Chapter 295: Victory in the First Battle (4)
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
In the face of the desperate charge of the Wara Iron Cavalry, the birds and gunners of each battalion were still in danger, calmly taking turns firing and shooting, and the fierce firepower continued to sweep across the Wara Iron Cavalry, leaving a piece of corpses of men and horses in front of the Ming army's soldiers!
At this time, the vanguard officer of Warat, Bahri, had a pale face, looked at the fierce battle ahead, the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily, and then he sent another 5,000 Warat iron cavalry, and at the same time ordered the next wave of 5,000 iron cavalry to stand by.
In Bahri's opinion, although the Ming army has sharp firearms, it is impossible to withstand the charge of the Warat Iron Cavalry army, at most it is just to pay some price!
Soon, the 5,000 fresh troops of Warat rushed forward with a roar, and in the blink of an eye, they joined the battle group, and rushed forward together with the remaining two or three thousand Warat soldiers and horses on the battlefield.
The Warat cavalry rushed up in one go, and many of them had to start firing arrows from a hundred or seventy-eight paces away, or throwing javelin axes with great force, otherwise if they got closer, these Warat cavalry would have been killed by the sharp firearms of the Ming army.
In this way, the power of the cavalry of the Warat army is naturally greatly weakened, after all, the range of the horse bow is not far, even if the arrow is shot from a hundred paces away with the horsepower, it is already the end of the strong crossbow in front of the car formation, and the same is true for the javelin axe, the ideal throwing distance of this kind of weapon is within thirty steps.
"Put!"
Chang Hongdao, the right battalion of the Yushan Town Guard, roared loudly, which can be described as crazy, although Chang Hongdao is kind and amiable on weekdays, and even a little elegant, but the battle is by no means ambiguous.
At this time, the thousand general Chang Hongdao and the Yanzhou Mansion is the barracks of the thousand general Meng Fanchen jointly held the right flank of the defensive line, there are two or three thousand bird guns in the two departments, these bird guns are divided into three columns to the front of the desperate bombardment, each round of the row of guns hit, dozens of steps in front of the people are a piece of people called horse neighing, there are constantly Warat cavalry fall under the horse, or the war horse painfully fell to the ground, many horses were shot, the huge pain made them jump wildly and rampage, and immediately knocked the surrounding Warat cavalry to the ground, stirring up greater chaos in front of the formation.
Seeing this, Chang Hongdao laughed loudly, at this time, the Warat Iron Cavalry in front of him had no cavalry shooting, and it was impossible for them to have many cavalry rushing up in each wave, even if some of their own bird guns did not load the fixed paper tube ammunition due to nervousness, or the bird guns could not bombard for the time being, but at least ninety percent of the fire salvo each time still made those Tartar soldiers miserable, and they could not rush within fifty steps in front of the Ming army.
The officers and men of each battalion fought hard to meet the battle, row after row of bird-gunners exchanged shots, and the bird-gunners in the front row took advantage of the cover of the chariot to release the bird-guns in their hands, and hurriedly retreated to reload their ammunition, and the second row continued to come forward to bombard.
Under the tense battle, the officers and men could not hear the orders of the officers, but relied on instinct and strict drills in normal times to shoot constantly. Stand back, then step forward again.
With the second wave of 5,000 troops in Warat entering the battle, the battle between the two sides has entered a white heat at this time!
The sound of the guns of the battalions and platoons was not interrupted, and when more than 10,000 birds and gunners were shooting, there were also some arrows and axes of the Warat Iron Cavalry flying and constantly falling in the Ming army's formation.
But fortunately, all the soldiers are wearing eight-petal hats and iron-pointed helmets, and there are two crotch armor and cotton armor on their bodies to protect, this kind of diffuse arrows at the end of the recommended crossbow, as long as they are not hit, it doesn't hurt to insert a few arrows into their bodies, and those flying axes hit the soldiers, at most it hurts, leaving a few bruises on the body, and it can't hurt the lives of the soldiers.
However, there are still some unlucky bird guns, whose arms and legs were shot by Tartar arrows, and then they were snatched by the doctors who had already prepared them, and they were sent to the Central Military Department for treatment.
Of course, there are also some unlucky brothers who were hit by the Tartar javelin and throwing axe, directly injured the neck, chest and other vital parts, and fell to the ground unwillingly.
At this time, watching the bird gunner brothers in front of the formation were very happy, and the long knife men who lined up neatly at the back of the car formation were a little bored, watching them fight with envy, and their hearts were all eager.
