Behind Guo Ning, the soldiers were either packing their baggage, checking their bows and knives, or taking the time to feed the horses a few mouthfuls of dry food. The team of thousands of people looked chaotic and unusual.
But Guo Ning knows that in fact, there is a logic in the chaos. These thousand people are all capable veterans who entered Hebei from the bloody battles in northern Xinjiang. They have fought too many battles and experienced too many times of being beaten.
The pursuit situation, deep down in my heart, I have long been used to this kind of scene.
Those generals, generals, generals, and officers in custody are all exceptionally brave people selected from among the old soldiers. They talk nonsense and make noisy movements, but in fact they have everything under control and will not make any mistakes.
It was already bright and the sun was scorching hot. Looking around, all we could see for the time being were patches of reeds and miscellaneous trees scattered among wetlands, river beaches and undulating slopes.
There is a river far to the west, and the water is very shallow. The water surface overflows on the open gravel beach, and the sunlight shines, sparkling like a silver ribbon. The river flows from north to west, then turns to east, and finally converges
Enter Wudian.
Bianwudian is just to the east, and there are some continuous meadows on the edge of the water.
Yi La Chucai and Wan Yan Congjia's men had now taken refuge in Ya'er Village deep in the meadow.
There is an abandoned dock behind Ya'er Village. If they are lucky, they may be able to find a small boat with two boats.
The soldiers around him were still noisy. Under the cover of the noise, some kind of extremely subtle dull sound seemed to be slowly approaching. Guo Ning listened carefully, but it didn't seem to be there. But he knew that the sound was indeed there.
Although he is young, he has been on the battlefield for many years and has rich battle experience. After fighting hundreds of battles, large and small, a person will inexplicably develop a keen sense, and he will naturally be able to distinguish the coming danger.
Guo Ning had this ability very early, so at the beginning of the year, he was plotted against and everyone in his tribe died. He was the only one who could predict the situation when the time was tight.
Beside Guo Ning, the officers who were equally experienced as him also stopped. Some of them winked at each other. Some of them wiped their noses and smelled the dusty smell that smelled of moss that was getting thicker in the air... That
It is the result of the wetland at the edge of the swamp being dried out and then trampled by horse hooves.
Smelling this smell, Guo Ning's yellow gelding seemed to have had a premonition of something. It stamped its hooves excitedly and swung its tail.
Guo Ning took out a piece of bean cake from the saddle bag, broke it into small pieces, and slowly fed it to the war horse.
While feeding the horse, he asked: "Li Erlang, yesterday you fought with Al Jinchi of the Mongolian army all night. What were your losses?"
Li Ting's face darkened: "More than twenty people died, including Hu Tai. There are still more than a dozen who are seriously injured and can no longer fight."
Needless to say, the injuries were minor. From Li Ting down, everyone who broke up the queen yesterday was injured. This is obvious. Breaking up the queen is always a hard job, so Guo Ning won the support of so many soldiers because of his record of fighting in the fight.
"So, what are the approximate losses of the Mongols?"
Li Ting said with a ferocious smile: "If I go down personally, what good can they gain? The number of dead is no less than ours!"
Guo Ning turned to the generals around him: "If Aljinchi from the Mongolian Khan's tent were to pursue us, Li Erlang would probably be even more embarrassed. It would be difficult to kill and injure equally. It seems that the Mongols are not chasing us this time.
The military headquarters is not the military headquarters, but some of the newly formed thousands of households."
Hey! Are you saying this because you look down on my bravery, Li Erlang?
Li Ting muttered, but he also knew that Guo Ning's judgment was correct.
The Aljinchi of the Mongolian army were as ferocious as ghosts, far more powerful than their opponents last night. If Li Ting's troops ran into them, the losses would be much greater.
He said bitterly: "That's right! Yesterday, I saw that the enemy army was not only from other parts of the grassland, but also weird people with yellow hair and blue eyes. Those were not Mongols, but barbarians located in the north of the grassland, who were as indistinguishable as wild beasts.
There is nothing like this in the thirty or fifty thousand households that are the real headquarters of the Mongolian army."
In the early years, the Jin army fought fiercely with the Mongols on the grasslands, and everyone knew the Mongolians' customary tactics.
They first forced the people to be reduced to war slaves, forcing them to charge and kill first, then the fine cavalry of the Mongolian headquarters advanced and retreated, and finally the main offensive came.
