The Ming army came out of the city and formed their formation. At the same time, Zheng Yu also saw the Mongolian army. He pointed his saber at the Northern Barbarian army and shouted: "Soldiers, our enemies are in front of us. Their numbers are dozens of times greater than ours. Just like one of our warriors We have to face ten of their sabers, but tell me, are you afraid of them?"
More than 5,000 Ming troops leaving the city shouted in unison: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"
With this roar, more than 5,000 people shouted with the same momentum as more than 50,000 people. The shouts shook the sky and the momentum was magnificent! Instead, all the horses in front of the Mongolian army were surprised, and the horses kept neighing. Some horses were even frightened and ran away. In a decisive battle on the battlefield, momentum is very important. Since ancient times, the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road. Whether an army wins in a war requires momentum in addition to combat effectiveness!
Upon seeing this, Batu Meng roared: "Give me back your momentum!" More than 50,000 Mongolians shouted: "We must win! We must win! We must win!" The shouts surged like a tide, and they were like a victory. After a while, taking advantage of the large number of people, they rushed back in momentum.
The two sides fired at each other and took up positions. Zheng Yu and Batu Mengke took action on their own.
When Batu Mengke rode his horse ten steps to the target point, he instantly felt the coercion of the Ming army's "last-ditch battle" and couldn't help but sigh: "The Ming army's number is ten times less than ours, but it still has such grace, it is worthy of the Ming Dynasty." A huge country.”
Zheng Yuxian said: "You Tatars are cruel, ferocious and treacherous. Not long ago, you sent envoys to our capital to pay tribute. Since we are already a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, why do you still invade our borders repeatedly? Now the war is about to break out. If you want to persuade me to surrender, please go back. .The Ming cavalry behind me would rather die than surrender!"
Batu Mengke smiled calmly and said: "The Ming cavalry? Are you worthy of being called cavalry in front of my Mongol army? When did our Mongol Empire surrender to you Han people? It was just a delaying tactic. Now, relying on the power of Changshengtian Bless you, our Great Mongol Empire will be unified again. This time we will definitely fight back to the Central Plains and take back the country that belongs to us. I advise you to surrender as soon as possible, otherwise when the city is broken, the chickens and dogs will not be left behind."
Zheng Yu snorted coldly: "Your Majesty, you are so arrogant. We Han people could drive you out a hundred years ago, but in the future I, the Ming Dynasty, can still drive you back to the grassland to herd horses."
Batu Mengke burst out laughing. He pointed at the more than 5,000 people behind Zheng Yu and said: "Our Mongolian army is ten times larger than yours. So what if Xu Da comes back to life in such a battle? What if you guys If there are firearms and heavy artillery, I am still a little worried. Now I am relying on my saber on horseback. How will you fight? I would like to see how you set up the formation. I can end such a battle in half a stick of incense. fighting!"
Zheng Yu looked at the Mongolian cavalry behind Batu Mengke. Indeed, if the Mongolian army wanted to win a quick victory, they did not need to talk too much with themselves, nor did they need to fight to the death with the Ming army. They were ten times more powerful than him. If he first ordered the Mongolian crossbowmen to fire fiercely to disrupt the Ming army's formation, then use the cavalry to charge back and forth several times, and finally ordered the main army to harvest the heads, it would be over. Fighting like this, half a stick of incense can indeed end the battle.
But today has reached this point, and he, Zheng Yu, has no choice but to fight. He knows how powerful the censors and officials in the court are. Even if he does not allow the people to enter the city today and cannot stay out, he can watch the people below the city die. Hands of the Mongols. But afterwards, he will rarely be impeached, dismissed from office. And his conscience can't get over it. Although he doesn't know what the current emperor's temper is, he can think based on the previous emperors and generals that he is far beyond the Great Wall, and those officials are at the feet of the emperor. Impeaching him for confusing right and wrong is black. It can also be said in plain language, which can deceive the holy listeners. "
Zheng Yu said coldly: "Soldiers should be proud to serve the country with their bodies wrapped in horse leather. There is no need for the Great Khan to talk about it. He will go back to reorganize the army. We will see the real results on the battlefield soon!"
Zheng Yu turned back on his horse and ran back into the formation. Bolger next to him snorted disdainfully: "You are still so arrogant when you are about to die. I will attack your spirit today."
