Chapter 679: A Brief Stalemate
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In the vast night, Li Dingguo led the cavalry and suddenly launched a frontal charge against the Mongol camp. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoWhen more than 100 horsemen showed their figures from the night, Rao is Timur was extremely brave and was also very surprised: Attacking the camp of tens of thousands of people with 100 people, isn't this a moth to a fire?
It stands to reason that Timur only had to continue to direct his men to release arrows. But the battle during the day was too miserable and aggrieved, and Timur held a bad breath in his chest, always looking for an opportunity to fight with the Ming army in a dignified manner. Now that the Ming army actually gave him this opportunity, he was carried away by hatred and shouted: "Stop firing arrows, get on the horse, and let the damned Han people taste the power of our Mongolian iron cavalry!" ”
How did he know that this sentence killed many people.
There were really a lot of Mongols who had the same idea as Timur, and at this time they got on their horses and waved their swords, gathered in front of the camp gate, and waited for the camp gate to open, and immediately gave the Ming army a counter-charge.
Unexpectedly, when Li Dingguo and the others rushed to a distance of thirty or forty steps from the Mongolian camp, they suddenly took out a fire fold and blew it, and took out something from the war bag and lit it. At this time, the war horse had already rushed forward for more than ten steps, and the two sides were already close at hand.
The gate of the Mongol camp was suddenly opened, and hundreds of cavalry swarmed out, trying to overwhelm the Qin soldiers in one fell swoop. Li Dingguo saw that he couldn't miss the opportunity, and shouted: "Vote!" ”
At the sound of an order, more than 100 black objects crossed a parabola in the air and smashed towards the camp gate. The Mongols who rushed to the front saw it clearly, and they were still wondering in their hearts: Is this black thing an iron ball? Instead of hitting people with iron balls, it is better to use bows and arrows, what good can this do?
It was also the last thought of their lives.
"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and those iron balls suddenly burst into dazzling light in the air, and at the same time, a powerful wave of qi wrapped in countless sharp fragments pushed over like a wall, and the Mongol cavalry was knocked down in a large area!
"Demon... Sorcery! Timur was so frightened that he couldn't help but cry out. He panicked, and the other Mongols were even more dispossessed, watching Li Dingguo's cavalry change direction in a dashing manner, turning around and galloping towards the chariot formation.
In fact, what kind of demon method is this, it's just a grenade of Qin Bing. This kind of firearm was used by the Qin soldiers when they fought against Li Zicheng last year, and bomb throwing training was also a common compulsory subject. However, due to the immaturity of the fuze technology, it can only be replaced by a fuse that connects inside and outside. When in use, light the fuse with an open flame and throw it out. This is much more troublesome than the grenade that pulls the string in the previous life, and what is even worse is that the fuse is easy to extinguish in the air, and it would be good to explode three or four out of ten. Compared with mature firearms such as bird guns and artillery, the grenades of the Qin soldiers were not reliable enough, so they were not equipped in large quantities.
However, in this re-set operation, Zhu Youzhen still asked Li Dingguo to bring some grenades. Because the function of the grenade is not possessed by birds and artillery, three out of ten rings are also worth it. Of course, the Mongols had never seen such a high-end goods, so they suffered a big loss.
It wasn't until the Qin soldiers ran far away that Timur woke up: this is not a large army of the Ming army at all, it is here to harass him! If a large number of cavalry had been sent out to fight earlier, it would have been impossible for people to fight like this!
Before he could speak, hundreds of cavalrymen chased after him with a scream. Timur saw that the leader was the banner owner of the Wushen Banner, Dari Achi, who was a typical simple-minded and well-developed fellow, and he was not very obedient to his own control, and at this time he was too late to stop it.
Li Dingguo saw that there were pursuers behind him, and he couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart, and he quickly stepped up and soon approached the car formation. In order to save time, they didn't even want horses, and after dismounting outside the trench, they jumped off the trench and climbed up again, allowing the horses to run around outside.
Dari Achi chased after him, and when he saw the Ming army abandon his horse and enter the battle, he couldn't help but feel obsessed with money. On the grassland, the most valuable and most able to provoke competition between tribes is not cattle and sheep, nor women, but war horses. Because with a horse, you can grab something else. And what these Mahan people abandoned when they retreated is equivalent to spoils of war, why not?
It was the difference of this thought, Dari Achi subconsciously took off the harness he carried with him and swung it in the air, and his subordinates followed suit, ready to make a small fortune.
But they forgot that now they were within the range of Qin Bing's various firearms! Xie Sheng, who commanded in the formation, saw it clearly, and didn't care to talk to Li Dingguo, who had just returned to the battle, and immediately ordered the rapid-fire cannon to fire, and at the same time, hundreds of bird guns also shot at the same time!
As a result, the Mongols, who sacrificed their lives and money, once again paid the price for their greed. When Dari Achi came, there were more than 100 horsemen, but when he returned to the camp in a panic, there were only fifty or sixty men left. Not only did not a horse be tethered, but dozens of people were hitched in. After the Mongols were defeated and retreated, the Qin soldiers returned to the battlefield to collect the war horses, and actually earned a few more horses than the original, regretting that Dari'a's red intestines were green.
But this is not the end, overnight, Li Dingguo led his troops out to harass three more times. Although the later times because the Mongols had been prepared, they did not achieve any results, but the Mongolian army of tens of thousands was also disturbed and sleepless. On the contrary, most of the Qin soldiers had a good night's sleep, and only Li Dingguo, Dou Mingwang and others had bloodshot eyes.
For two days, the battlefield entered a brief stalemate. Even if he lent Timur a few guts, he did not dare to attack on a large scale again. But just retreating from the siege and leaving, the Mongols couldn't swallow this breath, so they really adopted the strategy of the dead ghost Erdemutu, intending to surround but not fight, and trap the Ming army to death.
The Qin soldiers, on the other hand, sent small groups of troops to harass them for a while, and they did not love war, as long as the Mongols ran away as soon as they went to war. Because the Qin soldiers had the long-range advantage of artillery, the Mongols did not dare to chase hard, otherwise they would have to throw down dozens of corpses.
By dusk on the third day, the Mongols finally couldn't hold out any longer. More than a dozen generals came to Timur and said: "Great Khan, I don't know how much grain the Han people have brought and how long they can hold out, but we rushed into battle this time, and we didn't drive cattle and sheep here, and there is no food left in the army." And the warriors have not been able to sleep for several days, they are extremely tired, and if this continues, it will be us who will starve and die of exhaustion! It is better to temporarily withdraw the siege and return to the pastures of the tribes to replenish military supplies. As soon as we withdraw, the Han people will definitely withdraw, and at that time, if we find an opportunity to sneak attack halfway, maybe we will be victorious. ”
In fact, Timur couldn't hold back and wanted to withdraw, but he felt that he was too faceless to say it. At this time, since all the generals meant this, he got off the donkey and said, "That's it." Go back and prepare, withdraw your troops late at night, and don't let the Han people find out. ”
Before the words fell, a sentry hurriedly entered the tent and said: "Great Khan, the Han people have ignited wolf smoke again!" ”
"What's all the fuss about, haven't they been lighting it all the time?" Timur smuttered, "I said earlier that this is a suspicious tactic. ”
"But the Great Khan, their wolf smoke is now not one, but two!"