Chapter 539 538 Pursuit

At the foot of Langwo Mountain, the Ming army and the Mongolian cavalry were fighting together.

This situation only fulfilled Ma Fang's wishes, but it couldn't make Lai Sun happy.

The number of Tatars is small, and the combat power of the Ming army is not weaker than that of the Tatars.

Losing the impact of the cavalry and fighting like infantry, Sun's previous strategy of fighting if he won and running if he couldn't was ineffective.

At this time, he felt very difficult.

The Ming army was so closely aligned that even when facing the charge of their elite cavalry, both sides would rather bump into each other than pull their horses to avoid it.

In a normal charge between cavalry, after the two sides start to confront each other, the weaker side will be impacted by the other side's dense formation and be separated to the left and right, and the formation will be directly penetrated.

It's actually rare to see each other fight with life-threatening tactics like this.

Sun was nervously thinking about this strategy, while Ma Fang, who was behind the scenes, was very satisfied with the current situation.

Three thousand people versus two thousand people, the two sides are in a melee. The advantage of the side with more people will only increase with time, as long as no Tatar reinforcements appear at the critical moment.

At this time, around the huge battlefield, the scouts of the Ming and Mongolian armies were also engaged in fierce battles.

The Ming army's sentinels were worried that the Mongols would run back to report the news and bring in reinforcements. However, some Mongolian sentries wanted to rush back to the battlefield to help Pao Ze. Some of them were smart enough to know that with their small number, going back would not help the cause, so just as the Ming army did The Chinese army was worried and they were going to the Chinese army for help.

Their battle situation is the standard cavalry tactics, either the two sides are hedging each other, going back and forth, or chasing each other back and forth.

The atmosphere of the war soon stimulated the remaining Ming troops.

Dong Yikui couldn't bear the loneliness and kept wandering in front of Ma Fang, hoping to attract the attention of the commander-in-chief and let him lead his troops to join the war to annihilate the Tatars as soon as possible and end the war here.

Feeling annoyed, Ma Fang waved his riding crop angrily and cursed: "Just stay there and don't affect the labor force."

Feeling that he had not made it clear, he immediately added: "Take your troops with you, maybe Tatar reinforcements will arrive soon."

Before arriving here, Ma Fang had noticed the dense horse hoof prints and ruts on the road ahead, which made him call out that he was in danger and almost let the Tatars run away.

Behind the formation in the distance, he had seen and recognized the general Da Laisun surrounded by more than a hundred people.

But now that the Ming army had the upper hand, he was still unwilling to send out his reserve team to launch a general attack for the sake of stability. He was worried that reinforcements from surrounding Tatars would arrive after the troops were dispatched, and he would have no men to resist.

It can be said that Ma Fang would rather suffer a certain loss than make a wrong command in the overall situation.

At this time, the first messenger sent by Sun had already seen Huang Taiji and reported that they had encountered a large group of Ming army cavalry blocking the way.

"How many people are there in the Ming army?"

Huang Taiji looked at the panting messenger and asked directly.

"There were four or five thousand people."

replied the messenger.

"Bangdu'er, do you think we can defeat these Ming armies if we come to Sun?"

Huang Taiji knew that the number of soldiers under Sun's command was only 2,000. The opponent's force was at least twice as strong as his own. As long as the opponent's general was not stupid, it would cause them a lot of trouble.

"If the opponent's general is powerful, even if they win, I'm afraid it will be a miserable victory and the losses will not be small."

General Du'er is also considering this matter. There is too little information and he doesn't even know who is leading the troops on the other side. It is difficult to make a judgment on the combat strength of the Ming army.

But if the opponent is a scumbag, he would not have the guts to come here and block the road, so whether it is Huang Taiji or Bao Duer, they should first consider raising the opponent a little higher.

"You go and gather two thousand people immediately, we will go back to pick up the troops, and the rest will continue to Modaoyu with their things."

Huang Taiji didn't want to make mistakes at the last moment when he was done. He wanted to avoid any small losses.

"Yes, Taiji."

Gao Duer clasped his fists on his horse, then rode away, quickly gathering his troops.

Although the Mongolian cavalry was retreating, they were not nervous about being pursued by the Ming army. Instead, they retreated calmly. The speed was actually not very fast, in order to ensure that the horses had enough power to meet any threat.

After all, they were going deep into the Ming Dynasty's Gyeonggi area, so they needed to be extremely cautious.

When the army moves forward, not only is it not fast, but it also has to dismount and rest after running for a while.

At this moment, many Tatar horsemen were resting on the roadside to train their horses.

Walking all the way from Du'er, it was easy to gather a large number of cavalry, and then estimated that there were two thousand people. He immediately led the team to rush back, and together with Huang Taiji, who was waiting here, led the troops back along the original road to receive Sun Yat-sen's call. department.

