349, half a roll of red flags in the blood river (2)
Cui Bingde slashed the wall battlements with hatred with the back of his knife.
He hated, hated that there was no seed in the high, and he didn't dare to seize such a great opportunity; The second hated himself for being courageless, although he was full of ambition to serve the country, he was suppressed by a dead eunuch, and watched the group of brave Ming soldiers approached by the Jianyu cavalry!
And Yanguli, who was on the hill, had a slight smile on his face.
The previous casualties made him very dissatisfied, but the situation at this moment proved that Tan Tai's tactics were not too wrong. Although the tenacity of this Ming army was far greater than he imagined, he thought that after the cavalry broke through, the situation would be completely changed.
To recapture the artillery battalion, the next step is to clean up the Ming army here......
With such a thought, he turned to look at the fluttering banner on a hill not far from him.
It was a banner of the Ming army that he had never seen before, embroidered with tigers, teeth and claws, hunting in the wind, as if alive.
Then he saw the flag waving slightly, and then a group of Ming troops walked out of the mountain forest.
Instead of charging, they marched forward as if they were marching on flat ground, muskets in hand, and came out in a group, with a clear goal, to go to him!
"Did you realize that something was wrong over there, so you made a desperate bet?" Yanguli sneered: "Very good, now the offensive and defensive situation is easy, we can use the terrain ......"
But when he looked at Leng Kou again, his eyes almost popped out.
Those two hundred Eight Banner Iron Riders are not lying on the ground now, they are already turning around and running away!
"What's going on?" He couldn't figure out how this could happen!
Soon after his attention turned to Yu Guozhen's side, the two groups of cavalry rushed to the chariot formation. The iron wire was not thick, it looked like it was just a thin hemp rope, and the Jianyu did not pay attention to it at all, and it seemed to them that the momentum of the horse alone was enough to break this level of fine hemp rope.
But unfortunately, the toughness of the wires completely exceeds that of the fine hemp rope, and their lethality to the high-speed galloping war horse also completely exceeds the thin hemp rope. At the moment when they rushed to the wire array, at least dozens of horses' legs were directly cut off by the wire!
The fallen horses did not open a road for the latecomers, the three-story car formation, even if they hit the first floor, the Jianyu still had to face the second and third layers, if they had a thousand cavalry, they could fill it with human lives and horses, but they only had a hundred on the left and right.
And at this time, the Tiger Guard Teaching Regiment had already turned its guns and aimed at them!
The Jianyu cavalry, which lost its impact speed in front of the wire, was just a live target on a horse, and this target was bigger and closer, at this distance, the tiger guard did not dare to say that the gun hit, at least the hit rate increased to more than sixty percent!
There was a burst of random guns, there was no need to line up the guns, and when the two sides were added, only more than 20 horsemen fled back in embarrassment!
Tan Tai knew at this time that his attack would result in a fiasco!
But a fiasco was better than losing his life, and he turned around and began to flee back without hesitation.
This time, he was the fastest to escape, so he left half of his men behind. Then the foot soldiers who followed him also turned around and left, and those archers were still preparing to shoot arrows, when they were hit by the infantry armor that fled back in front of them, and they suddenly understood.
Who wants to be left behind when they run for their lives?
By this time they had advanced to less than thirty paces from the artillery array, turned their heads and fled, and when they reached forty paces, there was a sudden loud bang behind them.
The artillery roared again, and Tan Tai only felt that he was hit by something behind him, and then the whole person flew up, flying more than a foot before he fell to the ground. The wound in his ribs was so painful that he almost fainted, but when he realized that it was the body of a mutilated foot armor behind him that had hit him, and that he had become his shield, he endured the pain and got up and began to run again.
Zhang Zheng couldn't pay attention to him for a while, those Jianyu cavalry who tripped over the wire, not all died, many fell into the artillery array, and were struggling to get up, their number was also dozens, if they couldn't be disposed of, and really killed the artillery battalion soldiers, then the loss would be great.
"Damn it!" Yanguli roared like thunder on the mountain: "Tan Tai, Tan Tai! ”
If Tan Tai was in front of him at this time, he would have to eat a whip from him, and in a good battle, his local strength would be three times that of the other party, and he would not be able to win in this situation!
At this time, he suddenly understood why the Ming army on the opposite side was moving towards his side, the purpose was not to desperately prepare for a decisive battle, but to put pressure on himself to force himself not to send reinforcements in that direction!
He really couldn't send reinforcements to Tan Tai, Tan Tai didn't use three Niu Lu to shoot down the position of the artillery camp, under the restrictions of that kind of terrain, he just went to six Niu Lu, and there were only three or four that could be expanded, and the ending must be average!
This made Yanguli anxious.
He has been fighting with the Ming Dynasty for many years, and he is most familiar with the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, knowing what kind of moral surname they will be, this group of gutless rats, if they find the dilemma of the Eight Banners, then their courage will gradually rise, and then Gao Qiqian may not be able to suppress it, and even Gao Qiqian himself will rush out and take the initiative to invite the battle for the sake of merit!
At that time, he had to face more than just these Ming troops in front of him.
