The Beijing battalion soldiers who were previously assigned to Shen Xi were completely ineligible to participate in such a high-intensity battle in terms of combat effectiveness, military morale, and morale. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, at that time, a group of generals followed behind Shen Xi, and they were also all kinds of prevarication, they liked to make trouble for Shen Xi when they had nothing to do, and they had to do whatever Shen Xi said.

But after several months of continuous combat, Shen Xi's soldiers and horses finally grew into the most elite combat troops of the Ming Dynasty...... Of course, if these people hadn't been cornered, they wouldn't have burst out with such a powerful fighting force.

Shen Xi's method is very simple, the specific training process is to let these people experience escape from death again and again, and every battle is fought as the last battle, and as a result, from generals to ordinary soldiers, they find that the war is not as terrible as imagined, and even only need to obey Shen Xi's orders, appear in the right place at the right time, and can easily achieve a big victory, and may not need to fight with the Tatars.

Shen Xi knew that the personal physical condition of the Ming army, who usually ate chaff vegetables, was far weaker than that of the Tartar who grew up eating beef and mutton, and not only did he not have an advantage when he was in close combat, but also because of the lack of mobility and the lack of aggressiveness, he usually had a situation of collapse at the touch of a button, so he never fought a battle that he was not sure of.

Before Shen Xi returned to King Qin, he knew very well that he would definitely face a large-scale frontal battle with the Tartars at that time, and he had to deliberately cultivate the ability of soldiers to rely on military formations to fight.

As long as they adapt to this kind of group combat, after the soldiers have the confidence to win, their self-confidence will inevitably increase, and when they arrive on the battlefield, they will naturally throw aside their fear of war, and then let them fight the Tatars head-on, it will no longer be a difficult thing.

Therefore, Shen Xi tried his best to let the officers and soldiers under his command launch a frontal assault when they were prepared, and constantly switched between attack and defense, and gradually the officers and soldiers became more and more familiar with this way of relying on military formations to fight.

In the previous confrontations with the Tartars, Shen Xi's command was basically invincible and invincible, and the Tartars were wiped out everywhere they went.

In this way, Shen Xi cultivated a group of Jingying soldiers with poor training and no combat experience, who were completely the mentality of a small citizen of the Ming Dynasty, and became the most elite professional soldiers of this era.

At this time, outside the Xizhi Gate of the capital, this fierce confrontation between the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian cavalry that was once invincible across the Eurasian continent was a good fight.

On the contrary, every time the Ming army counterattacked very sharply, the Tatar cavalry simply could not give full play to their mobile and strong impact characteristics, and were beaten by the combination of artillery, firearms and bows and crossbows.

In terms of the loss of troops, the Tatar side has now lost four or five thousand lives, and the loss is very fearful, especially in the plains where the Tatars are best suited, which is unacceptable.

Since the first sight of Shen Xi's troops, the Tartars knew who was in charge of this group of soldiers and horses, thinking of Shen Xi's great reputation, many of the tribal soldiers and horses participating in the war had stopped moving, even if the Khan generals who came to supervise the war shouted in every way, they were still slow, that is, they did not dare to approach the Ming army, so as to avoid becoming a stepping stone for other tribes.

The Tatars did not have any good way to resolve the embarrassing situation in front of them, after all, the Chinese army of the Ming army was as solid as a rock, and it was impossible to attack at all, and it was conservatively estimated that there were as many as 100 artillery pieces inside, not only with perfect shield and spear protection, but also with long-range attack weapons such as firearms, crossbows, bows and arrows to block the Tatar offensive.

After many temptations, the Tartars found that as long as they were close to the Ming army's central army within two miles, they would suffer, in this case, it was better to take the initiative to withdraw, launch a tentative attack from different directions, find the weakness of the Ming army, and then wait for the opportunity to launch a decisive charge.

But at this time, the cavalry led by Wang Lingzhi and others was not idle, and the task that Wang Lingzhi received from Shen Xi was to make trouble for the Tartars, always appearing where he was most needed, and giving the Tartars the most fatal blow.

