On the battlefield, it quickly fell silent, and with the end of the drums, the two sides had already finished their formations and faced each other from afar.

For a moment, the whole land fell silent.

It didn't last long before a drum beat was heard in the Northern Army, and two black dots rushed out from the two flanks of the Northern Army and moved rapidly towards the Southern Army. As they approached, the black dots slowly spread out and became two sharp cones, which converged at the end and turned into an overwhelming black line!

"Boom, boom......"

The Mongol cavalry, the Shunyi Iron Cavalry and the Duoyan Sanwei began to charge at the same time, and nearly 50,000 iron cavalry rumbled, brandishing sabers and shouting from their mouths, advancing under the leadership of Yan Keng.

The horse's hooves stepped over, and the yellow sand rolled up in the sky, adding a bit of power to this cavalry.

The vanguard of the Southern Army was lined up neatly, and countless spears pointed diagonally to the sky, reflecting the sunlight and flashing with a sharp luster.

The soldiers in the first row swallowed their saliva, and sweat appeared faintly in their palms, although they were wearing the finest armor in the whole army, and although they had already received a reward in advance that they had not been able to get for several years, but in the face of this god of death, they still couldn't suppress the fear in their hearts.

"Shoot the arrows!" Some generals were shouting, and a dense rain of arrows suddenly covered the day, and the cavalry of the northern army surged away.

"Jingle bell". With a crisp sound, there are arrows falling under the horse, and some arrows are stuck in the gaps in the armor, although this wave of offensive of the southern army is magnificent, but there are not many soldiers who are really hit by arrows, and the soldiers who are shot at the key point and land on the spot are even less.

At the forefront were the heavy cavalry, all of them armoured, even the horses were armoured, and they numbered about 2,000 people, blocking the first wave of the fiercest attack for the light cavalry in the rear.

As the cavalry approached, the firearms began to roar, and this time, at last, some soldiers began to fall.

But this could no longer stop the Iron Rider who was close at hand.

The horse's hooves were raised and stepped on the shield, but some soldiers could not support it, and they were crushed under the shield on the spot, and their bones were broken.

There were iron horsemen rushing into the formation, rampage, the fine armor could block the cutting of sharp weapons, but could not block this heavy impact, there were soldiers with a sharp pain in their internal organs, they were already spitting blood, and their ribs were broken.

The heavy cavalry of the vanguard crashed into the formation with unrivaled impact, knocking down a large number of soldiers, and the light cavalry behind them followed, and the front troops of the Southern army could not resist it, and the soldiers began to flee with their armor thrown away.

Only when they really face death do they know how ridiculous the determination they think they have to die, looking at the soldiers around them who have been trampled into flesh, or only half of their bodies left, and are still crawling with their five fingers, no one wants to fight.

Although there were also cavalrymen who collided head-on with spearheads and were pierced by the sharp spear tips on the spot, more horses stepped on the enemy's formation, leaving behind bursts of screams and wails.

The front of the southern army could not stop being defeated, and the northern army was like a bamboo, and after penetrating the front army, it was actually rushing all the way towards the Chinese army, which was to penetrate the southern army!

But when the northern army struck through the southern army, they were greeted by countless arrows and muskets.

The heavy cavalry was pulled behind, clad in heavy armor, and this time they had exhausted their strength in the charge, and the horses' pantings became heavier and heavier, and their speed slowed down noticeably.

Ahead, there were light horses, and they couldn't stop such an attack.

The sound of gunfire was mixed with the sound of arrows breaking through the air, followed by the sound of a large number of falling horses, and hundreds of Mongol cavalrymen fell to the ground in an instant.

"Rush!" Yan Keng seemed a little unwilling, and he gave the order again.

However, the cavalry charge was exhausted, and without the defense of the heavy cavalry, the light cavalry fell to the ground in large swaths.

After heavy losses, he was forced to order a retreat.

Li Jinglong's two wings attacked quickly, and the two sides scuffled together.

Zhu Di's main force has also pressed up, and most of them have already gone to the battlefield.

Nearly a million people fought bloody battles on the battlefield in front of Suzhou.

There are no tactics, all that remains is endless fighting.

The two sides fought from daytime until dusk.

