Chapter 335: The devil enters the village
Sun Yi's original arrangement was that the big Norbu attacked the yellow flag, and the little Norbu attacked and disturbed the white flag.
Fearing to alarm the Manchurians prematurely, Sun Yi ordered not to touch the Manchurians until they crossed the center line.
Now that the white flag has not crossed the center line, Sun Yi simply left only two hundred-man teams to monitor and withdraw the main force of Little Norbu.
Hauge's Zhenghuang Banner marched westward along the southern foot of Daqing Mountain, slowly advancing all the way.
Zhenghuangqi's westward expedition included 200 guards, 1,100 armored soldiers, and a total of about 1,400 combatants together with Hauge's personal guards.
In addition, Zhenghuangqi also has about 1,600 Aha, about 350 cattle, and about 2,300 goats and sheep, totaling 4,250.
Aha had no mounts and walked up to thirty miles a day.
Cattle and sheep are the food of the army. Walk up to fifteen miles a day.
After leaving the ruins of Kuku and Tun, Hauge took turns to camp every day, and the army set out in the morning and set up camp at noon, and Aha could arrive in the evening with the sheep.
For the first few days, there was not a single figure on the grasslands along the way.
After several days of smooth marching, the army met with sporadic resistance.
First, the horses sent out disappeared, and then a small group of Mongol cavalry with one or two hundred men attacked the army from time to time.
The first attack of the Mongol cavalry suffered a heavy loss.
The Mongol cavalry, which suddenly appeared, launched a mangu charge against the army of the Yellow Banner as usual. It was too late to put on the armor of the yellow flag, and Hauge calmly ordered: dismount to meet the enemy.
When the Mongol cavalry rushed into the range of the Manchurian bow, the Zhenghuang Banner rushed to fire the arrows, and the raindrops of feathered arrows caused the Mongol soldiers at the front to fall from their horses.
The brave Mongols braved the rain of arrows and howled past the foot of the Yellow Banner, and withdrew into the distance with a dense burst of feathered arrows.
Due to the range, the feathered arrows of the Mongol cavalry did not cause substantial damage to the Zhenghuang Banner.
Hauge resisted the urge to pursue and ordered the yellow flag to be armoured.
When the Mongols rushed up with their horns on their horns for the second time, the yellow flag was already on standby.
This time, the Zhenghuang Flag was not launched first, but was launched later.
When the Mongols' feathered arrows rattled Manchurian cotton armor, Hauge ordered a return fire.
The Manchurian bow was powerful and heavy, coldly nailed into the body of the Mongol cavalry without armor protection.
The Mongol cavalry immediately lost the ability to fight back, and the feathered arrows became sparse.
Hauge seized the opportunity and personally led the escort to launch a counter-charge.
The Mongol cavalry turned and fled, and Hauge chased him out five miles in one go. Fearing an ambush, Hauge led his army to victory.
After suffering this heavy loss, the Mongolian cavalry did not dare to launch a mangu attack on the Zhenghuang Banner army, and instead singled out the prospecting horses and backward cattle and sheep to attack.
Hauge was overwhelmed for a moment.
Having lost his eyes and ears to probe his horses, Hauge knew nothing about the whereabouts of the Mongol cavalry that came and went, and had to divide his troops to protect the cattle and sheep at any time.
The army was also forced to march between the hottest and the last day. In this way, the cattle and sheep go first in the morning, the army overtakes the cattle and sheep at noon, and the cattle and sheep return at ten o'clock in the evening, and the distance from the army is kept to a minimum.
Even so, the elusive Mongol cavalry would still find an opportunity to surprise them.
What's even more hateful is that sometimes the Mongol cavalry will line up from a distance to show the light even though they don't have a chance. Whenever this happens, the Zhenghuang Banner must dismount and put on armor to prepare for battle. After working for a long time, the Mongol cavalry turned away.
As a result, the marching speed of the Zhenghuang Banner was greatly slowed down.
Hauge believes that this passive situation must be changed.
Hauge changed tactics and sent out a battalion of forwards on both flanks.
