From the moment the Tatar cavalry launched their attack, countless people on the battlefield rushed to the west side of the battlefield!
Li Xuan looked to the west side of the battlefield, looking at the 20,000 Tatar cavalry roaring towards the Guards, and the tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry roaring towards the 9th Infantry Division!
He took a deep breath, and then for the first time in today's battle, he drew out the emperor's sword from his waist, and then held it high: "This battle is about the survival of the country, about the dawn of the people, and about China's thousand-year plan. You must be
Fight bravely!"
"I will beat the drum myself for you!"
Then he walked up to the huge drum stand behind him, took two huge drumsticks, and then started to hammer hard on the huge drum in front of him!
The rumble of drums sounded instantly!
Li Xuan shouted at the right time: "Long live the Tang Dynasty!"
"The Tang Dynasty is invincible!"
"Master Wang of the Tang Dynasty, fight to the death and never retreat!"
Many officials and generals of the Tang Dynasty on the hilltop, and even the ordinary soldiers guarding them, all shouted!
Long live the Tang Dynasty!
Datang is invincible!
The King of the Tang Dynasty will fight to the death!
The shouts of the crowd, together with the drums played by Li Xuan himself, passed through, and then the soldiers in the rear shouted together!
Countless people shouted in unison, almost covering up the rumble of the artillery and the sound of the galloping hooves of tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry!
The Guards and many generals of the Guards also immediately received the flag order from Li Xuan: "I will beat the drum for you, Guards, fight to the death and never retreat!"
Countless officers of the Guards ignored the roaring Tatar cavalry and rode their horses back and forth in front of the formation, shouting different slogans: "Master of the Tang Dynasty, fight to the death and never retreat!"
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"The Guards will fight to the death!"
Even in an ordinary feudal dynasty, the emperor personally went to the battlefield to beat drums for the soldiers, which could greatly boost the morale. Not to mention, Li Xuan's prestige in the Tang Dynasty was at its peak, and everyone was
I believe that Li Xuan will be able to lead them to create a new era, an era that belongs to them!
Moreover, as the emperor's personal army, the Guards' loyalty to Li Xuan is unquestionable!
Most of its soldiers were selected from the Xingquan Prefecture in the land of the Dragon, and some were selected from the Zhaoqing Prefecture at the foot of the previous emperor!
And the officers of the Guards, regardless of their military rank, ranging from lieutenant to general, are all from the young military camp!
This is Li Xuan's personal army, the most direct bodyguard of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!
When Li Xuan personally played drums for them, all the soldiers of the Guards couldn't help but feel extremely excited. Today, even if they die, they will stop the Tatar cavalry!
Guards, fight to the death and never retreat!
This is not a slogan, but a tactic actually implemented by the Guards!
Because they have no way to retreat!
Behind them is the left wing of the army. Once it is broken through and allowed to be killed by tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry, it will have a devastating negative impact. By then, let alone victory, I am afraid it will be a disastrous defeat.
It's all possible.
So they, the Guards, will fight to the death and never retreat!
At the same time, on the other side of the battlefield, Emperor Zhengde finally breathed a sigh of relief. The Tatar cavalry finally moved!
This Andahan finally couldn't help but move!
Emperor Zhengde knew very well that Anda Khan's ambitions were so great that he had to pay attention to them. However, it was precisely because he thought Anda Khan had great ambitions that Emperor Zhengde dared to introduce him to the Central Plains, and then dragged the Tatar cavalry step by step.
Arrive outside Anping Town!
Emperor Zhengde was not afraid that Anda Khan would not have ambitions; on the contrary, he was afraid that Anda Khan would not have ambitions!
Because Ada Khan is ambitious, he can be used by him. Only when he is ambitious, can he really intervene in this battle instead of watching the show from the sidelines!
If Anda Khan had no ambitions, then Anda Khan could have plundered a handful and returned directly to the grassland. In this case, his moral integrity would be defeated today!
When the Tatar cavalry charged, Emperor Zhengde laughed!
This is his first smile today!
Although today's battle had a rough start, he was still under control!
Now he wanted to see how the pseudo-emperor Li Xuan on the other side would deal with the crisis ahead!
He didn't think that with only 20,000 to 30,000 infantry, he could stop the attack of 50,000 Tatar cavalry!
In frontal combat in the field, the advantage of the cavalry was too great. He really couldn't see the possibility that the 30,000 Tang troops could stop the Tatar cavalry in the slightest.
Perhaps, the puppet emperor Li Xuan should now mobilize the left wing of the Tang army, that is, the 6th Infantry Division and other troops, to return to the western battlefield to support the battlefield. In this case, it is still possible to block it.
But in this way, his Chinese army was saved!
Without the Tang army attacking from the flank, although his central army is still struggling, it is still much better than now. In this way, he can continue to drag on, and then he can deploy left wing troops, or bring the battle line directly to the left wing.
In this area, when the time comes, victory is still possible!
Emperor Zhengde looked at the roaring charge of the Tatar cavalry. At this moment, he was in a good mood. He was already thinking about how to fight the next battle. Should he cooperate with the Tatar cavalry to launch a major counterattack, or sit back and watch the Tatar cavalry.
