But the Xilu in front of him seemed to have no idea of all this, quietly reloading his ammunition, and then three rounds of fire were fired at Xilu, and three or four hundred people fell.

One of the surviving soldiers howled and rushed towards the musketeers, but by this time, the spearmen had already come to the side of the musketeers under the command of the drumbeat and killed all the irrational captives.

Tieletai glanced back at where Timur was, saw no flags, and ordered the entire army to retreat. The purpose of his attack this time was to test the combat effectiveness and fighting methods of the Ming army's direct guards, and at this time, he had already tested a part of it, and lost nearly a third of the soldiers, and he should also lead the troops to retreat.

Seeing the retreat of Tieletai's troops, Hu Yuancheng showed a victorious smile on his face, but did not give the order to pursue. After the firecrackers have reloaded their ammunition, they continue to move forward unhurriedly.

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"These Ming troops." Timur clenched the clairvoyant's shell with both hands and whispered.

He had never seen such a tactic. Muskets, or as the Khitans called them, of course he had seen them, and the Ottomans were armed with some muskets, although they seemed to be a little more backward than those used by the Ming army. But the accuracy of these muskets is extremely poor, and has nothing to do with the person who uses it, and even those who use the same musket for many years cannot control where the projectile goes after it is discharged, and neither the bow nor the crossbow is more accurate than it; At the same time, in addition to the armor-piercing power, the musket also had a range not much farther than the longbow, so he did not order to equip the musket.

But I didn't expect that the Ming people used the musket to make up for the defects of the quasi-head, and at the same time, because the troops they sent were all elite main forces, everyone wore armor, so that the musket exerted a huge power, far better than the bow and crossbow.

Timur realized that he had made a mistake: to put the soldiers on armor even though he knew that the muskets were more severe, which not only did not enhance the protection of the soldiers, but also made them unable to move.

Even if he was talented, he couldn't think of a way to use infantry against the infantry of the Ming army at this time. The Ming army was not only tactically novel, but also very disciplined. As Tieletai said, his country can have such a highly disciplined soldier only with his own personal guards, while the Ming army has at least more than 50,000 people.

'The Ming Kingdom is really too rich. He couldn't help but sigh. If you want to let your soldiers have such a high degree of discipline, or make them willing to undergo very strict training, on the one hand, they must be loyal to education, and at the same time, they must also have a high salary and treatment, Ming Guo was able to support so many ultra-high-discipline soldiers, and in his concept it would cost more money than the grass outside Samarkand, which shows how rich it is.

"Send 3,000 cavalry to deal with this small formation that Tieletai attacked just now." Timur said. Since the infantry could not deal with it, send the cavalry to give it a try.

Soon, 3,000 cavalry were sent out from the large array of the Chinese army to attack the Ming army.

Hu Yuancheng said something to the herald beside him again, and then the drum beat changed again. The phalanx of musketeers at the two corners facing the western captives lined up in two horizontal columns, the first row of men half-knelt down, held up the muskets and pointed forward, and the second row of soldiers stood straight at the cavalry that was rushing towards them.

Then there was an earth-shattering sound. More than 600 muskets opened fire at the same time, the flames flickered and flickered, and the front was once again covered with white smoke, and in the white smoke came the screams of people and the screams of horses, and I don't know how many cavalry were killed.

But this time, instead of staying where they were to reload their ammunition, they ran backwards at great speed and hid in the middle of the spearmen, who also changed their formation, just enough to accommodate all the musketeers without much space.

When the musketeers withdrew, the spearmen formed a tight formation and raised their spears diagonally upwards to aim at the approaching cavalry.

When the cavalry rushed out of the white smoke, they saw a large array of spears in front of them to defend against the impact of the cavalry, and the general in charge of the command immediately ordered to slide over from the side, but there were still a few unlucky people who couldn't contain it and crashed into the spear array, and were poked into the body by countless spears, and saw that they were not alive, and one of the spears pierced into the eyes of a soldier, and when it was pulled out, it was full of red, red, white and white slurry.

The generals of the Western Empire immediately ordered their soldiers to shoot on horseback while circling the formation to find weak spots. Hu Yuancheng ordered all the firecrackers to withdraw into the middle of the spear formation, and spears were erected on all sides to build a formation, so that the western captives had no chance to take advantage of it. At the same time, the other phalanxes also approached and cooperated with each other, forcing the Western cavalry to retreat.

After that, whenever the cavalry was a little further away from the formation, the Ming army moved forward at a slow but steady pace, and once the cavalry approached, they let the reloaded musketeers fire a volley, and then retreated into the spear formation. Gradually, the Ming army got closer and closer to the Chinese army where Timur was.

"Ordered 50,000 cavalry to get out of the battle with the rest of the Ming army and come to fight with the upper guards." Although Timur still did not see a way to deal with this large array, he relied on his many years of experience in the battlefield, and judged that even if the formation was perfect, the strength of the people was limited, and the cavalry to pull the large array, even if the efficiency was lower, would definitely succeed in the end.

After giving the order, he was still a little worried, but the battlefield in the middle could not be pumped again, otherwise he would not be able to contain the other guards of the Ming army. He thought for a moment and said to the attendant beside him, "Order to send another 30,000 auxiliaries to fight the upper guards." Send for Salha. ”

The attendants were ordered to retreat. After a short time, Salha came up to him and bowed to him: "May Allah grant peace to the Great Khan." ”

"May Allah give you peace." Timur finished the salute and immediately said: "Salha, have you come out of the shadow of the failure of last night's attack on the camp?" ”

"Great Khan, I'm still not in good spirits." Salha said. He remembered the attack on the camp last night, and he still had lingering palpitations.

"I don't care if you have lingering palpitations or not, now I need you to lead your troops to entangle with the upper guards of the Western Prisoners, drag them down and consume their strength, and finally destroy them." Timur said.

Timur knew he had palpitations. Even if he saw a Buddhist perform a 'spell' or 'divine blessing', he would be terrified and suspicious for a while.

But he also had no choice. At this time, all the generals who could stand alone in his hands had been sent out, and only Salha was left, so he could only lead his troops into battle.

Salha was reluctant, but he still accepted Timur's order and led the soldiers sent to him by Timur into battle, trying to pull the position of the direct guard, so that the Khitan soldiers were exhausted and finally changed the formation in time, so that they were broken.