Mongolian athletes, fighting the warriors of the Eight Banners, the result is naturally evenly matched. The Mongolian athletes who were sent by Tachar to impulsively scout the horses and rode were all good men of the Ulus, and not only were the horses first-class, but they also did not know how many battles they had experienced. And the warriors of the Eight Banners and the Yellow Banner are also strong men who kill tigers and stabbing bears. They may not be Mongolia's opponents, but this kind of fighting in the mountains and forests is not afraid of any opponent.

The blades of both sides flew over, and the sound of armor being torn by blades was heard, as well as the sound of knights falling off their horses and the neighing of war horses. Both sides slashed wildly with their heads in a frenzy. Their formations were scattered. Yang Akang and Yang Axi, two fathers and sons, one was in the lead of the formation, but the other deliberately fell behind. One after the other, he drove the team into a wood.

At this time, the Tohoku was quite underdeveloped, and there were continuous primeval forests everywhere. That's the real den of the wild Jurchens. Outside the woods, they were tied with the Mongol warriors at best. But when they spread out into the woods, it was a mountain hunter beating the grassland herdsmen!

The Mongolian hundred households who led the team obviously had no experience in mountain and forest warfare, and they were led in by the Yang family's father and son in a daze. And fighting in the old forest, it all depends on the ability of both sides to control the horses. I saw the war horses under the crotch of the wild Jurchen warriors flying around in the bushes, as if they were as flexible as foxes and rabbits in the forest. Throw away the Mongols who were sticking to them at once. As soon as the two sides parted, the Jurchens put away their scimitars, took out their horned bows, and did what they did best—hunting in the old woods! It's just that the prey is no longer tigers, wolves, wild boars, but Mongolian warriors......

The battle in the woods was quickly decided, after dozens of corpses were dropped. With a few loud Mongolian roars, the Mongols who had not fallen turned their horses' heads one after another. Routed out into the woods. The Jurchen Eight Banners in the forest did not chase after them, but just shot a few arrows as a gift. Then they dismounted. First, he cut off the head of the Mongol who fell from the horse with an arrow, and then picked up the wounded on his side and bandaged it briefly. Then he took out dry food and drinking water, and ate it in the forest, and took out the best horse food for the war horses to eat.

After a fierce battle, it was time to rest and regain strength, not only for the men, but also for the horses under their crotches. Only a pair of wolf-like eyes were still looking out into the woods.

Outside the woods, trumpets and sounds were constantly sounding. It was the Eight Banners rangers or Mongol warriors roaming around that were sending signals to their side, either calling for help or reporting safety. The fiercest light cavalry battles were taking place in the mountains and wilderness of the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula. Everywhere there were tragic deaths and injuries, and everywhere you could see lying corpses, dying wounded.

These men are probably the best rangers in the world of this era. In the armies of any country other than the Mongol Empire, it would become an extremely precious depository. But Tran was now able to send these rangers out to fight the enemy for the battlefield without hesitation, like a Mongol commander.

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And on a peak in Erlong Mountain, which was on the edge of the battlefield, several ironclad knights were immediately on it, and they did not make any banners. The one who is the leader. It was Chen Dexing.

From this point of view, even in the telescope, the Mongols' tent was only the size of a chess piece. One by one, dense obscenities gathered in one place. There are also barracks and trenches around it, and you can vaguely see the breastwork and forts. The whole arrangement, at a glance, you can see that it is learned from the Northern Expeditionary Army. Above the casemate. There are also torsion stone machines and three-bow bed crossbows, so I don't know if there are high-quality thunderbolts and thunder arrows.

And to the northwest of the camp of the Mongol army. At the junction of mountains and plains. I don't know how many teams of Mongolian cavalry and Eight Banners Horse Team are fighting. At the same time, more cavalry scattered in small groups of more than a dozen horsemen and marched in all directions, forming two large fronts that collided with each other. Once contact occurs. In an instant, many cavalry will be mobilized and gathered by the trumpet, and then bite the other party to fight!

This is the legendary "clutch indefinite", which is the greatest advantage of cavalry over infantry - it can complete the dispersion and assembly in the shortest possible time, and the dispersion can control the largest range of battlefields, and the assembly can be twisted into a decisive battle with the enemy.

Chen Dexing's Northern Expeditionary Army, relying on the familiarity of the newly formed Eight Banners with the mountains and forests of Liaodong, at least completely controlled the surrounding mountains and forests, and suppressed the Mongol rangers on the plains.

A military general standing beside Chen Dexing was none other than Wang Lufei, one of the twenty-two brothers, who was already full of admiration at this time.

