"Report, the Ming army has crossed the Lugou Bridge."

"Report, the Ming Army's forward Cao Bianjiao's department has reached Wanping."

……

A message reached Azig's ears.

Azig listened quietly, and the movements and strength of the Ming army were almost clear.

Cao Bianjiao's 10,000 or so men and horses are the leader, followed by Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo, and Liu Liangzuo is still in Liangxiang.

There were not many cavalry in the Ming army, and the vanguard Cao Bianjiao was less than a thousand people, and there were few artillery, but there were some muskets. The infantry formation is very strict, and the 10,000 front, middle and rear guards are clearly layered, worthy of the famous General Xiao Cao.

They were old rivals from the time they were outside the gates.

But Azig was not afraid. Because together with the Eight Banners in Beijing, he has 30,000 vest soldiers in his hands, and counting the green flag soldiers in the capital, he is not afraid of waiting for the whole Ming army to arrive, and then set up a battle to fight.

Not to mention that now 'the enemy is bright and I am dark'!

This is Azig's greatest strength. Otherwise, when the Ming army starts fighting, even if the horse army in his hand occupies a natural advantage in arms, it may not be easy to solve the Ming army.

The huddled infantry was the most troublesome enemy for the cavalry. It's like the bloody battle of the Hunhe River at the beginning. Those white pole soldiers, but even muskets are rare.

If Cao Bianjiao can also train soldiers and horses like white-pole soldiers, how much resistance is there, and he is really not sure if he has not fought a battle. But he can say with certainty that he will definitely not be able to solve Cao Bianjiao in the shortest possible time, and then continue to attack Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo's army.

Of course, he never thought that the 30,000 Eight Banners horsemen under his command would be defeated in a field battle by the 60,000 or 70,000 scattered Ming troops, that was a joke. His "apprehension" was only based on how many casualties he would pay and how much time he would spend.

When the Ming army marched in multiple ways, instead of 120,000 people gathered in a group and came to Yanjing, the defeat of the Nanban army had already been decided.

Coming out of Liangxiang, Cao Bianjiao's march was very fast, and it did not slow down until near the Lugou Bridge.

It's not that he is afraid of the enemy, it's just that he is habitually cautious when he is getting closer and closer to Yanjing City and getting closer to the enemy.

Lugou Bridge is the main road in and out of Yanjing, Wanping City not far away, although the city is narrow, the whole city is less than 200 zhang long from east to west, and the width from north to south is less than 100 zhang, it is an absolute small city. But this is the real gate of Yanjing.

The city lives on the east bank of the Yongding River, is adjacent to the Lugou Bridge, and goes straight to the throat of Gyeonggi.

And as an acropolis that Chongzhen only opened and built in 11 years, Wanping is very different from the ordinary city from the shape and structure, there are no streets, alleys, markets, bell and drum towers and other facilities in the general county town in the city, and only set up two city gates in the east and west, although the bureau system is small, and Chong Yong is a hundred pheasants, like a male pass.

Cao Bianjiao clearly knew that the Qing army had soldiers and horses stationed in Wanping, so he naturally had to be cautious.

At this moment, the collision between the scouts of the two armies also became fierce.

The Ming army wanted to find out the enemy situation ahead, while the Qing army's scouts were desperately resisting.

These are the brave men of the two armies, chasing and going along the Lugou River, and the blood spilled in the staggered swords and bows played a prelude to this great battle.

Cao Bianjiao, who was in charge of the Chinese army, heard the reports from the front that kept coming back, but his heart was filled with joy and sorrow.

The sad thing is that the damage of not collecting at night is too heavy, and these nights are the elite of his army; But to the delight, the Tartar became more and more crazy.

This must be madness in despair!

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was desperately trying to obscure his vision, and Cao Bianjiao did not think that the Tartars had already arrived with a large army, but that the Tartars were desperately delaying time.

As long as you don't collect at night and can't find out the enemy's situation, you will definitely not dare to march quickly.

Of course, there is not a single Tartar soldier in Yanjing City, and since Dolgon did not escape, he will definitely resist stubbornly.

Cao Bianjiao never thought that Azig's reinforcements would arrive in Yanjing so quickly.

He received the news that Azig's army was still in Datong, and how could the army march with a heavy snowfall in Xuandalian?

Azig waited no longer, and after eating and sleeping, he stood up and gave the order to go to battle.

"The whole army is open, slow down, maintain an offensive formation, and once the enemy is engaged, attack immediately."

The dense sound of horses' hooves outside Yanjing City has become the only sound in heaven and earth.

This time, Azig's tactics were quite simple, which was to smash and kill. Regardless of the terrain constraints, as long as the cavalry is on size, it has already set its own tactics.

No matter how spiritual the horses are, no matter how well they are trained, they are not human. Therefore, the cavalry will never have the same countless tricks as the infantry army.

The attacking cavalry group, the charge galloped and swept like a raging wave, this was their tactic.

The combination of speed and power, the interweaving of kill and self-harm.

This is the cavalry!

Azig will personally lead the main force of the army, 10,000 Manchurian banner vests, to attack head-on without reservation, and the rest of the troops will attack the flanks of the Ming army later.

Half of the Mongolian army banner will cooperate with the battle, and half will go around to Cao Bianjiao's army, and continue to launch a diversion offensive towards Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo to the south.

This is not only to slow down their speed, but also to make the Ming army more chaotic after Cao Bianjiao's defeated army retreats here.

This kind of thing is difficult to grasp the time, a little worse, the best time will be missed, then it depends on what Azig can beat Cao Bianjiao into.