As soon as Batu Mengke returned to the formation, Sukhbal of Wanhu came out and said: "Your Majesty, the crossbowmen are ready, and the cavalry on both wings are in place. As long as you give the order, the cavalry on both wings will cover the crossbowmen and move forward. "
Batu Mengke said calmly: "The five thousand Ming army is not worth mentioning at all. Let Bolger take command of this battle. Just let me see if your saber is still sharp as a Mongolian general.
Bolger responded: "Don't worry, Khan, I will prove to you and the great Immortal God that the saber hanging on my waist is not a branch."
Batu Mengke nodded with satisfaction and galloped back to the camp.
Bolger touched his beard and smiled: "Sukhbal, don't be anxious. The Ming army is already a turtle in the urn. Aren't they very arrogant? They never take our Mongolian army seriously. We will slowly consume him today and let him He watched his army dwindle until he was the only one left."
Sukhbar was shocked after hearing this and said: "Bolger, the Ming army is known for its battle formations. We must not take it lightly. It is better to fight quickly in case they have reinforcements."
Bolger's face darkened and he shouted: "Sukhbal, how come you have the ambition of the enemy and destroy your own prestige? Just watch and see how we beat the Ming army to the point where they kneel down and beg for mercy."
Sukhbar was about to continue admonishing when Bolger said angrily: "Is it me or you, the general appointed by the Great Khan just now?" This question left Sukhbar speechless, and he sighed loudly and ran to the rear. Went to supervise the war. "
The Ming army was well prepared. They all knew that this was their last fight on the battlefield, and they looked down on it as there was no way to survive. At this time, they were calmly waiting for the command from the commander Zheng Yu.
The Mongolian army did not send out the crossbowmen first, but directly dispatched the cavalry on both wings.
Compared with the orderly charge of the Ming army's cavalry, the Mongolian cavalry was disorganized. They waved their sabers and screamed "Aoao". The dust kicked up by their horses' hooves made the sky and the earth change color.
"Let's resist the horse and change the formation"!
Zhuo Changfeng was on horseback, holding his halberd and supervising the formation, shouting orders. Facing the menacing Northern Barbarian cavalry, they could only cooperate with each other in small-scale military formations to reduce maximum casualties.
The infantry of the Ming Dynasty arranged their formation in an orderly manner. Zheng Yu, Li Ren and others bent their bows and aimed their arrows at the enemy generals. Every time they fired their bows, someone would fall off their horses.
Zheng Yu gathered the remaining five hundred crossbowmen together, and Li Ren shouted loudly: "One hundred and twenty steps, shoot!"
Suddenly a rain of arrows flew out, and the distance of one hundred and twenty steps greatly increased the probability of the arrow hitting. A small rain of arrows knocked over some of the men charging in front of the Mongolian cavalry.
Mongolian commander Bolger shouted: "Charge the left and right wings to cover the central army!"
Under the cover of only more than 500 crossbowmen, the Ming army slowly formed a military formation. There were three people in a group. One person held a shield in his left hand and a spear in his right hand. One person held a knife. The other person had a hidden weapon that was not exposed. .
When the Mongolian cavalry on the left and right wings rushed closer, one person in the Ming army raised his shield high to resist the cavalry's iron hoofs. Another person suddenly thrust out a sickle spear from under the shield. The moment the horse's hoof broke, he overturned the northern barbarian soldier on his back. The sword-wielding man in the Ming army's formation immediately saw the opportunity and smeared it with his sword!
Zheng Yu has actually been training this kind of cooperative tactics in Datong for a long time, but he has never had the opportunity to use it. Without the support of firearms and heavy artillery, he specially invented the hook and sickle gun to deal with the Mongolian cavalry. Unfortunately, there were not many people, and he did not build many hook and sickle guns.
Some formations of the Ming army did not have hooks and sickles, so they could not withstand the charge of the Mongolian cavalry. They were instantly knocked open. In front of the highly mobile cavalry, the infantry simply blocked the car with their arms and was trampled to pieces in an instant.
Some Mongolian cavalry generals did not attack the left and right wings of the Ming army but went straight to the central army. Indeed, Zheng Yu's status was too important to the Ming army. If he could be killed, he would have to be sealed off from thousands of households! But before the Mongolian cavalry general rushed in front of Zheng Yu, Li Ren and another general on his left and right had already set off separately.
