The Ming army gave up the first position and retreated to the third line of defense for a short rest.

On the artillery position in the rear, the artillery was red at this time and launched a fierce shelling based on the first line of defense. Because the Tatar soldiers were congested in a narrow area, basically no less than ten people could be killed by each gun falling.

As for the Ming officers and soldiers on the second-tier positions, the task is even simpler. They only need to fire at the messy frontier positions after the big explosion.

Due to the violent explosion before, the first position abandoned by the Ming army had been blown up to pieces. It was very difficult for the Tatar cavalry to rush here and then continue to move forward. Because the combat area was too narrow, and the Ming munitions were invincible, the Tatars used horses and soldiers' corpses to build a temporary advantage. Even when they encountered major problems, these corpses became obstacles to the cavalry's continued progress.

"boom"

"Bang bang"

The sound of the horse hooves of the Tatar cavalry and the shouts of the soldiers were basically covered by the sound of the Ming munitions firing. The Ming army took the courage to try the desperate situation, and each soldier shot as much as possible forward. They knew that behind them was the Yuxi River and had no way to retreat. Even if they could swim across the river by chance, it would be a dead end, because there was no reinforcements from their own opposite the river, and only the Tatars' rangers were waiting.

Shen Xi was still standing on the platform behind the third trench, which was less than 150 meters away from the battlefield, with many stray arrows. When the Tatars were blocked from the road ahead and could not ride horses to sprint towards the second position of the Ming army, they could only shoot arrows in front, trying to shoot a large number of Ming army musketeers.

Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty's positions were very well prepared for crossbows. Not only were there earthen walls made of sand and earth bags used as basic defense, but there were also trenches to avoid them. The bows and arrows shot by the Tatars could not cause substantial damage to the Ming army behind the earth wall.

The defense of the second front was stronger than the first. A large number of horse pits, mines, caltrops and horse-repellents were arranged between the two fronts. Moreover, the trenches after the explosion formed a natural obstacle. The Tartars had to cross the corpses piled up into hills, jump into the deep ditch in front, and then climb up the gully again and continue charging forward. What greeted them was a rain of bullets.

Without the powerful and lasting impact of the war horses, the Tatars were like poisonous snakes with their teeth removed, and there was no threat to the Ming army's positions. It seemed as if they were trapped in a swamp quagmire, and it was very difficult to advance and retreat.

"Sir, the Tartars have been trapped by us. This is a good opportunity to fight back!"

As the front-line commander, Liu Xu was standing behind Shen Xi at this time. He was holding a musket in his hand, but it was not an ordinary Folang machine gun, but a modified long-barrel smoothbore gun.

Shen Xi glanced back at Liu Xu and shouted sternly: "Stay in the position, no attack without my order! Repel the enemy in front of you first!"

Liu Xu almost shouted "Decree" at the top of his throat, and then fired at the Tartars with a smoothbore rifle.

This scene made Wang Lingzhi, who only had a sabre in his hand, extremely jealous. He pouted with grievance, wishing he could go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make contributions. Unfortunately, Shen Xi did not open the back door for him, so he could not show his close combat heroic posture of being able to surrender to ten times with one force.

Even in the dark, due to the continuous attack of artillery on the Ming army's defense line, more than ten big trees in front of the original front line position quickly dried up and ignited, just like more than ten large torches standing, illuminating the front line position forward and back.

The smoke rolls, and the sound of killing shook the sky!

The Tatars were like crazy, rushing forward and falling down, and the bodies were piled up like mountains and the war horses could not be crossed.

The way of departure was blocked, and the Tatar cavalry had no choice but to jump off their horses and rush forward with their big swords and spears. Unfortunately, they were greeted with dense bullets. Even if the people fell in rows, they were still unable to get to the subsequent positions of the Ming army.

The second position of the Ming army in front of the Tartars seemed to be a killing machine with clear missions, devouring life freely.

In the dark night, the Tatars were terrified and rushed forward without fear, but they just gave up their lives unjustly, which was useless.

