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"Brigade rate, the left flank from the Huai'anwei station, found the traces of the Mongolian cavalry, the forward is only twenty miles, about 3,000 people, and there is no Ming army to follow." Due to the proximity to the front line, it was difficult to send a signal, and the scout team could only send a platoon of cavalry to return.

The main force of the cavalry brigade stationed in the southwest corner of Xuanhua Mansion was more than 4,000 people, and the whole army was already in place, Chen Mingquan personally commanded three battalions of cavalry to go east to Xuanhua, preparing to meet the Mongolian Tatar vanguard here, and according to reconnaissance, the progress of the Ming army's various armies was slow, and the distance between them and the Mongolian cavalry had been widened.

"Scouts, have you ever found out? The infantry of the Ming army accompanied the tiger squat cannon, even if it was to get reinforcements, it was a troublesome matter, so don't underestimate it. Fu Quanyou, the first battalion of the second brigade, bowed his head and frowned,

"And what do you mean?" Chen Mingquan commanded the battle, and he was still willing to discuss with the generals under his command, so he only asked this sentence, and then recruited Liu Chang, the commander of the second battalion and the original cavalry, to his side and asked,

"The cavalry under your command is gathered up, and it may be necessary to engage in battle."

"Just rest assured, the 1,400 sons under my command are all waiting, just call the Mongolian Tatar cavalry to come up, our battalion must be unambiguous, just call them if they come and go." In these years, if you want to be promoted, you have to kill the enemy, you have to make meritorious contributions, Liu Chang is not hypocritical at all for his subordinates to fight the Mongolian Tartars.

"Brigade rate, our cavalry brigade, most of them are newly recruited soldiers, although some have ridden horses and know some equestrian skills, but at best they are running on horseback, if you want to engage in battle, I'm afraid you can only make do with it, aren't we careful?" Fu Quanyou is still not very optimistic about this operation.

Who let his cavalry brigade have been completely defeated in the defense of Shanyin, that battle, the cavalry battalion of 1,500 people, except for a Mongolian cavalry, the rest of the main force, either killed or disabled, after the fact, there are barely more than 700 people,

His Royal Highness the King of Qin and Liang Sijiu, the governor of the Second Cavalry Army, not only supplemented the second cavalry brigade with war horses, but also transferred six teams of military horses from several other cavalry battalions as the basis for the formation of the second and third battalions, and the two battalions formed with this as the backbone were allocated to 3,400 recruits.

Among them, 300 Mongolian herdsmen were born, and this was reluctantly obtained by Chen Mingquan begging Liang Sijiu for two days in Taiyuan.

That is, relying on the remnants of the original 1,000 troops and the 900 elites allocated, the Second Cavalry Brigade was formed together, with a total of 5,000 horses, but only 4,000 war horses, and the rest of the horses, armor and armor are even less than one-third.

"But this battle, and we have to fight, our reinforcements in the rear, have not caught up, if we don't take the opportunity to fight a battle or two in the north, the Mongolian Tartars still think we are still bullying," in a place like Xuanhua Town, where the Ming army is everywhere, it is impossible to sneak attack, Chen Mingquan did not plan to do this, simply just wanted to hit the Mongolian army, to dispel their arrogance, it is best to make its forward stop, so as to delay time, and wait for the follow-up reinforcements to come up.

"The Mongolian Tartars are good at riding and shooting, often we only have a chance to shoot, if we don't lure them into the trap and surround them, we have to endure huge casualties, so this time, is it worth it?" Liu Chang also hesitated a little, everyone naturally wants to fight, but with the hard-hitting style of fighting, is his second battalion worth it?

"Then it depends on who can stand it first, you say, if the Mongol Tartars see us lined up, will they directly retreat in fright?" Chen Mingquan only knew that the Mongolian Tatars who came had just returned from the Chahar campaign, and they did not encounter the main force of the Houjin, so they were invincible all the way, and all the Mongolian tribes entrenched in the Chahar region were defeated, and they had never fought with the Qin army, but I don't know if they had the courage to come up and touch it.

"Maybe, let's besiege and kill the combat effectiveness of two thousand true Tartars, this group of Mongolian Tartars knows, when I participated in the literacy class in Taiyuan before, I also heard the officials of the Senate Department who taught mention, that is, we were joining forces with the Mongolian Tartars at that time, so some news was not hidden from them, not to mention that these Mongols, just heard that the Jurchen Tartars were defeated, they dared to cross the Yellow River from the west to attack Chahar, if they met our cavalry, would they stop directly and wait for the follow-up large army?" Fu Quanyou summed it up a little, and felt that it was still unreliable, unless he sent a small force to engage in the battle.

