Chapter 259: Vulnerable
These veterans were asked by Zheng He to leave the army early, and they were unwilling, but the orders of the superintendent could not be disobeyed, and Zheng He was also thinking about them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Out of desperation, they had to agree, but most of their lives they had spent most of their lives begging for a living at sea, and every day was a life of fire and water.
After this leisure, they were a little uncomfortable, and they began to prepare to spend the rest of their lives baldly. It was worth them being called by the old butler to protect Tang Ming, and they regained hope, and the ferocity of the enemy at this moment just stimulated the bloodthirsty fighting mood in their hearts.
The veterans were not afraid but looked very excited, which also infected Tang Ming to some extent, he already had absolute confidence in his flintlock pistol, and now as the two sides approached, Tang Ming gradually did not feel nervous, and the primitive bloodthirsty devil kept invading Tang Ming's brain.
At this moment, Tang Ming's eyes were red, and he didn't know if it was because he was overly nervous, or if he was really eager to fight from the bottom of his heart like those veterans.
"One hundred and ninety steps, one hundred and eighty steps......."
Tang Ming held a telescope and stared at the distance of the enemy army, silently reciting the number of steps in his heart, until the cavalry at the forefront stepped over the place where the arrows were shot, Tang Ming opened his mouth and roared: "Shoot." ”
"Bang bang bang ......."
As soon as the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time heard Tang Ming's order, they immediately pulled the trigger, and eighty flintlock pistols spewed flames at the same time, emitting puffs of black smoke.
The enemy forces in front of them were so dense that the veterans didn't even bother to aim, so they just grabbed the flintlock pistols with changed ammunition and pulled the trigger as soon as they put them in front of them. In this way, since Tang Ming gave the order to shoot, the sound of this gunfire has almost never stopped.
The enemy never expected to face such a situation, and from the first shot, not a single cavalry rushing to the front of the line did not fall. In fact, some flintlock pistols did not hit people but horses, but what Tang Ming didn't expect was that its effect was many times better than hitting people.
From the telescope, Tang Ming could see clearly, when the cavalry in the first row was hit by the horses, the horses kicked and jumped as soon as they were in pain, and the cavalry on horseback was accidentally thrown to the ground, and the cavalry behind had no time to react at all, and could only watch their war horses trample on the bodies of their comrades.
Your team, which was originally rushing forward neatly, also disturbed the cavalry behind because of the confusion of the regional platoon. Tripping, colliding, and wounded horses were running and jumping, and the speed of the enemy's forward rush was not only hindered, but nearly a hundred people were killed and wounded in the chaos.
The chaos gave the gunners an excellent opportunity, and the veterans seemed to be addicted to it, and their marksmanship was more accurate than the other, and in a few breaths it had already caused more than half of the enemy casualties.
The non-stop gunfire made Zhu Yong not forget to look back in his hurry to escape, but the scene in front of him made him dumbfounded. The Tatar cavalry that was playing and abusing itself like a cat scratching a mouse just now suffered more than half of its casualties in an instant.
He just went around to the rear, and he didn't have time to wait for the soldiers to move the grain cart, so he simply jumped off his horse and got under the grain cart, entered the defensive circle, and when he reached Tang Ming's side, he grabbed the telescope and looked in the direction of the enemy.
The Tatar cavalry were nomadic people, having grown up on horseback since childhood, and after a moment of confusion, they quickly controlled their horses under their crotches, turned their horses and retreated to the rear.
The enemy came and went faster, and they came with great momentum, leaving behind more than half of their companions in an instant, and fled in disgrace. Leaves behind corpses and neighing wounded horses.
Seeing the Tatar cavalry retreating in the telescope, Zhu Yong jumped up excitedly, and the telescope was stuffed into Tang Ming's hand and wanted to lead the troops to chase him, but he was slapped on the head by Tang Ming. ”
Although the flintlock pistol is good, it is a pity that the gunpowder is still black powder, this black smoke is not only a lot but also very choking, eighty gunners each at most only a dozen shots, at this moment the entire defensive position has been covered by the black smoke, the choking smell of gunpowder makes it difficult to breathe.
After confirming with a telescope that the enemy had really retreated, Tang Ming ordered the sergeant to move the grain cart away, and Zhu Yong led two hundred soldiers, especially most of them recruits, to the battlefield to fill the gaps. Patch up the Tatar cavalry that are not yet dead.
Tang Ming himself followed, because he understood that only by truly killing people and seeing blood and breaking through the defense line in his heart could he truly gain a foothold on the battlefield.
But the tragic situation of the Tatar cavalry was greatly unexpected by Tang Ming, and he couldn't see clearly in the telescope just now, but when he looked at it closely, he could clearly see the corpses and blood all over the ground.
Especially those cavalrymen who were trampled to death by the hooves of their horses, their bodies could no longer find a piece of flesh intact, and even their bones were trampled to pieces. Cavalrymen with severed hands and feet and crushed heads abounded.
The smell of blood went straight to my nose, and I heard a continuous snort in my ears, which can only be described as hell.
As soon as the recruits who were driven by Zhu Yong came into contact with this hell scene, their faces turned pale in an instant, and then they vomited in the dark. Zhu Yong glanced at the corpses on the ground, only frowned slightly, then lifted the horsewhip in his hand, raised it and whipped it fiercely on the recruits who vomited wildly.
"Listen to Lao Tzu, hold the big knife in your hands tightly, everyone's knife must see blood. Now give me a knife to all those who are not dead, and remove some parts from their bodies. Tell you, if anyone dares to fool Lao Tzu, he will cut off his head when Lao Tzu finds out. ”
After yelling, Zhu Yong began to wave the leather whip non-stop, whipping and urging the recruits to start acting. Under Zhu Yong's obscenity, the recruits began to look for targets one after another, and the desire to survive overshadowed the fear of death, and when the recruits swung their first swords, they had already begun to become numb.
Although all of them are still pale, they will not be as unbearable as when they came into contact just now. Zhu Yong really checked the body parts brought by each recruit one by one as he just said, as well as whether the big knives they were holding were stained with blood.
Tang Ming didn't pay attention to Zhu Yong and those recruits, his eyes kept staring at those war horses. After thinking about it for a while, he called Zhu Yong and pointed to the war horses that were not dead and had died.
"You have the recruits take all these horses to the creek and make them all pickled for food. It's a shame that these foods are just thrown away! ”
Zhu Yong's face turned embarrassed when he heard this: "You have to treat the war horse as food, it's not that I said you, this is absolutely not good." War horses are the comrades of our sergeants, they are the most loyal comrades of our charging soldiers on the battlefield, whether they are dead or alive, they are never allowed to be used as food. (To be continued.) )