Datong, Xiaodongmen.

When Li Yan led a large group of rebels to march northward, Wang Pu stood in the city surrounded by Zhao Xin, a bearded and scar-faced general, and stood at the top of the city and looked out. He could see the barely neat formation of thieves driving through the vast distance not far outside the city.

Before the departure, Li Yan had obviously made rigorous arrangements for the bandits' marching formation. More than 60,000 bandits were divided into six huge square formations by Li Yan. The most recent square formation of Datong was all light infantry holding spears. In front were two light army phalanxes, then an archer phalanx, and finally a baggage phalanx. In the middle was a small number of cavalry, about four or five hundred cavalry.

"This Li Yan." Wang Pu couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, "It's really a talent. It seems that this person is not only good at using troops, but also good at training troops. It is not easy, too difficult to train such a group of mobs in this way in less than two months."

The bearded man and Scarface were dissatisfied when they heard this, but they didn't dare to refute this from Wang Pu's mouth.

Zhao Xin on the side couldn't help but praise: "The general is right. Li Yan is indeed a talent. It's a pity that he is a thief. Otherwise, the general should really make friends with him."

Wang Pu smiled and said nothing, but thought to himself, who said that traitors can’t make friends?

"Why not fire? Why not fire!"

At this moment, an angry voice suddenly sounded down the city tower, and then a messy footsteps came up. Wang Pu and others turned around and saw that Zhu Chuanqi had already climbed to the top of the city surrounded by two officials, Zhang Zi'an, Wei Daben, and some local officials.

When the bandits attacked Datong, Zhu Chuanqi hid in the palace all day and refused to come out. When the attack was the most urgent. This guy even hid in the cellar for a while, but the bandits were about to retreat now. The prince's courage immediately became stronger and he dared to climb up the city tower to supervise the battle.

Zhu Chuanqi also specially wore a golden silk crown today and a prince's robe with four claws and eight dragons. He looked majestic and a bit elegant and graceful. When the prince arrived, he should bow to him according to the ceremony. However, because the military officer was in his arms, he could avoid bowing.

Wang Pu held his fists and bowed as a greeting, saying, "See the prince."

"Wang Pu!" Zhu Chuanqi said angrily, "The thief is outside the city, why not fire the cannon?"

"Fire the cannon?" Wang Pu said, "Prince, the thief is outside the range, firing cannon can only waste ammunition."

Zhu Chuanqi said: "Then why don't you go out of the city to pursue?"

"Go out of the city to pursue?" Wang Pu said. "Your Majesty, aren't you kidding?"

"Who is joking with you?" Zhu Chuanqi said angrily, "You said that the soldiers who did not have money were unwilling to defend the city. Okay, I gave you 500,000 silver, and you said that the soldiers and the soldiers had no strength to kill the thieves. Okay, I took out 20,000 stones of grain from the granary of the royal palace. Now the thieves are about to escape, but you don't go after them. What is the reason?"

"Prince, do you really want Beizhi to lead the army to pursue the thieves?" Wang Pu said this and said with a serious expression. "Beizhi can lead the army out of the city to pursue, but after Beizhi led the army out of the city, there were only more than 2,000 defenders in Datong City. Also, whether Datong can be defended has nothing to do with Beizhi."

"Uh..." Zhu Chuanqi was stunned for a moment and frowned, "Then just watch the thief escape?"

"Prince, Prince, Prince Consort." Zhang Zian suddenly screamed, "Then...what is that?"

"Um?"

“Huh?”

Everyone turned around and looked in the direction of Zhang Zi'an's finger. They saw that the originally quiet northern wilderness had already risen, and the vastness was already rising.

"It's a cavalry!" The bearded man listened sideways for a moment, then suddenly shouted with an angry look. "At least five thousand cavalry!"

"Cabin?" Zhu Chuanqi asked dumbly. "Are they our Ming Dynasty cavalry? Why did you come from the north?"

"North?North!" Wang Pu murmured twice, and suddenly his face changed drastically. He shouted sternly, "No, it's Jiannu! It's Jiannu's cavalry!"

