Chapter 2022(1/2)
There are not many places on the grassland that can cover up the tracks. With such a large scale of five or six thousand cavalry, it is difficult to cover up the tracks. The whistle cavalry only needs to turn around nearby, and the tracks will be leaked.
Not long after the Chahar army walked out of the camp, they were discovered by the whistle cavalry with the tiger flag, and immediately sent the news back to the warship division behind.
Set up the car array as soon as possible and set up cannons.
Chaketai led two teams of thousands of people to approach the army of tiger flags.
A few miles are nothing to the cavalry.
After more than two thousand Mongolian cavalry discovered the traces of the tiger-shaped army, they began to charge.
"Fire the cannon!" The captain of the artillery waved the flag in his hand.
Four-pound cannons and several six-pound cannons fired one after another, and one after another rose into the air and landed towards the Mongolian cavalry that rushed over.
Zhang Hong only brought two war barracks and more than 6,000 war soldiers, but the cannons carried sixty or seventy gates.
The first round of artillery bombardment was more about testing the landing point of the cannon. When the second round of artillery bombardment sounded, people in the charge of the Mongolian cavalry were constantly injured by the cannon.
The solid cannon not only explodes when it hits the ground, but also bounces toward the inflatable ball after it hits the ground, and continues to hurt more people under the influence of force.
The cannons fired by dozens of cannons made the sky densely filled with these solid iron bullets.
Each cannon that fell into the Mongolian cavalry team plowed a flesh-and-blooded ditch in the crowd, and the power of the cannon was either dead or injured as long as it was touched.
Not to mention the rider on the horse's back, even the larger war horse can't bear a cannon.
After several rounds of artillery bombardment, the two thousand-man teams of Chahar's troops had already lost hundreds of people before they could approach, and the momentum of being shot was gone.
"Let Hutuke go around the flank to sneak attack the opponent." Seeing that Chaktai failed to attack the front, the main general Sugar ordered Hutuke from one side to sneak attack.
He used Hutuke to attack the army of tiger flags, and he wanted to win an opportunity for Chaketai, who was attacking the front.
A Mongolian soldier left the army and conveyed orders to Hutuke, who was ambushed on the side of the tiger-shaped army.
kill!
Hutuke's situation is also bad.
The cavalry of the Tiger Flag never got around at some point, and Hutuke and the thousand-person team brought were all surrounded by the Tiger Flag cavalry.
While escaping from the siege, Hutuke fought with the cavalry division with the tiger flag.
The Mongolian cavalry used their specialty to draw bows and shoot arrows at the cavalry with the tiger flag, while the tiger flag cavalry mainly used cavalry guns and continuously shot at the Mongolian cavalry with the cavalry.
There were thousands of cavalrymen with tiger-shaped flags surrounded, and the number was several times that of Hutuke.
People on both sides are constantly being dismissed.
The cavalry with the tiger flag had the advantage of the number of people and was wearing half-breasted breastplate, which protected the vital points of the body well, but the cavalry guns were not as fast as the Mongolian cavalry's bowstrings.
But relying on the advantages of Arga and the advantages of the number of people, the Mongolian cavalry was the one who died and injured the most.
Often, Mongolian cavalry starts to draw bows and shoot arrows at a long distance, but the power of riding a bow is not enough to shoot too far, and the Mongols lose all kinds of arrows.
There are not many real iron arrows, but more are bone arrows.
Such arrows are fine if you lose your prey, but when you arrive on the battlefield, it is difficult to threaten the enemy with armor-piercing.
More and more Mongolians fell off their horses, and the living Mongolian cavalry could not withstand the mental pressure caused by the death and injuries of their companions, and began to flee.
As the general who led the troops, Hutuke had already been unable to command the team and was passively wrapped in the middle of the defeated soldiers and fled together.
After killing the firearms on the tiger flag, the cavalry, replaced them with a sabre, chased behind the defeated Mongolian cavalry, and carried out a victorious harvest.
Relying on his own riding skills, Hutuke escaped smoothly.
"It's not that you were asked to attack the Tiger Flag team on the flank, how could you make yourself like this?" Sugar looked at Hutuke who escaped and the team of soldiers beside him and said in dissatisfaction.
Hutuke said, gasping for breath, "It's a disaster. We've fallen into the enemy's encirclement. I hit the opponent's cavalry on the flank. There are a total of thousands of people chasing us."
"How could the enemy have cavalry!" Sugar exclaimed.
Hutuke said anxiously: "No matter how the enemy's cavalry emerged, it will be too late if we don't leave."
At this moment, Chaketai, who failed to attack, also retreated from the front.
"Hutuke, you lead a soldier to block the opponent's cavalry. I will take the others away first." Sugar knew that it was impossible for the army that wanted to eat the tiger flag, so he directly ordered the retreat.
In fact, before he could order his troops to retreat, Mongolian cavalry had begun to leave the team and escape on their own.
Turning his horse's head, Sugar led his troops back in the direction he came.
The only one who could threaten them was the enemy's cavalry. As long as Hutuke entangled the enemy's pursued cavalry, he could evacuate safely with most of the Mongolian cavalry.
