Chapter 282 Complete annihilation of the Dajin Heavy Cavalry
Two Mingjuns who were observing the movements of the Later Jin Dynasty at the top of the hill did not stop and looked at each other at night: "The time is almost done!"
Ye Bushu shook a yellow flag and sent a signal to the cavalry ambushed in the woods at the foot of the mountain.
Seeing the yellow flag signal, the Ming army, who had temporarily rested in the woods, immediately raked their horses. Although they had a temporary rest, they were not taking off their armor and holding weapons, and were on standby at any time. Seeing the yellow flag, they immediately stood up and led the horse, and walked slowly towards the direction where Sahalian was. When there were still two hundred steps away from the Later Jin army, Zhang De issued an order: "Get on the horse and rush!"
Zhang Defa is a cavalry general recently promoted by Li Guodong. He is superb, has great strength, and is good at archery. He is an excellent cavalry general. Now he has been given the important task of Sahalian's last blow.
"Kill the slave!" Two thousand cavalry galloped on horseback and rushed towards the remaining Later Jin army.
"Minggou is here!" A dozing Later Jin soldier suddenly woke up and jumped up and shouted.
Most of the Later Jin soldiers took off their armor, sat or lie down, and suddenly heard the Ming army coming, and they had no time to put on their armor and only had time to pick up weapons randomly. Many people didn't even have time to lead their horses over, so they looked for hidden objects to hide.
The two thousand Ming army heavy cavalry arranged a dense cavalry charge formation, like an airtight wall, pressing towards the defeated Later Jin army.
The Ming cavalry in the back row opened their bows and shot out a rain of arrows.
The light arrow flew into the sky, flew over the head in front of his formation, and plunged into the Later Jin army. The Later Jin soldiers, who were not well-clad in armor, had almost no defense at this time, were covered by a rain of arrows, and fell down with screams.
Some of the Later Jin soldiers who reacted faster took out their insurgent bows and shot arrows at the Ming cavalry that rushed over.
Arrows were stuck on the Ming cavalry and could not penetrate the thick armor on their bodies. When these Ming cavalry charged, they were not only wearing thick armor, eight-flavored iron helmets, and also wearing iron masks on their faces. They were wrapped like iron cans, which could be said to be invulnerable to swords and guns. Even the horses were wearing leather armor on their heads and an arrow curtain was hung in front of the horse's neck. Unless the Later Jin soldiers could accurately shoot the arrows into the horse's legs, they would not cause any damage to the horses.
Two thousand cavalry galloped over, and the horse's hooves stomped on the ground and stormed into the crowd of Later Jin.
The Ming army's iron cavalry collided with the Later Jin crowd. The ten cavalry in the front rushed into the Later Jin crowd with horse spears and strung a bunch of Later Jin soldiers into human candied haws. The bodies of life lost fell one by one, and the iron cavalry in heavy armor continued to crush the crowd. Under the horse's hooves, blood flowers flew, and the horses passed by, leaving meat mud all over the ground.
"Sakhalian! Death!" Zhang Defa saw Sahalian in brightly-clad armor and immediately rode his horse towards him.
Sahalian didn't even have time to climb up the war horse. His war horse was the best Wuzhumuqin horse, which was much taller than Mongolian horses, but it was even more difficult to climb up the war horse. He was wearing at least 40 kilograms of heavy armor and wearing such heavy armor. He had to get on the horse. On weekdays, soldiers helped him get on the horse. Now all the soldiers around him ran away, and with his own strength, he couldn't even get on the horse.
Sahalian, who had been struggling to jump a few times but could not jump on the horse, pushed his Wuzhumuqin horse to the Ming army's iron cavalry, turned around and ran to the hillside next to him.
This top-class Wuzhumuqin horse is a good spiritual horse. When he saw the Ming army's iron cavalry coming, the war horse turned around, spread its hooves and ran away.
Sahalian ran to the edge of the hillside, used his hands and feet to climb up the mountain.
Zhang Defa rode his horse and chased him up, but Sahalian had already climbed up the hillside. His war horse did not go away, so he had to give up the pursuit, took a small flag from his back, and shook it at the top of the hill a few times.
