Chapter 35: The Mongol Cavalry
Wu Sangui commanded the army to gallop, and soon caught up with the heavy soldiers, and found that there were only more than 1,000 people, so he surrounded them.
Wu Sangui was worried about fraud, so he ordered to release arrows to kill and injure the enemy as far as possible and reduce his own losses, while sending a large number of scouts to carefully observe the surroundings.
When it is certain that it is safe, the attack is ordered.
Most of the heavy soldiers were Korean slaves and a small number of soldiers of the Han Eight Banners, where was the former Guanning Army, and now the opponent of the Yulin Left Guard was wiped out.
After counting, it was found that this was not the remnants of the soldiers who fled from Shanhaiguan, but the baggage team that set out from Jinzhou and escorted artillery to the front line.
According to the confessions of several soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, although they marched rapidly, it was still impossible for them to reach the Shanhaiguan battlefield as scheduled.
When they finally arrived at Ningyuan City, they bumped into the broken Jianyu army, and immediately turned their horses' heads and fled north in a hurry.
Watching groups of routed soldiers go north beside them, many of them abandoned their duties and became deserters.
The number of people gradually became scarce, causing the baggage team to move more and more slowly.
The soldiers led Wu Sangui to inspect the materials here, almost all of which were artillery, some of the Franco's machine guns, and some of the tiger squat cannons, all of which were captured by the Ming army in the Battle of Songjin two years ago.
Now, it can be regarded as the return of the goods to their original owners.
Wu Sangui stroked the artillery, remembered the defeat two years ago, and sighed lightly.
Seeing that it was getting late, he ordered to camp and bury the pot to cook.
The army steamed rice, boiled porridge, took out the air-dried horse meat and boiled it in the pot, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were dumbfounded.
What kind of fairy food is this, when did Daming become so rich, the grain can be made, and the horse meat can be eaten casually.
"Look at what, these are all the war horses of your elite cavalry, we should eat whatever we want!" A thousand always shouted at the captive.
Wu Sangui is not Zhu Youjian, he will treat prisoners of war preferentially, and these prisoners of war have surrendered and built captives for many years, and they do not dare to recruit, leaving them for the time being, it is nothing more than letting them contribute to camping, believing that before the army sleeps, they will be executed.
The army was taken for a long time, and Wu Sangui slowly became agitated.
He was distraught at this moment, walked out of the military tent, and asked the guard, "Will there be no important military intelligence report on the scout?" ”
"Back to Ping Xibo, the detective hasn't come back for half an hour!"
"What? Why didn't you say such an important thing earlier. Order the whole army to regroup, kill all the prisoners, and prepare for battle! Wu Sangui was shocked and hurriedly ordered.
A quarter of an hour later, the soldiers who had hurriedly eaten the last few bites of food had already finished their gears, and looked at Master Ping Xibo, who was running back and forth with a puzzled expression.
After Wu Sangui was sure that the scout cavalry had basically not returned, he immediately knew that he was surrounded, although he was not sure where the soldiers and horses were, but he must have been stared at!
It must have been a clever hunter, who might have sharpened his steel knife when Wu Sangui surrounded this group of baggage soldiers, and was ready to attack in the middle of the night when the soldiers were resting.
He couldn't wait, and prepared to retreat and join Li Yutian's army. At the same time, he sent fast horses to report the military situation, in case he failed to retreat and was besieged here.
In the distance, a scout broke into the military tent and "reported the ...... Lord Wang, Wu Sangui suddenly gathered his military horses! ”
"Oh? This Wu Sangui is so alert, he passed on my military order, quickly surrounded the horse, and did not let the Ming army escape alone! ”
30,000 cavalry began to move, rushing towards Wu Sangui quickly from all directions.
It turned out that due to the sudden acceleration of Dolgon's march a few days ago, he only brought more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry vanguards.
Later, the Mongol army, which rushed to the intended assembly place one after another, could not find the commander of the Qing Dynasty, and was at a loss for a while.
Under the leadership of Duan Luobu, the prince of the left wing of Karaqin, he could not get the general order under the pretext, and deliberately advanced slowly.
They are all shrewd "businessmen", and they know it very well.
It is better to let the Qing Dynasty lose people and horses to storm the Great Wall, and when the time comes, it is much better to enter the customs and loot easily than to rush to be cannon fodder now.
