The land was not quiet, and the sound of the wind was filled with the sound of horses' hooves, shouts, and the noise of various drums and trumpets. But when Adai Khan rode up to a high ground, he stood for a while, but felt as if there was a kind of emptiness between heaven and earth. Probably because the gently undulating earth is so vast that countless people are as light as ants in it.

Before, Adai Khan talked a lot with his subordinates, but now he has spoken very little. Many complicated thoughts were suddenly emptied at this moment, and he just looked at the battlefield intently.

The baggage convoy of the Ming army was very large, and it was placed on the ground in such a long dragon-like shape, stretching for an extremely long time, and there was no end in sight in front and back, as if the whole land was divided into two sides. The long line was filled with smoke, and the crowd in the distance was hazy. They may have twenty or thirty thousand people, or they may be thirty or forty thousand, but this observation is impossible for Adai Khan to estimate.

The main cavalry of the Horqin Division had not yet attacked, and the teams were gathering in the open ground below the high ground. Where the horses are densely packed, the ground is covered with a layer of dust, and the horse team is like a cloud. The land here is not very good, there seems to be salt in the soil, and the grass and trees are scarce, and it is easy to get ash.

And the cavalry of the Uliangha tribes, without waiting for the news of the Great Khan's drum and trumpet, had already begun to attack the enemy's long dragon. The Ming army was changing its formation and deploying defenses, and the Uliangha people should be worried that they would miss the opportunity.

Even Adai Khan could see that many Ming troops at the north and south ends were abandoning their vehicles and converging in the middle, trying to form a large phalanx with more depth.

At this time, several Mongols came uphill. The high ground is so gentle that you can rush up on horseback.

One of the people who came, the leader of the Horqin tribe, bowed with his hand to his chest, and said, "Report to the Great Khan, earlier our men saw that there were Ming knights galloping north, and they had already gone to ask for help. ”

Adai Khan nodded, pointed to the black smoke in the distance and asked, "What is that?" ”

The leader said: "It seems to be tung oil in the car, and something else is added to it, and it burns up a lot of smoke." ”

Adai Khan was still staring at the puffs of smoke.

Seeing this, the tribal leader next to him said: "The Ming army uses firecrackers a lot, and the Great Khan can still hear the sound of firecrackers when he looks at those flashes." They stopped in such a long formation, and the fire could not stop the cavalry that was rushing to kill. The Ming army at the front was not well prepared, and they couldn't stop the Uliangha cavalry, so they set fire to the tung oil cart. The Ming army should have been to delay the attack in order to buy time for the men and horses behind. ”

Adai Khan looked carefully for a while, and sure enough, he found that the Ming army, which was facing the Mongol army at the forefront, was retreating.

The convoy of the Ming army roughly had three parallel columns, because the Mongols attacked from the west, and the Ming soldiers and horses were facing the west. The first few Wuliang Hama teams that rushed to kill had broken through the first line of defense of the Ming army.

Those Ming troops must have temporarily sprinkled things such as thistles on the ground, and also lit tung oil carts, and even occasionally saw very large gunpowder bursting brightly, and then many foot soldiers were retreating; As a result, the Mongols failed to take the opportunity to kill the second convoy of the Ming army, and many of them dismounted and were clearing the ground for something.

The Great Khan was surrounded by another human: "Sooner or later, we will be able to cut off the long convoy of the Ming people, and then we will make a detour from all directions, looking for vulnerable places to disrupt their infantry formations." ”

Adai Khan opened his mouth and said: "This is the baggage battalion of the Ming army, is there too many people?" ”

The humanity that just spoke

"The Great Khan is right, there are so many infantry in the rear camp of the Ming army. Perhaps they were also wary of our roundabout attack on the camp beforehand, and the escort was very numerous. ”

The Korqin cavalry was almost finished. The gathered herd of horses was located nearly two miles away from the west side of the Ming army's Changlong, because the Mongols knew that the Ming army had a cannon that could hit a mile away.

However, at this time, there was no cannon sound in the crowd of the Ming army. Their baggage battalion may not have had time to reload the cannons, and even if they did, it was more likely that they would have put the kind of scattered bullets with many small iron pellets and stones, so as to repel a cavalry charge; And that kind of shotgun has a range of up to a few tens of paces, which is useless against the enemy at a distance.

The main force of the Korqin cavalry began to move forward slowly. But Adai Khan's decision to order an attack was delayed.

Many of his subordinates around him turned their heads to look at Da Khan, and some of them had confused expressions on their faces.

Adai Khan's hesitation really made people very incomprehensible. Any military general with a little experience can see that such a long convoy of the Ming army will end sooner or later. Perhaps the firearms, horse repelling rifles, and thistles of the Ming army could hold off the cavalry for a while, and even give great casualties in some places; However, this lack of depth in the infantry formation could not stop the cavalry from charging at all, and as soon as the horses went up, most of the infantry armed with firearms would break up.

"Wait." Adai Khan had a calm expression.