Not far away, the messenger sent by Sun appeared in front. By this time, Huang Taiji also knew the truth and falsehood of the other party.

The ones blocking the road were the Xuanfu cavalry led by Ma Fang, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu in the Ming Dynasty.

Knowing the news, Huang Taiji and Ba Du'er became nervous.

Opposite is an old enemy on the battlefield, and they have an absolute advantage in men and horses.

"Speed ​​up the march and bring reinforcements to Sun's army."

Of course, Huang Taiji would not run away in fear just because the opponent was Ma Fang, but decisively ordered to speed up.

At this time, the results of the melee between the Ming and Mongolian armies gradually became clear. The Mongolian army suffered significantly more losses than the Ming army. It gradually became unable to resist. Many people were injured and could only keep retreating.

When Sun was hit, he looked to the north, but he didn't wait until the reinforcements arrived.

In fact, at this tense moment, even he lost his normal judgment because of the battlefield atmosphere.

Only half an hour had passed, but in Dalaisun's feeling, it seemed that they had already experienced more than an hour.

He didn't believe that Huang Taiji would not lead his troops to help, especially when he was sure that the opponent was Ma Fang, the general of Xuanfu.

But before the northern reinforcements arrived, his team could no longer resist.

In desperation, Dalaisun had to choose the last strategy, which was to lead his troops to retreat to the north.

Although this would expose the fragile backs of the grassland men to the arrows and sabers of the Ming army, he had no choice but to retreat.

As the retreat horn sounded, the Tatar cavalry, who had been struggling to support, reacted instantly and knew that they could not gain an advantage.

Although they didn't know who the opponent was at the beginning, the "Ma" flag of Ma Fang of Xuanfu was fluttering in the wind in the distance until now. The opponent's strong combat power was also rare for them, so they naturally thought of the cavalry of Xuanfu.

Looking at the rear team, Dalai Sun had already begun to retreat northward under the protection of his personal guards. The defeated Mongolian soldiers behind him swung their swords slowly, forced the Ming army in front of them to retreat, and then reined in their horses and ran northward.

If the Tartars wanted to run, the Ming army would certainly not let them go easily.

When many of the cavalrymen pulled their horses and turned around to run, they were hit by fatal attacks from the Ming army and fell off their horses.

In fact, at this moment, the losses of the Mongolian cavalry were rapidly magnified.

However, in terms of the ability to control war horses, the Ming army was still not comparable to the elite Tartars.

When the Ming army joined together and began to pursue, the remaining more than a thousand Tartars had gathered together, and the cavalrymen who fell behind had become the dead souls under the swords of the Ming army.

At this time, the Mongols seemed to have suddenly revived the skills inherited in their blood.

The Tartar cavalrymen at the back attached to the horse's back, and from time to time they stood up and turned their heads to shoot an arrow backwards, and then attached themselves to the horse's back and continued to flee northward.

The Tatar cavalry in front also did the same thing, but their arrows were shot at the Ming army Dong Yikui's troops who were charging in the west.

When Dalaisun decisively blew the retreat horn, Ma Fang decisively ordered Dong Yikui to lead his troops to attack the Tatars from the side. At this time, the Xuanfu cavalry of the Ming army led by him had already been pinched on Dalaisun's retreat path.

According to the direction and speed of the two sides, they will inevitably collide with each other in the end.

At this time, Dalaisun's eyes were already bloodshot. He knew that the elite cavalry of the tribe he led was in danger. The current situation was that there were elite cavalry of the Ming army attacking from the front and back, and it was impossible to escape.

He couldn't help but regret that when he found out that a large group of Ming army was coming from the west, he did not decisively lead his troops to rush and rush through the interception of the Ming army, but arrogantly planned to eat up this group of Ming army.

If he had been more cautious at the time, this situation would not have happened.

The three groups of people and horses were running on the plain, and the distance was getting closer and closer.

Ma Fang was leading Dong Yikui's troops to kill the Tartar cavalry. As long as they got closer, they could use firearms and arrows to launch an indiscriminate attack. Even if the Tartars in front of them could not be completely wiped out, there would be only a handful of them left alive.

This was considered a success.

He was still sighing in his heart, and suddenly saw dust flying in the distance in the north. It was obvious that a group of people was approaching quickly.

On the horse, he naturally could not feel the shock of the opposite side when a large group of cavalry rushed over, but based on his experience, he could also tell that there were at least thousands of cavalry coming.

If this continued, it would be disadvantageous to the Ming cavalry he led.

At that time, if he was not careful, he would be surrounded and killed by the fleeing Tartars and the rescue Tartars.

