The Ming Dynasty has always had the tradition of raising generals in their homes, since the early Ming Dynasty Taizu period, each general's home, there are always dozens or hundreds of soldiers, these soldiers are well-armored, well-trained, and extremely strong in combat effectiveness, far beyond the average soldiers, even the elite border army can not be compared. More importantly, he is loyal to his master, he is a soldier and a general, and he is the top soldier to break through in wartime, the last barrier.

In Lian Zining's original era, during the Wanli period, the general of the Ming Dynasty, Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong, raised 8,000 families at home, and these 8,000 families were all dressed in armor, war horses were also armored, spears and knives were also equipped with three-eyed guns, and the combat effectiveness was top of the top nine sides of 100,000 soldiers! With these 8,000 families as the main force, he commanded more than 100,000 troops, and overwhelmed hundreds of Jurchen tribes, and did not dare to make the slightest mistake. Nurhachi, the founding father of the Manchu Dynasty, and his younger brother Shulhaqi were once his family members, and when Li Chengliang died, Nurhachi immediately rebelled.

Two thousand soldiers, and only a hereditary super-grade marquis like Zhang Yanchang, who holds great power and is also a big family trusted by the emperor, can have this number. Many Xun Qi generals can naturally afford to raise them at home, but they definitely don't dare to raise so much, in the key place of Gyeonggi, what do you want to do with thousands of elite horses? Everyone remembers the change clearly.

The white-robed army originally had the intention of escaping, and Kang Lu led a thousand cavalry to chase after them, and their war horses were taller, faster, and better than those of the white-robed army, and they were approaching in a short time. When the white-robed general saw it, he had to lead the team to turn around to meet the enemy, but he was not very afraid in his heart, but he felt that these officers and soldiers were too deceitful, and they dared to chase after them when they were less than half of our number? It's also convenient to go back and beat them up first, and then evacuate.

But I didn't expect that after the battle, it was not like that at all!

The two cavalry collided together, and immediately showed a one-sided situation.

This pro-soldier is still waiting, waiting for work, and his heart is already full of fighting spirit, and at this time, he is rushing and unstoppable! Kang Lu rushed to the front alone, with a body to kill thousands of enemies, more than a hundred spears, waist knives and so on beckoned to him, but he was not afraid at all, a goose egg thick Zhangba iron spear in his hand waved, the momentum was heavy, impermeable, no one could get close to him, and he stabbed left and right, all the white-robed troops around him, one by one spear fell off the horse, no one was his enemy.

The main general was so brave that he rode alone to contend with hundreds of enemies, and hundreds of soldiers and soldiers behind Kang Lu felt their blood boiling, and they shouted in their mouths to kill, like a mad tiger, and went straight into the enemy's formation, spears and spears, and slashes with big swords. It's just a face-to-face, the vanguard of the white-robed army is back to Beijing and was defeated, they were originally disheartened, and they had the intention of going, but at this time, the army was even more chaotic, and no one could do effective resistance.

The hand rises and falls, the spear stabs straight forward, bringing up countless blood, the sound of the blade chopping into the flesh, the screams, and the sound of gold and iron, all gathered together, shocking the four fields. At this time, most of the battlefields in other places have come to an end, and only they are still fighting.

The combat effectiveness of the marshal's own soldiers is really not comparable to the white-robed army, although the number is only half of the opponent's, but it completely occupies the initiative, chasing and fighting fiercely, and the white-robed army with the superior number is already defeated. If the attack of the Great Axe Men just now was like an impregnable wall, advancing with desperate tenacity and toughness, then this cavalry assault was like a sharp blade, slashing the enemy in front of it to pieces.

The blockers are invincible, in the face of the infantry, they can still run if they can't beat them, but in the face of these elite horsemen, they can't even run, which makes people even more desperate and afraid.

The cavalry, dressed in rotten silver plate armor and a big red cloak, drove the good horses that straddled down, galloping and shouting, and the earth trembled, and the heavens and the earth seemed to change color.

They wore plate armor and steel helmets, and even the horses were covered with specially made three-layer foam nail cotton armor, covering most of the horse's body, only revealing the small half of the horse's legs less than one and a half feet long, and even the horse's head was wearing a covered horse helmet. These knights, men and horses, are out-and-out heavy cavalry! Its defensive power is similar to that of the heavy cavalry of the European Middle Ages at the same time, but it is faster and more mobile!

The difference is that in Europe at this time, a military power may not be able to make up 2,000 heavy cavalry, and these are just the private soldiers of a big family in the Ming Dynasty!

The difference in national strength cannot be calculated.

War horses and armor weapons cost a lot of money, and if you want to arm such a heavy cavalry, it costs more than five times that of ordinary cavalry. And the high price naturally has the advantage of matching, compared with them, the white-robed army can only be regarded as light cavalry, and the confrontation between the two can be imagined. The waist knife and spear of the white-robed army slashed at them, and they could only leave a white mark on the armor, unless it was a vital point such as the neck, and there was nothing to be done. Even if it is chopped and stabbed on the horse, it only brings out a spark, and in a few cases it can pierce a layer of cotton armor, but there are two more layers behind!

To deal with such heavy cavalry, it is either necessary to use light cavalry to constantly ride and shoot and harass them, and exhaust them to death, or to hedge with heavy cavalry and hit them with heavy weapons such as maces and hammers to shock them to death!

