"Sigh the law ......"

When the wheezing of war horses, the whistling of the wind, and the sound of hunting with flags began to echo in the grassland, both Han and Mongol, both as soldiers, became vigilant.

On the two sides of the big sparkle, one high and one low, and below stood the main generals of the two armies.

One is the self-proclaimed descendant of the Golden Family, the 35th Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, and the Khan is the son of Khutuktu Khan, Lijin Lindan Batur.

One is the prince who controlled the most soldiers and horses in the world since Li Shimin, the king of Qi, Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi.

The two are only three or four miles apart, and although they can't see each other, the hunting Daxu reminds each other who the people under the Daxu are.

Condescendingly, Lin Dan Khan can clearly bring all the soldiers and horses of the Ming army into his eyes.

However, the cavalry strength of less than 7,000 men, although all iron cavalry, did not have artillery.

And Lin Dan Khan's side is not bad, 13,000 rangers and 7,000 iron cavalry, 20,000 troops against 7,000 troops, the advantage is in his ......

"How?"

Lin Danhan stared at Zhu Youzhen's big eyes and asked the ten thousand households beside him without looking back.

Hearing this, Wan Hu replied: "The rear army of the Ming army is still twenty-one miles away, and the front army is twenty miles, and at least three quarters of an hour will be with us." ”

"Fence them off with car overhangs!" Lin Dan Khan rode on horseback and greeted Wanhu next to him, and after hearing this, Wanhu immediately looked at the trumpeter next to him.

"Whew-"

A dull trumpet sounded, and the other trumpeters who heard it sounded their horns.

In an instant, the thousands of households who understood the order began to line up on the wide low slope, and at the same time, in the Ming army formation, Zhu Youzhen saw the other party's thoughts clearly at a glance:

"This tiger squatting rabbit will also hang the car, which I didn't expect, but the car suspension is used to deal with us, but it seems a bit self-defeating."

Zhu Youzhen, who was mocking Lin Dan Khan, turned his head sideways and instructed the flag officer: "Dance the military flag and guard the imperial attack formation map." ”

"Command!" When the flag officer heard this, he immediately blew the wooden whistle in his mouth, and then the twelve soldiers on the left and right began to wave the military flags and pass them on to the armies in the form of flags.

Twelve high-flying military flags were waving, which was particularly conspicuous on the battlefield.

As soon as the military flag waved, the thousands of armies and bannermen who were always paying attention to this side immediately understood that the wooden whistle sounded, and after three sounds, it changed from chaotic to a uniform and rhythmic military whistle.

The army began to line up, and the carriages and carriages left by Cao Meng and others were lined up on the front and back, left and right, and the cavalry dismounted in the formation and took off the rifles on their backs.

The 2,000 cavalry outside the formation quickly retreated to the rear, waiting for the enemy to pursue and encircle when the enemy was defeated.

With less than 7,000 troops, he still wants to pursue and encircle after defeating the other party, this is not because Zhu Youzhen has confidence in himself, but because he has confidence in his own formation and vehicle formation.

When the enemy is several times outnumbered by their own side, and there are also a large number of triple armored cavalry, although the upper cavalry can defeat the opponent, the casualties are absolute.

Therefore, what you need to do at this time is to use the rook formation and the rifle to counterattack!

"Kill—"

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves echoed in the low ground, and more than 20,000 cavalry rushed down from the low slope in a chariot-suspended formation in an attempt to encircle the Ming army.

The 2,000 cavalry who kept retreating, as well as the Longxiang guards who dismounted and were forming a chariot formation, their movements were clearly seen by Lin Dan Khan on the low slope.

"The Ming army wants to train the formation, and Battle charges first and chisels a gap."

"The Ming army's bird guns can shoot at most eighty paces, and twenty steps can wear triple armor, don't be afraid of them, the rangers scatter and shoot in a ring to interfere with their foot guns,"

"Woo~~~~"

Lin Dan Khan's military orders continued to be issued, and the trumpeters beside him began to change their orders.

The melodious trumpeters kept sounding, and compared to their continuous trumpeters, the wooden whistle of the Ming army, which only sounded sharply once in a while, seemed very thin.

It was only under this thinness that the Ming soldiers lined up in an orderly manner, listed the board carts as a large quadrangular array, and stuck the wheels with wooden bolts that stuck the wheels.

Immediately afterward, all the soldiers, except for the infantry in the first row, began to hold the infantry and the tong, waiting for the infantry in the first row to be replaced.

