Under the city of Pingdingzhou.

Shuo Lei watched the Mongol army being shot by the Ning Navy like a target with a rifle, and he had to face the reality that mounted archery was no match for firearms after all.

Even if they have the advantage of dozens of times the number of people, the problem is that people are not machines, and people will be afraid, especially in this situation, the Mongol army was shot by the rifles of the scout cavalry of the Ning Navy before they entered the range of bows and arrows, and they simply did not have time to give full play to their advantages.

What made the Mongolian army feel helpless the most was that as more and more corpses died in front of the Ning Navy, the corpses of these horses or soldiers would be frozen into ice sculptures by the cold, which greatly limited the mobility of the Mongolian cavalry.

Shuo Lei gave the order to Nabulun to make a decisive assault, Nabulun had no choice but to grit his teeth and order to draw his scimitar, the spear was flattened, and he no longer used bows and arrows, nor did he use cavalry tactics, he decided to use a scimitar and a spear to decide the victory.

At this time, the cavalry of the Ning Navy still maintained a strict formation, using their rifles to fire bullets at the rushing Mongol army.

Seeing the attack of more than 2,000 cavalry, under the blow of bullets, with heavy casualties, Ning Haijun began to charge, however, Ning Haijun only charged forward for only three or four hundred steps before stopping the charge.

Cheng Shijie ordered the officers of the Ning Navy to immediately collect the corpses of the Mongolian soldiers who had just been killed, and build them together with the corpses of the war horses into an ice wall.

The cavalry of the Ning Navy formed two lines of the corpses of the Mongol soldiers, like an inverted ice wall, so that the numerical disadvantage of the Ning Navy was alleviated, at least the Mongols could not attack the Ning Navy from the left and right flanks.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "The current Mongolians are no longer as brave as they used to be, and they are no longer the yellow devils who trampled through the Eurasian continent with iron hooves and washed the earth with blood!" ”

Yes, as Cheng Shijie said, with the establishment of the four great Mongolian khanates and the Yuan Dynasty, those terrible yellow devils quickly corrupted, and the brave and warlike wind disappeared.

The Yuan Dynasty was okay, was driven back to the Mongolian Plateau by the Ming army, in the face of the harsh natural environment and the aggressive Ming army, and quickly recovered its combat effectiveness, although the Ming God of War Lanyu has been fighting to the fishing sea, extinguished the Northern Yuan, but in the end of the Ming Dynasty, has never been able to completely extinguish the Mongols.

There is no way, the space that the Mongols can move around is too great, and five or six million square kilometers of living space are left to them, and if the Mongolian Plateau can not stay any longer, they can run to Liaodong, if they cannot stay in Liaodong, they can run to Qinghai, and if Qinghai still cannot stay, they can run to Central Asia, Siberia, and even South Russia.

Anyway, as long as they bring tents to catch up with cattle and sheep, they can live wherever they go, and if they are lucky, they can escape to the Middle East and Europe, and they will start the slaughter mode, slaughtering a large number of countries in a round and then establishing their own countries.

Didn't the Dayue, Xiongnu, Rouran, Turkic, Khitan, Mongolian and other nomadic peoples all come over like this? On the other hand, the Central Plains Dynasty was not good, these places were not suitable for the survival of agricultural peoples at all, and some places were barely developed, and they could not support large-scale military operations.

It is precisely because of such a huge geographical advantage that the Mongols survived the repeated military attacks of the Ming Dynasty with difficulty, and pushed back again, forcing the Ming Dynasty to build the Great Wall of China to defend itself. But the four khanates did not have such good luck, and before the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the European and Middle Eastern nations were wiped out so that there was not even a scum left, and the territory that they had worked so hard to fight cheapened the Russians in vain.

The surviving Mongols also painfully found that under the fierce blows of the Ming Dynasty, they had lost the material and spiritual support necessary to re-establish an empire, and the ensuing battle with the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years was only a lasting.

Although they are still fierce and good at fighting, their bravery and ability to withstand casualties are more than a notch lower than those of their ancestors.

The Mongol cavalry degenerated and degenerated, but it was still a good fighting force. But now, these Mongol cavalrymen, who grew up on horseback, were almost effortlessly killed by the other side in the face of these terrible black-clad knights.

However, there were only more than 2,000 cavalry of the Ning Navy, and they suffered six or seven thousand casualties, but they did not threaten the cavalry of the Ming army, which was more than 2,000 horses.

