Chapter 166: Is Zhu Yuanzhang Really Back? (10th Update)

That's not right, that's wrong......

Why didn't these Nikan firemen fire yet? It's already within fifty paces, why don't you fire yet? Did they forget to fill the gunpowder?

Also, what is that silver gleaming on the mouth of the firebolt? It can't be a knife, right? So how did the old knife fit on? And what are you doing with knives on the guns?

Marseille, who was charging with the dead soldiers, had already discovered that something was wrong!

He met a group of very strange Ming army gunners, and saw 300 Eight Banners Iron Cavalry galloping forward, they actually did not shoot indiscriminately, let alone escape. What's even more excessive is that they actually took out an old knife and put it on the mouth of the firecracker!

Well, there are 1,000 or hundreds of long thorns, flashing with cold light, forming a knife forest. It makes people's hearts furry when they look at it!

Although he knew that it was wrong, Marseille did not choose to retreat. His generation of Manchurians happened to grow up at the height of Manchuria's armed forces, and when they went into battle, they all advanced without retreating, and won without defeat. Even if there is an occasional setback, it will not suffer much damage, and it will soon be back in the field.

Over time, the illusion of invincibility and the mindset of being ashamed of retreating were formed in the minds of these Manchurian soldiers. Especially in the face of the Ming army, they always have the courage to charge, the courage to fight a decisive battle, it seems that as long as they charge, they are the winners!

But today, charging is not the same as victory!

Marseille and the Ming musketeers were getting closer and closer, and he could already see the faces of the Nikan musketeers in front of him.

There doesn't seem to be much fear!

How is this possible? How could Nikan not be afraid of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers? Where did you Nikans come from? Is it a real Nikan?

Syllable!

A gong sounded, interrupting Marseille's thoughts, and he looked up to find that he had rushed to a distance of twenty paces away from the Ming army's musketers.

So close, don't fire again...... As he thought of this, he saw a flash of fire flickering in front of him, smoke rising, and then he heard a loud thunderous roar.

Boom Boom!

This loud bang doesn't sound like a firebolt, but like the roar of a Hongyi cannon!

At the same time as the loud bang, there was also a large cloud of smoke with a pungent smell, which fascinated Marseille's vision for a while. Marseille and the horse under his crotch were lucky, not being shot, and still moving on. Although he knew that the 300 dead soldiers he led must have suffered heavy losses, he still tried to push his horse forward.

Now there is nothing to stop the remaining Eight Banners warriors from killing all the Nikan soldiers who wield firearms...... As long as you rush forward, you can go on a killing spree! One Eight Banners warrior can fight at least ten, no, twenty Nikan!

"Kill the Tartars!"

"Kill the Tartars!"

The shouts of the firecrackers rang out like a burst. An unbelievable sight to the sight of Marseille and all the two White Flag dead soldiers (and in their early hundreds) who were still charging!

A group of Nikan firefighters actually took the initiative to launch a white-knuckle charge against them!

Are these really Nikan? How did you get so brave that you went crazy? Aren't they crazy......

As soon as the thought crossed Marseille's mind, the horse under his crotch somehow sank suddenly, and then fell straight forward!

Damn, it's a horse trap!

Marseille immediately understood what was happening—those Nikans were not stupid or crazy, but had dug a ditch outside the dock at Dagukou early in the morning, and then covered it with wooden frames, straw mats, and dirt, just waiting for the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers to be fooled!

No wonder they are so brave, they are simply prepared......

Poof!

Marseille had already fallen into the muddy water with his men and horses, and he was lucky that he was not stabbed by the pointed stakes stuck in the bottom of the pit, but the war horse under his crotch was not saved, and his body was pierced by two pointed stakes, and now all that was left was the wailing of death.

Marseille was indeed brave, and he didn't care about the horses, and he didn't think about how disadvantageous his situation was, so he drew his waist knife, and crawled out of the mud pit with a strange scream, trying to cut a few Nikans to relieve his hatred.

At this moment, the bayonet jungle of the Ming army also rolled and poured in front of Marseille. However, with a twenty-step sprint, even if the firecrackers who have not received much queue training are not too scattered, they still maintain a dense formation shoulder to shoulder.

Marseille's pistol was bolted to the saddle, and he couldn't take it off for a while, and now he only had a waist knife at hand, and no one had yet put on a gun half the length of the spur? How to resist?

He didn't know how to resist, but the spur jungle in front of him had already pressed up, and the sound of weapons clashing and screaming sounded at the same time, obviously there were already Manchurian warriors fighting with the enemy.

But Marseille was cowardly at the critical moment, and he really didn't know how to fight a long hand-to-hand fight? He had to retreat again and again, but he stepped on the air and fell back on his back into the ditch where the horse had been trapped, and fell on a dying war horse. A few deadly spurs followed suit! There are knives on the front and back, left and right, and he can't dodge or block them!

Marseille had no choice but to swing his waist knife desperately, trying to help each other, but the sharp pain came from his left waist, right chest, and right leg, and then the second damage caused by the sharp blade pulling out of his body, and blood spurted out like a spring, making his strength dissipate rapidly.

