Chapter 166: Asking for His Life
Yuan Chonghuan hid behind the broken tent and looked coldly at the bloodthirsty battlefield.
"Junza, Jiannu's losses have already passed half, do you want to let the Fourth Division rush forward?"
Yuan Chonghuan shook his head slowly: "Don't worry, Yue Tuo is not dead yet, let them rush again, although the power of the artillery is amazing, the real weapon to kill and injure Jiannu is still to rely on the flintlock gun, now is the critical moment to eliminate Jiannu, kill one now, Jiannu will have one less." ”
Yue Tuo also felt that something was wrong, the moment Wu Dabu fell off the horse, his heart thought that he had fallen into an ice cave, and he was so cold that he could make ice cream in an instant.
The Ming army has not suffered casualties so far, he has not seen his warriors release arrows, and his soldiers have lost more than half, even Zuomel Ezhen Udabu is dead.
How can this Ming army get stronger and stronger? Is it going to be defeated by Yuan Chonghuan again?
If I lose again, I'm afraid I won't even have the capital for revenge.
Yue Tuo hesitated.
The soldiers of Jiannu were still rushing, and the flintlock muskets were still firing non-stop.
Seeing their cavalry, which turned out to be two long columns, and now there were only two small clusters left, the soldiers finally couldn't help it: "Lord Belle, our warriors are almost finished, but they still can't get into the range of bows and arrows. ”
"Running out?" Yue Tuo's eyes widened, his soldiers were only two small black dots, and he waved his arms, "Quick, blow the trumpet, withdraw the troops." ”
"Uh......h ...... throat" The low and somewhat poignant voice of the bullhorn finally sounded the horn for the end of the battle.
Jiannu's cavalry stopped the attack and withdrew from the range of the flintlock pistols.
"It's not good, Jiannu wants to run away."
"Signal." Yuan Chonghuan looked coldly at the dejected Jiannu cavalry.
Du Wenhuan couldn't bear it anymore, and from the very beginning of the battle, his soldiers were all on horseback, ready to attack at any time, and now they finally waited for the signal.
"Da-da-da-da."
With the sound of horses' hooves and the momentum of the wind and clouds, more than 10,000 soldiers of the Fourth Division slaughtered from the northeast corner and pounced on the remnants of Jiannu's cavalry without hesitation.
Jiannu's cavalry increased their speed and desperately moved closer to Yuetuo, as if there was a safe place to go.
Although the speed of Jiannu's cavalry was fast, it was still a step slower, Du Wenhuan's cavalry pounced from the side, and suddenly divided Jiannu's soldiers into two sections, most of Jiannu's cavalry escaped from Du Wenhuan's pursuit, and only the tail of more than 100 Jiannu cavalry at the back was cut off by the fourth division.
"Don't worry about the back, chase the Jiannu in front first." Du Wenhuan took the lead, and the soldiers of the Fourth Division pursued all the troops to the north.
Ning Xianlong hurriedly dispatched the cavalry on both wings to outflank the more than 100 Jiannu.
More than 100 Jiannu cavalry were surrounded in the core, and outside were thousands of cavalry of the Ming army.
None of the Jurchen soldiers surrendered, and in front of the Ming cavalry with iron walls, they were relieved, and one by one they drew their scimitars and prepared to fight the Ming army hand-to-hand.
"Throw a grenade." Ning Xianlong shouted, he knew that the hand-to-hand combat of the Ming army was far from being the opponent of Jiannu, and he had to use grenades to solve some Jiannu first.
The cavalry of the Ming army in the inner layer each threw a grenade to Jiannu, because the distance was too close, the Ming army aimed at Jiannu's body and threw it, and most of the grenades fell on Jiannu's horseback, and even Jiannu's arms.
"Bang, bang, bang."
Flesh and blood fly, soldiers fall to the ground, and horses scream.
Of the more than 100 Jiannu, less than 20 were still sitting on their horses, watching their comrades-in-arms fall off their horses one by one, they were used to falling from their horses.
Jiannu no longer has fear, their eyes are sad, desperate, and open-minded after despair.
"Kill, kill them all, and avenge the Ming army and the Han people in Liaodong." Ning Xianlong gave the final order.
