Altan Khan can guarantee that today's battle is the most bizarre battle he has fought in countless battles in the past few decades!

He has met countless opponents in the steppe, and he has not experienced defeats during this period, but most of the time, he can lead his cavalry to victory.

Even in the face of the huge Ming Dynasty, the Tatar cavalry led by him was able to occupy the advantage most of the time and firmly grasp the strategic initiative.

And what he relies on is the elite cavalry under his command!

But today, the cavalry, which was almost invincible in the past, is as if it has met a nemesis!

Their cavalry marksmanship, which the Tatars are most proud of, is of no use against the infantry phalanx of the Tang Army!

Even though their superb cavalry and archery skills also brought a certain degree of damage to the infantry phalanx of the Tang Army, this was far from enough!

Even the infantry of the Tang Army killed and wounded by them did not have as many casualties as themselves!

And this is a duel between cavalry and infantry, and the Tatar cavalry is the attacker who occupies the strategic initiative, but now, the scene that Altan Khan sees is absolutely unreasonable!

He couldn't understand how his 20,000 cavalry rushed up, and their performance on the battlefield was as strong as ever, but why was they pressed and beaten from beginning to end?

How many of the more than 10,000 cavalry who rushed into the Tang Army's many small phalanxes came out alive in the end?

There is a problem with this phalanx of the Don Army, there is definitely a problem!

Even Altan Khan still didn't understand why his own cavalry was defeated miserably, and the battlefield left him too little time for careful analysis, but the facts and intuition in front of him told him that the problem was definitely not how strong the Tang army was, or even how strong the Tang army's guns were, but in their phalanx!

This kind of phalanx is simply unheard of!

The four-cornered phalanx, he knows this, because the Ming army has also used it, well, it is also copied from the Tang army!

However, the characteristics of the four-cornered phalanx are in the defense against the cavalry charge, but in terms of firepower, to be honest, the arquebuses in the four corners cannot be compared with the arrows projected by the large number of cavalry roaring.

But these hollow phalanxes in front of them, which were completely devoid of spearmen, seemed to be only musketeers, and seemed to be even thinner, but Altan Khan could see it now, and their formation was actually denser than the quadrangular phalanx.

Without the protection of spearmen, the number of musketeers has more than doubled, and their musketeers are almost crowded when arranged, which is completely different from arquebuses, which also leads to the fact that their cavalry in the process of charging and shooting with bows and arrows and their opponents, the density of fire is almost four or even five times that of the Ming army's four-cornered phalanx!

Damn it!

When Altan Khan was annoyed, the Tatar cavalry finally passed through the Tang army as if there was no end, and then went around the passage on both sides, and then continued to gallop without looking back, as if there was a devil chasing them behind them!

The brief engagement that had only lasted a few minutes had been a nightmare for the Tatar cavalry, and now that they had finally woken up, they had finally escaped alive.

But behind these Tatar cavalry who managed to escape, there were countless fallen Tatar cavalry!

Not tens of hundreds, but tens of thousands!

Altan Khan in the rear only took a slight look, that is, he roughly judged the number of cavalry that escaped, about 10,000 cavalry, plus more than 4,000 cavalry who retreated in advance and did not participate in the attack, then the cavalry that successfully retreated was only 14,000 cavalry!

And what does this represent?

This means that a full 6,000 horsemen did not come back!

Their losses were on the way to the charge at the beginning, on the frontal fire of the infantry phalanx of the Tang Army, and even more on the multi-sided crossfire of the Tang Army after rushing in!

And this result almost made Altan Khan unable to look at it directly, Rao is that he is a grassland hero who has been fighting for many years and has already cultivated a strong heart, but he still can't accept this result!

The other side was not cavalry, but infantry, not even hoplites, they were just a group of musketeers, even if they were equipped with cuirass, but they were still musketeers, and their strength was actually less than their own 20,000 horsemen!

However, the result now is that his 20,000 cavalry has been defeated!

Damn it!

Altan Khan clenched his fists, and after taking several deep breaths in a row, he glanced at the Tang Army Guards phalanx in front of him again, and looked at the phalanx of the Ninth Infantry Division of the Tang Army next to him, and his heart was making a final struggle!

Will this battle continue?

It is absolutely undesirable to continue to charge the hollow phalanxes of the Tang army, but the several phalanxes on the other side of the Tang army are the four-cornered phalanxes that he has already seen, and if he uses the main force to rush again, it is very likely to break through the position of the Tang army.

But in this way, how many more casualties will your own cavalry have?

Five thousand?

Ten thousand?

