Chapter 200 Captive of Huang Taiji's mother-in-law
The thick armor on the Golden Tent guards could not stop weapons such as short axes and meteor hammers. They were smashed by a rain-like short axes and meteor hammers, and the Golden Tent guards were killed and injured.
"Quick, stop them!" a centurion shouted. Although they knew that they could not stop the cavalry's rush, they were still gritting the bullet to block the enemy, in order to allow the princess to escape from the enemy's clutches.
Many Ming cavalry had already dismounted. They put away their sabers, replaced them with hammers, axes and other weapons, and rushed into the crowd of guards in the Golden Tent. After a fierce bloody battle, all the guards in the Golden Tent fell in the pool of blood, and Li Guodong's cavalry also paid the price of more than 40 casualties, 23 of whom were killed.
At the expense of the guards in the golden tent outside, sixteen guards escorted Boli and sneaked out from behind. However, they did not run far, Li Guodong took his men to chase him from behind.
"Stop! Don't run!" Li Guodong shouted in Mongolian.
"Swoosh swish swish swish" several feather arrows roared, and the seven guards fell down on their backs with long arrows. The remaining nine guards quickly picked up their shields and blocked the arrows that were shooting.
Li Guodong had already rushed to the front, and the two Mongolian guards raised their scimitars in their hands, trying to block his way. Li Guodong waved the tiger-toothed knife in his hand and cut off a guard's head. Then Xie Haotian, who was behind, also came up, and the cavalry bow in his hand almost shot two arrows in succession against the guard's face, shooting overturning the two guards.
The remaining six guards were no match for Li Guodong and the others. In a short while, all the six guards fell in a pool of blood, leaving only Bo Li, who was trembling and squatting on the ground crying, hugging Bo Li and her personal maid.
When Li Guodong saw that the master and servants walked out of the golden tent, he looked at the Mongolian lady. He saw that she was wearing red Mongolian concubine costumes, a white fur hat on her head, and a pendant of gem beads such as agate, red sapphire, and other gem beads. When he saw the maid, wearing light blue silk clothes and a blue hat on her head, the maid looked pretty good, so he was sure that the Mongolian lady must be an important figure in the Korchin tribe.
"Catch them!" Li Guodong shouted.
The cavalry behind dismounted one after another, and twisted Boli and the maid like an eagle catching a chicken.
"Tie them on horseback and take them away!" Li Guodong shouted.
Boli and his maid were tied up tightly, and then someone stopped Han Dashan, who drove the horses by, asked him to pull out two horses from the horses and throw Boli and his maid on the horses.
The Korqin tribe's golden tent escaped the fate of being burned. The soldiers under Li Guodong rushed into the golden tent and moved boxes of gold, silver and treasures from it.
"Report to General, no major figures such as Zaisang, Ao Lebu and Manzhu Xili were found!" A soldier reported the situation to Li Guodong in disappointment.
"I guess I might go to Daling River! Let's continue to kill!" Li Guodong roared.
Two thousand cavalrymen started killing in the Korqin camp, and the entire camp became a slaughterhouse. Although the number of Korqin Mongols living here was large, the strong men were dragged to attack the Daling River. Only women, children, elderly and weak were left here, and they were also attacked by the Ming army, so how could they beat the elite Ming cavalry?
Occasionally, a few Korqin warriors with some skills were also trampled into meat paste by the Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty. The blood and flesh were mixed with the white snow, dyeing a large area of snow red.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Li Guodong blew a whistle, and Zhang Wei behind him released a fireworks rocket.
"Let's go!" Li Guodong yelled.
Before dawn, two thousand cavalry drove away more than 10,000 horses they had just stolen and retreated westward.
"Let us go! I am Zaisang's princess Boli! If you don't let me go, Master Beile will lead troops to destroy you!" Boli on the horse struggled desperately and shouted.
Li Guodong heard the shouting, grabbed the horse, turned his head, came to the horse carrying the Boli, patted her plump butt with a heavy pat, and laughed: "It turns out to be Boli! It's Da Yu'er's mother and Huang Taiji's mother-in-law! Since you have fallen into my hands, don't think about running away! It depends on my mood. I'm in a good mood. I might consider sending you back to Huang Taiji! If you are unhappy, then send you to Lin Danhan to reunite with your daughter."
He was annoyed by Boli, and Li Guodong asked someone to stuff a piece of rag into her mouth.
The cavalry did not stay and arrived at the place where the spare horses were placed. More than 30,000 horses were eating each other's hay on each other's backs. Li Guodong's cavalry rushed over more than 10,000 horses, so he had more than 46,000 horses, including more than 18,000 war horses. In addition to the more than 2,000 horses his cavalry were riding, the number of war horses reached more than 20,000! The remaining more than 28,000 were slow horses.
One man and ten horses had to drive away fourteen more horses. The cavalry drove the horse team and retreated all the way to Zhangjiakou.
From morning until dark, the cavalry soldiers had not rested. When they were hungry, they took out a piece of dry food and a piece of meat, and brought a handful of snow from the roadside, and ate the dry food and horse meat in the snow. When they were thirsty, they held a handful of snow on the roadside and swallowed it; when they were tired of walking, they changed to another horse and continued walking.
Boli and his maid were tied to the horse's back and their mouths were blocked. No one knew if they were hungry. Li Guodong and the soldiers were just concerned about the journey, and no one cared about whether the master and servant were hungry.
In just one day, Li Guodong's cavalry had already walked 220 miles.
Such a rapid march speed is very depleting horsepower. It is OK to march like this in one day, but even the Mongolian cavalry at its peak cannot maintain a marching force of two hundred miles a day for many days. The marching speed of the cavalry is generally about one hundred miles a day. In order to evacuate the territory of the Korqin tribe as soon as possible, Li Guodong marched on the first day and then marched at a normal speed.
However, Li Guodong also knew that the Korqin people could not chase after him because they did not know their own weaknesses and reality. They thought they were attacked by Lin Danhan, and were worried that Lin Danhan would ambush the main force halfway, so they would fall into the trap after chasing him out. The first thing the Korqin people would do was report to Huang Taiji. As for whether Huang Taiji would withdraw his troops from Daling River or continue to siege Daling River after he learned the news, that was his own business.
The team came to the leeward side of a hill, and the soldiers set off and rested.
"Premove those two Tartar women from the horse's back!" Li Guodong shouted.
Boli and the maid were removed from the horse's back and the maid was placed aside, so naturally someone would take care of her eating and drinking water; Li Guodong raised Boli and put her next to him like a chicken.
Chapter completed!