choke element

Chapter 568 Dead End

Before Genghis Khan suddenly killed, it would be a lie to say that the soldiers were not nervous.If it weren't for Guo Ning, who was equally invincible in one's own formation, the legs of many soldiers would be weak, and the more experienced the army, the more experienced the backbone soldiers who had the experience of fighting the Mongols would be even more nervous.

As a result, when the two sides met, everyone worked together to win a big victory, killing more than 1000 elite Qixue soldiers who killed and wounded the Mongols, and their own casualties were less than 500. This is a big victory without a doubt.

Many officers from military academies said that such an "exchange ratio" had never been seen since the war between Dajin and Mongolia, even Guo Xuanshi's two victories in Shandong and Liaodong were not as good.

Being able to exchange the lives of so many Mongolian troops with such a small loss, and survived unscathed, all soldiers who thought of this were extremely happy.Even if someone has a brother or a friend who died in battle, and his mood is affected a little bit, the grassroots officers at all levels will promptly soothe their emotions and remind them that their companions will receive high-standard pensions and treatment from the Yiling Temple.

As a result, everyone's fighting spirit became more and more high. Many people began to plan to kill a few Mongolian soldiers to avenge their families. Some people also thought about what kind of reward they would get after victory.

Later that night, Guo Xuan envoy announced that [-] reinforcements from Shandong would arrive, and they would definitely deal a heavy blow to the Mongolian army in Zhongdu. The soldiers became more and more encouraged.Many soldiers in the army are from the Central Capital, and they have great expectations for being able to return to their hometown and perform the feat of saving the villagers.

However, in the early morning of the next day, Guo Ning suddenly sent an order that the whole army immediately withdraw to Yijin Pass.

The order to retreat was so sudden that none of the soldiers expected it.

Why is this?

Why didn't they kill Zhongdu anymore?Why did you have to retreat urgently after winning the battle?

Everyone just raised their hearts, and the result is like this?
The soldiers suddenly became suspicious.

What went wrong?Is it because our Guo Xuan envoy is afraid of the Tartars sweating profusely?Or on the side of the Tartar Khan, what happened that made us have to flee?

I also heard that because the Jurchens were defeated by the Mongolian army, the direction of Hebei may be unstable?In that case, it will be a question of whether everyone can return to Shandong safely!
After all, the Ding Navy is fighting away from Shandong's base, so doubts can easily arise and spread.With such emotions in mind, when the soldiers packed up their supplies and cleaned up the queue, there was even a rare state of confusion.

Ding Haijun brought a large amount of grain and fodder, which was intended to be transported to Zhongdu.To retreat suddenly, without the cover of Hebei Meng'an Mouke Army, a large number of soldiers and horses had to be set aside for vigilance, so there was an immediate shortage of manpower, and many supplies could not be shipped in time.

These were saved by the Shandong people bit by bit, and the lieutenant who led the team was reluctant to throw them away, and he was even less happy that these materials fell into the hands of the Mongols.In his haste, he did not ask Guo Ning for instructions, but directly ordered the fire to be burned, causing black smoke to soar into the sky.

Above the plains, this puff of smoke can be seen even from thirty to forty miles away!
Guo Ning was furious, and immediately called the lieutenant over to reprimand him.

It turns out that the so-called "[-] reinforcements are coming" is basically the smoke released by Guo Ning.He spread the news to the whole army because the Mongols would always catch a few militiamen or Arixi who accompanied the army in subsequent disturbances.And this news may bring the attention of the Tartar Khan, buying time for the navy's retreat.

But this thick smoke rises up, unless the Mongols are all blind, who will miss it?

The hasty posture of the Ding Navy has completely fallen into the eyes of the Mongols through this puff of smoke.With the Mongols' keen sense of smell like a beast, would they not be able to guess what Ding Haijun is doing?

In this way, what's the use of the rumor that "the reinforcements are huge, there will be fierce battles"?