And even if he was lucky enough to break through the phalanx of the Tang army, which caused the rout of the Tang army, then how should he face the Ming army at that time?

When the time comes, your own cavalry will suffer heavy casualties, and the Tang army will be defeated, this is a defeat for both sides, is it time to let the Ming army pick up a bargain?

Damn, he didn't come to help the Ming army fight, the lives of the Tatar cavalry were definitely not used to help the Ming army change the crisis, let him spend the lives of tens of thousands of cavalrymen himself, just to save the Ming army, not to mention that he was unwilling, all the Tatars would not agree.

After pondering for a long time, Altan Khan finally made his decision!

"Let's go!"

There were a few Tatar generals next to him who wanted to say something, but Altan Khan didn't have to listen to their words, they were unwilling, they wanted to go south to the Central Plains, and they also wanted to avenge their dead comrades.

But today's battle can't be fought anymore!

He only brought a total of more than 50,000 cavalry to the south, lost 4,000 in Liangshanji, and today he lost another 6,000 dead and wounded outside Anping Town, which adds up to the loss of more than 10,000 cavalry.

Moreover, more than one-fifth of the casualties were killed, and the impact on the morale of the army was also great!

Especially the failure of the 20,000 cavalry charge just now, but the loss of troops made many Tatar cavalry feel a sense of fear for the phalanx of the Tang army!

If they are allowed to attack the Tang army's phalanx again, I am afraid that someone will mutiny on the spot!

That's it, the dream of going south to the Central Plains, don't do it!

The dream is good, but the reality is too cruel, now all he has to do is to wake himself up from the dream, and then try to recover the loss as much as possible!

Thousands of cavalry were killed and wounded, and although the losses were large, the casualties were all cavalry of the side tribes, which had little impact on the descendants of Altan Khan, because his descendants of the cavalry had not been on the battlefield from beginning to end.

Moreover, this time he went south to the Central Plains, he did not gain nothing, at least, several important border towns in the north were half forced and half coerced from the hands of the Ming army, in addition, they plundered a lot of property in the Central Plains in the south, and almost every Tatar cavalry who went south was more or less satisfied with the spoils of war.

That's enough!

So Altan Khan stopped his men from speaking further, and once again said, "Let's go, right away!" ”

Despite a crushing defeat, Altan Khan's prestige was still very high among the Tatars, and after he gave the order, the Tatar cavalry, whether they wanted it or not, followed Altan Khan and began to retreat!

The Tatars come fast and go faster!

They rode their horses directly, and it didn't take them a few minutes to walk completely, and after a while, they completely disappeared from everyone's sight!

Tatar defeated?

The Tatars are gone?

Emperor Zhengde was stunned, looking to the west, where there were no poems and distances, only Tatar cavalry fleeing in embarrassment!

Because the direction of Emperor Zhengde was a little far away from the battlefield on the west side, he saw the Tatar cavalry charge, but the details of the battle between the two sides were naturally not visible, so until now, he still didn't know why the Tatar cavalry suddenly retreated, and the whole army retreated?

Didn't the Tatars storm the Tang army just now? Didn't they rush in? Why the retreat?

He simply did not see the scene of countless Tatar cavalry falling under the guns of the Guards!

He just saw the Tatar cavalry roaring away from a distance, rushing into the Tang Army's Guards phalanx, and then it didn't take long for it to withdraw, and then, the remaining more than 40,000 Tatar cavalry ran away directly!

Although I still don't understand why the Tatar cavalry suddenly ran away, Emperor Zhengde knew!

Today, he's going to play!

Today, Daming is coming to an end!

Without the containment of the Tatar cavalry, the army under his command could not stop the fierce attack of the Tang army at all, and could not even retreat!

The Tatars are all cavalry, and they are also riding two or even three horses, coming and going like the wind, coming and going whenever they want, and leaving when they want, but the main force under his command is infantry!

Even though the Ming army had 10,000 cavalry, but before sending the main force of cavalry south to attack the logistics supply line of the Tang army, only 3,000 cavalry remained in Anping Town, and these 3,000 cavalry could not even attack the artillery position of the Tang army just now, and they were forced to retreat after heavy losses!

When the main force is infantry, the Ming army will not be able to retreat at all!

Emperor Zhengde can guarantee that once he gives the order to retreat, it will immediately become the collapse of the whole army!

Retreat and collapse are words with very different meanings, but today, they are no different from the Ming army!

To retreat is death, and not to retreat is also death!

This battle is over!

The army is about to collapse completely!

Once this battle is lost, the two-hundred-year foundation of the ancestors will be over!

At this moment, Emperor Zhengde closed his eyes, his face full of despair!

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