Chapter 111: Night Attack on Monnu
The soldiers defending the city recognized that it was their own lord who had returned, and immediately opened the city gate and let Ziren into the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 After some inquiry, he learned that it was Ma Shinan who went out to inspect with the sentry cavalry today, and saw a small group of Mongolian cavalry wandering on the grassland from a distance. After hurrying back to the fort, he found that Ziren had already taken people to Liaoyang to do business, and after the generals left behind in the fort, he decided that it was better to be careful, and ordered his subordinates to be strictly guarded, and closed the city gate to let the soldiers take turns to go to the city to be on guard.
Ziren felt that there was nothing wrong with this disposition, but it was now approaching evening, and the enemy had no next move. Thinking about it, the enemy's move is nothing more than two possibilities. First, Xiang Ma Shinan saw that there were not many enemy men and horses, and he was detected by our sentry and retreated. The second is what Ziren doesn't want to see the most, this group of scouts who are just Mengnu's scouts, who are waiting on the grassland at this moment for the large army to come and converge.
Changning Fort is now just on the right track, although the number of men in the fort is large, but the training time is still short, if the Mongol slaves come to attack in a big way, it will inevitably cause a large number of casualties among the soldiers in the fort. Ziren has such a thin family foundation in his hands, but he doesn't want to be consumed so early.
At this time, Tong Dafang sent someone to report that he saw that Meng Nu was camping outside the border wall to rest, and he was worried that the enemy would attack from the Tong Jiadun area again, so he asked Ziren to send troops to support him quickly.
Seeing that the opponent dared to bully me and there was no one in Changning Fort, Ziren turned his heart sideways, and prepared to send troops to fight the opponent overnight, and eat this small group of people first. Even if a large team of people really arrives later, I have to let the other party see the interests of my Ding Shouming.
Ziren only selected twenty brave and good fighters who did not have night blindness from the soldiers who participated in the last siege of the city, led by Zhou Daqi and Ding Bi. In addition, Wang Mingqiang, Ma Shinan and his cavalry went out with him. The use of firearms in night battles tends to expose the target prematurely, so all centaurs carry only blades and bows, plus an iron armor.
In order to save physical strength, Ziren led people to Tongjiabao by horse, and then sneaked out of the side wall on foot. Tong Dafang saw that Ziren personally led the troops into battle, and he was eager to make meritorious contributions and hurriedly asked for battle. The concealment of bows and arrows in night battles has a great advantage over firearms, and Ziren brought him with him because his archery skills were good.
This group of Mengnu is only a dozen horsemen, out of contempt for the Ming army after being noticed by Ma Shinan, he still dismounts five miles outside the side wall to rest. Wait for the arrival of the brigade of soldiers and horses and then attack the side together, and then gather at night, let the campfire at the starting point of the miscellaneous servants help everyone keep warm, and do not take the Ming army in their eyes at all.
Seeing that the opponent was so light on the enemy, in order to wipe it out, Ziren immediately called his subordinates to arrange how to destroy the enemy, and everyone quickly ambushed to the designated position by moonlight after understanding it.
Although there were people on the Mongol side who were on duty at night, the sky was dark, and the light of the campfire could not shine too far, and they did not know that the catastrophe was coming. At this time, the Mongolian soldier in charge of night duty suddenly felt a rush to urinate, and hurriedly got up and left the campfire to make it easier.
While unbuttoning his pants, the Mongolian soldier looked at the territory of the Ming Dynasty and secretly thought to himself: "A heavy snow in winter is really harmful, and the various departments originally wanted to follow the Great Khan into the Ming Realm to plunder, but after being busy, they lost a lot of strength, but they gained little. It's only been a few months, and the clan can't open the pot again, so they have to invade Liaodong again. I hope I can grab more food this time, and it's best to plunder a few Ming people to go back to help me herd horses and sheep, and it would be better if I got another Ming woman to help me warm the bed. ”
The Mongol soldier was thinking about what to do, when three crossbow arrows suddenly shot at him in the darkness. The Mongol soldiers seemed to hear the wind, and before they could look up to see what was going on, they were knocked down on the spot.
