The Thirteenth Prince's Northern Tour (2)
With a "whoosh", a feathered arrow shot out, hitting a yellow sheep on its back. The yellow sheep rolled in the grass for a few moments, and fell to the ground and stopped moving.
Wan Yan Yungong put down the bow, sat on the horse and looked around proudly. Although he rarely hunted in recent years, he still often practiced bows and arrows in the East Palace, so he was not yet alive.
A golden soldier had already run over, lifted the yellow sheep with the arrow high, and ran back. Wan Yan Yungong had already heard a cheer around him, Shi Ju, Jia Gu Qi, Wan Yan Baisa, Move Pu A, Zhang Wenshou and others applauded.
"Your Highness is a good archery."
"Your Highness is really a magic arrow."
"Your Highness's divine arrow is unparalleled in the world, although it is difficult to compare with Uncle Yang and Li Guang."
Wanyan Yungong took the yellow sheep handed over by the soldier, laughed and said, "Okay, let's eat roast whole sheep tonight!" ”
At this time, Temujin and his four masters, who were standing a little farther away, did not go up to join in the fun, but whispered on the side. Tie Yuzhen snorted lightly and said, "The prince of the Jin Kingdom turned out to be such a person who only knows how to have fun. ”
Bol suddenly said, "Isn't that good? After he becomes the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, we don't have to be afraid of the Jin Kingdom anymore, and at that time, we can avenge the Baba Khan back then. ”
Chi Lao Wen shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not that easy, I heard that the land of the Jin country is larger than our entire grassland, and the warriors of the Jin country are more than the population of our entire grassland, and if you want to avenge the Khan of the Baba Khan, I'm afraid it's not so easy." ”
Borshu said: "Have you forgotten that Wanyan Changzhi who once came to our Mongolian department? This person is not easy to deal with, as long as he is there, we can't despise Jinyun? ”
Mu Huali smiled slightly: "If a sheep is used as the leader, even if the team is a tiger, the steel teeth will be blunt, and the claws will be bald, so there will be nothing to fear." ”
Bol suddenly smiled, patted Mu Huali's shoulder, and said, "Mu Huali, you said it so well. Great Khan, what do you say? ”
Temujin shook his head and said, "A real tiger will not obey the command of a sheep, and whether he is a tiger or not depends on himself." ”
While a few people were talking, suddenly there were birds flying in front of them, and dust was flying, obscuring the sky, apparently a large number of troops had arrived. Several people's attention was immediately drawn to it. Mu Huali said: "Could this be Wang Han's coming?" But it seems that there are twenty or thirty thousand horses, to say the least! What did he bring so many men for? ”
Temujin condensed: "No matter who it is, you can't let your guard down, let the soldiers go down, and let the soldiers prepare for battle." Borshu, you send someone over to take a look, it's the people from there. ”
At this time, Wanyan Yungong and others also discovered the dust in front of them, and Jia Guqi said: "Will this be (Sese, is Wang Han coming?) ”
Wan Yan Yungong smiled: "Is this old man here?" He dared to come now, to see what else he had to say. ”
At this time, Temujin rushed over with Sijie with the scriptures, his face was solemn, and he said: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, I have sent someone to find out clearly, the people who came are not Wang Han, but the Tatars, they have about 20,000 people and horses, I am afraid it will be unfavorable to His Highness, so please ask Your Highness to hide for a while." Let us Mongols resist for a while. ”
When Jiaguqi heard this, his face also changed, and he knew that Wanyan Fushou and Wanyan Changzhi had sent an envoy to Mongolia and united the Kereh and Mongolian tribes to conquer the Tatar tribe together, so that the Tatar tribe was weakened from then on, so that it was later defeated by Temujin and driven out of the territory of the fishing sea. Now that the army is coming, it will naturally not be a good thing, it must be revenge. He has been guarding in the north for a long time, and he knows very well how powerful these steppe Tatars are, and if there is any mistake, he is afraid that he will be destroyed. Therefore, he hurriedly said: "Your Highness, the Great Khan of Temujin is right, after the Mongol army is broken, let's quickly withdraw to Huanzhou." ”
After hearing this, Yan Yungong laughed and said, "They came just in time, there are also 30,000 male soldiers under the command of this king, what is there to be afraid of, just let them see the power of my Dajin Xiongshi." Tell the order to go down and prepare for battle. ”
Dajin is a martial country, although it has been deeply sinicized in recent decades, and the style of writing has gradually improved, but the children of the royal family still complain that they have to learn archery martial arts since childhood, and Wanyan Yungong is no exception. And he is good at hunting, and he has practiced martial arts a little hard. Usually compete with the guards, the guards naturally don't dare to really do it with him, deliberately give in, and flatter, so Wanyan Yungong thought that he was really brave, and he was young and vigorous, so he wanted to really go to the battlefield to show his skills.
Unexpectedly, this time he was ordered to patrol the north, and he encountered such an opportunity, so Wanyan Yungong could miss it, threw the yellow sheep in his hand to a guard, and said: "Put away this sheep and keep it for the evening celebration to eat." Then he clamped his legs around the belly of the horse, and the white horse under his seat neighed and rushed out. Jia Guqi secretly complained in his heart, but there was no way, so he hurriedly urged the horse to chase Yan Yungong. The others were also afraid that Wan Yan Yungong would make a mistake, so they urged them to follow.
