Chapter 147: Ambush
Although Hauge was young, he was not at all an amateur in the affairs of the war, and he led his team to the vicinity of Zhangjiakou without making a big fuss, hiding his men and horses in the valley, and sending people around to find out the news.
It quickly figured out the current situation, where the robbers of the caravan usually hid, and waited for the caravan to pass by to attack, the vast grassland could provide too many places to hide, and the opponent's men and horses would not be too many. There is no problem with your own strength to defeat your opponent, the key is how to catch the opponent.
Judging from the fact that the caravan can be accurately found in every sortie, this group must have an inside line in Zhangjiakou, which can be used as a breakthrough to lure them into the bait.
Fan Yongdou of Zhangjiakou received a reply from the Houjin Emperor Taiji, and was very happy in his heart, the Emperor Taiji still attached great importance to the Fan family, not only sent an army to suppress bandits, but also sent his eldest son Haoge to personally lead the team. Hauge used Han Chinese parlance that he was the real prince. It can be seen that the importance attached to this matter is obtained. The Fan family finally established a close connection with Houjin, and the wealth of the Fan family can be passed down from generation to generation. Emperor Ming only knew that he was making money, so let him be finished.
Later, he received a letter from Haoge and Fan Yongdou was amazed, this prince is really brave and strategic. With such a plan, the robbers would have nowhere to escape. He immediately called the guys from home to arrange for them to do this and that.
The men of the Fan family became active again in Zhangjiakou, running around to buy materials and transport the goods outside the mouth.
The merchants in Zhangjiakou sighed that the Fan family was still wealthy, and there were robbers robbing the caravan outside the mouth, and other merchants did not dare to go outside the mouth, and only the Fan family still had the strength to send a caravan at this time. This trip will definitely not make much money.
The news naturally quickly spread to the coalition army led by Zhang Chu and Gui Yingqia, Zhang Chu had some doubts in his heart, the Fan family's caravan had just been robbed and sent someone to deliver it again, why were they still in a hurry to send the caravan again? Gui Yingcha couldn't think of the reason, so he only analyzed the possibility.
It was Huang Taiji who wanted to attack Lin Dan Khan, and he was very urgent about the materials. Although they had some doubts, they didn't want to let go of this big fish. In the case of agreement to strengthen the vigilance, it is still necessary to rush to talk about it.
The tracking, discovery, and encirclement were all going very smoothly, and just as they were about to launch an attack, the soldiers on the periphery raised the alarm, and a large group of cavalry was coming up from all around, which was to kill Zhang Chu and their coalition forces.
"Stop the attack, gather all together, break through to the northeast, the security forces are in front, open the gap with muskets, and the Mongols follow and rush out of the gap." Zhang Chu made a decision immediately and issued orders loudly. It's really a praying mantis catching cicada and yellow finch behind, the coalition army wants to surround the caravan, and more people and horses from the periphery surround the coalition army, it seems that there should be four or five thousand cavalry, and the appetite of the people who come is very big, send troops to surround from all sides, want to eat the coalition army in one bite, can only take advantage of the fact that they did not close the encirclement to attack a little to break out of the encirclement and then deal with them.
After giving the order, Zhang Chu took the lead and rushed out, and the guards hurriedly followed, they understood that the commander was going to fight again. Running closer, I can already see clearly that it is the soldiers of Houjin, Zhang Chu secretly thought that Huang Taiji's reaction was really fast, I just robbed a few times and he sent troops over.
The soldiers of the Later Jin have won one after another in the foreign conquests in the past few years, and have established a huge psychological advantage, and the coalition forces have concentrated their forces to attack a little, and the number has far exceeded the intercepted Houjin cavalry. The Houjin cavalry was undaunted and rushed towards the coalition army, they were confident that they would crush the enemy in the charge, and no cavalry had ever taken advantage of the hedge with the Houjin cavalry. The Mongols who followed behind the security army were also uneasy. They clashed with the Houjin army many times, and they knew the combat effectiveness of the Houjin cavalry, and the ordinary army really couldn't defeat the Houjin cavalry.