The specialty of the Mongolian cavalry is flexibility and mobility, while the specialty of the Ding Navy is that the infantry is as stable as an anvil, and the iron cavalry is like a hammer.When the two sides were fighting head-on, Ding Haijun responded steadily and was not afraid at all. As long as he did not reveal his flaws, the Mongols would have nothing to do.

But when the army retreated quickly, how could it not show its flaws?Marching and fighting are two different things, no matter how elite the army is, there are also loopholes when marching.But the Mongols disperse and harass and attack with cameras, and they will tear the small openings into fatal ones. By then...

The Mongolian army is the most ferocious wolf on the grassland. As long as Dinghailing's flaws are caught by them, they will swarm up and bite bloodily!
Guo Ning had no choice but to urge the soldiers to move faster.The distance from Liangxiang to Yijin Pass in Bazhou is 170 miles. Relying on the emphasis on armed cross-country training on weekdays, Dinghai moved very quickly. It took only two days to travel nearly a hundred miles and entered Gu'an County.

However, the danger is imminent.

On the day they retreated, they were repeatedly pestered by Mongolian Alkinchi.On the second day, a large number of Mongolian knights approached Ding Haijun's brigade almost undisguisedly. Ding Hai needs to keep more than a thousand light cavalry galloping back and forth in order to expel them.

This constant nuisance does not stop even at night.Even Qingqi with Dinghai had to deal with it all the time.

In order to cover the surrounding area of ​​the camp and prevent the Mongols from approaching for investigation, many Ding Naval cavalry stayed up all night, chasing, staggering, driving, and intimidating each other with the Mongols on the large plain.Occasional battles broke out, but they were bound to be short and intense.

There is no doubt that the Mongolian army is full of the best knights, the best shooters, and the best cavalry tactics of this era.Their top-down commanding system, unimpeded channels and means of ordering, and even the military literacy brought about by their daily hard life have huge advantages over any neighboring nation.

With the establishment of the Great Mongol Kingdom, the barriers of many tribes were broken, and the elite warriors gathered on a large scale that had never been seen before. After that, the Mongolian army obtained a huge amount of weapons and war horses in the continuous battles with Xia and Jin. Their combat effectiveness has been continuously improved in just a few years.

Especially in the environment where small cavalry came and went at night, the harassment and guerrillas of the Mongols put tremendous pressure on the cavalry of the given navy.

After tossing all night, the tired light cavalry didn't have much time to rest.

Because the army pretended to be a baggage team going northward, the number of cavalry that Ding Haijun carried on this trip was not very large.Except for the Tiefutu heavy cavalry directly commanded by Guo Ning, most of the light cavalry were under Dong Jin's command. There were only a few hundred cavalry in total, and the number of cavalry that the Mongols could use was twenty times that!
In the early morning of the third day of the rapid march and retreat, the Mongolian cavalry all over the field left like an ebb tide. The experienced veterans knew that this was the gap between the Mongols mobilizing new forces.The Alkinchis will take a break during the day, and a new thousand-man team will replace them and continue to harass.

So the cavalry did not delay, and soon contacted the other cavalry who replaced them, urged the horses to return to the camp, and seized all the time to recharge their batteries.

The cavalry who can undertake the task of searching for sentries at night are all good hands, and everyone has two horses.Most of them have changed horses between battles, and now the horses are more energetic than the people.

Under the twilight sky, the war horses hopped forward, always trying to gallop happily, and the knights had to keep strengthening their spirits and tightening the reins to calm down the excited war horses.

During the rapid march, the camp was set up entirely on the support vehicles, which was much simpler than normal.The main entrance of the camp is an opening formed by the intersection of three rows of carts.

When the cavalry entered the camp, they noticed an open field with obvious traces of iron cannon explosions.There were a few corpses of Mongols lying on the grass in distorted postures, which had not been picked up.

The cavalry leader who led the team was a little frustrated: "The loud noise yesterday evening startled my horses. I really didn't expect the Mongols to pass through our sentinel cavalry and rush all the way to the gate of the camp!"

The knight beside him said angrily: "That's why Dong Qianji was so angry, he personally selected a hundred strong men, and fought with the Mongols overnight... He didn't take me with him!"