The mine-throwers of each battalion are better, and they can also throw sky-shaking thunders at the rushing Waratiron cavalry from time to time to assist the bird-gunners in killing and wounding the enemy's troops.
Liu Juntao stood on the high platform and paid close attention to the development of the battle situation, and his high command platform and the pole car stood out as conspicuous as a flock of chickens in the car array, whether it was on the protective signs around the high platform or on the high pole car fight. They are all densely packed with arrows, but most of them are not deep, after all, at such a long distance, the arrows of the Tartar are limited, and Liu Juntao is not worried about this.
Of course, Liu Juntao and the standard-bearer on the Diao battle would not care about these floating arrows, and at this time, there was no suspense about the battle situation in front of the car formation, and the soldiers of each battalion almost pressed the Wara Iron Cavalry to beat hard.
Therefore, Liu Juntao set his eyes on the left and right sides of the car array.
At this time, there were countless Warat iron horsemen who gave up the frontal onslaught, and turned around the car formation to release arrows, raising a large stream of smoke and dust, the two wings of the car formation were not too far apart, these dense Warat iron horses ran back and forth, peeking at the weaknesses of the Ming army's car formation, they took the opportunity to rush in.
On the left side of the defensive vehicle formation were the front battalion and the left battalion of the Yushan Town Guard, under the command of the commander Zhang Xiaojun and the commander Chen Ziping, the soldiers of the two battalions continued to shoot, directly blocking the range within 100 steps in front of the formation.
At the same time, Zhang Xiaojun and Chen Ziping both gathered their respective long swordsmen and formed a defensive line on the left flank of the chariot formation to prevent the Warat Iron Cavalry from bypassing the chariot formation and rushing into the central military headquarters.
Moreover, the hundreds of horses attached to the two battalions are also gathered together, and as long as the Warat Iron Cavalry comes around, they will meet and fight with them!
This is the good thing about the field vehicle formation, the strength and firepower of each battalion can be evenly distributed, and even if it is the two wings of the vehicle formation, troops and horses can be quickly mobilized for deployment.
Moreover, if the firepower and strength on the two wings of the vehicle formation are not enough, the more than 4,000 soldiers of the Yanzhou Mansion Strange Barracks led by Liu Juntao can also quickly meet the battle, relying on the favorable terrain for fierce battles.
Really!
The Vara Iron Cavalry, which was just about to rush around the left side of the Ming Army, was stopped, and the horse teams of the two battalions of Zhang Xiaojun and Chen Ziping collided head-on, and immediately stopped more than 2,000 Vara Iron Cavalry, and the two sides immediately started a fierce battle.
At this time, in the past two days, the Dovarat Iron Cavalry had lost the speed of the charge, and was immediately surrounded by more than 800 long swordsmen and more than 800 baggage soldiers of the two battalions that came later, together with hundreds of Ming Army Iron Cavalry, to encircle and annihilate more than 2,000 Vara Iron Cavalry!
After only a quarter of an hour, the two kilowatts of iron cavalry were routed, and the remnants of thousands of kilowatts of soldiers and horses fled to the rear.
Zhang Xiaojun and Chen Ziping laughed when they saw this, and they concentrated on commanding the officers and men of each battalion to meet the main army of Warat in front.
At this time, the vanguard officer of Warat, Bahri, was horrified in his heart, this time he went south to attack the Ming Battle, and this operation was the most cowardly, compared to the Ming army, their fierce and unparalleled cavalry and archery skills had no room for play in front of these Ming troops.
The Warat army could not rush within fifty steps in front of the Ming army, and the firepower of Liu Juntao's troops was so fierce that these Tartars were all chilled.
Liu Juntao's excellent bird guns can break armor in 100 steps, 70 or 80 steps, can break several heavy armor, these Tartars riding on high horses, is equivalent to a big target, every time the opposite row of guns sounded, the charging Warat cavalry is one by one rolling screaming and falling to the ground.
Seeing that there are fewer and fewer companions in front of and behind him, anyone will be cold and afraid, not to mention that after paying such a huge price, they can't even touch the face of their opponents, and all kinds of powerless feelings are surging in the hearts of these Warat Knights.
Liu Juntao stood on the high platform and looked from afar, and said with a smile to Bai Yuxing and Tao Jixin, who were eager to try: "Haha! It looks like the Tartars are running out of action! ”