However, it was said that You Shilu made a trick to hide from the sky and the sea, and led the cavalry to leave the camp at the end, neither dismantling the camp tent nor extinguishing the lights, but only pretending to be still in the camp. In this way, the Tatar scouts were deceived and they were able to retreat safely.

When the eastern sky was white, You Shilu caught up with the Chinese army, and the two armies converged in one place, still heading south. At dawn, we arrived at a place called Black Mountain, and the Ming side wall passed over the mountain. At this time, the first hundreds of foot soldiers had already formed a battalion at the mountain pass and settled down. Taking advantage of the fact that the Tatar cavalry had not arrived, You Shilu ordered his soldiers to cut down trees and dig trenches to prepare for battle.

After daybreak, the Tatar scouts saw that no one was moving in the Ming camp, and the lights in the tent had not been extinguished. Frightened, several scouts hurriedly rushed back to the old camp and reported to the leading generals that the Ming army had withdrawn at some point, leaving only an empty camp.

The Tatar generals were furious when they heard this, and ordered the dereliction of several scouts to be beheaded, and then mounted their horses and marched straight south. When he arrived at the empty camp left by You Shilu, he was furious, set a fire, burned the camp clean, and then continued to pursue with traces.

The Tatar cavalry horses were fast, and within an hour, they chased to Montenegro, and were stationed two miles away from the new camp of the Ming army.

At this time, the guards on the side wall of the mountain had already seen the arrival of the Tatar cavalry, and immediately lit up the wolf smoke, and in a moment, as far as the eye could see, a torch of wolf smoke went straight into the sky.

The Tatar general looked at the wolf smoke in the distance, knowing that he had not only lost the best opportunity to annihilate this small Ming army, but also alarmed the defenders of the border town of the Ming army, and he couldn't help but be furious, and immediately ordered his cavalry to charge—he wanted to destroy this lone army before the Ming reinforcements arrived.

Hundreds of Tatar cavalry, armed with bows and arrows and wielding scimitars, attacked, first urging their horses to gall, then whipping them at a gallop, and at a distance of about a mile from the Ming camp, they began to charge at full speed. For a while, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the horse's hooves shook the ground.

You Shilu pressed his sword in his hand, stood on the platform of the Chinese general, and calmly gave an order, ordering all the four hundred-pound Fran machine guns carried by the sergeant general to be pushed to the front of the battalion.

When the Tatar cavalry rushed to within 300 paces, You Shilu personally waved the command flag, and the gunners ignited the cannon twist, and a moment later, after four earth-shattering sounds, thousands of dense lead spewed out, and immediately turned dozens of Tatar cavalry who were charging in front of them on their backs.

This time, the Ming army used the Zimu Franc cannon, and after the first fire, the gunners quickly unloaded the Zigong and reloaded the second Zigong at the same time.

Then there were four loud bangs, and the charging Tatar cavalry suffered a second devastating blow, suffering heavy casualties. The Tatar cavalry, who had escaped, left their struck companions and fled in a hurry.

After two rounds of shelling, the land fell silent, leaving the corpses of a hundred and ten Tatar cavalrymen in front of the battle. Gradually, the wails of wounded soldiers and the neighing of horses were heard. All this made Li Xianzhi, who had never experienced a battle, feel frightened.

The Tatar cavalry in front of them was already red-eyed, and soon after their defeat, they regrouped and launched an even more fierce attack.

Nearly a thousand cavalry charged, and the earth trembled. Faced with the lightning-fast attack of the Tatar cavalry, the Ming army had no choice but to re-ignite the lead of the Franco's cannon. After a new round of shelling, the Tatar cavalry suffered dozens more casualties, but they did not stop and continued to move forward. The Ming gunners quickly replaced the guns and lit the fuse......

After three rounds of shelling in a row, the forward ranks of the Tatar cavalry attack were bombarded in pieces. But their death-defying charge brought the surviving men close to the Ming camp, and both sides could almost see their shadows in each other's eyes.

