"Arrange and prepare for the battle!"

The young general Xia Youde, who was commanding the southern wing formation, had made many military achievements since he left the frontier. He was promoted from a hundred households to a thousand households by Chen Xi.

Xia Youde was twenty-four years old. Although he was not a new recruit, in the seniority camp, such young people would never have the chance to be promoted and would be a household in their entire life.

But at this time, Xia Youde was a temporary thousand households. A team of thousands of people he was in charge of came up and faced the first big test in his life, and responded to the charge of the 500 elite Tatar cavalry alone.

Xia Youdeke did not have the calm mind as much as Chen Xi. At this time, he was confused when facing the black Tatar soldiers and horses that were coming. He only realized that if he retreated at this time, he and the entire Thousand-Man team officers and soldiers would die here.

"Mr. Shen said, no one can retreat, keep it steady! Keep it steady!"

Xia Youde, regardless of whether others could hear it, what he had to do now was to try to convey Chen Xi's military orders and urge officers and soldiers to implement them meticulously.

Winning and losing are no longer considered at this time!

If this battle cannot bring out the spirit of the Ming army and attack the Tatars severely, even if the errands assigned by Chen Xi were not completed, Xia Youde himself would be embarrassed to raise the issue of promotion with Chen Xi.

Xia Youde always felt that this battle was a turning point in his life. Before, he thought that he could defeat the Tatars casually, which basically ended in a formality, but obviously this was not the case.

He shouted "Stay", but Xia Youde himself panicked first because in his life experience, no one told him that the impact of the five hundred cavalry seemed so fierce!

But when the dark cavalry rushed towards their team in the sun, the sound of horse hooves continued, the earth trembled, and the soldiers felt sweat on their backs. This was completely different from the easy victory I imagined.

Two miles, one miles, three hundred steps, two hundred steps...

"Prepare the bow and crossbow, and prepare the fire gun!"

At the critical moment, Xia Youde still remembered the commands that Chen Xi taught him. He had been reciting these commands almost dreaming about these two days, for fear of forgetting them when he was about to happen.

In the army, a commander who can keep a calm mind is the key to the soldiers' victory. If the commander cannot keep calm, he can only use some mechanical means to make the soldiers feel that their commander is still calm enough.

Instilling some mechanical language into these generals who are entrusted with respect is something that Chen Xi has been doing before.

"Attention! Launch!"

Xia Youde held the sword high in his hand. When the sword was swung down with force, the sound of fire from the muskets sounded in front of him.

The range of muskets before the Ming Dynasty was very close, and the firing accuracy and lethality were extremely limited. However, in recent years, the imperial court used the principle of the Flang machine cannon to create many Flang machine fire guns. The biggest feature of this musket is that it fires shot bullets, which increases the distance and accuracy by lengthening the barrel.

Moreover, after the renovation of Chenxi, the bullet chamber can be loaded with sub-guns in the breeze. Although the firing speed is still not ideal, the lethality has been greatly improved.

After a round of muskets, the Tatars rushed to the front of the cavalry, and people fell from time to time.

Although these light cavalry have an absolute advantage in speed, their defense is not as good as heavy cavalry, so they are not very defensive against musket bullets with extremely strong impact.

Most Tatar soldiers wore not armor, but leather armor, because the scarce thing on the grassland was iron tools. The Tatars had poor iron smelting skills, which made them use their limited resources to improve the performance of weapons. Heavy cavalry was only a few.

The Tatars have always attacked strong and defended weakly. This is a crafted by the Tatars' character. They are more accustomed to a close war in the wilderness. In fact, they are not good at fighting offensive and defensive battles with the Ming army, because they lack equipment for siege. Now the central army basically has plundered from Yansui Town and Xuanfu Town of the Ming Dynasty.

The thick leather armor has good effect in protecting swords, guns, swords, halberds and arrows, but it is not good when protecting against fragments and musket bullets from the cannons. However, after all, there are not many musket soldiers in a square formation, and the soldiers' shooting skills are not good. After all, the number of musket soldiers is not large, and after this round of shooting, more than a dozen Tatar soldiers will be shot down at most.

The remaining more than 480 Tatar cavalry continued to rush towards the Ming army's thousand-man infantry phalanx like a tide.

At this time, Chen Xi saw this scene with a telescope on the top of the city and shook his head slightly.

Although Yun Liu could not see the specific situation clearly, when he saw that the Tatars seemed to charge, he immediately said nervously: "Sir, it seems that the situation is not good. The Tatars seem to want to concentrate their superior forces and defeat them one by one!"

Chen Xi replied: "Don't worry, the scene is still within the controllable range!"

Yun Liu stopped talking and continued to observe with wide eyes. In his vision, the enemy and our army had basically merged into one and entered a close-range hand-to-hand combat.

Condescendingly, I could see clearly that the Ming army's infantry formation was basically intact before encountering an enemy attack, but as the two sides collided violently, the soldiers were inevitably panicked, causing many flaws to appear on the defense line. The Tatars directly killed the gap opened by the hole and launched a slaughter of melons and vegetables on the Ming army behind the shield.

Unfortunately, Xia Youde's square formation was six miles away from the front of the city. Yun Liu did not have a telescope in his hand, so he didn't see it very clearly. She knew that no matter how anxious she was, it was useless. The important thing was that Chen Xi could withstand the pressure and the soldiers on the front line could withstand the fierce attack of the Tatars.

