I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 339 Weakness
Seeing the Mongolian cavalry retreating from all sides, Zhu Houzhao said with some concern: "This general has already displayed the emperor's flag, will the Mongolian prince try to escape again?"

The generals were at a loss whether to laugh or cry. With the emperor here, how could the Tartars leave easily!

The next day, the weather was still gray, but there was no heavy fog.

The two armies began to fight again, and the intensity was much higher than the previous day.

Yesterday the Mongols were only testing on one side, but today they began to harass from all sides. There were several thousand Mongolian cavalry on each side, and they shot arrows into the Ming army in a more scattered formation than yesterday.

The Ming army also responded enthusiastically to the Mongols' gift, with bursts of white smoke constantly appearing in the formation.

The new army has fully adapted to this intensity of arrow rain, and today's arrow rain is shot from horse bows, so there won't be any problem as long as they are not particularly unlucky.

Although they were on high-speed galloping horses, the Mongols' casualties were still significantly higher than the Ming army's. One had a fast firing rate, and the power of its shots seemed like tickling; the other had a slow firing rate, but each shot was so powerful that no matter whether it hit a person or a horse, it would make the enemy lose its combat effectiveness.

However, the archers still endured the casualties, shot all their arrows, and then returned to their camp to restore their strength. Thousands of cavalrymen followed suit, and after a round of feint attack, they suddenly charged towards the edge of the Ming army's formation.

They had already figured out the loading time of the Ming army's bird guns, and they thought they had seized a gap in the Ming army's loading time and rushed directly to the front of the formation.

But they miscalculated. As they approached, the Ming army fired two rows of guns very quickly, leaving more than 300 bodies behind.
Forty percent of the new army's soldiers were equipped with bird guns. In the recent exchange of fire, only 2000 of them were firing. The other 2000 had not fired in order to deal with this situation.

The two sides were about ten steps apart. Facing the charging cavalry, the soldiers of the new army were not at all panicked. After all, they had seen this kind of scene many times during their usual training, and it had long become muscle memory.

Therefore, the new army soldiers were completely immune to the pressure brought by the Mongolian cavalry charge. What they were thinking about more was that they were in a panic when facing the Mongolian cavalry in the previous training and were punished to clean the toilets of the entire camp.

Seeing that intimidation was ineffective, the Mongolian cavalry immediately passed in front of the formation.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" More than a dozen tiger-crouching cannons were pushed out and fired. Thousands of lead bullets swept through the Mongolian cavalry ranks, and immediately more than a hundred cavalrymen fell off their horses.

The Mongolian cavalry's formation was not tight, so the effect of the tiger squat cannon was not particularly good.

However, the Tatar cavalry panicked in an instant, their formation became disorganized, and finally they were defeated and fled.

Zhu Houzhao stood on the imperial carriage, observing the battle situation with a telescope, and immediately laughed: "Another feigned defeat to lure the enemy, how could this general be fooled? Order the front troops to strictly guard the formation and not pursue."

"The mighty general is wise!" Zhang Yong, Jiang Bin and others flattered him.

The Mongolian cavalry of that time liked to attack from both wings, feign defeat in the front to lure the enemy, and after breaking up the enemy's formation, they immediately launched a three-sided counterattack. If the first counterattack was ineffective, they would continue to harass with horseback archery, preventing the enemy from regrouping, and eventually defeat the pursuing enemy in mobile warfare.

The Ming Dynasty had fought against the Tatars for decades and had already figured out Mongolian tactics. Zhu Houzhao would definitely not be fooled easily. Faced with such a situation, Dayan Khan had a headache. The previous wave of feigned defeat had caused many casualties to the Mongolian cavalry, but it did not have the effect of luring the enemy at all.

Moreover, the attack was carried out from all sides, and the total number of casualties among the Mongolian cavalry was over 1,000. Adding the casualties from the initial harassment, the Mongolian casualties were over 1,500.
This Han emperor in front of us is too cautious and experienced!

Facing the new army's formation, Dayan Khan was like a dog biting a turtle and had no idea where to start!

The long range and great power of the bird gun directly made their long-range attack exchange ratio very ugly.

Send the cavalry to charge directly. If the formation is scattered, they can't charge. If the formation is tight, they will be bombarded by the shotgun shells of the tiger squat cannon. If they want to charge in, they have to sacrifice their lives to consume the firepower of the Ming army.
Surrounding the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a rare opportunity, but it seems that this opportunity is not so easy to seize.

Just when Dayan Khan was in a dilemma, two holes appeared in the wooden shield wall that was used to protect against arrows in front of the Ming army's formation, and the chains connecting the carts were also lowered.

Two teams of Ming troops walked out of the formation. They walked to the front of the formation as if no one was around and checked the Mongols on the ground one by one. The lightly wounded ones had already crawled back on their own, leaving only the seriously wounded and dead Mongols in front of the formation.

The two Ming troops used their long spears to stab the Mongols twice without caring about their lives, and then walked up to them and chopped off their heads one by one with their swords.
The two Ming troops did this without paying attention to anyone else. There was silence in front of the battle line, except for the screams of the wounded Mongolian soldiers and the dull sound of the swords chopping on the cervical vertebrae.
The Mongols could clearly hear the two sounds from a distance of hundreds of steps. They were all furious and some wanted to mount their horses to attack the two teams of Ming troops, but they were beaten back by the Ming army's musketeers who were well prepared.

This behavior of the Ming army aroused great hatred, and the morale of the Mongolian army, which had become somewhat low due to the recent defeat, became high again.
At noon, the Mongolian cavalry scattered everywhere, dismounted and ate dry food on the spot, while feeding the horses water and food.

The Ming soldiers also began to eat. They had brought enough food with them when they went south to rescue the enemy, so they were not afraid of having their food supply cut off by the Mongols. If the outcome could not be determined within half a month, the Ming army could go back to nearby cities for supplies.

The morale of ordinary Mongolian soldiers became high, but the Mongolian generals all saw the current predicament and were all very troubled.

"Great Khan! In fact, the weakness of the Han people lies in the rear army," King Altudai suggested. Their Khorchin tribe should focus on attacking the rear army.

"The rear army is the Datong Army." Dayan Khan immediately understood what King Altodai meant.

"Although the Datong army has 20,000 troops, they were besieged by us for many days and are already exhausted. This morning our cavalry charged into the Datong army's formation," King Altodai explained.

The Datong Army had been away from Datong City for twelve days. The army was already under great mental pressure as it was alone and marching south. In the first four days, it was harassed by the Mongols, and in the middle five days, it was besieged by the Mongol army. Although it received rescue and its morale was greatly boosted in the last three days, it had been fighting all the time and had not rested at all...

So the Mongols attacked from all sides, but returned in defeat on three sides, with little success. Only in the rear army did they achieve a lot of success, and even had their troops break into the battle formation. However, the morale boosted by the emperor's flag was not in vain, and the Datong army fought desperately to kill the Mongol cavalry that broke into the battle formation...

Compared with other directions, the Datong Army in the rear is really the weakness of the Ming Army...

I was so sleepy yesterday that I fell asleep at 10 o'clock. I got up at o'clock to write these two chapters. Sorry for keeping you waiting.

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