Chapter 456: Cutting Orders

In their spare time, many of the young herdsmen of the Tumut tribe always like to listen to the stories of the old herdsmen who went to the south to "hunt", saying that they rode on horses, brandished sabers and spears, drove the panicked Han people away, and plundered their women, silk and treasures, and lived happily through this winter

Whenever those old herdsmen talked about the fine skin and tender flesh of those Han women, and talked about the horror of those Han women in the Ming Dynasty when they were slashed, these young people were excited.

Of course, the situation has not been good in these years, and the Tumut Department has to fight with the remnants of the Yilibari Department and the Set Department on the grassland on the one side, and also guard against the annexation of Chahar and Horqin, and the soldiers and horses on the Ming side are not so easy to bully.

However, today, many herdsmen from the Tumut tribe have only appeared, and the panicked person who fled in panic turned out to be himself.

The scattered cavalry caused more damage than the cavalry that rushed straight into the tent of Tumut Khan, and these cavalrymen were either Chen Yongfu's direct subordinates or Yang Chengzu's own soldiers, all armed with torches, first setting fire to the tents and then slashing those who ran out.

Whether it is an officer or a thief, there are very few regular battles that are done well, but this kind of burning, killing, looting and destruction, then they are first-class heroes, to put it backwards, even if the officers and soldiers and the homeless army with good military discipline have never eaten pork, they have always seen pigs run.

They worked in teams of ten or five to set everything they saw on fire. Cut down all those who were running in front of the horse.

The Golden Tent of Tumut Khan is almost 10,000 people. There are thousands of tents large and small, and it looks like a small town, except for the tents of Tumut Khan and the nobles below are all cowhide tents, and the tents of the middle and lower classes and herdsmen and slaves are all felt, and the felt is very oily. After igniting, the fire was blazing, and at the turn of winter and spring, even though it was by the lake of Kai'er Sea, how could there be time to put out the fire in a hurry.

At first, it was necessary to ignite the soldiers and the exile army, and later to ignite each other, although there was a large enough gap between the tents and the tents. The lodging tent and the splashing sparks are still the source of fire in this hell.

Compared with ordinary small tribes, Tumut Khan's Golden Tent had more people who were not ordinary herdsmen, but in this haste, the cavalry of the brigade was transferred out of this side again, when Chen Yongfu led the brigade of men and horses to come. Many of Tumert's cavalry didn't even have time to mount.

How did the men with long knives and wooden spears go to fight the condescending cavalry, and after the scattered cavalry of the Datong border town rushed through the outermost tents, finally the warriors of the Tumut tribe came out with bows and arrows, although it was already dark at the moment. But the blazing fire reflected the ground like daylight.

But there's a problem. The warriors of Tumer met the fire. And the border town scatterer is carrying the fire. Eyes were flickering with firelight. That's really not accurate. But the cavalry and horses were dark. It's a big goal. Especially there to slash the upper body of the cavalry.

In the eyes of the shooter. Cavalry ground is the best. It is also the easiest target to be shot on. Whoosh. In the crackling of the flames. In the shouts of the cavalry in the border towns and the cries of the herdsmen. The archers are shooting arrows through the sky. However, the cavalry who came to the border town this time was not the kind of poor soldier who wore cloth and cotton robes in Daming.

At least. These cavalrymen were all wearing helmets. Wearing a cuirass. Bow and arrow shoot at it. It doesn't work at all. Only a few are lucky. before he shot at the front door.

Whoosh sound thought about it. There are also local voices. It was the sound of bows and arrows striking on the deck. Impenetrable at all. This is a tent area. The tents are staggered. There weren't even tents more than fifty paces apart. That is to say. There's not much space for archers to shoot here.

They all shoot arrows at fifty paces or closer. One shot missed. When you want to shoot the second arrow. The cavalry had already rushed to the front. In hand-to-hand combat. These archers were not even as good as ordinary herders.

The whole gold tent is located. It's already boiling. is rushing towards the cavalry brigade of the king's tent. It's almost a phalanx. The front row was all cavalry with spears at their heads. In the back row, long swords and axes are on the ground.

Even if so many cavalry were sent out, Tumut Khan would have to leave about 2,000 Golden Horde guards around him, and the rest of the nobles at all levels would also have to stay behind to guard. The khans and nobles on the steppe have a vendetta against each other, which is also a regular thing, and it is always necessary to reserve strength for defense.

Listening to the shouting and crying around them, whether it was Chen Yongfu's subordinate soldiers or the Shandong Iron Cavalry led by Zhang Kun, everyone felt the blood boiling, this voice was always imposed on the Han people by the barbarians, but today the Han people have returned it.

