Beyond the Great Wall of Yulin Town and Ningxia Town, which is concave, is the Hetao area that has been a headache for the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty since the Jingtai period.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Hetao area was firmly in the hands of the Ming court, and at that time, no Mongolian tribe dared to go deep into the grassland desert outside Yulin Town. However, from the beginning of the Battle of Jingyan, the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty began to gradually loosen. In the Xuande period, because of the contraction of the northern frontier defense line, the term "taokou" began to appear. However, this "taokou" was only a small group of scattered Mongol tribes or bandits who slipped into the Hetao area, which was still under the actual control of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and did not cause the fall of the Hetao area. After the defeat of Ming Yingzong's army at Tumubao, the defense strength of the Ming Dynasty once again declined sharply. In the seventh year of Zong Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Yuan Taishi came to lead the troops into the set, called "the North Captive into the set", from this time on, the Hetao area is no longer the area where the Ming Dynasty has the final say. The concave Yulin Town and Ningxia Town Great Wall were also built to defend against the northern captives...... Until the reign of Emperor Hongxing, the lord of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cijiong, the acting king of Yulin Town, Ningxia Town and Yan'an Mansion, slipped from Datong Mansion and Luliang Mountain, and effortlessly cleaned up the Ordos Department, which had lived too comfortably in the Hetao area, so that this piece of land, which had been lost for nearly 200 years, returned to the banner of the Ming Dynasty again.

From the beginning of the summer of the sixth year of Hongxing, in order to meet the Ordos Department that went south through the Hanhai Desert to avoid the enemy, Zhu Cihong placed his palace tent outside the Great Wall of Yulin Town, an ancient city of 120 or 30 miles away from Yulin City.

Tongwancheng is located at the confluence of the Hongliu River and the Heishui River, two tributaries of the Wuding River, surrounded by a large area of grassland, but the water and grass are not fat, some arid, and cannot carry many livestock. Less than 100 miles north of Tongwan is the Hanhai Desert, and the north of the Hanhai Desert is the real prairie with fertile water and grass. In the early days, the Ordos Department was nomadic in the grassland near the Yellow River in the north of the Hanhai Sea, and only when it was in winter to avoid the cold, it would cross the Hanhai Sea and then rob the Ming Dynasty's Yulin Town and Ningxia Town. If you can't grab anything, ask for some market rewards.

As a result, he met a loan king who owed a butt of loan sharks and was more vicious than the Mongols, so he was robbed several times, and in the end he had no choice but to honestly start the smuggling of arms......

And the smuggling of arms is actually quite profitable, and Erlinchen, who has been an arms dealer for a few years, and his tribe have become rich, and they have no courage to become thieves again.

So, when choosing between the Great Khan of Mongolia and the King of the Ming Dynasty, he did not hesitate to choose Zhu Cijiong, the acting king who could bring him all kinds of evil money.

After Erlinchen finished the multiple-choice question, the battle in the direction of the Hetao was no longer the attack and defense of the Great Wall line, but the confrontation between the sands of the Hanhai Sea.

The Hanhai Sandy Land is not very large, and there are small oases in between, but there are not many water sources in the oases, and they are easy to pollute. Therefore, it is not easy for the armies of both sides to pass, especially in the cold and dry autumn and winter.

However, the small cavalry and horse teams on both sides can still enter and exit the Hanhai sand. Therefore, the battle, which was later called the "Battle of Hanhai", became a model of a large group of men and horses playing soy sauce and a small group of elites fighting black guns.

That's right, it's a black gun!

The Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry that entered the sandy land of Hanhai encountered a new cavalry tactic - fighting black guns!

Because the Hanhai Sandy Land is not a vast area of yellow sand, there are many small oases and hills scattered among them, which belong to the sandy land with complex terrain, and it is a good place to ambush everywhere.

On the east side of an oasis called Kankanjing in the sandy land of Hanhai, about twenty Ming musketeers, dressed in sheepskin jackets and sheepskin felt hats, watched from a distance, no different from the Mongols, leaning on half of the earthen wall to lay in ambush. The leader is none other than Wang Fuchen, nicknamed Ma Harrier.

He is now the commander of the left battalion of the pro-army cavalry of the acting king Zhu Cijiong, with the official rank of 100 households, and he is also the number one person in the acting king's army.

But now he is not doing the work of a battalion commander, but personally taking a platoon of brothers out to cut off people's heads!

