Chapter 84 Mo Dao Xukui and Other Idle Matters (1)
Swept from the northwest, the seemingly menacing enemy, its formation was chaotic, it was needless to say that Zheng Yunming could see through it at a glance, but Han Feng further saw that their posture on the horse was stiff and rigid, not to mention that it was not the elite of the Mongolian headquarters, and even Shi Tianze and Zhang Rou's cavalry could not compare, he didn't need to think about it to know that this must be a miscellaneous army.
The one who came was the Wuer cavalry under the Gaochang King, the most elite knights under the Gaochang King were the descendants of the Han Tuntian people left over from the Tang Dynasty, all of them were armed with spears across the maroon war horses, extremely brave, about 500 horsemen, but this army had been drawn to participate in the expedition to quell the Khorezm rebellion, as for the Kangli soldiers and Khorezm soldiers, they were newly attached for a long time, and it was inconvenient to call, and the Vultures cavalry naturally had people who could fight, but the number was not very much. However, after the big battle, all the troops came out of the camp to invite Han Feng's attacking troops, and the Wuer cavalry was not to be outdone, and rushed to the front first.
"Use this road as a breakthrough to break through the enemy's encirclement!" Han Feng urged the war horse and took the lead in rushing towards the men and horses in the distance: "Take advantage of the fact that the other army is not together, and all of them will be annihilated!" ”
Before the two sides could get close enough to shoot at each other, the knights in the vanguard involuntarily turned their horses and fled, and their return horses collided with the friendly troops rushing up from behind, and the brigade immediately fell into confusion. By the time two thunderous musket volleys had passed, the Vultures had already scattered and fled.
"Don't be greedy for those who run away, rush behind the enemy and hit them hard!" Han Feng understands that if the enemy is put to death one by one with real swords and real guns, the strength to annihilate the headquarters of 20,000 or 30,000 people will be exhausted, and that is the moment when the Mongolian army can easily reap the results, and he can maximize the use of these thousands of horsemen in this hand, that is, he is desperately trying to create chaos on the battlefield of the Mongolian army, when the army breaks through the ranks of the Vultures cavalry and rushes north to the Zhou Causeway, it is already close to the location of the southern camp of the Mongolian army, which was originally used to store grain, military supplies and various materials. Originally, this was the safest area for the Mongol army, and since Zheng Yunming led the army to cross the river, many additional troops were temporarily deployed to defend it, but as soon as these teams saw the Song army breaking through, they all went out to meet the battle, but instead emptied the southern camp.
This is a good opportunity in 10,000, Han Feng still remembers that when Zheng Yunming told him the history of the war of the Nation and Dynasty, the details of the defeat of Fuping, that was also the Jin cavalry used their mobility to break into the Song Dynasty's baggage camp, causing the Song army's chaos. It's just that today we are facing a large cavalry group with much higher mobility than the infantry of the Song Dynasty, and the opportunity is fleeting, and there is no time for even a moment's hesitation.
"Rush!" Han Feng pointed his spear at the Mongol camp, and the cavalry roared loudly and rushed into the midst of the panicked people, cattle and horses.
Strictly speaking, if the Song army's progress on the frontal battlefield was all due to the chaos caused by Han Feng's cavalry's beautiful left flank plagiarism, it would be unfair to the infantry who fought bloodily on the front, and if we calmly consider the whole of the war, it was the Song army that braved the bad weather to seize the pontoon bridge played a decisive factor. Psychology is a very delicate thing, it doesn't really need to be exhausted to make people lose their combat effectiveness, and seeing their back road is being dismembered and burned on the Yangtze River is enough for many people. Of course, the men and horses of the Mongolian headquarters still maintained the iron discipline of the Mongolian era, not only did they not panic excessively, but even launched counter-assaults against the Song army in front of them again and again. However, this could not stop the mercenaries of the Western Regions, the signing army of the Central Plains, the Dangxiang, the Tibetans, the Uighurs and other surrounding barbarian servant armies from panicking, and their roosters scurrying around like decapitated roosters, stirring up the Mongol army's position in a big mess, and even the men and horses of the Mongolian headquarters were engulfed in, losing the ability to reflect the battle in time at the front.
Accompanied by hundreds of large and small artillery, the infantry of the Song army drove straight in, breaking through several defensive lines of the Mongolian army one after another, and even Zhang Rou, Shi Tianze, Liu Wei and other generals of a hundred battles, their subordinates also fled in panic, not to mention the new Wanhu that was temporarily formed in the Central Plains in a hurry to loot the strong men. Honkai usually starts at one point and spreads at an avalanche-like pace, eventually becoming a rout that no one can stop.
At this time, those who can still hold on to the positions of their own army must be the most trustworthy part of the Mongols.
When Bai Yijie commanded the army to advance near the middle base of the Mongol army, he finally encountered an opponent.
At this time, guarding near the middle base were the core of the Mongolian army, in addition to the 30,000 cowardly Xue guards, there were 8,000 people from the Qiyan Department of the Mongolian family, and 20,000 people from the left hand of the headquarters of Meng Ke Khan, and the most incredible thing is that there were also 1,000 Khitan infantry led by Zhongshu Ling Yeluzhu to stick around the Mongol Great Khan.
