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Chapter 234 Chapter 233 Fight or Retreat?

Qianhu Sahatu of the Alta Department led the cavalry bravely to the Ma Fang Department who broke out from the siege, but he soon discovered that something was wrong, and the movements of these elite cavalry seemed to be somewhat deformed.

They did not maintain the previous formation to face the fleeing Ming army head-on, but separated left and right, and there was a gap in the middle of the formation, which was enough for the Ming army to escape.

It is indeed rare for cavalry to collide head-on on the battlefield. It is normal for them to use this formation in cavalry battles in the past.

The horse team was divided into two groups, one left and one right flanking the enemy.

However, the order he issued was to "stop them", and he was surrounded by old subordinates who had followed him for many years, so they would not understand the meaning of these words.

Just in an instant, he understood the thoughts of his subordinates. Like himself, they felt a little fear in the bottom of their hearts towards this demon that was killed like hell, and they were unwilling to stop them head-on.

At this time, the distance between the two armies was very close, and he couldn't adjust his response, so Sahatu had to shout loudly: "Kill them all, don't let a single one go."

By this time, he had no other choice but to shout this.

There are not many people around to follow, and the brigade has been scattered on both sides. They can't stop the hundreds of Ming cavalry at all.

Unknowingly, his horse's head also slightly pulled to his right, allowing him to pass from the left of the Ming cavalry.

Although doing so will make it difficult for his right hand, which is good at chopping, to chop people with force, it can also avoid being attacked by the Ming army to the greatest extent.

These are only veterans with rich battlefield experience will know.

Of course, if you happen to meet someone who is left-handed, you can only ask for blessings.

Between the cavalry staggering, the sound of weapons colliding was endless. Although they also caused some damage to the Alda cavalry, after continuous battles, many soldiers of the Ming army were already exhausted. I couldn't do it all the time.

When the Ming army cavalry rushed out of the Alda cavalry to intercept, the remaining soldiers were less than 500.

On their way forward, countless corpses of soldiers lay down, and they fell dead on the way to survive.

Sahatu was unwilling to completely wipe out this Ming army.

When the two armies intersected, he had already discovered that the Ming army was at the end of its strength. If the subordinates faithfully carried out their orders, they could kill them all here, right in front of those Ming troops, and kill all the Ming troops. cavalry.

His subordinates should have already discovered it.

Thinking of this, Sahatu regained his fighting spirit, and wanted to turn around and chase after him again, when there was the sound of rumbling horseshoes behind him.

When Sahatu heard the sound, he hurriedly turned his head and saw that it was indeed the Ming army. The nearly 2000 cavalry troops that had been wandering on the flanks of the Ming army's formation had already come in a mighty manner.

Needless to say, Sahatu knew that he had no chance to catch up with the fleeing Ming cavalry.

Although the Ming army cavalry was much closer to him, but when he turned his head to catch up and tried to turn around and flee back to the barracks, it was too late in time. After he killed all the Ming army, he would go head-to-head with this Ming army cavalry Hit.

Maybe he didn't care about them before, but today's Ming army has given him too many surprises, and he dare not look at them with old eyes.

With a long sigh, he chose to give up, but deep down in his heart, there was a little relief for no reason.

Giving up on chasing and killing the Ming army cavalry, Sahatu did not rush back to the Altan Khan camp, but sent his ten household heads and hundred household leaders to separate to the two sides and recall the fleeing tribes.

These people scattered and ran, and when they finally encountered the Ming army, they had no ability to resist.

Although I look down on these people very much, the tribe still needs them.

As for retrieving these people, how the Great Khan will punish them is not his business.

Restrain hundreds of people under him, continue to stay outside the gate of Altan Khan's barracks to monitor the movements of the Ming army, and report to the inside at any time.

After the Ming army saw Ma Fang rushing out from the interception of the last Alda cavalry, although they suffered heavy losses, they finally rushed out and escaped. Wei Guangde noticed the movement of these dozens of steps. Moving forward, the problem of lack of training in the army was still obvious, and the formation began to be scattered, and Tian Shiwei immediately gave the order to stop and reorganize the team.

After advancing quickly for a while, the Ming army formation stopped its offensive again, and the former army quickly began to organize their formation and rearrange the iron barrel formation.

At this point in time, Wei Guangde actually had no idea whether he should fight or not.

Continue to fight, and the opposite is the last site of the IDA Department here. If the IDA Department is determined to fight hard, they may not be able to take advantage of more than ten thousand people.