Otherwise, when the Mongolian Tatars saw that the Qin army had more than 4,000 people, they would definitely not dare to come up and fight!

"You mean, just set up a posture to defend the main road, and then wait for the Mongol Tartar army to attack?" Chen Mingquan was silent for a moment, and was stunned for a moment, isn't this a copy of the Battle of Shanyin?

"That's what the last general means, since the Mongolian Tartars know our details, and at a glance, we still have more than 4,000 horsemen and more than 1,000 foot soldiers, such a force, placed outside, once the Mongolian cavalry is few, we will catch up and fight, if they come too much, we will flee directly into the surrounding cities, since the Jurchens can't beat us in the siege, then what are we afraid of the Mongols?" Liu Chang also took the opportunity to say, after all, this temporary turtle shrinkage play is the most suitable for the second brigade.

"Don't forget, although the Mongols didn't carry artillery, they couldn't hold the main force of the Ming army behind." Chen Mingquan shook his head and said with a blank expression.

"Brigade rate, Ming Court borrowed troops, although it is a good plan, but it can't stand the gap back then, Lin Dan Khan is a person who broke Datong Town, how can Ming Court really believe him, not to mention that this person has always been short-sighted, for the temptation of Ming Court's hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, he turned his face directly with us, isn't this short-sighted? Although he claims to have 50,000 iron horsemen entering the pass, his lair still has to be garrisoned, and there are still people and horses on the west side of the Yellow River, so that there can be 20,000 or 30,000 horses to reach the sky. ”

Jia Yi, the supervisor of the Second Cavalry Brigade, also came up at the right time, worthy of having read a book, this brain is to turn faster, seeing that several people turned their heads to look, he continued,

"Although this part of the Mongolian army has 20,000 or 30,000 horses, plus the Ming army, it is known as a 100,000 army, but the more so, the deeper the estrangement between the two sides, you think about it, the Ming army and the Mongolian Tatars are enemies of each other, even if they temporarily join forces because of the threat of our Qin army, but can they twist into a rope?"

"Of course it can't be, the Ming army has always been very well guarded by the Tartars in the north, if it weren't for the lack of strength at hand this time, I'm afraid they wouldn't need to borrow troops, but what you mean, I understand it, that is, only one part of it, it is best to fight the Mongols, as long as they are defeated, the Ming army will not dare to keep up." Chen Mingquan pondered secretly for a while, and after staring at the north for a long time, he came back to his senses and said.

"That's right, the Ming army and the Mongolian iron cavalry have a dirty relationship with each other, this is the point that we can make a big fuss, now the scouts report, within thirty miles, only found such a Mongolian cavalry, if we retreat to the mountain city first, only send a small group of soldiers and horses to attack, we have armor to protect themselves, the bows and arrows of the Mongolian Tartars may not be able to shoot through, this is the opportunity, although there are many new soldiers in each department, but together together there are five or six hundred elites, it is not a problem!" Jia Yi saw that his suggestion was adopted, so he smiled and nodded.

"Let's do it, we have thousands of soldiers and horses, and the spies of the Mongol Tartars must also know, let's retreat to the high mountains and choke the only way for the Mongol Tatars to march from the west, so we have to force them to come to the decisive battle, otherwise, we will fight back, and their retreat will be gone." Fu Quanyou saw that Jia Yi said it so clearly, and he also understood it in his heart.

The second cavalry brigade of the Qin army swung here, it is a huge threat, the Mongolian Tatars have only twenty or thirty thousand horses, if the whole division goes south, and encounters the main force of the Qin army's Tiger Wing Army, it will still not be pleased, plus the summer harvest has been completed, the Mongolian Tatars will not be able to continue to fight at all, they must be supplemented by the grain and grass of the Ming army, so they are not afraid that the Tartar soldiers will not come.

"Okay, just do them, this time I will personally command the battle, Jia Yi, Fu Quanyou, I order the two of you, command the whole army and horses, retreat to the high mountains, and Jia Yi is responsible for commanding the battle, there must be no mistakes." After Chen Mingquan weighed the pros and cons, he waved his hand vigorously,

"The second Mongolian cavalry capital was transferred from the first battalion, and the first capital was transferred from the second battalion, two departments of 800 people, all with two horses, with enough dry food for five days, and I personally led the attack, Liu Chang, you go with me, at the critical moment, you can divide the troops into two ways to attack the Mongolian Tartars and the Ming army."

