"Xu Huizu, what is this going to do?" Timur was somewhat inexplicable. He confronted Xu Huizu during this time, and he already knew that he was very cautious in using his troops, why did he let the army led by Lan Zhen press him now? Even if some cavalry was taken away, Lan Zhen's soldiers were 80,000, and if he was eliminated, the Ming army would be very disadvantageous in this battle.

"Great Khan, how to deal with it?" Yesbu was also very puzzled by the movements of the Ming army, and couldn't help asking.

"Yesbou, you command the main force of 50,000 infantry and the main force of 20,000 cavalry." Timur said. Whatever the purpose of the Ming army, he must follow.

"Send another 30,000 auxiliaries to harass the Ming army's Lanzhen Division." Timur said again.

He was about to say a few more words to Jesbo, when suddenly he coughed a few times. Jesbu immediately asked with concern, "Great Khan, your body?" ”

"Fortunately, it's no big deal, it was about last night when I caught a cold in the rain. Although I have been wearing a raincoat, the raincoat does not guarantee that no rain will leak inside, and I still catch a cold. Timur laughed self-deprecatingly: "After all, I am old, and if it rains so much, and it is summer, I will catch a cold." ”

Yesb didn't know what to say, and only after Timur finished speaking, did he say, "Great Khan, take care of your body." ”

"It's okay, although I have a cold, it's okay to command this battle."

Timur immediately said: "You must be careful when leading the army, Xu Huizu sent Lan Zhen's troops out definitely not to fight to the death with our army now, if he fights to the death, he should dispatch the five upper guards in his hands." ”

"Your first task is to find out the purpose of the Blue Treasure Ministry's dispatch, and if there is any major discovery, use the secret second set of flags to tell me."

"Also, be careful not to let the soldiers suffer too many casualties. It is not ruled out that Xu Huizu will sacrifice Lan Zhen's department to severely damage the main force of our army. ”

"Yes, Great Khan." Jesbu said yes again.

"Go ahead. The army is all ready. Remember, don't fight hard with the Ming army. ”

The army led by Jesb slowly approached the army led by Lan Zhen.

Jesbu was very calm in front of the soldiers, which reassured the soldiers who were nervous because they knew that the night attack had failed last night, and rushed forward with high morale, but his heart was not at peace.

The actions of the Ming army are not particularly unusual, but at the beginning, it was clear that they wanted to fight for consumption, and first consumed them with cannon fodder, but now the cannon fodder troops have not yet been consumed and suddenly changed formations, which made them scratch their heads.

At this time, Yesbu was closely watching the movements of the Ming army, not only Lan Zhen's department, but also other armies. I want to guess Xu Huizu's purpose.

After the army was dispatched, the artillery team of the Ming army really changed, and the muzzle of the cannon turned to the army led by him, and then he saw a flash of fire, and countless shells flew out and roared towards him.

Yesbu did not panic, and the whole army did not stop at all. Unless they hid in the city walls, the infantry in the field could not stop the shells no matter how prepared they were, and now the morale was high, and if they stopped to avoid the shells, their morale could fall, so he didn't give any new orders.

This army is worthy of the name of elite, even if there are soldiers next to them who were smashed by the artillery of the Ming army, their bodies are broken, their faces do not change, and they continue to move forward.

On the other hand, Lan Zhen's department was a little flustered. Some of these guards under Lan Zhen's jurisdiction have not fought for more than ten years, and some of the soldiers who fought in the war have also unloaded their heavy responsibilities and handed them over to their sons and nephews.

Jesbu seized the opportunity and ordered his soldiers to attack immediately when the formation of Lan Zhen's headquarters was a little loose after the shelling, first firing a round of bows and arrows against the shells of the Ming army, and then quickly approaching the Ming army.

These soldiers, who had not fought for several years, had forgotten that the infantry of the Xilu were within the range of their bows and arrows when they were shelled just now, and they only cared about dodging the shells, and no one could hear the orders of the Shangguan in the chaos, and no one cared about reading the flags, and few people shot arrows at all. If Lan Zhen's soldiers were like this, then he could only be defeated at this time.

But the guard post at the front of the entire large array, Huailaiwei, had already made preparations. Huai Laiwei participated in the revenge battle of Yunxi's expedition to Mobei nine years ago, and participated in Zhu Quan's campaign to conquer Mobei three years ago.

When they were only thirty paces away from Sirü, he ordered the archers to stop and start shooting again, and another rain of arrows flew out and shot at Sirü.

Jesbu also ordered the archers at the rear of the formation to draw their bows and arrows, but the infantry in front charged against the arrows of the Ming army. With spears in their right hands and a small shield in their left, the infantry rushed towards the Ming army.

