Chapter 269 The Last Cavalryman
Tian Tianhao had already made up his mind, once the Mongols began to release arrows, he would immediately leave the city, compared with his face, his life was more important, Haomen Town was still waiting for him, once his father was old, the people of Haomen Town would live a better life under his leadership.
But at this moment, he seemed to be pressed by Allah on the shoulder, unable to move a step, raising his eyes to look at the Hui people around him, one by one, they were only trembling, trembling and unable to say a word, only staring at the city......
McLigan, who was supervising the battle at the back of the team, also had a full view of everything under the city, and when the warriors fell from their horses, his head suddenly "buzzed", and a numbness suddenly enveloped his whole body.
His mind was dazed, and he wanted to vent a few words, but his throat seemed to be tightly pinched by an invisible hand, which grew bigger and bigger until it controlled his whole body......
McLigan's whole body trembled involuntarily, as if he had suddenly made a swing, and the soldiers around him were also in a daze, just watching him tremble.
As the battle continued, the Mongol cavalry continued to rush forward according to their inertia, and in order to be emboldened, they fired their bows and arrows at the head of the city, but this time, all the arrows failed to carry their hopesβand at least thirty or forty paces from the wall, the arrows fell.
If you want to shoot an arrow at the head of the city, there is only one way forward.
The bullets of the rifles, however, whistled in the opposite direction, directly piercing the leather armor and skin of the Mongol soldiers, and penetrating the muscles, penetrating deep into the bones.
This was the first time the gunners faced the Mongol cavalry on the battlefield, when the Mongol soldiers fell from their horses, when the horses marched forward on the bodies of their still warm companions, when the horses let out a neighing of despair, when the blood mist in the sky almost rushed to the city, they were also numb, their arms were stiff, their brains were confused, and it was only because of strict military discipline that they had a little faith left.
Mechanically loading, aiming, and shooting in numbness, the Mongol cavalry almost always ran in the direction of the city gate, crowded with people, shoulders and necks staggered, and even the aiming link was omitted.
After another round of firing, the number of soldiers who remained on horseback was less than fifty.
In the face of dense bullets, the Mongols did not break through the death line of a hundred paces, they were all a hundred paces away, and had not yet entered the effective range of the bow and arrow......
The Mongol transports, who had only just entered the effective range of their rifles at four hundred paces, were closer to the battlefield than Meligan, and could see more clearly, and after the initial excitement and anticipation, and the subsequent shock and fear, they were the first to come to their senses.
The cavalry archers who escorted them have already suffered all the casualties, and if they want to move forward, they will be sent to death!
I don't know who it is, suddenly my arm loosened, and I unconsciously broke away from the ladder, and the arms that left the ladder increased dramatically, and the heavy ladder was overwhelmed, and it slammed into the ground with a "snap".
This sound immediately woke up all the people, and together with the other two teams of transport soldiers, they also threw down the ladder, turned around, and ran away......
Zhou Bin's Mongols wanted to run, so they immediately pointed to the city and shouted: "Quick, aim at them, don't let them run!" β
"Bang, bang, bang......"
More than 100 bullets were fired, but the gunners were obviously not well prepared, there was no time to aim, the distance was very far, the accuracy was obviously much worse, only more than a dozen people fell in response, and the big sand turtles were lying on the ground and twitching, writhing a certain organ on the body from time to time.
The rest of the soldiers took advantage of this opportunity and ran a little more, almost out of the extreme range of their rifles.
Zhou Bin could only look at the ocean and sigh, he turned his eyes and saw that there were still dozens of cavalry outside the city, so he could only relieve their anger, he pointed forward with his hand and said in a deep voice: "Don't care about the death line, aim at them, shoot!" β
At this moment, he understood why Li Zicheng wanted to block the Mongol soldiers a hundred paces away, if the Mongols were blocked four hundred paces away, because the speed of the cavalry was much faster than the infantry, if McLigan realized that the situation was wrong and ordered the troops to withdraw, they would easily escape out of the range of the rifles.
The Mongolian cavalry continued to bleed, and they did not die unjustly, at least before they died, they knew the power of the Han firecrackers, and knew that they were killed by the firearms of the Han people, unlike their companions, who died unexplained and blinded!
Several of the cavalrymen were lucky not to fall off their horses, and they had already discovered the escape of the transporters behind them, so they turned their horses' heads and whipped them fiercely, trying to get out of this stone wall that was difficult to favor by immortality as soon as possible.
"Shoot, don't let them go!" Zhou Bin came to his senses completely, there were only a few soldiers, and it was naturally not worth another salvo from the gunners.
"Bang...... Bang bang ......"
Almost every time a gun is fired, a cavalryman will fall from his horse, and if he misses it, he will not be tight, and his companions will make up for it, but it is not possible, and the target can also be locked as a war horse, which is much larger than a soldier and is easier to use as a target for shooting.
People turn on their backs!
Although the number is not large, it is not enough to shock, but in the eyes of the gunners, this may be their last military achievement, once these soldiers escape, the remaining dozens of cavalry with Meligan will definitely not dare to attack the city again.
No need to mobilize, no need to be proud, the gunners aimed their rifles at the remaining few unlucky ghosts one by one, as long as there are cavalry on horseback, there will be gunners to take care of them, Zhou Bin asked to save bullets, but there are not a few Mongolian soldiers who have been shot several times.
