After finishing the main force of Yan Lou's room, when he ran two or three miles to the northeast, Wen Du Sizhong took more than 100 light horsemen and rushed towards the north inconspicuously.

As a veteran of a hundred battles, Wanyan Lou is not blindly fierce, and he cannot hope for a single retreat.

However, when the soldiers under his command were frightened by the wooden cannons, Wanyan Lou Room could not directly say that he fled over the mountains and mountains, which would further weaken the soldiers' will to fight!

Therefore, he could only shout and storm through the valley, and quietly sent people to check the escape terrain on the spot.

One light and one dark, prepare with both hands.

The mountains to the north and northwest of the battlefield, that is, the "eight" shape, are all common soil and rocky mountainous areas in Shanxi.

To describe it in technical terms, its soil composition is: about 80% loess brown soil, about 20% thin sand shale brown soil.

To put it more simply, there is a small amount of sand and gravel sandwiched between the loess.

The overall altitude is several hundred meters high, but the relative height of those mountains is only a dozen meters to dozens of meters, and those that can reach one or two hundred meters are considered peaks.

However, the loess has been eroded into ravines and ravines, and the mountain beams are undulating and staggered.

There is no valley that can lead to the end, and it is often necessary to walk along the ravine for a while, and then climb up the mountain beam to advance, and then go down the mountain to another ravine. One side of some mountain beams is still straightened by nature, and the war horses can't go up at all, and if they go wrong, they must find a new way.

The narrowest place, only a straight line distance of more than 300 meters, can quickly be crossed by the whole army to escape.

The widest place, the distance in a straight line is more than 1,000 meters, and the ravines and mountain beams are mixed like a labyrinth.

Wen Du Sizhong took more than 100 light horsemen and divided them into ten teams to the foot of the mountain in different places. They abandoned their horses and climbed along the ravines towards the highest mountain beams nearby, trying to find the shortest escape route for the horses.

The vegetation in the mountains is dominated by low grasses and trees such as vitex, yellow thorn plum, dogtail grass and white sheep grass.

There are also a small amount of arborvitae and Pinus tabuliformis, which does not affect the observation of climbing as a whole.

Wen Du Sizhong set off from the foot of the mountain, went to the first nearby high ground to observe, and then identified the direction of the mountain beams in the four ravines, which took more than ten minutes to basically complete.

Then, we went to another high ground to observe.

……

Twenty cavalry battle squads, namely 400 cavalry and 600 light cavalry, ran back as the vanguard of the golden soldiers.

They showed no concern for the horse's physical strength and reached a speed of 420 meters per minute.

This is the armored state of the cavalry!

In just about ten minutes, he met the followers of the Ming heavy cavalry.

These soldiers were temporarily turned into light cavalry to carry out reconnaissance missions, and when they saw the Jin cavalry, they immediately sounded their horns to warn, and fled back to the direction of the main friendly forces while blowing the trumpet.

Soon, the 2,000 Ming horsemen who stayed behind to defend against the enemy killed those Jin cavalry vanguards.

The vanguard of the Jin soldiers, when they encountered the heavy cavalry of the Ming army, began to slow down to let the war horses take a little breath, and even turned around and slowly retreated. Their task was not to storm strongly, but to arrive at the battlefield as soon as possible, force the Ming army to divide their troops for defense, and delay the speed of the Ming army's attack on the camp.

"Pacify the enemy!"

Yang Yun raised his gun and shouted, and led two thousand horsemen to rush forward, and one thousand heavy horsemen followed behind and waited for the opportunity to move.

The Jurchen cavalry was a mixed group of light and heavy cavalry, and the twenty cavalry and thirty light cavalry were organized into a team of fifty people.

The Ming cavalry imitated the Guanning cavalry, and it was also a formation of fifty people. But they were all horsemen, twenty-five men formed into a squadron, and two squads formed a squadron of fifty men. (In the future, if it is expanded again, light cavalry will be added.) ）

The formation of the cavalry squad of the Ming army, of which twenty cavalry, formed four columns of five people.

The squad leader is at the front of the middle, with the standard-bearer and herald following behind the squad leader.

Two lengths, respectively located in front of the left and right verticals.

There is also a supervisor at the back of the middle of the team, who does ideological work in peacetime and supervises the battle in wartime.

At the time of the engagement, the squad leader led the army to charge head-on.

If you need to change direction and kill, the two leaders on the left and right will be the lead.

If it is an emergency U-turn, the supervisor will temporarily become the squad leader and lead the whole team to charge or retreat in the opposite direction.

