"The main force of the Mongolian Tatars is from Lanshui to the south of Shizhou, but this road is actually not easy to walk, and it is a diagonal line to the grassland, if you march, take this road can just take into account the surroundings, and at the same time can prevent the pincer attack from the direction of Taiyuan Fu and the direction of Huguan at the same time, it is indeed the best choice, a hundred years ago the Jurchens also chose this road to attack," standing in front of Yutu, Yin Yu said in a deep voice, "But the attack is the attack, just by marching, this road is definitely not the best choice, First of all, this diagonal line means more time consumption, and secondly, the area of Lanshui is not suitable for the foot soldiers and baggage of the brigade to pass, once retreating from here means that the cavalry can only advance lightly, it is difficult to achieve the coordination of infantry and cavalry, if there is an ambush on both sides of the Lanshui in advance, nine times out of ten it is to enter the place of death. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Jiang Hao nodded, stretched out his hand and pointed at the map: "So the Mongolian Tatars want to retreat after getting the news of our coming, so nine times out of ten they still take the Yanmen Pass?" ”

Yin Yu pondered for a moment and then compared it on the map: "Out of Yanmen Pass, there are still two ways to choose from the northwest and the northeast, if it is Kublai Khan, you must take Yanmen Pass, even if we take Datong, you can still take the road of Lanshui and continue to retreat, instead of completely falling into a desperate situation." ”

"I hope so," Jiang Hao couldn't help muttering, "Kublai Khan is definitely not so easy to deal with, it is estimated that even if he does not arrange enough troops in this Datong Mansion, it is estimated that he has already calculated his own retreat, otherwise he will not be worthy of his identity." After taking Datong Mansion, we must quickly investigate the movements of the main army of the Mongol Tatars, if we let Kublai Khan go, it will be a joke, and our Tianwu army will not be laughed off. ”

Yin Yu nodded: "The Mongol Tatars in this Datong Mansion are not small, it can be seen that Kublai Khan still attaches great importance to this back road, even if we take Datong Mansion and can't do anything else, it can more or less make Kublai Khan mess up." ”

"Without further ado, let's attack the city," Jiang Hao Huo Ran turned around and ordered, with a hint of murderous intent on the corner of his mouth, "Don't let our Mongolian prince wait for a long time!" ”

The drums rang out, but soon the drums were replaced by rumbling cannons, and countless shells and explosives poured down into the city with rage, and the explosions and screams of the soldiers could be faintly heard on the walls of Datong City.

Jiang Hao and Yin Yu glanced at each other, their faces were full of joy, in the years of fighting with the Ming army, Youyan's Mongolian army had already gained enough experience. The Ming army's flying thunder artillery mainly relied on the explosives package to explode at the head of the city, and the solid bullets in the artillery were mainly used to smash large city-defending equipment such as oil pots, bed crossbows, and trebuchets, while the flowering shells relied on fragments to hurt people in a large area to solve the Mongolian soldiers who were shocked by the explosives package but could still resist.

It can be shown that these firearms of the army can take into account all kinds of situations on the city wall, and absolutely do not leave a dead end for the Mongolian Tartars to live, so after suffering enough losses, Youyan's Mongolian army has already learned to be shrewd, the army is generally hidden in the Tibetan soldier cave under the city, and the commando team is on the upper city trail, as long as the Ming army does not start to attack the city, dead or alive can not go to the city tower, obviously they also understand that these firearms of the Ming army still have many flaws in accuracy, Therefore, in order to prevent accidental injuries and not continue to fire when their own family is attacking the city, the Mongols took advantage of this to go up to the city after the Ming army began to attack the city, so as to preserve the strength of their own men to the greatest extent.

If it weren't for the fact that Youyan's Mongol army didn't have much left after a series of battles, and most of them had no fighting spirit after several defeats, I'm afraid that the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty would not have been so easy to win. However, fortunately, Youyan's Mongolian army has basically returned to the world, and now the Tianwu army is basically left behind in the grassland or transferred from the Western Front, although the Ming army's firearms to open the way of play have been heard, but they are not familiar with it, plus these elite teams within the Mongols are already arrogant, and they are not willing to listen to the opinions of those long-defeated soldiers, and even many people think that this is Boyan exaggerating the facts in order to cover up his incompetence, so as to reduce Kublai Khan's punishment of him.

Although Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty have fought several times, it has been clearly shown that the current Mongolia is no longer the Mongolia that swept the world at the beginning, and the current Ming Dynasty is no longer the Southern Song Dynasty that can be bullied at will. But in the hearts of many Mongolian generals and generals on the Western Front, the Southern Barbarians just rely on good luck and advanced firearms, if it is really a fair decisive battle, the barbarians can only be crushed, after all, the rise of Mongolia in the past few decades is still like the next day, and just a few years ago, when the Mongolian army was in its heyday, it once pressed the Southern Song Dynasty to the southeast corner and drank the Great River, and now the situation is changing so rapidly, not everyone can accept this cruel fact in a short time.

