Chapter 34: Ascending Wangtai Mountain

(Yesterday's red ticket broke 6,000, and a 6,000-word chapter was sent, one chapter is worth two chapters)

The enemy drove the armor and cavalry to rush, and the bow and crossbow shot were weak, and the two teams interspersed to intercept. People and horses are armor, and it is the strongest horse outside the mouth, even people with horses and armor, almost six or seven hundred catties, as if a moving hill rammed over, although the flying contradictory car has a certain blocking effect, but the enemy armor rode with dead force to rush, eight flying contradictory cars to overturn and tread, responsible for the cart conflict of the sixteen pawns to the transmission of the huge force to vomit blood endlessly, dodge the dodge, only some people can have time to take off the sword and shield on the car to fight, but the enemy armor riding momentum is not reduced, even people with horses to collide, people to fly out. The lethality of the Mo knife and the bayonet against the captive armor and cavalry has also been greatly reduced, although the Mo knife hand bravely rushed forward with strong armor, but no matter how strong the manpower is, it is not as strong as the joint force of the men and horses, the array is scattered, and the sword and shield hand and spear man wearing light armor behind him have fallen under the wave of the enemy's long knife.

The intercepted Liangdu team was completely defeated and scattered, suffering heavy casualties, and only more than ten captives and cavalry were killed.

Cao Ziang, who was standing on the trolley of the Chinese army's main formation to observe and control the entire battle situation, saw that the cavalry of the captives was very sharp and difficult to resist, and he thought that he would let Timur go, and there would be a chance to fight again, but he could not take the risk of being defeated by this formation, and ordered someone to hit the gong to scatter the array of the capital teams in the front.

The captives galloped over and joined Timur's light horse. Because the light cavalry spread out very widely, it was able to fall into the melee of their own formations, but fortunately, the armored cavalry came to the rescue, and the pressure behind the flanks was dispersed, and the relief was breathed, but the armored cavalry and the light cavalry were mixed together, and the impact was lost.

Timur was murderous and refused to retreat, seeing that there was no pressure on the flanks and the enemy formation in front was much thinner, he asked the armored cavalry to attack the Jiangdong army array with him, and the Jiangdong soldiers on this road were defeated, and they could gain the initiative on the battlefield.

Cao Ziang saw clearly in this formation, and after the enemy's armored cavalry lost its most threatening impact, he ordered someone to beat the drum, and the scattered armor soldiers suddenly regathered when they heard the sound of the drum. When the flying car was insufficient, he carried the enemy horse with a heavy shield and leaned down to attack, attacked with a spear and spear, slashed with a knife, and swept with a long stabbing bamboo spear, trying to entangle the enemy horse. The scattered infantry quickly regrouped on both flanks, ready to rejoin the battle.

This is one of the advantages of being small down to five pawns.

In the chaos of the battlefield, it is much more difficult to reunite the scattered fifteen people, no matter how well trained they are, than to reunite the five people. Even if the formation is torn apart by the enemy cavalry, with five pawns as a group, it is not easy to form a crushing rout. If the head of the fifteen pawns is seriously wounded or killed in battle, it is even more impossible for the scattered fifteen pawns to regroup in wartime, and they will even form a rout that is extremely destructive to their own formation. In a group of five pawns, the Mo Daomen led by the Mo Knife were seriously injured or killed in battle, and the other four pawns could also be incorporated into other combat groups of the squad under the command of the flag head.

Similarly, the five-pawn group requires three or four times as many experienced combat backbones as the fifteen-pawn squadron. Of course, the cohesion, combat effectiveness and resistance are stronger, and this is also the embodiment of Lin Lian's extremely meticulous management of the army and training.

Lin Jian also resolutely gave up the traditional array training in daily training, and it was very difficult for an array of about 3,000 soldiers to practice neatly and beautifully without three or five months, but the actual combat performance was quite poor.

With the 60 pawns of the capital team as a unit, the difficulty of formation training is greatly reduced, and there are no complicated array movements, the key is to spare more time to practice tactical actions such as group coordination conflicts, attack and defense, and gathering and dispersion.

This kind of training and formation formation is aimed at the tactics used by cavalry in the early stage.

