A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 713

"Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng!"
Amidst the overwhelming cheers, the main force of the Jingbian army gathered.
On September 15th, [-]th year of Chongzhen, Wang Dou personally led the guard battalion, the Chinese cavalry battalion, Wen Fangliang, Gao Shiyin Qinglong, Zhuqueyu cavalry, and some soldiers from the Zhongyi Battalion and Jianshao Battalion. The first-class army, along the remaining veins at the foot of the eastern foot of Yueqing Mountain in Jinghuhai, passed through Sanbuchichuan, traveled day and night, and finally arrived at the edge of the Little Yellow River near noon on this day.
At this time, the Second Banner of the Tumed Department was not far from the edge of the desolate Gobi desert. The Han Dynasty led the Xuanwu Army Feather Cavalry, and the Mongolian Camp of the newly attached Army that had died, and the main barracks of Wang Pu's Datong Army tightly entangled them , so that the only thing they can do is to immediately abandon all the tribal population, and flee with horses, cattle, sheep and light cavalry.
Obviously, Gu Luge and others were reluctant to give up their belongings and bought time for the arrival of their main force.
The battle opportunity was fleeting, Wang Dou didn't care about greetings with Wang Pu, Han Chao and others, and immediately arranged for a battle. He personally led the generals to a hill, looked at the situation, and found that the Mongolian army was reunited, desperate to fight. Intended to launch a final counterattack.
He decided to hit it with one drum, and immediately commanded the army to form a formation on Pingchuan.
The core of the formation was the cavalry battalion of the Chinese army. At the forefront were the [-] cavalrymen from the left battalion, followed by the saber cavalry from the first battalion of the rear battalion. Next, his cavalry of the main barracks also followed behind the dense array in front.
On the two wings, Wen Fangliang and Gao Shiyin's Qinglong Army and Zhuque Army each had a battalion of feathered cavalry, all of whom also used sabers, so that the impact of the large formation formed an extremely wide front.
The soldiers of the Loyalty Battalion and the newly attached battalion acted as scattered cavalry, or dispersed their wings, or dispersed to prevent the crow soldiers of the Tartar cavalry from spreading out. The same is true for the sharp whistle camp.
Han and North Korea led the Xuanwu Army feather cavalry to gather under the hill as a reserve team for the second wave of offensives. However, Wang Dou felt that the nearly [-] thunderbolts charged forward were still a dense wall formation, and the [-] Mongolians of Gu Luge and others Riding is unstoppable.
In particular, the Chinese cavalry battalion led by Li Guangheng is the most regular cavalry fighter of the Jingbian Army. They have a battalion of men, and all of them are equipped with excellent horses, and all of them are fat war horses. When the horses in the other camps died of exhaustion or disease, they kept fighting high.
When the Han army gathers, the captives gathered on the opposite side will surely be wiped out with one blow.
A long neighing of a horse came from the continuous Han army formation, causing a lot of neighing and neighing of war horses. The tense atmosphere before the battle started caused many horses to start excitedly commotion.
Looking at the land outside the Great Wall, it is vast and magnificent, and the distance stretches across it. It seems that there are peaks outside the peaks, and ridges in the mountains. Feel the new wind passing by, and some wind groups even turn around and whimper like wolves. Voice.
Li Guangheng exhaled slowly. The horses under his crotch were snorting and digging the grass from time to time. The war horses beside him shook their heads from side to side as well. They exhaled white air from their mouths and formed long dragons of white mist.
He raised his eyes and saw soldiers beside him holding horse lances, iron helmets shining with cold light, and flags of sun, moon and waves fluttering and dancing in the new wind. , The military formations everywhere are like a stream of iron running across the earth.
Li Guangheng was full of pride and ambition, and Li Bai's poems suddenly surged in his heart: "The severe wind blows the frost, the seaweed withers, the tendons are dry and strong, and the horse is arrogant. The Han family has 30 soldiers, and the general also leads Huo whoring Yao. Meteors and white feathers are inserted in the waist. Sword flowers and autumn lotuses come out of the box. Heavenly soldiers shine on the snowy jade pass, captive arrows shoot like sand at the golden armor..."
Isn't all of this exactly what you see in front of you?
Thanks to the general, it was he who gave him the opportunity to command the strong cavalry and gallop across the north. Slowly, he raised the horse in his hand.
"Draw the knife!"
The officers in the formation roared loudly.
"Hey!"
The sound of rushing, stretching over the left and right wings of the front and rear, bright cold lights flashed, each and every knight drew out their thick-backed sabers, and pointed to the front. He erected his own horse's spear and pointed forward obliquely. The red tassels on each spear's spear, accompanied by the bright red mane of the horse, were flying red.
