Chapter 497: Bloody Bath in the Mongolian Steppe (2)
After setting up a large camp, several commanders of the Ying Long Army went to Yan Yingyuan's Fourth Army to take a turn.
Looking at the majestic war horses under the command of the Fourth Army, the other commanders of the Ying Long Army were all red-eyed.
"Okay, Yan Yingyuan, I've got so many good horses!" Zhang Kuishan patted Yan Yingyuan on the shoulder.
"Where, where, in addition to the soldiers of the Fourth Army sitting down, I have captured no less than 100,000 war horses!" Yan Yingyuan said with a smile, but the people present were shocked.
If you want to talk about the battle of Liaodong, Yan Yingyuan's Fourth Army has gained the most, it is undoubtedly a large number of war horses, after all, the Manchurians have grown up on horseback, and each Manchurian family has a few war horses, although they are not all top horses, but they are not bad.
Coupled with the resistance of a large number of Manchu nobles who were defeated, in addition to good war horses, there are also many top war horses in the Fourth Army, after all, those nobles have the best resources of the Manchurians, and naturally they also have the best war horses.
"What! No less than 100,000 horses! Zhang Kuishan, Ji Feng, Zhou Cao, Huang Degong and other commanders of the Yinglong Army were about to pop out their eyes, and their hearts were hot, and their eyes were weird when they looked at Yan Yingyuan, and they couldn't wait to join together to rob Yan Yingyuan's Fourth Army.
Under the eyes of several Ying Long army commanders, Yan Yingyuan's scalp was slightly numb.
"Don't look at me like that, these war horses are all to be dedicated to the emperor, if you want to, find the emperor to go!" Yan Yingyuan said with a smile.
Several Ying Long Army commanders glanced at each other, then turned to Yan Yingyuan and asked eagerly, "When will the 100,000 war horses be able to do it?" ”
Although Yan Yingyuan also brought a lot of war horses this time, several commanders of the Yinglong Army saw it, and there were definitely no 100,000 horses, so they asked this question, hoping to get those war horses in their hands as soon as possible.
Looking at the thoughts of several Ying Long army commanders, it seems that those war horses are already in their pockets.
In fact, several people were not worried that after Yan Yingyuan dedicated the war horse to Zhu Ci, they would not have their share, after all, the Ying Long Army was the emperor's most descendant army, and any good things were prioritized.
"I've sent my soldiers to drive them away, and I can be here in two days at most." Yan Yingyuan said with a smile.
Of course, he can't take all the 100,000 war horses with him, most of them are still in Shenyang City, Liaodong, although the war horses are running fast, but it takes at least two days to drive here from Shenyang City.
"Two days, it's not a long time!" Zhang Kuishan, Ji Feng and a few others grabbed their fists and said with some itching.
"Hahahaha! Let's go and report the news to the emperor! Ji Feng pulled Yan Yingyuan and walked towards Zhu Ci's Chinese army camp.
When Zhu Ci learned that Yan Yingyuan's Fourth Army had captured no less than 100,000 war horses during this time, he was also shocked, and then he was excited.
Not only Zhu Cihe, but everyone present was excited.
The Red Lady and Ma Yue'e are also in the tent, and they both have beautiful eyes, and it seems that they have also paid attention to those war horses.
Ma Yue'e is nothing, the most important thing under her command is the white pole soldiers, although the use of war horses increases mobility, can gallop quickly, but it will be limited a lot of combat power, and the red lady is different, the thirteenth army and the fourteenth army under her command are the original Henan Army, not long after the first establishment, although it is also the establishment of the Ming regular army, but it is not equipped with firearms, not to mention compared to the six Ying Long Army, even compared to the seventh army to the twelfth army that received the old equipment of the Ying Long army, but if it is equipped with war horses, it is different, At least in this great battle of troops into Mongolia, her 13th and 14th armies can rely on this to make some contributions.
To say that the Northern Expedition Red Lady took the two Henan Army under her command to participate, not only did she not have the ability to make any contributions, but in the battle of Yandang Mountain, the 14th Army was defeated by the Qing Army Breaking Dragon Army, and most of the casualties were killed, so that the emperor was attacked, although the emperor did not pursue it afterwards, but the Red Lady was reluctant to go, and always wanted to make up for it.
Thinking about it, the red lady glanced at Li Yan, she believed that Li Yan knew what she meant.
Li Yan was slightly helpless when he received the hint from the Red Lady, but he couldn't blatantly open his mouth to fight for the Red Lady, so he could only treat it as if he didn't see it, and he didn't return it to the Red Lady, which made the Red Lady grit his teeth.
