Chapter 371: One Step Late

The summer night of the grassland has never been so dark, but the natural black curtain has given Beikoer and the warriors of the Ao Han tribe the opportunity to take advantage of the cover of night to rush all the way to the west.

Bekoer's original plan was to take advantage of the scattered forces of Uzhumuqin to eliminate some small groups of cavalry, but soon found that the current form was not as simple as he thought, and the cavalry of the Uzhumuqin division in the decisive battle at the Dongyang River was just the vanguard force, and a large number of infantry and cavalry followed closely after only one night, and continued to march westward, roughly counting, it was also around thirty or forty thousand.

This made Bekoer frightened and inexplicable, when did the Uzhumuqin Department have been like many dingkou? After years of war and consumption, it is probably the limit to be able to gather 20,000 of all the tribes. In order to find out the origin of this large group of people, Bekoer waited for the opportunity to prepare to catch a few rangers and interrogate them in detail.

However, these rangers are extremely cunning, and when they go around to investigate, they are all in groups of three, each keeping a considerable distance, and once there is a policeman, one of the others will always get out safely to report the news. Tonight the dark clouds are thick, and the five fingers are not visible, which is also giving the Ao Han Department a chance, Bei Koer has been staring at a group of rangers returning from the south to the north for a long time, they have been cruising on the edge of the dense forest, monitoring the movements, the main general of the other party is obviously also extremely uneasy about this dense forest, but this group of rangers is very cautious, never lightly approaching the dense forest, until late at night, such as the dark and missing the five fingers, it also makes them vigilant, and at the same time, perhaps it is a huge uneasiness that makes them reunite and return north together.

Bekoer waited for a whole day, waiting for this golden opportunity, although they were also unable to move in the dark, but the three rangers walked in a group, while giving the Ao Han warriors a chance to catch them all without revealing their whereabouts.

A chirp pierced the dark night sky, startling the galloping horses a little uneasy, and several rangers immediately realized the danger, but it was too late. The warriors of the Ao Han tribe surrounded them from all sides, and long ropes were thrown in the darkness, and soon the first unlucky man fell off his horse.

There were bursts of excited cheers in the darkness, and the remaining two rangers were so distressed that they galloped in panic and fled in separate ways. Xiangdong was colliding with the dense Ao Han troops to intercept the cavalry, and was cut off from his horse in less than a moment, and his arm was injured and bleeding, but he couldn't die for a while.

Compared with the two companions, the rangers who went all the way to the west were the luckiest, passing through the gap between the Ao Han cavalry who came to intercept them, and galloped on horseback. The cavalry of the Ao Han Division, who was facing it, watched the rangers fight their horses and left, but they ran away from each other and wanted to turn around again, I am afraid that it would be too late to catch up. For a while, everyone was inexplicably frightened, once this person escaped, their whereabouts were exposed, and the other party would inevitably send people to clear it, so they couldn't just flee into the dense forest and go south to just flee for their lives.

In desperation, Bekoer drew the longbow from the horseback trunk, which, unlike the short bow of the horse, was a longbow nearly a man high, made of fine horns, tendon ropes, and swim bladders, and had a range far beyond that of the Mongol cavalry.

This longbow was ridiculed by many people, thinking that this infantry longbow was useless in Mongolian cavalry shooting, but Bekoer just liked the longbow and carried it on his horse every time he traveled, and he didn't want to take it seriously this time.

Bekoel drew his longbow and bent the bow and arrows in one go, and the three long arrows shot into the dark night with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, but the faintly moving black shadow still did not stop. Unexpectedly, all three arrows were missed, and the warriors of the Ao Han Department had already turned their horses' heads and chased after them, and they must not give up lightly until the last moment.

Beikouer took a deep breath, pulled out the long arrow from the quiver again, pulled the tendon string to the extreme with his right arm, and suddenly let go, and the long arrow went offline...... The outline of the black shadow has become more and more unclear, but it is still faintly moving forward, which makes Bei Kuoer feel powerless, this arrow shoots, it is difficult for him to pull this bow with the same arm strength and accuracy in a short period of time, not to mention that the war horse gallops, and it may go out more than ten steps in the blink of an eye, and it will soon be out of the range of the longbow.

But I heard an excited cry in the darkness, "Hit, shot!" ”

Hearing this, Bei Ko'er suddenly got up again, and galloped away, only to see that the ranger had been pierced through the chest by an arrow, and seeing that he could only kick his legs and breathe, it was obvious that he could not live, only the Mongolian horse under his crotch went far away.

Several of the most experienced riders had already gone to catch the ownerless war horse, and the war horse without the owner could not run far, and was soon brought back. Bei Koer wiped the hot sweat on his forehead, this "battle" was thrilling, and it was no less than a thousand people battle.

After some interrogation, one of the two rangers was killed and one was paralyzed, but the news finally made Bikoer feel like he had fallen into an ice cave.

The voice of the ranger begging for mercy became more and more unclear in Bekoer's mind, and his mind had already turned to the current situation, but after a few circles in his mind, he found that he had no way to deal with it, and hot sweat and cold sweat broke out together.

