"It seems that this Vulture Polo's reaction was quite fast, and as soon as the gun rang out from the artillery battalion, he realized that our Chinese army's musket battalion might be cheating." Seeing that the Mongolian infantry had launched an offensive, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth suddenly showed a hint of a smile, and he smiled and said to Lei Ting beside him.

As Vulture Polo expected, the musket battalion that Li Yuntian placed in front of the Chinese army was counterfeited by the sergeant of the Xiaowu Army, and the musket in his hand was a model cut from a wooden stick, which could not be found if he didn't look closely, and the six musket battalions were divided into two groups by him, and went to guard the positions of the two artillery battalions.

A musket battalion was to be equipped with a pikemen battalion of the same size, so as to form a mixed formation of musketeers and pikemen, and the positions of the two artillery battalions alone amounted to 3,600 men in the musket battalion and the pikemen.

In addition to the musket battalion and the spear battalion, Li Yuntian also arranged 1,000 Xiaowu infantry and 400 Jurchen cavalry in each of the two artillery battalions, so that the number of guards in each artillery battalion position was as high as 5,000 people, and it was not easy for the Mongol army to capture the artillery battalion position.

In order to trap the bald Polo and Darru, Li Yuntian not only set up a puzzle on the battlefield and personally pressed the rear of the fake musket battalions of the Chinese army, but also deliberately let Mu Du go in Yinzhou City, and told the Mongolian generals of the tiger skin camp post city that the arquebuses were powerful.

Through a series of schemes, he finally succeeded in luring the Balpola and Darru, so that the Mongol cavalry gave up attacking the weakest defense of the Ming army, and instead attacked the strongest cavalry troops on the two wings of the Ming army.

This is also the reason why Zhao Yong persuaded Li Yuntian to go to the rear army before, Zhao Yong naturally knew Li Yuntian's strategy to confuse the enemy, so he was worried that the Mongolian cavalry would attack the Ming army's Chinese army under arrogance, and the result would be unimaginable, and the Chinese army, which had lost the live firepower of the musket battalion, would not be able to stop the charge of the Mongolian cavalry.

Judging from the current situation, after the two battles of Qingfeng Valley and Yinzhou City, the Mongolian army has been very afraid of the musket battalion of the Ming army, because the Ming army in Liaodong was defeated by the Mongolian army before, so the Mongolian generals and soldiers still thought that Li Yuntian could win these two battles by relying on the musket battalion, which made them naturally choose to avoid the musket battalion on the battlefield, so that Li Yuntian had an opportunity.

"The Chinese army has entered a defensive posture." Looking at the Mongolian foot soldiers who were rushing towards him shouting, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth showed a cold smile, and he gave an order to the herald on the side in a deep voice, he had already prepared to deal with the attack of the Mongolian army.

Following Li Yuntian's order, the soldiers of the "musket battalion" in front of the Chinese army threw down the musket models in their hands, drew out the hard bows or crossbows on their backs, and pulled the bows with arrows and put them in a shooting posture.

At the same time, the crossbowmen and crossbowmen troops located behind the "Musket Battalion" moved forward in an unsteady and rapid manner, converging with the archers and crossbowmen of the "Musket Battalion" to form a long-range attack camp in the army.

Boom, boom, boom......

However, the archers and crossbowmen of the Ming army were not the only long-range attack troops, when those Mongolian foot soldiers rushed to half a distance from the Ming army, they encountered the fierce shelling of the two artillery battalions of the Ming army, and the shells that fell in the middle of the Mongolian foot soldiers exploded violently, flesh and blood flew sideways, wailing again and again, like the scythe of death ruthlessly harvesting away one life after another.

The Mongol cavalry took advantage of the situation to breathe a sigh of relief, and the generals already knew that the Ming army's musket battalions were located in the woods and hills, so they drove their frightened cavalry to attack the groves and hills, which was an order from Polo and Darru, and only by taking the artillery positions of the Ming army could they turn the situation unfavorable to the Mongol army on the battlefield.

Besides, even if they lost this battle, the two of them would have destroyed the powerful artillery of the Ming army, so as not to cause trouble to the Mongol army in Liaodong in the future.

"Cavalry attack!" Looking at the Mongolian cavalry rushing towards the groves and hills, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth showed a sneer, and four words burst out coldly from his mouth.

After the previous series of artillery bombardment, the morale of the Mongol cavalry had been demoralized, and now was the perfect time for the Ming cavalry to attack, and the cavalry of both sides would engage in a final fierce battle around this grove and hill.

The three red signal flares quickly rose into the air with a sharp whistling, which not only attracted the attention of the Ming army, but also made the high-ranking Mongolian generals such as Polo and Darru of the Tiger Skin Camp in the post city shocked, and they did not know what tricks the Ming army was going to play.

"Brothers, rush!" The cavalry of the left army of the Ming army, Halbara saw the three red signal flares and immediately drew his saber, and led the cavalry behind him to rush towards the Mongolian cavalry rushing towards the grove with his legs between the belly of the horse.

"Kill them!" The cavalry of the right army of the Ming army, the fierce brother Timur waved his hand forward, and the surrounding Jurchen cavalry immediately shouted and charged the Mongol cavalry attacking the hill.

