Zhu Houzhao came to the city wall below, and the enthusiasm in his heart had become cold, mainly as far as the eye could see, the situation was too tragic, there were corpses all over the ground, pools of blood everywhere, and many injuries and illnesses moaned in pain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It is always a three-minute heat, and Zhu Houzhao seriously underestimates the difficulties he is currently facing.

Just when the bear child was in a dilemma, Zhang Mao, the British prince, and Zhang Heling, the Marquis of Shouning, went to the city in armor, appeared in front of Zhu Houzhao, and saluted respectfully: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the city gate is in danger, please return to the palace immediately!" ”

When Zhu Houzhao saw Zhang Mao and Zhang Heling, his eyes lit up, as if he saw a savior, he strode forward, grabbed one person's arm with one hand, and begged:

"Old man Zhang, uncle, you came just in time, my Ming reinforcements finally arrived, and now they are outside Xizhimen, but they are in danger and are surrounded by Tartars...... Quickly recruit tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to Xizhimen, go out of the city with the palace, and annihilate the current Tartars in one fell swoop! ”

Zhang Mao and Zhang Heling glanced at each other, they had roughly heard the situation outside the city before they went to the city, and now they couldn't determine who the leader of this part of the reinforcements was, and the two thought that the biggest possibility was Liu Daxia's soldiers and horses on the three sides, or the reinforcements from Juyongguan to kill King Qin, the division of Beijing.

Zhang Mao advised: "Prince, the matter of sending troops should be decided by the Ministry of War, you better go back to the palace as soon as possible!" ”

"I don't go back, whoever loves to go back! Hurry up! ”

Zhu Houzhao glared and shouted at Zhang Mao, "If you don't obey the arrangement of this palace, my Ming soldiers and horses outside the city will be wiped out by the Tartars because they can't get reinforcements, and I will definitely show my father to cut off all of you!" ”

Zhang Yuan finally crawled out of the pile of dead people, looked down a few times at the head of the city, and danced with his eyebrows: "Prince, come and see, the war outside the city has changed again!" ”

"Really? Where, where? ”

Zhu Houzhao rushed directly to the battlements and looked out through the gap between the shield and the battlements, but saw that four or five miles northwest of the city, the Ming cavalry line had restarted the counterattack from the previous compressed state, because the huge infantry camp of the Ming army began to change...... The Ming army had an infantry phalanx of 1,000 men, with shields, spearmen, firecrackers and crossbowmen in the array, and a total of five phalanxes.

In the middle of the five major infantry phalanxes, there is also a large phalanx with an unknown number of people, which exists as a central army.

Like a hedgehog-like phalanx of Ming infantry phalanx, Gong Wei around the Chinese army, directly launched a-for-tat attack with the Tatar cavalry, suppressed the impact of the Tatar cavalry with archers and firecrackers, and used the artillery in the Chinese army formation to deal with the Tatar cavalry assembly at any time...... As long as the cavalry of the Tartars was not large, it could not pose a threat to the infantry phalanxes on the periphery of the Ming army.

After being frustrated in several successive attacks, the Tartars finally learned their lesson, began to assemble cavalry four or five miles away, and then lined up in formation and charged the Ming infantry phalanx in the southwest corner.

"Boom-"

After the Tartars entered the two miles, the gunners in the large formation of the Ming army began to ignite, and when the Tartar cavalry sprinted to a mile and a half, the shells just fell, and they exploded immediately.

But the Tartars were very resolute, and the assembled cavalry was more than 1,000 cavalry, and although they were hit by two consecutive rounds of artillery fire when they rushed to a distance of 300 meters from the infantry phalanx, there were still more than 900 cavalry left.

After entering two hundred meters, the Tartar cavalry began to accelerate, but as a sharp whistle sounded, the Ming army fired a volley, and twenty or thirty Tartars and their horses immediately rolled into a ball.

The musketeers of the first row of the Ming army immediately crouched down to reload, and another whistle sounded, and the second row of musketeers continued to fire, this time forty or fifty Tartars and war horses had fallen.

As the second row of firecrackers crouched, the third row fired again, and this time seventy or eighty Tartars and horses fell to the ground as the Tartars rushed closer.

At this time, the Tartars had rushed to the infantry phalanx more than ten meters away, and the shields on the periphery were quickly erected, and between the shields, the spears in the hands of the Ming army were laid flat, and the muzzles were densely packed, and the infantry phalanx seemed to have become a big hedgehog covered with steel and cold hair.

The Tartar cavalry crashed into the gun forest, and dozens of horsemen were killed immediately, and the rest of the Tartars wanted to rush forward desperately, but were blocked by the shield, and at this time, the bows and crossbows of the Ming army were fired in unison, and a large number of Tartars fell to the ground wailing.

At this time, the impact momentum of the Tartar cavalry had been completely contained, and the follow-up Tartars saw that the situation was not good, so they could only bypass the two wings of the infantry phalanx separately and shoot arrows at the Ming army formation sideways. At this time, the Ming troops in other directions were waiting for a serious formation, and another row of musketeers began to shoot, and the Tartars fell one after another.

