On the battlefield of the left flank of the Later Jin, the commander Mang Gurtai has been paying attention to the changes on the battlefield, as far as the current battlefield situation is concerned, his Western Route Army is being cut into three pieces by the Ming Army's Western Route Army, and is in a precarious state, and his Eastern Route Army is holding on to the Ming Army's Eastern Route Army under the leadership of Derge, completing the task he assigned before the war.

As for the middle side, the striker led by Engdel really caused the movement of the Ming army on the opposite side in the middle. For now, Engdel still has the upper hand. Observing this, Mang Gurtai believed that the battle plan he had drawn up before the war could still be carried out and did not need to be revised.

In times like these, once an army is on the battlefield, it is basically difficult to control and command it. That is to say, the army that has now been put into the battlefield can only carry out the arrangements made before the start of the war, and once there is a major change on the battlefield, either Mang Gurtai can adapt to the changes in the situation and make use of the pre-war arrangements, or they can only withdraw their troops to avoid greater losses.

Now Mang Gurtai has 20 Niu Lu of the Zhenglan Banner in his hands, as well as 4,000 strong people selected from the Inner Khalkha tribal army, and he doesn't think that the Ming army in the middle of the road on the opposite side can resist the onslaught of his own troops. Once the Ming army in the middle was broken and the opponent's banner was cut down, the Ming army would naturally collapse due to the loss of command, which was the experience gained by Mang Gurtai in many battles with the Ming and Mongols.

So after seeing Engdel surround the thousands of Ming troops rushing out of the opposite middle, Mang Gurtai did not hesitate to order this formation to attack. Chayuka took 2 Niu Luzheng Blue Banner and 2,000 Mongolian cavalry to open the way in front, while Mang Gurtai himself led the rest of the men and horses along the passage opened by Chayuka and directly attacked the command post of the Ming army in the middle road.

Assuming that you can look down from the sky, you can see that when tens of thousands of horses' hooves on this grassland were fighting and fighting, the last cavalry in the north seemed to have turned into a sharp arrow, cutting straight through the melee area, and shooting towards the middle route army of the Ming army, which had not yet begun to act.

Mang Gurtai's actions, the teams fighting on the battlefield are naturally rarely able to find out, but for Cao Bianjiao and Tu Taiji, who have been paying attention to the battlefield, it is really a very clear movement.

After seeing the movements of the Houjin Middle Route Army clearly, Cao Bianjiao suppressed the excitement in his heart, turned his head to the next and said to the Tu Taiji beside him: "Ji Tu Taiji, the moment to decide the outcome has come. Next. Our 8th Cavalry Division will open the way for Taiji, and ask Taiji to lead a large army to carry out continuous attacks in the rear of our army, as long as this Zhenglan Banner man and horse are defeated, this war will be over. ”

He looked at the battlefield and said with some hesitation: "Shall we wait any longer, I see that the headquarters of General Zuo in the west is about to defeat the opponent." Maybe we can wait..."

Cao Bianjiao interrupted him unceremoniously and said: "Destroy the edge in Zhengsheng, turn the tide in danger." This is the highest honor of our generation of warriors, and now that the enemy army on the opposite side has put this honor in front of us, does Taiji want to push it to others again?

Taiji needs to know that this battle is for our Ming to defend the Chahar Ministry, not for the Chahar Ministry. My Ming soldiers still dare not spare their lives in fighting, don't the warriors of the Chahar Department even have the courage to defend their families?

Besides, if this battle is a big victory, who in the Mongolian tribes will not know the name of Taiji in the future? Even if Lin Dan Khan can really return to the Chahar Department, he will have to respect Taiji for three points. ”

Cao Bianjiao's words were in Mongolian, and although the tone was a little blunt, he still understood the meaning. He subconsciously looked left and right, and found that the subordinates around him were all flushed with red faces and indignant expressions.

Obviously, these subordinates were stimulated by Cao Bianjiao's words, but they didn't have the courage to stand up and exchange tasks with the Ming army, so they looked at him, hoping that he could stand up and defend the dignity of the Chahar department.

For a long time, the subordinates of the Chahar tribe had such a mentality that they were the direct subordinates of the Mongol Great Khan, and naturally enjoyed a higher status than the other Mongol tribes. As the Great Tent of the Mongol Khan's guard, this team regarded itself as the defender of the Mongol Empire, and the word Chahar means personal guard.

During the lifetime of Lin Dan Khan, the Chahar Department was defeated against Houjin in a row, but this failure cannot be blamed on the head of the Great Horde.

Because, Lin Dan Khan has never faced the Houjin army head-on, and every defeat is a part of the Great Horde's own army against the main force of the Houjin. It was because when everyone talked about the fact that the combat strength of the Chahar Department was not as good as before, and the members of the Great Horde were not convinced.

This time, Lin Dan Khan was defeated in Mobei, and there was no information about the big tent soldiers he carried with him, which was actually a heavy blow to the remaining big tent soldiers in Naturalization City. However, at this moment, on such a magnificent battlefield, these generals of the Chahar Department were finally stimulated by Cao Bianjiao's rhetoric, and they also wanted to prove that the soldiers of the Great Horde had not lost the courage to defend the Mongol Empire.

Tu Taiji retracted his gaze and said seriously to Cao Bianjiao: "The courage of the Mongols does not need to be embellished with words, we will answer with swords on the battlefield." I'm just worried that General Cao's troops won't get in the way of our charge. ”

Cao Bianjiao looked at Taiji for a long time, then smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wait and see, then Taiji, I'll go first." ”

After Cao Bianjiao finished speaking, he led his subordinates down the small hill, and Tu Taiji also nervously gathered the four Su Mu, ready to keep up with the pace of the Ming army.

