On the battlefield of Zhengyangmen, the decisive battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Tatars was at a critical moment.

With the assault of the Ming cavalry, the fire in Zhengyangmen, and Chen Xi led his troops into the battlefield, the balance of victory was no longer balanced and quickly leaned towards the Ming side.

The Tatar Khan tribe who entered this time had about 50,000 troops, but nearly 10,000 troops were lost in the previous war. Today, the siege encountered a fire, and countless casualties were killed or injured. The subsequent troops could not attack the city wall, and there was no hope of seeing through the city.

At the Altar of Heaven and Earth, Dayan Khan Batumonk rode on a bright red sweat-blooded horse. He looked at the rolling smoke at the top of Zhengyangmen City from afar, shook his head and sighed: "Decades ago, the Oirats had drunk hatred outside the capital. Should I repeat the same mistake today and flee in a hurry?"

Just at this moment, Susuha, the largest general under Batumonk, led his troops to retreat, and he looked embarrassed.

Susuha's main task is to command infantry to attack the city and to command cavalry to guard both wings to prevent Chenxi from suddenly attacking. As a result, there was a big problem in the deployment of troops... Wang Lingzhi and Lin Heng led the cavalry to kill Susuha and caught Susuha off guard. Susuha sent cavalry several times to encircle and block, but were all killed and retreated by the Ming cavalry.

The fire on the top of the city made the siege extremely difficult. Coupled with the losses of the cavalry, Susuha was able to care about Chen Xi's infantry formation and hurried back to the central army to report to Batumonk.

Batumonk saw Susuha's face darkened by fireworks. Thinking of his sons leading the troops outside, he was a little anxious and asked, "How many cavalry did the Ming Dynasty dispatch?"

Su Suha did not dare to report too few cavalry dispatched by the Ming army, otherwise not only would his own position in the Khan tribe take a sharp decline, but it might even implicate the reputation of the Khan tribe... Only three thousand Ming Dynasty cavalry could not respond, how could he break through the capital and dominate the world? Dream!

Susuha said: "Returning to the Khan, more than 10,000 cavalrymen were dispatched in the Ming Dynasty..."

"ah?"

The patriarchs of the major tribes following Batumonk all showed panic on their faces.

Although the number of Tatar soldiers besieging the capital of Daming was over 100,000, it was shared by various tribes. Many large tribes only had thousands of cavalry, and even smaller tribes only had hundreds to one thousand cavalry. They were mainly responsible for raids and defensive flanks, and relying on maneuvers to flexibly maintaining the active situation on the battlefield.

No one expected that the Ming Dynasty could dispatch more than 10,000 cavalry at one time, and it just hit the weak point of the Tatar soldiers.

"Report..."

Scouts from afar came quickly and sprinkled another handful of salt on the wounds of the tribe's patriarchs. "Ten thousand soldiers of the Ming army came from Xizhimen to Zhengyangmen along the city wall. The leader... was the governor of the Ming Dynasty Yansui who led the troops yesterday!"

As for whether the scout saw Chen Xi, even Batumonk was not sure, but he expected that Chen Xi would never sit and watch Zhengyangmen besieged and ignored it.

The obvious truth is that once Zhengyang Gate is lost and the capital of the Ming Dynasty falls, even if Chen Xi is stationed outside the city, it will be a drop in the bucket and cannot withstand the siege of 100,000 Tatar soldiers.

A tribal patriarch quickly stepped forward and asked: "The Khan, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, is also the governor of Yansui of the Ming Dynasty. He repelled the tens of thousands of elite tribes led by the national army in Xuanfu, and annihilated the troops of General Yibula outside Juyong Pass. Now he came to the capital. Yesterday, he broke my nearly 10,000 troops outside Xizhimen... This person may be a demonic person in the Ming Dynasty, so it is not appropriate to fight with him!"

Before Batumonk could say anything, the patriarch below had already begun to give in.

At this time, a rapid horn sound came from the left wing of the Tatar Central Army, that is, to the west of Zhengyangmen City. The Ming army's infantry phalanx was divided into six, and five of them were about a thousand people rushed out in an orderly manner, dispersing the Tatar cavalry teams that were heading to obstruct the security of the siege troops on the flanks.

"Just! Can even the infantry of the Ming Dynasty fight against our brave cavalry now?"

Batumonk was disappointed with the incompetence shown by the Tatar cavalry. Although he could not see clearly the specific situation of the Chenxi army formation, he had heard of it before. Chenxi was unique in his use of troops. The muskets and crossbows in his infantry formation were too sharp, and the combination of spears and shields made it difficult to break even with the courage of the Mongolian cavalry.

Seeing that his troops were gradually at a disadvantage, Batumonk still couldn't make up his mind to withdraw his troops. He thought to himself: "As long as he can hold back this reinforcements and continue to attack the city, once the Zhengyang Gate is broken, most of them will be liberated. I can be the wise Holy Lord of the Great Yuan Restoration!"

But when Batumonk raised his head to check the head of Zhengyangmen, Zhengyangmen was already trapped in the sea of ​​fire. Due to the lack of water on the city, even in the case of fire, soldiers could not extinguish the flames on their bodies. The fire became more and more intense. Most soldiers could only choose to jump off the city wall to escape, because they were either burned to death by the fire or smoked to death on the city wall.

