Chapter 262 Ambush the Horqin Cavalry
"The Mongolian Tartar cavalry has passed!" Ye Bushu pointed at the foot of the mountain.
"Don't worry about them, my elder brother ordered us to stare at the real slave. If the Mongols are just a monk, my elder brother will do it." He Xing replied.
Although the Korqin Mongolian cavalry was not strong in combat, they were all light cavalry, and they came and went freely and were easy to defeat. It was very difficult to wipe out one of them. Even the Ming cavalry could not catch up if they defeated the Mongols.
Li Guodong had already surveyed the terrain and decided to lure the 3,000 Korqin cavalry into the gourd-shaped valley between Wangfeng Mountain and Tiantai Mountain. At the entrance of the valley, infantry ambushed in the mountains and forests, preparing to block. When the Korqin cavalry entered the valley, the infantry lying in ambushed in the mountains and forests, and then spread iron caltrops on the ground, set up a horse to block the retreat route of the Korqin cavalry. The heavy cavalry in front suddenly came out and fought in the open valley. The Korqin cavalry did not fight the heavy cavalry and would inevitably retreat and be blocked by the infantry. In this way, the front and back were attacked, and there were mountains on both sides, and the Korqin cavalry could not escape. If the horse was abandoned and escaped from the forest on foot, then the Korqin people who had dropped the horse would not be better than the Jurchen soldiers. The Jurqin soldiers were still the most elite infantry, but the Korqin people would be slag when they got off the horse, and they could annihilate them with infantry.
If Li Guodong wanted to wipe out this group of Korqin cavalry, the only thing Li Guodong was that the Jurchen soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty followed behind and fought. At that time, the Korqin people did not eat it, but instead knocked off a single tooth.
"No matter what, these Korqin cavalry must be destroyed! The losses they caused to our Ming Dynasty are no less than those of Jiannu! Every time the two armies fight, once the Ming Dynasty is defeated, the Korqin Taurus light cavalry will chase the Korqin Taurus light cavalry, and the Ming army rarely escapes. Every time the Ming army retreats, most of the killed soldiers die in the pursuit of the Korqin Taurus." Li Guodong decided to eat up the Korqin people.
At this moment, one night did not accept the report: "Report to General, the Mongolian Tartar cavalry ran too fast, and the closest one to the True Slave is twenty miles away!"
"Continue to send people to tempt them." Li Guodong gave the order.
On the mountain road, a group of ordinary people with family members are rushing to escape.
"The Tartars are here!" Someone suddenly shouted among the fleeing people.
The common people ran away with their legs. But how could these ordinary people run past the Mongolians riding horses? The Mongolian cavalry is getting closer and closer, with only more than two hundred steps left, and they are about to be caught up by the Mongolian cavalry.
"There is a woman! Chase up! Catch the alive!" shouted the Mongolian officer who was the leader of the Korchin Qianmai.
The Mongolian cavalry whistled and galloped to catch up. The distance between the two sides was only 200 steps. When the common people were about to run away, a team of Ming cavalry suddenly appeared at the corner ahead.
"Friends, throw away your things and run into the mountains!" a Ming army officer shouted.
These ordinary people threw away bottles and jars, their belongings and food, and their wheelbarrows and big trucks loaded with furniture, and drilled into the mountains and forests on both sides. A woman refused to throw away the food bags she carried on her back, and was beaten by a cavalry, so she threw away the food and fled into the mountains and forests.
In fact, these ordinary people were all pretended to be soldiers under Li Guodong. He even chose some thin and pretty soldiers who were dressed as women and dressed as women to attract Korqin people to be deceived.
The Ming army infantry disguised as ordinary people fled into the mountains and forests, and two hundred Ming army cavalry led by Han Dashan stood at the intersection. Han Dashan was the first to shoot a bow and arrow, and shot a Korchin cavalry with one arrow.
"There are only hundreds of Han dogs. Let's chase them and kill them all! This is a good opportunity to make contributions to Master Beile!" The Mongolian master of Korqin shouted, drew out the scimitar and pointed forward.
"The Tartars are in great power, let's retreat!" Han Dashan shouted.
Two hundred light cavalrymen turned their horses and fled, regardless of the wealth left by the people when they fled, and only cared about their own lives. During the escape, some people even threw their armor and weapons to the ground.
