Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 138 Going to the Bayeux

"Goo...coo...coo..."

In the silent night, unknown strange birds are screaming strangely on the cliffs at the edge of the grassland hills, and stars can be seen in the clear night sky, which means that the weather tomorrow must be fine.

But in this fine weather, the strange bird seemed to have sensed something, and suddenly flapped its wings and flew into the sky.

Like a fish leaping, with just a few breaths, he flew up to hundreds of meters in the air, overlooking the vast Yanshan Mountains under the moonlit night and starry sky.

Gradually, there was a sound from the mountain col in the distance, and then the rumbling sound continued, and hundreds of horses rushed out, and there were black shadows crawling on their backs.

"Shut up!"

Suddenly, when the army rushed out of the col, the leading general suddenly reined in his horse and stopped the troops.

In the dark night, they lit torches, which was very dangerous, so after walking out of the mountain, the leading general turned his head and said loudly:

"Everyone put out the torches!"

The news spread one by one, and soon, in less than a cup of tea, thousands of people extinguished the torches, and at this time the general also said:
"Divide all the beans into two parts, feed one part first, restore the horsepower of all the horses, and feed the remaining part after two hours."

"The army rests for two hours. After two hours, take advantage of the dawn and attack and kill the Bayo tribe with me!"

Under the moonlit night, Man Gui's figure was revealed. He was a little thinner at the moment, and not only him, but also most of the soldiers.

After six days and a surprise attack of [-] miles, he finally rushed out of the Yanshan Mountains and arrived at the northern part of Haitang in the northern part of Guangning.

At this moment, they are here, and they can overlook the Great Wall of Liaodong, where the flames can be seen faintly in the south, but everyone is extremely exhausted at the moment.

For most of these new recruits who have only trained for half a year, and the remaining half have only trained for less than three months, this is almost a hell-like journey.

They walked down, relying on their will, rushed out of the Yanshan Mountains, and now, sixty miles to the northeast, is the old nest of the Bayo tribe.

There wasn't much time, and according to the characteristics of the northern captives, even fifty miles away from the fortification site, there were quite a few people grazing and patrolling.

Therefore, Man Gui only gave two hours of rest time, and tried to use beans to restore horsepower.

As time passed, Man Gui kept paying attention to the sky.

Since Lixia and Xiaoman had already passed, the sky became brighter earlier than he expected.

Only an hour and a half later, the sky turned gray, and Man Gui also realized that there was not much time, so he ordered people to call out all the soldiers who were lying on the ground exhausted and resting.

"Leave a hundred households to guard the poor horses. After an hour, tell them to drive the poor horses northward, and the rest will put on armor and prepare to mount the horses."

"General, the horsepower has not recovered, and brothers..." Commander Habayashi Wei hesitated to speak, but Man Gui said:
"After this battle, brothers can rest for three days and three nights."

"We didn't carry artillery this time. Although the Tucheng of Bayeux is simple, it can stop us."

"What we have to do right now is to surprise the Tucheng of the Bayue tribe and kill the men outside the Tucheng!"

"There is no doubt about this matter, put on your armor and mount your horse!"

After all, Man Gui immediately raised his hands, gesturing to A.

The commander had no choice but to order each other to help each other.

In this way, the time for a cup of tea slowly passed, and when more than [-] people were successfully armored, all of them fed the remaining beans to their three army horses.

More than a hundred soldiers stayed behind to take care of tens of thousands of poor horses and let them graze. At the same time, following Man Gui's order, everyone galloped regardless of horsepower.

"Boom..." The sound of thousands of galloping horses sounded like thunder on the gray grassland.

Due to eating a lot of soybeans and resting for an hour and a half, all the horses galloped away as if they had lost their reins.

During this period, Man Gui saw some yurts in the distance, which were sentinel tribes on the outskirts of the Bayo tribe, but he ignored them and led the soldiers and horses to continue galloping.

"Enemy attack! The Ming army is coming!"

The vigilant sentinel came out of the tent, and after seeing the Ming cavalry in the distance, they rushed to the dry cow dung pile in the distance, and set them on fire with a torch.

