"Not bad!"

"Can you hit it so far?" A chill felt down Shuolei's spine.

"It must be because of condescension!" The officer smiled bitterly: "The first two times we didn't hit, we didn't take it seriously, but the third shot flew over our heads and broke a tree!" Speaking of this, he pointed to a pine tree about thirty or forty paces behind him, three or four feet high, the upper half of the crown had disappeared, leaving only the miserable white stubble, which made people shudder to see.

"How many times is this?" Shuo Lei's face was like the stubble of the pine tree, white and cold.

"Fourth!"

Shuo Lei didn't speak, he saw fear on the faces of everyone around him, these people were not cowards, they could face spears and bows without fear, but it was another thing to stand here and be bombarded, after all, once hit by that iron ball, neither martial arts, horsemanship, nor armor could help. Without speaking, he forbade him to go to the wounded, dragged him out from under the wounded horse, drew his sword, and pierced the wounded horse's eye, ending the wretched beast's suffering. The others hurriedly rushed up and dragged the wounded aside, and Shuo Lei walked over to the shell and picked up the bloody iron ball.

"Great Khan, I—" The officer was about to say something, but was interrupted by a large base: "You immediately order the teams to dismount, put their formations in order, and take Mount Temur as soon as I return!" With that, he jumped on his horse and galloped towards the central front.

"Honorable Chechen Khan, what's wrong with the left wing?" Gro looked at Shuo Lei's face with some surprise, and the other party's usual nonchalant expression disappeared, replaced by seriousness and vigilance, and even a hint of fear, which made him a little scared.

"We have to change our plans!" Shuo Lei pointed to Mount Temur and said to Qiu in a commanding tone: "Take Mount Temur first, and the left and right wings can be contained!" “

"But, didn't we discuss it last night? The middle is a feint, and the two wings are the main attack, so that we can give full play to the advantage of our large number of people. Qiu Bu was taken aback, and retorted a little weakly: "This is going to start, temporary change of formation, isn't it good?" ”

"Because the situation has changed!" Shuo Lei took something out of the leather bag and threw it on the ground, making a dull sound that startled Qiu Bu and nearly fell off his horse.

"W-what is this?"

"Shells from the Eruts! Do you see what's on it? It had just broken the hind legs of a horse to pieces, and the rider was crushed to the ground by the horse, breaking one arm and one leg, and then it bounced four times on the ground and rolled out more than a dozen feet! Shuo Lei sneered: "Only by taking Mount Temur and driving down the gunners on the mountain, we can attack the enemy's two flanks." ”

"Great Khan!" Gro smiled: "I don't hear the cannon sound on the mountain very often, presumably they don't have many cannons, and they can kill a few people from such a distance, which has nothing to do with the overall situation, right?" You can't say that there's something else-"

"Shut up, idiot, it's just a matter of pretending to be a ghost on weekdays, just shut up about things on the battlefield!" Shuo Lei rudely interrupted Gro's words: "The cannons on the hill only killed us because they fired at us from the front, and the depth of the formation of the army on the battlefield was only seven or eight columns at most, and the shells could easily fall behind the ranks; But if we attack the enemy's flanks first, then the gunners on the hill will shoot from the side, and the width of our army on both the left and right flanks will be at least a few miles, and as long as those gunners are not blind, they can always hit the cannonballs into our ranks, and this iron ball can break a pine tree several feet high, and it can catapult four or five times on the ground, and then it will not kill one or two, but a dozen, or even dozens of people. “

Qiu Bu still didn't understand, but Gro had already understood six or seven points, and his face suddenly turned pale, and he whispered a few words in Qiu Bu's ear and explained to Qiu Bu. Although Tushetu Khan was still a little ignorant, he reluctantly agreed to the suggestion of his allies, and he asked with some hesitation: "In that case, who will command the attack on Mount Temur?" ”

"It's me, naturally! Do you want to go into battle yourself? Shuo Lei sneered and asked, he already regretted coming to this muddy water, deep down he had an ominous premonition, the rapid rise of the Jungar people and the Ming general surnamed Liu must have something to do with these firearms, it was quite reckless to send troops rashly, but retreating without a battle was a great damage to his reputation for being brave and good at fighting in the Mobei grassland, and this dilemma made his words even more mean.