The Eastern cavalry was still accustomed to pulling the guerrilla back and forth to loosen the infantry formation, and then concentrating on the superior conflict to cut the infantry formation, and finally forming a crushing rush, and finally releasing the cavalry to harvest the defeated troops who had no resistance. The traditional infantry soldiers are almost battalions as formation units, and there will be a set when fighting cavalry guerrilla and conflicts, but after the formation is loose, the combat effectiveness will be rapidly weakened, so as long as the captives have enough patience, they can calmly look for fighters that are suitable for them.

Timur found that the Jiangdong soldiers in front of him were difficult to fight, and the infantry formation was quite flexible, he led the light cavalry to wander around the periphery, and the sixty soldiers of the Jiangdong soldiers dared to rush out to seek battle when they formed a formation, and the entire array could be four or five times larger than the traditional infantry formation against the cavalry, and he was not afraid of the cavalry cutting into it at all.

However, in wartime, the commanders of these formations and battalion commanders will put forward higher requirements for the difficulty of command and control of the capital troops, after all, it is not the gongs, drums, and banners that can easily command the capital teams of thirty or forty units. In view of this, Lin Jian set up a sentry team between the battalion and the capital team, and set up a chief and deputy sentry general, further improved the command system, and strengthened the structural strength of the infantry formation.

Cao Ziang dispatched in the center with the main general, and paid attention to the beacon signal from the vortex village at any time, Zhou Pu and Ning Zechen each led an elite to cover and kill from the two wings, but the enemy armor rode over, which still caused great pressure on this side.

Timur saw that the Jiangdong soldiers regrouped faster than he imagined, and did not dare to entangle with the Jiangdong Left Army anymore, so he could only take the opportunity of reducing the pressure to lead the cavalry to the direction of Wang Dengtai Mountain, and rushed back and forth to kill three or four times before he got rid of the entanglement. Just looking back, there were still three or five hundred cavalry in the tail to entangle the armor of the two teams that suddenly inserted from the two wings in the shape of a sharp awl, and he had no choice but to grit his teeth and lead the team back to kill.

The formation of the Jiangdong Left Army in the battle seems to be from the two wings to the front of the formation, and then from the rear to the two wings, the Chinese army is to control the rhythm and slowly advance, through gongs and drums, flags and messengers to accurately and directly convey tactical orders to the capital team.

Wang Dengtai Mountain was in sight, and Timur could clearly hear the sound of fighting from the other two directions, and his body was sweating like pulp, perhaps because of the scars left by the whiplash.

After Yejin Nayan was annihilated in Cangnan, Timur led his troops from Dezhou on December 29 with Nahe Xiongqi, counterattacked to Cangnan on the second day of the first month, was confused to chase the enemy to the south on the fourth day of the first month, and more than 1,000 horsemen were annihilated after staying on the fifth day of the first month, and returned to Cangnan on the seventh day of the first month to pursue to Jinhai is the ninth day of the first month of January, and Timur did not have the opportunity to confront the Jiangdong Left Army until the ninth day of the first month of January. There were also five small-scale contact battles, and I deeply felt that the traditional Donghu cavalry light armor, cavalry bow and short knife combination completely suppressed the Jiangdong Left Army, which was seeking to fight with increasing morale and fighting will, and could not give full play to the advantages of superb horsemanship and skilled bow and arrow......

Timur was worried about how to get rid of the entanglement and disengage from the Jiangdong Left Army, and Nakhxiong Qi personally led a cavalry to break through from the left flank, braving the rain of arrows to disperse a group of Jiangdong soldiers on the left flank. Timur was overjoyed, thinking that Nakh Xiongqi had defeated another Jiangdong army and came back to support him, so he wanted to drive the left and right to rush from the right flank, trying to crush this Jiangdong army from both flanks with superior forces.

But the guards around Na He Xiongqi rode their horses and shouted: "Withdraw to the ...... of Dengwangtai Mountain" Before he could shout a second time, four or five crossbow arrows flew from nowhere, shooting him off his horse. Relying on the superiority of troops, the Jiangdong Left Army always kept a team of crossbow archers in the main formation of the Chinese army, and would fire crossbow arrows when the gong sounded and the front armor was scattered. Timur forced Yezir Khan to read the Han people's military books, but in fact, he found a beautiful girl who could read to him, and vaguely remembered that there was such a combat formation, but it was not as powerful as it was in front of him.

