Ningxia.

Zhu Feng led the troops to withdraw to the Ningxia town station, and immediately went to see Yang Yiqing after entering the city, after Zhu Feng led the troops out of the city, Zhu Feng never had the opportunity to see Yang Yiqing, and the expected reinforcements did not come, and Yang Yiqing has always stayed in the acropolis.

"Yang Zhongcheng."

Zhu Feng still had dissatisfaction in his heart.

In this month, he was tossed a lot, not only to lose his soldiers, but also to damage his prestige in the army, and more importantly, he spent his days in fear and fear.

Okay, let's face a strong enemy together and send troops together, but I will go alone? What about monkeys?

Yang Yiqing said: "In the past two days, various routes in Ningxia have reported that there is no sign of Tatar activities, and the Tatars have withdrawn. An Bianhou blocked the attack, which should be the first achievement. ”

Zhu Feng said with a look of frustration: "Yang Zhongcheng, don't make fun of me, I really found that this battle is not as good as the Tartars, as soon as the Tartars come, we will retreat, there is no way to fight, and the Tatars are now proficient, they never have a frontal impact, the men and horses are very scattered, and they specially capture our men and horses in the rear, and only one Tartar was caught on the road...... Didn't bring back a single head. ”

This is almost a straightforward truth.

After Yang Yiqing heard this, he couldn't help but show a gloomy color between his eyebrows.

He was also wondering, what is this? Say you have merit, but you belittle yourself first? The Tatars withdrew, and this credit is not given to you, could it be said that it is actually the trilateral general system Qin Hong's good scheduling?

We always have to play with the court, either to ask for merit or to ask for sin, don't you know this?

"Say you are, you are." Yang Yiqing's face was grim.

In the matter of governing the army, Yang Yiqing doesn't like to talk to people, and he doesn't like Zhu Feng's appearance like this with his seriousness.

Do whatever you want, you are a martial artist with soldiers, where do you get so much nonsense? I don't know that our traditional Wenchen looks down on you?

Zhu Feng said: "Yang Zhongcheng, please forgive me for saying something unpleasant......"

Yang Yiqing was also annoyed.

Do you know if you don't like it, and you still tell it to me? You don't know what it means to do what it means to be told?

Before Yang Yiqing could reprimand, Zhu Feng was already talking eloquently, "The withdrawal of the Tatars this time is very strange, or something big happened in the rear, as far as I can see, they have to retreat." ”

Yang Yiqing frowned and said, "You mean, there is a civil strife in the rear of Tatar?" ”

Zhu Feng shook his head: "I want to say, will Your Majesty have secretly sent Lai Guogong and other famous people to lead troops to attack his rear, and they have to retreat?" ”

In this matter, Zhu Feng did not know any information in advance, and he said this purely because of his "worship" of Zhang Zhou.

I, Zhu Zhijie, know very well that the Tatars were not repelled by me, let alone intimidated by me, and I am already the most elite in Ningxia Town, if the Tatar retreat has nothing to do with me...... The only one who can force the Tatars to retreat so much can only be my brother Zhang, who is "omnipotent from heaven to earth".

Only I understand that my brother Zhang will definitely help me out when I am in danger.

Yang Yiqing's face was not good: "At present, we have not learned that there are signs of sending troops to the Ming Dynasty, and people from all walks of life, including Yansui, Datong, Biguan and other places, have not reported that there are soldiers and horses entering the grassland. ”

The lag of the news also made Yang Yiqing wonder where the key point of the problem was.

Even if Yang Yiqing had a military strategy, could he have thought that it was actually Wang Shouren of Liaobei who led 6,000 soldiers and horses to attack the Tatar rear and forced Batu Munk to lead troops back to help? What kind of head does this have to be associated with this layer?

Don't say that Yang Yiqing doesn't believe it, no one dares to believe that anyone would dare to play this strategy, otherwise Ma Wensheng would not jump out and accuse Zhang Zhou of trying to trick every time...... Moreover, there was no general strength, and the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in the rear of the Tatars were enough to deal with it, and there was no need for Batumunk to return the troops himself.

If this layer is not taken into account, there seems to be only one explanation......

That is, Batumunk had already finished robbing, and he felt that it was unnecessary to continue fighting like this, so he withdrew his troops.

Therefore, from the beginning, Yang Yiqing planned to attribute the credit to Zhu Feng, saying that it was Zhu Feng's merit in resisting the enemy and forcing the Tatars to withdraw their troops...... In this way, when reporting to the imperial court, it sounds good, and the credit seems to be attributed to Zhu Feng, but if he is meritorious, he is also a governor with merit, even if he is guilty when he turns around, he Yang Yiqing can also leave the blame on Zhu Feng as much as possible.

