The battle had only just begun, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

The Tatar cavalry will not wait to be bombarded by artillery like the straw men and captive beasts.

In an encounter, when placed on the plains, the Tatar cavalry had an absolute advantage in numbers, speed, and maneuverability, but when it reached the slopes of the cliffs on three sides, the Tatar advantage was less obvious.

The hillside itself can slow down the power of the cavalry impact, plus there are the corpses of soldiers and horses of the two armies on the slope, as well as the boulders thrown down by the Ming officers and soldiers, the potholes blown by the cannonballs, and the arrows that shoot out, the cavalry fighting on this terrain, the advantage has been minimized to the maximum.

But the most important thing is the presence of the Franc cannon.

Shen Xi chose such a condescending position at the top of the hillside, and gave full play to the maximum range and area killing advantages of the Franc machine gun, and launched a fierce attack on the Tatars.

The ground trembled violently as the artillery roared, not to mention the horses and cavalry on horseback in the distance.

"What's going on over there?"

The soldiers of the border army at the head of the Yulin Acropolis initially felt sad for the Ming army with the mentality of watching the excitement, but they felt extremely relieved when they thought that it was the people of the Beijing camp.

You deserve it, let you show off your might, this is God's punishment for you!

When the battle first broke out, it did confirm the thoughts of the border soldiers, these Beijing soldiers were too poor, and before the battle began, almost one-fifth of them had already fled.

After the start of the battle, they still didn't think that the Jingying soldiers had any chance of winning, and you wanted to use the dirt slope to slow down the Tatar cavalry's charge, but although this dirt slope was a little high, the east side was a few hundred paces long, so that the slope was relatively gentle, and the Tatar cavalry had been in battle for a long time, and such a slope accelerated a few times.

More than 1,000 cavalry, you don't need to rush all of them, you only need to go up to 1,200 cavalry to achieve a suppressive victory, this is the absolute control of cavalry on the battlefield in this era.

But when the artillery roared one after another, the border soldiers at the head of the city gradually saw that something was wrong.

Perhaps because of the Tatars' own support, there was a distance between its vanguard and the follow-up Chinese army, and the more than 100 cavalry, if they could rush up the hill in one go, it would be fine, if they failed, it would be difficult for the follow-up soldiers and horses to be replenished at the first time.

"That's more than a hundred Tatar cavalry, covered in heavy armor, those bastards in the Beijing camp, no fun."

The veterans at the head of the city are popularizing knowledge for the new soldiers, "If the shield and spear are combined and ready for battle, there may be a glimmer of life......

But in the end, the situation completely exceeded the expectations of the Yulin border army.

It was originally a skirmish without the slightest suspense, but in the volley of artillery, Shengsheng was pulled back to an inseparable situation.

In the battle of almost a cup of tea, the heavy cavalry of the Tatars, who had more than 100 heads, was blown up so that only a few could rush up the mountain, and then they were attacked by the Beijing camp on the mountain, and for a time they were evenly matched.

"Archer...... What about archers? ”

On the hillside, Song Shu slashed the last Tatar with his saber, and finally managed to withstand a round of attacks.

Song Shu had imagined that he would one day fight with the Mengyuan Tatars when he inherited the deputy Qianhu of the Jingying family, but he never thought that this day would come so quickly, and the feeling of cutting down the legendary unstoppable Tatars to the ground can be described as a cool word?

At this time, his blood is surging, and his pride is also rising!

Before the next wave of Tatars rushed up the mountain, Song Shu didn't even have time to support his helmet and hat, so he hurried to find the "archers", but at this time, the hillside had already become a pot of porridge, who could hear what others said? And in the eyes of those gunners, only the small flag in Shen Xi's hand kept rising and falling.

"Next round...... Put! ”

Shen Xi couldn't remember how many rounds it was, he only knew that his task at this time was to raise and drop the flag, and no matter whether those Beijing soldiers could keep up with the rhythm, as long as he didn't fall, those gunners were confident that they could continue to fill the cannons, load the guns, fire the guns, change the guns, and fill the guns......

Finally, more than 100 Tatar cavalry who rushed up the hill were completely annihilated.

Shen Xi clearly remembered that just now the Tatar slashed at him with a knife, but was blown away by a cannon, life and death were in the blink of an eye, either you died or I died, but this unlucky Tatar was equivalent to acting as a shield, blocking a shot for the clansmen behind him with a fragmented ending.

At the end of a wave of attack and defense, Shen Xi was already exhausted and collapsed, and he needed to hold on to the rocks behind him to barely stand.

"Are you alright, sir?"

Zhang Lao Wu's face was stained with blood, just now Zhang Lao Wu not only completed the task of firing the cannon brilliantly, but also personally cut down a Tatar who rushed to the front of the Franco's machine gun.

