Chapter 90: The Rift (Part I)
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The newly trained Han cavalry couldn't change formation quickly at all, not to mention that the battlefield was now chaotic.
When the Chahar cavalry crossed behind the Han cavalry, Zhai Zhe's heart was half cold, the Mongols' riding skills were excellent, not comparable to the Han people.
The spear was high in the air, the big black horse turned around, and Zhai Zhe closely followed the whereabouts of the Har cavalry, shouting: "Follow me!" ”
The Han cavalry queue slowly deflected to the right like a dying old man, turning the direction, and the horn sounded incessantly.
The only merit of this group of soldiers who have just passed through the battlefield is obedience, or blind obedience, if it were a gang of horse thieves, they would have already dispersed.
The battlefield is terrifying, and the steppe in the dark is terrifying.
The Han people who first entered the grassland have a natural fear of the grassland, there is no trace of the line here, there is no room, the twilight sky is on the ground, the sky and the earth are connected without the edge, the more the individual is small, the Han people are afraid of the grassland as they are afraid of the sea. Zhai Zhe told them that this is a foreign country, surrounded by Mongolian people, and the Han people can only survive if they unite and rely on each other.
The Han cavalry, who fled to a distant place in the dark, felt more and more lonely, they could not distinguish the direction, let alone know where to flee, only the familiar horn still called them.
A large number of cavalry gathered behind Zhai Zhe and turned around with difficulty, Zuo Ruo was yelling, trying to make the queue more neat.
In Zhai Zhe's sight, Chahar's cavalry gathered and turned back, the queue was not chaotic at all, perfect horsemanship, only one assault was needed, and it was his flank that would be hit.
At this moment, there was a commotion on the left side of the battlefield.
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8fc7 is coming! Zuo Ruo shouted excitedly, and the truncated rear army was able to converge, allowing the strength of the Han cavalry to be more concentrated.
Hundreds of paces away, with torches blazing, Amur reached out to stop the cavalry charge.
The Han cavalry had been gathered, and he was still sure that he would annihilate it, but it would inevitably be a melee, and every time it dragged on, there would be more danger to him.
Unable to swallow the fat in his mouth, Amur gritted his teeth and blew his trumpet to gather the Chahar cavalry, who were still fighting in various places.
"Retreat!"
"What?" The soldiers around him were unbelievable. Although the Han cavalry converged, the Chahars could circle around the outside and attack with bows and arrows, just like a yellow sheep in winter. The dense cavalry in front of you is the best target for bows and arrows.
"Retreat!" Amur's voice was filled with unyielding reluctance. He secretly calculated the time, the other three Tumut cavalry would soon arrive, he only had these 3,000 men in his hands, and the Chahars could only send these 3,000 now, he could not afford to take this risk.
Two details determined the success of tonight's sneak attack. The Han Chinese firearms disrupted the ranks of the Chahar cavalry and delayed their attack; The cavalry sent to the rear army failed to prevent the assembly of the two armies. Hundreds of feet away, scattered in the light of faint torches everywhere, the Chahar cavalry waited, and the expected charge did not come.
Zuo Ruo felt keenly on the battlefield, and shouted to Zhai Zhe not far away: "The Chahar people have given up!" Do you want to bite them? ”
As he spoke, the Chahar cavalry turned around and retreated into the darkness.
Zuo Ruo's shout instantly aroused Zhai Zhe's **, this was a tempting plan, he believed that several other cavalry must be on the way to this place.
Zhai Zhe picked up the spear in his hand, looked around left and right, opened his mouth and closed it again, surrounded by frightened faces, and the young Han man's arm holding the weapon was trembling slightly. These people are his hard work, and after this battle, the new pawns will slowly transform, and chasing these highly skilled Chahars will cause them heavy losses. This is a war between the Tumuts and the Chahars, why should the Han people fight their best.
"Assemble the teams!" Zhai Zhe finally gave such an order.
Amur glanced at it, and the Han cavalry on the opposite side did not dare to act rashly, so he was relieved to turn the horse leader and lead the Chahar cavalry to retreat quickly.
In the darkness, the Chahars moved westward with a faint glow of fire.
The shouting and killing gradually subsided, and Xiao Zhiyan, who had just arrived a few miles away, saw the separation of the two armies and did not rush to charge.
"The Chahars are retreating!" The pro-soldier whispered.
"Let's see them off!" Xiao Zhiyan saw that Zhai Zhebu was unhindered, his mind slowed down, his feet clamped the stirrups, and a thousand light horsemen chased the torches moving westward, moving quickly.
