The warm sun is in the sky in winter.

The refugees in Tumu Fort were hungry and thirsty. They had not drunk water for a day and a night. After the Ming army broke out of the city, the refugees started to rush to the place where drinking water tanks and water jars were placed in the center of the city. Even though the garrison officers and soldiers were intimidated, they still had no effect. The refugees began to cause trouble in the city.

Outside the west gate of Tumu Fort, a mule carriage in Chenxi is moving forward.

Following the mule cart formation was the backbone infantry guarding the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Without the defense of artillery and shields, these infantry would have poor combat power under the impact of the Tatar cavalry.

"Remember, the Lord said that after a while, the Tatar cavalry came, and the spearmen immediately stabbed out. Whether it was stabbing people or horses, the movements should be neat. If the Tatar cavalry rushed into the formation, the surrounding people would immediately lie down, pull out their waists and cut off the opponent's legs, and don't stand and fight with the horse's people!"

While moving forward, the team leaders and team managers were still explaining the key points of combat to the soldiers around them.

Although the cavalry group charges are powerful, the killing and damage to infantry is mainly concentrated in the upper three routes. If the infantry lies down, as long as they are not stepped on by horses, they can avoid being killed with one blow.

If infantry can cooperate with each other at this time and spears and machetes cooperate with each other, the power of the cavalry is not as great as imagined. The key is to look at the courage and quality of the soldiers.

But at this moment, these Ming infantrymen were neatly paced and full of confidence... There was an artillery array in front, cavalry guarded on the flanks, and a shield array around them. The entire formation seemed regular and neat.

Being surrounded by the middle of the team, you can't feel the fear at all. The people in the middle can only see the dark heads around, and you don't even know how far away from the Tatars.

After the two armies were two miles away, the situation became complicated because after walking a little further, the range of the Flor cannon was entered. This was the best time for the Tatars to launch an attack, but at this time Huo Yan was still observing the formation of the Ming army and did not make a decisive decision.

"Huo Ling, you can't wait any longer, just give an order! If you don't give an order, we will have to go on our own!"

The Tatar cavalry began to get restless. Although the Tatars value teamwork, they sometimes have the courage to fight. It was as if at this time, the Tatars were not afraid of war, and the warlike blood was almost boiling.

“Huha, Huha, Huha…”

The horns shouted by the Ming army became clearer and clearer.

Huo Ling looked cold. When she saw clearly that almost all the Ming troops in the city had already emerged, and there were only a few soldiers left in the city far away, her first thought was: "If there were troops and horses who could enter the city now, and then cooperate inside and outside to defeat the Ming army in front of her."

However, because the transmission efficiency of this era is not high, Huo Ling could not use it even if she discovered the weaknesses of the Ming army. Huo Ling raised her sword again and shouted: "Soldiers divide the left and right wings, kill!"

"Wu Lala!"

When the Tatar cavalry heard the order to send troops, they seemed to have been injected with chicken blood. Each of them waved a scimitar and, led by the hundreds and thousands of households in front, divided into two groups of people on the left and right wings of the Ming army.

After the Tatars attacked, the Ming army's mule carriage team stopped advancing, and the cavalry on both wings also stopped the horses. At this time, the order flag of Chenxi changed. One flag turned into two sides. As the order flag fell, the mule carriage that was originally connected began to change directions.

"preparation!"

The sound of Chenxi was drowned in the noisy waves. Although it was only a battle of more than 6,000 people, the momentum caused was extremely terrifying.

Both sides shouted loudly and encouraged themselves. The artillery carts began to adjust their direction one after another, but they still couldn't catch the Tatar cavalry.

Huo Ling had rich experience in the battle, so she decided to bypass the Ming army's battle formation directly in front, circled and encircled the two wings. In this way, when the Ming army's artillery adjusted its angle, the cavalry had entered the opponent's infantry formation and could slaughter unscrupulously.

"Wu Lala!"

"Kill!"

