Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1262 Wall Charge
Seeing the Ming army cavalry rushing towards them behind them, the Mongols could not escape.

Although Wu Keshan was unwilling in his heart, he had no choice but to rein in the horse and stop to meet the enemy, otherwise the entire Horqin would be finished.

With a "babble", Wu Keshan suddenly pulled out his scimitar, looked at the Mongolian warrior behind him, and said loudly without any nonsense, "For the great Mongolia!"

After hearing the words, many Mongolian warriors understood what the Great Khan meant, and raised their scimitars one after another, but they didn't speak, they just stared at Wu Keshan.

The latter glanced slowly and saw the immature and old faces with mixed feelings in his heart. He pointed the knife at the Ming army who was charging, and shouted loudly, "Meet the enemy!"

After finishing speaking, he pulled the reins of his horse and ran to the back of the team. The Mongol warriors also knew that now they could only fight. If the Ming people took their cattle and sheep, they would starve to death in the wilderness of the Northland.

The horn sounded, and a magnificent war scene was staged on the Horqin Grassland.

The horse army of the Ming army rushed towards the Mongols like a flood, and was about to drown the Horqin people fleeing on the grassland. At this time, with the sound of the horn, the men of Horqin stepped on their horses one after another, facing the rebellion against the migrating troops. The directions converged and launched a head-on charge against the Ming army.

The Mongolian men guarding the herdsmen, cattle and sheep on both sides turned their horses' heads one after another, raised their scimitars, and roared, "Longevity is God! Bless the children of the grassland!"

As Wu Keshan ran back to meet the Ming army, there were more and more Mongols behind him. When he separated from the herdsmen and sheep, there were already [-] Horqin warriors behind his sweat flag.

The Mongolian women and children, driving the vehicles, looked back and saw the men turning to meet the enemy one after another. They were about to fight the powerful Ming Dynasty people and buy them time to escape. They couldn't help crying.

However, this kind of thing happened from time to time on the grasslands. Mongolian women are extremely strong. They whipped their horsewhips and drove the vehicles eagerly, so they couldn't let the efforts of the men be in vain.

An old woman with a wrinkled face was sitting in the car, and she embraced the young children in her arms, holding their heads tightly.

After breaking away from the herdsmen, Wu Keshan reined in his horse, and the Mongolian cavalry behind him immediately gathered behind the Khan flag, and in a short while there appeared a formation of front arrows with fewer fronts and more rears.

At this time, the Ming army was advancing like a wall, and the cavalry on each wall were close together, and the distance between the cavalry in the same row was only three feet. You must kill the Ming army who is coming head-on, otherwise you will be knocked into the air by the Ming army.

And there are not only one such wall, there are twenty walls in total, and the distance between each wall is about ten steps.

"Fight to the death!" Seeing that the Ming army was approaching, only two miles away, Wu Keshan pointed his sword, and the Mongolian warriors behind him raised their weapons and roared, "Fight to the death!"

The [-] Mongolian cavalry immediately began to charge forward, and the horses began to jog, then slowly accelerated, and finally reached the extreme.

Seeing this, the cavalry of the Ming army also speeded up one after another. The cavalry in the first row wore breastplates and ghost masks on their faces. The heads of the horses were also wrapped in armor.

The body of the cavalry rises and falls with the horses, blending into one body. The cavalry in the front row advances side by side, and the sharp horses and three-eyed guns are also on the same line.

Tan Tai and other famous generals saw the Mongolian cavalry speeding up. He sneered, and unconsciously clamped his legs on the horse's belly, and swung his whip to speed up.

The Mongols lined up in an arrow formation, galloped their horses, and came to meet the Ming army.This formation can concentrate the strength of the Mongols, just like a sharp arrow that disperses the Ming army.

In fact, the Mongols are all light cavalry. They are better at cavalry, shooting and harassment. Fighting on the vast grasslands is not suitable for frontal hedging.

But at this time, if they didn't block the Ming army cavalry head-on, then the Ming army cavalry would not fight with them, but would directly pounce on the Mongolian cattle, sheep and herdsmen.

It was difficult for the Ming army to transport food on the grasslands. The Mongols lost their cattle and sheep, so they had no chance to transport them and could only starve to death.

Wu Keshan had no choice but to use the inferiorly equipped Mongolian cavalry to confront the well-equipped Ming cavalry.

"Kill them all!" Tan Tai couldn't help roaring when he saw the Mongolian cavalry approaching and seeing the herdsmen driving their vehicles and flocks north.

The cavalry of the two sides rushed towards each other at a fast speed without any sign of stopping.

Tens of thousands of hooves trampled on the ground, splashing pieces of dust, and the impact of Ma Jun's ground shaking, like a mountain torrent, shook the entire Horqin Grassland.

Since Emperor Chengzu attacked Mongolia in the north, the Ming Dynasty never used so many cavalry to go deep into the Mongolian grassland.

The sound of "bang bang bang" sounded, and a dense group of projectiles was shot out with the power of gunpowder. The oncoming Mongolian cavalry immediately turned their backs, and the Ming army also fell from their horses one after another under the arrows of the Mongols.

