Chapter 311 The Mongolians harassed at night
Countless Mongolians appeared outside the camp of the Later Jin Dynasty. The shouts of people, the neighing of war horses, and all kinds of noises were noisy. Some Mongolians used bows to shoot light arrows and kept shooting into the camp. The Baoyi Aha camp located outside the military camp was full of arrows. Many arrows penetrated the tent and shot into the tent. In the dark, Baoyi Aha screamed.
Hearing the shouts, Balanqi rushed out with the Jurchen warriors beside them. They didn't even wear armor. They picked up the arching bow and shot arrows to the place where the sound came from.
In the darkness, there seemed to be a few screams from Mongolians, and then someone shouted in Mongolian: "Retreat!"
After a sound of horse hooves, the dark grassland outside fell into silence again.
Balanqi took his soldiers back to the tent to rest. Although it was summer, the nights on the grassland were very cool. It would be cold if he lies in the open air to sleep. Later Jin soldiers got into the tent and wrapped them in a quilt to sleep.
After lying down, Balanqi felt itchy on his body. It was because he had sweated too much during the day and had not taken a shower. He had dried up his sweat and was covered in salt. He didn't feel it when he was eating or shooting arrows just now. Now he was lying down to sleep, and he felt itchy and couldn't sleep at all.
Balanqi tossed and turned, scratching his itchy body. He said in his heart: To camp tomorrow, you must take a shower first before going to bed, otherwise it will be too uncomfortable. I remember that when I was in Liaodong, it was not hot in summer, just take a bath once a month. In winter, I didn’t wash all the time, and my body smelled and I wouldn’t feel itchy.
But when I got here, I was so uncomfortable when I was wearing thick armor and was exposed to the sun all day.
I don’t know how long it took, but Balanqi finally fell asleep, and then there was another noise outside.
"The Mongolian barbarians are here again!" someone shouted.
This time, the Mongols came to harass each other again, and what they shot was not ordinary arrows, they actually shot a rocket!
Several rounds of rockets were shot into the camp, with arrows wrapped around cotton cloth, ignited with cotton cloth soaked with rosin and tung oil. The rocket shot out was then stalked on Aha's tent on the outer layer of the camp, and the fire immediately ignited.
Aha, who woke up from his sleep, rushed out of the tent that caught fire, and ran back and forth with the bucket.
"It's a fire! It's a fire!"
Seeing the camp caught fire, Balanqi was extremely angry: "Where did the Mongolian barbarians know how to use rockets? It must be from the Han Nikans!"
The Mongolian cavalry of this era had almost no staircase bows, only staircase bows. Short and weak staircases could not fire rockets, and they could not shoot rockets on horseback. There was only one possibility, which was to stand on the ground and shoot arrows with staircase bows. Someone specially held a torch in his hand to ignite each rocket.
The Mongolians outside shot another arrow, and a large area of Baoyi Aha, who was carrying a bucket to extinguish the fire.
When the Jurchens rushed out with their arch bows, the fire outside the camp was extinguished, and only a sound of horse hooves was heard in the darkness. The Mongolians who came to harassment disappeared on the dark grassland.
Balanqi saw a Jurchen soldier's body lying under the watchtower, and a long arrow was stabbed in his throat. It was probably when the Mongols attacked him just now, the Jurchen sentry was shot to death with an arrow.
In fact, the one who just shot the rocket was not the Mongolian cavalry, but Li Guodong's cavalry. They mingled among the Khalkhas and came with the Mongols to harass the Later Jin army. When they arrived near the camp of the Later Jin, fifty Ming cavalry dismounted and took out their insurgent bows. Han Dashan first shot the Hou Jin sentry with one arrow, then opened the fire pot and lit the torch. Then fifty Ming army launched three-wheeled rockets. One hundred and fifty rockets were shot into the camp of the Later Jin, igniting many tents where Baoyi Aha lived.
After that, Han Dashan and the others put out the torches, put away their bows, and replaced them with their bows.