Before, they took advantage of the shortage of troops in front of Alta's battalion. They already had [-] troops, and they had to divide their troops to rescue Alta Khan's place.

But when we got here, I Da Khan has joined forces, and a simple calculation will show that when the former battalion attacked, it did not cause much damage at all, although we still don't know the actual loss caused by Ma Fang's Ministry to I Da Khan. , but can also be estimated.

The main force of the Ming army lost less than a thousand people when they attacked the former camp, most of which were caused by the final implementation of the outflanking of the two wings.

The loss of the cavalry was a bit miserable, almost more than half of the casualties. About 500 people escaped from Ma Fang's department, and almost [-] cavalry were sent in, while the loss of Liu Huan's department was also around [-].

Now there are only more than 2000 cavalry left here, and it is only by joining forces with Ma Fang and Liu Huan that they can re-form a cavalry unit.

After rushing out of the dangerous place, Ma Fang only breathed a sigh of relief.

Just after killing the Tatar cavalry, I accidentally discovered that these people had no fighting spirit. After seeing them killing them, they scattered and fled. If this was a good opportunity to make military exploits in the past, chasing the Tartar cavalry would be a burst of slashing , the chance to harvest heads.

But in the current environment, Ma Fang didn't dare to continue playing like this, he just wanted to rush out of the Alta barracks and return to the ranks of the Ming army.

Enough people have died today, and there are not many brothers behind him.

In the face of the last cavalry of Alda's troops who intercepted, Ma Fang still chose the way of charging head-on, and the effect was surprisingly good.

Although the Tartars were divided into left and right wings to cause them to rush out to cause greater damage, it finally allowed him to see a way out, especially when he saw the well-organized Ming army formation in the distance also moving at this time, like a tumbling A sea of ​​red rushed towards them.

Ma Fang knew that it was the Ming army who saw them rushing out of the Tazi barracks and accelerated towards them to provide them with stronger security.

It would be a lie to say that he was not moved. When had the Ming army been so united? In previous wars, Ma Fang had to pay attention to whether the comrades around him would cheat him, and why would they come to rescue like this.

There are also those who rescue each other, but those who are really willing to give full support often act because of their particularly good private relationship, but it is definitely not because of the military order from above.

"Come on, brothers, and we'll be saved."

Ma Fang led the team and yelled loudly in front, brandishing the blood-stained saber in his hand and charging forward, in order to survive, he must exert all his strength at this time.

After a brief confrontation with the Alta cavalry, hundreds of people from Ma Fang's tribe finally broke out of the encirclement of the Alta cavalry and escaped.

Looking at the cavalry of the Ming army rushing to meet them in the distance, the leading general was Liu Huan, and Ma Fang didn't bother to go up to greet him and thank him. He still remembered the brothers who ran out behind him.

At this time, the group of them had really reached the end of their rope.

Unconsciously, Ma Fang slowed down the speed of the horse, and could not continue to run for her life as before. Continuing to run would not only kill the horses, but also put the soldiers on the horse in danger.

After the horse speed down, Ma Fang's department no longer stumbled, and they kept approaching Liu Huan's department.

When Liu Huan saw Ma Fang, the leader of the cavalry, he was shocked.

Ma Fang was riding a yellow war horse, he knew it very well, they were all influential figures in the Xuanfu army.

But at this moment, the mount under Ma Fang's crotch has been replaced by a red and white war horse.

For generals like them who want to go to battle to kill the enemy, the white horse is generally not chosen, the goal is too obvious.

Obviously, the battle was fierce, and Ma Fang had no choice at all.

Looking up, the battle armor was covered with blood. Liu Huan had good eyesight and could even see a few cracks on the armor. It was obvious that Ma Fang was injured.

The two teams did not collide head-on. Liu Huan and Ma Fang just shook their fists on the horse. The two horse teams crossed each other. Ma Fang returned to the back of the Ming army's forward. This is the real safety.

After Liu Huanbu took care of Ma Fang, he naturally wouldn't be stupid and continued to charge forward, and withdrew from the battlefield in a circle.

Ma Fang led his troops jogging towards the flanks of the Ming army formation, Wei Guangde and Tian Shiwei glanced at the formation, Wei Guangde said, "Let them rest on the spot."

It can be imagined that after more than an hour of fierce battle, Ma Fang's troops could not fight any more in a short period of time. People needed to eat and drink, and their horses also needed to eat, drink and rest.

