Chapter 841 Water Riding Cooperation (8)
This sheep-driven tactic is to use two cavalry groups to intercept the defeated enemy soldiers, kill some fast-moving guys first, and then drive away the enemy troops, deform their formation and trampling on each other. If there are big rivers and rivers on the side, it can also drive the enemy soldiers into the river. This is the sadness of infantry fighting against cavalry and defeating. The two-legged infantry can't escape the cavalry at all, and if defeated, it means that the entire army is wiped out; if the cavalry is defeated, they can run away calmly, and the infantry can't catch up at all. The previous Ming army faced the Later Jin army. After defeating in a field battle, they were driven away by people, and they were covered up behind their backs, and followed them slowly, killing them, and playing with them.
The chaotic crowd of soldiers in the Green Camp was driven into the river by Ming cavalry. The Qing soldiers in front saw the river and were so scared that they squeezed back desperately. However, the Qing soldiers behind did not know and pushed forward and crowded. As a result, the formation of soldiers in the Green Camp became even more dense, crowded, crowded into a circle, trampled on each other, and countless casualties were killed and injured. Some Qing soldiers were pushed into the river and drowned alive.
In fact, the Ming army compressed the Qing army not only to drive sheep, but also to shorten the distance between the horse and create opportunities for snipers.
"Don't squeeze, hurry up, break out to the east!" Ma Degong shouted anxiously.
Ma Degong's iron armor, a peach feather, and a tall horse was particularly conspicuous among a group of Qing soldiers with only zither clothes. Although he was surrounded by his servants, at least more than thirty scattered soldiers discovered Ma Degong at the same time.
The scattered soldiers did not dismount and directly strangled the horse. They picked up the Swedish flintlock rifle on the horse's back and aimed at the horse's Degong.
"Bang bang bang" a row of guns sounded, and more than 30 bullets shot from one hundred and fifty steps away hit Ma Degong and immediately knocked him into a sieve.
Ma Degong screamed and fell from the horse's back. Several unlucky personal soldiers were also affected by the stray bullets, and they also fell from the horse's back.
Seeing Ma Degong's central army flag falling down, the soldiers of the Green Camp knelt down and surrendered.
It’s a pity that Cao Bianjiao and the others had no time to capture these Qing soldiers, because they didn’t receive any reports at night, saying that the Eight Banners Cavalry had arrived.
"Let's go!" Cao Bianjiao ordered his retreat.
More than two thousand Ming cavalrymen left the green camp soldiers kneeling all over the ground, put the mortars on the horse's back, and the scattered soldiers also boarded the horses. The two thousand Ming cavalrymen turned their horses, turned around and ran towards Daizigou.
Zhang Jilun, a general of the Mongolian Eight Banners, led 5,000 Khorchin Mongolian cavalry to come. Before he arrived at the battlefield, he saw from afar that the Ming cavalry had already run away.
Zhang Jilun led people forward and saw the green camp soldiers kneeling all over the ground. There were corpses around and the green camp soldiers lying in pools of blood. It was obvious that the green camp had been defeated. Zhang Jilun sent someone to call a green camp soldier to ask, and then he realized that Ma Degong had been killed.
"These barbarians are all a group of wine bags. Living is a waste of food and has no effect at all!" Zhang Jilun snorted.
In his heart, he was extremely dissatisfied with Dorgon's large-scale recruitment of green camp soldiers. He believed that these green camp soldiers were garbage and could only waste food while living. More than 10,000 people were defeated by two thousand troops of the Ming army in less than half an hour, and even the chief general was killed. What's the use of raising such an army?
"Chasing! Don't let those southern barbarians run away!" Zhang Jilun yelled.
"Kill!" More than 5,000 Korchin Mongolian cavalry screamed and chased the Ming cavalry's backs.
Cao Bianjiao's light cavalry broke the back, and the heavy cavalry ran in front. The heavy cavalry of the Ming army used the French Persh horses. This horse was tall and mighty, with beautiful fur on its body, and its hooves were covered with long hair. The horse's head was taller than that of a man. All the horses had only two colors: blue-gray and black. Each horse weighed 1,600 kilograms! This horse was wearing horse armor and carrying heavy cavalry full of heavy armor. It was no slower than the Mongolian light cavalry.
