Under the increasingly gloomy sky, war horses galloped, warriors roared, and huge cavalry drove various war horses across the wilderness. Such a scene is so magnificent, like a giant touching the sky and spreading mottled colors on the ground. Large or small pieces of color become alive as soon as they hit the ground. They separate and rejoin, swimming forward, trying to devour something.
This scene has continued on the grassland for countless years. Every time it appears outside the grassland, it represents unstoppable power and terrible destruction. The Mongolian army is especially among them, and the Qixue army of the Mongol Khan is the pinnacle of military force in the Mongolian army.
When he was in Northern Xinjiang, Guo Ning briefly fought against Qie Xue's army. The reason why it was short-lived was that every time the Cowardly Xue troops entered the battlefield, their own side would be defeated quickly; when Guo Ning escaped among the defeated troops, these Cowardly Xue troops were not so keen on pursuing him.
After Guo Ning settled in Shandong, he fought with the Mongols several times. Every time, his strength was stronger than before, and every time he could overwhelm the Mongolian army on the opposite side. But he still clearly remembered that if ordinary Mongolian warriors were ferocious beasts, the soldiers of the Xue Army were hunters. They are calm, smart, bloodthirsty, cruel, and proficient in all the techniques of killing on the grassland.
When the knights of Xue's army gathered into a group and went into the battlefield, at first, no matter how small the enemy was, they drove straight into it at all times. But in this process, they can quickly change their strategies according to the development of the situation, turning strong attack into harassment at any time, harassment into luring the enemy, luring the enemy into delaying time, and changing the delaying time into collision from all directions at any time.
All enemies who were defeated by them lost the initiative early and were led by their noses, eventually heading towards the abyss of failure step by step.
To be able to change tactics so freely requires not only excellent riding skills and close coordination, but also exquisite command from captains of ten to captains of thousands and even the commander himself. Not to mention that the Mongolian army, relying on its cavalry superiority, was able to continuously criticize and undermine weak points on a scale of hundreds of miles, making the enemy exhausted. It was a competition for strategic advantage that transcended one moment and one place.
In these aspects, the Dinghai Navy will never be able to catch up in a short time. No matter how much Guo Ning invests in expanding his cavalry, he still cannot compare with his inherent shortcomings.
The most elite troops under Guo Ning's command are his iron pagoda cavalry. This cavalry adheres to the tradition of the Jin Army's iron pagoda, and is as fierce and full of brute force as Guo Ning's own character. It is good at storming and sweeping the battlefield.
Guo Ning knew that his own commanding ability could only go so far. Fortunately, in battle formations, victory is not only possible with subtle and complex things.
Just now, Anzhen was sitting on the stone hill, angrily accusing Ding Haijun of fighting a stupid war. He's absolutely right. Guo Ning was planning to fight a stupid battle. Moreover, the main force of the Mongolian army must be pulled together to fight a stupid battle face to face with gongs and drums.
The plan started with Han Xuan's troops unexpectedly killing Zhebie.
Zhebie was an important general who was personally promoted to the army after the rise of Genghis Khan. In a sense, his prestige was equivalent to that of Genghis Khan, and even represented the Mongolian army's confidence in their own invincibility.
It has been less than ten years since Genghis Khan held the Khulil Tower at the source of the Onan River and established the Great Mongolia. The many tribes on the grassland relied entirely on Genghis Khan's continuous military victories to unite in one place. This kind of cohesion naturally has its fragility.
Therefore, Jebe's death was by no means an ordinary defeat. Genghis Khan had to use a victory of sufficient weight to inspire people and overcome the impact of this defeat. The so-called victory of sufficient weight was either Daxingfu, the capital of the Jin Kingdom, or the enemy who continued to create obstacles for the Great Mongolia, and Guo Ning, the navy's leader, was killed. One of the two must be one.
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Guo Ning had no objection to this.
He has always regarded the Mongolian army as his great enemy, and he does not care about the Mongols' hostility towards him. What he least wanted to see was that the Mongols used their cavalry to drive thousands of miles across the territory of the Jin Kingdom just like they did when they went south to conquer the Jin Kingdom.
Last time the fourth prince Tuo Lei led his troops into Shandong, he suffered a big loss because of his lack of understanding of Ding Haijun's power. But even so, Ding Haijun did not dare to kill Tuo Lei, and at the same time he was unable to prevent Tuo Lei from defeating Shandong one after another. Jin Jun vented his anger.
Two years later, the Ding Navy has become stronger and its soldiers more elite. If faced head-on, Guo Ning is fully confident that he can at least defeat the ordinary Mongolian Qianhu.
