On the fifth day, the sand flew and the stones were gone, and it was difficult for men and horses to walk, and the army had to rest. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Six days, dozens of miles, the terrain slowly declined, there are many meadows, the small stream in the middle, slowly converged into a river, to the southwest and flowed, the original gentle hills, undulating terrain, but also gradually become low hills, peaks and valleys, sometimes feel still fragmented.

At this time, the army followed the river, entered a long and narrow river valley area, but it was the source of the Yang River Valley, here from north to west, is the dam edge mountain, all the way to the south, is the Daqing Mountain, later generations for Shangyi County and Xinghe County flourishing, at this time it is the original Ming Xinghe guarding the boundary of thousands of households.

The river valley is wide, and many streams flow into the Yuanyang River from the mountains at both ends, and in later generations, the fields here are dense, and at this time there are many meadows, all kinds of coniferous forests, birch forests, shrubs, roe deer, rabbits, pheasants, etc. from time to time.

When the army arrived here, they were all refreshed, and with the topography here, it was naturally a paradise for nomadic tribes, and even the leader of Xianbei, Tanshi Huai, set up a tooth tent in this area.

Originally, there were also some tribes grazing in this area, but now they have fled far away, there is no one at all, and the tribes have relocated, which is similar to the strong walls of the Central Plains.

The sound of horses' hooves, a team of cavalry rushed up a high slope like a whirlwind, and then grabbed the reins of the horses, Han Chaoce looked at the horse, the river valley meandered to the southwest, flat and wide, the wide ones have dozens of miles, and the narrow ones have more than ten miles, a piece of green.

Looking at the Daqing Mountains from afar, the green towers to the sky, and there are a piece of fiery red and golden color, but there are many sea buckthorn and shandan flowers in the mountain.

"Captain Du, walk another twenty miles, and it is estimated that in the afternoon, you will be able to reach the place where you are scheduled to set up a village. After the establishment of the village. There are more than 100 miles, and another village can be built, but it seems that the Tartars will not let me wait for an easy time. ”

A military department said loudly.

In this battle, a part of the sentry battalion did not collect at night, and they found out that at both ends of Daqingshan and this river valley, there were Tartar cavalry from time to time, and in order to get more information, some feather cavalry of the Xuanwu Army, as well as some Mongols with the army. There are all involved sentinels.

The results of the collection of intelligence. In this area of the Yuanyang River, there may be no less than 3,000 Tartar cavalry lurking, in fact, early this morning. They were in twos and threes. Appeared in front of the eyes of the army.

They moved extremely quickly. It seems to appear out of nowhere, and has a wide range of activities, sometimes popping up from both sides. Sometimes it appears from the front, and sometimes it also appears in the rear of the army, so that the army of the western expedition feels that the concept of the front and rear is completely invalid.

It seems that in any direction, it is possible to face an enemy attack.

However, these Tartars behaved quite cautiously, only following outside the range of the Jingbian army's firepower, and did not launch a surprise attack, but Han Chao and others had a hunch that they would act soon.

The task of the Jingbian army at night is to collect and probe information and bring it back safely, not to fight the enemy on the battlefield, although they are not at all inferior to the Tartars, but there is no need for this.

Moreover, compared to the Manchurian Tatars, many of them were mounted infantry, and after arriving at the battlefield, they dismounted and fought, these northern captives were very flexible, generally with two or three horses, and some even had four or five horses.

If you chase too fiercely and fall into the siege of enemy cavalry, you will lose more than you gain.

The feather cavalry of the Han Dynasty was actually a mounted infantry, and after the goal, they dismounted and fought on foot, moving like cavalry but fighting like infantry, just like the dragoons of the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Mongols who accompanied the army could not go out to war, after all, they still had to march, and the Xuanwu army was fighting in Guihua City, not in a stalemate with the Tartars somewhere.

Therefore, those Tartars, like kraft candy, can't be shaken off, they are familiar with the terrain, drill into the mountains, forests and river valleys, when, they appear in another direction, always follow near the army, to achieve battlefield intelligence shielding, it is obviously not easy.

"The soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, the Tartars will fight, and the horses will come."

A cold light flashed in Han Chao's eyes, and he said coldly.

……

In a few moments, the new battalion, as the vanguard, finally engaged a force of unstoppable Tumerts, who were not many harassing Tartars, and attacked in an arc formation in an evacuation formation.

He once lined up in a righteous formation, and sent a thousand cavalry to the new attached camp of the Mongols to fight, with a relatively dense formation to attack, the two sides collided together, fighting fiercely......

"Die!"

Tabu Sac's face was hideous, and taking the opportunity of the wrong horse, the sledgehammer in his hand smashed on the right chest of a Tumut man, and in an instant, a large piece of the cotton armor on this person's chest was dented, and his thick blood spurted out of his mouth, and the warm liquid full of blood smell seemed to splash on Tabu Sac's face.

He shook as hard as he could, but he got under the horse, and looking around, Tabu jumped off the horse and drew his axe.

Just look at this person, there is still a breath there, he is lying on the grass weakly, looking at his eyes, but also in fear with pleading, he suddenly has an inexplicable emotion in his heart, he is also a Mongolian, a descendant of Genghis Khan.

But this thought, in a flash, carrying the axe, the Tabu sac was cut off, and his head was cut off alive, and it hung bloodily on his waist.

And he took hold of his horses, and rejoiced in his heart, and his military feats were in hand.

After a brief battle, the Tumuts were defeated, leaving behind only a dozen wounded corpses and a few horses that had lost their owners.

Tabusang saw that Gallard had also achieved results, but with the hook of his spear, he pulled a Tumut off his horse, and then with a meniscus cut, he cut off the man's head slowly, and then pinned it to his waist.

