Mang Gurtai led 3,000 cavalry, and in less than two hours, bypassed Sarhu from the east and rushed to the north bank. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The rapid march caused some of the horses to foam at the mouth and lose a lot of strength, and Manggultai decided to slow down and regain his horsepower. Walking to several sentry posts on the north bank, there are traces of fire engulfing everywhere, ruins and broken walls, and a scorching smell can be smelled from afar. Mang Gurtai frowned, looked up into the distance, and his heart burned like fire. There were no survivors, much to the dismay of the Eight Banners.

Burying the body is something that must be done, in this stormy moment, the hearts of the Eight Banners are fluctuating, and Mang Gurtai is quite helpless. Spies were scattered, improvised graveyards were dug up, and the Houjin soldiers began to bury their dead companions. Because of the burning fire, many of the corpses were already clinging together, and in desperation, the soldiers had to push the corpses into the pit and bury them on the spot. The scene was depressing and sad, the pleasure of looting and slaughtering in the past had long since passed, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners began to worry more about their own safety.

After the Battle of Salhu, the Ming court was bound to lose every battle, which made the soldiers of the Eight Banners full of hope for the future, but since a defeat at the beginning of the year, the situation in Houjin began to become strange. The weak Ming army actually knew how to take the initiative to attack and harass everywhere, which was in strong contrast with the Ming army's previous combat style of sticking to the fortress and not being able to fight. The Ming army was changing, and the Eight Banners Army had not yet had time to adapt to this change. For several months in a row, the North Shore was constantly poisoned, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners deeply felt the rigidity and weakness of the command system.

"Three Baylors, the body has been buried on the spot, and we move on?"

Mang Gurtai was pondering, judging from the scene of the destruction, the Ming army's methods were vicious, like the style of the Eight Banners Army. Killing people means that the other party does not have many troops and does not want to expose their whereabouts. But if there are not many troops, how can they quickly uproot these posts in just a few hours? Mang Gurtai took a deep breath, looked up and looked around, and said lightly: "Rest for half a pillar of incense, let's continue to hurry." ”

Mang Gurtai was an experienced battle leader after all, and from the range and timing of the Ming army's attack, he quickly sensed that something was wrong. But Mang Gurtai could not say why, he sent a Niu Lu as a vanguard to spread far away, while he himself led the army to follow in case of contingency. Stop-and-go, the work of collecting the remains slowed down the speed of the entire force, and Mang Gurtai was a little annoyed. Although he understood that it was not appropriate to divide his troops at this time, in order to catch up with the attacking enemy as soon as possible, Mang Gurtai still ordered a team of 100 to be responsible for collecting the corpses, while the others continued on their way.

Mang Gurtai's caution made Li Fulai and Zhao Changshun, who were waiting in front, suddenly difficult. Under this circumstance, there are a large number of Houjin, and they are cautious, so it is not cost-effective to lose their wife and soldiers today. Li Fulai and Zhao Changshun discussed for a long time and planned to readjust the plan.

After traveling more than ten miles, it was already noon, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners were already hungry. Mang Gurtai chose an open area with good terrain and backed by woods, and concentrated his team to camp and prepare to bury the pot and make rice. Out of an abundance of caution, Mang Gurtai recalled the strikers and joined forces with the army. The men fetched water and chopped wood, the soldiers fed the horses and put up sentry, and after a while, the camp was full of smoke and busy. Mang Gurtai patrolled around to make sure that there were sentry posts all around, and then he returned to the camp with peace of mind and prepared for dinner.

The summer weather is extremely hot, even outside the pass, marching under the scorching sun is a great blow to morale, and Mang Gurtai knows how to fold a little. After lunch, he ordered everyone to rest for an hour, so that they could avoid the midday sun and save their strength. The war horses were grazing, the Houjin soldiers were sleeping, and the soldiers in charge of the guard were also sleepy. More than a dozen Ming cavalry came out in the distance, and they rode their horses and stood in the distance, staring at the soldiers of the Eight Banners. The Eight Banners sentry spotted the Ming army at the first time, and they tried to get closer on horseback. However, the Ming army was extremely vigilant and found that the situation was not good, and immediately retreated. Houjin Sentinel was afraid of the scheme, and after chasing out a hundred meters, he withdrew back one after another.

