Seeing Salha leading the troops to battle, Xu Huizu smiled at the corner of his mouth and whispered to himself: "He finally led the troops to fight." ”

"What?" Zhu Shanglie, who was standing beside him, didn't hear his words clearly and asked.

"Nothing." Xu Huizu replied, and then commanded loudly: "Order Cao Xing to lead the left and right guards of the government army to fight and protect the palace guards and other guards." ”

After a pause, he said, "Call the commander of the Korean team and the commander of the Yongming Left Guard." ”

The Flag Whisperer agreed, and began waving the flag in his hand; The soldiers agreed and went down to give the order.

After a while, Li Mingfang, Qin Sen, and Zhu Suohai came and saluted him and Zhu Shanglie: "I have seen Wei Guogong/Xu Shuai, and I have seen His Royal Highness King Yongxing." ”

"What about Kim Han-sung? As the commander of your North Korean team, why didn't he come to meet Ben Shuai? Xu Huizu frowned and asked Li Mingfang.

"Wei Guogong, Commander Jin had a cold and stayed in the camp and didn't come out." Li Mingfang said stubbornly.

"Humph!" Xu Huizu snorted. Where did Jin Hancheng get cold, he was obviously afraid of dying in battle, so he hid in the camp and didn't come out.

'If you are a military general of the Ming Dynasty, unless you are a member of the Chang family, I will definitely behead you for the crime of escaping! No, when Your Majesty intends to appoint you to command the First Guard, I will definitely do my best to prevent you from becoming a commander, and not give you the opportunity to climb to a high position and lead the troops into battle. He thought to himself.

However, Jin Hancheng is a North Korean military general, although his actions are contemptible, but he did not delay his command, Xu Huizu ignored the matter, and said to Li Mingfang, Qin Sen, and Zhu Suohai: "You and other soldiers of the department, can you ride horses?" ”

"Report to Xu Shuai, most of the soldiers of the Yongming Left Guard can't ride horses." Qin Sen said. At this time, most of the Northeast region had not been developed, it was a reckless subarctic forest, and horses were of little significance, and the local Jurchen, as a fishing and hunting people, did not raise horses, so his subordinates would ride horses less.

"Wei Guogong, most of his subordinates can ride horses!" Li Mingfang said loudly.

When he heard Xu Huizu's cold snort, Li Mingfang understood that he saw Jin Hancheng's excuse, and his face immediately turned red. Li Mingfang is only in his early twenties this year, and all he thinks about is making military exploits and becoming an important minister of North Korea, and he also attaches great importance to the honor of military generals; But his boss didn't dare to go into battle because he was afraid of death, and he felt that his face was very dull.

When Jin Hancheng told him about it, he especially wanted to wave his fist and beat Jin Hancheng, but he finally endured it. Jin Hancheng is the younger brother of Jin Hanlao, a heavy minister under the monarch Li Fangyuan, the Jin family is now in a high position, even if he is also from the big family Qinghai Li family, his grandfather is Li Chenggui's righteous brother Li Zhilan (Tong Doulan), but once a son of heaven and a courtier, he can't afford to provoke the Jin family.

He was eager to prove himself in front of the generals of the Ming army, to prove the Korean army, and it happened that most of the army sent by Li Fangyuan could ride horses, so he immediately said loudly.

"Most of your troops know how to ride horses?" Xu Huizu was a little puzzled. It seems that North Korea does not have many places to produce horses, and other parts are infantry, so why do most of them ride horses?

"Report to the Duke of Wei, our department was originally a cavalry army, and when the king was restructured, it became an infantry army due to the lack of domestic horses." Li Mingfang replied.

In fact, the reason why the army under his command became an infantry army is very simple: after Yun Xi became the emperor's grandson, he persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang to return Jeju Island to the Ming Dynasty, and the source of horses in North Korea was sharply reduced. Naturally, these three former cavalry battalions were all troops that Li Chenggui trusted very much, and Zhu Fangyuan also took this opportunity to weaken the forces loyal to Li Chenggui who were more alienated from him.

But after demoting them to infantry battalions, Zhu Fangyuan was still not at ease, and tried every means to weaken them, this time the three battalions of nearly 10,000 people were reorganized into an army and sent out to participate in the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Huizu had no intention of delving into the reason for the transformation of cavalry into infantry, and when he heard Li Mingfang say this, he smiled and said, "I see, it's very good." ”

"Li Mingfang listened to the order, and the whole army quickly went to the horse team to collect the horses, and must make sure that each person has one horse, and then wait for the order of the commander to attack at any time."

"Yes, Duke Wei." Li Mingfang bowed and agreed.

"Qin Sen, Zhu Suohai," Xu Huizu turned his head to face the two of them again: "The two of you pick out the soldiers who are good at riding horses, and also go to the horse team to collect horses, and wait for the orders of the commander in one place with the Korean army." ”

"Yes, General." The two of them agreed.

Xu Huizu gave a few more orders to the three of them and told them to retreat.

After that, he turned his head and looked at the battlefield, and looked at the left and right guards of the government army who were heading to the battlefield.

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Cao Xing led the troops to charge, and kept looking at Zhu Jiye on the side.

