The concentrated charge of five thousand cavalry is still very large, especially on the plains, where smoke and dust are everywhere when the horses' hooves pass by!
Seeing that the enemy had begun to enter the shooting range, Li Xing shouted from the tower:
"Get everything ready and follow my orders!"
When the Mongolian cavalry was less than thirty steps away from the city wall, Li Xing shouted:
"put!"
The muskets and artillery of the Ming army on the city were instantly ignited and fired. Behind the musketeers were the crossbowmen of the Huben Battalion. Under the command of Li Zhilong, they followed the firing rhythm of the Shenji Battalion.
The two thousand musketeers of the Shenji Battalion were divided into three teams and fired in this way. The charging Mongolian cavalry was unprepared and was caught off guard. They suffered heavy casualties for a while.
The Mongolian cavalry behind them immediately stopped their horses when they saw this. They stopped charging, quickly dispersed, and drew their bows to fight back.
"The Ming army is so cunning and hateful. Go and give the order to the warriors to retreat!"
Tuo Lihai didn't expect that he would be tricked. He also discovered that these Ming troops were different from the frontier troops he had faced before. They must be the little emperor's Beijing troops.
If it were those border troops, the first time he dispatched five hundred cavalry, they would have fired their bows and cannons. Just now, he thought that the Ming army would dispatch five thousand cavalry at once because they had no artillery. Now he had to quickly adjust his tactics. .
"Young Sima, General, the Tartars have retreated!"
"They suffered a heavy loss. They just retreated temporarily. I have given orders to the generals not to relax. All bows, arrows and gunpowder are ready!"
In just one charge, the five thousand cavalrymen who left the Caspian Sea suffered nearly a thousand casualties. This made him feel distressed. There were only so many Mongolian warriors. If the loss continued like this, what would happen even if they won?
But if he just left like this, where would his face go? So many Mongolian warriors were killed and wounded, and there was no result at all. Even if the Great Khan intentionally did not blame him, how could other leaders let go of this opportunity to suppress themselves?
He decided to give it a try. If there was hope of breaking the city, he would attack with all his strength. If not, he would immediately withdraw his troops and conserve his strength to stabilize the overall situation.
He sent another two thousand cavalry to spread out and attack on three sides to find the weak points of the Ming army, and then took down this shabby little earth city in one go!
When the Ming army on the city saw that they were indeed coming again, they did not hide them, and fired their bows, cannons, and firearms. Anyway, they had brought enough gunpowder, and it was not empty at all.
"put!"
The muskets of the Ming army were all multi-barreled. When fired together, they were like firecrackers, crackling. Although their accuracy was average, they were better in having more guns, covering them with firepower.
Even though the Mongolian cavalry below were extremely scattered, many people were still hit and fell off their horses.
Yang Sichang on the city saw the Mongolian cavalry below so dispersed, and thought to himself that it would be great if there was an elite cavalry force of three to five thousand people at this time. Unfortunately, except for the night, they were all infantry, so he could only Defend the city.
Li Xing looked at Yang Sichang's anxious expression and knew what he was thinking, because he also had the same idea. Suddenly he thought of a way to severely damage the enemy.
"Young Sima, I will eventually find a way to lure the Mongols to attack again!"
"Oh, what can you do? Come quickly!"
Li Xing responded:
"The city defense in the west is the weakest. We can pretend that we cannot hold it and let the Mongols see hope of winning this battle."
"Then we will deploy heavy troops in the city. When the Tartars enter the city, we can gather together and annihilate them!"
Yang Sichang thought for a while after hearing this and said:
"If so, isn't the risk too great? You have to know that our only advantage is that we can rely on the city wall. If we really can't hold it, we won't be able to retreat even if we want to retreat on this plain."
"How can the general not know that Young Sima has forgotten the Flowing Light Divine Machine Arrow? His Majesty has personally said that the Flowing Light Divine Machine Arrow is the best weapon against cavalry!"
Yang Sichang is an ambitious man. Although he is already the Minister of War, he is not satisfied with this. His goal is to be the Yuanfu of the Cabinet!
If he wins this battle, he will be able to stop those Youyou's mouths when he goes back, and his position will be completely stable. Even for the sake of his own future, he has to take a gamble!
"Okay, that's right, hurry up and make arrangements!"
Li Xing cupped his hands with a smile on his face and said:
"Don't worry, Young Sima, I will go there in person!"
There was no hope of leaving Caspian Sea. The Ming army was tightly defended and he couldn't find any loopholes. Just when he was about to order the front line troops to retreat, a knight came to report.
"Report to the leader, the Ming army to the west is about to be unable to withstand it."
Tuo Lihai's spirit suddenly came over, and Changshengtian really lived up to me. He urgently ordered the army to rush to support, and he even went there in person.
When he got there, he saw that the firepower of the Ming army on the city was very weak. Fighters had arrived, and he quickly began to deploy to destroy the city.
"Enter the city and kill all the Ming troops in the city!"
He first sent three thousand cavalry to break the city, and then he led other cavalry as backup.
The Mongolian cavalry quickly rushed to the city gate. The city gate made of wooden planks could not withstand the Mongols' smashing. The Mongolian cavalry entered the city easily. A head of a hundred households quickly reported back to Caspian Sea that the city was broken.
After all, Tuo Caspian had led troops for many years, and his intuition made him uneasy. Isn't this too easy?
Even if the Ming army's defense here is weak, doesn't the Ming army general know? Not a single reinforcement?
Just when he was doubting, there were sudden loud noises in the city. He was very familiar with this noise. It was the Ming army's ten thousand enemies!
He shouted heartbreakingly:
"This is a trick of the Ming army, retreat quickly!"
Unfortunately, it was too late. Most of the three thousand cavalry he sent had already entered the city. They were now in the trap carefully set by Li Xing.
Li Xing placed the Liuguang Shenji Arrow on the main street, facing the Mongolian cavalry entering the city, and specially mobilized 200 heavy armored soldiers to guard the front with shields. Hundreds of Ming troops were ambushed in the residential buildings on both sides.
In order to attack the Mongolian cavalry as much as possible, these Ming soldiers waited for the narrow streets to be crowded with Mongolian cavalry. They were throwing nearly a thousand enemies into it!
"put!"
In this extremely close situation, the Liuguang Shenji Arrow exerted its maximum power. The Mongolian cavalry on the opposite side had nowhere to escape. At such a close distance, not to mention the people, even the sturdy war horses were killed. The arrow exploded!
It was impossible for them to retreat, because the people behind had no idea what was going on in front, and they were all stuck here.
"Come over with me and kill those Ming soldiers!"
A leader of hundreds of households also knew that they had a narrow escape. Now they could only fight desperately. As long as they broke through the formation of the Ming army in front, they would be saved.
But the defense of the heavy armored soldiers was impenetrable. They set up two layers of iron shields. Behind them, in addition to the flowing divine machine arrows, there were also the musketeers of the divine machine battalion who were carrying out continuous attacks.
After the Ming army ambushing on both sides abandoned ten thousand enemies, they picked up their bows and crossbows and fired arrows at the Mongolian cavalry. Then hundreds of heavily armored soldiers suddenly rushed out from the alley behind, catching the Mongols off guard.
Their scimitars couldn't break through such heavy iron armor at all. The sound of the collision of iron tools was removed when they cut, and there was nothing else. They all became the ghosts of the heavy armored soldiers' sabers!
