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Chapter 260 Put Up the Commander's Flag for Me 【Order】

No wonder the crowd reacted a lot, Li Huan's words were really shocking, they only thought that it would be good to be able to block the Tatars.

But no one thought that Li Huan would actually want to keep all the 2 Tatar pioneers.

The key is that the distance between the Tatars' follow-up troops and Mutai and Rudal's [-] pioneers is at most one day's march away.

But if Mutai, Rudal and the others encountered any trouble, as long as they could persist for a day, they could wait for reinforcements from Yanhan.

Under such circumstances, it is simply unrealistic to keep all the pioneers of the Tatars.

Li Huan saw everyone's reactions in his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "It's up to people to do it. Although it seems a little impossible, what if it can be realized."

Li Huan didn't wait for any reaction from the crowd, but just looked at the crowd and said: "Rudal and Mutai are about to approach Luming Town. Now I order everyone to be vigilant and be ready to deal with Tatars at any time." Raid by the Tartars."

All the generals responded in solemn voices, and at the same time, Li Huan's eyes fell on Cao Xiong and said: "General Cao, those infantry under your command must keep their morale steady, if something goes wrong, it will affect the When it comes to the overall situation, this official will hold you accountable."

What Li Huan was most worried about was Cao Xiong's tens of thousands of infantry. These troops were mixed, especially after the elite were selected to supplement the cavalry, the combat effectiveness of these infantry could be imagined.

Cao Xiong turned to Li Huan when he heard this and said, "Don't worry, General, he will personally lead people to sit in the army to supervise the battle. Unless the general dies in battle, otherwise no one will disturb the morale of the army."

Following Li Huan's arrangement, the scouts sent by Mutai and Rudal also got entangled with the scouts sent by Li Huan, and the two scouts fought each other. In just half a day , Both of them lost hundreds of elite sentinels.

The earth shook, and Cao Xiong, who was ordered to stay inside the earthen wall, and his tens of thousands of infantry couldn't help swallowing when they watched the sight of the Tatar cavalry roaring like a torrent.

Inexplicably, Cao Xiong felt a little nervous. While clenching his fists, he also looked at the cavalry team not far away.

The number of this cavalry team is not too many, only 3000 people, and it is Li Huan who deliberately stayed to hold the formation.

As for the remaining nearly [-] cavalry, they did not stay in the simple fortress formed by the earth wall at this moment, but were stationed behind the earth wall.

The presence of such an earthen wall on the vast land naturally cannot be concealed from the sentinels sent by the Tatars.

Mutai and Rudal stopped the soldiers and horses behind them outside Lixu, and looked at the low earth wall in front of them. Although they had already known the existence of the earth wall, when they saw the earth wall When it was time, it showed a bit of surprise.

Mutai, Rudal and the others were also quite curious, why Li Huan and the others didn't hide in the tall city, but built such an earthen wall in the wilderness that obviously didn't have much protective effect what.

The two looked at each other, and the wooden platform couldn't help but said to Rudal: "Rudal, this Ming army leader must have lost his head, leaving the tall city walls unused, and actually wants to use these earthen walls to fight against us , let him see the strength of my grassland warrior."

If it is said that Mutai and Rudal were somewhat wary of Li Huan because of the complete annihilation of the Suder tribe, then when they saw that Li Huan wanted to use the earth wall in front of them to resist their attack Offensive, the vigilance in Rudal and Mutai's heart disappeared immediately.

"Hahaha, I heard that Li Huan was just a brat, that is, Daluerhua was incompetent, so he was killed by Li Huan by relying on his numbers. For the sake of human dignity, today you and I will avenge the shame and teach Li Huan what it means to march and fight."

The two looked at each other, and Rudal smiled at the wooden platform: "I'll hold you back, you just go ahead."

When Mutai heard the words, he let out a long howl and waved the scimitar in his hand. Suddenly, the tens of thousands of troops under his command turned into a torrent and rushed towards the simple fortress in front of him.

Behind the earthen wall, Li Huan stood there tall and straight like a green pine, all in armor, looking at the Tatars who were getting closer and closer.

Right in front of Li Huan were groups of archers and musketeers, and besides that, there were nearly a hundred cannons of various sizes. It can be said that Li Huan had collected almost all the firearms that could be collected these days.

It has to be said that the popularity of firearms is really quite high, otherwise, it would be impossible for Li Huan to collect so many artillery pieces.

Of course, there are very few of them that can be called cannons. After all, cannons weighing thousands of catties are not so easy to move. Most of them are tiger squatting cannons. It can only be considered okay.