This kind of small matter has his own generals to deal with, Mang Gurtai naturally will not be bothered by this, he found a shady place by the edge of the woods, untied his clothes, closed his eyes to recuperate, and felt the cool breeze. After the soldiers of the Eight Banners who were in charge of guarding the periphery returned, the Ming army quietly rode their horses to the front, and the Houjin soldiers got on their horses, and the Ming army fled far away. Repeated many times, the Eight Banners soldiers in charge of guarding were furious, but there was nothing they could do.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners lost patience, and they organized a hundred light cavalry to chase them out a mile away in one go, but there was no trace of the Ming soldiers. The frustrated pursuers returned to the team, and were scolded by the general Niu Lu, who thought that they had not found even a single hair. The hateful dogs were like disgusting flies, buzzing around their ears in such a way that they were so annoying that they were finally driven away. The Eight Banners were about to rest in peace, but they soon discovered that those hateful Ming dogs were coming again, and their laughter could be heard from afar in the wind.

General Niu Lu rolled his eyes, and he decided to lure the enemy deep and give this group of Ming dogs who don't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth a lesson that will never be forgotten. The Niu Lu generals secretly mobilized archers and mixed around the periphery of the team. General Niu Lu began to wait, he felt that the Ming army would definitely make a move, could it be that they were just here to watch? The conjecture of the Niu Lu general was quickly confirmed, and more than a dozen Ming soldiers suddenly rode their horses and charged, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves woke up the soldiers of the Eight Banners, who opened their eyes and raised their weapons one after another, preparing for battle.

The charging Ming army took their audacity to the extreme, and when they charged at high speed to close the range of their bows and arrows, they suddenly turned their horses' heads and ran away to the side. Seeing that the Ming army saw through it, the general Niu Lu couldn't bear it, and he ordered the cavalry in the formation to charge, striving to intercept the Ming army. Because the charge was too close, more than a dozen Ming troops were bitten in the back by the chasing Houjin cavalry. The Ming army did not panic, and still rode their horses and galloped. After running to a hundred meters, the Ming army quietly slipped four open grenades into the ground. The chase was extremely chaotic, and the Houjin cavalry stared closely at the back of the Ming army, and no one noticed this detail. A few seconds later, the Houjin cavalry followed, and suddenly several successive explosions occurred, blowing the pursuing cavalry team to pieces. The horses fell to the ground and died or rose high, and many cavalry suddenly fell from their horses, and were trampled by the torrent of cavalry galloping by.

The sound of the explosion woke up Mang Gurtai, he got up and came to a high ground, and when he looked up at the pergola, he found that his warriors had fallen from their horses, and he was so angry that he scolded: "Tobo Hui, send someone up again, and replace the fools for me." ”

The inexplicable explosion slowed down the Houjin cavalry, and they had to keep an eye on the movements of the Ming army while pursuing. The consequence of this was that the Ming army once again slipped out from under their noses, and the Eight Banners lost a dozen warriors. The general of Niu Lu who returned to the formation was whipped a few times by Mang Gurtai, and the general of Niu Lu lowered his head and did not dare to confront Mang Gurtai. The general Niulu who lost the battle has no good treatment, and he can leave a life, which is already a rare mercy of Mang Gurtai. If it had been placed in the past, when Mang Gurtai was in high spirits, his head would have been chopped off and fed to the dogs.

After that, the process was the same as before, and the Ming army came to harass again. The Houjin generals are not chasing, nor are they not chasing. Mang Gurtai was extremely unsuitable for the Ming army's almost shameless, dogskin-like style of play. After one or two successes, Mang Gurtai finally couldn't bear it anymore, and he ordered the whole army to assemble and continue to advance steadily.

