Chapter 234: 233: Fight or retreat?

Qianhu Sahatu of Altan's army led the cavalry to bravely rush towards the Ma Fang army that broke out, but he soon discovered something was wrong, and the movements of these elite cavalry under his command seemed to be somewhat deformed.

Instead of maintaining the previous formation, they faced the fleeing Ming army head-on, but were obviously separated from each other, and a gap appeared in the middle of the formation, enough to allow the Ming army to escape.

Cavalry collisions head-on is indeed rare on the battlefield. In the past, it was normal for them to use such formations in cavalry battles.

The horse team was divided into two strands, one left and one right to attack the enemy.

However, the order he issued was to "stop them", and his old subordinates who had been following him for many years would not be unable to understand the meaning of this sentence.

Just in an instant, he understood what his subordinates were thinking. They were like themselves, and deep in their hearts, they felt a little scared of this demon that was like a killing out of hell, and were unwilling to stop them head-on.

At this time, the distance between the two armies was very close, and he could not adjust and respond. Sahatu had to shout loudly: "Kill them all, don't let anyone go."

By this time, he had no other way except to shout this.

There were few people following him, and the brigade was already scattered on both sides. Just a few of them could not stop the hundreds of Ming cavalry.

Before he knew it, his horse's head slightly pulled to his right, allowing him to go from the left side of the Ming army.

Although doing so will make it difficult for you to cut people with your right hand, which is good at chopping, it can also avoid being attacked by the Ming army to the greatest extent.

These are what veterans with rich experience on the battlefield will know.

Of course, if you happen to meet the other person who is a left-handed, you can only ask for more blessings.

The sound of weapons colliding between the horses was endless. Although they also caused some damage to the Altan cavalry, after a continuous battle, many Ming soldiers had reached an exhausted state, and many actions that could easily resist or avoid could no longer be done at this time.

When the Ming army and cavalry rushed out of Altan's cavalry to intercept, there were less than 500 soldiers left.

On the way they were moving forward, countless corpses of soldiers lay down, and they died on the way to survive.

Sahatu was unwilling to accept that he could not destroy all the Ming army.

When the two armies were intertwined, he had already discovered that the Ming army was at the end of its strength. If his subordinates faithfully carried out their orders, they could kill them all here, and kill all the Ming cavalry in front of those Ming soldiers.

My subordinates must have discovered it.

When Sahatu thought of this, his fighting spirit was rising again and he wanted to turn around and chase him again, the sound of horse hooves came from behind.

When Sahatu heard the sound, he hurriedly looked back and found that it was indeed the Ming army. The nearly two thousand cavalry troops that had been wandering away from the flanks of the Ming army formation were already coming in full force.

Needless to say, Sahatu knew that he had no chance to catch up with the fleeing Ming cavalry.

Although the Ming cavalry was much closer to him, when he turned around and wanted to turn around and escape back to the barracks, it was too late to go. After he killed all the Ming soldiers, he would bump into the Ming cavalry head-on.

Maybe he wouldn't care about them before, but today's Ming army gave him too many surprises, and he dared not look at them with old eyes anymore.

With a long sigh, he chose to give up, but deep in his heart, he felt a little relieved for no reason.

Given the continued pursuit of the Ming cavalry, Sahatu did not rush to return to Altan Khan's camp, but sent his ten subordinates to separate the hundred households and recalled the fleeing troops.

These people scattered and ran away, and when they finally encountered the Ming army brigade, they had no ability to resist.

Although I look down on these people very much, the tribe still needs them.

As for how Da Khan would punish them when he retrieved these people, he was not responsible for this.

Restrain hundreds of people under his command, and continue to stay outside the gate of Altan Khan's military camp to monitor the movements of the Ming army, and inform them at any time.

After seeing Ma Fang's army rushing out of the blockade of the last Altan cavalry, although it suffered heavy losses, it finally rushed out and escaped. Wei Guangde noticed that the army lacked training was still obvious. The formation began to scatter, and immediately asked Tian Shiwei to stop and complete the team.

After advancing quickly for a while, the Ming army formation stopped its offensive again, and the front army quickly began to organize its formation and rearrange the iron barrel formation.

By this time Wei Guangde was actually unsure and didn't know whether he should fight.

If you continue fighting, the last territory of Altan's headquarters is here. If Altan's headquarters is determined to fight to the death, more than 10,000 of them may not be able to gain much advantage.

Before, taking advantage of the lack of troops in front of Altan's army, they had already had 6,000 people, and they had to divide their troops to rescue Altan Khan. The Ming army was several times the Altan cavalry left behind in the camp, so they could naturally let go of the attack.

But when we arrived here, Altan's army had already joined forces. We could also know that it was possible to make a simple calculation that when the former camp was captured, it did not cause much damage. Although we still don't know the actual losses caused by Ma Fang's army to Altan's Khan, we can also estimate it.

The main force of the Ming army lost less than 1,000 people when the camp was attacked before the attack. Most of them were the losses caused by the final implementation of the two-wing encirclement process. The previous loss of shooting with the Tartars was not large.

The cavalry suffered a bit of a terrible loss, almost half of the casualties. About 500 people escaped from Ma Fang's troops, and almost 2,000 cavalry were sent in, while Liu Huan's troops suffered losses of about 1,000 people.

Now there are only more than 2,000 cavalry left here, and it is only when Ma Fang's troops and Liu Huan's troops join forces to form a cavalry unit again.

After rushing out of the dangerous place, Ma Fang also breathed a sigh of relief.