Batumonk lamented: "The right time, place, and people are harmonious. I don't stand on the side of my Dayuan. Could it be that the heavens destroyed me? This place is always the territory of the Han people. Even if Taizu and Shizu could lead troops to pacify the world, their descendants were unworthy and would not say that their ancestors would be defeated. After retreating to the desert, they would be unable to break the capital of the Ming Dynasty. I shouldn't believe the lies of Yi Simayin and fight to be the emperor of the Central Plains. Now the situation is gone!"

Susuha was covered in dust. The cavalry of the Qiexue Army he personally led had lost more than half of the cavalry in the continuous battles, and was no longer as good as his previous ambitions. After hesitating for a moment, Susuha bowed down and asked: "Khan, whether to fight or withdraw, please tell me!"

When the tribe leader present heard this, even Susuha, who had always been fearless, was asking whether to withdraw his troops and would not have the chance to conquer the capital of Daming. Most of their soldiers were not around and were stationed in various places in the capital. What they thought was how to withdraw the grassland and preserve their strength and not be eroded by Dayan's tribe.

Some patriarchs were very direct and said without any concealment: "Khan, withdraw your troops!"

Some tribe patriarchs were also more gentle: "It's better to retreat to Zijing Pass and wait for an opportunity to move!"

Batumonk did not listen to these patriarchs' words of fear of death. He looked up at the direction of the city, and the blazing fire there became an indelible shadow in his heart:

"In order to guard the city gate, the senior Ming army officials did not hesitate to set fire to their own soldiers. Those who accomplished great things were not careful. It seems that I always lacked courage!"

When more soldiers on the top of the city fell down the wall on fire, Batumonk finally raised his right arm and shouted loudly in Tatar language... Mingjin stopped the troops.

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Zhu Houzhao, located at the head of Wengcheng, was almost breathless by the fireworks.

There was a raging fire in front of it, and the soldiers were burning to death. There was a thick smoke everywhere around it, and the smell of burnt in the air was disgusting.

Xie Qian vomited many times next to him. At this time, as the doctor of the Ministry of War who took over the defense, Wang Shouren had already gone to the city wall in front to command the troops to counterattack.

"Prince, are you okay?"

Xie Qian finally calmed down his breath. At this time, the smoke seemed to be less. He hurried to the prince to ask. Zhu Houzhao covered his nose with a handkerchief. His little face turned red. There was a lot of dust on his face, which seemed to have just been pulled out of the pile of coal ash.

Zhu Houzhao felt that the thick smoke was less, so she took a few deep breaths and asked, "Mr. Xie, has this fire... been burned? Cough cough cough..."

Xie Qian was a little unable to stand. In the past two days, he not only had poor rest, but also had no appetite for food. His previous vomiting made him exhausted and he said hoarsely: "Your Highness, Di Yi's number of troops on the top of the city has dropped sharply. It is estimated that if there are not many, he will be able to recover the city wall!"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, the fire came up and said loudly: "This is not just killing the Tartars, but to kill me. Where is Wang Shouren? Where is he... let him come to see me!"

Wang Shouren was not at the head of the Wengcheng City, and Zhu Houzhao never saw anyone.

However, the fire on the city wall is indeed weakening.

The outer layer of the city gate tower of Zhengyang Gate was built with blue bricks and was not ignited. There were not many things that could burn on the city wall. The fire before was completely burned by tung oil, tinder oil and firewood. After these things were burned, many soldiers' bodies were burned, so the fire did not extinguish themselves.

Zhang Yuan was very smart. After going down the city tower, he hid in a corner of the wall of the city wall. He had no water basin on his hand, so he soaked his handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose with urine. At this time, he was in the best spirit.

Zhang Yuan trembled along the wall of the Wengcheng, looked at the cleared wall in front, and came back in surprise and reported: "Your Highness, the great news, the Tartars have withdrew their troops!"

"Have the Tartars finally retreated?"

Zhu Houzhao was very happy, but her smile just opened, "It's just that to withdraw troops. I don't know if Mr. Shen's troops are coming... The Tartars should launch the next round of offensive at any time!"

Zhang Yuan said anxiously: "No, the Tartars even ignored the siege equipment and evacuated far south of the city. It seemed that Governor Shen's troops also rushed to the south of the city..."

Zhu Houzhao asked excitedly: "Is that so? Where? I want to see Mr. Shen's style!"

As he spoke, the naughty child rushed to the city wall in front. The Tatars indeed retreated. Looking down from the city, he could see several Ming army infantry formations approaching the Tatar cavalry camp. Unfortunately, due to the hiding of the remaining smoke, Zhu Houzhao could not see clearly.

"The sight here is not good, I want to go up to the city tower!" Zhu Houzhao said, and was about to go to the city tower in the middle of the city wall.

This time, Zhang Yuan stopped Zhu Houzhao and persuaded him: "Prince, there are so many people dead on the top of the city. Before you enter the city gate, you must first step on the burned corpses of the soldiers. Can you bear the horse?"

Zhu Houzhao was originally just excited to see Shen Xi bringing infantry to fight with Tatar cavalry. When he heard Zhang Yuan's words, he was a little disappointed. Many things could not stand the thoughts, just like the corpses on the top of the city. Zhu Houzhao was already creepy when he saw them from afar. The screams of the soldiers on fire before echoed in his mind again, and his little face turned pale.

"No...I won't go! I won't go, but Zhang Yuan, go and show me how Mr. Shen fought against the Tartars. I will tell you in detail after I come back. If I dare to evade me, I will just chop your head and feed the dog!"
Chapter completed!