I was deceived in this battle.
I led thousands of horses to gallop over and set up this ambush. I thought I could take advantage of Ding Haijun's confusion and exhaustion to destroy them in one fell swoop, but this was actually what Guo Ning wanted.
From the Mongolian perspective, this ambush could almost be used as a template for marching operations. Regardless of the decisiveness of the pursuit, the concentration of nuisances along the way, the speed of detours, the steadiness of lurking, or the ferocity of the attack by the two wings in the end, there was no problem. Every link was executed flawlessly, showing that Qixue Jun, as an elite member of the Mongolian army, has superb knowledge of war.
But no one expected that every step taken by one's side would be used by Guo Ning.
Genghis Khan drew out his machete and held it tightly.
Previously, Genghis Khan felt that rapidly rising heroes like Guo Ning were like a smaller version of himself. Such a person must be eliminated before he becomes powerful, otherwise he will become a serious problem.
After actually fighting against him, I discovered that it was more than that. Guo Ning was a warrior who grew up in the brutal fighting with the Mongolian army, and at the same time he summed up his own set of tactics. When the Mongolian army fought with him, he was familiar with every move and tactic of his side, but the tactics, tactics and even weapons used by the navy were rare or even never seen by the Mongolian army.
For example, the last time Genghis Khan saw the Jurchens perform the impact of Tie Fu Tu's heavy cavalry was during the Cheng'an period when the Jin Kingdom's veteran general Jiagu Qingchen led his army north to Kaoluo to attack the Tata'er tribe. At that time, the national power of the Jin Kingdom was at its peak. Jiagu Qingchen took the Xuanhui envoy Yi Lamin as the commander of the front team, with the left guard general Wanyan Chong and the recruiting envoy Wanyan Anguo as the left and right wings. He led eight thousand cavalry in a frontal assault. In one day, fourteen camps of the Tatar tribe were destroyed, thousands of people were killed and injured, so that the Tatar tribe was unable to recover.
But before long, the military system of the Jin Kingdom began to deteriorate, and their combat capabilities became unremarkable. Three years ago, the last elite soldiers of the Jin Army who could fight hard died in Yehuling. Since then, Genghis Khan has never seen anyone dare to charge directly at his Bai Yu.
As for those iron artillery, not to mention them.
Genghis Khan himself was not afraid of the lethality of the iron artillery. After all, that thing was just an iron can containing medicine. When a single iron cannon explodes, the damage range will not exceed the surrounding two feet, but at most three feet. A Mongolian warrior wielding a big sword and dancing wildly can also make no living people within a three-foot radius.
The trouble is that a large number of armies with such weapons have the ability to cause damage to any enemy regardless of training, equipment and tactical levels.
No matter how poorly commanded the army is and how weak its force is, as long as the soldiers still have the courage to pick up the iron artillery and throw it, a loud bang can definitely take away lives. This is tantamount to depriving the Mongolian army of the ability to engage in close combat, and ignoring the advantages of the Mongolian warriors in morale, experience, martial arts and other aspects.
The characteristic of this weapon injuring yourself and the enemy when used in the field reveals another terrifying aspect of Ding Haijun. That's their high morale.
This kind of fearless morale should only be seen among the Mongols in recent years. That's because it took Genghis Khan many years, through repeated victories, plunders, and massacres, to knead countless people on the grassland under the nine-pin white paper and turn them into bloodthirsty beasts, letting their minds be filled with cruelty. Full of violent thoughts.
How did Ding Haijun do it?
Previously, Shiji Hutulu and Mu Huali specially collected information about Ding Haijun on Beijing Road. They said that Guo Ning not only benefited from sea trade, but also distributed fields and shade houses to soldiers in Shandong, so he could win people's lives. . Genghis Khan was confused after hearing this.
A soldier is given dozens of acres of land? Isn't this a joke? Who among the warriors on the grassland did not gallop for several hours before crossing their own pasture? Even if there are tens of thousands of acres? If a few acres of land can make people work so hard, why don't they come to me, Genghis Khan? Can I give you a hundred times more land? Can gold grow on the ground in Han'er?
Temujin shook his head abruptly and collected his divergent thoughts.
I'm afraid I'm going to lose this battle.
The several thousand households led by Zha Balhuo had suffered heavy casualties and were in chaos. Zabal Fireman himself, such a fierce and powerful warrior, has lost his head. No matter how you look at it, it is unrealistic to expect the remaining soldiers to stop Ding Haijun's attack. Ding Haijun's frontal momentum has become unstoppable, and we cannot stop it no matter what.
Shiji Hubaluhu's troops on the flanks actually had the upper hand. They also discovered that the situation on their front was not good, so they immediately gave up the siege of the scattered soldiers in the Dinghai navy and began to circle back quickly. Therefore, on the entire battlefield, the two armies gradually formed a three-layer overlap.
The Mongolian army is on one level in the north and south, and the Ding navy is sandwiched in the center, which seems to be very advantageous.
However, Ding Haijun completely ignored the north from the beginning to the end, and Guo Ning showed off his power all the way, only attacking at the south where the Khan Baiji was... his own side couldn't resist it!
