Wu Sangui was too familiar with this kind of sound, he had brought a lifetime of cavalry, and naturally knew that this sound was the vibration of the war horse charge. But now the vibration is too loud, and there are tens of thousands of cavalry rushing towards it.

Wu Sangui hurriedly raised his head and looked around, and then he saw a cavalry behind the Ming army formation in the distance, and was rushing towards his flank at full speed.

Wu Sangui was taken aback when he saw this cavalry, and shouted, "Heavy cavalry! When did the Ming army have heavy cavalry! Wu Sangui knows that cavalry tactics, heavy cavalry has all kinds of shortcomings, such as low efficiency-cost ratio, inconvenient maneuverability, too large turning radius, easy to be copied by light cavalry, etc., but heavy cavalry has one advantage that remains unchanged, that is, the heavy cavalry charging at full speed has a huge lethality to the infantry. And his own army is now stuck with the Ming army, completely losing the advantage of light cavalry, so what is the difference with infantry?

The right flank of the Qing army is Wu Sangui's younger brother Wu Sanmei, he also saw this heavy cavalry, these people's horses are very tall, the black-clothed and black-armored general at the front is even taller and bigger, his horse is like a monster, I really didn't expect that there are such big horses in the Central Plains.

Wu Sanmei was about to organize soldiers to resist, but it was too late. The heavy cavalry of the Ming army was like a hot knife cutting butter, with Zhao Hu as the arrow, forming a wedge-shaped formation and cutting into the flank of the Ming army.

The lethality of heavy cavalry does not come from the weapons they carry, but from their weight. A horse plus a knight weighs half a ton. Half a ton of weight, plus a speed of fifty or sixty kilometers per hour, you can imagine what it would be like to be hit by a car traveling at 60 kilometers per hour. As an arrow, Zhao Hu's horses weigh one ton, which is no longer a car, it is completely the level of a truck.

In the place where this heavy cavalry passed, all the Qing troops who were blocking the road were knocked out of the way, and the light ones spat blood from their mouths, and more were killed and injured.

Wu Sangui was shocked when he saw this heavy cavalry coming towards him, and quickly turned his horse's head and prepared to escape. Wu Sangui knew that the heavy cavalry could not last, as long as he led the cavalry to distance himself from them, he could use harassment warfare to kill this Ming army.

But Wu Sangui forgot what qualities his subordinates had, if the 50,000 Qing troops under his command were all experienced troops such as the Liaodong Iron Cavalry or the Manchu Eight Banners, they would still be able to understand the leadership intentions. But Wu Sangui forgot that the Qing army under his command was all from Shaanxi, this Shaanxi Qing army used to be the border army of the Ming army, what quality do they have, it's okay to fight a smooth battle, this kind of difficult battlefield maneuver is not something these turtles can play.

Therefore, Wu Sangui's running handsome banner also retreated, and in the ancient battlefield, he would be brave to the soldiers, and the officials all ran away, and the soldiers who would give you their lives. As soon as these Qing troops saw that Wu Sangui had run away, they immediately mounted their horses and stopped fighting with the Ming army, and withdrew from the battlefield one after another.

If the Ming army on the opposite side is all infantry, there is no hope of pursuit, no matter how fast you run, can you have a horse? The Ming army on the other side is also cavalry, although it is infantry on horseback, but there are also horses, right?

Li Yuanyin saw that the Qing army was about to run, and immediately ordered all the soldiers to get on their horses and pursue them behind, and Wu Sangui's strategy of opening a distance to deal with the heavy cavalry completely failed. Because the Ming army dismounted just now, the horsepower was maintained very well, and the pursuit was also easy at this time. The Qing army ran and the Ming army followed behind and put guns, and the Qing army stopped and wanted to resist the Ming army, so they dismounted and played the big phalanx, and then Zhao Hu's heavy cavalry made trouble on the side.

Wu Sangui, who played with this set of combination punches, wanted to live and die, and in the end, Wu Sangui really had no choice but to take his remaining 5,000 Liaodong iron cavalry to throw off the large army and flee for his life alone.

The officials ran away, leaving the Qing army leaderless, and immediately scattered and fled, and the Ming army led by Li Yuanyin won the first big victory.

This is the first time that Li Yuanyin has led his troops to fight independently, and he has also won, Li Yuanyin is overjoyed in his heart, and he is ready to continue to chase. But Zhao Hu said beside him: "Dashuai, this Qing army has been killed, and there is no will to resist at all, there is no success in chasing it, and the emperor is still waiting for us to save it!" ”

"General Zhao, Jinyiwei's intelligence said that the Qing army only had 50,000 people, but there were 50,000 people who were defeated by us just now, it should be the main force of the Qing army, isn't it safe for us to destroy the main force of the Qing army?"

"Marshal, Jinyiwei's intelligence is not accurate, if this is the main force of the Qing army, Your Majesty can't order us to go overnight, the last general estimates that the Qing army should exceed 50,000! So the danger on Your Majesty's side has not been lifted yet! ”

Li Yuanyin didn't want to listen to Zhao Hu, but he knew that he only had command over this cavalry team, and the middle-level generals under him were all the emperor's henchmen.

Li Yuanyin thought for a while and said, "Okay! What General Zhao said is very true, let's go to Ansan Lake as a team! ”

On the side of Anshan Lake, Zhu Hongsan has been leading 15,000 Praetorian Guard divisions to resist the attack of 100,000 Qing troops for a day, and from morning to afternoon, Zhu Hongsan has not even drunk a sip of water.

