The continuous galloping attack, even Cao Bianjiao, who had always felt full of physical strength, felt a little tired. His mouth was dry, and he felt his lungs burn with every breath of air he breathed.

"If only I had a saliva to drink." While carefully commanding the comrades around him who chatted with little, he unconsciously thought in his heart about things that had nothing to do with the battle situation in front of him.

After the fog cleared, he fought until the sun rose in the sky, and Cao Bianjiao felt that he had not fought for nearly two hours, but for a whole day and so long. Not only did he feel some soreness in his arm, but even the horses under his seat began to lose their ability to run.

But fortunately, the Mongols on the opposite side have almost exhausted their physical strength, and both sides are half a catty. At this point, the two armies, whose physical strength has been consumed to a critical point, are fighting on the battlefield as fiercely as before.

When Cao Bianjiao still had spare strength before, he estimated the losses of both sides, and his side lost about more than 1,000 horsemen, while the losses of the Mongols on the opposite side were at least double.

However, most of the casualties on both sides came from the first hour, and the soldiers who had just entered the battle preferred to engage in close combat when they were energetic. It seems that he wants to vent the energy that he feels inexhaustible in his body in the face-to-face slashing.

But after an hour, few people are willing to do such a stupid thing anymore. For the Ming army, at the beginning of the battle, the officers could still control the soldiers around them and maintain a basic formation to attack during the march.

The greater achievements of the Ming army were also during this period. But soon, except for those Han cavalry who could barely gather around their commanders, most of the Mongolian cavalry who defected to the Ming army suddenly forgot everything after the battle, and began to fight on their own.

The Mongols on the opposite side were indeed caught off guard by the Ming army's column attack at the beginning.

However, these Mongol cavalry, which were not completely out of production, soon scattered across the vast battlefield, adopting the Mangu tactics that the Mongols were most accustomed to.

This tactic is to feign a rout and scatter your troops in all directions, so as to induce the enemy to scatter in formation, and then merge your own team to attack the enemy forces who have lost the protection of the formation.

This kind of Mongolian cavalry tactic, which was created during the time of Genghis Khan, once allowed the Mongols to conquer countless Central Asian peoples. But the most fundamental aspect of using this tactic is that the commander needs to have amazing command ability, and the soldiers who use this tactic also need a high degree of obedience and discipline.

Obviously, after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols could no longer recover, and this brilliant tactic that made them famous.

The Mangu tactics used by the Chahar are only scratching a little surface. When facing the cavalry of the Ming army fighting in formation, these Mongolian cavalry immediately scattered in all directions, luring the Ming army out of formation and pursuing, using bows and arrows to turn back and shoot at the pursuers.

However, the most important part was to regroup the scattered forces and turn back to deliver a fatal blow to the scattered enemy forces, which the Mongols could no longer do.

When the Chahar cavalry on the opposite side used this tactic, the Han cavalry did not fall into pursuit, but the Mongol cavalry, who had recently defected to the Ming army, chased after them happily, completely forgetting their own ranks.

It was at this moment that the Ming army suffered the most losses. Cao Bianjiao, who commanded a hundred horsemen, suddenly found out at this time that a third of his knights had suddenly disappeared.

These cavalrymen were lured out of the line by the Mongol cavalry on the opposite side, and then disappeared into the smoke and dust.

In the next few staggered attacks, only the cavalry around him was left with more than 20 horsemen. Although the undisciplined performance of his cavalry made Cao Bianjiao a little irritable, he was also somewhat relieved that the tactics adopted by the Chahar cavalry were equivalent to giving up the advantage that they could charge by taking advantage of the uphill location.

After fighting with the Mongol cavalry on the opposite side for a long time, Cao Bianjiao was stunned. If the losses had reached this level in the past, these Mongol cavalry would have turned and fled long ago.

This was the experience he gained from fighting the Mongols in Liaodong, but today the Mongols seem to have taken the wrong medicine and refused to take a step back.

This made the Ming army also feel bitter, although their losses were less than that of the other side, but the reserve forces on the opposite side were much stronger than them.

If it weren't for an officer like Cao Bianjiao, who constantly inspired his subordinates, it is estimated that it would be the Ming army that collapsed first.

As for the officers of Cao Bianjiao, it was not that they did not want to retreat, but that the rear did not issue an order to retreat.

These officers are basically graduates of the first and second phases of the Army Military Academy, and they all know that they should have a good future, and none of them want to abandon their honor and become a deserter when things are not desperate. After all, the current military judges are not willing to try to enforce the laws and regulations in the military strictly.

