Chapter 85: Frustration
A lot happened when the security forces were marching slowly.
On November 20, Huang Taiji personally led a large army to launch a fierce attack on the Mangui troops guarding the Beijing Division.
Man Gui was wounded in many places, and led more than 100 defeated soldiers to rest in the Guandi Temple outside the city. The next day, the defenders opened the urn city of Desheng Gate for the remnants of Mangui to recuperate.
On the same day, Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou led the cavalry outside the Guangqu Gate to meet the attack of the Houjin army. Under the attack of tens of thousands of Houjin cavalry, Yuan Chonghuan led the soldiers to resist bravely and fought hard. Later, the Jin army suffered heavy losses.
Liang Tingdong and Man Gui, who were the scholars of civil and military affairs, were defeated in Xizhimen and Andingmen one after another, and Man Gui died in battle.
Ma Shilong, the commander-in-chief, was ordered to command reinforcements from all walks of life to defend the Beijing Division.
After January of the third year of Chongzhen, the Jin army connected Ketongzhou, Qian'an, Zunhua, and Luanzhou counties.
Zhang Chu understood his strength, in the melee of hundreds of thousands of troops, the 1,000 men and horses of the security army threw themselves into it and couldn't even make a splash. He led people to wait on the edge of the battlefield, and he needed a chance, and suddenly rushed up to bleed Houjin.
This location was chosen in Luanzhou.
It was very easy for the Later Jin to obtain Luanzhou, and the Ming army defender Li Jichun surrendered without a fight, and Luanzhou was completely occupied by the Later Jin. Later Jin concentrated a part of the plundered property and population in Luanzhou, preparing to transfer it out of the customs.
On the seventeenth day of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji ordered Gushan Ezhen Namutai, Heshuotu, Turge, and Gu Santai to lead their own banner troops to garrison Luanzhou.
On the same day, he ordered Belle Yuetuo and Haoge in Luanzhou to return to Shenyang and exchange guards with the soldiers and horses who had been stationed outside the pass.
Yue Tuo and Hao Ge took more than 1,000 soldiers and horses from their headquarters, and more than 40 officials accompanied them out of Luanzhou City, and a large amount of property looted from the invasion of Beijing was also transported back to Guanwai with them.
When the Houjin plundered, they not only looted property, but also the population, killing the old and young everywhere they went, and the young men and women were robbed and became part of their property. Yue Tuo and Haoge returned north this time with more than 3,000 captured people and a large number of horses.
The soldiers of the Houjin rode on horses on the periphery of the team and drove the captured Han people with horsewhips, the Han people pulled the heavy baggage carts and moved their feet numbly, for them they have reached the edge of hell, their hometown was destroyed and their relatives were killed, and they were escorted to the outside of the customs There will never be a chance to get out of the sea of suffering, and they will become slaves of the Houjin people for life, let them bully, buy, sell, and kill, in the eyes of the Houjin people, the Han slaves are just equivalent to the property of cattle and horses.
Yue Tuo, Hauge two Belle on horseback walking in the ranks, can be said to be complacent, years of conquest they have been accustomed to this kind of life on horseback, and began to enjoy this life, in recent years, regardless of the opponent is the Ming army or the Mongol army they have won again and again, this is an unprecedented victory, the looted property can make their tribe stronger, there is a stronger force to come out to rob, the future is bright.
At noon when the team left Luanzhou for half a day, the two Baylors ordered to camp and rest, and the horses entered the big tent to report, and found a group of Ming people in front of the team, consisting of more than 100 carts, with dozens of cavalry guards, and the horses were driven back when they wanted to approach and carefully investigate, but it was also found that the other party should have about 1,000 foot soldiers.
Yue Tuo and Hao Ge heard the spirit, this is simply the fat sent to the door, there is a big car and property, maybe it is the dignitary of the Ming Dynasty who escaped with his property, the valuables on the car must be indispensable, the foot soldiers of more than 1,000 people and dozens of cavalry can be ignored, and after dozens of Jin Tie cavalry can chase and kill a thousand Ming troops all over the world.
After discussion, it was decided that Haoge would take 400 people to stay in the camp to take care of the prisoners and supplies, and Yue Tuo would take 600 horsemen to intercept and kill the Ming.
Yue Tuo didn't think that he would be able to use six hundred golden iron horses to deal with these more than 1,000 people, but his caution as a general made him bring more men and horses.
