This is a battlefield. It’s not that you won’t chase if you say you won’t. The current situation is that if Ming Dynasty wants you to chase, you have to chase. If you don’t chase, you will die!
Mutulu never imagined that this group of fleeing guys would actually fight back. It was better to take advantage of the moment when his army was at its weakest. There was no way to fight, so he ran away.
Liu Qixia slashed at him, blood spurted onto his armor, and he continued to slash at the enemy without stopping! Lu Zhao also picked up the spear, Qian Jiang raised the mace, and the Ming sergeant behind him was even more brave, rushing left and right, killing wildly!
"Gather your horses and take away your clothes and armor!"
Liu Qixia looked at the dusk and did not order the pursuit.
Harry's army should not be far from here. It would be too dangerous to chase them back. With the physical strength of the current war horses, they can run for another thirty miles at most. If it continues any longer, these war horses will be exhausted. It will be difficult to recuperate within half a month. recover.
Killed more than 400 enemies and captured more than 700 horses!
Liu Qixia did not collect the corpses of the enemy. He looked into the distance and led his men to retreat. They hid in a valley in the Tianshan Mountains and arranged for sergeants to patrol. After feeding the horses water and grass, they found a place to sleep.
Escape is also a physically strenuous task, and it is impossible to say it is not tiring.
Looking at Mutulu who had escaped and returned, Harry was angry. Such a weak Ming army actually defeated his invincible army and killed hundreds of his sergeants!
How unreasonable!
Qiangzhi Li was worried that Mutulu would lose his life, so he quickly interceded: "A war horse can run up to two hundred miles in one breath. Mutulu led troops from Polo City to chase the Ming army. When they chased them for one hundred and fifty miles, , the war horse has traveled nearly two hundred miles, and it has reached its limit. It’s not that Mutulu didn’t fight with all his heart, but that the Ming Dynasty was too cunning!”
Ku Huai also helped to speak: "Mutulu fought bravely, which we all saw with our own eyes. This time he was really weak, and it is not the fault of the soldiers. If Mutulu is punished, I am afraid it will affect your honor."
Harry gritted his teeth and shouted, "Could it be that my sergeant's sacrifice was in vain?"
Karaqi shook his head and said: "Qiangzhi Li is right. If you spare the war horses, they can only run two hundred miles at most. The Ming cavalry can only run another thirty miles if they run for their lives. If we send sergeants to search within a radius of thirty miles, we will inevitably Can find them!"
Ba Qishan objected: "Our cavalry is also tired, and it is already dark. It is not convenient to search under this condition. It is better to wait for tomorrow, and we will continue to advance eastward and strive to enter Kurkarawusu the next day. This You can take revenge on the main force of the Ming Dynasty!"
Mutulu was unwilling to give in and shouted: "Give me two thousand people, and I will find them!"
"enough!"
Harry shouted angrily, glanced at Mutulu, and sighed: "Tomorrow you will be the pioneer!"
Mutulu was very moved, which showed that Harry still valued him and did not intend to hold him responsible for this failure.
Harry looked at the map and said to Mutulu: "You have seen the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty cavalry. Their combat effectiveness is indeed not strong, but there are also a few powerful guys who are proficient in riding and archery. Send my thirty cavalry guards to join them. Tomorrow's vanguard army. If you encounter this cavalry again, you must annihilate it! Mutulu, if you miss again, there will be no place for you in this military tent."
"You will live up to your command!"
Mutulu quickly agreed.
In the early morning of the next day, Liu Qixia left 200 sets of clothes and armors of Timur's cavalry, and 200 captured war horses. Then he led the army out of the valley and buried pots on the plains. For rice, this time I did not use a "smokeless stove", but cooked openly.
As the smoke rose, Mutulu, who was looking for Liu Qixia, saw him more than ten miles away. He immediately led his troops to pursue him, but when he got closer, the Ming army had already withdrawn.
Mutulu chased for more than 20 miles before he saw Liu Qixia and others, and immediately issued a death order:
Chase!
