Chapter Seventy-Six: Rookie
Siltai looked at the scene in front of him, his head "Buzz! He suddenly became the boss, and this hellish scene made him, a Jurchen with rich combat experience, stunned.
And the fireballs that rolled down the hillside smashed into his team, and the scorching fireballs caused the Jurchens to suffer heavy losses.
Seeing his armor soldiers tormenting in the flames, Siertai knew that he couldn't wait any longer, so he drew his saber and pointed forward, and ordered loudly: "Rush! ”
No matter what terrible things awaited him ahead, Syltai had to rush over. He couldn't watch his men burn to death in vain.
Even if there is an ambush of the Ming army ahead, it is better than being burned to death like now. He led the way towards the dusty purgatory, the ground uneven from the explosives.
Many war horses fell to the ground as they ran, throwing the Jurchens on their backs far away. However, the war horses behind did not have the slightest intention of stopping, and continued to move forward on the corpses of their companions.
Soon the fallen horses and Jurchens became a mess of meat and became a part of the land.
Siltai was fortunate that his horse was unaffected by the ground and quickly rushed through the purgatory.
When his war horse rushed out of the dusty smoke area, he suddenly found that a thousand-strong Ming army had appeared in front of him.
Seeing these Ming troops, Siltai's heart settled down. In his eyes, the Ming army was just a group of lambs to be slaughtered, and there were too many Ming soldiers on the opposite side, more than 600 people.
In Siltai's eyes, these firecrackers were the waste of waste, and they were useless except for being able to put two guns out of range to strengthen the Ming army.
He stopped his horse and looked back at the armor soldiers who were following him. After counting the soldiers who rushed out of Shangguangou, Syltai's eyes were red.
It was the fire just now, and the explosion killed nearly 300 Jurchen warriors. It was a soldier who was just a bull, and Siltai's heart was dripping blood.
At this moment, he was extremely remorseful, if he had listened to his cronie Goshha's words, such a thing would not have happened for a night in the new golden city.
He regrets it here, and Zhang Dou is still depressed over there!
Since Xu Lianshan rescued Liu Xingren in Beixinkou, he learned of Jinzhou's plan to attack Changsheng Island, and also knew that the Jurchens had discovered his traces of Zhang Dou.
The old slave Nurhachi already hated Zhang Dou to the core, and he would never let go of Zhang Dou, let alone Changsheng Island.
Therefore, Changsheng Island may face endless attacks in the future, in order to allow the recruits under his command to grow up quickly, so that this group of rookies can adapt to the battlefield faster.
Zhang Dou decided to take the initiative and first eliminate Siltai's Jurchens. The Jurchens are indeed brave and daring to fight, but they also have a fatal weakness. That is, the number of people is too small, and now Nurhachi's eight banners together are only more than 60,000.
In that battle, Hunhe defeated one-third of the Jurchens' troops, and the current Eight Banners armor soldiers are only 40,000. They had already had to go deep into the north to capture the Jurchens to replenish the losses of the armor soldiers, and now each armor soldier was invaluable to the Jurchens.
If you can eliminate the Jurtai, you will definitely be able to give Nurhachi a huge shock. Let him no longer dare to easily send armor soldiers to Immortal Island to die, and he will not have to deal with the endless raids.
After learning about Siltai's marching route from Liu Xingren, Zhang Dou decided to ambush Siltai's troops at Shangguangou.
But the plan did not change quickly, and Siltai's did not rest in Xinjin. just rushed towards Shangguangou, which was in a hurry to Zhang Dou, who was arranging in Shangguangou.
If Syltai had rushed forward like this, the planned ambush would have become an encounter.
1,000 infantry against 800 cavalry, even if Zhang Dou can win, it will be a crushing victory. Just when he was anxious, the Jurchens actually dismounted and rested.
This coke broke Zhang Dou, who arranged the trap, and while he sent people to pay attention to the movements of the Jurchens, he stepped up the arrangement of the ambush.
When Syltai noticed something, Zhang Dou knew that he couldn't wait, and decisively ordered an attack.
Looking at the more than 500 Jurchen armor soldiers in front of him, Zhang Dou began to sweat for the recruits under his command. The officers above the rank of captain in this team are all veterans of the battle of Hunhe, and the rest are recruits who have been trained for two months.
In order to ambush Sirtai this time, Zhang Dou did not carry artillery in a hurry, can they withstand the murderous Jurchens?
Xu Lianshan continued to talk nonsense as always, and he stood in the front row of the line. While looking at the Jurchen cavalry, he boasted to his companions, "Brothers! Did you see Jiannu on the other side? Just like us, it's one head and two legs. Last time, Beixinkou Lao Tzu blew up that Jiannu's head with a bang, and that shot was so cool! You tell you......"
He's talking in the vernacular! was kicked on the buttocks, and Xu Lianshan was just about to turn around and scold, when he saw a familiar figure.
He immediately put on a flattering smile: "Uncle Ma is here!" Hello Uncle Ma! Uncle Ma walks slowly! Uncle Ma doesn't send it! ”
Ma Bao didn't have any way to deal with Xu Lianshan's words, he could only say: "The adults are in the back to press you down, Lao Tzu told you, if you wait for the war to lose people to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will kick your ass!" ”
With Xu Lianshan, a living treasure, the firecrackers in the front row are not as nervous as they were at the beginning. They were all checking their firearms and not looking at the Jurchens opposite.
At this time, a loud copper whistle sounded in the Changxing army, and immediately all the soldiers began to charge the fire guns.
They usually train many times, and their extremely skilled charging movements are almost forgotten at this moment. Many people are looking at their own captains with their eyes, mechanically repeating the charging action that has been practiced countless times.
Normally, it only takes more than 20 seconds to reload, but this time it took a full one minute to reload.
Fortunately, the Jurchens did not attack, otherwise half of the fire guns of the Changxing Army would have been blessed by the Buddha.
The Jurchens on the opposite side finally moved, and they formed a tight formation and rushed towards the Changxing army. These Jurchens rode on horses, brandished broadswords, let out a strange scream from their mouths, and rushed towards the array of the Changxing army without stopping.
When he entered the distance of 100 paces, Syltai saw the frightened faces of the Ming soldiers in the front row, and his heart smiled.
The Ming army on the opposite side turned out to be a group of rookie recruits, and the generals of this Ming army were too big. He dared to use more than a thousand recruits to block himself, he really didn't know whether he was alive or dead.
He knew that as long as he charged harder, the recruits would nervously fire first. As long as the fire gun is fired, it will become a burning stick, which is not as good as a steel knife!
Ma Hu looked at the nervous recruits around him, listening to their heavy breathing, and he knew that these recruits were extremely nervous.
As long as one person fires, there will be a random fight. He shouted loudly in the front row, "Steady! Steady! Attention of Dutemu! If you don't hear the order, you will be decapitated! It's all steady! ”
His shout alerted the recruits, "Yes! In wartime, you will be beheaded if you do not have an order to fire, and in peacetime training, you will be whipped 30 times if you do not have an order to fire. Ma Hu's reminder finally reminded the rookies of this military regulation that had been reminded countless times by the commander.
Looking at Jiannu who was getting closer and closer, their hearts also rose to their throats. Everyone closed their mouths tightly, for fear that a mouth and heart would jump out of their mouth.
When Siltai's horse team rushed to 80 paces of the Ming army, he found that the Ming army did not beat the fire as usual. He also put away the contempt just now, it seems that this Ming army is usually trained well, and he is not frightened into firecrackers.
But it doesn't matter, as long as he leads the team to rush forward in hand-to-hand combat, the Ming army will definitely collapse. At that time, he could use his saber to drive the sheep behind the Ming army, and then it was his turn to kill the Quartet.
Syltai shouted on his horse, and all the Jurchens put away their sabers and took out their bows and arrows in unison. Syltai was going to shoot a round of feathered arrows at a distance of 50 paces, and he believed that this group of Ming recruits would be disrupted by their tricky archery techniques, so that he could break through the Ming army's array with fewer casualties.
When the Jurchens were only 60 steps away from the Changxing army, Ma Bao decisively gave the order to open fire.
In an instant, white smoke rose in front of the Ming army, and the whistling lead bullets shot towards the Jurchen cavalry. Some of the nervous soldiers forgot to pull out the guns, and some even loaded double gunpowder.
Fortunately, the quality of the guns produced by the new process is very good, otherwise this round of shooting would have caused heavy casualties to the Changxing army.