Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Prelude to a Hard Battle
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Before Yu Dayou's jaw could be picked up from the ground, the three hundred prairie wolves that came with great momentum became nature's freshest fertilizer.
Perhaps because of the ignorance of the new type of thunderbolt and too strong self-confidence, the three hundred steppe wolf riders did not escape from the battlefield, or perhaps when they realized that it was too late to withdraw from the range of fire of the Ming army, all in all, none of the three hundred enemy troops who came from the hunt escaped, and when they were cleaning the battlefield, they were all cordially given a lifetime travel ticket by Zhu Houzhao.
Yu Dayou was envious, he knew that there was such a powerful weapon in the world, he would not have come from Fujian to Dengfeng, Henan Province to learn martial arts, and he also had the tragic experience of kneeling on the wall door and not being allowed to enter.
"My lord, I'll mess with you in the future, right?" Yu Dayou, a small hundred households in Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan, immediately gave up his position and planned to join Zhu Houzhao's account instead.
"My lord, you can accept me, I started practicing martial arts at the age of six, and when I was a teenager, I ran out to apprentice everywhere to seek art, although the kung fu is not successful, but three or five big men can't get close to the body can still do it, if you don't dislike it, leave me as a guard, right?"
Five or six big men...... Zhu Houzhao wiped the sweat on his forehead, three years ago, the master was able to bring down three or five big men, and he was embarrassed to say it at this level.
"How old are you?"
"Thirteen!"
"Damn, you grew up eating fertilizer?"
After quickly cleaning up the battlefield and moving all the horses back to the camp, under the ravages of the Buddha's anger and Tang Lian, the three hundred horses could survive no more than the number of their hands, and most of them were struggling to survive and were about to die completely.
As soon as the news of killing horses and eating meat arrived, the whole camp was boiling. After several days of marching, the bird has long faded out of its mouth.
A full meal of horse meat, although it is not delicious, Zhu Houzhao still eats sweetly.
The defeated soldiers who followed Yu Dayou were taken under his command, and a few hundred people could be responsible for guarding and scouting tasks. It saved a lot of trouble for the new army under Zhu Houzhao.
After a good night's rest, the next day was only ten ten noon, and the scouts sent out ran back in a panic.
Sure enough, as Yu Dayou expected, behind the three hundred dead ghosts, there were five thousand steppe wolves riding around, and five thousand iron horses were strong!
"My lord, let's withdraw!" Yu Dayou was almost frightened after getting the news, according to his guess, it was already a huge number for the backers behind the three hundred riders to have one or two thousand riders.
Now that there are so many 5,000 horsemen, there is no way to fight the battle. Quantitative change can produce qualitative change, and the army sent by the Ming Dynasty at the beginning of the war to resist Japan and aid Korea was only 3,000 Guanning iron cavalry led by Zu Dashou, carrying tens of thousands of Japanese troops.
So as soon as he heard that the enemy had as many as 5,000 horsemen, Yu Dayou had the idea of crossing south at that time.
Zhu Houzhao was also shocked, he could command the battle of three or five hundred people, but he wanted to unfold all the ten thousand people on hand, and he really didn't know if he had this ability.
Moreover, the weapons of the 10,000 new troops were mixed, except for 2,000 flintlock shotguns, the others were relatively old arquebuses.
And the powerful new Thunderbolt is only a hundred, but everyone has cucumber grenades, and there are many more.
Whether to fight, how to fight, and where to fight, these three questions made Zhu Houzhao struggle.
The news of the fall of the capital has still not come out, which shows that Wang Shouren is still struggling to support in the capital, everyone is a chick who has never been on the battlefield, why is he inferior to him?
Beat! Be sure to hit!
After taking the attention, Zhu Houzhao began to arrange his troops and fight here, and the new army would definitely not be the opponent of the Tatar elite division, which was no longer a simple concept of two fighting one.
There is no general in Shu, and Liao Hua is the pioneer. There was no one around him who could fight, so Zhu Houzhao had to bite the bullet.
Before noon, Zhu Houzhao began to transfer with 10,000 troops, flowing westward along the Yellow River.
As for why it is said to be a wanderer, it is because the stupid scout also attracted the scouts when he discovered the Tatar army.
Although none of the Tatar scouts were able to escape back in the end and bring back the news that there were a large number of Ming troops on the banks of the Yellow River, the collective disappearance of more than a dozen scouts was enough to make the Tatar army very thoughtful.
No matter how much the infantry travels hundreds of miles a day, they are destined to outrun the cavalry.
The five thousand iron cavalry of the Tatars acted together with a total of five thousand commanders, one of whom had only more than 600 cavalry left under his command at this time, and it was obvious that the 300 cavalry that was slaughtered by Zhu Houzhao the day before yesterday were his subordinates.
Therefore, as soon as this person heard that he had found traces of the Ming army, he immediately became excited, and after letting out a wolf-like howl, he immediately went alone to chase and kill Zhu Houzhao's brigade.
Disturbing the Ming army with sparrow warfare, it is a sure thing that a team of 700 people can kill dozens of Ming troops every time they shoot, and this kind of live Tatar man will not feel tired for a day.
However, the idea is good, but the implementation is obviously a pitfall.
In terms of hand length, the Tatar horse bow was clearly no match for the bird's gun. After all, the distance between fifty and a hundred steps is not something that can be erased with a smile.
After more than 20 people were injured in the first loss, Zhu Houzhao had the idea of killing the Tatars and quickly put it into action.
Zhu Houzhao's march was never eclectic, and he did not take the main road at all. In his opinion, there is no road paved with cement and asphalt, and it is no different from the field.
So the roads that had been trodden out by pedestrians were completely ceded by him to the Tatar cavalry.
However, before that, he also worked tirelessly to teach the essence of mine warfare to the soldiers, and it soon became popular.
Relying on the fact that the Tatar invaders had not experienced brutal mine warfare, Zhu Houzhao's sergeants hung the mines quite obviously.
On both sides of the road, a tree trunk is supported, a triprope is made in the middle, and the iron cucumber insurance that ties Xiao Tang Fei is hung up, and he can walk away by patting his buttocks. A few unkind people even played tricks and made a long rope to ambush Lalei on the spot.
However, the risk of being discovered in this way is not small, and after losing a few people, he was completely banned by Zhu Houzhao.
When the Tatar commanders returned with less than half of their men, the miserable appearance made several commanders furious.
"Report to Elder Wanfu, concentrate troops and horses, no matter what, you can't let this group of Ming dogs escape!" This Tatar commander, who insisted on chasing and killing the Ming army, was very fierce with a knife and slashed the steel balls embedded in the flesh one by one, and his heart palpitated.
If it weren't for the good horse under his crotch that blocked most of the steel balls, I'm afraid his life would have been confessed to the dark thunder of those insidious Ming troops.
"! Everyone should be careful, this group of Ming soldiers is very different from the fat sheep you usually know! ”