The city of Lalman is not very tall, the walls are all mud and bricks, and it is only five or six meters high, whether under the rule of Shaharu or the Aries dynasty, few people come to attack the city, because the defenders will definitely fight.

With such a low wall, there is no point in defending the city.

If he hadn't been the main town of West Persia, the Aries would not have been heavily armed here.

In recent years, business with the Ming Dynasty has been booming, making this town more prosperous, but if the Ming army comes, they will decide to have a decisive battle with the Ming army here.

Hazam still has a hand in the war, and after seeing the arrival of 50,000 Ming troops, he immediately sent sentinels to investigate in the distance, and found that the main force of the Ming army in the middle was still occupying the towns encountered along the road everywhere.

This Ming army is like a Huazi, occupying Central and Western Persia, so when it passes, it can occupy the towns.

Each town had to be garrisoned, apparently trying to occupy these territories forever.

But in wartime, doing so would be a distraction.

At this time, the main force of the nearest Ming army was still more than 200 miles away from Larman, and Hazam was overjoyed and decided to take the lead in attacking and defeating the Ming army in front of him before the Ming army was assembled.

The Ming army and Shaharu were oppressed on both sides, and Hazam was under great pressure, and he put his intentions with Jahan. Sha Yi said that immediately got Jahan. Sand support.

At the beginning of April, the Ming army had just arrived twenty miles outside the city of Larman, ready to set up camp.

As a result, the next morning, the Ming army was still making food, and suddenly a sentry horse rushed back.

"The people of the white sheep and the black sheep are out of the city, and the army is coming."

Woo, the horns of both sides sounded at the right time, the Ming army didn't even have time to eat breakfast, and hurriedly began to assemble, fortunately, the Ming army brought a small amount of dry food, and everyone gathered while eating dry food.

Twenty miles away in the city of Larman, a large number of Aries soldiers and horses are leaving the city one after another.

On the other side, on their right flank, to the south, the 90,000 cavalry of the Black Sheep Dynasty was also coming in the direction of the Ming army.

The Ming army camped twenty miles away from them, and Hazam and Jahan. Sha said that he wanted to send only cavalry and hit the Ming army by surprise in the early morning, but Jahan. Sha refused, thinking that the Ming army would definitely defend itself around the barracks, and if it had been fought yesterday before the Ming army had set up camp, there might be a chance to take it by surprise.

So the two sides allied 150,000 troops went east at the same time.

Among them, there were about 50,000 cavalry, and in less than half an hour, they came to the Ming army hundreds of meters away.

The cavalry has come very quickly, but the Ming army and the servant army did not cook at the scene, and the team was organized in an orderly manner, not to mention the speed of the Ming army, the servant army was fast and orderly after more than a year of queue training.

By the time the 50,000 soldiers of the Black and White Dynasty coalition army arrived at the scene, the servant infantry battalion in front of the Ming army had already formed more than a dozen rows, each row was about 1,000 people, and the rear was still in the whole team.

The cavalry of the Ming army had long been in formation, with 10,000 on the left flank and 10,000 on the right flank, on both sides of the infantry camp, north and south.

Hazam and Jahan. Sha rode side by side on his horse, watching the Ming army from hundreds of paces away.

"To fight or not to fight? To rush or not to rush? Hazam said in a deep voice: "The Ming army doesn't seem to have a good team. ”

Jahan. Sha glanced at it a few times and shook his head: "The middle infantry battalion is full of people from our side, this is to consume our cavalry, wait for the infantry battalion to come, step by step." ”

Hazam immediately said: "The Ming army has a lot of bows and arrows, step by step, and I am afraid that I will not be able to withstand the heavy casualties." ”

"We've got a lot of bows and arrows ready, too." Jahan. Sha Dao: "After Shaharu's Eastern Expedition, we got a lot of bows and arrows from the Ming army, and we were prepared for it. ”

Hazam meets Jahan. Sha didn't dare to fight now, so he could only wait.

After studying in situ, the two unanimously decided to concentrate their forces to fight in the middle.

In the middle of the Ming army is a servant army, and its strength is definitely not as good as that of the Ming army, and there are many people, as long as the middle is broken, the Ming cavalry can only escape.

The key is to divide two cavalry to drag the two wings of the Ming army.

The two of them chose one of each, Hakom against the cavalry on the right (north flank) of the Ming army, Jahan. The left flank (south flank) of the Ming army on the Sha line.

The two of them each led a small number of cavalry, not seeking to defeat the Ming army, but dragging the Ming cavalry, and then concentrating the infantry battalion and the rest of the cavalry to defeat the Ming army's mid-road servant army.

Hazam called several groups of sentry riders in a row, and finally his expression was a little excited: "The Ming army did not bring a big cart and did not have artillery. ”

The sharp weapons used by the Ming army to defeat Shaharu twice were carts and artillery, and now they found that the Ming army did not bring carts and artillery, which was quite advantageous for their cavalry charge.

"It doesn't seem to have a firecracker."

