After the battle, there were ten corpses of Tartar soldiers lying in this forest area, except for the leader of the Tartar soldiers who did not look like a human form, the corpses of the rest were in a strange writhing state, which was the power of the poisoned arrows of the Tiance Army.

Looking at these corpses, Xie Ye chuckled and said, "On the way home, there is such a harvest, it is really good luck on our side."

The comrades-in-arms beside him were chuckling and resting, and everyone was happy.

Xie Ye's smart eyes cautiously swept over the surrounding area, and said: "It is not suitable to stay here for a long time, take the horses of the Tartars, let's go, and return to Datong Town as soon as possible."

Those spoils of war are insignificant, and the heads of these Tartars are not very attractive to Xie Ye and the others, this area is still a dangerous place, so it is better to leave early.

At that moment, everyone gathered the people who were left behind and quietly left this place, as if the battle had never happened.

Only the corpses of those aliens were left, lying quietly in this land that did not belong to them.

After that, Xie Ye was still cautious, but all the way through, he did not encounter the Tartar sentry horsemen again, as if all those Tartar sentry horses had disappeared.

After the river beach, everyone is on the horses, and when the sky is bright, it is not far from the area of Baishan Mountain.

There are often Ming army sentry horses in front of them, seeing that they are basically safe, and they are even more meritorious in the sentry detection, and the group is full of laughter.

Xie Ye looked back and smiled: "This time the brothers behaved well, I went back to see Shangguan, and I asked the brothers for credit."

All the whistles were gossiping: "Thank you so much."

"When I go back this time, I'm afraid I'll get a lot of merits."

Suddenly, Xie Ye frowned, and saw the smoke and dust billowing in front of him, he hurriedly took out the clairvoyant mirror, and said angrily: "It's a tartar, there are still a lot of people, these miscellaneous pieces actually came here, I really don't know whether to live or die!"

The Tatar iron horsemen who appeared on the opposite side also discovered the situation on Xie Ye's side, and they all rode their horses to speed up, and rushed towards this side with a strange scream.

This kind of plain area has a wide field of vision, and both sides can easily find each other's existence.

Xie Ye raised the clairvoyant mirror again, his expression was solemn, and as these Tatar iron horsemen approached, in the clairvoyant mirror, their outfits could be seen more clearly.

I saw that most of these Tatar iron horsemen were wearing iron armor nailed with copper nails, their helmets were raised high, and the red tassels were fluttering, which was very eye-catching, and they were the elite heavy armored iron horses of the Tatar department!

In the smoke and dust, several people can still be seen wearing black tassels on their helmets, and the flags behind them are their centurions and ten-division officers.

Next to him, the sentry commander Ma Ren said in a deep voice beside Xie Ye: "It's a sentry rider with heavy tartar armor." ”

Xie Ye nodded silently, he knew that the Tatar Uketu Khan had not only formed a cowardly army of 10,000 horses, but also transferred thousands of heavily armored iron horsemen from various Tatar departments, and used all these horses as his personal guards, and he was also the elite combat force in the Tatar department.

This information has been known by the Intelligence Department, the Inspection Department, and the Military Department one after another, and has been notified to the whole army to keep it in mind, so Xie Ye and the others are also aware of it.

These Tatar heavy armor Tartars are generally only used as outposts and escorts when Uketu Khan comes to patrol, but according to the military department's speculation, in large-scale wars, these heavy armor will also go out to sentry, and even attack and break the formation. Their combat power is also higher than that of the average Tatar elite.

Look at the Tartars rolling in, getting closer and closer, and they are armed with all kinds of weapons. Roaring and roaring, arrogant.

Sentinel Ma Ren looked at Xie Ye and asked in a deep voice, "Xie Ye, what should I do?" Are we brothers fighting or leaving? ”

Everyone in the team also looked at Xie Ye, waiting for his decision, but everyone did not have the slightest panic and timidity, and even many of them looked eager to try.

Xie Ye's mind was turning, to be honest, he wanted to retreat immediately, this time the outpost also obtained a lot of important information, he wanted to hand over the information to Shangguan's hands as soon as possible, and he didn't want to have more twists and turns.

And as those Tartars ran closer and closer. It can be seen clearly that although there are more than 50 people, less than 60 people, but this time, five brothers have been killed in their own team, in addition to seven seriously wounded, and there are only thirty-eight people who are fighting hard.

In terms of numbers, the two sides are already the other side dominating the momentum and fighting hard. Your odds are not high.

But......

Xie Ye looked at the seriously injured brothers in the team, how could he give up these brothers? But if he fled with them for his life, ran down wildly, and shook his wounds, he was afraid that even if he returned to Datong Town, few of these brothers would survive.

And the other party is also a man with many horses, which is chased and killed on the way. It's too dangerous to expose your back to the enemy.

The opponent can shoot arrows, or throw knives, broadswords and other weapons, and his life is no longer in his hands, and there are few who can survive at that time, and he is afraid that there are not many of them, and they are still dead.