Looking at the Golden Horde guards that appeared on the other side of the road, the Datong cavalry on this side did not slow down at all, and still rushed forward.

The Golden Horde guards are the warriors who are skillful in archers and horses, brave and good at fighting in the grasslands controlled by the Tumut Ministry and even the Tumut Ministry, and Tumut Khan privately calls his Golden Horde guards as cowardly Xue Gang, which is the name of Genghis Khan's elite personal guard officers back then.

These Golden Horde guards reacted quickly, and when the cavalry of the border town rushed in, they completed the whole team and mobilization as quickly as possible, and poured out to resist.

The horses of the Golden Horde were not mentioned, and everyone was on their horses with bows and arrows ready to shoot, such a wide road, approaching must be fast, and in the blink of an eye they had already entered the range of bows and arrows.

There was no order, almost at the same time, hundreds of arrows flew out with a scream, falling like raindrops, and the opponent's dense formation did not need to aim, only need to raise the bow and arrow slightly, and hit it in the corner of the back.

If this first wave of shooting has an effect. At the very least, the hundreds of horsemen in front of these sneak attackers were in a mess. The people behind will also be hindered by the corpses of people and horses lodging in front of them.

But these cavalrymen were all wearing iron helmets, wearing plate armor, and the first few rows even wore face armor, and even the horses were wrapped in leather felt at the head and chest of the horse, which is why they took the risk of setting up a second relay point. The purpose is to allow horses and even cavalry to change armor and horse armor at the second relay point, so that they can save horsepower and have more power when impacting.

Hearing the swishing sound, the cavalrymen of the border towns who flattened their spears in the front row only lowered their heads, while the cavalry in the back raised their small round shields, which was enough.

Then it was as if there was a sudden hail in a small area. There was a clanging of bows and shields and armor, and that was all, except for one of the cavalry's mounts on the outskirts of the fourth row, who was unlucky enough to be shot in the eye by a cluster of falling arrows......

The archery had no effect, and some of the Golden Horde guards took out swords, axes and spears to drive forward, while others prepared to shoot the second arrow, which was too hasty. This simply does not organize the resistance it deserves.

The heavy cavalry with the spear on the ground has already begun to increase, and the weight of people, horses, and armor is superimposed, and gradually increases, and this degree and strength are accumulated on the spear. rushed to the Golden Horde guards in front.

The Golden Horde was the best equipped cavalry of the Tumut Division, and their equipment throughout the steppe could not be said to be inferior. But their armor is best only scale armor or cotton armor handed down from the Manchu Qing Dynasty. These armors are fine against slashing or shooting with bows and arrows.

For this spear stab, especially such a swift stab. Anyone who was stabbed by a spear was pierced with a sharp sword, because of the length of the spear, and even the second row of the Golden Horde guards, the cavalry and horses in front of the Tumut were killed and wounded in this instant.

The hastily piled up formation was quickly broken, and the cavalry behind was already swarming up, and the spear cavalry in front was like a peg and nailed into these Golden Horde guards, and when they pierced into the enemy's formation, the soldiers in the front row dropped their spears, took out swords or short axes from the side of the saddle, and began to chop.

The weapons of these Mongol cavalry could not do any damage to the cavalry led by Chen Yongfu and Zhang Kun at all, and the close attack of these scimitar spears could not cause damage to this iron can.

A hundred years ago or earlier, the cavalry of the Jurchens and Mengyuan of the Jin Kingdom were armed with iron bones and maces, that is, to deal with the heavy armored cavalry and destroy the heavy armor.

But now, whether it is on the grassland or the border pass of the Ming Dynasty, no matter the foot cavalry, there is not such a thick iron armor, swords and spears are enough to kill, and the heavy iron bones and maces have gradually been eliminated.

Today, in the face of the plate armor forged by the Jiaozhou Battalion Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, these brave soldiers on the grassland could not destroy the opponent's armor at all.

You can't destroy the opponent's armor, but the opponent's weapons can destroy your chain mail, scale armor or leather armor, the Golden Horde guards were hastily put together, there was no formation at all, in fact, the war on the grassland began to degenerate from the time when Meng Yuan fled to the grassland.

At that time, the Mengyuan iron cavalry that dominated the world had long ceased to exist, and the so-called Golden Horde iron cavalry was also swarmed up, in this era, when the Mongols' combat effectiveness was the strongest, that is, under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, under the constraints of the Jurchen Eight Banners, there was a formation and attack, and it could barely be called an army.

What's more, at this time, Chen Yongfu and Zhang Kun led the iron cavalry to come in formation, and faced the scattered rabble with a strict formation, of course, there was no suspense.