"Go on!"

Shen Xi just took a breath and exhaled.

Zhang Lao Wu said: "No, my lord, I have to wait for the artillery to cool down at this time......

The artillery casted before the Ming Dynasty was extremely cumbersome, and after a few shots, it was necessary to use water to cool the barrel to avoid exploding.

There was no way to get water down the hill, so the soldiers took out their water bags and tried to pour water into the artillery.

"You don't need to cool down, you want to die? Stop me! ”

Shen Xi shouted, it seemed useless, he quickly kicked Zhang Lao Wu, and asked Zhang Lao Wu to go over and tell the soldiers not to pour water into the cannon barrel.

You must know that what they are using at the moment is a relatively light Franc cannon, and the iron wall of the cannon barrel itself is not very thick, and when water is poured into it under high temperature and high heat, it is easy to explode the chamber when it is cold and hot, and the probability of a squib has also increased exponentially.

"Ready, fire!"

Shen Xi raised his flag again, and this time they had to face not more than a hundred cavalry, but more than a thousand cavalry swarming below.

However, this time Shen Xi was more confident, because he clearly understood that the Tatars only regarded the Franc cannon as an ordinary crossbow arrow to defend, and dismounted from a distance, and the cavalry turned into infantry, trying to rely on shields and heavy armor to form a defensive formation and then attack the mountain.

Because of the long time of preparation, he gave up the more than 100 Tatar cavalry in front of him who were almost rushing up the mountain, and the Tatar soldiers closest to the top of the mountain were also 400 paces away.

"First Round Preparation ......"

As Shen Xi raised the flag, the gunner skillfully loaded the gun, and at this time, the loaders behind were also busy working, the cannon responsible for adjusting the angle had corrected the angle of the gun, and Zhang Lao and the fifth artilleryman held the torch and fire fold in his hand.

"Put!"

At the sound of an order, nine artillery pieces fired a salvo.

Completely different from what the Tatars expected, the range and angle of fire of the Franc cannon were far beyond their imagination, and the arrows were generally only a little more than a hundred steps to exert their power, even if they were condescending, they could not reach three hundred steps, and at the same time, they were attacked head-on, and the shield was just enough to function.

However, this time, the Franc cannonball crossed the shield array, fell from a high altitude to the ground and exploded, and the explosion was a large area. As a result, the Tatar infantry with shields in front was fine, and the Tatars waiting for the charge in the back were killed, and this volley was down, and dozens of Tatars had already fallen.

"Boom, boom—"

Three more rounds of artillery came down in a row, killing at least one or two hundred Tatars who charged in a dense formation.

Uluru ......

The Tatars felt that if they rushed up the mountain like a snail, they would be used as a live target by the enemy. The Tatars, who were serving as infantry, quickly dispersed, and the shieldmen at the front withdrew, and the Tatar cavalry, who fell behind, stuffed earplugs into the ears of the horses under their crotches, and then rode their horses and charged.

This time, the cavalry charge of the Tatars increased significantly, and when the four or five hundred cavalry formed a scale, the whole mountain trembled for a while, and the Beijing soldiers on the hillside became nervous again.

Just now he was dealing with more than a hundred wounded Tatars, and he almost ended up with the total annihilation, but now there were four or five hundred Tatar cavalry in front of him, and at the same time, those Tatars who had withdrawn were stepping on their horses, ready to attack at any time.

"Next round...... Put! ”

At this time, there were no Tatar cavalry approaching at high speed in Shen Xi's eyes, he only needed to remember the essentials of the movement, control the rhythm of the cannon, and even go to the back, he simply closed his eyes.

Another four or five rounds of artillery bombardment, the sprinting Tatar cavalry already felt frightened, this short four or five rounds of artillery bombardment, again under one or two hundred horses, the screams and wails were endless, coupled with the tragic neighing of the war horses, giving people the illusion that the front was the ghost gate and the palace of the king of Hades.

However, at this time, the Tatars had no way to retreat, and now they had rushed closer to the top of the mountain, more than two hundred steps away, even if they retreated, they would be bombed, it was better to rush to the top of the mountain in one go, and take the heads of those hateful Ming soldiers to pay tribute to the clansmen who died in battle.

But at this time, Song Shu and the others rushed out from the side of the hillside...... Just now, Shen Xi keenly observed that there was a pile of logs piled up in the middle of the mountaintop, which was estimated to be left over from the previous construction of the Yulin Acropolis or the surrounding fortresses, so he ordered Song Shu to carry the logs over, and seeing that the Tatars were about to rush to the front more than a hundred paces, Song Shu and the others pushed the logs down.

