When Wanyan Lou's main force ran two or three miles to the northeast, Wen Du Sizhong led more than a hundred light cavalry and galloped towards the due north inconspicuously.
As a veteran who has experienced hundreds of battles, Wanyan Loushi is not blindly fierce, and he cannot hope for a single retreat.
However, when the soldiers under his command were frightened by the wooden cannons, Wanyan Loushi could not just flee over the mountains and ridges, as that would further weaken the soldiers' will to fight!
Therefore, we could only shout and storm across the valley, and then quietly sent people to check the terrain for escape.
One light and one dark, both hands are ready.
The mountains to the north and northwest of the battlefield, that is, the "eight" shape, are all common rocky mountainous areas in Shanxi.
Described in professional terms, its soil composition is: about 80% loess-like cinnamon soil in the soil, and about 20% thin-layer sandy shale-like cinnamon soil.
To put it more simply, it is a small amount of sand and gravel sandwiched in the loess.
The overall altitude is several hundred meters high, but the relative height of those mountains is only a dozen to tens of meters. Those that can reach one or two hundred meters are considered mountain peaks.
However, the loess was eroded, creating criss-crossed ravines and criss-crossing mountain ridges.
There is no ravine that can be reached to the end. Often, after walking along the ravine for a while, you have to climb up the mountain ridge to advance, and then go down the mountain and walk through another ravine. One side of some mountain ridges has been cut straight by nature, making it impossible for war horses to climb up.
If you go wrong, you have to find your way again.
At the narrowest point, the straight-line distance is only more than 300 meters, and the whole army can quickly climb over and escape.
At the widest point, the straight line distance is more than a thousand meters, and the ravines and mountains are intertwined like a maze.
Wen Du Sizhong took more than a hundred light cavalry and divided them into ten teams to the foot of the mountain in different places. They abandoned their horses and followed the ravine, climbing towards the highest mountain ridge nearby to observe, trying to find the shortest escape route that was most suitable for war horses to pass.
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The vegetation in the mountains is dominated by low grasses such as vitex, yellowthorn plum, setaria, and white goat grass.
There are also a small amount of Platycladus orientalis and Pinus tabulaeformis mixed in. Overall, it does not affect the observation from a high altitude.
Wen Du Sizhong started from the foot of the mountain and went to the first nearby highland to observe. Then he identified the directions of the four ravines and mountain ridges, and spent more than ten minutes to basically get it done.
Then, we went to another high ground for observation.
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Twenty cavalry combat teams, namely 400 brave cavalry and 600 light cavalry, acted as the vanguard of the golden soldiers and quickly ran back to support.
They had no regard for the physical strength of the horses, and their speed reached 420 meters per minute.
This is the state of the heroic cavalry wearing armor!
In only about ten minutes, I met the retinues of the Ming Dynasty heavy cavalry.
These retinues temporarily switched to light cavalry to perform reconnaissance missions. When they saw the Jin cavalry, they immediately blew the horn to warn them, and while blowing the horn, they fled back to the direction of the main force of the friendly forces.
Soon, the two thousand Ming Dynasty cavalry who stayed to defend against the enemy were waiting for work and then attacked the vanguard of the Jin cavalry.
When the vanguard of the Jin soldiers encountered the heavy cavalry of the Ming army, they began to slow down to let the horses take a breather, and even reined in their horses and slowly retreated. Their mission was not to attack by force, but to reach the battlefield as soon as possible and force the Ming army to divide their forces.
Take precautions to delay the Ming army's attack on the camp.
"Crush the enemy!"
Yang Yun raised his gun and shouted, then rushed forward with two thousand knights, followed by a thousand heavy knights and followers, waiting for the opportunity.
The Jurchen cavalry is a mixture of light and heavy cavalry, with twenty brave cavalry and thirty light cavalry forming a fifty-man team.
The Ming cavalry imitated the Guan Ning cavalry formation, and was also organized into fifty people. But they were all brave cavalry. Twenty-five people were organized into a squad, and two squads formed a fifty-man squadron. (If it is expanded again in the future, light cavalry will be added.
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The formation of the Ming Army's cavalry squad, with twenty cavalrymen forming four five-man columns.
The squad leader is at the front in the middle, and the flag bearer and herald follows behind the squad leader.
There are two lengths, respectively located in front of the left and right sides.
There is also a supervisor at the very back of the team, who does ideological work in peacetime and supervises the fighting in times of war.
During the battle, the squad leader led his troops in a frontal charge.
If it is necessary to change directions and charge, the two commanders on the left and right should take the lead.
