"Wang Cong, Wang Zhong, you lead the two thousand cavalry of the Chinese army to the north of the dwarf hill in a roundabout way, and try to cut off the retreat of Arutai!"

"Chen Chang and Li Wei, you lead the two thousand cavalry of the Chinese army to the south and detour to the north of the dwarf hill, and cooperate with Wang Cong and Wang Zhong."

"Wang Yi, four thousand cavalry of the Chinese army marched to the front."

"Wang Rong, a hundred field guns are loaded with shotguns, and they are lined up behind Wang Yi."

"When Hu Qi arrives, Wang Yi, you lead the cavalry to scatter left and right, and Wang Rong will shell Hu Cai!"

On the river valley plain of the northern ravine, Zhu Di calmly issued various military orders.

The generals received orders one after another, and prepared according to his orders.

At the same time, more than 10,000 cavalry led by Xu Zengshou and Li Yuan also began to flee while fighting after the 20,000 Tatar cavalry was dispatched, according to Zhu Di's words.

"Let Yun Gong and Li Yuan retreat to the north and expose the Chinese army's main position!"

Seeing that the distance between the two armies was getting closer, Zhu Di asked people to wave the flag and pass the flag.

For a time, the cavalry of the tens of thousands of Ming troops fought and retreated, and the second son of Arutai, who was in charge of the pursuit, was also leading 20,000 cavalry with many nobles to pursue Xu Zengshou and others.

Arrows rained down, the buttocks of the Ming cavalry war horses were protected by skirt armor, and there were not many arrows, even if the arrows were covered by the skirt armor, the arrows could not cause fright and serious injury to the horses.

Although more than 10,000 cavalry were retreating, the formation was already tight, which made Zhu Di frown and continue to order: "This is retreating, don't pay attention to the formation!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Yan on the side nodded, and hurriedly asked the soldiers to play the flag.

The flag was detected by the flag soldiers of the front army with binoculars, and they hurriedly conveyed the military order to Xu Zengshou and others next to him.

"Mother, this is a rout! Spread the fuck out of the way! ”

The authorities were confused, and Li Yuan, who was in the middle of the army, could not notice that the whole army was retreating in order, and hurriedly scolded after receiving Zhu Di's military order.

Xu Zengshou also hurriedly dispersed the army after receiving the military order, so as to avoid giving Arutai a chance to detect.

Soon, under the transmission of the military order, the retreating formation of the front army began to loosen, and this scene was seen by Arutai on the low hill, and he couldn't help laughing:

"The cavalry that the southerners spent fifteen years training couldn't even do the formation when retreating, it seems that I think highly of Zhu Di."

"Let Polo blow the horn and send the news to Alitai!"

"Yes!" Ten thousand households next to him saluted, and soon sent Tang cavalry to chase the 20,000 cavalry of his front army and the middle army.

Although it was a pursuit, the 20,000 cavalry of the Tatar headquarters still maintained a tight formation during the pursuit, not giving the Ming army a chance to counterattack.

Polo also got the news first, and while riding his horse in pursuit, he let people blow the horn.

"Woo-woo-"

When thousands of trumpets began to sound, the sound of the trumpets echoed almost throughout the valley, and gradually spread into the distance.

The sound crossed the Ming army and reached the pass where the Ming army entered the Beishan ravine.

The difference is that this pass, which is less than 200 paces wide, was blocked by tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry at this time, and they also tried to block the Ming army that was about to be defeated.

"The sound of the trumpets of the whole army?"

In this formation, Alitai looked surprised, he didn't expect the Ming army to be so vulnerable.

According to the cooperation between them in the past, this kind of loud trumpet sound occurred under the premise of the enemy's rout.

Now that the horn sounds, it means that he should lead the army to raid Zhu Di's rear army.

"Altai, you lead 2,000 people to continue to build stones here to prepare for the enemy, and the rest will follow me to attack and harass the rear army of the southerners!"

Although he didn't expect Zhu Di to be so vulnerable, Alitai still made a steady arrangement based on experience.

Under his leadership, 2,000 cavalry remained to prepare for the enemy, and the remaining 8,000 cavalry followed him to charge towards the plains of the river valley.

"Buzz ......"

On the plain of the river valley, the Ming army in military uniforms and tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry riding Mongolian horses galloped and shouted on the plain, dusty and heroic.

Looking down from the air, the cavalry formation of more than 10,000 Ming troops was scattered, and they couldn't even escape back to their own formation, so they could only run to the wide place to the north.

The horses under their crotch were a mixture of river horses and big eating horses, and their endurance was not very good, but they were extremely fast, and they surged to the north like a torrent.