However, the Ming army was well-equipped, and many arrows were shot at the body, but most of them were bounced away. The arrows of the Mongols could not break the breastplate of the Ming army, but could only cause damage to some unimportant parts. Knock down a piece of Mongolia.

In this confrontation, the Ming army had the upper hand, but before the soldiers had time to be happy, the two armies had already collided.

Because the formation of the Ming army was too tight and the gap between the horses was too small, when the two sides collided, the soldiers were immediately hit and thrown away.

Two torrents of steel collided fiercely, pierced by spears, swung with blunt objects, screams of people and neighing of war horses were intertwined, and snowflakes bloomed in clusters, which almost made people collapse.

The Mongols' scimitars had obvious disadvantages when facing the breastplate of the Ming army. The front of the arrow array immediately seemed to hit the iron plate, but fortunately they still pierced through the first wall, only after they broke through In an instant, the Ming cavalry on the second wall raised their horses.

A Mongolian centurion slashed a Ming army cavalry to death with a knife, and came out through the wall. The knife was still held high and did not retract, but the cavalry on the second wall stabbed at him with their horses straight. He wanted to avoid it, but this Next to the cavalrymen of the Ming Dynasty, there were also cavalrymen with straight horses like him.

The Ming army cavalry lined up closely, as if he had bumped into a fast-advancing gun forest on his horse. Before he had time to react, he was stabbed off the horse by a spear and fell heavily to the ground.

The Mongolian cavalry puts more emphasis on personal bravery and riding and shooting ability, but the Ming army is different. The Ming army is not as good as the Mongols in riding and riding and shooting, but the Ming army has strict discipline, relying on collective strength.

The cavalry of the Ming army advanced like a wall, and the Mongols broke through five walls in a row. However, in the entire arrow formation, the Mongolian cavalry who rushed as arrows all died on the way to charge.

In the original charge, because the gap between the cavalry and the cavalry was large, the two sides could pass by each other, and the horses passed through the gap. During a hedge, there was no need to fight against any opponent they met. However, the Ming army lined up in a wall, and the Mongols in front Every time they hit a block, one Ming army needs to be defeated, and it is impossible for a Mongolian warrior to defeat five Ming troops in a row, and he may be blown away by the Ming army's firecrackers before contact.

Wu Keshan, who was among the cavalry, saw that the Ming army was like a mudslide, and as many Mongolian cavalrymen crashed into it, they were swallowed up. He was extremely frightened.

He didn't know that this was actually a duel between the cavalry that was close to modernization and the traditional cavalry.

When Wang Yan inspected the racecourse at the beginning, Zhang Cunren and others proposed to highlight the advantages of the Ming army, emphasize the discipline of the army, and attach importance to the ability of the group. Later, in the internal competition of the Ming army, the cavalry of Qin Shangxing and Zhao Shenkuan were defeated by Zhang Cunren For cavalry training, the Ming army began to adopt a new training method, focusing on the discipline and organization of cavalry, and strengthening the role of low-level officers, instead of emphasizing personal bravery and riding and shooting abilities.

When Wu Keshan saw the Mongolian cavalry, it was like a sharp arrow hitting the iron plate. If the arrow broke, the wooden pole behind it would naturally not be able to pierce the iron plate.

"Order, withdraw!"

The sound of horns soared into the sky, and the Mongolian cavalry immediately pulled the reins of the horses, causing the horses to change direction and disperse to both sides with their superb riding skills, but the Mongolians rushing ahead did not have time to change directions, and the Ming army crushed them like a wall. He came up, wiped out the cavalry he collided with, and broke through the Mongols' block in a moment.

At this time, the Horqin herdsmen hadn't gone far, and there was a great achievement waiting for Tan Tai. He ignored the Mongolian cavalry who were counting towards the two sides, pointed his sword, and led the cavalry to pounce on the Mongolian herdsmen.

The cavalry of the Ming army are like a group of hungry wolves, rushing towards the sheep who have no ability to resist, while Wu Keshan and the Mongols scattered on the two wings are like shepherd dogs protecting the sheep. They watched the wolves rush towards the sheep. The flock wanted to protect the flock, but they didn't dare to step forward to stop them, so they could only bark on both sides, trying to scare the wolves away, but the wolves ignored them and ran directly into the flock.

The Mongolian cavalry scattered on both sides regained their advantage, turned around, rode and shot from a long distance, harassed the Ming army, and did not fight head-on with the Ming army. When the Ming army chased them, they fled immediately, but came back after a while They harassed and stopped the Ming army, but the Ming army broke into the Mongolian herdsmen.

The Ming army came up from behind and slashed left and right with swords. Blood flowed into rivers on the grassland. Fear made the Mongols in front no longer able to go to the flock. They beat their horses desperately and drove their vehicles to flee for their lives.

Shunzhi and Bumbutai kept bumping into the carriage in the bumps, and the carriage was mixed with the fleeing team and galloped crazily. Suddenly, the wheel of the carriage hit a raised stone, and the whole carriage flew up. When landing and walking forward, Fulin, who was still in shock, saw a figure rolling out from behind, but it was Bumbutai who was thrown flying.

Fulin saw her body rolling on the lawn, and immediately cried out in pain, "Er Niang~" But the carriage didn't stop, and Bumbutai disappeared after a while...
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