Chapter 47: Siege Network (15)
"Lord Wang, there is a team of people in front!" Tanma's voice trembled as he spoke.
When Meng Ge Buhua heard this, his face couldn't help but twitch a few times. After all, the prince is the prince, and he knows that he can't panic at this time. Forcibly suppressing his impetuous mood, Meng Ge Buhua said to Tanma: "Let's take a look, I don't believe that the cubs of the Yuan Kingdom can run in front of us." ”
After hearing this, Tanma also felt that there was some truth, and the high-class prince's personal army team should have at least one person and two horses, and change horses regularly on the way to save horsepower as much as possible. In retrospect, the cavalry of the Yuan Kingdom should all be one person and one horse, and they should not be able to catch up.
With all the caution he could, Tanma trembled and moved forward again. After walking for a while, he suddenly saw several cavalry emerging from behind the mound opposite. Both sides suddenly saw cavalry on the opposite side, and they were very frightened. Le Ma draws the knife and does it in one go. The two sides looked at each other for a moment, and Meng Ge Buhua's subordinates shouted first: "The opposite side is the person from the prince of Badu?" ”
Hearing this, he looked at it carefully for a moment, and also shouted: "On the other side, it's Meng Ge's person who doesn't spend the prince?" ”
An hour later, Möngke Buhua and Batu met again. Batu looked sluggish, and when he saw Meng Ge Buhua stepping forward to ask, he first choked up, and then cried loudly. Meng Ge didn't need to ask to know that Batu must have suffered heavy losses, and sure enough, Batu beat his chest and cried: "My son was killed by the dog thieves of the Yuan Kingdom!" He died right before my eyes! Woooooo ”
Meng Ge didn't spend and didn't know how to persuade him. The other party died of his son, and Meng Ge Buhua felt that he could not comfort Batu with 'my brother-in-law was directly cut off his head'. He could only ask Batu's guards, "Is there a place to rest ahead?" ”
Batu and the others ran faster, and the guard replied, "There is a small mountain bag in the front, and you can rest in the recess on the back." ”
The men and horses on both sides joined forces and went to rest. There was a small river on the way, which made the Möngke Buhua army, who had not drunk water on the way, very happy. They first took the water and drank it for a while, filled the water bladder, and then divided their troops into two routes, one leading the horses to the lower reaches of the river to drink water, and the other way collecting firewood.
Meng Ge also helped Batu to wash his tearful face, and the two brothers sat by the fire, feeling the warmth of the flame. Fire can provide warmth and restore strength as quickly as possible. You can also grill meat and make delicious food. Although it is possible to be discovered by the pursuers, they can't control so much at this time.
Batu was silent for a while, and then suddenly began to cry again, "Everyone is dead! People are dead! ”
Meng Ge Buhua sighed: "Everyone is dead, we have to live even more." ”
When he said this, what he thought of in his heart was Tielin. If only I had believed what Tie Lin said at the time. Because if you believe in Tielin's words, you will believe that the Yuan Kingdom has two million horses. Meng Ge will soon take his subordinates and slip away. There are two million horses, which means that the Yuan State can gather more than 200,000 cavalry to fight in a very short time. Those regular armies of the Yuan State no longer need to pour out of the nest, and the elite regular army and the ordinary cavalry are formed in a ratio of one to two, which is enough to fight the same number of enemies.
Then Möngke didn't take a long sigh. Knowing the specifics in hindsight makes it easy to make the best choice. Before the war with the Yuan Kingdom, who would have thought that the Yuan Kingdom would be able to use the demon law to make the horses reproduce so quickly. Thinking of this, Meng Gebuhua suddenly had a panic.
For the past decade, rumors about Hao Ren have been circulating on the grasslands. Many people say that Hao Ren has been favored by the Immortal Heaven and has great magical powers. He can see the guidance of the sun in the dark night, and he can see the presence of the sun through the dark clouds. No matter how wind and rain, no matter what kind of darkness, Hao Ren's army will not get lost.
Meng Ge didn't sneer at such rumors before, everyone is a descendant of the Xiao'er Jin family, and the same amount of money is expensive, why would the favor of Immortal Heaven fall on Hao Ren's head. If Hao Ren had been so favored by Changshengtian, wouldn't he have become a Great Khan a long time ago!
Now Meng Ge is not worried about it, he thinks that Hao Ren will at least be a little miraculous. Although the Immortal Heavenly favor he received was not from head to toe, Daigo was initiated. But a hand, a foot, or an eye inspired by the grace of immortality, may be somewhat possible.
