Looking at the Mongolian cavalry getting closer and closer, all the military students were born in despair, but no one gave up, let alone surrendered. They were the first batch of students at the Martial Arts Academy, and from the first day they were admitted to the academy, they were instilled with the belief of loyalty to the Ming Dynasty. The head can be broken and the blood can be shed, and he will never surrender and become a traitor!

Less than fifty or sixty pikemen lined up two thin lines of guns in the direction of the southern Mongol cavalry. Thirty or forty archers stuck their arrows into the ground in front of them, so that they could be easily accessed. His comrades behind him were fighting bravely to resist the attacks of the Eight Banners, and his task was to block the surprise attack of the Mongol cavalry and protect the backs of his comrades.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, the ground shook, looking at the Mongolian cavalry running closer and closer, even Zhang Huangyan's eyes also showed despair, maybe he will die here today, he will die before he gets out of the division, he is really unwilling!

The sound of horses' hooves became louder, the boom was like thunder, almost suppressing the sound of fighting on the battlefield, the ground shook violently, like the earth dragon turned over, Zhang Huangyan's hand full of bowstrings stopped suddenly, and he seemed to see the Mongolian cavalry on the opposite side, and his face showed panic.

Yes, it was panicked, because Zhang Huangyan clearly saw that many Mongolian cavalrymen grabbed the reins of their horses, and the horse team was in chaos. Like, it seems that such a big movement shouldn't be something that the cavalry of more than 200 horsemen in front of him can emit, right? Zhang Huangyan had doubts in his heart.

Letting go of the right hand that pulled the bowstring, the feather arrows flew towards the Mongolian cavalry array, Zhang Huangyan did not take the arrows and fire them again, but Huo Ran looked back, and saw that the attacking Eight Banners were retreating in panic, and a little farther north, a huge cavalry was roaring and galloping, like a red wave rolling forward.

Reinforcements are coming! Zhang Huangyan was ecstatic in his heart, "Reinforcements are coming, kill the Tartars!" Zhang Huangyan shot an arrow heavily, and a Mongolian cavalryman screamed and fell off his horse.

"Reinforcements are coming, kill the Tartars!" The other archers roared and fired angry arrows at the Mongol cavalry as they bypassed the phalanx.

The sudden appearance of the cavalry of the Ming army shocked Ma Laxi, the main general of the Qing army, he did not expect the reinforcements of the Ming army to come so quickly, and it was impossible to encircle and annihilate the Ming infantry.

It is necessary to immediately disengage from this Ming army, and then get on the horse, maybe there is a possibility of retreating, if you delay a little, you will be killed by the Ming cavalry from behind, and there will be a risk of annihilation!

Ma Lashi immediately made a decision, ordered the heralds around him to blow the horn, and ordered the Mongol cavalry to abandon the attack and go forward to block the Ming cavalry, so as to win time for the more than 200 people who attacked to retreat and remount their horses.

More than 20 Eight Banner soldiers roared angrily, waving their weapons wildly, and most of the fighting Qing soldiers retreated and ran wildly towards the war horses not far away.

"Archers, cover the shots into the distance!" Zhang Huangyan roared, and with the remaining archers, he launched a fire at the retreating Qing soldiers.

"General, reinforcements are coming, let's stick to them and can't let the dog's tartars run away!" A martial arts student said to Deng Bingzhen, who was covered in blood.

Deng Bingzhen shook his head: "Just leave these twenty or so Eight Banner soldiers behind, as for the fleeing Tartars, the reinforcements will destroy them!" ”

Deng Bingzhen knew that the biggest advantage for the cavalry was the speed of the war horse, and he was not unable to stick to the fleeing Mantar, but in that case, the enemy and me would be mixed together, which would make his own reinforcements at a loss. And now, even if this group of Qing soldiers can escape back and get on the war horse, the speed of the war horse will not be able to increase and it will be chased by their own reinforcements. And cavalry without speed is not much stronger than infantry, and will face a slaughter.

Therefore, there is no need to chase after them, now you just need to leave this group of Tartars who are blocking you alone, and the rest of the Tartars will be handed over to the reinforcements! Judging by the size of the reinforcements, there were at least nearly a thousand cavalry, and there was no problem in dealing with these tartars who had been exhausted for a long time.

Although they did not understand Deng Bingzhen's order, the military students still obeyed the order, rushed up, surrounded the remaining twenty or so Tartars in the middle, and then rushed up, swords and guns everywhere.

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Yu Feng rode at the front of the team, and the situation on the battlefield was in full view. Looking at the more than 200 Mongolian cavalry galloping over in the opposite direction, Yu Feng raised his saber and waved it twice above his head, and the herald beside him immediately sounded the military horn. With Yu Feng's order, the entire team was immediately divided into two, more than 500 cavalry under the leadership of the deputy general met the enemy cavalry, and Yu Feng continued to run to the battlefield with the remaining cavalry, rushing towards the battle group.

