Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 167
But with the exhausted troops under Daishan and Amin, how can they be the opponent of the Guan Ning cavalry under Zhao Lijiao? The Guan Ning cavalry is not weaker than Jiannu's Eight Banners soldiers, let alone the replacement of the Eight Banners soldiers. We have new equipment and are waiting for work here.

Soon, more than half of the Three Banners troops under Daishan and Amin were lost, while Guan Ning's cavalry only suffered a few hundred casualties. The gap in numbers further widened. Daishan, Amin, and Hauge were soon defeated. Besieged in a battle formation, only a hundred soldiers guarded them desperately.

Guan Ning's iron cavalry and Jiannu's Eight Banners soldiers were originally "enemies meet, and they are extremely jealous". It was not Zhao who ordered the arrests, Daishan, Amin and Hao Ge would not have escaped death either.

Of course, Daishan and Amin were more willing to die on the battlefield than to be captured alive by the Ming army. Therefore, seeing that there was no hope of breaking out, Daishan was about to kill himself. When Amin and Hauge saw this, they gritted their teeth and decided to follow him. Kill yourself.

However, at this critical moment of life and death, Daishan and Amin still hesitated, but Hauge was young and energetic and not so mean-spirited, so he really wiped his neck without hesitation.

But because of a moment of hesitation, Daishan and Amin were thrown off their horses by several iron chains, and their swords were thrown away. The Ming army could not let them commit suicide at will, even if several Guan Ning pounced on them. The cavalryman pushed them both to the ground and tied them up.

After solving the three banners of Jiannu, Zhenghong Banner, Xianghong Banner and Xianglan Banner, and capturing alive Daishan and Amin, the two big Belles, it stands to reason that this is about the same, and the cross-fertilization problem will definitely be endless.

However, Zhao Shujiao did not give up. Although the soldiers and horses of various banners who had just established slaves fled in all directions, leaving him unable to pursue him, but as the so-called "capture the thief and capture the king", Zhao Shujiao naturally wanted to go The pursuers of Huang Taiji, after figuring out where Huang Taiji was going, immediately led the Guan Ning cavalry to continue their pursuit westward.

Only five hundred soldiers and horses were left here to clean the battlefield, rescue the wounded, and then escort the prisoners back to the Hanerzhuang camp.

Huang Taiji was escorted by Duduo's Zhengbai flag and ran westward, but from a distance he could see tens of thousands of soldiers and horses fighting in front of him. He could vaguely see Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan flag soldiers and horses surrounded among them. However, under the siege of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Ming army, the thousands of people in Manggurtai were about to be submerged, and it is estimated that the entire army would be wiped out in a short time.

Huang Taiji immediately shouted to Duoduo: "Don't go any further, let's turn to the northwest, bypass the front battle formation, and go straight to Da'ankou. Now that the Ming army has been drawn to encircle Manggurtai, maybe we can still There’s a chance to escape!”

Duduo nodded immediately, followed Huang Taiji and led his army to the northwest, heading straight for Da'ankou.

And Mang Gurtai's side was indeed defeated without any suspense. After he left Jiannu's large army, he really led his army to rush towards the Ming army's stronghold, but how could he do it with just a few thousand men? Easily capture the fortress and stronghold carefully built by the Ming army?
These strongholds were built by the Liao army who were good at building strongholds and fortresses. The biggest feature of the strongholds and fortresses built by the Liao army was that they were specially used to resist and deal with the slaves. Therefore, the restrained Eight Banners soldiers could only look back and sigh. Son!

Mang Gurtai originally thought that the front was a proposed stronghold and fortress similar to the Ming army's artillery position that attacked the Santun camp at night. It could still be broken as long as he risked his life to attack it, but he did not expect that it turned out to be the Liao army that caused them the most headache. fortress.

And thinking of the Liao army, Mang Gurtai naturally thought of the Guan Ning cavalry. Since the Liao army was stationed here, it was very likely that a Guan Ning cavalry would come out, so he became more and more unsure.

However, Mang Gurtai was lucky. Zhao led the teaching department guarding here and was hit by the Jiannu army heading east to Longjingkou. This shows that his insistence on going straight to Da'ankou is relatively reliable.

But even so, for Mang Gurtai, this little bit of luck was meaningless. He could not cross the stronghold in front of him, nor could he continue northward and rush to Da'ankou.

Because although this stronghold fortress is the same as the Ming army fortress in Liaodong, it is easy to defend, difficult to attack, and difficult to break through, but it is better than the Ming army fortress in Liaodong, and it is more difficult to deal with and cross.

