Chapter 92: Counterattack
"All the army assembled!"
"Line up!"
Wang Pu gave an order, and more than 180 horsemen rushed over, lined up in front of the fluttering military flags of hunting, and in less than a moment, they formed a neat cavalry formation.
"Little Seven."
"Yes."
"Send ten brothers to protect Mr. Zhen's retreat to a safe place, and send another ten brothers to spread the word, so that all the hundred-man team can assemble to the place where the military flag is located as quickly as possible."
"Yes."
Xiao Qiyi gave an order, and the ten horsemen escorted Zhen Youcai to the rear, while the other ten horsemen scattered.
"Boom!"
In the sound of Qingyue's metal friction, Wang Pu slowly pulled out his waist knife and pointed obliquely ahead, in front, the black Mongolian cavalry was chasing the ass of the Ming rout, under normal circumstances, Wang Pu would never take the lead, and the commander who risked his life was by no means a competent commander, but today is different.
Today, Wang Pu has less than 200 people under him, and he is a general.
"Do you see the Mongol cavalry in front of you?"
"See!"
Nearly two hundred horsemen responded with a bang.
"They have nearly two thousand horsemen, and we have less than two hundred!" Wang Pu said this, his eyes showed a solemn expression, and then said, "Our strength is less than one-tenth of the Mongols, some people say that we can only meet the dead end, but General Ben wants to tell you, as a man, as a soldier, even if you die, you will [***] face the sky, even if you die, you will die on the way to charge, we will never be deserters!" ”
The eyes of more than 100 cavalry soldiers suddenly became hot, and Wang Pu's words made them tremble from the depths of their souls, except for Wang Pu's cronies, other veteran ruffians had never seen a general like Wang Pu, let alone heard such a blood-boiling pre-war lecture as Wang Pu.
In the past, the generals seen by these veteran ruffians were always high in peacetime, and they always ran faster than everyone else when they were fighting, only Wang Pu was different from them, Wang Pu was like their brother in normal times, when they encountered a war, no matter how dangerous the situation was, Wang Pu's first thought was never to escape, but to ...... Offensive!
"I can't control other people's soldiers, but none of my Wang Pu's soldiers are of a bad seed!" The waist knife in Wang Pu's hand was gently teased, and he immediately roared hoarsely, "When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins, and you are a master, so follow this general...... Kill! ”
Stacking this sentence, Wang Pu slammed the horse's belly with his legs, and the mount under his crotch hissed sadly, shook off his four hooves and galloped forward, the earth under his feet fell backwards like a tide, and the black Mongolian cavalry was surging like a tide, and was sweeping towards the withered yellow grass.
Seeing Wang Pu riding alone in the dust, the fire in the hearts of the veteran ruffians rose and burned, and this tragic picture was forever fixed in their memory, and they will never forget it for the rest of their lives! The thunderous voice sounded in the old ruffian's mind, is Lao Tzu a man?
Yes, definitely!
Since it's a master, what are you still doing in a daze, follow the general to kill his Mongolian grandmother!
"!"
"Kill!"
"Fuck him turtle son!"
Scarface, Xiao Qi, Lu Liu, the remaining sixty horsemen, and more than 100 cavalry veterans roared hoarsely at the same time, one by one, riding horses and raising swords, following behind Wang Pu to meet the surging Mongolian cavalry in front, the wind was fierce, the dry grass was bleak, and the tragic atmosphere of the strong man was gone forever between heaven and earth.
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In front of the Mongol cavalry.
Banktu flew forward and slashed down with a knife, cutting off the head of a Ming army's rout, and suddenly looked up and suddenly found that a small group of cavalry had appeared on the grassland in front of him, and the other Ming troops were defeated like a mountain, but that team of cavalry was like a rock in the countercurrent, and did not move.
Banktu's gaze instinctively fell on the big flag in front of the Ming cavalry, what kind of flag was that? There is neither a lining nor a belt, but a strange blood-red pattern is painted on the plain white flag, and the production is so rough that it can't even be called a flag.
Banktu's heart floated a trace of solemnity for no reason, instinctively strangled the mount under his crotch, and the Mongolian cavalry behind Banktu also slowed down, nearly two thousand Mongolian cavalry first shrank inward, and then lined up in two rows before and after, and in less than a moment, they formed a neat cavalry formation behind Banktu.
In the course of the pursuit just now, more than 1,000 cavalry had already been chased and dispersed with the main force of the brigade.
At this time, the small group of Ming cavalry in front unexpectedly took the initiative to attack.
Banktu's eyes shrank suddenly, he couldn't believe his eyes, the Ming army only had less than two hundred cavalry, and if they didn't run away, they would dare to take the initiative to attack nearly two thousand Mongolian cavalry! Are these Ming cavalry tired of life? Or is it arrogant enough to think that with less than 200 horsemen, he can defeat nearly 2,000 elite Mongol cavalry?
