The heavy and chaotic sound of horse hooves echoed in the river valley.
The border troops from the three towns came to press the border, bringing the deepest blood pressure to the army of Marshal Mansion Dafan.
Most of the Mongolians under Liu Chengzong's command had their main opponent in this life being the Ming army, but in their lifetime, no Mongolian soldier had ever seen the Ming army filling the valley and marching in full force.
The battle the Mongols were used to was for thousands or even tens of thousands of herdsmen to encounter thousands or even hundreds of border troops inside and outside the Monan border wall. If they could defeat them before Ming reinforcements arrived, they would continue to loot;
If they cannot be defeated, they will withdraw their troops on the spot.
There has never been a confrontation between two armies.
As for the other Mongolian soldiers and Fan soldiers who had never fought with the Ming army, their most terrifying opponent before was Liu Chengzong's old border army.
Therefore, Liu Chengzong's plan of using Mongolian soldiers to attack first came to nothing. Those pale-faced Mongolians were not strong enough to undertake such a task, so they had to change their strategy before the battle and said to Yang Yao: "It seems that I want you to attack first. Kill the enemy's troops to boost their morale."
, let Xie Erhu coordinate."
Yang Yao laughed while holding his helmet, put on his bowl and cupped his fists, saying: "The last general will take your orders."
After that, he turned to Huang Shengxiao, who was standing at the top of the city commanding the city's artillery to adjust the angle of the artillery, and said: "Huang, please be careful and don't hit me on the head... Taiji, do you want to come and play with me?"
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Kuitu Taiji, who was watching the battle at the top of the city, shook his head like a rattle. He was playful but not stupid.
He is not like Xie Erhu, who has spent half his life chewing Rhodiola rosea. The Han tribe suffered a lot at the hands of the Xuan Da border army, and he was beaten by He Huchen on the way to the west.
The psychological shadow that Liu Chengzong left on He Huchen was the same as the psychological shadow that He Huchen left on Guitu Taiji. The area is the same.
"I, I will study next to the commander. I wish General Yang a successful victory. You...be careful of Madman You in Yulin and that Manzi He in Ningxia."
Gututaiji took a deep breath. As Liu Chengzong marched eastward to attack the city and destroy the fortress, annihilating the native soldiers in an instant, he had completely corrected his mentality. He was not a guest of the Marshal's Mansion, nor was he the younger brother of the Mongol Khan. p>
He is just an ordinary envoy of the Han army stationed in the Marshal's Mansion in Qinghai. He is the same as the envoy stationed in the Marshal's Mansion in Turpan. He is just a battlefield observer, which is very good.
Yang Yao smiled and patted Guitu Taiji on the shoulder. This interfering with Han Tu Taiji was more fun for him than those Mongolian nobles in the past. The relationship between the two was one-sided.
The so-called unilateral means that Guitu Taiji was particularly grateful to Yang Yao because General Yang gave him a pox.
Yang Yao inoculated him with pox, but he actually had no good intentions.
Ever since he received the mission of cultivating pox vaccines from Liu Shizi, Yang Yao had to be vaccinated against anyone who could breathe wherever he went.
Yang Yao
, life is also life.
Just when he was thinking hard, Yang Yao saw Guitu Taiji, who was unable to play with Liu Shizi and was wandering around the mouth of the river. At that time, General Yang's eyes straightened out, and he felt happier than when he was leading the army in Guyuan.<
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Hey! What a coincidence, isn't it - there is an outsider here who doesn't feel sorry for him when he dies.
He went to ask Liu Shishi if he could put a vaccine in Guitu Taiji's nose.
Liu Shizi agreed, and Yang Yao was very happy, thinking that the commander-in-chief really had the same idea as him, and he didn't feel bad when an outsider died.
But in fact, their thinking processes were different. Yang Yao believed that this matter was very dangerous, so he wanted to vaccinate Nututaiji; Liu Chengzong thought that this matter was not dangerous, so he agreed to vaccinate Nututaiji.<
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He didn't think about the dangers at all, he just considered the impact of inoculating Guitu Taiji on the penis. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that it wouldn't have any impact, so he would just inoculate it.
