Chapter 625: Mangu Tactics
"Chief, someone from the city has come out." At noon, there was a visit to the horse to find Ugqi Hashha to report.
Ugqi Hashha, who was expressionlessly gnawing on horse meat under the weathered cliff and closing his eyes to recuperate, suddenly opened his eyes, and the other Warat generals around him had stood up excitedly.
"Aha, sure enough, the head man guessed it!" A crowd of people was gearing up, and some people were already shouting. "Come on, go and lead my war horse!"
"Wait." Ugqi Hashha stopped these excited generals. He frowned, turned to Tanma, and asked, "Are you sure it's a herdsman?" How many people came out? ”
"What are you waiting for? Those herdsmen who are attached to the Han are nothing more than lowly drives, and they are not worthy of the prudence of the warriors......"
"Shut up." Ugqi Hashha glanced at the general coldly. "Even when the wolves are facing the sheepfold, they will first look for the tracks of the surrounding sheepdogs...... The Han people have always been scheming, what if this is just a bait to lure us into being fooled? ”
As one of the leading figures of the Warat tribe who supported the ascension of Surdier to the throne of Khan, Ugqi Hashha has always considered himself very wise.
He carefully interrogated the horse who had gone to investigate, carefully considered every detail, and finally came to the conclusion that those who left the city wall and left the city were indeed herdsmen from the surrounding pastures. Both in appearance and behavior, they are very different from the Han people.
"Chief, can you go now?" A general urged.
“…… Wait. Ugqi Hashha shook his head, and when he saw that his generals were still about to say more, he glanced at them viciously.
"There are more than 30,000 herdsmen in the city of Yijinai, and only a few hundred have gone out, so if you set off now, how many cattle and sheep can you grab and drive the mouth?"
"These people are there to find the way for the herdsmen in the city. When they are safe, the rest of the herders in the city will come out with confidence...... There are only two thousand households in the Ming army guarding the city of Yijinai, as long as there are no other herdsmen in the city, what will they do to fight with our Mongolian warriors? ”
"Only when the city is empty can we offer our wealth and glory to the Khan of Yesuri."
Ugqi Hashha's slender eyes shone with shrewdness. Cast a long line to catch a big fish, although he can't say this proverb, but he understands the truth.
The Warat people waited here for a few more days, until more than 20 days later, the horses that had been scattered came again to report that almost all of the more than 30,000 herdsmen had left the city, and the city of Yijinai was already empty.
"Are you sure the message is accurate?" Ugqi Hashkha remains cautious. "You watched the herdsmen go out of the city?"
"Immortal Heaven is above, I watched those herdsmen go out of the city with my own eyes!" The horse who came back to report the gambling curse swore an oath. "I saw that every day during the day, there were herdsmen driving cattle and sheep out of the city. For ten days in a row, more and more every day. ”
"The cattle and sheep don't lie, and I've ventured close to the herdsmen's quarters...... They are indeed good herders, and they can't be cowardly Han people pretending! ”
Ugqi Hashkha relieved. He is right, cattle and sheep do not deceive people, since the cattle and sheep are also driven out, those people can only be simple herdsmen.
"Good!" He stood up suddenly, and the thin eyes of the original yin owl changed into a bloodthirsty appearance. "Let the warriors hurry up and have a full meal. Wait until dawn and set off. ”
"Rob the traitors of the vassal Han people first, and then capture the city of Yiji Nai......"
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To the north outside the city, hundreds of yurts have been erected on the vast grassland, which gives the morning when the sun is rising a little more peaceful atmosphere with smoke curling up.
This is the largest pasture outside the city of Yijianai, where hundreds of herders graze their cattle. The herders had abandoned the pasture because of the raids of Warat, but now that life was stable, they returned to this treasure land.
"Quick, quick!"
In the west, Ugqi Hashha is leading a full 8,000 Warat warriors galloping across the steppe. Eight thousand war horses galloped wildly, enough to make the entire grassland tremble because of their might. By the faint morning light, Ugqi Hashha had already vaguely seen the outline of the yurt in front of him, but he frowned and said strangely: "Why is there only a yurt on the grassland, and there are no cattle and sheep in sight?" ”
"Maybe they were too careful and put the cattle and sheep in the camp and put them in the camp. Or maybe it's grazing in the east. There was speculation on the left and right.
Ugqi Hashha squinted his eyes hard, but this grassland was too flat, and the undulating ground was extremely suitable for cavalry charges, but it also limited the commander's vision. Seeing that the warriors had begun to call excitedly, he simply stopped guessing.
Under the protection of the Immortal Heaven, the hooves of the Warat warriors will crush everything.
"Beat the drums of war made of gandhienskin! Blow the horn made of horns! Put my big up! Ugqi Hashha yelled. In order to cover up some of their tracks, they didn't raise flags along the way.
"Let these traitors who are attached to the Han people see what is the glory of the Great Mongolian State!"
The Knights of Warat roared in a haphazard manner, rushing towards the shepherd's camp like a tide that would swallow everything. Ugqi Hashha had seen that the panicked herdsmen in the camp had run out of the yurts and stepped onto their horses one by one.
"They're going to run, chase!" Seeing that there were people in the camp, Ugqi Hashha's previous doubts immediately disappeared. "Kill them! Snatch their cattle and sheep! They will be the driving force to serve you! ”
The herdsmen in the camp soon began to abandon the camp and flee, and Ugqi Hashha was very experienced in dealing with these fleeing herdsmen. He commanded the two wings to separate to outflank the fleeing herdsmen, and he jumped over the rough fence in the camp with the Chinese army's horses, and the warriors behind him were also good at equestrianism, and one by one the horses crossed the railing, and the defense of the camp was useless.
"Catch up!" He yelled, pulling out his bow and arrows. He knew too well how to hunt down these shepherds, just a plate of scattered sand, as long as he shot a few people who fled slowly, the rest of the people would just run around in panic and trample on each other.
The speed will naturally slow down.
Seeing him open his bow, the other Varat cavalry who were following closely behind also took out their bows and arrows. Seeing that the distance was getting closer, Ugqi Hashha narrowed his eyes and was about to shoot his own arrow.
However, before he could loosen his strings, he heard a breaking sound from the front. He quickly lowered his head, and with a "whoosh" sound, an arrow was nailed to the head of one of the Warat warriors behind him, who dismounted.
Immediately afterward, arrows flew in front of them, and the pursuing Warat warriors continued to fall.
"Mangu Tactics!" Ugqi Hashha's eyes widened. The people in front of them did not slow down their escape speed at all because of panic and trampling, but deliberately slowed down their horses in order to get them into the range of mounted shooting......
"Eshute!" Ugqi Hashha cursed. "They are not herders!"
"It's the rebels who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty!"
(End of chapter)