Chapter 281 Prepare for a fatal blow
The offensive of the Later Jin army in the west was temporarily stopped. The Later Jin army left corpses all over the ground under the city and retreated. The more than 300 elite Gabush Xianchao soldiers who had previously mingled among the common people were all killed.
More than 1,000 people were blocked outside the city, and more than 500 people were killed or injured, and more than half of the remaining people were rescued. After the Later Jin army withdrew, Li Guodong asked someone to open the city gate and put the people in the city. However, these people still need to be identified to avoid the Jiannu spy among them.
When Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei and others sent the servants who saw the corpse of rat-tailed braids lying in the city, every servant was very happy. That was a credit! Everyone rushed up and began to harvest the heads. Whether it was the corpse of real slaves or the corpses of people who were accidentally injured, they all cut their heads.
"Look! Some of them are the Ming people, who were forced to shave their heads by Jiannu! The newly shaved heads were sent to the Ministry of War. Not only would they not receive a reward, but your lord would be charged with killing good people and taking credit for their achievements!" Li Guodong's soldiers did not compete with those servants for their heads, but they reminded them from the side.
Just as these servants were smiling and rushing to harvest their heads, they heard Li Guodong shouting: "Don't harvest the heads! Jiannu is attacking from the east! Go and kill Jiannu!"
The west direction was safe, but the east defense line was in danger. A large number of Later Jin troops had already rushed into the Ming army's city.
"Kill Jiannu!" Wang Quan heard a loud roar behind him. He turned around and saw that Tang Chong rushed over with more than a thousand infantrymen. The servants sent by various departments to reinforce were also waving various weapons to attack the Later Jin army.
Originally, Wang Quan's more than 1,000 Da Dewang Shop Guards had been injured to the point where only more than 600 people were left. He was about to be unable to withstand the crazy attack of the Later Jin army, and suddenly more than 1,300 new forces joined, including more than 300 elite servants of various troops. The situation turned around and the Later Jin army that had attacked the city was driven out.
At the same time, a fierce battle broke out in the jungle on the small roads on both sides.
More than 300 Baijia Bayala soldiers sent by Yuetuo, led by the guide of Jiexiu Fan's family, walked the right path into the mountains, trying to go into the valley to rescue the trapped Sahalian and the others.
The group of white-armored soldiers entered the mountains and forests and encountered 100 Li Guodong's 100 people, as well as 50 people from Liaodong 100 people from Liao and 200 people from Cao Wenzhao. A small-scale fierce battle broke out in the mountains and forests.
Li Guodong's 100-night warriors were of the level of Baijia Bayala soldiers, and Cao Wenzhao's 200 clans were all elite. Although the infantry battle was not as good as the white armored soldiers, it was not much worse. What's more, Li Guodong's 100-night warriors and Cao's own 50-night warriors were of cooperation, and they had terrain advantages.
Not long after the Later Jin and White Armored Bayala soldiers entered the mountains, they encountered a trap of mechanisms. The two white Armored soldiers who were walking in the front stepped on the air and fell into the trap. The trap was full of sharpened wooden stakes. The thick armor on their bodies could not save their lives. When they fell into the trap, they were tied into a hornet's nest.
Later, someone tripped up a rope buried among the fallen leaves, and a huge rock hanging on the tree rolled down, crushing two white-armored soldiers into meat paste.
"What do you do for food? We Bayala soldiers have grown up in the Manchurian jungle since we were young. These mechanism traps against tiger, bears and jackals are our specialty! Today, they are lost under the mechanism trap! Be careful!" Before we saw the enemy, four elite soldiers were damaged. The leader of the team, Bayala, was so angry that he shouted.
The white-armored soldiers behind were much more careful in their actions. At the front, the man walked carefully on the mountain road. He held a tiger gun that was ten feet long in his hand and kept digging the ground. He found three mechanism traps. The white-armored soldiers behind were carefully walking around.
However, the walking speed was much slower. After walking for two hours, it was almost noon and only walked five miles away.
"Swoosh" Ye Bukong, who was hiding in the woods, shot an arrow and nailed the Fan family guide to a tree.
