Two groups of Mongol cavalry roared towards the Ming artillery position.

The Ming army was ready and did not panic in the slightest.

These are elite soldiers who have gone through a hundred battles, and in their eyes there is no opponent at all. If two years ago they were still afraid of the Eight Banners, now in their eyes, the Eight Banners are just defeated generals of their former subordinates.

What's more, it was only the Mongol cavalry that came.

5,000 Mongol cavalry? Hehe, another 5,000 of them will not be cowardly!

These Mongol cavalrymen were well-armed, each with a musket in their hands, and when they rushed more than a hundred meters away from the Ming infantry's horse rejection array, they opened fire one after another.

"Bang bang bang!"

Countless green smoke rose up, and the projectiles suddenly rained down on the Ming army's position.

The outermost shield soldiers are equipped with large shields, and you can imagine how big the shield is specially designed to block the trampling of war horses, and two people can be hidden behind one shield. And with the energy of the fire gun at that time, it was far from enough to break the shield.

Therefore, the Ming army hid well, most of the projectiles hit the shield, or because the accuracy was not good, the Ming army only killed and injured nearly 100 people - this is still because the personnel in the horse rejection formation are too dense.

The horse rejection array was not chaotic at all, but the morale of the Ming army was even stronger, and they shouted at the Mongolian cavalry, saying that they would attack!

The Mongolian cavalry has never seen such a Ming army, in the past, as long as there was a salvo, the other party would cry and shout that the formation was in chaos, but now they are not only not chaotic, but they even want to provoke?

What made them even more angry and vomited blood was that the artillery of the Ming army completely ignored them, and after dodging this round of volleys, they still fired at Tai'an City, and they didn't bother to pay attention to them at all!

The Mongol cavalry was going to cry.

Hey, we're Mongolian iron riders, can you respect us? 5,000 iron riders, see if it's 5,000, are you afraid of it?

Truly no one birds them.

However, the strange thing is that after these iron horsemen ran away, they did not attack, but circled around the Ming army's horse rejection array, and continued to fill the musket with ammunition on the horse, looking like they wanted to shoot another round!

This time it's the turn of the Ming army to be confused!

What are these turtle grandsons doing? They don't play cards according to the routine at all!

When they rushed over, they could still carry a volley, but if they were to be surrounded and fought back with firearms? So close, their cavalry in the south could hit the back of the shield soldiers of the Ming army in the north, and the cavalry in the north could hit the back of the shield soldiers in the south.

Zhang Xiao didn't have time to think about it, and immediately ordered the shield soldiers and pikemen to take the initiative to attack, and they must not let the Mongolian cavalry load ammunition comfortably!

At the sound of the order, shield men and pikemen immediately took cover with each other and rushed towards the Mongol cavalry.

When the Mongolian cavalry saw it, they immediately stopped loading ammunition and drew their sabers to fight with the Ming army.

In this way, the Ming army's rejection of horses also collapsed!

At this moment, a Mongolian cavalry of about 300 people was like a sharp blade, and went straight to the Ming artillery.

Zhang Xiao sneered when he saw it, "These Warat barbarians also have a bit of brains. ”

Without waiting for his order, the shield and spearmen closest to the artillery, about a thousand people, immediately regrouped and surrounded the artillery tightly!

When the Mongol cavalry rushed to the front, they were immediately dumbfounded, why did they suddenly surround again? What is the speed of these bastards?

Originally, they thought that this was an excellent strategy, first using firearms to force the Ming army to reject the horse formation and collapse, and then assault the opponent's artillery, but now they found that this strategy was useless!

Of course it's useless! Because these 1,000 people are the members of the Qinglong Hall and the White Tiger Hall of the Jianghe Gang, and their mission is to protect the precious artillery and red-coated artillery. In order to protect the artillery, they have practiced countless formations and practiced countless times on the spot, and the current set of formations has long been familiar and can no longer be cooked, so it is not difficult to quickly gather after scattering!

The cavalry detachment of several hundred people saw that the opponent's horse rejection formation was extremely rigorous, and the spears were shining coldly, and suddenly stopped, wanting to repeat the old trick, and continued to fill the fire with ammunition.

This is a bit of a joke, is it really that the Ming army has become a mess?

Don't forget that there are as many as 12,000 shields and spearmen of the Ming army protecting the artillery, and there are 3,000 elite cavalry just 500 meters away to the south for standby, and they haven't come over!

In the blink of an eye, more than a thousand spearmen came back to help and killed this Mongolian assault cavalry!

The Mongol cavalry used to have a psychological advantage over the Ming army, believing that as long as they rushed up, the Ming infantry would inevitably collapse. But they now found that, no matter how much they charged, the infantry were still in good order, not only did they avoid the ground quite smoothly, very few people pushed each other and fell, but they also gathered together with astonishing speed!

It's like a flock of sparrows!

And their cooperation is amazingly good!

Their basic formation was a three-person formation, one shield soldier with two spearmen, the shield guards protected the spearmen from the trampling of the horses' hooves and the slashing of the saber, and the spearmen stabbed the horses directly, but when the horses were overturned, the fallen cavalry was immediately stabbed into a sieve - who made the infantry more infantry?

After a short time of fighting, 5,000 Mongolian iron horsemen turned on their backs, and the neighing of the war horses and the wails of the cavalry were mixed together, which was extremely tragic.

Obviously, these 5,000 Mongol cavalry were no match for the 15,000 Ming cavalry!

The shock in the hearts of the Mongol cavalry at this moment was beyond words.

This is not the Ming army they know at all, and it can be concluded that this is another army!

Now, they finally understood why the Ming Kingdom dared to go on a northern expedition, and why Huang Taiji wanted to contact so many allies to resist together as if facing the great enemy!

Qin Shuhuai was not worried about the five thousand Mongolian cavalry that came to sneak attack, he believed that Zhang Xiao could handle it easily.

He was more concerned about the southern wall that was about to collapse.

As long as one more breach was opened, he was ready for the army to storm the city.

At this moment, a red firework suddenly rose in Tai'an City.

Qin Shuhuai frowned, as if he had a bad premonition.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Dongchang Fanzi, who was in charge of peripheral investigation, to report.

"Governor Qi, there are two ambushes in the southwest and southeast directions that surpass our army, about 15,000 each!

Qin Shuhuai, Li Jingting and the others present were all taken aback.

"Where did these ambushes come from?" Li Jingting wondered, "There are plains all around, and there is no place for ambushes at all!"

Then he immediately said, "Say yes, say it came out of the ground!"

Qin Shuhuai suddenly realized that the Ming army had been building castles and fortresses on the Jinning front, and the Tartars might not be idle! Eighty percent of them had ingeniously and secretly dug a large number of passages underground, thus ambushing the soldiers and horses underground!

The Tartars believed that the field battle was far stronger than the Ming army, so even if they wanted to build fortifications, they had to build them in the field, and build the kind of fortifications that were convenient for the decisive battle with the Ming army!

After digging an ambush passage just three miles away, the Tartars were indeed bold enough and did their work carefully enough! You must know that there were a large number of horse sentry posts of the Ming army within three miles, and once they were found to be abnormal, the ambush soldiers under the ground would not want to climb out.

From this point of view, in this first line of defense, the Tartars have made a bloody investment, they not only want to consume the Ming army, but even want to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop!