Chapter 237: Breaking the Formation
"Get out of the ......"
"Hahahaha!!"
The war broke out in the north, and with the Hu soldiers moving south, some walled forts that were not well garrisoned and did not receive news were breached.
In the streets and alleys of the walled fort, you can see corpses everywhere, and through the walls you can hear the wails of women and the screams of men in the houses.
One by one, the Han people fell under Hu Bing's saber, and many women were defiled by Hu Bing.
They watched as strange figures rushed to their homes, killed their loved ones, and then were brutally humiliated.
This kind of scene is like the devil descending on the world, and it is like locusts crossing the border, they not only rape and plunder, but also do not spare farm tools and seeds.
"This is the third fort we have captured, and these forts are only a few hundred people, and they can reach too little grass valley to reach many brothers."
In the walled fort, out of the courtyard, the next room next door to the delu Kuchaer, who was constantly wearing a belt, opened.
There, the woman's wail was heard, and the Hu soldiers stationed at the gate of the courtyard also walked towards the house when they saw Tuolu Huchaer walking out.
Soon after, the same woman's howl came from the room.
After waiting for a long time, the gray-haired Haragu walked out of the house with a girl of twelve or thirteen who were disheveled.
He explained to Hu Bing at the gate of the courtyard: "Take care of this woman, I will take her back to Wuliang Ha Bald Mountain." ”
He handed the numb girl to Hu Bing, and then tied his belt and walked to Tulu Hucha'er: "Thirty miles further south is Daning City, there are more walled forts around Daning City, and there are more tuntians, which can make the horses eat fat." ”
As soon as he finished saying this, there was the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and soon a cavalryman arrived in front of the courtyard to rein in his horse, fell off the horse in a panic, and crawled to the gate of the courtyard: "Great Khan, it's not good!" ”
"In a panic, has your guts been eaten by dogs?" Hara Wu cursed, but the soldier's words made him sweat in the next second.
"Thousands of cavalry came from the south, and they are soldiers from the Bohai Sea!"
Just for a moment, the two people who were still discussing going south just now immediately got up: "Order the whole army to retreat!" ”
"Yes!" Hu Qi left in a panic, and Tulu Hucha'er also looked at Harawu: "How can the people of Bohai be here, aren't they fighting with Wu Gao in Liaodong?" ”
The news of Tulu Kuchaer and others was still more than a month ago, and they thought that the current chief military officer of Liaodong was still Wu Gao.
"Leave him alone, let's retreat!"
Harawu gritted his teeth and ordered, and then took Tulu Kuchaer out of the courtyard and got on the horse.
After a while, the wooden whistle sounded, and many Hu soldiers heard the sound, waved their knives and slashed the women who had been used as a vent for a second before, and ran out of the courtyard with their pants.
In just a quarter of an hour or so, the whole walled fort was silent.
The Khara'u and the others also rode their horses and fled to the north, completely losing their previous calmness.
It's just that they haven't run ten miles before they see the elite cavalry and banner of the Bohai Sea also appear in front of them.
For a time, they were surrounded by 6,000 Bohai elite horsemen near this walled fort.
"Do you want to break out?"
On horseback, a cold sweat broke out in a cold sweat, and his eyes looked at Haragu on the side.
In front of them alone, there were no less than two thousand Bohai elite cavalry, and there were Bohai elite cavalry chasing behind them.
For a while, Haragu didn't know how many enemy troops he was facing, so he looked for a hilly high ground and prepared to look at the number of Bohai cavalry before deciding whether to break through or stay and fight.
"Zhu Gaoxu is pinned down in Liaodong, and he can't take out many soldiers and horses to pursue us, so let's see how many people he has first, and then choose to break through or fight."
Harawu said, and at the same time said his thoughts: "They are in the south of the civil war, and Zhu Gaoxu has few soldiers, we can just wait for the price and sell, maybe we can follow them into the customs and plunder." ”
He said his ambition, and at the same time, countless Bohai cavalry also poured in from three directions into thousands, and three thousand cavalry poured out in an instant.
These three thousand men, together with the two thousand cavalry who had intercepted their way, made a total of five thousand cavalry, and all of them were armored cavalry.
They removed the hip armor of the waistcoat and cut part of the armor skirt to reduce the burden on the horse, so as to gain the ability to run short and medium distances.
"It's only been two years, and they've been able to do it with one person and two horses."