As the Tatar cavalry launched a charge, the artillery arranged in front of the formation in Chenxi seemed to be useless because it required a certain degree of practical adjustment of the shooting angle.

Unless Chen Xi ordered fire to a place that was about to be strangled into a group, not only the Tatar cavalry were killed or injured, but also the Ming soldiers.

However, although firing fire on one's own people can cause huge casualties to the Tatar cavalry, the blow to the Ming army's morale is immeasurable. Chen Xi would not choose such a dangerous chess, otherwise who would work for him in the future?

Huo Ling personally led the Tatar cavalry and in a blink of an eye he arrived in front of the Ming army formation. Huo Ling was in the direction at this time, on the left side of the Ming army's battle formation.

Huo Ling issued an order: "Cover the Iron Cavalry!"

The front row of heavy cavalry used heavy armor as a barrier, and the subsequent light cavalry followed immediately. Because the heavy cavalry's impact speed was not fast, the charge of the light cavalry was hindered. However, with the cover of heavy cavalry, even if there were crossbows in the Ming army formation, the killing and damage to the cavalry could be ignored.

"Sir, kill me, the Tartars are coming!"

The army supervisor Zhang Yong was following the army at this time because he didn't want to stay in the city and wait for death.

Zhang Yong was worried that the Tatars would occupy Tumu Fort after the Ming army left in full swing, so he would rather follow Chenxi than act alone.

Zhang Yong was just under Shenxi's wooden platform, surrounded by a row of shields to protect him, but he stood high and could clearly see the Tatar cavalry coming from the two wings.

The situation on the battlefield changes instantly.

Although it seemed that the Ming army had the upper hand at the beginning of the war, the change that followed was that the Tatars arrived first. The cavalry on both sides of the Ming army still did not do anything when they were less than one mile away, because Chen Xi issued a special order before departure... Since he was timid, don't go into battle. Anyway, there were few cavalry in the Ming army, and their combat effectiveness was not on the same level as that of the Tatar cavalry.

"Wu Lala!"

The Tatars shouted, and led their troops to charge faster with their right-wing Huo Ling. At this time, they were less than five hundred steps away from the Ming Dynasty's central army.

Chen Xi was calm and composed, with a sneer on his face, and then he raised the flag to make new changes.

The Ming army's method of sending orders was obviously more convenient and effective than the Tatars. With the changes in the Chenxi ruling flag, fireworks were launched. Although the colors could not be distinguished during the day, because the meaning of fireworks was agreed upon before, the Ming army soldiers only needed to follow the established orders.

Huo Ling did not rush to the front at this time, but her position was only thirty steps away from the Tatar vanguard. Those fierce Tatar cavalry could reach the Ming Dynasty in just 200 steps, and the Ming Dynasty only set up shields to block it.

Huo Ling was extremely excited. She had experienced thirty wars in all kinds of places. She had seen many such situations. Even though the Ming people's crossbowmen were passing through Yang with hundreds of steps, the front cavalry in the Tatars had iron armor protection, and the Ming army could not stop this round of attack.

Horses wearing heavy armor can directly break the shield formation under high-speed impact. As long as a gap is opened, the brave Mongolian cavalry can enter, and the Ming people's battle formation will collapse. At that time, it will be a good opportunity for the Tatars to kill wantonly, and the Ming people will no longer have the possibility of victory.

Huo Ling thought to herself: "There are less than two hundred steps. You stupid wise men are finally going to be buried with tens of thousands of grassland soldiers buried north of Yuxi River. Chenxi, you must also pay the price for your arrogance!"

With this thought, Huo Ling even began to look forward to the scene of tying Chen Xi back to the grassland after winning. For some reason, at this time she was not as angry with Chen Xi as before. She just wanted to humiliate Chen Xi and denounce him as a slave, so that he could feel the feeling of being trampled under his feet.

"Wu Lala!"

The Tatars shouted the last round of trumpets, which was also the last way to boost morale before the close contact.

Just when many Ming soldiers felt that they were going to be buried in the battlefield outside Tumu Fort, a sudden change occurred.

