Chapter 264
Sahalian asked the scout again: "Can you find out how many Ming dogs were attacking the Korqin people?"
"When I go back to Master Beile, I have discovered that this group of Ming dogs is about 6,000, including 2,000 cavalry." As a qualified scout cavalry, he came up with a number based on the size of the city, the horseshoe marks he saw along the way, and the battlefield where the Korqin people had just been annihilated, which was almost the same as Li Guodong's military strength, and was relatively accurate.
"How can more than 6,000 people destroy the three thousand Korchin cavalry?" Sahalian asked in surprise. No matter how poor the combat effectiveness of the Korchin Mongols was, they would not be so bad. They were far inferior to the Jurchen soldiers, but when they met an ordinary Ming army, it would be no problem to fight three or four. If the Ming army did not have ten thousand Korchin cavalry, it would be difficult to win, let alone to wipe out the entire Ming army.
The whistle cavalry Zhuangda replied: "It was all they underestimated the enemy and accidentally hit Minggou ambush! The Korqin cavalry encountered a burial place, which was a small and open Hulu Valley in the middle. As long as the Minggou blocked the retreat with a horse and a spear, they could not get out. A large number of archers were ambushed in the mountains and forests on both sides, and the Korqin people's armor could not block Minggou's arrows. In addition, the slave also observed that the Minggou used heavy armored cavalry to attack the Korqin people, resulting in the Korqin people being unable to defeat or escape."
The Later Jin Sweeper Cavalry was a very professional reconnaissance cavalry in which era, but after looking at the terrain and checking the bodies, we could understand how the Ming army annihilated the Korqin people.
"I'm sending my order, I'll immediately ignite the troops and go to Yungaishan! I'll cut off the head of the Ming dog's master and avenge the Korqin people!" Sahalian stood up and ordered.
Zhuangda advised: "Master Beile, don't underestimate the enemy. The terrain in Yungaishan is complicated, so there may be fraud. Let's report to Yue Tobele first."
"Minggou is only 6,000 people, and my vanguard of Jin 5,000 people, why are you afraid of? As long as our army kills us, we will win in one fell swoop!" Sahalian snorted coldly. He was not worried at all. He was able to use 5,000 Jurchen soldiers to deal with 6,000 Ming troops. Even if he could not defeat that small village, the Jin army could not escape? The five,000 Jin troops were all one and two horses.
A mere eight-foot-high dirt city is still not completed, and Sahalian is really not worried at all.
Xuanda Official Road is from Taizi Mountain to Yungai Mountain, with mountains and dense forests everywhere. There is an open land in the middle, and the back is Taizi Mountain, Shishi Mountain and Heiyan Mountain. Yungai Mountain, where Li Guodong and others are stationed in front is the only road to Zhangjiakou.
The cavalry of the Later Jin Scouts were exploring the road in front, galloping past, and running to Yungai Mountain. Standing two hundred steps away, observing the Ming army's squad, they saw that the village in front had not been completed. It was a one-mile-long earthen city, only two-thirds of the completion, and more than fifty feet of road was not completely blocked. The Later Jin Scouts stood on a rock and looked into the distance, and saw that at the gap, many Ming army auxiliary soldiers and civilians were sweating profusely.
Then the scout cavalry ran back to report. After receiving the report, Sahalian's 5,000 Later Jin army immediately rushed towards Yungai Mountain through the canyon in Taizi Mountain.
Waiting for the Later Jin army to pass, thousands of Ming army auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang suddenly emerged from the mountains and forests on both sides. They had no weapons, only hoes and iron pickaxes and other tools. Han Dashan personally directed the auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang construction and built fortifications on the retreat of the Later Jin army.
"We must repair the fortifications within one hour by using the terrain to build fortifications!" Han Dashan ordered.
There is no need to build a dirt city here. Just dig three trenches that are one hundred feet long, then pile up the digging soil to form a wall of sheep and horses, and face sandbags and tie a wooden fence behind it. This is a simple fortification. Because the terrain is high at the entrance and low inside, using the terrain, a few troops can block the retreat of the Jin army.