Looking at the configuration of these 5,000 cavalrymen on horseback, Haragu naturally knew that these horses were all snatched from them by the Bohai Navy, but what could he do.
He glanced at the 20,000 men on his side, although he only had hundreds of armored cavalry and more than 4,000 armored soldiers, he still had the ability to break through.
Now he is not leaving, in order to test whether he can cooperate with Zhu Gaoxu.
"Send a person who can speak Chinese to find the chief general on the other side, and say, I went south this time, I heard the suffering of the King of Bohai, and specially brought troops to help, if the King of Bohai is willing, I am willing to lead the troops to the south and follow him to the Guannai campaign."
It is clear that the Uliangha tribes have a deep blood feud with Zhu Gaoxu, but he can still let go of these things, just in exchange for the stability of the Uliangha tribes, and at the same time, to obtain a large number of materials to strengthen his own side.
His words made many nobles around him shudder, but because of his strength, they had to shut up and wait.
More than a dozen Uliangha cavalry with Jingjie rushed to the south, they did not bring weapons, so they were not attacked by the Bohai navy, but were taken to the south by the Bohai navy.
Harawu was waiting, and once the momentum was not right, he would lead his troops to break through, and the Bohai Navy did not move, they were waiting for the military order of His Highness.
Time passed, and soon the dozen or so Uliangha cavalry were taken by the hundred Bohai cavalry to the walled fort they had looted before.
Outside the walled fort, thousands of Bohai cavalry looked at them with cold faces, if their eyes could kill, they would have been cut down thousands of times.
In the two battles, more than a dozen Mongol cavalry were brought into the depths of the walled fort, and along the way, you could see the corpses of the Han people they had previously chopped down.
The further they went, the more frightened they felt.
It wasn't until they came to the local Yamen of the Hundred Households that they finally saw Zhu Gaoxu, who was dressed in armor and had a great figure, and Zhu Quan, who was blue next to him.
Zhu Gaoxu looked at them with a blushing face, and his voice was low as if coming from the abyss: "What did Harawu send you for?" ”
Seeing Daxu on the side, no matter how stupid these more than ten people were, they knew that this great man was Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Bohai County, who beat their tribe to almost extinction, so his legs were weak and he knelt down one after another.
"Back to Your Highness, the king of my family said that he heard that you were suffering in the south, and specially brought troops to rescue him......"
The more the messenger spoke, the more unconfident he became, and at last his voice trembled even more.
"Help?" Zhu Gaoxu gritted his teeth and his expression was gloomy.
"My Han people are fighting, what is his business!"
The voice did not fall, but when he heard the sound of "bang", the door of the yamen of the hundred households was kicked down by Zhu Gaoxu, and the situation inside was fully revealed.
The woman was stripped naked, covered with filth, and died for a long time.
The man's head was cut off, and the body fell in the courtyard, and the head was deliberately placed on the table in the courtyard, which was full of irony.
"This is a misunderstanding...... This is a misunderstanding...... We're here to help you fight Daning, and they want to resist, so we have to ......."
"Shut your stinky mouth!!"
Zhu Quan kicked the messenger over, and the smell came from his body, and he was obviously incontinent.
Zhu Gaoxu's face was blue: "Daning has surrendered to Gu, and the matter of Haragu's slaughter of three hundred households is also known to Lonely, so go and tell Haragu that Lone has let Quanningwei go south, and your road to the north has also been blocked by Lone." ”
"If he doesn't want all the men of the Uliangha tribe to be lost here, he will bring as many people as the three hundred households, and he will personally lead the team here."
"Lone wants to be here, personally watching him take that group of nonsense to the people of Daming to be martyred!!"
"Get out!!" Zhu Quan also scolded.
The dozen or so Mongols left with a crawl, and Zhu Gaoxu also walked down the yamen of the hundred households, clenching his teeth: "The whole army is out of the camp, and I want to use this group of nonsense to bury the people of the three hundred households!" ”
"Yes!!"
With only one order, thousands of elite horsemen marched north under the leadership of Zhu Gaoxu.
Soon, 6,000 cavalry gathered, including 5,000 half-mounted armored cavalry, and 1,000 light cavalry led by Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Quan.
In the middle of the battle, the besieged Harawu also heard Zhu Gaoxu's request from the messenger who had fled back.
He didn't expect Zhu Gaoxu to come with his troops in person, nor did he expect that Daning's soldiers and horses would be so vulnerable that they all surrendered without even fighting a big battle.
