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Chapter 205 Repel the Horqin Cavalry

It was dawn, and the city of Grejurgen was already in chaos. Obama's Khan's Mansion and Jaisan's Bell's Mansion were burned into rubble. Under the dark ruins of Oba's house, soldiers dug out two charcoal bodies, one of which had no head. At the door, there were two charred bodies. Under the tree outside the moon gate in the yard, there was a corpse with a broken neck. In the palace of Oba, Oba's sons were all killed.

All signs show one thing: the fire broke out in the Khan's palace in Obataiji was not an accident, but someone killed someone and then set a fire.

Zaisang's Beile Mansion was also burned into ruins. After extinguishing the fire, Zaisang rushed into the yard where his daughter lived and found more than a dozen blackened corpses on the ground, obviously all of which were the corpses of the guards, and Da Yuer and her personal maid were missing.

"Who did it?" Zaisang was furious.

A soldier came to report to the city: "Master Beile, someone went to the city last night and killed dozens of our brothers and ran away!"

"Shameless traitor! It must be a traitor among us! It was him who killed our Khan and our warriors! My daughter and maid's disappearance must be related to this traitor!" Zaisang roared. He could not have thought that someone climbed up to the city at night and entered the city to kill and set fire. He thought that it must be the traitor who had mixed into the city who had taken action last night.

Who would have thought that someone could climb a city wall that was 100 to 50 feet high with patrol soldiers? Normal people would think that there must be traitors in the city.

Zaisang's wife Boli cried and said, "Child, where are you?"

"Oh, it's over. It's all agreed that Da Yu'er would be betrothed to the Four Beile of the Great Jin Kingdom. Now that it's fine, the people are gone. What should I do when the Four Beile comes to ask for someone in the future?" Zaisang said with a frown.

"There are four belles? Da Yu'er's life and death are unknown. Do you still have the heart to care about the four belles?" Boli said crying.

"Of course I'm worried about Da Yu'er, after all, it's my daughter. But if we break our promise, how can we explain to the Four Beile?"

"Bah! The four Baylors were defeated and were all deprived of both of his white flags by the Khan! What ability does he have to come to us?"

"Victory and defeat are common among military strategists. If the Four Beile loses this time, it may not necessarily turn around in the future! The Four Beile is talented and wise, no matter Daishan or Manguertai, who is as brave and resourceful as the Four Beile? You are a woman, you just have no vision!" Zaisang said. He did not doubt that Huang Taiji, who was deprived of the two white flags, could make a comeback.

But Zaisang never dreamed that his precious daughter had fallen into the hands of the Ming army. He thought that Da Yu'er must have fallen into the hands of some Mongolians in Mobei who came with Lin Danhan to rob. Now, my daughter will eat sand and drink wind and snow in Mobei in the future and suffer.

At this moment, another guard came to report: "Master Beile, the army of barbarians outside has withdrawn."

"Hmph! They ran fast, otherwise when the army of the Great Jin Kingdom arrived, no one of these barbarians would run away!" Zaisang cursed.

"Master Beller, are we going to send troops to chase them?"

"Why send troops? Oba Taiji is dead. The city has burned a lot of fire for another night, and no one is in command. If you catch up with the barbarians, wouldn't you go to die?" Zaisang said hesitantly.

"Father, let's send troops!" Wu Keshan said, "Our Taiji family was brutally killed. If we don't send troops, how can we convince the people of our country? Although those Minggou barbarians are not the murderers who killed Oba Taiji, Lin Danhan's army was attracted by them!"

Wu Keshan lit up a 10,000 Korqin cavalry and chased them along the way of the Ming army's retreat.

Because he led a large number of women, children, elderly and weak, and drove away a large number of cattle and sheep, the Ming army's march was very slow. After walking for a whole day, he only walked thirty miles. The scout cavalry sent by the Korqin cavalry found the Ming army in just half a day. Then the main army of Korqin chased after him. Before the evening, the 10,000 Korqin army caught up with the Ming army.

When Gao Shixin saw 10,000 Korqin cavalry catching up, he was not nervous. But 10,000 Korqin cavalry, not 10,000 Jianzhou Jurchens, why fear?

Gao Shixin asked the Korqin refugees to circle the vehicles and form a chariot array. The women, children, elderly, and cattle, sheep and animals were placed in the center of the chariot array. Two thousand infantry and five hundred factory guards defended the chariot array. After the arrangement was completed, he ordered He Shixian and You Shigong: "Two generals, you can rush out directly. I believe that you can drive away the Tartar cavalry in one round of charge!"

"No!" The two of them retreated.

There is no need to pay attention to any strategy to deal with these weak Korqin cavalry. As long as the Ming cavalry rushed, they could be beaten and fled in all directions. Before, the Korqin cavalry fought with the Later Jin army, which was the kind of person who was able to get a bargain. As long as the Later Jin army was not on the side, wouldn’t the Ming army want to defeat them be a piece of cake?

"My brother is here to save us!" Da Yu'er smiled, "This Ming general, I think you are good to us, so I kindly advise you and let us go quickly. I will go back and plead with my brother, and he will not make things difficult for you."

"Haha, the little girl is quite angry! Just wait and see how I drive away my cheap brother-in-law!" Gao Shixin reached out and touched Da Yu'er's little head.

He Shixian and You Shigong each led 5,000 cavalry and launched a charge with a hook-shaped formation surrounded by two wings.

The Korqin people once again used the Manguda tactic, pulled out their horses and turned around and left, riding their horses and running wildly, while turning back to shoot arrows from time to time, in an attempt to consume the horsepower of the Ming cavalry.

However, the Manguda tactics had long been outdated in this era. The Ming cavalry of He Shixian and You Shigong were also light cavalry. The Ming army surrounded the two wings, and there was also a cavalry led by Man Gui and Mao Wenlong. Although there were only 500 people, they were well-equipped. They departed early to the right rear side of the Korqin people.

He Shixian was very brave. He charged in front, and the bows and arrows in his hand kept shooting arrows. His archery skills were very accurate, almost one arrow could be a life.

The Korqin people could only fight and retreat while flying kites for the Ming army. Unfortunately, these Ming troops were also light cavalrymen, who shot arrows from time to time when chasing them, shooting Korqin people one by one.

These Korqin people were using the Manguda tactics. While shooting arrows and retreating, Man Gui and Mao Wenlong, who were lying in ambush, suddenly rushed out and rushed forward directly towards the Korqin people's formation.

There were only more than 200 cavalrymen in thick armor, but each of them was wearing double armor and with cavalry spears under their armpits. When the cavalry rushed towards the Korqin cavalry, all the soldiers almost didn't even look at their opponents, but just rushed to charge with cavalry spears. The 300 cavalrymen following Mao Wenlong were not as well equipped as the cavalrymen. Most of them only had one piece of cotton armor, and some even didn't even have leather armor, only one piece of paper armor.

However, with Man Gui's heavy cavalry as shields in front, Mao Wenlong and the others rushed up.

The heavy cavalry crashed into the Korqin light cavalry crowd, and the cavalry spears pierced on the Korqin light cavalry, knocking them down with their men and horses. The heavy cavalry continued to rush forward, and the horse's hooves trampled past the corpses of the Korqin soldiers and war horses that fell to the ground, leaving rotten meat everywhere.

The light cavalry was simply vulnerable in front of the heavy cavalry. The sudden emergence of the Ming cavalry not only made a bloody path among the crowd of the Korqin light cavalry, but also interrupted the Korqin people's Manguda tactics, which made the Korqin people run around and unable to form a formation at all.
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