...

...

Tuluborot said that the leader launched the charge, but he blocked his war horses when he approached the Ming army's position about half a mile, trying to observe the loopholes in the Ming army's defense line.

However, at this time, as the big trees in front of the position burn one after another, they observe from the light to the dark, their vision will be seriously affected, and there is no way to judge the situation.

At the same time, the Folang machine cannon, which had previously focused on bombarding front-line positions and had not shelled deep, once again covered the shells about one mile ahead of the position.

The war horse under his crotch was frightened and stood up, almost throwing Tuluborot off his horse.

After finally stabilizing the war horse, Tuluborot looked around and saw that the guards were hit by artillery shells and fell down next to him. He quickly realized one thing, that is, the Ming army had already gained a foothold behind the second position, and the opponent could not only shoot at the Tatar soldiers who charged at close range, but also began to take into account the medium and long-distance artillery attacks.

"In the dark night, I can't even understand what the Ming army's defense line is. Continue to rush down aimlessly, isn't it like dying?"

Turuborot could not see any hope of victory, and he couldn't help but feel timid in the battle. He couldn't help looking back. The troops of Susuha, who had sent someone to mock him, didn't follow him at all, as if he was hiding beside him and watching the fun.

"The situation is not right for the big prince... The troops of the National Division did not keep up. It is difficult for us, a team of ten thousand people, to capture the Ming army's position alone! Will the troops be withdrawn?"

The Imperial Guards of the Qiexue Army beside Tuluborot are basically held by the children of tribal nobles and will not charge like ordinary soldiers.

"Big Prince, this is so dark that I don't know what the situation is on the Ming army's position. At the same time, due to the burning of these big trees, our side is in the bright and the enemy is in the dark. In addition, the piles of corpses like mountains, the impact of the cavalry is completely unable to be exerted... Let's stop the troops!"

As more and more guards around Tuluborot died, the number of people persuading them was also increasing.

Tuluborot was very embarrassed, but at this time he understood that if he retreated, he would inevitably be despised by Batumonk when he returned to the camp.

Thinking of this, he raised the saber in his hand and shouted: "Continue to rush, we are descendants of the Cang Wolf and the White Deer, and never turn around easily! If you don't slaughter the prey, the prey will become hunters who prey on us!"

At this moment, Tuluborot had no way out. In fact, the place he is now is not safe. Even if a shell explodes around him, with the lethality of the lead shell shot from the Furang machine cannon, he will undoubtedly die... The bad situation forces him to attack.

Many people had already developed the intention to retreat, but now Tuluborot insisted on attacking. As the guards, they could only be forced to charge in that place full of killing and corpses. The shouts of killing were once again earth-shaking... This time, Tuluborot's more than 3,000 followers were charging, including a thousand Qixue Army guards.

"boom……"

Unfortunately, the terrain restricted the performance of the Tatar cavalry, and the same problem was still the case. The Tatar cavalry could not sprint and could not increase their speed. Faced with the rain of bullets, they could only die in vain. As the Folang machine shells and flowering bullets exploded one after another, Tuluborot's personal follower began to fall in batches.

Soon Tuluborot led his troops to the first position of the Ming army. At this time, the war horses and the corpses of the Tatars in front of him had been piled up four or five meters high, and the war horses were simply insurmountable. Blood was flowing on the ground, and the smell of blood was pungent.

At this time, Tuluborot faced two choices. One was to dismount, climb the mountain of corpses in front of him, and move forward with the bullets in front of him, and the second was to retreat and fight again at the right time.

Tuluborot did not have the courage to retreat after all. He shouted "dismount", and then climbed up with his hands and feet. As a result, a string of bullets came, overturning his helmet directly. The huge impact force pushed Tuluborot backwards and rolled down the mountain of corpses.

Several guards were dying and rushed up to help Tuluborot up, only to find that he was only scratched by the helmet on his cheeks, which was not seriously injured.

"Big Prince, retreat!"