Timur reined in the horse and rushed back, with the support of Nahe Xiongqi, he didn't have to worry about biting his tail again, and galloped to the north foot of Wang Dengtai Mountain, and Nahe Xiongqi also drove his horse sweating profusely. From a long distance, Na He Xiongqi shouted urgently: "The southern wing is only temporarily getting rid of the entanglement, and the combat power of the remnants of the Jin Zhong soldiers is somewhat unexpected, far stronger than the previous reconnaissance." Lin Jian is afraid that there will be two more soldiers and horses in his hands, this battle cannot be fought hard, and I can only send more than 100 dead soldiers in the northeast to desperately delay ......"

"Ri he/mother, the sentinel on the northern front is still eating his/mother's milk!" Timur scolded angrily, "Two thousand more soldiers, this battle is a fart!" ”

"We can't blame the poor reconnaissance on the northern front," Nahe Xiongqi said, "We have not estimated the ability of the Jiangdong Left Army to supply the remnants of the Jinzhong army. The generals of the two battalions who came out of the vortex village were fully armoured, and the infantry and bows could form a salvo to cover the scale, which should be the reinforcement and supply of the Jiangdong Left Army after it arrived in Jinhai. The king of Khan said that the factional struggle in the Southern Dynasty was very fierce and it was the norm, but we also had to think that there were individual exceptions, and this forest tie was a special example, so we suffered a little. Now the three roads of Jiangdong Bing are less than four miles apart, at most give us half a stick of incense. Break through to the northwest and join the eldest prince, but in the northwest, the Jiangdong Left Army is likely to have ambushes, and you lead your troops to break through to the southwest with the wounded......"

"You lead the troops to go first, and I will come to the back of the palace." Timur said loudly.

"Do you dare to disobey my orders, believe it or not, I'll cut off your head right now?" Na He Xiongqi said angrily, "Don't be carried away by hatred, you have to remember that after rushing out, you will return to the west of Qingxian County to continue to delay the left army in Jiangdong, don't let it break through to Taihang Shandong, at least keep an eye on it, the eldest prince will send reinforcements when he receives a letter." In case there are three longs and two shorts, no matter who survives, the tactics of the Jiangdong Left Army must be explained in detail to Yezir Khan and the Great Prince. The Jiangdong Left Army is only 3,000 soldiers, it is so sharp, if it is 30,000 soldiers, this battle will not be able to be fought. Next time, if you break the border and enter the Kou, you can not prevent others, and Jiangdong soldiers must be guarded! ”

"You're going back alive! Otherwise, I will be punished by the iron whip of the Khan King!" Timur shouted.

"Crying and mourning, Jiangdong soldiers want to leave me, and they also want them to have this ability......" Na Hexiongqi made a gesture to whip Timur and urge him to leave quickly.

Nahe Xiongqi regretted that he was too indecisive, and when he saw that the Jiangdong Left Army had the intention of fighting, he should decisively abandon the baggage and order all the troops to break through alone, instead of retreating to Wang Dengtai Mountain. Now it seems that Lin Jian is grasping this weakness in his thinking, and the Jiangdong Left Army and the remnants of the Jinzhong Army seem to be divided into three routes, but in fact, they are completely planned to come to Wang Dengtai Mountain with the momentum of merging, and they retreat to Wang Dengtai Mountain, which is to cocoon themselves and form a situation of encirclement and battle for the Jiangdong Left Army.

The Jiangdong Left Army is in full swing, and it is superior to this side in terms of strength, so Na He Xiongqi will naturally not fight with the Jiangdong Left Army in this situation, and the cavalry will be forced into the inner circle, and the battle will be extremely passive; In this case, a hasty battle is the most stupid choice. However, the camp was simple, and there was a precedent of using fire in Xiaobotou Village, and Na He Xiongqi did not dare to avoid the whole army to avoid the camp and insist on waiting for help, so he had to break out. Jiangdong has not yet formed a complete encirclement, the cavalry has a natural advantage in breaking through the encirclement, and the heavy grain and grass are lost, so it is a big deal to go hungry for a day or two to the eldest prince and ask for it. It's good to think like this a long time ago, and it is useless for He Xiongqi to take regret medicine now, so he can only lead his troops back to rush back and kill again, and rescue as many cavalry as possible.

After Lin Tie defeated here, he gathered the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers, further forming a superior force, which will definitely be interspersed to the west; The threat to the north and south was greater than at any other time, and Na He Xiongqi wanted to gather his forces as much as possible and go to the west of Qingxian to intercept the Jiangdong troops.

