Chapter 109 Harassment Retreat
Li Laoer and Cao Bianjiao were waiting 150 steps away from the Jin army camp. Seeing that although the Jin army camp was in chaos, no one was out of force, Li Laoer ordered the troops to remain unmoved.
After more than half an hour, the Mongolians and Jurchens, who were awakened from their sleep and were busy for a while, finally put out the flames in the military camp. Almost everyone had traces of smoke and fire on their faces, and they were so tired that they were gasping like dogs. They were indeed too tired. They had to prepare to fight with the Ming army during the day and rob the people everywhere. They finally had a good sleep when they went back at night, but they were lit up by someone and woke up from their sleep to put out the fire.
The fire was extinguished, but a lot of the camp was burned down. The originally organized camp was in a mess. The snow on the ground was roasted and condensed into ice again. The ground inside the camp was very slippery, and it was easy for people to slip when they walked up. The camp where many people lived was burned down. It was impossible to sleep in the open air in such a cold day, so they could only crowd in the same camp with others.
Seeing the flames in the Jin army camp extinguished, Li Laoer said to Cao Bianjiao: "General Cao, let's set fire to Jiannu again and tell them not to sleep tonight."
"What a shame!" Cao Bianjiao responded. Thinking that the Later Jin army would be harassed tonight so that it was not peaceful all night, Cao Bianjiao was full of energy for a moment and laughed generously.
Another round of divine machine arrows roared into the camp of the Later Jin army. This time, Cao Bianjiao saved some and only ordered to shoot 1,200 divine machine arrows, but it was enough to ignite many camps.
The Mongolians and the Later Jin army who had just fallen asleep were forced to get out of the warm bed again, rushed out of the tent in a hurry, and carried a bucket to extinguish the flames.
Huang Taiji had just fallen asleep. He originally planned that since the Ming army did not dare to attack, he would ignore the Ming army for the time being and come out to deal with them after dawn. Who knew that the Ming army was getting more and more arrogant, and the Jin army did not come out, and the Ming army set fire outside. Huang Taiji, who was woken up twice in a row, was completely angry, and even Dai Shan, Dorgon, Dudo, Haoge, Dudu, Abatai and others were angry and wanted to lead their troops out and kill all the Ming army who were ignorant of life and death. Huang Taiji called the order and asked the Korqin Mongolian light cavalry to go out of the camp to disperse the Ming army outside.
"Shan, don't act rashly! Since Minggou harassing our army at night, you must be prepared! Shan, you still need to be careful of fraud. This Minggou only dares to set fire outside the camp, but does not dare to invade, so you cannot hurt our army. Minggou's rockets look scary, but in fact they can't hurt one of our brothers, so why should you attack overnight?" Yue Tuo, who has always been steady, advised him hard.
Dorgon, who had suffered a great loss before, snorted coldly: "Yue Tuo! If Ming Dog is letting this harassed for one night, how can we catch Nikan Han Dog tomorrow? Could it be that Ming Dog is arrogant outside and ignores it all night?"
Yue Tuo said: "Minggou's rockets cannot hurt people. Let's endure it all night, wait until dawn, and then break out of the camp and kill all these hateful Minggou."
"Tomorrow's dawn?" Dorgon sneered, "When it's dawn tomorrow, Minggou will run away long ago. Will you still be waiting for you to take people to kill them?"
"Okay, don't argue anymore. Let Hatan and Yier each lead a thousand Mongolian cavalry out to drive away Minggou. If there are many Minggou people, you should not fight. Go back to the camp immediately. Our main army will attack and annihilate this Minggou in one fell swoop." Huang Taiji said.
Hatan and Yier, who were burned twice in a row in the camp, were both angry and had nowhere to be heard. After hearing Huang Taiji's name, the two of them immediately stood up and called out: "Zhe! The slave must have taken down the Mingdog head outside the camp for the Khan!"
Li Laoer also sent three light sled cars to guard near the other three gates of the Jin army camp. He found that there was movement in the Mongolians in the camp. The sled cars responsible for stalking fireworks and rockets were fired.
"The Mongolian Tartars are coming, let's go!" Li Laoer shouted.
More than a hundred sled cars were originally facing the Jin army camp. When they heard the order, the Ming soldiers in charge of chasing the car immediately released the reins and waved their whips to drive away the war horses pulling the cart.
The sled car slowly accelerated on the snow, and its starting speed was slow, but it was lifted up very quickly. Four hundred and forty-eight war horses were pulling 166 sled car running wildly on the snow. The snowflakes were rolled up by the horse's hooves raised by the war horses, and they swirled rapidly in the air behind them, like millions of white jade butterflies dancing. After the sled car team, a long list of flying snowflakes were left behind.
Two thousand Mongolian light cavalry chased and were blocked by the snow fog in front of them. The visibility at night was not very high. The Mongolians could not see clearly the opponent's evacuation in a sled chariot. They thought the cavalry was retreating. Judging from the size of the opponent, it was only five hundred people who were going down.
"There are only five hundred Ming dogs! Men, let's rush over and kill Guangming dogs!" Hatanbatulu, wearing a wide-eaves Mongolian iron helmet and three layers of thick armor, pulled out a scimitar and pointed forward.
A thousand Mongolian light cavalry clamped their legs and whipped the horse's belly. They shouted and chased after them from behind. A thousand war horses and four thousand horses stepped on the snow, raised the snow waves flying all over the sky, and followed them from the right back of the Ming army.
Yierduqi also brought another thousand Mongolian light cavalry and chased after the Ming army from the left back.
"Stay horse speed, don't be too fast, so that the Mongolian Tartars can keep up, and we will bleed them slowly!" Li Laoer sent a flag-tongued signal.
The Ming army sitting on the sled could use stomping bows and heavy muskets, with a range that exceeded that of the Mongols' riding bows and could continuously shoot and kill the pursuing Mongolians, but the Mongols' riding bows could not shoot at Li Laoer and others. In this way, as long as the Mongols were lured to pursue the Mongols, they could bleed all the way.
The Ming army sled convoy slowed down a little, deliberately making the Mongols closer.
When there were only one hundred steps left, Li Hong, who was sitting behind the car, opened his bow and shot a long arrow, and pierced into the chest of a chasing Mongolian cavalry with a whirring sound of wind. The Mongolian groaned and turned over and fell off the horse.
Cao Bianjiao asked a personal soldier to drive the car and sat behind the car. He also took out his step bow, put on an arrow, pulled the string, and a long arrow shot into the heart of a Mongolian cavalry. The long arrow shot from the front and penetrated the leather armor, penetrated the body. The blood-carved arrow pierced the leather armor behind and came out from the back. The Mongolian immediately rolled down from the left side to get off the horse.
The other Ming army archers also set off their bows and shot a light arrow with their step bows.
Although the light arrow has extremely poor armor-breaking ability, it faces the Mongolian light cavalry with almost no defense. More than 160 arrows flew out, leaving more than 30 Mongolian light cavalry on the snow.
"Minggou uses the Manguda tactic? But with the Manguda tactic, their horses are faster than us! Now the distance is getting closer! We will be able to catch up with them soon!" Yierduqi said to himself.
The Ming army shot out the second round of arrows, leaving more than 30 Mongolian light cavalry in the snow behind.
Chapter completed!