Compared to the veterans, the recruits are not good...... Their bodies are very stiff, and their strength is greater than usual, but they will not be reasonably distributed, and the recruits will be too excited to go to the battlefield, and their physical strength will be overdrawn early, and once the battle situation is unfavorable or they fall into siege, they will soon be cut down by the enemy due to exhaustion, even if they have shields or sharp knives and guns, or they are heavily armoured.

Therefore, Zhang Han attaches the most importance to veterans, and this small team in front of him also fully proves the correctness of Zhang Han's theory, the silver to save a veteran can recruit ten recruits, but a veteran may play a far more role on the battlefield than ten recruits.

After Wen Zhongfa gave the order, together with his eleven people, he rode his horse and rushed down the hillside, where there were tents of Beiyu that stretched for several miles, and there were also some cattle and sheep scattered around, at least more than a thousand Beiyu herdsmen and armor soldiers were stationed here, Wen Zhongfa and they were going to rush through a relatively empty area, where there were more than a dozen tents and dozens of herdsmen, or there could be armored cavalry mixed in it, Wen Zhongfa couldn't judge, but this was already the emptiest place for defense.

As soon as Wen Zhongfa and the others rushed out of the shelter, they were discovered by the Beiyu on the mountainside almost instantly.

Their reaction was particularly fast, some people were barbecuing meat at the entrance of the tent, and some people were resting half-lying, as soon as they found Wen Zhongfa and others coming, everyone shouted and jumped on the horses, and some people unsaddled, they jumped on the back of the bare horses, each with a spear and a waist knife, or a riding bow, and just met Wen Zhongfa and the others.

Wen Zhongfa's eleven people are one-handed reins, holding a horse gun in their right hand, the guns have been loaded with medicine in advance, and the dragon's head is also opened, as long as it is close to within eighty steps, it can be fired, but the accuracy of the distance is low, the bald head and others are only released within fifty steps, they are all wearing chain mail, and they are not afraid of the Mongols' riding bow within twenty steps.

Seeing that there was still a distance of about fifty or sixty paces, dozens of Mongols suddenly scattered on two sides, they rode sideways, and everyone heard the sound of bows and arrows "collapsing", and these Mongols began to shoot arrows at Wen Zhongfa and others.

At such a close distance, the archery skills of these northern captives were extremely pure, and almost at the same time as they heard the explosion of the bowstring, at least seven or eight people were hit by arrows at the same time.

Wen Zhongfa was hit by an arrow in his arm, but fortunately it did not penetrate into the flesh deeply, and did not crack the arm bone, if it was closer to twenty steps, no matter how soft the riding bow of these northern captives was, this arrow could still break or crack his arm bones, but the northern captives did not dare to get so close, and the Mongols had learned a lot of experience in the war with the cuirassiers, to keep a certain distance, to use the advantage of many people to keep archery interference, or to shoot horses, to keep moving fast, etc......

The bald horse was shot with an arrow in the chest, and the horse leaned forward, but fortunately it did not fall over, which also benefited from the fact that everyone put on chain mail for the war horse before the charge, mainly composed of three parts: face curtain, chicken neck, and chest, no horse body armor, no rear and parasitic, and it was light chain mail, and the weight of the horse was less than ten catties, and for the soft and weak riding bow of the Mongols, the horse had these three protections almost...... In the war between the two sides, the cuirassier suffered the most before that was the horse was shot or killed, causing the cavalry on the horse to fall off the horse in the high-speed movement, and was seriously injured or even killed...... Many casualties were brought in this way, so now almost all the time the cavalry did not forget to protect their horses.

"Fuck," the bald man was just frightened, if he fell off his horse in such an impact battle, he had only one way to die, and the bald head on the horseback scolded: "The northern captives of the dog day are now learning to be treacherous and slippery, and his mother would rather have a weak bow and arrow than dare to get close to us!" ”

"No way!" Wen Zhongfa shouted: "Everyone let go, drive them away!" ”

If the Mongolian cavalry arch wants to be lethal to the merchant cavalry wearing chain mail, it must be at least 30 paces, 20 steps is a more threatening distance, and within 50 steps, the horse gun will have serious damage to the northern captives, so in the past wars, the cuirassier cavalry fought the northern captives scattered, and the exchange was very embarrassing than the northern captives, who have always been known to be good at riding and archery.

And this time, these northern captives are shooting arrows at fifty or sixty steps, even as far as seventy or eighty steps, of course, these arrows are not threatening, although they shoot accurately, the damage is too bad, whether the arrows shot at people or horses are weak and weak, some arrows can't even penetrate the armor, and the most seriously injured is Wen Zhongfa, and it is only a flesh wound.

Since the Beiyu did not dare to approach, the cavalry had to be released in advance, eleven muskets were fired at the same time, the dragon head fell and shot out sparks, the horse guns were well maintained, all were successfully fired, the muzzle spewed out the projectiles, the North captives on the opposite side were still galloping on the side, shooting arrows to this side with the beaded arrow method, when the projectiles hit the past, they hit five at once, three people fell off their horses at once, rolled on the ground and screamed, and two people were shot in the arms and legs, they endured the pain, and hurriedly rode away.