Like a whirlpool in Bermuda, the Ming army swirled and swarmed towards Jiannu, and the encirclement in the middle became smaller and smaller.
The combat effectiveness of the Jiannu cavalry all broke out at this moment, and after fighting with the Ming army for a long time, they finally ushered in the opportunity to make a move, and it was also the hand-to-hand combat they were best at.
A Jiannu with a beard on his face cut down several Ming soldiers one after another, his face, leather hat, leather armor, and even his back were covered with blood, I don't know if it was the Ming army's or his own.
Due to the continuous forward conflict, he had fallen into the encirclement of the Ming cavalry alone, but he was not afraid, the scimitar in his hand pulled out countless white and red lights on all sides of his body, and the Ming soldiers who approached kept screaming.
A man who looked like an officer flashed out of the crowd of the Ming army, he took out a grenade from his waist, pulled out the lead, the grenade made a "snort" sound, and after two seconds, he threw the grenade at Hu Jiannu.
"Bang."
The grenade was thrown into the arms of the bearded Jiannu, and there was an explosion in his lower abdomen, the fragments of the grenade blew his leather armor to pieces, and a large stream of red blood rushed out of his lower abdomen, pouring it on the saddle and the horse's back, and the huge shock wave pushed him backwards from the horse's buttocks.
When the war horse encountered such a close explosion, it was so startled that a pair of hind hooves jumped up and smashed down again, just stepping on the lower abdomen of Hu Jiannu, whose lower abdomen had already pierced.
He opened his mouth to shout, but he couldn't.
The Ming army was excited, and several soldiers drove forward and trampled on the body of Hu Jiannu, until his body was trampled into flesh.
The battle gradually subsided, relying entirely on the hand-to-hand combat of the Jiannu cavalry, in the face of the huge numerical superiority of the Ming army, it was also powerless to return to the sky, when the last Jiannu slowly fell from the horse, the Ming cavalry all put down the swords in their hands.
"Rescue the wounded soldiers and harvest the heads of the Jiannu." I don't know when, Yuan Chonghuan also came, and he directly gave an order to the gunners, he wanted to know the casualties of Jiannu as much as possible, so as to judge how strong Yue Tuo still was.
Seeing the more than 10,000 cavalry of the Ming army coming from the northeast corner, Yue Tuo understood that Yuan Chonghuan was not trying to defeat him, not to defeat him, Yuan Chonghuan was to kill him, and to destroy the entire red flag.
Yue Tuo didn't have time to wait for the retreating cavalry, he retracted the reins with his left hand, turned the horse's head, tightened his legs on the horse's belly, and shouted to his own soldiers: "Hurry up and retreat to Quang Ninh." ”
On the entire official road, there were three groups of cavalry, Yue Tuo ran in front with dozens of personal soldiers, and behind him, about a thousand paces, were hundreds of Jiannu cavalry who were running wildly, and behind these Jiannu cavalry, there were more than 10,000 cavalry of the Fourth Division in close pursuit.
Hundreds of Jiannu cavalry gradually caught up with Yue Tuo and his own soldiers, and the distance between the Fourth Division and them gradually narrowed.
The horses of Jiannu basically came from the Horqin tribe of Mongolia, and they were all excellent war horses. The war horses of the Ming Dynasty mainly came from Mongolia, and they were exchanged for tea, grain, cloth and Mongolian tribes, but the Mongolians are a people on horseback and know the importance of good war horses, and they will not exchange the best war horses.
Moreover, although the soldiers of the 4th Division had war horses, they were not real cavalrymen, they were only infantry on horseback, and war horses were only their means of transportation, not tools of battle.
Seeing that the distance between himself and Jiannu was gradually widening, Du Wenhuan was anxious, Yue Tuo was in front, and it was much more cost-effective to grab Yue Tuo than to kill a few Niu Lu Ezhen, Jia Lae Zhen, and Meler Ezhen, "Yue Tuo is in front, grab Yue Tuo, and reward a thousand taels of silver." ”
Part of the 4th Division was real cavalry, and they stood out from the ranks and gradually rushed to the front of the ranks.
Du Wenhuan followed the cavalry and chased at the front of the team, and Shen Shiqiang, the commander of the Fourth Division, followed Du Wenhuan closely.
