As soon as he mentioned that the states and counties along the way in Qingzhou were unwilling to provide supplies, Ma Wei was angry. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Although we are Denglai's soldiers and horses, it is also good for Qingzhou to exterminate this group of horse thieves, otherwise it will be a disaster for them to flow to Qingzhou. We have a thousand horses, and people eat horses and chew, how much can we eat? In the future, they will gather people and horses to exterminate this horse thief on their own, and it will cost at least ten times more money and food - the county orders of these states and counties are all pig brains! I now finally know why Kong Youde rebelled halfway when he went north to reinforce Dalinghe. ”

Complaining to complaining, Ma Wei still decided to continue chasing: "We are tired and tired, and the horse thieves are the same, grit our teeth again, and strive to eat them all." I've been chasing for one or two hundred miles, and it's a pity that I fell short. ”

After a short rest, the cavalry battalion swallowed a few mouthfuls of dry rations, and then continued to chase along the large horseshoe prints in front of them.

After chasing for a few miles, seeing that the smoke and dust in front of him were getting bigger and bigger, Ma Wei was a little puzzled: the horse thieves were killed less and less by themselves, and there were still people left behind along the road, why did the smoke and dust suddenly become bigger, could it be that there were reinforcements in Qingzhou?

Soon the horse thieves gave him the answer.

Kong Lianshun and his men ran back in embarrassment, the hooves behind him were like thunder, the earth was trembling, and a large group of cavalrymen wearing felt hats and leather armor brandished scimitars and whistled to chase after them.

Ma Wei was born in the border army, and he had a lot of dealings with these people, and he could see at a glance that this was a Mongolian, and he was wearing armor, indicating that he was not an ordinary herdsman, but a Mongolian cavalry who had entered the army. The cold hairs on his body stood up: the strength of the Mongols is far inferior to before, and they never go deep into the interior of the Central Plains alone, and every time they follow the Liaodong Tartars, then there must be a large number of real Tartars behind them.

What to do in the face of a large force of Tartars and Mongols, who have only a thousand cavalry themselves?

At this time, the horse thieves saw the cavalry battalion blocking the front, and a desperate expression appeared on their faces, there were pursuers in front and behind, and there was no way to escape, should they all die here today?

The Mongolian cavalry also saw the cavalry battalion led by Ma Wei, and hesitated a little, scanning left and right to see if there were any ambushes, so the speed slowed down.

Kong Lianshun looked at the cavalry battalion, then looked back at the Mongols, and after hesitating, he gritted his teeth, pulled out his saber, and shouted: "Brothers, you can't please both sides, and the left and right are dead, it's better to fight, it's better than dying in a nest." ”

The horse thieves were also a little stingy, and shouted when they heard the words: "If you fight, you have to pull a few pads to die!" ”

Kong Lianshun was born in Jiangdong after all, and the Tartars fought to the death, and the hatred of each other has long been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, for him, the cavalry battalion is the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, everyone is Han, it is an internal contradiction, and the Mongols and the Tartars behind it are the enmity of life and death. In contrast, it is better to turn around and fight with the Mongols than to fight with the cavalry battalion, and to die with the stigma of horse thieves, it is better to turn around and fight with the Mongols, and if you have been a thief for so long, you can leave a good reputation when you die.

He turned his horse's head, waved his knife and shouted: "There is a dead end in front and back, you might as well cut a few tartars, and you can also leave a reputation as a good man." ”

In the eyes of the horse thieves, the cavalry battalion's short-gun "kite-flying" tactics were more terrible than those of the Mongols, and they couldn't beat both sides anyway, so it was better to earn a reputation for themselves after death as the leader said. So they all raised their sabers and turned around and rushed towards the Mongols.

The Mongol cavalry did not know whether there was an ambush in front of them, so out of caution, they did not charge forward, and when they saw that the horse thief had killed a horse pistol, they took off their bows and arrows, turned their bodies sideways, and aimed at the front and shot arrows.

"Buzz", a rain of arrows flew head-on, and the galloping horse thief fell to the ground with arrows from his horse. Kong Lianshun's eyes were red, and he ignored the arrows flying past his ears, and rushed forward regardless of it.

After firing a round of arrows, the Mongol cavalry did not give the opponent a chance to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and retreated unhurriedly. After pulling a distance, there was another backhand arrow in the run, and hundreds of horse thieves fell to the ground again.

Being able to shoot arrows backwards on galloping horseback with high accuracy was something only the elite Mongol cavalry could do, and this was the authentic "mangu" tactic, which Genghis Khan and his descendants relied on to fight all the way to the Danube. Although the current Mongol tribes are degenerate, the emaciated camels are bigger than the horses, and it is not a problem to deal with the guerrilla such as horse thieves.

Ma Wei saw this scene and had a plan in his heart. He raised his pistol and said to the soldiers, "Listen, everyone, although the horse thieves are our opponents, the Mongols on the other side are our enemies. The horse thieves robbed the passing merchants, and the Mongols and their masters came to kill and set fires to the customs, and there was no grass everywhere they went. Since the horse thief has the backbone and dares to fight hard with the Mongols, what should we do? ”

The soldiers of the cavalry battalion raised their short guns and shouted: "the Mongols!" ”

Ma Wei led his men to advance at a moderate speed to maintain their horsepower, and after approaching the two entangled groups of men and horses, he shouted: "Listen to the horse thieves in front, you can't beat the Mongols, run back, retreat behind us, and wait for us to fight them!" ”

Kong Lianshun and the others were not tempered at all by the Mongols' tactics of running and shooting, and when they heard the words, they hurriedly ran back.

The tactics of the Mongols are "the enemy chases me and I run, and the enemy runs and I chase", this kind of thinking has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and it has become a habit like eating and sleeping.

Ma Wei picked up his short gun and shouted to the horse thief who ran over: "Run in both directions, and don't mess with our position." ”

The horse thieves obediently ran in both directions, but they were not Mongolians who had grown up on horseback, and it was very difficult to change direction during high-speed running, and many of them slipped and fell to the ground due to inertia. After some confusion, most of the remaining horse thieves crossed the column of the cavalry battalion and withdrew to the rear. With a common enemy, the two sides of the original hostility formed a tacit understanding, and the cavalry battalion exposed the flaws in their backs to the horse thieves, and the horse thieves did not take the opportunity to lay the black hand, but stayed far behind to suppress the formation.

Ma Wei fought with the Mongols in Xuanfu, and he lost more than he won, and at this time, with the blessing of new weapons and new tactics, he had a little more confidence, but the shadow of defeat in the past was too deep, and he was still uneasy in his heart. He licked his dry lips, suppressed the nervousness in his heart, and explained to the soldiers: "Although the Mongols are superb in horsemanship and good at riding and archery, they are hindered by horses' heads and cannot shoot arrows head-on, so this is our chance." We're just going to deal with it before, and we're done and running. Don't be greedy for merit and chase forward, they will kill people if they turn back and shoot arrows. ”

The soldiers replied, "Yes!" ”

At this moment there was a loud sound of hooves, and the Mongols rushed forward, and they were only two hundred paces away from the cavalry battalion, and the battle was about to break out.