As the sun set, the battlefield was already full of corpses, the armor of the soldiers was covered with blood, both enemy and own, and the swords were full of gaps.

Both sides are exhausted.

"The thieves are defeated!" At this moment, a joyful shout suddenly came, which shocked Li Jinglong, who was anxiously watching the battle in the rear.

Li Jinglong climbed to the heights, and he really saw the northern army on the front line retreating, the banner fell, and the soldiers threw down their armor one after another and retreated in a hurry.

This is a sign of defeat!

Overjoyed, he made a judgment: the northern army has been defeated, and at this time he should take advantage of the situation to cover up the battle and expand the results.

He himself mounted his war horse and shouted:

"Soldiers, the Northern Army has been defeated, follow me!"

Li Jinglong's Chinese army finally moved.

Zhu Di also saw this scene, he saw that the tens of thousands of Chinese troops who were originally in a regular formation and could not break through began to move, and the formation began to be chaotic.

A smile tugged at the corners of his mouth.

With the sound of the earth-shattering cannon, the northern army, which had already begun to retreat, suddenly turned around, and what puzzled the southern army was that their faces were no longer the same as before, and they were replaced by cruel smiles.

Zhu Di's Chinese army also moved, and it was divided into three strands-

Rushing straight to the battlefield, they injected fresh strength into the already exhausted Northern Army.

Two strands, straight to Li Jinglong's Chinese army!

On the left is Zhu Gaoxu, his face is full of bloodthirsty light, in the face of the upcoming battle, he does not feel fear, only feels blood boiling!

On the right is Zhang Yu, he is much calmer, he did not charge forward like Zhu Gaoxu, he stayed in the rear of this cavalry, remote control of the overall situation.

Seeing the two armies rushing towards him, Li Jinglong was so frightened that his soul was scared! He hurriedly ordered to defend in place!

But when the army moves, how can it be so easy to stop?

The soldiers inevitably fell into disarray.

With an unstable foothold, even if this Chinese army is the elite of the Southern Court, it is difficult to resist the charge of the elite cavalry of the Northern Land.

The cavalry, straight into the formation, began to kill.

It was ruptured, it was ruptured, there were wailing voices everywhere, and there were discarded objects everywhere, and the Chinese soldiers no longer obeyed orders. As they ran, they threw down their armor, swords, flags, and other things that would hinder their escape, and they had completely lost the will to resist.

The fall of Li Jinglong's banner became the last straw on the back of the Southern Army, and the front line collapsed.

When the Northern Army finally survived to the end, they picked up the butcher's knife and followed behind the Southern Army, wantonly slashing and slashing the fleeing enemy troops, the cavalry galloped, the sabers swept by, and one life was lost.

Li Jinglong didn't even dare to enter Suzhou City, because he knew that with the rout, Suzhou would definitely not be safe.

The defenders of Suzhou also did not intend to open the city, strategically speaking, it would cause the enemy army to pour into the city, and politically, he already planned to vote for another master.

Suzhou was followed by the Bianhe River, and the soldiers could only run along the river, and were wantonly hunted and killed by the cavalry of the Northern Army, and a large number of soldiers knelt down and surrendered.

Li Jinglong relied on his fast horse, but escaped from the clutches of the Northern Army. fled all the way south to Lingbi, where he gathered the rout, and there were only more than 100,000 troops left.

At this time, he realized that he was not Zhou Yafu in the past, he was Zhao Kuo of Changping.

And the opponent is the battle-hardened general Zhu Di, and the people who can really put him right should be those veterans of the old era.

In this new era, among the generals of the new generation, he is the brightest star.

——

"We have no way of knowing Li Jinglong's true strength, because he was just like Zhao Kuo at the beginning, when he just stepped on the battlefield, he met the top generals of that era."

"But from the clues of the war, we can see that at least in the early stage of the war, the Ming army under his command did not make major mistakes, you can say that he is not a first-class commander, but you must not say that he is a useless general."

"In any case, the defeat of Suzhou means that the southern court has lost the initiative in the war, and the subsequent battle of Lingbi sang the song of the end of Jianwen's rule."

- "Jia Jianming Ming Dynasty"

(End of chapter)