The wolf smoke rose, but because the sky was still gray, it couldn't deliver the news immediately.

Waiting for Mangui and the others to cross the sentry camps one after another, and after galloping for half an hour, Tucheng of Bayuebu blew the horn. At this time, Mangui and Habayashi had rushed up the hill and saw Panwo On the vast plain, there is the Tucheng of Bayeux, and there are countless tents with only simple horses on the periphery.

"Ignite and kill!"

Man Gui pulled out the long knife at his waist and stabbed it into the air ahead, as if piercing Engel's body, igniting the suffering suffered by all the Habayashi guards for the past six days.

"kill!"

Galloping like a dragon, like a long red dragon rushing in, more than five thousand cavalrymen instantly turned into more than a hundred teams, rushing towards the rejected horse, and more than ten of them took out a kind of boring palladium.

"Woo~~~"

"Enemy attack!"

Standing high and looking far away, on the tower of Tucheng, a Mongolian hundred household blew the bull horn. The sound of the horn reminded everyone, but time was running out.

The men skillfully grabbed their waist knives, put on thick fur clothes, and then ran out of the yurt.

They got on the war horses beside the door, and rushed towards the outer area one after another.

"Gerile, come back safely!"

A Mongolian man ran out of the yurt, got on his horse, and was ready to set off with his bare upper body holding an iron knife. His woman ran out of the yurt in disheveled clothes, reminding him.

But he didn't have time, and with a pinch of his legs, the war horse rushed to the periphery.

He crossed countless yurts, saw countless panicked people, and countless questions flashed in his mind.

Who is the enemy?Where are you from?how many people?Will it...

None of these questions went through his mind. When he rushed out of the yurts, what he saw was the most familiar and terrifying group of people.

The fiery red cloth face armor, the familiar gauntlets, the phoenix wing helmet...

When the Habayashi guards knocked the rejecting horse away with boring palladium, they immediately pulled out the loaded riding guns, raised the guns and shot!
"boom!"

Gerile's body suddenly softened, and he fell from the horse's back. His memory stayed in the scene of the sound of riding the gun and the smoke.

Immediately afterwards, the war horse trampled past, and his body was trampled by dozens of cavalry in a short time.

Looking down from the sky, dozens of refusal horses were knocked away, and then the Habayashi cavalry rushed into the yurt area. There were countless sounds of riding guns in the Tucheng of Bayobu, and then there was the sound of blades chopping flesh and blood, which was creepy...

The torches were thrown out, and the yurts were lit one by one.

In just a short cup of tea, most of the yurts outside Tucheng Bayuebu were set on fire, and they are still being implicated.

The grassland in summer was accompanied by strong winds, and the wind fueled the fire. In an instant, the temperature in this area increased. At this time, a Habayashi guard cavalry was also shot in the cheek by a cold arrow, and fell off the horse on the spot. !

"It's Baijia Balaya!"

"Bang bang bang..."

The vigilant Habayashi guards cavalry saw their comrades shot through the cheeks, and when it was obvious that they could not survive, they immediately raised their guns and shot.

"Hoo beep~~~~"

"Sentry, withdraw!"

In the next moment, whistles sounded around Bayuebu City, and all the Habayashi Guards did not dare to fight, and withdrew one after another!
Some new soldiers coveted the head, and tried to get off the horse and cut it off, but the old soldier grabbed the rein and took it away.

At this time, to be greedy for the head is to die!

The sound of the wooden whistle continued, and at this moment a group of generals appeared on the head of the Bayue department.

They looked out of the city, among them Engedel, who was wearing a cloth mask, his eyes were red with anger, and he was about to turn around and lead his cavalry in the city to fight out in the next moment.

But Shuo Tuo stopped him and said:
"I'm not sure who's on the team, and I don't know how many people are on the other side, so don't be stupid."

"Yes!" Receiving Shuo Tuo's reminder, Engedel barely calmed down, and then they opened the city gate, allowing some surviving people to escape into the city.

It's just that the yurt was ignited too quickly, half of the people were burned to death, and some who fought back were directly taken away by the gunmen.

