Chapter 38 Survive from Death
In fact, eight thousand cavalry can fill a canyon.
As far as Chen Dong and Yun Ping were concerned, the chaos they created killed dozens of people and injured hundreds of others. However, the Mongolian war horses were not used to weapons like grenades that could make loud noises. , coupled with landslides, naturally there will be riots.
The cavalry horses rioted, which was a disaster.
Even for the Mongols who have been dealing with war horses all year round, it takes some time for the horses to calm down.
Wu Sangui, who had the advantage at this moment, rushed down the mountainside with Guan Ning's cavalry like a tide.
"Get into attack formation and move forward!" Wu Sangui's eyes were red at this time and he issued an attack command.
He took the lead and rushed out with his saber raised.
The knights of Guan Ning's cavalry put away their bows and arrows, took out their prepared melee weapons, and while running, led by Wu Sangui, they lined up backwards to form a cone-shaped formation. The war horses accelerated to the highest speed in an instant, and the oncoming wind blew their battle flags.
The charging soldiers reached out to untie the flags on their backs. The flags fell to the ground one after another, and in an instant they were trampled by the horses' hooves and turned into rags.
When the flag falls to the ground, it means that the battle is progressing or not retreating.
They roared in perfect agreement, and like a bolt from the blue, they rushed toward the densest enemy area like lightning.
Wu Sangui was followed closely by eight hundred similar warriors. When he roared, everyone also raised their arms and shouted. This powerful team rushed straight into the oncoming enemy army.
Wu Sangui's double sword handles were hung on the iron rings of the leather armor. The wings of the two swords were spread out. His hands were holding the handles, like a tiger descending from the mountain or a dragon emerging from the water, unstoppable. .
The war horse under its crotch was like a wild beast, carrying Wu Sangui straight into the group of Mongolian cavalry with its brute force.
His charging speed was too fast, and the sharp long knife did not need to be swung among the Mongolian cavalry. It was like a sickle and tore open the chest and abdomen of the Mongolian cavalry passing by.
At this moment, Wu Sangui's eyes were bloodshot, like a red-eyed monster. There was no trace of his handsome appearance or elegance, only wildness, ferocity, and coldness were left.
The panicked Mongolian cavalry was still calming the horses in a panic, and had no time to pay attention to the fierce charge of the Ming army.
In an instant, it collapsed like a house with walls washed away by floods. Those who had expired and those who had not expired were turned into a ball of minced meat under the iron hooves of this group of men and horses, leaving only a bloody path.
The Mongols began to panic, dodging these ferocious beasts left and right, scrambling to abandon their crazy horses in order to escape from this flesh and blood mill.
Just as Wu Sangui charged into the Mongolian cavalry, Hong Chengchou's Chinese army had already arrived. After looking at the battlefield situation, Hong Chengchou ordered the entire army to attack without even a moment's hesitation.
This time Hong Chengchou did not hide at all. His personal guards took the lead in charging into the formation. The Mongolian cavalry who had not yet recovered from Wu Sangui's violent attack once again saw the dense black grenades.
"Boom, boom, boom."
Where the grenade landed, the horses that had not been calmed once again became panicked, and they began to run backwards out of instinct.
Seeing the enemy formation begin to retreat, Hong Chengchou shouted, and his general pressed the flag forward and pointed it forward, guiding the infantry coming from behind to continue advancing.
Wu Sangui was killed in the chaos. All around him were enemy heads. At this time, the speed of the war horse had slowed down. He had no choice but to wave his swords and fight among the enemy. Killing indiscriminately.
Although the enemies in front of him fell to the ground one after another, if the horse could not pick up speed, it would be the end of the cavalry, and Wu Sangui was worried.
Having slashed the Mongolian who blocked the road to death, Wu Sangui felt a chill in his ribs. He ignored the position of the knife, because thirty steps away from him, there stood a side of the Mongolian king's hand. The big book.
"Follow me..." Wu Sangui roared and summoned the few remaining cavalry around him. Under the protection of his companions, Wu Sangui threw a large banner thirty steps away with all his strength. grenade.
With a "boom", the big banner was blown to pieces by the grenade.
Wu Sangui was overjoyed and shouted loudly: "Tu Xie Tu is dead."
The cavalry around him also shouted: "Tu Xie Tu is dead."
Immediately, more people shouted: "Tuxietu is dead!"
Hearing the Ming army shouting the prince's name, the Mongolian cavalry looked towards the big banner one after another. But he didn't see the big banner, so some stupid Mongolians shouted: "The prince is dead."
Standing on the top of the mountain, Chen Dong looked at in horror that Wu Sangui was not only not killed in the rebellion, The people surrounded and divided the bodies with random swords, but they managed to carve out a small open space in the encirclement of the Mongols.
He said to Yun Ping, who was also breathing in the air-conditioning: "This idiot is determined to win."
Yun Ping shook his head and said in admiration: "If all the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were like this It looks like I, the Yun clan of Lantian, have been teased alive by the emperor and taken to the capital to be skinned and cramped."
Chen Dong pointed at Hong Chengchou's army, which was sweeping over the Mongols like a tide: "The Mongols are finished."< /p>
Yun Ping said: "To be honest, we only caused a little chaos for the Mongols, but Wu Sangui quickly caught us and expanded our advantage to this point, creating a precious opportunity for Hong Chengchou's army to sweep in.
Whether it is Wu Sangui or Hong Chengchou, these two are rare generals. This is why my young master values Hong Chengchou.”
The battlefield seemed very chaotic at that time.
The Ming army and the Mongols were sandwiched one above another, like a huge meat pie.