These commanders and their commanders, Kang Lu, were the same, and most of them used iron spears and swords. The thickness of the egg, the four-meter-long iron spear is the best color created by the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of War, heavy and sharp, the tip of the gun is cold and flashing, the momentum of the charge, held with one hand, clamped with the arm, with the help of horsepower, under a single face, you can pierce the enemy as a chest, pick up the fly, and be trampled to death by the chaotic horse after landing. The other hand held a saber high, their horse swords and the long Miao knife of the dragoons of the Wuyi Army were all the way, all of which were branded with the logo of the highest forging skill in the world in the Ming Dynasty. The back is thick and thin, extremely sharp, and if you slash down, the enemy will be in a different place. There is that powerful and experienced, and he can even cleverly use his strength to split the enemy in two.

And some of the marshal soldiers, but do not like sabers and spears, but use heavy weapons such as iron bones, this thing is actually a kind of mace, from the time of Liaojin began to circulate, shorter than the general mace, but larger, heavier, more powerful and more domineering, short and thick, the top of the big iron bone Duo is the size of a human head, full of barbs. This kind of weapon, the Jurchens and the Mongols love to use, and many of the generals of the Zhang family are selected from Jiubian Xuanfu, Jizhen and other places, presumably this is a habit learned from those barbarians outside the Saiwai.

This weapon is extremely heavy and not easy to use, but it is infinitely powerful when it is used by these powerful Zhang family generals. When a stick goes down and hits the head, the brain bursts, the skull shatters, and the one who doesn't say a word dies. Knocking on the back of the chest and abdomen, it immediately shattered the internal organs inside, spitting blood from the mouth and dying. Even in the thighs and arms, which are not very important, they are also broken and fractured, and then they are pulled back, and the barbs bring up a large mass of flesh and blood. As long as it is rubbed, if you don't die, you will lose your combat effectiveness, and a cripple is inevitable.

This weapon is actually more practical, especially when used to deal with heavy cavalry, at this time to fight against the white-robed army, the effect obtained, can only be described by the word crushing.

The battle lasted for nearly two teas, and the white-robed army suffered heavy losses.

In Lian Zining's words, in these years, the war is a piece of equipment, Zhang Yanchang father and son two generations, forty years of accumulation, burned gold mountains and silver seas, wasted countless scheming strength, can be regarded as creating this cavalry, even if it is put on the nine sides to fight against the Jurchen elite, it will not fall behind at all. How can these white-robed soldiers be opponents?

In a fierce battle, more than half of the 2,000 white-robed soldiers were killed and wounded, and the rest were also ragged and covered in blood. The rest of the remnants of the defeated generals all fled towards the main formation, and Kang Lu didn't care much about himself, and he rushed to kill, which can be regarded as venting the anger that he had been holding for a long time. After a rush, after all, they were heavily armored and a little tired, so they also reined in their horses and did not pursue.

At this time, the sun had risen high, a strong wind was blowing, and countless flags were hunting in the wind.

The situation on the battlefield has been clear, the part of the white-robed army that was besieged by Lian Zining's pocket array has killed countless people, and the rest surrendered. The white-robed army that escaped from the pocket array was only more than 300 people who were extremely miserable, and when they attacked the defense line of Pingshanwei, more than 100 people died, and they would join the white-robed army that was fighting fiercely with Datong Zhongtunwei and Shenyang Zhongtunwei, about four or five hundred horsemen, and then had no will to fight, so they fled in the wilderness.

The 2,000 cavalry who came to the rescue suffered heavy casualties, and the rest fled. Only Qin Laoliu and Qian Dayong led the 6,000 horsemen and fought with Wang Yancheng and Zhao Maxiang there, and they were invincible.

Zhang Geng's face was extremely ugly, it was a good battle, but he didn't expect it to be like this. At this moment, the white-robed army can be said to have suffered a great injury.

Qi Jiguang sighed in his heart, if he listened to his own advice, even if the five thousand cavalry were all killed, they would not be able to cause greater damage to the Shenwu Right Guard and the Wu Yi Army, but they would not be able to catch the two thousand cavalry.

He persuaded bitterly: "Big leader, Mingjin should withdraw the troops, we still have two thousand, Qin Lao Liu and Qian Dayong are there, there are not many deaths in battle, it is estimated that at least five thousand can be retained." As for the 2,000 horsemen who were entangled by the elite of those officers and soldiers, 81,000 could always escape. In this way, we can still leave 7,000 bones and blood, let's go back, and we can still recruit troops and horses to grow stronger! Big Chief, we haven't been defeated yet, think long-term! ”

Zhang Geng also knew that he was telling the truth, his face was blue and white for a while, and finally he gritted his teeth and said, "Mingjin!" Let's withdraw! ”

The generals around him were silent, and some of them had red eyes for a while, and they almost cried.

The sound of gold sounded, and all the units of the white-robed army engaged with the officers and soldiers began to slowly leave the battlefield, and Zhang Yanchang did not care about himself, and ordered all departments not to pursue. He knew that this battle, basically crippling the white-robed army and killing thousands, could already be called a big victory!

Half an hour later, the white-robed army disappeared beyond the horizon and was never seen again.

This fierce battle came to an abrupt end.

(To be continued)