Li Ren roared repeatedly, urging his horse to kill the Mongolian cavalry general who was rushing over without fear of death. He slashed the Mongolian cavalry general in half with a slash of his heavy sword. The other general was not to be outdone. With a flick of his spear, he stabbed a hole in the enemy in an instant.
Bolger, the commander of Wanhu in Mongolia, was overjoyed when he saw that the right-wing cavalry had successfully torn a hole in the Ming army's defense line, and shouted: "The Chinese army will charge with me, attack the enemy's right flank, and divide them into three sections!"
The hole on the right side of the Ming army's formation was getting bigger and bigger, but they were not afraid of death. One fell in front, and they quickly made up for it in the back. Facing the tenacious right phalanx, the Mongolian cavalry was helpless for a while.
Brothers, fight with them!”
After a soldier struggled to kill a cavalryman, he was beheaded by the Mongolian cavalry as soon as he shouted.
Hearing the sound of a bow, the two Mongolian generals fell off their horses. Li Ren rushed over with his sword and shouted: "Brothers, we are here to support you!"
With the help of eight hundred brave men of the Ming Army led by Li Ren, the gap on the right was gradually closed, but Bolger led the main cavalry to the right in an instant, trying to stop the stubbornly resisting Northern Desert Army. Cut it off and divide it into three ways.
Zheng Yu chopped down a Northern Barbarian cavalry, raised his sword, got on his horse and charged straight towards Bolger. Facing the menacing Mongolian cavalry, some of the infantry of the Ming army without military formations seemed like fish and meat on the chopping board to be slaughtered. One of the rises of killing thousands of households in Mongolia was that death had come quietly without realizing it. Zheng Yu rushed over and suddenly shouted loudly. The Qianhu didn't have time to react and was cut in half.
Zheng Yu instantly chopped down the cavalry flag of the Northern Desert Army, holding the head of Qianhu and shouting: "Tatar dogs, your general's head is here!" Without the guidance of the flag, and the death of Qianhu, Suddenly the cavalry in the center was leaderless. On the contrary, the morale of the Ming army began to rise, and they returned to the general formation and fought back hard.
At this time, Sukhbal personally led a team of ten thousand people to launch the final charge. The difference was that the speed of this charge slowed down significantly. Moreover, there were thousands of crossbowmen on each side of the wing, quickly advancing forward to prepare their bows and arrows. At the end were more than 5,000 cavalrymen eager to try.
Zheng Yu was shouting when he suddenly heard a "swift" sound and an arrow shot through the air as fast as a meteor.
Zheng Yu was caught off guard and was hit in the shoulder by an arrow. He screamed and fell off his horse.
As soon as the Ming army general fell from his horse, many Mongolian troops surrounded him, wanting to chop off Zheng Yu's head first and make him a marquis. At this time, suddenly a loud shout came, and Li Ren raised his knife to cover him up: "General, hold on! I'm here to save you!"
Li Ren slashed horizontally and vertically with a broadsword, causing the Mongolian soldier to flip over. Zheng Yu covered his wound with a bitter smile and said, "You and I will die here today."
A Mongolian cavalry general recognized Zheng Yu and shouted: "It is this man with a long beard and a sword who killed Commander Qianhu. He is the chief general of the Ming Army. Everyone, go up and kill him and avenge Commander Qianhu!"
After hearing the sound, the Mongolian cavalry surrounded them one after another. Li Ren chopped down two more with one blow, protected Zheng Yu and shouted: "If a man dies, he will die. I can die with the general today. My life is worth it."
Sukhbal quickly bent his bow and aimed an arrow at Li Ren's eyebrows, shot two arrows in a row, and yelled: "hit!"
The arrow from the string flew through the sky with the whistling wind, faster than meteors and faster than lightning.
Zheng Yu suddenly heard the sound of arrows in his right ear and hurriedly pushed Li Ren away: "Be careful!
After pushing Li Ren away, Zheng Yu turned around and blocked an arrow with his sword. Another arrow came quickly. Before Zheng Yu could cry out, it hit Feng Wu in the chest with a "pop" sound. The huge impact directly penetrated Zheng Yu's armor...
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