Even Ai Yachi, who has never been to the battlefield of the Central Plains, also has similar thoughts, but because his eldest brother Prince Zhenjin died indirectly in the hands of the Southern Barbarians, and Na Muhan, who made meritorious deeds early among the rest of the brothers, has suffered many times in the hands of the Ming army, plus Kublai Khan did not despise the Ming Dynasty in the slightest after the Ming Dynasty became strong, so Ai Yachi did not dare to speak out what he thought.

But his visceral contempt for Da Ming can still be reflected, when the Tianwu army attacked the city, there were still many Mongolian soldiers on the city wall.

Even the Mongolian prince Ai Yachi, who sat in Datong, was also under the city tower, in the subconscious of the Mongols, the Hui Hui cannon was already the most powerful siege weapon, and the Ming army's caliber was not large, and it didn't even look like a person's size from a distance, and it didn't account for one-tenth of the Hui artillery, so naturally it didn't pose much of a threat, even if the Hui cannon attacked the city gate, it would take several times to smash the city gate tower, not to mention these small firearms. So even if these firearms were really as powerful as the rumors, no matter how bad they were, the guards would be able to escort Aiya Chi back into the city tower in time.

It's just that soon the Mongols realized that they had made a fatal mistake, the first explosive bag exploded at the head of the city, and more than a dozen soldiers around the explosion point were directly swept to the ground, and the rest of the people in panic wanted to step forward to support them, but found that the powerful explosion had invisibly smashed their chests down, and many people looked unscathed, but the blood flowing from the corners of the mouth actually proved that this person's internal organs had been shattered.

The explosives and shells that came from the subsequent roar continued to fall on the city, and a solid bullet directly penetrated the oil pot prepared at the head of the city, and the hot oil juice splashed everywhere, and the already panicked city wall was completely chaotic, and even Aiyachi's personal guards were scattered. More shells flew towards the gatehouse, tearing open the windows and doors of the gatehouse, and explosions echoed in the not wide gatehouse, and the scorching air currents tumbled and slapped heavily against the walls, and countless sawdust flew out of the windows, like hidden weapons that were being sprinkled everywhere.

"Quick, protect the prince!" The centurion of the guards shouted loudly with a blue face, if it weren't for the fact that there were more than a dozen guards around him who could still stabilize his position, he might not be able to help but draw a knife and cut people. Ai Yachi's face was also pale at this moment, looking at the fallen soldiers around him, as well as the crumbling city gate tower behind him, he suddenly regretted his daughter's body, why didn't he listen to the dissuasion and recklessly went to this fateful city gate!

The cannonballs continued to fall from the sky, crashing into the crowd, plowing a bloody road, these fierce solid bullets hit a person, like a fist slammed on a thin plank, the plank broke in response, and the cannonball's momentum did not stop at all, directly flew to the next person, a moment of effort, the front seven or eight people were hit by this cannonball, and even the first few people were directly torn in half by the cannonball.

The eyes of the captain of the guard were already straight, when did the Southern Barbarian have such a weapon that was more powerful than the iron arrows fired by the three-bow bed crossbow?

In fact, the captain of the guard did not know that compared to the iron arrow of the three-bow bed crossbow, this solid shell is stronger than the iron arrow because it is obtained from the ignition and explosion of gunpowder, so it is stronger than the iron arrow, but the solid shell also has an obvious disadvantage - it is too small.

As long as it misses the target, this solid shell will be considered a waste, and it may even be used by the enemy in turn, and the gains outweigh the losses. It's just that because the production of flowering shells is quite difficult, even the Ministry of Industry Workshop, which has taken assembly line production and is getting larger and larger, has no way to produce enough flowering shells for front-line consumption, so in desperation, it is still necessary to produce a large number of solid shells for emergency, after all, as long as there are enough materials and suitable molds for this thing, it can be manufactured at any time.

For the front-line artillery, the most wanted is naturally the powerful flowering shell, but those who have been on the front line know that at a critical juncture, many things are better than nothing, so the artillerymen do not have much resistance to solid shells, after all, in the face of the enemy's large equipment and solid city gate towers and other targets, they still need solid shells to achieve their majesty.

Moreover, at the very beginning, the Mongol army was in a tight array, and a solid bullet penetrated the past, and the effect was better than that of flowering shells.

It's just that as the Mongols gradually figured out the way the Ming army shelled, the solid bullet gradually became a foil for the flowering bomb, and even the status was not as good as the explosive bag. Until today's battle of Datong, Jiang Hao realized that the Mongol Tartars on the head of the city were still a group of rookies who had not fought with the Ming army, and he was overjoyed and immediately ordered all to replace them with solid shells.

Just give them a big penetration!

The cannonballs continued to roar up the city, knocking the fleeing Mongolian soldiers to the ground, Ai Yachi, who was hiding in the corner of the city tower, was pale, and his hands were even trembling, he had just watched a cannonball fall in the crowd around him, and the loyal captain of the guard became a pool of flesh and blood in front of him.