Although the Ming army fortresses in Liaodong were very defensive, they were equipped with only a few Hongyi cannons. The range of the Hongyi cannons was only two or three miles at most, so if you encounter a fortress that cannot be conquered, you can still get around it.

But now the Ming army fortress in front of Mang Gurtai is equipped with a new type of steel cannon, with a range of up to seven or eight miles. If you want to go around it, you have to make a big circle of seven or eight miles and run out. Not to mention that it would take a lot of detours to go so far, and it is very likely that the Ming army would come to support them on the east and west sides of the Ming army's stronghold. Wouldn't it be worse if they were sandwiched between the Ming army's reinforcements and fortresses?

Therefore, Mang Gurtai could only fight against the Ming army's fortress, but no matter how bravely he and his Zhenglan Banner soldiers charged into the battle, it would still take a considerable amount of time to break through the Ming army's fortress. , However, the Ming army would not give him this time.

Tens of thousands of Ming troops pursuing from behind arrived in an instant. Mangui and Zu Dashou took the lead, leading [-] Guan Ning cavalry to pounce on Mang Gurtai's troops. Mang Gurtai was surrounded before he could react. surrounded.

You Shiwei, Hou Shilu and Madengyun also arrived subsequently and joined the battle to encircle and annihilate Mang Gurtai.

Because a large number of Ming army troops arrived, the Ming army naturally did not dare to fire off cannons easily anymore. For fear of accidentally injuring friendly troops, they just held on to the fort and used firecrackers to resist the attacking soldiers!
Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan Banner troops had suffered over a thousand casualties during the attack on the Ming army's fortress. Now they were besieged by [-] Guanning cavalry led by Man Gui and Zu Dashou. Within a quarter of an hour, he was killed until there were mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

A look of despair gradually appeared on Mang Gurtai's face. When he was hesitating whether to continue to fight his way out of the encirclement or kill himself to avoid becoming a prisoner of the Ming army, two famous generals suddenly rushed into the formation on horseback and fired two spears straight at him. Come from Benmang Gurtai.

Mang Gurtai was immediately frightened. He hurriedly swung his knife to swing the gun away, reined in his horse, and turned around to avoid the attack of the Ming generals. When he turned around and took a closer look, he realized that the two attacking Ming generals were actually Man Gui. Happy birthday to the ancestors.

For Mang Gurtai, Man Gui and Zu Dashou are also his old enemies, so he still knows the strength of Man Gui and Zu Dashou. He may not be able to win one on one. Not to mention facing both Manchu and Zu at the same time!
Therefore, even if Mang Gurtai made an absolute decision, he raised his sword high, roared, reined in his horse, turned around and ran away!

Man Gui and Zu Dashou were not willing to let him go. When they caught up and found that only the Zhenglan Banner army of Jian Nu was left here, they were already a little bit overwhelmed. After all, they chased Jian Nu's large army after chasing so far. They lost track. This was a big operational mistake for them. It was already difficult for them to communicate with each other. Now of course they can't let Mang Gurtai run away again!
Mang Gurtai ran in front, Man Gui and Zu Dashou chased after him, and easily killed Mang Gurtai's personal soldiers who came to intercept him.

Then Mangui took out his long bow and aimed an arrow at Mang Gurtai in front of him. The arrow flew off the string and hit Mang Gurtai in the back of the heart. However, because Mang Gurtai was wearing soft armor, although he was hit in the back, This arrow did not hurt him, he was still running ahead desperately!
Zu Dashou then took his bow and arrows, and he and Man Gui took turns shooting at Mang Gurtai. After a while, Mang Gurtai's back was covered with arrows like hedgehogs, with dozens of them.After being hit by so many arrows, even if Mang Gurtai was not seriously injured, there were no good pieces of skin left on his back, and blood began to flow out from the gaps in his armor.

You must know that the soft armor in this case is mostly chain armor. Although it can prevent flying arrows from shooting into the flesh, after the arrow is hit, the shooting momentum of the arrow will still be transmitted to the skin by the chain armor, which will inevitably cause pain. If you hit an arrow at close range, you are more likely to be scratched by the chain armor.

Seeing that Mangui could not shoot Mang Gurtai off his horse, Mangui shouted to Zu Dashou: "Shoot the horse!"

Although Mang Gurtai's war horses were also wearing armor, they were mainly concentrated on the front side of the horse's head, while the tail side was not covered with armor. When Zu Dashou heard Man Gui's shouting, he turned to shoot Mang Gurtai. horse.

Although shooting from behind could not cause fatal damage to Mang Gurtai's mount, once the horse was hit by the arrow, it was instantly frightened and knocked Mang Gurtai off his horse.

Upon seeing this, Mangui immediately took out a ball of iron chains and threw one end to Zu Dashou on the right. Zu Dashou also immediately understood and took the iron chain.