As the logs rolled down the hillside, the Tatar cavalry, who had already sprinted sharply, felt that this thing was quite in the way, and some of them successfully avoided the reins of their horses, but more were caught off guard and were knocked over by the falling logs, and even men and horses crashed down the cliff next to them.

At this time, the roar of artillery on the hillside was still not stopped.

A large number of Tatars were killed by shotshots fired from Franco's cannons.

The Tatars who charged were very embarrassed, the short distance of 100 paces seemed to be a moat, and at this time the horn of the withdrawal of troops sounded behind them, and many Tatar cavalry were like a big man, and they turned their horses' heads and galloped, and those Tatars who lost their horses did not have the courage to fight anymore, so they turned around and ran.

Shen Xi glared at Song Shu and shouted, "What are you waiting for, lead the troops to pursue!" ”

"Lord Shen, it's good for the Tatars to escape, what are we chasing after him?" Song Shu looked at Shen Xi as if he were looking at a madman.

Shen Xi was furious: "If you don't chase after them, let them know our determination and courage to fight to the death, why don't you wait for them to turn around and then go up the mountain?" ”

Song Shu thought that this was really the case, but at this time, the soldiers of the Beijing camp were completely confused, and there was no need for Shen Xi and Song Shu to order, there were already soldiers who were chasing after them.

Song Shu had no choice, so he hurriedly mobilized thirty or forty people and rushed down the mountain, but before he could cross the halfway up the hill, he heard a "boom", and the mountain was still firing cannons.

"Damn it, this is to make me wait to die, right?"

Song Shu watched the cannonballs fly over his head, and did not rush forward stupidly, he stopped and looked left and right, but the few soldiers chasing after him couldn't stop and knocked him to the ground, Song Shu rolled over a few times and rolled into a pile of bloody corpses.

"Bad luck! Bad luck! ”

Song Shu got up, it was the soldiers who were in trouble who hurriedly came over to help him, the sound of artillery behind him was still endless, Song Shu waved his hand: "Withdraw!" ”

Yes, I just rushed halfway up the hill and went back the way I came!

The whole battle lasted for almost an hour, and when the Tatars finally withdrew four or five miles away and disappeared behind the wall of Yulin Weinan, the people on the hillside basically had no strength, and the most unbearable were Song Shu and others...... This is not to blame them, mainly rushing down the hill, and it takes too much physical strength to go back and forth.

"My lord, the Tatars have withdrawn!"

Zhang Lao Wu excitedly pointed in the direction where the Tatar cavalry team had disappeared and shouted loudly.

"Nearly half of them were killed or wounded, if Yulinwei's people attacked at this time, it is estimated that they would all have to stay, and it would be strange if they did not retreat...... Pack up and get ready to go to town! Shen Xi drank the order.

Song Shu shouted at Shen Xi is blind: "Feelings, Lord Shen has long known that the Tatars will withdraw, so what are the brothers chasing after you?" ”

Nonsense! If you don't pursue, how will the Tatars know that you have the strength to spare?

If you stick to the mountain and miss even the best opportunity to attack, the Tatars will definitely know that you are already at the end of the crossbow, and it is estimated that you will attack again, and then you will not know who will kill the deer.

Shen Xi didn't care about explaining anything to Song Shu at this time, and said with a straight face: "This is a military order!" ”

In one sentence, Song Shu couldn't refute it.

Indeed, Shen Xi commanded from beginning to end in this battle just now, and it looked disorganized, but he generally did not make any mistakes, if it was him, it is estimated that the big guy would have been broken into pieces by the Tatars at this time.

"Deputy Qianhu, what now?"

Among the soldiers who withdrew from the bottom of the mountain, there were many deserters.

"What are you waiting for, pack your things and go into the city, didn't you hear the order?" Song Shu's temper was not very good at this time, and the anger in his stomach was sprinkled on the soldiers.

Shen Xi is most afraid of the arrival of Tatar reinforcements, after this battle, he has accumulated an evil fire in his heart, and made up his mind, if this trip still can't open the city gate, he will point the artillery at the head of the city, to see what military orders those border army guys dare to use to fool him.

There was another period of chaos, and at this time, the artillery transport team did not care about cleaning up the corpses of the robes, and they all cared about their own lives, at most, they sent the wounded and sick to the carriage, and then loaded the artillery, and hurriedly went down the mountain, all the way to the west gate of Yulin City.

When he arrived at the city gate, before Shen Xi went up and shouted a few words to the city, the city gate automatically opened.

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PS: The first update has arrived!

Today I took my daughter to Chengdu Stomatological Hospital to straighten my teeth, because there are too many people who do orthodontics, the son of heaven went out at eight o'clock in the morning, and arrived home after four o'clock in the afternoon, delaying the update, sorry!

There is one more in the evening, and the outbreak will gradually resume tomorrow, thank you! (To be continued.) )