In the face of absolute strength, relying on only a few explosives, Mang Gurtai believes that this will not have any impact on the overall situation. It is still the people, not just a few weapons, that decide the victory. Mang Gurtai decided to use a grandiose style of play to force the Ming army to either retreat or fight with his own real guns. Of course, dealing with the dozen or so people of the Ming army is really a bit of a fuss. However, Mang Gurtai felt from many clues of the battle situation that the reason why the Ming army had no fear must have relied on it, otherwise with only these dozen people, no matter how brave they were, they would not dare to play a big sword in front of the army.

Mang Gurtai's strategy soon paid off, and a dozen or so Ming troops could no longer find an opportunity to attack. They could only hide in the distance and find a few Houjin's sentinels to practice. It's just that Houjin's sentinels are not vegetarians, they are all warriors who are one in a hundred, with keen vision, better than ordinary soldiers, and after several times in a row, the Ming army has nothing to gain except for wasting a few grenades.

At this time, it was Shen Shi (after three o'clock in the afternoon), and Mang Gurtai marched steadily for five miles, except for a few small thieves, and did not encounter any resistance. The Houjin soldiers ridiculed Ming Gou for being the end of the world, and they could only use this kind of indiscriminate means to deal with the Eight Banners Army. The dozen or so Ming soldiers they had encountered before had already fled far away, and they had exhausted their explosives, like lost dogs, panicking. Mang Gurtai was satisfied with his decision, and he decided to continue his pursuit until he expelled the young people from the Jurchen realm.

Further afield is a ravine, flanked by low hills, thickly shaded by shrubs. Mang Gurtai was quite alert to this, and he sent three hundred forwards to pass through the valley first, and after confirming safety, Mang Gurtai led the army to the valley. Two years ago, the old Khan of the Jurchens, led the Eight Banners Army, relying on flexible and fast tactics and the advantage of being familiar with the surrounding terrain, successfully ambushed the Ming army in the Battle of Salhu, and achieved a great victory. As a participant in the battle, how could he not know something about the terrain ambush.

"Tuo Bohui, if I were a general of the Ming army, I would definitely set up an ambush circle here, and our army would enter the valley, as long as it could not take care of each other, and take advantage of the terrain to launch an attack, my life would be suspended!" Mang Gurtai learned the tone of Cao Cao in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and said it vividly, and Tuo Bohui hurriedly nodded yes.

"Lord Belle, Minggou is no one, so this is a waste of opportunity, God is helping my Jurchen, haha, today we are going to destroy all Minggou."

The Houjin army slowly walked out of the valley and continued to move forward. The morale of the whole team was high, and when they walked out of a mile away, they encountered a valley again, and Mang Gurtai was still painting a tiger according to the cat, but this time the blind cat met the dead mouse, and there was really an ambush by the Ming army.

"Lord Belle, this time I really ran into Minggou, there were about two hundred people on the other side, and when we arrived at the valley mouth, we had just entered dozens of people, and the other party suddenly threw a few explosives, injuring more than a dozen brothers. I gave the order to attack, and the Ming Dog soon couldn't stand it, and they got on their horses and fled, and the minions wanted to chase them, but the Ming Dog was sharp with firearms, and the minions were difficult to approach, and they soon fled. ”

"Did you catch a live mouth?"

"Back to Lord Belle's words, the dog slipped very fast, timid and afraid of death, we all gave up our horses to climb up and fight, the terrain was not good for us, and we didn't catch the mouth." Seeing that Mang Gurtai's face was a little gloomy, the general Niu Lu was uneasy, for fear of angering him.

"Very good, you did a good job, go to the rest meeting first!"

Watching Kala Ezhen leave, Mang Gurtai laughed. Gushan Ezhen Tuo Bohui on the side was a little puzzled, and hurriedly asked, "Lord Belle, what are you happy about?" ”

"Fart, give me an order, let go of your hands and feet and chase quickly, there are only two hundred Ming dogs, last time Da Baylor crossed the Salhu to block the enemy, and the enemy encountered was roughly this number, tell the brothers, work hard, we will take these Ming Dog sacrifice flags tonight."

"Alright, Lord Belle, the minions have been waiting impatiently for a long time."

With the issuance of the Mang Gurtai military order, the Eight Banners Army regrouped and accelerated its speed to pursue rapidly to the west.