Chapter 538: The Terrifying Might of the Fire Bull Array
That night, Ran Min led 3,000 beggars and 1,000 cattle to make a detour north, intending to rush to the rear of the Mongol army to carry out a surprise attack. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 At the same time, the news that Yang Jiye was shot and wounded by Ran Min also reached the Mongolian army.
In the Mongolian camp, Wang Baobao looked at Minmin Timur with a happy face and said with a smile: "Sister, your counter-plot has been successful, today Ran Min fought with Yang Jiye as soon as he arrived, and also shot and injured Yang Jiye."
Min Min Timur sneered: "In this way, the enmity between the two of them will not be clear. As soon as they fight, we will attack Ran Min, and then the Han army will be speechless. ”
Wang Baobao rubbed his palms and said: "It's almost there, if Yang Jiye is injured, if he doesn't fight, he should retreat, and he will definitely pursue with Ran Min's temper!" The order went down, and the scouts closely monitored the movements of Ran Min's army, and the army was ready to send troops! ”
"No!" Wang Baobao gave an order, and the generals under his account gave up their hands to receive the order, but they didn't want to shake their heads again and again: "If it doesn't work, the Han army is brave and invincible, and I want to fight you, I can still agree to just attack and disturb last time, but this time it's a short-handed encounter, and I will definitely not go."
The Mongols have always been fierce, and the only one who can be so cowardly and dare to say such things in front of the real king Baobao is Kubhai, who was frightened by Li Yuanfang in Xiliang. At the beginning of the battle of Xiliang, Li Yuanfang made the chain knife so that Kublai was inexplicably injured, so Kublai respected the Han army like a ghost, and now Wang Baobao proposed to fight with the Han army, Kublai immediately refused.
If ordinary people were so confused about the army's morale, I was afraid that they would have been pulled out by the general and cut down, but Kublai was a high and powerful person, but he was a close minister of Temujin, and his status was much higher than that of Wang Baobao. The generals dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, but Wang Baobao was the main general this time, and Temujin meant to restore Kublai's confidence, so Wang Baobao said with a cold expression: "I will kill you if you dare to disturb the army's heart, I have decided to go on the expedition, and you must go out together to kill the enemy when the time comes!"
"Hmph, where did you come from, I want to go to you, I won't go!" Kublai came but did not listen to the king and was about to go out.
Wang Baobao said angrily: "Come here, Kubi will come to the battle for cowardice, tie him up for me, and escort him to the battlefield in the coming day." My Mongolian boy is a good hero, you are so cowardly, you might as well die on the battlefield. ”
With Wang Baobao's order, these generals were not polite to Kublai, and tied Kublai to prepare to take him to the battlefield in the coming day.
Time came to the second day in a blink of an eye, in order to make a show for the Mongols, the beggar army came to the Han army camp under the leadership of the deputy general Guo Wei to call for battle. Among the Han army, they hung up the war-free card, making a sense that Yang Jiye was injured and did not dare to fight. They only shot some bows and arrows at each other, but they didn't really fight.
Then the beggar army shouted and cursed, and Lin Yu led the cavalry out of the camp and rushed into the beggar army who came to call the battle. Naturally, it wasn't a real fight, but the cavalry of the two sides hedged back and forth, and there were gaps in between.
But the Mongolian scouts who were observing from a distance did not know that this was an act, the cavalry charged up and the sky was full of dust, and the vision was unclear, and the soldiers on both sides shouted fiercely, and the Mongolian cavalry scouts only thought that the two sides were fighting, and Pegasus reported back to Wang Baobao.
When Wang Baobao got the news, he immediately led 5,000 cavalry south.
A few hours later, Wang Baobao led the cavalry to ten miles north of the Han army camp and sent people to investigate the situation.
But I didn't want to do it at this time, a cavalry of the rear army rushed over and hurriedly said: "General, it's not good to fight a cavalry behind the big thing, under the banner of Ran!"
"General, the Han army and the beggar army did not fight, and now they have surrounded us." There were also cavalry Pegasus in the direction of the front army.
"It's not good, Ran Min and the Han army didn't fall for the plan, but we fell for their plan and fell into their ambush!" Wang Baobao yelled badly.
Minmin Timur's face was full of anger, and he shouted coquettishly: "It must be that the messenger who came back with his identity exposed, and he didn't dare to say it, it was really bad for me."
"Now is not the time to hold accountable!" Wang Baobao sighed, looked at the two scouts in front and one in the back, and asked, "How many people are in the rear army, and how many people are in the front army?"
"There are only about 3,000 people in the back!"
"There are more than 10,000 in front, and they are coming in a situation of encirclement!"
Wang Baobao quickly made a decision: "There are few soldiers in the rear, let's break through from the rear!"
At the order, the 5,000 Mongol cavalry immediately turned their horses around and headed north.
However, in the north, Ran Min had already set a trap waiting for them. I saw a green meadow on the grassland, and a group of cows leisurely eating grass. The cattle are divided into rows in the north, connected by ropes to each other, and stand with one head facing south.
