Chapter 284: Mutton
Hulan is mobilizing the enemy.
The reason why the main force was able to avoid all the villages was because those villages had already been patronized by his riders, twelve cavalry detachments, each team of five people, led by a Beiyang banner army with a strong sense of direction and knowledge of the map, a Jurchen hunter in charge of stumbling, and three Mongolian riders as the main force.
They walked faster than the brigade, six on the left and six on the left, and the left and right were divided into two teams, the first team reconnoitred first, and after the reconnaissance, they went around in circles and returned behind the second team, and the second team came forward to clash with each of the Huron villages.
Wait for the second team to train in the field with the Hurons, who are good at running, and then the first team will catch up with them to ensure that the pursuers follow their prescribed route.
It is precisely because of this that this road is a smooth road for Hulan.
Along the river north of Lake Ontario, Chief Mohawk Grand Flint could finally catch his breath after a long journey, and he saw Hulan encamped by the river, a dark green tent like a small house under a straight, towering birch forest.
He thinks the same as the big raccoon, these people are really well fed.
It's like Chen Mu asked Yin Zhengmao to look at the fortress, and the Western minister opened his mouth and said, 'The Europeans are in a big sin', and at this moment, Da Suishi looked at the young men who burned the pot of shabu outside the camp tent of the Hulan Ministry.
Let the Great Flint choose again, he will never compete with Hulan, and lead his troops to leave this place before he is about to penetrate into the hinterland of Huron...... After following up, he found that there were fewer and fewer of his subordinates, and the soldiers with good physical strength were able to keep up, while the soldiers with poor physical strength ran and disappeared.
When he found that there were less than six hundred people left, there was no turning back, there were tribes of the Huron people in front and behind, and it was possible to survive only by following Hulan.
Just when he thought that Hulan's idea was to directly cross the north bank of the Great Lake and attack from the south of the undefended tribe of the Ottawa Chinese, he found that Hulan and his subordinates stopped on the north bank, and it seemed that he was in a good mental state.
Under the birch forest, two low walls were built with stones outside the camp tent of the Hulan tribe, and the camp was a strict appearance that the Mohawks had never seen.
Hulan came here the night before, and slept very unsteadily, not daring to raise a fire, and afraid of accidents, and the lake in spring was cold enough at night, and his clothes were soaked with moisture when he got up in the morning.
But it's better than a big flint with smoky makeup.
"Eat meat, drink water, sleep, this is the battlefield at the earliest this afternoon, tomorrow at the latest noon, and then you will have to run."
Hulan asked Lao Taishan to tell the flint chief what he meant, and just in time for Guan Zheng, who was holding an iron helmet, stepped on the mud by the river and came over with a foot deep and a shallow foot, the two exchanged glances, Guan Zheng held his helmet and hugged his fists and said: "Qianhu, get it right, there is not much gunpowder, and you have to prepare for the next battle, you can only blow up thirteen trees." ”
Hulan was a little dissatisfied with this number, but there was no other way, the number of flag troops was not much, and they did not carry heavy artillery, and now they can have gunpowder to blow up trees or Jincheng to match, and they need to camp on the road and prepare wood-picking tools.
The specific theory Hulan didn't understand, only knew that in Guan Zheng's words, it was called 'directional blasting', and if he wanted the tree to fall down, he first used a saw axe to cut a hole on the reverse side, drilled a few holes in the front and stuffed the gunpowder tube into it and sealed it, and the tree fell when it was detonated.
Along the way, the thicker the tree, the bigger the gap, and the more drugs are used.
Fortunately, this birch forest is not as thick as a cedar tree, and it is very drug-saving.
Hulan said, "It's okay, as long as it can cause chaos for them." ”
As soon as he finished saying this, he heard the big flint arguing about something, and the big raccoon came back and said helplessly: "The big flint said that he is not a coward and will not run away." ”
"He doesn't run? Anyway, I would run and tell him that the enemy would attack here first as soon as they came, and that the wooden fences and walls were all fake, and a few sticks were covered with cloth on a layer of soil, and they would fall down as soon as they were pushed. ”
"There is a river behind this place, and if we run in both directions, they will chase them in both directions, and when they are separated, some trees will be blown down, and we will turn back and surround them...... There are far more enemies than we are, but if you turn back, you can surround them with a river and a fallen tree. ”
Hulan raised his arm and pointed to the river as he spoke: "When they break and flee, they can only jump into the river and drown themselves." ”
"Let the cockscomb stop thinking about capturing prisoners all day long, this is a war, the most important thing is to win, defeat this pursuing enemy army, we can kick all the way to the gate of the Ottawa tribe, pin down all the Hurons on the north bank of the Great Lake, and let the tribal army on the south bank approach Montreal unhindered."
"When we join forces with the army on the south bank, the more the Hurons lose in this battle, the less the main force will be able to meet us, kill them and return to the carbines, and there will be no Hurons in the future."
The big flint doesn't care what you Hulan says, people take their subordinates into the birch forest to eat meat, and after eating the meat, they sit on the shore and run away?
It's too cowardly.
The cowardly Iroquois could not marry a wife.
The key big raccoon itself doesn't quite understand what Hulan said, and the Iroquois war has always been carefully planned, but this is a battle, not the whole war.
They could send 12,3000 troops to fight in a land thousands of miles away from the tribe in a few months, but they lacked the vision of the big picture.
The various tribes are not subordinate to each other, and it has always been a combination of several friendly armies rather than a single army, not to mention the lack of a mature logistics system, for most tribal leaders fifty miles is already a long way away, and they are expected to think further?
Just as Hulan was racking his brains to persuade the angry Great Flint to obey his decision, four long, low sounds of bull's horns were heard in the distance that afternoon, followed by the sound of horses' hooves mixed with shouts of killing from the other end of the meadow hill.
This was Hulan's men, and the sound of the horn meant that more than four hundred enemies were chasing them.
Soon, the four horsemen galloped from west to east in front of the birch forest camp, their quivers were empty, their armor was pitted, the horses were covered with messy blood, and the last horse still had three short and one long arrows and javelins on its buttocks.
Farther away, the crowd of blackened people rushed towards this direction.
Hulan shouted loudly while leading the war horse: "Get on the horse, mutton, mutton!" ”
The members of the Beiyang Banner Army, who had already been ordered to raise their guns under the order of Baihu Guan, were stupid, they had never eaten mutton from beginning to end, especially today, they ate shabu bear meat.
The big raccoon dog and the aboriginal warriors were even more dazed, and they took it for granted that the 'mutton' was the battle cry before the battle of the Hulan tribe.
Hulan, who turned over on the horse, saw that his sense of humor did not work as well as it should, and he only felt extremely lonely, and no one on this continent understood his four-character allusions.
He was recreating the scene when Kublai Khan was suddenly attacked during his meal, and in order to win the prize, Kublai Khan ate a few slices of mutton shabu before the battle, and then won a great victory.
Hulan is also going to win a big victory.
The Mongol cavalry with helmets and armor jumped over the cloth wall, and the more than 40 horsemen of the Hulan Commander, holding bows and arrows, were at the front of the queue, and when their mounts raised dust and recharged towards the enemy formation, the riders opened their mouths and let the overtones pull the battlefield into the Mongolian steppe.
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