After just striking at Altan's cavalry, I accidentally discovered that these people were not in a fight. After seeing them reaching, they fled in scattered ways. If this was a good opportunity to make military achievements in the past, chasing the Tartar cavalry would be a chance to slash and harvest the heads.

But in this current environment, Ma Fang didn't dare to continue playing like this. He just wanted to rush out of Altan's barracks and return to the Ming army.

There are enough people who died today, and there are not many brothers behind me.

Facing the last Altan cavalry intercepted, Ma Fang still chose to rush forward, and the effect was unexpectedly good.

Although the Tartars divided into left and right wings would rush out to cause greater damage, they finally saw a way out, especially when they saw the Ming army formation with a strict military appearance in the distance, and it also moved at this time, rushing towards them like a rolling red ocean.

Ma Fang knew that this was the Ming army who accelerated toward them after seeing them rush out of the Tartar barracks, providing them with stronger security.

It is a lie to say it is not moved. When did the Ming army work so together? In the past, when Ma Fang had to pay attention to whether his comrades around him would cheat him and how could he come to rescue him like this?

There are also people who rescue each other, but those who are truly willing to support them all are often because of their special relationships in private, but they will never be because of the military orders above.

"Brothers, rush over and we will be saved."

Ma Fang led the team to shout loudly in front, waving the blood-stained sword in his hand and rushing forward. In order to survive, he had to use all his energy to eat.

After a brief confrontation with the Altan cavalry, hundreds of people involved in the Ma Fang army finally broke out of the Altan cavalry and escaped.

Looking at the Ming cavalry who were rushing to pick him up in the distance, the general who was leading was Liu Huan, and Ma Fang didn't bother to greet him and thank him. He still cared about the brothers who ran out behind him.

At this time, their group had really reached the end of their lives.

Unconsciously, Ma Fang slowed down the horse's speed and could not continue to rush like he had escaped. Continuing to run would not only kill these horses, but also make the horse's soldiers very dangerous.

After the horse speed dropped, the horse no longer had the horse stumbled, and they kept approaching Liu Huan's stuttering.

When Liu Huan saw Ma Fang, the leader of this cavalry, he was not much shocked.

Ma Fang rode a yellow war horse, which he knew very well, that they were all influential figures in the Xuanfu army.

But at this moment, Ma Fang's mount had been replaced by a red and white war horse.

For generals like them who want to go into battle to kill the enemy, white horses generally don’t choose, and the target is too obvious.

Obviously, the battle was fierce and Ma Fang had no choice.

Looking up, the armor was covered with blood. Liu Huan had good eyesight and could even see several traces of the armor cracking. It was obvious that Ma Fang was injured.

The two teams did not collide head-on. Liu Huan and Ma Fang just shook their fists on the horse. The two horse teams passed by, and Ma Fang returned behind the Ming army's forward. This was the real safety.

After Liu Huan's troops responded to Ma Fang, they would not be stupid enough to continue rushing forward, and went around in a circle to withdraw from the battlefield.

Ma Fang led his troops to jog to the flank of the Ming army formation. Wei Guangde and Tian Shiwei glanced at the army formation. Wei Guangde said, "Let them rest on the spot."

It can be imagined that after more than an hour of fierce battle, the Ma Fang army could not fight again in the short term. People had to eat and drink, and the war horses under their crotch also needed to eat and drink and rest, otherwise the horse would be scrapped if they were desperate.

In fact, Wei Guangde also speculated that most of the five hundred war horses would not be able to continue to be used as war horses in the future.

Soon, a fast horse ran out of the Ming army formation and ran towards Ma Fang's troops, conveying Wei Guangde's orders.

"Mr. Wei, you see that there are still hundreds of Tartars staying outside the camp to monitor us. Are you pressing us?"

Tian Shiwei whispered to Wei Guangde's opinion.

Today I really encountered a huge surprise. Liu Dazhang was afraid that he would not have any good results because the Ming army won the battle.

Yes, if Liu Dazhang was defeated today and would be back alive, his guilt would be very small.

If he was defeated today, Liu Dazhang would be very guilty, and a DDT war alone would be enough to remove his official position.

What is the right governor? Once the memorial is sent, it will instantly become a commoner, and it is possible that it will not be able to go to prison.

But I have always been cautious, and I am like this in front of Liu Dazhang, and the same in front of Wei Guangde, but nothing happened.

I'm lucky, and today I'm a winner.

In Wei Guangde's view, it was an unbeaten battle, and it was regarded as a great victory by Tian Shiwei.

Strategically, they did not complete the beheading plan and failed to allow the Altan tribe to enter the pass to disperse, but they won tactically, seized a military camp of Altan tribe and disrupted the Altan tribe's troops deployment.

The most important thing is that since then, the Ming army has no longer suffered a complete defeat against Altan's troops, and it has also been considered a victory record.

Since then, since the 28th year of Jiajing, the Ming army's border town has not achieved any decent victory in invasion of Altan's tribe, but instead has caused others to run outside Beijing.

While Wei Guangde was still hesitating whether to continue fighting, two fast horses rushed towards Baoanzhou, obviously the messenger who delivered the letter.

Wei Guangde naturally didn't notice it, but Dong Yiyuan next to him was always paying attention to the things around him, and he could see far when riding on the tall horse.

"Sir, there is a messenger coming from the Baoanzhou region."

Dong Yiyuan whispered to remind Wei Guangde.

"oh?"

Wei Guangde was a little surprised and looked over. Sure enough, two fast horses approached quickly.

"Go and see, what's wrong."

Wei Guangde ignored it after giving the order and continued to think about the gains and losses between fighting or not.
To be continued...