As the distance between the two increased, the iron chain was also pulled away. Before Mang Gurtai could get up, he tied the iron chain across his chest and was dragged out by Man Gui and Zu Dashou for dozens of seconds. rice!
Before Mang Gurtai could recover, Mangui and Zu Dashou ran around Mang Gurtai several times with their horses facing each other, and tied Mang Gurtai into a rice dumpling with iron chains.

With Mang Gurtai being captured, the battle behind them was coming to an end. Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan Banner troops had been completely wiped out, and the Ming army began to clean up the battlefield.

Madeng Yun ran to Man Gui and Zu Dashou, hugged Man Gui and reported: "General Man, all the soldiers who established the slaves have been eliminated, and a few of the survivors have been taken as prisoners!"

After hearing this, Man Gui still frowned and said: "You have done a good job, but now is not the time to be happy. The large army of slave builders has not been found yet. If they escape from the pass, you and I will both It’s hard to take the blame!”

When Ma Dengyun heard this, the smile on his face froze instantly. The joy of having just defeated Jiannu and won the battle was washed away by Man Gui's words.

Man Gui pointed at Mang Gurtai on the ground behind him, and ordered to Madeng Yun: "That is the third Belle among the four great Belles of Jiannu. Keep an eye on him. Don't let him commit suicide. General Zu and I will continue." Go find the large army of slave builders!"

After saying this, Man Gui looked directly at Zu Dashou, "Dashou, let's go!"

Zu Dashou naturally had no objection to Man Gui's arrangement, so he gathered his troops and prepared to go north with Man Gui to find a large army of slaves.

At this moment, a cavalry unit was seen coming from the east. Smoke and dust were seen a few miles away, and the sound of people shouting and horses neighing was heard.

Man Gui took out the military telescope from his waist and looked at the team. He was relieved when he saw that it was the Guan Ning cavalry led by Zhao Zhijiao, but he was also a little disappointed at the same time. He came back from the killing. If that was the case, it would save him the trouble of searching for it himself.

When Zhao Shujiao saw such a large-scale army gathering here, he naturally used military binoculars to see the situation here. After knowing that this was the Ming army, he was also a little disappointed. He had already pursued westward. From such a distance, it was easy to see people, and they were actually friendly forces, but the traces of Jian Nu had completely disappeared.

Zhao Shujiao stopped for the time being and came over to say hello alone. Under such circumstances, they met Man Gui again. Both of them seemed a little embarrassed, but after all, in front of several other general soldiers, the two of them still bowed their hands to each other. It's like saying hello.

Zhao Shujiao was embarrassed to take the initiative to talk to Man Gui, so he asked Zu Dashou: "General Zu, did you just fight against Jian Nu?"

Zu Dashou nodded and said truthfully: "Yes, we started chasing Jiannu from the east of Jizhou City and chased us all the way here, but we only caught up with part of Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan Banner. Now I am with General Man is planning to continue to pursue the main force of Jiannu!"

When Zhao Shujiao heard this, he became even more disappointed and said: "I have just defeated the main force of the slaves, but the slave chief Huang Taiji ran away during the chaos of the war. I came here just to chase Huang Taiji." Came here!"

Zu Dashou and Man Gui were shocked when they heard this, but Man Gui quickly recovered from the surprise, "No, we must not let Huang Taiji go. Once he escapes back to Liaodong, it will be like letting the tiger return to the mountain!" "

Zu Dashou also nodded in agreement and said: "Since you said Huang Taiji ran in this direction, I think he must have gone to Da'ankou. We can't delay any longer, we should catch up and intercept him quickly!"

Now that they knew that the enemy had only one banner of soldiers and horses, they naturally didn't need to mobilize a large army. The three of them only took [-] Guanning cavalry to Da'ankou to pursue!
Because the Ming army's attention was attracted by Mang Gurtai, the loophole was taken advantage of by Huang Taiji and Duoduo's Zhengbai Banner troops. They did not encounter any obstruction by the Ming army along the way. Now, they are blocked in front of them. Only the defenders of Da'ankou were left.

Fortunately, Zhu Tianqi's military order to Zhao Ledjiao at that time was to cut off the Jiannu's escape route and not let any Jiannu escape from the Great Wall. Therefore, Zhao Ledjiao attached great importance to the defense of the three Great Wall breaches. He also carefully repaired the breaches in the Great Wall and built a strong fortress.

Therefore, even if this stronghold now loses the timely assistance of Zhao Lijiao, the cavalry unit that is centrally supporting it, it cannot be easily broken through by Jiannu's troops.

(End of this chapter)