In November of the fifth year of Tianshun, north of Datong Town, Tiance Army camp.

The urgent military information sent by the general Yan Hu was sent to Liu Juntao, and Liu Juntao was also very anxious when he saw that the 50,000 elite iron cavalry army led by Uketu Khan was storming Yanmen Pass.

Although General Yan Hu had led more than 10,000 soldiers of the Yingyang Army to enter the Yanmen Pass in advance to assist in the defense, in the face of the 50,000 Tatar troops who were also elite and dared to fight and suddenly killed, whether Yan Hu's troops could stop it, Liu Juntao also had some drums in his heart.

Moreover, in the face of the onslaught of the Tatar troops regardless of casualties, even if Yan Hu led his troops to block the attack of the Tatar troops, the officers and men of the Yingyang Army of the Ministry of Sho must have suffered a lot of casualties, which is also what Liu Juntao is anxious about.

Therefore, Liu Juntao summoned the staff officers of the army and prepared to launch an attack on the main army of 100,000 Tatars in the north as soon as possible, so as to return to the south to help Yanmen Pass as soon as possible.

At the same time, Liu Juntao once again sent a reminder to the Ministry of War, and warned the Ministry of War: Now the main force of the Tiance Army in Shanxi is now dragged north of Datong Town by the 100,000 troops of the Tatar Department, and it is temporarily impossible to go south to support Yanmen Pass; The officers and soldiers of the Tiance Army in Shandong have never been ordered by the imperial military department, and can only sit back and watch the battle of Yanmen Pass, but cannot rush to help; Under the current situation, if the Ministry of War cannot order the requisition of reinforcements to rush to Yanmen Pass in time to support, Yanmen Pass will be in danger of being lost at any time!

After this urgent reluctance was sent out, Liu Juntao gathered the officers and soldiers of the Longxiang Army, the Changshui Army, and the Tiger Ben Army to pull out the camp and go north, gradually approaching the Tatar battalion.

At this time, the battle report sent by the general Yan Hu has explained the situation, the combat power of the elite army of the 50,000 Tatars is strong, although it is not equipped with firearms, but the 50,000 army is equipped with a large number of heavy armor and shields, and the proportion of archers in the army is very large, and nearly half of the Tatar soldiers and horses can shoot bows and arrows.

In the offensive and defensive battle of Yanmen Pass, the firearms advantage of the soldiers of the Tiance Army was greatly neutralized.

What's more, in the bloody battles of the past few days, the original garrison in Yanmen Pass has been shaken, and many deserters have appeared, and Yan Hu has begun to implement wartime military law in Yanmen Pass, killing dozens of people to temporarily stabilize the situation.

At this time, under the strong attack of the superior forces of the Tatar Army, the general Yan Hu showed that the pressure on Yanmen Pass was huge, and the danger of losing the city was great!

Liu Juntao knows Yan Hu very well, he is a very strong person, especially unwilling to be weak in front of him, afraid that he will be disappointed in him.

Therefore, as soon as he saw the battle report sent by Yan Hu asking for help, Liu Juntao was anxious in his heart, the situation in Yanmen Pass must have reached a very dangerous point, otherwise Yan Hu would not ask for reinforcements from him!

In view of this, Liu Juntao made up his mind and decided to lead more than 40,000 soldiers from the three divisions of the Tiance Army to take the initiative to attack the main army of 100,000 Tatars in the north.

Although the 100,000 Tatar army in the north was more numerous, it was all Uketu Khan who came to screen the remaining soldiers and horses, which was far less elite and strong than the 50,000 Tatars who were attacking Yanmen Pass, so Liu Juntao was confident that he would be defeated in a short time.

It's just that in this way, the losses of the soldiers of the Longxiang Army, the Changshui Army, and the Huben Army will be greater, but this is also a helpless move, after all, Yanmen Pass cannot afford to lose!

The camp of the Tiance Army, the big tent of the Chinese army.

