Chapter 198: Cutting off two fingers
On the grasslands at the end of September, the autumn breeze rises, the temperature turns cooler, and the poplar forests on the rolling hills in the distance are golden. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Western Route Army, with the Bahrain Department Taiji Angkun as the main force and the deputy Sonomu Nayan of the Weng Niute Department, with cavalry and servants, totaling more than 2,600 horsemen, is now located in a small sheltered hill 100 miles north of Balihan, waiting for news.
Although the more than 600 cavalry of the Keshiketeng Department are also part of the Western Route Army, because the Keshiketeng Department is the closest to the Chahar Department among the various departments of the Alliance, their Taiji did not dare to come easily, but only sent half of the elite cavalry of the tribe to participate in the grand event, so the number and status of the entire Western Route Army were the smallest.
At this time, the cavalry of more than 600 Kashketeng people served as a guard and patrol around the entire camp.
The hour was close to noon, but Taiji Angkun of the Bahrain Department had not yet eaten the first hot meal of the day, including the entire Western Route Army of the coalition army.
Ang Kun came all the way south with the Western Route Army, without encountering a single enemy or participating in a single battle.
The entire coalition's conquest of the Karaqin Department has now only taken place between the Korqin people and the old, weak, sick and disabled who stayed in Ulan Hada and the old camp in Karaqin, and there have been two battles that are not considered battles.
The reason why it is not a battle is because the disparity in strength is too great, and the Korqin people completely slaughtered the old and weak left behind in Karaqin.
Taiji Angkun of the Bahrain Department is a typical steppe man, and what he despises the most is this kind of one-sided slaughter with a huge disparity in power, and the battle he longs for is an evenly matched duel, and winning in this way is called glory.
Because the enemy could not be found, the cavalry of the Bahrain Department led by Ang Kun was a little slack, and even the entire team with the coalition army on the west road was slack.
Drinking and having fun at night, I often stayed up all night, and the next day, I naturally couldn't get up too early.
It wasn't until now that the sun was shining that Ang Kun had just woken up.
Sonomu Nayan of the Weng Niu Special Department was also similar to Ang Kun, and at this time he was loudly scolding his subordinates and servants, killing cattle and sheep to prepare fresh meat for the army.
In the camp that had not been awake for a long time, there was a mess of chaos, which made Ang Kun feel unhappy, and in his opinion, this was simply not a marching camp, this was herding.
Ang Kun looked at the noisy chaos in the camp in front of him, turned around and was about to return to his big tent to continue resting, when he suddenly felt a tremor on the ground under his feet!
Ang Kun, who was still quite alert, immediately leaned down, listened and listened with his ears on the ground, only to see that he suddenly changed drastically, and soon jumped up and shouted: "Enemy attack!" There is an enemy attack! Hurry up and get on the horse! There is an enemy attack! ”
Ang Kun often yelled, and the attendants around him had long been accustomed to it, so that no one cared about what he was shouting at first.
It took one of them to figure out what was going on, and soon the camp became more chaotic than before.
At this time, on the hill not far to the south, there were also Kashiketeng cavalry who had arrived in a hurry but were still reviewing, and while rushing to the camp, they also shouted "enemy attack" and "It's the Karaqin people!" Get on board! ”
As the warning of the Kashketeng people sounded, the cavalry and servants in the camp of the col of Noda became even more chaotic.
Although Angkun despised the one-sided massacre, many of his men followed in the footsteps of the Horqin people and carried out a second massacre and looting of the surviving old and weak in Ulan Hada and the old Karaqin land.
Now those who participated in the massacre and looting were terrified when they heard the news of the Karaqin attack.
After all, Ang Kun and Ongniut's Sonomu Nayan were accustomed to fighting, and they quickly reacted from the panic, commanding their men to saddle their horses, put on armor, and then prepare for battle as a whole team.
When the camp of the Allied Western Route Army in the col was still in chaos, countless cavalry soon appeared on the hill to the south.
The large number of cavalry that rushed to the forefront was none other than the Karaqin people led by Burhatu himself.
The news from the homeland of Ulan Hada and Karaqin made these Karaqin cavalry who had retreated all the way south feel sincere resentment.
Whether Burhatu was intentional or not, his retreat all the way south did have the effect of mourning.
Therefore, for these Karaqin cavalry, who have finally waited for the moment of counterattack, they can't wait to immediately load the enemy and fight with the enemy, even if they die together!
It is precisely because of this that the process of Cao Wenzhao and Burhatu and his party in the north mountain is very simple, that is, they followed Cao Bianjiao's sentry team all the way north, without any stop and rest in between.
Depart early in the morning and arrive at noon.