Looking at these ancient cannons, Li Huan couldn't help but regret secretly, but unfortunately, he had no knowledge of mechanical manufacturing at all, and even very little knowledge about gunpowder.

Compared with those traversers who became all-rounders once they transmigrated, who were able to rub guns, cannons, and even create amazingly powerful aircraft and cannons in decades, Li Huan felt that he was really the one who had the ability to travel through time. This word is embarrassing.

These thoughts drifted inexplicably in his mind, Cao Xiong, the general who had been standing beside Li Huan, said to Li Huan nervously at this moment: "General, this place is really dangerous, how about..."

Looking at the Tatars who were getting closer, Cao Xiong knew that it might take less than a dozen breaths, and this place would be caught in a brutal fight, so he couldn't help but persuade Li Huan to leave this dangerous place.

Li Huan shook his head slightly, instead of retreating, he directed to Li Guo and Li Hu who were beside him and said: "Put up the commander's flag and tell all the soldiers that the commander is with them." , Da Ming for me, fight to the death without retreating!"

"For Daming, fight to the death and never retreat!"

Li Hu, Li Guo and others showed excitement when they heard the words, shouted in unison, and then raised Li Huan's handsome flag high.

As the commander-in-chief flag was erected, the flag fluttering with the spring breeze immediately entered the sight of the soldiers of both sides.

Originally hiding behind the earthen wall, feeling the earthquake, seeing the roaring torrent of Tatar iron cavalry from a distance, many Ming soldiers panicked, and even some soldiers subconsciously looked around, as if Looking for an escape route.

But when the handsome flag was erected, many soldiers were taken aback for a moment, and then subconsciously looked under the handsome flag, only to see Li Huan in armor standing at the forefront of the army, and suddenly an inexplicable feeling surged. mind.

Cao Xiong was stunned, and after realizing it, he shouted: "The general is mighty, the Ming army is mighty, fight to the death and never retreat!"

The soldiers behind Cao Xiong also shouted, and soon the roar of the soldiers of the three armies was heard from the entire Ming army position. The loud voice only shocked the Tatars who rushed up.

However, Mu Tai and other Tatar generals in the lead also saw Li Huan's handsome flag. Shuai Qi pointed his finger and roared loudly: "Warriors of Changshengtian, kill me!"

Li Huan looked at it getting closer and closer with a calm expression, and could even clearly see the ferocious and ferocious faces on the horse.

Suddenly Li Huan shouted, "Give me a hard bang!"

As the torrent of Tatar cavalry entered the bombardment range of the artillery, and with Li Huan's order, hundreds of artillery immediately roared.

The gunpowder smoke billowed, filled the air in an instant, and a choking smell of gunpowder rushed to his face, but Li Huan stood there motionless, staring straight ahead.

I saw the torrent of Tatars who were galloping on horses seemed to hit an invisible rock. In an instant, tens of hundreds of Tatars fell off their horses, screaming and wailing for a while. The sound came, but under the gallop of thousands of horses, the Tatar soldier who fell off the horse first or was injured by the horse under him, and the Tatar soldier who was frightened and threw the Tatar on him directly off the horse only had time to let out a few screams. He was trampled into mud by the horses rushing up behind him.

The shelling effect of the artillery can only be said to be not bad. Hundreds of cannons only had time to fire two waves, and there was no time to fire the cannons, because the Tatars had already rushed forward under the artillery fire.

However, after these two waves of artillery bombardment, almost hundreds of Tatars died on the spot. Not too many were directly bombarded to death, but there were quite a few people who fell from their horses and were trampled to death due to injuries or frightened horses.

Although I know that the Ming army's firearms are sharp, but Mutai never expected to encounter so many artillery here. You must know that the artillery will only carry a large amount of artillery when it encounters a large group of Ming army infantry due to the inconvenience of operation. artillery.

As for the fact that cavalry rarely carry artillery, in the impression of Mutai, Rudal and even Dayan Khan, Li Huan was in command of cavalry, so he never considered artillery at all.

It's just that Mutai and Rudal forgot that Li Huan was in command of cavalry, and indeed he didn't bring any artillery, but Li Huan couldn't hold back when he broke through Anhua City, and Cao Xiong, who was the general soldier of Ningxia Lead tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to help.

Under such circumstances, it is not uncommon for Li Huan to produce hundreds of cannons, so he was hit in the head and almost stunned these Tatars.

That is to say, the number of artillery is not enough. If it is really possible to gather hundreds of large and small artillery, the Tatars may not be able to repel the offensive of the Tatars if they come to a wave without any precautions.

"Archers, fire guns!"

With an order, the gunners and archers who had been waiting for a long time started their actions one after another, and the Tatar side also shot the arrows in their hands.

