Chapter 18: Kill! Kill!

Evil Axe Mountain, fierce battles are still ongoing.

After a long fight, the physical exertion is serious.

Azig originally hoped that his cavalry would be able to fight up the mountainside in one go, but unfortunately he could not do so.

On the contrary, it was 3,000 cavalry, and one or two attacks fell into the quagmire made by the Ming army with a sea of people.

But even if the plan for a cavalry assault failed, Azig still repaired for the withdrawal.

After many years of war, Houjin already knew the weakness of the Ming army.

First, the physical strength of the Ming army is difficult to help for a long time, compared with the Jurchens who lived in the rich living materials and the Jurchens who were born hard in the white mountains and black waters, the physical strength of the Ming army is simply not enough to support long-term battles, and the second is that the spirit of the Ming army is not enough to resist the slashing of the Houjin army.

Therefore, Azig's plan was to rely on the perseverance and physical strength of the Jurchen men to grind the 30,000 Ming troops on the mountain.

But a big battle lasted from the heavy rain at noon to the afternoon, and an hour and a half passed, and the Ming army on the mountain still insisted.

Azig began to face up to the group of Ming troops in front of him, although he didn't know why the other party was different from the Liaodong border army that had fought many times before, but it really impressed him.

Azig didn't know that among this group of Ming troops, there was a general who took the lead and killed the enemy himself.

The sky was about to get dark, and the heavy rain gradually subsided and became lighter.

Azig looked up at the sky, his patience had been exhausted by the long fight, and he decided to end the fight.

With a wave of the order, there were 1,500 cavalry.

Five thousand cavalry have been put into ninety.

Fifteen hundred cavalry again charged up the hill.

On the mountain, Cao Wenzhao led his subordinates and his son, and constantly resisted the charge of the Houjin cavalry.

The originally narrow car formation was also rushed into a huge field, and the two sides advanced and retreated, constantly staggering.

Houjin had suffered 500 casualties, but the Ming army suffered nearly 5,000 casualties.

Most of them were pikemen who attacked from the top.

The opponent's cavalry, the bow horse is skillful, the accuracy is amazing, and some people are constantly shot and fall to the ground in the back and forth, and the melee pikemen can only attack on the periphery, and someone falls under the pursuit of the Houjin cavalry at any time.

The battle was scorching, but the Ming army was indeed exhausted.

The black crushing cavalry rushed from the bottom of the mountain again.

Cao Wenzhao knew that this cavalry was likely to overwhelm the last straw in the heart of the Ming army.

Gritting his teeth, he led the remaining 2,000 cavalry under his command to win.

This time, the Ming army rushed down the slope, and Houjin rose up the slope.

In an instant, the two sides slashed their swords in the staggered war horses.

The Ming army occupies the power of the terrain and fights hard at the speed of the war horse, but the physical strength of the long-term war will be exhausted, and the Houjin is difficult to win with the speed, but the long-term rest and the skill of the horse are beyond the Ming army.

Therefore, after the two sides staggered together, the Ming army instantly suffered 300 casualties, but only more than 70 of Houjin fell to the ground.

Once the two sides are entangled, the horsepower is insufficient and they fall to the ground, or the ground is slippery and the horse's hooves are unstable, and they fall to the ground and are trampled by the other party.

Cao Wenzhao and more than 1,000 Houjin cavalry fought at the foot of the mountain, and Cao Bianjiao continued to attack the mountain cavalry with a sword and shield.

The two sides went back and forth, and the battle escalated again.

But after a stick of incense, the war situation is still developing in the favorable direction of Houjin.

After the pikemen were killed and wounded, the sword and shield hands could not resist the other party's rush and kill, and Cao Wenzhao led the cavalry down the mountain to intercept them, the Ming army led by Cao Bianjiao finally retreated to the mountain.

After Cao Wenzhao led the cavalry to charge and kill many times, only 500 of the 2,000 cavalry remained, but there were still more than 1,000 horsemen in Houjin.

The Ming army gradually retreated, and the cavalry around Cao Wenzhao fell to the ground every second.

The defeat of the Ming army was revealed.

Winners and losers will be scored.

