Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 852
Li Rusong's characteristic of leading and using troops, just like Gao Pragmatic's evaluation, is that "it is as fast as the wind".

Even if he was going over mountains and ridges, he demanded to travel as fast as possible.Thanks to the Shaanxi soldiers who can be regarded as relatively hard-working frontier soldiers, they were not reduced to a few percent by him just by marching.

At this time, Li Rusong also got off his horse, hid himself in the mountains, and asked the mountains and valleys ahead: "Which of you has been here before, and what is the name of the place in front of you?"

Behind him, a servant guard chuckled.

Li Rusong frowned and said, "What are you laughing at?" Li Rusong's temper was stronger than his father Li Chengliang's. Although Li's family member had a high status, seeing Li Rusong's frown, he quickly restrained his smile and replied, "Responding to the words of the young master, That mountain is called Brain Gua Mountain, and that valley is called Big Butt Ditch.” [Note: These two places are still there now, if you are interested, you can go to Baidu map. ]
The corner of Li Rusong's mouth twitched, and he cursed angrily, "...Who chose such a stupid name?"

Obviously no one can answer this question. Someone guessed: "Maybe they are Mongolians. They choose place names very casually, and they don't pay attention at all."

Of course, this is all guesswork. Maybe they are Liao people or Jin people?

Li Rusong didn't bother to ask any more questions, and said directly: "We will divide our troops later, Li Pinghu, you take the Shaanxi squadron through the big buttocks and approach Dong Huli's camp from the front, so as to attract Dong Huli's attention and make him have no time for others. You can fight under the banner of this general. The Shaanxi soldiers in Jizhen will be led by this general personally, and they will turn over the melon mountain in the head, and after Dong Hu and Li Ping's Hu troops are engaged in a tight battle, they will rush down the mountain to defeat Dong Hu's main force."

He glanced around at the servants, and said: "Dong Huli's camp is not in the right place. There are either mountains or valleys around him, and he just stays in the middle. As long as we are like this, he will be defeated." Hmm... However, it is not easy for us to chase him if he wants to run away, so we will try to surround Dong Huhu himself as much as possible later, which requires you to move quickly. It needs to be completely defeated, but it must be interspersed or outflanked, and we will see the situation later..."

Obviously, Li Rusong did not rely on "temple calculations" to command the battle, he seemed to be better at making decisions before the battle.

At this time, the sky began to brighten, Li Rusong didn't want to wait any longer, and acted immediately.

[-] soldiers and horses are not too many, and he divided them into two [-] soldiers, which shows that he is very confident and confident.

Of course, Dong Huli had been hit by Qi Jiguang many times before, and his morale was relatively average.As for the number of people, Dong Huli's headquarters sent troops to harass Daming, and usually only sent out about [-] cavalry, which is not particularly strong.

Not long after, [-] Shaanxi soldiers led by Li Pinghu appeared in Dabutanggou, Dong Huli's sentries immediately spotted them, horns sounded in the camp, and war drums sounded after a while.

Soon, Dong Huli led more than [-] cavalry to kill them. Unfortunately, this is a mountain canyon, and it is inconvenient for cavalry to use it, especially it is not easy to go around the camp to shoot, so Dong Huli had to lead people to shoot.

Who knew that this group of Shaanxi soldiers had changed into Longqing Type 40 muskets before this expedition. Although their marksmanship was very common, Li Pinghu was one of Li Chengliang's capable generals. He was sent to follow Li Rusong when he was in the Shenji Camp At any rate, he also learned to shoot in formation. After a few volleys that were not very volley, Dong Huli was surprised to find that he was losing money—his shots hit at most three No. [-] Ming troops, and most of them were only wounded. , and although the frequency of the Ming army's salvos was far less than that of their swarms, they actually shot fifty people or horses.

"Damn it, the Jinghua muskets used by the Ming army, don't shoot at each other!" Dong Huli was furious, and immediately wanted to launch a charge, but he compared the strength of the two sides, and felt that it was not right to charge at this time. It was a good deal, so I had no choice but to suppress my anger, and waited for another three or four thousand horses to come from the camp, then I roared and launched a charge.

The momentum of six or seven thousand cavalry charging into the formation is definitely huge in this canyon, but Li Pinghu insisted on following the method he learned in Shenji Battalion, and continued to arrange three-stage attacks as if he didn't see it-this tactic is In the early Ming Dynasty, Muying liked to use it the most. Although almost 200 years have passed now, because the Longqing Type II musket is much stronger than that in the early Ming Dynasty, its power is not bad at all.

In the process of Dong Huli's charge, the Ming army killed more than 80 people.

Li Pinghu was excited for a while, thinking that this place is really a good place tailored for infantry combat.

