Chapter 165: He's going to fight with me
The sun had risen a pole high, and there was still no movement in the north.
"Commander, is Jiannu really back?" Ning Xianlong was anxious and uneasy, and kept dangling in front of Yuan Chonghuan.
"Yue Tuo shouldn't miss the appointment, he doesn't even have a big tent now, it's good to cry bitterly and shout to fight me, unless he doesn't want to fight me." Yuan Chonghuan looked indifferently into the distance, and slowly withdrew his gaze.
"Commander, Jiannu won't kill from other directions, will he?"
"Otherwise?" Yuan Chonghuan felt that it was unlikely, this place guarded the passage of Jiannu to the south, and Jiannu were all cavalry, and it was difficult to bypass the mountain col and appear from the south or other directions. For the sake of safety, Yuan Chonghuan still sent additional rangers in all directions.
Half an hour later, the faint sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance.
"It's coming, it's coming."
The atmosphere suddenly became solemn, everyone held their breath, and their eyes all turned to the far north.
This was the first decisive battle between the Ming army and the large-scale Jiannu in the field, and no one knew what kind of combat effectiveness the main cavalry of Jiannu had in the field, and whether they could break through the flintlock array of the Ming army. Last time, Yue Tuo was only a few hundred people, and he almost broke through the flintlock pistol formation of the Ming army.
The sound of horses' hooves is getting closer and closer, chaotic and dense, shaking the earth like a flash flood, and also shocking the soldiers of the Ming army, obviously the main force of the red flag.
The observers had seen the shadow of the cavalry.
Suddenly, the flash flood came to a complete halt, as if it had been blocked by a dam.
This time, Yue Tuoxue was obedient, and he stopped two thousand steps away.
From a distance, his big tent was still there, but it looked scattered and tattered, like a homeless tent, and several torn strips of rags were flying in the wind, as if they were beckoning to Yue Tuo.
Yue Tuo just glanced ahead, and the numerical advantage on the opposite side was directly ignored by him, but the Ming army, whether it was infantry or cavalry, was as immobile as a mountain.
Yue Tuo's heart was also slightly surprised, it turned out that the training of the Ming army was much stronger than before, no wonder they relied on the advantages of the city wall to achieve some small victories.
Yue Tuo also considered retreating, with the speed of the Jurchen cavalry, if he suddenly turned around, with the speed of the Ming cavalry, he would not be able to catch up at all.
But Yue Tuo was not reconciled, he had already lost a large number of soldiers, and now it was difficult to fish Yuan Chonghuan outside the city, this was the best chance to return his losses once and the only chance to defeat Yuan Chonghuan.
Yue Tuo thought of the Ming army's flintlock pistols and flowering bullets, which he had never seen before, and his self-confidence dropped a little, but Yue Tuo still believed that with the invincible strength of the Jurchen cavalry, he still had the hope of wantonly plundering the Ming army, and as long as there was a little hope, he would not let it go, because he was opposite Yuan Chonghuan, who made him unforgettable.
"Lord Belle......" Wu Dabu also sensed Yue Tuo's hesitation.
Yue Tuo went out: "Wu Dabu, all rush forward, take advantage of the numerical advantage, and try your best to break through the defense line of the Ming army." ”
"Yes, Lord Belle." Yue Tuo and Uda Bu thought of going together.
All the Jurchen cavalry, in two columns, did not hesitate to ram into the Ming army's defensive line, and even Wu Dabu rushed up, only Yue Tuo led dozens of personal soldiers to supervise the battle behind.
Thousands of horses' hooves stomped on the ground, like a river that suddenly burst its embankment, pressing towards the Ming army.
Ning Xianlong was also a little nervous, since he saw the shadow of the Jiannu cavalry, he left Yuan Chonghuan and personally came to the camp of the gunners at the front, he wanted to give the gunners the greatest confidence and support.
"Brothers, the executioner who slaughtered countless Han people is here again, are you ready?" Ning Xianlong wanted to divert the attention of the gunmen and relieve their stress and fear.
A gunman was holding the flintlock pistol tightly, and Ning Xianlong's sudden speech startled him, and his hands shook involuntarily, and the flintlock pistol fell to the ground.
Ning Xianlong picked up the flintlock pistol, blew the dust on it, silently handed it to the soldier's hand, and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be nervous, Jiannu's blood is also red, you can see it in a while, I am by your side." ”
Yuan Chonghuan shook his head: "Yue Tuo is crazy, as soon as he comes up, he will release all the cavalry, he is going to fight with me, tell the gunners to open fire immediately." ”
"Boom...... Long ......"
"Boom...... Long ......"
"Boom...... Long ......"
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The artillery hidden in the big tent has torn off the camouflage of the muzzle, these guns have long been carefully deployed, thirty-five guns, with different firing points, but they are all blocked on the way of Jiannu's own soldiers.
Jiannu's cavalry only had two columns, which appeared to be relatively narrow, and there were not many flowering bullets that fell into the crowd.
However, as long as the flowering bomb landed in the crowd, it would immediately explode people on their backs, and the severed limbs and broken flesh flew together, and the blood and water were the same color as the soil.
The corpses of the wounded soldiers and the soldiers were trampled by the hooves of the horses behind them, and they quickly shattered into flesh, but the corpses of the war horses were too large, and it was impossible for the horses behind to step on, even if they jumped over.
