"If we don’t retreat, the warriors will be caught between Scylla and Charybdis …"
"Yes … our tribe has lost thousands of warriors. We must not lose too much, otherwise our tribe will be weakened and can’t recover in a few years …"
"Retreat … we must retreat immediately … there are not many people left in my tribe. We must never fight between Scylla and Charybdis. I will never fight with you if you continue to fight …"
In the face of people who refused to give themselves the slightest facial lieutenant, although his heart was full of anger, he still had to crush his anger and said
"Please calm down … if Baylor can’t attack Yan ‘an, even if we withdraw, we will starve to death and be trapped in northern Shaanxi because there is no food …"
"Don’t you want to be trapped and starved to death when you get here …"
See before quickly lost in thought, deputy commander (turn) continued, "please rest assured that leaders and heads of families will ensure that they will never bring you into a dangerous situation between Scylla and Charybdis …"
"In order to slow down the marching speed of the Tiger and Leopard Army fighters in Yan’ an direction, it will be decided to deploy two thousand cavalry to take the initiative."
"Two thousand cavalry guarantee our posterior safety …"
"Five hundred of the two thousand cavalry will be transferred from Baylor’s commander-in-chief with a white flag … and the remaining one thousand five hundred will be pieced together by your leaders and heads of families …"
Dourgen personally commanded the white flag to send troops, and even worse, his status was lower by one level.
Besides, these leaders are opposed to opposition, and they don’t have the courage to confront Dourgen and disobey Dourgen’s orders.
Lieutenant a pair of sharp eyes just blink of an eye kung fu two thousand cavalry pieced together.
Then a garrison general with a white flag led the mighty army to leave the army array …
What the lieutenant didn’t expect was that he insisted that Dourgen had an extra hour to attack because of the loss of two thousand cavalry, and that the last hour to attack Yan’ an was enough to feed the soldiers for half a month and a lot of firearms and equipment …
Guns kept coming. Yan’ an county faced the Mongols attacking the city from all sides. There were only a thousand musketeers, so they had to divide their limited forces into four parts.
Three or four hundred musketeers’ defense front width is more than a mile. Even if everyone is holding a musketeer with a fast firing rate, there is no way to maintain the fire density in such a wide battlefield.
The Mongols who constantly attacked the city wall were finally defeated by the Tiger and Leopard Army, but they had already rushed to the corner of the city. The Mongols still brought a lot of damage to the Tiger and Leopard Army through superb riding and shooting.
Attack for an hour in a row to give up the war horse. Although the Mongols have paid 2,000 people, the gunmen who defended the walls, tigers and leopards also lost almost five or six hundred people.
As the tiger and leopard army shot lead bullets from the city wall more and more sparse, Dourgen knew that if he could give another fatal blow to the tiger and leopard army guarding the city, the victory would be his own.
Seeing the dawn of victory, Dourgen decided to use his own seized butch weapons to form a firearms unit without thinking.
"Wear Baylor to order the firearms troops to attack immediately … and launch a final blow at the city wall loyalists to destroy them."
A thousand Mongols with flintlock muskets rushed to the battlefield and began to shoot lead bullets at the Tiger and Leopard Army outside the city wall at a position that was very unfamiliar for more than 100 steps.
1,000 Mongolian musketeers against less than 200 tiger and leopard gunners, even if the tiger and leopard gunners are well trained, they can’t offset the huge gap brought by the number of musketeers.
Although the Mongolian shooting outside the city is very messy, it keeps flying to the wall, and the lead bullets are still harvesting the lives of one tiger and leopard army after another.
Soon there will be less than 100 tigers and leopards left in this section of the city wall.
Mongolian cavalry, who had attacked the corner of the city, did not miss this opportunity to quickly erect the ladder and cover the firearms behind it to climb to the wall.
The final result was unexpected … Mongolian troops with superior forces and a certain number of firearms attacked and defended Yan’ an county, and more than 1000 musketeers were destroyed by Mongols …
With the joy of victory, Dourgen took only half an hour to collect food and firearms from Yan’ an and hurriedly evacuated from the county seat and disappeared into the vast loess plateau again.
Chapter three hundred and twenty-six An Epiphany
At the same time, the siege fighting around Jingbian County also approached the end.
After losing 1,000 people in a row, 2,000 Mongolian cavalry finally blocked 3,000 tiger and leopard cavalry from Yan ‘an from the battlefield two miles away.
At the same time, the remaining two reinforcements also felt less than five miles and ten miles away from the battlefield.
In the face of a big net about to form around him, Deputy General Dourgen chose to withdraw.
Less than 6,000 Mongolian cavalry remnants and war horses disappeared in a blink of an eye, leaving bodies everywhere and being shrouded in blood.
When thousands of musketeers, commander-in-chief of Weizheng, entered Jingbian County, his two reinforcements also entered Jingbian County one after another.
In the defensive battle for several hours, he personally commanded more than 300 people to lose and destroy less than 3,000 Mongolian cavalry. Zhou Yuhong walked to the front of Weizheng with a full face of shame and confessed, "The guard will not finish at the end, which will hold off thousands of Mongolian cavalry outside the city and ask the guard to drop the crime …"
Wei Zheng shook his head and frowned and replied, "It’s not your fault, but our enemy is getting more and more cunning …"
Speaking of this, a dignified face of Wei Zheng directly sent out a sigh with emotion. "Not surprisingly, when our three-way reinforcements respectively opened the three counties of Yanan Dingbian Yulin, we would have been monitored by Mongols, otherwise the Mongols who attacked Dingbian would never have sent so accurately to stop General Zhao, and we chose to retreat before the encirclement was formed, so we grasped the timing so well …"
"You know, the Mongols who besieged Jingbian County will retreat for half an hour later … not less than half an hour, and they will be completely surrounded by us … even if they want to retreat, they can’t retreat … so it’s not your fault …"
Two thousand Mongols desperately intercepted the loss of hundreds of cavalry Zhao Yun answered with a face of approval, "At the end of the day, I will agree with the analysis of the guard … The Mongols who besieged Jingbian County are very cunning …"
"But even if they managed to escape our encirclement, their losses would be very great …"
"Intercept our 3,000 cavalry for half an hour, and the Mongols directly lost 1,200 extra riders … In addition, at the end of the month, we estimated that there were 3,000 Mongols outside Jingbian."
"So the Mongolian cavalry who besieged Jingbian County paid a total loss of more than 4,000 people, and we lost less than 600 people at the very most … so the Mongolian army not only failed to get the food they urgently needed from Jingbian County, but suffered heavy losses … it can be said that it lost its wife and lost its soldiers …"
I heard that Wei Zheng’s dignified face finally looked a lot better.
After taking a deep breath, he affirmed to everyone, "Everyone is right. Although we failed to destroy this Mongolian cavalry, we won a great victory …"
Seeing everyone’s faces smiling, Wei Zheng continued, "But don’t be too happy … As General Zhao just said, the Mongols didn’t get food supplies from Jingbian County."
"The lack of food in this situation is still a problem that the Mongols urgently need to solve … Now, except for the two county defenders in Yulin, Anhe and Dingbian, there is less than one regiment …"
"In order to avoid the disappearance of the Mongols, the looting target will be transferred to Yan ‘an and Dingbian counties. General Zhao and General Zhou, you must command the horses to quickly bring back the soldiers to supply the Mongolian cavalry in the two counties …"
"At the end of the general life …"
After several hours of urgent marching, Zhao Yun finally saw two towers in Yan ‘an County.
But to Zhao Yun’s surprise, he didn’t see the flag of Tiger and Leopard Army on the tower.