And the Karaqin people, who came with great anger, did not need to boost their morale, and met the patrol cavalry of the Keshiketeng Division, and without saying a word, they came up with one after another shock and pursuit.
Now it is the same, when the Karaqin cavalry led by Burhatu followed the footsteps of the Kashiketeng people up the hill, and saw the enemy in the col in front of them, they did not talk about any tactics, but just whistled and swarmed up.
Thanks to Cao Wenzhao's arrangements for the Wulie battalion on the march, there is no need to say anything at this moment, the left hand points to the left, and the right hand waves to the right, and the Wulie battalion is immediately divided into three roads: left, middle and right, like three torrents, following Burhatu and the shouting Delig Division, rushing towards the enemy camp in front of him!
Taiji Angkun, who has been longing to fight an evenly matched enemy, is not waiting for a dignified duel, but a one-sided tragic scene that he has always looked down on.
It's just that this time, the tragedy is not the old and weak left behind in Ulan Hada by Karaqin, but himself.
Six thousand galloping iron horsemen, like a torrent pouring down from all sides, rushed into the camp of the cavalry of the Bahrain and the Ongniut tribe and their minions in an instant.
Although the early warning was given at the last moment, the warning time was too short, and there was no time to make full preparations, and only a few were able to get on their horses in time, and most of them were shot to the ground by the Karaqin cavalry equipped with hard bows and crossbows before they had time to get on their horses.
And those Bahrain or Wengniut cavalry who were lucky enough to get on the horse were not able to withstand another round of assault from the Wulie battalion that followed.
The originally noisy but orderly camp of the Western Route Army was like a pot of boiling water, full of shouts, screams and chaos!
Ang Kun, who was in the middle of the camp, was lucky enough to ride his horse, and he was lucky to gather some guards around him, wielding his favorite scimitar in his hand, shouting loudly, commanding the men and horses in the camp to turn around and resist.
However, his luck also came to this.
Angkun, who always prides himself on being brave on weekdays, faced Delig who came with a rapid impact, was shot down from his horse by the mace in Delige's hand just by taking a look, and then was trampled under the feet of hundreds of galloping war horses, and soon became a puddle of flesh and blood!
Luckily for Taiji Angkun of the Bahrain Division, Sonomu Nayan of Ongniut died from an arrow in the neck, and the war horse under him ran to the side, leaving a relatively intact corpse.
The archery was shot at high speed with the Karaqin cavalry, and the guerrilla Cao Bianjiao in the front battalion of the Wulie Battalion.
The battle in this nameless col didn't last long before it ended.
Because the three thousand did not have time to get on the horse, and some were even bare-handed cavalry, they were definitely not the opponents of the six thousand fully armed and high-speed iron cavalry.
The tribal cavalry, who had lost their leader in the first wave of the onslaught, never again put up organized resistance, and most of them had no will to resist at all, but simply fled.
However, with the exception of the Kishketengs, who had initially been sent out to serve as guards and guards like Aung Kun and Sonom, who had fled a few hundred horsemen, the cavalry of the Bahrain and Onniut tribes and their minions were all killed.
There were quite a few Bahrain and Wengniute cavalry who knelt on the ground and begged at the beginning, although they dodged the swords and arrows of the martial arts battalion, but they still did not save their lives.
They were eventually killed by the indomitable Karaqin cavalry.
In this regard, Burhatu and Delig didn't care about it, and Cao Wenzhao, who didn't know much about the grievances between the steppe tribes, certainly couldn't think of a reason to stop it.
After killing all the enemies who could still breathe, the cavalry of the Karaqin and Wulie battalions, with the cattle and sheep slaughtered by the Bahrainis and the Weng Niutes before, had a beautiful feast, and then took the relatively intact head of the Bahraini Taiji Angkun and the head of Sonomu Nayan, and rushed back to Balihan before the night covered the grassland.
In this battle, the Karaqin casualties were less than 300 people, and the casualties of the Wulie battalion were less than 50 people, but they basically completely annihilated the Western Route Army of the Eastern Mongolian Tribes, except for more than 300 Keshiketeng cavalry who fled to the west at the beginning, the main cavalry of the Western Route Army of the Bahrain Department and Weng Niute and their servants, more than 2,800 people were killed, including Ang Kun and Sonomu Nayan, the leaders of the Bahrain Department and the Weng Niute Department.
There is a military saying in later generations that it is better to cut off one finger of the enemy than to injure ten fingers of the enemy.
After this battle, the Wulie Battalion and the Karaqin Department not only destroyed the Western Route Army of the Eastern Mongolian Coalition Army, but also cut off the two fingers of Jianyu through Horqin to Southern Mongolia and even to the northern border of the Ming Dynasty, one is the Bahrain Department and the other is the Wengniute Department.