Maiser, Baya Laying Jia La Zhangjing of Zhengbai Banner in Manchuria, and Namutulu clan in Manchuria, like other Manchurian Tatars, have practiced bow hunting and fighting skills since childhood.
Since he was a child, his mother would tie him to a horse with a rope in order to adapt him to the habits of horses. Starting at the age of five, he would practice small bows and short arrows and gallop in public. From then on, he would practice riding horses year by year. Gradually, he grew up and became an outstanding warrior among the Houjin Tatars.
At the age of eighteen, he was selected as a Baya soldier. Like him, his two older brothers and a younger brother also became Tatar Baya soldiers and horse soldiers.
In the early years after the rise of Manchuria, the military was almost invincible. Just like the one-sided pursuit battle before him, it seemed that Messer had been accustomed to it since he was in the army.
In battles, there will be casualties. Although compared with the Ming Dynasty's official army, the casualties of the Later Jin Tatar soldiers or the Qing soldiers have always been very few, but there will always be some inevitable losses.
Only pursuit battles will be the battles with the lowest casualties. In many cases, there is even a possibility of zero casualties.
Just like in the Battle of Songshan that year, after the Ming Dynasty's army was defeated, nearly 50,000 people were killed, while the Tatar soldiers of the Hou Jin Dynasty only suffered accidental injuries of eight people. This contrast is very shocking.
In the pursuit battle, the enemy is in a state of rout and has no organization or fighting will. They rarely have the courage to turn back and fight the pursuing cavalry.
Of course, this is if you haven't forced them into a desperate situation, so although the pursuit battle seems simple, it is also not easy. The key is to grasp the degree of control.
However, Meisel has extremely rich experience in this regard.
From time to time, he rode his horse behind the defeated soldiers, stabbed out a spear, or threw a throwing ax from a distance. As long as he made them feel a serious threat and gave them a little hope of escape, he could make them wow. He screamed and ran away with all his strength.
Even if you outflank their formation, as long as they are not surrounded or trapped to death, they will rarely stop and fight, because as soon as you stop, the friendly forces will take the opportunity to escape.
To escape, you don't need to run faster than the enemy, but you just need to run faster than the friendly forces. This is a truth that every soldier in the Ming and Qing Dynasties knows.
In those armies that are easily defeated, it is obvious that the ideological consciousness of the sergeants cannot be high enough to be willing to sacrifice their own lives to let others escape.
Of course, they are not without some foolish young men or unwilling generals. They will also want to organize a rout to block the pursuing Tatars.
However, the role of the outflanking cavalry was fully demonstrated at this time!
Maiser led more than a dozen Baya soldiers to constantly outflank and outflank them. He himself could not even remember how many Ming troops he defeated who wanted to regroup, and how many powerful southern warriors he killed.
Just now, he was almost outflanking the front line of the broken troops, and he also took aim at a group of broken troops fleeing ahead.
From a distance, the broken troops seemed to be in a very tight formation, as if they were some of the servants of the Nanguo general. They were running really fast.
I and others are all one person, two horses, or even one person, three horses, constantly switching, but they can't even match their escape speed!
However, no matter what, the southern general's head will be decided by himself.
If he could obtain the head of this southern general, perhaps after this battle, the throne of Zhengbai Banner Baya Lazhangjing would be beckoning to him.
Although there are several Bagya Lazhangjings in the banner, but there is only one actual position, so even if he takes the title of Bagya Lazhangjing first, isn't it just a thought?
As long as the pursuit battle in front of us is repeated a few more times, wouldn't this dream become a reality?
However, there was also a shadow in Maiser's heart. Looking at all the armies in the South, he was almost fearless. However, there was a southern army that was said to have participated in the Battle of Julu, and even attacked the camp at night to kill Wuying County after the war. king.
In this Liaodong war, two Gushan Ezhen of the Qing Dynasty were killed as soon as they entered the battle. Even Prince Rui, whom he admired, was deeply afraid, and even the current emperor was worried about him.
"Zhang Cheng? Southern Dynasties Xuanfu Army and Horse?"
Meisel still clearly remembers the mountain of blood and corpses of the giant deer, which was one of the few fierce battles he experienced.
That invasion near the capital city of the Southern Dynasty, looting all the way, was overwhelming, but only at Julu they encountered fierce resistance from the Southern Dynasty army. The brutality of the chariots that day was still fresh in his memory.
And my two brothers, who had fought in all directions in the past, had not been seriously injured many times, but only in Julu, when fighting the Southern Dynasty army, they both died fighting.