If there is an emergency U-turn, the supervisor temporarily becomes the squad leader and leads the entire team to charge in the opposite direction or retreat.
This configuration of grassroots officers allows the cavalry team to have people taking the lead at the front, rear, left and right, maintaining high mobility, high organization and high responsiveness.
The Jin cavalry began to cover alternately, shooting arrows while retreating, and occasionally organized small-scale counterattacks.
Firstly, they are trying to delay time, and secondly, they are also showing weakness to lure the enemy.
In other words, they were not willing to attack quickly with their horses, and they were already weak with fewer troops. They naturally retreated, but they were defeated without being defeated, and they gradually led the enemy towards their main force.
This is a common routine of the Jin cavalry. The Liao Army, Song Army, and Xixia Army all suffered heavy losses because of this!
But this time it's obviously different.
The cavalry of the Liao, Song, and Xia all liked riding and shooting, but did not like to charge into close combat. Therefore, the Jin cavalry could retreat calmly, and even organized counterattacks during the retreat. The advantageous Liao, Song, and Xia cavalry would subconsciously avoid their counterattacks, and then
Keep pulling and shooting in pursuit.
At this moment, the Ming Dynasty Cavalry led by Yang Yun charged forward without hesitation. They were chasing and shooting arrows at the same time.
When the Jin cavalry took turns to cover and retreat, the Ming cavalry ignored it. Relying on the larger number of troops and the sufficient physical strength of the horses, they accelerated straight ahead and charged forward. They did not care when the Jin soldiers were cruising sideways. Anyway, they had more troops and the friendly troops next to them would deal with it.
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To put it in a simple sentence, the Jin cavalry was playing tactics, and the Ming cavalry just charged forward and that was it.
“Woooooooo~~~”
The golden soldiers began to blow the trumpets and wave the flags wildly.
The name of the general of the Jin Kingdom is Ohu, and he has the same name as Wanyan Ohu, the son of Aguda. The Jin cavalry in front of him, including the commander of the army, are all from Jurchens of Liao origin. Thirteen years ago, Wanyan Olugu was
Lead troops to conquer.
Ohu detached four cavalry teams and organized a counterattack to cover the Jin soldiers who were about to be overtaken.
Based on his more than ten years of experience in cavalry battles, these Han cavalry would definitely be frightened away by the counterattack, and they would rush to distance themselves and shoot.
However, Daming Xiaoqi crashed directly into it!
Not only did the Ming cavalry hit him head-on, but the Ming cavalry squads on both sides also took the initiative to outflank and engage in close combat.
Four cavalry teams, totaling 200 Jin cavalry, were all surrounded and killed by Ming cavalry on three sides.
The remaining Ming Dynasty cavalry adjusted the charging position and distance, gradually moved closer in small groups, and continued to charge towards the remaining Jin cavalry.
Ming Xiaoqi is not Liao Qi, Song Qi, or Xia Qi.
The Jin cavalry's tactics to lure the enemy no longer work.
Not only did Ohu have a small number of troops, but his horses were also severely exhausted. He was so frightened that he gave up the two hundred cavalry and led the other cavalry to retreat at full speed.
Yang Yun divided his troops to kill the two hundred golden cavalry, and then personally led the army to continue the pursuit.
After chasing for about two miles, I saw the main force of Wanyan Lou's room coming from a distance.
"withdraw!"
"Woooooooo~~~~"
The Ming cavalry showed no interest in fighting, turned around and ran away.
In the battle just now, more than 180 Jin cavalry were annihilated, and many were shot and wounded during the pursuit.
Ohu rushed back with his defeated troops and said to Wanyan Loushi: "These Ming cavalry are different. When our army was covering the counterattack, they did not retreat!"
This is so fucking outrageous.
The Ming army's reaction was normal, but in Ohu's view, it was extremely abnormal.
Because the Liao Army, Song Army, and Xixia Army would subconsciously keep their distance, they rarely rush forward to engage in close combat—unless they already have a crushing advantage.
Wanyan Loushi said: "The cavalry of the Ming army rushed out, but when they saw the main force of our army, they retreated. It seems that our camp has not fallen yet, otherwise they would occupy the camp defense. The whole army accelerated and moved forward to attack the enemy with the friendly forces in the camp!
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Jinbing Yingzhai.
When the defender Saba saw that Wang De had occupied the high ground, he immediately sent out eighty Jurchen elites to supplement the defense, and beheaded the frightened defenders in public.
More and more warriors who had first entered the camp ascended to the high ground, and Wang De began to lead his troops to rush downwards.
The battle lasted only six or seven minutes, and the Han army of the Jin Kingdom had been defeated there. Eighty Jurchen elites were killed and wounded more than 20 people.
