In the prairie shrouded in twilight, the pine fire in the big tent of the Chinese army of the Fengzhou Army flickered and dimmed, Li Yuduan sat behind the handsome case, his hand flicked the table a few times from time to time, Ma Guangyuan beside him lay on the table without saying a word and looked at the map, and in front of them stood a sturdy middle-aged man, he seemed to be a little restrained, and kept rubbing his hands.

"Zhentu, let me ask you, the Great Khan doesn't want to see me, and really wants to fight with me?" Li Yu asked.

"Brother-in-law, my brother Khan is embarrassed to see you, he has long been poor and crazy, and he wants to fight with anyone, you don't pay attention to him, you can fight him." Zitu replied angrily.

Li Yu waved his hand and motioned for Jintu to sit down, shaking his head and sighing - Chahar Khan was indeed going crazy, and he played the trick of sending his wife to take charge of his own department, and blatantly annexed other people's population and livestock, and the people became more and more scattered, and they couldn't continue to move forward when they reached the edge of NX, and lived a hungry and cold winter there - when they met a ruthless person like Hong Chengchou, begging and blackmail were completely useless, and they couldn't get a bucket of rice. After the beginning of spring, Zhentu found him and handed over Li Yu's letter, Chahar Khan was furious after reading the letter, beat Bangtu up, and insisted that Li Yu was humiliating him, he did not have the strength to expand the territory westward, but he would never accept mercy and return to Jinlianchuan, he wanted to go north to fight Khalkha, there were three guys who called Chechen Khan, Tushetu Khan and Zasaktu Khan, first punish these rebellious guys, if Li Yu is disobedient, he will be next.

Chahar Khan took his hungry people on the road, and just arrived at the border of the Khalkha territory and was hit on the head, the four tribes of the local herdsmen, Maomingan, Ulate, Sizi, and Abahai, were previously subordinate tribes of Chahar Khan, and they couldn't bear his exploitation and annexation, so they escaped from the clutches and hid here. The Chahars were defeated, and Uyun Nahatun, who was in charge of the Alakhute Wanhu, was also taken captive, and Chahar Khan lost his wife and his army, and the tribes such as Maomingan also knew that they had caused a catastrophe, and after winning by luck, they desperately fled eastward.

Chahar Khan did not dare to go further north, turned around and went south, this time he hit Li Yu's idea, sent a picture to pass on his Khan's edict, ordering Li Yu to surrender immediately, hand over Fengzhou and Ordos, and he could allow Li Yu to move to Jinlianchuan for the sake of his relatives. Chahar Khan's edict made Fengzhou's civil and military officials happy, and even Qitu felt embarrassed, it seems that this Great Khan is really crazy, since you want to find death, Fengzhou mobilized as quickly as possible, and tens of thousands of troops lined up in the north of the Hetao in five days, blocking the Chahar people who dragged and dragged on the road.

Ma Guangyuan raised his head and asked Qitu, "Didn't the Great Khan think about failure?" Now is not the time when he swept through 30,000 households on the Mongolian right wing five years ago, Fengzhou is far stronger than Chahar, and he has no chance of winning. ”

"I said that he was crazy, and he couldn't listen to anyone, even his wife, Chahar is finished, and this time it will really be in his hands." Tintu cried out in despair.

"Then let's fight!" Li Yu nodded helplessly, and then said to Jintu, "You go back and tell him that I will give him time to rest and recuperate, and the decisive battle will be fought in three days, and what I said is still valid, he can choose to go west or return to Jinlian River at any time, and I will continue to assist him when I am relieved." ”

"I don't want to see this madman again, brother-in-law, I'll do it with you." Zitu said, shaking his head.

"Just send someone to deliver the message." Li Yu waved his hand and replied.

Three days later, the grassland in the north of the country was clear, and it was another dry year, and there was not a drop of rain since the beginning of spring, and the grass color was slightly yellow. The Fengzhou army went out of the camp early in the morning, and each battalion called up reservists, fully equipped according to the establishment of 1,000 people, and waited for the opponent to come under the banner of the black eagle that covered the sky and the sun - in the past few days, the powerful Fengzhou scouts have attacked day and night, constantly compressing the activity area of the Chahar scouts, and in fact, they have blocked the Chahar people in a large encirclement, and now it is time to reap the results. It didn't take long for the rolling crowd of Chahar to rush over, stop three miles from the Fengzhou military formation, and begin to line up in a chaotic manner.

