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Chapter 323 Night Battle on the Yellow River Beach

The sky was not completely dark, and with the help of the afterglow of the Western Ocean, Dorgon discovered that more and more Mongolians were moving on the other side.

"We must concentrate our troops decisively! Give up the feint attacks on both left and right wings, hit them all to the middle road, and cross the river at one time! The enemy has been broken into pieces, so it is time for us to turn them into pieces!" Dorgon asked to go to Junzijin in the east and the nameless ferry in the upper reaches, summon all the troops on both wings and concentrate them across the river in the middle road.

The left and right wings were only more than fifty miles away from Dorgon. The messengers sent by Dorgon rode the best fast horse and set off towards the two wings. It took only more than an hour to reach the two wings and passed Dorgon's orders to Tobo and Kake Duli, ordering them to gather their troops immediately, give up the feint attack on crossing the river, and rush to the road overnight. They must arrive at the middle road within two hours to meet Dorgon. The three armies merged into one and crossed the river overnight to attack.

Tobo and Kakduli received Dorgon's token, immediately gave up the camp, abandoned the tent, and drove Baoyi to drive the car. The car was carrying a raft and rushed to Dorgon's middle road.

The Jurchen cavalry moved very quickly. About two hours later, the left and right armies rushed to the middle road at Choushi.

"Send the order and give Ahas an hour to dismantle all the vehicles and tie them into rafts!" Dorgon ordered.

There was a lack of wood on the grassland. Dorgon demolished all the wooden fences that were originally used to build village walls into rafts, but it was still not enough. This time he asked him to dismantle all the food, supplies and vehicles, and they also turned them into rafts to cross the river. Even if the wheels that could not be tied into rafts, the axles were used by Ahas. Ahas tied up several wheels and axles into a large bundle, which could be used to cross the river in the water. They could carry two or three people across the river.

When they were busy until the Yin hour, the Later Jin army began to cross the river.

The bright moon was in the sky, and the bright moonlight poured thousands of miles away, and the golden light wafted on the river surface. There were rustling sounds in the grass on the south bank of the Yellow River. The Jurchens who were ambushing in the grass came out one after another, lifted the raft, and walked towards the river step by step.

Although it is a moonlit night with bright moonlight in the sky, visibility is actually visible from close range, and the far target is still difficult to detect. The Jurchens approached the shore, but the Mongols on the other side were still not aware of it.

"There is a sound of water on the other side!" Li Guodong's ears were very sensitive. The sound of Jurchen rafts drowned in the sound of the waves of the Yellow River. The Mongolians did not hear the sound, but Li Guodong heard something strange. He stood up and pulled a Mongolian messenger and ordered: "Jiannu is going to cross the river! Prepare to intercept them!"

The Mongolian soldiers under Suba approached the river and looked at the other side. With the help of moonlight, the Mongolians found that many people were shaking on the other side.

"The Jurchens are coming! Prepare to face the enemy! You can't let them cross the river!" Suba drew out the golden sword and pointed at the Yellow River.

Because of the night battle, Dorgon considered that the Mongols' vision was not very good, Dorgon did not let the Jurchen soldiers wear heavy thick armor. Each of the first Jurchen soldiers crossing the river had a piece of cotton armor on their bodies, holding a wooden shield, which could reduce the load on the raft and allow more people to cross the river at one time. In order to get buoyancy after falling into the water, Dorgon asked someone to remove all the iron sheets wrapped on the iron shield and throw them on the grassland.

This time, the Later Jin army prepared more than 500 rafts on crossing the river. In addition, the crossing equipment made of wheels, axles and Coat Aha's shield could send more than 6,000 people across the river at one time.

There was a clear sound of paddling on the river surface. The Mongolians could already see the black rafts on the river surface under the moonlight, almost sweeping across the river surface and paddling towards the river beach on their side.

Not long after, the Jurchens had already entered the range of Mongolian bows and arrows.

"Let it go!" Suba roared.

Thousands of Mongolians took a step forward, and the bowstrings in their hands were loosened almost at the same time. The dense rain of arrows covered the river surface. Only a few screams were heard on the raft on the river surface. Several unlucky Jurchen soldiers were shot into the river and were swept away by the surging river water in a blink of an eye. However, most of the Jurchens blocked the arrows with their shields.

