Chapter 66: The Second Interception (2)
Zhang Mengjin held the regimental card in his left hand, and held a saber high in his right hand, and rushed directly to a group of nobles surrounded by Mongolian cavalry. The bows and arrows fired by the enemy cavalry kept grazing Zhang Mengjin's body and flew past, and two arrows were also inserted in his regimental card, but none of these could stop or even slow down Zhang Mengjin's advance.
At this time, Shen Yikui had already led the team to block the enemy's other side, and the surrounded Mongolian cavalry had nowhere to escape, so they could only raise their sabers and fight with the Ming cavalry.
It was only the cavalry of Duhe Fort that charged in this charge, completely using the fruits of their usual training. The entire cavalry team rushed into this group of Mongols in the most complete formation, and more than ten Mongolian cavalry were cut down in an instant, and the commander of the enemy army was even cut off half of his face by Zhang Mengjin.
The battered enemy army then collapsed, and everyone lost order and ran around in a panic. However, no matter how they escaped, they could not highlight the siege of the Ming army, and the disorderly movement made it even more convenient for the Ming cavalry to divide them.
The Mongol cavalry, who soon fell into the encirclement, found themselves caught in the shadow of the sword organized by the Ming army. Separated from them, there is always a situation where one person has to deal with several sabers.
After some almost futile resistance, the dozens of cavalry who were surrounded were all cut down to the ground by the Ming army, and Zhang Mengjin successfully washed away the shame of the last interception of himself with a single charge.
It's just unpleasant that some of Shen Yikui's subordinates actually jumped off their horses at this time and went around harvesting the heads left on the battlefield, regardless of the existence of other Mongolian cavalry on the battlefield around them.
Zhang Mengjin didn't dare to let his subordinates get off the horse at this time to compete with Shen Yikui's people, so he directly patted his horse and came to Shen Yikui's vicinity and shouted: "The one who is in charge of the plate, everyone will divide it equally after the head, and now it is important to continue to chase Dazi." ”
Shen Yikui also saw the embarrassed appearance of his subordinates, and he also knew that the battle was important now. Therefore, Shen Yikui immediately led several guards, shouting and waving whips, and drove up several subordinates who had dismounted and cut their ranks. The Ming officers and soldiers who had fallen into confusion finally began to pursue the fleeing enemy again, but by this time many enemies had already escaped from the battlefield.
Zhang Mengjin secretly scolded the fools, but he had no way to punish these people, so Zhang Mengjin had no choice but to lead his subordinates to continue to chase and kill the fleeing enemies scattered on the battlefield. The good news is that his second brother has already led the team to appear on the battlefield, Zhang Mengguang has intercepted the northwest direction of the Mongols, and the second brother is driving the fleeing enemy in front of them to rush over.
Ma Xiangzhong, another cavalry leader of Jinding Mountain, showed a very tacit understanding after seeing Zhang Mengguang appear, and he had already directly led the team to flank the attack. Zhang Mengjin, the big boss, thought that the opportunity could not be lost, and without reorganizing the formation of his subordinates, he directly chose to attack the fleeing enemy.
Zhang Mengguang, who rushed out from the northwest, rode a black war horse. Carrying a newly-made bird gun on his back, with an arrow bag tied around his waist, holding a rope in his left hand, holding a line gun under his armpit in his right hand, and sprinting at full speed with his legs clamped between the horse's belly. It's just that the red Ming Dynasty border army nails the blister armor, showing that he is indeed the identity of the Ming army.
Relying on the speed of the war horse's sprint, Zhang Mengguang easily pierced the iron armor of the enemy cavalry with the head of the spear. A flying feather arrow pierced Zhang Mengguang's body, but it did not cause him much damage, and Zhang Mengguang continued to charge and kill in the Mongol formation.
Zhang Mengguang's subordinates also relied on the swords and guns in their hands to continuously kill and wound the enemy at this time, and one after another the enemy screamed and fell off their horses. At this time, the situation on the battlefield has been decided, and the newly installed soldiers are definitely stronger in combat effectiveness than the Ming army, which could not even eat enough before, after some training.
