Chapter 688: Spear Ride
"No!" Tobok said categorically: "The silver ingot is not that qualified, Zhang Han will not be so confused!" ”
Tobok saw with his own eyes that Ah Cheng and Tabu Nang killed Bu Shitu Khan, frightened he led his troops to flee, and later the news of Ah Cheng's killing of Khan spread throughout the entire desert and northern Mongolia, Xi Lingse was also said by Tobok, his reputation was greatly damaged, originally Ah Cheng retained considerable strength, and after Xi Lingse's fiasco, he gathered quite a lot of defeated soldiers, and later Ah Cheng's killing of the Great Khan was revealed, and he was also assassinated by Ta Bu Nang, and the forces that followed Ah Cheng immediately disappeared. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
But people didn't follow Xi Lingse, this is now in charge of both the left and right posts of the real power Taiji is equal to the Great Khan, but he is not the Great Khan after all, he has noble blood but does not have the slightest ability, although in fact, Altan Khan's descendants are all the way, but after all, Bu Shitu Khan did not fail as miserably as Xi Lingse, and the Great Khan has passed away, many Taiji who are loyal to Bu Shitu Khan have regathered together, and when Tobok returns, these people are considered to have formed a group and confronted Xi Lingse's forces together.
In addition to Tobok and Xi Lingse, there are many Taiji who do not help each other and have a neutral attitude.
This situation is already equivalent to internal division, if there is no strong external enemy, there should be a civil war underneath, until one side wins, but because of the existence of Heyusheng, both Tobok and Xi Lingse chose forbearance...... In addition, they did not get the support of most of Taiji, even if they really fought, it would be a small-scale civil war, and most Taiji would definitely choose to watch the excitement, which also made both sides have no heart to fight, and winning the battle may not be able to convince the entire tribe, more than one thing is better than one less.
"Taiji, it's not good!" While the people were talking, a shepherd rushed into the tent and shouted: "The merchant army is coming!" ”
The grassland no longer regards He Yusheng as an ordinary trading house, but as a hostile force, and even the strength is still above the Ming Dynasty, as for the title of the merchant group soldier, it is also officially called the merchant army, no matter which faction of the Mongolian forces is the same.
"What?" Tobok stuffed a mouthful of mutton, and the whole person stood up suddenly, and he shouted: "What does Zhang Han mean, why don't you go to fight Xi Lingse, but you come to attack us first?" ”
"No, Taiji." The shepherd said: "The merchant army came from the southwest road, whether it was the set or us or the people of Xi Lingsetaiji, they killed people when they saw them, burned them when they saw them, and robbed them when they saw herds." ”
The shepherd wept, "Those merchant armies are too brutal and barbaric......
"Zhou Yao!"
Everyone stood up, and everyone's faces were ugly.
Tobok originally had a bad temper, and at this time he was even more angry: "This damn Han man, his hands are stained with the blood of our Mongols, if the soldiers fight, it is just a matter of killing, he kills people and picks the weakest place, it is really damned." ”
"Inform Xi Lingse." A Taiji said: "Please ask him and Batu, Baiyin and other Taiji to also raise troops, you can't let this Zhou Yao toss again like last year." ”
Last year, because the Mongols gathered a large army to storm Jining Fort, the garrison and defense of various places were very empty, and as a result, Zhou Yao caught the loophole, and the cavalry composed of hundreds of horse thieves was forced to kill a piece of the world, and later it was equipped with new iron armor and became a strong iron cavalry, and Zhang Han trained them with the new cavalry method developed by Europe in the next two hundred years, which made Zhou Yao's combat strength increase rapidly, and then supplemented a large number of cavalry officers and cavalry. Now Zhou Yao's department has developed to the scale of a whole regiment of more than 3,000 people, and the Mongols don't know much, but they understand that these cavalry are not easy to mess with, and the attitude of this Taiji just now is very obvious: against the enemy alone, these Taiji are no longer sure in front of them!
Tobok pinched his knuckles, until the knuckles turned white, the five or six Taiji present could gather at least 30,000 herdsmen, and there were more than 3,000 people in armor, but they didn't dare to face the 3,000 Ming cavalry, which was very hurtful to self-esteem and undignified attitude, but Tobok was even more angry that he found that his thoughts were the same as these useless wastes in front of him!
"Send someone to Qingcheng." Tobok sat down abruptly, and raised his head again: "Hurry up and gather the cavalry, even if you give Zhou Yao some threats, you can't let them burn and loot at will." ”
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"Send the ninth and tenth companies of the three teams to meet the enemy." Zhou Yao rode on the horse and ordered very calmly.
A large group of cavalry appeared on the horizon, there was a raging fire burning in front of them, a large area of felt bags was lit by the cavalry with torches, the ground was full of corpses, some cattle, sheep and horses were also innocently killed in the massacre just now, people did not pay attention to those corpses, but looked at the corpses of cows, sheep and horses and felt sorry, this kind of psychology is actually a bit morbid, but it feels very normal in the army.
Farther away, there were more felt bags, cattle and sheep, and many herders were running in all directions, and children, women, and the elderly were busy, and the herds of cattle, sheep, and horses were running around, and they couldn't clean up for a while.