He was actually very reluctant to take Zhu Jiye to battle, in case he died in battle, he couldn't explain himself; But Zhu Jiye himself had to go to the battlefield, and even Xu Huizu couldn't dissuade him, let alone him, so he could only agree to take him forward.

Zhu Jiye noticed that he was looking at him, turned his head and said, "Cao Xing, since I have already gone to the battlefield, it is useless for you to look at it." I am in danger and have my own guards around me to protect me, if I can't even protect the guards, how can you have the opportunity to send someone to rescue me when the battlefield is in chaos? It's better for you to put your mind on directing the war. ”

Listening to Zhu Jiye's words, Cao Xing sighed. He was telling the truth, of course. Xilu had more cavalry than he had, and he couldn't always pay attention to Zhu Jiye's safety. "Hey, Your Highness, why are you doing this?" He couldn't help but say again.

"When the Ming Dynasty goes on an expedition, how can there be no royal children to command and fight with troops?" Zhu Jiye said like Zhu Shanglie. But the real reason why he went into battle was another one: Yun Xi's order. Last night, after watching Ji Xi lead the soldiers to pursue Salha's subordinates, he thought about it and finally decided to stay in the monk's camp and clean up the mess. After cleaning up the mess, it was almost dawn, and all the Xilu had withdrawn from the Chinese army camp, and he left the monk's camp and prepared to go to Xu Huizu's place to ask how the situation was now.

But halfway through, he met one of Yun Xi's guards, who sent him an edict from the imperial brother: "Today's army is going to fight a decisive battle with Xiyu, and you have to lead the troops to the battle." ”

Ji Ye was surprised, and repeatedly confirmed that this was Yun Xi's will, so he bowed down to accept it. But I still have doubts in my heart. These days, in order to prevent Ji Xi from being jealous of him, he has not led his troops to fight, what does Yun Xi's will mean?

"When I go back, I must ask the royal brother why he ordered me. Even if you can't get a real answer, you can judge it by the reaction of the imperial brother at the time. Ji Ye thought in his heart.

He was thinking about it when he suddenly heard Cao Xing shouting loudly: "The whole army is ready!" He raised his head and looked forward, and saw that the left and right guards of the government army were already close to the back of Yang Feng's formation, and they were about to meet the outflanked Xiyu cavalry.

Ji Ye immediately raised the three-eyed firearm in his hand, and as soon as he raised it in front of him, he heard a whistling sound behind him, and dozens of shells fell on the Western cavalry about a hundred zhang away in front of them.

The formation of the Western Prisoners suddenly became slightly chaotic. At the same time, Cao Xing shouted again: "Fire!" The soldiers opened fire, firing all three of the projectiles in the barrels.

The team of Western captives in front of them was also instantly blinded. They, like the infantry who had just been beaten, had never withstood such a dense fire of fire, and many of the men in the front row were killed; They were not elite soldiers under Timur's command, they were just herdsmen before, and the only experience that could be regarded as a military service was to follow the main force of the Great Khan to sweep the Eastern European Plain, and the discipline was low, so they immediately panicked and turned around and fled. The leading officer hurriedly shouted.

But the Ming army then passed through the smoke caused by the firecrackers. Under the command of Cao Xing, most of the Ming troops with three-eyed firearms in their hands and a few with sabers in their hands lined up in a relatively close queue, shouting the slogan of "Ming will win" at the same time, and rushed over like a sea of mountains.

In the face of such a frenzied enemy, the Silu suddenly collapsed, and no matter how much the officers tried to stop drinking, they turned their horses and rushed backwards. Seeing this, the officers could only join them in retreating.

Cao Xing led his troops to chase for a while, cut off hundreds of heads, stopped the pursuit, and ordered the soldiers to turn their horses and drive away another western captives who were wandering outside the formation. Soon, many of the cavalry were driven away from the position by him.

"Warriors, charge me!" Salha gritted his teeth, turned his head to look at where Timur was, and said to the cavalry beside him. He had already seen that this was the Ming cavalry that wanted to annihilate him last night. He had already discovered that this cavalry was very powerful last night, but today they used firearms to fight more than they imagined! The unheard-of firearm they held in their hands was able to fire three times in a row, inflicting heavy casualties on their Samarkand cavalry many times, and then the charge was almost unstoppable.

The only thing that can stop them is probably the 10,000 elite main forces under his command. Although Salha was very reluctant to let them fight hard with the Ming army now, at this time he had no choice but to lead his troops to kill.

The cavalry also knew that the situation was critical at this time, and their pride as the most elite cavalry under Timur did not allow other cavalry to show off their might in front of them, and after hearing Salha's order, they shouted "Allah is greater" and rushed towards the left and right guards of the government army.

Cao Xing immediately noticed this cavalry, ordered his subordinates to stop the horses' hooves, load the barrels with ammunition, and charge the Western cavalry when they approached about one hundred and fifty paces.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and countless projectiles flew out from the barrel of the gun and shot at the west captives on the opposite side, turning the people who shot the west captives on their backs, and many people were killed or maimed by the projectiles.

But the remaining cavalry was not frightened, but brandished a scimitar to speed up the horse and rushed up, and soon fought with the Ming army.