Chapter 26: The Remnant
Thanks to the golden arrows given by Yezir Khan, Nakh Xiongqi was finally able to suppress the manic generals. Timur gave sixty iron whips and dragged him into the tent covered in flesh and blood, although his eyes were still fierce, his mouth was closed. He is not a fool, he usually all the eighteen generations of Na Hexiong Qi's ancestors, and at this time, he still has to do it with him without knowing how to do it, and it is likely that Na Hexiong Qi will directly cut off his head with the golden arrow of the Khan King to correct the military law.
Na He Xiongqi also knew that he couldn't shrink back and not fight, which would be too damaging to the morale of the generals, but the Jiangdong Left Army in front of him was the most cunning enemy they had encountered since they broke through the border and went south.
Nahe Xiongqi stretched out his hand and raised the iron helmet that pressed his forehead, sat on horseback and looked at the battlefield in the distance, the cavalry led by Timur himself attacked crosswise, but it could not disturb the array of Jiangdong Left Army soldiers on the western slope of Haitang, let alone cut and defeat.
Although several arrays of the Jiangdong Left Army were still more than a mile away from the seawall, the bed crossbows equipped by the Jiangdong Left Army had a range of three or four hundred paces and one mile, and the huge sea-going ships parked in the coastal waters outside the seawall were like small islands floating on the sea, responding to and covering the flanks of the foot soldiers on the shore.
Na He Xiongqi thought to himself: At least the armor of the Jiangdong Left Army on the shore must be pinned down and moved west for three or four miles, so that there will be enough space to send more cavalry to attack its array from more angles.
At present, it is obviously impossible to do this level, the Jiangdong Left Army has the power of winning two battles, the morale of the generals is better than its own, in the face of the cavalry piercing conflict, there is no fear, everything seems to be well-trained, the most important thing is that the Jiangdong Left Army is much better equipped than them.
Riding a bow to within a range of 60 paces can effectively interfere with the Jiangdong Left Army, but it is necessary to shoot at the part that is not covered by armor to form a lethal force. There are about 1,200 Jiangdong Left Army soldiers in the coastal pond silt, and Nahe has a powerful crossbow with a shooting distance of 200 steps, and there are as many as 200 powerful crossbows on the narrow combat surface, even if they charge the enemy with the elite of the king's tent, they cannot maintain the charging formation under the shooting of 200 powerful crossbows, and the key is that the two waves of arrow rain formed by about 150 to 100 steps will be two or three times denser, and at this time, no matter how elite the cavalry is, they can not resist the counter-charge of the opponent's infantry in a neat and orderly manner, wrapped in flying contradictory vehicles......
Timur came back with a stomach full of anger that could not be vented, his face was scratched by a crossbow arrow, and his left ear brought a piece of flesh and blood, only half of which was left, and he didn't have the heart to care, so he rode back to Nahe Xiongqi and said in an urn: "It's like a turtle shell, Lao Tzu can't gnaw it!" β
"The Khan has confirmed from the prisoners that this Jiangdong Left Army is indeed a new soldier recruited in early October, and there is no official sequence in the Southern Dynasty Zhenfu Army, which can be regarded as a township soldier," Nahe Xiongqi did not blame Timur for returning in vain, and said, "The Jiangdong Left Army is in front of you, and you are still arrogant enough to think that the iron cavalry of my Donghu Great Khanate is invincible in the world?" β
Timur hated to clamp his crotch and dismount his horse, making it painful and tightening the reins to prevent it from neighing and kicking, and pursued to the southern border of Jinhai County for two days, he personally led the front cavalry to charge several times, losing hundreds of soldiers, but he could never shake the more than 1,000 Jiangdong left troops parked on the shore, not to mention collecting boats and ships to go to sea to pursue those few sea ships.
"You lead the troops to the left flank to rest, but be careful that the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers in the villages of Wukou and Changlu are also ready to move," Nahe Xiongqi said, "The Jiangdong Left Army lured us to Jinhai, and it didn't eat our confidence, probably because of this thought!" β
"This battle is really a wretch," Timur spat viciously, "it is better to retreat and lure them to the interior to fight again......"
"It's not so easy, the commander of the Jiangdong Left Army is much more cunning than we imagined, he lured us to Jinhai, with the intention of contacting the remnants of Jinzhong in Wukou, Changlu and other villages, we knew this, but we had to come to ......," Nahe Xiongqi said.
"Why?" Timur asked, "Ignore them and be angry!" β
"From this place to the west to the Taihang Mountain, only four hundred miles, if we ignore them, let the Jiangdong Left Army contact the remnants of Jinzhong to return to the eastern foot of Taihang, it will be even more troublesome," Nahe Xiongqi said, "In order to be able to return with a great success in breaking the border this time, you must understand in your heart that the task given to us by the Khan King is not to avenge the blood hatred, but to contain the Jiangdong Left Army, not to harass the flank of our army, and not to destroy the fundamental policy of the Khan King to plunder Yanji and shake the foundation of the Southern Dynasty......"
"......" Timur was silent, in other words, three days ago, he might have spit on Na Hexiongqi's face, although the battle in the past two days was extremely bad, but his brain calmed down, at least Na Hexiongqi's words could be heard.
Timur is not a fool, he is a senior general who has accumulated military merits and has been promoted to the level of deputy commander and commander, and he has a set of marches and battles, and after the mania in the early stage calms down, he can also think about some deep things.