As for the infantry team of tiger-shaped flags that made Chaketai and two thousand Mongolian cavalry defeated, he never worried.
Only cavalry can block the retreat of the cavalry. If the cavalry wants to leave, the infantry will not catch up.
On the grassland, Mongolian cavalry can go as far as the wind.
The combined loss of less than 1,000 Mongolian cavalrymen between Chaketai and Hutuke, and the Mongolian cavalry who were separated from the army during the escape process, only more than 1,000 were.
Most of the Mongolian cavalry remained intact.
Sugar and Chaktai led the army to retreat less than three miles. The Mongolian soldiers walking in front of the team quickly retreated and said anxiously: "Report to General, a cavalry under the banner of Tumot's troops were found two miles away, blocking our retreat, with a total of five or six thousand people."
Sugar's face suddenly changed when he heard this.
The Tumote tribe had already surrendered to the tiger flag, so naturally it could not be their own people. It can be said that their army's retreat had been intercepted.
"General, what should I do?" Chaktai looked at Sugar.
If it were normal, he naturally did not care about the thousands of soldiers and horses of the Tumot tribe. However, he had just suffered a defeat and his morale was low. There were pursuers behind him. Once he was entangled by the troops of the Tumot tribe, he would probably end up being wiped out by the entire army.
Sugar's face looked very ugly.
No matter what, he couldn't understand why people from the Tumot tribe appeared behind him.
Boom! Boom!
The sound of horse hooves like thunder came from a further direction.
At this moment, Hutuke and dozens of Mongolian soldiers caught up with Sugar and others.
"Why don't you leave? The pursuers are about to catch up." Hutuke saw Sugar and the stopped Chahar army, and urged the other party to leave quickly.
Chaktai next to him said, "The Tumote tribes are blocking the army's way forward."
"Run over directly, how much you survive?" Hutuke looked back at the rear, and the cavalry of the tiger-shaped flag that was chasing was getting closer and closer.
"There are five or six thousand people in front, how can you rush over!" Chaketai said while waiting for Hutuke.
Hutuke was stunned when he heard this and asked, "How come there are so many people? How did they get around our back? Why didn't they receive any news?"
"You ask me, how do I know?" Chaktai said angrily.
He had to know that his rear was blocked by the army of the Tumote tribe, and he would not fall into the encirclement set up by the tiger flag.
"The damn guys of the Tumote tribe, the descendants of Changshengtian, are willing to be hawks for the Ming people." Hutuke whipped the air with the whip in his hand.
Chaktai said: "It's time to not talk about these things now. The most important thing is to find a way to escape. You will definitely not be able to leave the east. There is a water bubble over there, and the army cannot get through at all."
"The cavalry with the tiger flag chased after it from the southwest, so we can't walk to the west and south." Hutuke said with a dark face.
He had fought with the cavalry of the Tiger Flag, but he no longer wanted to fight with the cavalry of the Tiger Flag.
Facing the tiger-shaped cavalry armed to the teeth, their Mongolian cavalry was too disadvantageous to face each other. Even if the other party did not use firearms, the sabre in their hands and the half-body armor worn on their bodies would be enough for the soldiers of their Chahar tribe to drink a pot of armor.
There were not many armored soldiers in the Chahar tribe wearing iron armor, but everyone with the tiger flag had half of the armor, and the weapons in their hands were made of fine iron.
"Go to the north." Sugar said in a deep voice.
Hearing this, Chaktai frowned and said, "There are all people from the Tumot tribe in the north."
"Then go north too." Sugar repeated again.
At this time, Hutuke said, "I also agree to go north and face the people of the Tumote tribe, it is better to fight desperately with the people of the Tiger Banner."
"Then let's go north." Both of them chose to go north, so Chaketai had to agree.
"I will send someone to inform the Khan of what Amin, you did." Yue Tou said expressionlessly.
Amin turned around and walked to the coach's position in the coach's tent and sat down, and said, "Whatever you want, but Yuetuo, don't forget that Dajin's affairs are not decided by Dajin alone. Although I, Amin, are not Dahan, I, have the same power to discuss matters over Dajin as Dahan."
"The Khan is always the Khan." Yuetuo emphasized.
Amin stared at Yuetuo and said in a stern tone: "My coach's order, Yuetuo, you must obey the deputy coach, otherwise don't blame me for defying the military order."
"I can do what you said, but you can't stop me from sending people back to Shengjing." Yue Tuo bargained with Amin.
Before Amin made serious mistakes in decision-making, the army would only obey the orders of the head coach Amin, and as the deputy coach, he could very little control over Amin.
So, Amin decided to attack Pidao, and he knew he could not stop it.
"It's okay." Amin said nothing, and immediately said to another Beller next to him, "Jirgalang, you go to Tieshan in person and collect more ships. I will lead the army there later."
"Wait." Jirgalang nodded.
At this time, Yuetuo said, "I'll go."
"You have other things to do, it's enough for Ajige and his friends to have Jirgalang." Amin directly rejected Yuetuo's request.
He was worried about placing the attack on Pi Island to Yuetuo.
To be continued...