Amid the sound of horse hooves.
A torrent rushed towards us from the east of the battlefield.
The Mongolian cavalry were shocked when they saw this.
This cavalry unit numbered as many as three to four thousand people.
If it were just the sheer numbers, the Mongolian cavalry wouldn't be so scared.
After all, victory in war does not depend solely on numbers.
What I’m afraid of is these people’s equipment.
This cavalryman wore iron helmets, red armor, and the bright arm armor on his arms was extremely dazzling in the sun.
(During the Ming Dynasty, the main colors of cloth armor were red and blue. There was also green, and the armor of the emperor's imperial guards was khaki.)
The color of the armor does not indicate whether the troops are elite or not, it is only to make it easier for the commander to confirm the position of his own troops on the battlefield.
For cavalry, whether they are elite depends on whether the soldiers have arm armor.
Having arm armor does not necessarily mean you are an elite, but not having arm armor is definitely not an elite.
"It's the Ming army!" shouted the Mongolian cavalry on the periphery.
"The Ming army's reinforcements are coming, quickly send someone to stop them!"
"Why don't you send someone to stop them?"
"My people can't beat them."
"What a coincidence, even my people can't beat them!"
This team, which was temporarily assembled from two Mongolian tribes, had a disagreement on who would stop the Ming army.
In the blink of an eye, the Ming army reinforcements came much closer.
"Stop wasting your time. If you continue wasting, we'll all die!" a Mongol general yelled at another.
"Well, let's each send some troops to fight against the Ming army."
"OK!"
The two reached a consensus as quickly as possible, and then each led more than a thousand people to meet the enemy.
They didn't intend to stop the Ming army's reinforcements, nor could they stop them.
In their view, as long as they can delay it for a while, it will be fine.
The mission will be completed if you kill the general and capture the flag.
pity...
While they overestimated their own combat effectiveness, they also underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.
When Liu Zhaoji led reinforcements into the battlefield, Li Xingzhong's central army flag had been surrounded by countless Mongolian cavalry.
Liu Zhaoji was immediately furious, and he personally led the reinforcements to launch a charge.
First they used firearms, then shot arrows, and finally threw grenades at the Mongolian cavalry.
The Mongolian cavalry were first hit by the bullets fired from the three-barreled gun, covered in blood, and then they were shot by arrows and could not move forward.
They originally wanted to form a dense formation and use human wall tactics to block the Ming army.
As a result, they were bombed by grenades from the Ming army.
Boom boom boom——
Concentrated explosions rang out among the crowd.
The soldiers were fine, they just felt dizzy and had tinnitus from the grenade and were temporarily unable to move.
The war horses under their crotches were in a miserable state.
Not only were his four hooves and abdomen injured by fragments from the grenade explosion, but he was also frightened by the sudden explosion and ran around in panic.
The dense formation that the Mongolian cavalry had finally formed collapsed in an instant.
"Run, the Ming army is coming!" As they ran, they sent a retreat signal to their companions who were besieging Li Xingzhong.
The Mongolian cavalry besieging Li Xingzhong first showed a hesitant expression, and then looked at Teng Jite at the same time.
Teng Jite was their general, and it was up to him to decide whether to continue fighting or retreat.
"Report!" The scout escaped from the hunting of several Ming army squads and came to Teng Jite with injuries. "Ming army reinforcements have arrived and defeated the temporary defense line set up by our army."
"What?" Teng Ji was shocked. "That's not right. Prince Li told me himself that the Ming army was short of manpower. How could there be reinforcements?"
The scout kept his mouth shut and said nothing.
He didn't know the answer to the question, nor did he know how to comfort Teng Jite. He could only stand there like a fool and keep silent.
"What's the flag? What's the equipment?" Teng Jite asked hurriedly after he recovered.
"A general's flag with the word Liu on it, cotton armor, an iron helmet, a magpie sword, a bow and arrow, a three-barreled gun, and armor on the war horses," the scout replied.
"Looking at their equipment, they are elite cavalry!" Teng Jite gasped, "But...who is the general with the character Liu?"
Liu Zhaoji?
I heard that he is confronting the North Koreans on the eastern front.
How could we abandon the Eastern Front and come to the Western Front?
Even if we really give up the eastern front, we have to give the North Koreans a message, right?
However, there has been no news related to the Eastern Front since the war began.
Something is wrong!
In a breath, countless hypotheses appeared in Teng Jite's mind.
The development of things has far exceeded his imagination.
First of all, he did not expect that the Ming army actually had reinforcements.
Secondly, he had no idea where the reinforcements came from.
"Sir, make a decision quickly, the Ming army will be here soon!" Looking at the confused Teng Jite, the scout reminded him with a sad face.
"This..." Teng Jite was in a dilemma.
He didn't know whether to run away or hold on a little longer.
Li Xingzhong set up four lines of defense, and he had already penetrated three of them, leaving only the last line of defense.
Although this line of defense is composed of the elite among the elite, there are only a hundred or so people.
As long as you are willing to exchange your life for theirs, you can kill them all soon.
Thus, he accomplished the feat of beheading the general and seizing the flag, and defeated all the Ming troops on the battlefield in one fell swoop.
But...
If he fails to break through the defense line on time, he will be surrounded by Ming army reinforcements.
Hesitantly, he glanced toward the north of the battle line.
That is the direction where Mandahai’s central army is located.
Man Dahai was confused at this time.
He pointed at Liu Zhaoji's reinforcements and asked the people around him: "Where did this Ming army reinforcement come from?"
"I don't know either."
"Could it be that these are reinforcements temporarily transferred from Wang Yongji?" Man Dahai continued to ask.
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