Another guide of the Fan family walked less than a mile, and was shot to a heart-warming arrow by an ambush Ye Busuo.
The Baijia Bayala soldiers who had lost their guide were like headless flies, dizzy in the mountains and forests, and failed to find a way to the Ming army. Instead, they were ambushed many times by the Ming army.
Although the Later Jin white armored soldiers had a map in hand, they did not lead the way, and only looked at the map, which was still a certain gap with the real terrain. Only roads and rivers were marked on the map, and the nearby terrain and terrain did not fully indicate the nearby terrain and terrain. This made the Later Jin soldiers restrict every step they took after they entered the mountains and forests.
Overall, the combat effectiveness of the three hundred white-armored Bayala soldiers was greater than that of Li Guodong's 100-night defeat and the combat effectiveness of the 250-strong men brought by Cao Wenzhao. However, the Ming army took advantage of the familiar terrain that even if there were ten times more white-armored soldiers, it would be difficult to pass through the mountain roads where they were stationed. Many areas were covered with dangerous terrain that was a one-man pass, and even if there were ten nights not to be guarded on the mountain, they could not get through the 1,000-strong Bayala soldiers of the Later Jin army.
Such a battle made the white-armored soldiers very frustrated. Most of these Bayala soldiers also grew up in the mountains and forests, but they were really unfamiliar with the terrain here. The Fan family led the way was shot and killed by a cold arrow, so they couldn't fight.
The three hundred Bayala soldiers who bypassed the left path were not easy, and the terrain of the mountain road on the left was even more complicated. When the paths drawn by the Fan family came to the front, they found that there was actually no way to go. Many places were piles of weeds and rocks, and on one side were bottomless cliffs. On that terrain, Li Guodong did not collect overnight and did not need to be dispatched. He only needed to send dozens of elite infantry soldiers, which made it difficult for the Later Jin and White Armored soldiers to move forward.
In the end, two Fan family guides were shot to death by cold arrows, and the white-armored soldiers could only turn back in shame.
Sahalian's crazy attack was eventually driven out by the Ming army. The Later Jin army trapped in the valley had no way out, and if they could not rush out, the entire army would be wiped out. Similarly, the Ming army that defended the city walls had no way out. Once they were broken through by the Later Jin army, they would be wiped out. Both sides fought desperately, with the Later Jin army having an advantage in numbers and the Ming army having a terrain advantage.
The fierce battle lasted until the afternoon. The Ming and Later Jin troops who had fought bloody battles all day were exhausted, and Sahalian's men suffered heavy losses. From the 5,000 cavalry who entered the valley, after a few days of fierce battle, there were only more than 3,200 people left today. This battle lost more than 1,000 people, and by this time there were only more than 2,200 people left.
"It's almost done, we can let our cavalry attack!" Li Guodong ordered a personal soldier.
The personal soldiers shook the red flag. A Ming army on the mountain did not receive the red flag at night, but also shook the red flag. The Ming army on the other mountain saw the red flag and also shook the red flag.
The flag-speaking signal was transmitted step by step, and finally the order was sent to Yungaishan City Village. Zhang Defa, the Ming cavalry general stationed in the city wall saw the signal flag and sent an order to order the cavalry to prepare for attack. Two thousand Ming army heavy cavalry were wearing armor, carrying weapons, opened the gate of the village, and slowly left the city wall with their horses.
The two thousand most elite Ming army cavalry appeared a mile behind Sahalian's army and did not attack immediately, but hid in the mountains and forests by the roadside. They had just walked more than ten miles, and their men were a little tired. They hid in the woods to rest for a while, and also waited for the Later Jin army to fall to an extreme morale before launching an attack.
On the afternoon of August in the golden autumn, although the weather was not hot, it made people sleepy. The Jurchen cavalry of the Sahalian tribe who had fought fiercely for the whole morning retreated to rest. Seeing that it was getting dark, the Later Jin cavalry took off their armor, sat or lie down, rested on the stone, and placed the war horses aside to eat grass.
Chapter completed!