However, the problem is that these Ning Navy cavalry are also more and more helpless, because their bullets are getting less and less, and the rifling of many barrels is almost smoothed, there is no way, now the production technology of the Ning Navy is not advanced enough, and the barrels they make, once the barrel is overheated, the rifling will become very fragile.

"Dashuai, my bullets are gone!"

"Dashuai, my bullets are gone!"

As the battle continued to heat up, more and more soldiers around Cheng Shijie ran out of bullets.

Cheng Shijie has no better way now, just like in the EU war in later generations, the E army did not keep up because of logistics, and the army composite battalion of the E army attacked all the way because of the lack of necessary logistics supply forces, and the tanks and armored vehicles attacked all the way, broke all the way, and abandoned all the way, but the war did not fall as everyone expected, but fell into a stalemate.

"Won't you fight without bullets?"

Cheng Shijie pulled out Tang Heng's knife and shouted: "Generals, attack with your commander!" ”

Cheng Shijie flattened the horizontal knife, and the cavalry under his command also put away the rifle with empty bullets at the same time, and at the same time pulled out the saber, held the saber flat, and aimed it at the enemy's chest and abdomen.

Their formation is terrifyingly neat, like a galloping iron wall, and it is still terrifying to hit ten with one blow. Those who know the Ning Navy know that the most terrifying unit of the Ning Navy is not the former capital division, nor the left and right capital divisions, but the pro-guard capital division.

Unlike other generals' personal guard troops, Cheng Shijie's personal guard troops are all soldiers who have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, and then transferred to the personal guard division, trained in the personal guard division for a period of time, and then entered the Ning Naval Military Academy for further study.

Cheng Shijie took the lead in the charge, his personal guard cavalry was in the forefront, the sharp and snowy sword wall flashed, announcing the end of one life after another, the personal guard crashed into the middle of the Mongolian cavalry ten times more than them, under the wave of the Miao knife, the split limbs and heads were thrown out of both sides of the body, and a large stream of blood spurted out of the terrible wound, blooming one after another bewitching blood flowers, and then withered after the amazing bloom.

Everywhere Cheng Shijie's personal guard cavalry went, the Mongolian cavalry was cut down in clusters, or knocked over by people and horses, and the cry of horror sounded among them, and it became louder and louder, overpowering the screams: "Immortal God, the fighting skills of the Han people on horseback actually overwhelmed them!" ”

"Boss, take a step first!"

A personal guard cavalryman whose left arm was cut off by the Mongolian cavalry glanced deeply at Cheng Shijie: "Take care, big marshal!" ”

Cheng Shijie said: "Chen Erhu, Ben Shuai remembers you!" ”

Chen Erhu, who was seriously injured, burst out with a terrible light in his eyes, clamped the horse's belly, and the war horse neighed wildly, rushing towards the Mongolian army.

"Boss, take a step first!"

"Boss, take a step first!"

The cavalry of Ning's personal guards quickly approached, and once again the cavalry in a small row rushed towards the Mongol army, as if in their eyes, whether it was a wolf-like enemy or a pig-like enemy, it was just a piece of meat, and they could eat it!

The black storm swept through the battlefield of the dead corpses, and the Mongolian cavalry was already stupid, and they found out for the first time that the cavalry of the Ming army could be so fierce and brave when they fought with cold weapons, even if they used cold weapons, they were not at all known as the Jurchen warriors who could not fight.

Cheng Shijie looked at the fewer and fewer officers of the Ning Navy beside him, and his heart began to sink: "Is it finally over?" ”

At this moment, the sharp whistle of the swan whistle suddenly rose from the ground to the clouds, and then the earth began to shake. The warring sides fled one after another, only to see the gate of Pingdingzhou City, hundreds of horsemen were swept by the wind and fire, fiery red helmets, fiery red cloaks, hunting and flying in the cold wind, and the long formation meandered along the official road, moving forward, like a roaring red dragon!

The Tianxiong Army, the Tianxiong Army has arrived!

There was a brief silence on the battlefield, followed by earth-shattering cheers, followed by exclamations and curses.

Seeing the appearance of the Tianxiong Army, Shuo Lei faintly felt bad in his heart.

Sure enough, his hunch was correct.

is different from Cheng Shijie, even if Cheng Shijie personally leads the troops to charge, Cheng Shijie is very average in both riding and kung fu, but the problem is that Lu Xiangsheng is different, Lu Xiangsheng is a fierce man who can write and martial arts, and can use a sword.

The Pu knife is actually the Qinglong Yanyue Knife.

The Pu knife in Lu Xiangsheng's hand is also thirty pounds, he took the lead, swept diagonally behind the buttocks of the Mongolian cavalry, the big knife was like a ball of light, regardless of the generals, one by one, the knife was slashed one by one, and where he rushed to where it was, it was flesh and blood!

