The main force of the sneak attack around the rear was the Ningxia avant-garde officers and soldiers mobilized from Ningxia Town, this was Qiu Yue's subordinates, Qiu Yue sacrificed his life for the country, and these soldiers and horses were all under the command of Yang Yiqing, but unfortunately, it has always been a passive situation, and there is no chance to avenge Qiu Yue.

Today, Song Nan set a plan to attack around the rear, and Peng Changxuan, the deputy chief soldier of Ningxia Town, took the initiative to ask for help, he was Qiu Yue's old subordinate for many years, and when Qiu Yue went to his death, he was strictly ordered to lead thousands of Ningxia guards and horses to retreat with the army, and Peng Changshuo was also deeply guilty in his heart. Today, he is going to kill with all his strength, even if Song Nan clearly tells him, the forward team that attacks behind this will definitely suffer great casualties, and it is entirely possible that such a strategy will be seen through by the Tartars, and it is extremely dangerous, but Peng Changxuan still firmly chose the striker.

More than 6,000 soldiers and horses led by him began to detour from the hilly terrain in the north to the back of the Tartars last night, and after dawn, the Tatars began to attack frantically, seeing that the city of Jingyu was quickly breached, and the 10,000 soldiers and horses and dozens of firearms defending in front of the city were all caught in hand-to-hand combat, and he could not bear it for a long time. When the signal was given, he took the lead with 6,000 soldiers and horses and went straight to the Tartar rear barracks.

Although the rear military camp of Bald Mengke carried heavy grain and grass, he left 10,000 soldiers and horses under the left banner of Bald Mengke's elite tent in the rear. For the battle-hardened Bald Warrior, he will not make the mistake of being a tiger, the weakest point of an army is the part that carries the baggage logistics, most of the leading generals like to put the baggage grain and grass in the middle army to protect, and the Bald Fierce can be used to putting it in the rear.

First, in the bald Tatar army, the former and middle military camps were used for combat, and he didn't want to be held back. Second, although the bald rear army carried supplies and baggage, they were definitely not a weak link, and all those who thought about attacking them would always end up lifting a stone to shoot themselves in the foot.

Peng Changshuo's 6,000 soldiers and horses just arrived at the outpost of the rear camp of the Tartars, and immediately felt that something was wrong, although the Tartars were tied up in a simple camp, but the rear camp still had a loess fortification, and when they reached nearly 500 steps, it could be seen that the Tartar soldiers behind the fortifications were surging, all holding bows and arrows in their hands.

Peng Changxuan finally understood Song Nan's intention to tell him to bring more big shields before the war, and the Tartars' defensive skills were not weak, they could not only charge on horseback, but also shoot arrows with a hundred shots when defending.

"Bright shield, charge." Peng Changxuan waved his knife and shouted.

"Brush, brush, brush." The soldiers of the Ming army brushed the five-foot shield to show up, formed a shield wall in front of the formation, crushed over like a steel wall, and entered the range of one hundred and fifty steps, the arrow rain of the Tartar fell, although there is a big shield protection, but it can only be said that the effect is unsatisfactory, who has a shield wall in front, although there is a shield top behind, but the limited number of shields can not resist the dense arrow rain, the arrows that are like locusts fly wildly, many people are still shot with a big shield, and the body part exposed outside is a live target in front of the Tartar archers with magical archery.

The distance of 100 paces was like a quagmire, and for every dozen or so steps the team advanced, it had to pay hundreds of casualties, and within 50 steps, the casualties were already thousands. Peng Changshuo glared angrily at the Tatar soldiers who were close at hand, shook off the big shield, and roared loudly: "Kill!" ”

More than 5,000 Ming troops rushed to the rear camp of the Tartars; And the Tartar archers immediately stopped firing their arrows and immediately retreated, the bow and arrow surgery industry has a specialty, they shoot their arrows accurately, but hand-to-hand combat is not an opponent, so they retreat when they see the opportunity. The soldiers and horses of the rear battalion of the 8,000 Tartar Left Banner Army immediately rushed out of the camp, and the two sides collided head-on like two galloping trains, and crashed into each other with a bang.