After returning home from that battle, E Niang almost cried her eyes out after hearing the news.
For the army with which he had fought bloody battles, Maisel's mood was very complicated, with hatred and hatred, a hint of caution and respect, and even some helplessness.
During that period, the death of his two brothers in the war made him even more hostile to the Han people, so he vented all his anger on a few Han slaves who did not look very pleasing to his eyes, and actually tortured them alive until they died.
However, what one of the Han slaves said before his death shocked him.
The damn slave said: "Damn Tatar, you are destined to not have a good end, and you will die worse than me in the future..."
Perhaps due to the influence of that slave, Maisel often had nightmares from then on. He always dreamed that he was being chopped into pieces or having his scalp scalped alive.
In short, he always died painfully after suffering various cruel tortures. Every time he woke up from a dream, Messe was covered in cold sweat.
At this moment, Messer was riding on his tall war horse. In his left hand, he held his white flag, the Bajala Ying Jia La Zhang Jing banner, and in his right hand, he held a tiger spear nearly nine feet long.
The blade of the tiger gun is nine inches long, and there are several blood grooves on the blade. The blade is ridged one after another, giving the blade a Gui-shaped shape. However, the blade of Meisel's tiger gun has a dark and deep blood. Red color, I don’t know how much blood of the enemy I have drunk.
Nearly half of the barrel of his tiger gun is an iron pipe connected between the gun head and the shaft. Especially near the mouth of the gun blade, there are sections of antlers on the left and right, and two long leather strips hanging from the bottom.
This is a design to prevent the tiger spear blade from piercing the target too deeply and not being able to pull it out, making it impossible for you to hit again and being injured by the enemy.
After all, the tiger spear used by the Tatars was originally designed to fight tigers. It has a blade like a knife and a very sharp tip. Even if a tiger or bear is ferocious and has tough skin and bones, it can be pierced by a single blow.
Therefore, it is very necessary to have a small section of antler stick on the left and right near the blade of the gun, so that the tiger can be injured without penetrating too deeply and causing the tiger to injure oneself.
After the rise of Manchuria, tiger spears were more often used in battlefield battles. Especially since the slave chief Huang Taiji came to power, tiger spear camps were established one after another. Those who can use tiger spears among the Tatars are mostly outstanding warriors from each banner. , all in heavy armor and soldiers such as Bagala and Gebusixian.
In addition, there are multiple iron bones, flying axes and the like hanging on Maisel's saddle, as if the small copper hammers are covered with spikes, just like a miniature mace.
This is a heavy armor and shield specially designed to deal with enemies. If you throw it, everything it hits will be shattered!
Since Baya La soldiers were mostly used for battlefield assaults, their opponents were not ordinary Ming soldiers, but the elite cavalry of servants under the generals of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, most of the Baya La soldiers in various banners of the Qing Dynasty were equipped with iron bones, throwing axes, and spears.
Although Maisel was holding the flag in his left hand and the gun in his right hand, he was skilled in equestrian skills and could control the horse well without using both hands, relying only on his waist and leg strength.
I saw him riding on a war horse, turning left and right, very flexibly, and there was no way he could turn the horse without using his hands to control the reins.
Looking at the Baya soldiers beside Maisel, most of them were like this. Their equipment was almost all tiger spears. Only a few of them used long-handled knives, or long-handled axes and hammers.
Those pick knives are narrow and curved, with blades and shafts, and are nearly seven feet long. If they are struck by them with great force, even if the person and the horse are not cut in half, they may not be able to survive.
Each of them also carried a huge walking bow and quiver, and only a relatively small number of them knew how to use horse bows.
This is all because of the way they train on a daily basis.
The Manchurian Tatar cavalry's strength lies mostly in their feet, so they are better at using large bows, so their ability to ride and shoot on horseback is not as good as that of the Mongolian knights.
Although there are many of them who can turn left and right, and shoot right and left, most of them are still accustomed to dismounting and fighting at close range, or dismounting and shooting the enemy.
I don't know why, as Messer looked at the defeated Ming troops in front of him, so many strange thoughts flashed through his mind.
Even he himself felt a little surprised, and secretly wondered: "Am I getting old? I heard from the elders in the clan that people will become sentimental when they get older, but I am not yet forty years old, so I can't be considered old?"
He was even thinking in his mind: "Should I speed up my horse and catch up faster to prevent that Ming general from running away?
