The Tatars Mingjin withdrew their troops, at this time artificially created the Zhengyangmen fire, and led the troops to kill Wang Shouren, the army who retreated from the Tatar attack, and led several generals to appear in front of Zhu Houzhao, at this time Wang Shouren's image in Zhu Houzhao's mind was much taller. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Shouren saluted: "Prince, the Tatar soldiers and horses have retreated, and my Ming soldiers are killing all the remaining Tartars on the Zhengyangmen city wall!" ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded with satisfaction: "Well done, this palace didn't look at you wrong...... Wang Langzhong, since the Tartars have withdrawn, you should quickly lead the troops in pursuit, so as to kill more Tartars and prevent them from having another chance to attack the city! ”

Victory is to pursue, this is the inspiration Zhu Houzhao got from the art of war, but Wang Shouren said: "Prince, now that Zhengyangmen is in disarray, and the officers and soldiers are tired, how to pursue?" ”

One sentence made Zhu Houzhao frown.

The bear child shouted: "What's the matter with all the messes, don't the officers and soldiers chase when they are tired?" You are tired, and the tartars are even more tired...... The Tartars outside the city have been crushed, if they don't take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, will they wait for them to make a comeback? You set a fire at Zhengyangmen to stop the Tartars from attacking the city, which gate will it be next? I think it's better to burn the capital so that you don't have to worry about the Tartars coming in, right? ”

Wang Shouren had never seen such a messy boss, or the prince of the East Palace, the future emperor, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Xie Qian saw Wang Shouren's embarrassment, and stepped forward to relieve the siege: "His Royal Highness the Prince, launch a pursuit at this time, it is necessary to open the Zhengyang Gate, if the Tartars fake retreat and kill a horse pistol when our army is out of the city, what should we do?" ”

Although Zhu Houzhao was unreasonable, when someone discussed tactics with him, he immediately became enthusiastic and analyzed: "What Mr. Xie mentioned is somewhat reasonable, and the Tartar said to withdraw if he said it, maybe it was a fraud...... However, this is only one possibility, and if you don't launch a pursuit, won't you give up a great opportunity in vain? ”

Xie Qian glanced at Wang Shouren and continued: "Your Highness, have you forgotten that there are still Shen Xi'er's soldiers and horses outside the city? Although the number of Shen Xixiao'er is small, he has the most elite cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the Tatars are cavalry, and the cavalry pursues the cavalry, so that there is the possibility of expanding the results! ”

Zhu Houzhao's small eyes narrowed into a line, and he smiled: "This is reasonable, Mr. Shen is outside the city, I'm worried about a bird, this time the Tartars can be regarded as pouring blood mold, Mr. Shen was surrounded and beaten by them before, and now Mr. Shen has finally relieved himself, and he has to kill these Tartars without leaving a piece of armor!" ”

Wang Shouren asked, "The prince ...... Sending troops? ”

"No need, quickly send someone to clean up the battlefield, and if there is a change outside the city, then send troops. Mr. Xie, you quickly send someone back to the palace to inform your father and tell him about the situation here...... Hehe, I've commanded another big victory! Zhu Houzhao's face was full of pride.

Zhang Yuan hurriedly helped on the side: "The prince is wise and martial, there is a prince in Zhengyangmen, who can kill him?" ”

Zhu Houzhao learned to be modest, and waved his hand: "Grandpa Zhang, you can't say that, thanks to Mr. Shen, oh, and Wang Langzhong, um, and Mr. Xie and Old Man Zhang's help, this palace can complete the victory in the defense of Zhengyangmen." ”

"The rest of the things depend on Mr. Shen's performance, I hope Mr. Shen can annihilate all the Tatar soldiers and horses, ha, let them have no return!"

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On the side of Zhengyangmen City, the battle did come to an end temporarily, but the battle between the infantry phalanx and the Tatar cavalry in Shenxi outside the city became more and more intense, far less relaxed than the prince Zhu Houzhao said.

"Third row, get ready...... Shoot! ”

Among the five infantry phalanxes separated from the Chinese army, the most advanced phalanx was led by Zhu Lie, this phalanx, similar to the sharp knife battalion, had the most firecrackers and crossbowmen, and the Tatar cavalry approached several times, but were repelled by the combination of firearms and crossbows.

