Chapter 213: Mount Tai collapsed and did not change color
Batu Fuli didn't know that the one who killed his subordinates was the cavalry of the Ming army, the Sun and Moon Army Banner, which he had never seen before.
At the instigation of his subordinates, his veins were extremely inflated, and no matter who came, as long as it was not the cavalry of the Dajin Kingdom, he would definitely avenge his subordinates.
Batu Fuli ordered 20,000 cavalry and followed him to pursue Mangui's cavalry, leaving only 5,000 cavalry to protect his big tent.
After he chased it out along the southwest, the cavalry of the Ming army had lost its trace, and there was neither the "click" of the horse's hooves, nor the figure of the cavalry.
"Are they really devils?" Batu Fuli scolded as he slowed down his horse, which he was searching for the Ming cavalry on horseback.
"Khan, look there!"
Batu Fuli looked in the direction of the soldier's finger and saw a large number of soldiers in the distance, almost standing in a horizontal line.
"It must be them, let's go, go over and have a look." Batu Fuli urged his horses and quickly increased the speed of his horses, and his 20,000 cavalry followed behind him.
When he came to the place of a thousand steps, Batu Fuli saw clearly, it was still the same kind of soldier as yesterday, with a gray cloth suit and a fluttering sun and moon military flag.
"The devil is ahead, warriors of Duoyan, hurry up and kill it!" Batu Fuli yelled, and the Duoyan cavalry began to whip the horses, they wanted to take advantage of the speed of the cavalry to storm the opposite position.
Zhu Youzhen, who was hidden in the rear army, was sitting on a horse, and the Duoyan people dispatched tens of thousands of cavalry at a time, which was somewhat unexpected to him, he stood up from the horse, stabilized the fluctuations in his heart, and muttered to himself: "The cavalry of the Duoyan people should be here, right?" ”
Wang Mujiu was originally with the second royal division, and when the black line that appeared on the edge of the sky slowly evolved into a large number of cavalry, he felt very nervous, he trotted to Zhu Youzhen's side, because of nervousness, he almost tripped over a raised clod of soil: "Your Majesty xià ......"
"Mu Jiu, how are the soldiers? Are they still nervous? ”
"Your Majesty, there are so many cavalrymen, the soldiers are very nervous, and some soldiers can't even hold flintlock pistols......"
"If you are busy, you will make mistakes, soldiers have never been on the battlefield!" Zhu Youzhen glanced at the soldiers in front of him, his face was like a calm lake, and he couldn't see any expression.
Wang Mujiu's face turned red with shame, from Zhu Youzhen's body, he knew what it was that Mount Tai collapsed in front of him and did not change color, "Your Majesty, I'll go and comfort the soldiers again." ”
Zhu Youzhen snickered in his heart, this Wang Mujiu really understands his own thoughts.
Wang Mujiu returned to the Second Division, he didn't know what to say to the soldiers, the soldiers laughed crookedly, and he patted the shoulders and backs of the soldiers from time to time, looking like buddies.
"Your Majesty, the Duoyan people are about to enter the range of the artillery."
The artillery was next to Zhu Youzhen, and in order to prevent his ears from being deafened by the flowering bullets, Zhu Youzhen took out a ball of cotton that he carried with him, tore it into two small pieces, and stuffed it into both ears.
"Fire!"
The gunners began to load the shells, because they were far away from the cavalry of the Duoyan people, and Zhu Youzhen was pressing the formation, they did not have much fear, and they were very calm in aiming, loading, and ignition.
"Boom...... Long ......"
"Boom...... Long ......"
"Boom...... Long ......"
……
Hundreds of flowering bullets, drawing countless rainbow-like arcs in the sky, smashed fiercely at the Duoyan cavalry, the huge roar, superimposed, covered the sound of the horses' hooves of the Duoyan people, if you simply compare the sound, the Ming army is superior.
The flowering bullet fell to the ground, the shrapnel flew sideways, and the most injured was the war horse, but the war horse was killed and wounded, and the cavalry on horseback was overturned to the ground, becoming a stepping stone for the cavalry behind, and the flesh and blood spread wantonly on the prairie.
Around each flowering bullet, a blood pit will temporarily form, and the corpses of people and horses will quickly fill the blood pit.
Batu was walking in the middle of the line, and the huge explosion of the flowering bomb startled him: "What is this sound?" ”
"Khan, is this the artillery of the Ming army?"
"Artillery? It's not like, the artillery shell of the Ming army is just a black iron bump, how can it explode after it lands? Batu's gaze was a little gloomy, he looked at the sky, and the graceful arc was temporarily gone.
"Khan, they fell from the sky, are they immortal ......?"
"Immortality? Why does it punish us? The Duoyan people didn't do anything bad, did they? It's all these demons who are slaughtering our people, why doesn't the Immortal Heaven punish them? ”
“……”
Batu Fuli did not understand, and his soldiers, even less, they all kept their mouths shut.
Batu Fuli did not know the tragic casualties of the soldiers, and his war horse did not slow down in the slightest.
The artillery of the Ming army did not stop, and the second wave of flowering shells fell from the heads of the Duoyan cavalry.
In the first wave of artillery bombardment just now, the gunners were adjusting the landing point, and there were a few flowering shells, which fell on the grass without cavalry, and now the gunners have adjusted the muzzles, and there are so many Duoyan cavalry, even with their eyes closed, they can also smash the flowering shells into the cavalry group.
There was another round of screaming, but the cries of the soldiers were soon swallowed up by the hooves of the cavalry.
The cavalry in front of the flowering bullet was lucky, they did not have any fetters, and the horse's speed did not decrease at all, but behind the flowering bullet landing point and on the left and right sides, the horses were blocked, and the cavalry had to slow down the horse's speed, and the cavalry on both sides continued to expand to the sides in order to avoid the flowerball.
