Chapter 858: Take a gamble
In just a few hours, tens of thousands of Tartars hiding in the secret camp began to move.
Huang Taiji, who is very aware of the combat effectiveness of the Haw Par Army, knows that the current morale of the Jin Army in the future is no different from the decisive battle of the Haw Par Army here, and it is no different from sending him to death.
Therefore, Huang Taiji planned to take the initiative to attack and evacuate this military camp before the tiger and leopard army completely surrounded the entire secret camp.
Some people want to say that since it is an evacuation of the secret camp, why did they not retreat when the Haw Par Army went straight to the secret camp, but it had to wait until now. You know, if you retreat at that time, the Tartars will have at least two more days to prepare.
Actually, it's not that the Tartars don't want to retreat, and it's not that Huang Taiji didn't think of retreating. It was because Huang Taiji did not dare to retreat, and he did not dare to take the huge risks that retreating might bring to himself.
Why......
It was time to watch as the prison was about to enter the coldest season, and most of the food and supplies that the Tartars looted from Liaodong, including all the winter tents that Houjin was able to raise...... It's all here, too.
Tens of thousands of troops left the secret camp to retreat, and such a big movement, even in this endless dense forest, would attract the attention of the tiger and leopard army that had already entered the mountain.
When the time comes, the main force of the Tiger and Leopard Army entering the mountain will definitely pounce on themselves without hesitation and pursue them.
On the scene, in order to ask for the pursuit of the Haw Par Army, save the lives of most of the soldiers under his command. Retreating with heavy food and supplies is absolutely impossible.
Since this is the case, then he can only give up more than eighty percent, or even ninety, percent of the food and materials in the secret camp to retreat.
However, even with the help of the mountains under your feet. Successfully asked the Haw Par Army to chase and kill.
Tens of thousands of post-Jin troops who lost food and various warm materials. How do you survive this cold winter......
To know. In the mountains at your feet, there is no food and warm materials, and the cold and biting weather can easily freeze people to death.
Therefore, even if the tens of thousands of Houjin troops retreated two days ago, they would only live two more days. Even if they got rid of the pursuit of the Tiger and Leopard Army, they could not escape the blow of bad weather, and finally ended up with a total annihilation.
And continue to stay in the barracks. For Huang Taiji, at least you can take a gamble.
Because, before receiving the news that his henchman will betray Houjin and surrender to the Haw Par Army. No one knows if the main force of the tiger and leopard army in the mountains really found themselves in the secret camp, or if the blind cat bumped into the dead mouse......
If it is the latter, even if the main force of the Haw Par Army keeps moving forward in this direction, the direction is right...... It is also impossible to find a secret camp hidden in the hollows of the mountain. In this way, he and tens of thousands of soldiers under his command escaped the catastrophe......
However. To Huang Taiji's disappointment, the Haw Par Army was not a blind cat that bumped into a dead mouse. They really know where their camp is.
Now that the Haw Par Army knows everything, this gamble becomes meaningless.
Under such circumstances, even though he knew that more than half of the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command would freeze to death and starve to death because of the lack of food and warm supplies, Huang Taiji still did not hesitate to order the troops to retreat before the Haw Par Army surrounded him.
In Huang Taiji's view, if he continues to stay here, in front of the Tiger and Leopard Army, which knows the roots, he will definitely be wiped out. Including himself, as the Great Khan, he will also die in battle at the hands of the Haw Par Army.
And to retreat now, although it is also possible that the end of the whole army will not be destroyed.
However, with his own means and the limited food and materials he brought out, he still had no problem saving his own life and the lives of hundreds of henchmen......
No matter what, as long as he is alive, there is still hope for Houjin......
After all, in the mountains, there are still hundreds of thousands of Houjin people, and he can take them with him to recuperate and recuperate in ten or even twenty years.
So, the scene in front of the Tartar secret camp appeared......
Tens of thousands of soldiers, in addition to equipment, led a war horse full of food and supplies, and began to retreat along the ubiquitous mountain roads around the barracks......
However, what Huang Taiji didn't expect was that when he started to act, the Haw Par Army, which had long been ready to go, also began to act.
Tens of thousands of Houjin troops, less than half of them had just gone, and the nine sharp swords formed by the nine regiments of the Tiger and Leopard Army were fiercely inserted into the Tartar secret camp that was already in chaos at this moment from nine different directions.
Facing the wolf-like tiger and leopard army on the battlefield, the Houjin army was frightened when he saw the low morale around him.
Huang Taiji knew that the more than 20,000 soldiers in the secret camp who had not yet been evacuated were finished. Then, under the protection of the elite of Shubai, he quickly asked a tiger and leopard army to pursue, escaped from the secret camp, and drilled into the mountains.
At this moment, Huang Taiji, although he is very much like a lost dog, is very sad about the more than 20,000 soldiers in the secret camp who are about to be wiped out.
However, he also has something to be happy about.
Because, the more than 10,000 people who withdrew ahead of schedule are all the most elite Zhenghuang Banner soldiers in Houjin, and they are also the soldiers who are most sincere to themselves.
As long as there are 20% of these soldiers, they can escape the pursuit of the tiger and leopard army and survive the cold and biting winter outside the pass.
The hundreds of thousands of Houjin people scattered in the mountains could not get rid of their own control.
As long as these hundreds of thousands of Manchus are still in their own hands, in a few years, they will be able to form another elite army through these hundreds of thousands of Manchus.
On the surface, hundreds of thousands of people are old, weak, women and children, and it is difficult to find any young and strong. However, it only takes a few years for those children to grow up and become the most elite warriors under their command.
Therefore, as long as he is alive, he has thousands of henchmen in his hands who can still control Houjin, and Houjin and the entire unopened are still his own ......
However, Huang Taiji obviously underestimated Wang Feng's determination to eliminate him, and he also underestimated it
The great harm brought to himself by surrendering to the Tiger and Leopard Army by his henchmen underestimated the strong ambitions of these post-Jin betrayers.
Wang Feng, who rushed to the outside of the Tartar secret camp with the main force, had just received the news that more than 10,000 Tartar elites had successfully evacuated the military camp under the leadership of Huang Taiji, and a very bold idea came to Wang Feng's mind.
Then, Wang Feng, who frowned, ordered without thinking: "General Chuanben ordered that all the officers and men of the first division, the independent battalion directly under the army, immediately leave the battle and assemble...... The rest of the soldiers, continue to destroy the remnants of the Tartars in the barracks......"
"In addition, inform all officers above the regimental level of the 1st Division, the independent battalion Suo Keti, to come to me immediately to receive a new mission...... This time, I want to make Houjin completely lose hope of recovering in the future......" (To be continued......