Chapter 456: Beheading Tens of Thousands
"Put!"
"Peng Peng Peng—"
At six o'clock in the afternoon of the 18th, when Mang Gurtai's heart was shaken, the young Dolgon was very excited.
With the horse infantry, he advanced to Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew for a hundred steps.
With the sound of artillery, hundreds of thousands of scattered bullets the size of fingernails were fired, and the black pressure strafed over, and the horse infantry in the front row was like a rice after autumn encountered a sickle, and most of them were harvested in an instant, and more than 100 people fell.
"Rush!"
Watching the artillery go into cooling, Dolgon calmly drew his sword and pointed it at the Ming army.
Seeing this, the iron cavalry of the Ming army also pulled out their cavalry guns one after another and went towards Jianyu to kill.
"Get on the horse!"
Cao Wenzhao gave an order, and he and the eight hundred Ganzang people beside him got on the horse one after another, and Cao Bianjiao also took his three hundred relatives to the horse when he saw this.
With a gesture, more than a thousand cavalry appeared on the battlefield.
Seeing this, the tens of thousands of foot soldiers stationed there also began to divide their troops.
Six thousand men remained to continue operating the artillery, and four thousand formed a platoon of guns under the command of the Eagle Yang Wei commander.
"Kill!"
The two white flag cavalry were the first to come into contact with the 2,000 cavalry of the Ming army.
There are few people on one side, but they are condescending, and there are many people on the other side, but they are high-faced.
The sound of horses' hooves resounded in the hilly heights, and in the intermingling of the bells and the crumbling of bowstrings from the missing arrows.
"Bang Bang Bang-"
"Collapse—"
"Uhh
"Hiss..."
"Whew-"
The sound of falling horses, the sound of arrows, the sound of bullets, the neighing of war horses, the sound of people and horses crying in pain......
When all kinds of voices swept through the hilly and high mountains, the many soldiers, horses, women and children who migrated from the river valley also accelerated their pace.
Without the threat of the 600 cannons, they quickly rushed through the first stone fort blocked in the wide valley, but with them came the 300 taels of blue flags that fled towards their side......
"What is this?"
Liu Aita in the front platoon, Li Yongfang and others saw clearly who the leader of the fleeing horse infantry was, and they were stunned.
In front of a cup of tea, Dajin and Shuobeile Manggultai, who were still majestic and high-spirited, clamoring to break through the siege first, fled like a lost dog to the people who were being besieged.
"Beep-"
"Don't go over! The Ming army has divine soldiers! ”
Seeing the large number of people, Mang Gurtai regained his confidence a little, and whistled a loud reminder, making Liu Aita and the others hesitate.
"Divine soldiers? What divine soldiers? ”
For a while, Liu Aita was a little dumbfounded, not knowing what kind of divine soldiers King Qi had arranged, how could he scare the usually extremely proud Mang Gurtai into such a virtuous deed.
"Don't do it for ...... time"
Liu Aita looked uncertain, looked at the two supervision guards beside him, and found that they were also confused, so he temporarily suppressed the idea of doing it, and was ready to wait.
The two left leaders in disguise nodded their heads one after another, and commanded the soldiers and horses to make way for Mang Gurtai and them.
Li Yongfang's department also gave way, but Mang Gurtai only glanced at it, and chose Liu Aita without hesitation.
He led people to rush into the army, turned his horse's head himself, and came to Liu Aita in a cold sweat.
"You are optimistic about the front army, don't fight with the Ming army for the time being, they can shoot a round of divine weapons with one breath, and they can fight at least three hundred paces away!"
"Three hundred paces of divine soldiers?!" Although Liu Aita was an undercover agent, he was still frightened by Mang Gurtai's words, and he even thought that Mang Gurtai was frightened and bragged in order to shirk responsibility.
"The other soldiers ...... horses"
Liu Aita still didn't believe it, but Mang Gurtai's face told him that things were not fake.
"Only these few hundred people are alive......"
When Mang Gurtai said this, his whole face turned red, as if it was caused by the upsurge of qi and blood.
"You have to tell the Great Khan about this first, and I will defend the front army, don't worry."
Liu Aita responded to Mang Gurtai with a stern face, and the other party also nodded vigorously, and then turned the horse's head, preparing to find Huang Taiji to report the matter.
In the process of running, he naturally saw the two white flags that were fighting with Cao Wenzhao's subordinates, and the two sides were fighting back and forth, which also passed a lot of information to Mang Gurtai.