Wenchen's usual methods.

They all like credit, and no one likes the black pot.

Zhu Feng asked, "Then how will this battle be played?" I...... I want to excuse myself, this battle has shown that I am not capable of presiding over the military and political affairs of one side, and I want to go back and have more experience. ”

Go back to the experience?

Yang Yiqing wants to say, you are very good at "pleading guilty", you are deliberately embarrassing me, right?

I said that I wanted to give you credit, but you wanted to ask for guilt, do you want to pull the entire Ningxia official system to carry the black pot with you?

"Anbianhou, please be cautious." Yang Yiqing is not very easy to reason with Zhu Feng, after all, Zhu Feng is deeply favored by the emperor, don't let Zhu Feng have nothing to do after Zhu Feng pleaded guilty, and let him Yang Yiqing and the generals below suffer.

Yang Yiqing also wanted to use the governor's power to suppress Zhu Feng, but he never thought that Zhu Feng's "pleading" rhetoric made Yang Yiqing very passive, Yang Yiqing still wanted to press Zhu Feng to the death and occupy the initiative, but now it seems to be ...... was led by Zhu Feng by the nose.

"You can put off the work for two days, and wait for the latest Tatar movements to come back, and you will not play on your own until then."

Yang Yiqing was to prevent Zhu Feng from skipping him and directly playing with the Governor's Mansion or the Ministry of War and the Emperor.

He knew that Zhu Feng had this authority.

"Hmm." Zhu Feng seemed to be a nobody.

From the beginning, he didn't use "excuse guilt" to fight back against Yang Yiqing, he sincerely felt that his ability was not good, so he didn't understand why Yang Yiqing suddenly seemed to be "kind" to him.

……

……

Zhu Feng has been busy for more than 20 days, so he went back to rest first.

Yang Yiqing called Song Lan, the guest of the scene, and Li Falcon, a thousand households who sent troops with Zhu Feng, to come over.

In front of Yang Yiqing, Li Falcon gave a detailed description of Zhu Feng's recent march: "...... An Bianhou worked very hard, but he always couldn't make up his mind, and sometimes he said that he wanted to attack, but when things came, they changed. But when encountering the enemy, Anbianhou also tried his best, but the momentum of the Tatar people and horses was too strong, and it was difficult for the Shenwei cannon to come in handy, so he ......"

Although Li Falcon is on Yang Yiqing's side from the bottom of his heart.

But he didn't dare to criticize Zhu Feng casually.

can say that Zhu Feng is "indecisive", which is his lowest evaluation of Zhu Feng.

But in fact, Zhu Feng's problem is not only indecisive, even Li Falcon has never seen Zhu Feng lead troops like this...... As the head coach, is he actually a wall grass? It's like a headless fly, leading troops and joking, this kind of person doesn't give him a coach, it's really hell.

"Okay, you go down." Yang Yiqing let Li Falcon leave first.

After Li Falcon left, Yang Yiqing looked at Song Lan and said, "What do you think?" ”

Song Lan said: "In my opinion, it is still as discussed before, to show merit for Anbianhou, so that His Majesty has something to say to the ministers of the DPRK and China, and they also look good on each other's faces." ”

This also shows a chaotic situation in the military and political affairs in the northwest.

It's not that the officials in the northwest have to "falsely report their military exploits", or deliberately whitewash the peace, but they just show their merits than they have shouldered, which is more in line with the expectations of the imperial court, so that they can achieve "hello, I am good, everyone's good".

Plainly.

The emperor did not want to see defeat, nor did the ministers, and the generals of the Northwest Army did not want to see it...... Anyway, the northwest land is high and the emperor is far away, as long as the Tartars are withdrawn, saying that it is a credit, so that the people below do not know, then it will be fine?

If you encounter a defeat and do not report it, it is equivalent to not being defeated.

Why do you have to break the casserole and ask in the end? The black is said to be white, and the court is full of words, and then the suspicious people are stifled, so that most of the people know that singing and dancing will be peaceful.

Yang Yiqing said angrily: "As soon as Zhu Zhijie came back, he told me that he was going to play and ask for guilt. ”

"Please?"

Song Lan almost wanted to say, what is he trying to do?

We will give you credit, and when you go back, you will not be a bear, but a hero.

