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  Chapter 795 792【Frustrated everywhere】

  Looking at the Datong military flag on the mound in the distance, Chahun Dorji couldn't say a word at this moment.

  The mound is not big, and the area of ​​the entire raised area is less than 30,000 square meters, roughly equivalent to four football fields.

   Such a small amount certainly cannot accommodate tens of thousands of people, not to mention civilian husbands and luggage. Most of the outer chariot formations and caltrops, including spearmen, musketeers, and grenadiers, are distributed around the mound.

  The artillery is all on the soil slope, and many platforms have been dug to place it. The shells can fly over the heads of your own soldiers.

   There are several divisions serving as bait in the south, and each division has only 500 dragoons, and the remaining dragoons are all in the hands of Li Zheng. Adding the dragoons of the two divisions in Liaoning, the number of cavalry alone was 15,000—among them, 5,000 dragoons followed the main force of the infantry. The remaining 10,000 dragoons had long since disappeared, not near the battlefield at all.

  Li Zheng is stable, but he not only knows stability, but also understands what it means to "cooperate with integrity and win with odds".

  What are the ten thousand dragoons doing?

   Looking for the Mongols' logistics force!

  Chahundorji conquered many tribes along the way, especially on the Horqin grassland, and captured a large number of people, livestock and food. In the continuous long-distance turn, it is impossible to bring all the animals, so the marching speed will be too slow. It is also impossible to leave it alone somewhere, it is very likely that a cavalry **** will be sent, and it will be hidden somewhere at this moment.

  The main force of Khalkha in front of us only brought less than 100,000 cattle and sheep with the army. The livestock of the various tribes in Horqin must be more than this little, otherwise the Horqin tribe would have starved to death.

   "Khan, the general of the Han army is not easy to deal with." Darhan rode over.

Chahun Doerji seemed to be talking to himself, but also seemed to be talking to others: "There are tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, and some cattle are pulling carts with a lot of grain. Why don't the Han people chase after them?" ? With so many livestock and food, how could anyone in the world be able to bear it?"

  Darhan said: "This just shows that the military discipline of the Han army in front of us is terrible."

  Thinking differently, Chahun Dorji can fully imagine what would happen to his army if he had been lured just now.

  Maybe he himself can see through the strategy and order the ministries not to pursue. But the tribal leaders under his command may not necessarily obey orders. To be precise, someone must have disobeyed the order and rushed towards the cattle and sheep with red eyes. As long as one or two tribes rush out, the rest of the tribes will follow suit, for fear that if they run slowly, they will lose the loot.

   Chahun Dorji's military talent is extremely high. Every time he fights, he will subconsciously think differently: I am the enemy's general, what will I do. I am an enemy general, what will I do?

  That's why he decided to feign defeat and lure the Datong Army to abandon their positions and chase after them.

  He never imagined that the Han army in front of him was different from his own army!

   Not only are the equipment and tactics different, but even the commanding force of the generals on the troops is also different.

Morgan also came on horseback and said, "Khan, there is only one way for us to win if the Han soldiers form a chariot formation like this. It is to surround them until they run out of water. There is no water source here, and their food may be sufficient, but They will run out of drinking water in a day or two. After two days, there will be no water, and they will last for another two or three days at most, and they will die of thirst if they are thirsty!"

   Chahun Dorji said aggrievedly: "That would be a trick. The Han people just want to delay the time, and they wish we could surround them. In four or five days, it is enough for the main force of the enemy's cavalry to come after us!"

Darhan said: "According to reports from sentry cavalry sent out a few days ago, it seems that there are Han reinforcements in the south, and the number is not as large as before. Let's continue to the south to intercept and kill the reinforcements of the Han. After we leave, if here The Han soldiers followed suit, so it depends on the situation to decide how to fight. If there is an opportunity in the south, go to the south. If there is an opportunity here, come back and fight here.”

Morgan said: "Yes, we are all cavalry, and there is no need to forcefully attack the Han chariot formation. We Mongolian warriors fight while walking. How can there be any reason to surround them all the time? This kind of positional warfare belongs to the Han people." Our strengths are our weaknesses. We can’t use our weaknesses to compare our strengths with the Han people.”

   "Then go further south!" Chahun Dorji said.