The oxen were strapped with a lot of hay and sprinkled with oil. The rear gathered within a range of nearly 100 paces, the soldiers of the beggar army bent their bows and arrows one by one, and the arrows were also tied with strips of cloth doused with fire oil, and the soldiers next to them held torches, and when Ran Min gave the order, they lit rockets and fired at the cattle to launch a fire bull array.
In history, Tian Dan defeated the Yan army with the Fire Bull Formation, and Le Yi defeated more than 70 Qi countries, and also turned defeat into victory because of this battle. The Fire Bull Formation was also used by later generations many times, but most of them were unsuccessful, because the herd of cattle frightened by the fire not only rushed to the enemy, but also rushed to their own people, so most of them ended up in a lose-lose situation.
Ran Min knew that if the Fire Bull Formation was not used well, not only would it not hurt the enemy, but it would hurt himself, so he had already prepared.
This group of cattle was deliberately starved by Ran Min for two days, and when they arrived here, Ran Min deliberately let them stand to the south, and the grass on the ground was thick.
When an animal panics, its first reaction is to flee forward, but there are some differences, some will spin in place, or run in the opposite direction. But the flight forward is the vast majority. There are ropes connecting the herd of cattle to each other, and if the Mongol cavalry goes north later, Ran Min orders to shoot rockets, and the herd is frightened, and they will also go south, although some of them will turn around in place or run elsewhere, and they will all run south because of the ropes.
As they run, the herd will break the ropes, but by that time the herd has already rushed into the cavalry and disrupted the cavalry formation.
Wang Baobao led the cavalry to the north, and was about to block the way with the Fire Ox Formation, and the vanguard of the front army did not know the Fire Ox Formation and was about to give the order to rush over.
In this matter, Ran Min shouted and ordered: "Light the rocket and release it for me!"
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When they arrived, the soldiers of the beggar army lit rockets one by one, and the arrows were shot at the herd, and the rockets were shot into the herd and landed on the cows, which screamed in pain when they were in pain. Not only that, but the rocket also quickly ignited the hay tied to the cow, and the hay was poured with fire oil, and it was immediately set on fire, and in a moment more than a thousand cows were ablaze.
The pain of the herd was high, and the eyes of the cows turned red, and the cattle had gone crazy.
Animals are crazy, it is dogs, people don't dare to provoke easily, not to mention the bison on the grassland, they are strong, bigger than horses, and the lions have to retreat.
With red eyes, the bulls galloped towards the Mongol cavalry, and the earth trembled, as if the heavens had cracked. It was a little faster than the horses, and some of the oxen were spinning in place, some of them were running in other directions, but there were ropes in between, and they were pulled south by the large army.
The huge herd of cattle rushed in, and the Mongol cavalry was not able to be defeated, and at such a distance, they did not have time to turn around and retreat. Arrows were shot at the herd, but they didn't have the slightest effect, and only made the herd more crazy.
In a few moments, the herd of cattle rushed into the Mongol cavalry, and at this time the ropes connected between them were also torn off, and they rushed into the cavalry group unscrupulously, and rushed back and forth as if they were crazy. The horses ridden by the Mongolian cavalry were also frightened and were not controlled by the cavalry.
The entire Mongolian front army was thrown into a mess by the impact of the mad bull, and even the horses were frightened and fled in all directions, throwing their masters under the horses, trampling and dreading to death.
Where Wang Baobao of the Chinese army was, there was also a mad bull jumping over at this moment, and the Chinese army was also a little flustered, Wang Baobao was shocked and said: "This is the fire bull array that can't be defended at all, the soldiers retreat!"
Wang Baobao said that, he protected Min Min Timur and turned to the east, preparing to leave the impact of the Fire Bull Array, and fled for his life. The soldiers of the middle army and the rear army saw this, but the fire ox had already rushed in, and there were not many who could leave. And some of the cattle have already rushed outside, and the horses are frightened and are not controlled at all.
There were only some generals, and some of the war horses and gods reluctantly obeyed the master's control and left the main formation. About 500 people broke out of the trap and walked north, bypassing the broken formation that had already been attacked.
"Take me with you, I don't want to die!" At this moment, Kublai shouted urgently in the Chinese army. Kublai didn't want to come, but Wang Baobao tied him up and brought him over, the original intention was to let him see that the Han army was not invincible, but he didn't want to fall into the Han army's scheme and was crushed by the fire ox array.
But where can the soldiers in the fire bull array take care of him, being rushed under the horse by the fire bull is death, and the war horse is frightened and uncontrollable, one by one remembers sweating profusely, and some want to abandon the horse and run away, but they can't run out of the chaotic formation.
Kublai was tied with his hands, he sat down and was a good horse, but unfortunately he did not have his hands to control, left and right, but saw a mad mad bull rushing towards him, the horse was frightened, immediately overturned Kublai to the ground, and then was trampled to death by the rushing fire bull.
The dignified Mongolian four fierce generals died like this, no wonder Wang Baobao and Minmin Timur, there was nothing wrong with their strategy, but it happened that Wei Xiaokuan, the ancestor of the anti-introverted plan, was in Yanmen, and was recognized by Wei Xiaokuan, and Wei Xiaokuan's plan was calculated, which caused the defeat of the Mongolian army. Wang Baobao was bent on restoring Kublai's confidence, but he didn't think of indirectly killing Kublai to death.