Chapter 71: Ambushes Everywhere

At first, everyone was quite vigilant, but after a day of marching, they relaxed, and this did not explore the Malay newspaper that a small group of village soldiers was found in front, and Bu Ning's first reaction was that the soldiers below were plundering the township again, and immediately left the infantry to the deputy general, and personally led the cavalry around him to the front.

From a distance, I saw that the Black Tiger of the General Banner was leading his troops to chase more than ten villagers, everyone was riding on horses, chasing while releasing arrows, and there were more than ten locals in front, some of them ran away and did not take the path to escape, and some of them pushed down the big stones on the side of the road, or shot arrows to fight back.

Seeing Bu Ning coming, the black tiger panted, and flatly denied that he had plundered the township, everyone was walking on the road, and these villagers actually set up roadblocks to prevent everyone from passing.

Unlike other places, northern Sichuan is hilly except for Pingba, especially in many hilly areas, the roads are narrow, and the roads are either paddy fields or cliffs next to the roads, but it is difficult to give full play to the advantages of rapid mobility.

Although everyone chased for two or three miles, the other party was as light as a swallow and walked like a fly on this official road, and although his cavalry chased all the way, the other party often destroyed the road, so that the war horse fell and injured two horses.

When Bu Ning heard this, he pulled out his sword and said to everyone: "Brothers, this Yang Lin probably wants to use this to desperately hinder the speed of our army's march, right?"

Since Yang Lin is like this, we can't do what he wants, and the rear team must be fast, and everyone must rush to Pengzhou City before dark. ”

As soon as everyone heard the loud applause, Heihu and others led a squad of cavalry to chase in front, and Bu Ning led a large team to advance all the way in the back.

Seeing that the other party was panicked, Bu Ning shouted loudly and urged everyone to speed up, and chased after him all the way for about a mile, and Bu Ning found that the war horse under his crotch suddenly stopped and did not go forward.

The road in the canyon is narrow, and on one side of the official road is paddy fields, and on the ridges of the fields are some straw that has not yet been cleaned up, and on the other side is barren grassland, which is full of strange rocks.

The peaks on both sides of the road are also quite steep, making for a good ambush.

Bu Ning raised his arms and was about to give the order to retreat, but it was too late now, seeing that the Dashun army was preparing to flee, the Pengzhou soldiers who were lying in ambush on both sides launched an attack.

The loudest is the fireball, one by one the fireballs roll down from the mountain, which can be soaked in tung oil, as soon as the fire burns, rolling down the mountain, some of the diameter is as big as two people hugging each other, sparks are everywhere, igniting the weeds on the side of the road, and the straw in the distance.

In addition to fireballs, the biggest threats are bird guns, bows, and thunderbolts.

The mountain road is narrow, and the Pengzhou soldiers can not only stand on the mountainside and shoot arrows, but also throw earth-shaking thunder to their heart's content, and each squadron (general flag) has selected three or five grenadiers who throw particularly far and throw them very far, just like folk children throw firecrackers (this is an extra-large firecracker that can easily kill several people) and throw it far away, either hitting the horses or falling on the side.

At first, everyone didn't pay much attention to it, but who knew that the sudden explosion, the iron pieces were blown and flew everywhere, killing people for several meters around, and even horses were blown to the ground.

Everyone was in a mess, everyone fought their horses and fled, but there were fireballs everywhere, everyone had to dodge the fireballs, and beware of the birds, bows and crossbows shot down from the mountains, and beware of the earth-shattering thunder thrown down.

All of a sudden, flames were rolling in the half-mile-long ravine, and the flames were soaring into the sky, and explosions were heard one after another.

He had just dodged the fireball that was burning from his knees next to him, and he didn't watch out for the fireball in front of him, he was controlling his horse, and he didn't guard against the bow and crossbow arrows that came down from the mountain.

In the end, many of the horses were frightened and did not listen to the master's command at all, and ran wildly.

What's even worse is the Pengzhou soldiers on both sides, who continue to fight out of the ravines on both sides, cut off everyone's way, and then besiege the panicked Dashun cavalry.

