Chapter 1560: Fleeing
"Here comes the Tartars!"
More than 100 people who were fleeing turned around and saw the figure of the Mongolian cavalry, but they cursed.
Hearing this, everyone immediately panicked even more, but they desperately ran towards the city gate. It was only more than a hundred meters away from the city gate, which made them extremely nervous.
At this time, they feared that the Tartars would catch up with them, and that the gates would suddenly close.
"Are we going to die here?"
A few girls who were on the run couldn't help but worry in their hearts.
"Close the gates!"
Su Changyuan, the governor of Tongzhou, saw that the cannon that had just been shot did not have a deterrent effect, but instead saw the Mongolian cavalry rushing towards here, and said loudly in panic.
Lin Haoran looked at the Mongolian cavalry rushing towards here in disappointment, glanced at Su Changyuan lightly, and then turned his gaze to the city gate.
Zhang Jun was busy in front of the city gate, and fences were placed in the middle of the clearing. Although he could not kill the enemy, he could undoubtedly stop the cavalry, or at least slow down their charge.
The strength of the cavalry is not only their motivation, but also their ability to charge. Many battle formations faced with cavalry, and they were often routed by the cavalry, thus becoming a rout.
Bang!
There was another loud bang at the head of the city, and the Franc cannon imitated by the Zhengde Dynasty was finally dragged out of the arsenal, and another lead bullet smashed forward in a parabolic trajectory.
It is disappointing that the momentum of this cannon is there, but it is not accurate. Not to mention smashing the Mongolian cavalry, it was more than 100 meters away from the Mongolian cavalry.
"Rush!"
Seeing the remote and serious shells, and seeing that the city gates were still not closed, and that many people were still outside the city, Hamu had already seen the hope of entering the city, and rushed forward with a whip.
"Into town! Fast into town! ”
Zhang Jun set up the fence to direct the people to speak loudly.
He didn't expect that such Mongolian cavalry would come so quickly, and he didn't expect that they would really dare to take this Tongzhou city with a thousand cavalry, but they were urging the rest of the people.
Under the shroud of hope and fear, the people were already desperately rushing towards the city gate, although they still could not hide their fear in their hearts, but the moment they stepped into the city gate, they had already developed gratitude to the court.
Da! Da!
The Mongol cavalry was really as fast as lightning, killing from the small hillside, and in the blink of an eye, they were about to enter the city of Tongzhou.
"Hold on! Resist! Resist it! ”
Su Changyuan saw that the Mongolian cavalry was already approaching the city, and his heart immediately raised his voice, and he could no longer care about the decency of the civilian officials, and shouted loudly at the sergeants below.
In front of the city gate is an open space, and there is even a large pier on the right. However, by this time, there were no people for a long time, and there were several fences in the clearing.
This fence was undoubtedly a barrier that did not need to keep the Mongol cavalry out, but slowed them down to buy them time to enter the city and close its gates.
"Go back and get ready to close the gates!"
Zhang Jun led his sergeants and followed the last group of people back to Tongzhou City.
At the head of the city, it was already extremely nervous at this time. Both civil officials and military generals looked nervously at the fence in the open space at this time, hoping to win enough time for Zhang Jun's retreat.
That's enough! Enough should be enough!
Fan Jian also let go of his grudge against Lin Haoran, looked at the distance between the two sides, and made a judgment in his heart.
Hamu Jiangdu'er naturally saw the rows of fences in the open space, and even saw the Ming soldiers covering the last group of people to enter the city, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.
How so!
The people at the head of the city saw that Zhang Jun had entered the city in an orderly manner with people, and it was when they saw the dawn of victory that they looked at the fence in amazement, and their hearts immediately cooled.
Drive!
Hamu whipped Du'er on the horse so hard that the horse's skin was even stained with blood, and the horse's speed did not decrease, like a flying horse directly stepping over the fence, showing off the vigorous body of the Mongolian horse.
Although some of the Mongols planted their horses in the fence, many more cavalry showed their great horsemanship, and without slowing down, they crossed the fence and went straight to the city gates.
"Formation!"
Zhang Jun had already retreated to the city gate with his people, and in the face of the approaching Mongolian cavalry, he immediately gave an order.
There is a well-established fact in the Ming army: the border army is the strongest. Although the Dingbian guards are stationed in Tongzhou City all the year round, their combat power is much inferior to before, but after all, they belong to the border army, but they are stronger than the Weisuo army.
In the face of the approaching Mongolian cavalry, the guards were afraid that they had already retreated, but the soldiers of the Dingbian guards, under the leadership of Zhang Jun, had already formed a gun formation in an orderly manner.
Of course, their current task is not to fight to the death with the Mongol army, but to prevent the Mongol cavalry from retreating into the city, so that they all have a glimmer of hope in their hearts.
It was in this way that they picked up the spears in their hands one after another and formed a dense array of guns.
Whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, it is impossible for a commander to let his cavalry foolishly charge the opponent's dense gun array.
Now facing the orderly gun formation of the Ming army, Hamu raised the corners of Du'er's mouth slightly, and even took the bow and arrow from behind his back and fired directly at the gun array.
"How is it good! What to do! ”
Su Changyuan watched the Mongolian cavalry kill so fiercely, and saw that the people were still walking in the city cave, but he was anxious to hit the other hand with the back of his hand, and at the same time looked at Lin Haoran nervously.
Lin Haoran watched the situation deteriorate, and he also felt helpless in his heart, but at this moment, he couldn't panic, he only hoped that Zhang Jun could block this group of Mongolian soldiers and enter the city gate.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
……
The Mongol cavalry was not only skilled in horsemanship, but also in archery, and their speed continued unabated, with arrows coming from their horses towards the spears.
The shield was in front of it, blocking a dozen flying arrows.
"Retreat! Retreat into the city"
Zhang Jun didn't intend to confront the other party head-on, so he gave an order.
It's just that the shield is flawed after all, as the Mongol cavalry gets lower and lower, they have a high level of excellence on their horses, and some of the stray arrows are the soldiers who shoot into the formation, and they are suddenly bloody.
Zhang Jun retreated into the city cave with his soldiers, the soldiers in front could still maintain the formation, and the soldiers in the back suddenly dropped the spears in their hands, but they rushed inside.
"Don't run! …… Finished! ”
Su Changyuan watched the gun array suddenly collapse, and the soldiers behind him had already fled, and muttered like ashes.
Ha ha......
Seeing the Ming soldiers who had fled, Hamu couldn't help but let out a burst of wild laughter, and immediately led a group of his subordinates to follow the fleeing Ming soldiers into the city, and was about to start a crazy slaughter.