Chapter 108 Arson at night
The Mongolian light cavalry rushed towards the direction of the sound of guns, and the flying horse's hooves lifted the snow and formed snow fog in front of the war horses.
At this time, Li Laoer and Cao Bianjiao's hunting of the Jurchen scout cavalry had ended. One hundred and sixteen light and heavy sledges of the Ming army formed a circle, surrounding the bodies of fifteen Jin soldiers in the middle. Some of the Ming army got out of the car and went to cut off the heads of the Jin soldiers, stripped off their armor, and took away the spoils.
"Fifteen beheaded, fifteen excellent cavalry bows, fifteen excellent stair bows, fifteen fine stair bows, fifteen short weapons such as tiger teeth, straight swords, short axes, tiger spears, long-handled big axes, maces, and page hammers, 15 long weapons such as tiger spears, 19 war horses were seized, and eleven casualties were seized, and no casualties in our army." The Ming soldiers who cleaned the battlefield reported to Cao Bianjiao.
Cao Bianjiao only felt that this battle was too exciting. If it were not for the advantages of the sled car, his soldiers could use Lumi guns, turtledove-legged guns and stair bows in high-speed sports, and could only rely on simple cavalry to approach, then his side would have lost at least forty or fifty people in this battle!
The Ming army, sitting on the sled car, used Lumi guns and insidious bows to shoot all the Jin soldiers like hunting outside the range of the Jin soldiers' cavalry bows. Because the Jin soldiers were small in number and saw that they were close to horses, they never thought they were super long-range cavalry, so the Jin soldiers did not dismount and use the insidious bows, otherwise the Ming army would have suffered some losses.
There is no way, the range of riding a bow is too close, and it is impossible to shoot the step bow.
The Korqin Mongolian scout whistle rushes over, and the snow from the horse's hooves is connected, like a huge snow wave. The snow wave is blown by the strong north wind, and the broken snow powder is flying all over the sky.
"Slow down, it seems like there is Minggou's car camp in front!" Someone found a row of carriages like city walls in front of him, so the Mongolian led the order to stop moving forward.
The Cheying Camp is a powerful enemy that the Mongols of this era could never deal with. The Mongols were weak in armor, weak bows, and were not good at infantry battles. Isn’t that seeking death? Therefore, after discovering that it was the Cheying Camp, the Mongolians immediately turned around and left the matter to the Jurchens to deal with the Cheying Camp. The Jurchens had shield chariots and heavy armor infantry, and even artillery.
"General Li, the Mongolian Tartars are about to run away! Let's chase and kill them!" Cao Bianjiao turned his horse and ran away before he could enter his range, and shouted in a hurry.
Li Laoer shook his head helplessly: "It's useless. We accelerate slowly. When the speed increases, the Tartars almost ran back to Huang Taiji. It's better to let them go. We didn't chase them, and the Tartars didn't know our speed. Huang Taiji would definitely not run out to deal with us at night. In that way, we still have the chance to approach the Tartar camp and shoot their rows of rockets, so that Huang Taiji could not sleep well at night."
As expected by Li Laoer, Huang Taiji received the report from the Mongolian scouts and whistle cavalry, and did not take the Mongols' discovery of the chariot camp seriously. The chariot camp was extremely slow and the mobility was too poor. In Huang Taiji's idea, no one would use the chariot camp to attack the Jin army camp. The Mongols had no temper with the chariot camp, but the Jurchens had dealt with the chariot camp. The Ming army's chariot camp looked majestic, but inferior firearms could not shoot through the Jin army's shield chariots. Every time the Ming army dispatched the chariots, the Jin army used the shield chariots to protect the heavy armored infantry of the Bayala soldiers and the Gebush Xianchaoha camp to approach the chariots, and then broke into the chariots with armored soldiers. As long as they attacked the chariots, the Ming army's chariots did not have thick armor, the heavy infantry of the Later Jin Dynasty could cut the Ming army like melons and vegetables, and overturn the Ming army's chariots. As long as they broke through the formation, the rest would be the cavalry to chase them.
Huang Taiji never dreamed that the car camp was a car camp that could move quickly, with speeds exceeding the Mongolian Light Cavalry, but the starting speed was slower, so its mobility was comparable to that of the Mongolian Light Cavalry.
Once the chariot has a high maneuverability that is not inferior to the light cavalry, it is quite terrible.
Li Laoer took the rest for an hour and recovered his horsepower to the camp. He detoured from the east. Halfway through, he met a team of eleven-person Houjin Sweeping Cavalry. Without using a firearm, he easily ate the Houjin Sweeping Cavalry with a strong bow.
At the early morning of Yin, the chariot camp approached 150 steps away from the Houjin camp and stopped moving forward.
At this distance, those shoddy inferior magical arrows came in handy. Originally, the inferior magical arrows had a range of 200 steps, but after Li Laoer added gauze soaked in tung oil, the range dropped to 150 steps.
The Ming soldiers moved a swagger from the car, put the rockets on the snow, and aimed at the Jin army camp. Then they opened the tinder tank and lit the torch, and the flames lit up.
"There are enemies outside!" shouted the Houjin sentry standing on the tower of the camp.
Li Laoer picked up the rifled rifle of the fire rope, aimed at the Houjin sentry standing on the tower, pulled the trigger, and a gunshot sounded, and the Jin soldier spewed bloody flowers in his temple, and a backward green onion fell down.
"Light up!" Cao Wenzhao roared.
Countless fire dragons rushed up from the snow, pulling out crooked trajectories in the night sky, making a harsh roar, and flew towards the Jin army camp. No matter how accurate these inferior rockets are, there is no problem to hit a camp that covers an area of several miles. A distance of 150 steps, no matter how crooked they are, they will not be tilted.
The car camp carried a total of 6,400 magical arrows. Cao Wenzhao fired 3,200 magical arrows in one breath, leaving half of the magical arrows. The bright rocket dragged the tongue of fire and pierced into the Jin army camp one after another. The head was covered with gauze soaked with tung oil, which was very flammable. It was stuck on a wooden fence and on a tent, and the flames immediately ignited.
The wooden walls, tents, and towers were lit up, and the Jin army camp was illuminated as if it were daytime.
Outside there were ice and snow, several braziers were lit in Huang Taiji's central army tent. The burning charcoal made the central army tent very warm. Huang Taiji, who had been tired for several days, was already asleep.
"Sweat! Sweat! Things are bad! The camp outside has caught fire!" Someone hurriedly broke into Huang Taiji's central tent and woke him up from his sleep.
Huang Taiji, who was fat, has been thinking too much about the past few days and has not had a good sleep. He fell asleep easily, but was woken up. He rubbed his sleepy eyes, put on a fur cloak, walked out of the warm spring-like tent of the Central Army, stood in the snow, and looked at the Mongolian camp that had already caught fire outside.
The military quality of the Mongols was obviously far inferior to that of the Jurchens. After the camp caught fire, the Mongols cried and cried loudly. All the Mongols rushed out of the camp and ran in a panic. Some went to the stable to untie the war horses. Some were so smoked that they coughed continuously, and some collided with each other and trampled on each other in chaos.
"Let me put out the fire quickly! As long as we are not in chaos, the barbarians will not rush in!" Huang Taiji shouted.
The Jurchen soldiers in the central army also woke up, and someone came to make trouble. All the Jurchens woke up from their sleep, put on armor, picked up weapons, and prepared to fight.
The rockets shot from outside stopped, and the Ming army did not launch an attack on the Jin army camp.
Chapter completed!