The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 238 Cavalry Hedging
This battle can no longer be fought like this, Zhuo Erbi has completely lost the confidence to defeat the Ming army, he immediately ordered the messenger to blow the horn to withdraw the troops.

In fact, if the Central Army of the Tartars did not issue an order to withdraw their troops, the Tartars rushing into the battle could not hold back. It was the consensus of every Karaqin Tartar to escape from the attack of the Ming army.

In ancient times, the fighting spirit was particularly important. The Karakin people lost their spirits, and among the thousand horsemen who returned, one or two adult horses failed. At least [-]% to [-]% of the Tartars left on the battlefield were not dead.

At this time, the "Red Banner Army" cavalry came. They didn't even look at the battlefield where the infantry was strewn with corpses.

The Karaqin people lost one-third of their troops, and the other one-third had just fled back to the front line. They were still in shock. At this time, they found that the Ming cavalry was so murderous that they had no fighting spirit at all.

I don't know which tartar who once entered the pass with Jiannu to burn, kill, and loot suddenly suddenly realized, and he shouted:
"'Red Banner Army', that is the 'Red Banner Army', no wonder they are so powerful, it turned out that the 'Red Banner Army' came to the prairie to take revenge."

All the Tartars noticed the dazzling red, and they all saw clearly that the wordless red flag was rolling in the northwest wind. More Tartars were terrified, and they shouted: "It is really the 'Red Banner Army' who came to the grassland to take revenge. We're in trouble."

Zhuoerbi is not bad, he is afraid of the firearms of the Han people, but he is not afraid of fighting with the Ming army on horseback.

He saw that the cavalry of the Ming army had already moved away from the infantry formation, and it was obvious that they had already exceeded the attack range of the firearms in the battle formation of the Ming army. He thought that the number of troops under his command was less than half that of the enemy cavalry. war.

Zhuoerbi has rich experience, and the enemy cavalry is so close. At this time, it is absolutely impossible to turn around and run away, because doing so will directly give the Ming cavalry a chance to cover up and kill them later.

The Karaqin people had already suffered a loss, and their morale was seriously frustrated at this time. It was not an excellent time to play Manguxie tactics, because Zhuoerbi could not confirm how many of his subordinates would return to fight again after distanced from the Ming army.

After all, a small half of the cavalry here is not his direct line, they are subordinate to Bulgadu and other big and small Taiji, once they start to flee, they may become broken.

Now that we know that the Ming army cavalry will lose a lot of troops if they run away directly, it is better to hedge up and gamble with the superior force. If the Ming army cavalry is defeated, the Karaqin people still have a chance to turn defeat into victory.

Zhuoerbi waved a Mongolian knife and shouted: "The 'Red Banner Army' came to Karaqin to seek bad luck, we can't escape, sons and daughters, they don't have many troops, let's rush up and fight them desperately, the warriors follow our platform and rush forward!" !"

The Karakin people lost their illusions and realized that they should be the target of the "Red Banner Army" attack here.

Immediately, several thousand commanders and centurion commanders also shouted: "The eagles on the prairie are invincible, warriors, kill them!"

Most of the [-] Chinese cavalry in Zhuoerbi are direct descendants, and their equipment is even better.

The morale of these light cavalry was not affected. At this time, seeing Taiji charging in person, everyone shouted and sprinted, and the thousand cavalry who had fled back from the defeat saw that they still had an advantage in strength and mustered up their courage to participate in the charge again.

There is no strategy and strategy in the cavalry duel at this moment, and the brave wins when you meet on a narrow road!
Facing the Tartars who outnumbered the "Red Banner Army" knights by several hundred, Hanzi, Yang Danian, Wang Zhanpeng, Yuan Siming, Sang Yu and other cavalry officers were not worried but extremely excited.

The foolish man riding a tall horse used the speed of his horse to throw three spears one after another to crucify the two Tartars on the spot. In an instant, he ran into the Karaqin cavalry group. He swung his long-handled battle ax like chopping melons and vegetables. Invincible, the splashed blood dyed the red fool even redder.

Wang Zhanpeng, Sang Yu, Wang Zhicheng, Yang Danian, etc. were all unambiguous. Wherever they passed, there were blood and blood flying everywhere. The two armies crossed each other once, and the Karaqin Tatars realized the huge gap in equipment and combat effectiveness between the two armies.

They felt that they were at a disadvantage. The arrows they shot before approaching the Ming army were far better than the Ming army in terms of quantity and quality. Unfortunately, few Ming troops were seen falling.

However, the spears and throwing axes thrown by the arrows shot by the Ming army caused at least 300 Karaqin light cavalry to fall. It seems that the "Red Banner Army" cavalry is better equipped than the Jurchen cavalry. At this time, the Karaqin people are already No confidence to win.

When the two armies met for the first time and fought in the first round, the Karaqin people no longer had the advantage in numbers, because the "Red Banner Army" was not good at riding and shooting. Most of them were experts in hand-to-hand combat. The impact cut down the five riding tartars.

The eight hundred veterans of the knights of the "Red Banner Army" all have sturdy and highly flexible all-steel breastplate equipment. When the two armies crossed, they all chose the target to kill without exception, and basically no one was empty-handed.

It's just that some knights are unlucky, because the enemy cavalry they fancy is also the target of Paoze's choice, and in the end they can only be divided equally by two or three.

There was a huge disparity in strength. The "Red Banner Army" who returned to their horses and charged again after the first round of charge only lost more than a hundred cavalry, and the Karakin Tartars had lost half of their men again.

Zhuoerbi, who had been shot into his chest with a feathered arrow, was so painful that he looked left and right, and found that his subordinates were less than half. Then he looked at the whole team of "Red Banner Army" cavalry who came to kill again, which seemed to be no less than his own troops.

His liver and gallbladder were torn apart, he screamed hoarsely, his voice was a little trembling, this Taiji was going all out, and he was also stimulated by the huge casualties of his direct troops, and he had the intention of going all out.

"Warriors, hard battles are inevitable, for the honor of Karaqin, follow this station to Jichong!"

It's a pity that most of the Karaqin Tatars who have no sense of honor did not obey Taiji's order this time. They rushed, but in the wrong direction. Six or seven hundred of them bypassed the Red Flag Army's attack formation and headed towards Qingcheng. go.

Most of these people were not members of the tribe directly related to Zhuoerbi. Today, they were ordered to participate in the battle and temporarily belonged to Zhuoerbi's command. They found that they had no chance of winning, so they decisively chose to run away.

There were three to five hundred Tartars who were soldiers of the Zhuoerbi tribe. Without turning their heads, they followed Taiji Zhuoerbi to the Ming cavalry group and ran rampant, without exception, they hit the steel plate.

On the battlefield, there were three or four "Red Banner Army" cavalry fighting a Karakin Tartar. How could these hundreds of light cavalry survive?Amid the desperate screams, the Tartars fell off their horses one after another.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Ming army, which already had an advantage in strength, began to encircle, the people of Harqin became even more flustered.

"It's hopeless, brothers, run." Even Zorbi's personal guards couldn't hold back and let out a discouraged shout.

"Brothers protect Master Taiji and retreat quickly." It is possible that a personal general is directing the retreat.

(End of this chapter)