Chapter 234: The Rock of the Great Stream River (2)
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He had originally planned to use five thousand cavalry to eat the three hundred Flying Tiger gunners on the opposite side. But half an hour passed, and without even touching the hair of the Flying Tiger Army, nearly a thousand cavalry were lost! The combat power of the Flying Tiger Army is really terrifying!
Bypass the Flying Tiger Arms Commander in front of you and pursue the grain delivery team? No! A self-proclaimed steppe warrior, Jena would never back down from a fifth casualty!
Zhena ordered loudly: "The front army retreats!" Redeploy the charge! ”
The Tatar messengers fired two ringing arrows from the retreat.
Zhena divided the remaining 4,000 cavalry into two teams and no longer made a frontal charge. He ordered his commander to charge from the left flank with 2,000 cavalry, while he himself led the remaining 2,000 cavalry to attack from the right flank. In this way, you can maximize the deployment of troops!
Two Tatar cavalry took positions and launched a charge.
Seeing this, Zhao Laogen ordered: "Change the formation!" ”
The three hundred musketeers were divided into four teams of seventy. Every two teams defend in one direction and defend in a triangle.
"Paper shell bullets are loaded! Put! ”
The musketeers fired their guns at the Tatar cavalry charging in both directions.
Jena seemed to be enraged by the Flying Tiger Arms. As the commander of this cavalry, he actually rushed to the front.
A gun struck him in the right shoulder, and he continued to charge, despite the pain.
The Musketeers will not be soft on the barbarian cavalry. They knew how these barbarians treated the people of Datongwei.
The firecrackers are like killing machines. Mechanical loading, firing, loading, firing. Four or five rounds of guns knocked down hundreds of cavalry.
"Ready! Grenade ready! ”
Zhao Laogen confidently issued orders!
"Boom, boom, boom!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
Once again, the Tiger Bolt and the Crossbow Bolt formed a line of defense against death.
The Tatar cavalry fell in row after row, and immediately another companion stepped on their corpses and continued to charge.
Zhao Laogen has already killed red eyes.
"Ready, put! Ready, put! ”
This battle is no longer a battle, but a one-sided slaughter!
The Tatar cavalry has already lost more than half!
Seeing this, Zhena knew that the attack on both flanks would not work at all! He ordered the entire army to retreat and gather the remnants.
The Mongol cavalry retreated like a tidal wave.
After gathering his subordinates, Zhena ordered the number of people to be counted. Of the 5,000 cavalry, there were only more than 2,000 left!
Zhao Laogen's side was full of confidence. Come, Tatar cavalry, let you taste the guns!
"All of them! Paper shell bullets loaded! ”
Zhao Laogen issued an order, but found that none of his soldiers carried out the order!
The password is the military order, and in the Flying Tiger Army, it has always been the military order that falls like a mountain!
Zhao Laogen shouted angrily: "Didn't you hear the order? ”
One of his company commanders said to him, "Battalion commander, let's... Out of ammo! Paper shells, crossbow arrows, and grenades are all gone! ”
Zhao Laogen was taken aback: "What? ”
The ammunition that three hundred people were able to carry was always limited. Even if Hu Zongxian left some ammunition for them when he left, the intensity of firepower just now had already consumed all of their ammunition!
Without ammunition, wouldn't the three hundred musketeers become the chopping block for the Tatar cavalry on the opposite side?
A cold sweat broke out on Zhao Laogen's head, but soon he regained his former bravery.
Zhao Laogen shouted loudly: "Brothers, I, Zhao Laogen, was a miner in the Yiwu mine two years ago!" I joined the Flying Tiger Army in Zhejiang, followed the Metropolitan Governor to conquer the south and the north, kill the Japanese invaders, and resist the Tatars, it was the Metropolitan Governor who made me a useful person to the imperial court! Since I entered the Flying Tiger Army, my life is no longer my own! My life belongs to the Metropolitan Governor and the Imperial Court! Think of the people of Datongwei who were slaughtered by the Tatars! We don't share the sky with the Tatars!
It's nothing if you run out of ammo! We still have bayonets! Brothers, even if you die, you can't die in a nest!
All of them, get on the bayonet!
For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of the people, for the sake of the Metropolitan Governor, for the honor of our Flying Tiger Army, God bless the Ming Dynasty! God bless the Flying Tigers! Kill! ”
The three hundred Flying Tiger Arms Guns, who had already killed the red-eyed Flying Tigers, had bayonets in their hands and shouted in unison: "God bless Daming!" God bless the Flying Tigers! Kill! ”
They began a counter-charge in the direction of the Tatar cavalry!
Zhena was a little puzzled when he saw this scene, these damn Ming people. If he held his position like he did just now, even if he transferred another 5,000 iron cavalry, he might not be able to attack it!
But now they're charging?
Charge against two thousand cavalry with three hundred foot soldiers?!
Understood, it must be their guns that have run out!
Holding back the pain of his shoulder injury, Zhena shouted, "These damned Ming people have actually launched a charge, warriors, let them taste the power of our Tatar sabers!" Kill! ”
At the sound of Zhena's order, more than 2,000 cavalry rushed towards the 300 Flying Tiger Musketeers.
The sky on the grassland is like a doll's face, and it changes when it is said. Maybe it's really God bless the Ming Dynasty, God bless the Flying Tiger Army. A gust of wind blew on the steppe. The wind mixed with dust and gravel. It was a tailwind for the Flying Tigers, but a headwind for the Tatar cavalry!
Three hundred soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army rushed into the Tatar formation.
The Tatar cavalry was blown by this divine wind and could not open their eyes. The three hundred soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army went crazy and stabbed the Tatar cavalry on their horses with the bayonets on the tiger's guns.
The Tatar cavalrymen took up their sabers and slashed the Flying Tiger musketeers.
The infantry did not have an advantage over the cavalry, but this divine wind boosted the morale of the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army. They all killed red-eyed, like killing gods!
Of course, the Flying Tigers are not aimless and indiscriminate assaults. Chen Di had already asked Yu Dayou to train them in hand-to-hand combat. They were in groups of five, shoulder to shoulder, and every five bayonets formed a small defensive circle. Coupled with the help of the kamikaze, the Tatar cavalry had to pay the price of two or three people for every one person killed!
The head of the thousand households under Zhena finally couldn't help it: "General Zhena, this battle can't be fought like this again!" The Khan's order to us was to intercept the Flying Tiger Army's grain convoy. But now the grain transport team did not intercept it, but most of the dead and wounded. If you continue to fight, the remaining warriors will be exhausted! It doesn't matter if we are all dead, who will intercept their grain convoy? ”
Hearing this, Zhena gritted his teeth: "Immortality is above, it's not that I, Zhena, am greedy for life and afraid of death, it's just that I'm sweating!" All warriors, retreat! ”
As soon as Chena's military order was given, the Tatar cavalry took the initiative to leave the battlefield and retreated.
Zhao Laogen ordered not to pursue. No matter how brave the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army were, their two legs could not outrun the four legs of a horse.
In this bloody battle on the banks of the Mighty Stream, the Tatar cavalry lost 3,500 men. More than half of the 300 musketeers of the Flying Tiger Army were killed or wounded in the heroic counter-charge, and only 150 people remained!
The 300 musketeers who ran out of ammunition showed the Tatar cavalry that the Flying Tigers not only had excellent firearms, but also had the courage to charge to the death!
Zhao Laogen didn't know that this battle gave him the nickname of "Giant River Rock" in the Flying Tiger Army in the future. This nickname will stay with him for the rest of his life!