Chapter 241: Out of the Mountains
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The snow continued unabated, and the north wind continued to howl. There was enough snow on the ground to cover the surface of my feet.
Cheng Kai moved the tent to a mile away from the exit of the trail, so that it was convenient to monitor every move there.
Yuan Chonghuan kept him stationed at the Xiaodaokou in order to prevent the Jiannu from attacking the west, although this possibility was extremely unlikely in the eyes of the generals.
Cheng Kai was not afraid that Jiannu would really attack the west, because Inspector Yuan's army was ten miles away. Ten miles is not far away, even if the main force of Jiannu really appears here, he can delay for a while with these five hundred people, and he can wait until Yuan Inspector returns to kill him.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and it was night, so it was impossible to see even a meter away.
Cheng Kai had no choice but to send people to guard directly in the woods by the side of the trail and monitor by listening to sounds.
He didn't know that on a hill a mile or two away from him, a long black shadow was touching the mountain.
Hengling is made up of countless mountains that stretch continuously, and theoretically if Jiannu abandons his horses and baggage, he can go down from anywhere. Cheng Kai has only 500 people in his hands, so it is naturally impossible to garrison soldiers on every mountain.
Under the cover of heavy snow, strong winds, and night, these black shadows calmly descended the mountain, and although they were only more than a mile away from Cheng Kai's camp, they were not exposed in the slightest.
There were more and more black shadows, and soon about 2,000 people had gathered.
Of the two thousand, there were nearly 500 crossbowmen, 500 Bayaras, and 1,000 pikemen. Almost all of Houjin's crossbowmen, bayara soldiers, and pikemen were concentrated here.
The two thousand people divided into two groups and quietly touched Cheng Kai's camp.
The sound of them stepping on the snow was easily muffled by the howling wind.
The 2,000 people quickly reached a distance of only a few dozen meters from the main camp, and only then were they discovered by a few Ming soldiers patrolling the perimeter. The soldiers shouted a few times at once, but a gust of wind blew through them, and their shouts were immediately blown away.
"Poof!poof!" a few Baya soldiers rushed up and killed the patrol with just a few swords.
Continue to approach, disperse, and surround, everything is going on right under the noses of the Ming soldiers. However, due to heavy snow and strong winds, the camp where the Ming army was stationed did not light a bonfire, only a few worn lanterns, which shone like light in the wind.
Therefore, the Ming army was unaware of it.
It was destined to be a perfect sneak attack.
More than a dozen dazzling flares burst into the air, and then deafening shouts of killing rang out around the camp.
When the Ming army recovered from the shock, they found that they had been surrounded!
Of the 500 Ming troops, except for sixty or seventy men who served as horse sentry to patrol outside, because the weather was too bad, most of them were hiding from the snow in the camp tents, and only forty or fifty people were actually guarding the camp outside.
And so began a massacre.
After the flares were lifted into the air, the forty or fifty people who were on duty outside the camp tent were instantly shot into hedgehogs by Houjin's crossbowmen. Then, the Houjin soldiers were divided into dozens of groups, each group of thirty or forty people, and the Bayala soldiers, pikemen, and crossbowmen in the group were all ready, and they went to each camp to kill.
The tactics are simple. The crossbowmen first fired a chaotic crossbow into the tent, and then the Bayala soldiers entered the tent, while the pikemen waited outside, and if any Ming soldier escaped from the tent, he immediately stepped forward and stabbed him to death.
The roars and screams suddenly rang out, but they were immediately swept away by the howling north wind.
The massacre lasted more than half an hour, and finally dozens of Ming soldiers escaped and stepped onto their horses.
But it didn't work. Soon a group of pikemen rushed up, stabbed through the horses, and then stabbed to death the soldiers who fell from their horses.
Cheng Kai rushed out of the camp tent and saw that there were already dense slave soldiers outside.
He knew that something was wrong! Jiannu was really turning the tiger away from the mountain!
He was shocked and confused. If Jiannu was transferring the tiger away from the mountain, then the superintendent should immediately find out after he brought the troops there, why hasn't he come back yet?