The two looked at each other, and they both saw the joy in each other's eyes.

"Good!"

Seeing the Tumuts fleeing in disarray, Zeng laughed righteously, and all the people in the battle joined the Mongols and cheered.

Zeng was about to give the order to pursue, and a middle-aged Mongolian with a tiger beard and a steppe red face beside him hurriedly said in stiff Chinese: "Zeng Duwei, you can't chase, those Tumut barbarians may be luring the enemy to fake defeat." Their tactics just now are very similar to the tactics of Rava on the steppe......"

He explained: "It's like a pocket war for the Han people. If you chase them, you may have fallen into their ambush. ”

"Rava tactics?"

Before he took office, he entered the military academy for a period of time and knew a lot of tactical examples, especially the Mongols on the steppe.

The nomadic Hu people on this steppe are best at luring the enemy to ambush, called the Rava tactic, at the beginning of using the two wings of the advance team to lure the enemy, and then luring them to the main assembly area. Frontal onslaught. Then flank or flank the rear, and win every time.

There was a case of war, when the Mongols marched westward, they fought at the Calga River. Subutai lured the enemy with a small number of troops. Retreat for nine days and nine nights. During this period, he abandoned a lot of gold and silver property, and finally lured the enemy to the Rava camp set up on the bank of the Calga River, with 30,000 Mongol troops. Annihilated 80,000 opponents.

This example of war was said by the general, although Zeng did not understand how he knew about the far west, but the general said this, it would definitely not be false.

At this time, there was a signal of handcuffs that did not send and receive at night, showing that there had been a large number of ambushes in the woods of the river valley on that side, but seeing that this side did not move, they left one after another, and Zeng scolded righteously: "These barbarians, the defeat is the same as the real one." ”

glanced at this middle-aged Mongolian with a steppe red face, but this person was Zhang Jing, a deputy of the banner of the Karaqin subordinates, who sent 500 troops this time, more than half of them had armor, and they were considered to have defected to the most populous and powerful tribe among the Mongols.

Zeng thought to himself: "The matter of the grassland, sure enough, these Tartars know better." ”

The subordinates inspected the corpses and horses of the dead Mongols, they all had a leather bag, wrapped in cowhide and branches, and a lot of ordnance and rations were hidden inside, and the results of the search showed that in each person's skin bag, there were a lot of dry food such as cheese, meat floss, meat meal, etc., but there was quite little hay and bean material.

Zeng said righteously: "Mr. Lemig Qian, what do you think, are these harassing Tartars the base camp nearby?" I don't see they have a lot of horsefood. ”

Lemeng stroked his chest and said, "Zeng Weidu...... No, Captain Zeng, judging by the captured barbarians, it is not certain that their camp is nearby. Looking at the jerky cheese they brought, they can eat it for at least ten days, half a month, or even a month. ”

"They also have a lot of horses, and the scope of this rush is too big to judge......

"These barbarians don't have much horse material, but we Mongolians, one person and more than one horse take turns, and we can solve the horsepower problem of war horses by exchanging horses."

He said: "In addition, the water and grass here are abundant, even if they can't grow fat, the horses have plenty of forage to eat...... Of course, after they harassed, the loss of horses in the various departments was certain, and the remaining horses had to be fattened for a long time. ”

Zeng Yiyi rubbed his face, the current situation, it is difficult to judge if he does not collect it overnight, but as the war progresses, they will always show their feet.

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It seems that the attack of this wave of Tumuts kicked off the attack, and waves of Mongolian cavalry from other domains appeared outside the marching array of the Xuanwu army, a few miles away, more than a dozen miles, following with a tiger's eye, like a pack of wolves looking around.

Occasionally, there were rangers rushing forward, and when they encountered the night and waited for the Ming army sentry to come up and intercept them, they avoided it from a distance, and the Xuanwu army had a marching mission, and it was impossible to entangle with them.

Judging from the banners of these people and the various Sulu ingots with wolf skins they held, the Mongolian cavalry around them came from a variety of sources, including the naturalized Tumut people, the Mongol tribes of Hetao, and some soldiers of the Mongol tribes of Waizasak.

These Mongolian soldiers from other vassals are no more neat than the Mongols of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, with different armor and costumes, or wearing bowls, hats, leather robes, collars and buckles, and a full-style dress, or willow leaf armor, Luo ring armor, and hats and helmets.

Or the traditional Mongolian fur hat and leather robe, with tassels on the hat, they were called red tassels in the Jiajing year, or wore some Manchurian-style cotton armor.

The Han Dynasty received information that more than ten miles away from the rear of the army, the mountains and hills on the left bank of the river also rushed to the Tartar soldiers, who either crossed the river directly from shallow places, or used "muddy", but it was a special raft to cross the river.

The army seemed to have enemy cavalry in all directions, and the Han Dynasty ordered a march in formation, with guns in front, attached to the Mongols on the right flank, feathered cavalry to protect the baggage, and the left flank was the river, with some wheelbarrows to carry out cover.

The Mongol cavalry gathered more and more, and strange whistling came and went, they did not gather densely, but galloped in twos and threes, far or near, and strange whistles sounded from time to time.

Sometimes the cavalry of the Ming army rushed to a certain place, and they immediately scattered like birds and beasts, and then at some point, they gathered together in twos and threes.

Han Chao knew that this was a tactic that the Mongols were good at, called the Raven Soldier Star Array.

Their number is definitely not as large as that of the Western Expeditionary Army, but the depth and range of activities are very wide, and there are faintly hundreds of horses surrounding them, and thousands of horses can be encompassing thousands of miles. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )