Wu Sangui was too familiar with this sound. He had been carrying cavalry for his whole life, so he naturally knew that this sound was the vibration of the war horses charging. But the vibration is too loud now, and there are tens of thousands of cavalry rushing towards him.

Wu Sangui quickly raised his head and watched around. At this time, he saw a cavalry circling from a distance after the Ming army formation, rushing towards his flank at full speed.

Wu Sangui was shocked when he saw this cavalry and shouted: "Heavy Cavalry! When did the Ming army have heavy cavalry?" Wu Sangui knew the tactics of cavalry. Heavy cavalry has many shortcomings, such as low efficiency ratio, inconvenient mobility, too large turning radius, and it is easy to be trampled by light cavalry, etc. However, one advantage of heavy cavalry is that it will last forever, that is, the heavy cavalry with full speed charge has a huge lethality to infantry. And his own army is now stuck with the Ming army, completely losing the advantage of light cavalry. What is the difference between this and infantry?

The right wing of the Qing army was Wu Sangui's younger brother Wu Sanmei. He also saw this extremely burning heavy cavalry. The horses of these people were very tall, and the general in black-clad black armor at the front was even tall and big. His horse was like a monster. He really didn't expect that there were such a big horse in the Central Plains.

Wu Sanmei was about to organize the soldiers to resist, but it was too late. The heavy cavalry of the Ming army, like a hot knife cutting butter, used Zhao Hu as an arrow to form a wedge-shaped formation and cut into the flanks of the Ming army.

The lethality of heavy cavalry does not come from the weapons they carry, but from the weight. A horse and a knight are half a ton of weight. A half ton of weight plus a speed of fifty or sixty kilometers per hour can imagine what it would be like to be hit by a car with a speed of sixty kilometers per hour. As an arrow, Zhao Hu weighs one ton of horse, which is no longer a car, but a truck level.

Wherever this heavy cavalry passed, all the Qing troops blocking the road were knocked away, spitting blood lightly, and more were killed and injured.

When Wu Sangui saw this heavy cavalry coming towards him, he was shocked and quickly turned his head to escape. Wu Sangui knew that heavy cavalry could not last long. As long as he led the cavalry to distance himself from them, he could use harassment to kill the Ming army.

But Wu Sangui forgot what qualities he is under his command. If the 50,000 Qing troops under his command were all Liaodong Iron Cavalry or the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, he could still understand the leadership intentions. But Wu Sangui forgot that the Qing troops under his command were all from Shaanxi. This Qing army in Shaanxi used to be the border army of the Ming army. What qualities do they have? It's okay to fight a smooth battle. Such difficult battlefield maneuver is not something these locals can play.

Therefore, Wu Sangui's running in the coaching flag also retreated. In ancient battlefields, they would be brave enough for soldiers, and all the officials ran away. Who would still work for you? When these Qing soldiers saw that Wu Sangui had run away, they immediately rode on their horses and stopped fighting with the Ming army, and they all withdrew from the battlefield one after another.

If the Ming army on the opposite side were all infantry, there was no hope of chasing them. No matter how fast you ran, would you be as fast as a horse? I'm so happy that the Ming army on the opposite side was also a cavalry. Although they were infantry riding horses, they also had horses, right?

When Li Yuanyin saw that the Qing army was about to run, he immediately ordered all the soldiers to get on the horse and chase behind. Wu Sangui's strategy of trying to distance himself from the distance completely failed. The Ming army had a good horsepower just now, and the pursuit was easy. The Qing army ran away and fired guns. When the Qing army stopped and wanted to resist the Ming army, they dismounted and played the big formation. Then Zhao Hu's heavy cavalry made trouble on the side.

Wu Sangui was playing with this combination of punches and was about to die. In the end, Wu Sangui had no choice but to take his only five thousand Liaodong cavalry to leave the large army and run away alone.

The officials ran away with the remaining Qing army without a leader and immediately fled in all directions. The Ming army led by Li Yuanyin won the first big victory.

This was the first time that Li Yuanyin led his troops independently and won. Li Yuanyin was overjoyed and was about to continue chasing. However, Zhao Hu said beside him: "Master General, this Qing army has been killed and has no will to resist. If he pursues it, there will be no result in any battle. The emperor is still waiting for us to rescue him!"

"General Zhao, the information of the Jinyiwei said that the Qing army had only 50,000 people, and the ones we defeated just now were 50,000. It should be the main force of the Qing army. Wouldn't it be safe for us to eliminate the main force of the Qing army?"

"Master, the information of the Jinyiwei is not accurate. If this is the main force of the Qing army, Your Majesty cannot issue an order overnight to let us go. The last general estimates that the Qing army should exceed 50,000! So the danger on Your Majesty's side has not been lifted yet!"

Li Yuanyin didn't want to listen to Zhao Hu, but he knew that he had only command over this cavalry team, and his middle-level generals were all the emperor's confidants. If he didn't save the emperor, it would be enough to drink a pot of it himself.

Li Yuanyin thought for a while and said, "Okay! General Zhao said so well, let's go to Anshan Lake in the whole team!"

On the Anshan Lake, Zhu Hongsan led 15,000 Imperial Guard Division to fight the attack of the 100,000 Qing army for a day. From morning to afternoon, Zhu Hongsan didn't even take a sip of water.

The war is very dangerous now. The cannons in Anshan have already used up their ammunition, and now they are struggling to support them by muskets. The artillery in Zhu Hongsan's camp was also halfway through fire. At this time, the shortcomings of the steel cast cannon were reflected. The ductility of steel is not as good as bronze. Although the weight may be lighter than bronze cannons, it is easy to explode during high-intensity combat. This is how the Ming army is now. A total of 108 cannons have been exploded, and there are seven or eight more fired times, and cracks in the barrel cannot be used. Now there are less than sixty cannons that can still be used normally, but the ammunition is almost exhausted.

At this time, there were five or six thousand Qing troops rushing in from the lake, and they had occupied a large area of ​​the battalion. Fortunately, Li Fu was in command and could not suppress the Qing army with muskets. Otherwise, Zhu Hongsan would have failed long ago, but Zhu Hongsan also went to the battlefield in person.

There is no safe place in the camp now, and the emperor's grandson Zhu Shengduo was also sent to Zhu Hongsan by the Jinyiwei. Zhu Hongsan touched the head of the little emperor's grandson and asked, "Boy, how about it? Are you afraid of death?"

Zhu Shengduo said in his unique child voice: "Grandpa Emperor, as long as the grandson is with Grandpa Emperor, he will not be afraid of death!"

Zhu Hongsan laughed and said, "Good kid, you are much better than your father, remember, this time we can escape, grandpa will make you the prince!"

Although Zhu Hongsan said this casually, someone around the emperor noticed it. Yao Qisheng, as the emperor's secretary, was surprised that the emperor said this at this time and looked at the five or six-year-old child Zhu Shengduo with interesting interest.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the Qing army outside, sighed and asked, "Old Li, is there no movement on Li Yuanyin yet?"

Lee Chengen asked the person behind him and said, "Your Majesty, there is no movement in the west yet!"

"Well, Lao Li, I have given you a task. If you can't hold it anymore, you can bring someone to send my grandson back to Nanjing and let the prince ascend the throne!"

When Li Chengen heard the emperor talk about life and death, he was so scared that he knelt down and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, you are so lucky that you are protected by Grandpa Taizu, and you will naturally be in danger of success! Even if it doesn't work, the old slave is willing to be Wang Chengen and ascend to heaven with the Emperor!"

Zhu Hongsan smiled bitterly. No one was willing to die, but in this situation, he had no hope at all. Zhu Hongsan regretted asking the Grand Master to bring only one division as bait. It would be better to follow the main force honestly.

Just as Zhu Hongsan was considering his funeral, the reinforcements he had been looking forward to finally arrived.

Li Yuanyin brought the cavalry to five miles outside Anshan Lake. When he was far away, he heard the sound of fighting on the battlefield. Li Yuanyin was shocked when he climbed up to the high ground. Countless Qing troops were attacking the camp by the lake. It seemed that the camp was shaking, and the breaking camp was right in front of him.

Zhao Hu is Zhu Hongsan's nephew and son-in-law. He was very anxious in any aspect. Seeing the war, he quickly said: "Master, the Qing army is now in the camp. The last general requested to lead the heavy cavalry to attack the Qing army's retreat!"

Li Yuanyin nodded: "Okay, General Zhao is the vanguard, and I will lead the dragon cavalry to follow him!"

The Qing army was in charge of the west of the fierce general Obai. He was besieging the Ming army camp with his men. Suddenly, he felt the ground shaking and a horse team came.

As a senior general, Obai knew that Wu Sangui was dealing with the Ming army's cavalry just twenty miles away. According to his estimate, the Ming army was definitely not as good as Wu Sangui's Liaodong cavalry. At this time, a cavalry came, it was Wu Sangui who wiped out the Ming army and rushed over to grab the credit.

But the more you hear the sound of horse hooves, the more wrong it is. This heavy horse hooves are not available in Mongolian horses, but like heavy cavalry.

There were heavy cavalry in the Qing Dynasty. Bayala, each of their generals, was a heavy cavalry. Each of them wore three layers of heavy armor. When charging, they resisted Ming munitions in front, and were invincible. However, Obai knew that the army led by Wu Sangui was from Shaanxi, and there were no heavy cavalry at all, and even the Liaodong cavalry did not have such heavy horse hooves.

Obai became more and more suspicious, and turned his head to look west. It was already afternoon, and the sun turned west, and the direction of the sound of horse hooves was the direction of the sun, so Obai couldn't see clearly.

But as the sound of horse hooves approached, Obai saw the outlines of the opposite side clearly. The tall horse was not something that Wu Sangui could have, and the shiny armor of the knights was not something that the gang of Shaanxi were equipped with.

Oboi didn't believe that Wu Sangui could be defeated, but the facts were ahead. Oboi shouted: "The Ming army is here! Organize defense quickly!"
Chapter completed!