The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 235
Karaqin Taiji believed that the best fighter plane was fleeting, and that the Ming army did not have many troops, so he did not send a messenger to ask for support.

In order to buy time, they didn't even have time to gather all the people of the Harqin tribe.

Zhuo Erbi hurriedly headed towards the direction of the Ming army with 3000 troops. The Tatars all got the exact news that two or three thousand Ming troops plundered the yurts and ran in the wrong direction. They actually came to the southwest of Qingcheng. inside.

The Tartars were doing nothing in the winter, and everyone was scrambling to see such a good thing. The armor and weapons of Ming Dynasty were the favorites of the Tartars. They all dreamed of capturing a pair of iron armor to improve their defense.

The Tartars have fought against the Ming army for more than two hundred years, and they have a better understanding of the Ming army's tactics and combat effectiveness, which have long since lost their aggressiveness.

The Ming army was nothing more than better at defending the city. In the past ten years or so, they came to the prairie and were basically passively beaten.

The number of cavalry on one's own side is twice that of the Ming army's cavalry. It is not a problem to defeat the Ming army and get captured. The key to a complete victory is to judge whether the Ming army marched together to sweep the prairie?
As long as it can be confirmed that it is not a large-scale attack by the Ming army, but a force to plunder, the Harqin people are confident that their own strength is sufficient to deal with it.

After walking slowly for twenty or thirty miles, the ten teams of scouts that Zhuo Erbi sent out to make a detour to investigate came back with two teams.

The scouts encountered more than a dozen tribesmen who fled after being robbed of the yurt by the Ming army. These light cavalry stopped fleeing when they found that the Ming army did not pursue them.

Of course the Tartars who were attacked hated the Ming army. They wanted revenge and wanted to take back their belongings, livestock and women.

Therefore, they all took the initiative to follow and spy on the Ming army. When the troops sent by Taiji arrive, they can know how many troops there are in the Ming army, and they can immediately lock the specific location of the Ming army.

The scouts discovered these tribesmen, and of course they learned about the recent situation of the Ming army. They believed that the information was valuable enough to report back to the general, and immediately brought the tribe back to report.

A dozen light cavalrymen who had their yurts taken away vowed to tell Taiji clearly that they did not give up the fight after being suddenly attacked in their sleep.

However, due to the disparity in strength, they really couldn't fight against the large forces of the Ming army. They could only choose to follow the Ming army to find opportunities. They had followed the Ming army for a long time, and they were sure that the Ming army that was about to encounter the warriors of Taiji was tens of miles behind. There will not be any large groups of people inside.

Zhuo Erbi was dubious, he did not rashly order his subordinates to speed up, he wanted to prevent those clansmen whose families had been broken from intentionally concealing the number of the Ming army for revenge.

At this time, the Karaqin cavalry had some leeway. They continued to jog and advanced another [-] to [-] miles, and the other eight teams of scouts returned one after another.

Not only did they encounter a dozen scattered tribesmen, but they also expanded the scope of their reconnaissance to a radius of fifty or sixty miles. The situation they concluded was the same as the conclusions drawn by the first two scouting teams.

The ten teams of scouts all confirmed that the Ming army had no follow-up troops. Zhuo Erbi chose to believe it. He was overjoyed.

How could the Karaqin people let them go when the dizzy Ming army leader made such a fatal omission and led two to three thousand troops deep into the grassland for nearly three hundred miles?Rushing to kill them all is the only choice.

Zhuoerbi conveyed the latest intelligence report to the whole army, and the Karaqin people immediately cheered and thundered. They seemed to have seen the Ming army trembling under the cold light of the Mongolian scimitar.

The Karaqin cavalry knew that the army had about [-] horses, but the cavalry only had more than [-]. They were full of confidence.

The confident Zhuo Erbi believed that the three thousand sons he led and the two hundred or so horses who returned to the team were all Harqin fighters. They were skilled in arching horses and had a psychological advantage against the same number of Ming troops.

Because during the battle, it should be a cavalry duel, and the infantry can't intervene at all. As long as more than a thousand Ming cavalry are defeated, the remaining two thousand infantry are lambs to be slaughtered. Under the supervision of the Mongolian light cavalry, they can't escape at all. .

Zhuo Erbi can be considered as experienced in many battles, he loudly ordered the whole army to get off their horses and rest for half an hour.

The Karaqin people did not bring spare horses when fighting outside their homes, but everyone brought a few catties of horse feed. The purpose of dismounting at this time was to let the horses that had trotted for an hour or two rest and recover their strength.

The Karaqin cavalry dismounted, and the horses had no weight to bear. They ate a few catties of concentrate and rested for half an hour. Although it was not enough to restore full horsepower, it should be no problem to recover [-]% to [-]%.

Two quarters later, Zhuoerbi, who got on his horse again, was full of confidence. He thought it was getting late, and he had to accept the big gift from the Ming army before the sun went down.

Zhuo Erbi laughed and drove his horse to trot, because the Ming army should be seven or eight miles away after calculating the time.

His wish was beautiful, but when he got close to the Ming army, he realized that the gap between ideal and reality was not a little bit.

The infantry of the Ming army took it easy, and when they saw a large group of Kalaqin cavalry approaching, they immediately deployed. They followed the order one by one, and the wheelbarrows lined up one after another.

Zhuoerbi finally understood why the Ming army pushed many small carts to the prairie. It turned out that the Ming army was afraid of the Mongolian cavalry rushing into the formation, so they deliberately brought small carts to block the front of the array.

This approach seems to be good, Zhuo Erbi praised, the Han people are really smart, for the sake of safety, they did not hesitate to push so many cars all the way.

This Taiji did not give up his plan to kill the Ming army and seize the armor and weapons from the vehicles. He was going to make a tentative attack.

The Karakin people were not worried about a big defeat, because the Mongols were excellent in equestrian skills. If they found that they couldn't beat their opponents, they could retreat calmly and look for opportunities later.

What's more, they knew that the army of the Ming Dynasty was not many, only more than three thousand horses. They didn't know the intention of the leader of the Ming army. It is possible that the leader of the Ming army was an incompetent man. Follow the infantry at a distance of about five or six miles.

Zhuoerbi has been in battle for a long time, and his understanding of the art of war is not a waste of paper. He has too much actual combat experience, and he understands that only by concentrating troops can he form a fist.

He believed that if the Harqin cavalry could break through the Ming army's infantry array in an instant, the defeat of the Ming army would immediately take place.

The follow-up cavalry of the Ming army arrived and might be thrown into disarray by the fleeing infantry, and the Karaqin warriors would then break the cavalry formation of the Ming army once again. It is inevitable that this battle will go smoothly.

Zhuoerbi issued an order that the 1000 troops in the central army should not move. Once the Ming army cavalry rushed up to give a head-on attack, the left and right wings would each have 1000 troops to attack. If they found a flaw in the Ming army's formation, they would rush forward. The enemy is looking for another fighter.

(End of this chapter)