The hundreds of martial arts students of the Wubei Academy will arrive in the near future, and Yu Feng was ordered to bring cavalry to meet them, if these hundreds of Wubei students who have entrusted the great efforts of the King of Qi are all lost here, then they will not be able to explain to the King of Qi. The full Tartar of the dog day did not dare to attack Liaocheng head-on, but constantly sent cavalry to harass various places, which is really annoying!

The lieutenant general over there had already led half of the cavalry and the Mongol cavalry to fight together, and the roar of the three-eyed firearms continued one after another, and people kept falling off their horses. Yu Feng ignored all of this, his eyes fixed on the Tartars who had withdrawn from the horses of Empress Zhengcang.

The kick of the stirrup hit the horse's belly, the spur pierced into the horse's abdomen, and the war horse under the crotch neighed and suddenly increased its speed, rushing towards the group of panicked Eight Banner soldiers.

Yu Feng raised his three-eyed fire gun and fired at a Eight Banners soldier who had just climbed on horseback, pulling it three times in a row, and the three projectiles shot out in a very short time, and then he saw the Eight Banners soldier fall off his horse with a "poof".

The war horse had already rushed into the Qing army's array, casually threw down the three-eyed firearm, lifted the saber in front of the saddle, and waved it left and right at the Qing cavalry on his side.

Ma Lashi was desperate to see that the difference in numbers was too great, and the Mongolian cavalry could not stop the sudden appearance of the Ming cavalry, hundreds of Ming cavalry rushed over with great speed, and his men had just got on the war horses, and they had to rush to meet the battle before they had time to mention equestrianism.

Cavalry battles rely on slashing and slashing at high speeds, and speed is extremely important. And now, although the cavalry of the Eight Banners straddles the horses, they are not as good as the infantry. Under a series of fire shots from the Ming army, almost half of the horses fell. Then there were countless steel knives that slashed at high speed.

Ma Laxi just blocked the slash of a saber, his arm was numb, and before he came back to his senses, another Ming cavalry came quickly, a steel knife slashed over, Ma Laxi twisted his waist and turned to dodge, before he straightened his waist, he felt a strong force coming, "poof" fell off the horse. The Ming cavalry raised its three-eyed fire gun again with an expressionless face and smashed it towards the next Qing army.

The speed of the horse was extremely fast, and in just a short time, Yu Feng's cavalry staggered past the Qing army, galloped for half a mile, and then turned around the war horse to re-array, and then looked, and saw that there were only twenty or thirty people left in the more than two hundred Qing cavalry, and forty or fifty people on his own side fell off the horse. And these twenty or thirty Qing cavalry had no intention of fighting again, and were riding their horses and galloping towards the north.

Yu Feng turned his head to look at the battlefield on the other side, one hundred and ten Mongolian cavalry were scurrying into the distance, and the deputy general and his subordinates were preparing to catch up.

"Poor Kou Mo chase, let them stop!" Yu Feng ordered in a deep voice.

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In the center of the battlefield, the fighting has stopped. When the firecrackers joined the battlefield, the 20 or so Eight Banners soldiers who were surrounded were quickly slaughtered.

The soldiers are treating the wounded and tidying up the battlefield. The archers put down their bows and arrows, drew their short knives from their waists, and cut off the heads of the Eight Banners.

It's one thing to fight, it's another thing to cut off the head with your own hands, and many of the martial artists put down their short knives and vomited while cutting.

Deng Bingzhen's face was ugly, in a big battle, more than 100 of the three hundred and fifty armed soldiers died in the battle, and now there are less than 200 people who can stand. If the reinforcements come half an hour late, I am afraid that my people will be wiped out.

Therefore, he was very grateful to Yu Feng who came to help.

"The last general has seen Marquis Yu!" Deng Bingzhen knelt on one knee and saluted Yu Feng, "Thank you Master Hou for coming to help in time." ”

Yu Feng jumped off the war horse and helped Deng Bingzhen up with his hand, "They are all old brothers, you don't have to be polite." ”

Looking at the corpses everywhere and the injured Wu Beisheng, Yu Feng sighed: "I heard that a Qing army went around to the south of Liaocheng, so the prince ordered me to bring troops to meet you, but it was still too late." What about the losses of the brothers? ”

"Almost half of the casualties were killed." Deng Bingzhen smiled bitterly.

"The casualties are so big!" Yu Fengleng paused, "With such a large casualty and still persisting, it is worthy of being a martial arts student, I finally understand the painstaking efforts of the prince who insisted on starting the martial arts academy." ”

For the armies of this era, if the casualties exceeded 20%, most of the army would collapse. It is unheard of that more than half of the people who have lost more than half of them can still hold out in battle! It turned out that when Chen Yue set up the Martial Arts Academy, many generals in the army did not understand it very well, but now seeing the performance of the martial arts students, Yu Feng had to admire.

