Chapter 600 Luanhe Battle
There were less than 6,000 Tatar soldiers on the first wave of landing, and Jiangxia had 30,000 soldiers and horses. 30,000 to 6,000, the gap between the troops was five times. Logically, once the battle started, it should be that Jiangxia would be like a rainbow, but the actual situation was not the case.
Whether it is the soldiers of Xingzhou Army or the soldiers of Zhenshuo Guard, their combat effectiveness is not high, because the guard generals are too poor. Secondly, it is also a historical problem of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established this ward system, allowing military households to be promoted from generation to generation, farming in their spare time, and fighting in wars. In this way, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were negligent in training, which was almost no different from ordinary farmers. This situation has continued since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
Although Jiang Xia was determined to change this situation when he was in power, he could only start with the border army from the beginning. After all, this is a military system that has been passed down for a hundred years, and it is no different to dream of trying to completely change it in a few years.
So when the six thousand Tatars rushed up in a fierce manner, the gun and shield formation that had stood in advance became restless at this moment. It seemed that it was almost destroyed without attacking.
When Jiang Xia saw this, he frowned. He waved the Longyuan Sword in his hand and directly rushed into the Tatar soldiers alone.
Seeing that Jiang Xia actually rushed in alone, Xiao Sha, Qian Juexing and the others were shocked. Xie Tengfei exclaimed: "Protect General!" Then he directed the soldiers beside him to cross the two wings.
With Jiang Xia's martial arts, after he broke into the Tatar soldiers alone, he felt like a tiger broke into a flock of sheep. For a moment, he could only see the Longyuan sword in Jiang Xia's hand slashing left and right, and each time he could take away one or two, or even two or three lives.
However, in just a dozen breaths, Jiang Xia, alone, was like a peerless killing god, killing more than 30 Tatar soldiers with his own hands.
In addition, Xiao Sha and Qian Juexing were like two gods of death holding death scythes and specializing in harvesting lives. As they rushed all the way, the Tatar soldiers fell down one after another like cut wheat.
Seeing this scene, the Ming soldiers who were originally a little restless suddenly felt very inspired. The Tatars who were originally legendary to eat human flesh and drink human blood were actually not very powerful. Isn’t it easy to kill the generals and the others?
"Progress!" Xie Tengfei saw that the soldiers had formed an encirclement from the two wings, so he immediately ordered the soldiers of the gun and shield formation to press forward.
Several fearless soldiers were killed by the swordsman without hesitation. When the soldiers saw that they could really kill people, they rushed forward with their teeth.
The soldiers holding spears are in a row with ten people, and the ranks are the commanders of the heads. The ranks are called "Stack!", and the ranks are called "Stack!" and the ranks are called loudly: "Stack!" and then everyone will stab the spears in their hands together.
The spear stabbed out from the gap between the shields in the iron shield soldiers' hands, and the spears were pierced one by one. The feeling of stabbing into the flesh and blood was transmitted back through the gun rod. The spear soldiers suddenly felt both nervous and excited and excited. Then they heard the order and said, "Come!" Everyone took the spear back together, and a row of Tatar soldiers fell down.
Seeing that the gun shield formation was so effective, when Xie Tengfei ordered "forward" again, the soldiers of the guards were no longer afraid and walked forward together.
Another round of spears. Assassination, the effect of killing the enemy was very good. Seeing that his troops had already begun to fight with the Tatar soldiers, Jiang Xia could not be trapped in it all the time, so he waved his sword and cut the throats of four or five Tatar soldiers in a row, turned around and retreated out.
As soon as Jiangxia retreated, Xiao Sha and Qian Juexing and others naturally retreated. At this moment, it became the time for the Ming soldiers to perform. The soldiers on both wings surrounded the Tatar soldiers in the middle, and the gun and shield formation kept pressing in. Once the spear was released and retracted, dozens of lives were harvested. The only place without the Ming soldiers was the Luan River behind the Tatar soldiers. If you run into the Luan River, what's the difference between it and suicide?
While the Ming soldiers were fighting against the Tatar soldiers, the second wave of Tatars' transporters had already reached the middle of the river. This time they did not encounter strong bows and throw stones to block them. Only a small wave of archers and throwers put the arrows and huge rocks.
But even so, when these Tatar soldiers arrived on the shore, the first wave of Tatar soldiers who had come here had almost been killed or injured.
Seeing the second wave of soldiers coming, the soldiers in the gun and shield formation were very excited. They screamed and rushed towards the group of soldiers. Jiang Xia's face changed drastically when he saw this scene.
As soon as the soldiers of the gun and shield formation rushed, the formation immediately loosened. The Tatar soldiers holding the iron shield rushed up immediately and completely dispersed the gun and shield formation. As soon as the formation dispersed, the two convenient fell into a melee.
Melee is a favorite situation for Tatar soldiers, because they are extremely good at a group of three people, attacking each other with their backs against each other at the same time, and then retreating to defend. Moreover, the cooperation between these three people is also very tacit, and the combat power produced by the joint burst is far greater than that of ordinary three people.
According to legend, this is because the grassland often encounters wolves. When the Tatars are besieged by wolves, they will adopt this method.
The northern grasslands are basically good at riding, shooting, hunting, and hunting. They are natural warriors. Therefore, in the history of China, the Han dynasty in the Central Plains were always afraid of the northern grasslands. This is a very normal thing. After all, a comfortable environment is easy to cultivate creative and intelligent talents, rather than iron-blooded warriors. A true iron-blooded warrior must be derived through the sharpening of swords and blood.
Seeing that his lineup was in chaos, Jiang Xia estimated the time. It was already difficult to swallow this second wave of Tatar soldiers. If he was bitten by this second wave of Tatar soldiers, his 30,000 troops would probably be swallowed by the third wave and the fourth wave of Tatar soldiers.
At that time, although Jiang Xia's martial arts were powerful, it was already the limit to one battle with a hundred. It was still impossible to fight in and out of thousands of troops.
So Jiang Xia had no choice but to choose to order a retreat.
Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding! The sound of the striking gold withdrawal sounded, and the Ming soldiers immediately began to retreat. However, the Tatar soldiers were reluctant to give in. Even though they had only a few thousand men, they still rushed up and continued to pursue the Ming soldiers.
In the end, there was nothing I could do. Jiang Xia had to choose to let Xie Tengfei lead some people to cut off the rear, and not let his troops be kept.
So Xie Tengfei brought 7,000 people to stay and asked Jiang Xia and the others to retreat first. Not long after Jiang Xia and the others left, a Tatar soldier wearing a felt hat and ordinary military uniform suddenly rushed out of the crowd of Tatar soldiers.
His body movement was like a whirlwind, and he rushed towards Xie Tengfei at a high speed. Xie Tengfei just felt a murderous aura, and when he looked up, he felt a chill in his neck...
Chapter completed!