Genghis Khan suddenly attacked. It would be a lie to say that the soldiers were not nervous. If Guo Ning, who was also invincible, was not in charge of his own formation, many of the soldiers would have weak legs, and the more experienced they were in the military.
, the more experienced the backbone soldiers were in fighting the Mongols, the more nervous they became.
As a result, when the two sides collided, everyone worked together to win a great victory. More than a thousand elite troops of the Xue army who killed and wounded the Mongols were killed, and our own side suffered less than 500 casualties. This was an unquestionable victory.
Many officers from military academies said that such an "exchange ratio" was unprecedented since the war between the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia, and even the two victorious battles Guo Xuanshi fought in Shandong and Liaodong were inferior.
Being able to exchange the lives of so many Mongolian soldiers with such a small loss, and survive unscathed, all soldiers who think about this are extremely happy. Even if someone has a brother or friend who died in the battle, and his mood is slightly affected, everyone
Rank-and-level junior officers will also calm their emotions in a timely manner and remind them that their companions will receive high-level pensions and treatment in the ancestral hall.
As a result, everyone's fighting spirit became more and more intense. Many people began to plan to kill a few Mongolian soldiers to avenge their families. Some people also thought about what kind of rewards they would get after victory.
That night, Guo Xuanshi announced that 50,000 reinforcements from Shandong would arrive and would give the Mongolian army a heavy blow in Zhongdu. The soldiers became more and more encouraged. Many soldiers in the army were from Zhongdu.
Being able to return to his hometown and perform a heroic feat to save his fellow villagers brings great expectations.
However, in the early morning of the next day, Guo Ning suddenly issued an order and the entire army immediately withdrew to Yijin Pass.
This order to retreat was so sudden that no one among the soldiers expected it.
Why is this so?
Why didn't they fight towards Zhongdu? Why did they have to retreat urgently after winning the battle?
Everyone just got angry, and this is the result?
The soldiers suddenly became suspicious.
What went wrong? Is our Ambassador Guo afraid of the Tatar Khan? Or is there something on the side of the Tatar Khan that forces us to flee?
I also heard that because the Jurchens were defeated by the Mongolian army, the direction of Hebei may be unstable. In that case, there will be questions about whether everyone can return to Shandong safely!
After all, the Dinghai Navy was operating far away from its base in Shandong, so doubts could easily arise and spread easily. With such emotions in mind, when the soldiers packed up their supplies and tidied up their ranks, there was even a rare state of chaos.
Ding Haijun brought a large amount of grain and supplies, which he originally planned to transport into Zhongdu. He suddenly wanted to retreat, and without the cover of the Hebei Meng'an Mou Ke Army, he had to leave a large number of troops and horses on guard. Therefore, he was immediately short of manpower, and many supplies could not be withdrawn.
Prompt shipment.
These were the things that Shandong people had saved bit by bit from their teeth. The lieutenant who led the team was reluctant to abandon them, and he was even less happy that these materials would fall into the hands of the Mongols. In the rush, he did not ask Guo Ning for instructions, but directly ordered them to be burned, which caused
Black smoke rose into the sky.
In the plain wilderness, this thick smoke can be seen even from thirty or forty miles away!
Guo Ning was furious and immediately summoned the lieutenant to scold him.
It turns out that the so-called "50,000 reinforcements are coming" was basically smoke released by Guo Ning. He spread the news to the entire army because the Mongols would always catch a few civilians or civilians accompanying the army in the subsequent disturbances.
Ali is happy. And this news may divert the attention of the Tatar Khan and buy time for the navy to retreat.
But when the smoke rises, unless all the Mongolians are blind, who will miss it?
Ding Haijun's hasty posture, through this thick smoke, has completely fallen into the eyes of the Mongols. With the Mongolians' keen sense of smell like wild beasts, could they not guess what Ding Haijun was doing?
In this case, what use are the rumors of "big reinforcements are coming and there will be a fierce battle"?
