Beyond the concave-shaped Great Walls of Yulin Town and Ningxia Town is the Hetao area, which has been a headache for the emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty since the Jingtai period.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Hetao area was firmly under the control of the Ming court. At that time, few Mongolian tribes dared to go deep into the grassland desert outside Yulin Town and run wild. However, starting from the Battle of Jingnan, the northern border of the Ming Dynasty began to gradually loosen. During the Xuande period, due to the shrinkage of the northern border defense line, the term "Tao Kou" began to appear. However, these "Tao bandits" were just a small group of scattered Mongolian tribes or bandits that slipped into the Hetao area, which was still under the actual control of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and they would not cause the fall of the Hetao area. After Ming Yingzong defeated Tumubao, the Ming Dynasty's national defense strength once again declined sharply. In the seventh year of Zong Jingtai's reign in the Ming Dynasty, Beiyuan Taishi Bo Lai led his troops into the trap, which was called "Beilu into the trap". From then on, the Hetao area was no longer the area where the Ming Dynasty had the final say. The concave-shaped Great Walls of Yulin Town and Ningxia Town were also built to defend against the Northern invaders... Until the reign of Emperor Hongxing, the leader of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, he slipped from Datong Prefecture and Luliang Mountain to Yulin Town and Ningxia Town. The acting king of Zhenhe Yan'an Prefecture, Zhu Cijiong, effortlessly took over the Ordos tribe, which had lived a comfortable life in the Hetao area, and brought this land that had been lost for nearly 200 years back under the banner of the Ming Dynasty.
Starting from the summer of the sixth year of Hongxing, in order to cope with the Ordos tribe who went south to cross the Hanhai Desert to avoid the enemy, Zhu Cixiang placed his royal office outside the Great Wall of Yulin Town, in the ancient city of Tongwan, which is 120 to 30 miles away from Yulin City. .
Tongwan City is located at the intersection of the Hongliu River and the Heishui River, two tributaries of the Wuding River. It is surrounded by a large area of grassland, but the water grass is not fertile, it is a bit dry, and it cannot carry many livestock. Less than a hundred miles to the north of Tongwan is the Hanhai Desert. To the north of the Hanhai Desert is the real prairie with fertile water and grass. The Ordos tribe was nomadic in the past, centered on the grasslands north of the Hanhai Sea and close to the Yellow River. They would only cross the Hanhai Sea to the south when they were seeking refuge from the cold in winter, and then plunder Yulin Town and Ningxia Town in the Ming Dynasty. If you can't grab anything, ask for some reward from each other.
As a result, I met a loan shark who owed a lot of loan sharks and was more vicious than the Mongols. I was robbed several times. In the end, I had no choice but to start the business of smuggling arms... .
The business of smuggling arms was actually quite profitable. After working as an arms dealer for several years, Erlinchen and his tribe became rich and no longer had the courage to become thieves.
So, when he had to choose between the Mongol Khan and the Ming Dynasty King, he did not hesitate to choose Zhu Cijiong, the king who could bring him all kinds of evil money.
After E Linchen finished the multiple-choice questions, the battle in the direction of Hetao was no longer an attack and defense on the Great Wall line, but a confrontation on the sandy land of the vast sea.
The vast sandy land is not very large, and there are also small oases in it. However, there are not many water sources in the oases, and they are easily polluted. Therefore, it is not easy for the armies of both sides to pass, especially in the cold and dry autumn and winter.
However, small groups of cavalry from both sides can still enter and exit the vast sandy land. Therefore, the battle that later generations called the "Battle of the Vast Sea" was fought in a pattern of large groups of troops fighting soy sauce, and small groups of elites fighting black guns.
That's right, it's a black gun!
The Manchu and Mongolian cavalry who entered the sandy land of the vast sea encountered a brand new cavalry tactic - black guns!
Because the vast sea sandy land is not a vast expanse of yellow sand, there are many small oases and hills scattered in it. It is a sandy land with a relatively complex terrain, and there are good places for ambush everywhere.
On the east side of an oasis called Kankanjing in the sandy land of the vast sea, about twenty Ming Army musketeers wearing sheepskin coats and sheepskin felt hats, who looked no different from the Mongols from a distance, were leaning on half Build an ambush with a wall of earth. The leader was none other than Wang Fuchen, nicknamed Ma Yaozi.
He is now the commander of the left camp of the cavalry of King Zhu Cijiong. His official rank is Baihu, and he is considered the number one figure in the army of King Zhu Cijiong.
But now he is not doing the job of a battalion commander, but personally leading a platoon of brothers out to cut off people's heads!