Seeing that he could not catch up with them, the son of Arutai, also Polo, did not covet their head, but set his sights on the Ming army's main formation.

At least in his eyes, the Chinese army of the Ming army has been exposed and not mentioned, and what is even more stupid is that the more than 10,000 cavalry of the Chinese army has been divided into three parts.

Looking at the banner of the Son of Heaven waving in the wind in the distance, Polo also roared with deep hostility: "Kill the southern soldiers, and capture the dragon with me!" ”

"Roar! Roar! ”

Without a moment's hesitation, the cavalry of the Tatar headquarters, under the leadership of Yexian Polo, rushed towards Zhu Di's Son of Heaven banner with great momentum.

There were more than 20,000 of them, and the main army of the Ming army was divided into three divisions, and there were only four or five thousand people defending the banner of the Son of Heaven, so they had no reason to fear them.

Nineteen years ago, the Ming army broke through the royal court in the southern fishing sea, and captured nearly 3,000 people, including the wife of Usahar Khan, the wife and second son of Usahar Khan, and the princes and ministers.

Today, nineteen years later, they will also capture the emperor of the Nanren alive here less than five hundred miles away from the fishing sea, and use him as a good bargaining chip, maybe they can get back Modong and Monan.

"Capture the Dragon!!"

Countless Tatar cavalrymen armed with bows and arrows, drawing their bows and arrows when they entered the Ming army's main formation less than 100 paces.

At this moment, they could almost see the drawing on the banner of the Son of Heaven, which was very exquisite.

Just without waiting for them to sigh, the cavalry of the Ming army began to turn their horses and run left and right.

"Collapse ......"

Before Polo could say anything about the army's rout and escape, he saw that after the Ming cavalry retreated, their rear was exposed to a number of carts, on which there were still things that could not be seen clearly.

"It's artillery ......"

Polo's heart tightened, and he hurriedly slowed down his horse.

As the second son of Arutai, he naturally knew what artillery was, but he also knew that the artillery would hit four or five hundred paces at most, and if the lead bullets were dropped at such a close range, at most hundreds of cavalry in the front row would be killed.

As long as they are finished, the banner of the Son of Heaven in the Ming army's main formation is in his bag.

He stepped back, just to keep himself safe......

"Put!"

In this formation, after Zhu Di's horizontal sword and artillery were immediately artillery, Wang Rong waved the command flag in his hand, and the piercing whistle sounded in this formation.

In no particular order, all the gunners lit the artillery fuses in their formation.

At the same time, 4,000 cavalry including Wang Cong and Chen Chang from the left and right armies came out of battle and attacked Arutai on the low hill.

"Just because of this, people want to stop me?"

In the eyes of Ye Xian Polo, he thought that Wang Cong and Chen Chang's two 4,000 cavalry were preparing to stop him after the artillery bombardment, but he miscalculated.

When the artillery fuse burned out, Wang Yisuo's 4,000 cavalry also withdrew to both sides of the artillery formation, while the Tatar cavalry rushed within 50 paces.

The Tatar cavalry unleashed their bows and arrows, and thousands of arrows rained down, but almost at the same time, the artillery fuses burned out......

"Boom, boom—"

Like a thunderstorm, a burst of smoke erupted around the artillery formation, and tens of thousands of lead bullets shot out of the smoke.

The Tatar cavalry had just shot arrows, switched their spears and short knives and prepared to capture the flag with a short hand, but in a moment, they felt that the world was spinning, and even men and horses fell to the ground.

"Hiss~hiss!"

The horses wailed, and the rain of shotguns enveloped almost all the cavalry in the front row of the Tatars, and there were no less than a thousand people who fell from their horses.

Their casualties were nothing to the whole, but the corpses they planted became a stumbling block in the army's charge.

It was like a domino effect, hundreds of horses and cavalry were implicated by the fallen horses and cavalry, and the deafening roar of artillery frightened the horses under the crotch of the Tatar cavalry and scurried uncontrollably.

For a time, the wails of war horses and the screams of humans were endless, and the entire battlefield was filled with a strong smell of sulfur.

"Rush!"

On horseback, Polo's horses were as frightened as all the horses, and they scurried around with him uncontrollably.

Even if he swung the whip and struck it the horse's hips, the fear it brought was already preventing the horse from taking a step forward.

Just one round of shelling hit the entire team deeply.

The cavalry lost control one after another, and both the riders and the horses fell.

After all, it was the scale of tens of thousands of people, and soon thousands of cavalry fell.