The Ming army, also holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, also rushed towards the west. But just before the two armies were about to engage in battle, the Ming army suddenly stopped, and the right hand, which had been flickering, had quietly replaced the thing in his hand with a black thing at this time, and threw it towards Xiyu.

Most of the faces of the western prisoners on the opposite side changed greatly, and quickly squatted down and raised the shield in their hands to block in front of them, and a small number of people were still inexplicable, when they heard a loud "boom" sound, and these soldiers who did not use their shields to block themselves were suddenly blown up on their backs and fell to the ground screaming.

Although the previous battle between the two armies was very similar to the battle of the Cold Weapon Age, except that the trebuchet was replaced by artillery, it was not. In the era of cold weapons, there were no weapons that could explode in front of the battle, but the Ming army, which had gone from cold weapons to mixing hot and cold excessively, had it, and it was a grenade produced by Yun Xi's very uncreative name "Yingtian No. 1 Firearms Factory".

At this time, although these grenades, which were later named No. 1 grenades, were not very powerful, thousands of them were thrown out in an instant, even if they could only explode in half, there were tens of thousands and halfs, not only were the soldiers who did not protect themselves with shields just now stabbed to death, but even many people who had done a good job of protection were seriously injured.

Then Yu Yao commanded Huai Laiwei's soldiers to rush forward immediately. Now the first row of the Siyu are half-crouching to dodge the grenades, and it is a good time to kill them.

After the explosion stopped, the Xilu was about to stand up and continue to fight, but at this time the Ming army had already rushed in front of them, and they were rushed away by the Ming army before they could re-form a formation, and they were immediately wiped out by the Ming army.

But the Xiyu in the back did not receive the impact of the grenade just now, nor was he affected by the hacking of his robe, and still rushed over in a neat queue.

Now that the two sides were so close, they didn't have time to throw a second grenade, and they immediately fought face to face with Xiyu.

At this time, the soldiers in the back had also restored order, changed formations under the command of Lan Zhen, and pressed up from the flank; Jesbu also used means to deal with it, and the battlefield suddenly became scorched.

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Xing Yuan slashed to death the western prisoner who was about to sneak attack, looked at the battlefield in front of him, and spat at the mouth.

This is a war of nearly a million people, and when they went out so early, the casualties of the war must be indispensable, and he may have to be handed over here today.

He wanted to turn his head and run away, but thinking of his family, he loosened his stiff muscles and raised his knife to fight Xiyu.

He slashed another captive to death, and when he heard a sound in his ears, he lowered his shield upwards, only to hear a "bang" and a short spear poked at his shield.

Xing Yuan immediately turned around and wanted to kill this Western captive. But this Siyu was not incompetent, and he also turned around so that he could not cut it, and was about to stab him with a short spear.

Xing Yuan dodged again, and after a few rounds of wrangling with him, he saw an opportunity to slash at his arm, cutting off his arm holding the short spear.

The man immediately screamed, a little crazy, and Xingyuan stabbed him again, cutting off his head from the neck and killing him completely.

But at this moment, he was alarmed, and as soon as he twisted his body, he felt a huge pain in his back for a moment, and a spear pierced into his back, fortunately he avoided the vital point, otherwise he would have been a dead man at this time.

Xing Yuan was about to endure the severe pain and turn around to kill him, but the spear that was about to be drawn from him suddenly did not move, and when he turned around, he saw a man in light armor pulling out the knife from the back of the heart.

"Thank you." He said right away.

Huai Laiwei, who was called Sun Yanshi, commanded Sun Tai, of course, couldn't hear what he was saying clearly on such a noisy battlefield, but he could roughly guess by looking at his mouth. He smiled, pulled the knife out of the back of the heart, stood beside Xing Yuan, and said while looking around nervously: "What do you ask me to do, they are all acquaintances, you used to be a thousand households, only one level lower than me, don't talk about it so rawly." Call me Brother Sun. ”

"I'm just a small flag now, where do I dare to call you a brother." Xing Yuan listened to his words, and a bitter look appeared on his face.

Sun Tai suddenly knew that he had said the wrong thing, and he didn't open the pot. In the past few years, Xingyuan has worked hard to be able to return to a thousand households, and everyone he knows has begged all over it, but no one has helped, and he only took advantage of the fact that he followed King Ning to conquer Mobei three years ago before he was promoted to a small banner.

There's a reason for that, too. First, since he has been removed from his official position, it is useless for the officials he knows, and his willingness to help him is greatly reduced; The second is the reason why he was masturbated.