At the same time as the rear camp was engaged in fire, the bald man had already ordered Temur, the leader of the Poplar tribe in the middle military camp, to lead 10,000 cavalry to reinforce him, because he did not know the number of Ming troops attacking around the rear. From the moment he arrived at Jingyu City, he received information that the Ming army had 70,000 soldiers and horses assembled here. Until this time, there were only more than 10,000 Ming troops in Jingyu City in front of them resisting head-on, and the remaining 60,000 Ming troops did not know where they were. What is certain is that there must be a Ming army stationed in the rear of Jingyu City, and it is unlikely that they will give up the passage of Jingyu City, and at least 20,000 soldiers and horses are behind Jingyu City, where the fortifications of the walled fortification may have been built.

But even so, there are still 40,000 Ming troops watching on the left, if all these 40,000 Ming troops are dispatched to attack the rear barracks, then even if there are 10,000 soldiers and horses in the left banner, it will be difficult to resist; Therefore, Temur's 10,000 cavalry must arrive in time, and with the charging ability of 10,000 cavalry, even if 40,000 Ming troops are dispatched in unison, they will definitely be scattered in formation.

However, after all, calculation is calculation, and the confrontation between the two armies is certainly a comparison of strength and equipment, and in a situation where there is little difference in strength and equipment, it is the wisdom and calculation of the commanders of the two armies that are compared. But these are unspeakable things, and the same battle-hardened generals may not be able to win with confidence, because there are too many variables on the battlefield. I also know what you know, what you want me to do, what you think I will do, I may not do what I think, and how to judge the other party's intentions is often the winner or loser of the duel between the two armies.

He thought it was clever that Song Nan would concentrate his forces to storm the empty rear camp, and without hesitation, he sent half of the 20,000 cavalry of the Chinese army to help, which became a big failure.

Just after Temur's cavalry rushed to the rear camp to join the war group, between the hills and long grass on both sides of the middle army camp, countless Ming troops emerged like ants, and a golden yellow dragon flag was erected in the air, next to which were several handsome flags with the word 'Song' written in large letters.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

In the sound of killing, at least 50,000 soldiers and horses were like galloping tides all over the mountains and fields from both sides, and one of the 10,000 cavalry was also the only cavalry team of the Ming army galloping to, the direction was the middle of the Chinese army and the front army, and in just a moment, a barrier was formed between tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry who rushed to kill in Jingyu City and the bald Chinese army; Tens of thousands of infantry also quickly approached the two flanks of the middle camp and exchanged hands.

The bald man instantly understood Song Nan's intentions: this person's heart is so big, it's unimaginably big! The intention of the Ming army was to use the 10,000 soldiers and horses in Jingyu City as bait, and send a small number of soldiers and horses to attract the rescue of the Chinese army in the rear, and then a large number of soldiers and horses were cut in two from the middle, separating the 30,000 people of their own Chinese army and the 40,000 cavalry of the front army, and the intention was naturally to completely eat the middle and rear armies.

The bald heart was beating fast, and he knew that any move at this time needed to be extremely cautious, and if he was not careful, he might be completely explained here. The Ming army had nearly 50,000 men and horses, which means that the army did not put a single soldier behind Jingyu City, and they wanted to make a desperate gamble and use all their forces to eat themselves.

With such a huge disparity in strength, it is impossible to fight, and the Chinese army only has 10,000 soldiers and horses, and when the front army withdraws, its own 10,000 soldiers and horses will be finished. The only option is to break through. But left or right, it's a question. It seemed easier to break through to the west, and it could quickly converge with the 20,000 soldiers and horses of the rear army; But in that case, the Ming army completely separated the front army and the middle and rear armies, and the Ming army could choose to attack either one, and the strength of the army had an absolute advantage.