At this time, the Tatar general screamed and led the remaining more than a thousand cavalry to launch a final charge. Faced with an attack like Mount Tai's top, the Ming army had no time to reload their ammunition - they came out this time, and each Franc machine only brought three guns.

At the last moment, the gunners desperately dragged the Furlong cannon behind the dense antlers. The infantry sergeants in the camp began to shoot at the Tatar cavalry with bows and arrows and bird guns. The Tatar cavalry also fired back at the battalion on horseback, and the Ming army began to suffer casualties.

The Tatar cavalry's arrows struck the neck of a soldier not far from Li Xianzhi's side, and as he fell, a column of blood more than three feet high erupted from the wound.

Li Xianzhi looked at this miserable scene, and once again fell into greater fear, he had no time to regret his rash behavior with the army, the instinct to survive drove him to shoot a feather arrow at the enemy with a hard bow in his hand, and he saw with his own eyes that several soldiers who were shot off their horses fell to the ground and were trampled into flesh by the hooves of the horses that came behind......

Braving the rain of arrows, the Tatar cavalry rushed to the front of the camp, where they were already pulling out the antlers in front of the camp. Seeing that the situation was not good, You Shilu quickly stepped off the platform, snatched the spear from the hand of a guard beside him, and shouted like a bell: "Follow me!" ”

The two infantrymen scrambled over the trenches and stabbed out their spears from behind the antlers, and immediately stabbed to death a dozen Tatar soldiers who were struggling to pull out their antlers.

You Shilu was not satisfied with the current results, and led his troops through the antler formation, fighting back, dancing with a spear in his hand, and blood splashed everywhere he went. The soldiers were greatly encouraged by the valor of the general, and they all marched forward bravely, and the Tatar cavalry could not resist for a moment and retreated dozens of paces.

After opening up the distance, the Tatar soldiers began to use bows and arrows again, and a dense rain of arrows shot at the Ming spearmen, and from time to time there were Tatar warriors who rode out of battle, wrapped the necks of the Ming soldiers with ropes, and dragged them to death on the battlefield.

At this critical moment, the two cavalry commanders led fifty cavalry each, rushed out of the camp in two ways, and rushed towards the Tatar cavalry. You Shilu took the opportunity to retreat to the camp with his foot soldiers.

After fighting for a while, the cavalry also retreated, counting the number of people, and more than half of the casualties were lost, and one of them was also trapped in the enemy formation.

The two sides fought so far, each exhausted. The Tatar cavalry reluctantly retreated to rest.

You Shilu breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the Chinese army to inspect the soldiers. Soon, it was reported that from the beginning of the battle to this time, one hundred and nine foot knights had been killed and more than seventy wounded.

Ignoring his grief, Yu Shilu ordered his soldiers to mend their antlers, fortify their camps, and reload their ammunition to prepare for the next round of attacks. After the deployment, he climbed onto the platform and looked at the Tatar cavalry army formation from afar. At this time, he found that only a few cavalry were still in place, but the large group of men and horses were missing, and he couldn't help but be suspicious. Looking around again, to the east is a plain, with a wide field of vision, and the Tatar cavalry can see clearly if there is movement. But to the west there was a small hill that stretched to the foot of the Black Mountain.

Seeing this, You Shilu exclaimed: "Not good! "Immediately ordered a general of 100 archers to ascend the western ridge to prevent a sneak attack by the enemy. The general order was carried out, and he did not dare to delay for a moment. As soon as he had led his men to the ridge, he saw a crowd of people not far from the bottom of the mountain—hundreds of Tatar cavalrymen dismounted and walked on foot, and were climbing up from the barren grass on the hillside.

A hundred archers hurriedly stretched out their bows and arrows, and gave the general order, and the archers fired arrows in unison, and the Tatar soldiers who attacked were crushed under the mountain, unable to raise their heads, and from time to time someone was hit by an arrow and rolled down the foot of the mountain. Seeing that their whereabouts were exposed, the Tatar soldiers fled down the mountain in a flock to the attack.