Therefore, when he came to Huang Taiji with the remaining 300 people of the two blue flags, and after saying everything with Huang Taiji's black face, he also pointed to the two white flags on the high slope of the hills with a horsewhip and the Ming army:
"There won't be too many divine soldiers like that, if Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses are equipped with such divine soldiers, we will be wiped out!"
“……”
As Mang Gultai's words were finished, everyone fell silent for a while.
Huang Taiji did not doubt Mang Gurtai's words, because it was impossible for a thousand men to wipe out more than 9,000 armored horse infantry in one cup of tea.
If you want to do this, unless 100,000 Ming troops are ambushed in front.
But if there are 100,000 Ming troops, then Mang Gurtai directly said that there is no need to pull out such a fantastical thing.
"Divine Weapon Fire ......"
Huang Taiji muttered these four words, and although he knew that there were not many such firearms, he still felt a burst of despair.
Unless this army is short of ammunition, it seems that the annihilation of the army is only a matter of delay.
"Change direction to break through and send sentry cavalry to supervise that army and horses!"
Huang Taiji chose to break through in another direction, and looked at Mang Gurtai after giving the order:
"Where's Abatai?"
"Abatai......" Mang Gurtai only felt bitter in his mouth.
With his appearance, everyone can also think of Abatai's end.
"Let's get back to the battle......"
Huang Taiji didn't say more, just let Mang Gurtai return to the battle.
At this time, it was useless to punish Mang Gurtai, at least he detected the danger of Balibao for the army.
If they go to Balipu to break through as planned, I am afraid that they will all be wiped out here.
"Great Khan, we ......"
Mang Gurtai returned to the battle in frustration, and when Daishan and Jilharang saw this, they all wanted to speak and stopped.
Huang Taiji raised his hand to signal them to stop talking, and his face was gloomy:
"Let Dolgon and them continue to entangle the Ming artillery, and we will retreat on a different route."
"But the other mountain roads are long and narrow, I'm afraid that if they really break through, the team will have to stretch for twenty or thirty miles."
Dai Shan knew that if he took other mountain roads, the line of women and children would definitely lengthen.
The cavalry of the Ming army is large in number and elite, unless there is a battle, and the Ming army will break through after heavy damage, otherwise in the face of the attack of the Ming cavalry, the Jin army will either lose women and children, or lose baggage.
"I can't manage so much for the time being, let's go first."
Huang Taiji had no choice, he only felt that this battle was too lost, and the Ming army's hole cards instantly made the Jin army lose one-sixth of its troops, and it was already very good that he could calm down.
The scales of war fell with the appearance of Shen Cewei, the number of the Ming army was about 33,000, and although the Jin army still maintained about 55,000 troops, it seemed that the combat power had been crushed by the Ming army.
"But which mountain path to take? The second widest trail is now the ......"
Dai Shan said, and Yu Huang Taiji invariably looked at Cao Wenzhao's department on the hilly slope.
"Right from here, break out!"
Huang Taiji's face was calm, and Dai Shan also nodded slightly.
Judging from the current battle situation, although Cao Wenzhao's department has many artillery, it does not have the magic weapon in Mang Gurtai's mouth.
Since there is none, then there is nothing to fear.
Casualties are inevitable, but as long as you can break through, everything is easy to say.
Thinking of this, Huang Taiji didn't say much, and Dai Shan also hurriedly ordered the army to attack Cao Wenzhao's headquarters, and the women and children retreated, retreating through the middle mountain road.
"Beep-"
"The army retreats and breaks through through the middle mountain road!"
"Beep!"
"The army retreats, go ......"
The sentry horses running back and forth made all the women and children dizzy, but they had no right to speak, so they could only follow the flow and began to retreat.
At the same time, the Chinese cavalry and horse infantry began to advance towards Cao Wenzhao's headquarters.
More than 20,000 soldiers and horses began to rush towards them, and Dolgon, who was fighting with the Ming cavalry, saw this, and hurriedly shouted:
"What is there to fear when the army presses down? Give this group of Han dogs all ......"
"Bang-"
The dark shadow struck, and Dolgon hurriedly resisted, but only felt pain in the tiger's mouth.
He looked up in a hurry and saw the young general surnamed Cao who was riding a tall horse and smashing down with a gun.
"The person who killed you is Cao Bianjiao!"
Cao Bianjiao shouted, staggered back, and stabbed a shot into Dolgon's chest.
"Where's my bodyguard?!"
Dolgon hurriedly dodged, not daring to fight Cao Bianjiao, only wondering where the white armor Bayala who was guarding him had gone.
