After Hauge was awarded the Grand Marshal of Zhengnan by Huang Taiji, he was smug, with three flags and one hundred and twenty Niu Lu cavalry, and swiftly rushed towards the Taizi River.
But as soon as the army crossed the Hun River, the poisonous sores on Yue Tuo's back began to break out. He could no longer ride a horse. Hauge discussed with Dai Shan, let Yue Tuo get on the carriage and slowly marched south, Haoge and Dai Shan moved forward slowly. Bringing their own fifty Niu Lu, all the way to the north bank of the Prince River in a hurry.
When Yue Tuo lay on the carriage, humming and humming all the way to the Taizi River, Hauge had already fought fiercely with the Ming army several times.
Because across the Prince River, Hauge was only a tentative attack. The number of soldiers who attacked each time was not large, and the total casualties were only a few cattle records.
When Yue Tuo came to the Taizi River, the herders also brought a message that the Ming army surrounded Shengjing. However, the herders were not professional rangers, and their words were unclear. The specific battle situation in Shengjing was not clear to Hauge and Daishan.
Seeing that it was not easy for Hauge to break through the Taizi River, and worrying about the safety of Shengjing, he had the intention of retreating, but Daishan resolutely opposed the withdrawal.
"Shengjing is besieged, and Ama is in danger. We must withdraw as soon as possible. We must first clear the siege of Shengjing, and then come back to clean up the Ming army in Liaoyang." Hauge relied on himself as the Marshal of Zhengnan and did not put Daishan in his eyes at all.
"General Marshal, Shengjing is besieged, whether the information is true, we don't know now, maybe this is a countermeasure of the Ming army." Dai Shan relied on his seniority and sufficient combat experience, and he was naive. Haoge doesn't have a bad cold either.
"Belle, no matter whether the rumors are true or not, I only know that Shengjing is our home, and Ama is our profligate. There is absolutely no room to lose."
"Take a step back and say, even if the message that Shengjing was besieged is true, we don't have to worry about the positive yellow flag of the Great Khan, and there are fifty cattle records. With the shrewdness and wisdom of the Great Khan, Sheng Jing will not be lost for the time being. "
Haug also didn't give in: "Babel, in any case, Shengjing and Ama, can't be put in a dangerous situation."
Dai Shan also thinks about it, Shengjing stores the foundation of the Golden Kingdom, so there must be no accidents, "Marshal, let’s divide the army, you go back to save Shengjing, I’m here to watch out for the Ming army, if we all withdraw Now, the Ming army may cross the river to pursue it."
"Okay," Hauge didn't want to quarrel with Daishan. Daishan stayed, and he could monopolize the rescue effort. "But I want to take away the twenty cattle records with red flags."
"Grand Marshal, you have seen the situation of Yue Tuo. Can his body stand the tossing now?"
Hauge knew that although Yue Tuo was seriously ill, it was absolutely impossible to let him leave his soldier, Jurchen soldier, that was the life of the banner owner, "Well, then I will return to Shengjing immediately."
Dai Shan thought for a while, "Originally, soldiers are expensive. Since the Marshal is going back to Beijing, it should be sooner rather than later, but I think we have fought the Ming army several times and are familiar with the Ming army’s tactics. It’s better to take advantage of the entire army to launch a full-scale attack against the Ming army. As long as we can cross the Taizi River, we can break the siege of Liaoyang. If we can’t cross the Taizi River, then I don’t plan to cross the river anymore, I just garrison. On the north bank of the Prince River, guard against the river."
Haug thought for a while and said, "Okay, but when I go back, I will take all the herdsmen with the army."
"Grand Marshal, you took away the herdsmen, what shall we eat in the future? How long will the beef jerky we brought will last? Besides, when the Marshal returns, he must be galloping. These herdsmen will not be able to keep up with you. pace of."
"Da Belle, we will leave all the dried beef and mutton to you. When you finish eating these dried meat, we should have defeated the Ming army in Shengjing and returned to the Taizi River again. As for the herdsmen, they can’t follow. At the speed of our cavalry, Big Baylor doesn’t have to worry. The herdsmen can slowly return to Beijing. Anyway, there is no Ming army between Taizihe and Hunhe."
Daishan hoped that Hauge could help him when crossing the river, and he would not compete with Hauge for herdsmen at the moment. "Let's just follow the General Marshal. When will we start crossing the river?"
"Just now... I still have to hurry back to Shengjing! Although we are not fully prepared, the Ming army is not prepared, they would not expect us to suddenly cross the river."
Haug and Daishan began to rectify their respective personnel and began to line up. Because Yue Tuo couldn't get up yet, he set up a red flag and left a large tent to take care of him.
Half an hour later, all the cavalry with the yellow flag and the red flag were ready. They remained motionless, just waiting for the command of the banner owner.
Dai Shan stroked his chest with his right hand and saluted Hauge: "Grand Marshal, we are crossing the river at the red flag first, and you will follow."
Haug also gave a salute: "Belle can rest assured that we are all members of the Great Golden State, and our goals are absolutely the same in dealing with the Ming army."
Daishan nodded, and Suer yelled: "Start crossing the river!"