This army turned out to be a coalition of Korqin and other tribes and the four major Khalkha tribes, and the commander of this coalition army was Nurhachi's nephew, Gushan Ezhen, with a yellow flag, and Bai Yintu, the right-hand man of Huang Taiji, and with him came the seventh son of Nurhachi, Dorobele, Abatai; Inlaid with white flags, solid mountains, and true turgs.

Such a strong lineup has far exceeded the limit of what Bikoer can bear, from the eighteen years since he was born on the grassland, the first ten years have been growing up under the protection of his father, and when he lost the protection of his father, when he provoked the Ao Han Department alone, it was a chaotic chaos in southern Mongolia and attacked each other. The Ao Han Department has survived with great difficulty in the cracks, not by fighting on the battlefield, but by enduring and retreating, and the biggest battle that Bei Koer has ever been exposed to is probably only the previous battle of Dongyang River.

Now the Qing court dispatched the imperial magnates as commanders, and requisitioned a group of Mongolian tribes that surrendered to the Qing court at the earliest time in southern Mongolia, as well as the soldiers of the four major tribes in northern Mongolia. The scale is huge, and I am afraid it is the first time in the Mongolian steppe in more than ten years.

It was difficult for Bekoer to understand, how could the melee between the Mongols in the south of the desert alarm the Qing court and make the emperor of the Qing court pay so much attention to it? Thinking about it, there is only that Ming army chief Li Xin!

The appearance of the Qing court as if facing a great enemy also surprised Bei Koer, could a general soldier of the Ming Dynasty be more capable than those governors and governors? It is said that the two major governors of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Chengzong and Hong Chengchou, one sat in Liaodong and the other sat in Xuanfu, and they didn't let the Qing court attack so hard!

What to do next, many people from the Ao Han Department immediately rushed back to the camp of Xiashui Sea, and then took their subordinates to the west to take refuge. But Bekoel flatly refused, and after the initial shock, he had already made up his mind.

The Ao Han Department can no longer survive as in the past as in the cracks, now is a great opportunity, the Ming Dynasty's general army is strong will make the Qing court like a great enemy, on the other hand, even if the army is 30,000 or 40,000, and the power is like a cloud, the Ming army may not be able to fight.

Instead of running for your life, it is better to take a gamble and bet on the general soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

After a night march, the sky will brighten, and the white of the fish belly in the east will gradually be dyed with a layer of red and yellow by the grassland sun. The coalition forces have been transformed from a long snake to three armies on the left, the center and the right, advancing in parallel. With the morning breeze on the grassland, Li Xin's ears seemed to faintly hear the sound of shouts and fighting in the distance.

When it was getting closer and closer to the battlefield, I don't know what happened to the remnants of the coalition army led by the Soviet Union that night had passed. The horse galloped back, "Ten miles ahead, the 10,000-strong army of the Uzhumuqin Division is confronting the coalition army!" ”

After receiving the report, Li Xin breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Su was still strong on the shore of Qi'er Sea that day, he would be more than eighty percent sure of this battle.

"How many men are left in that day?"

"Back to the general, there are less than three thousand."

This number surprised Li Xin a little, 10,000 against 3,000, with the bravery of the Mongols, it should not be a confrontation.

"Let's go, go up the hill ahead and take a look!"

Li Xin left the Chinese army with his own guards, went to the high slope of the grassland, and after a cup of tea, the horse team climbed to the top of the slope.

The armies of both sides lined up in the fog and opened their positions, and the Uzhumuqin tribe was like a falcon, staring at the weak remnants of the coalition army, but only a few odd troops stood out to engage each other and fought together, but in the end both sides seemed to maintain great restraint.

Li Xin's brows tightened, and Lu Jiu kept following closely around him.

"Uzhumuqin has such a big appetite, this is a soldier who wants to surrender without a fight!"

The Dingkou on the grassland is precious, and it is natural to cherish manpower, but this style of play is not the style of the grassland people, and there is always an intuition to tell Li Xin that it must be the Han people who command the opponent's army.

Li Xin took a deep breath, no matter who the opponent's main general was, this battle could only be won, he had decided to launch a strong attack on the flank of more than 10,000 people of the Uzhumuqin Division, cooperate with the Soviet Department that day, and then defeat it in one fell swoop.

"Order, the army rushes forward!"

The herald soldier ordered the flag to wave, and the middle army of the Three Guards Army was in a roar after receiving the military order, and the Mongolian infantry and cavalry coalition troops on both wings also began to advance slowly.

The appearance of the coalition army really changed the Uzhumuqin department, and a cavalry galloped and galloped straight to the flank of the coalition army. Li Xin decided to ignore it, and the Mongol armies on both flanks of the coalition army would give them a powerful counterattack, and the key was the impact of the Chinese army on its main force.

At the same time, Bei Ko'er ran lifelessly, and he rushed to the edge of the battlefield, he gave up hiding his whereabouts and galloped straight to the camp in the water and sea, in order to call the Ming army commander-in-chief, but he was still a step late, and he ran into the coalition army led by Li Xin and the Uzhumuqin Department in Qi'er Haizheng into a decisive battle.

Witnessing this, Bekoer wanted to cry without tears, and he had almost seen the scene of the imminent defeat of the coalition army.