Chapter 168: Lao Tzu is the first cavalry in the world
The Tatar envoy Dari Rachi was cut into a stick by Chen Di and sent back to the Altan Khan's tent. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Altan Khan was furious! Originally, he also wanted the army to recuperate in Zhili for a few more days. His own messenger was made disabled, is it unbearable! Altan Khan immediately led his army to set off, and the troops pointed straight at the capital!
The 40,000 iron cavalry of the Tatars finally came to the capital! The Tatars set up a large camp twenty miles from the capital.
Chen Di didn't know how the battle between the three major battalions and the Zhili Weisuo army was fought. The three battalions and the garrison army together had a total of 100,000 men. 100,000 people being swallowed up by 40,000 Tatar cavalry is nothing, and the almost unharmed Tatar cavalry is appalling!
But if you think about it carefully, it's right, straight to the ground, mostly plains. It facilitates the large-scale maneuver of cavalry regiments. The three major battalions and the Zhili Guards were mostly infantry troops, and it was reasonable that they were defeated by the Tatar cavalry.
Chen Di now had 1,300 Flying Tiger Army, 2,000 Fur Machine mercenaries, and 2,000 spearmen composed of the Guards and Jinyi Guards.
Chen Di has two options at the moment, one is to disperse all the Ming troops in the capital to defend the nine gates. Second, take the initiative to attack and fight in the field with the Tatar iron cavalry.
If the Ming army dispersed the defense, and each gate in the capital sent hundreds of people, the Mongol iron cavalry could concentrate their forces to storm a little. When the time comes, there will be no reinforcements from the various gates.
In terms of defensive effectiveness, there is little difference between sending a few hundred people per sect and not sending one.
Instead of sitting back and waiting, it's better to take the initiative!
Chen Di is gambling big! It is very likely that Altan Khan will divide his troops into two routes, one to fight with Chen Di in the field, and the other to take the capital directly!
It's not terrible to lose the capital, and Emperor Jiajing is captured and killed, and Chen Di doesn't care. But there are hundreds of thousands of unarmed people in the capital!
Chen Di is gambling with the lives of hundreds of thousands of people! This is a helpless choice, there is a huge disparity between the enemy and our forces, if you don't gamble, you will still go bankrupt, but you will have the opportunity to kill the Quartet!
Altan Khan was confident that the Ming army would not dare to go out of the city to fight with his elite cavalry, and he was deploying various troops to besiege the capital from three directions: Yongding Gate, Guangqu Gate, and Xibian Gate!
What Altan Khan didn't expect was that his deployment had not yet been completed, and Chen Di had already led the Ming army out of You'anmen to assemble!
Before Chen Di led his army out of the city, he closed the other eight gates. Out of You'anmen, the first thing Chen Di did was to let people lock You'anmen! The capital is surrounded by a moat, and after crossing the moat, Chen Di let people burn the suspension bridge!
Burn one's ship! Da Ming Rui, no truce!
Chen Di is 15 years old, and his body has grown a lot compared to two years ago. Now he can ride a horse.
Chen Di was dressed in a big red robe, carrying the Longquan sword given by Emperor Jiajing before he set out on his waist, and rode a snow-white war horse to inspect his soldiers, he shouted: "Brothers, behind us is the capital of the Ming Dynasty!" We have no way back! Don't let the Tatars step into the capital! ”
The soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army shouted in unison: "The Flying Tiger is dead, and he will not return to Beijing if he dies!" ”
"Listen to me! The Flying Tigers march in columns! The Fur Plane mercenaries march in formation! The guards and brocade guards hold spears in their hands and guard the wings! Chen Di ordered loudly.
Thousands of Ming troops marched forward with neat steps.
Altan Khan could not have imagined that the Ming army would take the initiative to attack.
Altan Khan is a descendant of the Mongolian Golden Family, and the blood of Genghis Khan is in his veins. He is confident that if it comes to field warfare, the Mongolian iron cavalry is the first in the world!