But now was not the time to hesitate, he immediately asked two personal guards to look for the war horse, and then immediately went to report to the overseer. However, as soon as he gave the order, the two guards were hit by several powerful crossbows, and they fell to the ground and died!
Cheng Kai was hit by an arrow and knew that the general trend was gone, but he still pulled out his matching sword and rushed to kill a Jiannu soldier in front of him. As soon as he took two steps, he saw three or four Baya soldiers surround him.
"Clank!"
"Poof!"
Cheng Kai only resisted for a few rounds, and his head flew up!
Outside the camp, several horse sentries saw that the camp was attacked, and their faces changed greatly, and they immediately turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the northeast, wanting to inform Yuan Chonghuan.
He hadn't taken a few steps before his horse seemed to have tripped over something and fell heavily to the ground.
Before they could come to their senses, dozens of Jiannu soldiers arrived and surrounded them......
Seeing this, the remaining Ming army horse sentries did not dare to pass from the nearest avenue, so they turned around one after another and chose to take a detour. But in the dark night of the blizzard, the detour not only means that the road to Yuan Chonghuan will be farther, but also means that the probability of them getting lost has greatly increased.
At the same time, at the exit of the trail, countless Houjin horse soldiers led the war horses, racing against time to come out of the trail.
One, two......
Ten, a hundred......
Each of the Golden Horsemen who came out was immediately fully armed and stepped on their horses.
It seems that God also thinks that the golden gas is not exhausted, and at this time, the heavy snow suddenly becomes smaller, and the north wind is not so violent.
Ten miles away, Yuan Chonghuan was still carrying out this hearty massacre.
Six thousand cavalry wreaked and trampled in the snow, and one after another Jiannu soldiers fell to the ground. These soldiers seem to have lost the courage to resist, and they are more resistant than ever to the onslaught of cavalry.
The ground was densely covered with corpses, and the white blood was dyed red, and under the illumination of the dazzling flares, it looked like a blood-colored rose blooming, which was magnificent.
The Houjin soldiers on the mountain did not dare to come down again, and hid in the mountains one after another. The Houjin soldiers at the foot of the mountain screamed miserably and desperately climbed up the mountain.
After another quarter of an hour, the Houjin soldiers left behind countless corpses, all of which shrank down the mountain.
Yuan Chonghuan naturally would not let the cavalry go up the mountain to attack, so he ordered the attack to be aborted.
In this battle, the Guanning iron cavalry lost more than 300, and the loss of the "main force" of the Jin Dynasty reached more than 2,000 by visual measurement. The battle loss ratio of one to seven has set a record of all the battles between the Ming army and the Later Jin since the Later Jin army started the army.
Yuan Chonghuan drove the Jiannu "army" back to the mountains, and the goal had been achieved. As long as they can be trapped in the mountains, in the extreme cold and lack of food, Jiannu will not last long.
When the imperial army gathers in Hengling, it is the time when Jiannu is destroyed.
Yuan Chonghuan immediately ordered that there should be one post at the foot of the Hengling Ridge for three miles, with fifty horsemen per post, a total of twenty posts, and a monitoring area spanning sixty miles. Under such harsh conditions, Jiannu can never run sixty miles overnight no matter how much he can run, Yuan Chonghuan is to strictly prevent Jiannu from going down the mountain again.
A thousand cavalry immediately took the order and fired sentry at every sixty miles along the foot of the ridge.
Meng Wei has always been by Yuan Chonghuan's side, and he saw with his own eyes that Guan Ning's iron cavalry had defeated the Jiannu army, and he was also enthusiastic at the moment.
Heart, I have the two Optimus Primes of Lord Qin and Inspector Yuan, how can I collapse?
Trail crossings.
After 4,000 years, the golden iron cavalry has been assembled!
Huang Taiji finally swallowed his heart back into his stomach.
At this time, even if Yuan Chonghuan comes back, he will definitely not be able to stop the army from leaving the mountains!