"Whoa!" Jia Yi and the others immediately obeyed the order, although the entire army was not counted as a hundred battles army that went into battle to kill the enemy, but after three months of ideological transformation and recruit training in the training camp, it was still counted as the most obedient army in the era of cold weapons, so under the orders of the generals, like a tide, two shares were divided.

Among them, about 3,200 cavalry and more than 1,000 foot soldiers began to turn northwest to the Gaoshan Acropolis, while the remaining two, all 800 elite cavalry, began to move northeast under the personal command of Chen Mingquan and Liu Chang......

"Where did the southern barbarians come from, they are so difficult," the centurion of the Han tribe, Ba Gen, lay on the back of his horse with a blue face, dodging the hidden arrows and fire bolts from the front from time to time, but there was enough force of a centurion behind him, and now there were less than seventy people left.

"Hmph, what about riding and shooting, we will cover the war horse with animal skins, and we can only use bows and crossbows, and we can hurt a few people in my army." Chen Mingquan said excitedly while taking the Mongolian cavalry behind him,

Can you not be excited, he with the first battalion of Mongolian cavalry under his command, scattered from three directions to attack the Mongolian army, as a result of the opposite side of the full 500 men and horses to meet the battle, only in the first wave of fighting, relying on the armor and weapons on the body, the Qin army won a complete victory, with three ways to divide the troops to attack it, killing and wounding more than 50 Mongolian cavalry, while his own family only lost less than 10 people,

Chen Mingquan, who knew how to accept it when he saw it, of course would not fight, but after breaking up the Mongolian cavalry that was attacking, he immediately began to change to another war horse and escape.

Of course, don't underestimate the ability of the Mongol army to reconnoiter the battlefield, after all, this is the main elite of the Han Division, and it is a right-wing cronies tribe of 5,000 households, this time as the vanguard of the army, the scouts alone sent a full 200 people to spy on it, and any attempt to ambush is impossible.

Therefore, when the tribe Taiji Harbara suddenly saw that he had lost more than 50 people in the battle, he was angry, and saw that there were no other troops of the Qin army within a radius of more than ten miles, so he ordered his subordinates to send 600 good archery cavalry to follow closely, just to eliminate this arrogant Qin cavalry.

So, a huge pursuit battle, in the Xuanhua Town Huai'anwei southwest of seventy miles of desert unfolded, the pursuit of more than 600 Mongolian cavalry, most of them arrived close after the arrows, but all of them were ineffective, generally by the war horse rubbed with oil-stained animal skins and soldiers on the armor bounced off, even if barely shot a person, it is not much damage.

On the other hand, the Qin army, who were born as Mongolians who were good at horse warfare, and had excellent armor to guard, did not worry about anything else at all, but turned back from time to time to shoot with a bow and arrows, and used the fire hammer carried by the war horse to fire at the target behind him, this style of play is the most suitable, the gap between the Mongolian pursuit cavalry is small, and the target of the war horse is large, just follow the direction to fight.

In this way, the Mongol Tatar cavalry found that their bows and arrows could not cause damage to the opponent, and every blow of the opponent would make them fall a few, so that it slowly accumulated, and the six pursuing centurions began to have a large number of casualties one after another, from the beginning of a few people, to now this team has actually suffered nearly thirty casualties, that is, in the pursuit and the beginning of the battle, they actually lost nearly two hundred corpses, how can people bear it?

"Catch up and kill them all~!" The angry commander Chaolu was almost crazy, but the order he gave made the Mongolian cavalry go to destruction step by step, that is, because the Mongolian Tatars entered the customs to fight, lacked the necessary logistics support, and these grains and grass and a large number of livestock dragged down, and the Ming army could provide relatively little.

If the 20,000 or 30,000 Mongol troops entering the pass brought two horses or even more livestock, they would not be able to afford it, and the Qin army's practice of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness also made them have some scruples, and Lin Dan Khan, who miscalculated the cavalry of the Qin army, sent the soldiers and horses directly with such a big grin, the original intention was to take advantage of the advantage and leave, but I didn't expect that the division was unfavorable, and 200 were lost in the battle!

"Pull them away, we have two horses, full of foot strength, drag them to death!" Chen Mingquan shouted on his horse, and then issued a command to the soldiers around him through the cavalry around him, as long as this cavalry dared to continue to catch up, then when they were exhausted, they could quickly annihilate them by reflexively! (To be continued.) )