Han Dashan just saw the banner of the Later Jin army. It was the Later Jin army under Zhenghongqi. The leader seemed to be a Beile, but it was a big fish, so they couldn't let them run away.
If they were fighting in a field battle, the six thousand Ming troops in Li Guodong's hands could not defeat the five thousand Jin troops, but they could use the terrain to trap them.
Sahalian led his troops in for more than ten miles, and suddenly he felt that he was not very good, so he ordered the scouts and whistle cavalry to look back and see if there were ambushes behind him.
"Zha!" A Bayala Zhuangda received the order and retreated.
Bayala Zhuangda, with fifty white-armored soldiers, ran to the road they had just arrived behind. Before they arrived at the construction site of Han Dashan and others, more than seventy Ming troops suddenly rushed out in front of them. Seeing that these Ming troops were dressed up by the common people, there were three horses, and the horses were wrapped in cotton cloth on the hooves. It was obvious that the elite Ming troops were not allowed to stop at night.
"Ming Dog Whistle Rider!" Bayala Zhuangda shouted, "Roar up and kill all these Ming Dogs!"
Although there were only fifty scouts and 70 riders in the Ming army at night, this Bayala Zhuangda was very confident that his fifty men would annihilate the 70 riders in the Ming army at night.
The Ming army's whistle cavalry suddenly encountered the Houjin whistle cavalry, and immediately turned around and ran away. The Houjin whistle cavalry was also one man and three horses, and soon chased after it from behind.
More than a hundred Ming army whistle cavalry suddenly stopped running, stopped their horses, and turned to face the Jin army whistle cavalry that was catching up with.
He Xing, the head of the Ming army's whistle cavalry camp, personally led a hundred Ye Bushen. He held a long-handled axe, and Wu Fugui was holding a horse spear behind him. This was not Li Guodong's horse spear, but one of the hundred horse spears that were later built. The one hundred horse spears newly built by Li Guodong were all assigned to Ye Bushen.
Every Ye Bushou is equipped with a pair of powerful crossbows, as well as weapons such as flying axes, meteor hammers, and melee weapons. In addition to armor-breaking weapons such as big axes and horse spears, there are also heavy weapons such as iron rods, long-handled page hammers, long-handled nail hammers, and maces. In short, they are blunt weapons that specifically break the heavy armor of the Later Gold.
Seeing Ming Jun Yebu stopped, he turned his head to face him. The scouts chasing him showed a look of confusion in their eyes. Once they met Ming Jun Yebu, even if the other party had three or four times more than him, they would run away. Even if Yebu stopped under the command of the powerful general Cao Wenzhao, there was no more than a hundred people, and they would not dare to confront the fifty Later Jin whistle cavalry.
The Later Jin army hesitated for a moment, and the Ming army on the opposite side rushed up without stopping.
"Kill the Tartars!" He Xing took the lead. He held a big axe in one hand, his right hand was empty, and a javelin bag hanging on his right waist, with ten heavy javelins inside. If he was thrown out with the help of horsepower, the thick armor of the Bayala soldiers could not resist it.
Seeing that the Ming army rushed over at night, Zhuangda of the Later Jin also knew that his opponents were sure that the civilians' clothes were hidden in thick armor, so he was so fearless. So he ordered: "Don't use bows and arrows, use heavy weapons to deal with Minggou!"
The Later Jin army also began to sprint, and the two sides hedged. When there were only thirty steps left, He Xing pulled out a small heavy javelin from the javelin bag and threw it hard. A Bayala whistle cavalry on the opposite side could not dodge and was hit hard in the chest by the javelin. The heart protection glasses were smashed to pieces. The Bayala whistle cavalry spit out a mouthful of blood and fell from the horse's back.
He Xing had just thrown the javelin, but saw a black object flying towards his forehead with the sound of wind.
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Chapter completed!