Seeing Salha leading his troops to fight, Xu Huizu smiled and whispered to himself: "He finally led his troops to fight."
"What?" Zhu Shanglie, who was standing next to him, asked without hearing what he said clearly.
"Nothing." Xu Huizu replied, and then loudly ordered: "Order Cao Xing to lead the left and right guards of the government army to go into battle and protect the guards and other guards of the government."
After a pause, he added: "Call the commander of the North Korean team and the commander of the Yongming left guard to come."
The flag-talking soldiers agreed and began to wave the flags in their hands; the Pu soldiers agreed and went down to deliver the order.
After a while, Li Mingfang, Qin Sen, and Zhu Suohai came and saluted him and Zhu Shanlie: "I have met Wei Guogong/Xu Shuai, and I have met His Royal Highness King Yongxing."
"Where is Jin Hancheng? As the commander of your North Korean team, why doesn't he come to meet with me?" Xu Huizu frowned and asked Li Mingfang.
"Wei Guogong, Commander Jin got cold and stayed in the camp and did not come out." Li Mingfang said bravely.
"Humph!" Xu Huizu snorted. Jin Hancheng was out of the cold. He was obviously afraid of dying in battle, so he hid in the camp and refused to come out.
'If you are a military general of the Ming Dynasty, unless you are a member of the Chang family, I will definitely have you executed for escaping from battle! No, when His Majesty plans to appoint you to command a guard, I will definitely oppose and prevent you from becoming the commander.
, I won’t let you have the opportunity to climb up to a high position and lead troops to fight.' He thought in his heart.
However, Jin Hancheng was a North Korean military commander. Although his actions were despicable, he did not delay his command. Xu Huizu ignored the matter and said to Li Mingfang, Qin Sen, and Zhu Suohai: "Wait for the officers and men under your command.
, can you ride a horse?"
"Report to Xu Shuai, most of the Yongming Zuowei soldiers cannot ride horses," Qin Sen said. At this time, most of the Northeastern region has not yet been developed and is covered with vast subtropical forests. Horses are of little significance. In addition, the local women
As a fishing and hunting people, the real person does not raise horses, so his subordinates will ride less horses.
"Wei Guogong, most of my subordinates can ride horses!" Li Mingfang said loudly.
Just then he heard Xu Huizu's cold snort. Li Mingfang understood that he had seen Jin Hancheng's excuse, and his face immediately turned red. Li Mingfang was only in his early twenties this year, and all he thought about was to achieve military exploits and become an important minister of North Korea.
The honor of military commanders is also very important; but his superior does not dare to go into battle because he is afraid of death, and he feels that his face is very disgraceful.
When Jin Hancheng told him about this matter, he wanted to beat Jin Hancheng with his fists, but he finally endured it. Jin Hancheng was the younger brother of Jin Hanlao, an important minister of King Li Fangyuan. The Jin family now held a high position of power, even if he
He was born in the Li family of Qinghai, a large family, and his grandfather was Li Chenggui's adopted brother Li Zhilan (Tong Doulan). However, as an emperor and courtier, he could not afford to offend the Jin family.
He was eager to prove himself in front of the generals of the Ming army and the Korean army, and it happened that most of the army sent by Li Fangyuan could ride horses, so he immediately said loudly.
"Most of your troops can ride horses?" Xu Huizu was a little confused. There don't seem to be many places where horses are produced in North Korea, and his troops are infantry, so why do most of them know how to ride horses?
"Reporting to the Duke of Wei, our army was originally a cavalry army. When the king restructured the army, it was converted into an infantry army due to the lack of horses in the country." Li Mingfang replied.
In fact, the reason why the army he commanded became an infantry army is very simple: after Yunxi became the emperor's grandson, he persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang to return Jeju Island to the Ming Dynasty. The source of horses in North Korea decreased sharply. After Zhu Fangyuan succeeded to the throne, he carried out restructuring and abolished three soldiers.
A cavalry battalion was demoted to an infantry battalion. Naturally, these three original cavalry battalions were all troops that Li Chenggui trusted very much. Zhu Fangyuan also took this opportunity to weaken the forces loyal to Li Chenggui and alienated from him.
However, after demoting them to infantry battalions, Zhu Fangyuan was still worried and tried every means to weaken them. This time, he reorganized these three battalions with nearly 10,000 people into an army and sent them to participate in the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition.
Xu Huizu had no intention of delving into the reason why cavalry was changed to infantry. When he heard Li Mingfang jokingly said: "I see, it's very good."
"Li Mingfang listened to the order, and the entire army quickly went to the cavalry team to collect the horses. They must have one horse per person, and then wait for my commander's order to attack at any time."
"Yes, Duke Wei." Li Mingfang bowed and agreed.
"Qin Sen, Zhu Suohai," Xu Huizu turned to face the two of them again: "The two of you selected our soldiers who are good at riding horses, and you also went to the cavalry team to pick up the horses, and waited for my command with the Korean army.
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"Yes, General." The two of them agreed.
Xu Huizu gave a few more instructions to the three of them and asked them to retreat.
Then he turned his head and looked towards the battlefield, looking at the left and right guards of the government army who were heading towards the battlefield.
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While Cao Xing led his troops to charge, he kept looking at Zhu Jiye wrongly.