More troops who first ascended the camp rushed to the top of the nearby village wall from the high ground, and attacked and killed the Han troops of the Jin Dynasty and the civilians of Yuxian County who were defending the wall.
The civilian husband fled in fear, and the Jurchen war team could not stop him at all.
Seeing that the Han army of the Jin Kingdom was about to collapse, Saba had no choice but to throw in the rest of the Jurchen elites, and even rushed forward himself.
A messenger came on horseback and whispered to Chen Ziyi: "General, the main force of the Jin army is coming soon. General Yang asked if he wants to lead his troops in a bloody battle to delay time."
Chen Ziyi said: "No need, let him temporarily withdraw from the battlefield to the southeast, wait for an opportunity to spy on the enemy's situation, and then fight back. The valley here is too narrow to accommodate too many cavalry. Even if the enemy camp is captured, thousands of horses will be blocked at the entrance of the valley.
It is also difficult to quickly evacuate into the camp."
In Zhang Guangdao's plan, he never thought of quickly capturing the enemy camp and then letting all Chen Ziyi's troops withdraw to defend it.
If that was the case, Wanyan Loushi definitely had no desire to fight, and probably took the whole army to the northwest and fled over the mountains. Although this situation could leave many enemies behind and force the enemy to give up part of their armor and horses,
But it's very likely that more than half of them will be able to escape.
"The brave cavalry covers the heavy cavalry and retreats!"
The heavy cavalry, which was temporarily converted into heavy infantry, suffered almost no casualties except for a few stepping on the caltrops.
They didn't even engage in much fighting, spending most of their time banging against the wall.
The arrows and spears of the Jin soldiers were unable to break through the heavy armor defense at all. They dropped some loess blocks and injured a small number of heavy cavalry. These loess blocks were very light and the impact point was not high. Even the broken heavy cavalry were injured.
Less. (Most of the loess blocks collected by the Jin soldiers from the valley were used to fill the village walls and block the doors, and very few were used as rolling stones.)
The valiant cavalry raised their spears to replace the heavy cavalry. The heavy cavalry slowly retreated from outside the village wall and went to the mouth of the valley to get their horses.
The real breakthrough point is on the two hillsides, and there is no battle at the bottom of the valley.
More than twenty knights had climbed to the high ground captured by the first camp, and they were shooting at the Jin Han soldiers diagonally below.
These Han soldiers of the Jin Kingdom had a low armor ratio and mainly wore leather armor, which could not carry bows and arrows at all.
After continuously shooting dozens of arrows from a high position, the Han soldiers of the Jin Kingdom fled on a large scale, and the Jin camp's defense completely collapsed.
Sa Ba led the Jurchen elites who were not entangled, and quickly retreated to ride on their war horses. They had only about 40 horses left, and they retreated and fired in the face of the first campers who rushed in.
More Ming Dynasty knights climbed up the wall and shot at the forty golden knights.
After several riders fell off their horses, Jin General Sa Ba fled in panic.
Wang De led his troops to chase down the defeated army, and sent out dozens of warriors who had entered the camp first to move away the loess blocks placed on the inside of the village gate, and then opened the village gate to welcome more friendly troops.
The retinues had already ridden back from the battlefield, driving the horses of the valiant cavalry into the camp, and at the same time assigned manpower to put on horse armor for the heavy cavalry.
Due to the congestion at the entrance of the valley, the main force of the Jin Kingdom was approaching, and there were still hundreds of war horses that did not have time to retreat into the valley. They dispersed these horses directly outside the valley, and then retrieved them after the battle was over.
Thousands of Ming soldiers mounted their horses outside the valley and withdrew into the valley in batches.
Chen Ziyi ordered: "The soldiers who retreated into the camp shouted loudly and pretended that they had not yet broken through the enemy camp! Some people came from various places outside the village wall and on the hillsides on both sides, raising their guns and shooting arrows, pretending to be fighting."
This was because they were afraid that the camp would be destroyed and the main force of the Jin soldiers would be scared away.
The valley is rugged and it is difficult to see the details inside from the outside.
In fact, it doesn't matter if the Jin camp is not breached. As long as we use the narrow terrain to fight bloody battles on both sides and delay as much time as possible, the mission will be completed. Breaking the enemy camp is just an incidental surprise.
When Wanyan Lou's room heard the roar of fighting, he ordered without thinking: "Our army camp is still there, attack the Ming army from both sides!"
This time, they went directly to Hezha Meng'an. The men and horses were all wearing heavy armor, and they rushed into the valley in small groups in batches.