"Ah, Jiannu?"

"Jiannu Cavalry?"

Zhang Zian, Wei Daben and others were all despised when they heard this.

Zhu Chuanqi was even more frightened and said anxiously: "Hurry up, help me back to the mansion, Wang Pu, the defense of Datong City will be left to you. You must defend Datong, and you can't let Datong fall into Jiannu's hands..."

After saying that, Zhu Chuanqi, with the help of two officials, went down the city tower in panic.

This man was really scared this time. Although the thief was so powerful, it was not scary. Zhu Chuanqi believed that Wang Pu could defend Datong, but Jiannu was different. Jiannu's threat was much greater than that of the thief! Otherwise, Jiannu would not have taken all such a large piece of land in Liaodong.

Wei Daben, the prefect of Datong, asked in a trembling voice: "Mr. Prince Concubine, is this really a Jiannu cavalry?"

"That's right." Wang Pu said in a deep voice, "This is the Jiannu Cavalry."

This sudden cavalry was indeed the Jiannu cavalry!

The regent of Jiannu Dorgon, Yuetuo, led 60,000 Jiannu Eight Banners and 30,000 Han Army Eight Banners to set out from Shengjing. After half a month of march, he joined forces with 80,000 Mongolian Eight Banners in Sanbulachuan, and then divided into two groups, one led by Dorgon and the other led by Yuetuo, and each destroyed the pass from the Mida Mountain and Fangshan Pass.

Since Datong was besieged by the Shaanxi rebel army, Wang Pu and Zhang Zi'an had strictly ordered the defense of the guards along the Great Wall to be deployed. The garrisons of the Fort City of the Fort City were shrinking across the entire line and retreated to the left guard of Datong. Therefore, the Jiannu army crossed the Great Wall without bloodshed. Until Jiannu's vanguard appeared dozens of miles north of Datong, the rebel army outside the city and the official army in the city were still unaware of it.

This vanguard is the elite of the two white flags in the eight banners of the Qing Dynasty. The leading general is the brother of the regent Dorgon, Prince Wuying, Prince Ajige. Although the two white flags are the lower three flags of the eight banners of Jiannu, since Dorgon became the regent, the status of the two white flags has increased with the flow and its power has expanded rapidly!

This time, Ajige became the pioneer general because of the geography of the Regent Dorgon. Dorgon intended to make his compatriots, Ajige and his compatriots, make more achievements in the war to fight against the Ming Dynasty.

Ajige is one of the few powerful generals among Jiannu, but he has a fatal weakness, which is that he has no brains.

When the horse explorer reported that an army of tens of thousands of people was moving forward from outside Datong City to the north, the simple-minded Ajige took his brave and reckless character to the fullest. No matter whether he had only eight thousand iron cavalry under his command or what the army outside Datong City came from, he was even more lazy to consider whether there were more Ming troops in Datong City, so he led his army to launch an attack without hesitation.

At Ajige's order, the Jiannu Iron Cavalry quickly set off the attack formation and accelerated the marching speed.

The horses were crowded with iron hooves. Amid the sound of subway hooves like the tide, the eight thousand iron cavalry of the two white flags swept towards the Shaanxi rebel army led by Li Yan.

The bandits are in the army.

This sudden cavalry came too fast. Almost as soon as Li Yan received a reward from Jing Maocheng, they had already appeared in their sight. Although they could not determine where this cavalry came from. One thing is certain, they would never be reinforcements sent by the King of Rebellion Li Zicheng!

This sudden cavalry, whether it is the Mongols, the Ming cavalry, or the legendary Jiannu, will not be friends of the rebel army anyway. They may only be enemies of the rebel army!

Since it is an enemy, it is best to prepare for the attack in the shortest time. If this cavalry chasing its formation, more than 60,000 troops will be defeated. Then everything will be over!

Li Yan made a quick decision and shouted loudly: "Tell the entire army to stop advancing immediately and form a formation on the spot!"