The rest of the northern captives were farther away, and their riding bows kept being full and loosened, but the riding bows were too small, and the bow strength was too weak, and they were more than seventy paces apart, and they could not shoot accurately, and many arrows lost their heads halfway through, and fell to the ground softly.

"Let's go!"

A volley of fire finally opened the gap, Wen Zhongfa and the others put the riding gun in the pocket on the side of the horse, of course there was no way to reload at this time, they pulled out the saber, the bright saber flashed in the last sunset of dusk, the north did not dare to face it at all, everyone held the horse's belly to get out of the way, and then turned around and shot back.

", it's useless to make progress." The bald man scolded: "Don't dare to play white-knuckle war with us, a bunch of bad goods!" ”

Everyone agrees with the bald man's words, the ferocity of the northern captives may not be reduced back then, as can be seen from their torture and killing of the captives of the merchant soldiers, but in terms of courage, combat skills, discipline, and organization, they are simply many times worse than their ancestors hundreds of years ago.

Jining Fort south three miles originally gathered a northern cavalry, the people on the fort found out, with the big Buddha Lang machine to shoot this side, Jining Fort firearms far more than the ordinary military platform, in a hurry can also find a lot of big Buddha Lang machine, three miles or so is the ultimate effective range of this artillery, the first round of hits, splashed a lot of grass roots on the ground, a few Beiyu cavalry may be shot by a stray bullet, let out a scream, the remaining hundreds of people quickly ran away, they feel that the artillery in the fort is too accurate, If it is a speeding gallop, you may not be shot, and if you dare to stay in one place for a little longer, you will definitely be shelled.

It was Friedrich who was in charge of the artillery, and after he fired it, an artillery officer who was with Yusheng put down his hands covering his ears and praised loudly: "Xiao Fu, you are not bad, you have improved compared to before." ”

Friedrich smiled on his face, their group of missionaries, there are a lot of people who have learned to cast cannons, and there are many people who can operate cannons, and of course those who follow Zhang Han are experts, but after all, they are missionaries, they have been contacted, and they have also used, and the level is also very high, but the proficiency is a little bit lower than that of Yusheng's gunners, fortunately, their starting point is higher, after this period of training, everyone's level has caught up, and they have surpassed Heyusheng's ordinary gunners on the moment calculation track.

This cannon just now, using a big Buddha machine, is also Friedrich's own calculation of the distance and parabola, although there is no target, but the landing point is very close, but also put a lot of pressure on the north, so that several cavalry were slightly injured, can hit such an effect at the farthest moment, it is also commendable.

Tang Ruowang and others were also operating artillery, but they didn't let it go, and the northern cavalry had already galloped away, so it was a pure waste to open a cannon.

At this time, everyone saw Wen Zhongfa and the others galloping wildly, and the four-pounder cannon in the north direction was still firing, scattering the nearby northern cavalry, and in the rumbling cannon, people's mood became relaxed.

Trapped in the fort, the most difficult thing is not anything else, but the psychology of people, isolated from the outside world, looking at the enemy, this kind of psychological pressure is also very fatal, if not, why should the Beiyu desperately isolate Jining Fort and these nearby military forts?

At this time, someone has been ordered to open the fort gate, the fort gate is made of hardwood, very thick, even if it is a thousand catties of wood impact is not easy to knock open, not to mention that there is iron-clad in the important place, more solid and solid, the enemy failed to approach the trench, and failed to bulldoze the outer barrage wall, remove the antlers and barbed wire, far from threatening the fort wall, so the fort gate has not been closed, if the outer defense is flattened, the city can only block the fort gate, then the communication and liaison with the outside world is more difficult.

Wen Zhongfa and the others galloped quickly, and there were more and more pursuers behind them, but when they crossed the outer trench and began to ride on the crooked road in the barrage wall, the pursuing Beiyu could only sigh and was forced to abandon the pursuit.

Many of them roared angrily...... However, the people in the fort are also used to it, the siege has been around for a long time, the two sides come and go, death and injury are inevitable, whenever the northern captives fail or suffer heavy losses, there will always be such a wolf howl, and the fort is used to it.

When everyone entered the fort gate, Wen Zhongfa was the first to roll off the horse, his shoulder shed a lot of blood, blood condensed on the shoulder, the gray military robe that could not be seen was obviously dark black bloodstains, Wen Zhongfa was not seriously injured, but so many days back and forth, the mental and physical strength consumed was too great, plus bloodshed, and rushed at the moment of life and death, after entering the fort gate, the spirit was relaxed, and he couldn't support it.

At the gate of the fort was the star officer on duty, Tao Chun, the deputy general of the army, who was a solid man with a short figure, and when he saw this, he hurriedly ran over first, and he didn't care about Wen Zhongfa's dirty, so he hugged him with his arms.

The bald head and others wanted to come over and grab the hug, Tao Chun scolded: "Maybe I can take your head and sell it, Lao Tzu took him to see the military doctor, if you bring a letter or something, it's serious to go to see the adult quickly." ”