Seeing that someone on his side wanted to get off the horse and pick up the items discarded by the people, and the armor and weapons discarded by the Ming army, the chief of the Korqin Qianhu shouted: "Don't fall into the enemy's delaying plan! Don't pick up items privately! Those who violate the order will be killed! Chase up, kill Guangming dog, and then turn back to pick up things!"
In order to reduce the weight, Han Dashan's two hundred light cavalrymen threw away their helmets and weapons, and were defeated in a mess.
The Korchin cavalry were even more proud and followed closely behind and chased them reluctantly.
Han Dashan's light cavalry ran ten miles away, and the Korchin cavalry behind them rushed over and followed them into a valley.
Seeing the Mongols of Korqin passing by, when they turned a corner and could not see the situation behind, Zhang Wei asked someone to shake the small flag. The two thousand infantry lying in the forest walked out of the forest and blocked the avenue where the Korqin people were about to retreat. The soldiers scattered caltrops on the ground and arranged horses to resist. The spearmen were lined up behind, and archers were ambushing the high places on both sides.
The Korqin cavalry followed Han Dashan and others and chased each other reluctantly. Every time they were about to catch up, the opponent's horse speed increased a little more and the distance was widened again. They were about to see the opponent's back, but they could not catch up, which made the Korqin people very anxious.
At this moment, I heard countless archers suddenly appear on the hillsides on both sides. The arrows flew over like locusts. The Korchin cavalry who were chasing Han Dashan and others were on their backs and overturning.
Before the leader came to his senses, he saw the raindrop-like arrows falling beside him. Several personal soldiers following the leader were shot into hedgehogs.
The commander was so scared that he quickly raised his shield to block the arrows.
The Korqin cavalry was caught off guard by the ambush archers. They didn't know how to deal with it for a while. Everyone took out their shields to block the arrows, and the speed of the war horse naturally slowed down. Once the war horse, which had been running for a cup of tea, was slower, it would be difficult to speed up again.
At this moment, the sound of thunderous horse hooves sounded in front of them, and a row of black cavalry rushed out like a flood that broke into the dam and rushed towards the Korqin cavalry. Each Ming cavalry held a cavalry spear in his hand, and the horses began to accelerate and rushed towards the Korqin people.
The Korchin cavalry were shot in a mess by the insidious bow, and they had no time to take out the bow and fight back. Everyone turned their heads and tried their best to pierce the horse's belly with a spur, and waved the whip to whip it, squeezing out the last energy of the war horses, allowing them to accelerate their escape from the valley.
"We've fallen into the trap! Go quickly!" the chief of the thousand-man shouted anxiously.
Although he was shot for a while by the Ming army's infantry bow and another heavy cavalry rushed towards him, the commander of the thousand-time men knew the speed of the Mongolian light cavalry. As long as a group of brothers were sacrificed to delay the Ming army's cavalry, the rest of the light cavalry could run away, and no one could catch up with them.
A thousand heavy cavalry of the Ming army had already caught up with the Mongolian cavalry whose horse speed had not been mentioned. The cavalry spears used the horse's stance to hit the Korchin cavalry and knocked them down one by one.
The commander and the surviving Korqin cavalry ran desperately. After turning a corner, they saw a row of horses appearing in front of them, blocking the retreat. There were dense spears pointed at him behind the horses.
If it were on weekdays, the Mongolian light cavalry would never be able to rush to the tightly arranged infantry formations, but now they have no other way to go, so they can only rush over. If they do not rush over and be caught by the Ming heavy cavalry, these Korqin light cavalry are no match for the Ming heavy cavalry. The heavy cavalry can easily split the formation of the light cavalry and then eliminate them in batches.
"Prepare to ride a bow!" shouted the Qianfu.
At this point, a group of cavalry could only be sacrificed to break away from the horse, and then scattered a group of spearmen with their cavalry, so that the rest of the cavalry could escape alive.
But Li Guodong would not give these Korqin people a chance. He only heard a sound of roar, and dense rain of arrows shot out from the hillsides on both sides, and the unprotected Korqin cavalry were killed and injured.
When the remaining Korqin cavalry dodged the arrows, they had not yet rushed to the front of the caltrops, and a large area of war horses were pierced by the caltrops in front of the ox horse.
Chapter completed!