Chapter 441: The Snow and the Horse Neighing, the Grassland Bloody Like the Sea (12)
The counterattack of Liu Chong's right-wing military formation was resolutely, and they followed the drums of the war drums and marched neatly. The biggest advantage of the Po Slave Army is that no matter when the military formation is, the military formation will always be in full state. In the front of the military formation, the spearmen are on the outside of the military formation, and they are armed with muskets and stared at the Mongolian cavalry cruising outside the military formation. When entering the range of muskets, they will poke the iron spear tail of the spear into the soil according to the officer's orders, and remove the muskets from the back and turn into musket soldiers.
Therefore, everyone in the musket formation of the Pou Nu Army is a musketman. After many exercises, the various battalions of the Pou Nu Army can achieve a versatility, which can not only be a qualified cavalry, but also an infantry with outstanding combat power. There is also a heavy armored infantry ghost sword team of 2,000 people in each battalion. They are usually a special troop to deal with enemy camps or siege cities. During the plain cavalry, the Ghost Sword Team is also a semi-heavy armored cavalry with outstanding combat skills. In order to strengthen the assault power of the offensive, Liu Chong specially sandwiched the Ghost Sword Team into the second level of the military formation to quickly open the battle gap.
As the main force of Liu Chong's assault, Liu Chong did not dare to use the unfamiliar new formation of Bagua, but adopted the original formation of the Slave Army, surging wave after wave, leveling the Mongolian cavalry opposite the army. When the attacking army formation entered the Mongolian army formation, the formations on both sides of the army formation began to split and turn to both sides, and fired the enemy flanking muskets. In this way, Liu Chong used the six thousand muskets formation to divide the Mongolian army formation into two for only half an hour, and used muskets to split the connection between the Mongolian army formations.
Under the efficient attack of the Ponu Army Assault Corps, more than 1,000 Mongolian cavalry and their horses fell in the blood pool on the battlefield on the front. Liu Chong's muskets used metal lead bullets to split the Mongolian army formation in half. At this time, the attacking troops of the Ponu Army Liu Chong's army changed their formation during the attack. They began to turn to the east and west sides from the two wings of this northward attack formation, and they had to attack the Mongolian cavalry on both sides of the army formation. At this time, the horse speed of the Mongolian cavalry had been mentioned to the highest level. If they wanted to turn at this high speed, it would be impossible to do without a lot of regular training. Obviously, the Mongolian cavalry did not have this training.
Therefore, the Mongolian army, which was divided into two attacking groups, was attacked by double front and side. At the key position of the Mongolian cavalry, Tian Peng's musket soldiers had already felt the pressure. Although the reloading speed of the musket soldiers was not slow, the high-speed horses were gradually narrowing the distance between the two sides. For this reason, Tian Peng, who was a little anxious, specially dismounted the reserve team of 2,000 people into a musket army formation and joined it to the right military formation. Tian Peng's anxious mistake in the dispatch of troops was captured by Hong Guoer.
After Hongguoer saw Tian Peng's troops change their formation, the right-wing cavalry of this unit was always the most feared pursuit force when Hongguoer ran away. Hongguoer knew very well that if he did not wait for the Pou Nu cavalry here to attack, he would be attacked sideways by the cavalry when he fled. At this point, he would have no way out. Hongguoer, in a hurry, was waiting for his opponent to make a mistake. He threw the main cavalry into Tian Peng's troops regardless of casualties, in order to force Tian Peng's right-wing cavalry into the front battlefield and create opportunities for his escape.
Originally, Hong Guoer had heard the sound of killing behind him. Hong Guoer, who had been nomadic on the grassland for many years, judged that tens of thousands of horses were approaching him quickly from the sound of horse hooves coming from behind. Hong Guoer, who had made sufficient preparations for escape, led three thousand confidant cavalry when Tian Peng's right-wing cavalry had just stepped off the horse and galloped on both sides. Hong Guoer also cruelly abandoned the standing warriors, and now he could only think about saving his life. Hong Guoer's behavior of escaping the battlefield was much beyond Tian Peng's expectations. In desperation, Tian Peng sent the cavalry behind the formation to the northeast to pursue the escaped enemy.
Zhang Li, the commander of the Eagle Camp of the Pound Army, expected the escape direction of the defeated soldiers of Hongguoer's army when attacking the Mongolian military camp. He equipped the five most elite scouts, Thousand-man teams of the headquarters, with one man and two horses, and advanced eastward when attacking the Mongolian military camp. For this reason, Zhang Li sent the Scouts Thousand-man team, Wan Gufei, the leader of the A team of Thousand-man team, as the head of the pursuit army. Wan Gufei is only nineteen years old this year and is the earliest scouts of the Zhang Li army. He was later transferred to the Jinlang Camp as the chief general. During the Baishan counterattack, he was transferred to the personal military camp as the deputy general general. He personally captured Bele Amin, the leader of the two blue flags of the Jurchen Han army. With this military achievements, he was promoted to the Qianzheng General of the Ding Team of the Zhang Li army. Later, after returning to the personal military camp again for half a year, he was transferred back to the Zhang Li army as the chief general of the A team.
As an old scout, Wan Gufei knew the key to chasing the enemy, that is, cherishing horsepower and escaping the enemy with patience. The war horses used by the scouts of the Eagle Camp of the Pou Slave Army are good horses selected from hundreds of thousands of war horses, and they can travel hundreds of miles a day without stopping. As for the storyteller's horses, Wan Gufei was very disdainful. Generally, better Mongolian horses will not run thousands of miles a month as long as they do not lose their strength. When chasing the enemy, you must not run wildly. This pursuit method will cause a state of losing strength after the war horse runs fifty miles. If you continue to chase the horse without taking the horse's power, the war horse will be completely abandoned after a hundred miles.
