Chapter 707: Desolation
Within a hundred miles, there was no one in the wilderness, only a small tribe of a few hundred people lived by the river, planted a small amount of grain, and the tribesmen ate raw meat and wore robes made of fish skin, which was not much different from the primitive people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In that tribe, the sentinel actually found the edict of the Hongwu period, which was once called Taizhou, in the south dozens of miles is Taizhou Station, and then down the river south is Zhaozhou and Zhaozhou Station, along the river north is Hanhan Han Station, north of Muhewei, east is Demu Hewei, from here to the southwest for two months, in order to arrive at the Jianzhou Wei of the year, and then beyond the Liaodong border wall, is the place where the Daming Inner Town Guard is located.
Ma Wu and the others didn't plan to continue to go south, they planned to turn back and calculate the time, even if the Eastern Captives and the Northern Captives fought, the war should be over.
As soon as I walked in the northwest direction for half a day, I saw a lot of smoke and dust rising in front of this valley, and the officers could easily see with their binoculars that there were about 200 people in the north who were constantly being chased by the same number of eastern captives.
Ma Wu looked back left and right and saw faces eager to try. He was the chief official, and he didn't need to ask for other people's opinions, but he still said at the moment: "What's the matter, let them bite like this, or let's go out and fight with Dongyu?" ”
"Of course." Xu Zhen said: "Dongyu may not be so terrible. ”
Lin Nanxing analyzed: "It should be the people of the Fifth Department of Inner Khalkha who fled, according to the deployment of the adults, our next step is to subdue the right-wing Mongolia, and the people who rescued them are exactly in line with the ideas of the adults." ”
Ma Wu licked his lips and said with a smile: "Don't be serious, you all just want to fight Dongyu." ”
The two squadron leaders and the officers laughed.
Indeed, they came down from the Thirteen Mountains and did not encounter any fierce resistance, and then went around in circles on the grassland, all the way here, encountered several cavalry battles in the middle, and the Donglu did not give them much surprise, relying on food and hunting on the grassland for so long, everyone felt that they were holding a fire in their hearts, and they wished to find a group of Donglu to fight a dozen, and use the blood and lives of these barbarians to calm the anger in their hearts, and it was also to add a good luster to this aggrieved day.
"Then fight."
Even the staff officers, military and political officers, and military judges present had no objections, and Ma Wu immediately stood up.
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The more he ran, the more desperate he became, he took the lead from Lin Dan Khan's team to run first, and a group of Taiji also ran away, but on the way they met a large group of Jurchen cavalry, several Taiji were captured, most of the Taiji ran back to Lin Dan Khan, and some people successfully ran back to their pastures, but the next step must only be to choose to surrender Houjin, and now there is only one person left alone and a few cronies of the generals, and the other is the more than 200 remnants, of which there are less than 30 armored guards, The rest are all ordinary herdsmen gathered under the command of fried flowers along the way.
When passing through the lower reaches of the Xilamulun River, the group was discovered by these Jurchen cavalry, and then the other party chased them all the way.
More than half of the Jurchen cavalry are armored men, most of them are cotton armored soldiers in addition to the officers, and there are five or six white-armored soldiers, and the strength is not very strong, even so these frightened bird-like shepherds are also powerless, and now they can deal with the wolves if they die, and they will be scared half to death at the slightest disturbance.
It was only at this time that Fried Flower realized how weak the power he mastered, and how fragile and ridiculous the force he mastered under his command, the leader of the Five Divisions who had been famous for decades, and the barbarian leader who was regarded as the greatest threat by the Ming Dynasty......
But he really has been brilliant for 30 years, and the Ming Dynasty has a population of 100 million and a million border troops who have nothing to do with it......
If you have a clear understanding in your heart, it seems that the once strong self is not really strong, but the huge empire of the Ming Dynasty is also a tiger made of paper, which seems to be huge and strong, but in fact, it has long been terminally ill.
If the Ming Dynasty also had such a Jurchen-like combat power, and had an efficient and practical government established by Nurhachi, with the national strength and military strength of the Ming Dynasty, how could it allow fried flowers to crisscross the border for 30 years without any way?
These are all in the past, when the fried flowers ran away, there were just some vague flashes in his mind, his career has been completely finished, he is an old man who has passed the age of the sixtieth year, if twenty years ago, even if he escaped alone, the fried flowers would also want to regain their strength to avenge today's revenge, but now he has no heart, and he has no physical strength to persevere, and now his only thought is to be able to escape, find a place to live in peace in these last years of life......
No matter how you fry flowers, you don't want to be captured by the Jurchens, although you can live a lot more comfortably in Liaoyang, but you don't want to go to the days when you send people under the fence.
Even if a hero is in the twilight, he is still a hero!
The sound of horses' hooves behind him suddenly softened, and Fried Flower looked back suspiciously.