It wasn't until this moment that Aiya Chifang really realized what kind of opponent he was facing, and he knew how these guys, who had always been called "Southern Barbarians" by their own family, had changed dramatically in the past few years.

It's just too late, there was a sharp sound in the sky, and Aiya Chi subconsciously looked up, and a black thing smashed directly on top of his head. Aiyachi's pupils dilated suddenly, and her hands were desperately lifted upward.

Blood splattered, and a miserable scream sounded on the city wall, but there were already many voices crying for father and mother on the city wall, and no one paid attention to it for a while.

The last few shells rushed up the walls. And the soldiers of the Ming army of the brigade rushed towards Datong Mansion like a tide. In front of them, the black flag that once fluttered could no longer be found on the tall city wall, let alone the figure of the Mongolian soldiers, and in the face of the Ming soldiers who were getting closer and closer, there was not even a single arrow shot down as a resistance.

In the midst of this fierce and rapid shelling, Datong Mansion has become a dead city.

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On the shore of Qinshui, the sound of killing shook the heavens and the earth.

The Mongolian sheepskin rafts that rushed out of the water column set off by the Ming artillery all rushed to the river beach, and the Mongolian soldiers rushed towards the trench one after another, and a large number of arrows whistled out of the trench, overturning a group of Mongolian soldiers, of course, the Mongolian crossbowmen also found the opportunity to desperately counterattack, and there were also sparse arrows falling into the trench, so that the Ming army shield bearers were busy for a while.

"Rush!" The Mongolian centurions kept urging the soldiers forward, a Mongolian soldier fell to the ground with an arrow, and more people were still desperately rushing forward, this gentle and unobstructed river beach almost became the slaughterhouse of the Ming army, countless arrows pierced the chest, and the blooming blood flowers became the most bewitching flowers on the river beach. The fallen Mongolian soldiers almost covered the short river beach, and the Mongolian soldiers who charged behind did not hesitate to step on the corpse of the robe in front of them and continued to move forward.

The Mongols advanced in this almost frantic way, getting closer and closer to the trenches. Even the generals of the Ming army, who had experienced a lot of battles, couldn't help but sigh secretly in their hearts when they saw such a scene, the Mongolian Tartars really had to fight hard, but I am afraid that only such a fierce enemy who was not afraid of death was worthy of the respect and serious treatment of the Ming soldiers.

Bloody men have been sympathetic to each other since ancient times.

"The Mongols fought badly head-on." Rao is Ye Yingwu, who was standing on the hillside and was still some distance away from the river beach, couldn't help but sigh with emotion, these Mongolian headquarters soldiers were using their own blood to prove that the blood in the chest of the golden eagle on the grassland was also hot and rushing. It's just that Ye Yingwu doesn't have much pity in his heart, this is a war, either you die or I live, not to mention that the Mongolian soldiers are stained with the blood and tears of the children of the Han family, if Ye Yingwu has mercy on them, he will be crazy, and he immediately turned his gaze to both sides, "The Mongolian Tatars are attacking head-on, and the purpose is that the armies that come ashore from the rocky beach on both sides can serve the purpose of a flank attack." ”

Xiao Yangzi and the others all looked in the direction that Ye Yingwu looked, in the upstream rocky beach, there was also a team of Mongolian soldiers who were difficult to go ashore, compared to the rocky beach downstream, the upstream of this piece of water is turbulent and rocky, if it is not for the determination to die, no one is willing to try to go ashore there, but no one can deny that after going ashore from there, it is just right to directly attack the camp of the Ming army, without having to consume more at the trench, it is indeed not a lot of choice.

Moreover, Xiaoyangzi and they followed Ye Yingwu's side, and they all knew the bottom of their own troop movements, and the Praetorian Guard cavalry had already gone to the downstream to entangle with the Mongols, and the Ming army that stayed in the camp also drew two brigades out to support, so if the Ming army wanted to resist this group of enemies from the upper reaches, it could only rely on the camp to defend it.

Ye Yingwu also frowned slightly, what he was worried about was different from what Xiao Yangzi was worried about, now the tactics of the Mongols have all been presented, sending about half of the army to attack the river beach, and it is a desperate attack, so that the Ming army does not dare to act rashly in the trench, and then send two elites to outflank from the left and right, as long as the attack is appropriate, even if the camp cannot be taken down, it can also be pressed to the flanks and the Ming army has to give up the trench position protruding forward, Even give up the hillside under Ye Yingwu's feet, which is not high but can overlook the battlefield.

It seems that the Mongol army at the river beach charged fiercely, but in fact their main force should be the one that came from upstream, not only because this army was the last to be dispatched, after almost all the Ming troops had been pinned down by the rest of the army, but also because they still had war horses on the sheepskin rafts that followed them.

As for their identity, it is already being revealed.