Later, Guitu Taiji was arrested by Yang Yao, and he responded well and was no longer afraid of smallpox.
Ruitutaiji didn't think much of this process. Didn't the generalissimo also have a ball of cotton stuffed in his nose? He had a ball and I had a ball. What does this mean?
It shows that our status is very high.
Until now, Gututaiji still doesn’t know that he is one of the experimental materials worthy of a special mention in the history of mankind’s fight against smallpox, and his importance is second only to the monkey caught by Li Wanqing.
He confirmed that variolation is effective as long as the target is a human being, regardless of race.
The monkey proved that the target of vaccination does not have to be a human being, it is more important than him.
Yang Yao went down to the city to assemble the cavalry generals. The 3,600 cavalrymen had already assembled under the leadership of Chief Qian Wei Qian'er, Han Shiyou, and Yang Chengzu. They immediately led the army across the bridge from the south and formed an array on the east bank of the Huangshui River Bend.
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Not long after, Xie Erhu also led a Mongolian cavalry across the river. Six thousand Mongolian herdsmen were divided into two groups, located behind Yang Yao's horizontal formation.
Listening to the sound of drums and horns, Gututaiji sighed with emotion to Liu Chengzong: "General Yang's cavalry is well organized and they are really good cavalry... The enemy is approaching, why doesn't the commander use it?"
That mirror."
Liu Chengzong smiled. He was afraid of comparison. Yang Yaoce rode in the middle of the opposite bank and stood in the middle. Behind him was Mr. Qian. The boss knew where he should stand. Each rider led his two horses and stood out of the camp four steps apart. Of course they looked neatly.
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Xie Erhu's Mongolian soldiers appear to be an army of 6,000, and the manpower has been carefully selected. They are all people who have mastered certain combat skills, but they are only familiar with team drills at the level of the Centurion. They have no camp drill habits. Six thousand people stand together.
It is not a whole.
He knew that the mirror Ruitu Taiji was talking about was the telescope in his hand.
Liu Chengzong shook his head, smiled and handed the telescope to Guantu and said: "You can play with it, I won't need it anymore."
He had already used a telescope to see the enemy's troops. They were marching in columns with the horsemen in front and the infantry behind. The infantry carried chariots, and the chariots were definitely equipped with artillery, but what was certain was that there were no heavy artillery weighing more than a thousand kilograms.
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This was enough information for Liu Chengzong, and he no longer needed to use a telescope.
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If he is asked to march, he will generally not put the cavalry in front. There is only one possibility for the cavalry to be in front, and that is because the infantry is weak, so the cavalry will be used in the front to quickly seize some fortifications during the encounter.
The purpose of infantry leaving enough time to form formation.
This also confirms from the side the information that Dai Daozi's Tangqi got from the prisoners. There are more than 10,000 frontier troops from the three towns and more than 10,000 native flag troops in the middle route. The existence of the latter is probably because the commander-in-chief of the three towns is based on the horse army.
The reason before.
This is beneficial to Liu Chengzong.
Therefore, neither he nor Huang Shengxiao needed to use telescopes at the moment. He needed to use his naked eyes to accurately judge the distance of the enemy.
This is an experience learned from long-term battles. Only judgment with the naked eye can be accurate enough.
After a while, he and Huang Shengxiao shouted: "One thousand steps!"
From this distance, they could see the outline of the enemy, but they still couldn't tell whether it was cavalry.
The Tang soldiers who were preparing under the city immediately waved their flags. The small yellow flags were waved alternately in the west and east of the Huangshui River. The news was conveyed to the cavalry formation in the east of the river in an instant.
Xie Erhu's Mongolian cavalry immediately mounted their horses in large numbers, and then they saw Yang Yao's cavalry still sitting in formation and got off their horses again.
