In the face of the menacing EEDS Department, although Ma Bao fought bravely, he was not a reckless man who could only rush and kill, he decisively chose to avoid its edge, and deliberately sold a flaw to withdraw his troops to the south.

At the same time, he also sent messengers one after another to find Li Laiheng who had crossed the Great Wall, hoping to unite with Li Laiheng to flank the Mongol army, but the messengers he sent did not know whether they were lost in the vast grassland, or were hunted and killed by Mongolian rangers, and never sent a reply.

A few days later, seeing that the messenger had been delayed and the EEDS was pressing in behind, Ma Bao decided to stop the retreat and ordered the whole army to line up in place to prepare for a battle here to meet the Mongol army.

While the whole army was repairing, Ma Bao looked at the endless steppe and asked the leader of the Mongolian tribe who was on the expedition beside him, "Does this place have a name?"

"General Hui, the name of this place is Chahan Zada Sea, and dozens of miles to the north is Mayin Mountain." The leader replied respectfully.

"There's not even a river here, so why is it called the sea?" Ma Bao asked curiously.

"Uh......" The Mongol leader scratched his head a little embarrassed, and he hesitated for a while before he said, "General Hui, this is a place name in Mongolian, and it has nothing to do with the sea."

Ma Bao only thought it was amused when he saw his reaction, and he just wanted to tease a few more words, but at this moment, the scouts he sent to investigate the enemy retreated and reported to him that the Mongol army had been killed.

Then, the expression on Ma Bao's face suddenly became serious, and he ordered his soldiers to reload the carbine, and waited until about a stick of incense had passed, and the huge military formation of the Mongol army finally appeared on the horizon in the distance, and met the eyes of the Xia soldiers.

In addition to the reunited Six Banners of the EEDS Department that participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Xia Army's cavalry, there were also a number of vassal weak tribes, although they did not dispatch all the men in the tribe, but the coalition army added up to tens of thousands.

Among them, there are tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry alone, which is the most important combat force in the Mongolian army, and there are thousands of herdsmen and tens of thousands of infantry without war horses.

In contrast, although the Xia army was under-armed, it was well-equipped and had 16 6-pounder cavalry guns, and its combat power in actual battle was definitely higher than that of the Mongol army.

Moreover, the Xia army is holding the belief that if this battle is won, they will become the best cavalry in the entire empire, if they are defeated, where can they escape in this vast prairie?

Seeing the Mongolian soldiers and horses gradually approaching, Ma Bao slowly drew his saber and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, although the grassland is large, we have no way to retreat, if our army is defeated here, the Mongols can go south at any time to plunder our Han compatriots, do you want to see the tragedy of the Mongolian Koubian in October of the first year of Wu'an repeated?"

"I don't want to!"

The cavalrymen shouted loudly, they were all recruited from all over Shaanxi, and they remembered the tragedy of the Mongol Koubian in October last year, and naturally they had great hatred for the Mongols in their hearts.

"Then I'll fight to the death! There is still a glimmer of life in charging at the enemy, and if you take a step back, not only will we lose our lives here, but the people of the frontier will also lose their lives!"

"Fight to the death! Fight to the death!"

The cavalry roared in unison, raising their carbines, and their roars converged, causing the approaching Mongol soldiers and horses on the opposite side to stir up a little uneasy.

In the EEDS department's army formation, EEDS Khan Phosphor looked at the high morale of the Xia army opposite, and couldn't help frowning, although he became the co-leader of the EEDS department again after 20 years, but more than 20 years have passed, the EEDS department is no longer as united and strong as it used to be, and the six banners are separated from Germany, and they can be united for a short time, only because they have a common enemy.

"Khan of the Epsom Khan, give the order to attack."

At this moment, the banner master of the front banner on the right flank spoke up, he greedily looked at the carbine in the hands of the Xia cavalry on the opposite side and the 16 6-pounder cavalry cannons pulled by several war horses, and was eager to seize them immediately for his own use.

In the Mongolian steppe, the Mongol tribes rarely possessed firearms, and if they could capture those cannons from the Xia army, the strength of his right flank front banner would be greatly increased.

Can't help but be right-wing front

The banner owners are full of greed for those artillery, and the same is true for the other banner owners, although they are forced to support the former EEDS Taiji Phosphorus Ministers as Khan, it does not mean that they are willing to be subservient.

By the time they drove the Xia army out of the grassland, it wouldn't be long before the EEDS ministry would surely fall into civil strife, overthrow the Ephochen, and compete for the new throne.

He didn't know what they were thinking, but he couldn't do anything, so he could only sigh and say, "Blow the horn and attack."

The Mongols never paid attention to any tactics in the battle on the steppe, and it was always the side that had more men and better equipment would win the battle.

Therefore, with the order of the Phochen, the dull sound of the horn of the bull horn sounded in the Mongolian army's formation, and the Mongolian army immediately began to move and pressed up densely towards the Xia army.

Seeing this, Ma Bao ordered the cavalry artillery battalion to unload the artillery and launch an artillery bombardment on the Mongol army formation, leaving a battalion to escort him, while he led the soldiers to personally launch a counter-charge against the Mongol army and meet the enemy head-on.

His thinking is very clear, that is, to concentrate his forces to tear apart the central army of the Mongol army, and directly attack the Khan banner that is located in the middle army and is protected by layers, as long as the Khan of the EEDS department is killed, the Mongol army will naturally collapse itself.

"1st Cavalry Brigade, attack!"

Ma Bao shouted loudly, and then led the cavalry brigade to take the initiative to meet the Mongolian army, while the cavalry of the Xia army advanced, the cavalry artillery battalion also hurriedly unloaded the cavalry guns, turned the muzzle, and fired at the Mongolian army formation in the distance.

After some busyness, with the officer's order, 16 6-pounder cavalry guns roared one after another, and the roar of the artillery was like a thunder in the distance, startling the Mongol army on the opposite side.

Many of the infantry and herdsmen of the poor were bombarded by artillery for the first time, and they were panicked by the thunderous sound of the cannonballs, and even if the first round of shells did not fall into the crowd, their faces were still pale.

Seeing that many people in the army were panicked because of the shelling, Ephochen hurriedly ordered more than 1,000 cavalry to bypass the cavalry of the Xia army and kill the enemy's artillery position, intending to knock out the artillery of the Xia army first and stabilize the morale of his own army.

But as soon as his order was given, he was met with opposition from several banner owners, who demanded to send their cavalry, and their opposition soon turned into a quarrel, and in the end, he had to reassure the banner owners that the captured artillery would be distributed to them after the battle, and the quarrel was barely quelled.

In the time they wasted, the Xia artillery had already completed the second round of reloading and adjusted the new angle to launch a second round of artillery bombardment on the Mongol formation.

Although only two shells fell into the crowd, this second round of shelling caused a huge commotion and destabilization.