Chapter 483 Rescue Gao Yang (5)
Under the impact of the horse's lance and iron cavalry, the Mongolian light cavalry broke like eggs hit by an iron hammer.
After the one thousand horse-slinging cavalry protruded from both wings, with the advantages of lightweight vine armor and the endurance and speed of Wuzhumuqin horses, the horse-slinging cavalry did not blindly chase the Mongols, but instead circled a semicircle and penetrated the rear of the Mongols, forming a clamping force with its own heavy cavalry. Zhang Wei, a 500-man horse-slinging cavalry, restrained a Korqin Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry, with more than a thousand people. The five hundred-man spear cavalry, with more than 800 people, also restrained a more than 800 Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry.
Li Guodong also learned this tactic of attacking the Mongolian light cavalry with two heavy cavalry and the Great Jin Dynasty. How the Jurchen heavy cavalry attacked the Mongolian light cavalry back then taught Li Guodong a lesson. Now his heavy cavalry has learned the tactics of the Jurchen heavy cavalry back then, that is, the current Full Eight Banner heavy cavalry against the Mongols.
"Kill!" Wu Fugui's white wax spear pointed forward in the middle.
One thousand seven hundred cavalry suddenly dispersed to their wings and crashed into the 1,800 Mongolian cavalry that was restrained by horse lances and cavalrymen.
The Korqin Mongolian cavalry, who were attacked from front and back, could not move forward or retreat, and could not escape, and could not fight, so they could only bite the bullet and increase the speed of the horse, waved the scimitar, and made a strange scream, and rushed forward to the heavy cavalry that was rushing towards the heavy cavalry of the Ming army. They did not dare to rush to the heavy cavalry of the horse. The cavalry was too weird, and the "long spear" in their hands was nearly two meters long, and could be reused. Aren't the cavalry of ordinary cavalry disposable? They broke after use. These cavalry were invulnerable, but the speed of the war horses running was not inferior to that of the Mongolian light cavalry!
Even the best Wuzhumuqin horse carries a heavy armored cavalry, and its speed is not fast, but the armor of the Ming army looks very light and does not affect the speed of the war horses at all. What's even more terrifying is that the "super long spear" in their hands are all there, and charging a group of cavalry holding "super long spears" is not going to seek death?
Therefore, the Korqin Mongolian cavalry chose to charge against the Ming cavalry who had only short spears and three-eyed guns.
With a loud bang, the Ming heavy cavalry collided with the Mongolian light cavalry. Each of the Ming heavy cavalry rushed in front was holding a short spear in his hand. After hitting the Mongolians, the short spears without iron spearheads broke one after another. The Ming cavalry released their hands in time and threw away half of the broken short spear. The Mongolian who was hit flew back like a kite with a broken string.
The Mongolian scimitar also took advantage of the situation to slash the Ming army. The sharp scimitar collided with iron armor, splashing out a wave of sparks. The Ming army's heavy cavalry were unscathed. Only a few unlucky Ming army's heavy cavalry war horses were directly hit by the Mongolian war horses and fell from the horse's back.
The landed Ming knights rolled on the spot, avoiding the trampling of Mongolian cavalry, then jumped onto a bossless war horse, galloped, and evacuated with the large team.
The heavy cavalry of the Ming army who threw away the short spear took off all kinds of heavy weapons such as maces, big axes, maces, and other heavy weapons from their backs, and swung them to the Mongolians. These heavy weapons that could break armor and hit the Mongols, hitting them with iron hammers and killing them in seconds. The Mongol scimitars had no effect on them at all.
Wu Fugui's white wax spear is also a kind of reusable horse-drawn weapon. He rushed into the Mongolian formation, shot one by one, and repeatedly pulled the Mongolians off the horse.
Some Mongolian cavalry and their horses were knocked down. The heavy cavalry of the Ming army did not stop, but instead drove the war horses to trample over the corpse of the Mongolian horse. Wherever the iron hooves passed, their intestines were pierced through the belly and flesh and blood flew everywhere.
In a blink of an eye, 1,800 Mongolian light cavalry were wiped out, leaving only human corpses and horse corpses all over the ground.