There was only one cavalryman left, and in order to avoid the bullets, he desperately lay down, his chest completely attached to the horse's back, however, three gunners had already aimed at him at the same time, and at this time he was only two hundred paces from the city, and was still within the best range of his rifles.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out, the bullet penetrated the tail vertebrae of the Mongolian soldier, and he immediately fell from the horse, but his right foot was still resting in the stirrup, and he was dragged by the war horse for a long time, until the war horse stopped when he found that there was no owner on his back, and then he completely fell down.
He trembled all over, not knowing whether he was heartbroken for his cavalry or afraid of the Xining rifle, but at the moment when the last Mongol soldier fell from his horse, his body shook and spewed out a mouthful of blood mist, and then his body tilted and fell from his horse as if he had been shot.
"King Khan!"
"Khan ......"
The soldiers quickly jumped off their horses, and hurriedly helped McLigan up, and McLigan's drooping eyelids suddenly tightened, and shouted loudly: "Get on the horse, I will personally charge and kill once!" β
"King Khan, you can't go!" A transporter who had just recovered his life from the battlefield knelt in front of Meligan, "King Khan, the Han people's firearms are too sharp, and we can't get close to the city walls at all. β
"Get out, waste, cowardly as a mouse, deserve to feed the wolves!" Madrich was furious, he broke free from his own soldier, flew up with a kick, and kicked the transporter out of two heels, but his body couldn't stand it like this, and with a "wow", a dark red blood arrow was highlighted.
"Don't be angry, go back to the big tent and rest first!" The soldiers couldn't help but say something, and dragged McLigan to the big tent.
"Let go ......"
McLigan only spit out these two words, and suddenly heard the sound of "bang" again, and everyone was stunned, thinking that the fire gun was shooting at them, but they did not suffer any casualties, and their eyes turned to the city, it turned out that the fire gun was shooting at the city, and the target should be the wounded Mongolian soldiers.
Li Zicheng walked out of the strong men and returned to the gunners, "Zhou Bin, don't care about these wounded soldiers, they can't run away, let the auxiliary soldiers practice their hands in a while!" β
"Yes, sir!"
Li Zicheng looked at the wounded soldiers under the city, as well as countless ownerless war horses, and his heart suddenly moved.
"My lord, what should I do, there are still dozens of cavalry in Meligan!" Zhou Bin's mind was full of "total annihilation", and the remaining dozens of wounded soldiers in Meligan were his next target, but they were two miles away from the city, and their rifles couldn't reach them at all.
Li Zicheng looked at the ownerless war horses outside the city and had a plan in his heart, no matter what, he had to force Mai Li Gan out of the east bank of the Cha Na River, so that the soldiers could go out of the city and gather these war horses, otherwise once Mai Li Gan went crazy, the scattered soldiers would be in danger.
Seeing that Meligan had been roughly embraced by his own soldiers and rushed towards the king's tent, he gritted his teeth and said, "All the gunners, line up to go out of the city, maintain a battle formation, and attack the king's tent of Meligan." β
"Yes, my lord, my subordinates will attack!" Zhou Bin was waiting for this sentence, and as soon as Li Zicheng's voice fell, he was already rectifying the soldiers.
The western gate was quickly opened, and the gunners exited the city in turn, completing their formation at the gate, keeping less than two steps away from each other.
In the hands of each soldier, he was holding a rifle, and the bullets had been loaded, ready to pull the trigger and let the bullets fly out of the chamber.
Mai Ligan's own soldiers found the Han soldiers who had left the city and immediately flew to report to Mai Ligan.
"The Han people, who are as weak as sheep, dare to go out of the city to challenge the Mongolian cavalry, when the scimitars in the hands of the warriors are rusty?" As soon as he lay down, he immediately flew up when he heard the news, as fast as a twenty-year-old young man, and under the persuasion of his own soldiers, he still turned over and got on a big dark horse.
"King Khan!"
"King Khan, the firearms of the Han people are too sharp, let's avoid them first, cross the Cha Na River first, and dismantle the pontoon bridge."
"Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood, the Han people said this well, King Khan, bear with it first, Changshengtian will send us shamans, and sooner or later we will take all the Han people into slaves!"
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McLigan has always been arrogant, how can he endure this breath? The Han people hid behind the stone wall and shot, but now they dare to leave the city wall and face the Mongolian cavalry directly, which makes the Mongolian cavalry have no face to see Changshengtian in the future? But the soldiers grabbed the bridle of the horse, and the big black horse could not move at all.
"King Khan!" The pro-soldiers almost knelt.
McLigan looked up to the sky and sighed, and what little reason he had left told him that even if he rushed forward, he could only end up in the battle and die, and hundreds of cavalry were gone, so what was the use of these dozens of cavalry? And he clearly saw just now that the arrows of the warriors did not hit the city, and the range of the Han firearms was even longer.
Now even if you rush up, you will completely become the target of the Han people!
How could the Han people have such fire?
He beat the big black horse so hard that his soldiers thought that Mai Ligan wanted to forcibly break through to fight, and his face turned blue with fright, but he didn't expect Mai Ligan to say in a hoarse voice: "All get on the horse, and immediately retreat to the west bank of the Chauna River!" β
When Li Zicheng saw the Mongols getting on their horses one after another, he knew that Mai Ligan wanted to escape, and he immediately said to the herald soldiers beside him: "Raise the flag and let Liu Yunshui's department attack immediately!" β