At present, there are 3,000 soldiers and horses of Quanningwei going south, and there are 2,000 armored cavalry of Zhu Gaoxu in the north, and there are no less than 1,000 armored cavalry on the left and right sides, and there are 1,000 armored cavalry waiting for support on the periphery.
If they want to break through, they will naturally be able to rush out, but their horses are weak, and even if they rush out, it will be difficult to run to Quanningwei in one go.
On the other hand, the horses of the Bohai Navy are fat and strong, whether they are war horses or riding horses, and under the long distance, I am afraid that they will have to repeat the mistakes of Wuliang Ha Bald City.
"The whole army is in formation!!"
Haragu shouted in an old voice, and soon a shrill whistle sounded in the array.
The 20,000 Uliangha cavalry drew their bows and arrows and waited for the horn of the whole army to attack.
In the face of their preparations, the Bohai elite cavalry wore iron face armor one after another, eliminating the possibility of the Wuliangha cavalry breaking out.
"Cut the corners and kill the enemy as much as possible."
Zhu Gaoxu also put on a face armor, and Zhu Quan, who was beside him, also took out a wooden whistle and began to blow it.
The wooden whistle of the Ming army was slightly different from that of the Mongols, and the armies wore their face armor after hearing it, and this scene made the Uliangha cavalry very nervous.
Most of them had simple leather armor, while the remaining 4,000 were equipped with piercing armor and a few thousand were equipped with chain mail.
Once the fight really starts, no one knows what the outcome will be.
"Woo woo woo ......"
The horn sounded, and Haragu chose the direction of Zhu Gaoxu to break through.
Tens of thousands of horses began to slowly descend south from the low hills to the plains, and the Bohai armor cavalry around them also pressed forward step by step.
On the vast battlefield, although the distance between the two sides was still one or two miles, the sound of horses' hooves echoed in the ears of both sides.
In an instant, the Uliangha cavalry took the lead in attacking.
20,000 cavalry rushed towards Zhu Gaoxu's 1,000 people, but Zhu Gaochu unhurriedly pulled out the iron spear inserted in the ground and looked at Zhu Quan on the side: "Uncle Seventeen can take three hundred brothers to wander away." ”
With that, he began to urge the war horse to go into battle.
Like him, the seven hundred trained Bohai elite horsemen also began to go into battle, and everyone controlled the speed of their horses, and they kept the same level in small steps.
The 1,000 armoured horsemen on the periphery, who were seeking support from their side, and the armoured horsemen of all tribes began to follow them, and began to approach Haragu from all directions.
All of them remained the same, without any disorder in formation, like a high wall moving across the grassland.
In this posture, even if Harawu was blind, he could see that Zhu Gaoxu was seeking a short-handed attack, trying to surround the Wuliangha cavalry and divide it.
The battlefield was chaotic, and Haragu couldn't help but get nervous as he watched the six walls coming towards him.
The shiny spear was raised, and the armor and waistcoat on the body reflected each other, forming an iron wall.
Maybe it's because I've experienced too many wars, and I have a fear of the Bohai Navy in my heart, or maybe the quality of the soldiers has declined.
In short, when the Bohai Navy was approaching step by step, some people in the cavalry formation of Uliangha began to sneak out and slip through the gap between the Bohai Navy.
Zhu Gaoxu did not order the interception, because Zhu Quan on the periphery had already begun to pursue and intercept this group of rangers with 300 cavalry under his command.
On the frontal battlefield, the Mongolian cavalry formed a circle and continued to ride and shoot, and the arrows fell like showers in the Bohai Navy, most of them were knocked away, and only a few of them were shot in the gaps of the armor and stuck between the gaps.
"Woo-woo-"
The horn sounded, and the armored cavalry of the Bohai Navy was less than fifty paces away from the Wuliangha cavalry.
The horse's hooves trampled on the earth, making a dull sound that shook the heart, and the sound seemed to tremble even the earth, which was terrifying.
Soon, the Bohai Navy launched an attack, and they were like a file, constantly attacking the weak points of the Uliangha cavalry, polishing their irregular formation full of edges and corners little by little.
Cavalry duel, what you see is the potential!
It's rare for two cavalry teams to charge each other and crash into each other, that's the movie.
If there are really two cavalry wall charges, and they don't admit it, the end result is that when the war horses are a few meters away, they all stop together, and everyone looks at each other.
The most important thing in cavalry is discipline, whoever has a strict formation and is faster will win.