"This Minggou Nikan has learned all the heavy cavalry tactics of our Manchus!" Abatai saw with his own eyes that more than 3,000 (except for the newly destroyed 1,800 people, the previous charge of heavy cavalry had left more than a thousand Mongolian cavalry). In the blink of an eye, he was beaten to pieces, and was so angry that he smoked his orifices and cursed, "Catch up! You can't let these Minggou Nikans go! They are the scourge of my Qing Dynasty!"
Five thousand Qing army heavy cavalry increased their horse speed, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army heavy cavalry fighting with the Mongols to slow down, and chased them from behind. The unannied Mongolian light cavalry dispersed and kept harassing the Ming army heavy cavalry from both wings. The Mongols did not get close, but only shot arrows and harassed them twenty steps away.
Li Guodong shouted: "Don't pay attention to the Mongolian Tartars, we just retreat north!"
The Ming army's heavy cavalry retreated desperately regardless of the harassment of the Mongols. If they deal with the annoying Mongols at this time, they would be caught up by the Qing army's heavy cavalry behind them. Li Guodong knew in his heart that his 2,700 heavy cavalry did not have the ability to defeat the 5,000 heavy cavalry of the Qing army. If he was trapped in a heavy siege, his cavalry would be wiped out.
The combat power of these two thousand and seven hundred heavy cavalrymen is the most powerful, one can stand against the heavy cavalry of the Qing army; while the combat power of the other heavy cavalry against the heavy cavalry of the Shangqing army is one to one. What's more, there are the Mongols who are harassing on the edge, so they must not fall into the encirclement.
However, the Ming army did not simply retreat. Ye Bushu, who was mixed with the heavy cavalry, shot a feather arrow from time to time, and shot the Mongols who were shouting around like a lantern and shouting around. Li Guodong and others also pulled the arrows one after another. Each arrow shot out, a Mongolian fell from the horse's back screaming.
Li Guodong knew that as long as he rushed about ten miles, he could reach the agreed location with Chen Xinjia. Yang Sichang valued him very much. Chen Xinjia brought Guanning Iron Cavalry and his camel firearm soldiers, and he would not come to rescue him.
The horse-slinging cavalry directly completed the change of horses on the galloping horses. They skillfully jumped from the back of the horses they rode to the back of the transfer and continued to run forward. The other Ming army heavy cavalry were not so flexible. They were wearing heavy armor, and they had to stop the horses first and then dismount and change horses. The heavy cavalry gradually lacked their horses and began to slow down.
"Don't be afraid, Jiannu's heavy cavalry's horsepower is almost insufficient," shouted Li Guodong.
The horse-sling cavalry made great contributions again. They rushed towards the Mongolian light cavalry who were harassing on both sides, scaring the Mongolians to turn their horses and run. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the horse-sling cavalry to disperse the Mongolians, the Ming army's heavy cavalry replaced the war horses. Although they were replaced with ordinary Mongolian horses, they were full of horsepower and could pull them to run for a distance, which could restore the physical strength of high-quality horses such as Hequ horses, Arab horses, Jinzhou horses and Wuzhumuqin horses.
The heavy cavalry of the Qing army, who was chasing closely, also replaced the horses. Abatai's heavy cavalry was more generous than Li Guodong. The war horses they replaced were also good horses such as Wuzhumuqin horses and Jinzhou horses. Li Guodong's heavy cavalry could only be equipped with one good horse, and the other two were ordinary Mongolian horses. Although the Mongolian horses had good endurance, they could not speed up the speed of heavy cavalry carrying heavy armor. The Qing army heavy cavalry behind them quickly caught up.
"His daughter-in-law is dead Tartar!" Zhang Wei cursed, "Five thousand heavy riders, one person and two horses, are all good horses, which are much better than the effect of ours, one person, one good horse, two bad horses!"
The main war horses of Li Guodong's heavy cavalry were Mongolian horses. He traded with the Mongolians and exchanged for Mongolian horses. He also exchanged for Mongolian horses. Hequ horses were exchanged from Moxina, and there were not many. Arab horses were brought by Zheng Zhilong, and the number was even smaller. The Uzhumuqin horse and Jinzhou horse were both seized from the Qing army. The number was not too large. It was impossible to meet the requirement of one man and two horses. He had to replace the replacement horses with cheap Mongolian horses.
Seeing the Qing army's heavy cavalry chasing closer and closer, Li Guodong ordered: "The three-eyed cavalry broke the rear!"
Chapter completed!