Chapter 462 Heavenly Soldiers
Yang Ling's army had arrived at Harry Mang.
The drums and horns roared and cut through the sky, neat battle formations, cold weapons, swords and guns, and various flags flying high, vast and majestic, as still as mountains. Thirty thousand troops stepped across the grasslands in the golden autumn, and their sleekness was like forests.
The cavalry phalanx with swords and shields, and the cavalry with red tassels and long painted spears was full of murderous aura, demonstrating endless majesty. A four-wheeled carriage in the center of the cavalry was surrounded by iron armored guards, with flags and flags hidden, with a powerful aura.
A knight rushed over with a red flag on his shoulder and turned to the wind. When he got closer, he turned over and got off the horse. The dusty knight had chapped lips, but he didn't even have to breathe, so he hurriedly took out a secret letter and handed it over with his hands.
The guard handed over a water bag, and at the same time took the letter and walked to the car and whispered a few words. The curtain was lifted, and Yang Ling sat in the car, and the car was still shaking forward. Yang Ling opened the letter and read it carefully, pondered for a moment, and said, "People come, inform the front team, turn to Saliqier, and take Hulan Hudhudeng directly!"
The commander left, and the army suddenly turned, and the chariots and horses turned northwest.
Yang Ling expanded the map and observed it carefully, and a smile appeared on his lips.
Hulanhushuwen is the place where the three rivers of the Aluhun River, the Onan River and the Tula River meet, surrounded by water on three sides, and the most dangerous. At the same time, there are many mountains near Hulanhushuwen, which is conducive to the hidden transfer of cavalry troops. It is obvious that Boyan Mengke's only bargaining chips can no longer withstand consumption, but only in this desperate situation, it is also easy to defend but not attack, and then struggle in the final effort.
But he forgot that it was here, just over a hundred years ago, the Oirat Khan Mahamu fought against the Ming Emperor Zhu Di with 30,000 cavalry, intending to use the advantage of cavalry to defeat the Ming army, but he returned home in a great defeat. Since then, Emperor Yongle has been in a northern expedition again, and even the shadow of the enemy cannot be found. One battle has broken their morale, and one battle has been a decades of peace. That battle. The secret weapon of the Ming army to destroy the Oirat Iron Cavalry was the Shenji Camp firearm.
The Ming army defeated the Oirat more than a hundred years ago. Today, a hundred years later, can the Ming Dynasty's firearms not deal with the Tatar cavalry? Yang Ling smiled slightly.
He had already received news from Hong Niang and learned the details of the battle between the two armies.
Boyan Mengke's "Sea Holly" that never left her for a moment hovered over Boyan Mengke's military camp. He was accidentally seen by Hongniang using a telescope, which exposed the real main force of his ox horn formation. Hongniang did not hesitate. Just when no one believed that she was desperate to break through the siege so quickly, she suddenly attacked the empty left wing that night and broke out of the siege.
What is even more unbelievable is that she actually ignored the breakout at night and her lineup was scattered. She was not easy to concentrate and communicate and command. As soon as she broke through the siege, she immediately turned around and implemented a counter-encirclement, trapping Boyan Mengke's army in it.
Boyan Meng tried his best to force Duoyan's army to this place, knowing that this place was a dead land. He was not willing to let Hongniang do it, so he immediately integrated the team and broke through again while Duoyan's army had not yet joined the siege.
Both armies were chaotic troops, mixed with each other in a melee. In this battle, Boyan suffered heavy losses. As the men and horses of both sides were confronted with each other, all the commands of sound and light signals were useless. The two armies fought until the sun rose and could see things. Then they began to gradually gather the troops with flags.
It was not until almost noon that Boyan Mengke concentrated all his troops and broke into the northwest and fled. The Duoyan army also needed to integrate due to heavy casualties, so they did not chase them. Now the Ming army has come from the northeast and south to help. Surrounded by numerous armies, Boyan Mengke is already at dusk and can only struggle to death.
Three snow-white carriers flew up from the roof of Yangling's car with secret letters written in code, and inserted into Yunxiao like arrows. They went straight to the south. They took Yangling's orders and asked the four foreign troops led by Xu Tai to immediately change the direction of the march and fight towards Hulan Hushuwen together.
In order to prevent it, Yang Ling sent a team of messengers in addition to the carrier pigeons. In fact, he didn't have to do this. These carrier pigeons were carefully selected and different species. They were not afraid of rain, snow, sand and dust, and were good at flying high and night flight. If three carrier pigeons came out together, one of them would be able to deliver the letter to Xu Tai.
Because most raptors do not appear at night, even if there are, such as owls, they are flying birds of prey, it is difficult to catch pigeons that spread their wings and fly high. Pigeons have been used for military communication since the Tang and Song dynasties, and the technology has been quite mature in the Ming Dynasty. Even some wealthy families have raised pigeons for communication.