Otherwise, I will be far away from the throne of Baya Lashou Zhangjing. "
At this moment, he suddenly saw a group of Ming army cavalry passing him on horseback in the north and south directions. Fortunately, they did not seem to notice his presence.
As the horse was galloping, Maisel looked back with doubts, and saw that the Ming cavalry were actually heading towards the defeated infantry of the Ming army, intending to drive them to the river bank to the north or to the foot of Shimen Mountain in the south.
Seeing this situation, Maisel was shocked: "Is there another Southern Dynasty military formation ahead?"
At this moment, there was a sudden burst of thunderous explosions from the front. After all, Bai Houren, the deputy general of Jizhen, was in the middle. Maiser didn't know that there was another group of Ming troops waiting in front.
After the explosion, black iron lumps were seen flying through the air, some of which actually crossed the defeated Ming army in front and came straight towards their own cavalry formation.
Maisel had been in battle for a long time, so he naturally knew what those things were flying towards. He hurriedly shouted: "Change the formation, be careful of the dog artillery, spread out from the north to the south!"
The remaining Baya soldiers and Tatar cavalry had also seen the flying cannons. Fortunately, they were still far away. Even though the cannons flew extremely fast, the Tatars reacted quickly and were able to separate their cavalry to the north and south. They ran away from both sides to avoid the Ming army's artillery fire.
The artillery pieces here landed one after another, and those who fell behind the defeated Ming army couldn't help but jump forward, but they did not hurt the Tatars in the slightest.
Immediately afterwards there was another loud crackle of firecrackers, and the defeated Ming troops in front fell off their horses one by one. The originally defeated cavalry of three to four hundred people was reduced to pieces in just an instant. Not much.
Maisel was also very surprised by the artillery attack just now. He once thought that the fleeing troops in front were trying to lure the enemy. Just as he was about to call his companions to evacuate, he heard a burst of firecrackers, and the remaining Ming troops were defeated. Not much.
Meisel couldn't help but be startled. What he expected was absolutely correct. There was indeed another Ming army formation in front of them. They were preventing the troops from rushing into the formation, and it seemed that they had not yet discovered their existence.
He was already regretting his failure to capture the defeated Ming army generals, but at this moment he actually came up with an idea that was so bold that it was almost crazy.
That is to take this opportunity to lead the warriors under his command to cover up and kill. If we can defeat the Ming army's formation in front, wouldn't it be much greater than capturing and killing a Ming army's defeated general?
Even if he could not defeat the Ming army in front of him in one fell swoop, he might be able to capture and kill another Ming army general under the sudden attack of the warriors under his command. Only in this way would he be worthy of pursuing him so far.
Maiser and Fen sent messages to the Tatar Baya soldiers in the south, and soon they were reunited. Of course, they did not stop moving forward in the process.
But just as they gathered together, they saw a group of Ming knights running in front of them, about three hundred riders.
They all wore hats and helmets, and wore red clothes and armor. They were obviously different from those who had just chased the defeated soldiers. They were all filled with murderous intent, and a bloody and cold light flashed from time to time in their eyes.
When the two servants met, everyone was stunned.
Maiser did not expect that the Ming army horses on the opposite side would dare to rush out. For a moment, he was a little dazed. However, he saw that although the Ming army horses on the opposite side were well-equipped with armor and equipment, they were all brave, but after all, they only had about three hundred horses.
And there are nearly 200 fine cavalry on our side, and there are nearly 20 Bagala warriors among them. How can we be afraid of a mere 300 Southern Dynasty cavalry?
Meser skillfully called on the Tatars to form a formation and fight.
When he saw that there were people around him who were about to take out their riding bows, he couldn't help but get furious and immediately roared to stop them. Having seen the fine armor on the opposite Mingqiu just now, he knew that the horned bows would be useless against them.
Against these elite armored cavalry, only throwing weapons such as javelins and iron bones are useful.
In fact, in the flash of lightning, Messer didn't think about retreating.
However, when we had just pursued and outflanked the defeated Ming army for a long time, even if there were several horses changing back and forth, the horse's leg power would always be consumed, just less.
In this way, how can it be compared with the opponent's new force that has just entered the battle?
What's more, from the outside, the fresh force coming from the opposite side is quite elite. If I turn around and run away at this moment, the scene where I chased the defeated army just now will probably happen to me.
The current strategy is to fight to the death and fight for a chance of survival. If you can win by luck, it will be a great achievement!
Both sides in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were knights who had experienced battles and were well-trained. In just a moment, under the roar of the officers of both sides, they rode their horses to form suitable battle formations.
