Text_Chapter 441 Bitter Battle
Rumble!
The explosion of the cluster sounded, and a small black mushroom cloud exploded from the burning carriage, along with several surrounding carriages, and the shock wave of the explosion swept through all the surrounding creatures, whether it was the Jurchen Eight Banner soldiers, or the musketeers on the Ming side, and the alien auxiliaries, they were all swept away. γFengyun Reading Network. γ
"Fuck, it's a wagon carrying gunpowder." Li Yuyu cursed with red eyes, the Jurchen was also lucky, the cart that was lit happened to be the carriage loaded with musket propellants, and now, as soon as several carriages were scrapped, a gap about twenty meters wide was vacated.
Huang Taiji was in the rear, calmly watching the chaotic battle situation, although there were soldiers falling every moment, but he was unmoved, and let the Ming soldiers behind the car formation harvest the lives of the Eight Banners soldiers, just to open such a gap.
Suddenly, a sudden explosion caught his attention, and when he looked over, it turned out that it was a flame that ignited the gunpowder in the carriage, and there was an explosion.
"Not enough, not enough, keep throwing torches." Huang Taiji frowned when he saw it, although it was twenty meters wide, it couldn't fit a few horses at all, and rushing in couldn't cause much damage.
"Report, Great Khan, torches are not in supply!" Just when Huang Taiji wanted to expand the results of the battle, the general in charge of the torch production came to report with trepidation.
"Send more people!" Huang Taiji roared angrily, remembering in vain that everyone had been sent by him to throw torches on the battlefield, and now these things that were frantically consumed were made by the entire army in an hour.
Now, all the mobile troops are left with only five thousand soldiers of the Old Jurchen Eight Banners under their command, which is the most elite force of the Jurchens, and it is the foundation of Huang Taiji, and it is easy to move.
"Forget it." After thinking about it, Huang Taiji still let all the soldiers and horses come back, and anyway, a gap was opened, since the torches were not in supply, then break through from here.
Soon, after the last wave of torch-throwing cavalry, the cavalry formed by the Jurchen Eight Banners and the Mongols were ready to go, forming a sharp arrow formation, aiming at the gap created by the explosion.
And in order to attract firepower and create opportunities for the cavalry, the wild maidens who could not attack on horseback under the command of Huang Taiji also brandished their weapons at this moment, surrounded them from all sides, and launched an attack.
Because the gap was not large, Huang Taiji did not dye all the troops to go up, but only sent 10,000 cavalry, while the wild Jurchen infantry was all sent up, the line of the chariot formation was too long, and there must be oppressive force in all places to create opportunities for the cavalry.
Thundered!
The sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and the dull sound, with indescribable anxiety, swept towards the car.
"I want to come in, no way." Standing on the lookout car in the center of the array, Li Yuyu held a telescope and saw the situation of the Jurchen troop deployment clearly, and quickly made the best response.
"Cloth Pocket Array." He gave the order, and soon a group of musketeers moved in response, and quickly but quickly circled the breach, and made a circle here, as if another urn had been built in the breach.
"Fire!"
The first to fire were the frontal musketeers, who faced the gap, just in time to bring the charging Jurchen cavalry into view and attack.
Bang bang bang!
The sound of fried beans sounded, and before the forward troops could enter, they were wiped out in the path, followed by soldiers on either side of the diagonal position, who also crouched on the ground, and opened fire in turn.
The orderly firepower firing made the Jurchen cavalry who maintained a sharp formation feel like they had hit a nail on an iron plate, and the sharp corners in front of them were dull and flat, but after all, they were numerous, and with this kind of sacrifice, the distance was close inch by inch.
This kind of slow squirming made Huang Taiji's throat rise to his heart, and he looked at the front in a daze, and kept shouting in his heart, "Break through, break through." β
When the gap was in a fierce battle, it was also very fierce in other places, and after nearly half of the fire was transferred to the side to guard against the cavalry, the pressure on the chariot formation was much reduced, and some sparse firepower could not wipe out all the soldiers who rushed in a straggler line.
Luckily, the soldiers of the Eight Banners, who finally survived to the end, climbed onto the carriage with a cruel smile, ready to step over and jump into the cart array, but before they could implement it, they were stabbed through by the auxiliary soldiers who roamed in the center of the three-layer cart array with spears, or their feet were cut off by a big knife.
However, they were not without merit, at least the lines of the fighting were pushed near the wagons, and fierce hand-to-hand combat began. However, the soldiers of the Eight Banners on the Jurchen side did get bigger and more fearful, and they had to be frightened on the road, for fear of being killed, and it was the same when they got to the side of the carriage.
However, the wild maidens are the wild maidens, they don't have too many ideas in their heads, let the war be fought to the death, they don't care about the others at all, and even some people are smart, gather in front of the carriage, and break through to it together.