But he couldn't laugh any longer, because after Dong Huli's cavalry was in front of him, the muskets were useless, and the simple knives equipped by these Shaanxi soldiers were not very useful against cavalry—the length was not enough— — Casualties quickly surged.

Fortunately, after the pikemen went up, Dong Huli was reluctant to take the cavalry to die with the cheap pikemen in such a place, so he turned around and retreated, and the casualties of the Ming army did not increase further.

But how could Li Pinghu let Dong Huli withdraw so easily?Withdrawing his mission will fail!

So Li Pinghu didn't care about the casualties, and ordered the Musketeers to go forward again, chasing and hitting Dong Fox's tail.

There was a "bang bang bang bang" gunshot, and Dong Huhu turned his head subconsciously to see that he had lost more than a dozen cavalrymen, and suddenly became furious.He glanced at it. Because the Ming army was afraid that the musketeers would accidentally injure the friendly army, when the musketeers stepped forward, the pikemen had already retreated.

Dong Huhu gritted his teeth and led the cavalry back to charge again.

This time Li Pinghu didn't dare to continue to be reckless, and quickly ordered to change formations back and forth. Dozens of them were hacked to death by the Fox Department of Dong.

If it was an ordinary Ming army guard, the battle would have been on the verge of collapse at this level, but the resilience of the Shaanxi squad exceeded Dong Hu's expectations. Only then did the Musketeers retreat back with angry faces.

Dong Huli was still unwilling to fight hand-to-hand with the spearmen. Seeing that they were forcing them up again, he had to order to withdraw again.

But this time, it was not as easy as before. The pikemen clung to Dong Hu's troops, and some even jumped on the horses of Dong's fox cavalry, desperately trying to pull the knights on the horses. Get off your horse.

The more the Ming army behaved like this, the more terrified Dong Huli became. Subconsciously, he felt that staying here was not the best policy, so furious, he ordered his subordinates to retreat quickly.

But it was too late, a Ming army that was more energetic than the Ming army in front of them suddenly rushed down from Guazi Mountain, shouting the slogan "Defeat Duoyanwei, destroy Dong Huhu", and ran over with murderous intent!

Dong Huli's intuition told him that he was in a bad situation now, if he didn't leave, he might really be unable to leave.

He suddenly thought: Anyway, he only brought a few thousand cavalry out, and now that the Ming army's offensive has been contained by him, wouldn't it be natural to leave?As for the critical situation—no, the situation is a little bit bad, and it is very common to leave a part of the rear in exchange for leading the main force to retreat!
He found an excuse for himself, and no longer cared about other people or other things. He led his personal guards and shouted "Retreat the whole team and prepare to charge", while leading the cavalry who could spare time to follow him. Pull up your horse and leave.

There is a retreat, and it is obviously just a slogan to prepare for the battle.

However, after Dong Huli finally withdrew from the anxious and inseparable battle line with the Ming army, before he had time to catch his breath, he saw dozens of knights coming up to support his retreat. He was overjoyed and shouted: "Which little one You have such good eyesight, you know you are here to save me? There will be a lot of rewards when you go back!"

The person who came in the lead was very fast, and he looked very big, Dong Huli thought to himself: "Is it because my eyes are blurred, what kind of good boy is this, and his size is so amazing?"

That "good boy" immediately replied in a deep voice: "It's good to give a reward, but it's not as good as getting it myself..."

Dong Huli saw only thirty or forty riders coming. How did he know that this was the servant knight of the Li family. He was an absolute elite who usually guarded Li Rusong. He thought he was from a side tribe he was not familiar with. : Where did the bumpkin come from, talking to me like that?You can take whatever reward I give you, how can you get it yourself?
But as Li Rusong's fast horse approached, his face that was half or six points similar to Li Chengliang appeared in front of Dong Huhu, and even the murderous intent revealed on that cold face was even more intense than that of Li Chengliang whom he had seen several times before. How cold and severe!
"Who are you?" Dong Huli was taken aback, he shouted and asked, while beating his horse to dodge, hoping to avoid Li Rusong.

His answer was angrily shouting: "The man who has so many dead bones at the border gate of Ming Dynasty!"

Li Rusong was so easy to dodge, he didn't give Dong Huli and the guards around him a chance to dodge far, and he rushed to him like a gust of wind. With a sharp spear in his hand, Dong Huli subconsciously raised his scimitar to block it. , but already one step slower.

"Ah——" Li Rusong's spear came out of the hole like a python, and suddenly pierced Dong Huhu!
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Thanks to book friends "lavayen" and "Ordinary People Picking Fish by the Sea" for their monthly support, thank you!I just fell asleep halfway through writing, so that’s all for today, I can’t take it anymore...

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