Those who could live in the Tucheng were all Engelder's guards who could wear iron armor, so his troops did not suffer too much loss, but thousands of men outside the city were killed by [-]. Yu people.

Besides them, one or two thousand women and children were burned alive.

Looking at the clansmen struggling in the fiery purgatory, Engdel was furious in his heart, wishing he could raise his troops and kill them out.

Compared with him, Shuo Tuo had dealt too much with the Ming army after all, so he could see Habayashi Wei outside the fire belt through the firelight.

"There are a lot of people, well-armored, are they servants?" Shuotuo frowned slightly, but quickly shook his head, just because it is impossible for Liaodong to have so many generals who belonged to servants.

The flames were burning, and everyone in the city at the center of the fire belt felt a little depressed and it was difficult to breathe.

But as the fire diminished, they began to breathe easier, and they also saw the Ming army cavalry outside the scorched earth.

The flag fluttered, and the glaring "Ming" word extinguished Engedel's anger, and then he became afraid.

"Out of town!"

"No...wait..."

Seeing that the fire was about to go out, Shuotuo made a gesture to take Jiala's soldiers out of the city, because he had confidence in the soldiers of Dajin, and the soldiers of the Ming army would not be his opponents.

But at this moment Engedel held him back, which aroused his dissatisfaction.

"Are you scared?" Shuo Tuo's words were full of sarcasm, but Engedel said:
"The fire here is very strong. Chaohua and the others went more than [-] miles to the north yesterday, and they should be able to see it now. When they come, we will attack from inside and outside."

One-fifth of the troops died, Engedel was of course angry, but looking at the more than [-] Ming cavalry in triple armor outside the city, he knew that his men were no match.

Even if he and Shuotuo's soldiers and horses are combined, they are only equal to each other.

However, the elite Ming army often wearing triple armor can fight against two or three Mongols with one heavy armor.Therefore, if this force goes out of the city, his losses will be great.

At that time, his strength is insufficient, and the tribe will be annexed by Chaohua, so it is better to wait for Chaohua to come to the rescue.

"Are you sure Chaohua will come to rescue you? I heard that after Zai Sai was released, he was very dissatisfied with me, Da Jin, and also with you..."

Shuo Tuo told about Hou Jin’s release of Zai Sai. Regarding this period of history, Zhu Youjian only knew that Zai Sai was captured and released at a certain time, but he did not know that Zai Sai was released as early as late last year. back.

It's just that there are only more than five thousand of his former tens of thousands of members, and there are only more than two thousand men.

Therefore, he hated Nurhachi very much, and constantly encouraged Chaohua to form an alliance with Lin Danhan in the north to attack Houjin.

But Chaohua has been swaying, and he doesn't want to tear his face with Houjin.

But it is different now, the Ming army is approaching the city, as if it is going to wipe out the Bayo tribe, but there are still Houjin's Yijiala troops and Yijiala auxiliary soldiers in the city.

Engedel is the only hardcore post-Jin faction in Nekhalka, so if he dies, or Shuo Tuo dies, there is no loss for Chaohua, and he can even occupy the pasture of the Bayo Department.

To mobilize them to send troops, they must give up enough profits. After all, once they meet the Ming army, their qualifications for trading will be cancelled.

Thinking of this, Engdel's face was cloudy, and Shuo Tuo also said:

"I have [-] main soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers. In addition to the tribesmen who have just escaped from your tribe, there are [-] men from the Bayo tribe in the city."

"We have [-] people. The Ming army looks strong, but it is vulnerable!"

"I brought two iron cannons this time, as you can see, the Ming army without cannons is not our opponent."

Perhaps they participated in the battles of Sarhu, Tieling, Kaiyuan, and Shenyang. In Shuo Tuo's view, that's what happened to the Ming army.

Although there are more than [-] triple-armored soldiers and horses outside the city, he is not unbeatable with better equipment. The armor he is wearing now is the armor of one of the generals under Jun Jun.

Man Gui wanted to attack and kill them, but why didn't Shuotuo want to kill them and take off their armor?

