"Woo——"

Bang! Bang! Bang...

Following Su Nang's order, Tumut cavalry, stretching for several miles and wearing various colored furs and felts and leather armor, began to move out in response to the sound of the horn.

"Bang the drum!"

Bang! Bang! Bang...

Seeing the movement of Tumut cavalry, in the Ming army camp, Cao Wenzhao raised his hand, and nearly a thousand drummers of the Chinese army began to beat the sound of the drums. Only the red Ming army wearing mandarin duck war jackets, cotton armor, and cloth face armor only

There were one-third of the Tumut cavalry, but at this moment they stood still in the face of the oncoming cavalry.

The red clothes and the sun and moon flags of the Ming Dynasty cover the sky and the sun, and their momentum is stronger than that of millions of people.

Su Nang, dozens of Tumut lords, and more than a thousand cavalry came to a low hill on the side of the battlefield, and looked into the distance from the low hill.

Even though the sky is getting dark, the dark red Ming army can be vaguely seen like a lighthouse, and this lighthouse needs to face the charge of nearly 30,000 cavalry.

Looking down from an altitude of 10,000 meters, on the Chile River, at the foot of Yin Mountain and on the bank of the Blackwater River, two big dragons, one red and one black, are about to collide.

The "rumbling" sound of horse hooves spread throughout the battlefield, but in the ears of more than ten thousand Ming troops, there was only the sound of their own drums.

The Yulin Guards are divided into the front army and the rear army. The front army has 3,000 people and the rear army has 2,000 people. The center army is composed of more than 1,000 people transferred from other Gongwei battalions to act as drummers.

Whether they were the front army or the rear army, they all put on rifles at this moment and lined up waiting for orders.

They don't have much fear, just a little nervous.

Of course, they also had a lot of puzzles, because in their opinion, ten thousand straight iron cavalry were enough to penetrate the thirty thousand rangers. They didn't understand why General Cao ordered the formation.

Also puzzled were the Cavalry Guards on the left and right, but they all resisted asking questions and instead waited for the military order to be issued.

Compared with them, the generals in the Ming army understood better why they did this.

After all, the Tumote cavalry were rangers and horse archers. If they couldn't defeat them and tried to run away, they could catch up, but if they couldn't catch up, then the battle would be in vain.

You must first show the enemy's weakness to attract the Tumut cavalry, and then attack them head-on.

"kill--"

Thirty thousand Mongolian cavalry surrounded the Ming army like a full moon, ready to draw their bows and arrows at the next moment.

"Habayashi Guards are ready..."

The snow made the ground muddy. Although the horse could not gallop with its hooves, it could still run. Faced with such terrain, Cao Wenzhao gave the order unhurriedly.

Along with his order, the drumbeats began to change, and the first row of soldiers of the Habayashi Guards also raised their rifles.

"The Ming army has raised its blunderbuss. Send an order to all the troops. Wait for the blunderbuss to be released and prepare to shoot arrows at the fire. First, deal with the Ming army's blunderbuss hand."

On the low hill, Su Nang looked at the increasingly dark sky and decisively began to give orders.

The humai of the Tumut tribe began to sound, mixed with some special notes.

The voices of thousands of people were heard by the Tumote cavalry surrounding the Ming army. After all, they were urging the horses to circle, rather than stopping the horses.

"Let go!" As Cao Wenzhao's voice sounded, the Yulin Guard commander next to him immediately looked at the few soldiers beside him.

When these soldiers saw this, they immediately placed large bamboo tubes on the ground, and then lit the fuses.

"Bang bang bang——"

As the fuse of the bamboo tube burned out, a sound like the sound of cannons appeared, and then more than ten flames shot up into the sky, frightening the Tumut troops' horses, and at the same time, fireworks bloomed in the sky.

The surrounding area became bright for a moment, and all the Tumut cavalry figures were unable to hide, and the Yulin Guards also pulled the trigger at this time.

Facing the Tumut cavalry, which mostly had only one heavy armor and stood in dense formation, they were like medium-speed moving targets, allowing the Ming army to just pull the trigger without taking aim.

"Bang bang bang——"

The sound of intensive firecrackers rang out, and the Tumut cavalry who was caught off guard were knocked to the ground. Both men and horses fell down, causing a series of falls for the riders behind them.

Many riders with better equestrian skills began to draw their bows and set arrows, trying to use their arrows to suppress the Ming army's fire gunners and create opportunities for the heavy cavalry in the formation.

Arrows fell from the sky, but they could not affect the formation of the volley.

Ten thousand muskets filled with gunpowder were handed over to more than a thousand musketeers in the front row.

The result is that the dense bullets are ruthlessly harvesting the lives of the Tumut cavalry.

"What's going on? Why is there only light from the firecrackers? Where are the torches? Where are the firesticks? The Ming army's firecrackers can be fired without igniting?!"

On the low hill, many Tumut lords felt cold in their hearts, but Su Nang couldn't help it.

The Ming army used continuous fireworks to illuminate the battlefield, looking for the figure of the Tumut cavalry to shoot, but the Tumut cavalry could only see the fire when the opponent pulled the trigger, and the Ming army's formation when the fireworks lit up.

When both sides can see each other, the short-range and less powerful riding bow is useless, and there is no way to prepare with a calm mind if you want to face a confrontation.

"How come these fire cannons are fired so densely? A new repeating fire cannon?"

Su Nang was also stunned. The firing speed of the Ming army's muskets was too close. Just after a cup of tea, a large group of cavalry fell on Tumut's side.

This made Su Nang a little scared, and he could only say: "Blow the horn, withdraw the troops temporarily, and count how many people died in the battle!"

"Woooooo~~~~"

The horn sounded along with his order, and his actions were equivalent to missing the best opportunity to break out.

The Ming cavalry did not carry long spears. If the heavy cavalry charged into the formation, Cao Wenzhao could only use his half-equipped cavalry guards to rush forward to resist, or let the Yulin guards mount their horses to resist.

But now Su Nang was frightened by the gunfire that fired more than ten rounds at a time. Because the surroundings were too dark, he could only see the momentary light when the Ming army's fireworks were lit, so he couldn't see how the Ming army operated.

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He also thought that the Ming army's rifles could fire continuously, so he hurriedly withdrew his troops.

"Stop! Count the battle damage..."

Facing the retreating Su Nang troops, Cao Wenzhao did not pursue them, but ordered the entire army to count the battle losses.

As a result, the fireworks stopped, while the Habayashi Guards were counting the battle damage while loading the gunners at the front and rear.

Similarly, Su Nang, who was afraid, also ordered people to count the dead and injured.

The two sides remained in a strange stalemate for a long time, until a quarter of an hour later the Ming army's casualties were counted first.

Seventy-two people were killed and 247 injured among the Ming army.

Seeing such battle losses and a group of Tumote tribesmen outside wailing for wounded soldiers and corpses, Cao Wenzhao felt relieved a little.

As they thought, the Beilu were indeed a third-rate army, and the Taolu were even more of a third-rate army.

Cao Wenzhao was relieved when he learned of the casualties, but compared to him, the vegetarian bag a quarter of an hour later felt as uncomfortable as eating shit.

Regardless of whether they were seriously injured or killed in battle, they were missing more than 2,000 people.

This was almost one-fifteenth of the casualties in the army. Although the Ming army did not know how many there were, the number of casualties should be far less than them.

More than 2,000 people were killed and injured, which already made Su Nang and many Tumut lords feel worried.

In their opinion, the Ming army seemed to be much stronger than what they had experienced before. If they continued to fight stubbornly, Tumut's family fortune would be wiped out, and the majesty established by the lords of various ministries over the years would also be wiped away.

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"Khan, how about..."

"Woo——"

Some lords were about to ask if they wanted to withdraw their troops, but before they could finish speaking, a trumpet sounded from behind them!

"Khan! Behind us?!"

This was an emergency warning, and everyone stared behind them. Behind them, under the low hills, on the north bank of the Blackwater River, all the sentries were seen raising their torches in panic and running towards the south bank.

"Where is the rear military sentry Qianhu? Is he dead?!"

Su Nang's first counterattack was panic, and the next second was anger.

He clearly deployed sentinel cavalry, so how could the Ming cavalry sneak attack from behind?

At this time, a group of sentry riders rushed up from the foot of the low hill. Everyone looked at them, and the head of a thousand households on horseback cried:

"Great Khan, Saihan led the Ulut tribe to deceive and kill the sentry cavalry of the rear army. The Ming army Qi King Zhu Youjian led the cavalry to charge from behind and kill them. They are less than fifteen miles away from here."

"The whole army breaks out to the east!" Hearing that Zhu Youjian actually took a detour and attacked from the rear, Su Nang didn't even ask how many people Zhu Youjian had brought, and immediately ordered the whole army to break out.

He gave the order, and a group of Tumut lords led their troops in panic to retreat towards the Gray River in the east.

"Chief Soldier, Your Highness and the others should be coming from the north bank of the Blackwater River. I just heard the enemy attack horn sound from Su Nang and others."

Su Nang and the others were not the only ones who also heard the sound of the trumpet. Some Mongolians from the Ulut in the Ming army also came to Cao Wenzhao for explanation.

After hearing this, Cao Wenzhao immediately looked at Tumut's tribe and saw that there was indeed some commotion on their side.

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"The whole army lights up the torches and everyone mounts their horses!"

Cao Wenzhao reined in his horse and loudly ordered the messengers around him.

The drummer put away the war drum, and the messenger also notified the soldiers and horses of the Yulin Guard.

The Mongols of Ulut led the war horses to the front and rear troops. Everyone got on their horses, and their actions were also seen by Tumut's cavalry.
To be continued...