Chapter 61: Snowy Night Raid
Highlander pulled out the scimitar in her hand and waved it, shouting, "Ready to release the arrow." With his order, the Northern Yuan cavalry, who had already turned over and mounted their horses, lit the arrows that had already been prepared in their hands. Follow Highlander and gallop wildly, like a gust of wind on the prairie, towards the military camp.
Zhu Quan suddenly heard the loud sound of fire in his sleep, and he had already woken up, turned over and led the Wang brothers out of the camp, but saw the blue jade top armor walking out of the camp, dressed properly, obviously not sleeping. Xu Ying also walked out of the camp, holding a long sword, looking at herself with puzzled eyes.
Zhu Quan was about to speak, but suddenly saw countless fires in the air, flying from far and near, and before he came back to his senses, he felt that someone on his side pushed him violently, and he rolled to the ground unexpectedly, and one side of his body actually rolled into an ox cart transporting baggage supplies. Looking up, he saw two feather arrows stuck in Wang Dahu's mouth, one was shot at the back, and the other was shot in the thigh, squatting on the ground, unable to get up.
Burning rockets kept falling in mid-air, constantly falling on the camp tent, waking up the Ming soldiers who ran out of the tent.
Zhu Quan was hiding under the ox cart at this time, and a cold sweat broke out on his back, and he knew in his heart that if Wang Dahu hadn't pushed him in time, most of them would have lost his life, so he gritted his teeth and crawled towards Wang Dahu, wanting to pull him into the car.
At this time, I saw people roaring and neighing, and the surrounding Ming army was in a panic, and more than ten Northern Yuan light horsemen had already jumped their horses and rushed to the front, while opening their bows and arrows to the Ming soldiers who were scattering and fleeing, and roared angrily, like wolves that suddenly appeared in the middle of the night.
The leader was a centurion, who rode to Wang Dahu on horseback, and slashed at one side with a knife, and in the blood splash, Wang Dahu was already in a different place, and the blood splashed his brother Wang Erhu's head and face.
Wang Erhu touched the hot blood on his face, howled wildly, jumped up and chased after the centurion who killed his brother, but was turned around by the centurion and shot an arrow, hit the thigh, and fell to the ground.
Seeing that Wang Erhu had not been shot, the centurion of the Northern Yuan Dynasty turned his horse's head, smiled fiercely, and galloped towards him.
At this time, Zhu Quan climbed out of the car, turned over on Wang Dahu's mount, and galloped towards the centurion, and between the two horses, he pulled out a three-foot Qingfeng and ran in front of Wang Erhu, waved his hand and swept out, and the sparks shone, blocking the fatal blow of the centurion's scimitar.
At this time, Zhu Quan practiced Qin Zhuofeng's unique internal skills, and he already had three points of fire, and under the attack of the sword, the centurion was shocked to half of his body and numb, and the scimitar was out of his hand. Seeing that Zhu Quan was dressed as a general, the centurion rushed out dozens of steps, turned his head and showed a sly smile, and rode his horse away.
Seeing the other party's provocative smile, Zhu Quan roared in his head, and rode his horse to chase forward, turning a deaf ear to the calls of Xu Ying and Lan Yu behind him.
Xu Ying saw Zhu Quan riding a horse and chasing after him, so he hurriedly came to Zhu Quan's mount "Dark Cloud Cover Snow", turned over on his horse, and chased after him.
After Qin Zhuofeng ran out of the camp tent, he raised his hand to take two feather arrows that shot at him, and after shaking his hand "the thing returned to the original owner", he saw his lover riding away, and his heart was very anxious. Zhu Quan and Xu Ying chased after them, which was extremely dangerous. Hurriedly jumped up, punched a Northern Yuan cavalry to the point of breaking a bone, grabbed the horse, and chased forward.
As soon as Lan Yu came out of the big tent, he was hit by an arrow in his left arm, snorted in his nose, stretched out his right hand, pulled out the feather arrow, bent down and picked up a strong crossbow that had already been wound, called the "Divine Arm Bow", and shot at a Northern Yuan cavalryman with a raised hand. After walking two steps, he turned over his red horse and turned his head to look around, but saw that the Ming army in the barracks was scattered and fled, and there was a panic, many soldiers with fire guns had no chance to light the fire rope and slaughtered the Northern Yuan cavalry with scimitars or bows and arrows, but many soldiers with "divine arm bows" could immediately counterattack.
Judging from the round of rockets just now, Lan Yu had already seen that the number of Northern Yuan cavalry attacking at night would not exceed 10,000, and he knew that at this time, the Ming army under his command was entangled with the enemy, and the firearms and crossbows were not easy to play, and it was easy to shoot and injure his own cavalry. Hurriedly rode his horse towards the outside of the camp, galloped on one side, picked up a horn on the other, and blew it "hmm".
In the camp of the Ming army, Hailanda was leading the main force of cavalry to chase and kill the Ming soldiers everywhere, setting fire to the grain and grass, but he was secretly surprised in his heart, it turned out that after he led thousands of Northern Yuan cavalry to rush into the camp, he wanted to concentrate his forces to rush and kill, and then burn the other party's accumulated grain and grass, but the scene in front of him was greatly unexpected by him. I saw that in front of each camp tent, almost all the grain, grass and baggage carts were scattered, but there was no way to burn them down, so I had to disperse the troops and chase and kill the Ming soldiers.
