"Array, prepare for battle!"

The young general Xia Youde, who commanded the phalanx on the southern wing, had made a lot of military exploits since he left the fortress, and had just been promoted by Shen Xi from 100 households to 1,000 households. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xia Youde is twenty-four years old, although he is not a recruit, but in the Beijing camp where seniority is ranked, such a junior has absolutely no chance to be promoted, and he will be a hundred households for the rest of his life.

But at this time, Xia Youde was a temporary Qianhu, and he was in charge of a thousand-man team, and when he came up, he faced the first big test in his life, and dealt with the charge of the Tatar 500 elite cavalry alone.

Xia Youde didn't have a calm mind like Shen Xi, at this time, he was stunned in the face of the Tatar soldiers and horses pressed by the black pressure, he only realized one thing, if he retreated at this time, then he and the entire thousand officers and soldiers would die here.

"Lord Shen said, no one can retreat, hold steady! Steady! ”

Xia Youde didn't care whether others could hear it or not, what he had to do now was to work hard to convey Shen Xi's military orders and urge the officers and soldiers to implement them meticulously.

Victory or defeat is no longer in the table at this time!

If this battle could not bring out the spirit of the Ming army and hit the Tatars hard, even if the errand explained by Shen Xi was not completed, Xia Youde himself would be embarrassed to raise the issue of promotion with Shen Xi.

Xia Youde has always felt that this battle is a turning point in his life, and before he thought that he could defeat the Tatars casually, it was basically a matter of going through the motions and ending, but obviously this was not the case.

shouted "steady" in his mouth, but Xia Youde panicked first, because in his life experience, no one told him that the impact of five hundred cavalry looked so fierce!

But seeing the black cavalry in the sun rushing towards their own ranks, the sound of horses' hooves was incessant, the ground trembled incessantly, and the soldiers felt sweat on their backs, which was completely different from the easy victory they imagined.

Two miles, one mile, three hundred steps, two hundred steps......

"Bow and crossbow ready, fire gun ready!"

At the critical time, Xia Youde still remembered the passwords that Shen Xi taught him, and he had been reciting these passwords almost in his dreams in the past two days, for fear that he would forget them when he was in battle.

In the army, a commander who can keep a cool head is the key to a soldier's victory, and if the commander cannot keep calm, the only way to do so is to use some mechanical means to make the soldiers feel that their commander is still calm enough.

And instilling some mechanical language into these generals who have been entrusted with reuse is what Shen Xi has been doing before.

"Attention! Launch! ”

Xia Youde held the war knife high in his hand, and when the war knife was swung down hard, the sound of fire guns had already sounded scattered in front of him.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the range was very close, and the firing accuracy and lethality were extremely limited, but in recent years, the imperial court used the principle of the Franc cannon to create many Franc machine guns, the biggest feature of this firearm is that it fires scattered bullets, and the distance and accuracy are increased by lengthening the barrel.

Moreover, after Shen Xi's transformation, the bullet chamber can be loaded in the breech, although the launch speed is still not ideal, but the lethality has increased a lot.

A round of muskets went down, and the Tatars rushed at the front of the cavalry, and from time to time someone fell.

Although these light cavalry had an absolute advantage in speed, they were not as defensive as the heavy cavalry, so that they were not highly defensive against the extremely powerful fire bullets.

Most of the Tatars wore leather armor instead of armor, because the most scarce thing in the steppe was iron, and the Tatars' poor iron smelting skills made them use their limited resources to improve the performance of their weapons, and the heavy cavalry was only a few.

The Tatars have always attacked the strong and defended the weak, which is the Tatar character cast, they are more accustomed to a short-handed battle in the wilderness, and the Ming army to fight offensive and defensive battles is actually not what they are good at, because they are relatively lacking in siege equipment, and now the Chinese army has the basic plunder from the Ming Yansui Town and Xuanfu Town.

The armor of thick leather armor is good in guarding against swords, guns, swords, halberds and arrows, but it is not good when guarding against the fragments of artillery blasting and fire bullets, but after all, the number of Ming soldiers in a phalanx is not very large, coupled with the poor archery skills of the soldiers, this round of shooting will shoot down more than ten Tatar soldiers at most.

The remaining more than 480 Tatar cavalry continued to rush towards the Ming army's thousand-man infantry phalanx like a tide.

At this time, at the head of the city, Shen Xi saw this scene with a telescope and shook his head slightly.

Although Yun Liu couldn't see the specific situation clearly, he saw that the Tatars seemed to be charging unabated, and immediately said nervously: "My lord, the situation is not very good, the Tatars seem to want to concentrate their superior forces and break them one by one!" ”

Shen Xi replied: "Don't worry, the scene is still under control!" ”

Yun Liu didn't say anything more, and continued to keep his eyes open and observe, and in his field of vision, the two armies of the enemy and ours had basically merged into one, entering a close hand-to-hand combat.

Condescendingly, it was clear that the Ming infantry phalanx remained basically intact before encountering the enemy attack, but as the two sides collided violently, the soldiers inevitably panicked, revealing many flaws in the defensive line. The Tatars killed directly through the opening of the cave and slaughtered the Ming army behind the shield.

It's a pity that Xia Youde's phalanx is six miles away from the city, Yun Liu doesn't have a telescope in hand, she can't see it very clearly, she knows that it's useless to be in a hurry, the important thing is that Shen Xi can withstand the pressure, and the soldiers on the front line can withstand the onslaught of the Tatars.

