Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 623 The Alliance 6
After eating and drinking enough, it was getting dark, those Mongolian knights didn't even set up a tent, they just wrapped their bodies in a blanket, pillowed on the saddle, and fell asleep soundly.In terms of being able to endure hardships, these young people who were born and raised in the grasslands are indeed much better than soldiers in the Central Plains, and they are better able to adapt to this difficult environment.For them, a blanket, a few catties of dried meat, and two bags of kumiss are already good enough. They didn’t even have this before. Sleeping on the saddle, you can still travel thousands of miles. This is tempered by the acquired environment.

E Zhe went to Qian Yu and proposed to bring his troops over to fight with the Tianxiong Army.Qian Yu smiled and refused: "No need, you have already crossed the Hexi Corridor to come here, and you are already exhausted. If you insist on going to the battlefield, you will definitely suffer heavy casualties. You can just watch this battle and don't need to intervene."

E Zhe felt that he had suffered humiliation, and shouted: "Hou Suyi asked us to cooperate with you in fighting! Moreover, we Mongolian heroes don't even know what fatigue and hunger are. A horse that has been riding for three days and three nights can still participate in the battle!"

Qian Yu said: "We appreciate the kindness of the little prince, but you really don't need to take action. Our strength is already enough to solve the Ordos Ministry!"

E Zhe thought he was crazy: "Just you three hundred cavalry?"

Qian Yu said: "Although I only brought 300 people with me, there are as many as 2000 Mongolian friendly troops who came to help the battle, plus [-] infantry from Pingluwei and [-] musketeers defending Yanchi, it is enough!"

Ezhe was so angry that he couldn't speak.He can already conclude that Qian Yu has gone crazy. He must be crazy to dare to utter wild words with such a patchwork of men and horses, saying that it is enough to kill the [-] cavalry of the Ordos Department!Since Qian Yu is so stubborn, he has nothing to say, so he can just watch with cold eyes and wait until the Ming army is defeated by the Ordos tribe before taking action. This will prove his worth even more!
Silent all night.

Early the next morning, the Tianxiong Army got up early, and they even had the mood to practice equestrianism for a while before having breakfast.The war is about to start, and Pingluwei is no longer stingy. He takes out the high-quality flour that is usually reluctant to eat to make chewy pasta, and cooks the excellent quality cheese into fragrant milk tea. The butcher slaughtered five A fat pig is served together with fat and lean meat. It is stewed with pickles brought in by merchants from the mainland until it is oily, and a lot of chili is sprinkled on it. It is full of oil and water.This is the food for the frontier army and the Mongolian servant army, and the food for the Lancers is even better, with six dishes and one soup, with plenty of oil and water, this meal can last for a long time without talking about it.

After they were full, each of them received two meat pies that were roasted yellow and burnt, and a pot of pork soup was filled in the kettle, which was for them to eat on the battlefield.Everyone carefully put away the meatloaf and broth, and a blood-red battle flag was raised in Pinglu City. Led by the Lancers, the entire army crossed the side wall and headed for Yanchi.

While the Ming army was eating, the Mongolian cavalry launched another tentative offensive against the small city of Yanchi, and after only a few back and forth, they dropped nearly a hundred lives.Even though hundreds of people were killed in a tentative attack, Salibu was startled and hurt. What made him most angry was the Ming army’s carelessness in dealing with their tentative offensive: when they circled and fired arrows from a distance, Ming The army didn't fire a single shot. They just lay on the parapet and ate meatloaf while gesticulating and commenting on the riding skills of these Mongolian cavalry. They didn't pick up their rifles and began to roll their names until they approached within thirty steps. In the past, there must have been a Mongolian cavalryman who was shot and fell off his horse, fell to the ground and wailed!This kind of trial-and-control offensive is not even qualified for them to shoot volleys. They are all shot and killed by some sharpshooters or recruits. The former is hunting, and the latter uses living people to practice marksmanship.Salibu has the urge to vomit blood. In the past, when a battle with tens of thousands of people broke out with the Ming army, it would be a big victory if the Ming army could behead more than a hundred people. But now they have nearly 600 people fighting a mere [-] people, and they have been passively beaten , is really maddening!
The corpses were carried down one by one. The Tianxiong Army still respected the dead. As long as they showed that they were collecting the corpses and did not bring weapons, they would never shoot - even against hundreds of rotting corpses. It's not a pleasant thing, isn't it?Salib and a group of tribal leaders looked at the corpses one by one and found that most of the corpses were shot in the chest or face. In other words, their soldiers had tried their best and beaten them very hard. Brave and tenacious, but unable to pose a threat to the Ming army.The wounds on the bodies of the dead also made them horrified to see. These horrific, bloody wounds told them clearly what a terrible fate these soldiers suffered in front of the barbed wire fence.

A centurion was shot in the neck, and half of his neck was broken. His eyes were still wide open, and he was holding the horn bow tightly in his hand. Unwillingness and despair were frozen on his face.He is a well-known sharpshooter in the Ordos Department. He hits every shot within 50 meters, even if he is not inferior to the white armored soldiers of Houjin. neck.After being mortally wounded, the centurion went into a frenzy, charged straight at the horse and fired three arrows in a row, all of which landed on the parapet.It's hard to imagine how he felt when he fell slowly and looked at the parapet, which was only 120 meters high, as if it could be kicked down with one foot. Maybe there was more sadness and helplessness.

Panting heavily, Salibu shouted, "What's the matter with these Ming dogs? How can their firearms be so sharp? How can their shots be so precise?" It was a blood-stained bow. He threw it hard at the defense line of the Tianxiong Army and roared: "Come out and fight with us if you have the guts, you bunch of cowards! Is that all you have? Shameless cowards!"