Soon, after a bull's horn sounded in Highlanda's ears, he saw that the Ming soldiers who were armed with bows and crossbows and firearms all rolled over and rolled down, and climbed into the carts that transported grain, grass and baggage between the various camp tents, while the Ming cavalry who could struggle to get on their horses no longer entangled with their men, but just galloped on horseback and assembled in the direction where the horn sounded.
It turned out that Lan Yu had been fighting with Nahachu in Liaodong for many years, and knew the power of the Mongols' scimitars and bows and arrows, so he specially figured out a set of fighting methods, that is, the vehicles in the generals were divided between the camps, and the soldiers with long-range weapons hid under the vehicles to counterattack when they were entangled with the Northern Yuan cavalry in close quarters, so that the scimitars and bows of the Northern Yuan cavalry were useless.
Highlander looked at the Ming soldiers who were hiding under the car, curled up after shooting arrows, and kicked away with both feet, winding the "Divine Arm Bow", and couldn't help but be extremely angry. Before the previous night attack was launched, he visually inspected Lanyu's camp, and probably estimated that the opponent's strength was about 30,000, and at this time, most of the enemy cavalry had already rushed out of the camp, and it was obvious that they had to carry out counter-outflanking on the periphery, and if they did not retreat, they would suffer a big loss. Thinking of this, he took one of the ringing arrows from the quiver, raised his hand to shoot it, and ordered the thousands of Northern Yuan light cavalry under his command to start retreating.
On a slope outside the barracks, Lan Yu was condescending, seeing that these thousands of Northern Yuan light cavalry were actually scattered as birds and beasts, divided into countless small groups of men and horses, scattered in all directions like a low tide, knowing that it was difficult to surround and severely damage the enemy, he sighed, and had to lead more than 4,000 cavalry gathered behind him at this time, galloping back towards the military camp, while killing the Northern Yuan cavalry who had not fled far, while commanding the firefighting.
By the time he had to pack up and return to his tent, it was already dawn.
Lan Yu was only idle at this time, untied the bandages on his arms, and asked his subordinate soldiers to wash them carefully before applying medicine, but he heard a person at the door of the big tent say loudly: "Subordinate Wang Bi, please see the general." ”
Lan Yu said in a deep voice, "Come in." ”
When the curtain was lifted, a young general in armor strode into the tent, only to see that he was covered in blood and his face was still smoky and smoky, it was Lan Yu's deputy, deputy vanguard general Wang Bi.
Lan Yu looked at Wang Bi and asked with a calm face, "How about the losses of each battalion?" ”
Wang Bi bowed and said, "When the subordinates counted the casualties of each battalion, they found that His Royal Highness King Ning was missing. Speaking of this, he couldn't help but feel uneasy in his heart, and secretly thought: "If Your Majesty knows that his son has disappeared in the chaos, I am afraid that we will come to a catastrophe."
Lan Yu looked as usual, nodded, Zhu Quan and Xu Ying chased after the Northern Yuan centurion before, he saw it with his own eyes, turned his head to look at Wang Bi with a panicked face, and said impatiently: "If Your Majesty blames me, as the main general, I will naturally take care of it, but what are you afraid of?" "Zhu Quan and Xu Ying disappeared in the chaos, and although this matter is serious, it is not on Lan Yu's top priority.
"Three hundred and eighty-four people were killed, a total of two hundred and fifty-three people were seriously wounded, and thirty-seven carts of grain and grass were burned." Wang Bi said softly.
Hearing this, Lan Yu's eyes flashed, Huo Ran stood up, and the soldiers next to him who were carefully bandaging him were caught off guard, and the bandages that were half-pierced were suddenly torn off again, seeing the blood gushing on Lan Yu's arm and his unkind face, but he didn't dare to step forward to bandage it again.
Lan Yu asked in a deep voice, "But the Yuan army of the Mobei Yuan Court?" What is the name of the leader of the general? ”
Wang Bi said in his heart: If it weren't for the tens of thousands of Ming troops, they would have slept with firearms and crossbows. In the middle of the night, he suddenly encountered a surprise attack by these thousands of Northern Yuan light cavalry, and it was also very possible that the whole army would be defeated. Thinking like this in his heart, he heard Lan Yu's question in his ears, and hurriedly continued: "According to the dozens of Tartars captured by the torture of his subordinates, they are the five thousand yuan army under the command of the general Hailanda under the Taishi Barbarian of the Yuan Court in Mobei. ”
Lan Yu sat down again and let the soldiers bandage, nodded and said: "That's it, this place is still more than two hundred miles away from Gyeongju, we just left Tongzhou yesterday, if the Yuan army of the Qingzhou Hailixi Department gets our news, they will have to gallop here for a day, and the war horse will not have the foot strength of those Yuan troops." Snorted coldly, and continued: "The puppet emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty is blind, our army is conscripted against Nahachu, but he only sent thousands of yuan troops to reinforce him. When Nahachu is cleaned up, I will cut off his dog's head with my own hands. ”
When Wang Bi heard Lan Yu say this, he couldn't help but wonder: "Then this Hailanda didn't go to Gyeongju and Pingzhangguo to join forces, but what did he come here to do?" ”