"In this battle, Ben Du doesn't care about casualties, what he wants is time! In three days, the Governor will kick open the Tatar camp and crush the 100,000 Tatar horsemen in front of the army! Raise my emperor's prestige! ”

Liu Juntao's roar continued to echo in the Chinese army's tent, and at the same time, it also roared the general Zhou Zongsheng and General Sun Xu in the tent, as well as the guerrilla generals Bai Yuxing, Tao Jixin, Meng Fanchen, Li Qianren, Zhou Quan, Tian Li and others.

"I am willing to fight to the death with the Governor's constitution! Attack the Tartars and defend China! ”

Early the next morning, more than 40,000 officers and men of the three divisions of the Tiance Army began to assemble, and they successively opened the big camp and assembled outside the north gate of the big camp.

Liu Juntao was fully armored, galloping in front of the large army on horseback, the long knife in his hand was raised high, and he roared loudly: "The Tartars invade, all the monarchs and soldiers will follow me to defend China!" ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

"Emperor Ming is mighty!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Emperor Ming is mighty!"

"Wan Sheng!"

In the cold wind of hunting, more than 40,000 soldiers of the Tiance Army formed a formation and went north, and in less than an hour, they drove to the outside of the Tatar camp, and the soldiers of the army immediately began to prepare to storm the Tatar camp.

At the same time, the chief general who commanded the 100,000 Tatar army, Weng Leng, also reacted quickly, leaving 30,000 iron cavalry to garrison the camp, and personally led 70,000 iron cavalry out of the camp, and began to line up at a distance of two miles from the Tiance army formation, preparing to start a bloody battle with the soldiers of the Tiance army.

Liu Juntao looked at the Tatar army in front of him from a distance, and said to the staff general Zhou Zongsheng and the staff general Sun Xu beside him: "The Tartars want to use the strength of the iron cavalry to fight with us in the field, and today the governor will let these Tartars know who is the king of the field war!" ”

Sun Xu and Zhou Zongsheng are also full of pride in their hearts, the two sides have invested more than 100,000 troops in this battle, but it is a rare battle, and it is also a good time for everyone to win their achievements!

As a result, Sun Xu and Zhou Zongsheng both hugged their fists and asked Liu Juntao to teach him the strategy of this battle.

Liu Juntao said: "In this battle, the Longxiang army is the main force, and the frontal formation is facing the impact of the Tatar iron cavalry, and the soldiers of the Tiger Army form a formation on the right flank of the Longxiang army, raid the Tatar camp, and cut off its rear road!" The officers and men of the Changshui Army formed a formation on the left flank of the Longxiang Army, and listened to my orders to prepare to flank the tens of thousands of Tatar iron cavalry in front! ”

At this time, although the strength of the soldiers of the Tiance Army was at a disadvantage, it was a cut above the Tatar army in terms of combat power, so even if he divided his troops to attack, Liu Juntao was confident that he would win this battle!

Zhou Zongsheng and Sun Xu did not have any objection to Liu Juntao's decision to divide the troops, and immediately clenched their fists and took the order and went to deploy the troops and horses.

An hour later, the Tiance Army and the Tatar Iron Cavalry had already completed their formation, and then the 70,000 Tatar Iron Cavalry Army began to take the initiative to attack!

I saw that the 70,000 Tatar iron cavalry directly pressed the whole army, divided into three huge long dragons, and pressed towards the large array of the Tiance army.

The main force of 30,000 iron cavalry directly rushed to the Longxiang military formation in front, and the remaining 40,000 iron cavalry army was divided into two parts, 20,000 iron cavalry on the left and right wings, and killed directly towards the Changshui army and the tiger Ben military formation.

Liu Juntao also frowned slightly when he saw this, he didn't expect the leading general of the Tatar army to be so desperate, not at all like he was avoiding a fight before, what happened today, suddenly changed his sex?

Thinking about it, Liu Juntao did not hesitate for a moment, and directly changed the battle plan, at this time, it was no longer realistic to let the Tiger Ben army raid the Tatar battalion, and he could only deal with the 20,000 Tatar iron cavalry killed from the right flank first.