At this moment, Xie Ye made a decision, he laughed, pointed to the Qing cavalry who were rushing, and said contemptuously: "But dozens of Tartars, how can I be afraid of them if I am in the Tiance Army?" Brothers, copy the guys, and let me kill them! ”

The sentry beside him screamed in unison, waving their weapons together, the sentry commander Ma Ren waved his long knife, and the sentry chief Bai Di hit his shield with an iron hammer, and everyone was in high spirits. They are the Heavenly Army, the lions of a hundred battles, and there is no reason to be afraid of those Tartars.

What if there are many Tatar iron horsemen, even if there are several times more, everyone will dare to fight.

Xie Ye quickly ordered and said, "Big Tou, Erhu, and Xiezi, you stay behind and protect those injured brothers, and the rest of the people follow me!" ”

"All change horses, face the battle!"

Immediately, everyone sprang into action, and they all changed into other horses that were not ridden and had sufficient strength.

In Xie Ye's arrangement, the eldest waiter did not accept the five nights, surrounded the horses in a circle, and guarded the injured brothers who did not accept the night, as well as the remains of those brothers who died in battle, some horses and baggage, etc., and the remaining thirty-three people went out with him.

Almost everyone pulled out the bird guns on the saddle bridge holster to inspect the flint and whether the gunpowder would leak out.

The bird guns used in these sentry posts are specially developed by the R&D Department of the Military Department, and they are all carefully designed, which are much shorter and larger in caliber than those used by the infantry, so that they can use their power to make up for the lack of shooting accuracy on high-speed galloping horses.

It is precisely because of this that in close combat, the sentry of the Tiance Army is extremely sharp, and it can easily break through the multi-layered heavy armor of the Tatar Iron Cavalry, which is not an assassination sneak attack, so it will naturally not give up its strengths and use a bow and crossbow.

Moreover, these custom-made bird flint hair structures are more delicate, and the firing is also very convenient, which is a face-to-face fight, and there is no need to worry about alarming the surroundings. Moreover, the sound of guns sounded here, and maybe the nearby Ming army sentry heard about it and hurried to the rescue.

All of these sentry soldiers were armed with bird guns, and in the old days, their bird guns were wrapped in linen instead of cartridges.

However, later the R&D Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs improved this and increased the caliber of the paper tube, although it takes a lot of effort to stuff the cartridge with the projectile into the barrel, but it also makes the projectile gunpowder tightly stuffed into the gun, and it will not leak out because of the downward movement of the gun or the bump of the horse.

At this moment, each of them was proficient in the use of flintlock birds, and in just a few moments, they checked them one by one and inserted each of them into their holsters again. Some people also found that something was wrong, so they took out the strip and rammed the ammunition inside again.

Soon everyone was ready, all holding guns in one hand and their weapons in the other, and their eyes were fierce.

As the sharp whistle of the Tiance Army, everyone is one of the most ruthless characters, naturally skilled in equestrianism, and with only two legs, they can drive and control the horses, so that their hands can be freed to fight.

Xie Ye also checked his equipment, and soon, he held a gun in his left hand and a horse lance in his right hand.

Historically, the Sentinels had used a wide variety of weapons, both long and short, but many also used horses.

Unlike spears, the lance generally has good elasticity, and when the charge stabs the enemy, the lance will bend upwards to absorb part of the energy of the charge. And the mallet will also bounce back in an instant, bouncing off the enemy's corpse and playing the role of buffer protection.

Otherwise, when the hard spear and carbine charge to attack the enemy, the huge impact force may act on the knight's hand, and if you are not careful, this hand will be useless.

This is the difference between Eastern weapons and Western weapons, which can avoid the one-time use of Western knights who have to discard long weapons and replace them with swords due to the huge impact force.

Of course, the horse lance is so good, it is naturally quite difficult to make it, and the lance rod is all broken bamboo. After rubbing into a small rod, the paint is dried layer by layer, dried and painted, and the paint is dried until it is suitable, and the sword is cut with a sonorous sound, so that the required length is intercepted.

Then the head of the lance is loaded, and the tail is loaded with copper ingots, and the suspension rope is carried from the tail to one-third of the lance body, so that the lance body is balanced, and a horse lance is also produced.

It is precisely because the production of the horse lance is too complicated, so it is not much equipped in the Tiance army, looking at the Ming army, it is generally used by generals from the Jiangmen family, of course, inferior horse lance is not counted.

Of course, the ash rod also has the advantages of a horse lance, but compared to the horse lance, the ash rod is more rare.

Natural ash rods are generally soft and not suitable for gun shafts. Only deliberately planted can be done, and it needs to be straight, without scars and insect eyes, and the degree of preciousness is only available to some high-ranking generals in the Ming army.

At present, the sharp sentry of the Tiance Army has been regarded as the most widely used army of the Ming Dynasty, which is also due to the various military battles established by the Tiance Army in Shanxi and Shandong, which can allow the "luxurious" weapon of the horse lance to be equipped with troops.