The invading Mongols were attacked one after another, and by this time they had completely lost order. All of them lost the will to fight and fled east on their horses. The battle at Donkey Dung Slope had turned into a chase battle, and if the troops of the Jingbian battalion could have come from the east to block the enemy's retreat, the Ming army would have reaped a great victory.
It's just that the troops of the Jingbian battalion never appeared, Zhang Mengjin and Shen Yikui led their respective subordinates to chase and kill until near the border wall, and the enemy still escaped from the mouth of the Hongliu River. Zhang Mengjin and others had to regretfully return to the battlefield of Donkey Dung Slope with more than ten heads and the materials left by the enemy.
It was only at this time that the Jingbian Battalion's response troops arrived belatedly and had to accept the accountability of General Wu Hongqi.
At this time, Zhang Mengjin did not have time to complain about the slow action of the Jingbian camp, so he had to argue with the general Wu Hongqi, the garrison Shen Yikui and others. Heads and prisoners, horses and even weapons left behind by the enemy, these things must be clearly divided in the same way.
The officers and men of the Ninsai battalion thought that they should take the lion's share, but there was no doubt that the Duhe Fort troops were the final word. If the reinforcements from Duhe Fort had not arrived in time, most of the battles would have shrunk to the old situation of having several beheadings in the past, but they had suffered more than 100 casualties.
However, Zhang Mengjin, who is an ethic, is lower than Wu Hongqi and Shen Yikui in terms of position and strength, and Zhang Mengjin has not been able to gain much benefit from Duhebao.
Moreover, in addition to the heads cut in the subsequent pursuit battle, most of the heads that were originally left on the battlefield were obtained by Wu Hongqi's foot soldiers. Wu Hongqi insisted that most of the credit for this battle belonged to Ningsaibao, and Zhang Mengjin was resentful about it, but he was helpless when he was alone. can only bury the resentment deep in his heart, planning to find an opportunity to retaliate later.
In the interdiction operation that took place near the Ningsai camp in late June, the Ming army beheaded a total of 78 people and captured nine people. There are six out of one hundred and eighty dharmas, and more than 2,000 pieces of armor, bows and arrows. When reported to the trilateral governor Yang He, the victory was called the Great Victory of Donkey Dung Slope.
It's just that the border troops of the Ming army who participated in the battle also paid the price of forty-three killed and one hundred and thirty-one wounded. Among them, thirteen people were killed in Duhe Fort, and twenty-seven people were wounded, which made Zhang Mengjin feel distressed.
Although it was indeed a victory on the whole, it made everyone in Duhe Fort happy at the same time, but also worried. Combined with the losses from the interception battle a month ago, the total number of casualties in Duhe Fort was eighty-three at this time. And these battle losses are not easy to replenish, one is that the imperial court's replenishment of the border army is not in place. Second, these people were trained by the Zhang family of Jindingshan after many major battles. In the Ming army, it is definitely the level of elite soldiers, and it is absolutely impossible to meet the requirements by adding some people casually.
Therefore, the leaders of Jinding Mountain intuitively found that since accepting the imperial court's recruitment, their strength has been constantly weakening. Moreover, except for a few hereditary military attache positions, they did not receive any actual military merit rewards, and the Jindingshan Public Treasury paid out of their own pockets, which has made Zhang Mengjin and his gang dissatisfied.
After Zhang Mengjin argued with Wu Hongqi, a staff general of the Ningsai battalion, about the ownership of the head, he had to worry about how to replenish his combat strength. At the same time as sending an obituary to Jin Dingshan so that the families of the dead soldiers could know the news. Zhang Mengjin also issued an order to the other leaders of Jinding Mountain, asking them to find a way to supplement the combat strength of Duhe Fort.
And Zhang Mengcheng and the others of Jinding Mountain, after receiving the order sent to Duhebao, everyone frowned deeply. Because Jinding Mountain, which is in the rear, is also facing many problems that need to be solved.