The first contact battle between the two sides seemed a bit rigid.
When the Timur Empire gathered troops, Zhu Di was not afraid and decisively went out to fight. The two sides took up positions on a plain, and in the distance was the dilapidated Yili City.
Both parties were trying to test it out, so there was no trickery involved. The central army of the Timurid Empire is still dominated by Muslim heavy infantry wearing turbans, with occasional Mongolian herdsmen infantry or European infantry wearing heavy armor. The left wing is Turkic-style assault cavalry, while the right wing is Mongol-style. Archers. The Timur Empire was not without archers. After all, it could be regarded as a Mongolian lineage, but the number did not seem to be many.
Zhu Di's middle army was a mixture of infantry led by Fei Ju and Shenji battalion led by Zhang Yu. On the left was the Mongolian surrender army whose morale was slightly damaged, and on the right was the Hami army led by Wang Xian. The races in this part of the army were diverse, with Hans, Mongolians, and Uighurs all present. Their equipment, such as light armor and heavy armor, was also in disarray, and they looked like a ragtag group. However, these people have actually gone through the bloody battle to guard Hami, and their combat power is very impressive.
A pure black flag with three blood-red round suns distributed in the shape of a Chinese font. This is the strange and chilling "Three Days of Black Sky Flag" of the Timurid Empire. As the flag of the Three Days of Black Sky Flag swings, The army formation of Timur Empire began to advance. The sound of footsteps that seemed to shake the heaven and earth and the agitated smoke that could almost cover the sky and the sun made even Fei Ju, who had experienced hundreds of battles, feel great pressure.
"He was raised by a little maid... This Timur empire really has two brushes..."
Fei Ju had already felt that this military honor might not be so easy to obtain. The enemy troops in front of him did not look like the barbarian army outside the pass, but more like the Han army in the Central Plains. In fact, when he followed Lao Zhu to conquer the world, Fei Ju didn't pay attention to the Mongolian people outside the pass. Apart from running faster, those Mongolian people had nothing special about them, and their military morale was slack. The fighting power is low, and battles with the Ming army are often collapsed. Fighting with the Yuan people is far less difficult than fighting against other Han forces who are conquering the world.
Those Han forces that competed with the Ming Dynasty for the world, such as Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, were all full of elite teachers in the later period. If the Mongolian army is like a gust of wind, the force that comes is often gone quickly, then the army of the Han forces is like a mountain. The mountain is overwhelming and often feels difficult to resist.
The Timur Empire in front of him felt like a mountain to Fei Ju.
"Stand up your spears and lift up your shields for me!" Seeing the army that was moving in like a mountain began to draw their bows and set arrows in a uniform manner, the hair on Fei Ju's back stood up as he vaguely recalled the desperate years in the past, but his whole body was also filled with emotion. His blood boiled like he did when he was a teenager.
"Rain of arrows, raise your shields!" The messenger conveyed Fei Ju's order in concise words, and the Ming army raised their shields in unison.
Fei Ju also hid under the shield formation of the soldiers. When the sound of arrows hitting the shields like raindrops ended, he pushed aside the soldiers who were loyally guarding him and saw that the Timur Empire side had begun to charge with trumpets.
"Stabilize the position!" Fei Ju moved his horse forward and kicked a new soldier back into the formation who was affected by the atmosphere of the battle and couldn't help but want to rush forward. "Damn it, I haven't given the order yet, why are you charging so hard?"
"It's not time for you to use the big blade yet! Hold the line for me and wait for orders..."
As soon as he finished speaking, in the distance, from the high watchtower of Zhu Di's formation, the signal for firing was already sent. Fei Ju looked happy, raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, change formation!"
The infantrymen holding shields immediately turned sideways and gave way to the soldiers of Shenji Battalion who had been waiting for a long time. The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion had already loaded their fire guns with explosives. At this time, they stepped forward one after another, facing the charging enemy troops without fear, and took aim with their fire guns leveled.
"Three strikes, release!"
Zhang Yu had been sizing it up in his mind for a long time. As soon as the enemy troops entered the effective range, he loudly issued the shooting order. Immediately, the sound of gunfire like exploding beans rang out on the Ming army's battle formation, and pungent smoke rose. The nearly airtight firepower network shot towards the charging infantry of the Timur Empire.
The seemingly unstoppable "mountain" has stagnated. The Shenji Battalion is like an indestructible magic weapon, cutting into the "mountain" that should be as solid as a rock without mercy. If you look down from the sky, you can see that the "big mountain" that is pressing forward is constantly being thinned, thinned, and thinned by the fire cannons of Shenji Camp. No matter how much the Muslim infantry shouted the name of their true ancestor, they still could not move forward.
Zhang Yu personally held a rifled gun with a longer range, constantly searching for and shooting the enemy generals. While harvesting his life, he was secretly frightened. If it were the Beiyuan or Goryeo Japanese army, with such casualties, the enemy army would have been defeated long ago. But these soldiers of the Timur Empire... are still pushing forward!
On the observation deck, Zhu Di's complexion was also very livid. He was standing very high, so he could see that the Chinese army had completely suppressed the enemy with the superior firepower of the muskets. Even though the enemy generals commanded well and continuously sent rear troops to bypass the firepower network in order to make a surprise attack, they were stopped by Fei Ju's elite Ming army. It can be said that the victory of the Chinese army is already certain, but even so, the situation on both wings is not optimistic.
The Mongolian surrender troops on the left wing of the Ming army faced off against the enemy's cavalry archers on the right wing. Cavalry archers faced off against cavalry archers. This was supposed to be a protracted battle. However, Zhu Di had already seen that the Mongolian surrender army on his side was showing signs of collapse. The enemy's cavalry archers were obviously more brave. Even though their numbers were far inferior to the Ming army, they had an invincible momentum. They did not just use bows and arrows. Using Mangu's evil tactics, when facing off against the cavalry archers who were slightly more numerous than themselves, this cavalry was even able to dedicate manpower to feign an attack to assist the weak Chinese army...
The Hami army on the right was also in a tough fight. In order to defend against cavalry raids, Zhu Di allocated a lot of vehicles and horses to Wang Xian to use as fortifications to resist the impact. Wang Xian was quite good at defending. While the battle was going on at the front, he was still arranging for the rear troops to continuously dig trenches. , build fortifications. But despite this, the offensives of those attacking cavalry were like waves. Wang Xian's formation retreated again and again. If it retreated, it would almost come into contact with Zhu Di's main formation.
Zhu Di frowned. The first tactic they arranged was to use the most elite Ming army to defeat the central army first, and then assist the two wings to completely annihilate the Timurid Empire's army... However, now the central army Although the army is in a strong position, its two wings are more vulnerable than expected. Just when Zhu Di was hesitating whether to use reserve troops to support the two wings, at the main position of the Timur Empire in the distance, he remembered the sound of the retreating horn. Zhu Di was stunned, but saw that the Timur Empire's army was indeed retreating. Like the tide, they retreated from the battlefield under cover of each other.
"What a pity, just one more moment..." Zhu Di patted the guardrail of the observation deck angrily. After a while, the Shenji Battalion will definitely be able to defeat the enemy's center... although the two wings may also be defeated by the enemy.
However, the decisiveness of the general of Timur's empire greatly exceeded his expectations.
"When it's broken, it's broken without delay..." Looking at the Timur Empire's military flag fading away, Zhu Di felt pity and fear in his heart. Such a country can definitely be called the strongest enemy he has encountered so far.
"good very good……"
Zhu Di could not restrain his eyes with excitement.
(End of chapter)