However, Shuo Tuo is not a reckless man, he wants to go out of the city to fight, but also wants to determine whether this team is the vanguard or all of them.

If it is a vanguard, then the follow-up Ming army must have artillery, and the earthen walls of Bayeux City can't stop it at all.

Therefore, as long as the situation is not right, he can completely abandon the auxiliary soldiers and leave with the main soldiers.

Shuotuo knew that Dajin couldn't afford a little loss. If this Jiala's people were lost here, it would greatly boost the morale of the Ming army in Liaodong.

But Shuotuo also knew that if he betrayed Engedel, he would be held accountable when he returned, just because Engedel was a powerful ally of Dajin Neikarka and provided a lot of beef and mutton.

So after thinking about it, Shuotuo looked at Engedel again, and said:

"We took people out of the city. You told people to escape through the north gate. There are many horses in your tribe. If you want to run away, the Ming army can't stop you."

In addition to Jia's relatives, there are also his own relatives and horses in the Tucheng of Bayuebu.

This is also the reason why Mangui and the others burned the yurts outside the city just now and did not find many horses.

"There are more than [-] horses in the city, enough for one person and four horses, but the Han people can't take them away." Engedel was a little bit pained, and these Han people knew how to farm.

Without people farming the land, they can only spend a lot of money to buy beans from other tribes.

"There is a saying in the Han people that if you keep green hills, you are not afraid of lack of firewood. You have to be careful with your forehead." Although Shuo Tuo looked down on Engedel, he still comforted him, fearing that he would surrender.

"Okay!" Hearing Shuotuo's words, Engedel also nodded, and then ordered everyone to put on armor and prepare, and let the women and children in the city prepare to go north with four horses.

Even if it is a rough horse, as long as they block it long enough, they can protect women and children from leaving.

"Ugh-"

Following Engedel's order, Tucheng opened the city gate, while Man Gui and the others were all standing on the ground.

To regain their horsepower, they dismounted and waited a mile outside the city.

"Load the marbles, not the iron sand."

Man Gui greeted, and then someone began to send a message, and then the Habayashi guards with a riding gun replaced the iron sand with a bullet the size of a little fingernail, and put the loaded riding gun upside down into a special in the bag.

After hanging the bag on the side of the horse's belly, they got on the horse one after another.

To tell the truth, they ran for nine hundred miles in six days, and then burned and killed two or three thousand people of the Bayo tribe. This was already a great military exploit in the late Ming Dynasty.

Even if they retreat now, Zhu Youjian probably won't blame him, after all, the number is not dominant, and the opponent is still huddled in the city.

It can only be said that Zhu Youjian and the others overestimated the combat power of the Habayashi Guards and underestimated the Mongols' ability to respond to attacks.

This is how wars are, no one is sure to win the opponent in one fell swoop, and what Man Gui has to do now is to maximize his military exploits as much as possible before Chaohua and the others react.

The Ming army's beheading requirements are very strict, and the face of the first level must not be damaged, so it is extremely unfriendly to the Ming army cavalry who likes the pig's protruding face.

In the fire just now, many people were burned to death, more than two thousand heads were gone anyway, even Man Gui felt heartbroken.

But there is another chance right now, and that is to behead the Bayo tribe who tried to go out of the city to fight in the field.

However, Man Gui raised his hand at the moment the city gate opened to stop the army from attacking, just because he saw Hou Jin's heavy cavalry who walked out of the city gate first.

They went out of the city first and launched two cannons, which made Man Gui frown slightly, turned his head and ordered: "Order the whole army to disperse."

In front of the Houjin army with artillery, it is not a good choice for the army to gather together, and Man Gui also knows that this time it may not be possible to wipe out Houjin and Bayo's troops.

Although the power of the two iron cannons is not enough to change the battlefield, it is enough to frighten the horses and delay time.

"Not right!"

Man Gui realized that something was wrong, because he found that Hou Jin was leaving the city very slowly, and it seemed that he deliberately exposed his flaws and let them attack.

This kind of pretending to be suspicious reminded Man Gui that when the Ming army made a surprise attack on Bansheng City, Tumet's Beilu also used this trick to cover the retreat of women and children.

