Chapter 336 Bloody Battle of the Yellow River in Shaanxi (10)
Although Ma Tengyao led a group of garrison soldiers from peasants, they were still very good at building camps. Ma Tengyao commanded the high platform in five days. Ma Tengyao, who was eager to observe the return commander of the slave army camp, couldn't wait to climb up as soon as the high platform was built. He watched for two hours in the cold wind, but became more and more confused as he looked.
In Ma Teng's eyes, the Ponu Army camp was not built very strongly. The low walls and scattered scattered castles formed the basic fortifications of the Ponu Army. The obstacle area in front of the camp was quite strange. There were trenches but not deep, and there were ice piles not high, and there were no horse pits. Regarding the Ponu Army's lack of a horse pit, Ma Tengyao had to smile bitterly and shake his head. The return cavalry could only be called a horse team in front of the Ponu Army, which was full of cavalry. Of course, the best tactics to deal with cavalry were cavalry battles. More than 10,000 cavalry could only be said to be infantry who could ride horses. The duel in front of the Ponu Army that had been through the battlefield was simply a walking baby fighting with a powerful man Kong Wu, and the result was that the entire army could be wiped out.
Ma Tengyao did not see the artillery of the Ponu Army, which made him extremely nervous. It is rumored that the Ponu Army was very powerful, and even the Jurchens and Mongols, who had the strongest combat power outside the pass, suffered a great loss. However, the key area Ma Tengyao was concerned about was the offensive line of the Hui army, which made him even more confused. The Ponu Army had only scouts and commanders running back and forth. Could it be that the commander of the Ponu Army did not see the focus of the Return Army's attack? This is not like the grassland fox wolf should do.
Since Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pou Nu Army, is known as the grassland fox wolf, he has his cunning and weird side when fighting. Could it be that the grassland fox wolf fell asleep? When Ma Tengyao looked into the distance, he felt relieved. He saw the camp of the mountain troops of Liu Qingshan, which shows that the reason why the Pou Nu Army set up such a formation was because they had a support force. The two camps that support each other were no different from the Shaanxi official army who came to encircle and suppress the Hui army. Ma Tengyao secretly despised Zhang Ping'an. The Pou Nu Army held a strong combat power and did not take the Hui army seriously. He wanted to slap the grassland fox wolf with the tenacious fighting spirit of the Hui army.
Just when Ma Tengyao was fantasizing on the platform, he saw a heart-wrenching scene. The three hundred Hui army scouts were discovered by the Ponu Army scouts while investigating the south of the Ponu Army. They rushed out of the Ponu Army camp from the east, south and north, and surrounded the Hui army scouts from three directions in a tacit understanding. The Ponu Army scouts were one by one and two horses, and quickly approached the Hui army scouts. The Hui army scouts shouted and waved their swords to rush towards the Ponu Army south. Unexpectedly, the one hundred scouts of the Ponu Army could still fire crossbow arrows while advancing at high speed. The crossbow arrows fired by the Ponu Army smashed nearly fifty Hui army scouts.
After firing the crossbow arrows, the scout of the Pou Nu Army discarded the crossbow, and the crossbow that was connected to the saddle was steadily fluttered with the ups and downs of the war horses. Then the scout of the Pou Nu Army held a handgun in his left hand and a sword in his right handgun. The sound of the fire-breaking musket knocked over more than 60 people in the Hui army. The scout of the Hui army, who rolled off the horse, overturned the entire scout formation. The scout of the Hui army ran away, was suffocated at the speed of the horse. Taking this opportunity, the Pou Nu Army used their skillful horse skills, either sideways or one-legged saddle bridge to slash at the Hui army.