A short distance forward, I found Akito's convoy.
The Ming people should have noticed the arrival of the Houjin cavalry, and the vehicles were gathered together to form a car formation, and the personnel hid in the car formation.
Yue Tuo was not in a hurry to attack, but stopped the team, and he stopped his horse to observe carefully.
The Mingren's response was quite qualified, and the place where the formation was formed was chosen in the narrow part of the road, with mountains and ravines on the left and right, to ensure that he was not surrounded by roundabouts, and the road was cut off by a large car in front of him. The Ming people hid behind the chariot formation, and it seemed that they also understood the strength of the Houjin Iron Cavalry, and did not dare to confront each other head-on, in a vain attempt to block the attack of the Houjin army with a big cart, and all this was doomed to be in vain.
It was not the first time that Yue Tuo had encountered this kind of formation, if the cavalry was not afraid of casualties, they could knock over the cart with just one charge, tear the hole in the car formation, and then rush into the formation, and the Ming people would only be slaughtered. Sometimes there was no need to pay for such casualties, as long as the cavalry swept past the front of the formation, threw the Ming people into the formation with bows and arrows, and then chased and killed from behind.
Today, the Aketo's response is not much better. The rejection horses placed in front of the cart formation showed their panic. The sparse placement of the rejected horses is not connected together, and there is a huge gap in the middle, which does not play a role in blocking the progress of the horses at all.
Yue Tuo's order was conveyed, and two hundred Houjin cavalry lined up in front of the formation under the leadership of a Niu Lu Zhangjing. The order to charge was given, the knight on the horse carefully controlled the speed of the horse, the war horse trotted towards the Ming people's car formation, the cavalry gradually increased, the horse speed became faster and faster, and it was about to approach the car formation, the cavalry took off the riding bow on his back, and prepared to shoot the Ming people with bows and arrows when he got closer.
There was a loud bang, and this small convoy was carrying artillery, and dense scattered bullets swept over, and the momentum of the Houjin cavalry charge was stagnant, and the cavalry and war horses in front let out painful shouts and neighs, and the men and horses rolled to the ground.
To deal with artillery, it is necessary to rush straight through, which is the experience gained from many years of fighting with the Ming army. The Houjin cavalry didn't care about the casualties, and urged the horses to rush straight towards the Mingren's chariot formation, as long as they rushed into the range of the bow and arrow, the Mingren should have fled. But this time it was the Houjin cavalry who made the mistake, they failed to rush to the front of the car formation, and the seemingly sparse rejection of the horse blocked the advance of the cavalry.
The cavalry company that passed through the gap between the horses and the horses fell to the ground, and the raged wires between the horses mixed the legs of the horses. The follow-up cavalry was forced to slow down and prepare to clear the rejection of the horse, but the Ming people did not give them time, a burst of gunfire rang out on the cart array, and the warriors of Houjin had nowhere to hide in the rain of bullets, and the rejection of the horse blocked the way forward, and they could not rush to the front of the car formation at all, and as the guns rang out, they fell off their horses one by one, and the remaining cavalry could only use the cavalry bow in their hands to fire arrows at the cart array.
Akito hid in the car formation unaffected, and the sound of gunfire and artillery continued to ring. There were fewer and fewer Houjin cavalry on horseback, and the brave cavalry felt frightened, turned their horses' heads and fled backwards.
Akito didn't want to let them go like this, and muskets and cannons continued to fire, killing Houjin's warriors one by one on the way to escape.
Yue Tuo led 400 cavalry as a reserve to watch the attack of the team, they also noticed the change, shouted to the retreating Houjin soldiers, cheering for the fleeing soldiers, hoping that they could escape the range of the muskets, their efforts did not work, the ranks of the fleeing soldiers became more and more thin, and finally only a stubborn soldier escaped out of the range of the musket with blood and ran towards the main formation.
The Houjin soldiers looked at him with hope, and their shouts of cheering became louder. Running back to one person was not considered to be annihilated, but his body suddenly shook, and even the man and the horse fell in front of the battle.
The cheering stopped, the Houjin army was quiet, all the Houjin soldiers were staring blankly at the terrifying battlefield in front of them, there were still wounded Houjin soldiers wailing on the battlefield, but no one dared to come forward to rescue. Two hundred Houjin warriors were killed in front of the battle in this way, which had never happened before.