"Did the Sentinels see the firebolts?"

Soon the sentry came to report, but there was no firecracker.

At a glance, it was almost all cavalry, infantry battalions, and no firearms were seen.

At this time, the confidence of the two of them increased greatly, and at the same time, they definitely believed that the Ming army was using the servant army to consume them.

In order not to give the Ming army time and opportunity to build fortifications, and at the same time to give the rear infantry battalion to come up and buy time.

Khazam and Jahan that day. Sha sent two generals, each leading a team of cavalry to shoot at the Ming army and the servant army.

There were only about 1,000 cavalry in these two teams, and as soon as they went up, they saw that the Ming army also greeted two cavalry.

The forces of the two sides were about the same, first shooting in the air, and then circling the field before and after, chasing.

Other soldiers and horses on both sides of the scene were watching, roaring from time to time.

Four teams of cavalry circled around the field, arrows in the air continued, and people kept falling and dismounting.

The two sides fought for half an hour with horseback against horseman, Hazam and Jahan. Sha's face was dark, and he quickly ordered to return to the army.

The cavalry of the Ming army is simply the same as the peak Mongolia and the peak Houjin, with superb riding skills and excellent archery skills.

On the other hand, on their side, it seems that they have become Han Chinese, and their cavalry and archery are actually inferior to the Ming army.

You must know that the Ming army now has more horses than Mongolia and them combined, and it trains wildly in the northwest all the year round, and it is not at all the kind of Ming army that does not train soldiers at the end of the Ming Dynasty in later generations.

The vast majority of the generals have experienced the two major battles of appeasement and rebellion.

Some thirty-year-old veterans may have practiced for ten years, and more than ten years of riding and archery are really more elite than Meng Yuan and Hou Jin.

Crackling, crackling, the two sides on the scene shot at each other, and the cavalry ran around, staggering in front of the formation.

In less than half an hour, the coalition army suffered heavy casualties, fell from countless horses, and the Ming army's casualties were less than one-fifth of theirs.

"It's too demoralizing to call them back." Jahan. Sha Kan was shocked, and finally understood why even Shaharu couldn't defeat the Ming army.

Shaharu and his father's two generations have crisscrossed Central and West Asia, and even fought in Europe, where no one is their opponent, and the Ming people who can defeat them are obviously stronger.

In the first tentative contact of the day, the coalition forces were defeated, and Hazam ordered to retreat.

The city of Larman is only twenty miles away.

At this time, the coalition infantry arrived, and the 150,000 troops were assembled.

The Ming army on the opposite side has also been completed. Sha ran down on horseback and found that the entire battlefield of the Ming army was about 2,000 people.

The middle infantry battalion is a row of 1,000 people, there are about thirty or forty platoons, very dense, if this kind of dense infantry battalion is charged with cavalry, ordinary soldiers and horses may not be able to withstand it, like the Ming army is trained in an orderly manner, and the cavalry will die very miserably if they rush.

On both sides of the infantry camp are the cavalry of the Ming army, each with about 500 cavalry in a row, and each has 20 or 30 rows, so it can be guessed that the Ming cavalry is about 230,000, and the infantry battalion is also 30,000 or 40,000.

"Ready." Jahan. Sha ran back at this time, Zheng, drew his long knife, and ran sideways along his front of the formation.

There were about 2,000 people in a column on their side, but there were 150,000 people, and there were seventy or eighty columns.

Their formation is also based on the Ming formation, and after getting close, they will surround the Ming army from behind.

"Hold off the cavalry of the Ming army, and the whole army will hit the middle of the Ming army first."

"The middle of the Ming army is its own people, and it surrenders while fighting, messing up its military morale."

"In this battle, our department will win."

"Victory." A deafening sound rang out in all directions.

Jahan. The Sha and Hazam formations were almost identical to those of the Ming army, with infantry in the middle and cavalry on both flanks.

They intend to ride step by step, ride by ride.

Although the cavalry didn't seem to be able to defeat the Ming army just now, the strength of the two sides was similar just now, and now their cavalry is more than twice that of the Ming army, and they mainly focus on guerrilla warfare, so it is good to drag the Ming cavalry and defeat the Ming infantry.

Knock knock knock, along with Jahan. The shouts of the sand, the snare drums on the scene, and the sound of horns.

The Ming army on the opposite side was very martial arts this time, without any skills, and slowly pressed forward.

"Kill." Jahan. Sha and Hazam looked at each other one last time and waved at the same time.

"Kill." The scene was overwhelmed with shouts, and the coalition forces began to move forward.

"Kill." Everyone on the other side shouted in Chinese, as if in response to them, and the two sides were 50,000 against 150,000, and began to fight in the middle.

Jia Weiguo stood on horseback, followed by three thousand archers, and was at the end of the infantry camp.

He slowly walked forward and said: "Our army is strictly disciplined, although there are many enemy troops, they will inevitably lose. ”

"Listen to orders for a while, just like during training, and those who dare to retreat without orders will be killed."