Although the new army of the Ming Dynasty does not take credit for heads, the acting Wang Jun of Shuofang is still very keen to cut off his head. If you want to soar in Zhu Cijiong's army, you have to rely on the skill of cutting your head.

Wang Fuchen is a senior expert in chopping people, and his skills are very good, whether it is horse warfare and foot combat, he is a good hand.

And at the beginning of this year, he learned a new skill of playing black guns from Bai Siwen, the deputy military division of the Shuofang Army, who returned from the make-up class - a little disgraceful, and his prestige of "living Lu Bu" and "horse harrier" was broken, but Wang Fuchen also did not have any "chivalry", as long as he could cut off a few more Tartar heads, it was better than anything.

So he was now dressed in a dirty Mongol leather robe, with twenty dismounted musketeers, waiting here for the Tartar heads.

One of his men was crawling on the ground at this time, his butt pouting high, his ears on the ground, squinting and listening carefully. Suddenly he straightened up and shouted, "Here comes the head!" ”

"Ignition rope!" Wang Fuchen hurriedly roared, then raised his telescope to look east, to the east was an open sandy field, near the earthen wall where he was ambushed there were clumps of wild grass, and three or five half-dead poplar trees.

Twenty dismounted musketeers had already taken the turtledove's foot firecracker in their hands, and when they heard Wang Fuchen's order, they all took out the flint and began to light the firerope, and their movements were very skillful, and they knew that they were veterans at a glance.

Just as they lit the arquebus, a dozen or so cavalrymen running and shooting arrows backwards appeared in the distance, all dressed in Mongolian style, but Wang Fuchen knew that they were all his own men, and they were the archers he sent out to lure the enemy.

Now the "black lancers" of the royal army usually attack in platoons, a platoon is full of 40 horses, of which 10 are archers, riding the fastest horses, carrying only bows and sabers, not wearing armor, the task is to search and lure the enemy.

There were 20 musketeers, armed with turtledoves and sabers, and they were not armoured. Their task was to lay in ambush, wait for the archers to draw the enemy, and then shoot the black spears with turtledove's foot firearms.

Another 10 cavalry are lancers, all of whom are the most capable warriors, equipped with cavalry spears, sabers, and cuirasses, and the task is to launch an attack immediately after the "black lancers" finish shooting the black spears, and take advantage of the opponent's panic to kill them by surprise.

And the "black lancers" who finished shooting the black guns will also immediately get on their horses and launch a second wave of attacks after the lancers.

The archers, who are responsible for luring the enemy at the beginning, will carry out a third wave.

This set of tactics is very simple, but it is extremely practical, and if you encounter a small number of opponents, such as only twenty or thirty horsemen, you can often fight a complete annihilation - of course, this means that against the Mongols, the Old Manchuria of the Eight Banners should not be so easy to deal with.

"It's coming!"

Wang Fuchen shouted again, and then pulled out his waist knife: "Listen to my orders!" Don't shoot indiscriminately, and if you violate the order, you will be killed! ”

"Whoa!"

All the "black gunners" responded loudly.

These people are all veterans of battle, and they don't need Wang Fuchen to hold a knife and know that they can't shoot indiscriminately, but if any of them make a low-level mistake, Wang Fuchen, a living Lu Bu, will definitely become a living Hades!

In the distance, the Ming archers had stopped shooting arrows, but were running at full speed, trying to distance themselves from their pursuers. Wang Fuchen counted them and found that there were nine archers, one less than when they were sent out.

And the number of pursuers is about forty or fifty, and they are all Mongols in costumes!

"It's the Mongols!" Wang Fuchen shouted again.

The atmosphere at the scene immediately relaxed......

The archers of the Ming army rushed straight to the low wall ambushed by Wang Fuchen and others, this low wall was originally supposed to be the wall of a certain village, because it was in disrepair for a long time, and it continued to collapse, so it became the current dilapidated appearance, and there were several gaps of one or two zhang wide, which could be run through by horseback.

In the blink of an eye, nine Ming cavalry rode through the gap one after another.

The Mongol rangers who followed them were unaware of the danger and screamed as they pursued, and some of them skillfully shot bows and arrows on horseback.

"Aim at ......" Wang Fuchen saw the opportunity coming, and shouted without hesitation: "Hair!" ”

Bang......

20 turtledoves fired at the same time, and the four Mongolian warriors who rushed to the front fell off their horses!