"The whole army assault, the target, the city of Jingyu."

Although he knew that once this order was issued, it would be equivalent to putting the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the rear army and the 10,000 cavalry of Temur, who had gone for reinforcements, into a dangerous situation, but he could not help but do so, and at this time, he could only lose his pawn and protect the chariot. As long as they can meet with the 40,000 soldiers and horses of the front army, it is still possible to turn around and charge to rescue them.

More than 10,000 cavalry in the Chinese army camp have mounted their horses, get rid of the harassment of the Ming infantry, and rush to the east without looking back, although there are more than 10,000 cavalry of the Ming army to block, but how can the bald and fierce cavalry of the Ming army be put in the eyes, on the charge and kill, the Ming army is not an opponent at all.

Sure enough, when the iron hooves charged, the formation of the Ming cavalry seemed to have made a deliberate avoidance, and that kind of blocking also had a symbolic meaning, and it took almost no effort to rush out of the encirclement of the Ming army at the cost of only a few hundred people at the cost of a meal. A few miles ahead, you can already see the figure of a part of the cavalry of the returning front army.

Looking behind him, the cavalry of the Ming army closed the gap behind him like a tide, although it was a glimpse, and he could see a large number of figures wielding hoes and shovels digging in the soil.

"Do you want to build fortifications in such a short time to block my counterattack? What a joke. "The bald man can't understand the other party's intentions.

The soldiers and horses of the Ming army had already turned to the west, and attacked the 10,000 cavalry of the Tartar rear army and Temur. The battlefield of the rear army has actually become a slaughterhouse, and when Temur's cavalry reinforcements arrived, Peng Changxuan, who was already at a disadvantage, suddenly fell into a bitter battle; Saying that the hard battle also exalted him, in fact, it was a one-sided massacre, but Peng Changshuo firmly remembered Song Nan's explanation before the war, and wanted to hold the Tartars for half an hour, and within this half an hour, even if he paid a large number of casualties, he did not hesitate to pay any casualties, so he gathered his soldiers and horses and supported them in a defensive formation. Every moment, his brothers fell, and everyone was covered in blood, but they still gritted their teeth and did not retreat, even the Tartars thought that this group of Ming troops was crazy.

I don't know how long it took, there were less than two thousand of the six thousand soldiers and horses left, and Peng Changshuo's eyes were all the faces of the hideous and terrifying Tartar soldiers, and all he heard in his ears were the screams of the brothers before they died.

Suddenly, the earth-shattering shout of killing sounded, the sky behind the Tartar was full of yellow dust, and the Tartar soldiers and horses in front of him suddenly panicked, and someone shouted: "The general has copied the back road of the Tartar, kill." ”

Peng Changxuan's numb arm didn't know where to get the strength, and he raised his long knife and shouted: "Kill, don't let them run away." Kill, kill, kill! ”

Chapter 708

The 40,000-foot cavalry motley army pounced on it like a wolf and a tiger, dragging all the soldiers and horses of the Tartar rear army into the battle group. Life is like a roller coaster, crawling at a turtle speed for a while, and then taking a sharp turn for the worse. The cavalry of the Tartar rear army and Temur must have felt this the most, just now they were wantonly slaughtering others, but in the blink of an eye, they became slaughtered, the distance from heaven to hell was actually so close, so close that they couldn't adjust their mentality at all, and they were torn to pieces by the wolf-like Ming army.

More than 17,000 Tartar soldiers were trapped in the rear, falling into the quagmire of annihilation, and to the east, the breakthrough of the bald Meng Ke also quickly organized a team of 30,000 cavalry, the battle in the city was almost over, the 10,000 Ming troops defending the city died seven or eight thousand, and more than 40 firearms were all scrap metal.