From the front of the Duoyan cavalry to the rear of the Duoyan cavalry, the gunners of the Ming army only shot four waves, and the cavalry in front had already fled into the blind spot of the flowering bullets.
These flowering bombs, although the sound is terrifying, but the soldiers killed and injured are not much, four rounds of shelling, casualties of the Duoyan cavalry, but more than a thousand people, compared with the 20,000 Duoyan cavalry, almost no one noticed.
Zhu Youzhen's heart was anxious, the Duoyan people would soon enter the range of the flintlock pistol, at close range, would the gunners be able to withstand the attack of the Duoyan people?
What if the gunmen were nervous and scared and couldn't withstand the attack of the Duoyans?
If the Duoyan break through the position of the flintlock pistol, the gunners will not have the ability to protect themselves, and at that time, the cavalry on both sides must meet and start a decisive battle with the Duoyan.
Regardless of the victory or defeat, the Seventh Cavalry Division will definitely suffer heavy casualties and even completely lose the ability to fight.
In the steppe, without the protection of the cavalry, the infantry could hardly move an inch.
Without the protection of cavalry, Zhu Youzhen's Left Route Army may have lost the ability to continue the offensive, so what should be done with the Northern Expedition?
In this Northern Expedition, Zhu Youjian ruled out the public opinion, and the Ming Dynasty almost poured the whole country's strength.
If the Northern Expedition fails, Jiannu is still on the head of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youzhen's plan to revive the Ming Dynasty will be postponed indefinitely, or even aborted.
Zhu Youzhen was frightened into a cold sweat, but his face was the appearance of Gujing Bubo, "Duoyan cavalry, in front of the flowering of the Ming army, can only be beaten passively, but unfortunately, the casualties are not large." ”
"Your Majesty, the Duoyan people are about to enter the range of the flintlock pistol."
Zhu Youzhen's eyes were fixed on the Duoyan cavalry, after being hit by many flowering bullets, they continued to spread to the two wings, and the formation was very loose, it was originally a few columns, but now it has become a horizontal formation, almost all over the mountains.
"Bang."
"Bang."
"Bang."
……
The flintlock pistol finally fired.
The Royal 1st Division, crouched in the hollow, had more than 10,000 soldiers, and they were automatically divided into two rows, plus the Royal 2nd Division, on the high ground behind, there were a total of four rows of gunners, and the flintlock muskets were fired at very small intervals, almost continuously.
In fact, the gunners in the back had no chance for the time being, and after the five thousand gunners in the first row finished shooting, the Duoyan cavalry who had entered the hundred-step death line had all fallen from their horses, and their horses looked empty.
The horses without riders suddenly lost their direction and motivation, and they wandered around the battlefield in fear.
"Well played." Zhu Youzhen stretched out his thumb and praised the gunmen from afar.
The Duoyan cavalry did not stop, the cavalry in front fell from their horses, and the cavalry behind pressed forward, quickly approaching the death line of a hundred steps.
The gunners of the Ming army were not idle, and the second row of soldiers hidden in the hollow shot, and the bullets of the flintlock pistols just met another attack by the Duoyan cavalry.
In just a short period of time, the gunners of the Ming army all completed a single shot, more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition, and pressed the Duoyan cavalry to a hundred paces away.
More than 3,000 Duoyan cavalry who entered the range of the flintlock pistol all fell off their horses, and a large number of ownerless war horses appeared on the battlefield.
There were no wounded soldiers on the battlefield, and the wounded soldiers had been trampled into blood and flesh by their horses.
"Not bad, not bad," Zhu Youzhen looked at the death line of a hundred steps from a distance, "Yuan Chonghuan is right, the flintlock pistol is the nemesis of the cavalry." ”
The Duoyan cavalry pressed forward again, and in order to avoid the flowering bullets of the Ming army, the Duoyan cavalry scattered very widely.
If the cavalry regiment is together, the cavalry in front will inevitably block the bullets of the flintlock muskets, although they will have more bullets and will die early, but the cavalry in the back, with the protection of the soldiers or corpses in front, can run a little longer.
Now the Duoyan cavalry is very open, and the attacking team is very wide, just to give the gunners every opportunity to shoot.
The flowering shells are still deterring the Duoyan cavalry, although the cavalry in the front has long entered the blind spot of the artillery, but there are too many Duoyan cavalry, the team is too messy, and the soldiers in the back are still within the range of the artillery, and the flowering bullets fall on the cavalry behind from time to time.
Another wave of flintlock firing shots, more than 2,000 Duoyan cavalry fell from their horses.
The cavalry who fell from their horses did not necessarily die, but more only suffered some injuries, but the Ming army was too busy now to take care of these wounded soldiers, so they packed up their tasks and handed them over to the war horses of the Duoyan people.
Batu Fuli has been charging with the cavalry around him, he has already rushed to the front of the team, and he has long entered the blind spot of flowering bullets.
He felt that something was wrong, his cavalry suffered heavy casualties, but the soldiers on the opposite side with the banner of the Sun and Moon Army and from which tribe they came from were not harmed at all.
Are they really demons? Or is it the devil?
To attack, or not to attack? Batu Fuli couldn't make up his mind for a while.
attack, his soldiers suffered too many casualties, and the casualties were too fast, and it was only time to pee, and his soldiers had already suffered thousands of casualties; If he didn't attack, then the tens of thousands of herdsmen he sacrificed, and the thousands of soldiers who had just been killed or wounded, would die in vain.
If he withdraws now, will the other side stop there? Will the other party chase after him?