At this time, Meng Ge couldn't figure out what kind of mood he was in, he might be angry, because the 400,000 soldiers under his command were so unusable, and they would collapse so lightly under the attack of the Song people, which was simply the biggest shame for the Mongolian warriors in the past hundred years, he should probably be disappointed, with 100,000 people crisscrossing the river and Shuo, treating the millions of male soldiers of the Jin country as nothing, the iron cavalry rushed, and the army of hundreds of thousands of horses and horses in the Western Regions collapsed, and was defeated by the cowardly Southern Dynasty. Actually confronted his own army and defeated it, when the Mongol army had fallen to such a point. But at this time, Meng Ge suddenly felt a sense of relief.
From the beginning of the unification of the desert, the appetite of the Mongols is getting bigger and bigger, they want the people on the grassland, and they want the people in the forests, they beat the Western Xia, and they hit the Jin Kingdom, and they have traveled thousands of miles to the west, destroying countless countries, and even some of the destroyed countries Meng Ge can't call their names, and repeatedly invaded the Southern Dynasty to the south, the Mongols are like a blue wolf that is always chasing its prey, although the running never stops, but as the empire becomes richer and richer, the country is getting stronger and stronger, there is always a voice in the heart calling, stop, stop, Enjoy the riches and gentleness of the conquest, away from the blood and the heads, and away from the never-ending expeditions.
Inertia is like a spider web slowly growing in the empire, gradually making the empire's actions sluggish, and finally making the entire empire completely immobile, before the southern expedition, Meng Ge has felt this inertia hindered, it should be said that the inertia of the Mongols has been obvious enough for their Great Khan to perceive, ordered to recruit the men of the Hongji tribe to participate in the expedition, the Hongji tribe shirked for various unbelievable reasons, and ordered a crusade against the rebellious people in the forest, and the two thousand elite Tatar warriors only reached the North Sea, Before he saw the face of the enemy who was fleeing from afar, he replayed with a great victory. Every tiny detail, every inadvertent move. They are all telling the Great Khan in the vault, the Mongols are tired and need to rest, they also need to enjoy wealth and prosperity, no longer work hard in the wind and frost, do not fish and hunt every day to survive, and go to live some real superior life.
Naturally, no Mongol dared to openly put forward this idea, so Meng Ge was able to gather an unprecedented army again to carry out this huge expedition to the south, and he could imagine that with this fiasco as an opportunity, how many Mongolian nobles and nobles would shout to stop the army, learn the words of the envoys of the Southern Dynasty and say that they would enjoy peace forever, and when the southern expeditionary army was recruited again, how many really positive responses would there be among those tribes who were damaged and strict. Since ascending the throne, Möngke felt that he was fighting against this inertia all the time, and the secret contest with Kublai Khan seemed to have taken a back seat. Naturally, this unprecedented fiasco will allow Kublai Khan to find an opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity, and after returning to the north, he will inevitably face a cruel contest with this capable brother, no, not only Kublai Khan, but also Ali Buge, who is about to make a move, Hulegu who has not yet returned in Persia, and even Batu, the descendants of Uncle Chagatai and Uncle Ogedei, as well as those Han Chinese, Jurchens, Dangxiang people, Tubo people, Goryeo people, Kangli people, and Wu'er people who are obedient on the surface, I don't know what kind of thoughts will be born. But he had a relaxed feeling in his heart that from now on, he would no longer have to fight against the inertia of the Mongols, because after this fiasco, the Mongols would not have the strength to go south for at least twenty years, and Möngke could devote all his energy to quelling all kinds of problems in his vast territory, which had never been seen in history.
He was also a little surprised when he found that Yeluzhu was hurrying with some Khitan soldiers, he thought that even if Yeluzhu was grateful for the kindness he had given to the high-ranking officials and refused to leave, the Khitans under his command must be the first to flee, and the Great Khan asked in surprise: "Why haven't your Khitans fled yet?" ”
Yeluzhu knelt on one knee and said loudly: "The Khitan lost the country for a hundred years, the Khitan clan was oppressed by the golden dog, and almost wiped out, all thanks to the kindness of Genghis Khan, in order to revive the iron horsemanship, follow the Great Khan to conquer the east and west, so that the glory of the Khitan people doubled, now only Mongolia is strong, the Khitan people can be happy and healthy, if the Khan is defeated, the Khitan people die without a place to be buried, if so, what is the use of escaping a life today?" ”
The Khitan soldiers who surrounded Yeluzhu, after listening to the words of the lord, all sang loudly: "The Khitan home is in the clouds and sand, the Khitan flowers are different red, the rolling iron car is walking on the plain, the beautiful girl sings, a horse, a bow, walking all over the grassland autumn and winter, without the grace of the Great Khan, how can you escape the cage of the Jin Kingdom, the Khitan man is in good shape, not afraid of iron arrows and blades, where there is the enemy of the Great Khan, the Khitan people will attack wherever they are, do not step on the enemy's head, they are not considered the heroes of the grassland!" ”
"Yes, very good!" Meng Ge laughed: "Yeluzhu, I now appoint you as the Khitan Ten Roads Marching Ten Thousand Households, and lead the good men of the Khitan to stop Zheng Yunming!" When I return to Helin, I will immediately crown you as the king of Liao, and let you rule the people of Liaodong! ”
Everyone understands that the promise at this time is just a mirror, in the face of the rolling Song Dynasty army, who can guarantee that he will retreat with his whole body, but since Meng Ge has promised, even if Yeluzhu dies in battle, the wealth of his descendants will also be preserved, and the Khitan warriors cheered, raised the blades in their hands and shook them to kill forward.