Chapter 460 Meng defeated Mingsheng, advance eastward and southward

For troops that have not been properly trained, the defeat of the main force means a complete collapse. The level of the army's ability actually comes from the level of organization. If you are familiar with and trust your own officers, and you can be familiar with and trust every soldier around you, you can be dispersed and not messed up, and maintain the organization of the army in a highly complex battle.

After the coalition central army of the Korqin tribe and the Halashen tribe were easily defeated, the coalition forces on the grassland collapsed completely. After the iron-armored cavalry with good armor defense rushed in, the cavalry of the coalition encountered an embarrassing fact that their weapons could not cause effective damage to the other party. The dense formation brought by the opponent's strict training also gave them a great numerical advantage in every part, and in turn formed a huge impulse, which was unstoppable.

But because of the continuous accumulation of his formation, the iron-armored cavalry suddenly emerged from Tumot's army got the opportunity to keep pushing forward. Riding a horse is different from walking. When walking, you can turn around and run back. If you want to hold the horse and turn around, you will rush your own people into a mess. You can't retreat but you can't retreat. You can only be passively killed by the opponent.

Whether it is facing the spear or the opponent's long sword and big axe, the chain mail and cotton armor cannot form a very effective defense. If you are almost killed or lose your combat effectiveness if you are hit by it.

This is definitely not the cavalry of the Tumot tribe. The cavalry in iron armor was arranged in an array, pressing over like a wall, while the light cavalry in light armor were on both sides.

The key to the problem is that for the coalition central army of Korqin and Halashen, these neat light armored cavalry suddenly appeared in Tumot, and their armored and weapons were no worse than theirs. As for the troops that were fighting against the iron armored cavalry, their equipment was no match for them. These cavalry were on the selected tall horses, wearing steel armor. The tall and stern-faced warriors seemed as unstoppable as the god of killing.

There is such a problem in the battle between the army. If the opponent's army is overwhelmed, if the formation is too crowded, the middle part will often not be able to move, and it will not be able to fight or run away. It can only be passively slaughtered.

Whether in the East or the West, there is a saying that the combat effectiveness of the army composed of free people is a hundred times better than that of the local army composed of slaves because they have their own will to fight.

In some cases, this is not the case. For example, now, under the pressure of the herdsmen and cavalry of the Tumot tribe, they will retreat and be killed, but there is still a glimmer of vitality to rush. In addition, the strong power of the Han soldiers has completely inspired these Tumot tribe's cavalry.

And when they rushed forward, they were in front of them, the hostile coalition forces of Halashen and the Korqin tribe. If they didn't fight hard, the other party would fight hard to kill you. In various situations, these herdsmen and cavalry of the Tumote tribe could only fight.

War on the grassland. Since the strong are king, the purpose of the war is to get more grasslands, population, livestock, enemies in front of you, their manpower, and horses may become your own things tonight, so no one dares to take action or is willing to take ruthless actions. So the scale of battles on the grasslands may be quite large now. But the intensity is often very low.

The battle between the various divisions often gathers tens of thousands of soldiers and horses somewhere with abundant water and grass. When tens of thousands of horses are launched, smoke and dust are everywhere on the grassland, which is extremely spectacular. However, when it comes to the battle, everyone spreads their wings on the grassland. They test each other. They draw bows and shoot arrows, which looks very lively. But most of them separate as soon as they come into contact, and the other side will collapse, and then the battle will be decided.

Therefore, after relatively systematic training and gaining war experience with the Qing Dynasty, the Korqin cavalry were the most powerful forces on the Eastern Mongolian grasslands.

However, the strongest cavalry in the Korqin division, which is the central army, are all slaves from the families of Beile in various Korqin divisions, which are only a few thousand people. Moreover, their training and courage are obviously not as good as those of Chen Yongfu's veterans in the hundred battles and the iron cavalry trained by Jiaozhou Camp. Most of the cavalry who came to the grassland this time were herders and cavalry, and they had seen such a scene there.