An army of 20,000 people rushed towards them, but they did not panic, not even a single one of them was in a hurry.

After all, the four cavalry guards of Shangzhi are soldiers and horses who have experienced the encirclement and suppression of rebels, fought Fuliao, and swept across the Hetao, and have experienced too many large battles.

Compared to the 20,000 ragged cavalry of the Northern Captives and the Jianlu cavalry that they had once collided with, they were really too weak.

No one was worried that they would be broken, because the chariot formation they used was the pinnacle of the cavalry that Yu Dayou created and Qi Jiguang improved to restrain the cavalry.

"Boom—"

The hooves of the war horse gently stepped on the earth, and the sound was not heavy, but if such a sound was tens of thousands, then it would be different.

The heavy trampling of horses' hooves was like spring thunder before the rain, accompanied by the sound of the trumpets and wooden whistles of the two armies getting louder and louder.

20,000 cavalry are slowly approaching the Ming army's car formation, their number is basically three times that of the Ming army, and the Ming army in the car formation is not chaotic at all, they have confidence in themselves!

When the distance between the two was only one mile, the Mongol rangers began to spread, trying to extend to the left and right, trying to surround the Ming army's chariot formation, while the elite of Battle, who was in triple armor, stopped when they were three hundred paces away.

Before a cup of tea, the Mongol cavalry surrounded more than 6,000 Ming troops under the command of Zhu Youzhen, and then began to urge the war horses under the sound of the horn commanded by Lin Dan Khan, and prepared to mount and shoot in a circle.

Chahar's cavalry was armed with two or three bows, three huge quivers filled with arrows, an axe, and ropes with dragging weapons.

The leader of the troops carried a scimitar with a sharp tip but a blade on only one side, which was carried in a fine scabbard.

Among them, as the elite of Battle (warriors), the 7,000 cavalry wearing triple armor had simple leather armor on their horses.

The horse's armor consisted of five parts, with a piece of armor on each side of the horse, covering the horse's head all the way.

Another piece of armor is placed on the horse's hip and tied to the two sides of the armor, leaving a hole in this piece so that the horse's tail can stick out of the hole, and the last piece of armor is on the horse's chest.

On the horse's forehead, they also put an iron plate and tied it to the armor plates on both sides.

Although it is leather armor, some signs of the Ming army being half-mounted can be seen.

Compared with them, the upright vest is basically composed of cloth armor, which is not as heavy as the armor, taking into account the lightness of the ranger.

Therefore, when they surrounded them, the 2,000 cavalry sent out by Zhu Youzhen easily dodged the encirclement and began to cruise around the perimeter of the encirclement.

Although their number was only 2,000 men, they were able to face an encirclement of 20,000 men.

During this period, it was not that no Mongolian cavalry tried to shoot them, but before the group of Mongolian cavalry could raise their bows and burst into the face, a burst of white smoke and crisp sounds appeared, taking away one life after another.

The armor-piercing ability of the Riding Gun is much stronger than that of the Riding Bow that can only perform the face thrust with a slap of the face......

"No wonder the tiger squatting rabbit thinks it can eat us, it turns out that there is a dependence......"

Zhu Youzhen looked around with binoculars clairvoyance on horseback, and he could clearly see the armor and stomach of the Chahar cavalry, and the preparation method was extremely exquisite.

For example, the willow leaf armor worn by the elite 7,000 Bartre cavalry was made into a number of iron pieces one finger wide and one palm long, and eight small holes were drilled into each iron plate.

They placed 3 sturdy and narrow belts as a base, and then placed the pieces of iron on top of the other one by one, so that the pieces of iron were overlapped, and the pieces of iron were tied to the 3 belts with a thin leather thread through the holes mentioned above.

At the top they tied a piece of leather wire so that the pieces of iron were firmly joined together, and in this way, they made a strip of iron from them, and then joined the strips together to make the various parts of the iron armor.

They joined these parts together to make iron armor that protected people and horses. They polished the iron sheet so bright that they were able to cast a human figure on it.

These 7,000 Batyl cavalry troops are completely the shadow of the Mongolian iron cavalry that dominated the Eurasian continent four hundred years ago.

If Lin Dan Khan could have such 30,000 cavalry in the original history, maybe he would be able to boil Huang Taiji to death and realize his dream of unifying Mongolia.

It's a pity that the times have changed, and he can't have 30,000 Battle's elite iron horsemen, and the cavalry they are proud of will eventually be abandoned by the times.