During the Zhengtong period, a family in Huaiyin caught a pigeon and was about to kill it. When they were about to kill it, they found a letter wrapped in oil paper on their feet. When they opened it, they found that the letter was sent from the capital three days ago. The distance between the two places was more than 700 kilometers. It can be seen that the speed of the pigeon was wide and sparsely populated. It was not as good as the post stations in the inner city. The distance from Nuergandusi to Beijing was thousands of miles away. Sometimes there was extremely important military information, so military pigeons were used more frequently.
After sending away the messenger, Yang Ling fell into deep thought. He believed in the combat power of his army. Of course, this combat power is the combat power between offense and defense. Long-distance raids on the grassland, disturbing the enemy, and circumventing siege. It also requires close cooperation between Duoyan and the army.
After all, the combat effectiveness of the army cannot be established overnight. This is especially true for the combat effectiveness of the cavalry. The Tatars, who are all soldiers, have a prevailing advantage in nature. However, Yangling, a soldier composed of 20,000 border troops and 10,000 militia, used a large number of firearms.
These firearms include grenades, grenades, and multiple-barrel muskets. The multi-barrel muskets adopt the design principle of flintlock guns. Flintlock plus multiple-barrels. When the opponent's cavalry rushed over, they would find that they were in a nightmare.
This not only has sharp firepower, but most importantly, it is easy to train, so that Peng Xiaoyang's militia quickly and specifically has strong combat power. When large armies fight, they don't even have to consider the accuracy of shooting. As long as the weapons are ready in time and are trained in a dense manner for several months, they can train a powerful killing machine.
However, not all the firearms they used were transported from the inner palace. Part of them were built by Yangling's arsenal. Cheng Qiyun built a secret ground firearm development base near the Songhuajiang Shipyard, in addition to importing some steel from the inner palace. A small steel training plant that belonged to the individual was also built near Tielingwei to provide them with high-quality steel. As for gunpowder, it was manufactured by itself according to the optimized gunpowder formula of Yangling.
Cheng Qiyun took advantage of the opportunity of the court to relax the craftsman's control and could replace service with silver. She also dug up several firearm experts from the court's Military Weapons Bureau, including Lu Zekai and Cheng Bingxi, ambassadors of the Nanjing Military Weapons Bureau who had discussed the offense and defense of firearms with Yangling.
These two firearm fans are studying land-use cannons, one designed to be easy to use in the grassland, and the other to study artillery vehicles that carry out rapid movement of launch artillery on the grassland and put into combat.
Although Cheng Qiyun sent someone to secretly deliver the batch of weapons to Yang Ling, although the number of firearms does not match the number of firearms transported to the pass within the pass, she has used Yang Ling's influence in various fields of military and political special forces to instruct reliable people to issue documents and letters at all levels from the factory to the transportation of firearms, without any flaws. This time, the investment of these weapons was to ensure the firepower of the army led by Yang Ling, and on the other hand, it was also to test the actual combat capabilities of her own weapons. However, Yang Ling was very angry and uneasy when she learned about it.
It would be fine if he built a military and armor workshop privately. After all, he would not do this business. Other foreign merchants from other passes made full use of the conditions of sufficient and cheap fur and invested in this industry. It would be better to take it in their own hands. However, building a steel factory and building muskets and cannons was completely hidden from the court. This is simply a rebellious act. Once it is spread, it would be a serious crime to destroy the nine clans.
But Cheng Qiyun was not willing to go to the battlefield lonely. He wanted to lose his temper now but couldn't find anyone. Yang Ling was angry. On the one hand, he had to accept the large amount of firearms provided by the Yang Arsenal to arm his expeditionary army. On the other hand, he had to rack his brains to explain to the emperor after entering the pass and how to hand over this hot potato back to the court.
"Oh!" Yang Ling thought about his worries and couldn't help but sigh heavily: "Cui Ying'er's troublemaker has just settled it. Cheng Qiyun started to poke a leak for him again. When will this kind of hole be blocked for them?"
He began to vaguely realize that he could not rest assured that he could not rest assured. He had already challenged such a bunch of beautiful and capable wives who would cause trouble. In the future, he would probably have to worry about many things.
"Woo~~~Woo", the horn is long.
Accompanied by the long and vigorous horns, countless small black dots gathered densely from all directions, gradually forming a surging line like a crazi wave, rushing fiercely towards Yangling's army.
Boyan's fierce army rushed towards the Yangling army, which had not yet stood firm.