This noisy river valley plain seems to have fallen into silence at the moment.

The picture of nearly 20,000 cavalry standing still, and the dull sound of cannons reached the eyes of Arutai in the rear, and he nervously clenched his horsewhip, because he saw the 4,000 Ming cavalry who launched the charge.

Just when he thought that these 4,000 cavalry were about to divide the 20,000 cavalry under his command, he didn't want those 20,000 cavalry to rush towards him.

"The previous rout of the cavalry was a feint, their target was me, let the first Polo lead the cavalry to retreat!"

Arutai knew that as soon as his formation, the momentum of the shock could no longer be maintained, and the more than 10,000 cavalry under Xu Zengshou's department had fled before, which was just a feint.

What they have to do now is not to wait stupidly for the horses to return to normal, but to quickly withdraw to the dwarf hill with the help of the frightened horses, otherwise when Xu Zengshou's cavalry is attacked, the 20,000 cavalry will have to be explained to the front, not to mention that the hidden artillery of the Ming army is likely to continue to shell after a short time.

Under the command of Arutai, the sound of Mingjin came from the low hills, and the cavalry ran all the way to the Yexian Polo main formation.

"Arquebus, take advantage of his illness and kill him!"

When the smoke cleared, under Zhu Di's orders, two thousand gunners had already set up large arquebuses.

They mounted the arquebus on the gun carriage with two assists and one person shooting, crouched down and began to pull the trigger.

"Bang Bang Bang

However, at a distance of more than 60 paces, in the face of this group of Tatar cavalry, the Ming musketeers did not need to aim at all.

The sound of fried beans sounded on the battlefield accompanied by thick gunsmoke, constantly harvesting the cavalry of the Tatar headquarters that had collapsed in formation.

At the same time, Xu Zengshou, Li Yuan, Qiu Fu and others, who had adjusted their formations, also led tens of thousands of cavalry in the front army to attack the Tatar cavalry that had collapsed in the formation.

At this moment, the roles of the two sides are reversed.

"Kill!"

"Sons, make a contribution, right now!"

"Kill!"

Tens of thousands of Ming cavalry poured out and charged against the nearly 20,000 scattered Tatar cavalry not far away.

Seeing that his side was constantly falling, Polo hurriedly blew the wooden whistle and ordered the whole army to retreat.

At this moment, he could no longer take care of everyone, he had never experienced such a battle.

In the past, when they fought against the Warat, they had never encountered a situation in which thousands or even thousands of people were killed at the beginning of the battle, and it was rare for all the horses to be frightened.

Now he can only rely on his influence to lead the army back to the dwarf hills as much as possible.

The wind blew in the plains of the river valley, and the meadows, which were originally full of green, were now ugly because they were trampled by a large number of cavalry.

The cavalry of the Ming army marched forward bravely, and their war horses' hooves smashed deep footprints on the ugly meadow, as if they wanted to trample the grassland completely.

"Rear Army Quasi-......"

Sitting on the back of the horse, Zhu Di used a telescope to take a rough look at the entire battlefield, and when Zhu Neng, who was about to mobilize the rear army, to implement a complete encirclement of Arutai, the sound of horses' hooves also came from the rear.

A team of Tang horses came on horseback, and when they came to Zhu Di, they hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and bowed:

"Your Majesty, the rear army has been harassed by Hu cavalry and cannot get out."

"Tell Zhu Neng, let him eat the Hu Qi of the rear army, and I will be able to eat Arutai right away, let him drag it down."

Seeing that the rear army could not be mobilized, Zhu Di instructed Wang Rong, the son of Wang Yi, who was not far away, after giving an order: "The whole army is assaulting, and the artillery trucks are also keeping up, and if you find a suitable position, you will shell the Alutai headquarters for me!" ”

"Command!" Wang Rong responded to Zhu Di with his loudest voice.

"Assault of the whole army!"

Zhu Di pulled out the sword at his waist, and took Wang Yan and hundreds of cavalry around him to pursue forward.

At this moment, Wang Cong and Chen Chang of the left and right armies had already led the cavalry to approach the Arutai headquarters on the low hill first.

Although they only have 4,000 people, their goal is very clear, that is, to block the exit of Aru Taipei in a roundabout way.

Arutai and Warat have been fighting for so many years, and they have a great understanding of how to use cavalry and how to take advantage of the situation.

Seeing that the two cavalry were not attacking him, he hurriedly turned his horse's head: "The whole army retreats to the North Pass and holds the North Pass!" ”

At his command, the Tatar cavalry abandoned the drums and began to retreat towards the North Pass, two or three miles to the north.

