Chapter 0376: Sentinel Battle

Han Shi turned around with his horse, and the cavalry led by him lit up with a cyan military array light. The soldiers shouted in unison, and their morale was high.

Different from the usual protective light of the military formation, Wen Ruolan designed a new key protective military formation for the guards after gaining insight into the basic operation laws of spiritual power-the protective light is no longer evenly distributed on the entire surface of the formation, but is controlled by the commander of the military array and placed on certain points.

When the blue light is on, the defense of each cavalry is strengthened. They were moving forward as if they were wrapped in a strong wind, and the speed of their rides had increased by at least two or three percent. The advantage is that the combat power can be doubled, and the disadvantage is that there are higher requirements for the commander.

Han Shi lightly clamped the horse's belly, and the war horse galloped quickly, staring at the leading Niu Lu Zhen opposite. The enemy was in a dilemma, and he had just sent more than half of his men to support the other part of his men who were in a desperate situation, and as soon as he looked up, he saw that the leader of the Han cavalry had been killed.

Since the Nurhachi War, the Han Chinese people encountered by the Jurchens have all been sparse and weak. The Ming army still had a little courage when defending the city, and ran faster than rabbits in the field. But today, these Han cavalry can fight bravely and are good at tactical cooperation, which really surprised the arrogant Jurchen cavalry and caught them off guard.

The battlefield of tens of meters is close to breathing, and the tight time does not allow people to think too much. Seeing Han Shi approaching to attack, Niu Lu could only lay down a heart and fight with a mace. The mace was more than three meters long, and its workmanship was extremely crude, with iron nails nailed to the thick head of the club, and a shrunken human head hanging from the head of the club.

Niu Lu really grinned and shouted, and a black whirlwind swung out from his mace. The shrunken human head seemed to come back to life, and the gaping mouth of the missing tooth let out a loud cry. The shaman's concocted human head broke away from the mace and bit Han Shi, and several cyan lights flashed on Han Shi's sword in an instant.

Qing Mang cut the human head in half with one blow, split the mace directly with another blow, and cut through Niu Lu Ezhen's chest with a third blow, piercing through the multiple layers of armor he was wearing, and dissecting the ugly creature alive. The horse jolted and soon threw half of the body down. The remaining half was dragged on the stirrups, spilling blood all over the ground, and a section of intestines dragged out two or three meters.

The first kill was successful, and Han Shi was even more confident, it turned out that this invincible Jurchen barbarian could also be defeated. The battle knife in his hand turned into a long whip, and it continued to fly out of a spiritual power edge more than a meter long. The Jurchen cavalry that approached him all dismounted with the ferocity of this bladed whip. Every blow was shattered, and the blood mist danced wildly.

The enemy's thin cavalry was rushed by Han Shi, and behind him was the enemy who was lodging and howling. The Guards cavalry, which is equipped with the defense of key military formations, seems to be invincible, and bravely and fearlessly exerts its due training strength. They performed dressage on the bloody battlefield, calmly cutting down the enemy one by one.

In the battle of more than a dozen people, the cavalry of the Guards spent a lot of money to build showed an overwhelming advantage. Whether attacking, defending, or maneuvering, they are stronger than the enemy's elite. After a round, only five or six of the distant enemy escaped for their lives, and they watched their comrades fall from their horses, and in panic they did not dare to turn back, and fled with whips on their horses.

There were still more than thirty Jurchen cavalry left on the battlefield. They were scattered and lacked command, making it difficult to resist the charge of the Guards cavalry. Han Shi shouted 'Joy' on the battlefield, and then ordered: "Kill them all." ”

At this moment, Han Shi is killing up, like a majestic and mighty lion on the battlefield. He laughed and exuded the rough and heroic spirit of the northland boys, his eyes were crazy, and he showed an irresistible killing heart - in the past six months, the entire Han people in Liaodong felt aggrieved, indignant, and uncomfortable. The humiliation of being bullied to the doorstep of the Jurchens severely damaged their dignity.

Today, this evil breath is finally going to be reported!

The impact resumed, and the three cavalry squads that were originally separate to lure the enemy into ambush continued to converge, forming a powerful attack formation and sweeping in pieces. The Jurchen cavalry, which had been violently slaughtering, fled in confusion and lost more than half. A good Niulu elite was crippled in a few minutes of duel.

Waiting for the enemy to turn around and flee, Han Shi pursued only 500 meters before he saw it. His bright silver armor was splashed with drops of blood, thick semi-coagulated blood continued to slide down on the blade, and his undulating chest breathed heavily, only the hideous smile on his face showed the joy in his heart, "Half a year ago, Lao Tzu was driven away like a dog here. Half a year later, Lao Tzu came back again. ”

The cavalry of the guards were all Liao, and they did not have a good impression of the Jurchen barbarians who invaded their homes and enslaved and slaughtered their relatives. With Zhou Qingfeng's repeated political education, they were ruthless in killing the enemy.

"Clean up the battlefield, report your casualties, gather your horses. See if there are any lightly wounded captives, bandage them and take one or two away. Han Shi ordered in accordance with the combat regulations, and quickly evacuated with his men. According to the plan of the Guards, he will establish an outpost at the Tiger Skin Post between Liao and Shen, constantly spy on the military situation of the Jurchens, and curb the enemy's exploration of Liaoyang in the south.

Not long after Han Shi left, four or five hundred Jurchens rumbled out of Shenyang City. There are both foot and cavalry, and the formation is rigorous, such as facing a great enemy. Among the leaders were Zhou Qingfeng's old acquaintances Huang Taiji and Sakhalian.

When they arrived at the battlefield where they had just been fighting, they stopped slightly, and Huang Taiji ordered Sakhalian to continue the pursuit of Han Shi with his cavalry, while he himself dismounted to check on his own soldiers who had died in battle.

