"In one hour, after twenty miles of searching and killing, there were only less than three hundred gains?" Back in time, after Ji Xiha left the city, he quickly caught up with the Agula tribe who had been searching all the way. After understanding the situation, he frowned deeply.
road.
"Master, it's very unreasonable. Although these barbarians are in chaos, each team runs very fast and goes into the forest. Just like..." Agula considered his words for a while and gestured, "Just like every group
Every sheep is led by a leader."
"Did you survive?" Jixiha couldn't figure out the reason for a moment and planned to ask a Ming soldier.
"No...but Baiyin's Niulu left the city earlier than the slaves. Maybe Datou is on his side?" Agula was a little helpless. The barbarian can run so well. When everyone sees one of them, it's like seeing a rare treasure.
If everyone comes up and robs them, who can even think of staying alive?
Ji Xiha snorted coldly, a little dissatisfied with his men who only had muscles but no brains. He reviewed the whole process again. Except that the Ming army ran a little faster, there seemed to be no problem?
"Master, are you still chasing me?" Agula was a little panicked when he saw Jixiha didn't say anything. Master, he won't blame us for not working hard, right? In the conscience of heaven and earth, we are really not lazy.
Ji Xiha was stunned and hesitated: "It's already twenty miles away. The previous secret sentry only spread to twenty miles away. Any further away would be out of range..."
"Master, I sent a reconnaissance horse three miles ahead, and there were rewards all the way. There are still barbarians in front, but not many. They should be laggards." Agula blinked and reminded.
"Well, then chase for another five miles, grab my tongue and ask about the situation." Ji Xiha nodded. He couldn't think of the reason, so he asked clearly. It's the same.
Looking at the traces left by the Ming army along the way, Ji Xiha became more and more doubtful. The Ming army really did what Agula said and specifically found the paths in the forest to escape. Although the Mengba Banners were riding horses, they were not as good as walking on these paths.
Convenient, no wonder the gains were not big. However, he understood that dozens or hundreds of Ming troops who were familiar with the environment could escape through a small road. How could all the tens of thousands of Ming troops know the road?
"We caught a barbarian!" In confusion, a Ming soldier with a leg injury was tied up by several Mongolian bannermen and pushed and brought to Ji Xiha. Ji Xiha was overjoyed and immediately asked.
"I...little...I..." Ming Jun was a little nervous, looking at Jixiha with fearful and hostile eyes, and he stammered and was speechless.
"Don't worry, I'm not a bloodthirsty person." Ji Xiha comforted her softly, "As long as you answer my questions honestly, I will send you to Di Sanpin Dihou and raise you as a flag."
The Ming soldier's face softened slightly and he looked around. Ji Xiha understood and said with a smile: "Untie him. I have an official at Dihou who will explain it to you and will never make it difficult for you."
The soldier smiled reluctantly and stammered: "Sir, I don't know anything. I followed the general to attack the city. Suddenly I heard people shouting that King Qingyang was dead, and Marquis De'an had rebelled.
I just ran away after the boss, sprained my foot, and fell behind..."
Ji Xiha frowned and said, "Do you know this road?"
"I don't know the little one. I don't know where I ran to. The boss has also disappeared. The little one was so anxious that he couldn't see the road clearly..."
Ji Xiha waved his hand and asked his men to take the soldier down. He did not break his promise and indeed planned to send the soldier to Di Sanpin. Unfortunately, the soldier knew too little and could not be of much help to him.
"Keep chasing them. No matter how they run away, they will always be tired. Let's arrest an officer and ask." Ji Xiha hesitated for a moment and gritted his teeth. When things go wrong, there must be monsters. He still doesn't believe it. He won't do anything like this today.
Understand, he can't even sleep. What's more, there are more than 10,000 Ming troops, and they are all the elites of Xiying. How can he let them go like this?
"The Tatars are suspicious."
"It's unavoidable, but it doesn't matter. I'll throw some sweeteners in front of them."
"Report a message?"
"Can."
In the forest, an inaudible conversation rang out briefly, then fell silent again. After a few bird calls, the silence returned.
In the camp of the King of Shu, groups of Ming troops were ordered to mobilize, and the messengers kept coming in and out of the tent. The solemnity and bustle before the war were mixed together, and the atmosphere was full of the impending storm.
"Your Majesty, the main Tatar force is divided into three groups. The north and south roads are more than 20 miles away from the town. The current situation of the middle road is unknown."
Liu Wenxiu raised his thick eyebrows: "Unclear? You mean they haven't been discovered by our military sentries yet?"
"Your Majesty, in order to avoid being noticed by the Tatar spies, our army's sentry only went ten miles ahead, and the Tatars were in the middle. I think they haven't reached the location of our army's sentry yet."
"It took more than an hour and they didn't chase them for twenty miles?" Liu Wenxiu asked in confusion, "Is this group of Tatars turtles?"
Chen Jian said nothing, the king's cold joke was really not funny.
Liu Wenxiu waved his hand and said: "Intensify the investigation, I want to know the location of this group of Tatars. Since the Tatars from the north and the south are almost at the place, let's put the bait. I want the corpses of the Tatars to be spread all the way to the bottom of Zhenyuan City
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"Master, Gergen encountered a large group of fleeing barbarians four miles ahead, more than two thousand. The barbarians are now resisting stubbornly, and Gergen can't take them down for the moment." Agula found Jixiha with excitement on his face, and finally caught him.
Here comes the big fish.
Jixiha became energetic and clapped his horse and stepped forward: "Hurry and go to help in the battle. Duoduo sent out reconnaissance cavalry to investigate everywhere. I am worried that the barbarians have an ambush."
