In this battle against the Ming army, the Tatars had a certain mindset, believing that the Ming army's artillery must be displayed in the front row like the Battle of Yuxi River three years ago. They thought that attacking from the flanks would definitely avoid the Ming army's artillery attack.??

However, the Tatars did not know that Chen Xi had ten artillery hidden on both wings of the military formation, which were themselves horizontally mounted gun barrels. During the war, as long as the shield arrays on both sides were removed, the muzzles could be directly opposite the flanks, and the power of the killing of the Flang machine cannon surface was wielding.

The wars Huo Ling had experienced before were all fighting on the front battlefield. She had rich experience in fighting with the Ming army, but she did not have the chance to fight with Chen Xi. Even though she had rich combat experience, she did not expect that Chen Xi would use such a "secret move". Not only were there musket soldiers deployed on the flanks, but also had Folang machine cannons hidden.

When Huo Lingcha sensed the danger, he wanted to command the troops to disperse, but it was too late.

"Soldiers, retreat!"

Huo Ling first shouted to disperse, but now this could not stop the attacks of the opponent's musketeers and ten cannons. As for the Tatar soldiers attacking from the flanks in the other direction, she could not even remind her.

At this time, the Tatar cavalry each showed their reaction and riding skills.

"Boom boom"

The sound of shells falling to the ground and explosion continued to sound. More than forty cavalry fell down in the Tatar cavalry formation. Some of the cavalry were covered with bullets, and their bodies and mounts were injured, but they still forced to charge forward.

"Disperse! Kill!"

Huo Ling's order changed again in an instant. When she felt that the ten artillery of the Ming army only caused dozens of cavalry deaths and injuries, and the sound of the originally dense mesh gun stopped when the artillery fire sounded, she regained confidence... At this time, she returned to the middle of the stormtroopers and prepared to command the Tatar cavalry to rush into the Ming army formation and destroy the Ming army formation.

At this time, almost every musket soldiers fired three rounds of bullets, and the three bullets filled with bullets they carried with them had been exhausted, so they needed to be withdrawn into the formation and then filled in according to regulations.

However, the nine rounds of strikes have caused about 100 casualties to the Tatars... As the Tatars formation became sparse, the accurate head of the Folangji musket obviously became much worse, and it was far from reaching the first round, which brought more than 40 casualties to the Tatars.

Huo Ling commanded the horse team to continue charging, and the Ming army's infantry formation changed again. As the spearmen set up a long gun array, like a hedgehog. If the Tatar cavalry did not stop the horse's foot, the final result would inevitably be to hit the tip of the gun.

At this time, the crossbowmen in the back row of the spearmen appeared. At this time, the Tatar cavalry was less than one hundred steps away from the Ming army's gun formation and completely entered the range of the crossbow.

"Swoosh swish swish!"

As the arrows came out, the heavy cavalry that the Tatars had previously relied on to resist the arrows had been wiped out by the projectiles of the musketeers and the Furang machine cannons. The subsequent charges of the Tatars cavalry were equivalent to being in a state of unpreparedness.

When the light cavalry advances, they are most afraid of traps and crossbow arrows. Although the Ming army did not dig traps, they have crossbow arrows and gun arrays as barriers.

The Tatar cavalry were still advancing, but their combat power had been greatly reduced at this time. This was the soldiers and horses led by Huo Ling himself. With her in the team, her combat power could be guaranteed. On the other side, there was no soldiers and horses led by the commander, and the losses were even more serious.

However, these nine-wheeled muskets, one round of Folang cannons, and one round of arrows caused serious damage to the Tatar cavalry, with more than 800 people on both wings, and the Huo Ling lost more than 200 people on the other side, while the other side had reached 70%.

The situation on the battlefield has undergone a fundamental reversal.

The Ming army soldiers who had been cautious and skeptical about this battle have shown that the Tatars are "but this is the case". The morale is greatly boosted. Before the opponent can get closer, the bow and arrow shot out again, and a row of Tatars fell down from the horse again.

After all the hardships, the Tatar cavalry finally came closer, but facing the forest-like spear, many Tatar cavalry could not control the rushing force, and they bumped into the man and horse, turning into flesh and blood gourds.

Huo Ling had a sharp eye and immediately rushed into the Ming army through the cracked gap with about 150 cavalry, while the other side was even worse, with only seventy or eighty cavalry.

But at this time, the Tatar reinforcements from the south of Tumu Fort and the north of the city began to come forward on the left and right wings of the Ming army. Faced with spears constantly stabbing from all directions, there were fewer and fewer Tatar cavalry around him. Huo Ling, who was originally on the verge of despair, became cheered up again.