"Eight hundred steps!"
We can already distinguish the enemy's cavalry and see the waving military flag.
Twelve heavy artillery were lined up on the hill to the east of the city. The artillery slowly adjusted the shooting angle according to the distance. Huang Shengxiao was also adjusting the shooting angle on the city. In his hand was a Buddhist gun captured by Nianbo Qianhu.
Lang machine gun.
There is nothing special about this cannon, but it uses a two-wheeled cannon. According to the inscription on the car body, it should be a red Yi cannon donated in the fifth year of Tianqi. However, I don’t know where the cannon went. It only has 500 kilograms of equipment.
Franco's gun carriage.
But this gun carriage is very useful to the Marshal's Mansion because its design is very strict. It has a horizon plate and a body light wheel, and the range mileage is marked. This is the experience that the Marshal's Mansion can learn from the gun carriage.
When news came that the enemy army was approaching 800 steps, Yang Yao nodded and still led his men to sit where they were.
The Mongolian soldiers behind them could no longer stand. The city said eight hundred steps, but to them it was actually close to six or seven hundred steps. Those Mongolian soldiers who mounted their horses without permission could even vaguely distinguish the heads of the Ming army and their driving forces, and even the cloth
The dragon pattern on the chest of the mask can be seen as a blur.
The Ming army was still advancing, and suddenly a trumpet sounded. Liu Chengzong could see clearly from the city. The cavalry of the official army remained as usual, but the pace of the infantry behind them suddenly accelerated.
He knew that this was the preparation before the cavalry attack, and the infantry quickened their pace to prevent the cavalry from getting out of step after the attack.
At this moment, Yang Yao stood up, got on his horse, reined in his mount, turned around, and faced his subordinates.
The guards behind him rolled up their banners, and then the 3,600 horsemen of the Marshal's Mansion looked like undulating waves to the people on the city, standing up in sheets from front to back, and from the middle outwards.
Liu Chengzong took one last look at the approaching officers and soldiers who were still marching in the distance. He turned to Huang Shengxiao and said, "That's it."
Huang Shengxiao raised his arms, and behind the Tushan position under the city, the artillery commander waved a flag and shouted: "Artillery is ready!"
The orderly soldier carried a red flag on his shoulder and waved it, and galloped ten steps behind the artillery position. The commanders of the twelve artillery groups raised their flags one by one and stood at the position where the horsemen galloped past.
When the commander-in-chief of the heavy artillery waved the command flag again, twelve small flags were waved one by one, and then the heavy artillery roared, flames shot into the sky, and smoke filled the ground. Seven kilograms of iron bullets passed through the earthen mountains that shook like a soul out of the body, and crossed the river east with the sound of the wind.
The heads of nearly 10,000 cavalry soldiers blasted towards the enemy formation in the valley at a high angle.
Yang Yao said nothing and sat upright on the horse.
When the cannonball passed through the air, he pulled the reins and turned around. The hairs on his neck stood up one after another as he looked through his bowl. He lightly tapped his mount with his feet, pressed the bridle and walked forward slowly.
Wei Qian'er, Han Shiyou, and Yang Chengzu got on their horses, and the 3,600 horsemen from the three thousand headquarters rose and fell again like waves. The red tassels on their coats and Zhangba's cavalry spears in front of the formation were like a huge wild rose, slowly pressing forward.
Go.
Liu Chengzong watched the artillery shells fall into the enemy's formation, but he did not take away the telescope that brought infinite freshness to Qututaiji. He expected that the artillery shells did not hit the enemy at the front, and in fact this was his purpose.
Their observation distance on the city was a little farther than the artillery position. The artillery was fired at a shooting angle of 800 steps. The artillery shells would pass over the front horsemen of the army and bombard the infantry line.
Under the threat of artillery, Liu Chengzong could sense the panic of the army formation even though he was eight hundred steps away.
The pace of the infantry was choked, and the officers hurriedly reorganized the team. The pace of the cavalry was completely disrupted, some accelerated, and some stopped.
