Bright Spring

Just like the previous battles in which the Ming sent troops to take the initiative to attack, this time the Ming army had similar intentions. They should have wanted to find the main force of the Mongols for a decisive battle, or to attack a more important central place.But since the Ming army completely destroyed the royal family of "Great Yuan" during the Ming Taizu period, the Mongols today have given up the title of Great Yuan, and have turned into multiple nomadic tribes again; the Tatars have no decent cities at all.So the Ming army could only look for the main force of the Tatars.

Soon after, the Ming army passed through the territory of Tainingwei and came to the place where the Horqin people were grazing.Skirmishes between scouts continued.The captured Horqin people told the Ming people that the main forces of the Mongolian tribes were moving to the west of Harawen Mountain.

The orders given by the Great Khan Adai to the ministries and the news left by the Ming army were enough to convince the Ming army generals that the main force of the Mongols was fleeing and did not want to fight the Ming army.

There is a gap in the middle of the Harawin Mountains that stretches from north to south, which is located on the west side of the Wennao River.Mass migrations by multiple tribes can only go in that direction.

Sure enough, the Ming army accelerated their pursuit.Their vanguard cavalry chased to the pass of Harawen Mountain, and encountered the threat of the Mongolian cavalry brigade.And the army of the Ming army behind hurriedly moved closer to the forward.

So the fighter plane that Adai Khan and others were looking forward to finally appeared.

Horqin Ranger discovered that there was a formation problem in the Ming army's camp during the rapid march.Their vanguard army and main battalion moved too fast, and the supply battalion transporting food behind them stretched farther and farther. The entire army formed a long snake-like arrangement, and it was difficult to respond to each other.

"Burn all the grain carts of the Ming people!" Even Tolu Huchaer, who had always been a bit of a snake, became excited, "Let tens of thousands of Ming troops graze here."

Zhiyuan Arutai was also in the camp of the Chinese army. He was trying to restrain his performance, and said in a calmer tone, "The situation of the Ming army is not that simple. As long as they lack food in the army, there is still nearly a thousand miles to go back." The road is starved, and the soldiers in the camp are shaken, so we have to find a way to keep them."

"Kill! Kill!" Everyone shouted emotionally, and some people shouted Long live the sweat.

Arutai kept an eye on Da Khan, who was looking at the people around him with calm eyes.The Great Khan should also understand that as long as he wins and lets people see the hope of the future, his prestige on the grassland will rise very quickly.

Da Khan greeted the leaders of the various ministries and walked into the big tent together.

"We should dispatch as soon as possible." The Khan immediately told everyone, "Let the elite cavalry set off immediately, go south along the Harawin Mountain, and raid the Ming army's supply camp from the west of the undulating mountains. The main camp will start from the rear. In order to meet the cavalry attacking."

People echoed Khan's idea one after another.

So Adai Khan and Alutai personally led the cavalry to dispatch, and Tolu Huchaer and others led the large camp to follow up.Here are nomadic or resident herders. The Mongolian army cannot rely on looting to support war, and they have to carry tents, cattle and sheep to follow the army, otherwise they will have nothing to eat.

The assembled Tatar coalition forces mobilized quickly. Three days later, Alutai and others followed the cavalry brigade and entered the mountainous area at the eastern foot of Harawin.

The mountains here are not steep, and there are relatively flat river valleys, but the shape of the mountains is very wide, and there is no problem for the large cavalry to move.But the rolling mountains greatly affected the line of sight; unless Tan Ma came to the nearby high ground, he would not be able to see the cavalry at all.And this mountainous area is very vast, it is difficult for the Ming army to search for their whereabouts in advance.

Adai Khan has worked hard for a long time on the territory of the Wuliangha people.At this time, the Horqin people knew the terrain and water sources very well, and everything went smoothly.

Soon, Alutai and others led the cavalry, and they roughly arrived at the left rear direction of the Ming army.The terrain in front is also getting more and more open, and some slowly swaying black shadows in the sky are the scouts of the Tatars.Until now, the Tatars have not found the whereabouts of the Ming army scouts.

