When Zhou Zishan appeared in the northwest of the battlefield with the fifth battalion of the Fifth Cavalry Division, he was shocked to find that although the Houjin army had the upper hand, the entire team had become a long snake that could not be taken care of.

After he put the binoculars back into the leather bag on his waist, he ordered to the soldiers beside him: "Chen Lin, you go back and report to the Red General Army, saying that our department has arrived on the battlefield, and the Jizhou Wei Cui General Army's headquarters still exists. The enemy army is fighting with the headquarters of General Cui's army, and they are in a desperate situation.

Our 3rd Battalion thought that the fighters were really rare at this moment, so they decided to make a surprise attack first, so as to prevent the enemy from breaking out of the melee and redeploying the formation after discovering us. Our battalion will bite the enemy's main force at any cost, and I hope that the commander-in-chief will be able to lead the main force of our division to the battlefield as soon as possible, so as to make all its contributions. ”

As soon as the herald's own soldiers turned their horses and left, the company commander of the third company hesitated to persuade Zhou Zishan: "Lord Zhou, although these Mongolians are still entangled with General Cui's soldiers, their number is still several times that of our army, is it more appropriate to wait for the third battalion to come up and attack together..."

Zhou Zishan interrupted him disapprenantly and said, "We are the Rock Battalion, since we have seen the opportunity for victory, we can't miss it." Otherwise, how can he be worthy of the sacrifice made by Captain Xianwang?

The second company served as my left flank, the third company as my right flank, and the first company and the guard platoon followed me in the attack. We go around the middle of the battlefield and attack the opponent's rearguard directly, and after defeating the rearguard, we attack the enemy in the center..."

After finishing the combat deployment, Zhou Zishan asked the people around him: "Are you willing to fight to the death with me and build a miracle together?" You must know that Your Majesty is behind us today, and although the risks we are taking now are great, the gains will be amazing. ”

As soon as Zhou Zishan's words came out, even the commander of the Third Company, who had just spoken out to persuade him to be more cautious, fell silent. Everyone only hesitated for a moment, and then replied in a mixed manner: "May I attach the tail of the adult." ”

The place where Zhou Zishan's department was located was thousands of steps away from the battlefield, and he couldn't see the figure clearly without a telescope. At this time, the Mongols were victorious, and even the sentinels guarding the battlefield had joined the battlefield to prepare for the spoils of war, so no one noticed the appearance of a Ming cavalry in the northwest of the battlefield.

Zhou Zishan led the fifth battalion to the north of the Mongolian army's rear guard from the outside, and then divided the troops into three divisions and slowly marched towards the rear guard composed of the Mongolian tribal coalition army.

The cavalry battalion led by Zhou Zishan had 249 people, 75 in each cavalry company, and the distance between each cavalry company was about 350 paces. So from a distance, there are basically only three moving black dots.

When he was 1,500 paces away from the enemy, Zhou Zishan's naked eye could already distinguish people and horses. At a distance of 1,000 paces, the Mongol cavalry could already be seen circling around a phalanx surrounded by carts.

After entering 500 steps, the individual movements of the Mongolian cavalry could be vaguely distinguished, and at this time, the Mongolian cavalry attacking around the Ming army's chariot formation finally noticed that three teams of cavalry appeared behind them.

When these Mongols were still trying to distinguish who these cavalry were who were coming slowly, Zhou Zishan finally ordered the whole battalion to enter the slow stage.

For the first 100 steps, the horse accelerates to a slow pace; 200 steps and then accelerate to a trot; 200 steps again is jogging; The last 100 steps are galloping. The whole process will not take more than 3 minutes.

Of course, with the exception of the first platoon, the cavalry behind will always maintain a jogging speed in the final stage. One is to avoid ramming their own cavalry, and the other is to clean up the formation. Once the cavalry began to run, it was difficult to maintain a tight formation, and the formation could only be adjusted by controlling the speed.

For the cavalry of the Ming army, a neat queue charge was far more important than a few charging soldiers taking the lead in the charge. And this cavalry charge gives the enemy in front of him a sense of oppression, far more than the chaotic cavalry charge.

Although these Mongolian tribal coalition forces that served as the rear guard were assigned to command by the Houjin, the command of these Mongolian knights was still in the hands of the military leaders sent by each tribe.

The internal relationship between the tribal coalition forces is a deep headache for even a political expert like Huang Taiji, who is rare among ethnic minorities. Therefore, this time in the customs, for the Ulut Mongolian Banner that has been established in accordance with the Eight Banners military system, Huang Taiji can also be used to undertake some secondary tasks.

However, for the tribal coalition forces that have not yet been trained according to the Eight Banners military system, they do not dare to let go of the use alone, or to allocate to the left and right Mongolian battalions, or to cover the battlefield, or to guard the passes of the Great Wall that surrendered.

In the eyes of Huang Taiji and other Jurchen relatives, these surrendered Mongol tribal coalition forces are not only somewhat uncertain in terms of loyalty, but also extremely unqualified in terms of combat effectiveness. It was no problem to follow the Jurchen army and fight a tailwind battle, but once they encountered adversity on the battlefield, these Mongols would not flee more slowly than the Ming army.

For example, in the current situation, there are 7 or 800 cavalry besieging the phalanx of the Ming army by the combined forces of Ao Han and Naiman, and half of them have not yet gone into battle, and are only on the side for the cavalry attacking the Ming army's phalanx. As long as someone was willing to sacrifice himself and lead a group of men to step forward to block the charge of the Ming cavalry, these Mongolian cavalry could also organize themselves and carry out a wave of counter-charge against the Ming cavalry, so as to keep most of them.