The front line Mingjin withdrew his troops, and the Tartar infantry turned into cavalry, and the pressure faced by Shen Xi's troops increased exponentially. There were no reinforcements in the city, and the Tatars focused on how to break through the five infantry phalanxes in Shenxi, and the elite cavalry sent by Dayan Khan began to attack Zhu Lie's first phalanx in groups.

The Tatars used a large number of heavily armed cavalry, both men and horses, to brave the rain of bullets and bullets to kill in front of the Ming infantry phalanx. And in the rear, thousands of Tatar hussars, using composite recurve bows, fired from a distance.

Under the impact of the heavy cavalry, the shield array was directly crushed, and the head of the spear stabbed the chain mail with a "crackling" sound, but did not penetrate the human body.

The infantry phalanx commanded by Zhu Lie was quickly opened by the Tatar hoplites, and no Ming soldier, including Zhu Lie, could believe that the Tatar cavalry had such fierce combat power.

The soldiers of the Beijing camp who had experienced the battle of Tumubao were far inferior to the border army in terms of the quality of individual soldiers, and even less than the Tatars born on horseback, but since they followed Shen Xi to fight, these soldiers have never experienced defeat, and they must win every battle, which makes most people have a contemptuous heart, thinking that the Tatars are nothing more than that.

Although the successive victories improved the morale of the officers and soldiers under Shen Xi's command and their self-confidence in facing all difficult challenges, the soldiers also became frivolous and arrogant, and became lax in the implementation of tactical discipline, so that the Tatars, who were trapped in the battle of beasts, fought back violently and succeeded in one blow.

"Steady, steady!"

Zhu Lie was a little flustered and kept shouting.

The front row of shield soldiers was broken, which was equivalent to exposing the fire gunners and crossbowmen to the Tartars' field of vision, fortunately, the Ming army scattered and fell to the ground to block the Tartar heavy cavalry, and then many pikemen followed up to fill the position, and the fire gunners also reacted in time, desperate to shoot at the Tartar heavy cavalry.

The projectiles burst through the heavy armor of the Tartar heavy cavalry, and the men and horses were overturned to the ground, otherwise the Tartar cavalry would probably have slaughtered all the 1,000 infantry in the formation.

Even so, those Ming soldiers who did not have much experience in close combat were panicked at this time, and they didn't know how to face it at all, and the Tatar light cavalry in the distance hurried to release arrows, and after a round of arrow rain, there were forty or fifty more Ming troops who fell to the ground.

Such a sacrifice may not be a big deal in a large battle, but for an infantry phalanx that demanded a tight formation, such a loss was enough to make a big gap, and the Tatars only needed to put sustained pressure on this gap enough to collapse the phalanx.

Zhu Lie was surrounded by a group of people and almost fell off his horse, at this time, in order to keep the formation tight, the soldiers could only desperately compress the formation, so that the shield soldiers from other directions could be replenished.

"Lord Shen, the situation over there is not quite right!" Hu Songyue, who was in the Chinese army, noticed the change in the formation of Zhu Lie's phalanx in front of him, and hurriedly bowed to Shen Xi.

At this time, Shen Xi, who had re-established himself on the top of the watchtower under the protection of heavy shields, had already taken this scene into his eyes, he waved the command flag, and gave orders in his mouth:

"Command the five army formations to move closer to the Chinese army...... The artillery launched an intensive bombardment of the Tartar assembly areas with artillery, forcing them to disperse, buying more time for our officers and men to regroup their formation! ”

As the order came out, the five phalanxes began to consciously shrink towards the central army.

At this time, the 100 Franc machine guns in the center of the Chinese army formation were divided into ten squads, and after the commander trained by Shen Xi reported the firing of Zhu Yuan, the gunners turned their guns and shelled the Tatar heavy cavalry groups that were ready to charge.

"Boom-"

As the dense shells fell, the Tartar heavy cavalry, who had wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue, fell in rows. The rest of the Tartar hussars, who were cruising around, were frightened and fled far away.

Amid the continuous sound of artillery, the five infantry phalanxes steadily converged towards the central formation.

Shen Xi's idea is very clear, if one phalanx is disintegrated and the soldiers are scattered, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the rest of the phalanx will inevitably be greatly damaged.