  Li Zheng stood on the mound, observed carefully with a telescope, and basically guessed what the enemy was thinking. This is the last thing he wants to see!

  The enemy is all cavalry, which is difficult to deal with when moving. Under the constant turning and pulling, the infantry division of the Datong Army is very easy to show its flaws and be caught.

  Li Zheng muttered to himself: "I made a mistake. I shouldn't have transferred the two divisions from the south."

   Li Dingguo's battle plan is very risky, and Zhang Tieniu, who is in charge of making the decision, is also a lunatic. Their intention was to throw out the four divisions and block the enemy's westward escape. Li Zheng led two divisions to support the four divisions. The remaining three cavalry divisions chased the enemy's main force and moved according to the situation, constantly compressing the enemy's combat space. Those four divisions are like nails, once they are nailed down, they cannot be moved.

   On the one hand, Li Zheng was worried that Wang Hui would be eaten, and on the other hand, he had greater ambitions. He wanted to transfer the rest of the divisions to see if he could encircle and wipe out the main force of the enemy while rescuing Wang Hui.

   Now there is a problem with the deployment of troops. Chahun Dorji did not attack Wang Hui to death, but chose to go south to fight Li Zheng's reinforcements. Really unable to fight, he continued to go south to fight the two divisions further south. If those two divisions were a little careless, they would be eaten halfway. Even if it wasn't eaten, Li Dingguo's overall plan was ruined—three of the four channels that were blocked, because of Li Zheng's unauthorized mobilization, have been unblocked. The main force of Khalkha can pass through the remaining veins in the southern Daxing'an Mountains at any time, and escape back to the Mobei grassland without hindrance.

  The enemies that Li Zheng fought in the past were basically infantry-based, even the Manchu Tartars were mainly infantry.

  He has never fought a large-scale unit of the whole cavalry, and was disturbed by his mindset, and made a very stupid misjudgment of the enemy's follow-up reaction. This is similar to Chahun Dorji. He has never fought against the Han people before, and there has been a series of misjudgments from beginning to end.

Li Zheng quickly adjusted his thinking, called a cavalry officer, and ordered: "You take five hundred cavalry to go north, contact Wang Hui, and let him stick to his camp. Then contact Zhang Dudu (Zhang Tieniu), and say that there are three soldiers in the south. A teacher was sent away by my stupid brain, and all the passages in the mountains to the south are unguarded."

  Li Zheng did not immediately go south to rescue, but asked the soldiers to rest first, and wait until they had enough food and drink before moving tomorrow.

  Although Chahun Dorji went south with the main force, he left behind a cavalry, trying to observe Li Zheng's movements. As long as Li Zheng showed his flaws, he would immediately come back overnight.

  Thousands of cavalry from both sides ran and entangled repeatedly like that on the vast grassland between the two armies. They both restrained each other, did not fight life or death, and only occasionally fired guns and arrows. The main purpose was to cover the battlefield and prevent the other party from detecting the movement of their main force.

evening.

When Chahun Doerji received the news, Li Zheng didn't move, and he became even more depressed: "The Han general in the north probably couldn't find a loophole to fight. After the sun comes out tomorrow, the main force will go south at full speed, don't worry about that **** anymore !"

   "Do you want to return overnight and raid the car formation in the dark?" Darhan asked.

   Chahun Dorji said: "If I don't go, it's useless to go. That kind of person doesn't know how to be vigilant at night?"

   On the second day, the main force of Khalkha accelerated and marched southward.

  The two divisions in the south have reached the Heimulun River and are heading northeast along the river bank. Hundreds of years later, due to overcultivation and grazing, sandy land has sporadically appeared in this area, but at this time it is full of black land with grass and crops.

  A teacher named Wan Sitong, an old man from Jiangxi.

  A teacher named Zhang Wenyu, whose real name was Zhang Feng, was born as a slave. When the Datong Army sent troops to Hunan, Zhang Wenyu took all the slaves in the city and took down the big city of Hengyang in one fell swoop to contribute, and now he has finally become a division commander.

   "Da da da da!"

   More than a dozen dragoons rushed back in a panic. Some of them were still wounded, and they knew something had happened at a glance.