Under equal discipline, it is up to them to see whose horses are taller and stronger, and whose cavalry is taller and stronger.
Thus, in modern times, cuirassiers were the highest, as were their horses.
Today, the Bohai Navy has taller horses, stronger men, better armor, and stricter discipline.
They kept cutting the Uliangha cavalry back and forth, but any cavalry that was divided would soon be killed by Zhu Quan, who was patrolling the periphery.
The armored cavalry became a meat shield, consuming the arrows of the Uliangha, and occasionally someone fell from the arrow, but no one cared about them, and all the Bohai navy performed as they were trained on a daily basis.
They were like wolves hunting in the white mountains and black waters, surrounding the Uliangha cavalry left and right, and then encroaching and weakening them little by little.
"Rush forward!"
The Khalagu tried to break out of the encirclement, but when they were about to charge, the armored cavalry formed by the wall in front of them would raise their spears and approach them flat.
The horses under their crotch are not machines, and they are afraid of the spears that come towards them.
This fear led to the failure of the charge, and even more to the continuous siege and killing of Haragu and others.
"Blindfold!"
Haragu took the lead again, but the Bohai Navy did not attack at all to narrow the encirclement.
In the end, the thousands of armored soldiers beside Haragu blindfolded the horses and urged the horses to rush forward.
Some of the heavier horsemen took up strong bows and, under the cover of the front row, began to shoot arrows, and made a surprise in the face.
The fallen horses were planted with countless people, causing a chain reaction.
The charge that the Kharagu had managed to launch with great difficulty failed in this way, and the frightened Uliang Hajia soldiers were quickly repelled by the Bohai navy.
In the crowded encirclement, Haragu tried to expand his position by attacking Zhu Gaoxu's main formation, and his point of attack was Zhu Gaoxu's main formation of 1,000 light cavalry armor.
However, his intention was too obvious, and before he could attack, Zhu Gaoxu raised the iron spear in his hand.
In an instant, the quadrangular armored cavalry increased their speed, and the Harakul cavalry, who were crowded in the encirclement, began to be slaughtered.
They were numerous, more than three times the size of the Bohai Navy, but they were poorly equipped and simply could not break out of the encirclement.
"Those who don't want to die are blinded by horses, and rush to Zhu Gaoxu's Daxu!"
Haragu reorganized his army in the chaotic ranks, and led his troops and horses to rush towards Zhu Gaoxu's main camp with all his might.
"Let them out!"
Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhu Gaoxu deliberately asked people to release the besieged Wuliangha cavalry.
Tens of thousands of Uliangha cavalry rushed out of the encirclement, ignoring Haragu's military order at all, and rushed north one after another.
"Idiot! We didn't have many casualties, and now self-collapse is the way to die! ”
After Khalagu broke out of the encirclement, he cursed, but he alone could not stop the rout of the whole army.
Suddenly, the dull sound of horses' hooves sounded from the flanks of the breakthrough team, and when Kharagu heard the sound, he saw the rolling iron horsemen rushing towards him.
"Let's go!!"
Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu's Daxu actually took the initiative to approach him, he hurriedly waved his horsewhip and hit the horse under Harawu's crotch.
The horses galloped wildly, and Zhu Gaoxu threw the spear in his hand in the shape of a javelin.
In an instant, the spear pierced a Hu rider more than 20 paces away, but it did not hit Harawu.
Zhu Gaoxu didn't panic, took a bow and set up an arrow, and put the one-foot-three-inch arrow on the bow and arrow.
The four-edged armor-piercing arrows were cold and bright, but when they heard the sound of "collapse", the arrow instantly shot through a Hu cavalry who broke into the front, and then shot an arrow into the hind leg of the red-maned horse under the crotch of Harawu.
The red-maned horse was in pain, and he was caught off guard and threw Haragu off his horse.
"Great Khan!!"
Tulu Huchaer wanted to turn around to save him, but he saw Harawu waving his hand violently: "Lead people to retreat, take as much as you can!" ”
Obviously, he knew very well that the morale of the Wuliangha cavalry had been crushed by Zhu Gaoxu in an instant, and now they could only save their vitality and return to the grassland.
"The whole army pursues and kills the remnants!"
Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward, pulled out the iron spear inserted in Hu Bing's corpse, and after picking up seven or eight Hu soldiers in a row, he finally rode his horse in front of Haragu.
The rather old Haragu was lying on the ground, grinning in pain, and it was obvious that the fall just now had hit him hard.
