In the Ming army formation, on the command platform formed by several carts, Zhang Yanling stood above the tall grain stacks, holding a telescope in his hand to observe the situation on the battlefield in all directions. Beside him, Zhang Lun was also holding a telescope.
Look around.
For Zhang Lun, this was his first time to truly participate in a battle of such a large scale. The nervousness, anxiety and excitement made his body tremble with excitement, and he kept mumbling meaningless words, making him look a bit neurotic.
Zhang Lun was so excited when he saw the Tatar cavalry being blocked by quickly deployed barbed wire fences and steel blades that they suffered heavy casualties. But now, when he saw a large number of Tatar cavalry breaking through the obstacles and rushing towards their own formation,
When he was in danger, Zhang Lun immediately felt the danger coming, and his excitement turned into anxiety.
"Brother Trillium, it's bad, they have broken through. What should we do? How to deal with it? Make up your mind quickly. What should we do?" Zhang Lun looked around and said repeatedly.
Naturally, Zhang Yanling had already seen the current battle situation. He had no time to calm Zhang Lun's panic. He shouted in a deep voice: "Huo Shijian, fire off the fireworks to convey the order."
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Huo Shijian promised in a loud voice and acted immediately. After a moment, two green flares soared into the sky, which were extremely visible even in the sun. The next moment, behind the archers and gunmen on the periphery of the Ming army's formation, a group of naked soldiers without armor
More than 4,000 Ming soldiers, with their arms bare and showing their strong arm muscles, rushed to the edge of the formation. Each of three of them pushed a small cart with a wooden box containing messy straw.
The surrounding Ming soldiers had no idea what they were going to do. They all looked at these tall and thick guys with bare hands and shirts in wonder. The Tatar cavalry had already rushed to the edge of the formation. If these people came to help, they should bring weapons at least.
What are you pushing a cart for? What is this for?
The answer will soon be revealed,
The shirtless soldiers reached out and took out something as big as a round, black goose egg from the tangled grass in the wooden box. One person blew a fire stick to light a fire, and the other two lit a fuse and started throwing it in front of the formation. These four thousand Ming soldiers
They were all selected throwers with amazing arm strength. They threw the golden melons like a thunderstorm to the outside of the Ming army's formation, and accurately landed on the ground forty steps away.
In an instant, there was a loud explosion, fire and smoke exploded, and mud, rocks and grass clippings flew everywhere. After being changed to an iron shell, the pumpkin mine had a larger charge, and the number of iron nails, iron thorns, and caltrops inside also increased.
After the explosion, air waves surged and debris flew across within a radius of about ten feet.
A large number of Tatar cavalry were taking advantage of the opportunity when the Ming army's defense line was breached to rush towards the Ming army's formation. Many Tatar cavalry had already rushed into the Ming army's formation and started killing. However, due to previous obstacles, a large number of Tatar cavalry were unable to do so at this moment.
They were able to charge recklessly, causing a circular area of fifty or sixty steps in front of the Ming army's formation, filled with cavalry and causing a congestion.
At this moment, countless smoke-emitting Jingua Lei were thrown into the dense formation of the cavalry, and violent explosions occurred. The consequences can be imagined.
Amidst the roar and fire, raindrop-like fragments flew everywhere, causing a large-scale killing effect. The Tatar cavalry did not pay attention to protection. Many of them were only wrapped in a thin layer of robes, which allowed the explosion fragments to be completely ignored.
It penetrated into their bodies without any hindrance. For a moment, there was chaos before the formation, with people shouting and horses neighing, and the smoke and dust filled the air into a chaotic mess, losing its direction.
Of the four thousand bombardiers, only three thousand actually dropped bombs. That means that in each round of the Ming army's formation, three thousand gold melons dropped. But their throwing speed was very fast, and they threw them out almost non-stop.
Jin Guarei seemed to want no money. In a very short time, he went outside the position.
Seven or eight rounds were thrown out, that is, tens of thousands of grenades. The area covered almost all the outer areas in front of the Ming army's formation. It was like an indiscriminate carpet bombing. Although the power of Jingua Lei was not very strong
, but the damage caused by the explosion of so many Jinguarei can be imagined.
The battlefield has turned into chaos, filled with gunpowder smoke, and nothing can be seen. Explosions and flames in the smoke and dust are coming one after another. The Tatar cavalry are flying with blood and flesh, and they have fallen off their horses. A mess of people and horses collided with each other, squeezed and trampled, and the frightened and injured horses fell out and ran around.
, the scene was completely out of control.
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The soldiers on the periphery of the Ming army quickly surrounded and killed a small number of Tatar cavalry who rushed into the formation. Then the archers and musketeers fired arrows at the chaotic Tatar cavalry amidst the fire and smoke, ruthlessly harvesting those close at hand.
But the lives of the Tatar cavalry were unable to charge.
Batu Munch watched the battle in front of the battle from a distance, and his heart became cold. The battle scene in front of him was something he had never seen in so many years of fighting. The Ming army was very tough and used firearms.
The ferocity of the attack and the novelty of the fighting methods were something he had never heard of or seen before.
He knew that he might not be able to win today. It would be difficult for his own soldiers in the smoke to rush in alive, and it would also be difficult to retreat alive. There were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and they would all be lost here.