"Ranger Temptation." Seeing that the formation had just been completely converged, Lin Dan Khan immediately issued a military order.

"Woo ......"

The horn began to sound, and under his command, Chahar's rangers began a spiral projectile from the overhang.

They began to run on horseback, like a whirlpool, running like a horse circle, and like an esoteric whirlpool, while the Ming army was a sea eye, in the center of the whirlpool.

As they ran and swam, they kept squeezing the space of the Ming army, and seeing that the distance of the projectile had been reached, many Mongols took out four arrows from their quiver bags and pinched the arrows with their fingers.

A qualified Mongolian archer is fully capable of shooting these four heavy arrows in five seconds, and the only question now is whether the armor-piercing heavy arrows that the Mongols rely on can cause damage to the Ming army!

"Beep! Beep! ”

Two whistles, the chief flag officer of each banner of the Long Xiang Guard waved the order flag in his hand, and in an instant, the four thousand Long Xiang guards in the formation were like one, and they all raised their fire guns.

This kind of preparation can be done in an instant, which makes the Mongolian cavalry who are gradually approaching can't help but shed a cold sweat.

This is estimated to be the most elite army they have experienced since they went south, even more elite than the Jurchen cavalry.

"Beep-"

"Bang Bang ......"

With the arrival of a distance of sixty paces, the commander-in-chief blew their whistles one after another and gave the order to attack.

Behind the formation, thousands of dragon guards pulled the trigger, and the projectiles flew out like wheat, cutting the lives of hundreds of Chahar rangers, causing them to fall off their horses and then trampled to death by their own horses.

The Ming army unhurriedly handed the musket to the people behind, took the musket and continued to shoot, while the people in the rear began to skillfully clear the chamber, charge, and fill the lead bullet.

The sound of thudging was incessant, and in less than five breaths they fired three rounds of guns, and the Mongols were only now beginning to throw armor-piercing arrows.

With the sound of the air being sliced, one arrow after another shot into the sky, like a shower.

The soldiers of Long Xiangwei half-knelt on the ground, hooked their heads, trying to reduce their own force area, and most of the arrows were shot on the armor stomach of the Ming army.

The arrow pierced deeply into the stomach of the armor, but it could only penetrate the one-sided heavy armor, which had no effect on the Ming army of the triple armor.

However, there are also unlucky Ming soldiers who were shot in the eye, wounded, and retreated......

The sound of "popping" began to gap, and the speed of reloading in the rear row gradually slowed down under the suppression of the rain of arrows, and the first row of infantry gunners could clearly perceive that the Mongolian cavalry was constantly approaching their own chariot formation.

Despite the obstacle of the crasher, their overhang projectile began to turn into a flat shot with distance.

Once they reached the distance where they could shoot horizontally, the first row of foot guns only half-crouched down, relying on the board cars in the car formation to protect themselves, and took the step guns after a few breaths to get up and shoot.

This was an intentional raid battle, but it was brutally beaten into a trench battle by Zhu Youzhen.

The chariot formation became a simple fortification between the Ming army and the Mongol cavalry, but it was this simple fortification that became an insurmountable moat between the two sides.

The distance between the two sides is only more than 20 paces, and at such a distance, the infantry of the Ming army does not need to aim at all, but squats behind the board cart and shoots with both hands.

This method of shooting is very similar to the appearance of the chimpanzee holding up the AK in later generations, but it is undeniable that the real battlefield does not have so much time for soldiers to aim.

On the Ming army's position, the platoon guns did not need to be aimed, and the trigger could be pulled after being raised, and each shot could take the life of a Mongolian cavalryman or wound him.

But the Ming army was not comfortable, and the armor-piercing arrows shot at twenty paces, even if they could not penetrate the triple armor, they were not comfortable with an arrow.

It's okay to have a tightness in the chest, but if you meet a rider who likes to use a strong bow, the arrow will miss the force and crack the ribs of the arrow.

"Humph......"

With rounds of arrows missing, the guards of Long Xiang were also hit by arrows, and from time to time they encountered powerful arrows, and they couldn't help but snort.

"Battle Charge!"

On the low slope, looking at his own casualties, when Lin Danhan's face was ugly, he also saw the distance between the two sides.

He gave the order to charge, and the sound of trumpets on both sides began to change suddenly.

"Woo-"

The horn sounded, and some of the Mongolian rangers on the left and right began to consciously disperse, revealing an empty strip of white land.