Nine years ago, His Majesty the current emperor led troops to inspect the Great Wall, was attacked by the Mongols, and was almost caught, Huai Laiwei was about to send troops to rescue after getting the news, but when he commanded Yu Yao, he found that Xing Yuan deserted and went home in the barracks, and did not report to him in advance, Yu Yao was immediately furious, and took his official position to reflect in the city.

Because of the reason why he was masturbated, the person who had a good relationship with him was afraid of being involved by political enemies, so he didn't dare to help.

Sun Tai didn't know what to say at this time, so he simply didn't say anything, and continued to rush and kill with his own soldiers. Xing Yuan also came to his senses and rushed to kill again. This war of this scale should never be encountered again in this life, His Majesty attaches great importance to this battle, and the reward must be very rich, he wants to turn over the salted fish and count on this battle, even if he dies in battle, he must regain the hereditary future for his son.

He didn't know how long he had been killed, a long, long time had passed in his subjective time, and his arm was a little sore, and he was about to find another suitable time to rest a little, when he suddenly felt the earth shake, and he looked in the direction from which the shock came, and saw smoke and dust billowing out, and then he heard someone shout loudly: "The cavalry of the West Capture has moved again!" ”

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"Pass the order, order all the cavalry on the left and right flanks to attack, and surround the Lan Zhen Department of the Ming army on three sides with the cavalry that was previously under the command of Yesbu, and wipe out this army."

"Order the whole army to press forward and force into the position of the Ming army." Timur gave the order after observing the battle between Jesbu and Lan Zhen for a while.

After this period of observation, he noticed that the Lan Zhen Department was a little out of touch with most of the Ming army and was not connected, and Timur suddenly decided: send troops to eat the Lan Zhen Department.

Of course, his original plan was not like this, but the battle situation is ever-changing, and the opportunity must not be lost and never come again, if he misses this opportunity, it is difficult to say whether he can find a better one, so he immediately ordered the dispatch of troops.

"Great Khan, be careful that this is the possibility that this is a bait released by the Ming army." Someone reminded.

"I know." Timur said with a smile: "Xu Huizu has always been cautious in the use of troops, although I haven't guessed his intentions in the movement just now, but as long as Lan Zhen is carrying out Xu Huizu's orders, Xu Huizu will not have such a big command mistake under normal circumstances, and it is not a small possibility that he is a bait." ”

"But even the bait risk is worth the risk!" Timur said in an accentuated tone: "Now it is beneficial to the Ming army with more troops, and it is not good for our army with fewer troops. If this stalemate continues, it is likely that the Ming army will win the war by a narrow margin. ”

Hearing Timur's words, some people immediately wanted to speak with excited expressions, but Timur did not leave them a chance to speak, and continued: "I know that you all think that I am invincible, but in the face of the Khitan army, whose national strength and military strength are not lower than that of our country, and the commander is so cautious, I may not necessarily win." ”

The people at the scene were Timur's henchmen and generals, and Timur dared to say this, if all the soldiers in front of him were ordinary soldiers, he would never dare. The morale of the military will be dealt a heavy blow immediately. Even the generals present were surprised when they heard this, but finally no one dared to interject.

Timur nodded in satisfaction, and was about to continue speaking, when he suddenly lowered his head and coughed a few times. The guards next to him immediately stepped forward to serve him to spit.

Timur stared at the spittoon a few times before withdrawing his gaze, allowing the guards, whose faces flashed with consternation, to step back and speak to the generals.

"But fortunately, although the commander of the Ming army was cautious, he should not have been willing to want such a crushing victory, so there was a matter of entangled Jesbu's army in the early hours of this morning to force our army to confront him head-on. Today, there is such a vacancy again. ”

"But this is not necessarily bad for our army. Because most of our army are cavalry, even those auxiliaries are not weak in combat effectiveness on horses, and the Ming army is dominated by infantry, and the cavalry is much less than our army. ”

"This means one thing: the speed of the Ming army's on-the-spot mobilization is not as fast as our army."

"That's why I'm going to fight with my soldiers like this. If this is really a mistake by the Ming army, then destroy the Lan Zhen Division; If this is a bait laid out, then take advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army's mobilization to force them to move on a larger scale, disrupt Xu Huizu's plan, and use the speed of our army to seize the opportunity to defeat the Ming army when the Ming army's mobilization is ineffective. ”

After listening to Timur's explanation, everyone suddenly understood and regained confidence in their hearts. Although everyone did not praise Timur on a large scale because of what he said just now, there was also a look of reverence in his eyes: the Great Khan was really so awesome.

Timur also smiled at the generals, but after they all left where they were, Timur seemed to be a little unsteady on his feet, and almost fell to the ground, but the guards beside him were quick and helped him.