"Warriors of the Korqin Tribe!" Banketu raised the scimitar in his hand, pointed his finger forward, and shouted, "Use the scimitar in your hands to teach these unscrupulous Southern Ming barbarians a lesson, let them know that we Mongolians will always be the kings of the grassland, and no one can defeat us on the grassland, ha!" ”
The next moment, Banktu urged his mount under his crotch and galloped on his horse.
Behind Banktu, more than 1,000 Mongolian cavalrymen who had already lined up in a cavalry formation rode forward, brandishing scimitars to meet the more than 100 cavalry cavalry of the Ming army led by Wang Pu.
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The two armies advanced against each other and met in an instant.
"Roar!"
"Phew!"
The two Mongolian cavalry roared, one left and one right galloped towards Wang Pu, the sharp scimitar had been raised high, and when it was about to fall from Wang Pu's body, two cold lights shone from behind Wang Pu, and lightning sank into the throats of the two Mongolian cavalrymen, and the sturdy bodies of the two Mongolian cavalry shook suddenly, and then fell from the horseback.
The two Mongolian cavalrymen landed on their heads, and Wang Pu faintly heard the sound of a broken cervical vertebrae.
The sound of hooves was like thunder, and another row of Mongolian cavalry slapped their horses and killed, and the sharp scimitar raised by the Mongolian cavalry facing Wang Pu slashed down according to Wang Pu's neck.
Wang Pu roared, raised the waist knife in his hand, only to hear a crisp sound, the scimitar in the hand of the Mongolian cavalry had been broken into two, but the waist knife in Wang Pu's hand was unscathed, and the terrible scream immediately sounded from the back of Wang Pu's head, Wang Pu didn't have to look back to know that the Mongolian cavalry had died under Lu Liu's hand just now.
In an instant, the surging forward Ming cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry that chased up were like two huge waves colliding head-on, and suddenly there was a bright blood flower, and the two armies were in front of a group of people on their backs, and the severed limbs and stumps accompanied by the hideous heads flew all over the sky, and the howls of the soldiers and the neighing of the war horses resounded in the sky in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, the two opposing groups of cavalry had staggered, each throwing down more than fifty corpses.
Although the Mongols occupied an absolute advantage in terms of strength, their formation was relatively open, and there were less than 500 horsemen who really confronted the Ming cavalry, and the Mongolian cavalry had just experienced a long march, and the Ming army that had just pursued and defeated consumed great physical strength, and they were at a disadvantage in physical ability, so the two sides were able to fight a draw.
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"Appeal ......"
Wang Pu drank the mount under his crotch, slowly turned the horse, and the remaining more than 120 soldiers of the Ming Army also turned their horses' heads one after another, and lined up behind Wang Pu again.
The short and fierce confrontation just now obviously consumed a lot of physical strength of the soldiers of the Ming army, which would be panting like dogs on horseback one by one, but the morale was unprecedentedly high, and it was estimated that even if Wang Pu wanted to attack the Horqin Khan court in Sanbula River at this time, they would not hesitate to follow.
What kind of commander there is, what kind of soldier there is!
Wang Puzheng is changing his veteran ruffians bit by bit with his fierce image and blood-filled style, and the indifferent heart in the hearts of the veteran ruffians is becoming hot again because of Wang Pu's performance, and although the process of casting the military soul is long, it has already had a good start.
The fierce battle just now also consumed a lot of physical strength from Wang Pu, and he gasped and slowly raised his waist knife.
Not far ahead, the commander of the Mongolian cavalry, Banktu, also slowly raised the scimitar in his hand, seeing that the tragic cavalry attack was about to be staged again, the left and right wings suddenly sounded at the same time the chaotic sound of horses' hooves, the Mongolian cavalry and the Ming cavalry who were waiting for the battle turned their heads and looked sideways at the same time, and there was a small group of Ming cavalry on the left and right wings.
"General, the lowly Cheng Cheng has been ordered to come and assemble!"
"General, the lowly Black Tiger has been ordered to come and assemble!"
The two of them rushed to Wang Pu, and the two hundred-man teams behind the two were exactly 200 of the 800 horse thieves.
Wang Pu shouted: "Return to the team!" ”
"Yes!"
Cheng Cheng and Black Tiger suddenly agreed, and led their respective teams of 100 people to quickly join the cavalry formation behind Wang Pu.
Wang Pu was relieved, with the addition of these two hundred cavalry troops, his own strength had increased to more than three hundred cavalry, although it was still at a disadvantage compared to the Mongol cavalry, it was not as obvious as just now.
"Brothers......" Wang Pu slowly raised his waist knife and shouted, "General Ben is still the same sentence, as a man, as a soldier, even if you die, you have to [***] face the sky, even if you die, you have to die on the way to charge, none of my Wang Pu's soldiers are of a bad race, we will never be deserters!" ”
"Yes, we will not be deserters!"
"General, we are all good soldiers!"
"General, don't worry, we don't have a bad seed!"
More than 100 horsemen who had already experienced a bloody battle of life and death were excited, and they responded one after another, and the two hundred horsemen who had just joined the camp were also moved by the emotions and momentum of the veteran ruffians, and couldn't help but shout along, and the crowd was agitated, and the scorching killing machine was accompanied by the cold north wind in the grassland.
