Just now, the envoy of Emperor Zhengde found Altan Khan and truthfully relayed the words of Emperor Zhengde.

But in fact, without the envoy of Zhengde, he had already received a report from his own reconnaissance cavalry, indicating that the situation of the army was very bad, and if he did not attack again, it was estimated that the Ming army itself would have to be finished first.

But if he strikes now, it is against his consistent thinking!

Altan Khan led the army south, the purpose was definitely not to help the Ming Dynasty fight against the Tang army, the biggest purpose was to take the opportunity to go south, trying to repeat the incident of Meng Yuan going south.

In order to ensure that this goal can be achieved, he wants to take advantage of the defeat of the Ming army and the Tang army to attack again, and then sweep the Tang and Ming armies, as long as he can do it, he dare not say anything else, but in the northern region, the Tatar cavalry will be invincible.

Previously, he sent 10,000 cavalry south to assist the Ming army in containing and attracting the Tang army's forces for this reason, not to say that he wanted to completely cut off the Tang army's supply line as the Ming army expected, thus causing the complete collapse of the Tang army.

Unfortunately, the 10,000 horsemen he sent were defeated!

To be honest, from the mouth of the remnants of the soldiers who returned from the rout of the front, he could not understand the defeat in the battle of Liangshanji at all!

Because in his opinion, in the battle of Liangshanji at that time, there was no mistake in Burigood's tactical choice, even if he was replaced at that time, he would have fought like this.

However, the southward march of 10,000 cavalry was a failure, not to mention the failure, and the loss of troops and generals, the loss of 4,000 cavalry made his heart ache!

And more importantly, the Tatar cavalry who fled back, including Buzhgood, have not yet figured out how this battle failed, but they only said that the Tang army's guns were sharp, but they couldn't say what kind of sharp method it was.

As for how the hedge of the cavalry on both sides could fail, it is even more of a puzzle!

Because after the defeat, Buzhigood didn't know how his 6,000 cavalry and the less than 2,000 cavalry of the Tang Army had failed!

Burigood himself couldn't figure it out, and Altan Khan couldn't analyze it just from his words, and in the end, like Burigood, he decided that the Tang army's guns were too sharp.

However, even if the guns of the Tang Army are sharp, Altan Khan is also confident!

Therefore, what he hesitates and worries about now is not that he can't defeat the Tang army, as long as he is willing, he will take the remaining 50,000 cavalry to kill, even if he can't directly defeat the Tang army, but at least he can contain tens of thousands of Tang troops, so that the pressure on the Ming army's side will be reduced, and even get the opportunity to fight back.

What he really hesitated and worried about was that if he attacked now, then the development of things would not be under his control, and whether it was the victory of the Tang army or the victory of the Ming army at that time, it would not be the result he wanted.

However, if he doesn't attack now, it is estimated that the Ming army will not be able to hold on, and when the Ming army is defeated, he will also fall into passivity.

It's a dilemma!

Altan Khan hesitated for a long time, but finally gritted his teeth and chose to attack!

But although he promised the envoys of the Ming army in this way, before the attack, he summoned the Tatar generals such as Buzhigood, and then passed an order to them, that is, this battle should be cautious, and the Tang army should be properly contained, but it is absolutely not allowed to directly launch a large-scale attack!

In order to imitate the unauthorized actions of the collateral tribes below, he strictly ordered all troops to prohibit Shaanxi from attacking without authorization.

Without his personal order, not a single soldier or soldier was allowed to attack the Tang Army!

This time, his idea was very simple, that is, he still contained part of the Tang army and reduced part of the pressure on the Ming army, but it was only to reduce the pressure on part of the Ming army, and it was definitely not to replace the Ming army and become the main force attacking the Tang army.

In this battle, Altan Khan wants to see that the Tang army and the Ming army are both wounded!

Until they were both defeated, the main forces of the Tatar cavalry would never have made a large-scale attack.

Otherwise, it would easily evolve into killing people with a knife, and it was the Ming army that borrowed the knife, the knife was the Tang army, and the people who were killed were their Tatars!

Altan Khan is not stupid, he knows very well what he is here to do!

But in any case, the cavalry of the Tatars was dispatched!

Because the situation on the side of the Ming army was still relatively critical, in order to avoid the collapse of the Ma Ming army before their arrival, the Tatar cavalry directly rode on spare horses for a rapid march, 50,000 horsemen, 100,000 horses towards Anping Town.

As soon as the Tatar cavalry moved, the Tang Army scout cavalry, who was monitoring the Tatars from afar on the periphery, was already galloping wildly, and the news of the Tatar cavalry was transmitted back as soon as possible.

It's just a few kilometers away, and before the detective rode his horse and galloped wildly, it was only more than ten minutes later that Li Xuan reached the news!

After getting this news, Li Xuan did not show any surprise or surprise, the arrival of the Tatar cavalry had already been expected by many generals in the Tang Dynasty, including Li Xuan.

The Guards and the 9th Infantry Division were for them!

Immediately, Li Xuan ordered: "Order the Guards and the Ninth Infantry Division to prepare for battle and prepare to meet the Tatar cavalry!" ”

With the issuance of Li Xuan's order, more than 10,000 people of the Guards Army also slowly entered the battlefield in columns, and lined up on the west side of the battlefield, and the formation listed was similar to the formation of the Fifth Infantry Division when it faced the Tatar cavalry in the Battle of Liangshanji, which was a typical hollow phalanx!

