Chapter 199: A Thousand Mile Attack (4)
As night fell, Li Guodong's two thousand cavalrymen were holding each other and quietly approaching the tribal camp where the Korqin Golden Tent was located.
In front of him was a huge camp, with tens of thousands of Korqin people living here. In order not to expose themselves early, Li Guodong did not ask the soldiers to light torches, but rushed directly into the camp.
At this time, the camp of the Korqin people was quiet and silent, as if no one was present. The bonfires lit in the open area reflected the white snow and white yurts in red. The snowy night and the firelight made the camp bright like daytime.
After Li Guodong entered the camp, he suddenly clamped his feet, and the war horse suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the golden tent in the middle of the camp. Hundreds of iron cavalry behind him also rushed towards the golden tent. The horse's hooves raised snowflakes, leaving behind the cavalry. The broken snowflakes formed a white snow mist in front of the war horses. Li Guodong rushed in the front was like a sharp sword, stabbing straight towards the central army's golden tent in the Korqin camp.
When He Xing, who came in from behind, passed by the bonfire, he stretched out his wooden stick wrapped in cotton yarn on his head and reached towards the bonfire. The cotton yarn soaked with tung oil and rosin burned when it encountered the fire. Then He Xing took the lit torch and lit the curtain hanging at the door when passing by yurts.
The flames licked the thick cotton cloth curtain and spread quickly. In a short while, the whole yurt ignited a raging fire.
The other cavalry also lit the torches and then went to snatch the yurts. Wherever the cavalry passed, the yurts were lit by them, and the flames suddenly soared into the sky, igniting the entire sky.
Tents were lit one by one, and there was no need to hide any more. Li Guodong, who was rushing to the front, waved his tiger-toothed sword and shouted in Mongolian: "Kill all the traitors who betrayed Changshengtian!"
I saw a thin figure running out of a tent. It seemed like a child who was not as tall as a wheel. But Li Guodong didn't care about that much and directly hit the boy who was only six or seven years old and flew up. The dying child landed on the snow and was stepped on by countless horse hooves behind him, and stepped on it into a pool of vague flesh and blood.
Then a sturdy Mongolian woman rushed out of the tent and was knocked to the ground by Li Guodong, and was trampled into meat by horse hooves.
Han Dashan took one hundred brothers to destroy the stables. After all, this was a camp with tens of thousands of horses and more than ten stables. Han Dashan and his brothers could only act in dispersion. After he brought ten brothers to a stable, eleven of them turned over and dismounted, rushed into the stable, pulled out sharp scimitars, each of them took care of a row of mangers, chopped the reins that tied each horse, and cut off the reins.
However, in just a cup of tea, everyone cut off the reins of hundreds of horses. Then Han Dashan led his men out of the stable and threw torches into the manger filled with hay.
The stable soon ignited a raging fire, and the fire was fumigating the horses, and the frightened horses rushed out of the stable.
Han Dashan and his brothers rushed to the second stable. At this time, many Mongolians had already rushed into the stable and were busy unbuttoning the reins.
"Kill in! Don't let them ride on horses!" Han Dashan shouted in Mongolian.
While shouting, he opened his bow and arrow, loosened his fingers and shot out. With the sound of arrows breaking through the air, sharp arrows pierced from the left neck of a Mongolian who had just ridden a horse and penetrated from the right.
The Eleventh Cavalry simply rode his horse into the stable. Han Dashan and his brothers took their swords and fell down. The Korqin people who had just climbed onto the horse fell one after another.
Han Dashan rode his horse and galloped past the tied war horse. The sharp steel knife in his hand cut across the reins. A large row of ropes tied to the ground. The war horses tied to the stable immediately lost their restraint. Then someone set fire in the manger and lit the hay in the manger.
Seeing the stable shocked the crowd again, Han Dashan led his men to continue running towards the next stable.
Boli in her sleep was awakened by the noise outside. When she heard the shouts of killing outside, she exclaimed: "Come on! What happened outside?"
"Princess! It seems to be an enemy attack!" A guard rushed into the golden tent.
"Who is it?"
"I don't know that it may be the Chahars."
At this moment, the shouts of "Kill all the traitors from Mongolia! Kill all the traitors who betrayed the immortal world" came into the tent, which made the guards even more sure that Lin Danhan's people were killed.
"Princess, go!" the guard shouted.
Sixteen guards escorted the gift and retreated outside the golden tent.
Although Zaisang brought the main force of the Korqin people to Dalinghe to assist the Later Jin war, he still left more than 100 guards specifically responsible for protecting his wife. In addition to the sixteen guards entering the golden tent, there were more than 100 guards outside the golden tent.
"Shoot the arrow!" a Korqin man who looked like a centurion shouted.
More than a hundred guards, Zhang Gong, shot a rain of arrows at the snow waves that were rolling and approaching quickly.
Li Guodong and others who rushed over were covered with arrows, but no arrow could penetrate the chain mail inside after shooting through the cotton coat and the cotton armor. Although each of the more than 20 people in front was covered with arrows, no arrow could penetrate the armor, and Li Guodong and others were unscathed.
It is also true that the Mongols' combat effectiveness of this era is indeed not good. As the most elite Golden Tent guards of the Korqin tribe, their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the Qiexue army back then. If Li Guodong and his friends had encountered the Qiexue army in the Mongol Yuan era, they would probably suffer heavy losses if the arrow rains came down. Even if they were wearing thick armor, they could not stop the sharp arrows of the Qiexue army. However, the combat effectiveness of these Golden Tent guards can only be said to be a little better than that of ordinary Mongolians.
The cavalry quickly approached, and more than 200 cavalrymen opened their bows and arrows, and a feathered arrow flew into the sky and covered the Mongolian guards.
Ordinary Mongolians do not have thick armor, but these guards are golden tent guards after all, and they are covered with multiple armors. The Ming cavalry rained down on their heads and faces. Except for two unlucky Mongolians who were shot into the door and fell down, the rest of the Mongolian guards were safe and sound.
Seeing that the cavalry had approached, the guards of the Golden Tent dropped their bows and arrows, picked up spears from the ground, and tried to use spears to block the cavalry that were about to kill.
Li Guodong would not use cavalry to rush to the spear formation. This time he went on an expedition, each cavalry only carried a light sabre, and did not bring any of his own horse lances or cavalry's spears. To rush to the spear formation would only cause heavy losses to his own side.
Chapter completed!