The herdsmen and cavalry were originally a herdsmen, Tumote herdsmen and cavalry, as if they were crazy, the herdsmen and cavalry of the coalition were already scared. The two wings of the coalition quickly disintegrated, but the herdsmen and cavalry had no discipline and were crowded in a mess when they lined up on the grassland.

Even if they wanted to disperse in a hurry, they could not. In the front team, they could only resist with a knife, but they were quickly defeated by the Tumot herders and cavalry coming from the brigade. The front and back teams were mixed together, and they were completely in a state of a whole pot of porridge, but this pot of porridge was only the soldiers of the coalition forces were chopped and killed.

In the rear team, a large number of herders and cavalry had already escaped without hesitation, while the central army was blocked by both wings and the rear team, and could only be beaten by the iron armored cavalry.

Such a strong shock was almost a massacre. Both sides were riding horses and attacking each other. The Khan's tent and cavalrymen could not gain any advantage at all, and could only be killed and beaten.

The two leading Taijis, one was penetrated by a spear during the first charge and fell off the horse. The other Taijis, under the escort of their personal soldiers, tried desperately to go backwards, and even dared not turn back. They were completely scared. In simple terms of equestrianism and combat skills, these ethnic groups growing on the grassland were much stronger than the Han cavalry, but with excellent equipment and systematic training, the Mongolian cavalry was far worse than the Han cavalry.

Especially the cavalry of Jiaozhou Camp, they are not very good riders, and their marksmanship and swordsmanship are just average. These aspects cannot be compared with opponents who start learning to ride after learning to learn to ride. No cavalry may be unable to defeat the elite Mongolian cavalry in front of him in a single-on-one battle. However, when forming a formation and cooperating with each other, even if the five-man battles against five, the Mongolians will not make any advantage. As the number of soldiers increases, the advantage of Shandong cavalry will become greater. In this situation, Korqin's cavalry has no chance of winning at all.

The reason why these cavalry of the grassland coalition forces are still fighting is because they can't escape...

This is what it is called cutting melons and vegetables. I saw the armored cavalry unit suddenly appearing in the Tumote tribe, advancing without any obstacles. In the face of invincibility, he kept chopping and slashing and moving forward continuously.

The cavalry collapsed to some extent much faster than the infantry collapsed, especially when everyone saw Tushetuhan's flag suddenly galloping backwards, and everyone was sure that the battle had failed.

The general flag should not be moved lightly. This is the center of the entire army. The big flag moved backward, which means that the commander escaped at the last moment, and Tushetukhan's flag galloped backward. Everyone understands that the center of the grassland coalition, Halashen and the Khan relatives of the Khorchin tribe, all ran away.

No one knew that the failure of this battle was the inevitable ending. Perhaps the two nobles who were pampered and nobles were already frightened by such a fierce battle situation and massacre, so they hurriedly fled. Seeing that the nobles of the tribe were all running away, how could the herdsmen and cavalry below continue to persevere?

In just a while, the central army of Korqin and Tumote's troops suddenly found that the surrounding area had become much empty, and the grassland was full of fleeing friendly troops. In front of him were fierce iron-armored cavalry, and the light cavalry surrounded on both wings crossed and went straight forward to chase the two fleeing nobles.

With space around, these so-called elite soldiers of the Korqin tribe are not warriors who dare to fight. They are the most precious property of each Beletaiji, and they are guaranteed their status on the grassland. It would be fine if they win, but at the moment. Everyone is thinking about how to protect their own strength. So like birds and beasts scattered, everyone runs away on their own, not daring to persevere.

The Harashen and the Korqin tribe coalition, which had just been extremely powerful, had covered the entire grassland, quickly disintegrated into a scattered sand and failed to form a army. Everyone was running away, and each team was running away in all directions. The only unit that had been condensed into a scale was the cavalry of the Tumote tribe. Whether it was herders cavalry, the iron-armored cavalry in the middle, or the light-armored cavalry that had already been chased out, the team was not dispersed.

Now the Ditumot tribe is like a monster, constantly moving forward and swallowing any small team in front of him.

Under such oppression, many of the fleeing coalition cavalry were already devastated, and even lost the courage to escape. They came down from the horse. They knelt on the ground and surrendered to the other side.

