Chapter 146: The End of War Horses (Third Update, Ask for Subscription)

Charging into battle with horses, this trick is not very new.

In the Battle of Salhu that year, the Houjin army used this tactic to break through the Ming army's car formation, and they used death squads to drive a large number of horses as cannon fodder, so that they rushed up and dispersed the Ming army's car formation.

When the Ming army was unable to shoot firearms due to the disorganization of the camp, the elite cavalry of Houjin rushed over and slaughtered the Ming army.

From Salhu to next year's Songjin, this move of the Qing army can be described as a hundred tried.

Almost the moment those war horses rushed to the wall of the Ming army's chariot, Battle grinned, at this moment, he seemed to see the dawn of victory, he had already drawn his waist knife, ready to rush into the Ming dog's car formation, cut down those Ming dogs, just like hunting, cut off all the heads of these thousands of Ming dogs......

But at this time, Battle was suddenly shocked to see the galloping war horses in front of him as if they had hit an invisible wall, and suddenly fell to the ground, one after another war horses fell to the ground, and the moment the galloping war horses fell to the ground, they broke their bones, even if some horses rushed out of several feet, they still fell.

This is...... Tripping?

Almost at the moment when this thought popped up in Battle's heart, Zhu Guoqiang, who saw this scene through the high-powered telescope, smiled, and then said.

"Shen Bao, this guy has some skills when he fights."

"Lord Shizi, General Shen is ...... Tripping? ”

Chen Wudi was a little puzzled.

"Invincible, remember what he said when I asked him what he needed before the battle?"

"Rope, wire......"

Chen Wudi, who suddenly realized, said.

"Lord Shizi, are you saying that from before the start of the battle, Shen Bao had expected that the Qing army would charge the battle with horses?"

"It's crooked!"

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile.

"Did he expect that Jiannu would use a group of horses to impulsively, I don't know, but he asked for ropes, wires, not only to trip horses, but also to trip people, you see that the Qing army's horses fell a hundred steps away in front of his formation, when Jiannu rushed into battle before, he didn't notice that there was a tripping rope on the ground, it is conceivable that his tripping rope must be very short, maybe only a foot high from the ground, or even hidden in the snow, whether it is cavalry or infantry, rushing to a place a hundred steps away, it is bound to be tripped by the tripping horse, galloping horses are natural, The speed of the infantry will also slow down......"

Putting down the binoculars, Zhu Guoqiang praised.

"If I'm not mistaken, he is estimated to have no less than 100 tripwires in front of the formation, as long as the speed slows down, he can shoot at will, and he really deserves to be a veteran of a hundred battles......"

Just as Zhu Guoqiang guessed, Shen Bao did arrange hundreds of tripping ropes in front of the formation, less than a foot from the ground, and now these tripping ropes set up with ropes and wires have become the most fatal stumbling ropes for the horses. The horses could also feel the threat, and in the case of continuous tripping and falling injuries, the horses that were originally galloping suddenly stopped, and they stood on the battlefield blankly, no matter how the Qing army drove them, and did not advance half a step.

For a while, there was an extremely strange scene on the battlefield, a hundred steps in front of the Ming army's car formation, the black pressure was crowded with thousands of constantly moving ownerless war horses, they were standing there, and behind them, the Qing cavalry of the brigade looked anxiously at the Ming army more than two hundred steps away.

At this distance, the guns were inaccurate, and the arrows could not penetrate, even if the arrows of the Qing army could injure those unarmored Ming troops, but they did not move.

"My lord, Minggou's tripping rope is too dense, and the horse team can't rush through it at all!"

"Damn Ming dog! Lao Tzu still doesn't believe that they can die in this king's eight shells! ”

After so many years of fighting, it was the first time that Battle had encountered such an opponent, and when he looked angrily towards the main formation of the Ming army, Shen Bao was also watching him. There is only one thought in his heart - he does not want to win all this battle, but to save his life!

So, this turtle shell is stunned!

But he would not defend himself, and almost at the moment when he was stuck in a stalemate on the battlefield, he ordered the heralds.

"Order the gunners to fire from the left and right flanks to Jiannu behind the horses, with heavy shotguns, after the two wings fire, and then bombard the horses with artillery on the front, scatter the horses, and return the body of the other way, Jiannu charges the battle with horses, and it is ...... to come and not be rude."

The gunners who received the order adjusted the muzzles of the guns between the walls of the car, pointed the muzzles of the guns at the Qing troops behind the side of the horses, and then lit the medicine twist, which dragged the sparks into the ignition hole. In the roar, the artillery carriage retreated suddenly, and with a "boom", hundreds of heavy shotguns were blasted forward, and the heavy shotguns like raindrops were whistling towards the Qing army.

When the overwhelming rain of bullets hit the Qing army, they instinctively wanted to dodge, but there were still some people who couldn't dodge and even the men and horses were hit with a few blood holes, and when the Qing cavalry instinctively retreated backwards and wanted to avoid the shelling, the rain of bullets in the face shrouded those ownerless war horses.

Horses may be just animals, but they are also afraid, and the threat under the horse's hooves makes them hesitate to try to escape the unknown risks. However, the sudden artillery bombardment knocked down a group of war horses at the same time, those injured war horses neighed and wailed, and the stinging pain from the body of the lightly injured war horses made them frantic and inexplicable, and fear made them run in the direction they came, for a while, the horses in front of the car wall ran wildly, and those manic war horses even knocked down the nearby Qing army in the run, and the cavalry on horseback fell to the ground one after another in a hurry. Before the cavalry that fell to the ground could react, the horses behind them were already galloping, and the horses' hooves stepped on their bodies without hesitation, causing a ghost cry on the battlefield.

The sudden chaos brought about a major reversal of the situation on the battlefield.

The cavalry of the Qing army, which originally seemed to be mighty, was actually defeated and retreated, and hundreds of Qing cavalry were trampled into pulp by their own horses without even putting arrows.

Eventually, the sound of horses' hooves, which had been like thunder, became scattered and quickly weakened as the Qing army scattered and fled. And the outside of the car wall also quieted down, there was no more shocking cannon sound, no more mournful sound of war horses, only the biting cold wind blowing, blowing away the smoke on the battlefield, revealing the bloody corpses and craters in front of the car wall, and the wailing of war horses......