The 35,000 cavalry began to charge after a little rectification, and the hole cards of both sides were all bright, and there was no need to have reservations at all, and there was no need for any tactics.

The bald man knew that the Ming army was slaughtering the soldiers and horses of the rear army, and there was still a defensive line composed of the Ming army's 10,000 infantry and cavalry mixed army in front of him, and it seemed that these people were still digging dirt and buying traps.

Hundreds of thousands of horses' hooves stepped on the loess land where the corpses were all over the field, and a thick layer of yellow dust had accumulated on the cracked earth. All of them had hot sweat and blood and dirt on their faces, and they looked like ghosts.

The scimitar raised like a forest shone with a dazzling white light in the scorching sun, the mouth of the war horse dripping with white foam, breathing the air full of yellow dust, stretching its neck and running hard under the urging of the rider, the earth trembled, and the air burned.

The Ming army in front seemed to be forced by the momentum of the Tatar cavalry, and they retreated backwards, panicked, and the soldiers who bent down to dig threw down the digging tools in their hands and ran away, and rushed to the rear of the flanks with a sneer on their faces, these two-legged Ming troops may not have seen the momentum of tens of thousands of cavalry rushing in their lives, and they were also scared to death.

"Boom." A sudden explosion resounded in the sky, and a puff of black smoke rose into the air, and in the black smoke, a horse's head and a human head spun and flew into the air, making a strange look in the air, and then fell.

"Boom, boom, boom." The black smoke continued to rise into the air, and then it was so dense that it was impossible to tell which sound it was coming from. On the cross-section of nearly three miles wide, the rising black smoke and the sound of explosions were endless, and the splashing flesh, the rolling riders, the war horses turning over their heels, and the dust that could not be seen were all the same.

"What's wrong?" The bald can be yelled.

"Heavy sweat, Ming Dog buried something on the road, and the horse's hooves were fried when stepped on, all along the way."

"Huh?" He thought that the Ming army had hidden firearms somewhere, and now he took the opportunity to launch them, and he suddenly realized that the Ming army's digging behavior just now was not to build fortifications, but to bury this kind of thing that would explode when stepped on.

"Boom, boom." The sound of dense explosions was endless, the sorrow of the war horses and the screams of the riders were mixed in, the invisible dust, mixed with the dense crossbow arrows shot by the Ming army in front, the charging Tartar cavalry seemed to fall into hell, and the thousands of cavalry in the front row flew up into the air and fell into the dust, completing the most glorious feathering in life. On the horizontal side of the battlefield about three miles wide, on the loess land hundreds of steps deep, the Ming army bought thousands of things that exploded when they stepped on, and one exploded enough to overturn two or three charging war horses on the left.

In the panic of thousands of cavalry lying on the ground, the cavalry following behind unconsciously tightened the reins of their horses and began to slow down. The huge curtain of black smoke and yellow dust was in front of them, forming a terrifying huge canopy, although there was nothing to see behind the curtain, everyone knew that it was the giant mouth of death, and it was a huge trap designed by the Ming army.

"Chong, what are you doing in a daze? Rush! The eldest prince Tulu shouted and shouted.

Everyone's eyes were on Bald Mengke, and Bald Mengke's brows were wrinkled into a pimple, more than 3,000 cavalrymen were killed and wounded in just a few dozen steps, and I don't know how many of these things are buried in the rear, and this way with flesh and blood will ruin the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses; But is it not enough to stop there? In that case, the cavalry of the rear army and Temur on the opposite side would be completely finished. Putting Bald Mengke in a dilemma, he finally understood that Song Nan's whole set of tactics was linked one by one, and the connection was seamless. All his thoughts seemed to be expected by him.