"Shiqiang, I will pursue with the cavalry, you go to the rear to pack up the army, pay attention, as long as the main force is still there, leave the small number of soldiers who fall behind for the time being, let them catch up by themselves."
"Throne, I'll rush ahead! The military seat commands the main force in the back. Shen Shiqiang said, but the pace did not slow down.
"No, Shiqiang, Yue Tuo is likely to be in front, he is the flag master with a red flag, and it is not easy to deal with. There is no need to fight, let the soldiers behind catch up as much as possible, our cavalry may not be the opponent of Jiannu. ”
"Yes, Throne." Shen Shiqiang slowed down his horses and withdrew from the cavalry camp.
I don't know when, Du Wenhuan found that the distance between him and Yue Tuo had narrowed, it had originally increased to about 3,000 steps, and now it should be less than 2,000 steps.
"Quick, Jiannu is in front, Yue Tuo is in front, their horses can't run." Du Wenhuan urged.
Seeing that the distance with Jiannu was reduced, the morale of the Ming soldiers was still high, and the legendary invincible Jiannu cavalry was now chased by the Ming army and fled like a dog.
The distance continued to shrink, Du Wenhuan was more and more looking forward to the duel with Yue Tuo's remnants, he looked behind him, Shen Shiqiang's main force was not far behind, if he caught up with Yue Tuo, as long as his soldiers could support it for a moment, the main force would catch up.
"Junzao, look, what is Jiannu doing?"
Du Wenhuan looked forward in the direction of his soldiers' fingers, and a small group of Jiannu soldiers stopped running and stopped in the middle of the road.
"What is Jiannu going to do? Do you want to fight us? Du Wenhuan shook his head, not like, if Jiannu Jiannu wants to fight a decisive battle, he will not send such a few soldiers, the cavalry of the fourth division has more than 2,000 soldiers, and the Jiannu soldiers in the middle of the road are only 100 people, no matter how strong Jiannu's combat effectiveness is, it can't be one enemy and twenty, right?
These hundred Jiannu kept staring at the cavalry of the Ming army, while the other Jiannu did not stop for a moment, Du Wenhuan understood, "Jiannu is trying to stop us, they may want to release arrows, and everyone disperses." ”
The cavalry of the Ming army quickly dispersed to both sides, and now they were on the plains, and everywhere they could run horses.
When the Ming army was about to catch up with Jiannu's cavalry, Jiannu began to flee forward.
"Huh? What are they doing here? ”
As soon as Du Wenhuan's words fell, he heard Youming Jun screaming, and then fell off his horse.
"Jiannu has released the arrow, everyone be careful."
In fact, Du Wenhuan's words are equivalent to nothing, the Ming army now has no protective measures, no armor, no shield, Ji Si is careful, and the reaction speed of people is far less than that of bows and arrows.
Fortunately, there were many Ming soldiers, and it didn't matter if there were some dead and wounded.
The Ming soldiers kept using their sabers to pick off the arrows that were fired at them, but the soldiers of Jiannu were strong and accustomed to shooting arrows on their horses, and there were constantly Ming soldiers who fell off their horses and left the pursuing team.
Du Wenhuan was very anxious, the flintlock pistol could no longer be aimed immediately, and the current Ming army could only be beaten passively, unless it caught up and fought hand-to-hand with Jiannu. "Hurry up, everyone, lean towards Jiannu."
Although Jiannu's cavalry is good at firing arrows right away, they are now releasing arrows backwards, their bodies are awkward, and their accuracy is naturally poor, and when they release arrows, the speed of the horses will slow down slightly.
The Ming army finally relied on this Jiannu cavalry, and the two sides started hand-to-hand combat, although the hand-to-hand combat of the Ming army was far inferior to that of Jiannu, but was shot by Jiannu's bow and arrows without the power to fight back, even the Bodhisattva would be angry, and the Ming army surrounded Jiannu and slashed from all sides.
Suddenly, one of Jiannu's war horses fell for no reason, foaming at the mouth, and threw the unsuspecting Jiannu far to the ground.
Du Wenhuan suddenly realized: Jiannu and Yuan Chonghuan's second division fought fiercely for most of the morning, the horses were overwhelmed, and the fourth division was waiting for work, no wonder the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, "The front team stays, kill Jiannu, and the rear team don't stay, continue to pursue."