When he was two miles away from the military formation behind Hongguoer, Wan Gufei had already seen the Hongguoer military flag fleeing eastward. He did not rush to increase his horse speed, but kept chasing the horses jogging. Wan Gufei knew very well that there were pursuing troops left in various war barracks in the Po Nu Army. This habit was advocated by the Po Nu Army's victory over General Zhang. Therefore, Wan Gufei soon saw three thousand chasing cavalry in Tian Peng's army and pursued the fugitive enemy with all his might. With the pursuit of Tian Peng's cavalry, Wan Gufei seemed much more calm.
Experience from many battles told him that if the cavalry of Tian Peng's army chased for fifty miles, the cavalry would return. If Hongguoer ran for fifty miles and not rested for two hours, his horse would definitely not be able to run a hundred miles. This would be his five scouts, Thousand Scouts, and the team of five scouts, fled the cavalry from afar, waiting for the best opportunity to take action.
On the front battlefield, after the left and right wing musket soldiers of Tian Peng's troops were strengthened, they entered the front Bagua Army thirty feet of Tian Peng's troops and could no longer move forward. The storm of lead bullets in the Po Nu Army like a storm of lead bullets storm blew away the wild Mongolian cavalry. As the number of Mongolian cavalry standing within the range of the muskets was getting smaller and smaller, the dense lead bullets in three directions even collided with each other in the Mongolian cavalry formation. Even the wounded Mongolian cavalry fell to the ground, but they could not escape the invasion of the transmigrant bullets.
The blood mist pillars that rush like raindrops in the Mongolian military formation, except for a blood-infrared, make it difficult to see any standing person in the Mongolian military formation. The 15,000 charges of Mongolian cavalry and their war horses were massacred by the lead bullets of the Pou Slave Army in less than an hour. Seeing this situation, Tian Peng ordered the troops to stop shooting. After not seeing the standing war horses and people, Tian Peng ordered the troops to search for the remaining enemies. In fact, there were no remaining enemies. This was just an excuse for Tian Peng to massacre the Mongolian wounded soldiers.
The same as Tian Peng did, Liu Chong's musketeers used lead bullets to kill Mongolian charge cavalry all over the place, and about 10,000 people fell on the front battlefield of Liu Chong's army. The bloody battlefield within an radius of eight miles was filled with a disgusting smell of blood. Many Mongolian soldiers with broken arms and legs were all pale and helplessly watching the blood flowing on their bodies and could not be stopped. The pale faces revealed their weakness. Fortunately, the Pou Nu Army was very sympathetic to their suffering and ended their pain with a sword.
When the three leaders met, they had serious differences on the next plan. A few days ago, news came from "Li Gebaobao" that the chariot battalion of the Zhao Guangming's army in the personal military camp of Zhang Dashen, and Yan Cheng's army had reached "Li Gebaobao". Zhang Li, who had no worries, advocated continuing to attack eastward and striving to fight another battle against the main force of the Ming'an headquarters. In this regard, Liu Chong was supportive and believed that he could launch an attack on the Ming'anwulut army again, but Tian Peng, as a junior, made a different voice.
Tian Peng took out the reply from Marshal Zhang, seriously warning Zhang Li and Liu Chong: "Both commanders, you are the first ones to follow Marshal, why don't you know his temper? Marshal Zhang most wishes to disobey orders. In the reply, the Marshal clearly pointed out that he cannot rush to destroy the Urutu tribe in Mongolia, and that this group of Mongolians should be used to attract the old Jurchen slaves to help. If you eliminate the Ming'an tribe or beat him too hard, Nurhaci believes that rescue is meaningless, will he still lead the army foolishly and spend a lot of manpower and material resources to Korqin?"
Although Tian Peng is a junior, he is old enough and is also the favorite student of Zhang Dashui. His persuasion makes sense, and with Tian Peng's special identity, the two senior commanders of the Po Slave Army, Zhang Li and Liu Chong, cannot underestimate his suggestions. In particular, Tian Peng mentioned that in the reply letter of Zhang Dashui, there was an order to withdraw the troops. With the clear order of Zhang Dashui, none of the Po Slave Army commanders dared to disobey his orders. Therefore, Zhang Li ordered Liu Chong and Tian Peng to escort the seized materials and withdraw the troops first, and he himself had to wait for the 5,000 scouts from the headquarters to return before withdrawing the troops.
This time, the Pou Nu Army was more relaxed when it withdrew its troops, so they did not take away a prisoner. They left a Jingguan and three high corpse mountains in Lama Ail, and rushed the captured cattle and sheep to evacuate westward. When the Pou Nu Army withdrew its troops, it also collected the flesh of war horses on the battlefield. The meat of horses could be used as food for extra meals, and the skin of horses could be used as materials for exchange with the Ming Dynasty.
Unlike Zhang Li and his team's relaxed and comfortable front line, Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Ponu Army in Baishan, smelled a strong atmosphere of war. This war did not come from the Korqin grassland, but from Guangning, Liaodong, the Jurchen Huang Taiji stationed in Guangning. According to the scouts of the mountain troops of the Ponu Army, Liu Qingshan, the female real white flag stationed in Guangning City is increasing its training and mobilizing troops from the hinterland of Liaodong to Guangning City. (To be continued)
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