"The Ming army looked to the northwest, and they didn't know which direction the danger came from." Adai Khan's voice said.At this moment, he spoke very slowly, as if he was afraid of disturbing the things in front of him.

But I haven't seen it yet, the slowly undulating land looks very quiet, only the various cavalry teams of the Tatars appear here abruptly.

9 Chapter Eighty

The ground is not quiet, the sound of the wind is filled with the sound of horseshoes, shouts, and the noise of various drums.But when Adai Khan rode his horse up to a high ground, he stood there for a while, and felt that the sky and the earth seemed to be enveloped in a kind of emptiness.Probably because the gently undulating land is too vast, and countless people are as light as a feather in it, like ants.

Adai Khan talked a lot with his subordinates before, but now he talked very little.Many complicated thoughts were suddenly cleared at this moment, and he just looked at the battlefield intently.

The Ming Army's convoy of supplies was very large, placed on the ground in such a long dragon-like shape, it stretched so long that you couldn't see the end at all, as if dividing the entire land into two sides.The long dragon was filled with smoke, and the crowd in the distance was hazy.They may have 3 or 4 people, or [-] or [-] people, but Adai Khan can't estimate them just by observing them like this.

The main force of Horqin's cavalry has not yet attacked, and the teams are gathering in the open ground below the high ground.Where the horses are densely packed, the ground is covered with a layer of dust, and the horses are like being in clouds.The land here is not very good, there seems to be salt in the soil, the vegetation is sparse, and it is easy to get dusty.

And those cavalry from various tribes in Wuliangha, before the news of the drums from the Great Khan, had already started to attack the enemy's long dragons.The Ming army is changing its formation and deploying defenses. The Wuliangha people should be worried that they will miss the opportunity.

Even Adai Khan could see that many Ming troops at the north and south ends were abandoning their vehicles and gathering in the middle, trying to form a larger square formation with more depth.

At this time, several Mongolian riders came uphill.The high ground is very gentle and can be rushed up by riding a horse.

One of the people who came was the leader of the Horqin tribe. He bowed with his hands on his chest, and said, "Report to the Great Khan, our people saw Ming army knights rushing northward, and they have already gone to ask for help."

Adai Khan nodded, pointed to the black smoke in the distance and asked, "What is that?"

The leader said: "It seems to be the tung oil in the car. There are other things in it, and it smokes a lot when it burns."

Adai Khan was still looking at the thick smoke.

Seeing this, the leader of the tribe next to him said again: "The Ming army used firecrackers a lot. The profuse sweat saw the flashes of light and could hear the sound of the blunderbuss. They stopped in place in such a long formation, and the blunderbusses couldn't stop the cavalry charging. Finally The Ming army in front was not prepared enough, let alone stop the Wuliangha cavalry, so they ignited the tung oil cart. The Ming army should delay the attack and buy time for the troops behind."

Adai Khan watched carefully for a while, and sure enough, he found that the Ming army facing the Mongolian army at the forefront was retreating.

The Ming army convoy roughly consisted of three parallel columns. Because the Mongols attacked from the west, the Ming army and horses all faced the west.After rushing to kill the first few Wuliang Hama teams, they have already broken through the first convoy defense line of the Ming army.

Those Ming soldiers should have temporarily sprinkled barbed wire and other things on the ground, and ignited the tung oil carts, and occasionally even saw very large gunpowder burning-exploding lights, and then many infantry were retreating; In the second convoy of the army, many people got off their horses and were cleaning up something on the ground.

Another person beside Da Khan said: "Sooner or later, we will be able to cut off the long convoy of the Ming people. Then we will turn around from all directions and find weak places to disrupt their infantry formation."

Adai Khan said: "This is the supply camp of the Ming army, isn't there too many people?"