"Big brother, it's still your way, if you don't suppress the raw Jurchen of Liaodong to form the Eight Banners Army, relying on my 1,500 horsemen, you can't fight like this with the Mongols' horse exploration rangers in any case. Even if it's a one-to-one exchange of lives, we can't bear it! ”

Chen Dexing smiled faintly: "There is no way for cavalry to be fast-formed, if you don't fight on horseback, you can't practice it for two or three years, even if you practice it, you can only use it as a heavy armored assault horse, not a light cavalry." We Han people, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, have suffered from not having a fine horse. But now that we've subdued the raw Jurchens of Liaodong, we can form a light horse that can withstand consumption. Although it can't control the plains this time, it can cover the mountains and forests, which is enough. ”

Speaking of mountains and forests, Chen Dexing turned his telescope to the continuous mountainous areas to the northeast. The topography of the Liaodong Peninsula is not as flat as the Northeast Great Plain, and the mountainous area is not small. In the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula, the mountainous areas are concentrated on the west coast and the southernmost point. However, as it extended northeast to the north-central part of the peninsula, the terrain on the Yellow Sea side of the eastern part of the peninsula became narrower. By the northeast of the peninsula near the Yalu River, the flat land had become a long strip by the sea, but it was only a few kilometers or ten kilometers wide, and it was not a battlefield for cavalry to rush at all.

Chen Dexing put away the binoculars, took a deep breath, and turned his head to look at Wang Lufei: "Twelve (the order of the twenty-two brothers), we have eight banners for the rangers, and the heavy armor cavalry has to rely on the cavalry division." Will it work? The opponent is the Mongols! ”

Wang Lufei nodded heavily: "What about the Mongols?" If I want my cavalry division to go to the Mongol iron cavalry alone, I may not be sure. But we've been practicing for months. Big brother, you'll see when the time comes! ”

"Good! If there is no problem with your cavalry division, this battle is a big victory! Chen Dexing said confidently, "After this battle, not only will the land of the Liaodong Peninsula be in my hands, but even Goryeo will also be in our pocket!" ”

At the same time, Tachar's mind was not on the Ranger confrontation, he was holding a huge arrow the size of a short spear in his hand, and there were many things like bamboo tubes tied to the shaft of the giant arrow.

"King, this is the flying rocket that Xiaguan asked Gaoli Tools to build." Guo Shoujing stood opposite Ta Cha'er and said a little proudly, "Unlike Chen Dexing's Heavenly Thunder Arrow, Xiaguan's Heavenly Thunder Arrow did not use a time-consuming and laborious iron shell to contain H medicine, but used a bamboo tube to charge medicine, and then with an iron nail iron block. Moreover, Xia Guan also tied two bamboo tubes to the tail of the Heavenly Thunder Arrow, and also loaded it with gunpowder, which can be boosted by fire after ignition, greatly increasing the range of the Heavenly Thunder Arrow......"

This turned out to be a booster rocket! In fact, a similar design has appeared for a long time, and it is not known who invented it, but because the H drug is not up to par, it does not have much practical value. And now, after Guo Shoujing obtained the powerful H medicine, he came up with the avant-garde design of transforming the three-bow bed crossbow into a rocket launcher, using a bamboo tube filled with H medicine as a booster, and then using a bamboo tube filled with H medicine and iron nails as a warhead.

"How far can this thing shoot?" Tachar knew how Meng Ge "died", and of course he was very interested in this improved version of the Heavenly Thunder Arrow.

"You can hit three or four miles." Guo Shoujing said, "Xiaguan has test-fired a few near Xijing, Goryeo, and they can hit three or four miles away. ”

Ta Cha'er nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, with this sharp weapon, it will definitely make Chen Dexing, a thief, be crushed to pieces, and it can be regarded as hatred for Meng Ge Khan!" ”

The old Khan handed the rocket in his hand to his guard, and his attention was drawn by a brass firebolt.

Both the gun and the rockets were transported by Guo Kan's navy from Goryeo Yongju (later Uiju). Although Chen Dexing's Beiyang Fleet controlled the sea control of Goryeo and Liaodong, it was not able to completely annihilate the Mongol naval army. The latter first shrank into the Datong River, and later moved to the Yalu River, and from time to time used the night to cover the sea, and a few days ago took advantage of the night to quietly come to Liaodong. A large number of equipment originally belonged to the Mongol naval army, including stone machines, bed crossbows, rockets, and this kind of bronze gun.

"King Khan, this is a 300-kilogram copper gun, which contains iron sand H medicine, which can kill enemies a hundred steps away."

"Only a hundred steps?" Ta Cha'er frowned, "It's a lot worse than Chen Dexing's big gun!" ”

Guo Shoujing shook his head and said, "King Khan, my subordinates are ashamed, these days I have tried to produce four big guns, and they all ended in explosions. It was made of two or three hundred pounds of small guns. ”

Liu Xiaoyuan, who had not spoken all this time, suddenly interjected: "Ruosi, how many flying rockets and bronze guns have been sent this time?" How many bed crossbows and stone machines are there? ”

Guo Shoujing said with a look of shame: "Hui Bingliu Zhaofu, a total of 1,500 flying rockets have been built, there are 30 copper guns, and there are 100 bed crossbows and stone machines. Time is in a hurry, there are not many craftsman materials, and Xia Guan can only make this little thing. What a shame to trust the Great Khan. ”

Tachar laughed, "Enough, enough." As long as it is used on the blade and caught Chen Thief off guard, in this battle of Liaodong, my Great Mongolia will definitely be able to win a big victory! (To be continued......)