If you don't accept our kindness, forget it, and still think about pleading, then where do you put us people?

Yang Yiqing said: "I'll ask him to calm down first, postpone the performance, and then talk to the superintendent of the imperial history to see how this matter should be listed." ”

Song Lan looked incredulous, and said with a wry smile: "The people who have backers in the court have different styles of doing things, so what about saying that he is reckless?" Or is he scheming? ”

Yang Yiqing asked, "You also think that he may be deliberately putting pressure on us?" ”

"Otherwise?" Song Lan said, "With him Anbianhou, he can serve under the command of Weining Hou, Lai Guogong, and Wang Dehua of Biguan, and he can also win the trust of His Majesty, saying that he is a brave and unscrupulous person, who is willing to believe it?" But is he really brave? If he didn't have a conspiracy, what else could he do? ”

Song Lan is "overestimated" Zhu Ershao.

thought that Zhu Feng had a deep meaning in doing things, but in fact, Zhu Feng was just a noodle melon, what kind of courage and strategy, it must not be him Zhu Zhijie.

The life that Zhu Feng pursues is just to be a gentleman in Nanjing, and to speculate on the deep meaning of his work is actually to complicate simple problems.

Song Lan said: "From this point of view, to negotiate with him as soon as possible, he must exert pressure, he must have something to ask, as long as he can make him settle down, you are afraid that you will have to ...... There is a concession. ”

"Hmm."

Although Yang Yiqing was reluctant, he still nodded.

I couldn't figure out what Zhu Feng's intentions were, but I just felt that this kid was deliberately embarrassing us, so I went to negotiate with this kid.

Just ask you kid, what are your needs?

Big deal satisfying you!

……

……

September 20, at noon.

Sixty miles northeast of Guanshan in the grassland, a big battle is about to begin.

On the Tatar side, the Chahar Department was the main force, and there were six or seven thousand soldiers and horses on the top of a mound in the direction of the Ming army, and there were more than 10,000 men and horses pursuing in the rear of the Ming Dynasty.

It is equivalent to saying that the Tatars used nearly three times as many soldiers and horses to block the way forward of the Ming army before the Ming army advanced further westward.

When the Tatars began to line up.

Wang Shouren immediately ordered Guan Jingqin to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses, with 500 artillery pieces in the army, and 3,000 soldiers and horses all with flint guns, to launch a vigorous charge against the Tatar camp.

What kind of rear pursuers, what front and back attack, it seems that for Wang Shouren, it doesn't matter at all.

"Only when the old and weak women and children of the Tatars are in front of us will the Tatars not avoid our artillery and firearms and will face us head-on! Kill it! Exterminate the Tatars! ”

"Exterminate the Tartars!"

The soldiers are charged, and there is a posture that we are here to destroy your whole people.

The 3,000 cavalry rushed at the opponent's 7,000 or so cavalry who were waiting for and were still condescending, and the Ming soldiers could be said to have no fear at all.

Not as good as you? Individual combat power is not as good as yours? Not as experienced as you guys?

It doesn't matter.

Important:

We have cannons, we have guns, as long as you dare to approach, you will not be able to eat and walk around.

……

……

The Ming soldiers and horses are advancing rapidly.

The Tatar side was in full swing and did not launch an attack for a long time, as if it had the meaning of waiting for the rabbit and braking quietly......

But both sides of the battle actually knew that if the Tatars really waited for the Ming soldiers to kill them, then they would basically lose completely.

Daming's firearms may not be very accurate when they hit the moving target, but if they kill the target, it is basically a dozen accurate.

However, it is obvious that the Tatar side is also prepared, in the camps of both sides, the Tatars preset tripping ropes and traps and other devices to block the advance of the Ming cavalry, so that the Ming army rushed to the front of the cavalry, and nearly 100 people were overturned and dismounted.

When the momentum of the Ming side weakened, the Tatars were more than three miles away from the Ming pioneers, and they immediately launched a full-scale charge.

Seven thousand soldiers and horses, almost a long snake formation, placed in two rows, a kind of large net formed, towards the Ming army to rush over.

This formation was an obvious abandonment of the charge of the Iron Cavalry Group, which the Tatars were good at.

Because the Tatars knew that the group charge was used as a live target for the Ming Dynasty.

So they made the formation as loose as possible, so that the flowering cannons of the Ming Dynasty landed within the coverage and reduced the number of Tatar cavalry.

The rumbling of horses' hooves made the land of the grassland tremble.

The Ming army immediately dismounted and began to set up artillery.