The man who spoke just now said: "Khan is right, the Ming army has a lot of infantry in the rear battalion. Perhaps they were also wary of our roundabout attack in advance, and the guards are extremely numerous."

The Horqin cavalry is about to be assembled.The gathered horses were located nearly two miles west of Changlong of the Ming Army, because the Mongols knew that the Ming Army had a cannon that could hit one mile away.

But at this moment, there was no sound of cannons among the Ming army crowd.Their supply battalion may not have had time to load the cannons. Even if they were loaded, they would be more likely to release the kind of shotguns with many small iron pellets and stones in order to repel a cavalry charge; enemies are useless.

The main force of the Horqin cavalry began to move forward slowly.However, Adai Khan's decision to order the attack has not yet come out.

Many subordinates around him turned their heads to look at Da Khan, and some of them had puzzled expressions on their faces.

Adai Khan's hesitation really puzzled people.Any general with some experience could tell that sooner or later a convoy as long as the Ming army would be finished.Perhaps the Ming army's firearms, horse-repelling guns, and caltrops could stop the cavalry for a while, and even inflict great damage in some places; , Most of the infantry holding firearms will collapse.

"Wait a little longer." Adai Khan said with a calm expression.

His mood was actually a little up and down.Of course, he also very much hoped that everything would be as expected.After all, if this is a trap, no matter what Adai Khan does now, it will be irreversible and he will suffer a big loss.It's like this on the battlefield, one wrong step, and you're restricted everywhere.The Mongols are mainly cavalry, which is more flexible than the Han army, but it will also enter a passive situation.Adai Khan is very unwilling to see this situation.

However, Adai Khan couldn't resolve the uneasiness in his heart. He always felt that something was wrong on his intuition, but he couldn't tell the reason with certainty.

As the smoke cleared, a wave of Wuliangha cavalry began to attack the second convoy of the Ming army in the distance.Adai Khan turned his eyes away from the nearby horse herd and stared at the scene in the distance.

There is thin smoke in the air, and the smoke and dust in the place where the battle is fought is even thicker, and patches of fire are flickering every once in a while.Adai Khan knew that it was a volley of firecrackers from the Ming army, and the Ming army would fire them alternately. Those firecrackers were equivalent to shooting arrows, but the rate of fire was slow and they were more lethal to people in armor.

The Wuliangha people's attack was not smooth, and they were directly repelled several times by the firecrackers.Once, some cavalrymen seized Kong Kong and rushed to the front of the Ming army's formation.

At this time, several fast horses rushed up the slope, one of them jumped off his mount, and presented a firecracker to Adai Khan with both hands.

Adai Khan reached out to take it and stared at it for a while.He saw that the firecracker in front of him was quite different from the firecrackers used by the Ming army. He first discovered that this kind of firecracker was longer and had a sharp knife in front, which looked like a spear in his hand.Then Adai Khan discovered that there was no matchlock at the end of the firecracker, but a copper-forging mechanism.

He looked at it for a while and handed it to the nobles around him.

No wonder the Wuliangha people in the distance made no progress when they reached the second line of defense. Some cavalry rushed to the front of the formation and did not dare to break the formation.The firecrackers of the Ming army held this kind of spear, and the horses were not willing to charge upwards. Moreover, the smoke flashes and bursting noises emitted by the firecrackers from time to time would also affect the courage of the horses.Perhaps continuous charging with fine cavalry could break the Ming army's formation, but the price would be too high, which is very different from the usual combat habits of the Mongolian tribes.

Adai Khan watched the black smoke from the burning tung oil again, and the retreating crowd of Ming soldiers in the first Ming army formation.

His face was pale, and finally he said: "Those people in front are fraudulent defeats, this is a prepared trap."

There was an uproar all around, and then an atmosphere of anger and panic spread on people's faces.

Adai Khan immediately said: "Send someone to order our cavalry not to advance, and to retreat immediately. Tell Uliangha's ministries to stop attacking and prepare to withdraw."

The general next to him holding the flag bowed and got on his horse.