The problem is that Dingjun's territory has expanded tenfold, and 13 military prefectures and 52 counties have to be protected everywhere. If Genghis Khan personally led his troops south to burn, kill, and plunder, how could Guo Ning cope with it? He tried his best to stop it, but it was really difficult to stop it.
No matter how hard the Dinghai navy fights, the battlefield will always be in Shandong. Wherever the Mongolian army went, it could easily turn many military states on the Shandong East Road into white ground, and the achievements of Ding Haijun's ups and downs were in vain. So, even if Guo Ning can finally drive away the Mongolian army, isn't it still a failure?
Therefore, the best plan is to go to Zhongdu to fight a stupid battle. The best situation is like this now. As soon as we arrive in Zhongdu, we will watch Genghis Khan use his most elite cavalry to kill him!
Guo Ning believed that with Genghis Khan's intelligence, he would surely understand that the so-called baggage team coming to Zhongdu was the main force of the Ding Navy, and it must be led by Guo Ning himself. Now that he has discovered traces of the main force of the Ding Navy, Genghis Khan will never give up the opportunity to wipe them out.
Of course, the situation on the battlefield is ever-changing. Before Guo Ning sent troops to Zhongdu, the generals discussed behind closed doors several times and had no less than a dozen plans in hand. It's just that the situation in front of me is exactly what the Ding navy generals are particularly looking forward to.
Guo Ning had a stronger premonition about this the closer he got to Zhongdu.
Consider the current situation from another angle. After the Beijing Road fell into the control of the Mongolian army, Hebei Xuanfu envoy Pusan Anzhen and Shandong Xuanfu envoy Guo Ning were the only powerful forces who could mobilize the army to participate in the war in Zhongdu. Senior officer.
With the Jin army directly under the imperial court shrinking to two strongholds in Zhongdu and Tongzhou, except for the fighting along the Lushui River, the vast land on Beijing Road has been allowed to run freely by the Mongolian army. The situation was so clear that the Mongols could only have driven the hundreds of thousands of troops who surrendered on the Beijing Road and used their lives to fill the trenches of Zhongdu. This is very simple.
If Guo Ning and Pu San Anzhen really contacted the troops of Zhongdu and formed a fixed stronghold outside the city to act as a leverage... then it would add unnecessary variables to the battle situation.
Genghis Khan did not need such variables, so the Mongolian army would definitely destroy the enemy forces that dared to intervene in Zhongdu as soon as possible.
If the soldiers in these two places were annihilated under the walls of Zhongdu, it would also greatly shake the will of the Zhongdu court, which would be conducive to Genghis Khan's subsequent strategy against Zhongdu.
So, aren’t the Mongols coming?
Ding Haijun's style of play certainly has its deliberate elements. In this way, it's a head-on fight. For the Mongols, isn't it just a stupid fight?
Guo Ning squinted his eyes and looked at the Mongolian cavalry in front of him who gradually filled his field of vision.
After the horses rushed into the military formation, the smoke and dust surrounding the military formation had settled slightly, allowing him to see far away. Not only was Qie Xue Jun getting closer and closer, but Guo Ning also saw the tall nine-shaped white banner in the distance.
That's where Genghis Khan is, and it's an unprecedented enemy, but Guo Ning is ready, and so is Ding Haijun. This time, I can defeat him!
Guo Ning couldn't help raising his voice and shouted loudly: "Well done!"
The timid Xue Army cavalry rushed nearby in a blink of an eye. The armor they wore, the swords and guns they held, and the arrows they were about to fly from their open bows seemed to be filled with cold light at this moment. In the Ding navy queue, all the soldiers roared at the same time.
There are still a few frantic horses running around in Ding Haijun's queue.
Relying on arduous training, the soldiers restored the integrity of the military formation as quickly as possible. But those crazy war horses were indeed a big trouble. Because of their delay, several queues had not had time to be reorganized. Several gaps were only filled by shielders arranged at the outermost edge, and the staggered shielding formations inside were far from being fully in place.
Even if the troops filled up the few positions in place, many soldiers arrived panting and had not yet put down their shields or leveled their spears.
The soldiers had already moved as fast as possible, but they were only a little slower.
The arrows fired by the Huo'erchi in Xue's army poured down on the unprepared soldiers at these gaps. Fortunately, Wang Shixian had already rushed to the front to take charge. Under his order, dense rain of arrows also flew from inside Ding Haijun's military formation, covering the Mongolian cavalry.
In the last moment before the two sides engaged in battle, the missing arrows were like heavy rain being swept by strong winds. The raindrops crisscrossed in the sky, and it was also like mountain torrents rushing out of different canyons, beating and rolling against each other. Thousands of arrows were lost in the air, flying across each other, colliding with each other, and then falling and hitting each other, causing a fatal blow to the opponent.
