The sun shone on the sands of the riverbank, a pale sheen, and deep on the horizon there was a large open forest, and the treetops rose faintly in the breeze. It was just a sunny and quiet morning.

Zhu Gaoxu stood outside the barracks fence and watched the shadows of a group of people and horses coming from a distance in the sparse woods. The soldiers next to him waited silently.

The cavalry drew nearer, guarding an unmanned horse in the middle; But there seemed to be something on the back of the empty horse. When a group of men and horses got closer, it was clear that there was a human head on the back of the empty horse!

Bloodstained heads and hair were dirty and messy, and ropes were fastened to horses. In the mouth of his head, he is biting a piece of rice paper. Zhu Gaoxu motioned for the sergeant to take off the piece of paper, and when he took it over, he saw that it was a letter written by Zhu Gaochu himself to Sixingfa, which was covered with bloodstains.

"He's a mother!" Some generals have already cursed.

Zhu Gaoxu's face was tanned and red like pork liver. He couldn't say a word, his face was hot, as if he had just been slapped with a "crackle".

After a long time, he finally took a deep breath, and then held back a sentence: "Order the whole army to start immediately and continue to march to Mengyang City!" ”

It's hard to reason. Zhu Gaoxu said with a voice in his heart, but he didn't say this sentence.

Shame is no longer helpful. What the opponent did completely made Zhu Gaoxu miscalculate. Sometimes he couldn't help but wonder, could it be that his way of thinking was so far away from the ancients? Why is Toast's reaction always different from what he thinks!

But Zhu Gaoxu doesn't think he's wrong! In this world, no matter what the concept of mortals, there are some things in the dark that will always operate according to objective rules.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't believe that Si's actions would be able to reap any benefits. The end result is nothing more than that both sides are very unhappy, as if they have each eaten a piece of filth.

…… The next day, just when Zhu Gaoxu thought that Si's Toast was going to avoid the war and fight him to the end, he guessed wrong again.

As soon as it was dawn, the scouts went to the camp to make an urgent report, and found that a large number of Tusi troops had gathered in the north!

"He's it!" Zhu Gaoxu suddenly scolded, not knowing whether he felt absurd or surprised.

This war has been fought so far, except for guessing the enemy situation in the first battle, it is only a tactical thing; After that, until now, Zhu Gaoxu no longer knows what Si wants to do, and he doesn't understand why his opponent wants to do it.

He wanted to break his head and understand a little bit of the psychology of thinking and doing...... Maybe Sixingfa killed the envoy of the Ming army and wanted to hold his face, so he was willing to set up a decisive battle?

Zhu Gaoxu himself thinks that this kind of inference is really a bit far-fetched, but who knows what Sixingfa thinks?

Anyway, there is a fact in front of us: with the lethality of weapons in this era, only gathering people on a small battlefield for a decisive battle is the most efficient way of warfare. Otherwise, it will inevitably be fought until the Year of the Monkey.

Zhu Gaoxu slapped his palm on the simple wooden case, and immediately said: "Zhao Ping, immediately send someone to order all battalions, gather the army to form a formation, and face the enemy head-on!" Send someone to tell Diao Tuyu to tell his men and horses to line up on the two wings of our department, and the coalition army will be deployed in a large formation with the word 'product'. ”

Zhao Ping hugged his fists and said: "Order!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu didn't take off his armor last night, so he picked up the wide-brimmed iron hat and put it on, took the Yanling knife and walked out of the Chinese army's tent. He took the reins of the brown horse from the guard's hand, and asked for a long-handled knife to hang on his back.

The trumpets on all sides whimpered and fluttered melodiously across the land, and the war drums roared and the military flags fluttered in the barracks. On the entire plateau, it seems that there is life early in the morning.

As soon as the sun rose over the shadow of the mountains in the east, Zhu Gaoxu and a group of elite horsemen took the lead in crossing the sparse forest to the north, and he saw the enemy soldiers with his own eyes. On the sand, on the gentle slopes, and on the edge of the sparse woods, there are Tusi's pawns everywhere, and it seems that the thinking and practice method has paid a bloody capital this time!

Zhu Gaoxu didn't ask others why, anyway, there were very few cavalry in the Tusi army, and the mounts were mainly war elephants. But he took a closer look and found that Meng Yangjun's war elephants were all behind, and elephants could be seen in the woods and behind the hillside from time to time; A large army in front of it, only infantry and vehicles.

Si Shi doesn't seem to be completely brute, they have used elephant soldiers to suffer the loss of the Ming army's firearms, and now they don't use elephants to deploy in front of the battle.

The two armies spread out over a small stretch of land on a vast plateau, slowly approaching each other.

One after another, the rangers of the Ming army came from this sparse forest, wandering in all directions, staring at the distance of the Tusi army. Zhu Gaoxu also turned the horse's head and patted the horse back to his big array.

As for the Chinese army, a group of generals such as the general of the thousands, the deputy generals, and the generals gathered over.

Zhu Gaoxu suppressed a lot of anger in his heart, and he didn't have anything to say for a while, and he couldn't say a word of blood. He looked back left and right, pointed to the sparse forest in front of him and said loudly: "The decisive victory is here." Before noon, completely crush the enemy soldiers! ”

When the generals heard this, they shouted, "Victory!" ”

The nearby infantry soldiers also shouted loudly, and the entire battlefield was in an uproar.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Wang Bin, you lead the guards to ride and follow me first." Liu Ying and Wei Dabu followed up with firearms. Go back to their respective battalions and set out immediately. ”

The generals clasped their fists and said: "Order!" ”

There were more than 200 horsemen in the honor guard and the pro-soldier team, all with triangular red flags on their backs, and soon gathered into a formation. Wang Bin led the main force of cavalry to gradually protrude from the large array.