However, none of the leaders of the various tribes of the allied army sacrificed themselves to protect the noble character of others, and almost at the same time as they discovered the cavalry of the Ming army, some people had already called for their own people to flee to the east and west. With Shimen Village to the east and the Chinese army led by Engdel to the west, these tribal leaders only figured out their way out in an instant.

Zhou Zishan was in the middle of the second row of cavalry, and before that, he was mentally prepared to fight these Mongolian cavalry. As a cavalryman who survived the Battle of Fengzhen, he knew very well that the skills of the Mongolian cavalry fighting on horseback were still stronger than their Ming troops.

However, now that these Mongol cavalry had lost their speed and formation, even if they had ten things, they would be able to exert three or four percent at most, so he was not surprised that the victory in this battle would be his own.

However, when Zhou Zishan rushed to the battlefield, he didn't even have a chance to swing his sword, and the Mongolian tribal alliance had collapsed. The leaders of the tribes shouted for their troops to leave, but instead of letting them retreat, they completely disorganized the tribal coalition army, which had still had some order.

Except for a few groups of men and horses on the periphery who broke away from this battle circle, the Mongol cavalry attacking around the phalanx was huddled together, and they blocked their own way out. After the Ming cavalry rushed in three directions, almost none of these Mongol cavalry turned to meet them, but directly beat their horses and ran south.

The cavalry of the Ming army, which had already lifted the speed of their horses, quickly cut a passage for these Mongolian cavalry who had not yet run out of speed.

The Ming army, which had been cowering in the phalanx and being wantonly attacked by these Mongolian cavalry, also rushed out of the phalanx under the leadership of Wang Shiqiang, and cooperated with the Ming cavalry to divide and surround these Mongolian cavalry. The Mongolian cavalry, which fell into chaos, completely became the target of the Ming army's firearms, and fell off their horses one after another for a while.

Seeing that his own team was cut off by the Ming cavalry, and now he was wantonly killed by these Ming troops, the clan leaders who were still alive immediately chose to surrender in order to protect their remaining troops from being slaughtered by these Ming troops.

Of the 7 or 8 hundred Mongol tribal coalition troops, only about 2 or 300 people escaped, and the number surrendered was about the same number. Defeating the rearguard of the Mongolian army, Zhou Zishan didn't bow his head to count how many Mongolian cavalry were lying on the ground, and said to Wang Shiqiang, who came up: "I'll leave it to you here, while these Tartars haven't reacted yet, let's go and rush the Chinese army of the Tartars." ”

He didn't wait for Wang Shiqiang to reply, so he beckoned his subordinates to go west. Wang Shiqiang had just arched his hand, and before he had time to thank the cavalry who came to the rescue, he saw that the cavalry officer in front of him had turned around and led people away, without the slightest nostalgia for the military exploits in this place.

Wang Shiqiang was still extremely grateful to this cavalry unit in his heart, if Zhou Zishan and them were one step late, the officers and soldiers in the car formation would probably collapse completely, and he would be martyred.

When Wang Shiqiang was still thinking about how to distribute these first-level merits and not treat his life-saving benefactor badly, he suddenly fell there. At this time, he is still a first-class merit, the emperor is behind him now, and the rout of this Houjin army is just around the corner, now he should follow up and grab the credit for a counterattack, which is much more than the merit of holding on for an hour.

"Come on, come on, don't cut off your heads. They all gathered and followed their officers to rescue the Chinese army..."Wang Shiqiang ran over and kicked over several soldiers who were squatting on the ground and cutting off the heads of Mongolian Tartars, gathered a team of 50 people, and after handing over the affairs of guarding the prisoners to his deputy, he rushed to the Chinese army west of the official road.

When Zhou Zishan led the team to turn west, he redivided the team, he led the first company to march on the north side of the official road, while the second and third companies attacked on the south side of the official road.

Although it did not take much time for Zhou Zishan to defeat the rearguard of the Mongol left battalion, the fleeing Mongol cavalry had already passed the news to Engdel.

For the attack and collapse of the rearguard, Engdel was simply furious, and he took a lot of words, and finally made Qiuerji give up the attack on the Ming army's rearguard, and took several Niu Lu to join him to attack the phalanx of the Ming army. After paying the sacrifice of 4 Niu Lu, he finally opened the defensive line of the Ming army outside the car formation, and only more than 100 Ming troops retreated into the phalanx in front of him.

Then he crippled 3 more Niu Lu, and finally opened a gap in the north of the car formation, and now he was preparing to capture the Chinese army of the Ming army in one go, but this bad news came. This undoubtedly told him that the 2 or 3 hundred horsemen lost in the previous attack on this phalanx were completely lost in the water.

After joining forces with the Urji, he now has nearly a thousand cavalry, although the generals of the Urut Mongol Banner such as Engedel and Urji are a little unwilling, but they also know that now is not the time to entangle with the remnants of the Ming army. Since a team of Ming cavalry appeared on the battlefield, and the sentinel monitoring Ma Shenqiao did not send back news, it can be seen that the Ming army must have a large number of cavalry rushing over, and it is impossible to say that this army is the bait of the Ming army at the moment.

While allocating 300 men to meet the enemy in the east, Engdel began to gather his own army on the battlefield, wanting to retreat to the south to assemble, and then return to Shimen Village.