Chapter 124: Contingency

The advantage of cavalry lies in speed, and the cavalry that loses its speed is like a person who loses his feet, and the cavalry and archery advantage of the Mongolian cavalry in such a close fight has long been gone, and at this time all that can be relied on is personal bravery and close cooperation between comrades. In terms of bravery, the soldiers of the two sides may be about the same, but compared to the cooperation between the battle formations, the Mongols, who have always advocated individual force and freedom, are far behind. Moreover, the Mongols intended to raid this time, and now that the two armies are deadlocked, they have lost the sudden surname of the raid, so the Mongols have already lost half of the battle.

After the battle, Tiemu Dudu looked at the battle formations of the two sides that were stuck together, and he opened his eyes angrily and shouted to Prince Khuthur, who was commanding the army this time: "Uncle Wang, quickly press all the troops, crush them, and kill all these southern barbarians." For the two defeats of Beiping and Daning, Temu Dudu had already suppressed his anger, and now he saw that a surprise attack that was supposed to be a sure victory was also like this, and it erupted like a volcano on the spot.

Kutur rolled his eyes at Temudu's shouting, he was an old man who had fought with the Ming army, and he had already seen the tenacity and fearlessness of the Ming army. At this time, the two armies were already glued together, and they had long lost the sudden surname of the surprise attack, and the strength of the two sides was almost the same, so it was so easy to win there. Besides, this is the strategic rear of the Ming army, who knows what unexpected things will happen, fighting is not a child's play, the whole army is pressing? That is, he stretched out his hands to beat people, and he didn't even leave a back hand, and if something happened to him, he didn't have to explain his 20,000 people here. But Temu Dudu is now the emperor's favorite minister, and he really can't be easily offended, so he thought about it and pretended to be deep and said: "Now we are already deep in the Ming army, but there are still Zhu Quan's Duoyan Sanwei behind us, which can be said to be in danger." Now the raid has turned into a strong attack, which is very unfavorable to us, Dudu Xian, I think we might as well retreat to the grassland first, and it is not too late to teach Zhu Di a lesson after meeting the main force of the army. ”

"Go back!" "Go back!" Tiemu Dudu widened his eyes when he heard this, he failed to win over Zhu Di, and even failed to coerce Zhu Quan, if he retreated to the grassland like this and let Zhu Di and Zhu Quan merge together, I am afraid that his plan to open a gap from within the Ming Dynasty will really be in vain, he immediately shouted: "No! Today, we must defeat Zhu Di's Yan army, otherwise our Mongolia will lose an excellent opportunity to break through the northern border defense of the Ming Dynasty, press up, the whole army press, don't be afraid of Zhu Quan, he is just a coward, now my Mongolian army has pressed close to Daning, he has no courage to abandon Daning. As long as we defeat Zhu Di today, Zhu Quan will become a sheep, and we can eat whatever we want. ”

Khuthur didn't know what was at stake, and he heard some truth from what Temududu said, so after thinking about it again and again, he finally made up his mind, and immediately gave the order: "Order, the whole army retreats as a whole team." A quarter of an hour later, the Ten Thousand Households Ma Belt Department pressed the main formation of the Ming Army, and the Thousand Households Ehai and Sang Kun each led two thousand teams to shoot on both wings, and now I want to entangle Zhu Di to death. ”

"Scattered cavalry and guerrilla" Mongolia's best tactics were exerted to the extreme in the era of Mongolian Genghis Khan, and I don't know how many armies in the world were defeated under this tactic of the Mongolian cavalry. But anyone with some military knowledge can understand that when Khuthur passed down this general's order, he actually admitted the failure of the Mongol raid tactics at the same time. At this point in the development of the battle, the Mongols wanted to make up for it with such a stubborn fight, and I am afraid that they could only pay greater losses.

Soon the whining horn sound spread throughout the battlefield, and the Mongolian cavalry did not insult their elite name, more than 10,000 cavalry quickly changed formations with the sound of the horn, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the Mongolian cavalry was divided into three parts. A group of more than 10,000 men and horses slowly pressed to the Ming army's infantry formation again, they did not charge again, but stopped at the place where the Ming army was an arrow and continued to shoot at the Ming army with a bow; while the other two divisions of more than 2,000 people each quickly urged the war horses to rush to the two wings of the Ming army's large array, they sometimes rushed close to the Ming army with the rapid momentum of the war horses, and sometimes quickly moved away, and they also continued to throw arrows at the Ming army with their riding bows.

This is the standard Mongolian cavalry tactics, that is, to give full play to the advantage of cavalry speed to constantly harass and oppress the enemy, and at the same time try to give full play to the Mongolian cavalry and archery skills to continuously shoot the enemy soldiers, causing huge psychological pressure on the enemy soldiers, until the enemy soldiers can not withstand the huge panic of death and collapse psychologically, and then give the enemy a blow to kill.

Zhu Di couldn't see the Mongols' intentions, he had a sneer on his face, and smiled at Zhu Gaoxu, who had just collected his troops and retreated to his side: "The Mongols are poor in donkey skills, and they want to use such an old-fashioned trick, I really don't know whether to sympathize with them or pity them." Then he snorted coldly and said to Zhu Gaoxu: "Xu'er, do you have the confidence to defeat the Mongols with your father and the king, this so-called supreme tactic. ”

Zhu Gaoxu was already extremely tired from blood at this time, but as soon as he heard Zhu Di's question, he immediately pushed away the soldiers who were bandaging him, and shouted to Zhu Di: "Father, don't worry, the Mongols dare to show off their tricks in front of their father, and the sons will lead the troops to teach them a good lesson." ”

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaoxu, who was already covered in injuries, and a trace of pity flashed in his eyes, but he still nodded with a solemn face and ordered: "For my father, I will lead the main infantry to deal with the main cavalry of the Mongols, and you will lead the cavalry to drive away those flies on both wings for my father now." ”

Zhu Gaoxu did not hesitate at all, and immediately raised his sword in front of his chest and assured Zhu Di loudly: "Father, rest assured, the sons will never let those flies interfere with the father's battle." ”

Before Zhu Gaoxu's words fell, it was Zhang Xin who stepped forward to ask Zhu Di for battle: "Your Highness, General Gaoxu has already rushed several times in a row, and he is injured, let the last general go, the last general will never be dishonored." ”

Zhu Di was very satisfied with the performance of Zhang Xin, who had not been under his account for a long time, and immediately laughed and said: "Okay! It will be more reassuring to have General Zhang out of the horse, you will each lead a thousand cavalry to attack the two wings of the Mongolian cavalry, remember not to fight to the death, as long as you can contain them, and when the main force of the Mongols is repelled, you will naturally clean them up." ”

Zhang Xin listened to Zhu Di's order, and immediately glanced at Zhu Gaoxu with some concern, he was just about to open his mouth to speak, but Zhu Di waved his hand to stop him and said: "I know what you are worried about, but Xu'er is the son of this king, at this time of the war, he naturally wants to take the lead as an example for the whole army, there is nothing to worry about, implement this king's military order." ”

Zhang Xin's chest was filled with a nameless excitement, and he replied loudly: "Yes! The last general will definitely block the Mongolian cavalry on both wings, and will not add a trace of trouble to His Highness." After speaking, he didn't wait for Zhu Di to give another order, and immediately turned his horse and quickly headed towards the cavalry formation. (To be continued.) )