In Lan Yu's view, Zhu Gui's bodyguard was simply vulnerable.
You must know that his subordinates are all the best among the best. In the Ming Dynasty, they are only slightly inferior to the Royal Forest Army. However, due to their numbers, he considers his troops to be the most powerful in the Ming Dynasty.
Watching the cavalry charging, Lan Yu was already imagining Zhu Gui bowing his head in front of his horse and admitting his mistake.
Suddenly, a burst of popping beans sounded not far away.
Lan Yu recognized the sound of a firecracker, but he didn't pay attention.
The power of fire guns is limited, especially for cavalry wearing heavy armor. It takes almost a dozen shots to cripple a cavalry.
So according to his opinion, although Zhu Gui's troops had a thousand fire guns, which was an astonishing number, even more than the number of Shenji battalions in the capital, but when his troops charged into their formation, it would take a lot of effort.
There were only a dozen or so cavalry at most, and these were purely battle losses.
But what surprised Lan Yu was that the sound of the firecrackers never stopped since it started sounding.
This was slightly different from the fire blunderbuss of Shenji Camp that he knew.
But that's all. Even if the young prince improved the firecrackers, these firearms still couldn't make up for the numerical advantage.
Thinking of this, Lan Yu looked towards the front of the battlefield.
But something different from the situation he imagined when his men rushed into the enemy formation and killed all directions was that his cavalry seemed to be stopped by something invisible.
The cavalry as the arrow part of the sharp arrow formation was completely invisible, and the cavalry on both sides were constantly falling.
Further away, Zhu Gui's Yunzhou Army was obscured by a cloud of smoke, making it impossible to see clearly what was going on inside.
The current situation is as if there is a monster in the smoke that is constantly devouring Lan Yu's cavalry.
This scene left Lan Yu stunned.
"Come on, why are you still standing there? Charge over and kill them."
Lan Yu roared loudly.
But his orders were of no use.
The distance of one hundred meters is obviously only such a short distance, but this distance can never be broken.
Soon a mountain of corpses formed in the middle of the battlefield, all composed of the corpses of Lan Yu's men and horses.
This terrifying 'landscape' even prevented the cavalry behind from continuing to advance.
They can only go around from both sides.
But the terrifying sound of popping beans never stopped, so that the terrifying 'landscape' began to extend along both sides.
The soldiers on both sides on the battlefield did not feel this scene clearly enough.
But everyone standing on the city wall had held their breath.
They saw that Lan Yu's men seemed to have hit an invisible wall, with corpses flying everywhere but they were still unable to move forward.
In just one stick of incense, nearly a thousand cavalrymen fell less than 300 meters below Datong Mansion City.
This can no longer be regarded as an evenly matched battle, but a massacre.
But the result was that the party with fewer people was massacring the party with more people, and the party being massacred was one of the famous generals since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, General Lan Yu.
Soon, Lan Yu's subordinates realized something was wrong. There were fewer and fewer colleagues around them, and the sound of horse hooves became thinner and thinner, but the terrifying sounds in the smoke showed no sign of stopping.
But the armor on their bodies was like paper and had no effect at all.
Finally some people couldn't stand it anymore, their will collapsed, and they fled from the battlefield.
When the first deserter appeared, it spread quickly like a virus.
Soon there were a large number of deserters on Lan Yu's side.
When Lan Yu had not yet come to his senses, there were only less than a hundred cavalry on the battlefield in front of him.
"We, did we win?" Zhu Gui murmured to himself.
The remaining cavalrymen retreated to Lan Yu's side, but their faces showed a look of great fear.
"General, we lost, we are the only ones left in the army." One of the Qianhus couldn't help crying.
He really couldn't understand why the cavalry regiment that once dominated the entire Ming Dynasty had lost today without even touching the enemy, and it was an unprecedented defeat.
When Lan Yu heard Qianhu's words, her vision went dark, she spit out a mouthful of blood, and then fell straight off her horse.
The Qianhu caught him with quick eyes and hands, and then immediately shouted, and the cavalry of less than a hundred people began to quickly retreat from the battlefield and fled into the distance.
Upon seeing this, Zhu Gui immediately sent out another thousand-man Yunzhou Army in the city to capture Lan Yu.
Now that he has almost broken up with the imperial court, Lan Yu must not be allowed to go back alive.
Zhu Gui didn't think that his victory today would deter the imperial court.
And this small-scale battle can't change anything at all.
As long as Lan Yu lives, if he leads hundreds of thousands of troops to the city in the future, even Zhu Gui will have no choice but to flee to the grassland.
Although Zhu Gui was a little worried about whether he could catch Lan Yu, he still felt somewhat sure.
The cavalrymen who escaped were frightened out of their wits, and the Yunzhou Army pursuing them was waiting for work, so there should be no problem.
So he ordered the new troops in the city to clean the battlefield, so that they could feel the atmosphere of the battlefield in advance and grow up quickly.
There used to be many merchants from the Datong Chamber of Commerce on the city wall, but now they are all holding on to the corners to vomit.
Originally, they thought this was an arduous battle with Dai Wang, but they didn't expect that they would win so easily.
But I'm afraid they will never forget the bloody scene of this battlefield.
But this battle finally made them realize the powerful combat power of the Datong Mansion Guards.
Everyone has unprecedented confidence in Yunzhou's future.
However, Zhu Gui was not as blindly optimistic as them.
He still knows very well how much wealth he has. His bodyguards were originally supposed to number 30,000 people, but now they only have just over 10,000 people, and half of them are new recruits who have never been on the battlefield.
If he were left to face the pressure from the court on his own, Zhu Gui could only last for half a year at most.
The reason why he fought this battle without hesitation was because he was betting that King Yan Zhu Di would soon raise an army, and then the court would have no time for him to take care of him.
Moreover, this time Mr. Lan Yu avenged his personal revenge and falsely conveyed the imperial edict.
Morally speaking, Zhu Gui is completely justified. As long as he bit Guo Huifei to death and his facial features, what can the court do to him?
Mediation and balancing are the methods Zhu Gui, who is familiar with history, is best at, which is why he is so confident.