Altan Khan said to his deputy, Wanhu Zhena: "Look, these Ming troops went out of the city and died! ”
Zhena asked Altan Khan: "Great Khan, the Ming army is pouring out, and the defense of the capital must be empty!" Did the soldiers divide into two routes, all the way to meet the Ming army on the opposite side, and all the way to attack the capital? ”
Altan Khan shook his head: "No! The capital is already in Ben Khan's pocket! It's not too late to destroy this Ming army, which doesn't know the height of the sky, and then capture the capital! Zhena, I order you to lead 10,000 iron cavalry around to the north of the Ming army! I will personally lead 30,000 iron horsemen to attack from the front! Wait until my 30,000 horsemen meet him, and you will fight from the flanks! ”
If it were thousands of ordinary Ming troops, the Tatar Iron Cavalry would only need to rush and kill them all to turn them into meatloaf!
It's a pity that Altan Khan is facing the Flying Tiger Army and the Francoji mercenary army, all armed with firearms!
Before the Great War, the battlefield was terrifyingly quiet. Several vultures hovered in the sky. They seem to already know that in a moment the entire battlefield will be stained red with blood! And now these murderous soldiers on both sides, I don't know how many of them will become their delicacies!
The Tatar cavalry charged, and the forces needed to be deployed. Each wave can only unfold more than 4,000 rides, which is the limit! Otherwise, tens of thousands of cavalry will charge together collectively, and their own men and horses will also suffer heavy casualties just by trampling on each other!
Altan Khan sent the first wave of 4,000 cavalry. Four thousand Tatar iron horsemen swayed their heads and their iron hooves churned, rushing towards the Ming army! It was as if a yellow hurricane had been born between heaven and earth! The gallop of 4,000 war horses produced a strong tremor, shaking the heavens and the earth! In the rolling yellow dust, countless sabers reflect dazzling brilliance under the sunlight!
Chen Di said in his heart, it is said that the Mongolian iron cavalry is the strongest cavalry in history, and when I see it today, it really deserves its name. Four thousand men charged collectively, each horse maintained a reasonable distance between them, and the speed of the charge was also very consistent, and there would be no incident of the rear horse hitting the front horse.
What about the first cavalry in the world? Lao Tzu is your world's first cavalry today!
The range of the Tiger Gun was much farther than that of the arquebus of the Furlong Mercenaries, and Chen Di first ordered the Flying Tiger Army to prepare for shooting.
"All the Flying Tiger Army's firecrackers! Paper shell bullets loaded! Yu Dayou ordered loudly.
The artillery positions in charge of Tang Shunzhi, the gunners of the Flying Tiger Army and the Furlong Machine Mercenaries have also been prepared.
The Tatar cavalry finally came within range of eighty furlong cannons.
The Flying Tigers' thirty guns all use iron-clad shells. The guns of the Franz mercenaries all use solid iron ball shells.
Tang Shun gave an order: "Release!" ”
Eighty Furlong cannons fired in unison! Thirty iron-shelled flowering bullets fell into the Tartar Iron Cavalry Array, as if thirty soul-attracting flowers bloomed in front of the Hades Palace in an instant. Immediately after, fifty solid bullets rolled out fifty bloody plows among the Tatar cavalry!
A round of artillery bombardment, although the Tatar cavalry suffered casualties, but the momentum of the charge did not decrease!
The Tatar cavalry was quick to attack, and the Francos mercenaries were too slow to reload. The artillery of the Ming army used a son-mother gun, so it was able to fire the second round of iron-shelled flowering shells in time!
"Boom, boom, boom!" Another round of shelling.
These thousands of Tatar cavalry, despite several rounds of shelling, did not flinch and continued to charge.
These thousands of Tatar cavalry would not have thought that they had just been shelled and had entered the range of the Tiger Might!
Yu Dayou ordered: "Flying Tiger Arms Gunner, raise your gun, aim!" Put! ”
"Boom, boom, boom!"
More than a thousand Tiger Bolts shot out dense projectiles. Dozens of Tatar cavalry rushing to the front were immediately overturned to the ground!