Text Volume 2 Dawn Morning_Chapter 265 Breakthrough
Daleng, who is in his 30s, is a herdsman from a small vassal tribe of the Chahar tribe, although he has always appeared to be honest and even regarded as too timid.
However, because of his good riding skills and horse-keeping skills, he had already been drafted into the Great Khan's army several times.
Strange to say, the person who would be the first to bend down against anyone in the tribe seems to have become a different person once he enters the army.
When he was in the midst of the army, surrounded by cavalry of his kind, he suddenly became more daring than the best warriors of his clan.
It seems that as soon as he enters the battlefield, he is in a new world, in which there are not so many rules and regulations, which can allow him to release his ** wholeheartedly.
The cruel and vicious thoughts that had been hidden deep in his heart in the past could be carried out against weak enemies and those women and children without hesitation, and no one would stop him.
The actions of doing whatever he wanted in these weak people not only brought him a lot of wealth, but also brought him spiritual satisfaction.
When he wantonly disposed of these women and children, he felt that he was the powerful tribal leader in the clan, and the women and children on the other side became his former self, and what he wanted to do to them, these women and children would not resist except crying for mercy or hugging each other tightly.
This scene often reminded him of the first time in his life that he was whipped and begged for mercy by a tribal leader. Whether he was twelve or thirteen years old, he can't remember. In fact, he couldn't even remember why he had been whipped.
The only thing he could remember was lying dying in the open space in front of his yurt, while his parents knelt on one side and pleaded with the chief, who was untouched by their pleas.
To this day, he can still remember the leader's emotionless eyes staring at him, and the way his left hand played with the beads without hurry.
Since that whipping, he has developed a tendency to cringe at everyone. It was only when he tortured captured women and children in the army that he could forget the time of his chief.
Of course, when facing a strong enemy like Houjin, or a situation where the enemy is outnumbered, Daleng will revert to the image of a cowering and harmless ordinary herdsman.
However, on a battlefield like today, being in a torrent of cavalry, fighting against the Ming army on the opposite side that seemed to be thin-numbered, made Daleng feel that his body was full of strength, and he wanted to vent out as soon as possible.
Da Leng even slightly ahead of his comrades by a horse, and pounced towards the thin-looking Ming cavalry array in the distance.
With his rare combat experience, except for the army of the Later Jin, the cavalry of other Mongol tribes, once they encountered a battle with a huge disparity in strength, would generally collapse in formation within a few breaths, and then scatter and flee.
Behind Daleng, after the whole thousand-man team opened, it was seven or eight miles wide. The Ming army facing the opposite side was only a mile wide at most.
This gave Daleng the illusion that he was like a tiger with a big mouth open, and on the other side was a yellow sheep sent to the tiger's mouth. He was very confident that as long as there was one engagement, the Ming army, which was surrounded on all sides, would be torn apart in an instant.
From the sight of the leading cavalry of the Ming army, to the official contact between the two armies. In Daleng's senses, time has only passed for a moment.
But his mood changed from incomparably excited to outright frightened, and his belief that the Ming army would slow down their horses because of timidity, or simply turn around and flee, etc., did not happen.
On the contrary, the cavalry of the Ming army, armed from head to toe, always maintained a certain speed and neat formation, and roared towards them.
These Ming cavalry were different from the Mongol cavalry, who liked to shout and shout during battle, and even when they charged, they remained silent, and could only faintly hear some sharp whistles sounding from time to time.
Daleng did not know that this was the way the Ming army used to mobilize the army. But he knew very well that if he continued to advance at this pace, he would definitely crush in front of these Ming troops first.
He didn't think that he, wearing a sheepskin jacket, could compete one-on-one with the iron-clad Ming cavalry on the opposite side. What's more, at this distance, he can already clearly see that there is still an endless cavalry queue in the rear of the Ming army.
Before Da Leng's thoughts could react, his body had quickly turned an angle to the left, trying to get out of the front of the Ming cavalry.
Although these Mongols were skilled in horsemanship, they did not pay attention to strict discipline and organization when fighting. The formation they were able to maintain while running was not formed by organization, but was formed naturally by the horseman's individual horsemanship.
So while the Mongol cavalry charged in a straight line, it was in fact a jagged, jagged curve.
In the process of an unorganized charge, the cavalry in the rear will often struggle to squeeze into the front line, and the cavalry in the front line will subconsciously distance themselves from others so as not to be unable to use their hands and feet during the battle.
Therefore, it is not uncommon for a queue of less than 50 meters at the time of the charge, in the process of charging, to become the front of the meter.
When Daleng and the others set out from the camp, it was nothing more than a column of several hundreds. But by the time they reached the middle of the battlefield, they had spread to a vast horizontal column seven or eight miles wide. In this horizontal line, there are places where there are double horizontal teams, and some places are just thin columns. The distance between the cavalry also varies from 4 or 5 meters to 17 or 8 meters.
And in the process of charging, these Mongol cavalry either followed those they trusted, or followed the warriors who stood out from the front. Generally speaking, the only thing that Qianhu can command is the hundreds of knights around him.
