Chapter 322 Dorgon Crossing the River (2)
Dorgon's mouth twitched in pain. One hundred and fifty white-armored soldiers crossed the river and occupied a river beach position. No matter how many Mongolians were, they would be difficult to kill them. Unless the white-armored soldiers were exhausted, they would be killed. Thousands of Mongolians could fill in the things they could do. By that time, a large group of Jurchen warriors behind would have crossed the river. By then, no matter how many Mongolians were, they would deliver vegetables.
Who knew that the plan was successfully defeated by the heavy cavalry of the Thousand Ming Army! One hundred and fifty white-armored soldiers were wiped out in a blink of an eye, and the Thousand Ming Army heavy cavalry only lost more than ten people.
"Although the Minggou heavy cavalry is only more than a thousand, the Yellow River blocked our army's way! Our army can only cross less than a thousand people at a time, and they will pass by one batch at a time, and they will die in batches." Dorgon widened his eyes and looked at the hateful river in front of him blocking the Jurchen heavy cavalry's way, feeling frustrated.
If there was no Yellow River block, Li Guodong's 1,000 cavalry would touch 30,000 Jurchen cavalry, which would hit the stone with eggs. But the river blocked the Jurchens, and those 1,000 cavalry would be invincible on the other side.
"It's a pity that we have too few rafts. If there are five hundred rafts, we can send over 5,000 strong troops at a time. The Ming and Mongolian dogs on the opposite side are all native chickens and tile dogs!" Topo said angrily.
Dorgon nodded. There were too few rafts here, so there was nothing I could do about it. The Jurchen army was feinting the attack in Junzijin, but the main force was crossing the river here. However, the implementation of the plan to attack the east and west, a key was missing: the warriors of the Great Jin needed to carry a heavy raft from Junzijin to walk more than 100 miles on the grassland before they could get here. Dorgon only brought a hundred rafts, and could only transport one thousand people to cross the river at a time. The first batch of crossing the river was actually more than 150 white-armored soldiers, and there were five hundred ordinary Jin soldiers. However, most of the ordinary Jin soldiers were shot to death by the Mongols when they crossed the river. The remaining ones came ashore and were killed by the Mongols again. Only 150 white-armored soldiers were left to kill among the Mongols and stood firm in the river beach position. Who knew that the heavy cavalry of the Ming army was coming again.
When Dorgon's follow-up troops were crossing the river, they were shot by Mongols and shot into the rafts in batches and fell into the Yellow River. The river water was dyed red.
The Jurchen soldiers on the raft also fought back with bows and arrows, shooting many Mongolians to death. However, the Jurchen soldiers could only send 1,000 people to cross the river at a time. One thousand bows and arrows had to shoot against more than 10,000 arrows. How could they shoot? Finally, five or six hundred people were sent ashore and were killed by all the Ming cavalry.
Dorgon watched helplessly as he had more than 20,000 elite heavy cavalry here, and his opponents had only 10,000 light cavalry and 1,000 heavy cavalry, but he was seriously injured and could not cross the river. He looked at the fire that spurted out in his eyes.
"Master Beile, this kind of fight is not a solution!" Toppo stepped forward, "Mongolian barbarians and Minggou were waiting for their leisure to work. Taking advantage of the time when our army could only cross the river in batches, they defeated our army in batches. If this continues, there will be no more than 100,000 people to send."
Dorgon nodded. Such a tactic of adding fuel can't be used anymore. More than 10,000 Ming and Mongolian coalition forces gathered by the river. The Great Jin warriors could only send them up in batches, one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one, and one by one, or one by one. If they continue to fight like this, their 25,000 troops will be damaged and they will not be able to cross the river.
At present, Dorgon still has more than 22,000 people. In the San Ferry River Battle just now, more than 2,700 elite soldiers were lost, including 150 of the most elite white-armored soldiers. Another 5,000 were led by Kake Duli, who pretended to cross the river at the Junzijin Ferry. I don’t know how many people they have lost now.
"Ming Jin to withdraw the troops!" Dorgon gave the order helplessly.
The Later Jin army gave up the meaningless attack on crossing the river. Dorgon ordered the sending of scouts to the Junzijin Ferry to see how Kakduli was doing.
When it was dark, the scouts came back.
"Master Beller, Lord Kakduli also failed in the offense, losing more than 2,000 warriors, and even one warrior could not get ashore. Minggou's firearm on the other side was too powerful." The scout whistle cavalry reported.
Dorgon stood up and circled around the tent anxiously. The army had little food left, and even if they drank thin every day, they could only last for more than ten days. If they could not cross the Yellow River within three days, even if they crossed the river and broke through the blockade of the Mongols and the Ming army, the army would have to run out of food on the way back to the Korqin grassland. If the Jurchen army wanted to return to the Korqin tribe, they needed to pass through the Zhangba grassland. Now there was no one on the Zhangba grassland.
Giving up crossing the river and entering the territory of the Ming Dynasty is the last choice.
Dorgon thought hard and thought about how to cross the river. Suddenly he thought of a way, and he called his generals: "We can divide our troops again, and only 5,000 people are left here to cover the river. We cross the river from here to the middle of Junzijin Ferry, two places to attack and one place to smuggle at night! Then cross the Yellow River!"
Then Dorgon sent a scout cavalry to Junzijin Ferry to tell Kakeduli that he would split the two hundred rafts and transport them to the river 50 miles upstream of the northwest overnight.
Dorgon's army rushed to the road overnight, leaving only 5,000 troops and arranged doubtful soldiers, and waited until tomorrow morning to confront the Ming and Mongolian coalition forces on the other side.
The 17,000 Jurchen army did not even fight torches, and rushed to the road with the help of the moonlight. By the time we arrived at the crossing point fifty miles downstream, it was already dawn and we could see Mongolian scouts cavalry activities on the other side.
"Everyone hides in the grass and ambush! No one is allowed to act rashly! Those who violate the order should be killed! When it gets dark, we will cross the river." Dorgon gave the order.
On the other side, the Ming army did not stop at night and ran back and forth along the river bank with Mongolian scouts and cavalry to observe the movements on the other side.
"It's strange. There is no one on the grassland on the other side, so why doesn't the birds land there? Some birds fall down and are startled again? Is there someone ambushing the other side?" A Ming army, who did not accept the situation at night, discovered the situation.
The Yellow River Ferry, which was fiercely fighting yesterday, is quiet today. There are only Mongolians on the river bank, and the Jurchen camp on the other side is terrible. Li Guodong picked up a thousand-mile mirror to observe the Houjin camp on the other side, and found that there were people moving inside, but no one came out to cross the river. At this moment, a man from Ye Busu came up from the downstream and reported to Li Guodong that he had discovered the situation.
Li Guodong received the report at night and immediately rode his horse downstream.
"There must be someone on the other side of the shore! The ambushing person must be Jiannu! They dare not cross the river during the day and want to wait for smuggling tonight! We immediately let the three Khalkha Khans dispatch some troops to come here to watch." Li Guodong found that something was wrong on the other side of the shore and judged that the Later Jin army wanted to smuggle at night.
Chapter completed!