Unexpectedly, Liu Qixia was led by Mutulu, and he was not polite. He started running away from a long distance away and did not even engage in confrontation with Mutulu's cavalry.
The cavalry galloped on the grassland. On the right side was the tall and majestic Tianshan Mountains, which was shocking. On the left side was the vast sea of green sand and barren grass. A group of cavalrymen chased back and forth between this beautiful and desolate world.
After the two teams of cavalry, Harry's more than 30,000 cavalry slowly followed up, taking their time and maintaining sufficient combat effectiveness at all times. In order to ensure that Mutulu would not suffer a second "calculation", Qiang Zhili led five hundred fine cavalry to follow Mutulu ten miles behind, ready to support at any time.
This time Liu Qixia did not stop and ran away with all his strength. Just when Liu Qixia was out of breath and his horse could no longer support himself, Yuan Yue led three thousand cavalry to respond. After letting Liu Qixia and others pass, Yuan Yue led the cavalry directly to He came forward with a head-on attitude!
Yuan Yue did not stay in Kulkala Wusu to wait for Liu Qixia, because it was more than 500 miles from Kulkala Wusu to Polo City, and there should be a limit to how far the enemy could be lured. A war horse could not even run across it in one breath. What if Liu Qixia was caught up and killed...
In order to prevent Liu Qixia from being unheroic, Yuan Yue left Kurkhala Wusu and marched two hundred miles west to meet Liu Qixia. Through the telescope, he saw Mutulu and the army behind him clearly, and he knew that if he wanted to stop them, he must attack them head-on.
This time, Yuan Yue did not hide his clumsiness, and neither did the Ming Dynasty cavalry. They were three thousand elite, with bright armor, shining blades, and all bows and arrows!
The two armies clashed, Yuan Yue's spear was like a dragon, he killed three cavalry angrily, tearing a gap, and the accompanying sergeant killed the enemy even more bravely! The cavalry melee was even more brutal, with both sides going back and forth, blood splattering on the robes!
Mutulu slashed at Yuan Yue with a knife, and the heavy knife hit the iron spear. Yuan Yue opened the sword and thrust the spear straight at him. Mutulu blocked it with his knife. Upon seeing this, several cavalrymen from the Timur Empire swung their swords towards Yuan Yue to kill him!
Click!
A noise surprised many people.
Mutulu looked up and was suddenly startled. I saw a red-maned horse flying next to Yuan Yue. On the horse's back sat a burly and powerful man with unshaven beard. The big man held two large axes in his hands.
The ax is really big, bigger than my head!
When the ax came down, no matter how thick the armor he wore, he couldn't withstand the blow. This guy was so bad that he just slashed straight at the horse's head!
No one's horse can withstand an ax blow!
Two cavalrymen who wanted to help Mutulu lost their horses and were assassinated by spears before they could get up!
Mutulu avoided the blow and slashed the thigh of a Ming soldier sideways. The sergeant screamed. He was no longer able to fight. He had no time to retreat and was hacked to death by the enemy!
This was a head-on confrontation, the first real battle between the Ming cavalry and the Timur cavalry.
There will be wins and losses for each other, and there will be harm and harm to each other!
Qiang Zhili wanted to support Mutulu, but was intercepted by Qianhu Zhao Yao and his cavalry.
Liu Qixia knew that if Mutulu could not be defeated as soon as possible, once Harry's army pounced, everyone would be doomed. He immediately turned around and led the cavalry to join the battle.
Five thousand versus two thousand cavalry, another attack from multiple directions, using more to defeat less! Mutulu found that there were fewer and fewer cavalry around him. No matter how to organize a counterattack or how to boost morale, it was of no use!
withdraw?
Can't get out!
kill?
Can't kill!
Mutulu was desperate. Instead of losing to the elite Yili cavalry, he actually lost to the nameless and incompetent Ming cavalry?
Shame!
Ding!