"Order General Sun Xu to defend on the spot and defeat the enemy in front of him at all costs!"

"Order General Zhou Zongsheng to attack immediately, block the 20,000 Tatar iron cavalry on the left flank of the Chinese army, and crush his troops at all costs!"

At this time, Liu Juntao had already made up his mind to prepare to solve the problem in a war, and at least to cripple the 100,000 Tatar iron cavalry in a single battle, so that he could calmly send troops and horses south to support Yanmen Pass.

"The herald ordered Bai Yuxing, the guerrilla general of the left battalion of the Longxiang Army, to lead his troops to resist, and it was necessary to stabilize the defense line of the army; Order Tao Jixin, the guerrilla general of the right battalion of the Longxiang Army, to lead his troops to stand by and prepare for a counterattack! ”

After the orders were issued, the officers and soldiers of the Tiance Army also fought fiercely with the Tatar Iron Cavalry Army!

On the left flank of the battlefield, the general Zhou Zongsheng led 2,000 Chinese army heavy armored iron cavalry to act as the arrows of the army, the guerrilla general Zhou Quan of the left battalion and the guerrilla general of the right battalion each led 5,000 iron cavalry to act as two wings, and the 12,000 iron cavalry army was like an extremely sharp long arrow, fiercely inserted into the cavalry formation of 20,000 Tatar iron cavalry, and the bloody battle began.

"Rush! Rush faster! ”

Zhou Zongsheng roared loudly, and the two thousand Chinese army heavy armored iron cavalry behind him also roared angrily, and the soldiers had already put two rounds of three-eyed guns on the way to charge, and directly beat the vanguard iron cavalry of the 20,000 Tatar iron cavalry to the back of the horse, at this time, the army rushed bravely, and immediately rushed the 20,000 Tatar iron cavalry backwards, and the 12,000 soldiers actually steadily pressed the 20,000 Tatar iron cavalry and beat it violently.

At the same time, on the right flank of the battlefield, the officers and men of the Tiger Ben Army under the staff general Sun Xu were also fighting, and the soldiers of the two battalions of the Tiger Ben Army first bombarded with the artillery attached to them, although the casualties caused to the 20,000 Tatar iron cavalry were not many, but the military morale of the Tatar iron cavalry was greatly affected, and the morale of the army also dropped sharply.

Then, more than 10,000 bird-gunners of the two battalions began to fire a volley, and the rhythmic roar came and went, playing a killing movement on the battlefield, and immediately the Tatar iron cavalry that had rushed to the front of the army formation dozens of steps was killed and wounded, and a "red line" composed of corpses was formed in front of the Tiger Ben military formation!

In the middle of the battlefield, Liu Juntao personally commanded the soldiers of the Longxiang Army to fight a bloody battle against 30,000 Tatar iron cavalry.

At this time, Bai Yuxing, the guerrilla general of the left battalion, had already stood on the front line of the battlefield, and thousands of bird-gunners were firing a frenzied salvo, and the rhythm of shooting was much faster than that of the Tiger Ben Army on the right flank of the battlefield.

Although on the battlefield on the left, middle, and right sides of the battlefield, the soldiers of the Tiance army have the upper hand, but the casualties of the three soldiers are also increasing, although the Tatar army is temporarily unable to rush to the front of the bloody battle, but the archers behind are also numerous, with the speed of the war horse charge, countless arrows continue to fall, like raindrops in the Tiance army array, bringing a lot of casualties to the soldiers of the various departments.

The bloody battle continued, until the evening, and the three-way Tatar iron cavalry army finally rushed to the front of the Tiance army, and fought fiercely with the Longxiang army, the Changshui army, and the tiger army for a long time, and the two sides were always deadlocked.

Seeing that it was about to fall into night, the chief general of the Tatar army, Weng Leng, took the lead and could not hold on, and ordered the iron cavalry army to slowly retreat and return to the camp.

Liu Juntao also sighed and ordered the army to withdraw to the camp for the time being, and the imperial court's reinforcements were still far away.