On the ninth day of the sixth lunar month, we went up to the mountain in vain.
After the two armies rested for almost a day on the eighth day of the lunar month, the Battle of Baideng resumed on the ninth day of the lunar month.
After the war resumed, the mode of fighting changed from cavalry melee to positional attack and defense. Hutu Dun Khan's army deployed its defenses based on the Baishan Mountain Highlands. They surrounded the Baishan Mountain Highlands with thousands of carts, connected end to end, forming a very traditional Mongolian ancient Lieyan ring formation, and used wooden trusses and earth to guard against it. Gulieyan was reinforced. He put on a posture of wanting to fight to the death.
There are still more than 40,000 troops gathered under the command of Hutu Dun Khan. They all know that the Great Khan is not dead. The one who failed in the duel with Nandi yesterday was not the Great Khan himself, but the Great Khan's sister Wu Liangha. Princess. The Great Khan is still safe and sound, and is determined to fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty, the ancient enemy of the Yuan Dynasty for more than 280 years, on Baishan Mountain!
The rise and fall of the Yuan Dynasty, let’s fight here!
On the night of the eighth day of the lunar month, Hutu Dun Khan had already announced that if Bai Deng won the battle, his army would be able to capture the town of Datong.
After capturing the town of Datong, the Yuan Dynasty officially returned to China!
This is the real Great Yuan ZTE!
The next step is that Yuan Xingming will die, and the world will be ruled by the Mongolian Kingdom again!
Although the bullshit boasted a lot, the Mongolians who joined the Han tribe were relatively simple. They were bewitched by their sweat, drank some horseradish wine, and ate a delicious barbecue, so they reluctantly believed it. The sluggish morale has also improved, and everyone is gearing up, waiting to beat the Ming army based on the Gulieyan Circle Formation.
The previous failure on the seventh day of the lunar month was mainly due to the confusion in the melee night battle. In addition, Princess Wuliangha was eager to avenge her husband. She pretended to be the Great Khan and went to challenge the Southern Emperor in a duel. She was captured alive by the Southern Emperor. As a result, the Han tribe was extremely angry. The great chaos gave the Ming army an opportunity to seize the opportunity and fight a smooth battle.
But the situation is different today. There are 40,000 to 50,000 warriors who have invaded the Han tribe and are holding on to the danger. However, the Ming army on the opposite side seems to have fewer people than them. How can they lose?
So early in the morning on the eighth day of the lunar month, the Mongols on Baishan Mountain were still confident, until they saw hundreds of carriages forming an array, covering the Ming army's infantry and horse armor. On the battlefield west of Baishan Mountain.
"This is not..." Lin Dan Batur, who was holding a telescope, stood on the commanding heights of Baishan Mountain. As soon as he saw the formation drawn up by the Ming army, he wanted to run away again!
Because he is so familiar with the formation that the Ming army put up today...the chariots are in front, the infantry is behind, and the vests are holding the line!
Is this the Ming army? These are Eight Banners soldiers!
How is this going? Could it be that what he met was not the Little Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but Hou Jin Tiancong Khan? No, this is Shanxi, not Liaodong!
How did Tian Conghan come here? Could it be that the Zhu Youjian I met yesterday was Tian Conghan pretending to be?
"Brother," Lin Dan Batur's younger brother, Guitu Taiji, who had just taken over the Central Army Ten Thousand Households, also pointed out that something was wrong, "Why does the Ming Army's fighting style look similar to that of the Jin Army? They all use chariots to clear the way, and infantry The armored archers are at the back, and the vests dominate the formation! How can we fight like this?"
how to spell? Of course, use a cannon to hit the carriage... If you don't have a cannon, you can also use a turtle-dove-footed blunderbuss. As long as the cart can be smashed, the scattered pieces of wood will have their own lethality.
But Lindan Batur did not have artillery, nor did he have a heavy fire blunderbuss. His Mongolian warriors only had bows and arrows, and most of them didn't even have a good bow! With that kind of soft bow that can only shoot wild animals, it is impossible to hit the carriage, let alone kill the warriors in front of the tent who are following the carriage and holding the Kaiyuan bow. These warriors in front of the tent all wore long body armor and flying saucer helmets that could prevent arrows from being thrown, and they also huddled behind the carriage. The Mongolian archers can't hit them in the face at all, and the arrowheads they throw out can effectively kill the Mongolian archers who don't have much protection...
This style of play is the bullying style of play that Hou Jin summed up after fighting the Ming army and the Mongols for a long time.
It is simple, practical, efficient, and not difficult to imitate, so Zhu Youjian's Zhangqian army also knows this trick, and now it is just used to deal with the Mongols who are weaker than themselves.
