The time soon came to Youmo (7 o'clock in the evening).
The sun has already dipped into the western horizon, but there is still at least half an hour before dark.
Glancing at Yiding who was more than fifty steps ahead, Zhuo Butai couldn't help but hesitate. Judging from the time, Lord Baiyintu and the others should have gone far, otherwise the fight would end early?
After all, there is no point in pursuing him like this, it will only be a waste of energy.
"Look, there are Ming army cavalry behind us!" an Eight Banners soldier shouted.
Zhuo Butai suddenly turned around and was surprised to find that a group of Ming army cavalry actually appeared behind them, and there were quite a few of them, at least more than two thousand!
"Damn it, reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty are here at this time!"
Zhuo Butai knew that he could no longer pursue him, otherwise he would be attacked from both sides by the Yiding and the Ming cavalry who came to the rescue, and all of his more than 600 cavalry might be ruined here.
"Blow the trumpet quickly and turn the entire army to the northwest!"
At this time, not only must we escape before the Ming cavalry and the Yiding form an encirclement, but we must not pursue Yintu and the others after they escape, otherwise they will lure a thousand Yiding and more than two thousand Ming cavalry over.
Not only his two Niulu and more than 600 cavalry, but also Baiyintu's three Niulu and Aobai's defeated troops will also be in danger.
Therefore, we can only lead the Yiding and Ming cavalry away in the direction of Daming Mansion.
The horn sounded, and the Jiannu cavalry immediately abandoned the Yiding and fled toward the northwest.
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Jian Nu turned around and ran towards the northwest, but Yi Ding was not in a hurry to pursue him.
Instead, Hu Guozhu led a thousand Yiding to meet the Ming cavalry who came for reinforcements. The leader was Huo Ran, Huang Degong.
"Uncle Jingnan!" Hu Guozhu bowed to Huang Degong on horseback, clasping his fists and bowing, and said proudly, "I am wearing armor, please forgive me for not being able to pay homage to you."
"No need." Huang Degong waved his hand and said without further ado, "It's better to chase Jian Nu quickly."
After Huang Degong finished speaking, he was about to rein in his horse and go after Jian Nu, but before he could start, he was stopped by Hu Guozhu.
"Uncle Jingnan, I have something to say to you." Hu Guozhu said, "I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to catch up with Jiannu in this way."
"Can't catch up?" Huang Degong glared and said angrily, "I'm not even chasing you, how do you know you can't catch up?"
Hu Guozhu said: "I grew up at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain. I followed my father into the mountains to hunt when I was very young. I know a little bit about the habits of war horses..."
"Don't talk about this, just get to the point."
"The point is, if we three thousand people chase, we will definitely catch up with the slaves in the end, because the slaves can spare no effort, but we can't ride our horses to death, otherwise they will be useless in the future."
Now Huang Degong understood: "So what do you mean?"
"Give us all the war horses." Hu Guozhu said, "With three horses per person, we can definitely catch up with Jiannu! Not only the more than 600 Jiannu in front of us, but also the Jiannu who were defeated from Xia Town can't even think of escaping.
One of them will die!"
"One person and three horses?" Huang Degong's gaze pierced into Hu Guozhu's eyes like a sharp sword.
Hu Guozhu looked at Huang Degong calmly: "Uncle Jingnan is worried that the junior will take the opportunity to take away a thousand Yiding people? Not to mention that the junior father and son are now loyal to the Holy One and have absolutely no ambiguity. To say the least, even if the junior
If you really have second thoughts, Wu Baotan and the others won’t come with me, right?”
"We definitely won't." Wu Batan said without hesitation.
Only fools follow Hu Guozhu. Isn't it better to follow the Holy Spirit and become a noble?
"I'm sorry you don't have the courage." Huang Degong grunted and said, "I'll go with you."
Hu Guozhu smiled and said: "It's okay for Uncle Jingnan to go, but he can only bring a few dozen personal followers. Otherwise, if there are not enough horses, it will be difficult to catch up with Jiannu and kill them all."
"You don't need to bring anyone with you." Huang Degong said, "It's just me."
"Okay, without further ado." Hu Guozhu said, "Let's set off quickly."
Huang Degong immediately asked Huang Shi'an to take the Ming army back and leave the horses behind.
Hu Guozhu asked a thousand Yiding to take two spare war horses each, and then followed the traces left by the slaves and chased them all the way towards the Ming Dynasty.
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After running for more than ten miles, he found that the Yiding and the Ming army had not caught up. Zhuo Butai's heart dropped back to his stomach. It seemed that the Ming army had no intention of fighting them desperately.
If the Ming army spared no effort to fight them, it would be really troublesome.
"Huh." Zhuo Butai reined in the horse lightly and slowed the horse down. Jiannu behind him also slowed down.
Taking off the water bag from behind the saddle, Zhuo Butai was about to take a sip of water when a loud roar suddenly sounded from behind him.
"Lord Zhuo Butai, those damn Yiding are catching up again, and each of them brought three war horses!"
"Huh?" Zhuo Butai's heart suddenly trembled. When he looked back quickly, he saw that the Yiding troops of the Ming army had already chased them from the side and rear, and they really had three horses and one man. Now they were in trouble.
"Let's go!" Zhuo Butai took a big gulp of water, hit his horse and ran forward.
The more than 600 cavalry slaves mobilized their horses and galloped forward again.