The specialty of the Mongolian cavalry is flexibility and maneuverability, while the specialty of the Ding Navy is that the infantry is as stable as an anvil and the cavalry is as sharp as a hammer. When the two sides are fighting head-on, the Ding Navy responds steadily and is not afraid at all. As long as it does not expose its flaws, the Mongols
There is nothing I can do.
But when the army retreats quickly, how can it not reveal flaws? Marching and fighting are two different things. No matter how elite the army is, there will be flaws when marching. The Mongols, by scattering harassment and attacking with cameras, will tear small flaws into large and fatal flaws.
,Until then……
The Mongolian army is the most ferocious wolf on the grassland. As long as they catch the Dinghai navy's flaw, a swarm of swarms will come up and bite them bloody!
Guo Ning had no choice but to urge the soldiers to move faster and faster. The distance from Liangxiang to Yijin Pass in Bazhou was one hundred and seventy miles. The Dinghai Navy relied on its usual emphasis on armed cross-country training and moved very quickly. It only took two days to complete the task.
After walking nearly a hundred miles, we entered Gu'an County.
However, the danger is imminent.
On the day they retreated, they were repeatedly harassed by Mongolian Alkinchi. On the second day, a large number of Mongolian knights approached Ding Haijun's brigade with little concealment. Ding Haijun needed to keep more than a thousand light cavalry galloping back and forth in order to
Drive it away.
This kind of continuous nuisance does not stop even at night. Even the Qingqi of Ding Haijun have to deal with it all the time.
In order to cover the area around the camp and block the close reconnaissance of the Mongols, many Ding navy cavalry stayed up all night, chasing, staggering, driving, and intimidating each other on the large plains. If a battle occasionally broke out, it would be short and fierce.
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There is no doubt that the Mongolian army is filled with the best knights, the best shooters of this era, and also has the best cavalry tactics. Their top-down system, smooth channels and means of delivering orders, and even daily
The military literacy brought about by a hard life has a huge advantage over any surrounding nation.
With the establishment of the Great Mongol Kingdom, many tribal barriers were broken, and elite warriors gathered on an unprecedented scale. After that, the Mongolian army obtained a huge supply of ordnance and war horses in the continuous wars with the Xia Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom.
Their combat effectiveness has continued to improve in just a few years.
Especially in an environment where small groups of cavalry came and went at night, the Mongolian harassment and guerrillas put tremendous pressure on the navy's cavalry.
After working hard all night, the tired light cavalry didn't have much time to rest.
Because the army pretended to be a baggage team heading north, the number of cavalry brought by Ding Haijun on this trip was not very large. Except for the heavy cavalry of Tiefutu, which was directly commanded by Guo Ning, most of the light cavalry were under Dong Jin's command, with a total of only a few hundred cavalry.
The number of cavalry the Mongols can use is twenty times as much!
In the early morning of the third day of the rapid march and retreat, the Mongolian cavalry all over the wilderness left like an ebbing tide. The experienced veterans knew that this was the gap where the Mongols mobilized new troops. The Alkinchis would take advantage of the day to rest a little, and a new
Thousand-man troops will replace them and continue to harass.
Therefore, the cavalrymen did not waste any time, and soon contacted the other cavalryman who replaced them, urging their horses to return to the camp, seizing all the time to recharge their batteries.
The cavalry who can take on the task of looking for sentries at night are all good riders, and they all have two horses. Most of them have changed horses between battles, and now the horses are more energetic than the people.
Under the twilight sky, the war horses were jumping forward, always trying to gallop happily. The knights had no choice but to keep bracing themselves and tightening the reins to calm down the excited horses.
During the rapid march, the camp was completely built with baggage vehicles, which was much simpler than normal. The main entrance of the camp was an opening formed by the intersection of three rows of large vehicles.
When the cavalry entered the camp, they noticed an open area with obvious traces of iron artillery explosions. There were several Mongolian corpses lying on the grass in a twisted posture that had not been cleaned up.
The cavalry leader leading the team was a little frustrated: "The loud noise last night scared my horse. I didn't expect the Mongols to pass through our sentinel cavalry and rush to the camp gate!"
The knight next to him said bitterly: "That's why Dong Qianha was so angry that he personally selected a hundred strong men and went to fight with the Mongols overnight... He didn't take me with him!"