When he noticed it, he found that all the white armor bayala had fallen to the ground wailing, and Cao Bianjiao was like a no-man's land in the chaos, chasing Dolgon at the same time, he could also swing a spear and a short hammer with a bow left and right, and shoot down several people with left and right stabs.
Cao Bianjiao's bravery was seen by everyone, and Cao Wenzhao, who was sitting in a team of 4,000 guns, couldn't help but be happy when he saw it, and the commander of the Eagle Yangwei next to him was even more pretentious:
"Xiao Cao, the general soldier, is not a loss, the chief soldier, your nephew."
"That's it!" Cao Wenzhao smiled, with uncontrollable pride on his face.
Similarly, Cao Bianjiao pursued and killed Dolgon, and the two white flags who wanted to defend Dolgon on the left and right were shot down by him.
This scene was seen by Duoduo in the chaotic army, and he hurriedly took more than 20 Baijia Bayala around him to return to Dolgon.
"Brother, go this way!"
Duoduo shouted while killing the enemy, and he was riding on horseback with a skillful bow and horse to face the Ming cavalry, but the general trend was here, and their six thousand people were actually a little unable to parry the three thousand cavalry of the Ming army.
Seeing the brave 3,000 cavalry and 6,000 horse infantry fighting with the main general, he did not back down.
The sound of weapons clashing, the neighing of war horses, the cries of pain, and the cries for help......
The whole battlefield was in chaos, but when Cao Wenzhao saw Huang Taiji's Daxu advancing, the smile on his face disappeared and turned grim.
"Let this kid pull back!"
Cao Wenzhao was worried that Cao Bianjiao would be surrounded, and the commander of the Eagle Yangwei next to him heard the words, and hurriedly asked people to sing gold.
"Bell, bell, bell—"
The sound of the Ming army sounded, which gave the Jin army the courage to fight again.
Dolgon, who was successfully received by Dorgon, remembered his embarrassment in hindsight, so he ordered angrily:
"Entangle Cao Bianjiao, kill him first to sacrifice the flag!"
As soon as he said a word, the Jin army's horse infantry who retreated because of the Ming cavalry around him killed Cao Bianjiao one after another.
For a while, it was difficult for Cao Bianjiao and the hundreds of horsemen around him to break through, and Cao Wenzhao was panicked.
"I'll leave it to you here, I'll take someone to save this kid!"
After that, Cao Wenzhao was going to lead the retreating more than 2,000 cavalry to relieve the siege for Cao Bianjiao, who would have thought that he would not wait for him to act, Cao Bianjiao saw Huang Taiji's Daxu rushing towards him, he simply raised his arms and shouted:
"The husband will serve the country today, and those who have the courage will rush with me!"
"I am willing to charge into battle with General Xiaocao!"
Hundreds of horsemen saw that the road they retreated was blocked by two white flags, and simply followed Cao Bianjiao and rushed towards Huangtaiji.
The north wind hunts, and the horses neigh......
Hundreds of cavalry followed Cao Bianjiao's prancing horse and rushed down the hills, heading straight for Huang Taiji's Chinese army Daxu.
Anyway, he couldn't break through, Cao Bianjiao thought that His Royal Highness the King of Qi wanted to kill Huang Taiji, so he simply followed the wish of His Royal Highness the King of Qi.
Hundreds of half-mounted iron horsemen charged from top to bottom, from high to low, and such a battle made the Mongol rangers led by the Jin army a little afraid.
They tried to station their horses and fire arrows, but the Ming cavalry skillfully protected their cheeks with the gimbal armor of their arms, and the half-mounted vests protected the horses, so they broke straight into the Mongol rangers.
Cao Bianjiao himself opened the way for the iron horse, rushed left and right, rampaged into the ranger formation, and shot down more than ten people in a row.
"Protect the Great Khan!"
Before Huang Taiji walked up the hills, he heard the sound of protecting himself from the horse infantry with yellow flags in front of him, and when he looked up, he saw hundreds of Ming army iron cavalry rushing to kill.
"Don't panic! The front army dismounted and formed a formation, guarding the formation with iron spears, and the white armor and the teeth suddenly greeted! ”
Huang Taiji didn't pay attention to these hundreds of cavalry, but at this moment, the sound of horses' hooves and artillery suddenly came from the top of the mountain.
"Kill!"
"Peng Peng Peng—"
The dull artillery and the shouts of more than 2,000 iron horsemen sounded at the same time, and the Ming army did not have a little fear to fight with a few shots, which made Dolgon, who was sandwiched between Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao's uncle and nephew, very uncomfortable
He did not dare to withstand the charge of the iron cavalry, so he and Duoduo could only lead a banner and retreat to the left and right.