Such a grassroots officer configuration allows the cavalry squad to have people in the front, rear, left and right to take the lead, maintaining high mobility, high organization, and high responsiveness.

The Jin cavalry began to alternate cover, shooting arrows while retreating, and occasionally organizing small-scale counter-charges.

First, they are trying to stall for time, and second, they are also showing weakness to lure the enemy.

In other words, they are not sympathetic to the fast running of war horses, and they are weaker with fewer troops. Naturally, they retreated backwards, but they were defeated without being defeated, and little by little they led the enemy to their main forces.

This is the usual routine of the cavalry of the Jin State, and the Liao army, the Song army, and the Western Xia army have all suffered great losses because of this!

But this time it's noticeably different.

The cavalry of the Liao, Song and Xia dynasties all liked to ride and shoot, and did not like to charge in close combat. Therefore, the Jin cavalry could retreat calmly, and even organize a counter-charge when retreating. The Liao, Song and Xia cavalry, who had the advantage, would subconsciously avoid their counter-charge, and then continue to pull and shoot arrows in pursuit.

At this moment, the Da Ming Xiao led by Yang Yun rode forward and rushed forward. Shoot arrows while pursuing.

When the Jin cavalry alternately covered the retreat, the Ming cavalry ignored it, relying on more troops and sufficient physical strength of the war horses, and accelerated the charge straight ahead. It doesn't matter if you encounter a golden soldier cruising around on the side, anyway, you have a lot of soldiers, and the friendly troops next to you will deal with it.

In a simple sentence, the Jin cavalry is playing tactics, and the Ming cavalry is done when they rush forward.

"Woo woo woo ~ ~~"

The golden soldier began to blow the trumpet, causing the flag to wave wildly.

The name of the general of the Jin State is Huhu, and he has the same name and different surname as Wanyan Huhu, the son of Aguta. The cavalry of the Jin State in front of him, including the commander of the army, were all from the Liao Jurchens, and were conquered by Wanyan Lugu thirteen years ago.

Suddenly, four cavalry teams were divided into four cavalry teams to organize a counter-charge to cover the Jin soldiers who were about to be overtaken.

According to his more than ten years of experience in cavalry combat, these Han cavalry will definitely be frightened by the counter-charge and will be busy pulling away from the cavalry.

However, Da Ming Xiao rode directly into it!

Not only did the Ming cavalry who met head-on collide, but the cavalry squads of the Ming army on both sides also took the initiative to outflank and fight in close combat.

The four cavalry teams, a total of 200 Jin State cavalry, were all surrounded and killed by the Ming cavalry on three sides.

The remaining Da Ming cavalry adjusted the position and distance of the charge, gradually approached in small teams, and continued to charge towards the rest of the Jin cavalry.

Da Ming Xiao rides, not Liao rides, not Song rides, and not Xia rides.

The Jin cavalry's trick of luring the enemy didn't work.

Not only was there a small number of soldiers, but the physical strength of the war horses was also seriously depleted, so he was so frightened that he gave up the two hundred cavalry and led the other cavalry to retreat at full speed.

Yang Yun divided his troops to strangle the two hundred golden horsemen, and personally led the army to continue the pursuit.

chased for about two miles, and saw the main force of Yan Lou's room coming from a distance.

"Withdraw!"

"Woo woo woo ~ ~~~"

The Ming cavalry did not love to fight, and turned around and ran.

In the battle just now, more than 180 cavalry members of the Jin State were annihilated, and many were wounded during the pursuit.

Suddenly, he ran back with the defeated soldiers, and said to Wan Yan Lou Room: "These Ming cavalry are different, when our army covers the counterattack, they actually don't retreat!" ”

That's outrageous.

The Ming army was a normal reaction, but in the eyes of the Ming, it was extremely abnormal.

Because the Liao army, the Song army, and the Western Xia army will all subconsciously pull away from each other, and there is rarely a time when they rush forward to close combat - unless they already have a crushing advantage.

Wanyan Lou Room said: "The cavalry of the Ming army came out, and when they saw the main force of our army, they retreated. In this way, our military camp has not yet fallen, otherwise they would occupy the camp for defense. The whole army sped up and flanked the enemy with the friendly forces of the camp! ”

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Golden Barracks.

When the defender saw that Wang De occupied the high ground, the guard general Saba immediately divided eighty Jurchen elites to supplement the defense, and easily beheaded the frightened defenders to show the public.

More and more warriors ascended to the high ground, and Wang De began to lead his army to rush downward.

After only six or seven minutes of fighting, the Han army of the Jin State had already collapsed, and more than 20 of the 80 Jurchen elites were killed and wounded.