Feeling this atmosphere, Wang Pu Datong's main barracks at the back, the loyal soldiers on the two wings, and the soldiers from the new attached camp were also full of enthusiasm, and many of them even burst into tears.
The Mongolian cavalry in the new attached battalion are also honored, and they are all proud to follow such a powerful army.
Tabu Nang's face turned red, and he held his war hammer tightly. He hoped that the Buddha would bless him and cut off the heads of a few more Tumet savages. Gared beside him was holding his crescent knife silently, wheezing. pant.
In the main army of Datong, Wang Pu's personal general, Wang Zheng, felt like crying, which he didn't have before. He murmured: "I will definitely be famous in history."
"boom!"
With the sound of a sharp cannon, tens of thousands of soldiers raised their eyes to Gao Gang.
There was a long blowing of the trumpet, which is called the sound of a swan. Immediately after the trumpet, a sharp trumpet sounded from Gaogang, and the tens of thousands of soldiers in the formation all shouted: "Tiger!"
As soon as the drum was tightened, the army set off and the sea of ​​cavalry began to move forward.
Soon, there was another sharp swan sound, and Wang Zheng and others used all their strength to shout, "Tiger!"
The sound shook the whole field, and the drum beat became more intense. They quickened their pace and looked at the Habayashi armor below. They lined up in a neat attack formation, moving forward like a rushing iron stream. Wang Dou watched with fascination, the impact of the cavalry, Su There is a feeling of suffocation and boiling, but it is a pity that I will never have the chance to reach the front.
He looked at Zhong Tiaoyang next to him, and saw that he was also in a daze, and his eyes were only fixed on the moving iron flow in front of him. He smiled slightly and asked, "What is cousin thinking?"
Zhong Tiaoyang hurriedly turned his head, he saluted solemnly, and said: "General, I am thinking, it is an honor for the general to be able to follow the general!"
Wang Dou looked at him and nodded solemnly: "It is also my honor to have you and the soldiers of the Jingbian Army here!"
"It's mine too."
Looking down in a daze, Wang Pu, whose eyebrows twitched from time to time, also said hastily.
He looked at the cavalry formation at the foot of the hill, and saw them running forward in a rhythmic and orderly manner to the sound of drums, especially the Chinese cavalry battalion of the Jingbian Army, their feathered cavalry, their forward-pointing lances, and their shining sabers , the fluttering banner is like a monstrous huge wave, and its momentum is unstoppable.
Wang Pu never thought that the cavalry charge with thousands of horses and horses would have such momentum. Compared with the scene before him, the cavalry battles he had seen in the past were like gang fights. Looking at all this, his expression was changing, and he had already Dozens of conversions have been made.
Wang Dou laughed loudly, and said, "That's right, it's also an honor for Wang to fight side by side with Wang Zongzhen and show off the frontier fortress!"
Wang Pu said with emotion: "My family knows my own family affairs. Without my brother, how can I have the glory of my brother today? Everything that my little brother has is given by my brother."
Wang Dou looked at him, indeed, without himself, after the Battle of Songshan in history, Wang Pu had been beheaded, and he was notorious for fleeing first. Change more?
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Seeing the cavalry of the Jingbian army rushing in like a tide, thousands of horseshoes stepping on the dry grass, like thunder rolling, thunder roaring, feeling the suffocating pressure, all of Tumet's faces were pale.
Guluge murmured: "When I think of Genghis Khan, my Mongolian cavalry traveled east, west, north, south, and marched thousands of miles west. Countless tribes surrendered to fear, but why, the equipment is not as good now, and even cavalry is far away from the Central Plains Han?" The military competition is down? No...I don't accept it!"
He was not reconciled, and tried his best to encourage the tribal warriors to fight. Hang Gao also knew that it was difficult to escape. He was already defeated, had no cattle and sheep, and was chased by tens of thousands of cavalry on the other side.
He also tried his best to encourage the soldiers: "Although there are many kings fighting, they have traveled long distances, and the men and horses are exhausted. Our side waits for work with ease. It is not impossible to win! In the past, Genghis Khan conquered gold, and the number of gold men was 40. We only had tens of thousands, but The warriors fought desperately, but they defeated the gold bandits in Yehu Ridge, God of longevity, kill all the bandits!"
All the herdsmen in Tumet howled like wolves. They had no way out. Behind them was their own tribe, their own family!
"kill!"
Hang Gao beat the drum himself, Guluge swung his heavy axe, and rushed to the front, and the [-] Tumed warriors roared likewise, brandishing their weapons, and followed closely.
"Tiger!"