His army had fought with Hongniangzi's army many times in Hulanhushuwen, and the two sides had a victory or defeat, but with the arrival of the Ming army, he could no longer gain a foothold here. So as soon as he received the news that the reinforcements of Nuergandusi arrived, Boyan Mengke immediately rushed out of the mountain and feinted to attack Hongniangzi's army. Then he suddenly turned. It seemed like an extremely sharp scimitar, drawing a smooth arc and slashed towards the Ming army's battle formation. It was extremely wild and its sharpness was revealed.
As they were getting closer and closer, the Mongolian cavalry was astonishingly calm, Yang Ling maintained a strange calm, and there was no courage and heroism in the two armies to charge against each other. Facing the Mongolian cavalry that had already exerted their speed and strength to the extreme and showed amazing strength when thousands of troops were running, Yang Ling's army stood still. Many soldiers even got off the horse and set up very strange two legs and tripods, with strange things on it. Most of them opened a disc, like a big umbrella spreading forward.
One side is silent!
A mountain trembles!
This is a competition between farming and nomadic peoples in science and technology and strength.
Who wins?
Who will fail?
If it doesn't sound, it's already awesome. A roar suddenly broke out in a quiet place. The roar was a real thunder shaking, and immediately overwhelmed the neighing and shouting of the horses of the Tatars army galloping in a hurry.
The gun forest was shot out of bullets, and the multi-barrel guns of the wheel-type fire and smoke were spitting out flames. The bullets gathered, roaring sharply, shocking. The fierce Tatar warriors could not even see the shadow of the opponent's weapons, and were split by the waves of the bullets. The people were on the verge of horses, and the dying people let out a short and shrill scream, and were quickly trampled by the iron cavalry who could not stop the charge formation. They turned into a piece of fertilizer in the grassland.
The iron riding is flowing, and the attack is like an axe being drilled through. However, if the opponent is a hundred times more sharp than you, it will become a piece of wood that is almost rotten and smashing it hard into a bunch of iron nails. It would be strange if you don’t smash it and your head is bleeding.
Yang Ling was still sitting steadily in the car, looking around like a wolf, fierce as the elite army of the extreme border, and the two sides had not had any substantial contact. The terrifying grassland heroes were hit by a rain of bullets. Yang Ling clearly saw someone's raised sabre suddenly breaking from it. Seeing someone's chest exploded with blood, seeing the war horse neighing, and suddenly fell to the ground. He crushed the master who had not had time to pull out of the kickstick to pieces, and he couldn't help but close his eyes slightly.
With a slight wave of his hand, his guard lowered the curtain.
There is nothing good to look at, let alone proud or show off. Using an advanced technology to destroy a primitive force is definitely not the joy of winning skillfully for a person from an advanced civilization. However, the backward force in front of him always thought that he was the master of the world, and regarded plunder as a common thing and used strength to determine morality. Then, the only way is to use violence to defeat violence and let him settle down.
Nearer. It's getting closer. After paying a heavy price, the Tatar cavalry rushed towards him. After the musket harvested a large number of lives, grenades and howitzers began to create a large number of disabled people. The rain of arrows on the opponent's side was already sparse, falling sparsely on the shields of the Ming army and the umbrella baffle of the musket...
At this time, the Ming army's camp was still motionless and did not suffer any impact.
Then Peng Xiaoyang pulled out two steel forks, stabbed the horse's butt suddenly, screaming strangely. He led a spear, spear, and a giant axe and rushed forward. His equestrian was already quite good. His high martial arts skills and the psychological deterrence caused by the firearms to the other party overcome the differences in equestrians.
Waving the two forks, swinging open two sabers, and the sharp and shiny steel forks swallowed and spit, the sharp sharp blade turned into a weapon with thick blood. The Mongolian knight on the opposite side slammed out three blood holes in front of his chest, and rolled and fell off his horse.
More Tatar warriors rushed over with grief and anger, fighting to the death like a wolf pack trapped in beasts. The two sides were entangled together, with swords and swords and blood flying.
A thick white cloud suddenly blocked the sunlight, and the fighting grassland became darker. In the distance, the Hongniang army chased after him, with the horns and shouts shockingly.
It was a hillside plateau, with clouds moving and sunlight moving. The edge of sunlight and shadow was on the line of the white-clothed army running forward, moving quickly toward this side. Those brave warriors were like wind-chasing soldiers chasing the sun.
When the bright light jumped out of the clouds and shone on the battlefield where both sides fought, the soldiers chasing each other also merged into the battlefield of swords and swords. The sound of weapons hitting more and more dead souls carried by the earth...
The Hong Madam had only time to look at Yang Ling, and at one glance, she was full of surprises. Then she passed by and chased Boyan Mengke's deserter down.
