Chapter 126: Half-Crossing and Attacking
Located in the open plains with no terrain to ambush, Naharchu led 60,000 cavalry to gallop south along the river. The leader of the three guards of Wuliangha beside him was also fierce and murderous, and the cavalry clashed in this plain with excellent vision in broad daylight, for these nomadic tribes who were skilled in horse archery, it was like a dragon entering the water.
After running for dozens of miles, I saw a cavalry galloping across the river, and the banner was the Ming army.
When Nahachu saw that the enemy had run to the other side, he remembered that there were thousands of soldiers in the camp of the army who were fetching water on the river, and his heart sank.
Fu Youde also saw this group of Yuan cavalry on the other side of the river, raised his whip and pointed forward, and smiled at Chang Sheng: "The whole army assaulted and went straight to the enemy's riverside camp. After saying that, he took the lead and led the army to gallop along the river towards the north, but he completely ignored the cavalry of Nahachu and left directly.
Seeing that the Ming army was far away, Nahachu was worried that the big camp by the river would be lost, so he hurriedly ordered the whole army to dismount and lead the horse slowly towards the other side of the river. It turned out that at this time, the river was covered with solid ice, and it was unusually slippery, and it was impossible to gallop on it.
After Fu Youde led the army to run for several miles, he suddenly stopped his horse, raised his hand and passed the military order, so that the whole army turned around and returned the same way. Although Chang Sheng was puzzled in his heart, he didn't dare to ask more, so he had to restrain the army to turn around and follow Fu Youde back the same way.
Nahachu was still on the other side of the river, and when he looked from a distance, he saw that the leader of the Tainingwei, Azashiri, had already led more than 20,000 knights under his command to the heart of the river at this time, and the forward troops were not far from the other side.
Azashiri was leading his horse and walking cautiously on the ice, when he suddenly heard a commotion from his subordinates, and turned his head to see that a cavalry suddenly appeared on the horizon in the distance on the bank of the river, and rushed straight to him along the river, which was the Ming army that had just left. In a hurry, his feet slipped, he fell on all fours, and while he hurriedly got up, he roared and issued a military order to let the whole army retreat.
When Nahachu saw that the Taining Wei cavalry was marching on the slippery river, Fu Youde suddenly came back with such a hand, and couldn't help but be in a hurry, and hurriedly issued a military order to let Taining Wei withdraw his troops and return to the other side. It turned out that he was calm by nature, although he saw Fu Youde's army going far away to attack his big camp by the river, he only let the more than 20,000 cavalry belonging to Azashiri cross the river first, and the Wuliang Hawei and Fuyuwei troops still stayed by their side on the north bank.
Fu Youde rode his horse to the riverside, laughed long, raised his arms and opened his bow, an arrow flew away, shot down a Yuan army only more than ten zhang away from the river, waved his hand to the Ming knight behind him and shouted: "Line up by the river, give me arrows." ”
As a group of Ming troops rushed to the river and dismounted, more and more feathered arrows flew out of the air and shot at the panicked Taining Guards cavalry who were falling and crawling on the river.
At this time, the river was densely covered with Yuan army knights, their feet slipped abnormally, and in panic, they couldn't stand steadily, where could they still shoot with the Ming army? The nearest hundreds of Yuan troops from the shore suddenly fell under the dense arrows like raindrops. Many soldiers were anxious to flee for their lives, struggling to climb onto their horses, and even fell on the ice with their horses before they could run two steps, and were quickly killed by a rain of arrows. Blood flowed on the snow-white ice and snow, staining the boss with a piece of the river.
On the other side, Nahachu and Hai Sanan, the leader of Fuyuwei, replied to Xi, seeing a group of Yuan troops on the river like this to the Ming army without the power to shoot back, angry and helpless, although the Yuan army is in the upper hand in numbers, but at this time running to the river is difficult to gain a foothold, no matter how much you go, it is also to die, only hope that Azashiri can escape quickly.
Seeing that the Yuan army under his command suffered heavy casualties and fled back to the west bank in embarrassment, he secretly gloated in his heart, and said: You have more than 20,000 people in the tribe, 5,000 more soldiers, not to mention the land where water and grass are luxuriant, and even Shen Fatzi's goods have to be divided.
Azashri's armor was crooked, and he led a group of Yuan troops to flee back towards the west bank. More than 1,000 corpses of Taining guards were left on the river, and the blood-stained snow-white river was red, and many war horses wailed and neighed beside the motionless corpse of their masters, refusing to leave. Oriental || .com
Fu Youde saw that a group of Yuan troops had escaped from the range of bows and arrows, and passed down a military order to let all the Ming troops mount their horses and march north along the riverside.
Chang Sheng also shot more than a dozen Yuan troops, proud in his heart, smiling and galloping behind Fu Youde, secretly thinking: Today, we will not lose any of us, and we will clean up thousands of Yuan troops, no wonder with my father's thunderbolt and hot temper in the past, few people in the world can be seen by him, but he has great respect for the deputy marshal, and he has to remind the eldest brother after he goes back, so that he can speak in front of the deputy marshal in the future, and he must be more careful.
Seeing that Fu Youde led the army away, Nahachu did not dare to cross the river to chase after him, and was worried that under the riverside military camp, he had to reorganize his army and horses and return north along the river.