His every move was noticed by Zhu Di, so when Zhu Di saw the movement of the Tatar formation through the telescope, he immediately commanded Wang Yan next to him.

"Let Yun Gong and Qiu Fu not fall in love, go straight to the pass to the north, and don't let Arutai escape!"

"Yes!"

In the chaos, Wang Yan led hundreds of cavalry to cover Zhu Di, and constantly intercepted and killed a small group of Tatar cavalry trying to kill Zhu Di.

It has to be said that compared with the Uliangha cavalry, which was about to collapse at the first touch, the quality of the Tatar cavalry was much higher.

Even if the whole army lost more than 10%, but Polo still led more than 10,000 cavalry to withdraw to the dwarf hill main formation, and only a few thousand Tatar cavalry were intercepted by Xu Zengshou and Qiu Fu because of the untimely retreat.

"Straight sissy thief!"

"Come on! Keep chasing! ”

In the chaos, the 14,000 cavalry of the front army and the Chinese army led by Wang Yi, Qiu Fu, Li Yuan, Xu Zengshou and others surrounded the thousands of Tatar cavalry who could not retreat, and rushed to kill step by step.

Wang Rong followed Zhu Di's instructions and made a detour towards the flank of the battlefield, preparing to find a suitable place to shell Alutai.

Seeing that Arutai had withdrawn from the dwarf hill, Wang Rong hurriedly led the two thousand cavalry of his headquarters to drive the horse artillery cart to the dwarf hill.

There is no better place in this valley plain for shelling than the low hills previously occupied by Arutai.

"Surrender or kill!"

After receiving Zhu Di's military order, Wang Yi began to appease the besieged Tatar cavalry, and many people also put down their weapons after hearing it.

At this moment, they were surrounded by the iron cavalry of the Ming army, and if they wanted to survive, they had no choice but to surrender.

"Li Chi, look at them, and the rest of me will follow me to the North Pass!"

Wang Yi's eyes were never on the battlefield in front of him, and before Zhu Di's military order was delivered, he had already learned Arutai's idea of wanting to hold the northern pass based on Arutai's move to withdraw from the dwarf hill.

Because of this, when Xu Zengshou, Qiu Fu, and Li Yuan were still waiting for Zhu Di's military order, Wang Yi had already ordered Li Chi of his headquarters to watch the surrender of the troops, and he took the remaining 3,000 horsemen to the north to chase after him.

His sudden departure made Xu Zengshou and the others a little flustered, but fortunately, these thousands of Tatar cavalry had no idea of fighting again, otherwise they would probably cause a lot of casualties.

"Your Majesty has given an order, leaving part of the cavalry to continue surrounding, and the rest of the soldiers and horses to march to the north!"

At the same time that Xu Zengshou and the others had just stabilized their position, the Tang cavalry sent by Zhu Di also came with news, and only then did they know the reason why Wang Yi broke away from the encirclement.

With Zhu Di's orders, Xu Zengshou took the initiative to lead 3,000 cavalry to stay, while Qiu Fu and Li Yuan led the remaining 6,000 cavalry of the front army to follow and drive north.

Due to Zhu Di's advance arrangement, the left and right armies of the Ming army advanced the fastest, and occupied the pass in the north one step ahead of Arutai.

"Dismount and line, arquebus ready!"

The pass in the north is wider than the pass in the south, with about 300 steps, which is very suitable for the 4,000 cavalry of the Ming army to use the tactics of line columns, so when the team arrived here, Chen Chang began to give orders without thinking.

It's just that his order was questioned by Wang Cong, Wang Zhong and others: "The musketeers have no means of defense, if Hu Qi insists on attacking, we can't stop it!" ”

"Let them resist the line first!" Chen Chang, who burned his eyebrows, rarely raised his voice, and Wang Cong and Wang Zhong could only frown when they saw this: "If it is broken through......

"We take it upon ourselves!"

Before Chen Chang could speak, Li Yan's violent temper took the lead in responding, and quickly began to arrange for the cavalry to dismount and line up.

Almost before they could breathe at the pass, Arutai had already led the cavalry to approach, and the distance between the two sides was no more than a mile.

"Assault of the whole army!"

Although Arutai didn't know why the Ming cavalry dismounted, he immediately ordered a surprise attack when he saw that they were about to block the pass.

Tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry began to charge, while the 2,000 Jurchen soldiers of the Ming army dismounted in an orderly manner, leading the horses to the rear and lining up at the same time.

Seeing this, Wang Zhong and Wang Cong could only order the whole army to dismount and form a line with Chen Chang's troops.