   "Is there an enemy in front?" Wan Sitong asked.

  The dragoons who ran back first said: "The main force of the enemy army is coming to the north, and they are coming too fast. They will rush up to surround and kill you desperately!"

  Zhang Wenyu asked: "What about the others? Why are there only a dozen of you?"

  The dragoon soldier shook his head and said, "I don't know, we suffered heavy casualties anyway!"

  Wan Sitong shouted: "The whole army is near the river and formed into a car formation!"

  About eight miles to the north.

  Because the dragoons were concentrated and handed over to Li Zheng for dispatch, there were only a thousand cavalry left in the two divisions, and they all went out to explore the road. In the morning, they bumped into the cavalry in Khalkha.

  After many battles, the Khalkha cavalry has also become more refined.

  They gradually became familiar with the routines of the dragoons. When they met, they dispersed and rushed forward, bearing the damage of the bullets, and kept chasing the dragoons. As long as the first two rounds of damage are overcome, the Dragoon will not be able to reload.

   On the west bank of the Heimulun River, there were hundreds of dragoon corpses along the way. In order to delay the formation of the main force, the dragoons did not flee back the same way, but galloped eastward at full speed.

   Chahundorji sent a full 3,000 cavalry to pursue the remaining 800 dragoons.

   Then he ignored it, led the main force to the south quickly, and finally saw two large synchronized divisions that had already formed an formation by the river. Due to the rush of time, some of the food in the chariots had not had time to be moved out, so they were just lying in front of the battle.

   "It's another car formation, another car formation!"

   Chahun Dorji was so angry that his face was red and his neck was thick. The car formation in front of him was even more interesting. It was next to the Heimulun River, and there was no shortage of drinking water. Moreover, there is no need to defend the side near the river, and there are more sufficient troops to defend the chariot formation.

  He believes that the hard attack can be won, but it will cost many casualties, and it will take several days. What he lacks most now is time, for fear that the cavalry division of the Datong Army will come after him. The cavalry divisions of Zhang Tieniu, Li Dingguo, and Wang Tingchen all have one man and two horses. One horse was used for riding, and the other horse was used to carry armor. The equipment looked scary from a distance. Chahun Dorji didn't want to fight with the cavalry division of the Datong Army.

   "Great Khan, the firearm of the Han people."

   This is left behind by the dragoons, a total of 174 flintlock guns.

Chahun Dorji studied for a while, finally understood how to shoot, and immediately said with emotion: "This is a good blunderbuss, much better than the Raksha ghost's blunderbuss, and there is no need to carry a long matchlock. Han infantry, if Using this kind of firecrackers, the Mongolian warriors must not charge forward."

   Darhan looked at the chariot formation in front of him, sighed and said, "Khan, go back to Mobei, the Horqin Grassland can't be occupied."

  At the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Li Ling led 5,000 infantry out of Juyan, but was besieged by 80,000 Huns cavalry as his lone army went deep. Li Ling did not have guns and artillery, so he formed an formation relying on heavy carts, fought with the Huns for eight days with bows and crossbows, shot and killed more than 10,000 Huns cavalry, and was finally captured and surrendered because he ran out of ammunition and food.

   Besides, in history, the Eight Banners Army fought against Zhungeer, and 4000 Qing troops were besieged by Zhungeer cavalry. Fu Erdan, the chief general of the Qing army, also formed a chariot formation to resist, and was able to maintain the chariot formation, firing guns all the way to break through the encirclement. In the end, the chariot formation of the Qing army was defeated because the Zhungeer cavalry had large shotguns, and they could chase after horses and shoot with heavy muskets. The failure of the chariot formation of the Qing army was not defeated by Zhungeer cavalry, but by Zhungeer's heavy muskets.

  From ancient times to the present, as long as there are elite infantry in formation, it is difficult to forcibly break through purely by cavalry.

  The Xiongnu cavalry won the attack by force, but the premise was that Li Ling's arrows were exhausted, and more than 10,000 Hun cavalry used their bodies to catch the arrows.

   In front of you is the tortoise array, behind you is Li Zheng, who is even more tortoise, and the Datong cavalry division is chasing him further north.

   Chahun Dorji clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said, "Go back to Mobei!"

  (end of this chapter)