Chapter 137: Kill a thousand people and save one 1
The cavalry of the Ming army, which had had a brief confrontation with the Tatar cavalry, suddenly made a big turn, and after dozens of people died, they turned their horses and ran away without saying a word.
Batu, who was angry, was willing to let go of this opportunity, the men on our grassland have always only had the share of bullying others, when will it be your turn to bully the Ming army who are used to being shrunken turtles.
So, with a whip, he pointed his horsewhip, except for the 1,000 foot soldiers who were left to deal with Qian Rui, the others rushed out of the camp like a tide.
Qian Rui was blindfolded in an instant, and said in his heart, Allied forces, were you kicked in the head by a donkey? Didn't you see that there are thousands of brothers on my side fighting to the death? Lao Tzu saw that you were fighting alone outside before going out of the city to help, you are better, throw Lao Tzu here, rely on the speed of the war horse, and disappear in a smoke.
Qian Rui, who was very angry in his heart, had no other way than to train and scold his mother, so he had to regather his foot soldiers, plus the poor hundreds of cavalry and the previous Tatar cavalry.
To say that this Jiang is still old and spicy, although the people under the command of the veteran Qian Rui are all foot soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Tatar cavalry, but his brain is not stupid.
The mobility of the war horses is very strong, but the speed of their turning is not as fast as that of the foot soldiers, Lao Tzu has to turn around and turn his head, you don't just turn your head casually.
As a result, the footmen who had just been exhausted immediately became rabbits scurrying around, and the Tatar cavalry could not form an encirclement except for the occasional fish that slipped through the net.
On the contrary, Qian Rui commanded properly, and from time to time he gave the cavalry a cold shot, and in the process of running, the foot soldiers who hurriedly wound the bow and crossbow were very cunning and waited until they went around behind the cavalry before making a move. When a rain of arrows goes down, there are always one hundred and eighty cavalrymen who are hit by arrows.
Fighting back and forth, a raid battle turned Qian Rui into a war of attrition.
The two sides fought for nearly two hours, and in the end, Qian Rui replaced 1,000 Tatar cavalry with 5,000 infantry and 300 cavalry.
Those war horses were all baby bumps, and there was no one in the Tatar camp anyway, so he simply called another soldier from Fengcheng to take everything that could be taken away in the camp.
When it came, the old fellow was in a bad mood, and a fire burned the Tatar camp through. The fire reflected half of the sky red in the night, and the defenders of Fengcheng looked at the red sky and wanted to cry without tears.
More than 5,000 people were just thrown outside the city.
If Batu could come back, he would probably want to cry without tears, not only the cattle and sheep were driven away, but even the tents were burned, and he would not even have a place to stay when he returned.
Of course, he couldn't come back.
When the curtain came down on this side of the war, the war over there had just begun.
The carefully selected war horses are stronger than the war horses on the grassland in terms of endurance and speed, after all, they are war horses made by the power of poor Datong and Xuanfu towns. Usually, it is a level of garrison like Lin Wuving, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to get such a good thing, Zhang Ru for the mobility of the troops, he was stunned by gags, coercion, and lure.
Relying on the war horses to be a little better than the Tatar war horses, those Ming troops ran faster than rabbits.
Strange to say, these people actually had a chance to get rid of the Tatar army behind their butts, but every time they were about to get rid of it, those horses somehow slowed down. It was not until the bows and arrows of the Tatar cavalry could be reached that they continued to urge the horses.
The Tatar soldiers who charged in front saw all this, but they could not control the movement of tens of thousands of people, and Batu in the back did not see all this, and if he did, he would definitely understand that this was a trap.
It's a pity that there aren't so many ifs in the world.
After chasing for nearly two hours, the men and horses on both sides were a little tired, and the Ming army in front suddenly disappeared without a trace.
The Tatar army, which has already eaten a mouthful of ashes, naturally refuses to give up so well, knowing that there may be traps in front of them and chasing them for so long, if you don't eat your 3,000 bold Ming army, where will the cheeks of our grassland men go.
The road ahead forked, and by the moonlight it was barely possible to see the messy horseshoe prints on the ground, but there were horseshoe prints on both roads, and now the Tatar soldiers began to scratch a little.
Fortunately, the centurions who led the team were all human spirits, and they often rode horses on the grassland, and their understanding of war horses was not low.
Batu said goodbye, gritted his back molars and said something to kill these little cubs of the Ming Kingdom.
Then, tens of thousands of horses rushed to the left road with billowing dust.
Two miles away, a dirt bag was full of people, and every three or five zhang there was a person who pressed his ears tightly to the ground, Jiang Wei and Fan Tong were lying in the front, and the latter occasionally poked his head out to check the situation.