"Thousand households of the left army! Take your subordinates to the North City, the women and children of the North will flee!"

Man Gui yelled an order, and Qianhu, the left army behind him, heard the words, and immediately asked the flag officer to wave the flag, then broke away from the army, and went northward around Tucheng.

This is not over yet, Man Gui ordered to the Commander of the Habayashi Guard: "Ask people to pick up the hundred households who are driving the poor horses!"

"Yes!" Commander Habayashi's eyes lit up, cooperating with his own general, he wanted to use tens of thousands of horses to build momentum, making people mistakenly think that the headquarters was just a forward.

He quickly sent a hundred households to meet the opponent, but in this way, after two divisions, there were only more than [-] people left in the Habayashi Guard.

"They are going to attack the women and children in Beicheng, master, should we send someone to remind Engedel?"

Under the Tucheng, Jia Laer really saw the movements of the Ming army and reminded Shuo Tuo, but Shuo Tuo said:
"It's just women and children, it's more convenient for us if they die."

"You don't need to inform him, just send the [-] auxiliary soldiers to help Engedel evacuate the women and children, and let him immediately take the people out of the city through the south gate."

"In addition, when the Ming army arrives, immediately ask the auxiliary soldiers to evacuate, and ask them to tell Engedel about the killing of women and children under his command."

As soon as these words came out, Jia La's forehead was terrified.

Obviously, his master wanted to cut off Engedel's retreat on the battlefield where he might surrender.

Killing the women and children of the Bayo tribe with the hands of the Ming army aroused the anger of the men of the Baye tribe, so as to raise the morale to the highest level.

As for the fifteen hundred auxiliary soldiers who might die.

Although Jiala Ezhen felt a little heartbroken, he shut his mouth when he thought that it was the Han and Mongols who died, not their Jurchens.

During the time of a cup of tea, Man Gui did not take the initiative to attack. He was waiting for the suspects to go north, using the momentum of the suspects to crush the enemy's momentum, and then expand the results when the enemy fled.

But Shuotuo was also waiting. He was waiting for Houjin's Yijiala soldiers to leave the city, and he also heard the sound of horseshoes at this moment.

The voice came from behind him, Engdel came, and he also saw the formation of the Ming army.

However, due to the different scales seen from the city wall and from the flat ground, he didn't see any difference for a while. He didn't know that the Ming army had already divided up to intercept women and children.

"Shuotuo, I have left behind six hundred men without armor to send women and children northward. Here are twenty-nine hundred elites!"

Engdel didn't know that he was sold, and pointed his horsewhip at the Mongolian cavalry walking out of the city gate.

All of them are wearing cotton clothes. The inside of the cotton clothes is a rough piece of iron, which is similar to the cloth face armor of the Ming army, but the defense is far inferior.

Wearing a leather helmet and holding a scimitar with several small gaps, such a cavalry is not as good as Hou Jinbi, let alone the elite Habayashi Wei.

Soon, with all the Mongols leaving the city, the situation outside the city was unexpectedly balanced for a while.

After [-] Golden Cavalrymen, [-] heavily armored Engedel accompanied them, [-] of them were equal in number to the Ming army under Mangui's command. For a while, the morale of the Mongols stabilized slightly down.

But this situation did not last. Just when Engedel wanted to ask Shuotuo why he did not order an attack, a group of Han and Mongols riding horses and wearing only chain mail rushed out from the corner of Tucheng, shouting loudly:

"Ming army attacked women and children!"

Their words were shouted in Chinese and Mongolian, which made everyone hold their breath for a moment, unbelievable.

Engedel looked at Shuotuo with red eyes, but saw Shuotuo also had a dazed expression on his face, which didn't look fake, so he looked at the Mongolian cavalrymen who were coming at a gallop.

The Mongolian who had been hacked several times in the back rushed forward and fell off his horse on the grass. After rolling several times in a row, he lay down in front of Engedel and said with pain:

"More than a thousand cavalry from the Ming army appeared in Beicheng. The concubine ordered people to form a formation with a chariot and sent me to ask for help, Taiji!"

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