It was almost half an hour. On the big cart as the command platform, there were no enemy cavalry except for the cavalry that kneeled down and surrendered.

In addition to the cavalry who obeyed the orders, there were only Chen Yongfu, the general of Datong Border Town, and Arslen, the official of the Tumote tribe.

Looking at the battle situation around him, Alslen no longer had the usual wise and calm appearance. Instead, he grew up and could not see any demeanor. Before this battle, Alslen thought a lot and did a lot of things secretly without hiding the Han generals.

After all, the cavalry of Halashen and the Korchin tribe had the advantage. Even if the remaining defeated generals of the Tumote tribe were combined with the elite troops brought by the Han people, the number was far inferior to that of the cavalry of the grassland coalition.

Arslen thought about how to deal with oneself if the cavalry of the coalition forces were defeated and what should he do to keep his wealth and honor. If he wins a small victory or loses, how should he advise these crazy Ming generals, how can he stop taking risks like this and grasping the wealth and honor in front of him.

A small victory or no victory or defeat is the most optimistic situation that Arslen imagined. After all, the sneak attack that day was successful in taking advantage of the emptiness of the golden tent.

But he never expected that today's victory would be so straightforward and so refreshing, and the few cavalry showed an almost absolute advantage.

Suddenly, the official of the matter was a little excited to think that the pattern on the Eastern Mongolian grasslands of this great victory had almost been decided. After all, against more than 20,000 cavalry of the Tumote tribe, the Halashen tribe and the Korqin tribe had to mobilize nearly 90% of the troops to have a chance of winning.

Then wouldn’t I become the most noble person on the grassland? Will my family become the second golden family? If this could be done, even if I was a puppet, wouldn’t I be just a puppet now?

Since the beginning of the battle, Chen Yongfu, the general of Datong Border Town, was watching the battle situation with a thousand-mile mirror. Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, he shouted to the messenger of Hou Ming beside him:

"All the reserve teams attacked to assist General Yang Shen to pursue the thief chiefs and defeat all the gathering enemy troops on the way. Be sure to behead the Khan and nobles of the Khorchin tribe."

After the messenger agreed, he stepped down from the stage to arrange the situation. Soon, the cart was filled with people and horses, and a large number of cavalry rushed towards the pursuit. As soon as he finished speaking, the severance officer Aerslen, who was immersed in fantasy, reported it and hurriedly stepped forward and said:

"General Chen. The thieves from the headquarters have sent a large army. We must send forces back to rescue the emergency!"

Before the war, nearly 10,000 cavalrymen went to the headquarters of Tumot's troops in Xiaoxingzhou. Alslen didn't believe in the combat effectiveness of his troops, and he also hoped that these powerful Han cavalry would go back to rescue. Chen Yongfu put down the Qianli Mile Mile Mile, looked at the somewhat anxious Alslen, and said with a smile:

"With those more than ten thousand pieces of miscellaneous things, do you think you can break through Mr. Ou's iron wall? Daruwachi (named Mongolian nobleman), put your heart back, those enemies who go to Xiaoxingzhou will end up even worse!"

The coalition soldiers sent there were indeed not strong troops. And they were the weaker and more noble troops of the Korqin tribe who had the status of the troops. Because they were trapped in the enemy's back home, they would encounter less resistance. Secondly, they would gain more benefits.

When this side master was walking halfway, everyone was very happy. Because of the commercial and trade areas, the Tumote tribe, one of the richest tribes on the grassland, must have many good things in their headquarters, and there will be many women and livestock. These things are all affordable benefits that everyone can get.

The distance is about thirty miles. Even if you control the horse speed, you can reach it in half an hour. But after arriving, you find that the tent at this time is very different from the past. Not to mention the distance between the tents and the tents is very close, there is also a circle of half a person-high earth walls on the periphery.

There is also a shallow ditch outside the earth wall. Although this ditch is shallow, it is quite wide. This obstacle is very troublesome for horses.

