The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 255 Tracking and Pursuit
Qing Getai took two hundred fine cavalry selected from his own cavalry, and joined the Huang family's team that was about to end the queen together with the three hundred or so cavalry left by other leaders.

These more than 500 cavalry are equipped with iron armor, leather armor or cotton armor. The feather arrows in the three quiveres are full, and they all choose two horses to ride.

These Mongolian cavalry were too poor before and had never been so well equipped.

Now not only have the battle armor but also put on two layers, and fight with the reassuring Lord Huang. Everyone's morale is high and their self-confidence is bursting. They all hope that the Karaqin cavalry will catch up, and everyone will go to Chili Kacha Hack and kill.

Huang Sheng's team waited for Cheng Quangong. They took 6000 people to walk for a long time, and asked Qingertai's cavalry to clear up the traces of their march. Follow the mixed army that retreated one step ahead.

After all, there was snow on the grassland, so it was easier to intentionally cover the traces of the march, but the deeds of our own troops were not only undisguised, but also deliberately left arrogant.

Huang Sheng judged that there will definitely be pursuers, and there should not be too many in a short time. The Karaqin Manzhu Xili Tribe will not let it go. He dare not come to the decisive battle and wants revenge, so he should send them People and horses spy on our army.

The Huang family's horses are most afraid of the enemy's prying eyes. On the snow-covered grassland, as long as there are cavalry approaching our team, they are too eye-catching. They will be found within a radius of twenty miles. The Karaqin cavalry must approach our army within five miles to see our army with the naked eye. Inside.

Fifteen miles more, the encirclement circle can be arranged, and the Huang family's horses and horses ambushes everywhere. If they fight more and fight less, they are prepared to count as unprepared.

Everything was within Huang Sheng's expectations, but he didn't expect that there would be a lot of people from Harqin!

Manzhu Xili, who fled in a hurry, was chased and beaten by the Khalkha cavalry for a long time. It was only after dark that the pursuers retreated. He found that the 800 people around him had already scattered, and only 100 people followed. Many horses.

He is also an old man who knows that the enemy has returned to camp. The cold night in the prairie is not a joke. It is impossible for people who are not familiar with the environment to dare to chase the enemy at night.

He immediately arranged for the remaining men to light ten big fires, and he led everyone to hide in the dark and wait for the lost soldiers to find here.

This method is great, but it cannot be used in an unfamiliar environment. This piece of prairie is equivalent to the fiefdom of Manzhu Xili, and it is his territory. He thinks that the Ming army has retreated, and he should be the one who can see the fire. Subordinates are more likely.

In the night of the vast grassland, the ten burning fires are too eye-catching. Manzhu Xili not only successfully gathered more than 300 remnants, but also attracted a tribe who was going to live in a settlement for the winter. This tribe has 800 cavalry and [-] people .

The sentry horse sent by Wen Erwen, the leader, found a little fire a dozen miles away from his camp, thinking that he must have encountered a brother tribe who was also concentrated in the settlement, and quickly sent a team of ten to make contact.

The Ten Commander accidentally found Lord Xiaotaiji who was supposed to be in the winter camp, and hurried forward to greet him.

Manzhu Xili was thinking about how to get food to fill his stomach, and he was very happy when he found out that the ten husband who came to contact him, praised him, and immediately rushed to the camp of Wenerwen tribe with more than 300 exhausted cavalry who had just assembled land.

The fleeing cavalry had no supplies, and they were about to starve. Fortunately, they met the clansmen who came back for the winter and immediately relieved their urgent needs.

Karaqin Xiaotaiji, who was gobbling so much that his mouth was full of oil, finally regained some energy. He sent several teams of messengers to report to the territory of his father and several brothers overnight, asking them to send a large number of cavalry to encircle and rob his family. Ming army.

He specifically asked his old man, Obateji, to quickly send someone to invite the master of the big gold to send troops for reinforcements, and tell him, old man Obateji, that as long as five thousand big golden cavalry come, none of those daring Ming soldiers will be able to escape.

He also described how well equipped the Ming army was, how many horses and carts they had, the provisions they brought and robbed, and the gold How much silver should there be and so on.

But the Karaqin Grassland is too big, it may take seven or eight days for my father and elder brother to mobilize people to come immediately after receiving the news, and it may take longer for the big gold master to come.

After so many days, no one would know where those Ming troops went. If there was another snowfall on the prairie, even if 10 people came to search, they might not have good luck in finding the Ming army.

Manzhu Xili decided to secretly follow the Ming army with his men and horses, and send sentry horses to send news to Wen Erwen, the leader who is going to the winter camp at any time, so that when the reinforcements arrive, they will be targeted.

He no longer had to worry about supplies, and let the cavalry of the Wen Erwen tribe set off with him. The leader Wen Erwen took the tribe to the winter camp to wait, and maybe another tribe would arrive there soon.

Manzhu Xili pulled Wen Erwen and said: "The old general, please send more children to help take care of the scattered troops of Bentaiji along the way, and tell them that as long as they return to the camp, they will forget the past."

"Master Taiji, don't worry, your subordinates will understand that they will definitely keep those scattered clansmen, but you have to be careful! The two sons and all the soldiers of your subordinates are entrusted to you."

"Don't worry, old general, we are not going to fight this time, but just follow that hateful Ming army. As long as my father and elder brother catch up with their cavalry, those Ming troops will die."

"Lord Taiji, those Ming soldiers may have their own skills, so you must not follow too closely! The property of your subordinates is all in your hands!"

"Don't worry, old general, we definitely won't attack the Ming army, we won't even be discovered by them. To be honest, we can't beat them with more than 500 horses."

Manzhu Xili knew that Wen Erwen's tribe didn't have many troops. Five of his sons died in battle, and now there are only two sons left. Follow it, the risk is too great.

Manzhu Xili thought that he had been beaten with experience, and he was not prepared to rely on these more than 500 cavalry to attack the Ming army. He already knew that it was impossible to beat the Ming army. Accurate intelligence.

Seeing that Xiao Taiji, who has always been proud and arrogant, rarely spoke soft words, Wen Erwen admitted that he was not an opponent of the Ming army at all, and stated that he would definitely avoid the Ming army, so he was a little relieved.

He is also a battle-hardened man who believes that as long as his side does not take the initiative to attack, it doesn’t matter even if the Ming army finds out. His men and horses are all light cavalry, and everything will be fine if they run away immediately. He has never seen the Ming army catch up with the Mongolian light cavalry. War example.

(End of this chapter)