Chapter 499: Bloody Bath in the Mongolian Steppe (4)

At night, under the illumination of the moonlight, the Horqin tribe seemed to be shrouded in a haze, and it looked quite peaceful.

On the grassland in the southwest, countless ghost-like figures rode on war horses and slowly approached the Horqin Division.

A grassland slope hundreds of meters away from Horqin, where several Horqin cavalry stood guard.

The steppe is always full of dangers, and although Horqin is the largest tribe in Mongolia, it is necessary to prevent people from sneaking up on it at night.

"Hey, what's that!" A sentry Korqin cavalry watched in horror as countless ghostly figures slowly appeared on the horizon in front of him, it seemed that there were no less than 10,000 people, no! Not less than tens of thousands!

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Several Korqin cavalrymen were chilled all over, and as they rode their horses towards the tribe, they neighed and shouted, hoping to prepare the tribe's cavalry before the enemy arrived.

On the distant horizon, watching the Mongols on the high slope running towards the tribe, Yan Yingyuan knew that the Horqin Mongols had seen them.

Immediately did not hide it, and waved the army to kill!

"Kill!"

"Boom"

The 42,000 Ming army mixed cavalry rushed to the Horqin tribe thousands of kilometers away.

The war horses neighed, there was a great chaos in the Horqin tribe, the enemy attacked, all the Horqin soldiers rushed out of the tent, and boarded their horses tied to the door of the tent nearby, holding scimitars, and gathered in the direction of the enemy's attack.

It is worthy of living in the Mongolian steppe, and is naturally prepared to guard against the enemy's sneak attack, and soon, the Horqin Mongols gathered nearly 10,000 cavalry.

"Kill" a Mongol general to lead the team, and lead the nearly 10,000 cavalry to block first, as long as it can be blocked for a moment, all the cavalry of the tribe can be gathered, and there is no need to be afraid of the enemy at that time.

Just when the Horqin cavalry, which had gathered nearly 10,000 urgently, had just rushed to the gate of the tribe, Yan Yingyuan and the other Ming troops had already killed them at a distance of only less than two hundred meters.

"All Ying Long Army, Ready"

Yan Yingyuan roared, and he also raised his gun to aim at the nearly 10,000 Horqin Mongolian cavalry that rushed in, he also knew that as long as he crushed the nearly 10,000 cavalry in front of him and killed the Horqin tribe before Horqin gathered all the cavalry, their sneak attack could be regarded as a success, and they could take the initiative in the next big battle.

"Fire!" While Yan Yingyuan gave the order to fire, he also pulled the trigger himself.

"Bang bang bang" dense gunfire, nearly 10,000 Horqin cavalry rushing in front of the front were hit by the dense bullets and turned people on their backs, suffering heavy casualties, and a large number of Horqin Mongols were shot and fell from their horses.

After firing a shot, Ying Longjun quickly took out the bullet from the bullet bag and skillfully loaded it quickly.

When the Mongols rushed to a distance of 100 meters, Ying Longjun had already finished loading for the second time.

"Fire!"

"Bang bang bang" was another round of intensive shooting, and countless rushing Horqin cavalry fell from their horses, and only two rounds of shooting caused more than 2,000 casualties to nearly 10,000 Horqin Mongolian cavalry.

This is not over, Ying Longjun has another killer feature.

"Grenade ready!" While yelling and ordering, Yan Yingyuan himself took out a grenade.

Seeing that the Mongols had rushed to a distance of seventy meters, Yan Yingyuan did not hesitate to pull the grenade in his hand and at the same time ordered the bomb to be dropped.

"Still!" More than three hundred grenades were thrown out at once.

At the moment when the grenade landed, the Mongols, who had still 70 meters, rushed to within 40 meters, just enough to rush into the distance that the grenade still gained.

"Boom boom" There was a violent explosion, three hundred grenades exploded at the same time, and in the night, the fire from the explosion illuminated the land for several miles.

These Horqin Mongols, who had already set up their bows and were ready to shoot arrows, were enveloped by the explosion before they could shoot the arrows in their hands, and lost the opportunity to shoot arrows.

Severed limbs, broken arms, blood mist and broken flesh, and an area where the grenade exploded was like a Shura field, blood-stained grassland, nearly a thousand Horqin Mongols were killed and injured, and the Horqin Mongols behind were all stupid, subconsciously strangled the reins in their hands, stopped the charge, and looked at the area baptized by the grenade in front of them in horror.

"Put away the gun!"

"Draw your sword!"

"Kill" Yan Yingyuan put away the firing pistol in his hand, and instead pulled out the steel knife on the side of the horse's belly and began to charge.

The soldiers of the Ying Long Army did the same, quickly put away the muskets in their hands, and instead pulled out the steel knives on the side of the horse's belly and rushed towards the Horqin Mongol cavalry in front of them, who were already frightened.

In face-to-face melee combat, steel knives are definitely better than bayonets.

Before setting out on the expedition, Zhu Cijiao and Li Yan took this into account and collected enough steel knives from the surrendered army to match each of the soldiers of the Yinglong Army on the expedition.

"Kill" followed by Ying Longjun, and the red lady also shouted, and led the 28,000 ordinary Ming army mixed cavalry under her command to follow Yan Yingyuan and other Ying Long troops to charge.

Just now, the record of two rounds of gunfire and one round of grenades of the Ying Long Army made the blood of the 28,000 ordinary Ming cavalry boil at the same time, but also faintly dissatisfied, no, not only at present, they have always been dissatisfied with the Ying Long Army, feeling that the Ying Long Army is relying on the powerful firearms in their hands to make a name for themselves in the previous wars, and now, the Ying Long Army put away the gun in his hand, that is the same as them, only a steel knife in his hand, they don't believe that they are not as good as Ying Longjun.

With such an unconvincing idea, more than half of the 28,000 mixed cavalry, composed of the original surrendered army, were full of hard work and morale.

"Boom!"

More than 40,000 mixed cavalry of the Ming army crashed into the camp of the Horqin Mongol cavalry in front of them, and because they were frightened by the shooting and explosion, these Horqin Mongolian cavalry did not react until the mixed cavalry of the Ming army rushed to them and slashed at them with knives, and they waved their scimitars to resist.

Unfortunately, the Horqin Mongols had lost the opportunity and there was no room for recovery.

"Boom! Boom! "Fierce fighting, the sound of a large number of weapons clashing.

"Poof! Burst! Poof" Countless Horqin Mongols were beheaded under their horses, suffering heavy casualties.

This group of Horqin Mongol cavalry who came to stop was originally less than 10,000 people, and after being killed and wounded by two rounds of gunfire and a round of grenades by the Ying Long army, nearly 3,000 people were killed, and there were less than 7,000 people, and they were all frightened, and they were killed by the mixed cavalry of the Ming army in an instant, and they were defeated and retreated.

Soon, as the first wave of Ying Dragon Army cavalry broke through the defenses of these Horqin Mongols, they took the lead in attacking the Horqin tribe behind them.

"Kill" more Ying Long Army and Red Lady and other ordinary Ming troops entered the Horqin tribe, the entire Horqin tribe was in chaos, blood and fire shrouded the entire Horqin tribe, and the most fierce battle really began!