In fact, he was very reluctant to take Zhu Jiye to the battle. If he died in the battle, he would have no way to explain it. But Zhu Jiye insisted on going to the battlefield, and even Xu Huizu couldn't dissuade him, let alone him. He could only agree to take him forward.
Zhu Jiye noticed that he was looking at him, turned around and said: "Cao Xing, since I have already gone to the battlefield, it is useless no matter how you look at me. I have guards around me to protect me when I am in danger. If even the guards cannot protect me, the battlefield
How can you have the chance to send people to rescue when the war is in chaos? So you should focus on commanding the war."
After listening to Zhu Jiye's words, Cao Xing sighed. Of course he was telling the truth. The Xilu cavalry had more cavalry than he had, and he couldn't always pay attention to Zhu Jiye's safety. "Hey, Your Highness, why are you doing this?
What?" He couldn't help but said again.
"When the Ming Dynasty went to war, how could there be no royal children to command the troops?" Zhu Jiye said like Zhu Shanglie. But the real reason why he went to battle was another reason: Yun Xi's order. Last night he watched Ji Xi lead the soldiers to pursue Sarha.
After the troops left, he thought about it and finally decided to stay in the monk camp and clean up the mess. After cleaning up the mess, it was almost dawn, and all the Xilu had withdrawn from the Chinese army camp. He left the monk camp and prepared
Go to Xu Huizu's place and ask about the current situation.
But on the way, he met one of Yunxi's guards, who told him the emperor's brother's oral instructions: "Today the army will have a decisive battle with the Xilu, and you have to lead the army out."
Ji Ye was surprised and repeatedly confirmed that this was Yunxi's order before he bowed to accept it. But he was still puzzled. In order to prevent Jiye from being afraid of him, he had not led troops to fight these days. What did Yunxi's order mean?
?
"I must ask the emperor why he ordered me later. Even if I don't get the real answer, I can judge by the emperor's reaction at that time." Ji Ye thought in his heart.
As he was thinking about this, he suddenly heard Cao Xing shout loudly: "The whole army is ready!" He raised his head and looked forward, and saw that the left and right guards of the government army were approaching the back of Yang Feng's formation, and were about to engage the outflanking Xilu.
The cavalry met.
Ji Ye immediately raised the three-eyed fire gun in his hand. As soon as he raised it to his eyes, he heard a whistling sound from behind, and dozens of shells landed on the Xilu cavalry about a hundred feet away in front of them.
The Xilu's formation suddenly became slightly chaotic. At the same time, Cao Xing shouted again: "Fire!" The soldiers opened fire one after another, firing all the projectiles in the three barrels.
The group of Xilu in front of them was also blinded in an instant. Like the infantry who were blinded just now, they had never experienced such intensive firecrackers. Many people in the front row were killed; they were not under Timur's command.
The elite soldiers were just herdsmen before. Their only military experience was to follow the main force of the Khan to sweep the Eastern European plains. Their discipline was low, so they suddenly panicked and wanted to turn around and run away. The leading officer hurriedly shouted to stop.
But the Ming army immediately passed through the thick smoke caused by the fire cannons. Under the command of Cao Xing, most of the people held three-eyed fire cannons, and a few held sabers in their hands. The Ming army lined up in a relatively tight queue and shouted at the same time.
The slogan "The Ming Dynasty must win" came overwhelmingly.
Facing such a crazy enemy, the Xilu collapsed immediately. No matter how the officers tried to stop them, it was useless. They turned their horses and rushed back. Seeing this, the officers could only join them in retreating.
Cao Xing led his troops to chase for a while and chopped off hundreds of heads. He stopped the pursuit and ordered the soldiers to turn their horses and drive away the Xilu who were wandering outside the formation. Soon, he drove many cavalry away from the formation.
Walk.
"Warriors, charge with me!" Sarha gritted his teeth, turned his head and glanced at where Timur was, and said to the cavalry beside him. He had already seen that this was the Ming army that wanted to annihilate him last night.
Cavalry. He had discovered last night that the combat effectiveness of this cavalry was very powerful, but today when they used firearms, their combat effectiveness was even higher than what he had imagined! The unheard of firearms they held in their hands could actually shoot three times in a row, hitting them multiple times.
Samarkand's cavalry caused huge casualties, and the subsequent charge was almost unstoppable.
The only one who can stop them is probably the 10,000 elite main force under his command. Although Salha is very reluctant to let them fight head-on with the Ming army now, at this time he has no choice but to lead his troops to fight.
This cavalry also knew that the matter was critical at this time, and their pride as the most elite cavalry under Timur did not allow other cavalry to show off in front of them. After hearing Salha's order, they shouted "Allahu Akbar"
", while rushing towards the left and right guards of the government army.
Cao Xing immediately noticed the cavalry, ordered his subordinates to stop their horses, load the barrels of their guns, and charge at the Xilu cavalry when they were about 150 steps closer.
Suddenly there was another loud bang, and countless projectiles flew out from the barrel and shot at the Xilu on the opposite side. The people who were shot by the Xilu were thrown off their backs, and many people were killed or maimed by the projectiles.
But the remaining cavalry were not frightened. Instead, they waved their scimitars and accelerated their horses to rush forward, and soon fought with the Ming army.