One of the guards begged, Tuluborot's heart was shrouded in a huge shadow of death. When he turned around, he saw that the soldiers beside him were at the end of his strength. A large number of people were hiding at the foot of the mountain of corpses and were unwilling to continue rushing forward, as if there was only death and no honor in front of him.

Another war with a dangerous start but the process and result are one-sided.

The Tatars had no choice but to have no choice but to prevent the subsequent cavalry from attacking. This seemingly unsurprising war ended with no suspense. Shen Xi led the troops like this. He never reasoned with others, and Victory would always stand on his side.

Tuluborot was defeated, and he could have predicted the outcome before the war started, because from the beginning he did not think that this kind of impact would have a strong fortifications. The Ming army's muskets and cannons were too powerful, and even if they rushed up to fight for close combat, they had no chance of winning.

Turuborot did not choose to stay on the battlefield to fight to the death. Although he was very reluctant, he still chose to withdraw his troops. When the troops retreated to the Tatar camp, less than one-third of the 10,000 troops attacked came back.

Moreover, the people who came back were more or less injured. If they were not injured, it means that the soldier did not enter the range of the Ming Dynasty firearms.

Batumonk personally went to the school ground to greet him. When Turuborot wanted to kneel down and apologize to Dayankhan, the hero on the grassland did not let his son kneel down, but pulled him up directly, then hugged him hard, patting his son's back and saying nothing.

However, Susuha, who came back one earlier, looked at this scene with a sarcastic look, as if he was ridiculous about Tuluborot's failure.

No one went to clean the battlefield because the battlefield was in a place where they were not close to them. The Ming army would not allow them to transport the bodies away. Those bodies would become barriers for the Ming army. It would be even more difficult to use cavalry to attack the Ming army's defense line.

"Release the account and discuss matters!"

Batumonk's order was issued that the Khans's meeting, which was not held before the war, would be held after the end of this round of war.

As a defeated general, Turuborot felt very sad, but what made him feel more unacceptable than losing troops was that he was likely to face his father's accusations and even threaten his position as the heir to the Khan.

All the senior officials of the Khanate came to the golden tent, and no one cared about whether the Ming army would fight back. Batumonk just left a few hundred families to guard the camp outside the camp, summoning the main generals to a meeting, and the tent was illuminated by many candlesticks.

"Sweat!"

Before the meeting began, everyone saluted Batumonk, and his tone was still respectful as before.

After two consecutive failures, it seemed that the hearts of the people in the Dayan tribe were twisted into pieces and they were even more looking forward to Batumonk. After all, this was the greatest figure that emerged in the Northern Yuan Dynasty in more than 100 years, and the revival master who had the most chance to lead the tribes of the grassland into the Central Plains.

Batumonk turned around and raised his hand: "There was no failure today, but we paid a greater price than the enemy and eroded part of their positions. With another battle, we can completely destroy the Ming army! As long as Chen Xi died in battle, the Ming Dynasty would no longer be able to threaten the grassland, and we can have decades of rest and recuperation!"

Dayan Khan's words contained a lot of information. At the first glance, Batumonk showed his confidence in continuing the decisive battle and told those present not to retreat easily.

Of course, no one present was willing to give up. They hoped to win under Batumonk's leadership, at least relieve the cowardly in their hearts.

Secondly, Batumonk shows that there is only one battle left in the future, that is, the final decisive battle. This battle will kill Chen Xi and will not continue to attack the Ming Dynasty, but will withdraw troops to recuperate. In the future, it may unify the grassland tribes, but will never start a war with the Ming Dynasty. They will spend a peaceful life in the next few decades.

Susuha asked in confusion: "Khan, after we eliminated Chenxi, no one in the Ming Dynasty could stop our army. In this case, we can continue to attack the cities and villages to the south, plunder the population and livestock of the Ming Dynasty, and advance eastward, and even capture their emperors and capture their capital!"

"The national teacher is right!"