The Golden Horde guards are professional cavalrymen, the warriors of Tumut Khan who are willing to spend money and status, and the strength they rely on the most, these cavalry on the steppe are loyal to the Tumut tribe, and they are suddenly raided by inexplicable cavalry, and they find the Golden Horde so accurately.

Almost most of the people in the Tumut tribe here have a sense of the end coming, but these Golden Horde guards still come forward to fight hard, they want to buy time for the escape of this Tumut Khan.

As long as there is a Tumut Khan who can escape, with his noble blood and popularity, he can always gather people and horses to reunite this Tumut tribe and make a comeback.

But people's hearts are one thing, and whether they can be done is another. Faced with the formation of a metro riding phalanx, they could not do anything......

The Golden Horde guards before the Tent of Tumert did not block the Iron Horse's ability to charge the ground. There was no way to gather to block, and their resistance was the time to start these two rounds of bows and arrows, and when it came time for close combat, they could only be hopelessly slaughtered.

And at this time, the burning and killing scattered horses were already surrounded. The Iron Cavalry Phalanx is all the way forward, and the attacks on the side and the enemies outside the attack range of the Iron Cavalry Phalanx can be ignored, while the scattered cavalry that follows behind will not let go of any enemy who stands in front of them.

The Golden Horde may have been slightly stronger than the Skirmishers, but at this time they were already terrified, and the Skirmishers were able to kill. And there are many people, and the victory is huge. But the first to come up these scattered cavalry is Yang Chengzu and his direct cavalry, they are the elite of the Ming Dynasty, the elite of the battle, the strong soldiers trained in the battlefield, and the horse battle is not inferior to the pampered Golden Horde guards on these grasslands.

This time it was completely defeated, and there had been no land battles on the grassland for many years. More often than not, these Golden Horde guards existed as the Great Khan's bodyguards, and compared with the veterans of the perennial battle, some of them were not on the stage, and they were quickly dispersed. Flee in all directions.

The eastern part of the Golden Horde of the entire Tumut tribe was already in flames, and the stragglers had already followed to the west. I originally planned to do the hardest battle of the subway riding phalanx, but I didn't expect this battle to be so easy. Rushed to the side of the big tent so quickly.

The Tumut Khan Tent is naturally different from ordinary tents, and it is completely a large tent of cowhide. There are all kinds of decorations on it, and there are similar deconstructions of masonry buildings around, which looks like a small palace, and after Chen Yongfu and Zhang Kun rushed here, they dismounted directly.

The soldiers formed a little team, holding broadswords and spears, and it seemed that the guards and cavalry on this side should have just gone to the front to resist, and the maids and subordinates here were all kneeling on the ground tremblingly, or running away in a hurry.

The tent was indeed magnificent, but the officers and soldiers who rushed in did not bother to watch it at all, but only looked for the traces of Natumit Khan.

The resistance outside had succeeded in delaying time, and according to one of the maids in the tent, Tumut Khan had just run out of the golden tent with a group of nobles, and of course he had left on horseback.

The main purpose of this visit is to kill Tumut Khan, and if the ruler of this Tumut tribe is still there, many follow-up plans will not be able to be carried out.

Successfully entered the golden tent of the Tumut Ministry, looking at the fire and killing outside, victory could already be assured, but Chen Yongfu, who was suspicious before, was a little anxious, since Shandong did not let him come over to consume his strength, but a real task, if he couldn't complete it, this ability would be questioned.

Ability is doubted, what about the future glory and wealth, Zhang Kun's face on the side is not very good, and the soldiers under Fang Cai have already searched everywhere, but they have not been found.

"Set this place on fire, take off your armor, and chase it quickly!!"

Chen Yongfu gave the order loudly, if the current mount horsepower is to pursue in heavy armor, I am afraid that there will be no degree at all.

And the entire Golden Tent of the Tumut Ministry, there is still resistance, the nobles of the various ministries do not have the same reaction as their Great Khan, the family and relatives are around and have no time to run, and the guards under them also have to resist to the death, for killing these people, it is not the purpose of this time.

The burning of this big tent is a signal that the overall situation has been decided, so that all those who can resist know that it is impossible to turn the tables.

Chen Yongfu's order, including himself, everyone ran outside the golden tent, gave an order, and took off the armor, the connection of the armor is just a few buckles before and after, it is very convenient to untie, the armor is just thrown on the ground, Wei Li is to order his subordinates to know Mongolian to shout everywhere.

The king's tent of the cowhide was poured with oil, and it burned from the inside, and it was the hottest fire of the whole golden tent, and I saw that the king's tent in the middle was burned. All the Tumut tribes knew that the tide was turning, and at the same time, the Mongolian cavalry shouted loudly.

