Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 92

The time soon came to the end of You (7 o'clock in the evening).

The sun had already sunk into the western horizon, but there was at least half an hour before dark.

Glancing at Yi Ding who was more than fifty steps ahead, Zhuobutai couldn't help hesitating a little. Judging from the time, Master Baiyintu and the others should have gone far away. How about ending the fight early?
After all, it's meaningless to continue chasing like this, it will only waste energy in vain.

"Look, there are Ming army cavalry behind us!" An Eight Banners soldier shouted.

Zhuobutai turned his head suddenly, and was surprised to find that there was actually a Ming army cavalry behind them, and there were quite a few of them, at least two thousand cavalrymen!
"Damn it, Ming Dynasty reinforcements are here at this time!"

Zhuobutai knew that he couldn't chase anymore, otherwise he would be flanked by Yi Ding and the cavalry of the Ming army rushing to help, or his [-] or so cavalry would all be buried here.

"Blow the horn quickly, the whole army turns to the northwest!"

At this time, not only must the Ming army's cavalry and Yi Ding form an encirclement, but also they must not go after Yintu and the others after they get rid of, otherwise a thousand Yi Ding and more than [-] Ming army cavalry will be led over. It turns out that not only his two Niulu with more than [-] riders, but also Baiyintu's three Niulu and Oboi's rout are also in danger.

Therefore, Yi Ding and the cavalry of the Ming army can only be led away in the direction of Daming Mansion.

The horn sounded, and the Jiannu cavalry immediately abandoned Yiding and fled northwestward.

……

Jiannu turned around and ran towards the northwest, but Yiding was not in a hurry to chase him down.

Instead, Hu Guozhu led a thousand barbarians to meet the cavalry of the Ming army who came to help, only to see that the leader was Huang Degong.

"Uncle Jingnan!" Hu Guozhu cupped his fists and bowed to Huang Degong on horseback, and said proudly, "I'm wearing armor, please forgive me for not being able to pay homage to you."

"No need." Huang Degong didn't talk nonsense, he waved his hand and said, "It's better to chase and kill Jiannu."

After Huang Degong finished speaking, he was about to rein in his horse and go after Jiannu, but before he started, he was stopped by Hu Guozhu.

"Uncle Jingnan, this junior has something to say." Hu Guozhu said, "I'm afraid it will be very difficult for us to catch up with Jiannu."

"Can't catch up?" Huang Degong stared and said angrily, "You didn't even catch up, how do you know you can't catch up?"

Hu Guozhu said: "The junior grew up at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, and went hunting with his father when he was very young. He still knows a little bit about the habits of war horses..."

"Don't talk about it, just get straight to the point."

"The point is, if we chase three thousand people, we will definitely catch up with Bujiannu in the end, because Jiannu can spare no effort in horsepower, but we can't ride our war horses to death, or we won't be able to use them in the future."

Now Huang Degong understood: "So what do you mean?"

"Give us all the horses." Hu Guozhu said, "With three horses alone, we will surely catch up with Jiannu! Not only the more than [-] Jiannu in front, but also the defeated Jiannu from Xia Town. One of them must die!"

"Three horses for one person?" Huang Degong's gaze pierced into Hu Guozhu's eyes like a sharp sword.

Hu Guozhu looked at Huang Degong calmly: "Uncle Jingnan is worried that the junior will take the opportunity to take away a thousand barbarians? Not to mention that the father and son of the junior are now loyal to the Holy One and have absolutely no second thoughts. If you take a step back, even the junior If you really have two minds, Wu Batan and the others won't go with me, right?"

"I definitely won't." Wu Batan said without thinking.

Isn't it good for a fool to follow Hu Guozhu and become a nobleman with the Holy Lord?
"Forgive me, you don't have the guts." Huang Degong snorted and said again, "I'll go with you."

Hu Guozhu smiled, and said again: "Uncle Jingnan can go there, he can only bring dozens of followers, or if there are not enough horses, it will be difficult to catch up with Jiannu and kill them all."

"You don't need to bring anyone with you." Huang Degong said, "I'm alone."

"Okay, it's not too late." Hu Guozhu said, "Let's go now."

Even if Huang Degong asked Huang Shi'an to bring the Ming army back, the horses stayed behind.

Hu Guozhu asked Qianyi Ding to lead two spare horses each, and then followed the traces left by Jiannu, chasing and killing them all the way in the direction of Daming Mansion.

……

After running for more than a dozen miles, Zhuobutai found that Yi Ding and the Ming army had not caught up, and Zhuobutai's heart sank. It seemed that the Ming army did not intend to fight them desperately.

If the Ming army spared no effort to fight them, it would be a little troublesome.

"Woo." Zhuobutai reined in the horse lightly, slowing down the horse, and the Jiannu behind him also slowed down.

He took off the water bag from the back of the saddle, and just as Zhuobutai was about to take a sip of water, a loud roar suddenly sounded behind him.

"Lord Zhuobutai, those damned Yi Ding have caught up again, and they brought three horses alone!"

"Huh?" Zhuobutai's heart trembled suddenly, and when he turned his head anxiously, he saw that the barbarians of the Ming army had chased him from the side and rear, and there were really three horses alone. This is troublesome.

"Let's go!" Zhuobutai took a big gulp of water, beat his horse and ran forward.

More than [-] Jiannu riders urged their horses one after another, and galloped forward again.