Daleng's actions obviously gave the knights around him some illusions, thinking that he had received some instructions, so many people immediately followed him to adjust their direction.
Wu Huai, who was already ready for battle, suddenly found that the Mongolian cavalry in front of him was automatically divided into two sections, and he naturally commanded his troops without hesitation to insert this gap.
Gui Yingcha divided the battlefield into three parts, left, middle and right, each part set up three thousand teams in front and back, he himself was guarded by 800 Golden Horde warriors, with 3,000 people in the center, and 5,000 people behind him guarding the camp as backup.
In Gui Yingcha's view, no matter which direction the Ming army attacked, as long as one part entangled the Ming army and the other two should be encircled, the Ming army on the right flank battlefield would not be able to avoid defeat.
However, as soon as he led his troops out of the camp, he saw that the right flank front, which had not yet pushed half of the battlefield, had been broken by the Ming army with three thousand-man teams, and a Ming cavalry appeared in front of him.
This Ming cavalry was no more than a thousand meters away from his position, and it was in front of his right. Facing a cavalry that raised his speed, Gui Yingcha knew very well that the cavalry around him who had not yet warmed up was a group of fixed targets.
Without hesitation, he ordered the two thousand-strong teams behind him to block the opponent's offensive line, lest this Ming cavalry directly attack his own Chinese army.
But soon, the actions of this Ming cavalry made Gui Yingcha know that his response just now was wrong. The Ming cavalry, which had broken through his right flank, did not pay any attention to their troops, but deflected an angle and went directly to the flank and rear of the Mongol cavalry formation.
Gui Yingcha suddenly secretly exclaimed, an advancing cavalry unit was attacked from the flank and rear, which meant that there would be no way to fight back. If this Ming cavalry drove the Mongol cavalry in the center to attack his left flank, then he would have won the war miserably.
He was even a little worried about whether his remaining troops would be able to assist the Great Khan and break the Ming army's central army.
If this war falls into a cemented situation, it is still unknown whether the people of the Mongol tribes on the left and the Mongol tribes on the right will be able to honestly obey the orders of the Great Khan.
After realizing this, Gui Yingcha had to send the most powerful 500 Golden Horde warriors around him, and another team of 1,000 people to intercept the Ming army on the opposite side.
Gui Yingcha gave two completely different orders in a row, which suddenly threw the Mongol cavalry who were ordered to go to the right flank into confusion.
And Gui Yingcha's confidant, Dari Achi, took 500 Golden Horde warriors to bypass the two chaotic thousand-man teams, and rushed towards the middle of the gorgeously dressed Ming cavalry, trying to split this team in two.
Cao Wenzhao stood on the hill and watched as Wu Huai led the cavalry wing like boiling snow, breaking through the three lines of the enemy's right flank in succession, and opening a diagonal passage to the southeast.
In the binoculars, he clearly saw the black banner representing the main general of the Mongolian right wing, which was called the Sulu ingot by the Mongols.
This is modeled after Genghis Khan's Sulu ingots, except that Genghis Khan uses white and these imitations are black.
Seeing the appearance of the troops led by this black Daxu, Cao Wenzhao understood that the other party's main general had already been dispatched.
Without hesitation, he gave the order to let the army that had been prepared to follow him to attack, and he wanted to follow the passage opened up by Wu Huai and directly attack the opponent's main general.
In this era, in addition to the golden drum, battlefield command mainly relied on the transmission of orders through the waving of various flags.
As long as you can defeat the Chinese army of the opponent's main general, you can cut off the opponent's command of your own troops. The cavalry that was already inconvenient to command in battle, and then lost the command of the Chinese army, and those Mongolian cavalry units on the battlefield immediately fell into a situation of fighting on their own. At that point, there is basically no force that can hold out any longer. 、
When Cao Wenzhao mounted his horse and commanded the troops to attack, Wu Huaizheng adjusted his troops to attack the flank and rear of the Mongol troops in the center. It is different from the previous three cavalry squadrons in parallel, and three more cavalry squadrons are arranged in the rear to support them.
This turn attack turned into a pattern of six cavalry squadrons connected end to end, as if it were a flowing Great Wall.
After fighting against the menacing Mongol cavalry on the right flank just now, Wu Huai found that although these Mongols were much better at riding than his subordinates, their personal strength was simply insignificant in the face of rows of cavalry charges.
The Ming cavalry in the first row lost less than 30 of them, and the cavalry wing broke through the opponent's first line of defense in one fell swoop. As for the two lines of defense behind the Mongol right flank, these Mongol cavalry did not think that the cavalry in front would be broken through so quickly, and they were not ready to engage in battle.
Therefore, after breaking through these three lines of defense, Wu Huai estimated that he had lost less than 100 people, but at least more than 500 of these three Mongolian cavalry teams lost their combat effectiveness.
Therefore, Wu Huai felt that compared with the width of the cavalry charge, a small and tight front seemed to be easier to maintain the speed and formation of the charge.