The Tatar cavalry charged recklessly. The distance between the hillside and the city was only more than two miles. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses crowded the place so densely that there was no room for maneuver. They could only let the Tatar cavalry charge and trample them.
Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to attack the city in such a swarm. Instead, the formation and attack echelon should be maintained. Unfortunately, Ma Ang's guiding ideology for this operation is a sneak attack, which is to attack the city in one go and take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness.
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Under this guiding ideology, it is natural for the whole army to attack without leaving any room. Of course, there is no talk of maintaining formation.
In fact, after the soldiers and horses rushed down the hillside, the formation was in chaos and the organization was scattered. The generals could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the generals. In fact, a situation where they fought on their own was formed.
If the offensive posture had been maintained, the impact would not have been great. After all, it would have been a desperate charge towards the city. However, when the Tatar cavalry suddenly appeared and fiercely charged into the Ming army, there was no organized
The chaos immediately caused all the soldiers and horses to fall into a headless and chaotic situation.
The soldiers had to rely on their combat experience to temporarily form combat teams to fight the Tatar cavalry. They did not receive any effective organization and orders. They did not know how many troops and horses the Tatars came from, and from which direction they attacked.
What to do next.
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The battle lasted for half an hour. The Tatar cavalry rushed in from the west, penetrated the entire formation of the Ming army, cut a bloody path, and rushed out from the east. In this short period of a quarter of an hour, the Ming soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses.
.This charge resulted in more than 3,000 casualties among Ming soldiers and horses.
On the ground after the cavalry charge, there were corpses scattered everywhere, and discarded weapons and armor everywhere. It was too horrible to see.
After the Tatar cavalry rushed to the east side, they quickly divided into two groups, turned their horses and charged towards the Ming army's formation again. It was obvious that they wanted to cause greater casualties and achieve greater victory.
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Although the soldiers of the Ming army also began to fight back, some Tatar cavalry were shot by bows and arrows, and were dragged off their horses by the infantry. There were hundreds of casualties. But compared to the losses of the Ming army, they were nothing.
Ma Ang stood on the southern hillside and watched everything happening below. He finally had to admit that there was no possibility of winning this battle. He should have given the order to withdraw the troops the moment the enemy cavalry appeared. But he finally
Still unwilling to give in, he wanted to use his superior strength to give it a try. See if he could hold back the opponent's cavalry and encircle and annihilate them.
But now he knows that this is impossible. The opponent's cavalry is huge, but there are actually not many enemies in Baichengzi city. The Tatars are not trying to defend the city, they just want to take advantage of their own troops to attack the city.
He used cavalry to attack his own troops when he had the opportunity. The defenders in the city only acted as a delay and stop.
The Tatars know their advantage. They understand that the charge of cavalry on the wild battlefield is their sure-kill method. The second round of charge will bring greater casualties. If they are stubborn now, I am afraid that they will be killed again.
The whole army will be destroyed. Once the morale of the army collapses, it will be an uncontrollable situation.
Ma Ang issued the order to withdraw his troops. He was not unprepared. This hillside was the best defensive terrain. For the Tatar cavalry, it would be an insurmountable barrier.
After the retreat order was issued, the Ming soldiers immediately began to evacuate to the hillside. On the hillside, two thousand Ming army archers immediately formed a fire formation on the hillside to cover the retreat of the soldiers and horses. These were all done by Ma Ang before
arrange.
The densely packed soldiers of the Ming army ran wildly towards the hillsides on both sides of the southeast. Their weapons and armor were scattered all over the ground, but they couldn't care less at the moment. They knew that the only way to survive was to escape up the hillside.
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The Tatar cavalry launched a wanton killing spree. The Ming army posed no threat to themselves. All they had to do was charge forward and kill anyone they saw. The Tatar cavalry were well-trained, and in this case, they automatically divided into dozens of groups.
The cavalry team can better freely pursue and kill the Ming army soldiers.
The soldiers of the Ming army suffered heavy casualties and were completely slaughtered unilaterally. Although the distance was only a short two miles, this short distance was a point of no return for many people. Thousands of soldiers fell
On the cold ground, their bodies quickly cooled and became stiff, and the blood they shed quickly froze into ice.
It only took a short quarter of an hour from when the retreat order was issued to when all the soldiers retreated to the hillside. But this quarter of an hour seemed as long as a lifetime. Finally, after paying huge casualties, the Ming army soldiers completed the evacuation
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The two groups of Tatar cavalry were obviously red-eyed and furious. They fought so hard that they actually chased them down the hillside. Soon, the dense bows and arrows fired from above turned them into a hornet's nest. The bright lights on the hillside
The military archers used ferocious firepower to teach them the last lesson in life.
Nearly four hundred Tatar cavalry were all shot and killed because of their greed and irrationality. This was more than half of the number of Tatar soldiers killed in this battle. It was their only failure.
The biggest flaw of the cavalry is that the terrain restricts them. Even though it is just some small mounds that are not tall, it is also not a place where they can be arrogant.
But even so, up to this moment, the Tatars have achieved a brilliant victory. The countless corpses on the gravel ground between the hillside and the city are proof of this, as well as the armor and weapons everywhere. In just over an hour of fighting,
, the 40,000 Ming army frontier troops suffered more than 6,000 casualties, while the Tatar casualties did not exceed 1,000.
Although this battle was short, it was one of the few fierce and fierce battles that the frontier army had ever experienced. The Ming soldiers who fled up the hillside were in shock, looking at the black Tatar cavalry on the ground below, as well as the corpses and the pungent blood everywhere.
Taste. They were extremely depressed, but at the same time they were glad that they had escaped.
The night wind blew strongly, and the cold once again enveloped everyone. After the hot sweat on the body and the hot blood in the body cooled down quickly, it brought about a double coldness both physically and mentally.
Ma Ang looked at the messy battlefield at the foot of the hillside with a gloomy face, sighed and gave the order.
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"The archers broke off to block the enemy, and the remaining soldiers and horses took turns to cover and then retreated to the camp. The soldiers and horses in the camp were ordered to come to meet them. The cavalry was dispatched to protect the retreat of the army with all their lives."
There are still 10,000 soldiers and horses in the camp, including 3,000 cavalry and 1,000 musketeers. The rest are logistics support troops. For this kind of sneak attack in the dark, Ma Ang did not bring the cavalry and musketeers because
They won't be of much use in this kind of battle.
But now, they need to come to support. The three thousand cavalry can at least prevent the Tatar cavalry from continuing to pursue. The fire gunmen can also be used as a means to fight against the enemy's charge. Although they are of little use, they can only take them all at the moment.
Come in handy.
The defeated troops of the Ming Dynasty began to withdraw. The Tatar cavalry did make a gesture of following and attacking, but the Ming army did not give them a chance. They retreated alternately and formed a bow and arrow defense formation. The Tatar cavalry did not dare to charge head-on. They only shot arrows on both sides.
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When they retreated three miles away, the cavalry from the camp rushed to meet them. The Tatar soldiers and horses immediately withdrew and quickly disappeared into the night.
In this battle, Ma Ang failed to steal the chicken but lost the rice, and returned with a huge defeat. More than 6,000 soldiers and horses were killed and wounded, and the originally high morale suddenly fell to the bottom.
The Ming Dynasty's first battle to regain the Hetao ended in such a hasty failure. The morale of Ma'ang's army was low and they no longer dared to take any risky actions. They could only maintain a high degree of vigilance and fortify the camp on the spot, waiting for Yang Yiqing's army that was advancing eastward.
's arrival.
Four days later, 50,000 soldiers and horses led by Yang Yiqing arrived. What he saw was Ma Ang with a grimace on his face and his entire battalion of soldiers and horses with low morale and more than 2,000 soldiers and horses suffering from frostbite and battle injuries.
Ma Ang reported the battle a few days ago with a mournful face. When Yang Yiqing heard this, he was furious and wanted to behead Ma Ang on the spot. All the generals in the army begged for mercy, but Yang Yiqing reluctantly spared Ma Ang's death penalty and beat him with twenty military sticks.