighting vehicles in two moments.
Qinggeltai crossed the river with his subordinates and showed a small face? This seems to be feasible, Huang Sheng said: "Yes, rush across the river and chase on the other bank for no more than three miles, and scare Jiannu to come back immediately." ”
Ma Shihu also came to the ground and said: "My lord, the cavalry under the command of the lowly is not afraid of building slaves, and the lowly ones are also invited to fight." ”
"No, it's just a false shot, and it's not really going to attack Jiannu, Xiao Taiji, you go back quickly, Liu Guozheng, you also go, the task is not to kill the enemy but to remind the Inner Khalkha soldiers not to forget the distance of pursuit."
Huang Sheng wanted to let his opponent know that the river was not an obstacle to the Ming army, and that they had to brave artillery fire to cross the river.
In this way, how else can Azig fight? The Ming army could cross the river anytime and anywhere, and their cavalry would suffer casualties when they came to the river, because the Huang family's six-pounder rifled guns were looking for such an opportunity.
The artillery brothers usually train with empty guns and shoot, and now that Jiannu has become a meat target, everyone is happy to do it, no! They pulled the artillery wagons again to set up artillery positions.
The dog is serious, this is the position chosen by the teacher to block Jiannu from crossing the river, he has thoroughly studied the location of the artillery, in order to paralyze Jiannu, he just took the artillery to hide half an hour ago.
Now that the rapid movement has been arranged again to the position by the river, the three artillery trucks, more than a dozen transport vehicles, and more than a hundred people are all like fingers, and they are not panicked at all, in fact, the three guns do not need so many people to serve at all.
The reason why Gou'er chose to dispatch all the artillery and some of the auxiliaries was to try to let as many people experience actual combat as possible, and the purpose was of course to train his subordinates.
The movements of the gunners and auxiliaries were standardized, and after a few breaths of effort, they were debugged in place and loaded, and the three flowering shells of "boom, boom, boom" immediately flew out of the muzzle and accurately fell into the loose team of Jiannu.
Na Naka took his headquarters to the river and found that the Ming cavalry on the other side had gone down the river, and there were two or three thousand of them.
Suddenly, there were three artillery shots on the other side, and Na Naka realized that it was not good to hit the horse and ran, and shouted in his mouth: "The Ming army is shelling, sons and daughters, run quickly!" ”
The enemy's cavalry was not dense and the lethality was limited, and the dog's artillery fire only knocked down four horsemen, and after reloading, they fired three more shots at the maximum elevation angle and gave up, because by this time Jiannu had already run away, and Qinggeltai was the first to appear near the place where the shells landed.
This time, the results of the shelling were even less satisfactory, and only one unlucky ghost of Jiannu was left.
Na Naka didn't dare to stay, because he knew that it was the master's guard that had been wiped out by the Ming army, and the combat effectiveness was the strongest in the yellow flag, and the equipment was also the best, and none of them were alive, so it can be seen that the Ming army here must be the elite of the Ming Dynasty.
The enemy ran away, and the Nekhalkha cavalry ran in vain even if they were good at riding, and they could not speed up when they crossed the river after all, and when they rushed down the south bank into the big river, Jiannu returned to his horse and fled.
Lord Huang only allowed them to pursue Sanli, so naturally they couldn't catch up, Qing Getai didn't hurry to strip off the five Jiannu killed by the artillery and cut off their heads, and dragged the five dead horses back, this kid is not afraid of trouble for these horse meat.