On the mountain ridge behind the camp, Zhu Cijiong had been looking at the king's tent through a telescope.
At a certain moment, the curtain of the king's tent was suddenly opened, and a dazzling light came out from the tent, illuminating dozens of figures outside the tent door. They were strong and powerful, and they were holding scimitars in their hands.
Zhu Cijiong immediately laughed out loud: "Haha, they are here."
"They are really here." Wang Fuzhi admired Zhu Cijiong so much that he fell to the ground.
I have to say that His Highness Prince Ding’s skill of “hanging sheep drumming” is really good.
Hey, that's not right. Young Master Xiaobai played Hanging Sheep and Drumming, while His Highness Prince Ding played Barbarian Girl Singing and Dancing.
At the same time, Wang Fuzhi was also puzzled: "How did King Ding conclude that the Horqin cavalry would definitely march from the river valley, instead of marching from the mountain ridges on both sides?"
"Xu Wuniu, tell the king why you are admonishing me."
As Zhu Cijiong spoke, he took out his blunderbuss and pointed it at the night sky.
"Because in the past half month, we had ambushed many ambushes on the mountain ridges on both sides of the river valley. In order not to alert our ambushes, the Horqin people had no choice but to march along the river valley."
"And you can't cavalry, you can only march on foot."
After Zhu Cijiong said these words, he pulled the trigger of the short gun hard.
"Bang!" This crisp gunshot instantly shattered the silent river valley.
Then, on the gentle slopes on both sides of the river valley, firelights lit up one after another. At first they were a few points, and soon they became a whole field, until finally the entire river valley was illuminated as bright as day.
But it was the Ming army ambushing on the gentle slope who lit the haystacks prepared in advance.
In the light of the fire, which was as bright as day, groups of Ming troops armed with live ammunition lined up in neat formations, marched down the gentle slopes on both sides of the river valley, and surrounded the wintering camp from all directions.
In addition to groups of Ming troops, there were even more Korean troops holding flintlock guns.
Zhu Cijiong also put the telescope into his shoulder bag and took out the Type 20 from behind the saddle.
Not far behind Zhu Cijiong, more than two thousand cavalrymen also drew their flintlock rifles.
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"Your Majesty, we have fallen into a trap!"
"Hangyang drumming, damn, this is hanging sheep drumming!"
"What kind of hanging sheep are playing drums? Where did the sheep come from? There are only Fujin and Singer here!"
Hearing the attendants behind him shouting, Esen became even more upset: "That's enough, what are you shouting for? What are you shouting for? Shut the hell up! Shut up!"
The guards did not dare to say anything anymore.
"Fu Jin, what's going on?"
Er Sen motioned to his Fujin to come forward.
However, his Fujin did not dare to step forward.
Esen frowned and was about to reprimand,
Suddenly there was a sound of gunfire outside the king's tent.
"Where did the sound of the gunfire come from?" Esen's face fell.
Immediately afterwards, the faint sound of military bugles sounded again outside.
"The bugle? It's the Ming army!" an attendant shouted.
Immediately, Horqin's left wing center flag Tai Jibadali broke into the king's tent with a dark face.
"My lord, please go outside and take a look!" Badali growled with a dark face, "This is a disaster!"
Ersen could only suppress the turmoil in his heart and led a group of attendants to follow Badali out of the tent in a hurry.
After leaving the king's tent, he just took one look and Esen was completely stunned. Was he being ambushed?
Because the valley where the winter camp is located has very gentle terrain and excellent visibility, you can clearly see hundreds of bonfires burning around the camp. In the light of the fire, groups of enemy troops with live ammunition are approaching the camp.
What makes people even more desperate is that enemy troops are approaching from all sides of the camp and have been lined up.
"Your Majesty, what should we do now?" Badali shouted with a dark face, "Defend or break out? If so, in which direction should we break out?"
"Break through, must break through!"
"Staying here can only lead to death."
"Your Majesty, break out to the west and toward the upper reaches of the Liao River."
"That's right, most of them are North Korean troops in the west. Although they are equipped with self-made fire guns, they are still easier to deal with than the Ming army."
"Yes, our horses are still upstream. If we don't have horses, we won't be able to run far even if we break out, so we can only break out westward, defeat the Korean army, and then breakout westward!"
Accompanied by roars one after another, Taijis from various banners arrived one after another.
By this time, everyone knew that they had fallen into the Ming army's trick, because except for the women and children of the Left Front Banner, there was not a single Ming army in the winter camp.
"Okay, okay, let's break out toward the upper reaches of the Liao River!"
At this time, Ersen had lost his mind and immediately ordered a breakout.
At this time, Fujin, who had been silent just now, caught up and said, "Your Majesty, would you like to take this concubine with you? Take our children with you as well."
A dozen other Horqin women also caught up with Esen.
Two of them hugged Esen's thighs because of their good looks.
"Get out of here! Get away from me!" Esen, however, couldn't help but kicked the two Horqin women to the ground, and then whipped his Fujin to the ground with a whip.