Yun Liu looked sideways at the other three infantry phalanxes. At this time, the three infantry phalanxes were extremely stable. The remaining 1,560 cavalrymen of the Tatars did not launch effective attacks, but fought each other and fought with the other three infantry phalanxes respectively. They all used guerrilla tactics and walked away at once, and did not dare to get close to the three phalanxes.

Zhang Yong shouted, "Mr. Shen, our family can't understand it. What are the Tartars doing? Why are they fighting alone?"

Hu Songyue stood at the top of the city with a nervous expression. According to the plan, he would have been sent to the battlefield by Chen Xi, but he was temporarily transferred back as the commander of the city's general reserve team. He felt extremely cowardly. At this moment, he said angrily:

"Eunuch Zhang can't see clearly? The Tartars clearly wanted to use the remaining cavalry to restrain my three square formations, and then use the main force to break the formation one by one. Lord Shen, please give an order, Bei Zhi will lead all the troops to rush out!"

Chen Xi asked, "I will give you ten thousand infantrymen, is it too late to rush over?"

Hu Songyue was stunned by the question in one sentence.

Indeed, going out from Tumu Fort is no longer a smooth road. The cavalry has lost the advantage of maneuvering in front of the layers of trenches. Even if you are familiar with the road and take a detour, it will take a lot of time. Moreover, the city gate can only send infantry rescue. It is six miles away from the west gate to the south wing infantry formation in front, and it is too late for many soldiers to rush over.

Hu Songyue said: "Sir, what should I do?"

Chen Xi said with confidence on his face: "I have enough confidence in the soldiers under my command!"

Hu Songyue and Zhang Yong remained silent only then, but they were still extremely nervous and continued to observe the progress of the war.

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The southern wing infantry formation was in close contact with the Tatars, and the formation was broken into a gap. The soldiers had insufficient estimates of the impact of the Tatar cavalry, so that the opening was too easy to be knocked open.

But the Tatar general Wu Licha was a reckless man. He only knew how to charge with his head covering and did not deliberately use tactical changes to break the Ming army's infantry formation. He basically calculated wherever he rushed and had no clue.

When the Ming army's defense line was knocked open, the officers and soldiers needed to compress the square formation and use shield soldiers to fill in the hole. At the same time, internal officers and soldiers were required to strangle the Tatar cavalry who rushed in.

After a few Tatar cavalry entered the phalanx, they were quickly surrounded by the Ming army around them, and a melee started. Although the Ming infantry was not very brave, they had no way out and could only fight with the Tatar cavalry. They stabbed out their spears, regardless of whether they stabbed people or not. They stared at the target and stabbed them randomly.

No matter how brave the Tatars were, the first group of people who entered the gap were unable to defeat four hands, not to mention that there were musket soldiers and crossbowmen in the Ming army camp who secretly used cold arrows.

As the twenty or thirty cavalry who had initially entered the gap were surrounded by Ming soldiers, the shield soldiers on both sides fought to fill the gap, and did not allow the Tatar follow-up cavalry to come in.

At this moment, Wulicha was not in the leading small army, but on the flank, because he remembered Yi Simayin's confession that when encountering such cavalry fighting infantry, he must find a breakthrough from the enemy's flanks, because the Ming army is usually only good at frontal defense.

But Wu Licha didn't know that Chen Xi took advantage of the Tatars' psychology to change the defense focus, and shifted the frontal defense from the front to the two wings, which greatly weakened the frontal defense. At the same time, the Tatars did not use this loophole in a timely manner because of their "self-righteousness".

The shouts of soldiers on both sides were earth-shaking, but the Ming army was more yelling, because the high shields blocked them, and they could not see where the Tatar cavalry were. They were all their own people. When the formation was scattered after the war started, people were surrounded by each other, and weapons could hurt their own people at any time.

The disadvantages of the Ming army's lack of much practical experience are fully demonstrated.

But at this moment, the Tatar cavalry's wishful thinking was basically gone, because they found the problem when they reached the infantry phalanx. The Ming army's formation was almost a solid piece and could not be killed outside, but muskets, bullets and bows and arrows could be shot out at any time. The Tatar cavalry surrounded the infantry phalanx and could not find a place to go.

Wu Licha had a thought in his mind: "It's really a ghost!"

This is completely different from the Ming army he encountered before. Even if the Ming army could maintain its formation intact before the war, it would inevitably be scattered after the close-range battle, and could always find a gap to break in.

With the impact of the Tatar cavalry, the Ming army could be killed without any effort and finally won easily.

That is the relatively strong border army of the Ming army. Even the border army is like this, let alone the Beijing camp soldiers who have no practical experience?

Obviously, Chen Xi's training of the officers and soldiers was better than that of the border generals. Moreover, the troops led by Chen Xi won consecutive battles, with high morale and relatively weak timidity.

After the war started, the soldiers did not seem very panic. They could basically complete the errands they received. Even if there were any mistakes, their companions would remind each other and support each other. This was rarely seen in the rest of the Ming army.

"Bang bang bang!"

The personal guards around Wulicha were knocked down by cold guns and arrows from time to time. The closer they got, the higher the accurate head of the Ming army's muskets, and the Ming army was not weaker than the Tatar cavalry in such defensive battles.
Chapter completed!