Countless war horses walked slowly, and a dull sound came from the ground. More than 2,000 iron horsemen soon spread to the sparse woods.

Zhu Gaoxu rode out of the edge of the woods first, he looked into the distance, observed for a moment, then reached out and pulled out a long-handled knife from his back, slowly pointed straight to the sky, and shouted: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!" The shouts of the army came and went, conveying the will of the Chinese army. Countless iron hooves began to jog on the grass, gradually increasing their speed. "Boom, boom, boom......" The iron horses rushed together, and the darkness was like a flood, spreading towards the opposite side at a visible speed!

The elephants of the Tusi army are rushing forward, but the cavalry speed is the fastest tactical force of this era. The Tusi army could only watch the cavalry of the Ming army keep approaching, and they wanted to change the formation temporarily, but they were afraid that it would be too late.

The strings in front of them were as dense as fried beans, and the arrows flew into the air like rain. The light cavalry column was the first to rush to the front of the enemy's central formation, and then fired in a roundabout way, and the enemy soldiers also returned fire with bows and arrows, and the air was densely covered with black shadows. An instant later, the cavalry brigade of the Ming army, wearing iron armor and holding cherry guns, had rushed head-on.

The Ming army's iron cavalry had not yet rushed to arrive, and the Tusi infantry was already in chaos. The Iron Cavalry rushed directly into the crowd, and the battlefield simply exploded, and there were screams everywhere. Many Tusi soldiers were armed with long-handled and short-bladed weapons, wanting to besiege the Ming cavalry; However, when the hordes of iron horses rushed past, they immediately avoided scattering, it was human instinct.

Zhu Gaoxu held a long knife and swept it from the right side, and with a "bang", he saw blood beads splashing in the air, and a native fell to the ground.

The surrounding soldiers all took the lead, and they all wanted to seize the opportunity to stand out in front of the prince, and the fierce cavalry was simply terrifying.

A torrent of iron cavalry swept through the crowd, and it was not at all something that the chaotic infantry could resist, and the enemy soldiers had little power to parry. Some of the natives gathered with wooden shields to resist the iron horses, but the heavy men and horses rushed to the wall and smashed through the shield wall. The Tusi army was very numerous, but the formation of the four fields was all scattered.

"Whew!" The sound of elephants came from the north, and the herd of war elephants slowly approached.

If the cavalry attacks the elephant soldiers, they will definitely suffer. However, the battlefield was in the open field, and the cavalry could easily run; How much water does it take for a military general to have his brain in order to fight hard with cavalry when he can clearly run?

Zhu Gaoxu took a red flag and made a detour to the left flank, turning around and recoiling. Wang Bin and others were Zhu Gaoxu's personal generals in the "Battle of Jingyan", and at this time, all cavalry teams did not need military orders, and everyone followed the red flag here and changed their direction one after another.

After a while, the elephants in the north gradually stopped. Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to see that after the cavalry, the Ming infantry ran forward, and even the guns were carried by others.

Diao Tuyu deployed the men and horses on both wings, and he didn't even see a single person. They were too slow to cross the woods until now; So much so that the two wings of the Ming army are now empty.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and said: "You two, go and order Wang Bin to transfer the cavalry left thousand corps to the right flank, watch the movement of the main force of the horse team, and wait for the opportunity to advance and retreat." ”

The two pro-soldiers were ordered, stretched their necks to look at the position of Wang Bin's banner, and patted their horses away.

"Click, click, click......" The footsteps of the Ming army's infantry battalions in various places in the central government came and went, running quickly into the battlefield. Countless iron helmets with wide eaves rose and fell on the earth, like a dense torrent of steel, and even if there were only seven or eight thousand infantry, the battle was very large.

The Tusi infantry ran all over the place, and when the Ming infantry approached, they ran even faster. The crowd that had been dispersed by the cavalry had nothing to do in the face of the dense infantry formations that were neatly arrayed. There were also natives who were not afraid of death who rushed up screaming, and immediately faced rows of shield walls and countless spears, and they were poked like a hornet's nest and their whole bodies were leaking blood.

The elephant soldiers that Meng Yangjun had just transferred up were slowly rushing back at this time, wanting to run. The infantry of the Ming army carried large and small firearms.

At this time, the phalanx in front of the Ming army changed, and the three rows of guns fired in unison, and the guns in various places also "boomed". On the grass with fresh air, the fire was shining for a while, and the smoke of gunpowder was everywhere.

The range of the bronze fire gun could not hit the elephant at all, only a few toast soldiers were hit, and the stone bullets of the gun were only jumping on the ground. However, the elephants were so frightened that they ran wildly to the north, and many natives followed the elephants, and the enemy soldiers were routed throughout the battlefield.

Zhu Gaoxu ordered the cavalry to attack again. The iron cavalry followed and rushed, slashing on all sides, such a battle is not unusual, in the Battle of Jingjing, after countless battles were decided, both sides used cavalry to follow and slaughter. When the defeated soldiers are chased by cavalry, it is like a nightmare, they can't run and run, and they can't win the battle.

At this time, the sun had just risen in mid-sky, and it was still early at noon.

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