Although he was resentful in his heart, he also knew that this was a battlefield and he could not lose the big picture for the sake of the small.

He already had an advantage. At this time, the most important thing was to maintain it, rather than blindly give up the advantage in his hands.

He slightly pulled the horse's head, changed the way forward, and rushed to one side.

It seemed that he had given up intercepting the fleeing Dalai Sun's army, but in fact, he quickly moved to one side, preparing to flank the enemy cavalry coming to rescue.

The reinforcements led by Huang Taiji were coming from the opposite side. From a distance, he saw a Ming army on one side about to intervene and intercept the fleeing Dalai Sun's army.

Although he didn't know who was the leader of the other side, facing the attack from both himself and Dalai Sun's army, Huang Taiji felt that there was still hope to defeat the opponent quickly.

However, before he was happy, the Ming army on the opposite side, led by the commander, ran out of a parabola and ran to one side.

Was this to surround his own team as well?

The commander of the Ming army on the opposite side had a big appetite.

As the distance between the two sides approached, the situation of Dalai Sun's army gradually came into Huang Taiji's eyes.

Dalai Sun's army was defeated, and the Ming cavalry behind him was chasing them on horseback, and they could only keep shooting arrows backwards to delay the opponent's pursuit.

The Ming army that had intercepted them earlier had already circled to one side and rushed towards him again, obviously intending to wrap them up.

For a brief moment, the current situation did not allow Huang Taiji to make too much adjustment.

As the leader, he decisively pulled the reins and led the cavalry to draw a smaller arc, intending to adjust the direction.

He did not intend to rush straight forward, but to circle an arc to block the Ming army on one side, so that the Sun army that came to attack could escape smoothly.

As for his unit, it was naturally the last one.

The tactics of the Mongolian Empire in the past were not lost by the current cavalry. When facing a strong opponent, the kite-flying tactic was their most commonly used tactic.

They did not believe that there was anyone in the world whose riding skills would be better than theirs.

As he thought, the cavalry led by Ma Fang and the cavalry led by Huang Taiji gradually approached each other, and both sides began to launch long-range attacks on each other. As the two cavalry teams approached, the cavalry of both sides also engaged in hand-to-hand combat, swinging their weapons to attack each other.

The cavalry led by Huang Taiji chose the right speed and direction. When the battle situation became clear, the advantage of the Ming army had been reduced a lot.

Except for the Ming army that was still chasing the Sun army, Ma Fang and Huang Taiji were fighting evenly, and the two sides could not tell who was better for the time being.

However, at this time, the remnants of Sun had already run ahead of the Tartars, and Huang Taiji just wanted to cover him, so he had no intention of entangled with the Ming army.

Fighting and retreating, this is the Tartars' idea.

However, failing to intercept the Sun army was a major mistake in Ma Fang's eyes.

Unexpectedly, the Tartars came so coincidentally, and just as they were about to complete the interception, the reinforcements from the opposite side arrived.

Thinking of the wheel tracks he had seen before, although the Ming army's war horses had been seriously depleted after a great battle, the same was true for the Tartars.

The two sides were actually evenly matched, and it depended on who could hold out to the end.

Ma Fang planned to fight hard. As long as he could suppress the enemy cavalry on the opposite side, catch up to the location of the carts, and snatch some property, the soldiers who followed him on the expedition this time would be able to share a lot of money, as well as those subordinates who fell off their horses and whose lives were uncertain.

The court would give silver for burning and burying, and there would also be a little bit of pension, but this money was really not enough, not to mention that it was not known when the silver would be issued.

If he could hold on, crush the Tartars on the opposite side, and snatch some carts, his subordinates would have a much better life, and his prestige in the team would be higher.

Ma Fang's strategy of continuing to pursue at this moment was undoubtedly very bold.

As the saying goes: Don't chase a desperate enemy.

But at this moment, he chose to go in the opposite direction and continue to chase.

The Ming army generals behind Ma Fang were a little confused. What happened to their former smart general?

The heavy breathing of the horses under his crotch has shown that they don't have much strength left.

However, the big flag with the word "horse" is in front of them, and they must catch up and move forward with the flag.

After a chase, they soon rushed into the relatively flat mountains. This is when they re-entered the Yanshan Mountains.

Not long after the chase, a string of carts appeared in front of them, crossing the road.

At this moment, the terrain is not steep, and there are cavalrymen from both sides on both sides of the road.

"Catch up, grab these carts, and we will rest."

At this moment, Ma Fang saw victory in sight and finally shouted out his calculations.

"Catch up, grab the carts."

The personal soldiers around him and generals such as Dong Yikui heard his words, knew what Ma Fang meant, and then raised their arms and shouted.