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Yang Yihang and Ma Yi's power department attacked four miles away from Wang Dengtai Mountain, and they were entangled with a team of captives. This team of captive cavalry was only more than 100 people, completely ignoring the casualties of the impact of the Jin soldiers marching array, braving the rain of arrows, tearing back and forth twice, although they shot thirty or forty horsemen to this side, but they also successfully broke into the formation, causing chaos in the marching formation here.

The captive cavalry knife is short, and the slashing should slow down and lean over, and at the same time of slashing, it also brings a chance to kill the soldiers here, but this time the dozens of cavalry who rushed into the formation completely gave up the opportunity to slash, and just peeped into the gap or the place where the chaotic soldiers gathered. Maybe you can't shake off the spear stab, so you can swing the first knife. These hundred or so horsemen were completely dead soldiers who had come to block the march here.

In addition to the cavalry on both wings and several infantry soldiers scattered in time, the central assault array was completely disturbed, giving a stick of incense time entangled, and more than 30 horsemen rushed left and right in the middle of it and did not disperse, but these more than 30 horsemen also began to consider breaking out of the siege.

Naturally, the soldiers of the Jin Dynasty took fifteen pawns as a small team and sixty pawns as a capital team, and Yang Yihang, Ma Yigong, and Wei Zhonglong respectively mastered six to eight capital teams to pursue in a cone-shaped advance array. It also contacted the Jiangdong Left Army on both flanks at any time, and the array was scattered by the enemy cavalry, and the ability to regroup was far inferior to that of the Jiangdong Left Army.

Yang Yihang, Ma Yigong, and Wei Zhonglong were all experienced military attachés, constantly spreading the queue, leaving enough space for the inner circle of generals to restrict and encircle the conflicting enemy cavalry, and completely surround more than 30 cavalry. Yang Yihang and Ma Yigong continued to attack Wang Dengtai Mountain without the scattered array, so that Wei Zhonglong stayed behind to surround and kill this enemy cavalry, and then rushed after collecting the stragglers, almost half of the troops were delayed.

Yang Yihang and others led their troops to attack, and they also sent people to contact the Jiangdong Left Army on both sides at any time, knowing that the Jiangdong Left Army on the two roads delayed more than 900 and 1,500 captives respectively at most, and they were quite easy and powerful to kill the enemy's captives, and they were all deeply ashamed. If three or five hundred cavalry came to attack them, they were afraid that they would have to fight a tough battle on the spot, and they would not be able to reach the level of Jiangdong's left army against a light cavalry. It is a factor that the armor is inferior to the Jiangdong Left Army, but this is not a decisive factor, when the soldiers and armor of the Jinzhong are complete, it is necessary to have the combat level of the Jiangdong Left Army, and it is completely impossible to fall into the point of being completely encircled and annihilated.

Yang Yihang and Ma Yi's troops rushed to the foot of Wang Dengtai Mountain, and Ao Canghai and Zhao Qingshan were leading their troops to entangle and fight with Nahe Xiongqi's cavalry. Na He Xiongqi personally led not many cavalry, only more than 500 horsemen, but the tactics were more flexible, even if they braved the rain of arrows, they did not give them a chance to encircle at all, Yang Yihang and Ma Yigong arrived in a hurry, and Na He Xiongqi interspersed from the gap between Ao Canghai and Zhao Qingshan, and directly impacted Yang Yihang and Ma Yigong who came in a hurry. Dozens of corpses were left behind, and they also interspersed with the formations of Yang Yihang and Ma Yigong's troops that had been defeated, and they made a detour, beating the horses and fleeing to the northwest.

Fighting for most of the day, it was the afternoon, at this time, a stick of wolf smoke was lit in the direction of the vortex village, and I didn't know what the Jiangdong Left Army added to the wolf smoke, the wolf smoke actually showed pink in the black gray, Na He Xiongqi looked back and saw that he was fighting with him under Wang Dengtai Mountain mixed infantry seemed to have received instructions from the wolf smoke, the mixed infantry and cavalry were quickly separated, and the cavalry gathered at the foot of the east of Wang Dengtai Mountain, and there were six or seven hundred horses, Na He Xiongqi instantly understood, the wolf smoke was to point out to them the direction of Timur's breakthrough, Instructed to pursue here.

Timur broke through with injuries and illnesses, and if he was entangled with enemy cavalry, it would be difficult to preserve the injuries and illnesses, and Timur was not a person who could abandon his injuries and escape first. In order to avoid a hard battle between Timur and the Jiangdong Left Army, Nahe Xiongqi had no choice but to turn back and fight, to entangle the two and give Timur more time to break through.