Yuan Yue's spear was like a stick and hit Mutulu directly! Seeing that Mutulu didn't have much to do, Yuan Yue couldn't help but get angry and hit him with his spear again!
fine?
Then smash it! Mutulu - endured the pain and wanted to backhand, but an ax came from behind and directly split the ring armor on his back!
Yuan Yue pierced Mutulu's neck with a spear, pulled out the sword from his waist, cut off Mutulu's head, raised it high, and shouted in Chagatai language that he was not very proficient in: "The general is dead, hurry up." surrender!"
When the cavalry following Mutulu saw this, they immediately lost their will to fight. Even the Harry Guards guarding Mutulu didn't care so much at this time. They ran away and were shot by Lu Zhao and Qian Jiang with arrows. Kill five knights!
"withdraw!"
Yuan Yue knew that he was in big trouble, and he didn't even have time to kill the surrenderers. He only collected the bodies of the fallen soldiers, took away the opponent's horses, and gave the order to retreat.
When Harry arrived at the battlefield, Yuan Yue and others had retreated for nearly half an hour. Looking at Mutulu's headless body and the devastated battlefield, Harry doubted his judgment for the first time:
The Ming army is not as weak as it initially appeared!
However, the guards who ran away and the sergeants who surrendered quickly changed Harry's view.
"Many, many people came from Ming Dynasty, at least tens of thousands!"
"That's right, it's still the main force. We can't defeat more than 10,000 cavalry."
"I look like there are 20,000 cavalry, and the leader is very powerful. He can't be the opponent's coach, right?"
In fact, the surrendering sergeant also knew that Yuan Yue brought not many people, no more than five thousand cavalry at most, but he lost to such a small number of people, and before he could protect Mutulu, all the people had their heads chopped off. It doesn’t make sense.
The only way is to exaggerate the number of Ming troops.
Based on this, Harry judged that the Ming army was still very weak and they could only win with numbers. Mutulu's failure this time was just a coincidence and an accident.
Ku Huai was a little sad and suggested to Harry: "We can no longer divide our troops. The people of the Ming Dynasty are too cunning, and they are good at using small groups to lure them, and then fight with the main force. We need to concentrate the main force and advance steadily."
Karachi also had a headache. They had not had much confrontation with the Ming army, but they had lost nearly a thousand people inexplicably.
If this continues, the consequences will be dire.
Karachi wavered in his strategy and suggested to Harry: "Before arriving at Kurkhalawusu City, we should not divide our troops any more. We only need to send out scouts to look around."
Harry nodded, decided to give up chasing Yuan Yue and others, and moved closer to Kurkarawusu to the east at his own pace.
Harry's vanguard army, which concentrated its main force to advance eastward, gave Yuan Yue and Liu Qixia no chance to take action. Even if they wanted to harass, they were extremely cautious. Yuan Yue passed daily battle reports to Zhu Di in the rear.
At this time, Zhu Di did not stay in the base camp of Welumu City. Instead, he led his troops into the Qamdula area northwest of Welumu City. Xu Huizu patrolled on horseback and watched the sergeants everywhere being deployed before returning to the main tent to confront Zhu Di. Said: "Harry's army is approaching. There is no information on whether they will divide their forces. According to your strategy, the sacks we made may not be able to retain Harry's more than 40,000 elite cavalry!"
Zhu Di stared at the map and said in a deep voice: "I not only have to keep Harry's 40,000 cavalry, but I also have to make sure that no one escapes! You know, the secret of firearms must not be leaked. Once it is introduced to Timur , it will not be easy for us to deal with Timur again."
Xu Huizu was a little worried: "The encirclement is too big."
Zhu Di chuckled and raised his head to look at Xu Huizu: "No need to worry, we have scouts, they will definitely be willing to intercept and kill all the fish that slip through the net."
"Suo Jing and the others? This is a good idea."
Xu Huizu smiled and recognized the combat effectiveness of the scouts. He turned to look at the map and saw a large net spread over Qamdo, like a man-eating sack or an urn...