When they formed a phalanx to block the pass, Arutai also led tens of thousands of cavalry to kill from 200 paces away.

"Beep-"

The wooden whistle sounded, and the soldiers of the first platoon half-knelt on the ground and raised their ordinary arquebuses in their hands.

Behind them was a row of standing musketeers with arquebuses, while the musketeers behind them were also seated and ready.

The three-hundred-pace-long col was blocked by the Ming army in a four-hundred-by-ten horizontal and vertical phalanx, and the first three rows of musketeers still had spears at their feet.

When Arutai saw the spear on the ground, he couldn't help but feel nervous, but when the Ming army raised the arquebus, Arutai felt a little lucky.

"Charge!"

He didn't think that the weapons that were not tall enough could stop his cavalry charge, and even if the Ming army temporarily lined up in a spear formation, it would bring more than a thousand casualties to his headquarters at most.

In order to recapture the North Pass, it is worth paying some casualties for Polo first.

"Woo-woo-"

When the trumpet of the Tatar army to launch a charge sounded, the Jurchen Eight Guards, who had been trained for more than ten years, responded calmly.

Years of training had taught them how to cooperate in the fight against the Tatar cavalry, with the first platoon of their guns and then following the whistle of the team to grab their spears and line up, and when the whistle sounded again, they would raise their spears flat, crouch down to make room for the brothers in the back row, and stand up to line up when the whistle sounded again.

This may sound like a very simple combination, but it is often invincible against pure cavalry units.

"Buzz ......"

The sound of horses' hooves became louder and louder, and no matter how calm everyone was, they still couldn't help but sweat and their hands and feet were weak in the face of the picture of tens of thousands of cavalry charging towards them.

"Beep-"

When the whistle sounded, the musketeers of the first two rows did not hesitate, and with the help of their comrades in the third row, they lit the arquebuses and raised them flat.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

The sound of fried beans sounded, and many Tatar cavalry forty paces away from the Ming army fell under the charging path.

Their corpses hindered the charge of the cavalry, and many horsemen who were not skilled in horsemanship had to stop their horses, and were knocked down by the cavalry in the rear.

Some of the horsemen who were skilled in horsemanship continued to charge at the Ming army on their prancing horses, but they were still facing the tight platoon of guns.

"Beep-"

The whistle sounded again, the Ming army who had finished shooting in the front row squatted, the second row in the back raised the arquebus to shoot, and the sound of fried beans sounded again.

They repeated this until they reached the third team, and the group of skilled Tatar cavalry had fallen in the charge.

However, at the same time, the cavalry of the brigade had already trampled on the corpses of the fallen clansmen in front of them, and approached the Ming army's main formation twenty paces.

"Beep-"

Two hurried whistles sounded, and the Ming troops in the first four rows immediately grabbed the spears on the ground and lined up in a moment.

The tail of the spear was inserted into the grass, and the horses of the Tatar cavalry in the front row were ready to stop in horror.

It's just that at this distance, they can't stop, and can only be squeezed forward by the rear cavalry.

"Bang!"

"Uhh

"Hiss~hiss!"

For a while, the sound of broken spears, whining horses, and wailing soldiers continued to be heard, and the Tatar cavalry and Ming infantry fell apart.

"! I just said I can't stand it! ”

Wang Cong scolded and pulled out the golden gourd hammer, and Wang Zhong also pulled out his weapon to prepare for a short battle.

However, beside them, Chen Chang stretched out his hand to stop them: "No! ”

"Don't use an egg, Chen Chang, don't think that Lao Tzu is afraid of you, Lao Tzu ......"

"Woo-woo-"

Before Wang Zhong's invective was finished, the trumpets of the Ming army sounded further behind the Tatar cavalry.

"Hmph, I didn't need to say anything."

Chen Chang responded calmly, but Li Shi raised his chin and looked at Wang Zhong and Wang Cong provocatively.

Obviously, all of Chen Chang's preparations were based on the premise that his own reinforcements were about to arrive.

In other words, on the way to the attack just now, he had already calculated the speed of the cavalry in the rear to keep up.

"Kill!!"

Similar to Chen Chang's estimate, at this time, the cavalry of the Arutai headquarters and the cavalry of Yexian Polo successfully converged, but more than 10,000 cavalry such as Zhu Di, Wang Yi, and Xu Zengshou, who followed the pursuit of Yexian Polo, also came behind the army.

At this moment, the less than 30,000 cavalry in the Arutai headquarters were blocked by less than 20,000 cavalry of the Ming army, which was only 300 steps wide and only one mile long.

The winner is decided......

(End of chapter)