Chapter 252: The back mountain is in danger
Sixteen-year-old Zaril is an ordinary herdsman of the Khalkha Tukhan tribe, a small tribe of only about 2,000 people, and just half a month ago, the tribe of Zaril was attacked by a group of Ming troops wearing red armor.
After these Ming troops surrounded their tribes, they began to forcibly order the tribesmen to surrender, at the beginning, naturally no one would surrender, they were all descendants of the great Genghis Khan, how could they surrender to the Ming people, so under the leadership of the bravest warrior in the tribe, Al Slen, hundreds of warriors rode war horses with bows and arrows to launch a counterattack against those Ming troops, but something terrifying happened.
These Ming troops are completely different from the legendary Ming army that has fallen and decayed, they are not only extremely fierce but also the firearms in their hands are also very sharp, and then tragedy happened, more than 300 warriors just a few cups of mare's milk wine all fell into a pool of blood.
In the face of the powerful Ming army and killing, the tribe that lost most of its youth and strength had to surrender, and Zarile will never forget the scene he saw when he collected the corpses, the corpse that was beaten by firearms like a pile of tattered cloth bags turned out to be the strongest warrior of the tribe in the past, and at this moment Zarile felt that the worldview he had believed in for more than ten years collapsed.
Zarile, who became a prisoner, followed his parents and took his sister to be a prisoner of the Ming army, but fortunately, although these Ming soldiers captured them, at least they did not abuse them, and the most incredible thing for him was that they were able to eat steamed buns and be full, which was too unexpected for him.
You must know that life is also very difficult for these small tribes, and poor herdsmen like Zarile have to do things for the leaders of the tribe every day, such as grazing, milking horses, washing clothes, and tending to livestock. Not to mention the hard work every day, he ate mixed with wild vegetables and miscellaneous grains, and he still couldn't eat enough, and in Zarile's memory, the days he could eat were as if he could count them on ten fingers.
However, this meal was not eaten in vain, and the work of setting up camp and digging trenches was originally the work of heavy soldiers, and since there were prisoners, it was the captives' turn to do these jobs.
In the following days, Zarile found that their team was slowly expanding, this Ming army attacked the small tribes scattered on the grassland everywhere, originally Zarile was still looking forward to other tribes to rescue them, but as time went by, this expectation became more and more slim, but more and more tribes were wiped out by the Ming army, resulting in the scale of their prisoner camp is also getting bigger and bigger, just less than half a month to expand to more than 20,000 people.
This afternoon, news began to circulate in the camp of the captives that their three Khalkha tribes had finally sent more than 10,000 troops to surround this Ming army, and it would not be long before they could be saved. This news spread more and more widely, and many herdsmen were even quietly discussing whether to wait for the Mongol army to fight and wipe out those Ming troops, but Zarile just listened silently, he had a hunch that this Ming army was not so easy to defeat.
In the evening, after a day's work, Zarile fell asleep early, only to wake everyone in the camp in the middle of the night to the rumbling sound of cannons. Listening to the rumbling cannons and gunfire in the distance, Zarile's family and the surrounding herdsmen looked into the distance and found that the sky in the distance was dyed red by the orange-red firelight.
Tonight's battle can be said to be very chaotic, just like the real-time strategy game of later generations, the main generals of both sides led most of the troops to the opponent's base, so that a dramatic scene appeared, the generals of both sides thought that as long as they destroyed the other party's base, the victory of this war must belong to them, but when the battle began, they were stunned to find that they were teased by the thief.
"Rush up...... Everyone rushes forward! Kill those Han Chinese! ”
The slopes of the back hill were lit with sporadic fires, which were torches lit by Mongolian soldiers. As for the movement of the Mongols, if the baggage battalion stationed in the back mountain did not know, they could wipe their necks collectively.
As early as when the Mongols first started to attack, Qi Yan, who had been sitting in the baggage camp, discovered it for the first time. Thanks to Qi Yan, who was cautious and old-fashioned by nature, when Yang Feng handed over the safety of the entire camp to him, Qi Yan ordered 3,000 heavy soldiers to divide 1,000 people to guard the prisoners and supplies respectively, and the remaining 2,000 people immediately entered the position.