The Tatar army was defeated by the Ming army in several attacks, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded. Seeing that it was getting late, because he was afraid of the Ming army's Franc machine guns, he no longer dared to rush head-on, and he was unwilling to admit defeat and withdraw, so he only patrolled not far from the Ming army's camp.

At night, You Shilu was afraid that the Tatar army would attack the camp at night, so he ordered a small village with a total of 100 archers to set up a small village on the west ridge, and 50 archers to set up a village on the east ridge to defend, and the rest of the soldiers were stationed in the camp, patrolling in shifts.

That night, the Tatar army saw that torches were lit on the ridges on both sides of the Ming army's camp, and knew that they had been prepared and that a sneak attack was impossible, so they fled overnight.

The next morning, you Shilu sent thirty scouts out of the camp to look, and after a long time, he returned to the camp to report that the Tatar army had withdrawn and was nowhere to be seen.

When You Shilu heard this, he pondered for a moment, and then ordered: "From now on, no one is allowed to leave the camp without authorization, and each village must be carefully defended and must not make mistakes." "The left and right soldiers went to give orders. At the right time, Li Xianzhi happened to come to see You Shilu and asked: "Now that the enemy army has left, our army can pull out the camp and go east to meet the reinforcements, why do you want to move here?" ”

You Shilu laughed and said: "Brother Xian doesn't know about military affairs, in my opinion, the Tatars have not gone far, just wait for our army to leave the camp, and it will come suddenly." ”

Li Xianzhi asked, "But why?" ”

You Shilu said: "In the fierce battle yesterday, the Tatar soldiers failed to take advantage of the slightest advantage, whether they attacked or sneak attacked, so they pretended to withdraw and lured our army out of the camp. Our army relied on nothing but terrain and firearms, and if it left this place and joined the Tatar cavalry on flat ground, it would surely be annihilated! So he only ordered him to hold on, and sent scouts to scout the Tatars everywhere.

On this day, there was nothing to do for a day, and the Ming army just took this opportunity to rest. In the evening, the scouts along the way really found the Tatar cavalry hidden in the desert, and returned to the camp to report, You Shilu smiled and said: "Measure such a small plan, can An hide it from me?" ”

Li Xianzhi admired him and said: "If the younger brother is a general, hundreds of soldiers are ghosts under the sword." ”

You Shilu said: "The virtuous brother was born in articles and doesn't know martial arts, which is also understandable. ”

Hearing this, Li Xianzhi remembered that he only wanted to study and move, although he learned some skills to ride a gun stick, after all, he was only a horseman's art, in this troubled era, he had a strategy in order to become a "ten thousand enemies". This time I got acquainted with You Shilu and came out with him, although it was very dangerous, but the insights and skills learned along the way will make him inexhaustible for the rest of his life.

The Tatar soldiers saw that the Ming army was not in a plan, so they had to emerge from the desert again, and did not dare to attack, but just moved around outside the Ming army camp in a hurry.

Seeing that the Tatar soldiers had not left for a long time, Li Xianzhi fell into worry again, and secretly thought to himself: "The Tatar soldiers will not leave without a fight, are they waiting for reinforcements?" If once its reinforcements are gathered, how can our army, these hundreds of soldiers, be able to hold it? ”

Sure enough, at noon the next day, a group of soldiers and horses appeared on the eastern horizon. As we got closer, we could see their infantry forming a phalanx, and the cavalry guarding the flanks, advancing step by step.

The soldiers on the ridge watchtower looked at it with their eyes open for a long time, and shouted down happily: "They are wearing red uniforms, and reinforcements have arrived!" If you get closer, you can see the word "Ming" written on the military flag.

Even so, You Shilu did not fully believe it, only sent three personal soldiers to contact, to determine that it was the Ming army, You Shilu opened the camp gate, personally got on the horse and led people to greet him, approached to see, saw the people, was taken aback, and almost fell off the horse.