Agula curled his lips invisibly, and loudly said, "Ambush?" The barbarian fled for thirty miles and still ambushed him. Is the master frightened by the barbarian?
After turning an intersection, Ji Xiha saw the battlefield ahead. More than two thousand Ming troops formed a circular formation and were resisting Gergen's troops. Gergen's Niulu didn't gain much, and was almost the same as Agula. At this moment
They were circling the circular formation and attacking with missiles, preventing the Ming army from retreating.
Seeing another Tatar coming, the Ming army made a slight commotion. A general in the formation shouted loudly, commanding the Ming army to change from a circular formation to a square formation. "How brave!" Ji Xiha sneered, "The trapped beast still fights.
, do you want to repel our army and then run away?"
After the Ming army changed their formation, they took the initiative to attack. Ji Xiha was not in a hurry. He commanded the Meng Eight Banners to fight and retreat, without giving the Ming army a chance to fight in close combat. After all, he was worried that the Ming army would set up an ambush and did not want to fight with the Ming army here.
The army was entangled and couldn't get away. When the scout cavalry sent out reported that no Ming army had been seen within three miles, Jixiha finally felt relieved. There were few bows, crossbows and muskets in the Ming army, so Jixiha commanded the Meng Banners to use the Manchu weapon passed down by Temujin's ancestors.
The ancient evil tactic was to retreat and shoot at the same time, throwing waves of arrows at the Ming army. In the Ming army array, soldiers fell to the ground from time to time after being hit by arrows, but the leading generals turned a blind eye and only continued to direct their men to launch attacks.
The formation wanted to compress the Mengba Banner's space to move.
"He's a ruthless man, but he's just a bit stupid." When Ji Xiha saw this, he knew the Ming army's plan very well. He sneered and didn't care at all. With infantry against cavalry, the strength of the Ming army was not superior.
Do you think you don’t know how to fight? If you want to trap my more than 2,000 cavalry with more than 2,000 infantry, how thin will your battle line have to be? When I make a surprise attack, how can you trap me?
The Mengba Banner gradually retreated to the jungle on one side of the open space, and the Ming army had also spread out into an arc. The team of more than 2,000 people stretched out for two miles, and it seemed that it was so thin that it could be broken with a poke. Ji Xiha felt that the time had come.
Then, he raised his saber high and spun it around in the air several times, shouting and shouting. Meng Baqi quickly changed his formation, backed by the jungle, and formed a sharp triangle charge formation.
The Ming army turned a blind eye to the changes in formation of the Meng Eight Banners, and continued to approach slowly step by step. Ji Xiha gave an evil laugh and was about to give the order to charge. When the Meng Eight Banners were about to move, the Ming army generals suddenly stopped the troops and ordered the flags to be charged.
After shaking it a few times, the Ming soldiers in the front row all took off the thunderbolts from their waists, took a few steps forward, and threw the thunderbolts hard at the Tatars.
"Hahaha..." Ji Xiha laughed out loud at the Ming army general's series of incompetences. The two armies were more than a hundred steps apart, and you asked the soldiers to throw thunderbolts. Do you think these Ming army soldiers are the reincarnation of the overlord?
? Or do you think that the thunderous explosion can shock your own war horse? Fortunately, you just praised him as a ruthless person. If he is so stupid, what can he do no matter how ruthless he is? Meng Baqi was also overjoyed, and felt that this wise general was really stupid to the extreme.
If these hundreds of sky-shaking thunderbolts exploded when they charged, it would really be a minor trouble. Now, it would just be a laughing stock.
At the moment when the sky-shaking thunder exploded, a rumble suddenly sounded in the distance, as if thunder was rolling in from the sky. "Is it thundering?" The Mengba bannermen all raised their heads and looked up. The thunder was getting closer and closer, some sharp-eyed people
Meng Baqi suddenly exclaimed: "It's not thunder, it's cannon. Run quickly."
Accompanied by screams, several 20-pound cannonballs crashed to the ground and hit the Mengba Banner's military formation. Fortunately, the ground on the mountain road was soft, which greatly absorbed the huge kinetic energy of the cannonballs.
After bouncing on the ground a few times, it sank into the soil and stopped moving. Even so, the Mengba Banners also felt uncomfortable. The dense charging queue was beaten into chaos. Several shells plowed the blood trough, and the stumps and broken arms were struggling.
It was like Shura hell with the soldiers who were not yet dead.
"Here it comes again!" It was the same sharp-eyed soldier who warned. This time there were more artillery shells. The twenty-kilogram solid bullets were also mixed with a lot of hissing explosive shells. Jixiha was frightened.
Finally, he recovered from the bombardment from the divine soldiers and shouted sternly: "Dismount, get down, don't run around!"
It was too late. Few of the chaotic Mengba Banners heard their master's order and huddled together. The shells fell, making a louder explosion, and nails and stone flakes splashed everywhere, setting off a riot among the crowd.
A carnival of blood donation and death. Meng Baqi was completely blown away. Those who were still alive ignored their injured companions and fled in all directions with a crash.
"Hey, the artillery battalion finally didn't stretch its hips this time. The artillery fire is really accurate."
"The king has personally been watching the adjustment for several days. If it still misses, the artillerymen should be pulled and beheaded."
"Don't tell me, I'm really worried when I hear the cannonballs flying past our heads. If we're not careful, the cannonballs will fall on our heads..."
On the periphery, the Ming soldiers were talking a lot, but that didn't stop them from knocking down the Mengba bannermen who were rushing towards them one by one and tying them up. The sound of horns came from far away, followed by the sound of roaring horse hooves.
, Liu Wenxiu's direct descendants, the old cavalry from the Western Camp, dispatched.