When Temujin heard this, he was also shocked, if the crown prince of Daikin had an accident in his own land, then he would not be able to get rid of it anyway. Now I can't tear my face with Daikin yet. Only then did I understand that the Tatars were actually coming for Wanyan Yungong, and this move was very powerful. However, after the Tatars were defeated by themselves, and now that the Tatars are in great decline, it is good to have thousands of people, how can they send an army of twenty or thirty thousand? There must be a reason for this.
But now it's too late to think about it so much, so Tie Yuzhen also urged the horse to catch up with Wan Yan Yungong, and persuaded the others together, and finally said that Yan Yungong avoided forcibly retracting his life, and no longer went into battle in person, but did not leave, but stayed in the rear and commanded the whole army to fight.
At this time, the Tatar army was close to the front, and it was only two or three miles away from the Jin army. Wanyan Yungong found a small hillside, and Shi Ju, Wanyan Baisa, moved Pu A, Zhang Wenshou and others immediately watched the battle on the hillside. And left the 3,000 gold army and Temujin to lead the Mongol army to protect. The three generals of Jiaguqi, Fusanqi, and Liu Chuanzhong led the remaining 30,000 Jin troops to fight the Tatar army.
The two sides engaged in a fierce battle on the steppe.
The Tatar army that came to attack was about 25,000 people, and all of them were cavalry, and of the 30,000 horses of the Jin army, half were infantry and cavalry. Although the numbers of the two sides were about the same, and the Jin army still had a slight advantage, most of Dajin's elite stayed on the southern border to prevent the Southern Song Dynasty from attacking. Among the 30,000 troops, the majority were new troops.
Moreover, the Jin Kingdom has always been based on cavalry warfare, although there are also infantry, but only as an auxiliary to the cavalry. Unlike the Song Dynasty, mixed infantry and cavalry operations were implemented. In battle, it is often the first to use the cavalry as a kidnapping horse, attack from both flanks, break up the enemy's formation, and then the infantry army will kill from the middle to clean up the mess, this set of tactics is quite useful against the Song army, which is dominated by the infantry army, but this time in the grassland, it is not easy to use.
When the two armies have not yet come into contact, they attack each other with bows and arrows, and then attack with sabers and spears when they engage in close combat. The soldiers of the Tatar army were skilled in riding, as if they were on horseback, and they were unusually brave, galloping back and forth on horseback. The cavalry of the Jin army was originally small in number, and the personal quality of the soldiers was not as good as that of the Tatar army. So the two armies were short to fight, and most of the people who were beaten down were golden soldiers.
In the Jin army, only Jiaguqi's 3,000 men and horses have been guarding the north for a long time, and although the servants and Liu Chuanzhong are also battle-hardened generals, they have never fought with the grassland peoples. As soon as the battle was engaged, I knew how powerful this group of steppe Tatars were. After several battles back and forth, they were suddenly killed by the Tatar army, and suffered numerous casualties.
At this time, thousands of men and horses were detached from the Tatar army to attack the infantry of the Jin army. Seeing that the cavalry was defeated by the enemy, the Jin army's infantry couldn't help but feel a little frightened, and when they saw the enemy attacking them, they couldn't resist it, and they were killed by the Tatar army and retreated again and again. In less than half an hour, they retreated to the vicinity of the small slope where Wanyan Yungong and the others were.
The leader of the Tatar tribe, Ta'er Hutai, had already seen the banner of Wanyan Yungong on the hillside. Immediately personally led thousands of men and horses and launched a fierce attack on the hillside. Fortunately, at this time, Fu Sanqi and Liu Chuanzhong also retreated to the edge of the hillside, leading the Jin army to be condescending and holding on to the death, and for a time the Tatar army could not break through the defense of the Jin army.
Wanyan Yungong is still the first time to see the real battlefield, only his eyes are full of swords and swords, flesh and blood flying, the screams of soldiers, and the wailing of war horses are endless. Severed heads, severed limbs, dead bodies and dead horses were everywhere. The smell of blood was all over his nose, and the tragic condition was far from what he had seen when he hunted before.
What's more, although he was new to the battlefield, he could also see that the Jin army was not the opponent of this kind of Yidi, and seeing that the enemy army was getting closer and closer, several arrows shot at the hillside, although there was still a certain distance from them, and Yan Yungong's face was pale with fright. Shi Ju, Wanyan Baisa, moved Pu A, Zhang Wenshou and others trembled all over, and their bodies were like sieving chaff.
Wan Yan Bai said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness, let's withdraw quickly, it's too dangerous here." ”
Shi Ju also said: "Yes, Your Highness, let's retreat quickly, otherwise we won't be able to run away when this gang of Yidi rushes up." ”
The others also said, "Yes, yes, let's run." ”
Wanyan Yungong actually wanted to retreat, but he was too full of words just now, and he couldn't pull his face for a while. At this time, seeing that everyone persuaded him to run, he just took the opportunity to step down. Just as he was about to flee, he saw Temujin riding his horse in front of him and said loudly: "Your Highness, don't panic, the Tatars have already been defeated by our men, and they are nothing remarkable." See how our Mongol army defeated them. ”
It turned out that he wanted to see what the combat effectiveness of the Jin Army was just now, so he kept his troops still. At this time, seeing that the Jin army was defeated and defeated, Wanyan Yungong and others were so frightened that they wanted to flee, and their hearts were naturally full of disdain, so they took the initiative to ask for battle.