A gentle breeze blew under the blue sky, the sound of bull's horns blew in the distance, and the cavalry front whistled from miles away. www.biquge.info The Mongols on horseback were excited, armed with scimitars, or short bows, roaring in unison and rushing towards their prey in the distance.

On August 24, Shen Jia led an army of 3,000 Ming when he suddenly encountered a surprise attack by Mongolian cavalry. The rolling Mongol cavalry roared loudly, and soon appeared on the distant horizon. After months of training, the Ming army was well trained, and they lined up and prepared to meet the enemy.

Eight thousand Mongols, this is a force sent by Buhe after consulting with the Alu Korqin tribe. This force was mainly cavalry, consisting mainly of light and heavy cavalry. For hundreds of years, the Mongols continued to adhere to the tactics that had been handed down since the time of Genghis Khan, and they deployed light cavalry mixed with heavy cavalry, leaving the light cavalry between the light cavalry, and a row of ten men interspersed with light cavalry and heavy cavalry, with a group of 100 people. The light cavalry were armed with stiff bows, light arrows, and leather armor, and were good at attacking the enemy from a distance with bows, while the heavy cavalry in the ranks were mainly slashers at close range, and they were mostly large scimitars, wearing leather armor and close-range bows.

A mile away, the two Mongol armies merged into one, quickly lined up, and began to launch the first tentative charge against the Ming army. The Mongols did not make an appointment to fight, nor did they send emissaries. Faced with a lone army, when he had a strong force, Buhe thought that he should fight a decisive battle and win the battle.

The Mongols, eager to plunder, almost always thought so, and the Mongol forward, mainly light cavalry, quickly charged, but the reality was full of helplessness and sadness. After the Mongolian forward rushed into the range of 200 meters, the monsters in the Ming army's formation began to roar, and a dense wave of bullets shot out. The charging Horqin cavalry was like a wave, crashing into an invisible iron wall, instantly unloading the majestic momentum.

Countless horses fell on the way to the charge, and even the warriors fell with a muffled sound, and were trampled by the iron hooves that followed closely behind. The offensive momentum is like an arrow from the string, and it cannot be stopped. The leader of the cavalry, wrapped in the crowd, could only bite the bill and continue to rush forward. This kind of ignorance shows the most convenient path to hell for his companions. A large number of warriors died in an instant, blood flying and corpses all over the wasteland, and the Korqin cavalry was using their flesh and blood to resist the machine gun in the center.

A shell whistled down into the crowd, and the sound of a huge explosion was deafening. The Mongols finally realized how different this Ming army was. The light cavalry of the Mongols, wrapped around the heavy cavalry, decisively bypassed the center and began to stick to the two flanks of the Ming army. The change in the Mongol cavalry quickly provoked a response from the artillery on both wings of the Ming army. The four unconscionable cannons, bombarded every few tens of seconds, slammed into the cavalry crowd, violently exploding the shock wave and overturning the cavalry within ten meters. This was followed by a burst of iron and rubble that exploded in all directions. The earthen shrapnel hit the cavalry who had no time to dodge, instantly creating a radial no-man's land in the cavalry formation.

"Liu Wu, reload quickly, the enemy is coming!" Qu Xiaojia anxiously urged Liu Wu.

"Xiao Jia, don't be too fierce, I see that Horqin Mongolia can't withstand it after a few more jumps, and you see that the charging speed of their rear team has slowed down significantly."

Qu Xiaojia didn't respond, he stared straight ahead with all his attention, and as soon as he saw danger, he immediately aimed his fire at the dense crowd and fired. Shen Jia was glad that he had found Qu Xiaojia. Qu Xiaojia is a natural marksman, after only dozens of days of operation training and more than a dozen bullets, he is extremely proficient in playing machine guns, and the accuracy of aiming and shooting is even much higher than Shen Jia.

The Horqin Mongols were still holding on, but the Ming army stubbornly suppressed the cavalry charge with strong firepower, turning the Mongols' blood into a cold and biting chill. The battlefield gradually became strange, and the battle situation took a sharp turn, and the Mongols in front of them slowly retreated to the rear. Exposing one's back to an enemy with strong firepower is an extremely stupid thing to do on the battlefield. The Ming army was excited about this, and the soldiers seemed to see the goddess of victory beckoning to them.