In the end, the Tartars' painstaking charge of the battle ended in complete defeat, and after losing three or four hundred horsemen, Zhu Houzhao looked at the eyebrows and danced, raised his arms excitedly and said: "Okay, this is the template of the real infantry fighting cavalry, Mr. Shen is worthy of being a genius of the world, the only art of war today!" ”

Zhang Mao, who was standing behind the crown prince, was dumbfounded, shocked that the tactical literacy of the reinforcements outside was so high, and the same infantry was not afraid of the Tatar soldiers and horses with similar strength to his own, and couldn't help but secretly wonder:

"It is said that the Tartars are invincible in the field, when did I come out with such a strong army? The most incredible thing in the wilderness is that the whole army is like an arm, and the actions are uniform, and it is clearly well-trained, who is in charge of the army? ”

Zhang Mao naturally couldn't understand that in the minds of these Qinwang officers and soldiers outside the city, they didn't take the battle in front of them too seriously.

In terms of cruelty, nothing can compare to the successive battles around Tumu Fort, compared to the kind of outnumbered, weak defeated strong, the army is neat at the moment, and it is outside the capital, it is still under the personal command of Shen Xi, they have nothing to fear at all.

After more experience, there is no fear of war.

There are border troops to return to the Beijing Division, this news quickly spread throughout the nine gates of the Beijing Division, the defenders in the city do not know who is leading the troops to help, but it is expected that it is not Liu Daxia or Zhu Hui and other nobles, the soldiers stationed in the city do not know much about the situation on the nine sides, and they cannot judge the origin of this road of soldiers and horses.

Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even Zhang Mao and others can't tell who brought back the soldiers and horses outside, it is true that the border army is true, but the information obtained before is that the soldiers and horses on the three sides were blocked in the same line, how could tens of thousands of soldiers and horses suddenly come back, and the army is neat, in the eyes of Zhang Mao and others, it is too magical.

The only people in the city who knew the reinforcements were Xie Qian and Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao was excited, but he immediately found that the strength of Shen Xi's department was still limited after all, in order to ensure the safety of the Chinese army, the infantry phalanx did not dare to leave too far, once the Tartar charge was defeated, it would retreat in time, and if the Tartar launched a charge again, he would take the initiative to attack, and the offensive of the Tartars along the way would be invisible.

"No, no, no, now the war has fallen into a stalemate, and the city must send soldiers and horses to join forces with the reinforcements outside, otherwise the Tartars will attack in turn, and the fatigue will also exhaust people to death...... Hurry up and give the order and send your troops out of the city, or the good situation will be ruined!" ”

Zhu Houzhao still pinned his hopes on Zhang Mao and Zhang Heling, but neither of them obviously wanted to let go on the issue of sending troops, and at this time, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian came down from the city tower, Zhang Mao glared at the two, as if he blamed them for not fulfilling their responsibilities and not taking Zhu Houzhao down the city in time.

Zhu Houzhao was very disappointed when he saw that none of the surrounding generals listened to him, and finally he took Zhang Mao's arm and begged bitterly: "Old man Zhang, please send troops...... Do you want to sit idly by and watch my Ming soldiers being gradually eaten away by the Tartars outside the city? ”

Zhang Mao was in a very conflicted mood, it was not that he didn't want to send troops, but that he was not qualified to transfer troops out of the city, after all, he was only a military general, and he had to obey the orders of the military department.

"Woo-"

The horn outside the city sounded, and after struggling to support for a period of time, the Ming army finally changed from attack to defense again, and fought and retreated, but in the process of retreating, it appeared orderly, and slowly brought the main force of the Tatars to five or six miles northwest of Xizhimen, completely out of the city wall.

Zhu Houzhao reminded: "If you don't send troops now, when will you wait?" This is an excellent opportunity to turn the tide of the battle, and letting the Tartars go wild will not only put Mr. Shen in danger, but also put Jingshi in an isolated situation again! ”

Zhang Mao only understood what Zhu Houzhao said at this time, and asked very surprised: "His Royal Highness the Prince, outside the city...... Is it Shen Xi? ”

Zhu Houzhao frowned and said, "Who is not Mr. Shen?" What else can you count on Liu Shangshu? Liu Shangshu is old and faint, leading the troops to blindly seek stability, if it weren't for him, my Ming Dynasty in the northwest would not have fallen to such a miserable state now. Finally, Mr. Shen came back with his troops, and you are still very picky...... You don't send troops, do you? That Hongu personally led people out to kill! ”

Zhang Mao looked into the distance and reassured: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, please calm down, it seems that the reinforcements outside do not need to be supported by soldiers and horses in the city......"

At this time, the Imperial Forest Army pushed up a watchtower from the city, and saw Zhu Houzhao, who was not real at the battlements, hurriedly climbed to the roof of the car five or six meters high, and looked into the distance, and the battle situation outside the city really changed again.

The infantry phalanx of the Ming army compressed the front very tightly, and the Franc machine gun and the fire gun became the main means of suppressing the offensive of the Tatar cavalry, on this basis, Wang Lingzhi and Lin Heng and others each led the cavalry team to rush back and forth, and the two sides launched a life-and-death struggle, and the Tatars could not break the tight military formation of Shen Xi for a while, and the war entered the stage of stalemate.

But even if they were in a stalemate, the Tatar losses were far heavier than those of the Ming army, because the artillery and guns on Shenxi's side greeted the Tatar cavalry almost at any time, one by one.