At the same time as it was exposed, some Mongol rangers began to intensify the rain of arrows from the Ming army's infantry at the gap.

"They want to charge the line, but it's fine, the army can prepare to shoot a round."

Zhu Youzhen, who sensed that something was wrong, was still calm, because the casualties of the Ming army were still under control, and the casualties of the Mongols were several times that of the Ming army.

A platoon is a military order for everyone to stand up and prepare to shoot out the ammunition.

A volley of shots was enough to break down the Mongol rangers......

"Beep! Beep-"

The shrill whistle sounded, and the rhythmic whistle was heard by many hundred households and the chief flag officer, and they also began to take the lead in standing up.

A chaotic sound of "buzz" sounded, and the four thousand dragon guards dressed in armor stood up in the pattern of the first row half-kneeling, the second group standing, and the third and fourth rows filled with ammunition.

The arrows flying like locusts instantly shot the front row of foot gunners into hedgehogs, but the foot gunners were also very prepared to protect their cheeks with their gauntlets.

As long as the cheek is not in the middle, the rest of the body will not be able to withstand the force fracture at most.

Fighters are often only in an instant, when the whistle of "beep" sounds, the first row and the second batch of Ming troops instantly pull the trigger.

"Bang Bang Bang

Smoke swirled in the formation, and the flying buckshot instantly destroyed the Mongol ranger, who was only ten paces away.

Like straw after autumn and leeks after rain, a group of Mongolian rangers who were still showing off their might a second ago encountered the Waterloo of life, and were shot several times around them, and even people and horses were planted, revealing a large open space and vision.

The Mongolian cavalry in the rear was still shooting, but suddenly saw the comrades in front of them falling, and before they could react, the Ming army's infantry changed hands and launched a platoon of guns again.

"Bang bang bang-"

The dense buckshot shot instantly broke the morale of the Chahar rangers, and everyone began to squeeze back, while the Batel heavy cavalry who tried to charge was forced to stop by the commotion ahead.

"Shoot the arrows, and the outer cavalry will burst into formation"

Zhu Youzhen looked sideways at the flag officer next to him, and the other party immediately took out the hand crossbow that was placed aside.

The other twelve standard-bearers took out their crossbows and pulled the trigger at the sky.

"Hugh...... Bang bang bang—"

The sound of arrows sounded, and the 2,000 Ming cavalry cruising around the periphery no longer hesitated, and immediately launched a surprise attack on the Chahar rangers on the periphery who were still unsure of the situation and retreated.

Almost at the same time, there was also a "boom" of horses' hooves on the northern horizon.

The sudden change in the situation on the battlefield made Lin Dan Khan's face change greatly on the low slope, he first observed the white mist rising neatly in the Ming army's formation, and then saw the Ming cavalry launch a surprise attack.

Of course, the appearance of cavalry from the north also attracted his attention, and he couldn't help but wonder if Du Linghong didn't follow his military orders.

It's just that the battlefield is changing rapidly, and he doesn't dare to bet on whether he can break the formation, and the reinforcements from the north are the vanguard of the Ming army or the soldiers and horses who come back.

"Withdraw!"

Lin Dan Khan gave an order with an ugly face, and the ten thousand households around him immediately led people to stop the sound of the horn and began to call for wheat instead.

The cries of thousands of people echoed in the low ground, which gave the dilemma of Battle's elite cavalry a backbone, and began to retreat towards the low slope.

When the other rangers saw their elite retreating, they also began to retreat.

As soon as they retreated, Long Xiangwei's 2,000 cavalry intensified their pursuit, and Sun Shoufa, who saw this, hurriedly said:

"Your Highness, the last general requests to lead the troops to pursue!"

"No need to ......" Zhu Youzhen raised his hand to stop his thoughts, but ordered:

"Change the sentry order, the cavalry will return to the defensive position, and don't catch up with the low slope."

"The last general commands!" The commander of Long Xiangwei next to him received the order, and Sun Shoufa was anxious after being rejected.

However, Zhu Youzhen frowned and persuaded: "That place is a low slope, we have insufficient troops, and forcibly rushing up the low slope will only cause heavy casualties." ”

"The main meal of sweeping the north is the northern captives of Horqin, not Chahar."

"The last general understands......" Sun Shoufa could only press his temper when he heard Zhu Youzhen's explanation.

Naturally, with Zhu Youzhen's order, the Ming cavalry began to stop pursuing, and Lin Dan Khan on the low slope looked at the dense corpses of the Chahar cavalry around the car formation, and felt as uncomfortable as eating.