Because the inside of the ditch is the earthen wall, which is not high. But the horse cannot jump over and must dismount to climb. Because the wide ditch and earthen walls cannot form continuous wave attacks, which has a great impact.

But there were all old and weak inside, so they took it down no matter how hard they rushed. The generals sent soldiers around the earth wall and found that the only place suitable for attack was the southwest direction. Xiaoxing Fort turned out to be a town, but it had been abandoned for a long time. The camp of the Tumote tribe was built on this ruin. It would be a lot of trouble to attack in other directions.

After choosing the direction of the attack, everyone could even hear the crying in the Tumot camp, and could vaguely see figures running around the earth wall. Each of them was extremely proud and thought they were ready to take it.

It was a fight between you and I. The side division of the Grassland Alliance flocked to me, and many people had already dismounted and jumped into the ditch on the outside of the ditch.

The news on the grassland was spreading unhappily. Many people didn't know that during the day, Tumote's troops gathered cavalry to grab the opponent's local salt team, but were attacked by the opponent in the large convoy.

So when the first soldiers of the grassland coalition touched the earth wall, the muskets inside the wall began to roar. Each row of hundreds of people, a total of ten thousand muskets fired in turn in fifty steps. The power was really huge, not to mention the several cannons placed on the high point of the southwest.

The ten-row musket soldiers were in the process of advancing and retreating. Such rotation was enough for the soldiers in the back row to load ammunition and shoot forward, and there was even a time to wait, which was much more calm.

But for these cavalrymen of the grassland coalition outside, it was a standard nightmare. With such a large surface, such a large shooting range, and such a close-range shooting.

These tribal herders and cavalrymen, who were wearing the best armor, could not resist the shooting of the muskets. They shot twice in ten rows and finished quickly.

The direction of the noise of the people was already quiet. Within seventy steps, there were no one standing. Outside seventy steps, the horses without knights were also alarmed by gunfire and smoke, jumping around and running, stirring the formation into chaos.

The wind in the grasslands was very strong in early spring, and the smoke from the muskets was quickly blown away. The coalition cavalry on the periphery no longer dared to attack in this direction.

There is another possible option. Several officers in the lead hurriedly mobilized people to attack on the other side. There must be such a large number of people attacking the fire. If there is such a large earthen encirclement, the other side will definitely not be able to mobilize them.

Moreover, the battle on the grassland is so large. The Tumote tribe cannot leave too many troops on its own headquarters. If you attack the other side, the other party will definitely not have time to arrange it.

On the center of this headquarters camp, there is a high platform built of wood and stones. The people on the platform are nervously watching the movements outside.

If you enter the interior of this earthen enclosure, you will find that there is only a row of tents next to this earth wall. Behind this row of tents, there is a spacious passage. The large group of soldiers riding horses carrying muskets are on standby on this passage.

Seeing the movements of the enemy outside, the soldiers on the high platform waved their flags and gave instructions, while the cavalry on the passage hurriedly urged their horses to go in the direction indicated.

The inner circle movement must be much faster than the outer circle. When the coalition forces on the grassland began to attack in another direction, the musketeers inside the wall were ready to shoot.

Two attacks. Nearly 1,500 soldiers were damaged, and there were no minor injuries. They either died or lost their combat effectiveness and were seriously injured. This was really hurting morale. And because of the existence of the opponent's firearms, the soldiers could not shoot arrows inside because the ranges of the two sides were too far apart.

Facing this earthen encirclement, the grassland coalition seemed to be facing a hedgehog full of thorns. She didn't know where to go, and the hedgehog's ground thorns could still shoot from a distance, which hurts people too much.

Now that I have come, I can't just leave like this. I have to take it down. When a few soldiers were about to join, I heard the chaos in the front.

Because the brigade was outside the range of the fire of the muskets, there were no worries. But there were artillery inside the earthen enclosure, Oman Garris, who put these cannons together and fired another round. The coalition cavalry bombed the people within the range of the guns and turned them over.