This is the first time that the two have met so closely, looking at the tall and straight Zhu Gaoxu, Hara Wu grinned and praised: "What a man." ”
Zhu Gaoxu had a cold face, he would not forget the tragic situation of the previous hundred households because of Harawu's words.
He watched his subordinate cavalry under the leadership of Zhu Quan chasing and killing the fleeing tens of thousands of Wuliangha cavalry, and looked at this nonsense who had been making trouble for himself from Jixiguan to now.
The two Awks dismounted, tied Haragu with ropes, and carried him to kneel in front of Zhu Gaoxu's horse's hooves.
Kharawu did not resist this, and perhaps the moment he fell from his horse, he knew that his fate could not be good.
"What are you going to do to me?"
Harawu no longer mentioned helping Zhu Gaoxu beat Daming, but directly asked about his fate.
In the face of his inquiry, Zhu Gaoxu's face was blue: "I said, I want you to be martyred for the people of Daning!" ”
His expression was gloomy, making Halawu's face instantly bloodless.
"Can I choose how I die?"
He pretended to be calm, but Zhu Gaoxu raised his chin, as if asking if he still had a choice.
With just one movement, Harawu lowered his head like a frosted eggplant.
Perhaps if he had known that Zhu Gaoxu had brought so many armor horses, he would not have come to invade Daning.
However, thieves are always thieves, and Uliangha, who often defects between the Tatars, Warats and the Ming Dynasty, has never been trustworthy.
He knelt in front of Zhu Gaoxu, and knelt for an hour, until Zhu Quan returned with the chasing armor horse an hour later.
When Kharawu looked up, he saw thousands of captured Hu soldiers, as well as the heads of Hu soldiers who had been beheaded and hung under the saddle.
Those were his people, and now he couldn't do anything about it.
"Gao Xu, what about these prisoners?"
Zhu Quan came to inquire, although he was also angry when he saw that the hundred households were slaughtered, but he was essentially an aristocratic class, and now he was thinking more about using these Hu soldiers to organize the cavalry to go south.
His thoughts are also the thoughts of many generals in this era, but Zhu Gaoxu is different from what they think.
"As I said earlier, I want them to pay for their lives."
"......Someone is coming," Zhu Gao said indifferently, pointing at the more than 1,000 Hu soldiers with his horsewhip, and then slowly moved to Harawu.
Harawu looked at the horsewhip pointing at him tormentedly, thinking that he could be killed and buried happily, but Zhu Gaoxu's words made all the Hu soldiers go crazy.
"Drag it down, bury it alive!"
"Zhu Gaoxu, you are just the grandson of a beggar! You will never be able to regain the hearts of the Uryanha! ”
Harawu scolded, Zhu Quan was also shocked by Zhu Gaoxu's actions, he wanted to dissuade him, but when he saw Zhu Gaoxu's gloomy gaze, he closed his mouth.
On the way down, Harawu kept scolding, but listening to his insults, Zhu Gaoxu raised his chin and looked down at him:
"You're right, I can't get the hearts of the Uliangha tribes, I can't make them surrender to me from the heart......"
Immediately afterward, he changed his words: "But if I destroy their flesh, there is no need to make them submit, isn't that what you Mongol Khan, Temujin did?" ”
It's just a moment, Harawu is like falling into an ice cave, he didn't expect that the Han people would also have such brutal thoughts, but the people who have this kind of thinking do have this ability.
In front of Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Quan, and the Bohai Navy, Harawu was dragged into a large pit outside the Baihu House by the Bohai Navy, and was buried alive with more than 1,000 captured Hu soldiers under his command.
That scene made everyone remember it vividly, and Zhu Quan also remembered Zhu Yuanzhang's previous evaluation of Zhu Gaoxu.
"He is cunning, ruthless, and fierce by nature, and ...... fierce"
Thinking of this sentence, Zhu Quan didn't know if it was a good choice for him to choose Zhu Gaochu for a while, but he thought about the fragments of his acquaintance with Zhu Gaoxu, and thought that he didn't make a mistake.
As long as his fangs are not his own, he has nothing to fear.
"Bohai Chronicle": "Ding Si, led the cavalry out of Daning, broke the enemy in Huerling, captured thousands, captured the Yuan general Haragu, captured more than 1,000 Hu soldiers, and exhausted the pit. ”
"Ming Shizong Record": "Ding Si: The upper army went north, broke the Yuan general Harawu, and returned to the south. ”
(End of chapter)