Two thousand Ming army heavy armored cavalry killed the Later Jin cavalry who had no time to get on their horses, and many Jin soldiers fled into the mountains and forests on both sides in a panic. The Ming army continued to chase the Jin soldiers in the valley with five hundred cavalry, while the remaining 1,500 Ming army cavalry simply dismounted and chased the Jin soldiers who fled into the mountains and forests.
The night lying in the mountains was still moving, and the cavalry that entered the mountains and forests were fighting together to annihilate the enemy.
Seeing that the cavalry had won a great victory, Li Guodong immediately ordered five hundred infantrymen and five hundred auxiliary soldiers to dispatch the city to cooperate with the cavalry and annihilate the remaining enemies at night.
Looking at the Ming army surrounding him from all directions, Muhalian was so anxious that he almost cried. Just now when the Ming cavalry rushed over, he was so smart that he did not get on the war horse, but climbed up the hillside and hid behind a big stone. As a result, the Later Jin soldiers riding on horses died faster. The Ming army's heavy armored iron cavalry rushed directly. The Later Jin soldiers who had just ridden on horses had no time to raise their speed, and were poked off the horse by the horse's spear and trampled into meat paste by the horse's hooves.
On the other hand, the Later Jin soldiers who did not ride on horses ran fast on their legs. Some climbed up the hillside, and some crawled into the woods. The Ming cavalry could not do anything to them for a while.
In the previous battles, Muha Company rode a tall horse, and was as happy as killing chickens and dogs. Now it has turned around. The Jurchen heavy cavalry, who was once invincible in the world, was slaughtered like sheep, and had no power to fight back.
All the remaining Jurchen cavalry were dispersed and all gave up their war horses. They had five, six, seven, eight, or more people, hiding on the hillside or hiding in the woods to resist stubbornly. In that way, they could live for a longer time. If they were still on the plains of the valley, they would have been trampled into meat paste by the Ming cavalry.
In the past, Muha Company not only slashed the Ming army, but also slaughtered civilians. He liked the feeling of killing people. But today, seeing his companions who were with him day and night were killed by the Ming army one by one, he felt the fear of death.
The once brutal man found himself so cowardly when he was facing death.
"Don't kill me, I surrender!" Looking at the Ming army approaching step by step, the Muha Company was the first to throw away the weapons and kneel on the ground to surrender to the Ming army.
The sixteen Jurchen soldiers around them all put down their weapons, knelt on the ground, hugged their heads with their hands, and surrendered to the Ming army.
"Muhalian! You coward! You are not worthy of being a warrior in our Great Jin Kingdom!" a Jurchen officer with a beard and fierce appearance shouted.
Muhalian knew that man, whose name was Akzhan, was a famous warrior in their Niulu.
Akzhan waved a long-handled mace, knocked down a close Ming army, and shouted: "Only the Jurchen warriors who died in battle, and no surrendered Jurchen cowards!"
"Bang bang" sounded a few times, and bloody flowers spewed out of Akzhan's body, and the long-handled nail-head hammer in his hand fell to the ground. The Ming army rushed forward and chopped him into meat paste in a blink of an eye.
"Don't kill me! I surrender!" Muhalian knelt on the ground and shivered.
Someone took the lead, and more than a hundred remaining Jurchen soldiers knelt on the ground and surrendered.
Groups of Ming troops surrounded them, surrounding the Jurchen soldiers who were kneeling on their backs, aiming various muskets and bows and arrows at them.
"Wonderful victory! Wonderful victory!" The Ming army crowd cheered.
"Dog Tartars! You are today!" The more than 300 generals who rushed out of the city walls shouted happily. They followed their chief generals and fought against Jiannu and were defeated repeatedly. They had long been angry. These servants were eager to try and wanted to rush up and chop all the more than 100 Jurchen soldiers who knelt on their feet and surrendered.
"Kill all the Tartars!" a servant roared.
A group of servants were about to rush forward with knives, but were stopped by Li Guodong's heavy armored soldiers wrapped in iron cans.
"Don't you just let these Jiannu go?" a servant said angrily.
Li Guodong walked up and said with a smile: "You can give some of Jiannu's heads, but these Jiannu are not your turn to kill them!"
After saying that, Li Guodong turned to Zhang Wei and ordered: "Take the Mongolian Tartar prisoners!"
"No!" Zhang Wei took the order and retreated.
Muhalian and a group of Jurchen soldiers knelt on the ground and shivered. They didn't know what fate would be waiting for them.
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Chapter completed!