Several red-eyed Mongolian generals greeted him, all of whom were split by him with a knife, the big knife first cut off the horse's neck, and then split the Mongolian general's weapons and body in half, and the flying blood rain soon dyed his white robe and war horse red, this bravery, terrifying.

The commander is so brave, of course, the soldiers can't lag behind, and the cavalry of the male army fought bravely that day, slashing and killing. The elite cavalry of the Tianxiong Army seemed to be possessed by the evil spirits of hell, crashing into the middle of the Mongolian cavalry, which was three times more numerous than them, cutting them down piece by piece, devouring them piece by piece.

Under the sharp blades of the Mongolian cavalry, they were also turned on their backs, but these cavalrymen didn't seem to know what fear was, and only knew one word: rush! Until the enemy army collapses! The rolling iron cavalry was like a huge grinding plate, and thousands of cavalry swirled around on it, turning into piles of broken corpses.

When Li Dingguo saw this scene, he said excitedly: "Marshal, reinforcements have arrived!" Pingding Prefecture is defended! ”

Cheng Shijie closed his eyes and let out a long breath. The moment he saw the banner of the Tianxiong Army, he felt that a big stone in his heart had fallen to the ground, and those people could rely on intrigue and trickery to make Ning Haijun fall into a situation of being passively beaten.

The Tianxiong Army originally had the hope of capturing or killing Li Zicheng, but the result was calculated, and the Tianxiong Army was afraid that they were already angry, and they rushed to kill very bravely.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng, who was covered in blood, turned his horse's head and yelled at Ning Haijun: "Where is Cheng Shuai? ”

"Ben Shuai is here!"

"Cheng Shuai quickly returned to Pingdingzhou City, the Tianxiong Army came over only the vanguard, the main force has not arrived, and when the main force arrives, it will not be too late to fight a decisive battle!"

Cheng Shijie naturally will not be hypocritical, the sacrifice paid by the Ning Navy is already big enough, more than 2,800 cavalry arrived in Pingdingzhou, and now the remaining troops are less than half, and there are barely more than 1,000 people, especially Cheng Shijie's more than 300 personal guard cavalry, more than two-thirds of them were killed, and now there are less than 100 cavalry.

Looking at the Tianxiong Army, it is extremely brave and strong

Yatai nervously asked, "King Khan, what now?" ”

"The enemy reinforcements have arrived, the morale has been achieved, don't fight again, retreat!"

What Shuo Lei didn't know was that he missed his only chance to capture Pingdingzhou, because the cavalry of the Tianxiong Army that had now arrived in Pingdingzhou was less than 4,000 horsemen. What's more critical is that these days the cavalry of the Xiongjun Army is also at the end of the crossbow.

However, the problem is that there is no way, the problem that Shuo Lei needs to consider is that when it comes to this part, the Mongolian army has also suffered heavy losses, especially Li Dingguo first led 800 cavalry out of the city, then Cheng Shijie led more than 2,000 cavalry out of the city, and then the Tianxiong army reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, a set of combination punches down, the Mongolian army suffered quite heavy losses, more than one and a half percent.

Of his six commanders, one was disabled, and one lost thousands, which means that more than 20,000 men and horses were lost before and after Shuo Lei, and if he continued to fight, even if he occupied Pingding Prefecture, what could he do? As soon as the Chechen Khan showed a weak posture, Zasaktu Khan would turn around and annex them.

As the Mongol army retreated, the Tianxiong army also accepted it when it saw that it was good, after all, if it continued to fight, it would not be taking advantage, but suffering heavy losses.

The Tianxiong Army is far less wealthy than the Ning Navy, although the military expenses received by the Tianxiong Army from the imperial court far exceed that of the Ning Navy, but the problem is that Lu Xiangsheng really does not know how to manage money, and fortunately it is Cheng Shijie who has set an example for Lu Xiangsheng.

It's just that the Daimyo's Mansion is short of water, the weather is dry, and the harvest is far inferior to Liaodong, if Lu Xiangsheng has Cheng Shijie's financial resources, even if it is only one-tenth, the Tianxiong Army will expand more than ten times the number of people.

But the problem is that now the Tianxiong Army has less than 7,000 cavalry and more than 35,000 infantry, which has already made Lu Xiangsheng feel a headache.

"Cheng Shuai, how do you feel?"

"Lord Lu, if you come half an hour late, it is estimated that it is time to collect Cheng's body!"

