The Ming army was covered by shields and faced the Mongols' light arrows, but was almost unscathed by its carts.
On the contrary, none of the Mongolian soldiers have heavy armor. At most, they have some leather armor, which is somewhat effective against sword scratches, but cannot protect against firearms, arrows, and spears.
The Mongolian soldiers fell to pieces. Some of them became anxious and started throwing throwing axes. Most of them were blocked by carts and shields. Some of them had the strength to split the shields and fall on the sword and shield soldiers. The power was greatly reduced under the resistance. The sword and shield soldiers were already weak.
Wearing heavy armor, minor injuries at most.
When the distance was close, a few Tatars who rushed to the cart and the fence tried to cut the rope with their knives, but were stabbed down by the spears thrust out from the back of the cart.
At this time, several drum beats were heard, and two phalanxes rushed out from the north and south. The long phalanx was in the north, and Jiang Bi's heavy armored infantry was in the south.
Although the number of the two phalanxes was reduced by more than half, it was much easier to deal with the dismounted Tatar infantry than to deal with the dead soldiers of the Jiannu and the Bagala guards.
The attack on the Tatars with a phalanx of spears was invincible. They quickly broke through the Tatars' northern formation and penetrated the flesh with their spears. The Tatars suffered heavy casualties, including Captain Horqin.
The Tatars attacking from the south were not much better. The heavy armor phalanx attacked faster, but the damage was not as great as the spear phalanx. After disrupting the southern Tatar army, they quickly attacked northeast.
The pike phalanx in the north turned to the southeast. Seeing that the situation was not good, Gerry hurriedly ordered his troops to retreat. The two phalanxes pursued them. As soon as they rushed out of half a mile, they were killed by Zhao led by 250 servants and cavalry.
Kormi dismounted 4,000 men, and 800 of them died in the battle. The rest swarmed to find the horses.
But where can I get it~
Under the fire of the Ming army and the cavalry counterattack, the Mongolian horses were in chaos, and the 1,000 cavalry originally covering them fled.
Gerry also fought to the death to escape, and his two big axes had long been thrown away. These Ming soldiers were better at long-range shooting than them, and they were much better at hand-to-hand combat.
He hurriedly fled with his men, but found that the Ming army did not pursue him.
He could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but even if he was asked to fight these Ming troops again, he would not dare to blindly move forward.
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Of course, Wang Hongyu was not willing to fight. He captured thousands of horses and originally had many ox-carts. At this time, he abandoned the empty camp. Half of the infantry had horses and ox-carts, and the other half hurried to the Liao River on foot.
He knew very well that his military strength was at a disadvantage and it was okay to fight the Mongols alone. If he had a direct decisive battle with the Jiannu, he would be surrounded and defeated by the enemy.
Therefore, if we are afraid of the Mongols, we will accept them as soon as they are ready.
Especially the Zhengbai flag and the Zhenglan flag had no shadow at all just now, which is very worthy of caution.
The roads leading to the Liaohe River are all official roads, which are wide and flat. The infantry on horseback and in bullock carts can take a short rest to make up for the lack of rest in the past few days and last night.
The 1,500 people on foot were all elites, and they were suitable for the training method of sleeping and resting during the march invented by Wang Hongyu.
When the march started this morning, Wang Hongyu began to make arrangements for marching and sleeping. Most of the Southern Army had experimented with it, and several trilateral armies had also dabbled in it, so the training was not troublesome.
It was the soldiers in the front row who cheered up and led the way, while the soldiers behind grabbed the clothes of the people in front, closed their eyes and fell into a light sleep state, and moved their legs mechanically in a neat pace.
This time, in order to make the road under his feet suitable for sleeping during the march, Wang Hongyu sent out several waves of wreckers and tow trucks: the trucks were loaded with some astringent soil, and a few people followed the vehicles. When stones were encountered on the road, the dry soil was cleared away;
Go to the soil pile and shovel the vehicle; when you encounter the soil pit, fill it in and compact it.
