The Shenji battalion was hidden in the houses on both sides of the official road from the Wara camp to Deshengmen, with 5,000 people, and they were stunned that the sentry riders of Warat did not notice the slightest movement.

Such military discipline is moving.

This is just because they know that behind them is a family of wives and children.

In addition, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion also wanted to use this battle to justify themselves.

When Zhu Di was fighting in the Northern Expedition, he accidentally saw the power of coordinated operations of various arms, so he specially set up a Shenji battalion and set up a combat mode of "Shenji gun in the front, horse team in the back, and infantry follow-up".

The Shenji Battalion thus became the first formed musket unit in the world, more than a century before the earliest Spanish musket unit appeared in Europe.

In Daming, the Shenji Battalion is a legendary unit.

Since Zhu Di was established by himself, he has repeatedly made military exploits and has become the absolute main force in the three major battalions of the Beijing Forbidden Army.

However, in the first battle of Tumubao, the elite of the Shenji Battalion who accompanied Zhu Qizhen on the expedition had time to release a gun and a cannon in the future, and they were solved by the Wara cavalry as cleanly as chopping melons and vegetables.

Having lost the battle, this is not unacceptable.

What is unacceptable is that I have failed unexplained and shameful!

So under the auspices of Yu Qian, the second- and third-line reserve personnel who stayed in the Beijing Division carried the banner of the Shenji Battalion, and the first thing they had to do was to wash away the shame of the battle in Tumubao.

Now, the opportunity has finally come.

Inside the house, Mr. Qian watched as the Warat Sentinels gathered around the forage field, and then ran away with a shout.

He clenched his palms into fists and stared at the red blood under the hay.

Hearing the report of the sentry cavalry that no trace of the Ming army was found, Polo laughed, thinking that he was still too cautious, and Yu Qian lined up outside the city, but it was just a bluff.

From this point of view, the Ming army is just a pile of straw bales, and it is really a fool's dream to try to line up at the city gate to block the charge of more than 10,000 iron horsemen.

So he drew his scimitar at his waist, and without any further hesitation, rushed out first.

Seeing that the main general was already far away, the rest of the Warat cavalry also exhaled strange cries from their mouths, and the bright scimitars flashed a cold light through the moonlight.

Then, the sky collapsed and the earth charged.

The earth trembled, and more than 10,000 Valar cavalry rolled in from afar, carrying smoke and dust.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion hiding in the houses couldn't help but clench the thunderbolt cannons in their hands, and slowly stretched out the muzzles of the black holes along the windows, their eyes staring closely at the direction where the sound came from.

The Varat cavalry poured into the vast settlement, and as they charged, the Varat did not notice that there were many small holes in the houses around them.

Deshengmen was in front of him, and Polo, wielding a scimitar, had even seen the prosperity of Beijing.

All of this can be done by simply rushing through.

He was even more anxious, and couldn't help but use the spurs under his feet to press his mount faster.

100 steps.

Fifty steps.

Ten steps.

Just a stone's throw away!

Just when Polo thought he was going to be the first Warat to storm the city, a thunderclap suddenly sounded on both sides.

Countless Warat cavalrymen turned on their backs, and in the blink of an eye, they suffered heavy casualties!

It was only then that they discovered that a large number of soldiers of the Shenji Battalion holding thunderbolts appeared on the rooftops or windows of the surrounding houses.

The soldiers almost surrounded them, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at them.

A large number of Ming infantry rushed out in front of Polo and behind him, blocking the way for the Warat cavalry to advance and retreat.

If you want to continue advancing, you must break through the ambush of the Ming army, and if you want to retreat, the only way is to bypass the houses, but the problem is that the cavalry target is too large, and there will be a complete loss of mobility between the houses.

Even if you retreat immediately, you can only run out a small part.

Polo didn't want to leave at all, he didn't even feel like he had lost.

The current Wara cavalry is crowded among the people's settlements outside the Desheng Gate, and they can't advance or retreat.

The Shenji Battalion fired thousands of artillery guns in unison, refusing to let go of any opportunity to shoot.

Soon, the Warat cavalry was furious to find that they had almost nothing to do with these Ming troops, and almost all the Ming troops armed with thunderbolt cannons were standing on the rooftops or hiding in the houses.

After all, cavalry could not rush directly to the roof, nor could they break into the door.

In other words, they are now more than 10,000 live targets who have been able to brush up experience for the Divine Machine Battalion!

If Polo could organize a counterattack immediately and use the cavalry's shock power to rush a little, he might still be able to change the tide of the battle, but the problem is that he doesn't have that opportunity.

Polo failed to become the first Warat to storm the city of Beijing, but was lucky enough to become the first Warat general to die outside the city.

The moment the ambush appeared and blocked Polo's advance, a pig iron projectile from an unknown source smashed into his vicinity.

As soon as the pig iron projectile from the thunderbolt hit the ground, it exploded immediately, splitting into several pieces of extremely lethal fragments and flying out in all directions, and Polo was shot down on the spot and dismounted!

Although Polo was wearing armor, shrapnel at such a close range was no longer something that ordinary armor could defend against.

Polo was not immediately dead when he fell off his horse, his mouth was overflowing with blood, and he opened his mouth to shout something, and reached out to watch his mount trample on him in fright.

As soon as the main general died, the remaining 10,000 Varat cavalry were all turned into headless flies.

They frantically brandished their scimitars, but they were helpless against the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who stood on the roofs of their houses and calmly loaded their ammunition, and some of the Warat cavalry began to charge suicidally at the Ming troops who were blocking the retreat, but they all died in front of the battle.

With the cooperation of the gunners, infantry and cavalry of the Shenji Battalion, the more than 10,000 elite cavalry brought by Polo were almost completely wiped out in the residential settlement in front of Deshengmen.

Only a few clever ones took advantage of the chaos to abandon their precious horses and plunged headlong into the dwellings without a trace.

With the first rays of sunlight shining on the land in front of Desheng Gate, the houses were already full of corpses, and the blood of the Warat people gathered into a gurgling stream and merged into the moat.

The strong smell of blood permeated the battlefield, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion did not stop after cleaning up the battlefield, and quickly returned to Deshengmen with the captured horses and other materials.

And they were greeted with heroic cheers.

This was the end of the first major attack of Warat, which ended with the complete victory of the Ming army.

As early as before the war, Yu Qian, Shi Heng, Wang Zhi and others determined this strategic policy of taking the initiative after continuous discussions.

Their thoughts were inspired by Zhu Di's victory at Xizhimen at that time, and they felt that it was actually easier to win by taking the initiative than by holding on to death.

The current Ming army is in great need of a hearty victory.

Taking the initiative to attack only needs to win a battlefield in a short period of time, while sticking to the city requires defending the nine gates of the Beijing Division, and Warat is still dominated by cavalry, and can change the offensive route at any time.

Yu Qian and Shi Heng looked at each other and smiled when they saw the exhausted Shenji Battalion returning.