But at this moment, the sound of artillery sounded on the mountain again, this time the artillery directly bombarded the Houjin cavalry group at the foot of the mountain, and the artillery fired violently to catch the Houjin cavalry off guard, and the dense formation instantly suffered huge casualties.

Cao Wenzhao raised his head and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After the collapse of the greenhouse, the artillery on the mountain was finally cleared out and came in handy again.

Taking advantage of the moment when the Houjin cavalry was panicked and evaded, Cao Wenzhao once again ignored the artillery fire and rushed towards the other party with his troops.

This time, the effect of rushing to kill was remarkable, and after a rush to kill more than 100 years later, Jin Jurchen fell again.

Only one thousand of the fifteen hundred cavalry that Azig had just sent remained.

But Cao Wenzhao only had two hundred left.

Unable to defeat the enemy, Cao Wenzhao took the remaining 200 cavalry to take the opportunity to get rid of the Houjin cavalry and rushed up the mountain.

The Ming army retreated to the mountain, and instantly distanced itself from the golden cavalry in the middle of the mountain.

Suddenly, Cao Bianjiao seized the opportunity and ordered the archers and firecrackers on the mountain to concentrate their firearms on fire.

This time it also had an effect, the distance was closer, and the cavalry was dense and the rain was fading away.

More than 100 Houjin cavalry in the middle of the mountain fell to the ground.

After rounding the Houjin cavalry, Cao Wenzhao finally returned to the Ming army.

After just two incense sticks, the Ming army suffered many casualties again.

So far, there are less than 20,000 people left in the Ming army, including about 2,000 pikemen, more than 4,000 sword and shield men, more than 5,000 archers, 2,000 musketeers and some artillerymen, and the rest are the baggage teams with weak combat effectiveness.

And then Kim still has more than 3,000 horses left.

More than 1,000 cavalrymen were killed and wounded, which was already a large casualty for the Houjin Eight Banners.

This big battle was a heavy loss for both sides.

At the foot of the mountain, Yue Tuo finally couldn't help it, and walked into Azig's side: "Banner master, Erlang is tired, why don't you retire and rest for a while?" ”

Azig, who was already aggrieved in his heart, was furious, and directly turned his head and scolded: "Something without guts, how could my Jurchen son-in-law ever retreat in the battle with the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Yue Tuo's face suddenly turned ugly, and he stopped talking.

Azig was very unhappy with his nephew, if it weren't for his father Daishan's support for Huang Taiji back then, maybe the Jin Khan would be one of his three brothers to sit on the throne.

Moreover, Huang Taiji put Yue Tuo by his side, wasn't it just to spy on himself?

"Order, rush again."

Azig ordered again.

The soldiers rode away to give orders.

On the mountain, the whole team of Houjin rushed again.

The heavy cavalry in front blocked the arrows of the Ming army, and the light cavalry in the rear kept shooting arrows and firing back.

The battle was stalemate, and it became a confrontation between the two sides with long-range bows and arrows.

But with Azig's order again.

The Houjin cavalry finally rushed into the ranks of the Ming army.

This time, the Houjin cavalry gave up the power of their horses, and half of the cavalry dismounted and began to slash and kill.

The Ming army was suddenly difficult to resist.

The sword and shield hands in front finally couldn't resist it, and they were broken through by the Houjin Jurchen, and in an instant, a large force of cavalry rushed into the archers.

For a while, it became the target of the opponent's random slashing.

Cao Wenzhao led people to dismount to greet him, and his son followed closely behind him.

But after all, a long war cannot last.

After the sword and shield hand was broken by the opponent, the situation of the Ming army going to defeat was difficult to save.

The Ming army was tired, but the battle continued.

Even the baggage team joined the battle.

But he could still only retreat under the other party's slashing and retreat to the mountain.

Then, in order to save his father, Cao Bianjiao was hit by three arrows in his body, and Cao Wenzhao was slashed in the chest by the other party's heavy horseman.

The Ming army completely lost the confidence to resist.

began to turn around and flee directly to the mountain under the impact of the opposing cavalry.

The Ming army was defeated.

After losing the father and son of the Cao family, more than 10,000 Ming troops retreated towards the top of the mountain under the pursuit of the 3,000 Houjin cavalry, and they didn't even have time to take away artillery, grain and grass.

The battle will be won or lost.