The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 382 The Patient Hunter

Duduo's formation has not yet been set up, his lieutenant has led his troops back, reining in his horse and reporting to him: "General, after less than two miles of chasing, there are two or three thousand Sunite cavalry waiting in front of you. I was worried that I would be ambushed, so I didn't dare to chase again."

Two or 3000 people?Duoduo thought to himself, Teng Jisi had only less than 4000 troops under his command. From Monan to Horqin to Mobei, he didn't have any supplies along the way, and he had to fight with the pursuers all the time. There are more than [-] people.

From this point of view, Teng Jisi's former army should have been defeated and fled just now, and the thousands of cavalry in front must be the main force of Sunit's army.

It's just that he didn't know that the Sunite department had already joined forces with the Chechen department, and in the past few months, some tribes in Tumed and Chahar who were dissatisfied with the Qing court had been secretly sending them food.In addition to Teng Jisi's looting gains along the way in Horqin, his life was quite prosperous. Not only did his troops not decrease, but also because people often came from Monan to follow him, on the contrary, there were hundreds more.

Since Doduo thought that he had "captured" the main force of Teng Jisi, he immediately decided in his heart, and urgently ordered Wakda and Gebush to speed up the march to complete the encirclement, while the troops he led waited until Shang Shan's main force of infantry arrived. , and then proceeded unhurriedly.

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Looking at the black Manchu army on the east side, Wu Liji couldn't help swallowing hard.

He was just a small Qianhu, and the frostbite on his left leg recurred not long ago, and he was about to lose half of his leg. Unexpectedly, just last night, Da Khan handed over 3000 troops to him to command.

He was still rejoicing until a moment ago, but only then did he realize that this was definitely not an easy battle.According to the suggestion of the military adviser, the Great Khan ordered him to set up three lines of defense and stick to the front line to defend against the enemy.

But just now the first line of defense collapsed in the blink of an eye, killing at least 300 people.He roughly estimated that there were at least tens of thousands of enemy troops, and there seemed to be cannons in front of the formation.

Fortunately, the Manchu army was moving very slowly, so he hurriedly urged his men to dig the trench deeper.

"Lord Qianhu, Jianzhou cavalry was found on the south side," a scout horse came galloping and said loudly, "There are more than 3000 people, it looks like four or five miles away from here."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the low sound of horns in the enemy's formation, and the speed of the entire battle formation immediately accelerated a lot.After staying a mile and a half away, more than a dozen cannons were pushed out by the Qing soldiers.

When Ulji passed through such a scene, he immediately arrested an officer and ordered him to bring [-] cavalry to hold back the enemy army, while he himself led the main force and continued to retreat.

But soon, Gebush led nearly 4000 troops to outflank him from the west.The main heavy infantry of these people dismounted immediately after arriving at the interception point.They piled the horses in the front row, and the soldiers hid behind with guns, and there were knives and spearmen between the guns for guard.

Hearing only three cannon shots, Wakda immediately ordered his elite cavalry to line up and attack the flank of Sunit's "central army".At the same time, Duduo's central army also began to attack, still using the continuous burst shooting method they were good at. After several rounds of shelling, the infantry phalanx advanced ten feet, and then continued shelling.

Uliji's subordinates were old and weak cannon fodder carefully selected from the Sunit and Chechen troops. The Jianlu Central Army was still three or four hundred steps away from them, and Wakda's cavalry had already killed a line in the Mongolian army formation. A "passage" paved with corpses.

Uljii charged two times in a symbolic manner, but lost hundreds of people under the fire of thousands of firecrackers.Seeing that his troops were about to collapse, he suddenly remembered that the military adviser had told him that if he couldn't hold on, he would go to the barren hills to the north and stand by for help.

After leaving two or three hundred people in a hurry, he greeted himself and led more than a thousand people to abandon their horses and climb the mountain.

Doduo heard the sound of killing gradually weakened, frowned and was about to ask, when he saw Wakda coming towards him with more than 100 horsemen, he laughed loudly and said, "General, the Tatars have been routed, and about a thousand people have been killed. Push them into the mountains on the north side, and the rest will descend."

Doduo felt relieved when he heard the words, and then remembered the pain of chasing Teng Jisi's ass for several months, and immediately ordered: "Decree, kill them all, leave no one behind."

He looked at the barren mountain on the north side again, and said it was a mountain, but it was actually a higher bump of dirt, but it was rugged and difficult for horses to climb up.

He then ordered Shang Shan, "Lead four thousand infantry into the mountains to suppress the enemy, and we must not let Teng Jisi escape!"

"Whoo!"

Not long after, Kabush also sent people to come, saying that they found Mongolian food, grass, money, and even cooked dried meat and barnyard porridge in a depression on the west side.

Just as he was talking, another officer approached and said: "General, you have killed all the Sunit people who begged for surrender."

Duoduo nodded and said, "How many heads have been beheaded?"

"Back to the general, the exact number has not yet been counted, there will always be two thousand or more."

"Okay!" Doduo was in a good mood when he heard the words, and waved to the officer, "It just so happened that Gebush captured the Sunit people's luggage, so you can ask someone to share a share and give it all to the meritorious soldiers!"

"Thank you, General!"

For a while, all the Qing troops were already immersed in the excitement of the "Great Victory". Coupled with the fact that people kept bringing in money and goods to distribute, it caused waves of cheers.

On the other side, more than a thousand soldiers under Uliji saw that the Qing army at the foot of the mountain beheaded and killed all the Sunit people who had surrendered.

"Fight with them and avenge the brothers!"

"Yes, surrender is death anyway, fight!"

"Even if we die here today, Great Khan will definitely avenge us!"

"Fight!"

Shang Shan led people around to surround the Dunit soldiers on the mountain, but unexpectedly these Mongols were extremely tenacious, taking advantage of the high terrain, they kept fighting back with stones, bows and arrows.

Although the bows and arrows could not penetrate the armor of the elite infantry of the Qing army, many people were still shot to death in the face and throat, and some were killed by stones. In addition, they could vaguely hear the shouts of "reward silver" and "mutton" from the foot of the mountain. , "fine wine" and the like, there was no intention of fighting to the death, and the two sides were in a stalemate halfway up the mountain for a while.

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"Reporting to the Great Khan, Uliji's troops suffered heavy losses, and the rest fled to the mountains to the north."

Hal Hu heard the words and said anxiously: "Brother, I will take someone to rescue..."

Teng Jisi didn't answer, but turned his head to look at Dai Xiuyuan, "What do you think, military master?"

He didn't like to see Dai Xiuyuan at first, but in the process of harassing Horqin thousands of miles away, he was gradually convinced by the extraordinary strategy shown by the latter.

Until one time, because he insisted on massacring a recalcitrant Horqin tribe, he was almost surrounded by Duoduo, and it was Dai Xiuyuan's trick to help him escape.After this incident, he formally worshiped Dai Xiuyuan as his military adviser and obeyed his words.

Dai Xiuyuan asked the guard beside him, "What time is it?"

"Back to the military division, it's almost time to apply."

"Have the people from Tuxietu and Zasaktu arrived?"

"I haven't seen anyone come to report yet."

Dai Xiuyuan nodded, then shook his head slightly at Teng Jisi, "Khan, the hunter must be patient."

(End of this chapter)