"No, no!" Qiu Bu shook his head again and again, and he didn't know if he was saying that he was unwilling to Shuo Lei's suggestion or unwilling to personally go into battle to supervise the battle. Shuo Lei sneered: "If you want to take Temur Mountain, you can't use my people, give me 3,000 of your troops, and also, when attacking the mountain, you can't watch the two wings, at least you have to send troops to contain it, and you can't let the enemy army draw troops to support the defenders on the mountain!" Having said that, he did not care whether Qiu Bu was for or against, and he took his own horse and went to his own people.

"Master, what should we do if this guy is so domineering?" Qiu Bu looked at Shuolei's back, annoyed and helpless.

"Great Khan, please bear with me for the time being, and wait until the foreign enemy is defeated, and then it is not too late to deal with the Chechen Khan!" Speaking of this, Gro approached Qiu Bu and whispered in his ear: "Great Khan, if he wants to attack the mountain, let him go, let's blask on the side, wait and see, anyway, killing the Eruts is going to the outside thief, and killing the Chechen people is going to the inside thief, which is beneficial to us!" ”

The right flank of the Ming army.

Liu Cheng gently stroked the neck of his green-maned horse, the three-year-old horse neighed softly, stretched out his tongue and **** the soybeans in the master's hand, Liu Cheng carefully checked whether the saddle was firm or not, whether the tightness of the belt was appropriate, and he always had to check it himself before the battle, after all, it was about his own life and death, and he couldn't give it all to others.

"My lord, the Tushetu people have moved!" Hao Shaoqi stood at the door of the stable, the morning light shining in from behind him, casting a huge shadow.

"Very well, you lead the horse into the woods!" Liu Cheng handed the reins to the captain of the guard, and Hao Shaoqi took the reins in amazement: "This-"

"Also, except for my reserves, let all the cavalry dismount, leave one person for every six people to guard the horses, and the rest go to the camel city, now we don't need cavalry!" Hao Shaoqi was stunned: "My lord, in fact, you don't need to do this-"

"No, I have to!" Liu Cheng's voice was not loud, but it was very firm: "The Tushetu people have twice as many troops as us, if I want these Mongols to fight to the death, then at least let them see that I am like them and do it immediately." ”

"Yes, sir!" Hao Shaoqi lowered his head, handed the horse to a personal soldier next to him, and after a few words, he followed Liu Cheng to the front of the formation.

Because of the long journey, Liu Cheng did not let the soldiers dig trenches all night, but adopted a field battle building method with nomadic characteristics - camel city. Thousands of camels that were about to transport the baggage were lined up, let them kneel down and fix them with nail ropes, and then cover them with thick felt, and then water to cover the soil, forming a simple obstacle, although it could not be compared with the usual earth and stone fortifications in terms of sturdiness, but fortunately, it was labor-saving, and the Tushetu people on the opposite side only had bows and crossbows and a small number of light firearms, after weighing the pros and cons, Liu Cheng still chose the camel city that saved the physical strength of the soldiers.

"My lord, the thieves are trying to bypass our flanks!" Totobuhua's voice was a little hoarse, and in the direction of his finger, a force of about 2,000 Tushetu cavalry was moving in a direction parallel to the Ming army's front, obviously trying to bypass the Ming army's flank and detour, which was the usual tactic of the superior cavalry.

Don't worry, it's just a feint to tie down our forces! Liu Cheng looked at the cavalry and turned his gaze back to Mount Temur.

"My lord, don't you have to be careful, after all-" Takeoff Buhua was a little unwilling.

"The thief's main direction of attack is that mountain!" Liu Cheng's tone was very firm: "There are trenches on my flank, these cavalry don't have wings, and they can't rush over!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Tokhoff Buhua replied in a low voice, but his face was still full of uneasiness, Liu Cheng looked around, and found that several generals around him looked panicked, there was no way, the cavalry on the battlefield was at a disadvantage and always had a morbid worry about his flank, he sighed: "It's okay, Tokhoff doesn't cost me to give you five hundred cavalry, but if you want to see it, you can take it, the key to this battle is the battle for the high ground, we have to save every soldier as much as possible!" ”

"Yes, sir!" This time, the voice of the detachment immediately became loud, looking at the back of his subordinates leaving, Liu Cheng smiled, and focused his attention on the direction of the enemy's central front.