It is said that if you lay down your arms, put your hands on your head, and gather in the open space south of the Golden Horde, you can spare them and not kill, and those who have weapons in their hands and those who are on horses are all killed.

Mongolian herders live along the grasslands. There is no place to settle, and the so-called loyalty is much weaker than that of the Han people in the Guanxi mainland. Therefore, the Mongolian tribes, including East and West Mongolia, earlier said, there were Duoyan Sanwei who were dependent on the Ming Dynasty, and now there are most of Chahar and Horqin who are attached to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Now these terrible enemies have promised not to kill. The king's account had also been burned, and the resistance of most of the Tumut Mongol herdsmen had completely collapsed, and they had no intention of continuing to fight.

Those few who want to fight, in such a situation, are already alone and cannot play a role.

The Tumut Khan ran out with an escort of less than a hundred men. Sure enough, it was a pampered noble son, in such a situation, as the Great Khan of the tribe, not to mention standing up to organize resistance, but leading a few of his subordinates to escape first, which was also the completion of the previous plan.

The large-scale cavalry was transferred to the so-called "salt trade" to touch the iron plate. Raiding cavalry can drive straight into the field and kill the brain.

Leaving the guards behind, Chen Yongfu and Zhang Kun and other leaders took off their armor and prepared to chase after them. Before getting on the horse, Zhang Kun shouted on the horse:

"Yang Shen will be there. Ask him to take command of these captives......"

Over there, Chen Yongfu and Wei Li and the others had already taken off their iron armor and rushed out on horseback. When it was dark on the grassland, there were only a hundred men in pursuit. It's really like looking for a needle in a haystack, and there is hope that only when Natumat Khan doesn't run far can he catch up as soon as possible.

They all chased out, but Zhang Kun was still looking for Yang Chengzu, and at the moment where the golden tent was, in addition to the place where he was killed, there were also six or seven thousand Tumut Mongols who surrendered, such as leaving the officers in charge with cavalry to guard, otherwise there would be chaos, calculating this identity, that is, Yang Chengzu has such qualifications.

After shouting for a long time, there was no response, and finally a cavalryman came from the west, and his face was still splashed with this blood spot, obviously he was very excited to slash and kill.

Hearing Zhang Kun ask, he hurriedly bowed down and clasped his fists and said:

"If you go back to your lordship, my eldest brother will lead his brothers to chase this Great Khan of the Tartar Land

Didn't you let you kill people and set fire to this tent, how can you take care of yourself to chase this Tumut Khan, you will really pick up the cheap, Zhang Kun scolded secretly in his stomach, but he couldn't keep up with the pursuit, although this task of chasing Tumut Khan, everyone wants to go.

Zhang Kun could only arrange for the soldiers below to push down the burning tents to the east, and draw a blank strip between the area that was not on fire and the area where it was on fire, so that the fire would not spread.

All the herdsmen who walked out of the tent area with their heads in their hands and came to the empty area were driven by the soldiers to pile up the unburned grass and tent fragments around this area and set them on fire.

The soldiers who followed Chen Yongfu and Wei Li to pursue them were only about 400 people, and the rest of the cavalry dismounted under Zhang Kun's order, put on the iron armor again, with the iron armor soldiers as the lead, and the rest of the soldiers cooperated with torches to search the tents that were not burning one by one.

There will definitely be rats who think they are hiding in tents and taking advantage of the cavalry in the border towns, or they are running away, or they are trying to do something else.

The squad formed by the dismounted cavalry is to catch these rats and get them to the open space to avoid any unnecessary accidents.

The area where the Golden Horde is located is not small, although most of the tents have been burned, but it still takes a lot of time to search the tents one by one, but the war is such a troublesome thing that it has to be done.

After these searches were completed, there were many frustrated Tumut Mongol tribesmen who were driven here, at this time, Chen Yongfu and Wei Li, the general soldiers of Datong, led the team back, they were also depressed, because they were empty-handed, the sky was really dark, although there was also moonlight, the grassland was in all directions that could flee, maybe the pursuit, not the place where Tumut Khan fled.

Everyone was uncomfortable, and the success fell short, Zhang Kun was also quite speechless about this result, he could only cheer up and arrange the defense of the night, maybe those defeated cavalry would come back tonight, after all, the pursuit and interception of the cart could not last too long, Tumut Khan did not die, and things might become very troublesome.

Before dawn arrived the next day, Yang Chengzu, the general who went to pursue Datong Town, and his men returned to the camp here, and on the side of Yang Chengzu's saddle, the head of Tumut Khan hung on it... There are more chapters, support the author, and support genuine reading