Fu Youde led the army to gallop for a while, and saw a continuous Yuan army camp looming on the other side of the river, and ordered the troops to dismount. In addition to the cotton shoes on his feet, he put on a pair of straw sandals that had been prepared a few days ago, turned to Chang Sheng and said: "You take 5,000 soldiers and walk towards the Yuan army on the opposite bank of the river to dig ice for water, don't get too close to the Yuan army camp, let our army be injured by arrows." ”
Under Chang Sheng's order, he dismounted with thousands of Ming cavalry, and rushed towards the other side of the river with a roar.
Guan Tong, the left general in the Yuan army camp, saw a large number of Ming troops on the other side of the river, and hurriedly passed down the military order to let the soldiers who took water on the ice return to the barracks.
At this time, Nahachu led his three guards to rush back to the camp of the army, although his current forces have an absolute advantage, but he has already suffered a big loss on the river, how dare he let his cavalry go up the river to find death. Seeing that Chang Sheng and other thousands of Ming troops were standing firmly in Jiangxin, he couldn't help but wonder. It turned out that after Zhu Quan said a few days ago that he would use cavalry to disturb the Yuan army, Feng Sheng and Fu Youde discussed and felt that if the river was frozen, it would be slippery and abnormal, and it would be difficult to gain a foothold, so they asked his soldiers to tie straw shoes when they were sheltering from the cold in the camp. Most of the Ming soldiers were born in peasant families, and it was easy to make these straw sandals, and they were familiar with it. After getting on the ice today, the bottom of the straw sandals worn by the Ming army was rough and unusually tough, and it was not slippery when walking on the ice, as if walking on the ground.
Chang Sheng led the 5,000 Ming army to stand in the heart of the river outside the range of the Yuan army's bow and arrow, he knew that Nahachu's group of Tartars did not have artillery, divine arm bows and other powerful things, and then saw that the other party's hundreds of thousands of horses were actually watching their beautiful standing on the river, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and smile, extremely proud, and even jumped and scolded, asking Nahachu to quickly speed the army to fight to the death, regardless of whether the other party could hear and understand.
The leader of the three guards saw that this bastard kid dared to be so arrogant with thousands of men, and he was also furious, but there was nothing he could do about him.
When Nahachu and Fu Youde were each leading their armies across the river, the 20,000 cavalry led by Lan Yu were marching north by the Daxinganling Mountain Range, and they were already not far from the Yuan army's riverside camp.
Lan Yu heard a scout report that the Yuan army scouts had been found in front of him, and knew that the army had been exposed, so he simply turned his head and ordered his nephew Chang Mao categorically: "Pass my military order, the whole army will attack, if the Yuan army is found on the side of the mountain, rush to kill, don't stay." After saying that, he took the lead and galloped away, and the mighty Ming cavalry behind him also suddenly accelerated and rushed forward.
In a relatively gentle place on the slope of the Great Xing'an Mountains, the dense Yuan army was busy in the dense forest, collecting firewood, cutting down trees, and transporting them to the riverside camp more than 20 miles away for heating. A captain of 10,000 was riding his horse and standing at the foot of the hillside, watching his thousands of soldiers busy. At this time, a scout of the Yuan army galloped on his horse and reported to him that a large number of Ming cavalry had been found on the side of the mountain due south.
Captain Wan is a confidant of the same clan of Nahachu, and when he heard that the Ming army was attacking, he hurriedly ordered the Yuan army who cut firewood on the mountain to go down the mountain, and all the Yuan troops under the mountain abandoned the firewood and got on the horse, preparing to fight.
Lan Yu led 20,000 cavalry to gallop wildly, seeing that many Yuan troops were still rushing down the mountain on the slope of the mountain, he no longer hesitated, raised his hand to take off the spear on the side of the horse, took the lead, and led his Ming army to rush towards the dense Yuan army under the hillside.
Seeing that his subordinates were panicked, the commander of the Yuan army roared and pulled out his scimitar, and when he was giving the order to release the arrow, he saw that a young general of the Ming army with bright armor had already galloped his horse with murderous spirit, and the scimitar in his hand was raised before it had time to fall, and he had already stabbed Lan Yu with a shot and knocked off the horse.
Although the number of Yuan troops who came to the hillside to cut wood and get firewood was also thousands, many did not bring weapons at all, a considerable part of them were still on the hillside, and most of the soldiers under the slope were also in a hurry to find their war horses, and they had no time to get on the horse and draw out their weapons, so they gave the Ming army like a wolf and a tiger, and the Ming army that rushed to the attack was slashed and chopped, and suddenly killed with screams and wails, and the blood flowed into a river. Frightened, he hurriedly climbed up the mountain and hid in the dense forest, not daring to go down the mountain to die.
After Chang Mao swung his knife and chopped over several Yuan troops, he was so killed that he led hundreds of his subordinates to chase and kill the Yuan army fugitives. Under Lan Yu's fierce rebuke, Fang Cai led a group of his men back, and with a stupid look on his face, He Lan Yu led the army to gallop away towards the north.
In the camp of the Yuan army in the west of the river, Naha Chu was leading the men and horses of Sanwei and Fu Youde's men and horses across the river, and heard the report that a large force of cavalry of the Ming army had been found on the western slope, and he did not dare to slack off, and ordered Guan Tong to lead the 50,000 elite cavalry belonging to the "Zara Yier Division" to meet the enemy Ming army.
When Guantong led 50,000 military horses to the front of the hillside, he saw a miserable situation in front of the plain hillside, countless Yuan troops lay in ambush on the ground, and the severed hands and feet fell to the ground wailing.
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