The Khalkha Mongols also came, and the fire broke out in the camp. All the Baoyi Aha who rushed out could see clearly in the eyes of the Mongols. They rode bows and shot a lot of Ahas.
When they saw the Jurchens coming out of the tent with their step bows, Han Dashan and the Mongols quickly evacuated.
Balanqi returned to the tent, lay down, wrapped himself in a quilt and went to bed. Not long after, he had just fallen asleep and was woken up again: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
The sentries standing on the watchtower in four corners were all shot and killed by cold arrows. The harassed Mongolians outside shot several rounds of rockets again, and then shot a group of Aha. Before the Jurchens could rush out to shoot arrows, everyone ran away.
"Damn Mongolian barbarians! I dare not fight face to face with our Great Jin warriors, so I use such despicable means!" Balanqi, who was awakened by the noise after falling asleep twice, was so angry that he was smoked.
"Master, we ambush some people behind the wooden fence. If the Mongolian barbarians come, shoot arrows and stop them from shooting rockets. This way, we will not say that the enemy has come. We will drive it out but it is too late." A Zhuangda suggested.
The Mongolians came again behind, but did not shoot rockets this time, but were making noise outside for a long time. In the dark outside, there were the noise of the Mongolians and the sound of horse hooves. Moreover, this time the Mongolians did not fire torches. The Later Jin archers who were ambushing behind the wooden fence only heard the sound, could not see people, and did not dare to expose themselves.
After the ugly moment, Balanqi fell asleep slowly. He slept until the sun was more than one person high, and the sun shone on his tent and shone on his face, and then he woke up. During this period, the Mongolians did not come to harass the Houjin Grain Team camp again.
Balanqi stood up and yawned repeatedly. He didn't sleep enough last night. He was woken up when he fell asleep twice. It was very difficult to fall asleep again. He tossed and turned and didn't know how long it took to fall asleep. When he fell asleep, a little white light appeared in the sky, and it was almost dawn.
"Master, it's getting late, we have to hurry up, otherwise if the military rations are delayed, Mr. Beile will chop off our heads." A sturdy master said.
"Eat a little bite, get up and set up camp immediately and prepare to cross the river!" Balanqi shouted loudly.
He looked up at the scorching sun hanging in the sky. Balanqi shook his head, put on silk clothes helplessly, put on chain mail, and then put on cotton armor. After the cotton armor was covered, he felt like he was about to suffocate. His body became hot. When the sun was sunny, the red cotton armor absorbed heat quickly, and he felt like he was in an oven.
After walking along the river bank for a morning, at 10 noon, the Later Jin grain transport team arrived at the Junzijin Ferry. The Junzijin River flowed slowly, and the grain transport team would cross the river here.
Balanqi brought 150 Later Jin soldiers to cross the Yellow River first, and 150 Later Jin soldiers stayed on the other side to guard the situation. Baoyi Aha and his friends drove the cart onto the raft and started to cross the river. Seeing the rafts ferrying back and forth, Balanqi was nervous. He was afraid that if a large group of Mongolians appeared at this time, it would be difficult to deal with. His troops were separated by the Yellow River. If the Mongols appeared at this time, I don’t know how many casualties would be.
The more you are afraid of, the more you come, the more you come. The Mongolians are really here!
On the distant horizon, there were black cavalrymen, and countless Mongolian soldiers rushed over. Judging from the posture, there were at least two thousand people!
Tens of thousands of horses stepped on the grassland and made a drum-like roar. The Mongolian light cavalry rushed towards the Hou Jin grain transport team by the river like a rolling tide in the sea.
The 150 Jurchen soldiers who remained on the other side took out their insurgent bows and shot arrows one after another. The crowd of Mongolian cavalry rushed over and overturned, and the Mongolian soldiers who rushed in the front were all caught. The Jurchens shot out the second round of arrows, and only a burst of screams of people and horses were heard. The Jurchen soldiers shot at least more than 100 Mongolian soldiers in just two rounds of arrow rain.
"Let me!" Diandi Shiku shouted.
Chapter completed!