Li Yan didn't look at the red lady, but looked at Zhu Cijiao, and said to Zhu Cijiao with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is definitely a great joy, with these war horses, the Mongols can't run!" ”
"Yes, the Mongols thought that in the endless Mongolian steppe, we would have no way to deal with them." Zhu Ci nodded and sneered.
The reason why the Mongols dared to plunder the people inside and outside Beijing before evacuating Beijing City was nothing more than relying on the lack of war horses in the Ming army, and they could calmly arrange it before the Ming army was killed, which was also what Zhu Ci was worried about, now that is good, Yan Yingyuan will offer no less than 100,000 war horses, that is, 100,000 cavalry, such strength will make the Mongols have no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the earth.
Immediately, Zhu Ciji asked Yan Yingyuan again when the war horse would arrive.
After learning that it would take two days for those war horses to arrive, Zhu Ci resolutely ordered the army to rest here for two days, and then make plans after those war horses arrived.
At the same time, in order to prevent the Mongols from getting the news in advance and being prepared, Zhu Ci sent all the scouts to kill the Mongol spies along the way and escort the 100,000 war horses.
Of course, it is impossible for the Mongols not to know about such a big thing as the Ming army's hundreds of thousands of troops entering the Mongolian steppe, and they did send a large number of spies to investigate.
Compared with the Mongol spies, a large number of soldiers of the Yinglong Army composed of war horses pursued and killed each other.
"Hey! Illustrious! "To the east, near the Great Wall, a scout party of ten Ying Long soldiers and thirteen Mongol spies encountered each other, chasing each other.
Ten of them were scouts of the Ying Long army chasing thirteen Mongols.
The pursued Mongols were furious.
"The Ming army actually killed the steppe, in the Central Plains we are not the opponent of the Ming army, but we Mongolians are the masters of this steppe!" A Mongol looked at the ten Yinglong scouts who were constantly chasing behind him, and said angrily.
"Don't run away, yes, in this steppe, we Mongolians are kings!" Another Mongolian said.
Thirteen Mongols reined in their horses and turned around to kill the ten Ying Long scouts who were pursuing them.
With thirteen people against ten people, the Mongols undoubtedly had a numerical advantage, plus they had lived on horseback since they were children, and they were skilled in equestrianism, so theoretically ten Ying Long army scouts were not their opponents.
It's a pity that although Ying Long's army is not in the pass, and his equestrian skills are not as good as the Mongols, they are not without support.
"What's long! The Mongols have stopped and are going to fight us! A soldier of the Ying Long Army said to the commander of the Ying Long Army, his tone was full of mockery, and he did not seem to take the numerically superior Mongols in his eyes at all.
"Hmph, the Mongols are looking for death, just kill them all!" Ying Longjun shouted and took the lead in whipping the sitted war horse, accelerating the impact, and at the same time raising the firing pistol with the bayonet in his hand, aiming the muzzle at the Mongols in front.
The other nine Yinglong soldiers did the same, raising their bayonet muskets and aiming them at the Mongols in front.
Two hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters
"Fire!"
"Bang Bang Bang"
Ten bullets went away, and the blazing bullets penetrated the chests of the Mongols, directly knocking the four Mongols down and falling from their horses, and the blood stained the soil on the steppe, and the thirteen Mongols suddenly became nine.
With a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, the ten scouts of the Ying Long Army quickly loaded their ammunition, and in less than three breaths, they finished their ammunition and fired another round at the Mongols at a distance of tens of meters.
"Papapa" once again knocked down four Mongols.
The Mongols were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they never thought that the firearms in the hands of Ying Longjun and the war horses could exert such power, and they were shot dead by eight people without checking for a while.
The Mongols also had bows and arrows in their hands, but they were too frightened to shoot arrows at the ten Ying Long scouts, who had already killed them.
Ten against five, the two sides engaged in a fierce fight.
The demoralized Mongols faced a siege by Yinglong's army, which was twice their size, and were quickly defeated, and four of them died in the siege.
The last remaining Mongol was afraid and did not want to fight again, so he seized an opportunity, slashed one of the scouts of the Ying Long army, turned his horse's head, and rode away.
"Damn, want to run? Leave your life first! The slashed Ying Longjun scout was furious, endured the pain in the wound, quickly loaded the bullet and aimed at the fleeing Mongols, and pulled the trigger.
"Bang" The fleeing Mongol fell from his horse.
Ten against thirteen, the scouts of Ying Long's army won a complete victory, but because the bayonet in the war horse was not as good as the Scimitar of the Mongols, two people were injured.
In two days, a scout-to-scout battle ended with the Ming army gaining the upper hand, and the Mongols never found 100,000 horses driven along the edge of the Great Wall from Liaodong to the grasslands north of Beijing in the west.
Two days later, 100,000 horses were finally driven to the Ming army camp.