The Mongol cavalry on both flanks scattered far away, and although they had no intention of leaving, they could not find a way to tear apart the Ming defenses. Shen Jia thought for a while, and decisively ordered the whole army to mount their horses and keep the formation rolling forward in pursuit. Directly in front of the corpses, the morale of the Ming army was high, and through the front of the formation, the Mongols had withdrawn hundreds of meters away. Shen Jia, who was anxious to win, was worried that the opportunity would disappear, so he ordered the 1st Battalion and the 4th Battalion, under the unified command of Zeng Shi, to attack forward in a cavalry formation, keeping a distance of about one mile from the main force. The victories over the past few days raised the mood of the Ming army, and after receiving the military order, the first and fourth battalions of the Ming army cheered loudly, while the other battalions that were not selected were sullen.

Five minutes later, Zeng Shi led nearly a thousand Ming troops, rushed forward, and roared away.

Seeing the first battalion rushing away under the leadership of Zeng Shi, Liu Wu, as the commander of the first battalion, began to complain about why others could charge, but he could only reload. Shen Jia was furious and scolded: "The mother's back and forth is your idea, who wanted to touch this firearm in the first place, and complained to me at this time, what did you do earlier?" ”

Liu Wu bowed his head and was silent, while Shen Jia, who was finished scolding, quickly paid the price for his impulsiveness. After perceiving the division of the Ming army, a large number of Mongolian cavalry on both wings suddenly re-surrounded the Ming army's front, and the roaring sound of horses' hooves resounded in the grassland, the flow of people rolled, and the smoke of gunpowder filled. Shen Jia used the binoculars to see that the Mongolian rear army was turning back, trying to encircle the Ming army with the cavalry on both wings.

"Damn, fooled, cunning Horqin Mongol!" Shen Jia screamed angrily, no way, after all, the battlefield experience is really out, and he was too careless.

The Mongols are the best at roundabout tactics, avoiding real attacks and playing falsely. The most common tactic used by the Mongol army was to use the rapid retreat of cavalry to paralyze the enemy. When the unstable combatants pursued the Mongol cavalry, they often fell into the trap set by the Mongols. Historically, when the Mongols attacked Khorezm Castle, they could not continue to advance because they could not hold it for a long time. The officer Jebe suddenly thought of a way to deceive him, and he used ambushes and archers to ambush his own retreat route, waiting for the enemy to fall into a trap, and the defeated Mongol army re-entered the battlefield to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

At first, Shen Jia also thought of this, but except for the Mongolian cavalry on both wings, Shen Jia did not see more Mongols with his telescope. Shen Jia gradually understood that this was another pocket tactic of the Mongols. That is, using the commander of the Chinese army as a bait, first fight for a while, and then feign defeat, while the two wings of the Mongolian cavalry are cruising on both wings, when the enemy who can't hold their breath pursues, the two wings of cavalry and the returning Mongolian rear army will form a new pocket, and achieve a rapid encirclement of the enemy.

Shen Jia scolded the Korqin people for their cunning, no wonder they were able to mix well under the rule of the Manchus, and sure enough, there were two brushes. Shen Jia hurriedly beckoned the main force of the Ming army to follow quickly, once Zeng Shi's nearly 1,000 Ming troops were surrounded by the other party, it would deal a fatal blow to the morale of the Ming army, and it was likely to crush a new army.

The Horqin Mongols were not vegetarians either, and they soon filled the path of the main advance of the Ming army. Shen Jia hurriedly ordered to open fire, and with the sudden sound of machine guns, the front of the heavy army display became a slaughtering hunting ground in an instant, and the Mongolian cavalry didn't even have time to charge in formation, and fell on the grassland a hundred meters away. Shen Jia's eyes were red, he understood what time meant. Li Fulai's second battalion quickly charged from the front, and the Mongols tried to block it with heavy cavalry, but they were soon attacked by Ming grenades. The Mongol cavalry defending in front suffered heavy casualties, and they quickly retreated to a distance of tens of meters, trying to kill them from a distance with bows and arrows.

Under the cover of long-range fire consisting of the 5th and 6th battalions, the 2nd and 3rd battalions quickly followed up and continued to assault forward. The moving regiment had limited means of attack, they could only rely on grenades, incendiary grenades to stop the cavalry charge, and soon the formation of the second battalion was scattered by the cavalry. The anxious Li Fulai commanded the second battalion to pay attention to the defense and asked the spearmen to protect the two wings of the second battalion. The dismounted 2nd Battalion advanced extremely slowly, and was subjected to intensive bow and arrow fire from the Mongol bannermen.