The Manchurian warrior Marseille was paralyzed on the ground, but his consciousness was still very clear, and he heard the screams and the sound of the human body falling down again and again. The 500 dead soldiers he led were actually defeated by the 1,000 or hundreds of firecrackers of the Ming army!

This is ridiculous...... Marseille had a feeling of unreality, that this must not be true, that it could not be true! Must be dreaming......

The shouts of killing sounded again, the mud and water splashed on the battlefield, and the ground was also like thunder, it was the sharp army led by the first warrior of Manchuria, Duolong, who launched an attack.

Marseille stretched his neck with the last of his strength to look around, and saw that the Nikan firearms who had just been extremely brave were retreating one after another, and it seemed that they had been defeated......

The Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers are invincible after all! Thinking of this, he closed his eyes in reassurance.

......

When Duolong, the first warrior of Manchuria, saw that the 500 dead soldiers he sent were crushed by 1,000 or more Ming soldiers, he almost fell off his horse in shock.

How is this possible? It's not a nightmare, is it?

The guns of the Ming army in the front row are skillful, and they also have an extremely high hit rate within 100 steps! And the fire soldiers in the last two rows were even more terrifying, they were able to survive until the Eight Banners Horse Team rushed to a distance of twenty paces before firing!

And all the guns used by the Ming army did not explode! What kind of fire is this? Where did you buy it?

This is not the most exaggerated, the most exaggerated thing is that a group of firecrackers directly charged and fought hand-to-hand with the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers after the gun!

Though they deceitfully dug a ditch before themselves to trap the horses. But they're firecrackers after all! How can you charge and fight hand-to-hand in person? That's the errand of pikemen and sword soldiers! How much did the crown prince of Zhu Yuanzhang's reincarnation pay them? Do you need to work so hard?

The first warrior of Manchuria did not stay for long, and soon decided to launch a sharp attack.

Because he has already figured it out, that "Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated" is likely to be true! Otherwise, how could the Ming army's rotten firecrackers be so powerful? This can't be done, you have to get rid of the Ming Dynasty crown prince who is the reincarnation of Emperor Taizu Gao as soon as possible, otherwise the Qing Dynasty will not end well.

In addition, it is very troublesome to reload the musket, those musketeers charge after a shot, and there is no time to reload again, this is the opportunity!

Seeing the opportunity, the first warrior of Manchuria immediately launched a charge!

It's 600 Eight Banners Iron Riding again, and it's coming!

On the other end, Hao Shaoqi really didn't think how powerful the Tartars were, nor did he think how awesome his firecrackers were.

Isn't it just to put the enemy in twenty paces and fire a shot, and then attack with a bayonet? It's easy! It's easier than with a bow and arrows - you can't fit a knife that long into a bow! Therefore, after shooting the arrow, you either have to retreat or change the blade, and it is all a rush.

Moreover, the lethality of the arrowhead is limited, and it is difficult to inflict enough damage in the face of the speeding group of armored horses. But a salvo of 1,000 or more firearms was enough to stun hundreds of iron cavalry—Hao Shaoqi could see it clearly, and after his firecrackers fired a volley at close range, the Tartar cavalry had already collapsed. There are less than 100 cavalry still relying on inertial impact, just this bit of cavalry, and it is very scattered, without a formation, how can it be possible to break down a thousand or hundreds of firearms in formation?

With the previous experience, Hao Shaoqi is now more determined, first ordered Ming Jin, let the fire soldiers who were rushing to kill retreat slightly, and then ordered loudly: "Beat the drum!" ”

Knock knock knock......

The drums sounded.

The drumbeat of the new arms corps means formation, loading, bayonet loading and aiming.

The first drum is the whole team, the second is the loading, the third is the bayonet and aiming, then the gong is heard and the fire is fired, and when the fire is finished, the charge is charged. Don't rush too far, until twenty or thirty steps. If the enemy is at this distance, then do not rush.

It is such a simple set of tactics, which was formulated by Zhu Cihong, Pan Shuchen, Wang Zhou and Tang Ruowang. On today's battlefield, he has actually shown his might.

Hearing the sound of the drums, the firecrackers immediately began to form a formation, because they did not rush too far, and the formation was not scattered, so the drums quickly formed the formation together.

As soon as the queue was formed, they were not afraid of cavalry onslaught. The formation of a thousand or hundreds of bayonets was not so easy to be overwhelmed by the cavalry, and there was a ditch in front of the bayonet array.

Then the second drum beat followed!

The musketeers immediately began to reload. Their reloading skills were not high, after all, the training time was too short, and there were hundreds of cavalry rushing on the opposite side, which made the firecrackers a little panicked.

However, the loading of fixed ammunition they used also made up for the rustiness of Hao Shaoqi's troops to a certain extent. Soon, most of the firecrackers had finished reloading, and they were once again ready to wait for the first Manchurian warrior, Duolong, to come and send him to his death.