The Jurchens suddenly stopped their horses, and the more than 200 horsemen began to recover from the scattered arrowhead shape into a long horizontal cavalry formation, which was preparing to meet the enemy, and the general was hesitating.
One of the guards shouted, "Taiji, it's Han." ”
Fried flowers glanced at it suddenly, and couldn't help but shout: "It's He Yusheng's cavalry!" ”
Obviously, the one in front of him is He Yusheng's cavalry.
The classification of the Yusheng cavalry has also been learned from Yang Sisun, and it is now divided into lancers, also known as iron cavalry or cuirassiers, because the lancers mainly rely on the first row of cuirassiers, wearing heavy armor, wearing stubbornness, sweeping all the enemies in front of them. The two columns behind him also continued to rush with long knives and sabers, so that those who were in charge were easy to kill.
If He Yusheng's financial resources allow, it is also necessary to equip the second and third columns with cuirassiers, so in private, the lancers can also be called cuirassiers.
The cavalry is mainly based on firearms, and the cavalry is as close to the direction of the rifle as possible, and the usual training of cavalry warfare is also to use the firearm to strike, and then use sabers and spears and other cold weapons to take advantage of the situation to slash and kill.
There are also chasers, mainly to ration firearms, with light cavalry raids to harass enemy rear and cut off the enemy's food routes as the goal of warfare.
The Jurchens hesitated for a short time, and then they saw that they all dismounted, and a few bannermen gathered their horses together and stood behind the formation, and most of the cavalry instantly turned into infantry.
"It seems that the Dongyu are also afraid of Yusheng's cavalry." One of the guards said happily, "We're saved." ”
Fried Flower was ashamed in his heart, and wanted to reprimand this protector, and then saw that the cronies and generals around him were also excited, he sighed and decided not to say anything.
He Yusheng's cavalry was also arranged in a horizontal formation, two and a half squadrons of less than 150 people moved forward side by side, the cavalry was very neat, often outside for many days, and the military appearance was still very neat.
Each soldier was heavily armoured, and in the middle there was a squadron of brilliant cuirassiers.
The fried flowers sighed again, and there was an indescribable expression on the wrinkled face.
Zhang Han was still a small merchant when he passed through Khalkha for the first time, and he didn't care about the relationship with the Jurchens and didn't pay attention to it, and then Yang Sisun and others escorted the caravan to pass, at that time it was a group of cavalry with firearms, and the fried flowers didn't pay much attention to it, and then there were more and more caravans with Yusheng, more and more chariots and horses, and the cavalry team became more and more powerful and strong. Hundreds of horse thieves did not dare to approach, those small tribes who want to make up their minds, they should also think about it, even if it is not the Jurchens behind, just with He Yusheng's own strength, others who want to make up their minds should also beware of being stabbed in the mouth when they want to make up their minds.
Up to now, in just a few years, there are only more than 100 cavalry in Heyusheng, and they have already dared to challenge the Jurchen cavalry in number above them in person, and the other party's neat and mighty military appearance actually put on a posture like a great enemy, looking back at his back, more than 200 people are like lost dogs......
"Are you coming with Yusheng's cavalry?"
A Jurchen officer shouted first in Mongolian and then in Jurchen.
The two armies were already less than 200 paces apart, and the shouting could be heard very clearly.
Ma Wu replied in Mongolian: "We are the soldiers and horses of the Thirteen Mountains who have been recruited by the imperial court, and there are only a few people from Yusheng. Nonsense, either you either retreat or fight us. ”
Ma Wu's cavalry team can be seen by a discerning person, and it is obvious that it is a fine cavalry with an obvious profound and Yusheng brand trained by Heyusheng, but the Jurchen officer who led the team came from Liaoyang, and vaguely knew about Yusheng, and after seeing some soldiers in gray robes, he couldn't help but ask, and after getting an answer, the leader Melle Zhangjing showed an incredible look on his face...... From the forty-seventh year of Wanli to the present, five or six years have passed in a flash, they have become accustomed to the Ming army can flee, and if they can't escape, it is the result of surrender.
After receiving such an irreverent answer, Mel Zhangjing showed an obvious unhappy look on his face, he ordered in Jurchen words, the horn sounded, and the bannermen and the armor soldiers took off their bows and arrows earlier, at this time it was obvious that the Jurchens were well-trained and experienced on the battlefield, most of the horses were pulled in the rear, but there were still nearly forty elite armor soldiers on the wings, and at the same time they were also pulling slightly shorter riding bows on horses, and the infantry formation was arranged into an array of four rows by more than one hundred and seventy people, and the first two rows were all armored soldiers, They took spears and halberds and held throwing weapons in their hands, and some people held hard and long iron-tired bows, and in the back two columns were a small number of armored and unarmored bannermen, each of whom had a longbow in their hands, the bowstring had been slightly drawn, and the bannermen had arrows on their fingers, using the standard Mongolian archery method......