Although the new army of the Ming Dynasty no longer counts heads, Shuofang's Daiwang army is still very keen on cutting off heads. If you want to be successful in Zhu Cijiong's army, you have to be good at cutting heads.
Wang Fuchen is a senior expert in slashing people. He is very good at slashing people. He is a good hand in both horse and foot combat.
And at the beginning of this year, he learned a new skill of shooting black guns from Bai Siwen, the deputy military advisor of Shuofang Army who had returned from extra lessons - it was a bit disgraceful and ruined his reputation as "Living Lu Bu" and "Horse Harrier", but Wang Fuchen doesn't have much "chivalry" either. As long as he can cut off a few more Tatar heads, that's better than anything else.
So now he is wearing a dirty Mongolian leather robe, leading twenty dismounted musketeers, waiting here for the Tatar heads to come over.
One of his men was crawling on the ground at this time, with his butt raised high, his ears pressed to the ground, squinting his eyes and listening carefully to what? Suddenly he straightened up and shouted: "Here comes the head!"
"Light the match rope!" Wang Fuchen shouted quickly, then raised his telescope and looked eastward. To the east was an open sandy land. There were scattered clumps of weeds near the wall where he was ambushing. Three or five half-dead poplar trees.
The twenty dismounted musketeers had already held the turtle-dove-footed muskets in their hands. Upon hearing Wang Fuchen's order, they all took out flints and started to light the match ropes. Their movements were very skillful, and you could tell at a glance that they were veterans.
Just as they were lighting the match ropes, a dozen cavalrymen running and shooting arrows appeared in the distance. They were all dressed in Mongolian style, but Wang Fuchen knew that they were all his own people and that he had sent them out to lure the enemy. of horse archers.
Nowadays, the "Black Lancers" of the King's Army usually attack in platoons. A full platoon consists of 40 cavalry, 10 of which are bow cavalry. They ride the fastest horses and only carry bows and arrows and sabers. They do not wear armor. The task is to search and lure enemies.
There are 20 cavalrymen who are musketeers, equipped with turtle-dove-footed muskets and sabers, and do not wear armor. Their task was to lie in wait for the horse archers to lure the enemy, and then use their turtle-dove-footed muskets to shoot black guns.
Another 10 cavalry are lancers, the most capable warriors in the city, equipped with lances, sabers, and breastplates. Their mission is to attack the "black lancers" immediately after they finish using their black spears, and kill one of their opponents while they are still in shock. Caught off guard.
The "Black Lancers" who have finished shooting the black guns will immediately mount their horses, followed by the Lancers to launch a second wave of attacks.
The archers who were responsible for luring the enemy at the beginning would launch a third wave of attacks.
This tactic is very simple, but extremely practical. You can always achieve something. If you encounter a small number of opponents, such as only twenty or thirty cavalry, you can often achieve total annihilation - of course, this refers to the opponent. The Mongols and the Eight Banners and Old Manchuria should not be that easy to deal with.
"coming!"
Wang Fuchen shouted again, and then pulled out his sword: "Listen to my orders! Don't shoot indiscriminately, and behead if you disobey orders!"
"Here!"
All the "Black Gunners" responded loudly.
They are all veterans who have been in battle for a long time. They don't need Wang Fuchen to hold a knife to hold him down and they know not to shoot indiscriminately. But if any of them makes a stupid mistake, Wang Fuchen, the living Lu Bu, will definitely become the living king of hell!
In the distance, the Ming army's horse archers no longer shot arrows, but ran at full speed, trying to distance themselves from the pursuers. Wang Fuchen counted and found that there were nine horse archers in total, one less than when he sent them out.
The number of pursuers was about forty or fifty, and they were all Mongolian in appearance!
"It's the Mongols!" Wang Fuchen shouted again.
The atmosphere at the scene immediately became relaxed...
The horse archers of the Ming Army rushed straight towards the low wall where Wang Fuchen and others were ambushing. This low wall should have been the wall of a certain village. It was in the dilapidated state it is now because it was in disrepair and kept collapsing. , and there are several gaps one or two feet wide, which can be crossed by horses.
In the blink of an eye, nine Ming army cavalry rushed through the gap one after another.
The Mongolian rangers following them did not realize the danger, and even made strange noises while chasing. Some of them were skillful in shooting bows and arrows on horseback.
"Aim..." Wang Fuchen saw the opportunity coming and shouted without hesitation: "Shoot!"
Bah...
20 turtle-dove-foot fire cannons were fired at the same time, and the four Mongolian warriors at the front fell off their horses!