On Gaogang, there was the last sharp sound of swans, and the sound of drums was extremely rapid. The Jingbian soldiers who were rushing into the formation finally roared in unison. Their horse speed also increased to the extreme. Li Guangheng's left battalion cavalry, Everyone has leveled their horses, and the forest is densely covered.
Behind them, the Chinese cavalry in the rear battalion raised their sabers neatly.
The feathered cavalry on the two wings also flickered with saber arrays, their horse speed was slightly behind the cavalry of the center battalion, and the officers shouted orders from time to time, "Advance like a wall" and "Along with each other". Leading ahead, not lagging behind, marching closely like a wall, rows of sabers pointing neatly and obliquely.
Mastering riding skills is not an easy task. It even requires years of repeated practice. It also needs to be fully compatible with the horse under one's body, so that it can be a unity of man and horse, so that it can freely fight on the horse, and even thousands of riders charge into battle. At this point, it is considered a real cavalry, otherwise it is just a cavalry.
However, this kind of battle formation on the wall makes up for the shortcomings of the knights. They only need to cooperate tacitly and line up closely together. Like infantry, people with poor riding skills can also be led by those with good riding skills. Marching, and then this kind of formation, also exerted the advantages of the collective, so that the courage of the common man returned to group combat, and the protection of comrades in front, back, left, and right made the battlefield look like an infantry formation, not fighting alone.
Looking back at the rows of Tiefutu soldiers behind him, Wen Fangliang thought to himself: "Old Han really has a skill. Once this fencing battle is launched, it will be recorded in the annals of our Jingbian Army's army history!"
His subordinates are all first-class soldiers in the Jingbian Army. They may not be as good at riding and horsepower, but they cooperate with each other tacitly, and they have already penetrated into their bones.
After the third shout, the formation of the two sides has already approached, and the sound of trampling horseshoes stirred up dust in the sky, countless cavalry surged, and the sound of hoofbeats was like a drum, and the sound of thousands of horses galloping together, it seemed that only one could hear The sound of hooves, the iron flow on both sides, constantly galloping forward, colliding together, it is inevitable!
"Kill all the thieves!"
Wen Fangliang gave a loud roar, and countless soldiers also let out the same roar at the same time, and the torrent of cavalry finally collided together...
"it is good!"
Wang Pu roared, although the enemy cavalry were crazy, he could see clearly that the knights of the Jingbian army headed by Ma Libing suddenly pierced into a piece of soft cheese like red-hot pincers, and in a crowd of people turned their backs on their backs. In the middle, they went straight from the front of the captive cavalry formation to the middle of their formation, and went to the rear of the formation. The feather cavalry on both wings were equally invincible.
Wang Dou was also relieved. At that moment, he had the feeling that he had stopped breathing. Confidence is self-confidence. The final result needs to be seen to be true. The facts have proved everything. He is a tired teacher. The crazy Tumed department is not their opponent.
He breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself, in the face of decisive strength, all tactics are futile, and the Mongolians on the grassland, their tactics have fallen far behind, they have been eliminated by history, and the bravery of their ancestors is still irreparable in the end the fate of future generations.
"No!"
Guruge yelled crazily. Beside him, the weapons and armors of his own warriors kept flying, and the neighing of wounded horses joined together. The warriors rolled to the ground in different postures, forming in this piece of iron flow. In the confrontation between the steel and the flesh and blood, they lost, and they lost badly.
Their own cavalry formation is no match for the Jingbian army at all. Their dense cavalry is too terrifying. They collide with each other and are at a disadvantage. They fight bravely and are still at a disadvantage. The wave is heavy, and as far as the eye can see, it is full of that kind of dense lance forest, and the bright flashing knife array behind it.
It is not easy for cavalry to fight, and the opportunity to fight is only in an instant. To stab and cut down the opponent at that moment and save one's life requires luck, and even more skilled combat skills, but no matter how brave a hero is, it is not as good as the opponent. opponent.
Their unified weapons are also terrible, especially the Jingbian army here, all of them have excellent horse lances. It can be withdrawn according to the situation, or it can be condescending to raise the lance and stab downward, which can also prevent the horse lance from piercing too deep and losing the weapon.
On the other hand, what about your own spear?
Facing the waves of the Jingbian army riding on the wall, the cavalry of Tumote's troops were at a loss after going crazy.
They can't see the hope of victory. It seems that the breakwater made of their own flesh and blood has just blocked the opponent's wave, and the opponent's second wave of iron flow is coming again. It is still so turbulent and so desperate. The saber can easily stab them down and knock them over. The fewer people around you, the more desperate the battle situation will be.