The sound of horses' hooves was already a little close, Fan Tong couldn't help but feel nervous in his heart, and asked a little weakly: "Old Jiang, you said that the adult's plan is unreliable, if Batu is a little careful, I'm afraid he won't be easily fooled." ”
Jiang Wei said in a deep voice: "The war is about to start, you kid shut up for me, let my brothers be careful, as long as the enemy enters the Tribulus Formation, immediately surround it." ”
Fan Tong shut up in amusement, but his heart was as uncomfortable as an ant crawling, this plan was told to him by Jiang Wei, and the plan that Jiang Wei knew was obtained from Xinying.
It's not that Jiang Wei refuses to show Fan Tong the content of the secret letter, but that he can't read a single type, even if he shows it to him, it's in vain.
Jiang Wei seemed to feel that Fan Tong was a little uncomfortable, and explained: "Whether the adult's strategy succeeds or not, there is no loss for our more than 3,000 people. The big deal is to make those people tired. With the behavior of the Tartars, they may be chased after them. As long as they chase after them, the Tribulus Array will be able to make them turn on their backs. When the time comes, the brothers at the intersection will appear to block again, hehe, under the attack from front to back, more than 30,000 horses can be eaten. ”
As he spoke, the sound of horses' hooves sounded like thunder, and the dozens of Tatar cavalry at the front saw that there was an open field after leaving the intersection, and they involuntarily controlled their horses and dispersed.
The grassland is very vast, and they have never liked to be crowded together, but now that they have such a large area, it is natural to spread out in formation to facilitate the brothers in the back.
At first, they didn't feel anything, anyway, the bumps caused by the war horse in the process of running were not very big, and for those of them who often rode horses, no matter how violent the bumps were, it was not a problem.
Soon, they realized that something was wrong.
The dozens of horses in front suddenly raised their front hooves high, and the cavalry on horseback fell before they could react, and then the war horse fell to the ground weakly. Some horses are full of wildness, spreading their hooves and running around regardless of it.
Batu was separated from the center of the army, not figuring out what was happening, and thinking that he had encountered an ambush, he ordered the soldiers to speed up the sprint.
This order that had passed out at home had killed a lot of people, and the Tatar cavalry, who could have slowed down to avoid danger, simply broke into the thistle formation.
The war horse screamed miserably, and the speed of the cavalry behind had been completely slowed down by the Tatar cavalry in front of them. The tripping horses buried in the soil were pulled up coldly, and the war horses that could only spin in place were instantly tripped over the legs of the horses.
The sharp hook on the stumbling rope became a nightmare for the war horse, and the cavalry behind only saw the person in front of him fall down in a daze, the warrior on the horse was fine, but the war horse sitting down seemed to have no bones.
At this time, there was a sound of horses' hooves behind him, which was not loud, and in this chaotic scene, it was impossible to attract too many people's attention.
The disorganized Tatar cavalry only cared about fighting with the thistles and tripping horses under their feet, and they could not care whether they were their own people behind them.
With this one negligence, the cavalry behind him plunged into it like a sharp knife.
The Ming army has never killed so heartily, especially those Xuanfu veterans, they are all the aftermath of a hundred battles, and they are originally the masters who hang their heads on their trouser belts.
There are so many people who forget to cooperate with the people around them in a whim, so that a veteran of the Ming army is surrounded by dozens of Tatar cavalry, and as long as they are alive, they will still fight to chop.
The Tatar cavalry is worthy of being the descendants of Genghis Khan, and they quickly reacted to a counter-encirclement of the Ming veterans who raided the raids.
Jiang Wei, who has always behaved lightly, was a little anxious now, and with a roar, the brothers got on the horse and rushed, and he patted the war horse lying behind the dirt bag, and got on the war horse with a little good tiptoe.
Before the people in the back could be solved, a bunch of people suddenly appeared in front, and the Tatars panicked.
In front of them was the Tribulus Formation, Jiang Wei and Fan Tong each rushed over with a thousand people from both sides, and by the way, they also threw a few torches on the Tribulus Formation, which had already prepared dry firewood and oil.
Although it was not a dark and windy night, with the main attack of fire oil, the speed of the flames was not much slower.
By the time Fan Tong's men arrived at the war group, the flames had already enveloped the entire vanguard of the Tatar cavalry.
The soldiers in front of them turned their horses as long as they were still intact, and they could die in battle, but they didn't want to be burned to death.
However, after all, there were their own brothers in front of them, and in the face of life and death, many Tatar warriors made a choice, they calmly got off the back of their horses, and calmly walked into the sea of fire.
There are also some people who show their hideous side, and they pick up the waist knife and cut it without saying a word, and these people generally have the mind of a dead friend and a poor man.
With the support of 2,000 men and horses, and in the case of waiting for work, the encircled Ming army veterans broke out with unprecedented combat effectiveness.
Often after a person has been slashed a few times, he can still drag an opponent off the horse, and in this chaotic situation, as long as he gets off the horse, it is basically not far from death.