He didn't speak Chinese well enough, and the words were intermittent, but most of them were intelligible.

The archers didn't react, they all looked ahead.

There were about twenty-seven rows of infantry battalions in front, each platoon of about a thousand men, and they were three rows of lunges at the end, adding up to thirty rows, and they could only be lost after dying in front.

All archers also carry waist knives, which can be used for melee combat like bows and arrows.

At this time, a very rhythmic sound sounded on the battlefield, and the Ming army servant infantry battalion was adjusting its pace, and after a while, it became a very rhythmic march in unison, just like during training.

Of course, this kind of pace is intimidating and powerful, according to the Ming army's routine, after the two sides are close to fifty steps, they can walk freely and casually, without maintaining the rhythm.

But in the early stage, the scene was still very shocking.

Opposite Jahan. Sha and Hazam looked at the face changed dramatically.

It was also Shaharu's servant army, which had been trained by the Ming army for more than a year, and it was completely different, like an elite.

But it was useless to think about anything at this time, they had 150,000 and 50,000 on the opposite side, and there was no reason for them to retreat, and the Ming army was very martial arts, and did not bring artillery and vehicle formations.

"Kill." Jahan. Sand waved again.

"Kill." The sky echoed, and the coalition forces approached layer by layer.

The coalition forces were untrained in the queue, and they barely managed to keep their lineup tight for the first two hundred paces, and by the time they reached the hundredth pace, someone had already risen to speed and began to run forward.

The originally flat formation immediately became chaotic, and there were bumps everywhere.

The Ming army resolutely did not move, it was still a horizontal line, and did not speed up, maintaining the original speed.

There were officers all around shouting: "Don't speed up, keep your strength, don't speed up, keep your strength." ”

The two sides soon came within fifty paces.

After entering fifty paces, the speed of the coalition army became faster and faster, and many people began to run wildly, completely ignoring physical fitness.

"Archery." The coalition forces struck first, shooting a large number of arrows in the infantry battalion.

The Ming army servant army is a platoon of pikemen, a row of sword and shield soldiers, which is based on the opposite formation, if the opposite side is charged with cavalry, the front fifteen rows may all be replaced with pikemen.

See the sky full of arrows.

The Ming army immediately shouted: "Raise the shield." ”

Some shields were raised at forty-five degrees above their heads, covering the heads and shoulders of the pikemen in the front row.

When this long shield is raised, it covers exactly two people.

Of course, with limited coverage, you will still be shot.

Whoosh, the rain of arrows kept shooting in, and the servants of the Ming army screamed, some fell to the ground, and some did not.

The servant army only wears cotton armor, and if it hits the vital point, the damage is still relatively large.

The coalition forces are still running forward, they are completely out of control, and everyone is rushing forward.

Some people rushed and shot at the same time, and the Ming army withstood the rain of arrows and walked forward with shields.

Forty steps, thirty steps, twenty steps.

Along the way, the Ming servant army was shot down a lot, but the two sides finally approached.

"Raise your bow, load your arrows." Jia Weiguo was behind the infantry camp, and the other party had already entered their range at this time.

They had three thousand archers, probably less than the opposite, but Jahan. After the bow and arrow of the sand, it was everywhere.

Jahan. There are seventy or eighty platoons in the Saudi coalition army, and the archers in the back row can't shoot in the front row, and they can only shoot their own people in the front row.

Therefore, the Ming army obviously has few archers, but they shoot a salvo together, and the power is super strong.

"Shoot."

With an order, a wave of black arrows rained down in the air, drawing a beautiful parabola.

Whoosh, and when it fell, the opposing front had rushed to within ten paces, and both sides could see the other's fangs and claws.

Suddenly, a rain of arrows fell from the scene, and the coalition forces fell in large swaths, and some places were even shot empty in an instant.

The coalition army is not as well-organized as the Ming army, there is no team of people, some may have several shields, some only have one, and there is no long shield specifically for the rain of arrows, and they will not protect others.

At this time, the Ming army shot with heavy casualties, and many places rushed to rush, and suddenly fell a large piece.

After this rain of arrows, boom, the two sides met in steps, like two torrents of steel colliding together.

The shouting and killing at the scene shook the sky, the Ming army and the coalition army infantry battalion fought, and the coalition army was shouting in the local language while fighting, so that they could turn back, but no one left them at the scene.

He was trained by the Ming army for a year and had a monthly salary, which was unimaginable in Central and Western Asia.

Shaharu still maintained feudal slavery, and many troops did not have a fixed salary, only the plundering and scraping that had been won.

What's more, many of their family members are in the Ming-occupied areas.

The two sides were in disarray, the Ming army was well organized, and the opposite side relied entirely on personal bravery.

"Shoot." Jia Weiguo in the back row, when they saw that there were more enemy troops on the other side, they waved their flags at which side.

With a buzz, nearly 3,000 arrows will fly away in the next moment.

When the arrow falls, it will inevitably empty some places.

(End of chapter)