This run lasted half an hour, and it was getting dark, but Yi Ding still pursued him relentlessly.

After running wildly for half an hour, Jiannu's physical strength could still bear it, but the war horse could no longer bear it.

Amidst the rumbling hooves, Zhuobutai could clearly hear the heavy panting of the horse, and the body and even the mane of the horse were soaked in sweat.

If he ran any further, the war horse would foam at the mouth and might fall to the ground at any moment.

War horses don't know how to protect themselves. If the cavalry doesn't call to stop, they will run until they die.

"Stop running!" Zhuobutai raised his big bow with his backhand and said sharply, "Fight with them!"

The more than [-] Jiannu cavalry who followed behind slowed down one after another, reined in their horses, turned around and lined up again.

After the formation of the cavalry formation, Zhuobutai accelerated again with more than [-] Jiannu, but this time he went straight to meet Yi Ding, and he wanted to confront Yi Ding with cavalry.

However, what was annoying was that Yi Ding also turned around and ran back.

Jiannu continued to speed up to chase, and Yi Ding also accelerated to escape, but he was still unable to catch up.

After chasing for a while and found that he couldn't catch up, Jiannu had no choice but to give up, turned around and continued to retreat in the direction of Daming Mansion.

But as soon as Jianu retreated, Yi Ding followed him again, and kept at a distance of fifty or sixty steps from Jianu all the time, and there were still a small number of night darers in front of the cavalry, so Jianu should not even try to use the cover of night to kill him. Yi Ding was caught off guard, this was all left over from Yi Ding's play, so there was no need to play tricks.

No way, Jianu could only go around and attack Yiding again.

However, Yi Ding still refused to confront Jian Nu head-on, turned around and retreated again.

After repeating this several times, when it was late at night, Jiannu's war horses finally ran out, and with the wailing, one after another the war horses fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth.

As a result, Jiannu passively changed from cavalry to infantry.

Jiannu has changed from cavalry to infantry, but it has not collapsed yet.

More than six hundred Jiannu lined up in a square formation and began to retreat on foot.

I have to say that Jianu is really tough, and it hasn't collapsed at this time.

Yi Ding began to try to attack, and kept approaching the Jiannu infantry phalanx with a small group of cavalry. In order to prevent Yi Ding from approaching, Jian Nu could only shoot arrows.

Soon, all the arrows were exhausted.

But the killing effect is not satisfactory.

The darkness seriously affected Jiannu's accuracy.

There were not many heavy arrows carried by each Jiannu,

After the Jiannu arrows are exhausted, they become lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

With the help of the horse's speed and powerful impact ability, Yi Ding began to continuously attack Jiannu, but instead of charging forward, he charged obliquely, just like cutting a knife to slice noodles. Cut off a small piece of dough from the ball of dough, keep peeling and peeling, keep peeling and peeling...

By the dawn of the next day, the ball of dough was finally peeled.

When the last Jiannu fell to the ground, Hu Guozhu put the bloody long-handled knife in front of the saddle, got off the horse and shouted: "Everyone get off the horse and rest, hurry up to eat and drink, and also feed the horses some fine food, assemble in a quarter of an hour!"

Hu Guozhu's ambition is not only to eat the six hundred Jiannu who died, but to go south to all Jiannu.

Now that the battle of Xuzhou has progressed, almost all the soldiers of the Ming army, including Hu Xinshui, have inexplicably developed a first-class confidence in Daming, or in Emperor Chongzhen.

Now I am afraid that it is no longer a question of whether or not the Yellow River can be defended.

Based on the strength of Xuzhou's defense line, is there still a problem in defending the Yellow River?

The question now is, when will the Holy Majesty rectify the imperial court, when will he be able to raise enough food and salaries, and when will he be able to launch the Northern Expedition?That was a good time for their military generals to make contributions.

Hu Guozhu had long lost the idea of ​​returning to Wu Sangui's command.

What kind of thing is Wu Sangui?The emperor doesn't follow, but a running dog?
A quarter of an hour passed quickly, and Hu Guozhu turned over and stepped onto the horse.

"The eagle on the grassland will not let go of any bird that invades its territory, and the wolves in the desert will also tear up and eat the beasts that invade their homeland. The stupid slaves desecrate the dignity of the Holy Son of Heaven. The loyal guard of the Holy Son of Heaven will never let any blasphemer go, even if he chases him to the ends of the earth, warriors, kill him!"

"Kill!" Wu Ba Tan, Meng Ke Tu and other Yi Ding yelled.

Huang Degong's heart trembled slightly, and he said that although Hu Guozhu was young, he was very good at inspiring people, and he stirred up the emotions of these barbarians with just a few words.

It would be fine if such a person is loyal to Daming.

If he is unfaithful to Daming, wouldn't he be the second Nurhachi?

However, such thoughts are fleeting, even if Hu Guozhu will really become the second Nurhachi, it is far from the time to prevent the erroneous progress.

"Kill!" Huang Degong also yelled.

"Drive!" Hu Guozhu reined in his horse and galloped north.

"Drive!" Thousands of barbarians turned their horses around one after another, and followed Hu Guozhu to the north.

Soon, a thousand barbarians, leading more than [-] war horses, disappeared on the northern horizon. Only dust rose in the air, covering the rising sun that had just risen from the eastern horizon.

(End of this chapter)