Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 303
Ma Gui and Gao Yu finally led their men out of the Mongolian Central Army camp. Although Chataiji survived because of the poor power of the three-eyed gun that Gao Yu brought out from Desheng Fort, he was still affected. He was injured, and was shot in the socket of his left shoulder, so he had to be treated quickly.

The Alda military order he got was just to repel the incoming enemy. Now that the Ming army had retreated in fear, he had already completed the mission. In addition, he had to guard against the sneak attack of the Ma Taishi who was actually three hundred miles away. At that time, Chataiji just bluffed a few times behind the Ming army and then withdrew his troops. He ordered his subordinates to clean up the battlefield and prepare for the Ming army to come again, while he hurried to deal with his injuries.

The three-eyed blunderbuss are loaded with more complex ammunition, which can be steel balls, small pieces of cast iron, broken iron sand, etc., or lead bullets.No matter what it is, it must not be ignored: iron bullets may cause tetanus, and lead bullets are extremely poisonous. Chataiji's injury is in the socket of the shoulder, so naturally I dare not take it lightly.

Ma Gui and Gao Yu took the road and fled, running ten miles away. After confirming that no pursuers followed, they hurriedly counted the casualties. As a result, Ma Jiada lost 21 soldiers, and Gao Jiading even lost 53 People, the casualty rate is quite high for this era, and both of them were annoyed and dejected for a while.

"The enemy general just now is Chataiji, who is known as the number one expert in Mongolia. He was called 'Little Jebe' when he was seventeen or eighteen years old. I love him for his loyalty and bravery. I adopted him as a foster son and served him as a regular servant before the battle. Beside... Zhiniang thief, you really have some skills!" Ma Gui spat forcefully, spat out a mouthful of bloody spittle, and said: "However, Deputy Gao Tuan, what's the matter with your gun? I see You rushed so close to fire the gun, and you said that the scourge of Chataiji was about to be killed on the spot, why did you turn around and he got up again?"

Gao Jue was always wondering about this, so he took out the three-eyed blunderbuss to have a look, then let out a "bah" forcefully, and said in annoyance, "This broken blunderbuss...Look at General Ma." He handed the three-eyed blunderbuss To Magui.

Ma Gui took it, looked at it for a while, and also looked angry: "Where is this broken gun made? In order to prevent the barrel from blowing up, this broken gun has thickened the inner wall of the barrel - it is not easy to blow up the barrel, but this way , the powder charge is less, I’m afraid it’s half as much, and this little gunpowder is loaded, the power is not enough to kill people, I’m afraid it can’t even kill a bird! Bah! Break the gun!”

Gao Yu smiled wryly and said: "I'm afraid this thing shouldn't be used as a firearm at all, it's just used as a short-term mace. But then again, this kind of thing is already considered good, at least it won't explode at will. The second time I came to patrol the defense with the holy will, and I paid special attention to firearms, but the three-eyed gun that exploded was really... ah!"

"Oh, what a great opportunity..." Ma Gui shook his head helplessly: "If you can kill Chataiji, you will cut off my arm, and the old prisoner will be so angry that he will storm Deshengbao , What a pity, what a pity!"

Gao Yu also had a wry smile on his face: "What should we do now? I'm afraid the losses we caused to me are insignificant. I say it's still uncertain whether we will send troops to attack the city during the day. However, our own casualties are not small. This group of cavaliers under the command of my young master cost the boss a lot of money to get them out, and the effort was no less than the money. This time I lost more than 50 numbers to him in the first battle, and I don't know how to explain it when I go back. "

Ma Gui is actually more distressed than Gao Yu, because in his opinion, although the cavaliers under Gao Yu's command can be seen to have undergone rigorous training and have a good foundation, they have not gone through any battles after all, so it is easy to replenish.But their own soldiers are different, they are all selected from the veterans, many of them are only in their twenties, but they are veterans who have been working as boy soldiers since they were thirteen or fourteen years old. The next year's battle will only be included in the soldiers, such elite soldiers would be heartbroken to die, not to mention losing more than 20 at once!

He only got [-] elite soldiers in total, if he always loses like this, if he doesn't need a few battles, the elite soldiers will be over.

The two of them were frowning and sighing, and after a while, Ma Gui said: "It's almost dawn, let's hurry back to the pass, otherwise I said that if we really want to launch an offensive, Zhenqiang Fort is too close, maybe we will be killed too." As a goal, it will be difficult to handle.”

Gao Yu agreed, and then said: "I thought about it, although we did not cause too much damage to I Da, but it seems that I Da has not been hit by anyone in the past few years, right? Maybe he really can't bear it." Living in the siege, if this is the case, can we also attract the attention of the northern captives for Ma Zongrong?"

"It must be counted, but it's hard to say what the effect will be." Ma Gui thought for a while, and said: "What you said just now is not wrong. Although the northern captives have often gone south to plunder in the past few years, they often return without success. They were even beaten back by our Xuanda armies, but their real losses were not that great, especially when the Chinese army led by Al Da was ambushed, which seems to have never happened..."

When he said this, he frowned again, and said hesitantly: "But I answer that this old prisoner is an old and cunning person. You see, this time we stole the camp, he only sent the old guards to meet him from the beginning to the end. , The camps of the various ministries next to him were not moved at all, I thought, a person like him... really doesn't seem like a master who would raise troops out of anger, our calculations may have been too good at the beginning."

After all, Gao Yu is not a serious general of the Ming army, so it is not good to express his opinion on this issue, so he just responded vaguely, and then said: "In any case, we will try our best."

"Yeah, let's all do it... Hey, why are there Tartars in front?" Ma Gui was startled when he said that, and pointed forward.

Gao Yu quickly raised his eyes to look, but saw a Mongolian cavalry running towards them from the direction of Qiangbao in front of him, and he couldn't help being surprised. He was about to shout "enemy attack", but he was taken aback and hesitated: "No, General Ma, look at them, they don't look like they're here to trouble us, but rather... they've lost a battle?"

Ma Gui took a look, but saw that the Mongolian cavalry in front were only two or three hundred, most of them had broken leather armor and disheveled hair, many of them were wounded at first glance, and some even had no weapons, only one The horse bow is hung on the back.

With this appearance, it is obviously impossible to come to find them bad luck.

"This is a defeated soldier." After all, Ma Gui is a "veteran" who has fought for several years, and said with certainty: "And he lost badly."

In fact, Gao Yu had fought with the elders of the Gao family before, but it was mainly against Japanese pirates, mainly in small-scale battles. He didn't know much about the wars in northern Xinjiang, so he just said in surprise: "They are Where did you lose the battle? Why did you come from the east..."

When he said this, he suddenly stared at Ma Gui with wide eyes, and it happened that Ma Gui also looked at him with wide eyes.

The two looked at each other, and suddenly exclaimed in unison: "Ma Zongrong?"

(End of this chapter)