The Jurchen’s horns made a "whispering" urging sound.
"Da da da… "
The cavalry in front of the red flag crossed the tidal flat, stepped into the Prince River in a blink of an eye, and quickly rushed through the shallow water area.
The sound of horseshoes and horns of the Jurchens had already alarmed the Ming army on the other side, and their flower bombs took the lead in counterattack.
"Boom... Long..."
"Boom... Long..."
"Boom... Long..."
…
On the south bank, the 120 artillery pieces of the three new formations of the Ming Army were all erected on the high ground, and they were spitting out bombs. There were too many Jurchen cavalry in the river, and the gunners didn't need to aim at all.
Every blooming bomb dropped into the river, it would arouse a wave of waves. Around the wave, people turned on their backs, stumps and broken arms, mixed with blood and water, flying freely on the Prince River.
Broken leather armor and scattered limbs floated on the water, shocking and shocking. Most of the corpses and corpses sank to the bottom of the water, forming stumbling blocks on the bottom of the water.
The power of the flower bomb lies in the shock wave released when the gunpowder explodes, as well as the metal fragments in the bomb. However, when the flower bomb falls on the water, a new threat will be formed, that is, the water arrow.
If a water arrow hits a centaur, the threat is not great. At most, the soldier will be thrown off the horse and fall into the river. There will be no threat to life. If the water arrow hits the centaur’s eye, it is likely to pierce the retina and cause the horse Blindness is at least a temporary blindness.
A blooming bullet happened to land on the head of a cavalryman.
"Long..." When the flower bomb exploded, the soldier's upper body was torn into countless fragments. The sky was like a rain of blood and flesh, and his lower body was still good to sit on the war horse...
Although the number of blooming shells was large, the firing interval was large, and the cavalry could only be shot and killed sporadically. Most of the cavalry were on horseback and continued to rush to the opposite shore.
This time, there was no man-made dam on the upper reaches of the Taizi River, and the water level of the Taizi River returned to normal, almost flooded to horseback.
The deeper the river, the slower the horse will advance.
After being wounded and killed by a few cattle, the Jurchen cavalry finally progressed to the heart of the river, where the water level of the Prince River was the deepest.
"boom."
"boom."
"boom."
…
The flintlocks began to shoot. Thousands of flintlocks fired at the Jurchen cavalry in one salvo.
Flintlocks are not the same as artillery. When soldiers fire a salvo, they will form a firepower net in front, like a low wall, pushing forward flatly. Wherever the firepower net passes, all the Jurchen cavalry, Either he died, or he fell from a horse and fell into the waters of the Prince River.
Until the cavalry behind caught up, but the next row of gunmen of the Ming army were already waiting for them.
A line of gunmen faced a group of Jurchen cavalry. The battle continued in the same place. The Jurchen cavalry could not cross the river, just like the Bermuda Triangle.
Daishan was at the back of the cavalry. He only saw the soldiers crossing the river, but did not see the soldiers shooting arrows to the opposite bank. "It's been so long, why haven't the arrows been released yet, can't the soldiers aim in deep water?"
"Great Baylor, the soldiers are not in range yet."
"What? It's been so long and haven't reached the range of the bow and arrow? What are they doing in front... How many people have we injured or killed?"
"Great Baylor, the number of our casualties is probably more than fifteen cows."
"Fifteen?" Dai Shan was taken aback. How long has it been before his soldiers have lost so much. It seems that he hasn't seen the Ming army yet, and he doesn't know what the Ming army has lost. Corpse, how can there be so many casualties?"
"Great Baylor, the soldiers have sunk to the bottom... If it weren't for sinking to the bottom, the wounded soldiers still have hope of alive. Now, the wounded soldiers are drowned."
Daishan looked at the soldiers in front of them. The soldiers had no expression. Under the double blow of artillery and flintlock, the soldiers were numb. They lay on their horses, like zombies, and let their horses carry them all the way. Forward.
"Big Baylor, be careful."
A blooming bomb exploded less than fifteen times away from Daishan, and the water column raised by the explosion had swept his face.
Fortunately, the distance is a bit far away. Daishan was not injured. He wiped the river water off his face, "Damn, the artillery of the Ming army..."
"Da Belle, it looks like the Ming army’s flintlock guns. It kills more. You see, there are Ming army artillery in the back. Our cavalry can keep advancing, but with the flintlock guns in front, our cavalry can’t advance at all. Still blocked in the heart of the river."
"What, our cavalry was blocked in the heart of the river? They couldn't make any further progress?" Daishan was shocked. The soldiers were blocked in the heart of the river, basically letting the Ming army shoot them. If this continues, the red flag will be cleared sooner or later. The army killed them all.
"What about Big Baylor?"
"How about our casualties?" Daishan hasn't figured out what to do for the time being.
"The specific number of people cannot be counted now, but the casualties must exceed 20 cattle records."
"Twenty?" Dai Shan was eager to catch this soldier and beat him up as the Ming army. "This damn Ming army, how about their losses? Why can't I see it?"
"Great Baylor, Ming Army... The Ming Army seems to have no losses, at least, we can't see their losses."