The corpses on the ground are often fatal with a single knife, which shows that the duel is very quick and does not entangle too much. Judging from the wounds, most of them were chopped in the chest and abdomen, and a small number were cut in the thighs and horses.

"The knife edge of this group of Han people is really sharp, and it is easy to cut through the armor of our White Flag warriors, and even cut two layers in one go." Huang Taiji's face was very ugly.

Completely different from the Ming army's carelessness in treating armaments, the Jurchens fought every day and were very sensitive to the quality of weapons. Huang Taiji twisted half of the piece of iron that had been split by the knife edge in his hand, carefully observed the traces of the incision, and said: "It is said that the Han people are good at smelting and forging, and they can really make good knives." ”

It is the middle of winter now, and Jiannu is laying Fushun, and all parts of Shenyang will also get up cats. After all, going out in winter is too physically exertional, and more food is needed. The activity of one or two people can bear it, but the activity consumption of thousands of people is too great.

The Jurchens fought for plunder, for enjoyment, not for masochism. Only the 'revolutionary army', which fears that the enemy is going to attack the door all day long, will do this at any cost.

Today, the scouts of the guards approached Shenyang, and a Niu Lu Ezhen stationed at the city gate immediately reacted, and drove out of the city without waiting for Huang Taiji's order. After Huang Taiji learned about it, he secretly praised himself in his heart for being the elite of the white flag, and he dealt with it very correctly. But when he climbed the city wall, although he was too far away from the battlefield to see clearly, he could see from the horses fleeing in confusion that the situation was not good.

Waiting for Huang Taiji to hurriedly lead the team out to respond, the small-scale cavalry duel had ended, and the enemy scouts had already run away. Sending Sakhalian to pursue was just self-comforting, Huang Taiji seemed calm on his face, but he was actually very angry in his heart - after Nurhachi carried out military reform last year, there were only eighteen positive white flags assigned to Huang Taiji. Today is equivalent to the collapse of one.

Jiannu is tens of thousands of people every time he goes out, but among them, the regular soldiers are fifty elites in the Niu Lu. The others are all coated by Yu Ding and even the army. Huang Taiji's Zhengbai Banner is a relatively weak flag at present, and compared to the Zhenghuang Banner with 45 Niu Lu, his military strength is simply not enough.

After taking Fushun and Shenyang, Nurhachi did not immediately relocate his ruling center. He left Huang Taiji in Shenyang to garrison, and he still led his troops back. However, after seeing the prosperity and beauty of the Han city, he also realized that the Hetuara he lived in was really like a kennel.

Nurhachi is building a city as a new capital on Jiefan Mountain in Sarhu, and for the time being, he has no intention of directly taking Shenyang as the capital on the front line. However, Huang Taiji, who was stationed in Shenyang, soon realized the convenience and benefits of this Han Chinese city, whether it was to capture slaves or raise grain and grass.

It's just that at the moment, Huang Taiji is being challenged.

"This group of Han cavalry not only has good swords, but also better armor." Huang Taiji searched all the Jurchen corpses all over the place, inspected their weapons one by one, and finally found that only a very few of them had blood on their knife edges, and the amount of blood was not large. "My Dajin Warrior has killed and injured more than 20 people, but he hasn't been able to kill or injure a few opponents?"

Huang Taiji hurriedly arrested all the Jurchen cavalry who had just fled back and questioned them, asking them to find out how many enemies they had encountered in the battle they had just fought and how they fought them. He quickly confirmed one thing, his opponent was very well armed.

A Jurchen cavalryman who fled back cried: "It's not that the minions don't work hard, it's really that those Han armor is too thick." Their breastplates were so bright that they could shine on people's eyes, and their skirts were also large pieces of iron, which could not be cut at all. ”

"How many Han people are there?"

"Sixty or seventy. Those Han Chinese Nikan were very cunning, luring us into pursuit and then surrounding us on three sides. One of the generals also took advantage of the military formation and hacked the leader of our Niu Lu to death. ”

Huang Taiji asked around and said that there were more than 100 enemies, and the least was forty or fifty. He estimated that there should be about sixty. If he said that the Han people had fewer troops than their own and dared to divide their troops to surround them, he would not believe it.

"Is that the general of the Ming army so strong and so bold?" Huang Taiji is waiting for Sakhalian who was sent out to make some gains, so as to figure out who is coming today? But after waiting for a while, I waited for the distant cannon to sound, and the rumbling sound was like winter thunder.

After a while, Sakhalian returned, but with a disgraced face. When he saw Huang Taiji, he shouted at the Han cavalry for being cunning, saying that he had pursued ten miles and was about to catch up with the fleeing Han Chinese, when suddenly a thunder exploded in the ranks, disconnecting his cavalry. Four or five Jurchen elites were killed on the spot.

"Not to mention that the Han cavalry over there blew us up, they also set up an ambush for me." Saha was angry and resentful, "After the bombing, our horses panicked, and many white-armored warriors panicked.

A group of Han cavalry that had lured the enemy immediately turned around and rushed towards us. Twenty or thirty horsemen were killed from both sides of the road, and they were not afraid of death and rushed into the middle of our cavalry. Thankfully, I was able to stabilize the men and horses, and I also slashed and killed several of them. They retreated. ”

Huang Taiji saw that Sakhalian had blood on his body, and the hundred cavalry under his command also suffered a lot of losses. However, Sakhalian relied on his own strength to make a profit, and he even dragged back the corpse of a Han cavalryman he had hacked to death. As soon as the corpse appeared, he scolded angrily: "I don't know where these Han cavalry came from? The armor is particularly strong and very difficult to fight. ”