Chapter 306: Grassland Sentinel Battle
Dorgon stood by the Yellow River in Lama Bay, watching teams of Dajin warriors taking horses onto a raft, crossing the Yellow River, and embarking on the grassland on the other side. He was in a bad mood at all. A Mongolian who escaped from the Chahar tribe told Dorgon a bad news, or to be precise, two bad news: Li Guodong went to Qinghai, met Ezhe and the seven concubines, and the Great Jin delegation was also slaughtered by Li Guodong. At the end, Li Guodong even snatched Hai Lanzhu away.
"Li Laoer! I won't be a human being if I don't kill you!" Dorgon yelled hysterically to the sky.
Compared to the destruction of the mission and the snatch of Hai Lanzhu by Li Guodong, Dorgon was even more angry. As early as ten years ago, Dorgon liked the younger sisters Hai Lanzhu and Da Yuer very much, and Da Yuer even danced for Dorgon. But later, Hai Lanzhu was snatched away by Lin Danhan, and Huang Taiji forced himself to marry Da Yuer.
Dorgon thought of Da Yu'er again. He closed his eyes and fantasized about riding Da Yue'er under him and venting his heart. At this moment, Da Yu'er's face suddenly turned into Huang Taiji's face. Dorgon screamed in fear and opened his eyes.
The rear team of the Later Jin army crossed the Yellow River. Dorgon sat on a raft, followed the army to cross the river and entered the grassland on the other side. After the Later Jin army crossed the river, he waited on the grassland not far from the river bank. The Aha baggage team at the end drove the animals onto the raft, pushed the cart, took the food and grass on the raft, and also crossed the Yellow River.
Two hundred miles west of the Later Jin army crossing the river, a cavalry dressed as a Mongolian herder also crossed the Yellow River. This cavalry was the night when Han Dashan was not collected.
After crossing the Yellow River at night, they immediately separated and spread to the grassland. Some people went east to spy on the information of the Later Jin army, while others went southwest to look for traces of the Chahar people.
The mission of spying on the intelligence of the Later Jin army eastward is undoubtedly the most dangerous task. Han Dashan personally led twenty-eight people in Yebukuai and went east along the Yellow River. Every time he walked a long way, Yebukuai would turn over and get off the horse, press his ears to the ground, and listen to the movements. If there were cavalry coming from a distance, they could hear the sound of horse hooves. Psychologically spy on the grassland, especially powerful enemies, could be said to be a very dangerous task, because on the endless grassland, when you discover the enemy, the enemy also discovered you. It was not easy to run away if you wanted to run. On the flat grassland, the target was too obvious.
After dark, Han Dashan surrounded the war horses, and he and his comrades lay in the middle to rest, leaving three people to keep watch. The brothers who were on guard set a whistle for two hours, and then handed it to the two who took over them. The last whistle was also two hours, and three shifts were rotated, and it happened to be one night.
The next day, just dawn, one of them lay on the ground, listening to the ground with his ears and not closing at night, he discovered the situation.
"General, a team of Jiannu scepter cavalry, there are about thirty people."
There was not even a tree on the empty grassland, and there was no way to set up an ambush. If you could not accidentally wipe out the Houjin whistle cavalry, you would attract a large group of Jin troops. So Han Dashan ordered to turn the horse's head and attract the Houjin whistle cavalry to his main force.
The Houjin Sweeping Cavalry also has the ability to lie on the ground on the grassland and judge the number of enemy troops by their ears. The grassland is not as good as the pass, and there are obstacles such as mountains, rivers, villages and forests in the pass. People can find places to ambush, and various obstacles can also hinder the spread of sound on the ground. When fighting on the grassland, learning this move is an important skill to protect and annihilate the enemy.
"Master, there are about thirty enemies. Maybe they are running west when they hear our voices." The Houjin whistle cavalry lying on the ground said to their Zhuangda.
"We'll chase!" Zhuangda shouted.
"Can't it be the Mongolian herders? We didn't see them anymore." asked a whistleblower cavalry.
"If it were ordinary herders, why would they run away when they heard our voices? These people must have problems!"
Thirty-two Houjin Sweeping Cavalry chased after him and chased for a while, and then stopped. Someone got off the horse and stopped on the ground for a while, and then judged based on the sound and continued to pursue.
After chasing for thirty miles, the Houjin Sweeping Cavalry could already see the group of people running away in front.
"Catch it up! Chase it!" shouted Zhuangda.
This group of Houjin whistle cavalry is the elite whistle cavalry of Bayala Camp, and they are all the best Wuzhumuqin horses, both in terms of endurance and horse speed.
In fact, Han Dashan and his team were also good horses, including Wuzhumuqin horse, Hequ horse, and even Dun hippo. The two Rakshasa people were also incorporated into the team of night-delayed people, and they rode Dun hippos. If Han Dashan wanted to run, they could run away, just to deliberately attract the Houjin Shou riding to the hook.
Varianjing and Vladimir were both excellent musketeers and powerful axe soldiers. The melee weapons of the Rakshasa musketeers back then were all big axes. When shooting, they put the axe on the ground as a gun stand and the musketeers on it. When the enemy approached, they could pick up the axe and fight.
The Later Jin army chased after him. They saw the Mongolian herders who were running for life in front of them fleeing to another group of Mongolians, but another group of Mongolian herders turned a blind eye to the escaped people. There were about 70 Mongolian herders who were herding horses on the side. Zhuangda of the Later Jin Dynasty judged that these two groups were not in the same group, so he chased them reluctantly.
When the Jurchen whistle cavalry chased after him, the group of Mongolian herders who were herding horses on the grassland suddenly attacked and rushed towards them.
"Not good! It's the enemy!" Zhuangda shouted.
The Later Jin Shou Cavalry did not take these Mongolian herders who suddenly launched an attack on them seriously. They were all the best white-armored soldiers. Not to mention just seventy Mongolians, even twice as many Mongolians were not a problem. Even if hundreds of Mongolians came, they were confident that they would defeat their opponents.
Seeing the Mongolian herders rushing over, the Houjin Shou cavalry opened their bows and arrows, and shot them with arrows. Each of the Mongolian herders in front stabbed several arrows. But they did not fall, but rushed faster!
"It's an elite soldier!" Later Jin Zhuangda was shocked.
The Houjin Sweeping Cavalry quickly put away their bows and arrows and prepared to exchange for flying axes, meteor hammers, iron bones and other throwing weapons to deal with those armored soldiers. The bows and arrows cannot break the defense and have to rely on heavy weapons.
However, the Later Jin soldiers had no chance. Ye Bushu, who disguised as Mongolian herders, had already launched an attack first. When they launched the charge, the flying axes, meteor hammers, iron bones and javelins were already in their hands. The Later Jin soldiers shot out a round of arrows first, and then put away the attacks to throw weapons, which was one step away from time.
Various throwing weapons hit the head and the seventeen out of defense were knocked off the horse.
The 15 surviving Later Jin soldiers threw out weapons, and the Later Jin soldiers who lost their initiative were no longer powerful. Most of the thrown weapons were either knocked down or avoided. Only two unfortunate Ye Bu was caught.
Chapter completed!