For a moment, arrows from both sides shot at each other like rain.

Another burst of screams came. In contrast, the Ming side had long been on guard. Even a wall high as a person would have the effect of covering up. In addition, the Ming side was on the defensive, and many soldiers directly set up shields and even wooden planks. So when this wave of arrows rained down, apart from being unlucky and being shot, there were very few soldiers who were actually killed or injured.

But the Tatars were different. Hundreds of people fell down in one wave.

Even though these hundreds of people seem insignificant compared to the tens of thousands of galloping horses, but counting the men and horses who died under the shelling earlier, the Tatars have already lost nearly a thousand people just before rushing to the earth wall. There are so many people.

Such a loss of the wooden platform is not clear. After all, no one is in the mood to care about how many troops have been lost at the moment. Huan's head was chopped off.

A few arrows shot at him were chopped off with a knife, and the wooden platform pulled the reins suddenly, and the horse under him jumped up, and easily crossed the one-person-high earth wall.

As the wooden platform galloped over the earthen wall, countless Tatars rushed over and jumped up in the next moment.

It was just a human-high earthen wall. To be honest, it was really not an obstacle. For these Tatars who were born on horseback since childhood, riding a horse over this earthen wall was as easy and ordinary as eating.

However, when they crossed the earthen wall and the horse landed on the ground, the faces of the Tatar soldiers who were originally riding on the horses all changed drastically.

Those who reacted quickly enough jumped up from the horse, while those who reacted slowly screamed in terror and landed directly with the horse beneath them.

Seeing the distance of about a foot behind the earth wall, a half-person-deep trench was dug out of the ground. It is obvious that these trenches were deliberately left after the earth wall was built and soil was collected. The thick barbed stake of a baby's arm.

The tops of the half-person-high wooden piles were sharply sharpened, and at a glance, a trench was densely packed with wooden piles.

It is conceivable that under such circumstances, the Tatars who just leaped over the earthen wall could only watch the horses or themselves being pierced by wooden stakes.

All of a sudden, the neighing of war horses could be heard endlessly, and the screams of war horses being pierced could be heard everywhere.

A group of soldiers of the Ming army who had already retreated more than ten feet away saw this scene clearly. They saw that no less than hundreds of war horses had fallen in that trench, so at least hundreds of Tatars were killed or injured.

Even the wooden platform who took the lead had to abandon the mount under him, jumped up the moment the horse fell, rolled on the spot to avoid a few arrows shot at him, stabilized his figure, and looked around ferociously Searching for Li Huan's handsome flag.

"found it!"

The personal guards of the wooden platform are all the elite among the Tatars. Among the dozens of personal guards, only a dozen or so unlucky ghosts were shot and killed on the spot by the arrows of the Ming army. It can be said that no one died because of the wooden stake in the trench. I lost my life.

"Follow me to get Li Huan's head."

It is obviously unrealistic to expect a ditch to stop the Tatars. With the shouts of the Tatars, the prepared Tatars will naturally not suffer heavy losses in the ditch after destroying the earth wall.

Dozens of Tatars directly gave up their mounts, and then Mutai and his guards got on their horses and rushed straight to Li Huan's handsome flag.

Li Huan's attention was more on controlling the overall situation, and he didn't pay much attention to the wooden platform.

Mutai was not a fool either, he didn't put up the flag of the commander in an upright manner like Li Huan, but charged forward under the protection of his personal guards like ordinary Tatars.

Under such circumstances, it is really difficult to find Mutai, the commander-in-chief of the army, among the army.

But at this moment, after finding the trace of Li Huan, Mutai rushed towards Li Huan with his bodyguard and a group of Tatars excitedly, and roared at the bodyguard beside him, "Give me Raise the banner, and save that little Li Huan who died at the hands of someone."

Following Mutai's order, the flag of Mutai was erected high. Originally, Mutai's group was quite eye-catching when they rushed to the front. With the flag being raised, It immediately attracted the attention of many people.

Li Huan's eyes naturally fell on the big flag.

Standing by Li Huan's side, Cao Xiong recognized the big flag with just one glance, and couldn't help but be surprised and excited and said to Li Huan: "General, look quickly, it's the Wanhu of the Tatars. The big banner, the leader is probably the ten thousand household officer of this Tatar army, Mutai."

Li Huan smiled a little when he heard this, and when his eyes fell on Mutai, a flash of excitement flashed in his eyes, and he subconsciously clenched the extremely heavy spear in his hand.

"shoot!"

Following Li Huan's brief words, a wave of arrows rained down. Of the more than a hundred Tatars headed by Mutai, only a dozen fell down. Demonstrated extremely astonishing strength.

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