"Brother, let's let the iron cavalry go into battle!" Guitu Taiji didn't have any clever ideas, so he had to propose using the iron armored cavalry to counterattack.
Lindan Batur shook his head, "Now is not the time... We only have so many soldiers, we can't afford them!"
Lin Dan Batur's iron cavalry suffered heavy losses in the battles in the early morning hours of the seventh and eighth day of the lunar month. Two sumu were completely destroyed, and the remaining eight sumo also suffered a lot of losses. It may not be possible to attract 2,000 people now! His Gortu barbarian cavalry is still intact, but they are the personal soldiers who are protecting him, the Great Khan, as he escapes...
The Great Khan thought for a while and then said: "First shoot at each other for a while...then select warriors from each department and let the Iron Cavalry hold down the battle!"
This is how to let armored cavalry escort armed herdsmen into battle and serve as cannon fodder!
Guitutaiji couldn't think of a better way, so he just agreed and went to various tribes to recruit warriors.
Unlike Lin Dan Batur who likes to stay behind and supervise battles, Zhu Youjian once again went into battle in armor, with his young guards riding big horses, carrying long guns, and carrying Rumi guns, just following his own After the cavalry - he came forward not to supervise the battle, but to find another opportunity to shoot a black gun!
The first time he used a black gun to kill a Mongolian warrior, and the second time he used a black gun to hit Princess Wu Liangha. This time he might be able to kill a real sweat, and that would be a profit!
So after the formation was completed, he handed over the troops to Hei Yunlong and Man Gui, and went forward with his own soldiers to practice target.
"Long live the Lord, our carriage is approaching their Gulieyan!" Wu Sangui, who was following Zhu Youjian, stood up in the stirrups, stretched his neck and looked for a while, then turned to Zhu Youjian and said loudly, " It seems like archery has started!”
Zhu Youjian reined in his horse, stood up in the stirrups, and took out a telescope to watch the battle, looking for opportunities for target practice.
Through the telescope, Zhu Youjian had already taken in everything in front of him.
Those pushing the carts forward were all camp soldiers transferred from Datong City. They were unarmored, but Mangui prepared a round shield for each of them and asked them to put it on their heads, as if they were wearing a hat. of. Therefore, the Mongolian arrowheads falling from the sky could hardly hurt them.
Following the carriage were the armored tent front troops, all of whom also carried leather shields. Now most of the soldiers raised their shields, protected their heads and faces, and continued to advance. Only a few warriors rushed to the side of the cart with bows and arrows, relying on the cover of the cart, firing arrows as they moved forward - these people were all sharpshooters in the army in front of the tent, and could shoot human-shaped targets from a hundred steps away. They were the ones who initiated it just now. They were the ones who were seventy or eighty steps away. They first fired arrows to kill the unarmored Mongolians behind Gu Lie's formation, and led them to throw feather arrows to counterattack.
The purpose of what they did was to consume the physical strength of the Mongolian archers - archery is a laborious job! In a battle, an ordinary archer would almost feel sore in his arm after shooting twenty or thirty arrows, and he would no longer have any strength. Even the warriors of the Zhangqian Army use the relatively soft Kaiyuan Bow, which has the power of thirty or forty arrows, so they have to use it sparingly.
Zhu Youjian saw the Mongolians starting to throw arrows randomly at a distance of seventy or eighty steps. He suddenly laughed and said to his left and right: "After all, they are our old opponents... They are half a pound and even have flaws." Same, no wonder you can't defeat the Donglu! Sangui and Wentao, if you go to command for Lindan Batur, how will you defeat my chariots, infantry and horse armor?"
"Use the spear formation to rush forward!" Wu Sangui said, "And follow up with the iron cavalry. We should be able to break the chariot formation."
Heiwen Tao said: "At the same time, you can also use light cavalry to bypass our rear... Your Majesty, Lin Dan Batur does not have many iron cavalry, but he has a lot of light cavalry. Once Gu Lieyan fails to defend, I am afraid he will attack with light cavalry." You must be on guard when attacking in a roundabout way."
Zhu Youjian nodded and said: "Okay! Sure enough, I have made progress. I didn't teach you in vain!" He smiled, "But Lin Dan Batur will definitely lose today. His spear cannot penetrate my carriage. He Even the light cavalry is no match for the cavalry in front of the tent!"
Before he finished speaking, a suona sound rang out on the battlefield. The army officers on the front line were giving orders to fire volleys of bows and arrows!
The climax of the Battle of Baideng has finally begun!