The cavalry general was waiting for a reply when the knight who was ahead turned his horse back and said with a joyful face: "General of the capital, come quickly, come quickly, I killed a sheep this morning to reward everyone!"
In the past few days, the soldiers have been marching in a hurry and have to deal with the enemy's harassment. Everyone is very tired. Fortunately, everyone's food has been good and very satisfying. There is also a special treat for our knights who are responsible for driving away the Mongolian sentries.
preferential treatment.
At this time, Ali Xi of the cavalry specially found a dry slope and dug dozens of stove holes to cook the mutton. When the water boiled, the unique aroma of the mutton permeated everywhere, accompanied by the smell of wild onions, which made him feel
People are salivating.
In the infantry formation preparing to set off, Old Brother Liu and his companions were in the downwind a few dozen steps away, and could just hear them. So everyone stopped gossiping and stared intently in the direction of the stove.
The treatment of Dinghai soldiers has always been good. They are fed with wheat cakes and grain cakes, so no one will go hungry. However, when it comes to meat, there is still a gap between the treatment of ordinary infantry and elite cavalry.
"I can see, there are big chunks of meat boiling in the soup. Even the skin, most of it is fat. It's as big as a palm!" The young man who loves cooking and has thought about becoming a soldier opened his mouth. The five fingers of his right hand signaled to the people around him: "Take a bite, and the fat will flow in your mouth and slide down your throat... Think about it, how beautiful it must be!"
"That's so beautiful!" Everyone nodded repeatedly.
There are also people who are very greedy but can't eat, and feel angry: "I smell the smell of mutton, it's a bit familiar."
"How come we are so familiar? Have you eaten something secretly in the past two days?"
"After the Mongolian cavalry was killed by iron artillery, their bones and flesh were all rotten, and the smell was similar to that of mutton, fragrant and a little bit stinky."
Before he finished speaking, Lao Liu slapped him on the head with such force that there was a cracking sound.
"Those mutton eaters have been fighting all night to let you sleep all night! Look at the stove in the west, isn't it Lao Wang? There were twenty people under him. The day before yesterday and yesterday Nine people were killed in a row, and three more were lost last night. Only eight people were left, and all of them were injured. Even Lao Wang himself... Look at his arms, are they tied? They must be bones. He was shot in pieces by a Mongolian shovel-shaped arrow! He can still speak now. If he eats, he will have a high fever and may die! Why don't they eat something good!"
His voice was a bit loud, but the soldiers around him were silent.
A lieutenant leading the troops was listening from a distance. He felt that these words were too demoralizing and wanted to come over and yell at him. When he walked up to him, he found that the veteran Pu Liyan was speaking. He frowned and turned around and went back.
Pu Liyan is the position of captain of fifty people. In the Dinghai navy, he is the deputy of the lieutenant. It is usually held by experienced veterans. These veterans cannot pass the examination of the military academy for various reasons, but in the army, they The level of prestige and trust is real.
At this time, there was an atmosphere of tension everywhere among the ranks of the soldiers, and everyone's heart was very tight. Fortunately, the backbone soldiers had experienced hundreds of battles, and they were at most a little more dignified. And even if they said Some outrageous words may eventually be found to be useful.
At this moment, a soldier from another team asked in a low voice: "There are so many dead horses, they can't hold on for long. Last night, the Mongols rushed to the camp several times, and shot to death and wounded several brothers... …What will it be like today?”
Old Liu glanced at him and tapped his chest with his knuckles.
Only then did the soldier notice that Lao Liu and his companions were all wearing armor directly on their bodies, but the cart was a little empty.
"You are not too tired..." The soldier laughed and cursed for a while, and his expression immediately became serious.
He bowed his hand to Lao Liu, turned around and ran towards his own queue.
From the front of the queue came the dull sound of wheels rolling over the ground and the rumble of footsteps. It was the soldiers in the front team who had set off.
I am honored to report that I did have pneumonia and then recovered... I have started to write more these days, and I will update it normally in February. My performance last month was really not good, so I bow and apologize to the readers.