The artillery fire fell on the Mongolian cavalry, which was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, causing the Mongolian cavalry to be completely defeated and fled.
The captain of the Mongolian cavalry had no intention of attacking desperately and retreated with the broken troops.
Zhang Sancha looked at the retreating Mongolian cavalry and said with a disappointed look on his face: "What a pity. If these Mongolians had persisted, at least one or two hundred of them could have been killed."
The fire gunners were already on standby, waiting for the Mongolian cavalry to enter the shooting range, and they could immediately fire the fire guns in their hands.
With two thousand-man teams and more than two thousand firecrackers, even if only five or six hundred firecrackers were fired in one round, he was confident that he would save hundreds more enemy lives.
At this moment, the Mongols retreated, and he could only watch helplessly.
The shortcomings of the lack of cavalry were clearly exposed at this time. Even if there was a cavalry team of thousands of people around him, he was confident that he could completely annihilate the fleeing Mongolian cavalry before they retreated.
After playing with the monocular telescope in his hand for a while, and confirming that the Mongolian cavalry had retreated far away, he said to the messenger beside him: "Send a team of people to clean the horse traps, and execute all the Mongolians who are not dead if they encounter them. Need to be kept alive.”
The messenger ran to deliver the order.
Not long after, a squadron of several hundred warriors came out from behind the vehicle formation and approached the horse trap ahead.
The battle just now was a great victory for the Tiger Flag, and the Mongols' intention to send troops again could not be seen for a short time. Cao Guang returned to Zhang Sancha from the Fire Gun Team on the other side.
Zhang Sancha glanced at Cao Guang who was lying next to him and said: "It seems that the Mongols will not fight today. You can see that their big banner is moving back."
With that said, he handed the monocular telescope in his hand to Cao Guang.
Cao Guang put the monocular in front of his eyes and looked at the Mongolian army in the distance. Although he couldn't see clearly, he could still make out the large banner standing high up.
Zhang Sancha on the side continued: "Today is the first contact with the Mongolian army. Judging from the situation, the Mongolians have no intention of taking any serious action. I don't know whether to send troops before dark or tomorrow."
"The Mongolian cavalry just now was too weak. It was defeated without even touching our side. It feels like it was not as powerful as the last time the Mongolian army besieged Daheihe Dunbao." Cao Guang said with a frown.
Zhang Sancha smiled when he heard this and said: "Su Nang is one of the three major tribal lords of Tumut, and his strength is naturally top-notch. The Mongolian cavalry just now was at best herdsmen from a small tribe. Let's defeat this A fight is not a normal thing.”
"That's not what I meant." Cao Guang said, "I just feel that winning is a little too easy."
Zhang Sancha patted him on the shoulder and said: "If the Mongols are all armored warriors, we are the ones to worry about. Also, despite the large number of Mongolian armies now, the actual number of Mongolian armored cavalry that can fight There are just a few, and the rest are ordinary herdsmen who serve as temporary soldiers, unlike our Ming Dynasty, where soldiers are soldiers and the people are the people."
"That's right. The stronger the Mongols are, the harder it will be for us to fight this battle. It's best if the Mongols are weak." Cao Guang nodded.
The Mongolian army in the distance is not a bunch of numbers, but tens of thousands of actual cavalry. As a defender, being surrounded by tens of thousands of cavalry, how can we not be worried at all?
Zhang Sancha said at this time: "You go back to the camp and ask the camp to bring us food. Only after you have a full stomach will you have the strength to kill the enemy."
"Okay, I'll go right away." Cao Guang put down the monocular telescope in his hand and left from behind the four-wheeled cart.
Woo! Woo...woo!
The horns sounded among the Mongol army.
The flag began to move, and the Mongolian army slowly retreated.
Without saying a word, Bu Shitu led Zhamuhe and other personal guards back to his tent.
As the deputy commander of the army, Kancantada could not abandon the army and could only retreat to the camp with the army.
The Mongolian army returned to the camp, and the warriors of each tribe returned to their camps.
Kankantada made arrangements for the army, and went to Bu Shitu's tent with Su Nang and others.
The first battle with the Tiger Flag was defeated, and everyone looked unhappy.
Kankantada and others entered Shitu's tent and saw a low table upside down on the ground, with silver plates and silver wine glasses scattered around it.
Zhamuhe on the side knelt on the ground facing Bu Shitu.
Kankantada saw the situation in the tent and knew that Shitu was venting his anger on the defeat of today's battle.
"You are here just in time. Tell me, when did the Mongolian warriors become so useless? Thousands of Mongolian warriors were killed, but they were not able to kill even one person with the Tiger Flag. Instead, they lost hundreds of them. Who knows? Come and tell Ben Khan how this battle was fought!" Bu Shitu said angrily with a livid face.
Kancantada said: "Our warriors are not to blame for this battle. It is the general's incompetence. He hesitated to move forward after a small defeat and allowed the team to flee without stopping. He should be punished."
He said this, but he understood in his heart that the defeat of this battle was not only due to the incompetence of the Mongolian cavalry and their greed for life and fear of death, but also because of the strength of the tiger-character flag soldiers.
However, he couldn't say this.
Today is the first time that Dajun and the Tiger-Character Flag fight. If the Tiger-Character Flag is said to be too powerful, some tribes will be afraid of the difficulty, and subsequent battles will be even more difficult to fight.
Bu Shitu stared at the people who entered the tent and said coldly: "Who is the captain who went to battle today?"
"He's a subordinate." A round-faced Taiji stood up.
Bu Shitu looked at him and said, "Zhamuhe, take him out and whip him fifty times as punishment."
Zhamuhe, who was kneeling beside him, stood up, walked up to the round-faced Taiji, raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation, and said, "Taiji, please follow me outside the tent."
The round-faced Taiji left the tent with Zhamuhe without saying anything.
Not long after, the people in the big tent heard the sound of whipping and screams.
Bu Shitu sat back on the cushion angrily.
The punishment of whipping was already very severe for a captain of thousands, and it was impossible for Bu Shitu to kill his own general as soon as the war started.
Moreover, the captains of thousands in the army are all served by Taiji, a tribe with some strength. Even if the fortune teller is a great Khan, he cannot kill them at will.
The guards on the side took the low table that had fallen to the ground and put it back in place. The tableware and wine glasses on the table were also replaced with new ones.
"You all should sit down too!" Bu Shitu said to Kankantada and the others.
"Thank you, Khan, for sitting down." Kankantada bowed and saluted, and then walked to his seat.
After everyone was seated, Bu Shitu's own bodyguard said: "Go and get people to prepare food and wine. This Khan is going to entertain Lao Taiji in the big tent."
The guards on the side retreated.
Bu Shitu turned to look at Kankantada and said, "Did Lao Taiji see anything in today's battle? What should we do next?"
Through today's defeat, he really felt the power of the soldiers of the Tiger Flag. He did not want to lead the troops to fight, so he had to ask for help from Kankantada, the most senior person on the side.