It's still the usual flowering cannon.

Even if the Tatars were killed from three frontal directions, the Ming Dynasty's 500 artillery pieces were enough to deal with the oncoming enemy from all directions.

Three miles, two miles, one mile......

When the Tatar cavalry quickly advanced within the range of the Ming artillery, it also fell with the command flag to fire the artillery.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Of the five hundred guns, almost three hundred fired a salvo in the first round.

There were still two hundred gates, and the enemy in front of them had not yet reached range.

The 500 cannons, or the flowering cannons all equipped with yellow powder, covered an area of more than ten meters on the ground, and the absolute killing range was at least several meters away.

With such a large-scale salvo, the number of cavalry on the Tatar side fell as the shells landed, and the number of cavalry that fell in response exceeded a thousand in one round.

But the Tatars seemed to know that it was useless to be afraid, and there was no turning back from the bow, only to rush and kill with all their might.

"Boom ......"

The artillery is still sporadically sounding, and the reloading of the Ming side is also in progress, because the light cannon is not a sub-cannon, and it is slightly more complicated than the sub-mother cannon in terms of loading, but the cannon body of these small steel cannons is relatively short, and after the new shells are loaded, the second round of firing can be carried out in a short time, and the length of the lead has also been adjusted.

In the artillery training regulated by Zhang Zhou, the light artillery had to be able to fire a second shot after it was fired, and before the Tatar cavalry was close to the front.

That is to say, it is guaranteed that after the Tatars enter the firing range, a cannon can be fired twice, and then it will enter the process of "hand-to-hand" of about 100 paces.

The "short-range encounter" mentioned by Zhang Zhou is not the intersection of cold weapons in the traditional sense, but enters the absolute killing range of the Daming Fire Gun, and the flint gun equipped by the Daming Dynasty is all double-fired in a row......

And so it goes.

An artillery soldier in the Ming Dynasty had to complete two artillery firing first, and then stand up and shoot out the fire gun in his hand twice.

This is also the situation that the Tatar cavalry had to face with two cannons and two guns before rushing into the Ming camp.

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……

The first round of artillery salvos.

The number of Tatar cavalry who fell from their horses was in the thousands.

And the effect of the second round of salvo is better, also because the Tatars are closer, with the end of the two artillery fires, the Tatars are only one or two hundred steps away from the forward position of the Ming Dynasty, with the charge of the cavalry, in fact, this road is a breathing back and forth gap can be killed.

And the musketeers on the side of the Ming Dynasty, especially those who were not responsible for firing artillery, had already begun to fire their cannons at a distance of about 300 paces from the Tatars, and the distance between the two sides was about 200 meters at this time.

The straight-line distance is 200 meters, and it is not within the range of the bow and arrow, the effective killing range of the bow and arrow is 100 steps, that is, about 70 meters, and it takes 40 or 50 meters to enter the armor piercing and take people's lives, and it can only be shot at 70 meters away, after all, the ancient bow and arrow material is just like that.

Of course, it also depends on the strength of the shooter.

It's like the Tatar archers, from arm strength to the stability of cavalry shooting, to range and accuracy, are much better than the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.

But alas.

The Ming side now does not rely on bows and arrows to wrestle with it, but instead uses firearms, the range can be stretched to about 200 meters, and it is not necessary to decide with arm strength, and there is no need to calculate any parabola on the quasi-head side, just pick it up and do it directly.

The advantage is in me and not in him.

"Bang bang ......"

The sound of artillery was mixed with the sound of firecrackers.

The Ming did not need to dismount except for the gunner, and the gunner immediately mounted his horse after firing two shots, ready to fire the gun......

On the side of the Tatars, men and horses fell in pieces.

On the Ming side, only the group of people who were tripped off the horse before have not returned to the horse sporadically.

Just before the two sides were about to enter the hand-to-hand combat, the 2,000 men and horses of the Chinese army led by Wang Shouren were also reinforced, and they were killed from the flank, and with the launch of the firearms, the nearly 2,000 Tatar cavalry on the right wing of the Ming Dynasty army were almost completely wiped out.

At the same time, the Tatars rushed in front of the Ming Dynasty of more than 3,000 cavalry, only about half of them could still charge on horseback, and only half of the 2,000 cavalry on the right flank remained, and at this time, it was only within the range of the Tatar archers.

Before entering the hand-to-hand encounter, the Tatars had already lost more than half, and the remaining effective combat men and horses of the 7,000 men and horses were less than 3,000......

(End of chapter)