More first battalions rushed to the top of the nearby walled wall from a high place, attacking and killing the Han army of the Jin State and the people of Yuxian County who were defending the wall.

The people fled in terror, and the Jurchen Governor team couldn't stop them at all.

Seeing that the Han army of the Jin State was about to collapse, Saba had to invest the rest of the Jurchen elite, and even he himself rushed forward.

A herald rode over and whispered to Chen Ziyi: "General, the main force of the Jin soldiers is almost here." General Yang asked if he would lead his troops to fight a bloody battle to delay time. ”

Chen Ziyi said: "No need, let him temporarily withdraw from the battlefield to the southeast, wait for the opportunity to spy on the enemy's situation and then kill back." The valley here is too narrow to accommodate too many cavalry, and even if the enemy camp is captured, it is difficult to quickly withdraw into the camp with thousands of war horses blocked at the mouth of the valley. ”

In Zhang Guangdao's plan, he didn't think about quickly capturing the enemy camp, and then letting Chen Ziyi's troops all retreat in to defend.

If that's the case, Wanyan Lou will definitely have no desire to fight, and it is estimated that he will directly take the whole army to the northwest and flee over the mountains and mountains. Although this situation can also leave many enemies behind, and force the enemy army to give up some of their armor and horses, it is very likely that more than half of them will escape.

"Riding to cover the heavy cavalry retreat!"

The heavy cavalry, which was temporarily converted into heavy infantry, had almost no casualties except for a few stepping on thistles.

They didn't even engage much, and spent most of their time ramming into the wall.

The arrows and spears of the golden soldiers could not break through the heavy armor defenses at all. He also threw some loess blocks and injured a small number of heavy cavalry, these loess blocks were very light, and the landing point was not high, and even the heavy cavalry who were smashed and fractured were very few. (Most of the loess blocks that Jin Bing collected from the valley were used to fill the walls and block the doors, and very few were left to be used as rolling stones.) ）

The cavalry took over the heavy cavalry with spears, and the heavy cavalry slowly retreated from outside the wall, heading to the valley mouth to fetch their horses.

The real breakthrough point is on the slopes on both sides, and there is no battle at the bottom of the valley.

More than 20 horsemen had already climbed to the high ground captured by the first camp, and they shot at the Jin Han soldiers diagonally below.

These Jin Han soldiers had a low armor rate, and they were mainly leather armor, so they couldn't carry bows and arrows at all.

After shooting dozens of arrows in a row, the Han soldiers of the Jin State fled on a large scale, and the defense of the Jin camp completely collapsed.

Saba led the Jurchen elite who were not entangled, and quickly retreated to ride a war horse. There were only forty or so horsemen left, and they retreated and shot in the face of the first camp that rushed in.

More Da Ming horses climbed the wall and shot towards more than forty golden horses.

After several horses fell off his horse in succession, Jin Jiang Saba fled in panic.

Wang De led his troops to chase and kill the defeated army, and divided dozens of warriors who first entered the camp to move the loess blocks placed on the inside of the walled gate, and then opened the walled gate to welcome more friendly troops.

The servants had already galloped back from the battlefield, driving the horses of the cavalry into the camp, and at the same time assigned men to put horse armor on the heavy cavalry.

Due to the congestion at the mouth of the valley, the main force of the Jin State has approached again, and there are still hundreds of war horses that have no time to withdraw to the valley, so they will directly disperse these war horses outside the valley and retrieve them when the battle is over.

Thousands of Ming heavy horses, went to the outside of the valley to mount horses, and retreated into the valley in batches.

Chen Ziyi ordered: "The soldiers who retreated into the camp all shouted loudly, pretending that they had not yet broken through the enemy camp!" Everywhere outside the wall, there are also some on the hillsides on both sides, raising guns and shooting arrows and pretending to be fighting. ”

This is for fear that the camp has been broken and will scare away the main force of the Jin soldiers.

The valley is rugged, and it is difficult to see the specific situation inside.

In fact, it doesn't matter if the Golden Battalion is not breached, as long as you take advantage of the narrow terrain to fight bloody battles on both sides, and delay as much time as possible to complete the mission. The defeat of the enemy camp was only a side bonus.

Wanyan Lou Room heard the roar of the fight, and ordered without thinking: "Our army camp is still there, and the Ming army is being attacked on both sides!" ”

This time, he was directly involved in Hezha Meng'an, and the men and horses were all wearing heavy armor, and they rushed into the valley in batches as a team.

(End of chapter)