Chapter 105: Frustrating the Enemy's Edge
The front of the camp of the mighty army.
The Mongolian iron cavalry was bombarded by the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Chunfeng 253 Light Long Cannon.
The three Niu Lu 900 cavalry lost nearly 200 cavalry, and if it were not for the initial establishment of the mighty army's artillery team, its lack of experience and the insufficient number of artillery, it would have been defeated long ago.
At this time.
The flintlock muskets of more than a hundred firearms men in front had cooled down or had been replaced with new flintlock muskets directly from the baggage soldiers, and once again formed a dense fire, firing a volley while the guns were out of fire.
These Mongol cavalrymen, who had just survived the artillery fire, were suddenly swept away.
Dozens of iron horsemen at the forefront were all overturned to the ground, and the horses lay on the ground bleeding and roaring in pain.
The rest of the Mongol cavalry did not dare to charge anymore, and when they saw that the mighty army in front of them had changed their artillery and used muskets, they retreated after dropping dozens of horses.
Chinaji really didn't dare to rush anymore, there were hundreds of firearms and shield men and spearmen who had not yet joined the battle on the opposite side of the mighty army, and he didn't dare to let his tribal cavalry go to death again, that would be a great loss to his tribe! Once the strength of your own tribe declines, it will be swallowed up by other tribes.
Chinaji is not Chang Adai, and he has no determination to take revenge on this Ming army and fight to the end!
This way.
Seeing his Manchurian iron cavalry, he rushed in fearlessly and disrupted the Ming formation.
Chang Adai showed a hideous smile.
He almost wanted to laugh maniacally.
My Qing warriors are indeed invincible!
I, the Qing Dynasty warriors, are not afraid of anything!
This is the strong confidence formed by Chang Adai and his Manchurian iron cavalry in decades of repeated victories!
These Manchurian horsemen grinned, baring their yellow teeth, holding maces or sledgehammers like fierce beasts rushing out of the Changbai Mountains, ignoring everything in front of them as nothing, charging desperately, their heavy bows and arrows in their hands as skillful as the organs that grew on their bodies!
Even the firearms of the Guards Company kept splattering blood between their charging camps with bullets! But these Manchurian horsemen still rushed forward fearlessly.
This is not the courage of the horseman, according to their years of experience, at this time, whoever is least afraid of death will win, and whoever is the first to collapse psychologically will win first.
Lu Yuan naturally also knew that when the cavalry charged, it would form a great psychological deterrent to the infantry camp.
Therefore, he has also been training the mighty army in this regard, allowing the mighty army to maintain the array in various harsh environments, and even practiced the scene of letting the cavalry attack the infantry.
Therefore, at this time, although people fell from time to time, although the cavalry in front of them was like thunder, at this time, the field soldiers of the guards company of the mighty army were still habitually maintaining the array, which was the habit of the military judge to practice with countless military sticks and countless push-ups, so that these mighty army field soldiers would rather be so frightened that they peed in their pants than dare to move, only looking at the command flag and listening to the sound of the horn.
Although Lu Yuan believed that the mighty army field soldiers trained with modern military training drills could be fearless in the face of danger, he did not dare to be absolutely assured, so he asked Uncle Fei to lead people to smear cement on the four or five steps on the left and right sides last night, and then sprinkle it with water.
On this very cold day.
After the night passed.
A thin layer of ice had frozen over the area, and the cement itself was smooth.
Therefore, as long as a person steps on it, if he runs, he will definitely fall, let alone a war horse that is running rapidly.
Chang Adai had naturally discovered the area, but he didn't expect there to be ice on it.
Because the white color of the cement was almost like a stone, and it also covered the ice on it even more, he thought it was a large stone slab, so he didn't pay attention.
And at this time.
When the Manchurian cavalry rushed in, they skidped directly in this area.
Some of the horses even slipped to the ground because they were running too fast, and they slipped out directly, rushed into front of the camp of the Guards Company, and were directly stabbed by the spearmen.
Seeing this, some Manchurian iron horsemen pulled the reins, and the war horses hurriedly leaned back and slid backwards, directly smashing the cavalry behind.