While they were going crazy, there was a burst of gunfire in the distance. Several scouts jumped out of the horizon, whipping and kicking their spurs desperately, making the horses covered in blood, as if there was a Tyrannosaurus Rex chasing them from behind. .Everyone was startled, and Salib managed to calm down and asked, "What's going on?"

No one could answer him.

Soon, more than a dozen cavalrymen leaped out from behind the horizon, and they were extremely vigorous. They rode galloping horses and chased those scouts fiercely. The sound is like the long cry of a kite eagle. This kind of momentum should be the patent of the strong bow in the hands of the Jinbaijia soldiers. It is hard to imagine how a riding bow can do it.Those scouts also fled while shooting arrows at the back. This is their special skill. During the Genghis Khan era, the Mongolian cavalry often bluffed and defeated in battle, luring the enemy to pursue them, and then shot while fleeing. The enemy chased after them. , Turning around abruptly, only to find that the corpses of his comrades-in-arms have stretched for miles.However, the opponents were obviously familiar with their tactics. Most of the arrows shot by these scouts missed, but the arrows shot by the opponents got into their backs one after another, causing them to fall off their horses.Salibu knew something was wrong, so he quickly dispatched a team of [-] people to meet them, but the dozen or so scouts from the Ming army who were chasing the scouts were unwilling to fight when they saw this, and retreated after shooting down a few with arrows.

The centurion brought the only surviving scout over. The scout was hit by an arrow and was covered in blood. He knelt in front of Salibu and cried out, "Taiji, hurry up, the Ming army... The army is coming!"

Salibu was taken aback: "The Ming army came here? How many people came?"

The scout said: "There are thousands of people, all of them are cavalry! Their scouts are extremely fierce and well-equipped. Our scouts were almost killed by them!"

Salib's jaw was almost dislocated: "Thousands of people, all of them cavalry? How is this possible! The Tianxiong Army only has [-] cavalry!"

Salib's information was not wrong, the Tianxiong Army indeed had only [-] Lancers and [-] Chasseurs, for a total of [-] cavalry.However, he ignored those Mongolian knights who were attracted by the Tianxiong Army and willingly fought under the command of the Tianxiong Army. This is the side.Just because there are a large number of such Mongolian knights, the Tianxiong Army only needs to dispatch one or two hundred Lancers each time, which is enough to deal with the harassment of thousands of Mongolian cavalry. This is the benefit of establishing a deterrent force on the prairie.It took Qian Yu half a year of fierce fighting to establish a strong deterrent force in the Yinchuan Plain. Now more and more Mongolian knights are willing to follow him to fight without paying military salary.

For the Ming army to come to help, Salibu is still prepared, after all, he has made up his mind from the beginning to gather around for help.The Ming army came to aid so quickly, a bit beyond his expectations, but the overlord of the Ordos Plateau responded quickly, leaving [-] cavalry to contain the Yanchi defenders, and the main force went to the side wall under the guidance of scouts. Move in the direction, ready to face the Ming army.

The Ming army didn't keep them waiting too long, and it took only one meal. Dust rose into the sky behind the horizon, and the sound of hooves shook the sky.About [-] Mongolian knights wearing mink hats and holding strong bows spread their wings, forming a powerful security screen. This powerful security screen strangled many Ordos scouts.In the center were three hundred lancers, and the deep blood grooves on the four-and-a-half-meter-long horses were chilling.Behind the lancers are [-] mounted infantry. It is mainly this mounted infantry that slows down the army, because they ride horses of poor quality and can only be used to draw horses. They can go as fast as they want. Can't get up.Each of these mounted infantrymen is armed with a four-meter-long spear. The rifled flintlock gun can only be equipped with the Tianxiong Army. These frontier troops should be aggrieved first.However, against these Mongolian cavalry, spears can also have good effects. The four-meter-long, extremely sharp spears can pose a huge psychological threat to both cavalry and war horses.The strength of this army is much smaller than that of the Ordos tribe, but they are marching together, with high morale, and they don't seem to take the Ordos tribe seriously at all.

Qian Yu walked in front with a horse in hand. Although the breastplate had been treated with dark light, it still reflected dazzling light in the sun.Not only him, but his 1000 Lancers and more than [-] frontier soldiers were all armored against the sun. Looking from afar, they looked like a sea of ​​surging metal, and their aura was truly frightening.This was the first time that the Ordos tribe met the Tianxiong Army on the battlefield. Their first impression of the Tianxiong Army was:

So much armor!
Looking at the cold iron armor of the Tianxiong Army, as well as the sharp spears and spears, and then looking at the smelly leather armor on their own bodies, many Mongolian cavalry felt more and more aggrieved as they looked at it. A tribal leader He murmured: "If we can win this battle, those armors will be ours!"

The Mongolian knights who followed the Ming army looked at the thousands of Ordos cavalry, as if they were looking at a pile of moving silver and a brand new household registration book—for them, The latter was much more attractive than the former, and without blinking, he muttered, "If we win this battle, we will be eligible to settle in Yinchuan City!"

In Yanchi City, the general who had just won a beautiful battle yesterday looked at the movement in the distance with a telescope, and the more he watched, the more depressed he became, and he muttered to himself: "Didn't it mean that we can use energy to kill these Tartars?" , so you don’t have to rush to support, why did you come faster than before? Damn, my military achievements, my hope of promotion, are all gone!” He looked more and more angry, put down the binoculars and rushed to the distance. The Mongolian cavalry in the formation roared: "I told you to dawdle and refuse to attack with all your strength. Now, our boss is here. Just wash your necks and wait to be slaughtered!"

(End of this chapter)