His mood was actually a bit up and down. Of course, he also hopes that everything will be expected. After all, if this is a trap, no matter what Adai Khan does now, it is irreparable and will suffer a big loss. That's how it is on the battlefield, one wrong step is subject to restrictions everywhere. The Mongols were mainly cavalry, which was more flexible than the Han army, but it also entered a passive situation as a result. Adai Khan was reluctant to see this happen.

However, Adai Khan could not resolve the uneasiness in his heart, and he always felt that something was not quite right, but he could not say it with certainty.

In the middle of the smoke, a group of Uliangha cavalry began to attack the second convoy of the Ming army in the distance. Adai Khan looked away from the nearby herd of horses and looked at the distant scene.

There was a thin smoke in the air, and the smoke and dust were even greater where the battle was fighting, and the flames flickered every once in a while. Adai Khan knew that it was the Ming army's firearms, and the Ming army would also fire them instead, and those firearms were equivalent to shooting arrows, but the rate of fire was slow and more lethal to those in armor.

The attack of the Uliangha did not go well, and they were directly repulsed several times by the firearms. Once, some cavalry seized the empty space and rushed to the front of the Ming army, but they did not move forward, ran sideways in front of the formation for a while, and retreated again.

At this time, several fast horses rushed uphill, jumped off their mounts, and presented a fire gun to Adai Khan with both hands.

Adai Khan reached out and took it, staring at it for a moment. He first found that this kind of firearm was longer, with a sharp knife in front, and it was like a spear in his hand. Adai Khan then discovered that there was no arquebus at the tail of the firebolt, but a copper-forged mechanism.

He looked at it for a while and handed it to the nobles around him.

It is no wonder that when the Uliangha people in the distance reached the second line of defense, they did not make progress for a long time, and some cavalry rushed to the front of the formation and did not dare to break the formation. The Ming army armed with this kind of spear, and the horses were reluctant to rush up, not to mention the smoke flashes and explosions made from the fire guns from time to time, which would also affect the courage of the war horses. Perhaps it was possible to break through the Ming army's military formation by continuing to charge with elite cavalry, but the cost was too great, which was very different from the combat habits of the Mongol tribes

Different.

Adai Khan once again looked at the black smoke from the tung oil, and the retreating crowd of Ming troops in the first Ming army vehicle array.

His face turned pale, and he finally spoke: "Those people in front of him are deceitful, this is a prepared trap. ”

There was an uproar all around, and then an atmosphere of anger and panic spread across people's faces.

Adai Khan immediately said: "Send someone to give an order, tell our cavalry not to advance, and to withdraw immediately." Let the tribes of Uliangha also stop attacking and prepare to withdraw. ”

The subordinate holding the flag next to him bowed and saluted, and turned over on his horse.

Adai Khan said: "Tell the leaders not to panic, and the horse team must not be chaotic." The war is not over yet, and we have to go back to the camps of the tribes. ”

The general asked, "The Great Khan thinks that the Ming people are here to lure us, but the cavalry will attack our camp?" ”

Adai Khan said, "Otherwise, what would their cavalry do?" ”

Suddenly, someone showed a look of frustration.

Adai Khan said: "The Ming army is not our opponent with the forward cavalry alone, as long as we save our troops and withdraw, things are not too bad." Don't panic, most of the Ming troops here are infantry, as long as we don't be fooled, there is no way for them to leave. ”

As he spoke, the main force of the Korqin cavalry should have received orders, they stopped their advance, and began to turn around.

At this time, Adai Khan noticed an anomaly in the Ming army opposite, the vehicles in the middle were changing, and the faintly shiny thing attracted Adai Khan's idea. When he looked closely, he saw that the things covering the carriages had been removed, probably some felt, cowhide, or the like. After the cover was gone, under the empty shelf, there was actually a smooth and reflective copper cannon.

The enemy did not lift the bronze cannon down, they directly adjusted the reverse, so that the two-wheeled gun carriage was aimed at the Korqin horse herd, and soon two fires flickered. Then a huge cannon fire broke through the air.

The cannons are already loaded with ammunition and waiting there, isn't this deliberately waiting for the Mongols to be fooled, what does it mean?

"Cunning and treacherous Han Chinese!" Someone cursed and spat at the row of gun wagons.

However, this steppe was still occupied by the Huns, the Mongols did not know where, and the Han people had already begun to fight the steppe cavalry. They seem to have fought more unscrupulously than the Mongols.

Adai Khan watched with a solemn expression and said nothing.

The roar of the shelling was sporadic at first, then intensified. The fire shone brightly in the smoke, like thunder and lightning in the clouds.

Several shells hit the herd of Korqin horses, and there was chaos inside, and the miserable neighing of horses and the shouts of people were heard. A dark shadow could be faintly felt in the air, but people could not see the movement of the cannonballs falling to the ground, and when they came back to their senses, they could only see people running around on their horses, and the cannonballs had jumped in a long line among the horses.

Adai Khan watched his cavalry on the high ground, and felt that they were like frightened ant nests, with a large area of black pressure in the middle, and the frightened horses and cavalry running around them continued to spread around. Looking at this situation, it is impossible to maintain an intact and orderly retreat.

"Order the chiefs of the tribes to regroup the cavalry after retreating." Adai Khan gave another order.