The sword of the Pou Nu Army itself is longer than the Hui army, and the sword is sharper than the Hui army. After they can avoid a fatal blow when the return army is desperate to fight back, they can use the return army to use the old move to leave a two-foot bloody mouth on the Hui army. None of the 100 Pou Nu Army scouts fell off their horses, and even more, the Pou Nu Army scouts could jump to the backup horse without sticking their feet when the war horse was injured and fell to the ground. In just one round, the three hundred Hui army scouts were destroyed in front of the 100 Pou Nu Army scouts. What's more annoying is that after the entire Pou Nu Army scouts returned, the Pegasus chopped the heads of the people in front of Ma Tengyao, and then quickly ran and grabbed the heads of the people who had just cut off the ground with one hand.
After each scout of the Pou Slave Army successfully captured a head, it would receive loud cheers from other brothers, and the brothers who failed to capture the head were even booed. Ma Tengyao, who was so excited by the scout of the Pou Slave Army, instantly lost the calm that the commander should have. He gritted his teeth and issued an order to wipe out the Pou Slave Army's scouts.
Accompanied by the sound of swan whistles, more than 30 teams of scouts of a hundred people returned to the camp. After receiving the news of the return of the army, Zhang Ping'an, the general of the Pou Slave Army, rode a horse to the command post. He watched the formation excitedly with a telescope in his hand, and even Sun Chengzong who arrived later had no time to salute. For such a small-scale battle, he, the commander of the Pou Slave Army, had no interest in commanding himself, and allowed the commanders of each department to issue orders.
The three Scouts of the Pound Army on the battlefield gathered together as soon as the enemy left the camp. Although they were not in charge, the scouts of the personal camp took Hou Renyi as a temporary commander. Hou Renyi sang the Mongolian long tune in a hoarse voice. The Pound Army, who understood the orders, sang in unison, which gave the return army a sense of time and space disorder. They couldn't figure out who they were fighting against. Li Qingshui, the deputy commander of the personal camp, was afraid that his brother would suffer losses, so he immediately ordered the scouts of the personal camp to attack the entire line. On the battlefield, the Mongolian long tune responded to the Mongolian long tune in the large camp of the Pound Army, and instantly gathered into a voice on the battlefield.
With Li Qingshui's command, the Po Nu Army's actions on the battlefield were quickly unified. The Liu Qingshan scout team also sent two thousand cavalry scouts, so that the Po Nu Army had an absolute advantage in the battlefield. Under the command of Li Qingshui, the five thousand scouts of the Po Nu Army seemed to be messy and actually divided into labor and clearly rushed towards their respective targets. The Hui army wearing the red battle jacket of the Ming Dynasty fought with the Po Nu Army in black clothes and black armor.
The Posou Army is skillful in combat, and the scouts are the elite among the elite. They often do not fight with the Hui army at close range, but use crossbow arrows and handguns to kill the Hui army with vitality, and then take advantage of the chaos of the cavalry scouts of the Hui army. The officers leading the Hui army are given priority to killing the Hui army. In less than half an hour, the battlefield of Hong and Hei's melee changed to black and red. Seeing that his elite troops were about to be annihilated, Ma Tengyao could only send the main cavalry to rescue the precious scouts.
Ma Tengyao's tactics made Zhang Ping'an sneer. Before he could even hurry to give Li Qingshui an order, Li Qingshui sent someone to send an urgent report: 10,000 cavalrymen in the personal military camp were gathered in place and ready to receive the scout cavalry at any time. Hearing this news, Zhang Ping'an slapped his thighs excitedly and said to the personal military soldiers who came to report: "Damn Li Qingshui, you're so fucking good! Tell him that I don't care about the battlefield command today, it depends on how he is going to do it! If this battle is won, I will advance to him!"
The rumbling drums sounded in the Hui army camp, and the seven thousand Hui cavalry units were quickly driven out. The three of them came out of the camp in a row. Li Qingshui, who was commanding on the front line, used the Mongolian long tune to call back the Ponu Army scouts from afar, with the intention of luring the Hui army to fight on a large battlefield, and at the same time gave the Ponu cavalry space to sprint. The Ponu Army scouts who received the order retreated one after another, and they also used crossbow arrows to shoot the Hui army scouts accurately.
