Chapter 158: The Tartars Withdraw

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"My lord, are we going to attack the Tartar camp?"

Listening to Yue Yang's words, Wu Chengfeng became a little worried, offense and defense are not the same thing. Today, the Jin army came to attack, and the Ming army relied on artillery, firecrackers and an enlarged version of the thunderbolt to kill the Tartars with almost no damage. But once the two sides engaged in a field battle, the cavalry had just engaged in less than half an hour, and immediately killed and wounded nearly 200 people, and the gap between them can be seen from this, and now they have to attack the camp of the Houjin army, so the casualties will be even greater.

Yue Yang glanced at Wu Chengfeng, and after seeing his worried expression, he said with a straight face: "Mr. Wu Qian, this official knows that you are distressed for those brothers who died in battle. But how can there be immortals in war, not to mention that the duty of our generation of soldiers is to protect the family and defend the country, and now that the Tartars have come to our house, we don't even have the courage to take the initiative to attack, so why do we want to be soldiers? It's better to go home and pick up the baby. ”

Seeing Yue Yang's solemn expression, Wu Chengfeng lowered his head, "Your Excellency's instructions are right, it is more humble than a woman's benevolence." ”

Patting Wu Chengfeng on the shoulder, Yue Yang comforted: "You don't have to blame yourself too much, the casualties of your cavalry battalion today are not small, but the brothers are not sacrificed in vain, the corpses of more than 200 Tartars outside our camp are your achievements, and when you go back, this official will personally award you with awards!" ”

"Lord Xie, I will immediately gather people and horses, and vow to set foot on the camp of the Tartars!"

Wu Chengfeng gratefully saluted Yue Yang, and was about to turn around to leave, but was stopped by Yue Yang. "Stop! Wait, where are you going? ”

"Your Excellency. Didn't you say that you were going to storm the Tartar camp? Wu Chengfeng looked at Yue Yang suspiciously.

"Who said they were going to attack the Tartar camp?" Yue Yang shook his head helplessly, "The official just said that he would take the initiative to attack the Tartars. I didn't say that I was going to attack the Tartar camp right now. You think that the camp of the Tartars is made of mud, and you will break it when you stab it. ”

"Then what do you mean......" Wu Chengfeng was puzzled, not understanding what Yue Yang was doing.

"Come here, you immediately let the brothers bury the pot and cook, after eating, Ma Shan should rest, and then that's it......"

In the Houjin camp outside Hunyuan City, the large camp is still the same, with a pure white inlaid red flag. Fierce fighting. Groups of Houjin detectives went in and out of the camp, and there were teams of unarmored followers who went back and forth to the camp and everywhere, carrying water to make food, feeding the horses, and being very busy.

The camp of the Eight Banners Army was very methodical, and since the Nurhachi period, they have marched and hunted. In winter, the fence is erected, and in the summer, the trench is dug, and the horses are herded in the fence, and the horns and arrows are passed to patrol the watch, and the people and horses do not escape.

This method of camping can be described as heavily guarded, but as the saying goes. No matter how tightly the fence is tied, there are loopholes. Although the Houjin camp is heavily guarded and well defended, the Houjin camp is not only the Jurchens, but also tens of thousands of people who were captured by them.

Tens of thousands of people eat and drink Lazar every day, not to mention that Yue Tuo can't let them starve to death, otherwise they will be caught in vain.

Behind the camp where the people were being held. More than a dozen people dressed in gray cotton armor hid on a hillside a mile away from Houjin Daying, and the dense foliage around them covered their figures.

There was a rustling sound. A figure trotted all the way from the front. The figure came around and whispered, "Head...... We have found out that all the people who have been captured by the Tartars are being held here, and we have heard that there are many looted gold and silver treasures. ”

"Hmph...... Damn the tartars. One of them snorted softly, looked at it again and then said, "Okay, everyone, continue to monitor." ”

One of the nights did not accept and asked, "Head, don't we send someone back to report to the lord?" ”

"What to report? Report to the adults that we didn't find anything? "Okay, our mission is to monitor the movements of the Tartars, and if they come across the Tartars' sentry posts, leave them behind." Lai Laosi, Niu Ben, this time it's up to you, Lao Tzu is good to talk about it before he asked for two firecrackers from those door-slamming ghosts in the baggage camp, if you can't play a brilliant game, next time Lao Tzu will not have the face to ask them for something. ”

"You can rest assured, with this good thing, Niu Ben and I promise to be accurate! You say yes, boy of the Niu family. ”

The person who spoke was a lean man who looked to be thirty-one or twelve years old, and at this time he was holding a Mini-style fire gun and smiling and saying this, but his smile was as obscene as he looked, and it was difficult for people to have a good impression of him. Sitting next to him was a young man who looked five big and three thick, with a simple face, also holding a fire hammer and smiling but not speaking.

