Li Wensheng, who had been galloping on the grassland for more than 20 days, finally met Huang Taiji in Liuhe.
Facing an enemy force several times his own, Li Wensheng felt excited and worried.
Looking at the exhausted soldiers, he really felt unsure about this battle.
After observing for a while, Li Wensheng put down his telescope and asked his subordinates doubtfully:
"When did the Tartars become so rich? I see that many of them are wearing armor, and the colors of their flags and armor are still the same."
A group of guerrillas and auxiliary generals also looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes, obviously not knowing.
"General, those are not Mongols, they are slaves. Looking at their white flags and white armor, they should be the Zhengbai Banner, one of the eight banners of the slaves. The flag owner is none other than Huang Taiji, the son of the old slave."
Although Hu Dawei was from the Tumote tribe, he had fought against the Jiannu.
During the Wanli period, when the Ming army launched a three-pronged attack on the Sarhu War, Hu Dawei followed Lin Dan Khan to support the Ming army on the flanks.
Unfortunately, the Ming army was defeated too quickly and unexpectedly. They had just finished gathering and rushed to the battlefield, but the Ming army's 100,000-strong army was already defeated miserably.
Therefore, he recognized these easily identifiable slave-building troops at a glance.
"General, the Jiannu are extremely brave. Although they are not as proficient in riding and archery as we Mongolians, their close combat with rifles and archery cannot be underestimated. You should be careful when facing them."
Although Li Wensheng had never fought against Jian Nu, it did not mean that he did not understand it, so he did not dare to take it lightly.
At the same time, Huang Taiji was also observing the Ming army formation facing them against the river.
Looking at the iron armor they were wearing and their immaculate defensive formations, Huang Taiji did not rush to order an attack, even though his troops were three times the Ming army.
"Who is the general of the Ming army?"
"It's a man named Li Wensheng. He is the cavalry commander of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty's army, and he is deeply trusted by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty."
"These Ming army cavalry are all elite, much stronger than Xuanda's frontier troops."
Taijibals from the Zarut tribe said with a fierce look on his face.
"It is this Ming army that killed my relatives ten days ago. I also ask Lord Beile to quickly give the order to avenge my Zalut tribe."
"Don't worry, since Ben Beile has led the army here, he will definitely annihilate the main force of the Ming army."
"You said it yourself, this Ming army is extremely powerful, so we must find its weaknesses."
"If it's just a mindless charge, even if we win, the loss will not be small."
Huang Taiji will naturally not be affected by him. He already knows how to fight this battle and to what extent it will be fought.
He is a person with a white flag, so naturally he will not participate in the war unless he can really win.
The main force fighting the Ming army is naturally the Mongolians who are full of hatred. They will definitely work hard.
After thinking for a long time, Huang Taiji decided to test it out first.
In fact, his heart is extremely contradictory now.
He definitely wanted to annihilate this Ming army. With such military exploits, coupled with the gains from his western expedition to the grasslands, he would definitely be able to overpower Mang Gurtai and Daishan.
But if this is the case, then his soldiers and horses under Zhengbai Banner will not be able to survive alone, and they will definitely participate in the war.
His flag, soldiers and horses are the foundation of his identity, and it is currently the most powerful flag except the Zhenghuang Banner.
But Daishan and his son led the two red flags. Although the previous battles with red flags had suffered heavy casualties, there are now only more than 4,000 people left.
But the two flags combined totaled more than 10,000 people, while the white flag only had more than 7,000 people. The gap was not small.
Therefore, he did not want his bannermen to suffer too much, so that the little advantage he had accumulated through hard work would be lost.
Dajin is currently extremely short of population, and there will be no replacement after the soldiers die.
"Let's do this. You first send out two teams of light cavalry and use their bows and crossbows to consume the Ming army and see if they can still stabilize their formation."
Bals and several other tribal leaders were now thinking about revenge. Without thinking much, they directly gathered two thousand of the most elite Mongolian knights and personally led them into battle.
"The Tartars just go back and forth in battles, and they send light cavalry to harass them. They really don't make any progress at all."
He had been observing and watching the enemy Li Wensheng, and when he saw the enemy cavalry coming out of battle, he had guessed their tactics before they took action.
"The Tartars are a group of uncivilized barbarians. They don't know much about the art of war. They just rely on the endurance and speed of their war horses."
Li Wei said disdainfully, obviously this Mongolian cavalry has not been taken seriously by him yet.
The current Ming army does have the confidence and capital to say this, and the Mongols' combat effectiveness is no longer what it used to be.
They have long been indistinguishable from horse bandits. The reason why they have been at odds with the Ming Dynasty for so many years is that besides the fact that the Ming army is also terrible, these war horses really take up a big part of the reason.
But now the Ming army also had war horses, each with one man and two horses, and all of them were wearing highly defensive iron armor. The Mongolian cavalry was flexible and had the advantage of guerrilla warfare with strong bows and bows.
Before these Mongolians could draw their bows, the first volley of Ming soldiers had already fired at the Mongolians who had entered the range at Li Wensheng's order.
As the personal army of the Ming Emperor, the Xiaoqi Battalion's military equipment configuration has been basically perfected. Every cavalry soldier has an improved strong bow in hand.
Although the art of riding and archery is far from as sophisticated as that of the Mongols, there are so many of them, and the saturation strike is much more suppressive than the guerrilla harassment.
Tens of thousands of arrows quickly overwhelmed the advancing Mongolian vanguard.
In just one salvo, the casualties of the two thousand Mongolian light cavalry reached more than 800.
This is because they are extremely scattered. If they were to gather together and rush into battle, there is a high probability that these two thousand light cavalry would be annihilated by the entire army.
Although Baars was only thinking about revenge, he was not completely dizzy and still maintained some sense.
Seeing that the range of the Ming army's crossbows had exceeded theirs, he knew that this guerrilla harassment tactic was useless, and immediately led the remaining people back.
"What kind of bow did the Ming army use? It's incredible that it can shoot so far without losing power."
Huang Taiji was not shocked by the range of the Ming army's bows and arrows, but he was shocked that the arrows still had the power to kill people at such a long distance.
Although it was only a short moment, Huang Taiji saw the whole process.
He visually estimated that the distance between the two armies was more than a hundred steps. Although the Mongols did not have armor to protect themselves, this was far beyond the range and power of ordinary bows and arrows.
You know, the old archer with the strongest arm of Dajin, as long as he is a hundred steps away, the power of the arrow will be greatly reduced. Let alone shoot someone to death, it is hard to say whether it can penetrate into the flesh.
He knew the bows and crossbows used by the Ming army very well, but he was far inferior to the bows used by his Eight Banners army and the Mongolian army.
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty brought him countless surprises.