Yun Liu looked sideways at the remaining three infantry phalanxes, at this time the three infantry phalanxes were extremely stable, and the remaining 1,500 or 600 cavalry of the Tatars did not launch an effective attack, but fought separately, and fought with the other three infantry phalanxes, all of which used guerrilla tactics, and did not dare to approach the three phalanxes.

Zhang Yong shouted: "Lord Shen, our family can't understand it, what is this Tartar doing?" Why only one side? ”

Hu Songyue stood at the head of the city, his expression was nervous, according to the plan, he would have been sent to the battlefield by Shen Xi, but he was temporarily transferred back as the commander of the general reserve in the city, and he felt extremely embarrassed in his heart, and at this time he said angrily:

"Grandpa Zhang can't see clearly? The Tartars clearly wanted to use the remaining cavalry to contain our three phalanxes, and then use the main force to break the formation one by one. Lord Shen, please give an order, and lead all the way to kill him! ”

Shen Xi asked, "I'll give you 10,000 infantry, is it too late to rush over?" ”

One sentence stunned Hu Songyue.

Indeed, it was no longer an easy road to get out of the civil fort, the cavalry had lost the advantage of maneuvering in front of the layers of trenches, and even if they were familiar with the trench detours, it would take a lot of time, and the city fortress could only send infantry to help. And from the west gate to the front of the southern flank infantry phalanx is a full six miles away, how many soldiers and horses rush over.

Hu Songyue said: "My lord, how is that good?" ”

Shen Xi said with confidence on his face: "This official has enough confidence in the soldiers under my command!" ”

Hu Songyue and Zhang Yong were silent, but they were still extremely nervous and continued to observe the progress of the war.

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The southern flank infantry phalanx was close to the Tatars, and a gap was broken in the formation, and the soldiers underestimated the impact of the Tatar cavalry, so that the opening was too easily knocked open.

But the Tatar general Ulica was a reckless man, he only knew how to charge with his head covered, and did not deliberately use the change of tactics to break the Ming infantry phalanx.

When the Ming defense line was knocked into the opening, it was necessary for officers and soldiers to compress the phalanx, use shield soldiers to fill the gap, and at the same time, internal officers and soldiers needed to strangle the Tatar cavalry that rushed in.

After a small number of Tatar cavalry entered the phalanx, they were quickly surrounded by the surrounding Ming army, and suddenly started a scuffle, although the Ming infantry was not much heroic, but they had no way to retreat, they could only fight with the Tatar cavalry, spears stabbed out, regardless of whether the stab stabbed people, staring at the target is a mess.

No matter how brave the Tatars were, the first batch of those who entered the gap were also invincible with two fists and four hands, not to mention that there were also firecrackers and crossbowmen in the Ming army camp who secretly used cold arrows.

As the twenty or thirty horsemen who initially entered the gap were surrounded by Ming soldiers, the shield soldiers on both sides desperately filled the gap to prevent the Tatar follow-up cavalry from killing in.

At this time, Ulica was not in the small group of troops in the lead, but on the flank, because he remembered Yismayin's confession that when encountering this kind of encounter between cavalry and infantry, he must find a breakthrough from the enemy's flank, because the Ming army is usually only good at frontal defense.

But Ulica didn't know that Shen Xi took advantage of the Tatar mentality to change the focus of defense from the front to the two wings, which greatly weakened the defense of the front, and at the same time, the Tatars did not take advantage of this loophole in time because they were "smart".

The shouts of soldiers on both sides were earth-shattering, but the Ming army was more blindly shouting, because the high shields were blocking, they couldn't see where the Tatar cavalry was, they were all their own people, and in the case of scattered formations after the battle, people were hugging each other, and their weapons could hurt their own people at any time.

The disadvantages of the Ming army's lack of much actual combat experience are fully revealed.

But at this time, the wishful thinking of the Tatar cavalry basically failed, because they only found the problem in front of the infantry phalanx, the Ming army formation was almost monolithic, and the outside could not be killed, but the inside would shoot fire bullets and bows and arrows at any time, and the Tatar cavalry killed around the infantry phalanx, and they were stunned and did not find a place to put down.

There was a thought in Ulica in his heart: "What a hell of a life!" ”

This was completely different from the Ming army he had encountered before, even if the Ming army could maintain its formation intact before the battle, it would inevitably be scattered after close combat, and it would always find a gap to kill.

With the impact of the Tatar cavalry, the Ming army could be killed without much effort, and finally won easily.

That is still the relatively strong border army of the Ming army, and the border army is still like this, not to mention the Beijing battalion soldiers who have no actual combat experience?

Obviously, Shen Xi's training of the officers and soldiers under his command is better than that of the border army generals, and the soldiers and horses under Shen Xi's command have won successive battles, their morale is high, and their cowardice is relatively weak.

After the start of this battle, the soldiers did not seem to be much flustered, and they were basically able to complete the errands they received, even if there were mistakes and omissions, their companions would remind them, and they would support each other, which was rarely seen in the rest of the Ming army.

"Bang bang bang!"

The guards around Ulica were knocked down by cold guns and arrows from time to time, and the closer they got closer, the higher the accuracy of the Ming army's guns, and the Ming army was not weaker than the Tatar cavalry in this kind of defensive battle.

Wu Licha gradually figured out one thing, if he didn't enter the Ming army's army formation at one time, he might be so endlessly cold guns and arrows by the Ming army, gradually eating away at his soldiers and horses.