Chapter Twenty-Seven: Encountering the Enemy
The second year of Chongzhen was the first time that the Houjin army entered the customs, and the common people in Gyeonggi hated them to the core, and everyone hated them and punished them, and there were very few people who took the initiative to be traitors.
In fact, if the mobilization power of the Ming Dynasty is sufficient, it can mobilize the masses to defend the country, so that it is very possible for these tens of thousands of people to march into the ocean of people's war.
It's a pity that it backfired, and the decrees of the Ming Dynasty couldn't reach the township, and the local squires and clans basically had the final say.
Huang Han's strength is too weak in the bud to shake Jiannu, and now it is particularly important to preserve strength and seek development, choosing to fight a small-scale war of annihilation, and fighting a slippery head battle is the main theme of this attack.
In the early morning of December 14 of the second year of Chongzhen, in the cold wind and gloom, sixteen knights set off.
They had nine spare horses in addition to the war horses under their crotch, and Huang Han didn't have a flag, and he hadn't even figured out what to flag this small team.
Huang Han wanted to do good deeds this time without leaving a name, and be a living thunderbolt, so as not to be remembered by the slave chieftain, which is not conducive to development. Today's Huang Han is too small, high-profile is unacceptable, and low-key development is the king.
False fame is just floating clouds, affordability is Huang Han's only pursuit now, and now the opportunity is rare, and it is outdated to engage in equipment, seize horses, and grab gold and silver.
Because the Houjin army plundered the land of Gyeonggi for half a year at most, Huang Han had to seize these few months to make full military achievements and captures, and strive to make his father rise to the third or fourth level in a row to become a garrison military attache somewhere.
If the Houjin army returned to Liaodong, it would be difficult for Huang Han to rely on military merits to rise to the top.
To get the head of Jiannu in the pass, it is not possible to wait until the seventh year of Chongzhen to go to Xuanfu and Datong. Because the next time Jiannu entered the customs was to rob Xuanda in the seventh year of Chongzhen.
This means that in the next four years, if you want to build slaves, you will have to take your men and horses out of the customs to fight guerrillas in Liaodong, and the risks you need to take are more than 10 times more difficult than those in your own hometown.
The most important thing is not actually military merit and capture, how to do everything possible to reduce the casualties of the soldiers is a big thing.
In order to preserve the robe as much as possible, it is especially important to increase the protection of the equipment.
Within a month, Huang Han's mother led a group of women to make characteristic cotton nails, which were slowly sewn by women like the soles of shoes.
This kind of cotton armor is not only light and warm when worn on the body, but also has good protection against the penetration of feather arrows, and can also cushion the hitting power of cold weapons when lined in iron armor.
During this period, Yang Laoshi has already equipped the iron helmet with the mask armor required by Huang Han, this design is not worth mentioning, and the process is not complicated, that is, the arc-shaped iron plate with many holes is made, the size is similar to the face, and the strength reaches the foot bow fifty steps that cannot be penetrated by direct shots.
A warrior wearing armor can push the face armor above the helmet in normal times to get stuck without falling off, similar to the brim of a hat, and can cover 90% of the face area when pulled down when about to fight.
With this equipment, it will naturally lead to the casualty rate of the enemy's face shooting is only 10%.
This is not self-talking, because the Iron Helmet and Iron Mask Armor are also lined with women's tailor-made cotton armor, and even if the enemy's arrow cuts the weak part of the armor, the broken iron armor will be cushioned by the cotton armor, and the damage effect will be reduced too much.
This means that the enemy's arrows can accurately hit the holes in the visorat to have a chance to severely damage these family warriors, otherwise only face-to-face slashing can make the family members who are also armed to the teeth ineffective.
With a strong armor weapon, every fighter is full of confidence in this sortie.
They have all heard Song Pengfei tell the story of how Huang Han killed the enemy and took the horse home, everyone has a sense of substitution, they think that what Huang Han can do alone, now with sixteen people, it should be easier to do.
The soldiers were in a good mental state, they talked and laughed along the way, and no one was afraid of the unknown. More than half of them were still a little excited, and they all had the pride to find the marquis immediately.