With the popularization of the Mini-style firecracker in the Yueyang army, this firearm that was more advanced than the three-eyed gun, bird gun, and Lumi gun commonly equipped with the Ming army was quickly loved by the majority of sergeants.

Although the cavalry is not currently equipped with this firearm due to the length of the Minny-style firearm, many nightmen have fallen in love with the long-range, powerful and high-precision characteristics of this firearm at a glance, and have secretly obtained some equipment through guò relations.

"Okay, don't talk about it, leave one person to sentry now, and everyone else eat something and go to bed, I guess the Tartars won't live in peace tonight."

"Yes!"

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As night fell, the camp in the Houjin camp was dotted with lights, and Yue Tuo's big tent was also full of Houjin generals.

Yue Tuo sat on the middle seat with his eyes closed and silent, and Luo Luohun and Kar Chuxu sat on Yue Tuo's left and right respectively. Luo Luohun frowned, and Karchu Xu had a black face.

In fact, it was not only the two Luo Luohun brothers, but everyone's expressions were not very good at this time, and today's battle made them all feel an invisible pressure. From today's battle, they all felt that the Ming army on the opposite side was difficult and terrible, although the training of this Ming army was not as good as that of the Jurchens, who had been learning to fight since childhood, but they used the equipment in their hands to make up for it.

The roar of artillery and the roar of the guns told them that the firearm they had once despised had become something deadly enough to threaten them.

In the past battles with the Ming army, although the Ming army was also equipped with a lot of firearms, but the Ming army's firearms were nothing more than a chicken rib in the eyes of the generals of their battle formations, with a short range and small power, not to mention the low power, and it was easy to blow up, which also made the generals of Houjin use a disdainful tone to describe them whenever they mentioned firearms, but today they knew that as long as firearms were used well, they could form a fatal blow to them.

The silence continued, and the atmosphere inside the tent was a little breathless. Suddenly...... Yue Tuo spoke.

"Why, you're all scared?"

Yue Tuo opened his originally closed eyes, revealing a calm expression and a hint of perseverance.

"You are still Jurchen warriors, just after a small defeat, you lost your fighting spirit, isn't it just a loss of a few Niu Lu? Isn't it just that the grain and grass have been burned, what are you afraid of? The main force of our red flag still exists, and we still have a large number of Han people in our hands, can we still return to Datong, this time we have suffered a loss because we don't know the bottom of the opponent, it doesn't matter...... Just call back next time! ”

Yue Tuo's voice was not loud, but it had a strong taste, and everyone here was also a veteran of the battlefield, the reason why they lost their temper just now was just because they were used to victory and couldn't accept this sudden defeat for a while, but now with Yue Tuo's encouragement, they slowly regained their confidence.

A Jia Lazhangjing slapped his thigh and said loudly: "What Lord Belle said is right, isn't it just that some warriors have died? Isn't it just that the grain has been burned? If the warriors are dead, we will make up for them when we go back, and when the food is gone, we will go to the Han people to grab it. Besides, although we have suffered a little loss for the time being, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, if we can't beat us, let's leave, can those cowardly Han people still stop us? ”

"Acton is right!"

"Well, that's the reason. If we can't fight, can't we still go, who can stop us Jurchen warriors if we want to go! ”

"That's it, isn't it just a loss, just find it back next time."

The generals talked a lot, and the originally dull atmosphere began to liven up.

Luo Luohun and Kar Chuxu glanced at each other, with a look of admiration on their faces, their own Ama is really amazing, just a few words to mobilize the feelings of the generals, just by virtue of this two of them are far from enough.

At this time, one of the Jialazhangjing asked again: "Lord Baylor, now our grain and grass are only enough to eat until tomorrow, and the withdrawal of troops is inevitable. But the Ming army on the opposite side will definitely not let us retreat, how should we withdraw to Datong? ”

"Yes, those Ming troops will definitely not just watch us swagger and withdraw to Datong, besides, we still have so many burdens, how to withdraw and return is really a problem."

As soon as the question of the actual retreat was mentioned, there was a lot of discussion among the people...... However, there are still many people who look at Yue Tuo with the eyes of the new appoint, and in their opinion, this kind of thing is just a small problem for Yue Tuo.

Looking at the eyes of everyone looking at him, Yue Tuo smiled slightly, and said proudly with a calm and confident smile on his face: "Although we suffered a loss today, if I Yue Tuo wants to leave, no one can stop me." Ordered the whole army, prepare to bury the pot to make rice, the whole army had a full meal, tonight at the second watch to get back to Datong to meet with the Great Khan, and then to the scattered people and horses to order, not to fight, to return to Datong Mansion together. ”

"Chirp ......"