"In that case, then my only recourse is ......"
Yanguli's gaze stopped on the big red tiger flag again, and he gritted his teeth: "Send an order to Ahadan and let him assault the Ming army from front and rear...... Come on, follow me to fight the enemy! ”
The situation has been developing to the extremely unfavorable side of the Eight Banners Army, and the Eight Banners, which have less than 10,000 in Yanguli's hands, have now been killed and wounded by more than 2,000.
Yanguli knew that Azig was determined to return to Shengjing as soon as possible, and now the number of the Eight Banners army north of Lengkou Pass would not exceed 3,000, and even if this point of men and horses came back to meet him, it would be useless.
Therefore, he immediately took the opportunity to turn the enemy into a decisive battle to contain the enemy and turn it into a real decisive battle. In this regard, Yanguli is still confident, he still has seven cattle in his hands available, with 3,000 people to surprise the enemy general's own formation, even if he can't kill the general to capture the flag, as long as the enemy general is forced to retreat, with his understanding of the Ming army, then the entire Ming army will collapse.
Even if this Ming army is unexpectedly tenacious, it is enough to deter Gao Qiqian at the cold pass, so that he honestly counts the bribes given to him by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, instead of going out of the customs battle!
As soon as the banner moved here, Yu Guozhen could see it clearly in the telescope.
In fact, just as Yanguli can guess Gao's choice but cannot guess Yu's movements, Yu Guozhen can guess Yanguli's reaction but cannot know what Azig will do.
If he knew that Azig was anxious to return to Shengjing to show his merits, and therefore had already left Yanguli behind, then he would inevitably shrink his line of defense and wait for change. But now Yu Guozhen doesn't know this, he is still worried that Azig will kill him, so he must eat Yanguli before Azig responds!
Therefore, seeing that Yanguli made the choice of a decisive battle, Yu Guozhen was not surprised, nor did he flinch, on the contrary, he was faintly excited in his heart.
"Good, good, let's fight." He muttered, then looked around.
Tian Boguang and Sun Lin were beside him, and when they heard what he said, the two of them puffed up their chests together.
"Ke Xian, there is a very important matter to hand over to you, you lead the headquarters and support Zhang Zheng, his side is the key to victory or defeat today, it is very likely that Jianlu, who has arrived outside the pass, will return to the army, and he will suffer from the enemy on his back. Your journey is very difficult, you see, you have to pass through the panicked people, you have to defeat the interception in the road, and when you reach the pass, you may have to hold thousands or even tens of thousands of prisoners to counterattack, and besides, I can't give you all the people in your department, I can only take 2,000 with me...... If you find it a little difficult, how about changing Boguang? ”
Sun Lin suddenly rolled his eyes: "How can I, Sun Kexian, be a person who is afraid of difficulties and does not enter, Jimin, you should not underestimate people, I will only take a thousand people to do this!" ”
"One thousand is less, two thousand people, this is a military order." Yu Guozhen said.
Sun Lin didn't say anything more, he secretly said in his heart: "Jimin is very relieved of those housekeepers under him, but he is not at ease with me, can I not even say that those housekeepers are not as good!" It's really boring, in today's battle, if my Sun Kexian doesn't fight beautifully, it will be in vain for me to say that General Yifei is boasting of himself! ”
He led the troops away, looking at his back, Yu Guozhen smiled slightly.
In fact, what Sun Lin did was not the most difficult thing, the really difficult thing, how could Yu Guozhen give it to others!
"Boguang, you take 1,500 tiger guards, from this road, pass through the people and Jianyu to intercept, and attack the hill over there, which is where the Jianyu main formation is located. My request to you is to attack the Jianyu main formation as soon as possible and take off Yanguli's head, how about it? ”
"Official!" Tian Boguang's heart moved, he looked at the enemy's movements, and then said, "What about your side?" ”
Obviously, when the Jianyu army moved, it was coming towards Yu Guozhen's main formation, and wanted to fight a decisive battle with Yu Guozhen. Yu Guozhen sent 1,500 Tiger Guards, which can be said to be the vast majority of the troops in his hands, to attack Yanguli, so there were only 500 people left around him!
As for the 1,000 Denglai soldiers left by Sun Lin, they were ignored.
"With five hundred tiger guards, no one in the world can come near me." Yu Guozhen grinned, his teeth as white as jade: "As long as you rush to break through Yanguli's main formation before Jianyu, then why worry about my safety?" ”
Tian Boguang was stunned for a moment, he looked at the people around him: "That is the case, Huo Yan and Ji Yan are both staying with you!" ”
"Huo Yan stays, and Ji Yan goes with you." Yu Guozhen said.
Tian Boguang was about to shake his head, but saw Yu Guozhen's expression solemn: "This is a military order, Boguang, the sooner you attack Yanguli, the sooner my side will be safe!" ”
When Tian Boguang heard this, he shut up, suddenly gave Yu Guozhen a cross-handed salute, and then turned around.
"If Lao Niu was here, I wouldn't have any worries, but now ...... Then let Jianyu see my offensive! Tian Boguang thought to himself.
(To be continued)