Although the Eighth Cavalry Division led by Cao Bianjiao had a total of 1,500 men, it was divided into four arms, 300 shock cavalry, 600 offensive cavalry, 300 rangers and 300 dragoons.

Shock cavalry wore cuirasses made of fine iron and used spears for assault. The attacking cavalry mainly wore chain mail and used sabers, following the shock cavalry to expand their victory. The Ranger was mainly used for sentry and outposts, while the Dragoons used horse shooting as their main means of attack.

However, in today's cavalry battle of this scale, everyone needs to get on their horses and fight hard. Cao Bianjiao himself charged forward with 300 spear-wielding cuirassiers, while the others followed his ranks.

It should be said that on galloping horses, being able to command more than 100 people is already the limit, and with 1,500 cavalry, you can only rely on discipline and training to restrain the actions of these cavalry on the battlefield.

Generally speaking, as long as the cavalry battle does not turn into a big melee of catch and kill, then no matter how many cavalry loses organization, it will not determine the outcome of the war. Because the field of vision of a single cavalry is too narrow, no one will attack the organized group alone, it seems that hundreds surround others and dozens of people, but if you really rush up, you will find that it is you who deal with dozens of other people.

Therefore, the key to the victory or defeat of the cavalry battle lies in who can always organize their own forces and break up the opponent's command center.

The reason why the Mongolian cavalry was able to defeat the cavalry of the Ming army was that the Mongolian cavalry was often centered on the tribe, and these cavalry belonged to the clansmen who were close to each other, and even if they were scattered, they could continue to assemble.

After the cavalry of the Ming army degraded to the family system, except for the family members around the main general, it was difficult for the ordinary cavalry to be retracted and fought again once they were scattered. After the Jurchens subdued the Mongols, they applied the strict infantry organization of the Jurchens to the cavalry to ensure the organization and discipline of the cavalry in battle.

It can be said that in the late Nurhachi period, the Jurchen cavalry had surpassed the Jurchen infantry and completely overwhelmed the Mongol cavalry in cavalry combat. This also made the Jurchens firmly suppress the Mongol tribes around Liaodong.

However, in such a cavalry battle, the assault of a large number of Mongolian cavalry led by a small number of elite Jurchen cavalry was obviously unable to suppress the fully professional Ming cavalry.

Even if he subdued the many tribes of the entire Mongolian right flank, Chongzhen did not intend to establish a large nomadic cavalry in imitation of the old system.

The method he adopted was actually similar to that of Houjin, which was to build a few elite cavalry first, and then expand the scale of these cavalry little by little. The large number of Mongol herdsmen was used as a source of cavalry and a local garrison.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty could not only obtain the help of the Mongolian tribe's armed forces, but also do not have to worry about raising tigers, and then cultivate a full-fledged Jianzhou Jurchen.

Compared with the high quality of the Houjin cavalry in terms of the available sources of soldiers, the Ming army had more advantages in the logistical support of armament and training. And the two sides should not be much different in terms of the organization and discipline of the cavalry. After all, Huang Taiji at this time was also a commander of the Eight Banners who attached great importance to military training and discipline.

As for the horses on both sides, the Jurchens were slightly better, but the good ones were limited, and after the Ming Dynasty won the allegiance of the right-wing Mongol tribes, the quality of the war horses was also greatly improved. In the whole of Northeast Asia, the overall quality of horses is declining, so the so-called good horses of Houjin are still not good enough to cross the horse breed.

Although the 2 Niu Lu Zheng Blue Banner led by Cha Yuka was in a neat formation, the distance between the horses was still enough to accommodate a cavalryman to insert it, and this gap was precisely for the distance at which the cavalry on both sides could wield their weapons to fight during the battle. It should be said that such a formation does not depend on the overall organization of the cavalry to attack, but on the elite knights at the front of the team to fight.

However, in contrast to the Houjin cavalry, the Ming cavalry always maintained a tight formation next to each other when charging in small steps, and the gaps between the cavalry were almost non-existent. In order to maintain such a tight formation, the Ming army also gave up the last acceleration to prevent individual horses from rushing out of the array.

Hedging with such cavalry is not an engagement between individual cavalrymen, but a collision of the entire team. After seeing the formation of the Ming army, although Cha Yuka knew that it was not good, he also knew that he must not retreat at this moment, otherwise his side would become a big rout.

Under Cha Yuka's order, a Niu Luzheng Blue Banner cavalry at the front of the team not only did not slow down, but made a final acceleration towards the Ming cavalry team opposite.

These blue flag cavalry hoped to use their crazy charging horses to block or scare the Ming cavalry to avoid it. But in such a dense team, even if a few Ming knights were timid, they couldn't get out of the team at this moment.

Although the frenzied charge of the Zhenglan Banner cavalry caused the same number of Ming cavalry to fall off their horses, but soon, this Niu Lu's cavalry was like a wave, trampled by the Ming army's reef, and could no longer turn over any broken flowers.

Although this scene made Cha Yuka's face ugly, he still issued instructions, asking the soldiers behind him to move closer to the middle, and then charge the generals in the middle of the Ming army's forward.

However, what Cha Yuka didn't see was that when he rushed towards the general in the middle of the Ming army without hesitation, only a few horsemen followed him, and the remaining Mongolian cavalry had fled to both sides with the remaining Zhenglan Banner cavalry.