Just thinking about it, I smelled the aroma. It turned out that the guards had prepared a meal and were serving it. Still losing his temper, Batu kicked over the kebab handed over by the guard. Meng Ge didn't spend but was not so hysterical, he took the wooden stick and sniffed it. A rich, salty aroma whetted his appetite. There are very few pigs on the grasslands, and the second most abundant livestock in the farms and pastures of the Yuan Kingdom is pigs. This time, hundreds of thousands of sheep and hundreds of thousands of pigs were snatched from more than 800 farms in Hedong. All kinds of hams and large pieces of cured meat are hung in cold cellars and brought out to last for a long time. Just like the roast ham meat handed over by the guard, the taste is no different from the first time you eat it.
After a full meal, I drank hot water again. Meng Ge didn't spend time lying down to rest, and before he knew it, he was in front of the battle. In front of Meng Ge Buhua was the mighty Mongol army. The high-ranking princes lined up with their own soldiers and horses, ready to use the numerical advantage to overwhelm the Yuan ** team opposite. Compared with the army of 100,000 Kipchak Khanate, the 20,000-odd ** team on the opposite side is obviously at a disadvantage. What made Meng Ge not feel slightly uneasy was the figures behind the cavalry of more than 20,000 countries, they all seemed to be riding horses, but the distance was too far, and they could only see a group of shadows and unrecognizable existences.
Then the war drums and horns sounded, and the cavalry on both sides began to hedge. The roar of hundreds of thousands of horses' hooves on the grassland made the air of the plains resonate like an echo. Meng Ge didn't know that it was not an echo of the valley, but that there were too many horses on both sides, and they just wore very similar sounds.
The number of Mongol cavalry in the first formation was small, and the Yuan cavalry seemed to have muskets, and after a single shot, those Mongol cavalry fell off their horses like scarecrows. This is also within Meng Ge's assumption, the musket cannot be loaded when riding, the first formation consumes the musket of the Yuan cavalry, and the second formation is the key.
Meng Ge Buhua's brother-in-law is in the second formation, and this second formation is the real elite. Before approaching the Yuan cavalry, they hid on the side of the horse, relying on their exquisite horsemanship to make it impossible for the Yuan cavalry to shoot. When the two sides approached, they turned over and rode back on horseback. The Yuan cavalry put their muskets back on their backs and drew their sabers from the scabbard erected in front of the stirrups on the left. The two armies that were close at hand swung their swords at the same time and slashed at each other. The two cavalry rushed together in an instant.
When he saw the cavalry of the Yuan State from a distance, Meng Ge felt that the war horses of the Yuan cavalry were relatively tall, and at this time they were entangled with the Mongolian cavalry, which showed that the war horses of the Yuan cavalry were tall. In Meng Gebuhua's eyes, the cavalry of the Yuan State seemed to ride camels, and the horses of the Kipchak Khanate were as short as donkeys. The sabers in the hands of the cavalry of the Yuan Kingdom were several meters long, and they were cut down with the momentum of Mount Tai.
At this time, Meng Ge Buhua was shocked and angry in his heart, he suddenly had wings, and his toes were a little stirrup on the horse, and the whole person rose into the sky and began to soar over the battlefield. At this time, many of the Yuan cavalry on the battlefield raised their heads one after another, and at this time, Meng Ge didn't take a clear look, these Yuan cavalry had the kind of red masks on their faces when they jumped the gods, and the masks were extremely hideous. Suddenly, the blood basin on the mask opened widely, and Meng Ge didn't bother to feel it, and hurriedly flapped his wings and flew away. Long flames erupted from those bloody mouths, shooting towards where Meng Ge Buhua was.
Trying to control the wings to fly on the battlefield, from the initial effort to effort, soon turned into a freewheeling. It was as if the wings that the immortal heaven had given to Meng Ge were also blessed by the wind. On the whirlpool chaotic battlefield, Meng Ge didn't take a look to see his brother-in-law wielding a knife to fight against a circle of Yuan ** teams around him.
At this time, the originally vivid battlefield has turned into a strange world of black and red, with flames flying and black figures dancing like madness. The other Kipchak Khan** looked like dwarfs riding donkeys, only his brother-in-law was like Zhangba King Kong, holding a long-handled machete, fighting fiercely with the surrounding Yuan ** team. Meng Ge was anxious in his heart, he only felt a fire burning in his chest and a burning throat. With a fierce mouth, a pillar of fire erupted from Meng Gebuhua's throat. When the flames exited, Meng Ge Buhua remembered that the center of his heavenly fire was where his brother-in-law was. In a hurry, Meng Gebuhua suddenly woke up.
Looking up, I felt that the sky was dim and unclear. Meng Ge Buhua only felt that his mouth was panting widely, and his mouth and throat were dry and uncomfortable. Feeling the water bladder weakly, Meng Ge took a sip of it and felt a little better. The agility of flying in the sky in Fang Cai's dream was still clear, but his arms were so heavy that he couldn't move. After a few more mouthfuls of water, my throat felt better.