Because every time a battle was won, war slaves were rewarded and promoted, and war slaves were continuously converted into regular soldiers. As a result, the Mongolian army became stronger and stronger as they fought, and the number of thousands of households they controlled increased from the initial dozen or twenty.
It grew to fifty or sixty, and now there are ninety-five.
Genghis Khan selected a few weak Qianhu, composed of captives and slaves, to pursue a partial Jin army outside the battlefield. This was in line with the principle of using troops.
Everyone was assessing the situation, and Han Xuan pointed to the front: "Two thousand riders are here, and I estimate that there are three to four thousand households."
Everyone looked along his line of sight and saw Mongolian cavalry emerging from the opposite side of the river beach. Under the sun, their black figures were like gathered black paper-cuts, and their formations were changing like dark clouds falling to the ground, along the
The river slowly moved forward, looking for an appropriate opportunity to cross the river.
The soldiers who were preparing for the exchange also noticed the movements of the Mongolian army. They inevitably made a slight agitation. But then they saw the generals including Guo Ning gathered together, talking as usual, and quickly calmed down.
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"Looking at the equipment of armor and weapons, it is indeed a newly built Qianhu built by the Mongols." Several generals said one after another. After a pause, they gasped again: "But, Langjun, look at that battle flag. It should be a Mongolian one."
The relatives next to the Great Khan are in charge of the team!"
"I don't care if he is rich or not!"
Guo Ning laughed and cursed, and continued: "No matter how dear you are, you still have one head and two hands. How can we not rely on the soldiers below to fight the battle? Everyone, when we faced off against the Mongolian army, we were defeated repeatedly.
There is nothing to say. But at this moment, the Mongols only sent a few teams of dogs, but we are just waiting for work. There is no harm in giving them a dozen, right?"
In fact, this was the strategy that had been decided last night. But when things came to a head, the generals were inevitably a little uneasy at the thought of having to compete head-on with the Mongolian army.
Some people bowed their heads slightly to hide their guilty expressions, while more people looked at Guo Ning, wanting to finally confirm his determination.
But Guo Ning only stared at the approaching Mongolian army. In his eyes, there was no fear at all, but a bit of ridicule, a bit of contempt, and even a bit of bloodthirsty killing intent, just like a beast staring at the approaching soldiers.
Prey in front of you.
Han Xuan immediately said: "We have been training for several months, and it's time to see blood."
Li Ting also waved his fist and said: "We have to give them a beating! Beat them until they hurt, and then we can run away with peace of mind!"
Guo Ning nodded to the generals.
He opened his palms and said to Ni Yi: "Get the military flag."
Ni rode back and forth, holding the military flag and offering it high.
The military flags used by the Jin army included the five-square flag, the Bagua flag, and the like. As the main force, the Meng'an Mou Ke army used the yellow-heart flag surrounded by four colors. The Mongolian army also had unique battle flags, with five colors, three colors, and other different shapes.
And the most important thing is the black and white Sulu Ding military flag.
The military flag chosen by Guo Ning is pure red.
He held the nearly two-foot flagpole with one hand and placed it heavily on the ground.
At this time, the Mongolian cavalry was getting closer and closer, as if they were covered in strong wind and smoke. The bright red flag of the military flag was caught by the wind, and suddenly spread out with a roar, becoming more and more fierce like fire.
Guo Ning said simply: "Gather, put on your armor."
Several hundred steps behind Guo Ning, Wanyan Congjia broke away from Chu Cai's support, stuck his head out of the meadow, and took a look at the battlefield.
After all, he had served as a military governor for decades. Although he had never actually fought in a war, he had read a lot of military books.
Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but laugh angrily: "Even if we want to fight, we should attack half way across the river. There is no point in waiting for the Mongolian army to attack us! It's such a foolish move and the courage of an ordinary man!"
Two miles in front of Guo Ning, Tuo Lei, surrounded by several Qianhu nayans, rode forward.
Among the two thousand cavalry he brought out this time, there were indeed not many real Mongol elites. But even the newly built Thousand Houses or Hundred Houses, their members were all battle-hardened. And it was obvious that our number was twice that of our opponents.
, hit more and hit less.
Beside him and behind him, many knights were talking to each other about how to defeat this golden army as soon as possible so that their armor, weapons and horses could be divided up.
When Tuo Lei gradually saw the enemy's arrangement clearly, he couldn't help but laugh: "Do the Jurchen knights still have the courage to fight on horseback?"
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