When the Tatars were about to assault in front of the Ming army's infantry formation in a blink of an eye, the high shield formation suddenly withdrew several large gaps, and no cavalry or infantry came out of the gap. What came out were soldiers holding something like a large bird gun in their hands.

Whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the Tatars, the first thought was that this was the musket soldiers!

There was a firearm battalion in the Ming Dynasty. In previous battles with the Tatars, firearms were used on the battlefield many times, but the effect of muskets was extremely poor, with only a dozen or even a few steps in the attack distance. The risk of blowing the chamber was very high, so it was not as good as a crossbow in terms of mobility and lethality, and was only used as auxiliary weapons.

"kill!"

Huo Ling shouted, she didn't need to command anything, because the distance between the two sides was very close at this time, and they could no longer retreat.

There were 240 musketeers on each wing of the Ming army formation, divided into three rows, each with eighty people.

The guns in the hands of these musketeers were the reduced version of the Bolang machine cannon introduced by Shen Xi. Although there is still a difference in lethality with the large Bolang machine cannon, Chen Xi has made partial improvements to its production process, making it extremely sealed and greatly improved its range, and can effectively kill within 100 steps.

"put!"

The musket soldiers finally fired the first round of bullets after the command of the officer in the leadership team.

"Bang bang bang!"

Because the launch mechanism of the mesh gun has not changed, this reduced version of the musket is still relatively slow in firing and takes a certain amount of time to load. For this reason, Chenxi specially introduced a three-stage shooting method. When the soldiers in the first row finished shooting, they immediately squatted down and replaced the bullets. The second row followed the shooting, and squatted down and replaced the third row of shooting. When the third row finished fighting and grabbing, the first row had already loaded the bullets, stood up and fired again, and repeated.

After streams of blue smoke ascended to heaven, the shotguns fired by the Flangji musket quickly cut through the air. The Tatar cavalry thought that their armor could withstand arrows and naturally resist the projectiles, but they obviously underestimated the power of the new firearm.

"call!"

After a gust of wind, a "pop" sound came from the front. Not only were the Tatar cavalry falling off the horse, but the horses were hit and fell down.

A round of fire of muskets caused more than 400 cavalrymen who charged on Huo Ling to lose more than 40 people. Even Huo Ling, who was originally from the front position, was exposed to the threat of the Ming army's muskets.

"Accelerate! Accelerate!"

Huo Ling thought that the Ming army's musketeers would withdraw to the formation to fill the bullets, and ordered the charge to accelerate, but who knew that the opponent's bullets were endless, and people around her kept falling to the ground.

Not only that, the shields were all withdrawn in the Ming army formation opposite, and five artillery pieces appeared on the north and south wings of the musketeers. These artillery pieces were still on the cart, but were not carried by mule carts, but were pulled by four civilians. Because they were mixed in the infantry team, Huo Ling had not found them at all.

There were ten Folang machine cannons on both sides in the Ming army formation. That is to say, except for the twenty Folang machine cannons at the head of the Ximen city, there were only six or seven Folang machine cannons at the other city. At this time, Tumu Fort had already started the empty city plan.

Since the Flor cannon faces the left and right sides when loading the vehicle, it only takes a slight adjustment of the angle to fire. The Tumu Fort is several dozen meters taller than the surrounding terrain, so the Tatar cavalry is actually in a state of attacking the upper reaches, while the Flor cannon is condescending and can exert its maximum power.

"dispersion!"

When Huo Ling realized that she was being plotted by Chen Xi, she could no longer care about her safety, but when she reminded her Tatar cavalry to be dispersed, it was too late.

The distance was too close, and the Tatar cavalry was consciously approaching when they were about to break the formation. They originally wanted to concentrate their superior forces, but they gave the musket soldiers and the Furang machine cannon the opportunity to fully utilize.

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ps: The first update is here!

There is another update later. There is an urgent matter at home today. The emperor went out in the morning and returned home after 7:00 in the afternoon. I am too late, please forgive me!
Chapter completed!