The Manchurian cavalry camp in this area was in chaos, and countless injuries were inflicted, which also gave the guards and firearms a chance to shoot fully, and also killed many Manchurian cavalrymen.
At this time.
The firearms men in front of the mighty army also relented and began to join the left and right flanks, firing at these Manchurian iron cavalry.
Seeing this, Chang Adai ordered the Manchurian iron cavalry to withdraw back.
After all, he only brought one Manchurian iron cavalry of Niu Lu, and the current losses have been fifty or sixty, which has exceeded the casualty rate of ten percent.
This time, without waiting for Li Guoying's persuasion, Chang Adai was ready to evacuate, but now his main force of Manchurian iron cavalry is still there, so even if he evacuates, there will be no rout.
But.
When Chang Adai gathered back his Manchurian iron cavalry, the cavalry of the mighty army attacked from behind, picked up the steel knife and slashed and killed the camp of the Han Eight Banners, which was already weak.
For a time, the camp of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty was in turmoil.
Li Guoying hurriedly rushed over with the remnants of the Han Eight Banner cavalry, slashed and killed many rebellious soldiers, and only then did order be restored.
But at this time, the cavalry of the mighty army withdrew and rode on their horses and watched from afar.
As soon as Chang Adai gave the order to retreat, the cavalry of the mighty army would rush up and attack again.
Chang Adai originally wanted to order the Mongol Iron Cavalry and the Manchurian Iron Cavalry to destroy the cavalry of the mighty army.
But at this time, the mighty army had already jumped out of cover and took the initiative to attack the Manchurian iron cavalry and the Mongolian iron cavalry.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
The infantry companies of the mighty army formed a mandarin duck phalanx, and the dense spears stretched out like fangs.
The firearms men, who stood behind the fangs, lined up to shoot the horses.
Chang Adai didn't expect that this Ming army would dare to take the initiative to attack him.
Chang Adai was naturally unwilling to be chased by this Ming army, so he ordered the Mongolian iron cavalry to rush up, and the Manchurian iron cavalry acted as a supervising team in the back, so as to disrupt the formation of the mighty army at the expense of the Mongolian iron cavalry.
The dense projectiles formed by the firearms of the mighty army suddenly flipped these rushing iron horses out.
The dense projectiles formed by hundreds of firearms were like a bloody jaw biting through the charging array of the Mongolian iron horseman.
In the first shot, the Mongol cavalry suffered nearly 200 casualties.
The Mongol cavalry had already suffered most of the casualties, and they had no intention of fighting again, so they fled after the first round of shooting.
However, Chang Adai and his Manchurian cavalry quickly hacked down dozens of Mongol cavalry who fled in a rout, forcing Chenaji to charge with his own cavalry.
Then the second round of shooting began.
Dense projectiles brought down these already frightened birds, and the Mongol iron horsemen fell in pieces.
Zhou Laojiu was skillfully shooting at these Mongolian iron horsemen at this time, and for some reason after repelling the first round of Jiannu's attack, he was now much more relaxed.
The speed at which he reloaded and aimed returned to his normal state, and he was able to shoot a cavalryman or horse with a single shot, even if the white smoke from the black powder burned affected his vision.
There is more than one firearm player like Zhou Laojiu, practice makes perfect, and at this moment, the firearm of the mighty army is completing his shooting action like a machine, forming a rain of bullets one after another.
Even if a Mongolian iron cavalry rushed close to the front of the mighty army and was pierced by a spear, Xiong Zhiyuan was like a hunter at this time, staring at the approaching Mongolian iron cavalry seriously, and then stabbed the spear out, sometimes directly pierced the horse and people, of course, the huge inertia almost broke his spear, but fortunately, the spear in his hand was not broken this time.
The Mongol cavalry once again paid the price of nearly 300 cavalry casualties, while only five or six field soldiers were wounded and fell to the ground on the side of the mighty army.
Because of this, the Mongol iron cavalry has completely collapsed, because they are now almost completely annihilated, even if there are Manchurian iron cavalry behind as a supervising team, they only have to run backwards without their lives.