At that time, the battle situation did not allow the people present to think much, the two sides were approaching, into the range of bows and arrows, the sound of muskets on the side of the coalition army sounded, the Houjin cavalry did not panic, the Ming army generally did this, in the distance to set off firearms, in a hurry without accuracy, can not cause any damage. The Houjin cavalry took out the bow and arrow according to the previous combat experience and threw it in front of the horse, and soon they found that the situation was a little wrong, the firearms of this group of people were particularly accurate, and the Houjin cavalry who rushed in front were knocked off the horse, and the arrows they shot seemed to have no effect after falling, and then they saw that the opponent was wrapped in armor like an iron bucket all over his body. Before the Houjin cavalry could figure it out, another round of gunfire rang out from the coalition forces, this time the two sides were closer, causing more damage to the Houjin army. Later, the Jin army began to panic a little, and Niu Lu Ezhen, who led the team, shouted loudly to gather the rest of the people tighter, and no matter what, he couldn't let the enemy rush out from here.
The rapid impact of the two sides could not allow the security army to shoot again, they did not draw their guns, but drew their sabers, the cavalry on both sides collided together and began hand-to-hand combat, for hand-to-hand combat after the Jin people are full of confidence, the elite red armor warriors in the team have killed hundreds of people in the battle, under their leadership, the gold cavalry can be one as ten. Rushing to the front of a red armor warrior with a knife with horsepower to slash to the security army, according to previous experience, this knife will be able to cut the other party under the horse, the other party is completely in a passive situation, has been unable to dodge can only lift the knife in his hand to carry hard, the strength of the red armor of the whole body plus the momentum of the horse are concentrated on the point where the two knives collide, the steel knife of the red armor is carefully selected in the military camp and still can not withstand the huge force, immediately broken into two, the broken knife in the hand on the enemy's armor cut a spark. The saber of the security soldiers on the opposite side was intact, rushing forward with the momentum of the horse, leaving the red armor behind, and the red armor with the broken knife in his hand immediately faced the group beating of four or five security soldiers who rushed up from behind, and the half-cut steel knife could not help him, and he was soon slashed several times, and fell off the horse, and the armor on his body protected him from being hacked to death by the knife, but he could not prevent the galloping horses' hooves, and soon lost his life in the trampling of the horses' hooves. The other Houjin soldiers were also helpless against the iron bucket armor of the security army, and coupled with the sophisticated swords in the hands of the security army, the security army was invincible everywhere they passed. A large gap was opened in the array surrounded by the Houjin cavalry. Seeing that the security army was so powerful, the Mongols were in high spirits, and then rushed up to widen the gap, and the coalition forces broke through the gap. The Mongols thought to themselves, they only thought that the security army was very powerful in firing cannons and guns from a distance, but they didn't expect that the charge would be more like a god, and even the Houjin cavalry was not an opponent. Fortunately, the men were friends, not enemies, of the Mongols.
When Hauge saw that the encirclement had been breached, he was furious in his heart, how could Niu Lu, who led the team, be so wasteful, and let the enemy break through so quickly. Hurriedly chased after the brigade, in the steppe the coalition army ran in front, the rear brigade of the Houjin cavalry in pursuit, at this time the Mongols' skillful horsemanship played a role, and soon ran to the front of the security army, the heavy armor of the security army and indeed not very good horsemanship made them run slower and slower.
Gui Yingcha didn't patronize himself and ran for his life, he let his horse slow down and came to Zhang Chu's side, he wanted to bring Zhang Chu back no matter what, otherwise he would be sorry for the eldest princess.
Zhang Chu was running, observing the situation, the Houjin cavalry chased closer and closer, so if he kept running, he would definitely be caught up, and when he saw Guiying just coming, Zhang Chu beckoned to him, and said to him loudly: "The people with you run over from the narrow road between the hills in front, and we will follow behind." ”
"Come with me first." Gui Yingcha shouted.
"No, I have a solution." Zhang Chu waved him to leave quickly.
There was no time to say more, so Gui Yingcha could only speed up his horse to catch up with the Mongols, and ordered them to flee along the narrow road between the hills ahead, with the security forces following closely behind.
The narrow road slowed down the escape, and the Houjin cavalry was less than a stone's throw away from the security forces that had fallen behind.
Hauge was overjoyed, it seems that he will win a big victory today, and it will not be a problem to completely annihilate this gang of robbers. (To be continued.) )