On the tower of the north gate of the tiger skin camp post city, the bald Polo looked gloomily at the Mongolian cavalry and the Ming cavalry who were getting closer and closer, and from a distance, the cavalry on both sides looked like two surging torrents, colliding fiercely together in the grove and the grass in front of the hill, as if making a muffled "bang".

At the moment when the Ming cavalry and the Mongol cavalry staggered, many cavalry were hit with weapons by the oncoming opponents, screamed and fell off their horses, and then were ruthlessly trampled by the horses that followed behind, and soon fell silent.

Due to the blockage of the Ming cavalry, the Mongol cavalry was stopped in front of the groves and hills and could not move forward, and tens of thousands of cavalry fought together, and a huge melee broke out.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the grove and the hill, the elite cavalry who had sent Polo and Darru to capture the artillery camp still shouted and charged the mixed formation of three musketeers and pikemen guarding the artillery battalion, and counterattacked the musketeers with their bows and arrows.

As the elite Mongol cavalry got closer and closer, the musketeers began to suffer casualties, and one after another people were hit by arrows, and a few scattered Mongol cavalry even broke through the fire blockade and rushed to the front of the musketeers, but they were quickly eliminated by the pikemen in charge of the guard.

In the face of the approaching elite Mongol cavalry, the mixed formation of musketeers and pikemen did not panic, and the musketeers methodically carried out rounds of fire, causing groups of Mongol cavalry to fall off their horses.

As Li Yuntian's killer weapon, the artillery positions in the groves and hills were in full swing, and the artillerymen were constantly calibrating the muzzles of the guns according to the instructions of the observation posts located on high places, and firing shells into the middle of the Mongol army.

According to the establishment set up by Li Yuntian, a Furlong cannon was equipped with 12 artillerymen, some of whom were responsible for shooting, some were responsible for loading, and some were responsible for carrying ammunition, etc., and they were busy with their own affairs in an orderly manner.

Whenever an empty gun is taken out of the chamber, the artilleryman responsible for installing the ammunition first uses cold water to cool the hot gun, then wipes it clean, and skillfully reloads the ammunition inside.

It was this meticulous division of labor that greatly improved the attack efficiency of the Franco's cannons and inflicted heavy casualties on the Mongol army.

In addition to the artillery, there were also 1,000 Xiaowu infantry and 400 Jurchen cavalry armed with crossbows, who were the last line of defense of the artillery camp, vigilantly observing the surrounding situation to prevent any Mongolian cavalry from taking advantage of the chaos to attack the artillery camp position.

It can be said that the most elite forces in Li Yuntian's hands have gathered in front of the two artillery battalion positions, and in his opinion, the artillery battalions will influence the battle situation of the Tiger Skin Battalion battle, so there is no room for the slightest mistake.

He glanced at the Mongolian cavalry and the Ming cavalry that were gathered together with an expressionless face, and his eyes fell on the Mongol infantry who were charging on the battlefield, except for the 6,000 servant troops who were taken away by Mu Du and Ancha, he sent almost all the foot soldiers in his hand, a total of more than 30,000 people.

In the past, the Mongol army relied on cavalry to decide the outcome of the war, but today's situation is different, after a series of artillery fire, the Mongol cavalry not only suffered heavy casualties but also had a severe impact on morale, and the Ming cavalry had no advantage in the face of morale.

Therefore, the Vulture Polo now pinned his hopes on the Mongol infantry, hoping that the Mongol infantrymen could break the Ming army's Chinese army with their excellent individual soldiers, and then reverse the unfavorable situation against the Mongol army on the battlefield.

But soon the brows of the vultures were tightly furrowed, and because the artillery of the Ming army continued to bombard the Mongol infantry, the Mongolian infantry's charging formation became very chaotic.

The Mongolian infantry soldiers were okay, and they still charged forward in the face of the artillery bombardment of the Ming army, but those servant army foot soldiers who were originally demoralized were chaotic under the shelling, and one by one wolves rushed to the battlefield, running around the battlefield like headless flies, dodging the shells falling from the sky, and many people even fled backwards.

It is worth mentioning that in this Mongolian charge, the servants were in front and the Mongolian soldiers were behind, and in the eyes of Polo and Darru, the servant army was actually cannon fodder, and they were used to meet the bows and arrows fired by the Ming army, paving a way for the Mongolian infantry behind.

"Don't run, or you'll be killed!" Seeing the servants fleeing backwards, the Mongol generals who followed behind pointed at them with the knives in their hands and shouted in a gloomy voice.

Following the order of the Mongol general, the Mongol infantry waved their knives at the fleeing servants, and a group of servant soldiers who ran in the front fell in a pool of blood in an instant, and the rest of the people turned around and ran back in a hurry.

Li Yuntian rode on a horse and clearly saw the scene in front of him, and secretly shook his head in his heart, speaking of those servant troops are both hateful and pitiful, they took refuge in the Mongolian army in order to survive, but they were used as cannon fodder by the Mongolian army, and they still can't get rid of the fate of death after all.