The battle on both sides was all scorched, the Ming soldiers shot desperately to kill, and the Eight Banners soldiers rushed desperately inside, and no one on either side let anyone.
Relying on the accumulation of flesh and blood, both cavalry and infantry are advancing layer by layer, the three-layer vehicle line has lost the first layer, and the musketeers are no longer firing in a salvo, but shooting alone, assisting the auxiliary soldiers in hand-to-hand combat to defend together. The cavalry was also approaching the gap and was rushing inside.
It's just that the corpse that fell down was like a stone, gradually paved up, and built a defensive line. In desperation, the charging cavalry had no choice but to detach a part of their men to hook the corpses and clean them up. And naturally, these people were also within the range of the Ming musketeers.
As time passed, the battle between the two sides was scorching and white-hot, and the Jurchen defense line advanced another layer, and the Ming soldiers also retreated a little, even where the cavalry charged, the same was true, and several more carriages were hooked down, and the gap was widened.
The long and violent battles even heated the barrel of the musketeer, and he had to stop and pour it with the drinking water he carried with him to cool the musket. The stabbing sound of white smoke filled the formation, this method was fast, but it was devastating to the muskets, and after this battle, the guns were useless.
"Go in a little more, go in a little bit!" Huang Taiji looked at the battle situation, and muttered feverishly, with his experience, he naturally saw that the defense of the Ming soldiers was almost to the limit, as long as he broke through again, he could completely break up their formation and kill them.
"Aobai, you take people to support the cavalry troops." Huang Taiji waved his hand and continued to add some people in.
"Yes, Great Khan!" Ao Bai took orders, straightened his troops and horses, and set off quickly, but when he had just run near the gap, there was a sudden chaos ahead.
Several knights shouted with frenzied expressions, "Devils, all devils. β
"No, I don't want to die here, don't."
"Kill, kill!"
The jumble of cries and headless flies quickly caused chaos in the constant ranks, especially since they made a bad start and detonated the fear of death in the hearts of the others. Soldiers, does not mean that they are not afraid of death, when the war is very hopeful to win, they can hold on to the end, but simply sending people to death can easily make people crazy.
The 10,000 cavalry maintained a continuous charge, the men in front died, the people behind followed, and they were never replaced, but the attack for almost half an hour, except for pushing the front to the side of the carriage, allowing people to shoot arrows in, there was no gain, and it was always sent to death.
Finally, the soldiers who were about to be lined up in the next group couldn't help it, and the huge battle loss rate made the fear in his heart to the extreme, and then he did very irrational things, such as ...... Brandishing weapons at officers giving orders.
The entire assault force was completely chaotic, countless soldiers turned their horses' heads, and refused to enter the gap that devoured countless lives, and the retreating soldiers completely became routs, running back regardless of it, and happened to meet the team of Aobai head-on.
"Get out of the way, let them pass." Seeing that the situation was not right, Ao Bai immediately issued an order to let his soldiers and horses not hinder these people and let them run away.
With the collapse of the cavalry, the infantry could not hold on, although their side did not have a high rate of cavalry battle losses, but the hand-to-hand combat was more cruel, and the muskets fired by the cold man made their spirits tense, and at this moment the atmosphere of the rout spread over, and they could not hold on, and they rushed over from the captured carriage and ran back.
"Press it up, everyone press it up." The scene of collapse almost made Huang Taiji unbelievable, and he shouted frantically, trying to make all the troops go up and save the rout.
This is really unacceptable, seeing that he is about to rush in and win, but his troops can't bear the casualties and retreat, how can he accept it.
"Great Khan, Great Khan, the casualties are too great, I can't go up!" Wuke Mountain shook vigorously, pointing at the soldiers of the Eight Banners and shouting.
Huang Taji looked in the direction pointed by the other party, but found that almost all the soldiers and generals had their eyes flickering and wandering, and he knew at a glance that these people were afraid in their hearts, and they did not dare to charge forward at all.
"You ......" Huang Taiji raised his horsewhip and looked around, the depression in his heart made him feel uncomfortable to death, he opened his mouth, wanted to say something, but he might as well, a mouthful of old blood gushed out, he shook his whole body, and fell down from his horse.
"Great Khan! Sweat! Countless figures swayed, countless people shouted, this was Huang Taiji's last impression, and then he fell into a complete coma.
"Finally repulsed!" Li Yuyu looked at the Jurchen Eight Banners that were receding like a tide, and relaxed and touched the sweat on his forehead, "This battle is really difficult. β
After sighing with emotion, he came to the rear of the battle, and said to the jars and gunpowder packets all over the ground, "Come on, put these things away, store them carefully, and don't go out of the water." β
Behind the pocket array is a larger circle, the circle is full of this kind of bottles and cans, this is kerosene for the horse lantern, and as a medicine bag for propellant, the Jurchen really can't stop it, rush in, he also has the last means to defeat the enemy, but the loss is greater.