The run lasted for half an hour, and it was getting dark, but Yi Ding still pursued him.
After half an hour of running wildly, Jian Nu's physical strength could still bear it, but the war horse could no longer bear it.
Amidst the rumble of horse hooves, Zhuobutai could clearly hear the heavy breathing of the war horse, and the body and even the mane of the war horse were soaked with sweat.
If it runs any further, the horse will foam at the mouth and may fall to the ground at any time.
War horses don't know how to protect themselves. If the cavalry doesn't stop, they will run to death.
"Stop running away!" Zhuo Butai raised his big bow with his backhand and shouted sternly, "Fight them!"
The more than 600 Jiannu cavalry following behind them all slowed down, reined in their horses, turned around, and lined up again.
After forming a cavalry horizontal formation, Zhuo Butai accelerated again with more than 600 Jiannu. This time, he rushed straight towards the Yi Ding, actually wanting to engage in a cavalry confrontation with the Yi Ding.
However, what is annoying is that Yi Ding also turned around and ran back.
Jian Nu continued to speed up and chase him forward, and Yi Ding also speeded up and ran away, unable to catch up.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After chasing for a while and realizing that he could not catch up, Jiannu had no choice but to give up, turned around and continued to retreat towards Daming Mansion.
However, as soon as Jiannu retreated, the Yi Ding caught up with him again, and they were always fifty or sixty steps away from Jiannu. Moreover, there were still a few Ye Dare in front of the cavalry group, so Jiannu could not use the cover of night to kill him.
The Yi Ding were caught off guard. These were all leftovers from the Yi Ding's fun, and there was no need to do anything.
With no choice, Jiannu could only go back and attack the Yiding.
However, the Yiding still refused to confront Jiannu head-on, and once again turned around and retreated.
After repeating this process several times, it was late at night, and Jiannu's war horses finally gave out. Accompanied by whining, one after another the horses foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground.
As a result, the slaves passively changed from cavalry to infantry.
Jiannu changed from cavalry to infantry, but it has not collapsed yet.
More than 600 Jiannu slaves formed a square formation and began to retreat on foot.
I have to say that Jiannu is really tough and has not collapsed even at this time.
The Yi Ding began to try to attack, constantly approaching the Jian Nu infantry square with small groups of cavalry. In order to prevent the Yi Ding from approaching, the Jian Nu could only fire arrows.
Soon, all the arrows were exhausted.
But the killing effect is not satisfactory.
The darkness seriously affected Jiannu's accuracy.
There were not many heavy arrows carried by each slave.
After the swordsmen's arrows were exhausted, they became lambs to be slaughtered.
With the help of the speed of the war horse and the powerful impact ability, Yiding began to continuously attack Jiannu, but they did not charge forward, but charged diagonally, just like shaving noodles with a knife. Each impact only started from the big Jiannu.
Cut off a small piece of dough from the dough, keep peeling, keep peeling, keep peeling...
By dawn the next day, the dough was finally peeled off.
When the last Jiannu fell to the ground, Hu Guozhu placed the long-handled knife dripping with blood in front of the saddle, turned over and dismounted, and shouted: "Everyone dismounts and has a rest. Take the time to eat and drink water, and feed the horses some essence. We will assemble in a quarter of an hour!"
Hu Guozhu's ambition was not only to eat the remaining 600 slaves, but also to go south to all the slaves.
The Battle of Xuzhou has been going on so far, and almost all the soldiers of the Ming army, including Hu Xinshui, have inexplicably had first-class confidence in the Ming Dynasty, or in Emperor Chongzhen.
Now I'm afraid it's no longer a question of whether we can hold the Yellow River.
Given the strength of the Xuzhou defense line, is there still a problem in defending the Yellow River?
The question now is, when will the Holy Emperor put the imperial court in order, when will he be able to raise enough food and salary, and when will he launch the Northern Expedition? That will be the time for their generals to make contributions.
Hu Guozhu had long given up the idea of returning to Wu Sangui's command.
Who is Wu Sangui? If he doesn’t follow the emperor, he’s just a lackey?
A quarter of an hour passed quickly, and Hu Guozhu turned over and mounted his horse.
"The eagle on the grassland will not let go of any bird that invades its territory, and the wolves in the desert will tear into pieces and eat the wild beasts that invade their home. The stupid slaves desecrated the dignity of the Holy Emperor. As a
The loyal guards of the Holy Emperor will never let go of any blasphemer even if they are pursued to the ends of the earth. Warriors, kill!"
"Kill!" Wu Bang Tan, Meng Ke Rabbit and other Yi Ding screamed.
Huang Degong felt a little scared, thinking that although Hu Guozhu was young, he was very good at inspiring people. He could arouse the emotions of these Yiding people with just one word.
It would be fine if such people were loyal to the Ming Dynasty.
If he is disloyal to the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't he be the second Nurhachi?
However, such thoughts are fleeting. Even if Hu Guozhu really becomes the second Nurhachi, it is far from time to take precautions.
"Kill!" Huang Degong also shouted.
"Drive!" Hu Guozhu reined in the horse's head and galloped towards the north.
"Drive!" Thousands of Yiding turned their horses' heads and followed Hu Guozhu as they ran northward.
Soon, a thousand Yiding, driving more than 3,000 war horses, disappeared on the northern horizon. Only dust rose into the air, blocking the rising sun that had just risen from the eastern horizon.