There are really a lot of people, there are not 100,000 but also 70,000 or 80,000, there are about 20,000 young people in front, less than half of them have horses, and there are up to 3,000 armored soldiers, followed by old and weak women and children, most of the weapons in their hands are wooden sticks and dung forks, and they are sweating profusely.

A group of flying tigers rode out on horseback and shouted to the Chahar people, "Humba Tulu please meet the Great Khan, Humba Tulu please meet the Great Khan in battle", and the Chahars looked at them numbly, but no one answered. The Angton Lama of Ordos couldn't help it, rode alone to the queue of the Chahars, waved his hands and shouted excitedly: "Children, we are all Mongols, don't fight, Humbaturu is the reincarnated god of Altan Khan, and the soul of Dayan Khan is also attached to him, and no one can defeat him." ”

A row of arrows from the Chahar people shot in front of Lama Angton's horse, and several flying tiger riders ran away with him, and Lama Angden was so angry that he scolded: "Crazy, they are all crazy, and the gods and Buddhas can't save you." ”

Standing on a tall and spacious chariot, Chahar Khan quietly looked at the enemy formation opposite, and Khangor pulled his clothes and asked sadly: "Father Khan, are we really going to fight with my uncle?" You said he was the bravest man and the best I could have been, and I don't want you to fight him. ”

Chahar Khan did not answer, but picked up Ada Hai on the side, the three-year-old Ada Hai did not understand what would happen at all, and clapped his little hands excitedly and screamed, Chahar Khan gently pinched his little face, leaned over and said solemnly to Kongol: "You are young and don't understand the affairs of adults, you have to remember that I can fight with your uncle, but you must not be an enemy of him, and you must treat him as a father." ”

Karma Jinong and the commander of the Chinese army, Deshenzhuang, walked to the front of the car, looked up at Chahar Khan and opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word, Chahar Khan looked at them and sighed, smiled wryly and waved his hand, "Let's start", the horn of the Chahar army sounded, slowly pressed towards the Fengzhou army, and the Ordos people at the front were staggering, howling, crying and waving knives, spears, and clubs, not like to meet the battle, but more like to seek death.

"Let's start" Li Yu ordered with a wry smile, and then went down the mound to comfort the angry Angden Lama, Ma Guangyuan hurriedly followed him - the disparity in strength between the two sides of the battle was huge, and the battle process was most likely a massacre, and the two commanders gave up their command, and according to the Fengzhou military system, the highest rank among the other generals should take over the command. Kubai, Sun Shoufa and Zhang Ding are all wearing two tiger head symbols of the rank of general, and they are the top rank of generals, so they naturally became candidates, Sun Shoufa immediately said that his Mongolian language was not good, and Kubai in turn said that he was not good at speaking Chinese, the two of them put the handsome flag into Zhang Ding's hand and walked away, and Zhang Ding, who could speak Mongolian, had to take over the command and give an attack order to the whole army.

The artillery battalion hidden on the side of the high ground began to attack, and the artillery still used the method of diagonal firing to increase the killing efficiency as much as possible, and the Kuku River Tun battle was different from the obstacle area more than 100 steps away in front of the artillery, mainly three groups of staggered together pointed wooden stakes, fixed on the ground a bit like a horse, each group of wooden stakes were wrapped with dense wire, and a lot of thunder was hung, and the ground was covered with dry grass sprinkled with gunpowder - the wire was a product of the Xuande Iron Works, and it was originally planned to be used to enclose livestock. The longest wire that can be pulled out can only reach three feet, and the sales volume is very limited, but Ding Qiming thinks that this thing is good, and it can be used to stop the enemy one by one, and at least it can increase the chance of shooting a few times for the gun, so he invented this kind of thing that he called "barbed wire".

Two 800-pound camp guns fired first, this is the Ordnance Department and Dongsheng Iron Works to build a new guy, modeled on the thousand catties of Buddha Lang machine, hit more than three catties of iron, the range reached more than 2,000 steps, but the use of copper core iron body, the weight has been reduced, dragged by the carriage to keep up with the speed of the march, the Ordnance Department Governor Wang Tianxiang, the gun director Shi Lao Liu specially rushed to check the actual combat effect.