Huang Han also intended to laugh with everyone to relieve his emotions, he looked at the man who was as strong as an ox and asked, "Why didn't you take a daughter-in-law?" If we lose our lives this time due to bad luck, wouldn't you have died without even tasting the taste of a woman? ”
Han Zihan smiled and said: "Brother Han is embarrassed to say that I, aren't you also a single?" ”
Yang Danian interjected: "Last year, someone proposed to Yang Dalang, a girl from Xiaoliuzhuang, he didn't look at it, and he disliked people's parents and got black." ”
Hanzi said: "Where do I think she has a black face, I can see that the girl is a little stupid, the villagers in Jiulitai have already called me Hanzi, I will marry a fool again, and I will not be laughed to death in the future." ”
All the family members were happy, and even Huang Yizhou couldn't help laughing. He said: "Da Lang, when the Jin army retreats, my uncle will definitely tell you about a white and pure smart girl." ”
Huang Han said: "Our son is going to be a general in the future, of course he wants to marry a beautiful girl, which eyeless matchmaker actually told you a dark and stupid girl, tell me, I will pump her as soon as I have time." ”
Hanzi said indignantly: "Yes! The stinky matchmaker actually looks down on Lao Tzu, because she is underdrawn. ”
Song Pengfei lost no time in saying loudly: "There will be no seeds." ”
A group of family members responded: "Men should be self-reliant!" ”
More than a dozen heroes full of enthusiasm were full of pride, and they rode their horses and galloped on the mountain road of the first expedition.
Later, the Jinnu chieftain Red Gang beheaded Man Gui in a formation, captured two generals under Man Gui - Ma Dengyun and Heiyun Long, and then he made persistent efforts and personally commanded the Eight Banners to annihilate the 7,000 men and horses led by Shen Fu, the deputy general who dared to go out of the capital to face the battle, near the Lugou Bridge.
At this point, the Ming Jingshi did not dare to take the initiative to attack the generals of the Houjin army, and the Ming army all cowered in the city and watched the Houjin army burn and loot.
The high walls of the Ming Jingshi city are thick, and the Houjin army came from afar, belonging to the cavalry raid, and did not carry siege equipment at all.
He is actually similar to Huang Han's thinking, picking soft persimmons and pinching them, the purpose is to pick up cheap and avoid the war of attrition and attacking fortifications that hurt the vitality of the Houjin army.
There was no Ming army to fight, and the Houjin robbers of course continued their great cause of robbery, during which the Jiannu slaughtered into Zhangjiawan and grabbed a smile, and then broke into Xianghe County to rob, rape, and murder again......
Jiannu, who had entered the realm of no one, did not expect that a small team had sneaked to Sijiao Mountain in the north of Yutian County, and they did not expect that a team of only sixteen people would come to cut the head of the Houjin army.
Later, the Jin army was preparing to attack Yutian County, but who knew that the county magistrate Yang Chufang read the sage book in the dog's stomach, and he actually surrendered to the barbarians regardless of his shame.
The Jiannu soldiers were even more arrogant in taking Yutian without blood, and they began to plunder outside Yutian County.
A group of eleven people in blue flag and armor rushed into the villages under the Sijiao Mountain to burn, kill and loot, and many of the people who did not have time to escape into the mountains and forests became unjust souls.
It is more than 20 miles away from the county seat, and the mountains are undulating, and Huang Han, who is hidden on the hill, saw that the village about the same size as Jiulitai Village under the mountain was on fire, and immediately realized that it should be the Houjin army looting.
Huang Han decided to rush over to see if there were any fighters, and he asked his father to take a few family members who were not capable of riding to wait at the foot of the mountain to wait for him.
Huang Han chose Hanzi, Yang Hanwei, Yang Danian, and Huang Sifang to follow him into battle, and ordered Song Pengfei to follow him a mile behind him as a good herald.
He agreed with everyone in simple sign language, raising a single fist to indicate that there were not many enemies, and his own side could completely annihilate them in one fell swoop, and the whole army attacked quickly.
Waving the palm of the hand means luring the enemy to the ambush point according to the plan, taking off the leather shield and waving it above the head to indicate that there are too many enemies, our army is dangerous, and do everything possible to escape one by one.
In the team of sixteen people, except for Huang Yizhou, only Hanzi, Yang Hanwei and other four people can ride and fight, and they can calmly launch long-range attacks on horses, Song Pengfei's riding skills are first-class, and it is of course appropriate to let him serve as a communicator.