"Li Hu."

"exist."

"Immediately push all the supplies and vehicles in the baggage camp to the north and build a vehicle array!"

"yes."

"Hui Hui Camp, Geli Camp, Gai Shi Camp, and Troubled Camp, Zuo Jin Camp immediately moved closer to the central army, with spearmen outside, swords, shields and hands in the center, and archers in the innermost. Immediately build a circular defensive formation!"

"yes."

"Jing Maocheng, Li Xuan."

"exist."

"Laoya Camp, Gushan Camp remained unmoved, stayed on the Central Army's guard!"

"yes."

Li Yan's military orders were issued one by one, with clear and orderly ideas. If the Shaanxi rebel army could quickly arrange defensive formations in accordance with his military orders, with the absolute advantage of military strength, the Jiannu Iron Cavalry might not be able to take advantage. Unfortunately, the more than 60,000 rebels under Li Yan were not well-trained elites after all, but just a group of mobs.

When Ajige led the two white flags of eight thousand cavalry to the front, Li Hu led the two thousand soldiers of Qixian camp to push the baggage vehicles to the front of the formation, and before he could connect to the formation.

There are also Huihui Camp, Geli Camp, Gashi Camp, Troubled Camp and Zuojin Camp. Although they have barely leaned against each other, before the Jiannu cavalry arrives, they are already in chaos. The archers are blocked from the periphery and cannot enter, and the spearmen are blocked inside and cannot get out. They are all in a mess.

Only Jing Maocheng's Laochao Camp and Li Xuan's Gushan Camp can barely be considered as neatly lined up. Unfortunately, these two battalions have too few people. Although Li Yan added more than 3,000 recruits to it after the fierce battle last night, even so, there were only 5,000 people in the two battalions.

Datong, Xiaodongmen.

The bearded man shook his head and said with a complicated expression: "The thief... is over."

The expression of Scarface suddenly became very complicated, neither like gloating nor sympathy or pity. He sighed in a low voice: "Although the thieves have an absolute advantage in military strength, they are facing the elite iron cavalry of the two white flags of Jiannu. It is too difficult to block the charge of the heavy cavalry of Jiannu! Once the thieves are destroyed by the heavy cavalry of Jiannu, this battle will become a massacre."

Zhao Xin also sighed: "It's really hard for Li Yan. It's too difficult to get these 60,000 mobs to set up a circular defensive formation in such a short time. The thieves were indeed defeated in this battle. If no miracle happened, they would have to wait for Jiannu to slaughter the iron cavalry."

"Not necessarily." Wang Pu suddenly shook his head and said in a deep voice, "Although the bandits' land car formation has not been formed, the two thousand bandits in the front seem to be a well-trained elite soldier. Although Jiannu's iron cavalry is powerful, it is probably not that easy to easily drill through this bandit. The key now is... Can Li Yan clean up the circular defensive formation of the bandit army before Jiannu drilled through the elite bandits!"

Zhao Xin suddenly discovered something and said loudly: "General, there is still a bandit here that is not in chaos. Why didn't Li Yan push this bandit forward?"

"This bandit is used to guard against us. Li Yan is worried that we will take the opportunity to send troops to attack them." Wang Pu shook his head and sighed, "Although it is a great enemy, Li Yan's mind is not in chaos. He did not relax his vigilance against us. This also shows that the situation of the battle is still under Li Yan's control."

"Is that true?" The bearded man and Scarface shook their heads and said in disbelief, "Then let's see, how long can Li Yan last?"

Outside Datong City, Jiannu was rushing forward and colliding with the thief head-on.

The Jiannu cavalry is different from the Mongolian cavalry. The Mongolian cavalry is a light cavalry and is good at cavalry guerrilla tactics. However, there are a large number of heavy armored cavalry among the Jiannu cavalry. These heavy armored cavalry can tear open the defensive formations of enemy infantry from the front with their powerful impact.

Of course, Jiannu’s heavy armored cavalry are completely different from the heavy armored cavalry in the Western world.
Chapter completed!