The Mongol cavalry moved away from the central defense and instead circled the Ming flanks in an attempt to completely engulf the lone army. The Mongolian cavalry on both flanks organized a volley and launched round after round of attacks on the Ming army, and the helpless Ming army had to rely on shields and find an opportunity to use grenades to block the opponent. Shen Jia on the assault car was forced to be extremely dangerous by two consecutive rounds of shooting, and his command was chaotic for a while, the Ming army in front of him was mixed with the Mongols, and Qu Xiaojia couldn't find a target to fire at all.

As the Mongols concentrated their volleys, the Ming army began to shrink its formation, and the boundaries of the battle between the Ming army and the Mongol cavalry became clear. In the face of the frantic strafing at close range, the Mongolian cavalry on the right flank was caught off guard, and suddenly fell in a large area, and the screams followed. Shen Jia stepped on the accelerator and rushed towards the left flank. Qu Xiaojia turned his gun and fired hundreds of bullets at the enemy on the left flank, and the cavalry fell like dominoes. With the help of frantic firepower, Shen Jia and Qu Xiaojia finally succeeded in suppressing the long-range salvo of the Mongols with a glimmer of opportunity. Immediately after that, the Ming army switched to a counteroffensive, and the situation on the battlefield stabilized again.

The pressure of the Ming army suddenly decreased, and the morale immediately increased, and the assault force composed of the second and third battalions quickly cut through the Mongol formation, and reconnected with the first and fourth battalions that were encircled. The soldiers of the 1st and 4th Battalions were struggling to support themselves at this time, many of their companions were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, and the living soldiers were covered in blood and scarred. When they saw the arrival of the main reinforcements, the exhausted Ming army and their companions who had arrived regrouped into an attack fan and quickly entered the battle.

The machine guns frantically sudden, and everywhere they went, they were drenched in blood and corpses all over the field. The Mongols' encirclement was gradually torn apart by the fire of the Ming army, and when they thought of fleeing again, they found that they were already deeply rooted in the position, and there was no escape, no way to live.

Since the founding of the regiment, the largest casualty was in the Battle of Fushun, when more than 150 people were killed, which was the limit that the veterans could accept. However, in less than half an hour today, several rounds of continuous firing were roughly estimated to have caused at least two or three hundred casualties in a regiment. Shen Jia's heart was like a knife, he deeply regretted his impulsiveness, and a regiment of soldiers, with a terrifying fighting spirit, frantically charged at the Mongols, throwing grenades, incendiary bombs, and anything else that could kill the enemy, especially the 1st and 4th battalions.

At first, the Mongols were able to take advantage of the scattering of the wandering, but with Shen Jia's order, there was no need to save ammunition, and Qu Xiaojia suddenly sent the Horqin Mongols' dream into the eighteenth layer of hell. After all, the flesh and blood could not face the strafing fire of the machine guns for a long time, and the Mongols began to retreat, decisively and hastily. The angry Shen Jia drove the assault car, the first and fourth battalions stayed behind, and the other battalions continued to pursue with the assault car.

On the morning of 24 August, a regiment fought fiercely in the Horqin steppe for nearly four hours, killing or capturing most of the 8,000 Mongol cavalry. And the boxes of bullets brought by Shen Jia, after this battle, there were only less than 500 rounds left. The barrel of the machine gun was so red that it did not explode, and Liu Wu, who was in charge of loading, was extremely surprised to see it. Faced with 275 killed and 304 wounded, Shen Jia really couldn't forgive his impulsiveness.

Compared with Shen Jia's loss, the Ming army, whether it was a commander or a soldier, fell into a victory ecstasy. The Ming army captured the Horqin steppe magistrate, Zai Sambuhe, and under the leadership of the captured Mongols, the Ming army arrived at the settlement of the Horqin Left Banner in the afternoon, roughly near Tongliao in the 21st century. The nobles of the Horqin tribe, who had no time to withdraw, were all captured by the Ming army. The Mongol tribe suffered a white plague last winter, but for a Mongolian nobleman of the level of the magistrate Zaisang, it was at most a matter of a few sheep that died.

The Ming army captured nearly 10,000 war horses, countless cattle and sheep, and large boxes of gold and silver kept moving to the Ming army camp.

At night, the grassland is out of sight, the cool breeze is blowing, and huge oil lamps are erected around the camp, as if to indicate that the old owner of the grassland is finally old, and the new master is coming.