It's just that as soon as they withdrew, Huang Taiji and them were exposed to the iron hooves of Cao Wenzhao and others.
More than 600 stone bullets slashed through the sky just right and fell into the Chinese army under Huang Taiji.
For a time, the stone bullet turned into a ricochet, catapulting in all directions, injuring more than 1,000 people at the same time, making the Chinese army chaotic.
The yellow flags in the front row finally dismounted, seeing that the iron spear and the iron cavalry were about to collide, but they didn't want the Ming cavalry to take out the cavalry without paying attention to martial virtues, and aiming at them was a random shot.
"Bang Bang Bang-"
White smoke emerged, bullets flew, and the indestructible spear array was punched out of a gap, and Cao Bianjiao took the lead in leading hundreds of cavalry into the formation.
They rushed more than a dozen paces, and the front line of the Chinese army was almost chiseled through.
Among the hundreds of cavalrymen, many of them were shot through the cheeks by armor-piercing arrows and fell off their horses, and their bodies were divided by the dismounted Jin army wielding axes and maces, and they could not survive for a moment.
Seeing this scene, Cao Bianjiao was even more resentful in his heart, he was young and vigorous, he had not suffered this kind of humiliation, so he wanted to continue to break through.
Even if it was the elite Baijia Bayara of the Jin Army in front of him, he did not retreat, and after the prancing horse dodged the Jin Army's horse infantry who tried to cut off the horse's legs, he waved the iron wedge in his hand and hit a white-armored Bayala in the face heavily.
Even the bloody yellow teeth flew out, that is, even this person was knocked away a few steps, and his facial features became a mess of rotten meat, and he could not die again.
Seeing this scene, Bai Jia was frightened, and hurriedly shot towards Cao Bianjiao's face, trying to kill him with a sudden face.
Just waiting for them to react, Cao Bianjiao had already rushed towards Huang Taiji's Chinese army.
"This person is as brave as Liu Wei! Please take shelter for a while! ”
Ji'er Harang looked at Cao Bianjiao, who was less than a hundred steps away from them, and at the same time, he was even more worried about Huang Taiji's comfort, so he hurriedly dissuaded him.
"Why should I be afraid of him? There is a bow in the white armor! ”
Huang Taiji said conceitedly, but he didn't want the Ao Bai in his mouth to be bitter at the moment.
He wanted to rush up and learn the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to shout his name, but Cao Bianjiao swung an iron shovel over, and the heavy force pressed him to his knees, almost eating a stomach of soil.
For Cao Bianjiao, Ao Bai was just an ordinary Baijia Baya with more strength, so he didn't notice him at all, and after only pressing him down, he continued to rush towards Huang Taiji's Chinese army.
Cutting off the general and capturing the flag is the greatest honor of a pioneer officer on the battlefield.
He rushed forward, seeing that there were two Baijia Bayala who were about to swing their swords and cut off the horse's legs, and before Cao Bianjiao's royal horse jumped up to dodge, he rushed up with more than a dozen iron horsemen, and at the same time as he crashed into the Jin army, a rough voice also sounded.
"General Xiao Cao, let's cover your breakthrough!"
Cao Bianjiao looked back and saw that he was a general of the Duogan battalion under his uncle.
"What about my uncle?"
Although the battlefield was dangerous, for Cao Bianjiao, he was more worried about his uncle's hot head.
"General Cao is sweeping the formation in the rear, please let the general soldiers ...... Xiao Cao"
Before the general could speak, he saw that the Jin army was trying to release arrows to break through, and hurriedly raised his shield to protect Cao Bianjiao, and he used his arm armor to resist.
The armor of the Ming army used manganese steel developed by the Armaments Institute, which was very hard, and the wrought iron arrows of Jianyu could not be pierced, leaving only concave spots.
Under the cover of Duogan's 800 cavalry, Cao Bianjiao broke through all the way, and the Jin army that tried to attack him was solved by the left and right Duogan cavalry, and for a time he broke into the position of fifty steps in front of Huang Taiji.
"Great Khan! Let's retreat first! ”
"Great Khan ......"
"Great Khan ......"
Looking at Cao Bianjiao's bravery, the people around him began to dissuade Huang Taiji, and Huang Taiji was also a little afraid.
It's just that he was worried that if he moved, he was afraid that it would take a blow to morale, so he hesitated for a while.
