Chapter 255: Exhausted Enemy Soldiers
Before leaving, Wen Erwen also specially called his two sons and told them not to be greedy for merit, and not to be discovered by the Ming army before waiting for Obataiji's men. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
People are old, heroes are short of breath, children are long, two sons who are only fruitful, the ninth is only fifteen years old, and the sixth is only eighteen, the old man is afraid that their newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and they lose their lives.
The two young men didn't go to their hearts at all, they promised their father in their mouths, and they thought in their hearts that they would follow Xiao Taiji to kill the Ming army and get credit.
In the afternoon of the next day, the men and horses of the Manzhu ritual returned to the settlement again, and saw the corpses of more than 2,000 people frozen and stiff, and the soldiers under their command cried everywhere.
They were not particularly angry, because Qinggeltai acted completely according to the laws of the steppe, and only the warriors and reserve warriors were slaughtered here, as they had done in the past to defeat other Mongol tribes.
There are almost no corpses of women and small children, why not not at all? Because of the inevitable accidental injuries in the melee, the Karaqin cavalry could see that they were not deliberately slaughtered by the Ming army.
They don't even have time to bury their loved ones, and they don't actually have the ability to bury more than 2,000 corpses in a short time.
The scouts searching for the traces of the Ming army soon discovered the retreat route of the Ming army, and the Ming army was too careless to even cover up their tracks, and Manzhu Xili quickly caught up with the Ming army with a large number of horseshoe prints and ruts in the snow.
They didn't dare to get too close, for fear of being discovered by the Ming army, so everyone cautiously followed from a distance.
The Karaqin cavalry was still hiding, how did they know that their first scout was discovered by the Ming army when they appeared, and Lord Huang, who was marching slowly, was waiting for them.
The more than 500 horses and horses who were full of beads did not concentrate on their actions, and they were divided into three echelons to advance in turn. Huang Sheng observed them with a telescope for a day without provoking them.
It was still early, and the Huang family camped. The Karaqin cavalry, which followed from afar, had no choice but to stop and rest, and the Huang family horses surrounded the camp with chariots, and the Mongolian soldiers dragged the killed sheep from the troop transport vehicles and lit a bonfire to warm up the roast mutton.
The people who are full of pearls and rituals do not have such blessings, they see the fire in the Ming army camp from a distance, they just don't dare to light the fire, one by one they hide next to the horse's belly and snuggle up to keep warm, they can only be willing to eat a few mouthfuls of cake and a few mouthfuls of snow, damn! The more you eat, the colder it gets.
Spending the night in the wild on the winter night of the grassland is not a joke, everyone is shivering from the cold, and Manzhu Xili does not dare to let more than 500 people concentrate on camping, for fear that the target is too big and will be found by the Ming army.
His purpose was not to attack the Ming army, but to monitor, everything was arranged with the fact that he could quickly escape the pursuit of the Ming army, and he didn't think about a duel with the Ming army at all, so he didn't need to form a fist.
Manzhu Xili divided the only men and horses into three camps, one separated by three miles, and he thought that this arrangement was foolproof, and he was relieved to tremble in the camp in the middle.
The Huang family and horses were well fed and drunk, and the soldiers on duty at night were not frozen at all in the armored combat vehicles, the tents of the Huang family were enough, and the bonfires were not extinguished, and the soldiers trusted their comrades-in-arms and were naturally able to sleep peacefully.
The next day, after noon, the Ming army slowly and leisurely pulled out the camp and began to march.
Man Zhu Xili, who secretly ran to observe the movement of the Ming army, was envious after seeing the speed of the Ming army's camp, he had already learned the power of the Ming army's carriages on the battlefield, and now found that these carriages were used to camp more with half the effort.
He was secretly ruthless, he must kill this Ming army, capture their firearms to see what is going on, why he can keep fighting, and he can still fight far away.
Capture some more of the Ming army's four-wheeled carriages to see what's wrong, why are their cars so big and still able to run so fast?
There are too many good things in this Ming army, and the armor on their bodies is not ordinary! No wonder you dare to run thousands of miles to the prairie!
It's worth it to suffer a little bit by yourself, and after a whole day of following yesterday, the Ming army didn't notice it, and today I want to remind the sons and daughters not to be careless.
Man Zhu Xili knew that his subordinates had suffered a night of sin, and he began to publicize and agitate, telling every soldier that this time, as long as everyone could follow the Ming army for ten days, they would make great contributions, and each person would be promoted to a higher level when they went back, and they would be rewarded with ten taels of silver.
Exhausted Karaqin warriors, many of them were frozen from the cold night and had snotty noses, all wondering when it would be a head if it went on like this? Now that there is a clear answer, as long as you suffer for another nine days, you can get ten taels of silver, and you can be promoted to the next level, and everyone is immediately in good spirits.
They sucked the snot into their stomachs, cheered up and continued to follow the Ming army, this job was too simple, the Ming army did not walk fast, and the Karaqin cavalry could catch up as long as they jogged.
In the blink of an eye, a short day passed, and the long and unbearable night came again.
Seeing that the Ming army had camped early, the Karaqin cavalry also looked for a slightly sheltered place to gather in a circle, wrapped in wool felt, and slept trembling in the belly of the war horse.
The camp of the Ming army was lively, they seemed to be holding a bonfire, the smell of roast mutton and wine wafted several miles away, and the Karaqin cavalry who were nibbling on cold cakes felt colder and hungrier.
The Karaqin people, who had been tormented by the cold and gluttony for half the night, fell asleep in a daze at the morning watch, they were not worried that the Ming army would suddenly run away, the carriage could not outrun the war horses, and besides, these Ming troops did not get up early and bring late at all.
In the morning, before dawn, the Huang family and horses did not even eat breakfast, so they quietly rushed to the location where the Karaqin cavalry camped that had been observed by all the cavalry in turn.
This is the battle plan agreed upon yesterday when drinking wine and eating meat, and the overall requirement is one word: "Hurry!" "Leave as many Karaqin cavalry as you can who are following the gifts.
Huang Sheng chose to attack at this time because the sky would get brighter and brighter, his team got enough sleep, and the pursuers who didn't even dare to light a bonfire could imagine how difficult their night would be.
At this time, it is also the most sleepy state of the human biological clock, the Ming army suddenly cavalry assault, those Karaqin soldiers who were frozen all night and suddenly woke up are afraid that they can't even hold their weapons tightly, let alone open their bows and arrows, how interesting is such a one-sided hunt!
The key is that those Karaqin cavalry didn't think that they had already been discovered by the Ming army, and the Ming army should not have been mentally prepared to suddenly turn around and eat them.
Manzhu Xili is not a straw bag, he has also fought with Lao Tzu Oba for more than ten years, and now he is in his thirties and is in the prime of life. Mongols have an innate ability to track their prey in the steppe, and they also have an instinctive reaction to danger.
The Han people really can't play them under the same conditions on the grassland, and the warriors of the Huang family are not compared with the enemy, but compared with skill and discipline.
The Karaqin people divided the large team into three echelons, each team was separated by more than 100 men and horses three miles apart, the nearest echelon from the Ming Dynasty was seven miles away, and there were three groups of elite sentry horses forward, each group of ten people, the nearest group approached the Ming army three miles away.
The purpose of Yimanzhu Xili is to lock down the whereabouts of the Ming army, as long as the Ming army does not leave his surveillance, no matter how powerful they are, when the men of his father and brother come, they will be able to surround them.
It doesn't matter if you can't eat the Ming army, the Houjin army will also have reinforcements coming, after all, there are not many Ming soldiers and horses, and if they are isolated on the grassland, they will become the prey of Karaqin sooner or later.