Facts have proved that Qi Yan's decision is very correct. When Udamu ordered the Mongol army to attack the prisoner camp in the back mountain, there was a commotion in the prisoner camp, and many of the herdsmen began to stir up, although the prisoners did not dare to move in the face of the muzzles and bayonets of the black hole for the time being, but as the atmosphere gradually became manic, if the situation continued to deteriorate, it would be a matter of time before the captives rioted.
At this critical moment, Qi Yan immediately ordered that if there was a riot, he would immediately shoot and suppress it, and with the sporadic gunshots, he finally suppressed the emotions of the captives who had begun to commotion.
"Kill......"
"Rush forward!"
"Bang ......"
"Brave people of the Immortal Heaven, what are you still hesitating about, we have come to save you, hurry up and kill those Han people...... Grab their weapons and rush out! ”
"Kill those Han Chinese and take their weapons!"
"Bang ......"
The answer to these Mongols was the bullets fired by the baggage soldiers, because the camp in the back mountain was not only dug out of several trenches, but also laid several barbed wire fences outside, and even stepped down the thistle, so the Mongolian cavalry could not attack for a while, but many people hated the lead bullets shot by the baggage soldiers.
The advantage of the cavalry lies in the speed, in the face of the obstacles laid by the Jiangning army such as barbed wire, thistles, and horse rejection, these Mongolian cavalry found that they had no way to take these things, and a group of people turned around in front of obstacles such as horse rejection and thistle, and finally became the target of the Ming army.
Seeing that the hundreds of cavalry who were in the first batch of charges could only wander in front of the rejection of horses and thistles, Udamu, who commanded in the back, was so anxious that his eyes were red, and he rushed to the back of those cavalry with a group of guards, pointed to the front and shouted and cursed: "Rush over...... You are all descendants of Genghis Khan, how can you stop in front of those cowardly Ming people and rush over to me! ”
A hundred households begged bitterly: "Wuda wood people, here is full of thistles of the Ming army, we really can't rush over!" ”
"Can't get through?" Wudamu laughed cruelly, raised the horsewhip in his hand and whipped it the body of this hundred households, you must know that Wudamu's horsewhip is mixed with copper wire with a horsetail, Rao is this hundred households are wearing leather armor, and they were also pumped so painfully that the whole person shouted out in pain.
"You idiot!" Wu Damu scolded fiercely: "Are your heads full of horse manure? Won't you move away if they refuse the horse? They laid thistles and terrestris, won't you pull them apart, the only thing the Ming people can rely on is their firearms, without firearms they are a flock of cowardly sheep, the only thing you have to do is to rush into the camp of the Ming army and teach them a hard lesson with your scimitar, if I see you here in a daze again, I will personally cut off your head, understand? ”
"Understood!"
Under the strict orders of Udamu, the Mongol cavalry also changed their tactics, some of them took ropes from their backpacks and threw them on the horses, and then dragged the horses away with horses, while others dismounted and pulled away the thistles strung together, and in less than a quarter of an hour, they made a passage at the foot of the mountain.
"Genghis Khan's sons and grandsons, everyone is rushing with me!" The hundred households who had opened up the passage raised their scimitars and roared, and took the lead in riding their horses and rushing up the mountain.
"Good! This is the warrior of our Khalkha department! Udamu, who was supervising the battle behind, happily waved his horsewhip and let out a loud whistle in the air.
It's just that Udammu was too happy, and the first hundred households had just passed through the defense line composed of thistles and horses, and had just rushed to the last barbed wire, when he heard a low burst of gunfire in front of him, and the hundred households who were riding his horse over the barbed wire were as if he had been punched heavily in mid-air, and the whole person flew out of the horse's back, and his heavy body fell heavily on the barbed wire below.
He fell to the barbed wire and did not move, bright red blood foam kept pouring out of his mouth, a pair of eyes were wide open, although he tried to say something, but blood came out of his mouth.
"Bang ......"