In the time he hesitated for a few breaths, Cao Bianjiao once again broke into more than twenty steps, seeing that he and Huang Taiji were only twenty-seven or eight steps, Cao Bianjiao and Duogan's more than 800 cavalry were hot, and they couldn't hide their excitement.
"Kill Huang Taiji! Reward 10,000 taels of silver! ”
Cao Bianjiao raised his arms and shouted, and the cavalry around him instantly became energetic and rushed forward in formation.
"I'll go to the rear army to inspect."
Huang Taiji couldn't say back, so he changed his words and said that he asked for an inspection.
When the people around heard this, they all hugged him to leave the front army, but after Cao Bianjiao saw that Huang Taiji was leaving, he immediately threw up the spear, caught it in the shape of a javelin, got up and threw the spear out with his waist and horse.
Just when he got up, the arrows around him were like flying locusts, and he tried his best to protect his face, allowing the arrows to miss his body.
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In just the blink of an eye, there were dozens of sticks in the middle of his chest, but with the development of iron-smelting technology, the arrow loss would not have much effect on the armor and stomach, and Cao Bianjiao, who was protecting his cheeks, only suffered some skin injuries, and sat back on the horseback and prepared to continue to kill Huang Taiji.
The spear he threw was weaker, and a shot pierced the body of a white-armored Ba Yala in front of Huang Taiji, and while stabbing this person down, Huang Taiji was shocked into a cold sweat, and quickly accelerated his pace and retreated to the rear army.
"Bell, bell, bell—"
"Withdraw!"
The sound of the Ming army's gold has been ringing, Cao Bianjiao saw Huang Taiji leaving, coupled with the continuous reduction of the Duogan cavalry around him, and the continuous insetting of yellow flags and positive yellow flags around him, he could only retreat with regret.
Compared with the difficulty of breaking in, the retreat is much simpler.
Due to Huang Taiji's movement, everyone followed Huang Taiji's movement, and no one dared to stop being greedy and attack Cao Bianjiao and them.
The scorching occupation of the two armies was broken by Cao Bianjiao's sudden formation, and both sides suspended their return to their own large formations, leaving behind corpses.
The Jin army left more than 2,000 corpses and successfully went up to the hilly heights, being on the same hilly heights as the Ming army, and was no longer suppressed by the Ming army in terms of geography.
Although the Ming army gave the Jin army a geographical advantage, compared with the embarrassed appearance of the Jin army and the more than 2,000 corpses on the ground, they only lost less than 600 people.
Cao Bianjiao withdrew to the formation with the cavalry, and everyone turned over and dismounted, and the horses were tired and panting.
Cao Wenzhao came with a horse, and when he saw Cao Bianjiao, he was pulling out the arrow inserted in his body.
More than thirty arrows were missed, but they did not bring him any casualties, even the other Ming cavalry.
"The Jin army suffered heavy casualties and was busy breaking through, so it must be that Balibao was properly defended, and it should be credited."
Cao Wenzhao calmly analyzed, compared to him in history, he was a little more calm, otherwise he would have led his own troops to save Cao Bianjiao just now.
"It's a pity that I didn't kill Huang Taiji, if it succeeds, His Highness will be very happy!"
Cao Bianjiao took a big sip of water and looked at the Jin Army array angrily.
Cao Wenzhao nodded, thinking the same as Cao Bianjiao, but he still reassured:
"It's not a good thing for the chaotic army to break through, just now you were cut off from the front and back, so I didn't scold you, if it's peacetime, you can't personally lead the troops to break through."
"Besides, Huang Taiji will die, and there is no need to put his own life on the line for him, a dying man."
"Nephew understood." Cao Bianjiao is young and vigorous, but he can still listen to the words of Zhu Youzhen and Cao Wenzhao.
"Beep-"
The whistle sounded, and the direction came from Balibao, causing everyone to look back.
The god of Bali Fort, Wei Tang, rode to the front of the formation, and then spit out the wooden whistle and saluted Cao Wenzhao and the others:
"Balibao is a great victory, the seventh son of the old slave, Abatai, was killed, the body has been sent to Shangjing, and 9,237 people have been killed by the blue flag and the blue flag!"
"I am commanded by the gods to guard Liu and Bian Liu, and I have come to report the victory."
"Commander Liu asked General Cao to show that if Jianyu breaks through, he can adjust the divine defense to block it!"
"......" Tang Qi's words made the Ming army silent.
Compared with the great victory of Balibao beheading more than 9,000 people, they fought with the main force of the Jin army, and 670,000 people fought for half a day, and only killed 2,000 Jin troops in the end, which seems so ridiculous......