Because the Guards, like the 5th Infantry Division, are all units with flintlock pistols in their entirety!

And the strength of the Guards Army was actually more than that of the 5th Infantry Division at that time.

When the Fifth Infantry Division faced the Tatar cavalry under the Buzhgood Division, there was actually a lack of an infantry regiment, only two infantry regiments, but at that time, Chen Keqiao also gathered the musketeers in the artillery unit and the baggage unit to form a third temporary phalanx.

The Guards are now fully staffed, with three main infantry regiments, plus a baggage regiment that can be used as combat infantry, and then the artillery regiment is also complete, and the artillery regiment can be used to draw transport troops and non-essential artillery to form an infantry battalion of 1,000 people.

Therefore, there were about 14,000 Guards combat infantry on the front line alone, forming four large phalanxes, and these four large phalanxes contained three small phalanxes.

Each infantry battalion of the Guards surpassed the infantry battalions of the army, reaching a scale of 7,000 people, so the infantry battalion phalanx of the Guards was larger and more dense.

On the left side of the Guards were two infantry regiments of the Ninth Infantry Division, as well as auxiliary infantry regiments composed of baggage, artillery and other auxiliary forces, and they listed three large phalanxes, and in each large phalanx, there were five small phalanxes.

However, the phalanx of the 9th Infantry Division, because they were still armed with arquebuses and spears, listed them as a quadrangular phalanx, not a hollow phalanx.

Even if you are facing the same enemy, but the equipment is different, the tactics used are also different.

The 5th Infantry Division and the Guards Army, which used flintlock pistols, had already upgraded their tactics, using three columns when fighting in line and hollow phalanxes when facing cavalry.

The rest of the army units still use the traditional six-column tactics when fighting in line columns, and use four-cornered phalanxes to meet cavalry.

However, when facing the cavalry, this kind of quadrangular phalanx must not be underestimated, because although the long-range lethality of the quadrangular phalanx is not as good as that of the hollow phalanx, the existence of a large number of heavily armored spearmen makes the quadrangular phalanx more powerful when resisting the impact of cavalry.

On the west side of the battlefield, the Guards and the Ninth Infantry Division set up a standard formation for defending against cavalry, one phalanx after another was one ring after another, almost covering the entire battlefield on the west side, if the Tatar cavalry wanted to rush over and intervene in the battle between the main force and the Ming army, then they had to rush through the interception of the Guards and the Ninth Infantry Division.

And the Tatar cavalry, will they be able to rush over?

The Tatar cavalry came, and they came faster than even the Tang army expected!

Seeing tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry roaring towards him, even Li Xuan put down the frontal battlefield, but held a telescope in his hand and cast his gaze to the west side of the battlefield, where there were Tatar cavalry.

The frontal battlefield now hardly has to worry too much about him, the breakthrough of the Sixth Infantry Division on the left flank is still continuing, and when the First Artillery Group is deployed in the front, the central army of the Ming Army has also been hit, and the Ming Army, in order to get rid of this passive situation, has not long ago dispatched about 3,000 cavalry of the Beijing Battalion to try to attack the First Artillery Group.

In this regard, the Tang Army naturally had already expected that the three infantry battalions of the Sixth Infantry Division, plus the artillery's own musketeers and spearmen to defend about 1,000 people, formed two dense defensive lines, and the artillery of the first artillery group also gave up the artillery bombardment of the Ming army for the first time, but instead loaded with scattered bullets and carried out fierce artillery bombardment on the Ming cavalry who charged in a dense formation!

The shelling of dozens of artillery pieces was uncomfortable for the Ming army, which numbered tens of thousands, but it was impossible to defeat them directly by artillery bombardment.

But in the face of the charge of the cavalry of the 3,000 Ming Army, the power of these dozens of artillery pieces was quite huge!

Just the artillery bombardment endured by the Ming army on the way to charge caused the Ming army to lose at least hundreds of cavalry, and then when the Ming cavalry entered the infantry defense line, because the Ming cavalry was going to attack the artillery position on the mountain, and the Tang infantry guarding the artillery position was intercepted halfway up the mountain.

In such a situation, it is very unfavorable for the charge of the Ming cavalry!

At this time, the artillery position was shot rapidly, and the artillery cooperated with each other, and it was directly defeated by the Ming cavalry, and finally the Ming cavalry was forced to retreat.

In this way, on the frontal battlefield, the Tang Army almost occupied an absolute advantage.

However, on the battlefield on the west side, Li Xuan was a little worried, after all, whether the Guards Army and the Ninth Infantry Division could withstand the attack of the Tatar cavalry was actually unknown.

No matter how arrogant Li Xuan is, he will not think that he will be able to win in this situation.

However, Li Xuan didn't expect the Guards and the Ninth Infantry Division to be completely blocked, all he wanted was for the Guards Army and the Ninth Infantry Division to buy a certain amount of time for the main force!

Now, the middle army and the right flank of their own army have launched attacks one after another!

As long as the Guards Army and the Ninth Infantry Division buy a certain amount of time for the main force, then today's battle and victory will definitely belong to the Tang Dynasty's division!

1 second to remember Aishang:. Mobile version reading URL: m.