The early morning onslaught, the support for the rear, the direction of the breakthrough, and the counterattack to turn back, all of them were in people's calculations; And this buried firearm that is not in the plan is the key point in the plan, with this thing, if you still insist on charging, I am afraid that you will lose all your hole cards. Now that the troops are retreating, at least they still have 40,000 soldiers and horses in their hands, and they have occupied Jingyu City, since there are no defenders in the east of Jingyu City, they can choose to go north to attack Ningxia, or drive straight into Guyuan. With the speed of Song Nan's soldiers and horses, he couldn't catch up with his pure cavalry troops at all.

The bald man has the decisiveness of a strong man breaking his wrist, and in just a moment, he considered all the pros and cons, and he decided to seize the initiative in his own hands and not be led by Song Nan. Song Nan thought that he was unwilling to give up the rear army and Temur's cavalry, and concluded that he would continue to attack, so he was not as he wanted, and immediately led the cavalry eastward and launched a large-scale attack in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, so that Song Nan could not catch up with him.

"Turn the horse's head and order the general managers of all departments and ten thousand households to immediately evacuate Jingyu and rush to Guyuan." Bald can be ordered word by word.

"Huh? Father Khan ...... It's ......" Tulu looked at the bald man in surprise, unable to believe his ears.

"Messengers, those who disobey military orders will be killed." A few words popped out of his teeth, and he first turned his horse's head and ran eastward.

The Tartar cavalry immediately turned around, the front team changed into the rear team, the ferocity that came, the admonition that went, with the rolling yellow dust, left the battlefield in a moment, and disappeared behind the side of Jingyu City.

The Ming army did not pursue, in fact, they couldn't pursue it if they wanted to, not to mention that everyone was nervous and out of breath, because as long as the Tartars gritted their teeth and rushed through dozens of steps, the minefields laid were all gone. A few months ago, Song Nan gave the skilled craftsmen of the arsenal the task of developing mines, mines are actually not difficult to make, although Song Nan is not proficient in manufacturing, but inspired by him, people are very hands-on, this kind of simple land mines were quickly built, after a few years, thousands of physical objects were created, Song Nan was going to ask Zhengde to see the effect of this thing against the Tartar cavalry, but he didn't expect so many things to happen later, but it was too late to demonstrate.

On this expedition, Song Nan brought all these things with him, although thousands of mines cost a lot of money, and no one reimbursed the expenses, but Song Nan still did not hesitate to use them at a critical moment and handed them over to Ma Ming of the Shenshu Camp for safekeeping. Previously, on the road where the Tartars marched from Yehuling to Jinglu, Song Nan originally built yì Ma Ming and they planted mines on the middle of the road, and Ma Ming spent a lot of effort digging traps around and forcing the Tartars to take the main road, just to lay mines according to Song Nan's orders, but the words of a hundred households in the army made them die down.

The hundred households said: Such a narrow road, after being bombed, the Tartars will definitely shrink back, what is the point of killing more than a dozen people? This sentence immediately dispelled this idea for Song Nan and Ma Ming, and it was precisely because of this that there was this strange mine array later.

Under the strong offensive of the Ming army, Temur led 4,000 remnants of the army to flee in the direction of Yehuling, and the remaining soldiers and horses were annihilated.

From early morning to noon, after more than two hours of great battle, the curtain finally came to an end, when the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the entire Jingyu City inside and outside the battlefield was miserable, corpses were all over the field, blood flowed like a river, and it can only describe part of the scene, more of an indescribable feeling.

On the battlefield with severed limbs and arms, the groans of dying are like the sound of hell, and piles of corpses emit a foul smell, attracting swarms of mosquitoes and flies and vultures that cannot be repelled, and the whole battlefield is like a Shura hell field.

In the early afternoon, dozens of black smoke billowed into the sky, and dozens of corpses that had been dragged and piled together were poured with fire oil and burned, and the entire battlefield was filled with fine fly ash and a pungent smell of burning. The burning corpse spasmed, trembled, twisted, and rolled, and was creepy.

The fire burned for a whole day before it gradually went out, and the entire Jingyu City was surrounded by black ash for several days, making it impossible for people to breathe.