I really overestimated the tenacity of Qie Xuejun! Right under my eyes, these timid men who should have died at any time due to sweating, actually became frightened and panicked!
How long did it take for the Great Mongolian Kingdom to be established? Did the Mongolian nobles become weak? Are the many Nayan disciples and the Mongolians who think they are Batuer going to the path of corruption like those Jurchen losers?
This situation made Genghis Khan furious. He wanted to go forward in person, urging the cowards to fight to the death and hold back Guo Ning. But he must not be able to do this.
Shi Ji Hu Tu Hu still had troops in hand, which were half of Xue Xue's army. If Genghis Khan persisted near the Triangle Lake, the Mongols might really be able to kill Guo Ning once the troops from the north arrived. But what would happen to Genghis Khan himself?
Genghis Khan thought about it very carefully, and he came to the conclusion that without Genghis Khan's Mongol Uluth, there would be no meaning of existence.
so……
"Pull fast! Pad hard!" He lowered his voice and ordered.
Guo Ning once again rushed to the front of the army, and then was blocked by a group of Mongolians pouring out of the reeds on the side.
At this time, spring water bloomed, and the water surface of Wugan Lake spread to the edge of the battlefield, turning all the originally flat land into mudflats. This group of Mongolians ran out of the muddy beach on their hands and feet. Because they came in such a hurry, many of their boots got stuck in the mud. They were barefoot and their clothes, armor and stomachs were all wet. As they moved, Spraying mud outside; some people fell in the mud flat, and their whole bodies turned yellowish brown. With their black and red faces and bow legs, they looked more like wild beasts.
The original color of Guo Ning's armor and stomach could not be seen. His face, armor and stomach all over his body, and even his horse were all red. Looking from a distance, it looked like the devil had come to the world. He smashed the iron bones randomly. Wherever the hammer head made of fine iron struck, the Mongolians would spurt out blood or break their muscles and bones. In an instant, he killed several people in a row and cleared a bright red open space in front of the horse.
Among the dead, there should be a noble person with a very high status, causing others to roar.
Several Mongolians were so angry that they dropped their weapons at the same time, yelled and rushed forward, trying to hug Guo Ning's arm holding the iron bone flower. But Guo Ning was leading the army into battle, not fighting alone. Halfway through the run, the Mongolians stretched out their hands and touched the iron bones of their generals. The armored cavalry from the Ding Navy arrived behind them and knocked them all away with a few "bang bangs".
The battle, which had never stopped at all, suddenly stopped.
There are no Mongolians who can stop Guo Ning.
Behind the military formation, a large number of Mongolian cavalry roared and charged southward. Guo Ning listened carefully and found that the ones responsible for blocking the attack were no longer Wang Shixian and Qiu Huiluo, but Zhang Hui. Zhang Hui failed to catch up with the fighting ahead, but was bitten by the Mongolian army.
In front of the sight, the open water surface of the Triangle Lake reflected sparkling waves, covering large areas of bushes and reed swamps. Many Mongolians rushed over from the left and right sides and from the depths of the swamp. Unfortunately, the water depth in the Triangle Lake is always one or two feet near here, and Guo Ning's rush here was too fast. The Mongols were easy to lurk and disperse, but not so easy to gather. They couldn't catch up.
Some Mongolians were more than a hundred steps away, and their arrows missed in a hurry. The arrows whizzed past, attracting the officers and soldiers of the Ding Navy to also unfurl their bows and set arrows, treating them as unmovable targets to shoot at.
Guo Ning ignored the missing arrow and paid no attention to the people jumping and trudging in the swamp.
He shook the reins lightly and took a few steps forward. Directly in front of him is the Mongolian Jiu Zhi Bai Ban, also known as Chagan Sulu Ding. Looking closer, it was actually a huge flagpole made of thirteen-foot pine wood, with a disk on top. Around the disk, white horse mane flutters in the wind, like nine streamers, and above it is a foot-long three-pronged iron spear.
It is said that after Genghis Khan established the Great Mongolian Kingdom and was supported as the Great Khan of all Mongolians, he used this as a symbol of the Great Khan's authority. This white banner was inseparable from Genghis Khan on the battlefield and was also regarded by the Mongols as a symbol of victory.
However, the Mongolian elites who were supposed to be guarding Bai Meng were no longer there at this moment. They turned into overturned corpses and blood flowing all over the ground on Guo Ning's charge, so only a white paper was left alone.
Of course, there is also a person under Bai Qi.
This man was a bit fat, wearing a Mongolian-style robe made of blue silk, a satin belt wrapped around his protruding belly, and red goatskin boots on his feet. Judging from the big tambourine on his belt, he must be a shaman.
This man was so nervous that his braids were shaking. He smiled and said to Guo Ning: "..."
Although Guo Ning can speak a few words in Mongolian, he is too lazy to deal with such a pampered nobleman.
So he didn't listen at all and just waved. The Iron Bone Duo hit the Mongolian's face with a "snap", not only smashing the entire face to pieces, but the huge momentum also caused the back half of the head to spin twice with the crest as the center.
