If he could repel these Mongols according to his original plan, it would be considered a success. He didn't want to take risks at all.
But now that Xu Yingxu had said this, the adventurous spirit in his heart began to burn.
The Mongols attack Datong Prefecture several times every year just to plunder.
If he just repels them this time, it won't highlight his achievements at all.
So if he wants to get the right to form a personal guard, he has to make some achievements.
"Okay, this battle will be entirely commanded by General Xu, including my king's troops."
Zhu Gui said.
"Brother, there's me too."
At this moment, a head suddenly popped up next to Zhu Gui, and it turned out to be Xu Miaoqing in military uniform.
"Why are you here?"
Zhu Gui and Xu Yingxu asked in unison.
"Why are you so fierce? Didn't I hear that the Mongols were coming, so I wanted to come and help you."
If it was only towards Zhu Gui, she would naturally not have this attitude, but facing her brother, she was still a little worried.
If this matter reaches her parents, she can foresee that the old couple will probably take her back all the way from Nanjing.
"Come here, take the princess back to Prince Dai's Mansion." Zhu Gui called his soldiers.
The soldier came over, but froze there in embarrassment.
"Stop messing around and go back quickly. This is a battlefield, not a place for women." Xu Yingxu said.
"What's wrong with women? Today I'm going to prove that women are no worse than you men."
Xu Miaoqing was ignited by his brother's words and took out a pistol from his waist.
Xu Yingxu wanted to say something else, but was stopped by Zhu Gui.
"Okay, General Xu, let her stay here, I will protect her."
As he spoke, Zhu Gui handed another pistol to Xu Miaoqing and warned: "Don't leave my side for a while."
Xu Miaoqing wanted to refuse, but after looking at her brother's increasingly gloomy expression, she had no choice but to nod.
At this moment, the Mongolian soldiers under the city asked for the third time, with doubts and impatience in their tone.
Just when he was about to go back and report the matter to the chief, the city gate suddenly opened.
The man was overjoyed when he saw this. He immediately turned around with his machete and shouted: "The city gate is open, and hunting has begun."
For the Mongols, robbing the Han people was as normal as hunting.
Large groups of Mongols swarmed in and filed into the city gate.
To them, Datong Mansion is a golden mountain. If they enter late, they can only follow others and eat scraps.
So none of these people want to be left behind.
However, after one-third of the Mongolians had passed, dozens of falling rocks were suddenly thrown from the top of the city gate.
Then several explosions were heard.
The dozen or so cavalrymen crowded at the city gate were suddenly torn into pieces by a terrifying force, confusing the faces of those around them.
"It's a cannon, there's an ambush."
During the short reign of the Yuan Dynasty, they also obtained the firearm craftsmanship inherited from the Song Dynasty, and even used it to knock on the doors of European castles.
It's just that they believed too much in the power of cavalry, thus wasting this technology tree.
So much so that when I was bombarded by cannons, I finally remembered the eclectic and terrifying firearms.
The cavalry at the city gate dispersed, which gave the Ming army ambushing on both sides of the city gate an opportunity to close the city gate again.
While the Mongolians outside the city were still looking at the towering walls of Datong Mansion in a daze, the city had already fallen into a melee.
Zhu Gui led his soldiers to stand on the city wall and sniped at the Mongols.
However, the light at night is limited and the effect is not very good.
Therefore, the main force in this battle became the garrison of the garrison led by Xu Yingxu.
Although the garrison at Datong Prefecture lacks training and is not very well equipped, they are still frontier troops.
Even with an advantage ten times that of the enemy, he still bravely fought with the enemy.
The battle lasted until sunrise in the east, and the surrounding people came out of their homes one after another.
But when they saw the Mongols, many of them were so frightened that they hid back home.
During the day, it had little impact on the battle between the garrison and the Mongols.
But I had a very big impression on the soldiers of the Prince's Palace holding flintlock guns.
They were no longer satisfied with standing on the city wall and shooting, because long-distance shooting could easily accidentally injure friendly forces.
So they rushed down the city wall and joined the melee.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Gui was also excited.
If Xu Miaoqing hadn't been by his side, he would have wanted to rush down.
Xu Miaoqing was very happy to play.
Zhu Gui noticed that her shooting level was very high, no less than him.
During this period of time, many Mongolians died under her guns, and they were all caused by one blow.
She was still chanting, "Eighteen, nineteen, hey, I got another one, it's twenty, idiot, what do you think I'm doing?"
While Xu Miaoqing was changing the magazine, she noticed Zhu Gui staring at her.
"I have sent you to be quite powerful." Zhu Gui said sincerely.
"Huh, you just know." Xu Miaoqing raised the corner of her mouth.
With the cooperation of the Daiwangfu soldiers, the battle in the city ended quickly.
Not a single one of the more than 300 Mongolian cavalry survived.
When they heard that there was no movement in the city, the Mongols outside the city also knew that they had been tricked, and they began to yell and curse outside the city.
They responded with cannon and bullets.
These Mongols had no siege equipment at all, and their numbers were not superior, so after scolding them all morning, they burned several nearby villages to vent their anger, and then left.
This battle can be said to be a complete victory. The garrison led by Xu Yingxu suffered less than a hundred casualties.
However, what made Zhu Gui a little helpless was that three of his soldiers died. It seemed that something happened when he participated in the melee later.
Fortunately, the flintlock guns in their hands were recovered, otherwise Zhu Gui would have had a headache.
All that's left is to clean up the battlefield.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Gui and Xu Yingxu had a dispute over the spoils of war.
It turned out that both of them were interested in the more than 200 horses left by the Mongolian cavalry.
The Mongolian cavalry could dominate the grasslands and even once established a super empire across Europe and Asia, relying on their cavalry.
And the war horses they raised were naturally no ordinary horses.
Xu Yingxu wanted to form a cavalry team so that the garrison troops could not only defend, but also go deep into the grasslands to carry out counterattacks.
Zhu Gui also wanted to build an all-cavalry musketry team.
In this way, the kite flying tactics can be implemented.
The two discussed this for a whole day and finally arrived at a compromise that satisfied both parties.
That is, the Prince's Palace will be allocated fifty war horses, but at the same time, it will also have to provide fodder for one-third of the war horses garrisoned in the garrison (only for this time, more than 150 war horses).
While the two were dividing the spoils, the good news had spread throughout Datong Mansion, and the whole city was boiling.