On the two wings, although some Mongolian cavalry who used the Crow Soldiers Scattering Formation were not as unbearable as the feather cavalry of the Qinglong Army and Suzaku Army in the middle formation, the warriors in the tribe were also overwhelmed by their sword formation. What's more, there are cavalry troops from the Zhongyi Battalion and the Xin Affiliated Battalion who are good at taking advantage of the fire and looting on the two wings.
"Hateful Han people, why don't you fight one-on-one with my prairie warriors?"
There was another wave of spears coming in front of them. Looking behind them, there seemed to be countless warriors riding the wall, like a tide rushing over a bank, endlessly.
Gu Luge roared in despair. The heavy ax in his hand was still dripping with a mixture of blood and white pulp. Pointless.
Howling like him, there were many Tumet warriors charging forward, and then, amidst the sound of unwillingness, they were submerged in the sea of ​​sabers and long spears.
"boom!"
Li Guangheng, covered in flesh and blood, led his cavalry battalion of the Chinese army, and broke through Guluge's formation with one drum. In front of them were the pale-faced members of the Hang High School Military Department who had stopped beating the drum. Li Guangheng pointed forward with all his strength. The soldiers behind him are still advancing in waves like a wall...
On the afternoon of September 15th in the [-]th year of Chongzhen, Yongninghou Wangdou fought with Lutu Mote on the Bank of the Xiaohuang River, and they were defeated in a fight. Guluge and Hanggao were defeated and cut thousands of levels. Running around, Xiang Teng trampled, and many died, and their corpses were thrown into the wild.
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"Feather cavalry, I must have it!"
The Tatar cavalry below were defeated in the first battle. Many of them put down their weapons and surrendered in despair, and some fled in all directions.
Wang Dou ordered the Zhongyi Battalion, the New Affiliated Battalion, the Jianshao Battalion, and the cavalry of Wang Pu's main barracks to pursue and kill them. A decisive battle on the Great Wall, which is famous in history, ended in less than half an hour. The victory came so quickly. Let Wang Pu amazed.
The fierce cavalry of Wang Douzhong's army, although Wang Pu was keen-eyed, he knew that the training was difficult, so he didn't think too much about it, but the feathered cavalry who dismounted could fight and mount could kill, oh, he called himself a dragoon, and Wang Pu felt that he could still do it if he worked harder. out of training.
Looking at Wang Dou's figure, Wang Pu thought secretly.
Wang Dou just looked down and didn't know what he was thinking. After a long time, he smiled at Wang Pu and said, "Brother Wang, let's go down!"
Wang Dou led the guard battalion into the battlefield, and as soon as his handsome flag appeared, there was a wave of cheers, and the overwhelming sound of "Wan Sheng" continued.
Wang Dou galloped on his horse, and when he met him, there were sincere and excited faces. The wind swept the corner of the flag and slapped some tired and determined faces beside him. The tragic battlefield was still vivid in his mind, but all the soldiers, individual All with indescribable joy.
Wang Dou passed all the way, and the more soldiers gathered, they were so densely packed that they couldn't see the end. They consciously lined up and surrounded Wang Dou in the middle. Whenever Wang Dou's figure appeared, they watched with eager eyes, while Wen Fangliang, Gao Shiyin , Li Guangheng, Han Chao and others also came over, and they all followed behind happily.
Finally, a joyful voice shouted: "General, we have won."
One word stirred up thousands of waves, "We won, and Saibei will be settled in one battle!" The voice continued, like waves and tides.
"Wa hahaha!"
Gao Shiyin, with black and white patches on his face, suddenly picked up Han Chao beside him, turned around, and shouted: "Old Han, my old Gao wants to thank you."
The soldiers beside him laughed, Han Chao also shook his head speechlessly, only patted Gao Shiyin on the shoulder, and said, "Good brother."
Wang Dou looked at all this with a smile, and he shouted: "Yes, we won. From then on, Monan will return to our Han family."
There was another wave of cheers, and Han Chao shouted: "Salute to the general!"
"mighty!"
Amidst the frantic shouts, Wang Dou raised his hand suddenly, looking at his soldiers under his command, and remembering the conquest outside the Great Wall: "The Han army is mighty!"
"The general is mighty!"
The military song sounded, and finally the passionate singing merged into the ocean.
"Catch iron armor, carry a long knife. Fight with your son, the road is long."
"Together with the enemy, to live and die together. To fight with the son, never let up."
"Tread on the swallows, chase the beard. Fight with the son, sing fearlessly!"
But it is the military song of the Eastern Han Dynasty "Horse Stepping on Yanran", which is also one of the military songs of the Jingbian Army. It is very suitable for the occasion.
Seeing all the jubilation, Wang Pu opened his mouth wide and just laughed. His relative, Wang Zheng, also sang loudly, and his face was flushed with excitement.

(End of this chapter)