Totobuhua whipped the leather whip fiercely, and the war horse under his crotch neighed and galloped. The sound of rumbling horses' hooves behind him made him feel a lot more at ease, and the defensive flank was a cavalry team drawn from several Waizazak, to be honest, he didn't trust these enemies not long ago, although these Chahars and Tumuts despised the Tushetu people in Mobei very much, and often regarded them as descendants of slaves, but anything could happen on the battlefield, especially at the moment, if the situation was unfavorable, it was difficult to say whether there would be a guy with ill intentions to jump out, and it would not be good once the battle line collapsed.

When Tokhbuhua arrived on their flank, just in time to see the enemy's cavalry attacking, the Tushetu people adopted the usual tactics of the Mongols, their commander divided his cavalry into small units of more than 100 people, took turns to charge the Ming army's position, to a distance of about 30 paces or so, then bent the bow and arrows, and then retreated, and so on, while each team took turns to rest and seek opportunities to attack. Tokhtobuhua was very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of the Mongols' tactics, and immediately ordered each team to open the felt blanket to block the arrows, and then dismounted and fired back with a bow and arquebus, and soon the Tushetu people tasted powerful, whether it was a foot bow or an arquebus, the power was far better than riding a bow, not to mention that the Ming army had a felt blanket to block arrows as a barrier, and the Tushetu people had nothing to hide on horseback, and the killed people and horses fell to the ground. Their morale also quickly became low, the formation was scattered, some of the cavalry who had their turn to rest simply loosened the horse's belly belt, and let their mounts graze on the ground, and some of the cavalry rushed to sixty or seventy paces and then turned their horses' heads around, and put an arrow at the Ming army's position indiscriminately, even if the cavalry bow was shot at this distance, it could not penetrate the armor of the defenders, obviously this was just a military order to deal with the superiors.

"Strange!" Tokhtarbuhua looked at the sparse enemy cavalry in front of him, and then looked in the direction of Mount Temur, although he could not see the battle situation on the mountain from this angle, but the sound of gunfire like fried soybeans came into his ears, and it was obvious that the two sides were killing each other there. Is it really as the chief soldier said, the main direction of the thief's attack is on that hill, and this side is just a feint to contain our troops, but even if it is a feint, it has to have a feint appearance, and what can be contained if you shoot a few arrows indiscriminately, isn't this a feint to show weakness, distract the defenders, and then suddenly attack?

Tokhtarbuhua was thinking about it there, thinking about simply bringing the five hundred cavalry back, and he was afraid that he would fight again as soon as he left here, and he was in a dilemma, when he suddenly heard a commotion in front of the battle. Totobuhua couldn't help but be furious: "What's the matter? It's a war! ”

"My lord, there are women over there in Tushetu!" One of the soldiers laughed as he set up a pergola and looked at the opposite position.

"Women?" Tokhoff looked in the direction of the fingers of the soldiers, and sure enough, there was a bustle in the place where the Tushetu people rested and rested on the opposite side, and many women holding clay pots walked through the horizontal columns, which seemed to be to quench the thirst of the soldiers who were resting in turn.

"I envy those Tushetu people, if we can also drink the sour mare's milk sent by the woman at this time, how good it would be!" As soon as the pro-soldier spoke, he was glared at fiercely by Totobuhua, and hurriedly lowered his head. He thought he would be punished for his unscrupulous words, but after a while, there was no order to punish him. The soldier cautiously raised his head, and when he saw that Tokhtobuhua was frowning and looking at the messy Tushetu people opposite, it didn't look like he was going to punish himself, so he boldly asked, "My lord, what are you looking at?" ”

"Strange, do you see the cart?"

"Big cart?" The soldier's gaze swept over: "No, what's so strange about this?" ”

"What about camels, donkeys, and mules?"

"No, what's wrong?"

"Great!" A happy smile appeared on Totobuhua's face: "Think about it, these women can't walk miles to bring water to the soldiers with crockpots filled with drinks, right?" This shows that the thieves' livestock women are not far from here. ”

"My lord, are you going to steal the camp?" The pro-soldier finally caught up with the idea of getting rid of it, and laughed excitedly.

"Well, you take a few people and pick up twenty pieces of Tushetu armor from the corpses of the enemies in front of the battle!" (To be continued.) )