The Jurchens entered the Mongol range, which also meant that the Mongols were also within the Jurchen range. The Jurchen soldiers who were riding a raft across the river were not to be outdone, and also shot dense rain of arrows at the Mongol formation. The overwhelming arrows flew across the river and pierced on the grass on the north bank. Countless Mongolians fell down with arrow rods.

Li Guodong's Ming army also joined the interception ranks. One thousand cavalry dismounted the infantry battle. His cavalry long-range weapons include bows and arrows and three-eyed guns. Those with far distances use bows and arrows, and those with nearest use three-eyed guns. At this time, the Jurchens were still forty steps away, and the three-eyed guns were indecisive at this distance, so they also used bows and arrows to kill Jurchens. However, the bows and arrows used by Li Guodong's Ming army were much better than those of the Mongols. They were all good archers from the Later Jin Dynasty, with a long range and great power.

The Jurchens took a raft across the river, blocking them with wooden shields in front. If they were shot directly with heavy arrows, they would be blocked by wooden shields. The visibility at night was not very good, and direct shots would not be easy to aim. So a thousand Ming troops all shot lightly with light arrows, and dense arrows fell from the sky. Although the Jurchens had shields to block them, many people were still caught in the water.

The Later Jin army invested a lot and transported more than 6,000 people across the river at one time. With the weak bows and light arrows of the Mongols, it was impossible to stop the Jurchens from getting ashore. Li Guodong's 1,000 heavy cavalry actually could not stop so many Later Jin army.

Seeing that the Jurchen soldiers had come ashore, Mongolia put away their bows, got on their horses and took out their cavalry bows, and prepared to use cavalry and shooting skills to drive the Jurchens down the river. The Mongolians are not good at infantry battles. If they fight with the Jurchen soldiers in infantry battles, they will use their own shortcomings to touch the Jurchens' strengths. Although these Jurchen soldiers are also cavalrymen, their infantry combat capabilities are not bad at all.

More and more Jurchen soldiers climbed ashore. The Jurchen soldiers who had previously set up wooden shields. The soldiers behind them stretched out tiger guns. Behind the spearmen were archers. More than a thousand Jurchen archers pulled the bow, and the archers were pulled into a full moon. The fingers were relaxed, and rows of heavy arrows flew out with a scream. Mongolian cavalry archers rushing towards the archery were dropped one after another.

"Jiannu is best at bows and arrows, so it's true!" Seeing the two sides shooting at each other, the casualties of the Mongols were disproportionately disproportionately from the Jurchens, Li Guodong sighed.

The Mongolian cavalry was divided into two groups, one group of Jurchen soldiers who formed a formation by riding horses and archery, and the other group accelerated the horse speed, waved the scimitar, and rushed towards the Jurchen formation. The Mongolians saw that the Jurchens had just arrived ashore and the formation was not yet stable, so they attacked with cavalry and wanted to drive the Jurchens down the river.

Although the formation of the Jurchen soldiers was not arranged stably, their combat effectiveness was indeed very strong. The first batch of Mongolian cavalry rushing up were all stabbed to death by the Jurchens with tiger spears, and the people and spurs became candied haws. However, the Jurchen soldiers' spear formation was not messed up at all! They provoked the corpses of the Mongolians, shook their hands hard, and the bodies fell to the ground. Even if the war horses hit the tiger spear, the Jurchen soldiers with great strength could overturn the war horses to the ground and prevent the corpses of the war horses from hitting themselves under the influence of inertia.

If the Ming army's spear formation was stabbed to death by a group of cavalry, their formation would be knocked away by the opponent's cavalry. The heavy horse corpse crashed into the spear formation and could knock down many people. The Ming army soldiers did not have the strength of the Jurchens. They could hold back the corpses of the people and horses that hit the spear formation, so that the opponent could not crash into the formation. In fact, this was also the way the Jurchens had not really learned the Ming army's method of resisting cavalry with multi-layer spear formation. The Later Jin did not lack war horses. Every time they encountered an opponent's cavalry, they would use their own cavalry to fight against cavalry. How could they give up cavalry and form infantry to fight against cavalry? This time they were crossing the river. In order to transport more people across the river, the war horses were still on the other side, and they could only resist cavalry by infantry.
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