"Straighten the artillery, load the No. 2 gun and shoot again." Wang Tianxiang shook his head and gave an order to the gunner, obviously dissatisfied with the design effect - after a cannon was fired, the gun carriage retreated a few steps back and was blocked by the ridge, shook a few times and returned to its original position, the cannon roared into the crowd of the other party, rampage and knocked down five or six people, but the other cannon was not angry, and the car with the cannon turned over and fell, and the cannon shot flew halfway to the ground and fell to the ground.

"There is a problem with the gun truck, the backlash is too big after the gunpowder is exploded, and we must find a way to improve the gun truck." Shi Lao Liu said as he made a note on the paper.

Wu Laoba, the sentry officer, was holding his stomach on the side, and he didn't use it in the novelty, but he was still his old brother - his ten 500-pound camp guns were sticks, and they were fighting easily, and they were already preparing for the third round of salvos.

The Ordos people were scared, the other party's solid cannon actually couldn't kill many people, but the scene of flesh and blood flying and fragmenting was terrifying, and the team began to stagnate, and even some chaos - the Mongols loved bows and arrows, and there was an innate rejection and fear of firearms, and the people of the Ming and Jin often used firearms to scare them, and it was very effective, and the people of Fengzhou used firearms more ruthlessly and accurately, which scared them into weakness. The Garma Jinong, who commanded the battle, was angry, and ordered the Chahar soldiers to come forward to supervise the battle, drive the Ordos people to rush forward, and those who dared to retreat and escape were immediately killed, and the Ordos people had no choice, and retreating was a dead end, only to fight forward to survive, and they flocked to the Fengzhou army.

The other side rushed over like a tide, more than a dozen artillery pieces could not stop it at all, the fire hammers and archers of the left battalion and the rear battalion of the infantry army in front of the sudden attack shot, and the dense rain of arrows mixed with guns shot overwhelmingly towards the crowd, and the Chahar people also did not show weakness to counterattack with bows and arrows, and the sound of shouting and killing and horns sounded on the grassland, and the arrows in the sky were like shuttles, covering the sky and the sun. The Chahar people still have too few arrows, and the arrow clusters made of animal bones and stones cannot pose a threat to the armored Fengzhou soldiers, but the Fengzhou army can shoot down the unarmored opponents one by one, and at the same time, the artillery battalions on the flanks are still providing fire support, and the corpses of the Fengzhou army are scattered all over the field after a short time, and the Ordos people are almost crushed, and many people throw down their weapons and run around regardless of life or death. At this time, the brave Chahar people rushed up, and the bravery of the cowardly Xue Iron Cavalry seemed to reappear in them, the armored soldiers rushed to the front, and the unarmored soldiers followed, falling down and rushing up again, this kind of sea tactics at the expense of casualties forced the Fengzhou army to retreat step by step.

Zhang Ding looked at the Chahar people dumbfounded, shook his head and ordered the front row to retreat, and the right battalion of the rear row of infantry troops to cover forward. The Chahar people were pleasantly surprised to find that the opponent finally couldn't stand it, and continued to attack forward on the corpses of their comrades, but they soon couldn't move, hundreds of giant shields suddenly appeared in front of them, and the middle was connected by iron chains, and the Fengzhou army was pushing the giant shield to press them - the new formation wall was also used to test the actual battle, and the three infantry battalions hid behind the formation wall, and kept shooting outward from the shooting holes, and the Chahar people were knocked down by the guns and sharp arrows that were shot, and the armored soldiers standing on the formation wall also used small flags to direct the archers behind them to shoot, From time to time, he also threw a few thunderbolts into the crowd below, causing casualties to the opponents who were crowded under the wall. The Chahar infantry tried to climb over the iron chains between the walls, but as soon as they passed, they were poked by countless spears and flesh and blood, and the red-eyed Chahars did not want to hit the wall with their horses, but the heavy walls were not so easy to break through, and the iron nails on them could tie them into bloody men. The Chahar people were bleeding in front of the wall, but they had nothing to do but wait to be beaten, they were a little desperate, and the formation began to retreat, but the artillery battalion did not let them go, and gave full play to the advantages of the fast rate of fire of the battalion guns, and each round of shelling would take dozens of lives.