In the dull sound of horses' hooves, the army quickly expanded and spread like a balloon that had been blown up. Like a ship cutting through the sea, it quickly changed from a thin dragon to a cavalry group as wide as a mile or two.

Yanjing City was only more than ten miles away from Wanping, and the army was active, and it entered the state of attack.

The eyes of the Eight Banners soldiers slowly became bloodshot, so they didn't want to return to the icy and snowy pass, let alone let their wives and children and parents embark on the road of escape in this snowy era.

There is no need for any impassioned words to motivate their morale, just one vital interest is enough to teach them to be silently ready for a fierce battle like the war horses under them.

From the beginning of the trotting of the war horse, to the smoke and dust in the sky, the earth also trembled under the trampling of the horse's hooves, and the heaven and earth were all filled with the rumbling sound of horses' hooves.

The thick murderous aura makes the winter cold wind even more fierce.

Black and white impermanence began to show its teeth and claws in the sky, waiting for this killing feast to begin.

"Cavalry, a large group of cavalry ......"

There is no need to scout to report at all, the smoke and dust in the northeast direction has already made the Ming army aware of it.

Like other generals, shock and fear surged into Cao Bianjiao's heart in an instant.

"Where did the Tartars come from with such a large number of horses?" It was too sudden.

In terms of the current situation, facing a large-scale cavalry raid on the unobstructed Yandi Plain, this battle is simply a hellish difficulty.

And you must know that the Ming army was only preparing for a battle of general difficulty......

"Deliver the order, pass the order, the front army will defend the enemy on the spot, prepare for battle, prepare for battle."

"Send the order to Jiang Zhu and ask him to quickly integrate the rear team."

"Tell Sun to abide by the law and lead the troops to nail to the front. Even if he dies, he will resist me. ”

“……”

A series of military orders blurted out without thinking about it, as one of the most warlike generals in the Ming army after Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao was by no means an incompetent person.

As the military order was handed down, the slightly flustered Ming army outside Wanping City calmed down, and Cao Bianjiao himself threw other emotions out of the clouds by the way.

When the narrow road meets, the brave wins.

The current situation is irreversible, so let's fight a good fight.

He has already asked someone to report to Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo, and the two are not very far away from him, as long as he can withstand the raid of the Tartars here, he will soon be able to wait for Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo, and when Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo come to respond, the big thing can still be expected.

Cao Bianjiao shouted loudly, asked people to raise the flag and follow behind him, and rode a war horse to gallop back and forth in the Chinese army. Restraining the officers and men of the Chinese army is also using their own actions to boost the morale of the whole army.

Although his name is General Xiaocao, the years of fighting on the battlefield are not short at all. It's been 20 years. Even if he led the army alone, he had been twelve or thirteen years.

Cao Bianjiao was able to rise in the Ming army, and he could not deny the huge role of his uncle Cao Wenzhao, but he also had a lot of strength and ruthlessness.

He knew very well that the current situation was already a matter of life and death, and he had just led the troops to Wanping, so he asked Sun Shoufa to lead the troops to block Wanping's east gate. Now he has not set up a strong camp outside the city, and he has not been fully prepared, and he even has to face the fierce eye of the enemy around him.

In such a place, under the surprise attack of a large group of cavalry, his troops and horses were already in absolute danger.

In such a situation, if you want to turn defeat into victory, and if you want to die and survive, the only way is to fight hard.

At this time, he no longer thought about where these Tartars came from, how they suddenly appeared today, and why Jinyiwei didn't send the slightest news, because they didn't have any meaning.

He only knew one thing, and that was - the time had come to fight hard.

The sound of horses' hooves shook the earth, and the dense cavalry ranks covered the field of vision of the Ming soldiers like a moving city wall.

Sun Shoufa is a very bold person, but at this time he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

All the sounds in the world were gone, and only the single note of the horse's hooves remained.

At this time, Sun Shoufa had already arranged his headquarters into a square, with two columns of shield walls lined up in front of the array, spears and muskets, and archers behind. However, this did not make them settle down, on the contrary, they were all a little trembling.

They had to be afraid. I thought it would be a battle of general difficulty, but now it has suddenly become a hellish difficulty, and you can imagine how much pressure and fear there is in the hearts of the Ming army.

Although they are the team brought out by Cao Bianjiao, it is useless. In the face of a strong enemy, they did not show enough courage and determination.

"Kill—"

Azig roared, and his king's banner stood at the front of the cavalry group, which brought great encouragement to the Eight Banners Tartars.

"Kill......"

The distance between the two sides was rapidly approaching, and one by one the Tartars shouted with their swords and spears held high.

The Mongolian army banner vest soldiers rushed to the front, and one by one sharp arrows shot at the Ming army. The latter shouted loudly in the formation: "No guns, no guns......"

As the Zheng army relied on guns to dominate the battlefield, the Ming army followed suit one by one.

Cut down a large number of low-quality firearms, or organize craftsmen to build them themselves, or buy them directly from Zheng Jun, and some people even directly buy a large amount of refined medicinal powder from Zheng Jun.

This made many Ming generals have a decent musket team in their hands.

Cao Bianjiaojun is no exception.

However, it was not difficult for the Ming army to prepare a batch of high-quality musket powder, but it was rare to train the musketeers in their hands into real musketeers.

That's the biggest difference between the two sides.

This is the biggest drawback of the Ming army!

"Bang bang bang bang ......" The problem of indiscriminate shooting in the Ming army's formation is still the same.