Later, the Tartars also learned to be shrewd, and simply when the Ming cavalry launched a counterattack, they directly retreated the soldiers and horses, away from the Ming artillery, so that even if Wang Lingzhi's horse team retreated after the attack, the Tartars could also start a relatively long pursuit battle, which could kill many Ming cavalry.

The situation on the battlefield is constantly changing.

After Shen Xi found that the cavalry attack tactics he had formulated did not work, he decisively changed the plan, and the war drums changed the drum beat and rhythm until he finally stopped.

All the cavalry of the Ming army who were responsible for the attack quickly withdrew and regrouped in front of the Chinese camp.

At the same time, the five infantry phalanxes took the initiative to attack again, still stopping at a distance of 500 meters from the main formation of the Chinese army, and waited for the formation.

The Tartars had suffered enough from the infantry phalanx of the Ming army before, and they did not dare to act rashly at this time, and there was a situation of stalemate on the battlefield.

The Tartars did not dare to attack the Ming army, and the infantry phalanx of the Ming Dynasty also stopped on the battlefield and remained motionless because of the need to protect the safety of the Chinese army.

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At the head of Xizhimen City, when the soldiers of the defending army, as well as Zhu Houzhao, Zhang Mao, Li Dongyang and others saw this scene, they couldn't help but be surprised.

After a big battle lasted for two hours, it actually came to an abrupt end in the confrontation between the two armies, the Chu River and the Han Border, and the Jingwei distinction, and the two warring sides fought peacefully, which made people feel incredible.

Zhu Houzhao asked suspiciously, "Why did you stop?" ”

"This ......"

Zhang Mao is also puzzled, he has seen a lot of battlefield confrontations, but such an unbelievable battle as today is still the only one he has seen in his life.

Zhang Mao thought to himself: "This part of my Ming soldiers and horses outside the city, not only brave and good at fighting, but also effective orders, the army is neat, I have never seen it before, the Tartar side is relatively much worse, and it is still messy everywhere, obviously frightened." ”

"Now there is a thorny problem, if there are no soldiers and horses in the city to attack, then this Qinwang army will always be in danger, after all, the number of soldiers and horses of the Tartars is several times that of it, it is like sailing in water, although people can paddle the water, but they can never break free from the water."

Li Dongyang was also confused, but he had rich experience in handling political affairs, including many official documents from the border gates, and he made a bold guess at the moment: "Is Di Yi waiting for the follow-up soldiers and horses to be killed?" ”

Without anyone else answering, Zhu Houzhao directly denied it: "Impossible, there are almost fifty or sixty thousand soldiers and horses in the Tartar attack, but it is still impossible to completely defeat the soldiers and horses commanded by Mr. Shen, and even form a confrontation." ”

"And the soldiers and horses besieging the Beijing division by the Tartars themselves are only about 100,000, and this side already accounts for half of them, if they transfer troops from other city gates, they are not afraid that my Ming soldiers and horses will take the initiative to attack and cooperate with Mr. Shen?"

Even if Li Dongyang didn't want to admit that what Zhu Houzhao said was reasonable, he still couldn't help but feel ashamed, and sighed secretly: "What the prince said is true, even Di Yi has to guard against the attack of soldiers and horses in my city, and cooperate with the reinforcements, but I just can't make up my mind, and the emperor and Liu Shaofu probably won't agree...... This is a great irony! ”

Others want to guard against you, but you don't have this intention at all, it's ridiculous to say it, if the Tatars know about it, they will definitely laugh off their big teeth, and they will not hesitate to send troops and horses from other places to encircle and suppress Shen Xi.

But the situation is so delicate, the Ming army's stubborn plan because the martial law in the capital did not spread outside the city, the Tatars did not dare to act rashly, mobilized too many soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress Shen Xi, as for the 15,000 soldiers and horses led by Shen Xi himself, they were safe and secure on the battlefield surrounded by many enemies.