This huge piece of meat was twisted into two large whirlpools.
Surrounding the two whirlpools, the Ming army and the Mongols launched a fierce fight.
Hong Chengchou knew very well that this situation could not last long.
Right behind them were the 60,000 Jianzhou people led by Huang Taiji, Dorgon, Yue Tuo, Du Du, Bai Yin Tu, and Ying Erdai, and the Mongols were ten miles behind him.
He did not expect that Yang Guozhu could support him for an hour. He only hoped that he could break through the Tuxie Tuhan in front of him and escape before the pursuers arrived.
"Don't fight, assault, assault!"
After Hong Chengchou issued the military order, the horn of the army sounded the horn of advancement. At this time, whether it was Guan Ning's cavalry , it was still Hong Chengchou's central army. Everyone gave up the fight with the Mongols and only killed the enemies in front.
The Mongols, whose morale had long been shattered, finally could not withstand the brutal beast-like assault of the Ming army, and unknowingly gave way to the central road, preventing the Ming army from squeezing them up the mountain.
Wu Sangui was immersed in the fight. Suddenly, his eyes lit up. There were no more ferocious-looking Mongols. He couldn't help but raise his head to the sky and roar, and then he wanted to urge the war horse to move forward, but the front legs of the war horse suddenly slammed. Kneel down and throw him off the horse.
When he got up from the ground, he discovered that it was not just his horse that was in this condition, but many of his subordinates had also fallen off their horses.
Since leaving Songshan Fort, these war horses have been running vigorously. After two fierce battles, they were finally exhausted.
Ignoring all this, Wu Sangui caught an ownerless Mongolian horse. Wu Sangui hurriedly mounted the horse. When he looked back, he found that large groups of Ming troops had rushed out of the encirclement. The joy in his heart almost made him fly.
Seeing that there were Mongolians shooting arrows at the Ming army on the hillsides on the left and right, he called to the Guan Ning cavalry who had changed their mounts and divided them into two teams and began to attack the scattered Mongolians on the mountainside.
After Hong Chengchou rushed out of the rebel army, he did not stop, but turned around and rushed into the rebel army.
At this time, Tuxietu Khan, who was surrounded by the Ming army, fled the battlefield in panic after losing more than half of his men.
As the Mongols were defeated, the battlefield gradually became quiet.
The injured soldiers have left, but Hong Chengchou still has no intention of leaving. No matter how Wu Sangui urges him to leave quickly, Hong Chengchou remains unmoved and just looks sadly at the end of the valley...< /p>
Although reason told him that Yang Guozhu would not come back, he still wanted to wait, maybe...
Chen Dong ran down from the mountain and told Hong Chengchou that the Jiannu army was already within ten miles Otherwise, two dark red blood tears dripped from the corners of Hong Chengchou's eyes, and then he said to Wu Sangui: "Let's go!"
It is less than eighty miles from Songshan to Xingshan... twenty-three thousand miles More than half of the thousand-strong army was lost.
Tuxie Tuhan knelt down in a pool of blood and kept kowtowing, hoping that Huang Taiji, his son-in-law, could be spared.Forgive him for his defeat.
There was not much anger on Huang Taiji’s face.
He said to Dorgon calmly: "Fei Yanggu's 6,000 people only returned less than 300 alive, and Ao Bai's 400 white armors killed 167 people in the battle. Ao Bai is still in a coma, wondering if he can survive.
Of my 10,000 personal troops, there are only less than 6,000 left... Now you have also seen that Horqin Tuxietu's 8,000 cavalry, It can be said that Horqin's possessions are now nearly 5,000 less.
We lost nearly 20,000 elites, but Hong Chengchou still escaped.
Dorgon. My brother, don’t you give me an explanation?”
Dorgon knelt down on one knee and said sadly: “The fault lies with Bai Yintu and Ying Erdai!”
Huang Taiji nodded and said: "It makes sense. Come on, behead Baiyintu and Ying'erdai on the spot!"
Bayintu and Ying'erdai were shocked. Just as he was about to defend himself, he was already firmly controlled by Huang Taiji's bodyguards. Just as he was about to fall to the ground, an official wearing leather armor knelt down at Huang Taiji's feet and said, "Your Majesty, please show mercy to Yintu and Ying'erdai." Although he is guilty, he cannot be punished at this time."
Huang Taiji glanced at Fan Wencheng who was kneeling at his feet and said: "Why?"
Fan Wencheng said boldly: "This. It will only give Hong Chengchou an advantage and allow him to win the victory that he did not get on the battlefield."
Huang Taiji chuckled and said: "That makes sense, thanks to Yin Tu and Ying'erdai, you two. The person's head will be placed on your neck first. If you can't prove the crime, you can chop it off yourself."
Bai Yintu and Ying'erdai escaped from death, kowtowing like pounding garlic.
Huang Taiji ignored these two idiots, helped Tuxietuhan up from the ground and said, "Hong Chengchou is fierce, I know you tried your best."
Tuxietuhan saw Huang Taiji He was pardoned for his defeat and kowtowed repeatedly.
From beginning to end, Huang Taiji did not support Dorgon.
"Fan Wencheng, I want to kill Yang Guozhu, but you have warned me. I want to behead Ming army prisoners, and you have also warned me. Now I want to kill Bai Yintu and Ying'erdai, and you don't want to kill me either." Agree.
Since I have satisfied your request, shouldn’t you come up with something that works for me?”
Fan Wencheng said with a smile: “Your Majesty, The slaves have already made a plan. We want to capture Xingshan in one fell swoop, just by taking Yang Guozhu and these Ming army prisoners..."