In fact, Wei Guangde also guessed that more than half of the five hundred or so war horses would not be able to continue to be used as war horses in the future.

Soon, a fast horse from the Ming army ran out and ran towards Ma Fang's troops, conveying Wei Guangde's order.

"Master Wei, you see there are hundreds of Tartars staying outside the camp to watch us, should they press them down?"

Tian Shiwei asked Wei Guangde's opinion in a low voice at this moment.

Today I really encountered a big surprise. I am afraid that Liu Dazhang will have no good fruit to eat, because the Ming army won the battle.

Yes, if Liu Dazhang was defeated today and returned alive, his guilt would be very small.

And if the battle is defeated today, Liu Dazhang will be more guilty, and just being afraid of the enemy and fighting is enough to remove his official position.

What is the right governor, if you send a memorial, you will become a commoner in an instant, and it is possible to go to prison if you fail.

And I have always been cautious, like this in front of Liu Dazhang, and the same in front of Wei Guangde, but nothing happened.

It's also good luck, today looks like a victory.

From Wei Guangde's point of view, it was an unbeatable battle, but at this time Tian Shiwei regarded it as a great victory.

From a strategic point of view, they did not complete the beheading plan, and failed to make the Alta tribe who entered the customs collapse without a leader, but tactically they won, they seized a military camp of the Alta army, and disrupted the deployment of the Alta army.

And the most important thing is that since then, the Ming army's battle against the Alda Department is no longer a crushing defeat, but also a record of victory.

Since the 28th year of Jiajing, the border towns of the Ming army have not achieved any decent victories in the invasion of the Alta tribe, but instead caused them to run outside Beijing to race horses.

When Wei Guangde was still hesitating whether to continue the fight, two fast horses galloped towards Baoanzhou, obviously messengers.

Wei Guangde naturally didn't notice it, but Dong Yiyuan next to him was always paying attention to the things around him, and he could see far away on a tall horse.

"My lord, there is a messenger from the direction of Baoanzhou."

Dong Yiyuan reminded Wei Guangde in a low voice.

"Oh?"

Wei Guangde was slightly surprised, turned his head to look over, and sure enough there were two fast horses approaching rapidly.

"Go and see, what's the matter."

Wei Guangde ignored the order and continued to think about the gains and losses between fighting and not fighting.

At this time, he needs to settle the score, find an opportunity to withdraw troops, count the victory today, at least he can explain to the higher authorities.

Continuing to fight, the result will either expand the results of the battle, or make a mistake.

It is easy to distinguish the pros and cons, and Wei Guangde still understands this.

But retreat, you can't retreat at this time.

Where to retreat?Tartar military camp or Baoan Prefecture?
It is about ten miles away from the Tartar army camp, and it is more than 20 miles back to Anzhou. Naturally, it is the safest to go back to Baoanzhou, but there is no guarantee that there will be no accidents on the road, and I Dahan will probably choose to intercept them halfway.

Of course, they can also choose to advance and retreat in the form of an army formation. To do so is to march slower, and the terrain of Baoan Prefecture also supports them to make this choice.

"My lord, it's an urgent report from Huailaiwei."

Just as Wei Guangde thought of a general plan, he heard Dong Yiyuan's words in his ears. He casually took the urgent report and read the sealing paint. There was no problem, so he opened it and looked.

"The Datong army has arrived in Huailai."

Seeing the first few lines, Wei Guangde read out aloud.

"Has the Datong Army arrived?"

Hearing the news of the reinforcements, Tian Shiwei regained his spirits instantly, and drove his horse over.

"It's Huailai Acropolis where 3000 pioneers arrived a few days ago. According to the time calculation, they should have arrived in Huailai County two days ago."

Wei Guangde was also pleasantly surprised, with the Datong army on his side, the Xuanfu army would be safer.

At this time, it is considered to be withdrawn to the Tartar army camp for repair.
Thinking of this, Wei Guangde shook his head, it was still too dangerous.

I only ordered them to quickly go to Huailai County, but I didn't order them to quickly move closer to Baoan Prefecture and participate in the attack on Alda.

In fact, what Wei Guangde wanted at the time was to attack the Alda tribe in Huailai County, but he was later attracted to Baoan Prefecture by the big fish called Altan Khan.

Perhaps, the vanguard of the Datong Army has already stationed in Huailai County, shouldn't a warrant be issued to let them come here?
(End of this chapter)