The sound of firearms kept ranging, and it turned out that the baggage soldiers hiding in the trench were using torches to fire at the Mongol cavalry rushing towards them, and the Mongol cavalry fell down one after another in the sound of gunfire.
Udamu, who was supervising the battle in the back, said to Buhe Chaolu and Balhu beside him with a fierce look: "You have also seen that the Ming army is fighting with the same idea as us, and now our battalion must have been crushed by the Ming army." Our only chance to turn defeat into victory is to rush into their camp before the Ming army returns, rescue our herdsmen and burn their supplies, as long as all their supplies are burned, the Ming army will be defeated without a fight in this vast grassland, you know? ”
Buhe Chaolu and Balhu took a deep breath, and nodded at the same time, they are not stupid, the six thousand soldiers and horses they left in front to make bait must have been defeated by the Ming army, if they can't take advantage of the absence of the main force of the Ming army to rush in and promise to burn the grain and grass materials, it means that their expedition has been a complete failure, if they run back to the tribe like this, what awaits them will be the severe punishment of the tribe leader.
Balhu glanced ahead and said fiercely: "We are also out of the way this time, and we will not give up if we don't break through the Ming army camp tonight!" ”
Buhe Chaolu also showed a fierce look: "Yes, we are also out tonight, and we will not give up if we don't break the Ming army camp!" ”
"Good!"
Udamu shouted, "As long as we can break through the camp of the Ming army, we will win this time, and I will naturally ask for credit for you in front of Qi Li Khan at that time!" Cattle, sheep, horses, and grain beauties are all up to you! ”
"Up!"
Under the guarantee of Udamu, Buhe Chaolu and Balhu each led 2,000 people to attack the top of the mountain from both sides, they braved the fire of the Ming army and pulled away the horse with ropes, and then let the cavalry get down to pull the iron thistle, after clearing the passage, the cavalry began to charge forward, and the pressure on the back mountain began to increase greatly for a while.
"Lord Qi, there are too many Mongolian Tatars, and our people are a little unbearable!" In the trenches, a hundred households from a baggage battalion ran to Qi Yan, who was commanding behind, to report.
"If you can't stand it, you have to push it, behind us is the prisoner camp, if you let the prisoners escape, do you think of the consequences? And...... And the medical battalion is also behind us, once there is a loss of ......"
Speaking of this, a cold sweat was already oozing from the forehead of this hundred households. The more than 200 doctors and nurses in the medical camp today are the lifeblood of Jiang Ningjun, and he can't imagine what will happen once he is rushed into the medical camp by the Mongolian Tatars, I am afraid that without Yang Feng's action, those sergeants who rushed back may not be able to spare them.
The hundred households gritted their teeth: "Okay! If the Tartars want to rush into the camp, they must first step on the corpses of the lowly positions, but can you transfer some of the brothers who are guarding those captives to the lowly positions, even if it is one or two hundred? ”
"No...... Not a single reinforcement! Qi Yan said categorically: "Don't forget, those brothers still have to guard more than 20,000 prisoners, once those prisoners rush out, the consequences will be unimaginable." Now the only way out for us is to hold on until Lord Yang returns! ”
"Okay!"
Hyakhe gritted his teeth and went back.
The Mongol attack was more violent, a cavalry made a strange scream and rushed towards the hillside, and the baggage soldiers in the trench were using the fire guns in their hands to shoot forward, although a cavalry was knocked to the ground, but the cavalry behind had already rushed forward one after another, and after a while, there were more layers of corpses in front of the position, but the Mongol soldiers still kept charging as if they had beaten chicken blood, and for a while the entire defense line of the back mountain became crumbling.
The fierce fighting in the back mountains naturally stimulated the Mongolian herdsmen in the captive camp, and at one point, hundreds of herdsmen once encouraged their companions to storm the surrounding barbed wire fence and try to rush out, and the entire captive camp was in chaos for a while.
In the captive camp, a middle-aged man from the same tribe as Zarile found him: "Zarile, look, we are about to be saved, our warriors are coming, you can come along, let's rush out together, kill those Mingren, rob their weapons, and then we will be rich!" ”
Zarile looked up, and the middle-aged man's eyes were full of excitement and greed.