"kill!"

The Tatar cavalry reinforced quickly. Although they were coming in full force, the Ming army commanded by Chen Xi also completed the dispatch. The mule cart formation turned in a direction. This time, the opposite was not the army formation that was fighting together, but aimed at the direction of the assembly of the Tatar reinforcements. It turned out that the Flangji cannons in front of the Ming army formation were not used to eliminate the enemy in front of them, but as an important means to attack the Tatar soldiers and horses surrounding the flanks.

This was a situation that Chen Xi had predicted in advance. He foresaw the direction of the Tatars' attack, so he could naturally guess the direction of the Tatar reinforcements. Therefore, after the war began, Chen Xi had always taken the initiative in the situation and seized the initiative everywhere.

The reinforcements of the Folang Ji people arrived at the battlefield very quickly. The Tumu Fort itself was not big, but a small castle that was one mile wide and two miles long. Such fortresses were everywhere in the northwest. If it weren't for the Tumu Fort change that changed the history of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of small town would not be worthy of attention at all.

The Tatar cavalry came high, which immediately increased the pressure on the Ming army's military formation. The Tatar cavalry that entered the army formation was like an indestructible young strongman, and they rode left and right on horseback. The Ming army soldiers lacked cooperation and supported and blocked left and right, but they just couldn't destroy the enemy quickly. Once the enemy was allowed to cooperate inside and outside, the destruction of the Ming army seemed to be in the evening.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The sound of cannon volleys sounded astonishingly. This time, one side no longer had only ten cannons, but twenty cannons at a time, which was amazingly powerful.

The Ming army's spearmen and swordsmen waved their weapons, and personally led the Tatar soldiers to fight with Huo Ling. The three thousand Tatar reinforcements from afar rushed to the Ming army formation.

From time to time, artillery shells flew over the heads of the Ming army. No matter where they were, they could hear rumbling sounds, horse hooves, killing sounds, screams, and wailing sounds intertwined. Outside the west gate of Tumu Fort, a bloody ocean became.

After two rounds of artillery fired, the Tatar cavalry reinforcements were less than one mile away from the Ming army formation. If there was no next move at this time, even if the Tatars had lost more than one thousand cavalry, they could still defeat the Ming army formation with the remaining troops.

At this moment, Hu Songyue led the reinforcements and appeared from the rear of the enemy reinforcements.

"Boom boom boom!"

There were constant explosions in the distance, but this time it was no longer the noise caused by the explosion of the shells fired by artillery, but the suicide team of mule and donkey driven by Hu Songyue was attacking the Tatar reinforcements using suicide attacks.

The men and horses under Hu Songyue were not regular cavalry teams. Except for fifty cavalry and two hundred grooms, the rest were mules and donkeys.

These livestock now have torches tied behind their tails and carried explosive packs to the north. After the war started, they lit the torches and explosive packs. The livestock could only rush forward because of the pain and fear of being burned by the fire. The Tatar reinforcements thought that this was a powerful cavalry team, but when they approached, they appeared on fire mules and donkeys. The impact was so strong that they could not stop by just stopping.

As soon as the two sides fought, the sound of gunpowder explosions continued to come. The livestock and the Tatar cavalry were blown up at the same time, and the dust, dust, sand and soil were raised to cover the sky and the sun. From time to time, the sound of mules and donkeys came. These livestock did not know what retreat was, but were rushing in one direction and chasing the butts of Tatar cavalry. In this short-distance pursuit, the donkey and mules were not much slower than those of the Tatar cavalry.

When the Tatars found these livestock as explosives on fire and wanted to avoid them, they found that these livestock were everywhere and suddenly exploded around them, and then their eyes fell to the ground with bloody colors.

There were not so many horses in the Ming Dynasty, but the supply of mules and donkeys has always been sufficient. It was originally just for transportation, but now it has become weapons used by Shen Xi on the battlefield.

"kill!"

The arrival of Tatar reinforcements did not immediately make the Tatars turn defeat into victory, but the changes in the war situation were more complicated.

The Tatar cavalry, the Ming army infantry, musketeers, crossbowmen and fired livestock suicide teams were almost mixed together. In the battle between the soldiers and horses, they could not tell the difference between the enemy and us at all. They only knew that screams and explosions kept coming from the mules and horses.

"charge!"

Shen Xi issued a general attack order.

Shen Xi knew that if the battle situation continued and the Ming army became weaker, the number of deserters would increase significantly. It would be better to take advantage of the chaos of the current situation and ask the three armies to fight back.
Chapter completed!