Hundreds of paces away, in front of the Mongol cavalry.
Banktu's pupils contracted sharply, and he strongly felt the murderous aura exuded from this Ming cavalry, this Ming cavalry was very different from other Ming troops, Banktu had never seen such a Ming army, such a Ming army made him feel frightened, yes, he was afraid!
In front of the Ming cavalry.
Wang Pu slowly raised the waist knife in his hand, and the corners of his mouth once again floated with a cold murderous intent.
Suddenly, Wang Pusheng's hoarse roar sounded again between heaven and earth: "When the brave meet on a narrow road, the brave wins, and the master will follow this general...... Kill! ”
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Before Wang Pu shouted, more than 300 soldiers of the Ming Army behind him had already roared at the same time.
In the deafening shout, Wang Pu grabbed the horse's belly with his legs, drove the horse forward, and at the same time swung the waist knife in his hand forward, and more than 300 cavalry soldiers suddenly burst the embankment like a flood that broke the embankment, followed Wang Pu behind, and swept towards the Mongolian cavalry waiting in front.
Banktu's face showed unprecedented solemnity, and in the face of the high morale and murderous Ming cavalry, he made the most wrong decision in his life - retreat!
"Withdraw! The whole army retreats! ”
As soon as Baktu gave the order, nearly 2,000 Mongolian cavalry turned their horses and began to retreat.
There was a strange picture on the grassland, nearly 2,000 Mongolian cavalry were fleeing under the pursuit of less than 400 Ming cavalry, although this was the initiative of the Mongols to retreat, but in the eyes of the Datong rout and the Tumut people, the truth is that less than 400 Ming cavalry defeated nearly 2,000 Mongolian cavalry!
The shock of the Datong rout is decided, just now the rout soldiers who were still running wolf rush immediately turned into ferocious wolves, turned around and killed back, when the situation is not right, they run faster than anyone else, but when there is a cheap inspection, they are more ferocious than anyone else, are belligerent.
In fact, the decision made by Bandtu was not wrong, avoiding the enemy's edge and killing and wounding the enemy in large numbers in guerrilla attacks has always been the classic tactic of the Mongol cavalry to stand out in the world, and it was with this guerrilla tactic that the Mongol cavalry in its heyday swept across the Eurasian continent and destroyed hundreds of agricultural civilizations.
But this time the situation is different, the cavalry of the Ming army led by Wang Pu is either a veteran ruffian who has been in a hundred battles, or a horse thief who robs a house, they can be said to be the most elite light cavalry in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
More importantly, the occasion for Banketu to use guerrilla tactics was wrong, in addition to the Horqin cavalry and Wang Pu's more than 300 cavalry, there were more than 10,000 Datong defeated soldiers who had not yet been annihilated, and in addition, Wang Pu's more than 3,000 elite cavalry were rushing from all directions to help in the battle.
Although there were also scattered Mongolian cavalry returning to the team along the way, there were more Ming cavalry that could return to the team.
The Mongolian cavalry originally wanted to kill and wound the Ming army while retreating, but the result was the opposite, in the retreat and pursuit, the Mongolian cavalry not only did not kill and injure the Ming army in large numbers, but in turn was killed and wounded by the Ming army, and when Wang Pu's men almost gathered 3,000 cavalry, Banktu finally realized that the general trend had gone, and decisively gave up the fight with the Ming army, and fled with the remaining more than 800 cavalry remnants.
The situation on the battlefield has once again reversed dramatically.
The terrible scene of Wang Pu leading less than 400 cavalry to frantically "hunt down" 2,000 Mongolian cavalry greatly shocked the soul of the Datong rout, and the rout soldiers who were still fleeing for their lives just now turned into brave warriors in a blink of an eye, they shouted, waved empty fists, turned around and killed back.
The poor Tumut women and children had fallen from heaven to hell once more, and the newly appearing Korqin cavalry had not been able to save their fate, but had made them pay an even heavier price...... ■■■
The sea is dying, and the Ming army is in a big camp.
When Zhang Zi'an was waiting for the news uncertainly, the pale-faced little eunuch suddenly fled into the tent in a panic, gasping and said, "Godfather, it's not good, it's not good." ”
Zhang Zi'an was frightened, and asked in a trembling voice: "The Mongols have been killed?" ”
The little eunuch nodded vigorously, and said in a panic: "Okay, there are a lot of Mongols, yes, there must be thousands of cavalry." ”
"It's over, it's over." Zhang Zi'an lamented, "Wang Pu, Wang Pu, this time our family was killed by you, alas, ......"
"Godfather." The little eunuch asked in a panic, "What now?" ”
Zhang Zi'an shouted sharply: "You go outside and tell Zhao Xin that he must guard the camp no matter what." ”
"Huh?" The little eunuch hesitated, "This ......"
"Go!"
"Yes."
The little eunuch answered, and went in a hurry.
Zhang Zi'an looked around left and right, and whispered to himself: "No, we have to find a place to hide, yes, hide." ”
(To be continued)