The war drums of the two sides shook, shouting and killing, and after a few misses, they gradually became entangled and fought together, and launched a fierce cavalry battle that was incompatible!

Li Dingguo wore a collar of shining bright light armor all over his body, and some generals deliberately hid themselves on the battlefield and dressed up like an ordinary soldier to avoid exposing their targets and becoming the target of public criticism.

Li Dingguo did the opposite, he deliberately highlighted the identity of the main general, hoping to attract more Eight Banners soldiers to him.

This bright armor made the enemy know at a glance that he was the commander of the whole army, and his mount was a battle-hardened white horse, and the horse was also covered with a layer of leather armor, and it was also protected by armor leaves below the thighs, and only a piece of snow-white fur was exposed at the crook of the legs, so as not to hinder its free gallop.

One of the personal soldiers held a large flag embroidered with the word "Li", black letters on a white background, inlaid with red satin trim, and hung with light yellow tassels, and four other personal soldiers closely guarded him, and they followed Li Dingguo to advance closely.

The war horses galloped and moved, raising dust all over the sky, and gusts of wind and thunder seemed to be stirring up under the horses' hooves, holding their group of people in the air, like a dagger that has been tempered for thousands of years, and suddenly plunged into the Eight Banners of Manmeng.

The remaining 3,000 or so Ming knights, under the leadership of several cavalry generals such as Xiang Gui, Liu Muzhi, and Ma Zhiji, have always followed closely with the main generals to fight with the Eight Banners!

Wherever the banner of the word "Li" flies, these brave generals will be killed.

In the tense cavalry confrontation, in the midst of the stormy waves, the banner fell low for a while, sometimes to the point of being completely invisible, and the hearts of the soldiers also sank.

Suddenly, it reappeared, and mixed with the flags of the Eight Banners immediately planted with various battle flags, raising and lowering each other, and the soldiers became excited again.

Then the big banner with the word "Li" was raised higher, and the enemy's military flags were brushed down one after another, as if a brocade sail drove a light boat down the wind, skimming the surrounding waves to both sides, and the hearts of the soldiers were even more excited.

When they encounter the enemy's horse, they hardly use other weapons, and they use the thick and heavy sticks in their hands, either as the first blow or as a sweep, and if they can't hit anyone, they will first go down to the enemy's horse's head, with the aim of knocking the enemy off their horses, so that they will be trampled under the iron hooves of both the enemy and the enemy, and annihilated.

The Ming knights not only used big sticks and blades to fight with the Eight Banners, but they also used the sprinting force of the rushing horses to impact the enemy, which was almost a way of fighting with both sides.

They rushed up from a distant place to set a target, some of the unprepared Eight Banners were rushed off their horses by them, and some Ming knights were too fierce to restrain their mounts, and they were also swept out by inertia, and after falling from the horse with the Eight Banners who were hit by him, they were soon crushed into pulp by the galloping horses!

Of course, the vast majority of the Manmeng Eight Banners who were proficient in horsemanship were able to avoid this almost crazy way of fighting, and when the Ming knights rushed over, they had already been prepared, and they carried their horses' heads in the enclave, dodging the Ming knights' charges, but instead turned to their backs and cut off their heads with a sharp knife!

Several pro-soldiers who were fighting closely with Li Dingguo were intercepted and surrounded by a strong team of Eight Banners soldiers in an instant. Li Dingguo lost them when he couldn't see them, and he immediately flew back.

At this time, fire came out of his eyes and throat, and he saw that in the enemy's Bao Kingdom, two personal soldiers guarding the Great Banner were cut down to the ground, and a third personal soldier named Wang Sunchen was also tied up with a noose from a Mongolian Eight Banner.

Lasso is a stunt that Mongolian Eight Banners have forged from long-term riding and actual combat, originally only used to lasso horses, dozens of steps inside and outside, a soft rope is thrown out, and the slipknot at the upper end of the soft rope can lasso the galloping horse, one hundred hundred.

Later, they developed this stunt as an effective tactic in cavalry warfare, with a steel hook tied to the lasso, and when fighting, the lasso flew out of the horse, and as long as the steel hook hooked the flesh and armor of the enemy's foot rider, and pulled it with his hand, he could be brought alive.

Now those Mongolian Eight Banner cavalry are planning to use this effective weapon against Li Dingguo, the commander of the Ming army, in the melee where the two sides are close to each other.

Li Dingguo is worthy of being a veteran of battle, he saw the flying rope thrown, he did not hesitate to drop the spear in his hand, pulled out the sharp waist knife from his waist, and cut the lasso with a sweep in the air.

Then several Mengbaqi soldiers stepped forward to hold Li Dingguo together, and a few lassoes flew from the sky like a few evil dragons with teeth and claws.

A Mongolian Eight Banner rider did not know the height, picked up a big lance to bully and stabbed, did not expect Li Dingguo to drive the war horse flexibly, like a whirlwind swept to his side, he did not have time to pull the long lance back to protect himself, Li Dingguo had already snatched his horse's head, aimed at his neck, with a wave of the waist knife, a good big head flew out, blood splashed, instantly dyed red robes.

The panicked horse carried the headless lower body of the Meng Baqi Zhuangda (the middle and low-level officers in the Eight Banners) and rushed through the battle array, and the rest of the Meng Baqi saw Li Dingguo so heroic, shouted, turned around and retreated, and escaped from the core battle circle.

Li Dingguo's personal soldiers went up to rescue Wang Sunchen, handed Li Dingguo a fine iron spear again, and dispersed the remnants of the enemy. But by this time, the Ming army had also reached the level of weakness of "three drums and exhaustion".

In a war, the subjective initiative of the fighters is important, but the objective balance of forces still plays a decisive role.

As far as this cavalry duel is concerned, although the knights of the Ming army have a high degree of subjective initiative under the command of Li Dingguo, they are still at a disadvantage in the overall balance of strength.

What's more, the battle of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners is also very brave, although they did not take too much advantage in the contest with Li Dingguo and his own soldiers, but against other Ming knights, the advantage is very obvious.

The Manchu general Tuntai flexibly adopted the tactics of side knocking and side attack, they retreated from the side of Li Dingguo's charge, but chose to enter from the flank, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners were able to successfully use this tactic because of their high riding skills and tacit cooperation with each other, which was cultivated through hundreds of battles of all sizes.

They took advantage of their superiority in numbers and equipment to cut the cavalry of other parts of the Ming army into several sections and intercept them outside the main stream, so that a small area of separate battles was formed here and there.

The knights of the Ming army who fell into the encirclement fought bravely like trapped beasts, and some of them were still fighting in the final fight even if they were hit by several arrows and were fatally injured, and they would never give up until the last drop of blood was shed!

They rode in a group or dozens of horses, fighting with several times or even more than ten times the Eight Banners, their armor was full of arrows, their armor was already splashed with their own and the enemy's blood, some of them suffered seven or eight wounds, more than ten wounds, blood gushing out of the wounds and could not free up their hands to bandage it.

Some of the blades were incomplete, and in the face of such imminent death, they still fought without fear to protect themselves, cover their comrades, to keep the main force of the Ming infantry ten miles away, and to keep the hope of the revival of this Han army!

Sometimes they killed the horses of the Eight Banners on the ground with a stick, and then another Ming knight picked off the Eight Banners on the horse with a shot, although he was immediately killed by another Eight Banners with an arrow, but before he died, he still cheered, indicating that he had recovered his capital and died without regrets!

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