The cavalry general was waiting to answer, when the knight in front pulled back his horse and said with a happy face: "General Wang Du, come quickly, come quickly, this morning I specially killed the sheep and rewarded everyone!"

In the past few days, the soldiers have been marching non-stop, and they have to deal with the enemy's nuisance. Everyone is very tired.Fortunately, everyone's food has been good and satisfying, and there are special preferential treatment for the knights in charge of expelling the Mongolian sentry cavalry.

At this moment, Alixi of the cavalry specially found a dry slope and dug dozens of stove holes to cook mutton.When the water boils, the unique aroma of mutton permeates everywhere, accompanied by the smell of wild onions, which makes people salivate.

In the infantry formation preparing to leave, Old Brother Liu and his companions were at the downwind of tens of steps away, and they could just smell it.So everyone stopped gossiping, and turned to staring at the direction of the pot.

The treatment of Dinghai soldiers has always been good. As long as they are full of wheat cakes and miscellaneous grain cakes, no one will go hungry.But when it comes to meat, there is still a gap between the treatment of ordinary infantry and elite cavalry.

"I can see that there are large pieces of meat rolling in the soup, even the meat on the belt, more than half of it is fat, the size of a palm!" The young man who loves cooking and wanted to be a soldier opened his mouth. With five fingers on his right hand, he gestured to the people around him: "Bite it down, and the fat will drip in your mouth and slide down your throat...Think about it, how beautiful it is!"

"That's very beautiful!" Everyone nodded repeatedly.

There were also people who were very greedy, but couldn't eat, and felt angry: "I smell the smell of mutton, and it's a bit familiar."

"How did you get to know each other? Have you eaten something secretly in the past two days?"

"After the Mongolian cavalrymen were killed by the iron artillery, their bones and flesh were rotten, and the smell was similar to that of mutton. It was fragrant and smelly."

Before he finished speaking, Lao Liu slapped him on the head with a slap, with great force, and there was a slap.

"Those mutton eaters fought and galloped all night before you fell asleep all night! Look at the pot on the west side, isn't that Old Wang sitting? There were originally 20 people under him, and the day before yesterday and yesterday were consecutive." Nine people were killed in the battle, and three were missing last night, leaving only eight people who were all wounded, even Lao Wang himself... Look at his arms, are they bound? That looks like bones are bound The Mongol’s shovel-shaped arrow was shot off! He can still speak and eat, and he will have a high fever after a while, and he might die! Why don’t they eat something good!”

His voice was a bit loud, but the soldiers around him were silent.

A lieutenant who was leading the troops listened from a distance, and felt that this was too damaging to morale, so he wanted to come over and reprimand him.When he came to him, he found that a veteran Pu Liyan was speaking, frowned, turned and went back.

Pu Liyan is also the position of 50-man commander. He is the lieutenant's deputy in the Dinghai Navy, and is usually served by experienced veterans.These veterans failed the military academy examination for various reasons, but in the army, their prestige and degree of trust were real.

At this time, there was tension everywhere in the ranks of the soldiers, and the strings in everyone's hearts were tense.Fortunately, the key soldiers are all experienced in many battles, so they are at most a little dignified.And even if they say some outrageous words, they may eventually find that it is useful.

At this moment, a soldier from a certain team asked in a low voice: "So many kidnappers have died, they can't last long. The Mongols rushed to the camp several times last night, and shot and wounded several brothers... ...what will happen today?"

Old Liu glanced at him, then tapped his own chest with his knuckles.

Only then did the soldier notice that Lao Liu and his companions were all wearing armor directly on their bodies, but the cart was a little empty.

"You're not too tired..." The soldier cursed with a smile, and his expression immediately became serious.

He bowed his hands to Lao Liu, turned around and ran towards his own queue.

The dull sound of wheels rolling over the ground and rumbling footsteps came from the front of the queue, which meant that the soldiers of the former team had already set off.

　I am honored to report that I did suffer from pneumonia and then recovered... I started to write a lot these days, and I will definitely update it normally in February. I did not perform well last month. I bow to the readers and apologize.

　
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