Who knew that just a few days later, the army of the Qing Dynasty was defeated like that, and only 10,000 of the 60,000 troops remained.
The elite Mongol cavalry was wiped out.
Duan Luobu immediately decided to retreat, and after seeing the baggage team, he planned to take it into his heart, threw a fish, and hid in a very far away and waited quietly for the fish to take the bait.
Who would have thought that this fish was very cunning, and ran away after eating, and did not even want a cannon.
He had no choice but to give the order to chase after him.
Wu Sangui led the army back to retreat less than a stick of incense, when he heard the sound of a large number of horse teams from three directions behind him.
"Thankfully! Lucky! Thanks to Pinciebo! ”
When the soldiers heard the sound of horses' hooves behind them, they knew that there were tens of thousands of troops, and if they were surrounded, even if they broke through, they would suffer heavy losses.
Wu Sangui passed down the military order, accelerated the speed, and when Li Yutian was found, he would kill the horse pistol again, prepare Chongzhen's five-arrow crossbow, and all the soldiers would be ready for battle at any time.
Chongzhen gave all the five-arrow crossbows to Wu Sangui and Li Yutian, which was one of the reasons why he dared to pursue long-distance pursuits.
The two armies chased for more than half an hour, and no one dared to give up, Duan Luobu scolded loudly, Wu Sangui was as timid as a rabbit, and he was called a hero in vain.
"Report ...... Wu Sanguijun turned his horse's head and came towards us! ”
"Oh? Hahaha, God help me, this time I defeated the Ming chasing soldiers, I have to ask the Qing Dynasty for 3 years of grain and grass! ”
"Pass the order to go down, enter 70 steps, release arrows from the whole army, and kill him personally on his back first!"
Wu Sangui got the news that Li Yutian was less than 10 miles away from here, so he immediately ordered the horse's head to be turned, and the cavalry with five-arrow crossbows rushed into the front team, preparing to counterattack.
The chase between the two armies turned into a hedging race in an instant.
The armies of both sides formed up and approached quickly.
200 steps!
"簌簌簌......"
Nearly 10,000 crossbow arrows of the Ming army poured down.
The Mongol cavalry, which was in rapid pursuit, was defenseless, and thousands of people fell under their horses and were soon trampled into pulp by the rear army.
Duan Luobu was shocked, and he didn't expect that the Ming army could fire arrows from 200 paces away.
But such a long-distance bow and arrow must have taken a lot of effort, and it can't be too much.
Once the army rushes to 70 paces, it will be the world of the Mongols!
160 steps!
The Ming soldiers had already replaced the arrow clips and quickly pulled the mechanism.
"簌簌簌......"
Nearly 10,000 crossbow arrows of the Ming army poured away again.
The Mongol cavalry once again flipped on their backs, and in the blink of an eye, thousands more were killed in the wasteland.
"How is that possible?" Duan Luobu was shocked, although he didn't know how many men and horses he had lost in these two volleys, but the fear in his heart suddenly increased.
120 steps!
"簌簌簌......"
Nearly 10,000 crossbow arrows of the Ming army poured away for the third time.
This time, all the Mongols saw the power of the Ming army's bows and crossbows, and they were all frightened.
For thousands of years, only the Mongols, who had grown up on horseback, had the most brilliant ability to bow horses.
What's going on today, I lost a lot of money without firing a single shot, and besides, it looks like the enemy can shoot another round.
"Hmph, within 70 steps, I will definitely let you know how powerful the Mongolian cavalry is!" Duan Rob said resentfully.
Who would have thought that the Ming army, who had finished shooting this round, stopped the horse, turned the horse's head again, and began to retreat.
The two sides were always seventy or eighty paces apart, just at the limit of the attack range of the Mongol cavalry.
"簌簌簌......"
During the escape of the Ming army, nearly 10,000 crossbow arrows were released again.
The Mongol army suffered another thousand dead and wounded.
In just four volleys, more than 10,000 Mongols were killed.
The Mongolian cavalry, which was originally the Chinese army, suddenly found themselves in the vanguard, and their scalps instantly tingled.
What does this mean!
Could it be that in this short period of time, our Mongolian army lost 3 adult horses?
The faces of the cavalrymen who figured out this problem changed greatly, and they slowed down their horses one after another!