The horse's hooves fell silently on the soft grass, and it was not until hundreds of paces away that the Chahar scouts behind the palace noticed their movements and warned in a loud voice: "Someone is catching up!" ”
Before the words fell, followed by a miserable scream, Xiao Zhiyan gently stroked the bowstring in his hand and shouted: "Disperse!" ”
The cavalry behind him formed into loose formations, shooting bows and arrows at the light in front of them, these people were no better than those novices in Zhai Zhe's department. The swordsmen and horse thieves on the border of Mengming make a living by killing people and looting, and they are familiar with various killing techniques, and they are certainly skilled in bows and horses.
One after another, people were hit by arrows and fell from their horses, and Amur was secretly frightened, thinking that he had been bitten by the Tumut cavalry.
I don't know how many people there are in the dark, there are bows and arrows on the left, middle and right, but judging from the density of bows and arrows, the number of cavalry chasing over is not large.
Amur was secretly glad that he had just made a decision, if he was surrounded by three Tumut cavalry in the melee, he and his men would probably be wiped out.
The Chahars also fought back with bows and arrows, and the Mongols used a group of arrows, but in the darkness they could hardly find a clear target, and could only rely on the sound of bowstrings to discern the enemy's position.
Xiao Zhiyan changed a place every time he shot an arrow, shooting like this, with a long bow in his hand, when he raised the bow and arrow, there was only a target in his eyes.
The enemy was in the dark and I was in the light, and Amur quickly appeared that something was wrong and ordered: "Extinguish the torch!" ”
Both sides were immersed in darkness, except for the sound of bowstrings and the muffled humming of bows and arrows entering their bodies.
"Retreat!"
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After Xiao Zhiyan stretched out the arrow he had already held in his hand, he quietly ordered that it was impossible to defeat the Chahar people in front of him with his strength.
The horse thief came and went like the wind, retreating in the direction of Zhai Zhebu.
Two hours later, the eastern horizon revealed the white of the fish's belly.
The green grass was strewn with bloodstains, stumps and broken arms, livers and intestines, and the seriously injured and dying stared up at the sky with blank eyes.
Some people knelt on the ground and made a slight sobbing sound, and some people hid in a no-man's place and vomited loudly.
Zhai Zhe and Xiao Zhiyan walked among the soldiers, gently caressed the shoulders of the soldiers, and comforted them softly.
The sound of iron hooves broke the silence of the early morning, and the Hanggaobu and the Geriltu tribe gradually approached on the horizon.
Gřiltu glanced at the battlefield with an embarrassed expression, his garrison was only half an hour away from here, but it took more than two and a half hours to arrive here from the sound of artillery fire. Along the way, he had a fierce quarrel with Hang Gao.
The Han Chinese had no one to deal with the Tumuts who had just arrived, and the silent soldiers began to clean up the battlefield.
The bodies were stacked on horse-drawn carts and dragged to the vicinity of Hanzhai for burial.
In total, the Han cavalry collected more than 350 corpses, of which more than 30 were Mongols. With a ten-to-one death ratio, he lost nearly one percent of his troops in the first battle, but Zhai Zhe only had rejoicing in his heart.
Feng Qin came close to help remove Zhai Zhe's armor, his right shoulder was an arrow into his body, his entire shirt was dyed red, and a knife cut was made on his left arm, the injury was not severe, and Feng Qin used a strip of cloth to make a simple bandage for him. After a year out of Cyprus, he still has not gotten rid of the shadow of the extinction of his family and family, and he is silent all day long, but he is no longer the teenager he was a year ago. Every day in this world, people are dying, starving, and dying, for themselves or for others, and who can really control their own destiny.
"We're late!" Geriletu plucked up the courage to go to Zhai Zhe's side, and his relationship with Hanbu has always been good.
Zhai Zhe turned his head and smiled at him, but did not speak.
"Late?" Lei Yanqian's voice was raised and he smiled, and his voice contained sarcasm. He stuck his thick knife in the grass at his side, and sat down to watch the rising sun, the damp mist of the steppe making the rising sun as red as blood, and he had never trusted the Mongols in the slightest.
Geriletu's expression was embarrassed, and Xiao Zhiyan came over to comfort him: "The Chahar people are too cunning! No one thought of it! ”
Hang Gao carefully examined the battlefield, and although he prevented the source of Geriltu, he was not satisfied with the ending, the Chahars escaped, and the Han did not suffer heavy losses.
As the morning sun rose, the situation on the battlefield became clearer and clearer, and when his gaze swept over Lei Yanqian, tall and burly heavily armored knights gathered together, with all kinds of heavy weapons beside him.
"Heavy Knight! The Han people can afford to raise heavily armored knights! ”