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So the question now is, should we continue to attack at all costs and fight the Ming army to the bitter end, or should we stop immediately and withdraw our troops immediately? This is a dilemma.
Will the attack be effective? Batu Munch no longer has the confidence he had before. The price of continuing the attack is no longer something he can bear, and the result is unknown.
But if you withdraw your troops at this moment, this battle will be a disastrous defeat. With an army of 80,000 cavalry, it cannot even break through the Ming army's formation on the grassland. Such a result will greatly undermine everyone's confidence and also greatly damage your own prestige. This
The First World War was personally deployed and commanded by me, and the responsibility rested entirely with me. How should the generals below view me? How would I face them? After the confidence of the soldiers was damaged, how would they confront the Ming army in the future?
Batu Munch was extremely entangled in his heart, frowning and weighing the pros and cons.
There were new changes in the battle situation ahead. The Ming Army's Jinguarei bombardment finally ended, and the wind on the grassland slowly blew away the smoke on the battlefield. The scene in the smoke was simply indescribable.
The ground is covered with flesh and blood, covered with grass and piled up like mountains. There are more than 10,000 Tatar cavalry who rushed to the death bombing area. At this moment, less than 4,000 people can still stand among the flesh and blood, and almost all of them are injured. The rest are injured.
People have become flesh and blood spread on the ground.
After the smoke dissipated, these Tatar cavalry were scurrying around like headless flies. On the one hand, they were still stunned by the previous bombing and smoke and had not recovered. On the other hand, they did not know where to attack.
It's still time to retreat.
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"Bang bang bang!" Three red flares shot up into the sky.
The infantry formation on the north side of the Ming army began to compress to the east and west sides, revealing a passage about two hundred paces wide. If the Tatar cavalry had seen such a passage before, they would have been ecstatic and rushed in. But at this moment, they
But he was full of fear and didn't know why.
The roar of horseshoes came, and from inside the Ming Army formation, the Ming Army cavalry, which had disappeared after the battle began, was dispatched. They galloped out from the middle of the Ming Army formation, rushed to the gap in the formation channel, and charged towards the northern battlefield.
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The Tatar cavalry were all stunned. It was incredible that the Ming army launched a cavalry charge at this time. They did not use cavalry to block the charge of their own cavalry, but used firearms and temporary obstacles. However, they used cavalry.
Come to the final harvest battlefield. This is the first time I see this use of cavalry.
The 40,000 cavalrymen of the Ming Army came out in full force and attacked the Tatar formation on the north side. Because Zhang Yanling knew that Batu Monk was in the north. The golden eagle flag was extremely eye-catching and could be seen clearly through a telescope. Batu
Wherever Munch is, there is that flag.
But in fact, the cavalry can attack in any direction. Zhang Yanling just wanted to make Batu Meng feel the oppression of the Ming cavalry and feel the oppression he gave him.
Of course, another purpose is that Zhang Yanling hopes to make Batu Monk retreat. Zhang Yanling does not want to fight Batu Monk today. Although he has the advantage today, if Batu Monk desperately fights to the death
If so, the Tatar cavalry can break through their own formation and cause huge damage.
The firearms and ammunition carried in this battle are limited and cannot be replenished. Today's large consumption is entirely due to the unfavorable terrain, and firearms have to be used to resist the enemy. If they are all consumed here, how will the subsequent battles be fought? The Tatars are desperate.
If they fight, the Ming army will definitely suffer great losses.
Therefore, forcing the opponent to withdraw their troops is the best outcome of this battle.
Thirty thousand of the Ming Dynasty's 40,000 cavalry rushed out of the gap in the infantry formation and rushed north. The horses' hooves trampled the corpses of the Tatar cavalry on the ground, and their flesh and blood agitated, as if they were stepping on a sea of corpses. Wherever the cavalry went
, the remaining Tatar soldiers fled in the wind, running desperately.
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Batu Munch could not remain indifferent. He had already made up his mind that he could not fight any more today. The enemy cavalry charged forward. This was the head-on confrontation he wanted to see, but he was not his opponent at the moment. There were only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses left around him.
, it is necessary to order Tatar soldiers and horses from other directions to come to the rescue and form an encirclement. But then, attacks from other directions will actually stop.
It is obviously impossible for the opponent's cavalry to be surrounded. Under this situation, it is almost impossible to encircle and kill the Ming cavalry. They have a retreat and cannot form an siege.
Moreover, they are rushing towards their own direction, and the troops and horses from other directions cannot arrive for the time being. Do you insist on fighting and holding them back? This is too risky. The number of the opponent's cavalry has already exceeded the troops and horses around you in some places.
Seeing the Ming cavalry charging closer and closer, Batumengk sighed and gave the order to retreat.
The low horn sounded, and Batu Meng turned his horse to the north and galloped away under the cover of the bodyguard cavalry. Three thousand archers of the Tatar cavalry stood behind and fired arrows in the direction of the Ming army. The Ming army formed around
Other Tatar soldiers and horses also began to blow the trumpets and evacuate.
Zhu Lin originally wanted to pursue and kill him fiercely, but fireworks and bombs were raised in the Ming army camp behind him and ordered him to evacuate. Zhu Lin did not dare to disobey the order and had to order the cavalry to retreat.
In the evening, the Tatar army withdrew completely. The first large-scale battle between the two sides came to an end.
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