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The explosion of the two Heavenly Thunder Arrows immediately plunged nearly a hundred Mongolian knights into chaos. It's not that these Mongol warriors can't stand it, but the war horses under their crotches are frightened. The brewing charge was in the soup before it could be launched.
Seeing this scene, Yang Axi drew his scimitar without hesitation, and drove his war horse to charge with a loud roar. There were more than 300 other Eight Banner soldiers who charged with him, and they belonged to two teams, one was the Right Zuo Team of the Zhenghuang Banner led by Yang Axi, and the other was the Zhongzuo Team of the Zhenghong Banner.
Although the Eight Banners in the eastward march all acted in the Zuo team, it was not excluded that two, three or more Zuo teams would fight together. The way of cavalry originally attached importance to the art of merging and dissociating.
So after discovering the vanguard of the Mongol army, Yang Axi and another leader named Jin Amin joined forces to set up an ambush here. They first deliberately left a little trace, luring the Mongols to divide a hundred households to open a search curtain in front, and then swaggered out, listing battle formations to engage the Mongols. Of course, 100 Mongolian cavalry would not be scared away by 300 cavalry Eight Banners in the wilderness - after all, the Eight Banners were formed in too short a time to fight a dignified formation. And there is a Mongolian thousand-man team behind those 100 Mongolian cavalry, and they only need to entangle their opponents for a while to win a big victory.
But the Mongolians would never have dreamed that Chen Dexing would actually equip each Eight Banners team with a mobile three-bow bed crossbow and twelve heavenly thunder arrows!
Taking advantage of the fact that the Mongolian horses were frightened, the Eight Banners Armor Cavalry rushed out, and this time, these Eight Banners Armor Cavalry played the highest level!
Two teams, attacking from the left and right flanks respectively. Nor hand-to-hand combat, just a charge. Yang Axi's Zhenghuang Qizuo team rushed first. One hundred and fifty horsemen roared up in a very untidy formation. Immediately collided with the Mongolian cavalry who had not yet run!
But where the cavalry charges. That is, people borrow horsepower, and horses rely on sprinting. It is the speed and weight that are converted into the force of the collision. Therefore, the horse team that runs up and the horse team that can't run takes advantage of it.
The centaurs of the Mongols. Immediately, he was hit and turned on his back!
At the same time as the collision occurred, the scimitar in Yang Axi's hand was not idle, but pointed straight ahead, and his whole body also fell forward together, turning into a spear lying on the horse's back, and slid past a Mongolian cavalryman. With the huge momentum of the galloping horse, this seemingly light slip contains more than a thousand catties of strength.
The sound of blades piercing armor and the tooth-sore sound of sharp weapons cutting flesh and blood sounded intensively! Under the rush, I don't know how many people turned over and fell off the horse. Yang Axi and his Eight Banners soldiers did not stop hand-to-hand combat. Rather, it rushes by. At the same time as they completed the impact, Jin Amin's Zhenghongqi horse team also trampled on. Another fatal blow to this chaotic Mongolian hundred-man team!
Their tactics were also unfancy, with horsepower and speed, sliding their scimitars over the Mongols, making them as vulnerable as papier-mâché at this moment, regardless of the layers of armor. After two shocks, less than a third of the unlucky Mongolian hundred-man team could still ride on horseback. The ground was littered with lying human bodies or war horses, and the muffled screams of people. The sound of the horse's wailing and neighing became one.
"Withdraw! Evacuate! Yang Axi gathered the horse team under his command, and before he had time to count the number of people, let alone cut off the heads of the Mongols, he yelled and ordered a retreat. He and Kim Amin had no more than 300 horsemen. It took 2 three-bow bed crossbows that could fire heavenly thunder arrows to catch the other party off guard, not because of how strong their combat power was. If you don't leave now, wait for the Mongols' thousand-man team to come up. The big guy's life is about to be confessed.
The retreat route had also been chosen a long time ago, and three miles away from the battlefield was a dilapidated deserted village. It used to be a large village with two or three hundred households. There is a rammed-earth fence that encloses the entire village. There is only one entrance. The walls are quite strong and thick, apparently left over from the Mongol invasion more than 30 years ago! The houses in the village are all Han style. There is also a sturdy and spacious brick courtyard in the middle of the village. Apparently belonging to a figure with a bit of identity.
However, the entire village has been abandoned for decades, and it is not half popular, and the dirt roads in the village have been covered with wild grass. Most of the houses in the village have collapsed, and some have become nests for wild beasts and birds. Only the mansion was still largely intact, and the floor of the courtyard was paved with green bricks, although yellow grass also grew in the cracks of the bricks. But the gate of the courtyard fell to the ground, almost completely rotten. The doors of several of the houses inside were similarly crooked and fell to the ground. I don't know if I was knocked out of the way? There was nothing in the house, it was empty as if it had been swept all over again—Yang knew that the village must have been breached by the Mongols more than thirty years ago. The inhabitants were either killed or captured, and then went up to the mountains to become savages. The goods in the village, of course, also became the spoils of war of the Mongols......