How about a head-on fight with the Tang army to preserve their strength?
Both options have advantages and disadvantages, so for a while, Emperor Zhengde was a little hesitant!
But even if it is hesitation, it is a happy hesitation, thinking that it means that no matter what happens to the Tang army and the Tatars in the end, he has won this battle with integrity!
A large-scale counterattack to the south of the Yangtze River? He has no extravagant hopes for this, but if he wins this battle, it will definitely buy him more than one year, or even longer!
When the time comes, he will use strong means to integrate the northern and western provinces and other provinces. He is confident that the strength of the army will reach a higher level in the next year, and then it will be time to move south to Jiangnan!
Thinking that he could counterattack Jiangnan next year, Emperor Zhengde felt even more comfortable!
But when he was in a good mood, when he took the binoculars again to look at the puppet Tang rebel army on the west side of the battlefield, he couldn't help but frown!
Because on the west side of the battlefield, the pseudo-Tang Guards in black military uniforms faced the charge of 20,000 Tatar cavalry, but they were not at all confused!
Yes, their formation was not disturbed at all, as if what was roaring in front was not 20,000 Tatar cavalry, but just 20,000 little donkeys.
Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but sigh, this pseudo-Tang Dynasty Guards was really extraordinary. Just by its calmness in battle, it was better than his own Beijing camp.
The Beijing Camp in the Ming Army today is actually two different things from the original traditional Beijing Camp. In fact, the Beijing Camp is more accurately said to be the North Zhili Training Army. This is an army that recruits soldiers in North Zhili and then newly organizes and trains them.
The new army later followed the example of Wang Yiqi in reforming the Jiangnan Guards Station, and selected and enriched elites from many guards stations in Northern Zhili and the original traditional Beijing camps.
In the end, this brand new Beijing camp was formed. As for the original Beijing camp, it is now nothing but a name!
Emperor Zhengde was still very satisfied with the strength of the Beijing camp, but now when he compared the guards of the Tang army, he instantly felt the gap. This also made him feel that it was necessary to streamline the Beijing camp and implement a policy of elite troops in the future.
However, although he was surprised, it was just a surprise. He had fully seen the Tang Army's combat effectiveness today, and the elite guards in the Tang Army were more powerful. This was natural and did not exceed his expectations!
However, in the next scene, when the Tatar cavalry rushed over and came into direct contact with the Guards' phalanx, what happened made Emperor Zhengde's face instantly darken.
In his sight, the Tatar cavalry was divided into multiple waves, directly attacking the two corner squares of the Puppet Tang Guards from the left and right. This method was very clever. They cleverly avoided the most powerful frontal firepower of the Puppet Tang Guards.
, adopted a flank attack!
But when the Tatar cavalry rushed forward and began to bend their bows and shoot arrows on horseback, they were directly fired upon by the hollow square formations of the two pseudo-Tang Guards!
The firepower of these Puppet Tang thief armies is far more powerful than that of other Puppet Tang thief armies. Could it be that this is the true power of the Puppet Tang thief army's flintlocks?
Zhengde is no stranger to flintlock guns. He has even personally played with a flintlock gun captured from the Puppet Tang Dynasty. He also heard from his generals that the Puppet Tang thief army was equipped with one.
Brand new rifle, you can fire without a match rope!
But although I have seen real objects and heard various reports, this is the first time I have actually seen a large-scale firing of a flintlock gun!
The biggest advantage of the flintlock gun is not any other messy thing, but that it allows the musketeers to form a denser formation and unleash more intensive firepower.
On the same battlefield width, the firepower exerted by troops equipped with flintlock muskets is three or even more than four times that of troops equipped with matchlocks!
This is because for the troops equipped with flintlock muskets, they directly replaced the spearmen with musketeers, doubling the number of musketeers in the army. It is also because the musketeers of flintlock muskets can stand closer together. The sum of the two
, the extra firepower density is quite terrifying.
The Tatar cavalry also tried the power of the flintlock rifle for the second time!
Then, just like in the recent Battle of Liangshanji, countless Tatar cavalrymen directly shot down their horses with double muskets before they had time to use their best horseback shooting!
Row after row of rounds of fire, the Tatar cavalry charging from the opposite side were constantly hit!
But the number of Tatar cavalry was not large at all. In fact, the 20,000 Tatar cavalry were more than the entire strength of the Guards, so they withstood the damage from the muskets, and then continued to charge forward with bows and arrows!
While bending the bow and shooting an arrow, he began to turn, trying to find the weak point and directly initiate a full melee fight!
However, at this time, Buzhigude, who had been deprived of his power by Anda Khan and was just short of being killed with a knife, suddenly changed his face, and then said loudly: "Don't turn, don't turn, keep rushing forward, keep rushing forward
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But as a defeated general, no one listened to him!
Even if you hear it, it's too late!
Because the hundreds of Tatar cavalry rushing at the front bent their bows and fired arrows, and then continued to run wildly along the turning channel carefully left for them by the Guards!
Behind them, more Tatar cavalry rushed in with them!
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