"Withdraw!"

Without hesitation, there was no time for him to entangle at the moment, Lin Dan Khan ordered the withdrawal of the army, and the army began to break through to the northwest.

"Release the sentry cavalry, harvest the heads, count the dead and wounded, and send the Tang cavalry to let the military doctors of the rear army go north quickly."

Seeing Lin Dan Khan's withdrawal, Zhu Youzhen glanced at Sun Shoufa, and Sun Shoufa also responded to the order and turned around to handle these things.

Zhu Youzhen turned over and dismounted, and went to see the dead and wounded soldiers who were dragged from the front line to the Chinese army.

After walking dozens of steps, as the sound of the horses' hooves of the Chahar cavalry faded away, the wails of the soldiers began to sound in his ears.

On the board cart of the Chinese army, many soldiers lying on the board cart were untied from their stomachs, and most of them were hit by arrows in the face and hands.

The hands are fine, but the face is a little troublesome.

Zhu Youzhen frowned and glanced at it, and found that there were no less than 200 people hit by the arrow.

This kind of battle damage is normal for the outer arch guard battalion, but it is a bit big for Shangzhi.

Long Xiangwei's military doctors with the army only had more than 50 people, and treating more than 200 people kept their busy feet on the ground, and Zhu Youzhen, as the commander, could only be responsible for ensuring logistics.

"Disinfect the spirits of the army."

Zhu Youzhen explained to the commander next to him, and the commander immediately ordered someone to bring the wine.

The wailing sound made Zhu Youzhen feel a little uncomfortable to hear, so he frowned and turned around and left the place, and commanded the army to withdraw from the chariot formation and began to harvest the heads as a battle achievement.

While the army was harvesting, the cavalry from the north also rushed to the front of the formation:

"Your Highness! Commander Cao sent me to lead a thousand horsemen to support, the support was slow, please punish His Highness! ”

"Not guilty," Zhu Youzhen helped up Qianhu, who turned over and dismounted, knelt in front of him, and said:

"You're already coming fast, how is the situation with the Vanguard?"

"Back to His Highness, the northern captives withdrew three miles away, and they were in a posture of dragging down our army." Qianhu responded, and Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, patted him and said:

"After a quarter of an hour's rest, go north with the cavalry of Wu Xiangwei's left army and return to the vanguard army, the rear army will soon follow."

"The last general commands!" When the thousand households of the right army heard this, they could only retreat honestly.

Sun Shoufa, who was in charge of cleaning the battlefield, returned to him with the number of battlefield cleanups after Zhu Youzhen pacified the thousand households of Wu Xiangwei's right army for a quarter of an hour.

"Your Highness, there are 3,637 people who were shot and fell from horses, and some of the tigers and rabbits hurt their flesh."

Sun Shoufa came to report the good news with a list of names and horses, and Zhu Youzhen bowed his head when he heard this, and asked rhetorically: "What about us?" ”

"One hundred and eighty-five were seriously wounded, thirty-four were disabled in the eyes, and fifty-seven were killed in battle, for a total of 276 dead and wounded." Sun Shoufa replied, but the battle damage ratio of thirteen to one also made Zhu Youzhen feel a little relieved.

The result of a cavalry assault on a chariot formation was equivalent to a assault on a pillbox by light infantry, and it was normal for the casualties to vary greatly.

However, Zhu Youzhen didn't expect the Chahar Rangers to be so strong-willed, and they actually collapsed after suffering nearly two percent of the casualties.

sighed, and Zhu Youzhen's thoughts also returned to the battlefield.

More than 3,000 people were killed in the battle here, and with Cao Meng's side, I am afraid that there are no less than four or five thousand people.

With the loss of nearly one-sixth of the Chahar troops, I am afraid that Lin Dan Khan's authority will be completely destroyed.

However, the split Chahar division was more beneficial to the Ming army, and they would also be too busy with infighting to go to support Korqin.

Then it is enough to deal with Horqin and Huang Taiji, who may come to support......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes, as if he was thinking about how to send Huang Taiji to meet his ancestor Aixin Jueluo Dong Shan in advance.

After a moment, he turned his head and glanced at the army, and ordered:

"The wounded soldiers were brought back to the rear for treatment, the army continued to move north, the sentry cavalry was far away, and told Cao Meng to drive this group of northern captives to the northern foot of Harawen Mountain!"