The coalition cavalry on the periphery believed in the great victory of the battlefield, so they had to take it before their own people came. But they were waiting for the cavalry of the Tumot tribe who returned from their victory. Seeing the rigorous formation and aggressive cavalry of the Tumot tribe. Although it was incredible, the cavalry that came over still showed a fact that the cavalry of the coalition failed. At present, they could only escape.

There was no battle between the cavalry and the cavalry. It was a weak coalition division, and was hit by the firearms in the mainland and was in a mess. The morale was low. Thirty percent of the people in this army chose to surrender, and the rest of the land were collapsed and disintegrated.

In addition to the slightly slow-moving iron-armored cavalry, Chen Yongfu and Zhang Kun sent all the Han cavalry and three thousand Tumot elite cavalry to the pursuit team.

This time, Yang Chengzu had more experience. Although he was in the team of light cavalry, he had long focused on the two nobles behind the formation.

This pursuit was also the one who led the crowd to run in front. This battle made Yang Chengzu extremely excited. I don’t know why Yang Chengzu felt extremely happy on the grassland. It was not only the victory brought by powerful strength, but also the pleasure of a conqueror. In the inland of the Ming Dynasty, at most it was to kill a certain general in a formation, but on this grassland, it was to chase Khan XX. How majestic is this, and a real man should do so.

Compared with the short battle, this pursuit took nearly two days. Chen Yongfu and Zhang Kun's smart arrangements were smart enough to arrange enough troops to chase.

Although the escaped nobles, such as Korqin and Halashen tribes, fled to their tribes several times, trying to gather their forces to fight back and swallow them again, the pursuit power was too strong and they were defeated and defeated. These nobles actually became the people who led the way.

The next night, except for Ketzetuhan, who used the method of changing clothes to escape, the rest of the people were killed on the banks of the Qinglong River, about a hundred miles away from Longshan. After this battle, the once-proud Korqin tribe suddenly became a historical term.

All tribes on the grassland that were originally waiting to watch the jokes of the Tumote tribe were silent. According to the theory of the strong, the cavalry who were defeated and fled turned around without shame and threw themselves into the Tumote tribe.

After this battle, the number of cavalry controlled by the Tumots team has increased to nearly 40,000, although most of them are so-called mobs.

After Yang Chengzu's team killed two noble people from the Ministry, they just sent an envoy back to notify the brigade, and he set up camp on the bank of the Qinglong River, and the seized materials were enough to build a decent camp.

The banks of Qinglong River are not far from Longshan. If the cavalry forward further, they will reach the basin of Daling River and Xiaoling River. There is already a traditional area controlled by the Qing Dynasty. Currently, it is the Khan of the Chahar tribe, the Khan of the Qing Dynasty, the Puppet Khan of the Qing Dynasty, the Tumote tribe and the cavalry led by him are still moving slowly eastward, and will not stop because of any enemy in the east.

As time approaches May, the grassland has gradually turned green. The area of ​​Eastern Mongolia is allowed to cause wind and rain.

In the heart of the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty, the situation in Henan is getting better and better. The army led by the commander Hou Xun has gradually entered Ruzhou. Hou Xun's territory was similar to the Tumote tribe's actions on the grassland. It completely shrank into a group, with the camp in the middle, and the four generals' troops surrounded the surroundings, and they will never advance lightly.

On the ground in Henan, officers and soldiers and militiamen were tug of war. The hearts of the people were extremely chaotic. Niu Chenghu, the deputy general of the vanguard, led his army to the road between Baisha and Ruzhou. Suddenly, a Shun Army soldier appeared. Niu Chenghu was ready for battle, but he did not expect that a Shun Army captain came to surrender.

In the past two years, civil and military officials from the Ming Dynasty surrendered to the Shun Army camp like a stream, but there were basically no one who was recruited to the bandits.

Occasionally, several of them surrendered to Shandong, while those in Huguang all surrendered to the command of the general Zuo Liangyu, the general who pacified the thief. This commander Li Yangchun is said to be from Mizhi County, and the clan of the King of Rebellion Li Zicheng led a total of 3,000 troops to surrender. At the beginning, the vanguard Niu Chenghu and the general Bai Guangen were both surprised and suspected, for fear of being a fraud.
To be continued...