Many people present were depressed and felt depressed. They thought that there would be a huge price to defeat Chen Xi, so they had to continue to expand the results of the battle. No one was willing to make a huge sacrifice to get rid of Chen Xi, but their final choice was to withdraw their troops. This would make it meaningless, because even if they did not lose all their troops in the next battle and destroyed Chen Xi's troops, they did not think they had made a profit in this battle.

The Khan army has lost seven or eight thousand troops now, which is just a sacrifice in two battles. In the future, it is necessary to completely eradicate the camp in Chenxi, and the losses may be greater.

Batumonk looked gloomy: "Don't I want to enter the Central Plains? If the first battle of the Iron Armored Formation can win, there may be hope, but how many people have we brought in total? Now there are thousands of losses. If we break through the opposite camp and kill Chen Xi, we may lose more than twice as many people! At that time, we still have troops to continue fighting with the Ming army? The Ming Dynasty only made a Chen Xi, which caused heavy losses to the grassland athletes. You must know that even if we kill Chen Xi, we will not be able to shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. We will still have to face the subsequent Ming Dynasty wars in turn!"

The generals present didn't look so good, and they were obviously very upset about the huge losses they had before.

In the eyes of these people, the fundamental reason for the failure of this war is that Susuha and Turuborot are improperly commanded on the spot, and they will not put the blame on Dayankhan.

Of course, no one foolishly jumped out to question it. After all, Turuborot and Susuha are now second only to Dayan Khan in the entire Dayan tribe.

But one person was ungrateful and stood up to express his opinion: "It was because of the eldest brother who retreated in the last moment that the blood of the Golden Family was shamed!"

The person who spoke was the third prince, Balsborot, and only he would be so impulsive that he actually blatantly accused his brother at the meeting of the Khan ministry. There was only one reason. Among the people present, he had the opportunity to compete with Tuluborot for the throne of Khan. This accusation was reasonable, because he hoped that his father would blame his brother, and it would be better to deprive Tuluborot of the power of his heirs, so that he would have the chance to take over.

"Shut up!"

Tuluborot didn't say anything, but Batumonk shouted sternly.

Ballsborot looked at his father with surprise, as if he didn't understand why I was blamed for winning, but my elder brother led his troops with such a huge casualty, and he returned in a panic, but he wanted to speak for him?

Batumonk said: "Turu led the way in this battle. Didn't you see the blood on his face and body? He made a lot of effort to shake Chen Xi's iron barrel array for each of my grasslands... I wonder if anyone except him, who had forced Chen Xi to give up his position and even kill so many people led by Chen Xi?"

No one can answer this question. In fact, many people understand that Tuluborot did not have done anything wrong, but Batumonk made his son's excuse. After all, Tuluborot is the heir of the future Khan tribe. No one is willing to let his heir be embarrassed in front of others, even if the heir did make a mistake.

Batumonk continued: "In this battle, we should see that the Ming army's positions are not unbreakable. Now we have broken their first line of defense, and the second line of defense has fallen. If they still want to use the second line of defense as a support, then we can easily break into the next battle."

After hearing this, the people present basically understood.

It seems that Tuluborot failed, but tonight's attack still killed many Ming Dynasty troops, and at the same time it completely failed the first line of defense of the Ming Dynasty, and the second line of defense may be difficult to support. As a result, Chen Xi can play fewer and fewer cards in his hand.

Even if Turuborot did not meet the request of Dayan Khan to break through the Ming army camp, it seems that there is no gain.

Balesborot didn't want to bother with his father about his brother's merits and demerits, and said, "Please give me a chance. In the next battle, I will lead my thousands of troops and completely destroy the Ming army camp... I don't believe that the Ming people's positions were made of steel!"

Batumonk fell silent for a moment, and others were silent, as if waiting for Dayankhan to give his third son an answer.

After a while, Batumonk nodded: "I will give you a chance to show off, but you must remember that you must not retreat in this battle, otherwise you will not forgive you if your father!"
To be continued...