Several vehicles took turns cleaning up to ensure that the marching team behind Zheng did not get sprained feet due to uneven roads. Similar accidents had occurred during training at that time, and they were not allowed to happen again this time.
After walking more than 20 miles in one day, the soldiers were all full of energy. Not only were they not tired from marching, but they had also eliminated a lot of the fatigue from the previous time.
In fact, Zhengbaiqi and Kormi's Geli had already merged and were following 10 miles behind.
As for Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan Banner, when the Ming army fought with the Mongolian soldiers, they did not hesitate to kill their horses and fought hard to get to the front of the road.
This is the great thing about Jiannu, his marching ability is very terrifying.
If we set off after the Ming Dynasty and take wild roads and small roads, we can still get around to the front of the fast marching Ming army.
In Saerhu, Fushun Pass, and Kaiyuan Tieling, they suddenly appeared hundreds of miles a day. This tactic has been tried and tested repeatedly.
Now, Mang Gurtai also moved in front of Wang Hongyu, preparing to ambush and encircle him, and complete the annihilation in one fell swoop.
Liaodong is relatively arid. The south and east sides of the mountain have long sunshine hours and are dry, and generally there are only jungles on the slopes. The north slope of the mountain is shady and cool, with less water evaporation, and generally there are large pine trees growing there.
There is an isolated mountain here, which cannot form a mountainous environment and cannot collect water, so there is no large forest. The shady slopes are often covered with larch, poplar, and thorns.
Ordinarily, there should be many birds gathering in places like woods during the day in spring.
But the Ming army did not hear any birdsong.
Wang Hongyu was alert. When he saw the terrain and the Mongolian cavalry retreating behind them, Zhengbai Banner and Zhenglan Banner never showed up.
He guessed that Jiannu might have taken advantage of the detour just now to ambush him in front of him.
Called Zhang Mingshi, Zhao Lijiao, Zhao Hannian, and Zhou Yijie for an urgent discussion.
Everyone agreed that time waits for no one, and we must cross the mountain stream as soon as possible, otherwise the number of troops pursuing us will increase. At least there are still 3,000 Horqin Mongolian troops from Gerry behind, and there is no telling whether Jiannu will increase his troops in the future.
Finally, Zhao Hannian said he was willing to take 200 people to explore the truth first, and the remaining people would follow from a distance.
Zhou Yijie said that he had walked this road and was familiar with the terrain and was willing to go with Zhao Hannian. Even if they were separated, he could go to Liaohe River to move reinforcements.
Zhang Shenwu's 3,000 subordinates who were aiding the Liao Dynasty were in Guangning, and among them were 1,000 veterans of the Sichuan Army who were subordinates of Liu Wei. He knew them all. These 3,000 people may have arrived near the Liao River.
Zhao Hannian and Zhou Yijie brought 200 troops with matchlocks, three-eyed muskets and personnel of various arms, as well as several veterans who had followed Wang Hongyu to the mountains for training.
Less than 2 miles into the valley entrance, Zhao Hannian ordered everyone to observe the terrain and woods on the north and south slopes, including the jungle on the north slope, to see if there was anything unusual.
Use your normally trained hearing to listen to various sounds, including the chirping of birds and whether the birds are moving; whether there are any sounds of war horses treading the ground and breathing; whether there are people and signs of horses passing by.
The first thing I found were pieces of broken sacks, horse dung, and the residue of horse urine that had been cleaned by someone. After tracing the traces, I found that they had gone into the ravine to the south. Then I found the hoofprints of the horses trampling on the rotten leaves and grass on the ground when they went uphill. Some of them were
The sack wrapping the horse's hooves has fallen off.
Zhao Hannian analyzed: The war horses were stored in a pine forest not far from the foot of the southern slope. Because there were few thorns in the pine forest, it was easy for the horses to enter and exit.
When Zhao Hannian walked out of the valley, he felt a gust of wind blowing from the west of the valley. It turned out to be northwest wind.
Wang Hongyu has taught everyone that at this time, they should follow the special training methods to seize the upper wind and carry out fire attacks.