Deshenzhuang, the commander of the Chinese army who personally led the charge, gritted his teeth with hatred, these giant shields can't be dealt with, but the opponent's artillery is too bullying, and he must kill these villains who fight artillery. Deshenzhuang gave an order, and the Chahars flocked to the artillery positions of the Fengzhou army. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the three infantry battalions of the Fengzhou army began to move forward, especially the right battalion full of columns has long been impatient, the old troops of the Fengzhou army at the beginning are not at all Chahar miscellaneous soldiers can compete, like a mill to crush the enemy who obstructs the enemy, Sun Shoufa's left battalion, Du Hongfang's rear battalion also did not fall in unison, the three battalions were like three sharp arrows inserted into the heart of the Chahar people, and the cavalry battalions were slowly advancing to protect the two wings of their infantry army. The Chahar people can't stand it, Karma helplessly put the young man who stayed behind, he looked up at the sun, this is just noon on the side showed defeat, the difference in strength between the two sides is huge, this battle should not be fought!

The artillery battalion fought vigorously, supporting its infantry with artillery, and on the other hand, pushing the infantry men on top, and blocking the Chahars who rushed in with a salvo - since the beginning of the construction of horse guns, everyone changed the name of the bird guns to "foot guns", and the use of them has also been improved, the foot guns are divided into several groups, each group of three foot guns, composed of a shooter, a secondary shooter and a charger, the charger hides behind to specially load gunpowder and guns, the shooter shoots in front, and the secondary shooter is responsible for passing the rifle and replacing the shooter if necessary. The battalion soldiers do not need to work, in addition to training is to ponder, charging is the basic skill of the rifleman, after repeated training, many people can complete the loading blindfolded, and also come up with a good way to speed up the reloading, in advance put the quantitative gunpowder into a small paper bag, and then tear the paper bag with his mouth to pour gunpowder into the gunpowder tube, this method is fast and trouble-free, Ding Qiming immediately adopted. The artillery battalion has 900 rifles, 300 guns in a salvo, the speed of reloading and firing is fast, as long as the defensive area is not large, they have the ability to crush the opponent, the Chahar people are very unlucky, just encountered this new style of play, Jin Guoding led the team up, knocked over more than 100, and smashed a thunderbolt, the Chahar people did not dare to move forward, and even the barbed wire fence arranged for them did not have a chance to approach.

After Deshenzhuang led the team to arrive, Chahar regained his courage and roared to make a comeback, and the barbed wire finally came in handy, but the wire was not strong, and the flow of people broke as soon as he rushed, but he delayed the opponent for a while, adding two rounds of salvo opportunities for the riflemen, which made Ding Qiming a little disappointed and ordered the rocket to be cast. The hay sprinkled with gunpowder burned, detonating the barbed wire and thundering, and the Chahar people were in a big mess again, and the Chahan Brain Guard Bao Jung took this opportunity to command the Benwei infantry battalion to take the lead in the high ground, and the cavalry battalion moved to the two flanks of the infantry formation to protect, and the infantry men also withdrew behind the infantry formation and continued to shoot condescendingly, and a barrier was erected in front of the artillery of the Fengzhou army.

"Brothers, the Chahar soldiers are a group of cowards, give me a hard beating today, everyone will see blood, if anyone is cowardly, Lao Tzu will beat him to death." Feng Shujie, the deputy garrison who commanded the infantry formation, carried a leather whip and scurried around in the team, he was a native of Yulin, and served as a sentry officer in the left battalion of Sun Shoufa's infantry army, he was seriously injured in the battle of Kuku Hetun, and was transferred to the newly built Chahan Brain Guard, the new guard has many people, and there are few people who have killed people and seen blood, he has been worried about the combat strength of his garrisons, and kept shouting, "The armored soldiers are in front, the unarmored soldiers are behind, listen to the command of your superiors to stab, you must keep stabbing, and the archers should not be idle, listen to the command to throw at the place where there are many people on the other side." ”

The Chahar people gradually approached, Feng Shujie suddenly jumped out of the formation, this guy was ruthless when he was a soldier, the spear in his hand was as fast as lightning and stabbed into the oncoming war horse, the armored Chahar cavalry turned over and fell off the horse, and before he could get up, he was beheaded by a knife, Feng Shujie hit it successfully, and quickly retreated to the formation under the cover of several personal soldiers.

"See, it's as simple as killing someone." Feng Shujie shouted loudly while holding his head.

The garrison let out a giggle, spears in their hands pointed at their approaching opponents.