The Ming Dynasty is indeed a very interesting dynasty, the general dynasty to the end, has long since withered talents, it is different, in its last ten years, there are still many famous generals.

Chongzhen produced four fierce men in one dynasty, namely Cao Wenzhao, Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, and Sun Chuanting, each of them is more powerful than the other, and Lu Xiangsheng is a fierce man among the fierce people.

Lu Xiang's promotion to the official fortune was prosperous, he only took five years from the entrance examination to become the prefect, and he served as the prefect for three years, and then served as the deputy envoy of the Shandong Provincial Prosecutor's Department, and also participated in politics on the right, and it took only eight years to become a senior official at the vice provincial level. It took only two years to go from deputy provincial level to senior official.

In other words, it took Lu Xiangsheng ten years to do it, and those officials who have not survived in the capital for 20 years have learned the speed of the gods. He is an honest official, has no gray income, works seriously and responsibly, and the people have an excellent impression of him.

There are not many people admired by Cheng Shijie in the entire Ming Dynasty, Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi are naturally the two, of course, Lu Xiangsheng is definitely one.

When Cheng Shijie admired Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Xiangsheng also admired Cheng Shijie.

Compared with Lu Xiangsheng's promotion speed, Cheng Shijie's promotion speed is faster, Chongzhen is still a thousand households of the fifth grade in four years, and he is also a bought donation official, Daming has not a thousand but eight hundred donation officials like Cheng Shijie, and the thousand households are worthless cannon fodder military attachés at all, but Cheng Shijie only took more than three months to become a fourth-grade garrison.

The garrison did not work for three months before becoming the chief soldier.

In just half a year, he has achieved the ceiling of the military attache rank, and more importantly, he is now the crown prince and the prime minister of the nine sides, whether it is official position or real power, he is bigger than Lu Xiangsheng.

However, Lu Xiangsheng was not jealous of Cheng Shijie, because Cheng Shijie did what ordinary people could not do, Qiao Zhaolin, the garrison of Jing'anbao, abandoned the city and fled, and tens of thousands of Mongolian troops entered Miyun, threatening Jinggi It was Cheng Shijie who led people to block this opening, and almost wiped out the Tushetu Khan department.

More importantly, after the Taiyuan Mutiny, it was Cheng Shijie who held Pingdingzhou, if there was no Cheng Shijie, I am afraid that the Mongolian army would have rushed through the Taihang Mountain, entered the Zhending Mansion, and may have arrived at the capital.

Cheng Shijie and Lu Xiangsheng worked very hard, and they didn't talk too much, but went back to rest separately, after all, the crisis in Pingding Prefecture has not really been resolved, this time the Chechen Khan has suffered a loss, they will definitely catch more Ming people again, and the fierce war is still to come.

The arrival of the Tianxiong Army only improved the strength of Pingdingzhou, but it was still strong and weak.

However, Cheng Shijie was really relieved that night, reinforcements from the Ning Navy came up, which was Shen Mingyu after stabilizing Datong Town, at all costs, from the main force of the Annan Army, 3,000 infantry, escorting a convoy, and sending supplies to Cheng Shijie, these materials are mainly bullets and grenades, with 300,000 bullets, 20,000 grenades, and more than 1,000 rocket artillery.

With these equipment, Cheng Shijie has more confidence. It's just that Pingding Prefecture has weapons and ammunition, but no food has been sent, and with the arrival of the Tianxiong army, food is even more insufficient.

If it weren't for the victory in this battle, the officers and men of the Ning Navy stored some of their war horses with the ice wall, maybe the Tianxiong army and the officers and men of the Ning Navy would have been hungry.

Even if there was only less than 4,000 Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie dared to launch a general attack on Shuolei.

Listening to the cheers coming from Pingdingzhou City, Shuo Lei's mood became even heavier: "It seems that the reinforcements of the Ming army have arrived again!" ”

Yatai smiled bitterly: "How many reinforcements does Minggou have?" ”

"The Ming Dynasty has more than two million troops, what do you say? They can bring in hundreds of thousands of reinforcements! ”

Shuolei has a headache, this is the advantage of a big country, Daming can lose, even if it loses ten times, Daming still has the capital to make a comeback, but the problem is that Mongolia really can't afford to lose.

In particular, the Chechen Khan Department was too weak in front of the behemoth of the Ming Dynasty.

But the question is, what if you can't afford to lose?

The Chechen Khan continued to have only a dead end in Mobei, and they were also seeking a way to live, which was their confidence.

What Shuo Lei didn't know was that there was no future for their Chechen Khan. (End of chapter)