The heavy cavalry equipped with excellent war horses had good endurance and did not run slowly, but Han Dashan deliberately did not run fast. His mission was to attract the Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry and lead the Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry into a dead end.
The light cavalry used the Don hippo, which was not as tall and load-bearing as the Persh horse. However, the armor and vests on the light cavalry were much lighter, and they ran very quickly. Of course, Cao Bianjiao also deliberately slowed down to attract the Mongol Eight Banners cavalry to follow.
Because the Ming cavalry deliberately slowed down, the Mongolian cavalry was getting closer and closer.
Cao Bianjiao was the first to take down the bow and arrow, and turned around and aimed at a Qing cavalry who had chased him within fifty steps. His fingers were loosened and an arrow roared out.
The Ming army ran forward, the wind blew backward, the Mongolians chased forward and hit the arrows themselves, which was equivalent to increasing the range of the bows and arrows shot in front and backward. The Mongol Iron Cavalry's Manguda tactic used this principle to ride a bow and shoot backward, and the range was farther than shooting forward.
Cao Bianjiao shot an arrow, and the Mongolian cavalry screamed, stabbed an arrow in his throat, and fell from the horse's back.
Some light cavalry with exquisite arrows also shot out arrows, and the Mongolian cavalry who were constantly pursuing turned over and fell off their horses. However, the arrows shot by the Mongolians fell softly on the grass behind the Ming army, and none of them hit.
The Mongol Eight Banners Cavalry, eager to take revenge, was chasing the annoying Ming cavalry as soon as possible and kill them all.
"It's strange. Why didn't these southern barbarians retreat to Yangzhou, but went south? The Yangtze River is south. Do they want to cross the river?" Zhang Jilun muttered in his heart when he found that the Ming army was running in the wrong direction.
Before they knew it, the Eight Banners of Mongolia had already chased a peninsula formed by the intersection of three rivers, but the Mongolians themselves did not know it.
At this moment, Zhang Jilun discovered that a large number of Ming army ships sailed north on the river surface on both wings.
Zhang Jilun felt puzzled. If the Ming cavalry wanted to get rid of their pursuit, they should continue to go south and cross the river by boat. Why did those ships not pick up the Ming cavalry, but instead sailed behind them?
At this moment, a horizontal river in front blocked the way for the Ming cavalry. More than 2,000 Ming cavalry suddenly stopped their horses, turned their horses, and aimed at the rushing Mongolian cavalry.
"Boom boom boom" A burst of white smoke rose from the river surface. The warships located on both wings of Mongolian cavalry suddenly fired fire. The dense shells pierced into the crowd of cavalry and horses of Mongolian Eight Banners. They suddenly flew with flesh and blood. Countless Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry were knocked off by shells. Some of them flew up into the air and flew to a high altitude. A fireball exploded among the crowd of Mongolian Eight Banners, and suddenly several Mongolian cavalry around the center of the explosion flew with flesh and blood.
This is not the most serious thing. The most serious thing is that the shells that exploded on the ground caused some war horses to be frightened. The out-of-control war horses lifted the Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry on the horse's back and then were trampled to death by other war horses.
"Kill!" Han Dashan roared and led five hundred cavalry to rush towards the Eight Banners of Mongolian cavalry.
"The Southern Barbarians are here! Turn around quickly!" Zhang Jilun shouted. He thought to himself: It's our turn to use the Mangu Dai tactic! Humph, when the Eight Banners arrive, you barbarians will still be dead without a burial place!
More than 5,000 Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry turned their horses and ran away. At the same time, they took off their cavalry bows from their backs, preparing to use Manguda tactics to deal with the heavy cavalry of the Ming army.
But Zhang Jilun soon discovered in despair that the Ming army transport ship that had already run behind him was leaning on the shore, and countless Ming cavalry came down from the ship! The Ming cavalry just blocked the only retreat route for the Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry.
"Damn it, I've been trapped!" Zhang Jilun shouted.
It was not until this time that he realized that the two thousand Ming cavalry were actually the bait of the Ming army! However, the bait of the Ming army ate the bait of the Qing army and then led the Eight Banners of the Mongolian cavalry to a dead end.
Chapter completed!