At this time, how can you still care about women?
But his son cannot be left behind, he must be taken away.
"Bart, hurry up and find some little Belles."
"If you find it, take them and catch up with them. Be quick!"
While he was talking, Esen had already arrived behind the low wall with his attendants.
Looking up, in the blazing fire, I saw that the North Korean military formation on the opposite side had already approached within 500 steps. It was roughly estimated that there were at least 3,000 people.
"Damn it!"
Ersen glanced at the north and south sides.
I found that there were North Korean troops on both sides, and there were North Korean troops everywhere.
At this time, if you look down from a high altitude, you can see a wonderful painting.
More than 10,000 Ming troops and more than 15,000 North Korean troops were divided into eight line formations, approaching the winter camp in the middle from eight directions. It looked like a moving and shrinking Bagua array.
At this time, there was no way out for Horqin's cavalry and they had no choice but to rush over.
"Send the order, gather all the troops, break out due west, break out from the west!" Following Esen's order, the Horqin cavalry launched a desperate charge towards the Korean army.
More than 30,000 Horqin people rushed westward in a swarm.
The panicked Horqin people had even forgotten the division of labor.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Under normal circumstances, at least half of the people should be assigned to act as archers.
After a while, the Horqin people who were rushing at the front were less than a hundred steps away from the Korean army.
However, the North Korean army was completely unmoved and continued to advance at a uniform pace.
Eighty steps, sixty steps, fifty steps, the Horqin people who were at the front began to draw their bows and fire arrows. Some Korean soldiers were even hit by arrows in the face and fell to the ground wailing.
However, other North Korean troops were still marching forward.
When the distance between the two sides narrowed to forty steps, the general on the far left side of the line finally raised his blunderbuss.
The advancing North Korean infantrymen also raised their flintlock rifles and pointed the black muzzles at the Horqin people who were charging ahead brandishing scimitars or horn bows.
In the blink of an eye, the two armies were only about thirty steps away.
By the light of the fire, I could already see the face on the other side clearly.
"Bang!" The soldier walking on the far left side of the queue was the first to pull the trigger.
Immediately afterwards, the more than a thousand North Korean soldiers walking in the front row also pulled the triggers.
"Bang bang bang!" Accompanied by gunshots as dense as exploding beans, the Horqin people who were charging at the front suddenly fell to the ground in rows like cut grass.
In this single blow, at least a thousand Horqin people were shot and fell to the ground.
Then the second row of Korean soldiers quickly replaced them and fired again.
"Bang bang bang!" Another burst of intensive gunfire rang out, and the Horqin people on the opposite side fell to pieces again.
Before it was over, the third row of Korean troops came up again, lowered the muzzle of their guns again, and pulled the trigger on the Horqin people who had subconsciously slowed down: "Bah, bang, bang, bang..."
The gunfire rang out, and a large number of Horqin people fell down again.
"You bastard, when did these Korean sticks become so powerful?"
"This is impossible, this is absolutely impossible. How can the Korean Bangzi team be so skilled?"
"Goddess of longevity, we have been deceived, we must have been deceived, these are not Koreans, these are Ming dogs! Ming dogs wearing Korean military jackets, we have been deceived, we have been deceived by Ming dogs
!Minggou is so cunning!”
In an instant, the screams, wails and curses of the Horqin people mingled together, and a huge fear instantly enveloped the remaining Horqin people.
In the face of such huge casualties, who is not afraid?
If we push forward, more Horqin people will be killed.
So the Horqin people who followed behind subconsciously turned to the northwest and southwest.
Unfortunately, there was also a North Korean army line formation approaching from the southwest and northwest directions. The Horqin people who panicked and chose their way were once again attacked head-on by the North Korean army.
After being hit hard one after another, the Horqin people were completely panicked.
In fact, most of the Horqin people were still alive at this time.
If you rush forward desperately, most people will still have a chance to rush out.
However, there are no what-ifs in reality. The reality is that the Horqin people were defeated by the Korean army's line array.
Of course, these are not the real Korean troops, but the new Ming army wearing Korean military jackets.
After five to six thousand people were killed and wounded, the remaining 20,000 Horqin people completely collapsed and retreated to the winter camp like a tide hitting a rock.
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On the mountain ridge, Zhu Cijiong never moved.
The two thousand cavalrymen behind Zhu Cijiong did not move.
This was Zhu Cijiong's mobile force that he had specially reserved for backup.
This was also taught by Chongzhen himself, always keep a trump card.
Of course, Zhu Cijiong's trump card is not only this, he also has thousands of Horqin's children in his hand.
Seeing the Horqin people retreating to the camp like a tide, Zhu Cijiong raised a slight smile on his lips and said, after tonight, Horqin Mongolia will become a historical term.
Wang Fuzhi and other scholars also struck hard.
It was beyond their expectation that the war would go so smoothly.
Xia Wanchun suggested: "King Ding, if nothing else happens, the Horqin people's horses should stay upstream. Why don't I lead the cavalry to seize these horses?"