The location of this village is very good, right between the Yellow Sea and the rolling mountain forest. It's about five or six miles from the beach and less than four miles from the forest. Moreover, there were several small hills covered with trees two or three miles away, as if a few stumbling blocks were blocking the way of the Mongol army. To the east of these "stumbling blocks" is a river called Zhuangshui.
This kind of terrain is also the reason why Yang Axi and Jin Amin, two wild Jurchen Tartars, chose to hold on to their villages instead of retreating into the mountains and forests - this is the best terrain to stop the eastward advance of the Mongol army! If they are captured by the two of them, they will be the biggest contributors to this battle!
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Outside the deserted village, a huge fire was lit, emitting a sky-high fire. The sound of the horn whimpering sounded one after another around the fire. At the junction of the mountains and forests in the northwest, thousands of dots of fire suddenly lit up, flowing towards the huge fire like mercury pouring into the ground.
"Brother Jin, the Mongols are gathering a brigade! Coupled with the people who almost fought with us just now, there are about two thousand-man teams! ”
Yang Axi had already handed over the war horse to his subordinates to take care of, and he and Jin Amin climbed the rammed earth wall of the village together to observe the enemy situation outside the village.
"It should be two thousand people, at least eighteen or nine hundred, and we only have three hundred...... Three hundred Jurchens and one thousand eighteen or nine hundred Mongols to fight? Will it work? ”
Now it is a defensive, not a guerrilla attack in the woods, and it is false to say that you are not afraid - this is the Mongolia of the 13th century, not the Mongolia that believed in Lamaism later after being beaten by wild boar skins!
Yang Axi said: "Wealth and danger are sought, at most 1 day, the army of King Ming can come up, and then we will make a great contribution." Wait for the next Eight Banners to expand, you and I are at least a co-leader! ”
"That's right! Fighting wealth is today! After beating it, it will be enough for future generations. Jin Amin stared at the bonfire and said firmly, "These two thousand-man teams should be the vanguard of Mongolia, and they don't have any equipment, we still have two bed crossbows and twenty-two heavenly thunder arrows according to the wall, but we are not afraid that we will not be able to hold it!" Now it depends on whether the soldiers of the Ming King arrived first or the Mongol brigade came first? ”
"It must be King Ming!" Yang Axi said, "We have more than two teams in the Eight Banners!" Now there are eight teams for each flag, for a total of 64 teams. It's all scattered, are you still afraid that you won't be able to pull Tachar's hind legs? ”
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"Boom, boom, boom......"
Bursts of explosions rang out one after another, reaching the yellow tent of King Tachar Khan - someone was unleashing the Heavenly Thunder Arrow! Looking at the face of the King of Khan, this thunder is obviously not his person!
There was a mess in the yellow tent, overturned wine glasses and vegetable bowls, and soup and water were scattered everywhere. And no one came to clean it up. It turned out that when the first explosion sounded, Tachar was holding a banquet in the yellow tent and inviting several pro-Mongolian leaders of the Eastern Liao tribe to dinner. and let Yang Po'er come out to meet - this woman has not yet become the princess of the king of the Urus Khan. However, it is still a rare display. At least it can break the myth that Chen Dexing is the king of Ming.
Just before the banquet began, some people shot thunder arrows at the Mongol camp in the dark night! Although there is no accurate head, the momentum of the rumble is not small. What annoyed Ta Cha'er even more was that he had no less than 2,000 horse exploration rangers who had gone out, but he still let Chen Dexing's cavalry infiltrate near his camp, and he also used a bed crossbow to shoot thunder arrows!
This is clearly Chen Dexing's tired enemy's plan! Since he wants to exhaust the enemy, he doesn't want to know that Chen Dexing has already planned a decisive battle with the Mongolian army on the way from Liaodong to the Yalu River!
A large number of Mongolian thousands of households, as well as Liu Xiaoyuan, Guo Shoujing, and Hong Fuyuan, three traitors, were all called to the yellow tent. These people all looked at the Khan King who was pacing.
"Any news of Hotu?" Tachar suddenly stood up and asked. The Eight Banners who were shooting thunder arrows from the sky were not in his heart - two thousand-strong teams had already been sent out by him, and it was estimated that they would soon be able to sweep away the Eight Banners squads around the camp. What really worries him is the 2,000 people in Hotu.
"The report received before the evening was unharmed, and no trace of the Southern Barbarian Army was found."
Tachar snorted: "He hasn't found anyone else, I'm afraid that others have already discovered him!" ”
"King Khan, why don't you send troops to reinforce Prince Hotu." Thousands of Mongolian households present have built yì. They all knew that although Prince Hotu was not a descendant, he was quite favored by the Khan.
"No way!" Ta Cha'er waved his hand violently, "It's dark now, if the Nanban sets up an ambush in the middle of the way, sets up a hundred and ten bed crossbows and shoots heavenly thunder arrows, how many of our reinforcements will die?" He muttered for a while, "You all go back, restrain your subordinates, and let them rest in peace...... I have to rush to fight tomorrow, how can I do it if I don't sleep? (To be continued......)