The infantry of the Jinzhong soldiers is not better than the Jiangdong Left Army, but the cavalry, which is more technical, is stronger than the cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army, Yang Yihang and Ma Yi's power are one of the leading infantry cavalry, and the cavalry has more than 300 people, and the horses are naturally the horses outside the mouth of the forest bound to them. The armor soldiers lined up in front with eight flying chariots, and covered the armor soldiers from between the two wings of Yang Yihang and Ma Yigong to rush towards Nahe Xiongqi.

Nahe Xiongqi's troops were immediately killed, and Nahe Xiongqi rushed out under the support of dozens of horsemen, and gathered the stragglers on the periphery, only to find that more than 100 people were knocked off their horses this time when they missed the inspection. Nakh Xiongqi was much calmer than Timur, and when he saw that he could not save the wounded, let alone retrieve the corpses, he led his troops to flee to the northwest, and when he saw that there were no pursuers chasing after him, he turned to the southwest and galloped towards the direction of Timur's troops to break through.

Nahe Xiongqi direction, Ao Canghai, Zhao Qingshan, Yang Yihang, Ma Yigong didn't care about him, the wolf smoke of the vortex village directly instructed the main force of the captives to break through in the southwest direction, they led their troops to bypass Wang Dengtai Mountain to the southwest, and also divided a part to climb Wang Dengshan Mountain and set up a lookout post to monitor the movement of the enemy and us in the southwest direction.

Wang Dengtai Mountain is surrounded by scattered horses, Nahe Xiongqi hastily broke through, naturally unable to maintain a one-person, two-horse or three-horse marching array, most people can only take care of the horses under the crotch when chasing and fleeing, even if they are skilled in riding and archery, it is difficult to take good care of two or three horses in the life-threatening gallop of the large army. The surplus horses were left scattered in the field and became captured by the Jiangdong Left Army.

Nahe Xiongqi rushed to the southwest of Wang Dengtai Mountain, and Timur really entangled Cao Ziang's troops again, and the cavalry of other parts of the Jiangdong Left Army and the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers quickly rushed to this side to strengthen the cavalry combat capability here. Nahe Xiongqi had no choice but to rush again, and after relieving Timur, he broke through in two ways again.

So repeatedly, almost nothing felt until it was dark, looking at the bright moon in the sky, the snow in the four fields, Na He Xiongqi also felt that the sky did not help him, so the night was using the other party to pursue. He felt exhausted, the war horse under his crotch was sweating like pulp, and he was afraid that he would be wasted if he ran again, thinking that Timur should be able to escape while it was dark, although he guessed that Lin Jian would lay an ambush in the northwest direction, but the gap in the northwest direction was very large, and he might not necessarily hit the ambush.

There is no way, although the Jiangdong soldiers are foot soldiers, they control the trend of the battlefield, and the foot soldiers chase in a straight line, rarely wasting physical strength. This is the advantage brought by controlling the battlefield, and it can also be seen that Lin Lian's behind-the-scenes command is very efficient, letting go of the sentry and covering the cavalry, and only hanging them to fight with the main force that carries the wounded and sick and moves relatively slowly. Nahe Xiongqi led the covering cavalry to rush left and right, and at the end of this day, he didn't know how many times longer he would run than the Jiangdong soldiers.

In this case, Nahe Xiongqi had no choice but to break through to the northwest, he sent two teams of cavalry to search in front, and he followed with the main force and broke through to the northwest.

In the middle of the night, except for a small number of scouts from the Jiangdong Left Army, Nahe Xiongqi did not encounter a strong resistance, but a sense of despair filled his heart.

It is impossible for Lin Jian to be arrogant enough to encircle and annihilate them all, and there will definitely be a focus on interception and pursuit operations, and there are no interception troops here, which means that Timur, who is breaking through to the southwest, will be the focus of the Jiangdong Left Army. At this time, it was already a hundred miles away from Wang Dengtai Mountain, and it was even farther away from the Timurid department, Nahe Xiongqi looked at the people on the left and right, almost no one was perfect, all of them were bloody, and the horses under the crotch were also extremely lacking, so he could only give up the idea of looking for the Timurid department back, and only hoped that Timur could have more luck and pull more people out.

Nahe Xiongqi sent dozens of cavalry with still spare strength to the south to collect the rout, and he led the seven or eight hundred cavalry that followed him to break out of the encirclement and continued to go northwest.