With the blue sky and white clouds overhead, and the green blanket-like grass beneath your feet, you can't see the edge at all.
Under such beauty, people think of killing!
It may be that a person who is a slaughterer has no burden of killing people, but he may love the war horse very much, and he will feel sad when he sees the death or injury of the war horse, and even burst into a rage.
Zhou Yao gives people the feeling that he is such a person, his face is expressionless, it can be said that there are no mood swings, and it can also be said that cruelty has penetrated deep into his bones.
"Regiment commander," a staff officer said to Zhou Yao boldly: "More than eighty percent of the ninth and tenth companies are recruits, and most of the officers have not been joining the cavalry for a long time. ”
Zhou Yao turned his head to look at this officer, he didn't get angry, and he didn't want to do anything to this officer, but this junior immediately turned his head and didn't dare to look at him.
Zhou Yao was very satisfied with this effect...... He may not be proud of cruelty in his heart, and he is not a cruel and murderous person by nature, but now he has been labeled as such, and it works very well, both Beilu and his own people are afraid of him...... In fact, this is the image that Zhang Han created for him, Zhou Yao understands that the requirements of the above are like this, and he must also maintain such an image.
"Daming and Beiyu have been fighting for more than 200 years, I don't know how many of my Han people have died in battle, courage and blood are fought, not trained, how many ancestors died in order to keep the territory, today we and Yusheng's new army, what can we do if we sacrifice for the sake of captivity?" Zhou Yao said with a flat attitude: "After a hundred battles, those who survive are the elites. ”
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Lu Si, that is, Lu Da and Rong rode on the war horse, their eyes staring at the front.
There were about two or three thousand Northern Captives wandering a few miles in front, they just wanted to see how the Shang Tuan Army reacted here, if the army attacked them, they would run away from the distance, and they would flee with the riding skills of the Northern Captives, if there was no suitable battlefield and an encirclement of ambush in advance, such as the battlefield like Xi Lingse's Zhongfu, it would be very difficult to hold them down, or even almost no chance.
If the army is left unattended, they will get closer and closer, and it will affect the army's progress.
These rangers, who gather more and may have thousands of horses, will seriously affect the logistics and supply routes of the army...... The cavalry is different from what people imagine, in fact, the requirements for supplies are higher, and blindly attacking without mentioning supplies is a heavy loss, including the loss of men and horses.
The regimental commander's response was to send two companies of cavalry to meet the enemy, and the number was more than three hundred, about one-tenth of the number of the northern captives.
This number is the psychological bottom line of Beiyu daring to face the battle.
If three companies or more were sent, the northern captives would have fled.
The cavalry lined up in two small company phalanxes, and the phalanxes of the two companies were closely linked together, and the whole company was arranged in squadrons, with more than 50 people in each squadron lined up horizontally.
Lu Si's breathing began to become heavy, he officially joined the army from the army a year ago, after more than two months of rigorous infantry training, he applied to be transferred to the cavalry, and after nearly two months of cavalry training, he was finally assigned to the cavalry company of the first regiment of the lancers.
The lancers, who are also the iron cavalry mentioned by the Beiyu, can be assigned to this famous meritorious cavalry regiment, and it also relies on Lu Si to be able to ride horses since he was a child and has a relatively deep foundation in horsemanship...... This is also a unique situation in Datong, a border place, changed the inland state capital, poor peasant children may not have seen what war horses look like when they grow up, and the most seen are donkeys and mules, and the number of horses in the mainland is not much, not to mention that they have the opportunity to learn to ride horses since childhood.
The horn finally sounded, the opposite side of the Beilu seems to be determined to protect this pasture, here is the place north of the pass, belongs to the extension of the Hetao area, according to the later generations here is the Houtao, and then a few hundred miles to the east is the Qiantao, and then the south is the Datong Basin and the Xinding Basin, Taiyuan Basin, from here to the southwest is the Ordos Plateau, and then continue to the west is the Xitao, the place where the first regiment of the lancers fought is directly south of Qingcheng, a little westerly, here is the pasture of Tobok and other Taiji, There are also some herdsmen tribes of the Atlas grazing here, and they did not expect that the Lancers would attack here quickly and fiercely.
The brief peace confuses many people, and when a violent blow comes, their psyche is more likely to collapse.
Lu Si saw the squadron leader on the far right beside him raise his cavalry rifle diagonally, and the cavalry spear hanging the small flag lightly tapped it twice in front.
The brass whistle of the same rhythm sounded almost at the same time, and the company commander and the squadron leader in the team gave the order together, and at this time, the sergeant majors at all levels also began to shout loudly and give orders to keep in formation, and most of the cavalry were recruits, not only to watch the flag gun and listen to the whistle, but also to reprimand from the superiors.
"Lu Si, rush leisurely, pay attention to the formation of the left and right, and keep a distance from your comrades on the left and right hands at any time." To the left of Lu Si was the sergeant elder Zhong, who was in his thirties, grinning after speaking, revealing a mouthful of incomplete yellow teeth.
In the past, Lu Si always subconsciously felt disgusted when he saw this mouthful of yellow teeth, and the teeth of poor children were generally bad, but there were still a few people whose teeth were rotten to this extent.
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