At the place where the flowering bomb exploded, the cavalry fell into confusion for a while because they had to avoid the fallen horses, and the speed also slowed down, but the Jiannu cavalry was well-trained, and as soon as the flowering bullet stopped, they quickly resumed the charging formation.
"Boom...... Long ......"
"Boom...... Long ......"
"Boom...... Long ......"
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The soldiers, who had just adjusted, were hit by another wave of artillery.
The part of the cavalry was again in disarray, and then it was a process of self-repair.
The flowering bomb fell in five waves, and this situation was repeated five times.
The cavalry of Jiannu was indomitable, and their front was already in the blind zone of artillery.
"Master, Jiannu has entered the firing range!" The words of the observer rang loudly in Yuan Chonghuan's ears.
"Shoot." Ning Xianlong gave the order without hesitation, Jiannu had too many cavalry, and the horses were fast, so they must not be close to fight.
"Bang."
"Bang."
"Bang."
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The gunners were like riding a roller coaster several times, and with each wave of shelling, Jiannu's cavalry would slow down for a moment, which was an encouragement to them.
Their fingers were no longer numb, and when Ning Xianlong's command was conveyed, they did not hesitate to pull the trigger.
"Chirp...... Tweet ......"
"Poof...... Puff ......"
"Chirp, chirp" is the long cry of a wounded war horse before falling to the ground, and "poof" is the sound made when a soldier falls off his horse and hits the ground at high speed.
The more than 200 Jiannu cavalry who entered the range of the flintlock pistol, without exception, all fell under the flintlock musket, and some soldiers were shot several times.
Jiannu's cavalry did not slow down, and the cavalry behind quickly filled the vacancy in front; The same was true of the gunners, the first row of gunners finished firing and were crouching on the ground to reload their ammunition, and the second row of gunners had already prepared their flintlock pistols.
"Bang."
"Bang."
"Bang."
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Because the gunners in the first row were always squatting, and the gunners in the second row were standing, it was the gunners in the first row that did not affect their shooting.
There were only more than 100 Jiannu cavalry who entered the range of the flintlock muskets, and under the fire of thousands of flintlock muskets, they all fell off their horses and were trampled into flesh by the war horses behind, and the blood had already watered the dry soil very moist.
"Boom...... Long ......"
The artillery of the Ming army constantly adjusted its muzzle and continued to bombard the cavalry of Jiannu.
Every time the flowering bullet landed, it would delay Jiannu for a short time, but the cavalry in front did not stop, and Jiannu's cavalry was gradually divided into several sections.
The flintlock pistol had completed two waves of shooting, and the Jiannu had lost nearly a thousand cavalry.
The ground was littered with wounded soldiers, wounded horses, soldiers' corpses, and the corpses of war horses.
In the face of the sound of flintlock pistols and the light of fire, some ownerless war horses frightened the six gods without owners, and they could not find their own home for a while, so they could only wander around at will in the narrow area between the gunners of the Ming army and the cavalry of Jiannu.
Jiannu's cavalry could ignore human bodies, but the carcasses of the horses and the scurrying horses still affected their impact, and in order to avoid these obstacles, the speed of the cavalry slowed down significantly.
The cavalry's speed slowed down, not only facilitating the gunners' aiming, but also increasing the time they spent within range of the flintlock muskets.
Another wave of shooting, and another Jiannu soldier fell from his horse.
Wu Dabu, who was at the rear of the cavalry, found that the artillery of the Ming army had completely stopped. He straightened his waist and shouted: "You have entered the blind spot of artillery, brothers, rush ......"
Wu Dabu couldn't say anything later, and when he straightened his waist, he found that the cavalry was less than three hundred paces long, that is, counting the two columns of cavalry, it was less than five hundred.
But the Ming army's flintlock pistols were still firing, and the cavalry had obviously not yet rushed into the Ming army's gun array.
Are so many warriors wounded? Uda Bu took two steps sideways, he wanted to see what was going on.
In the open space in front of them, it seemed that a cancer had grown, and there were soldiers and war horses everywhere, rolling, crawling, and squirming, and more soldiers and war horses were piled up motionless, and in the highest place, the corpses of men and horses were already waist-high.
These are our warriors? Wu Dabu asked himself, and now he can only ask himself, the Ming army's flintlock guns were non-stop shooting, and when there was no artillery, the sound of gunfire covered up the battlefield.
Uda turned around and glanced at Yue Tuo, who was still far behind, sitting motionless on his horse, surrounded by dozens of his own soldiers.
Uda Bu gritted his teeth and whipped sharply, outpacing the soldiers around him at great speed, he wanted to go to the front to see what was going on with his warriors.
A wounded and frightened war horse was scurrying among the corpses of people and horses, and Udabu suddenly accelerated, and hit the frightened horse, and Udabu's head was attached to the frightened horse's belly.
Then the frightened horse was knocked to the ground, its hooves twitching vigorously in the air, trying to stand up, and it found that its efforts were in vain, so it simply lay on its side on the ground, accepting the arrangement of the immortal heaven, but gasping for breath in its nostrils.
Udabu's war horse crooked its neck and stopped completely, Udabu was defenseless, he rose from the horse's back, rotated several three hundred and sixty degrees in the air, and then fell heavily to the ground, his right shoulder landed on the ground, and with a "click", the shoulder blade and collarbone were broken together.
Seeing the master landing, Wu Dabu's war horse softened, it slowly fell to the right, and with a "bang", the horse landed on the ground and raised a cloud of dust.