The scouts of the Hui army were all selected strong soldiers from the cavalry, and they were also brothers who shared joys and sorrows. Seeing that the Pou Nu Army had not forgotten to shoot the Hui army scouts during the retreat, it aroused the great anger of the Hui army's cavalry. They rushed towards the Pou Nu Army without waiting to form a formation. When the Pou Nu Army scouts of the war were old, they scattered in a squad. They knew that the horses of the Hui army could not run away from their crotch. The scouts of the Pou Nu Army rode a horse and jogged warm up for the horse, while loading crossbow arrows. Tens of thousands of horse hooves rolled over the dry yellow soil in northern Shaanxi, raised sand and dust, and the foggy battlefield obscured the sight of the commanders of both sides.
The scout of the Ponu Army, with the sound of horse hooves, calculated the distance between the pursuit of the Hui army behind them with the sound of horse hooves, turned around and raised the arrow. The rain of arrows fired by the Ponu Army shot the Hui army behind them. After the Ponu Army shot out the crossbow arrow, the Ponu Army stared at the crossbow arrow with his left foot and opened the crossbow ring and twisted his waist and used a little force on his right hand, that is, the crossbow arrow was put on the bowstring string, and the left hand picked up an arrow from the saddle bridge. The sound from the Ponu Army Scout from behind could accurately determine the distance between the pursuit of the Hui army. When the Ponu Army Scout thought it was appropriate, he looked back and pulled the crossbow machine again, and the chasing Hui cavalry fell down.
The scouts of the Ponu Army used the barbarian and ancient tactics invented by Mongolian cavalry. This ancient tactic that had been rampant in Eurasia for hundreds of years regained its glory on the battlefield in Shaanxi. The Ponu Army retreated and killed the Return Cavalry while killing and successfully lured the Return Cavalry to the southwest of Huang Zhi's army in Matouyan Fort. Seeing the opportunity, Li Qingshui immediately released 10,000 cavalry in his hand. The strong northwest wind blew away the dust on the battlefield. The commanders of the two sides of the war used different moods to look at the battlefield with more than 30 miles.
As soon as the Ponus cavalry rushed out of the camp, they slowly gathered their horses under the guidance of the battle flag. When the war horses entered the running stage, the Ponus cavalry had formed an offensive inclined surface. This is the usual tactic technique used by General Zhang of the Ponus army, and its purpose was to break the enemy formation from the flanks. The softest part of any army is always his flanks. The black iron stream of the Ponus army hit the left wing of the army, and immediately disrupted the entire untidy formation of the Hui army. The black melt flow continued to swallow the red coat and returned to the army. The battlefield echoed the bloodthirsty shouts of the Ponus army, and the spears that thrust the spears stood in a forest of guns after the Ponus army's black iron stream passed.
Originally, the number of cavalry in the Ponu Army on the battlefield was higher than that of the Hui army. In addition, the Ponu Army attacked and attacked the main formation on the flanks. The desperate Hui army no longer chased the Ponu Army scouts, but fled in scattered and broke through each other. Faced with such a great opportunity, how could the Ponu Army miss it? Their attack formation once again extended to the back of the Hui army. The high-speed horses cut off the retreat of the Hui army, and the Ponu Army scouts took advantage of the situation to return to the horse and counterattack. In just a moment, the remaining cavalry in the Hui army were surrounded by the Ponu Army. After the sword light and sword shadows fought, the battlefield was left with blood red.
The blood-stained battlefield is particularly enchanting. The yellow land greedily sucks blood. After the war horses trampled, they formed red mud. The sound of swords and stones intertwined between the two sides of the battle was endless. Once someone in the Po Slave Army was killed or injured, there would be brothers who would immediately stand in front of them. Brothers with superb riding skills would grab them on their backs and send them away from the battlefield in time. On the other hand, the cavalry soldiers returned to the army had no other way except to die. This battle that the commanders of both sides did not expect not only exaggerate the anger of both sides, but also opened the prelude to the decisive battle. (To be continued)
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