Liu Chengzong held on to the thick earth wall battlements and murmured: "Hold it, hold it..."
Behind Yang Yao's horse camp, the pace of the cavalry was involuntarily moving faster and faster, but the officers suppressed it.
Starting from Yang Yao, who was at the front of the military formation, he drew out his Yanling Saber and thrust it sideways to the right. The three Qianzongs who were slightly behind him also drew their swords in turn and waved their swords to signal their officers to stop their mounts.
Immediately, the generals, commanders, and chiefs in the military formation showed their swords one by one, so that the cavalry formation still maintained a four-step interval.
The cavalry at the front of the formation let out sighs. They shook their shoulders, shook off the shoulder ropes of Zhangba's cavalry spears, held the spear shafts in their hands, hooked the spear tail ropes on their toes, and held the spears high and slowly.
Move forward.
They are the army that the Marshal's Mansion has studied in the training camp for the longest time. Every soldier can learn the purpose of combat from the behavior of the general.
The cavalry of the officers and soldiers move forward, and the infantry has not yet formed a large camp. Their tasks fluctuate with the battle situation. If they can drive out the cavalry before the officers and infantry form a camp, the outcome of the initial victory will be established; otherwise, the victory will be determined according to the general situation.
The commander's request is just to kill the enemy's troops with determination.
So this will be a battle between frontier army and frontier army, horse soldiers against horse soldiers.
Yang Yao pressed the bridle and walked slowly. He saw from the side that the pace of the military formation had been suppressed and stabilized. Then he waved his hand and leaned the Yanling Saber on his right shoulder. The ground in front shook and the mountains shook. Thousands of cavalry formed several sharp formations and ran toward him.
When he came, he showed a cold and contemptuous smile.
Immediately, veins popped up on his forehead, and his expression suddenly changed: "Where are the Yansui soldiers?"
Hundreds of soldiers in the horse camp shouted: "The Yansui Army is here!"
Yang Yao asked again: "Where are the Guyuan soldiers?"
Once again, hundreds of soldiers in Ma Camp shouted together, and even Yang Yao also shouted: "The Guyuan Army is here!"
Yang Yao asked again: "Where are the Ningxia soldiers?"
Hundreds more soldiers in the horse camp shouted in unison as they marched slowly: "The Ningxia army is here!"
After only shouting fifteen words, Yang Yao's voice was already hoarse. He finally asked at the top of his lungs: "Where are the border troops?"
"The border army is here! The border army is here! The border army is here!"
The sound echoed in the valley, even suppressing the sound of the hooves of thousands of cavalry three hundred paces away.
Yang Yao tapped the horse's belly with both feet, and the horse began to walk quickly. His whole body bumped and undulated with the mount. He leaned on the sharp Yan Ling knife on his shoulder, reflecting the sunlight, and slowly pointed forward with his arms.
The military formation behind them also began to change formations as they marched.
Among the three thousand general army formations, Zuo Bazong took the lead in speeding up and passed their respective thousand generals, and then 600 horsemen came out in front of the formation one by one.
The three Zuobai headquarters were each divided into five groups, and the three Zuobai headquarters continued to accelerate, forming the first wave of three collision formations in front of the formation.
Rows of cavalry soldiers with spears and vests passed by Wei Qian'er, Han Shiyou, and Yang Chengzu in a non-standard straight line at four paces.
As they passed Yang Yao, these highly skilled cavalry soldiers slightly lowered their jaws and stared at the approaching enemy cavalry with their eyes under the shadow of their eyebrows.
A cavalry spear measuring eight feet long fell slowly from the palms of the horse soldiers, or they advanced together with the spears in one arm, or let go of the reins and advanced with spears in both hands, launching a charge amidst the trampling of the horses' hooves.
Yang Yao maintained his forward posture with his sword raised. He knew that cavalry rarely clashed with each other.
But this time, only the real frontier troops can move forward!