The panicked cavalry no longer had the majesty of fighting on the plains in the past, and were killed and retreated, and the whole ravine shouted and killed one after another, and the Dashun army was in chaos.

Bu Ning beat his horse and galloped all the way, and finally escaped from the ravine after half a day's effort, but he saw that there were only more than ten horses around him, and there were more than 200 people blocking his way in front of him.

Now that most of the cavalry has been annihilated, Bu Ning is quite annoyed, regardless of fatigue, he led the only dozen knights around him to rush towards the other side, in a vain attempt to break up the opponent's formation and then join the infantry to take revenge.

Yang Wei first wanted to rely on the rain of arrows to repel the opponent, but the opponent desperately charged forward regardless of the dense rain of arrows, and seeing the other party rushing closer, he hurriedly snatched a wolf whisk from the hands of the soldiers around him, and raised a wolf whisk two and a half feet long and stabbed it over.

The rider hurriedly tightened the reins of the horse, and the whole war horse also raised its front legs and made a long neighing sound, and stopped temporarily.

The two sides fought together, Pengzhou soldiers were numerous, archers shot arrows in the distance, bird gunners released guns in the distance, Bu Ning and others were quite heroic, everyone rushed inside regardless of the wolf whire's obstruction and hit the horse, just dodged the wolf whi, but immediately blocked by the spearmen and the boring palladium hands.

With a spear on horseback to block the opponent's weapon, the horse finally rushed to the side of the opponent's infantry, and was about to swing the saber to cut down, but was blocked by the rattan player.

During this period, although soldiers and horses continued to escape from the fire and kill them, the Pengzhou soldiers were everywhere, they were blocked at the foot of the ditch, and the cavalry could not be used at all.

Everyone was in a mess, often surrounded by infantry several times their size, and it was difficult to kill each other, and what was worse was the bumpy road, the paddy fields next to the road, and the narrow ridges.

Some horses fell into the paddy fields and were captured alive by the other party, some horses fell because of the rough roads, and more were cut off by the other side and fell off the horse.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, storytelling was very popular, whether it was "The Legend of the Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", "Water Margin", or "The Legend of Yue", there were examples of heroes cutting off horses' legs, and I don't know who shouted loudly, these Pengzhou soldiers desperately cut down the horse's legs as long as they saw the opportunity.

Palladium boring can not only be used as a big stick to hit the horse's leg and neck, but its front horizontal spur can also cut the horse's leg.

Some spears are deliberately made in the shape of hook and sickle spears, and they are stabbed at the horse's leg from a distance, and as long as they hit with one blow, the war horse will definitely be injured.

In addition, the most annoying thing is that those men with sabers suddenly rushed over, and the horse's legs were cut into two without paying attention.

Bu Ning was wearing two layers of armor, ordinary weapons were invulnerable, and the war horse under his crotch was extremely vigorous, rushing left and right, constantly rushing to kill, in a vain attempt to break out of the encirclement.

But the riders around him were constantly cut off their horses, and the Pengzhou soldiers gathered more and more, and when they were desperate, they saw the infantry of the rear army from a distance, and took advantage of the opponent's division of troops to obstruct it.

Looking at Bu Ning, whose beard was burned and his helmet had fallen off, the soldiers of the Dashun army were frightened one by one, and some of them even persuaded them to retreat.

Although he also knew that the big thing was bad and the defeat was decided, what Bu Ning was thinking about was the more than 100 cavalry under his command, after being burned and ambushed by the other party, there were still dozens of them no matter what, as a general, he didn't want to give up his efforts.

In ancient times, the cavalry was the king of land warfare, especially in the Central Plains Dynasty, the cavalry was undoubtedly the elite of the elite, and in the past, Bu Ning relied on these more than 100 cavalry to settle down in Luo Dai.

Bu Ning was reluctant to save his cavalry, while his soldiers wanted to flee for their lives, and the morale was uneven, and his combat effectiveness had declined.