When he struggled to his feet, he saw that the bonfire had been extinguished, and that his men and the people of Batu were asleep on the ground. The makeshift camp was so quiet that Meng Ge didn't only feel his heart beat faster, as if something inexplicably terrifying was approaching at a rapid pace.
"Get up, go!" Meng Ge Buhua shouted to the attendants beside him. Seeing that the attendant did not move, Meng Ge kicked the attendant awake without spending two feet.
"Let's go! Walk! Let's go! Mungo didn't spend a lot of time shouting. Only in this way can he get out of the panic a little.
The superior prince ordered, and the people below couldn't refuse. First, Meng Ge Buhua's subordinates all got up, Batu's subordinates were also awakened, and finally both sides continued their brutal defeat before the early morning sun appeared. According to the demarcation of Kublai Khan, the place where they were at this time was within the territory of the Kipchak Khanate, but these people could only be safe if they withdrew to the Volga Valley. There are thousands of miles to go from the destination to here.
In the early morning sun, when the sun illuminated this temporary camp, a group of Yuan cavalry chased here. Looking at the traces on the ground, the commander couldn't help but be speechless, and his face was full of regretful expressions, "Tsk! I didn't expect to let them run! ”
"Commander, let's rest!" The adjutant persuaded. These yuan ** team only brought some spare horses, and there was no long-distance configuration of one person and two horses, and after chasing all night, everyone was really tired.
The regiment commander looked at his subordinates of more than 1,000 people, and everyone was working hard. If you chase it like this, you don't know when you'll be able to catch up. After hesitating, I heard the adjutant continue: "Regiment commander, the horse is really tired. Although these horses are good, they also have to be used with care. ”
These words touched the head of the regiment. The newly issued horses have a name in the Great Song Dynasty, called 'warm-blooded horses'. This is also so many words and explanations from the Great Song Dynasty, and the head of the regiment understands and understands the knowledge after listening to it.
According to the personality and temperament of the horse breed, the Great Song Dynasty divided the horses into three categories: hot-blooded horses, cold-blooded horses and warm-blooded horses. The name of this classification has nothing to do with the temperature or body temperature of the horse's blood.
The hot-blooded horse is the most energetic horse, and it likes to run by nature, and if it does not move at high speed every day, it will be uncomfortable. This type of horse is best suited for racing, and it is best to choose a hot-blooded horse when running a horse.
Cold-blooded horses have large bodies and skeletons, are quiet, composed, and are not good at speed. This type of horse has a calm and resolute character, gentle and intelligent. It is mostly used to pull goods and plow the land, and the Yuan State once managed to get the frontier sheepdog from the distant England region, and also got the local cold-blooded horse Charma, which was greatly praised in the Yuan State.
Warm-blooded horses are horses with personalities between hot-blooded horses and cold-blooded horses, which were directly bred by crossbreeding in the Yuan Kingdom. These horses are tall and have powerful limbs. It is not as large as a cold-blooded horse, but it has much more muscle mass than a hot-blooded horse. Therefore, the high-quality warmblood horse is bred, intelligent and gentle, with explosive power and durability.
Some of the cavalry of the Yuan Kingdom had abandoned the Arabian horse, which was a hot-blooded horse, and no longer used the cold, hard-working but small Mongolian horse, and turned to the warm-blooded horse. On the battlefield, the tall figure of the warm-blooded horse and the slender steel saber of the Great Song Dynasty made the cavalry of the Yuan Kingdom like a tiger.
In the battle the day before yesterday, the cavalry of the Kipchak Khanate was quickly routed, and the kings of the Kipchak Khan, who jumped over the wall in a hurry, actually sent a spear array to make a dying struggle. The cavalry of more than 2,000 countries that rushed into battle were all riding warm-blooded horses, and the cavalry of the Yuan Kingdom had already killed red-eyed, and their blood was boiling more than that of hot-blooded horses. They threw off their armor one after another, drove the warm-blooded horses to rush to the Mongol army's gun array, drove their mounts to jump nearly two meters in a vertical leap, and jumped directly into the gun array from above the Mongols' skull.
The cavalry of the Yuan Kingdom, who jumped into the enemy formation, immediately slashed at the Mongols crowded around them with their sabers, and the Mongols' garbage gun array collapsed in an instant. Without armor, even the topless cavalry of the Yuan Kingdom harvested the lives of the enemy like a god of death.
With such a good horse, the head of the regiment also felt that it was better to take a break. The horses were worn out, and the lives of those enemies could not be replaced. So the regiment commander ordered, "Everyone dismount and rest!" ”