In addition, there is another reason that studying in the military academy has made these officers understand a fact. The moment when the army suffers the greatest casualties on the battlefield is not when two armies charge at each other, but when one army begins to flee the battlefield.

The teachers of the military academy told these officers with detailed data. If you fight the battlefield until the opponent retreats, the chances of survival are much higher, and you flee with your back to the enemy.

However, after fighting to this extent, Cao Bianjiao already felt that his colleagues and subordinates around him seemed to be unable to hold on. The steel knife he wielded blocked the arrows that shot at his face, but he couldn't help but think a little deflated, "Could it be that I am going to end here?" ”

Before he could come to a conclusion, he suddenly heard the sound of rumbling horses' hooves running from the opposite side.

He deliberately turned his horse and rushed to a small slope on the left, and after driving away the two enemy cavalry who had occupied the place, he looked up to the east, which suddenly made his face look like ashes.

The enemy's main formation on the opposite side was finally launched, and the cavalry dispatched was like a black and oppressive tide line, occupying almost the entire northern battlefield nearly 30 miles long, pressing it from east to west. Cao Bianjiao estimated that this wave would not be less than 10,000 riders.

In the face of this powerful momentum of encroaching on heaven and earth, Cao Bianjiao had noticed that the soldiers around him had unconsciously retreated.

He was hesitating whether to let his subordinates let go first, so as not to annihilate the whole army. However, the Chahar cavalry, which had only been harassing from a distance, began to regroup and move forward, as if they wanted to hold them back, and then let the new forces behind them come forward to destroy them.

Cao Bianjiao sighed, and was about to divide the people around him, and he took people to block it, so that some of them could retreat.

But before he could give the order, he saw the Chahar cavalry who had surrounded him on the opposite side, and suddenly retreated back in a panic, and the sound of the ground shaking behind him was also heard.

Cao Bianjiao looked back, and his face suddenly changed. A heavily armed ironclad cavalry was attacking from the northwest to the southeast of the battlefield, and although they were slightly less imposing than the Chahars on the other side, the frontal attack that was more than a mile wide, and the neatly arranged ranks, looked just as formidable.

What frightened Cao Bianjiao the most was that these people seemed to be on the attack route of the First Cavalry Wing.

He hurriedly blew the whistle in his mouth, and while letting the nearby Ming cavalry gather, he began to move in the direction of due north.

Wu Huai was in the middle of three cavalry squadrons, the first row of cavalry in each squadron holding a cavalry spear, while the last rows of cavalry were armed with Yanling knives.

They didn't advance very fast, but each cavalry squadron was relatively similar. Wu Huai controlled the rhythm of the entire cavalry wing, while the squadron leader of each cavalry squadron controlled his own troops with a whistle in his mouth.

When Wu Huai approached the center line of the battlefield with the First Cavalry Wing, both the Ming army and the Mongol cavalry, who had been fighting here, chose to avoid it. Only some of the more sluggish people did not remember to dodge until the 1st Cavalry Wing appeared in front of them.

Although the speed of the 1st Cavalry Wing was not increased to the maximum, on the wide front of nearly a mile, these cavalrymen without speed had no ability to fight back at all.

For the Ming army who had no time to dodge, the cavalry of the First Cavalry Wing could only dodge as much as possible, but they did not widen the distance between each other, and if the other party was not clever enough or unlucky, they would also be knocked off their horses by these cavalry.

But for those Mongol cavalry, they were even more polite, not only did not make evasive movements, but also made offensive actions.

When the 1st Cavalry Wing passed through this melee area, it suddenly stepped out of a blank passage on the battlefield.

And Wu Huai, who had not made an attack, after crossing this melee area, suddenly saw the cavalry line on the opposite side that seemed to spread to the end of the world.

Behind this tidal wave of cavalry, there is billowing dust and smoke, giving people the illusion that behind this cavalry line, there are still endless cavalry.

Wu Huai did not change color because of this, but he felt that his mind seemed to be extraordinarily clear, and it seemed that even the speed of the cavalry on the opposite side had slowed down.

He only lost his mind for a moment, then blew the whistle in his mouth, and the three short rhythms suddenly made the surrounding cavalry understand that this was the stage of attacking and charging.

Soon, with Wu Huai as the center, this whistle was transmitted to the surrounding cavalry squadrons in turn, and the squadron leaders of several cavalry squadrons in the rear immediately understood that the enemy was less than a hundred steps away from him.

The knights of the cavalry wing quickly entered the state of attack, and a hundred paces is a distance of about 160 meters. When the 1st Cavalry Wing is in formation, it can reach a maximum speed of about 11 meters per second.

In other words, when Wu Huai gave this order, the cavalry wing must have engaged the enemy within half a minute.