After cleaning up the battlefield and counting the results, Yu Feng was even more shocked, these three hundred and fifty Wubei students were attacked by the Mongolian cavalry of the Eight Banners who were almost twice his size, and captured the one hundred and eight heads, of which nearly half were Zhenman Eight Banner soldiers, and the rest were Mongolian soldiers. Of course, Yu Feng's department seized more heads, as many as two hundred and fifty levels. Only more than a hundred Qing cavalry escaped from the battlefield.

Yu Feng didn't pay attention to the first rank he had captured, because there were more than 1,000 cavalry under his command, and there was nothing to boast of in attacking the Mantar cavalry who had just been on their horses and had no speed after a long battle, and his losses were nearly 10%, and eighty or ninety cavalry died under the arrows of the Mongols.

And more than 300 military soldiers were able to achieve such a great result under the attack of the Mantar cavalry twice their size, which made Yu Feng have to admire. Even the elite infantry around Chen Yue, the king of Qi, performed like this!

In addition to the captured heads, five or six hundred living horses were left on the battlefield, and the number of dead horses on the ground was about the same. For the cavalry of the Qing army, one man and two horses were the standard configuration. This batch of war horses was a great gain for the Ming cavalry.

With this batch of war horses, the warriors finally got rid of the march on foot. After cleaning up the battlefield, the two armies merged into one and headed towards Liaocheng. As for the horse corpses left on the battlefield, an infantry convoy will be sent back after returning to Liaocheng.

"Lord Yu, is the old man of King Qi in Liaocheng now? What is the situation now, why did the Manchu cavalry go deep into the south of Liaocheng? On the way, Deng Bingzhen couldn't help the curiosity in her heart and asked Yu Feng.

Yu Feng nodded and said, "The prince is in Liaocheng now, the big war is about to start, you are here at the right time!" ”

Along the way, Yu Feng told Deng Bingzhen in detail about the current situation.

In the middle of the first month, shortly after the snow melted, more than 80,000 Manchu Tartars moved south from Beijing and attacked in the direction of Liaocheng. The leader turned out to be the Manchu regent Dorgon, with almost all the main force of the Eight Banners, and a decisive battle with the Ming army.

"Damn, more than 80,000 Manchu Tartar soldiers are in Linqingzhou, only a hundred miles away from Liaocheng. The king of Qi took 50,000 main forces out of Jinan to support Liaocheng, and fought a battle with 30,000 Manchu cavalry in Dong'e, and the king of Qi withstood the attack of the Manchu cavalry with a chariot formation, and repelled the Manchu cavalry with a large number of artillery. It was a delusional idea that only 30,000 cavalry wanted to attack the infantry array. And General Li Yi led a large army from Liaocheng to attack, fearing that he would be attacked from the front and rear, and the Mantars had to retreat to Linqing. Now the prince has arrived in Liaocheng and concentrated his army of 150,000 to confront the Manchurians.

But it's fucking cold this day. More than half of the brothers in the army are southerners, and they are not as cold as the full Tartars of dog days. The prince ordered the brothers to hide in the city to avoid the cold.

The full Tartar of the dog day was not honest, and he did not have the courage to send troops to attack Liaocheng, but he divided many small groups of troops to plunder in all directions, and the nearby villages were suffering, and countless villages were tragically poisoned. Yu Feng said hatefully.

"Didn't the prince send an army to encircle and suppress these Manchu Tartars?" Deng Bingzhen asked.

"Why didn't you send it? More than one was dispatched, but there were too many Manchu Tartar cavalry in dog days, and the speed was so fast that our infantry couldn't keep up at all, and the cavalry only had more than a thousand people under me, so I couldn't help the Mantars at all. Yu Feng's face was full of bitterness.

The Ming army was dominated by infantry, and the field battle was not dominant at all, and it was absolutely impossible to catch up with the small force of Manchu cavalry. And Yu Feng, the only cavalry, was afraid of losing Chen Yue and didn't dare to send it easily.

So now, in the area of Luxi, except for Liaocheng and some large prefectures and counties, which are in the hands of the Ming army, the countryside is almost driven by Manchu Tartar cavalry. If it weren't for the upcoming Wu Beisheng this time, Chen Yue would not have sent Yu Feng's cavalry.

"Oops!" Zhang Huangyan, who had been listening quietly on the side, said suddenly, causing Yu Feng to look at him dissatisfied.

"What's wrong?" Deng Bingzhen hurriedly asked, through this battle, Deng Bingzhen was very satisfied with Zhang Huangyan, a martial arts student, and called him to his side to follow.

"The two generals, their subordinates suddenly thought of something. We have 150,000 troops in Liaocheng, and the supply of the army must be transported from Jinan and Xuzhou. Now the wilderness is full of Tartars, although we have a lot of troops, but if the food route is cut off by the Manchu Tartars, it will be troublesome! Zhang Huangyan said worriedly.

Yu Feng smiled: "You are not bad as a martial artist, you can think of the grain road." However, the prince naturally has a decision. ”