The two forward battalions swept left and right in front of the army, keeping a half-day to a day's journey with the army, clearing a safe area for the army, and at the same time ensuring sufficient warning time for the army to resist the enemy.
The tactics worked!
After several battles with the Mongol cavalry, the Mongols retreated.
Under the protection of the vanguard, the army of the Zhenghuang Banner accelerated its march, and the ranks were gradually lengthened.
On this day, the left flank of the Zhenghuang Banner marched to a distance of only forty miles from Dabansheng.
The leader of the left wing of the Zhenghuang Banner was a guerrilla general about twenty years old, commanding five Niulu armored soldiers, about 200 men.
An armored soldier reported to the majestic guerrilla general on his horse: "General Aobai, find the Mongolian people!" ”
Except for a few attacks on the way, not a single local citizen has encountered it, and every village it passes through is empty, and there has never been a supply.
Ao Baixi said: "How many people? Where is it? ”
The armoured soldier replied, "The number is unknown." They spotted the army, left their cattle and sheep behind, and fled into a village ahead. ”
This shows that there are still people in this village!
Ao Bai immediately ordered: "Quickly enter the village, don't let go of a raw mouth!" ”
Two hundred men in armor under the Yellow Banner rushed to the village in front of them with lightning speed.
This village is a typical Han Bansheng, a small river that originates in the north-south direction of Daqing Mountain, and is lined with various earthen houses on both sides.
Suddenly Manchurian soldiers appeared, and the people of the village were so frightened that they fled to the other side of the ditch in the village.
Since it was the rainy season, the ditch was full of water. The armoured men on horseback could only cross the river from a small wooden bridge.
Ao bowed to the horsewhip and pointed it, the armored soldiers jumped on the small bridge, the people and horses just passed halfway, "boom" a loud sound, the wood chips flew horizontally, covering the sky and the sun.
After a while, Ao Bai looked at it, and the wooden bridge had been blown into two pieces!
The centaur is split into two parts!
There is an ambush!
It was too late to say that it was too late, and the feet of the armored soldiers who had just rushed across the small bridge trembled, and there was a loud bang, and the armored soldiers were sent into the sky with men and horses.
On the walls of the earthen houses on the other side of the ditch flashed sparsely round, helmets.
It was the third battalion of the coalition forces that was lying in ambush in the village.
After Hauge changed tactics, Sun Yi ordered Da Norbu to abandon the attack and lure a forward battalion of Zhenghuangqi all the way.
Li Guang's three battalions and 600 fully equipped soldiers had already been deployed in the village. The people who herded sheep outside the village and the people who fled in the village were actually the camouflage of the three battalions.
The small wooden bridge in the village, as well as a section of dirt road behind the bridge, were mined by the 10,000 enemies of the 3rd Battalion. There were only about 100 soldiers in yellow flag armor who rushed across the wooden bridge, and God knows how many were left after a series of explosions by mines.
The three-eyed gunners and archers on the earthen wall were followed by a blow, and the Manchurian soldiers standing in the streets were no longer visible.
One hundred sword and shield men of the third battalion rushed into the street, their swords rising and falling, and the battle was about to end in the blink of an eye.
Ao Bai shouted in a hurry, and commanded the armored soldiers around him to wade across the river immediately.
As soon as the armored soldiers found a suitable riverbank for launching into the water, there was a "boom", and another mine exploded on the riverbank.
It turned out that the soldiers of the third battalion disguised as civilians were not simply luring the enemy, and their more important task was to remove the condoms of various mines in the village at the last moment.
Sun Yi said, this is called "If you don't see the devil, you don't hang the strings, and if you don't see the full dwarf, you don't take off the set." ”
Li Guang asked: "Master, what do you mean if you don't see the devil and don't hang the strings?" ”
The mines of the coalition forces are all electrically ignited, and there is no need to pull the strings at all.
Sun Yi always felt that he saw the shadow of his college football team in Li Guang, when he was poor, but he was full of optimism about the future, and he always had endless energy, so he was willing to joke with Li Guang.
"It doesn't mean anything specific, it's just made up for rhyme."