The army that broke the border was almost deployed along the north and south lines of the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain, the northern line suppressed the main combat force of the Southern Dynasty in the Gyeonggi area, and the southern line was personally commanded by the Khan to launch a seizure offensive against Jinan Province, and the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain in the north of Xingfu and the south of Baoding Province were the most empty flanks for their defense, and after capturing Jinan Province, this line was the most important choice for retreating north. If the Jiangdong Left Army were allowed to enter the Taihang Mountains, the threat to them would definitely be much greater than it is now. The Jiangdong Left Army was well equipped, the morale of the generals was high, and the training was well-trained, and it was obviously impossible to go into the mountains to pursue, and at that time, it might be necessary to double or triple or four times the mobilization of troops to block the various mountain passes at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain.
Although the Jiangdong Left Army was dominated by foot soldiers, it had a large number of horses in its army, and its ability to maneuver in the inner line was much stronger than that of pure foot soldiers, and it really couldn't give up the close defense of the Jiangdong Left Army; But close marking is also quite painful.
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On the slope facing the sea to the north, several horsemen hesitated, and the knights on horseback were lightly armed with swords, and the leader was a young man of about thirty years old, his cheeks were thin, and his beard was more than an inch long, and he was in a mess, but his eyes were very sharp, and he watched with a solemn face the battle that took place two or three miles away in front of him.
The armor was somewhat damaged, reflecting a blue and red color in the setting sun, and the cavalry sentinels had long noticed them, and at this time sent dozens of rangers to drive them away, and they fled in the direction of the vortex village to the north.
Vortex Kou Zhai outside is the most ordinary dock village on the Yanji Plain, standing in the sunset, several horses fled to the front of the South Zhai Gate, the Zhai Gate quickly opened, the pursuit of dozens of rangers riding horses did not stop, wanted to impact the Zhai Gate, the Zhai Gate on both sides of the Zhai Wall stood out dozens of archers with bows and arrows to drive the rangers away.
The walled wall is also a single-walled stone wall, but on the inner side of the wall, a row of wooden stakes is made, the wall is filled with soil between the walled wall and the wooden piles, and then a layer of horizontal wood is laid, and people stand on the walled wall to shoot the approaching enemy, there is a wooden pile wall and fill the soil, and the walled wall has become more stable. It's more of a fortified fortress than a dock.
"General Yang, how did the Jiangdong Left Army fight this battle?" Two middle-aged men in long cotton robes came from the stockade, and one of them helped the young man who galloped into the stockade to hold the horse steady and let him come down.
"There is still a stalemate, after all, the Jiangdong Left Army has a small number of people, and its mobility on the shore cannot be compared with that of the thieves......" Yang Zihang dismounted, handed the horse to the guards behind him, and said to the two middle-aged people.
"So, Cangnan's victory is not fake news, right?" At this time, a black-faced young man jumped down from the wall and asked Yang Yihang.
"What a fake! They lured the captives over and fought half-truths for two days, and they didn't have the idea of co-opting us? How can there be such a cheap thing in the world! The short young man beside Yang Yihang said with resentment, "I can see through it, the temple snake and rat, there is no one with good intentions." If it weren't for the Chu Party Zhang Xie and Tang Haoxin behind the ghosts, the adults were forced to lead the Jin Zhong soldiers to fight alone, and they would have died so miserably, and they didn't even get the body back? Lin Jian is a member of the Chu Party, what kind of good thing could it be? β
"It is also a fact that the Jiangdong Left Army dared to fight with the thieves in the field when they penetrated into Yannan," the black-faced young man retorted, "Just ask the counties of Yanji, Zhongzhou, and Shandong, how many people dare to go out of the thieves in the field?" β
"Can the Chu Party have a good thing?" The short young man stiffened his temper and said, "Wu Tian, if you want to get a good background and join the Jiangdong Left Army, I can't control you; But don't have the heart to pull people away from the Vortex Village......"
"Guy, what kind of are you, I want to please a good background? My fucking corrupt officials can't die well if they seek glory," Wu Tian, a black-faced young man, was too lazy to argue with the little man, said a cruel word, and asked Yang Yihang, "Do you want to send someone to Changlu Village and discuss it with Ma Yigong?" Why don't I take two of them over? β
"It's getting dark, it's not safe, I'll talk about it tomorrow." Yang Yihang said.
On the contrary, in the past few days after the Jiangdong Left Army came, the cavalry sentinels did not dare to spread out too much during the day, after all, they did not know where the cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army would suddenly land on the shore to encircle and kill them.
As Lin Liang expected, after the Jin soldiers were defeated, they were not completely annihilated, and a large number of people fled to the east, and after the escape route in the south was blocked, some people surrendered and were captured, some people were caught up and killed by the captives in the wilderness, and some people avoided in time to hold on to the dock wall.
Attacking these dock villages, where the remnants of the Jin Zhong soldiers had taken refuge, was not an easy task for the Eastern Prisoners. Its fundamental goal is to break through the border and enter the Koukou, as long as it is confirmed that the remnants of the Jinzhong army do not become a threat, the Dongyu has tried several times, all
Yang Yihang is the nephew of Yang Zhaoqi, the commander of the military department, and the nephew of Yang Zhaoqi, the commander of the Jinzhong Dynasty, and the lieutenant Wu Tian from the sixth rank Zhenwei is also the general of the commander Yang Zhaoqi of the Jinzhong Commander, they are pure military attachΓ©s who have accumulated merit, and after the defeat of Gaoyang, they led the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers and more than 800 people who gathered along the way to avoid the vortex village and escape the doom of annihilation. In addition to them, Ma Yigong and others led the remnants to avoid Changlu, Qingqi and other villages and hold on to the present.
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Brothers, you have to make it a habit to vote red.