Yang Ling temporarily became Hulan Hushuwen's master, commanding the soldiers to stay in place, clear the battlefield, bury corpses, count the spoils and horses, imprison prisoners of war, etc.
Cheng Qiyun rushed over excitedly. She wanted to pounce into Yang Ling's arms, but Yang Ling stopped her steps. After a look, she followed her embarrassedly for a while, then quietly ordered people to occupy the nearby commanding heights and key roads, and sent out multiple layers of guard posts, and scouts to explore the horses and travel ten miles away to prevent accidents.
Until everything was done, the central army tent had already been put up, and Yang Ling returned to the commander tent, and Cheng Qiyun rushed over again. She also figured it out at this moment. It was estimated that Yang Ling's reproachful eyes had only four:
First, she sent troops without authorization, but the facts proved that she was right to take the initiative to send troops. Yang Ling was not a arrogant and arrogant person, and most of the time it was not for her to blame her for this.
The second thing is to blame her for being too brave and actually doing a real act. When he set off to return to the ward, he instigated the Hongmao to agree to Queen Yinqi's marriage. According to her understanding, this adult was probably feeling of justice again. However, he should also listen to his own opinions on this matter first, and would not condemn himself with such a stern look after he had been separated.
The third thing is that she was a weak female sect who went to the army to fight. That should mean more worrying, and even if she was angry, she would not be so severe.
Then..., there is only one last thing left: the firearm that has never been mentioned to Yang Ling! It belongs to the secret firearm manufacturer of the Yang family. This is actually for Yang Ling to have some support and be able to build a strong enough strength. To explain this matter, we have to show up now. Is this the most appropriate time?
Cheng Qiyun hesitated.
Boyan was defeated in a very bad situation. He didn't know if he had a chance to make a comeback. He could only instinctively wave his sword and lead the loyal guards to chop down and rush out.
There were the Ming army and the White-Clothed Army pursuers everywhere. Boyan Mengke was no longer able to fight with their elites. He was forced to lead the remaining thousands of people to the west to feint. After attracting the pursuers, he suddenly walked south again, interspersed and detoured in the heavy siege, exerting the light cavalry's brisk and brisk characteristics, maneuvering and flexible. He snatched the waters and jumped out of the Ming army and the White-Clothed Army's encirclement and interception.
However, when people were unlucky, they could even get stuck in their teeth when they drank cold water. Under the pursuit of the white-clothed army, Boyan struggled hard. He finally got rid of the white-clothed army that was chasing like a dog-skin plaster, and faced him with a coincidence that he bumped into Xu Tai's army that was rushing thousands of miles away.
Both of them were covered in sweat, and their helmets were crooked and their armor was slanted. However, Xu Tai's army had not experienced many battles after all. The spirit of the knight on the horse was much better than him. As a result, Bo Yan had just shook away the Hongmao, but was beaten hard by many chasing her ass, and the ghost was like a hanged ghost.
This cowardly battle was the most embarrassing battle in his life. Whenever he thought he had escaped from the pursuit of the Ming army and had just stopped to stutter, the dark Ming army would come over. Boyan Meng had to jump onto the war horse and continue to run for his life.
The morale, morale, and will to fight were gradually eliminated in this pursuit battle, and more and more personnel were reduced due to death and escape. From west to east, from south to north. Boyan Meng no longer knew where to go. He just escaped instinctively and was bitten by Xu Tai's army for three days. He completely got rid of the pursuit of the Ming army in an autumn rain, because of the heavy rain, all traces of their march were washed away.
The next morning, the heavy rain stopped. When a rainbow was hanging on the sky, a large area of yurt appeared under the blue sky. Boyan, who was bearded and red with red eyes, had only more than 300 riders left by his side. Before he could figure out which tribe it was, he wanted to go over to get some food. Thousands of soldiers rushed over with swords and guns in the tribe.
This is a tribe of the Oirats. The news of Boyan being chased by the white-clothed army to Hulan Hushuwen has spread on the grassland. Seeing this insanely embarrassing Tatar cavalry, the people in the tribe instinctively thought they were dispersed Tatar warriors. Who wouldn't want to fight the dogs in the water? The patriarch immediately ordered the warriors and rushed towards them.
In fact, if Boyan's mob-headed wolf-headed banner was not lost in the breakout, as long as the banner was revealed, with the name of Boyan Khan, even though there were only 300 people, the tribe leader might not dare to send troops to conquer. Now he can only be bullied by a dog when he is usually bullied.
Boyan Mengke cheered up, raised the sword that rolled the blade, and led the last three hundred heroes, like tigers and wolves who chose to eat, to fight with the warriors of this tribe. Each soldier was injured, weak, covered in blood, like a ferocious demon. This journey of escape had wiped out all their will and physical strength.
Chapter completed!