Ziren saw that the crossbow in his hand that he had obtained from the arsenal was very powerful, and he was very happy. At the same time of reloading, the whistle was blown and Ma Shinan and Tong vigorously led people to shoot arrows from the south and north to kill the enemy.
(Defeat the enemy's crossbow, the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing, presented by Feng Jing, a craftsman of the Jinyi Guard.) It is recorded in "Heavenly Creations and Crossbows": "The weapons of the national dynasty made the divine arm crossbow and the crossbow to defeat the enemy, all of which fired two arrows and three arrows at the same time. ”)
The sleeping Mongolian soldiers were also awakened by the sound of their companions falling to the ground with arrows at this time, and quickly got up and fired arrows to return fire, but Ziren and his party were hiding in the dark and couldn't find the target. Instead, it was the bonfire behind him, exposing all the actions of the Mongols to the eyes of their opponents, and people were constantly falling to the ground with arrows.
At this time, the centurion, who was led by the Mongols, saw arrows coming only from the east, south, and north. It was only because the Ming army was insufficient, and after being attacked by a sneak attack, the enemy was secretly clear, and he did not want to be entangled with the Ming army again, so he immediately led his subordinates to turn over and flee to the west.
However, less than a hundred paces after getting on their horses, the Mongol cavalry stumbled and fell off their horses. According to Ziren's arrangement, Zhou Daqi and Ding Bi led their troops to lay a number of tripwire ropes in the west, and they had been waiting in secret for a long time, and when they saw the Mongolian Tatars, they immediately led their troops to rush out.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ziren also led the soldiers and horses to launch a siege from the other three sides. The Mongol soldiers saw that the Ming army had already laid an ambush, and they did not know how many men and horses their opponents had in the dark night. I wanted to run away, but when I fell from the horse, the horses under the crotch were injured by falling, and I don't know how many traps there are on the ground, so I have no choice but to face the battle.
Seeing that the opponent was stubbornly resisting, Ziren was not ambiguous, and led the soldiers to divide the enemy into two layers, inside and outside. There were no more than ten soldiers on the outskirts, who were only responsible for lighting them with torches to prevent the enemy from escaping by night, while Ziren personally led his men and horses to launch an attack on Mengnu.
Under the disparity of the crowd, the belligerent nature in the blood of the Mongol soldiers was forced out, and each of them resisted desperately under the call of the centurion.
And after some time of training on Ziren's side, the cooperation between the soldiers is already good. Most of them are fighting with stubborn enemies in groups of three, one of them is responsible for fighting the enemy with short soldiers, one is holding a long soldier to sneak attack secretly, and the rest of them are holding rattan cards to resist the opponent's attacks. If you really encounter a difficult enemy, you will hand it over to Ziren, Ding Bi, Wang Mingjian and others to deal with.
Although the Mongol soldiers had the advantage of individual martial arts, they could not resist for long under the clever offensive of Ziren's side. After Ziren and Ding Bi teamed up to kill the leading centurion, the battle ended in dust. Only a few people on Ziren's side were slightly injured, 13 of the first rank were killed, and one other person was captured.
Before Ziren got up and walked in front of the captive, the other party preemptively said in Chinese: "Don't kill me, my lord, the little one is from the Shenyang Zhongwei military family, and he was captured by the Mengnu during the battle a few years ago." Because he could speak a few words of Mongolian and was used as a slave, he suffered a lot over the years. This time, due to the lack of manpower, the Mongolian Tatars asked me to be a miscellaneous soldier when they saw that I was obedient to my words on weekdays. In order to take the opportunity to escape, the villain dared to follow, and I hope that the adults will be gracious! ”
After hearing this, Ziren immediately asked people to check it, and found that this person abandoned his weapon as soon as he fought, and there were many scars on his body that had been whipped, plus he knew some of the situation in Liaodong Town very well, which reduced his vigilance a little. After learning some information about the Monnu's invasion from his mouth, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly led people back to the fort to prepare, so that these Tartars would not return.
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