Now the war is very dangerous, and the artillery of the regiment on Ansan has long run out of ammunition, and now it is struggling to rely on muskets to support it. The artillery in Zhu Hongsan's battalion was also half dumb, and at this time, the shortcomings of the steel cast cannon were reflected. Steel is not as malleable as bronze, and although it may weigh less than bronze cannons, it can easily explode in high-intensity combat. The Ming army is like this now, a total of one hundred and eight artillery pieces have been blown up more than ten guns, and seven or eight guns can not continue to be used because of too many fires, and the barrels have cracks, and now there are less than sixty guns that can still be used normally, but the ammunition is almost exhausted.

At this time, there were five or six thousand Qing troops rushing in from the lake, and they had already occupied a large part of the camp, but fortunately, Li Fu commanded the law and suppressed the Qing army with muskets and couldn't move, otherwise Zhu Hongsan's side would have failed a long time ago, but in this way, Zhu Hongsan also went to the battlefield in person.

Now there is no safe place in the camp, and the emperor's grandson Zhu Shengduo was also sent to Zhu Hongsan by Jinyiwei. Zhu Hongsan touched the head of this little emperor grandson and asked, "Boy, how is it?" Are you afraid of death? ”

Zhu Shengduo said in a unique children's voice: "Grandpa Huang, as long as your grandson is with Grandpa, you are not afraid of death!" ”

Zhu Hongsan laughed and said: "Good boy, you have the appearance of your grandfather, you are much stronger than your father, you remember, this time our grandfather can escape, and grandpa will make you the son of the world!" ”

Although Zhu Hongsan said this casually, someone around the emperor paid attention, and Yao Qisheng, as the emperor's secretary, was very surprised that the emperor said this at this time, and looked at this five or six-year-old child Zhu Shengduo with interest.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the Qing army outside, sighed and asked, "Lao Li, hasn't there been any movement on Li Yuanyin's side?" ”

Li Chengen asked the people behind him and said, "Emperor, there is no movement in the west yet!" ”

"Well, Lao Li, I have given you a task, if you can't hold it for a while, you can bring someone to send my imperial grandson back to Nanjing, and let the crown prince ascend the throne!"

Li Chengen heard the emperor talk about life and death, so he was frightened and quickly knelt down and kowtowed and said: "Emperor, you are blessed with great fortune, and with the protection of Grandpa Taizu, you will naturally be in trouble!" Even if it doesn't work, the old slave is also willing to be Wang Chengen and ascend to heaven with the emperor! ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled bitterly, no one wants to die, but in this situation, he has no hope at all. Zhu Hongsan regretted a little at this time that he only brought one division to be used as bait, so it was better to follow the army honestly.

Just when Zhu Hongsan was thinking about the future, the reinforcements he had been waiting for for a long time finally came.

Li Yuanyin led the cavalry to five miles outside Ansan Lake, and heard the earth-shattering sound of fighting on the battlefield far away. Li Yuanyin was taken aback when he ascended to the heights, countless Qing troops were attacking the large camp by the lake, and it seemed that the large camp was also crumbling, and the broken camp was in front of him.

Zhao Hu is Zhu Hongsan's nephew and son-in-law, no matter what aspect he is very anxious about, seeing the battle like this, he hurriedly said: "Marshal, now the Qing army's attention is in the camp, and the last general asks to lead the heavy cavalry to attack the Qing army's rear road!" ”

Li Yuanyin nodded: "Okay, General Zhao is the vanguard, and Ben Shuai leads the dragoons to follow!" ”

The Qing army was in charge of the west of the fierce general Aobai, who was leading people to besiege the Ming army camp, when he suddenly felt the ground shake, and a horse team came.

As a senior general, Ao Bai knew that Wu Sangui was dealing with the cavalry of the Ming army twenty miles away, and according to his estimate, the Ming army was definitely inferior to Wu Sangui's Liaodong iron cavalry.

But the more you listen to this sound of horses' hooves, the more wrong it becomes, and this heavy sound of horses' hooves is not at all possessed by Mongolian horses, but like heavy cavalry.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty also had heavy cavalry, and each of their generals' Bayala was a heavy cavalry, each of whom wore three layers of heavy armor, and resisted the Ming army's firearms in front of them when they charged. But Ao Bai knew that the army led by Wu Sangui was from Shaanxi, and there was no heavy cavalry at all, even the Liaodong iron cavalry did not have such a heavy sound of horses' hooves.

Ao Baiyue became suspicious, and turned his head to look at the west. It was already afternoon, the sun was turning to the west, and the sound of horses' hooves was coming in the direction of the sun, so it was not clear to Aobai.

But as the sound of horses' hooves approached, Ao Bai saw the silhouette of the opposite side clearly, that kind of high-headed horse was not something that Wu Sangui could have at all, and at the same time, the shiny armor of the knight on the horse was not something that the turtles in Shaanxi could equip.

Ao Bai didn't believe that Wu Sangui could be defeated at all, but the facts were in front of him, and Ao Bai shouted: "The Ming army is coming!" Organize your defenses! ”

But it was too late at this time, Zhao Hu's heavy cavalry was less than two hundred meters away from the Qing army, and at this time, Ao Bai had already seen the appearance of the cavalry opposite, and secretly said in his heart: It's over, how did you meet the heavy cavalry!