Keguang was an unknown person, and although the members of the mission heard his exclamation, they did not pay much attention to it, and most of them were still looking around, looking left and right, and a few musketeers took off the muskets on their backs and prepared to reload their ammunition—

At this time, Mu Jingyan also shouted: "There seem to be more than 30 riders!" Although Mu Jingyan couldn't tell whether the sound of horses' hooves was the cavalry of the Jianzhou Jurchens, he could estimate the approximate number of riders from the sound of hooves.

Zhang Yuan immediately shouted: "Quickly return to the Medicine King Temple!" ”

Yu Yan and other North Korean envoys hurriedly retreated to Yaowang Temple, Ruan Dacheng was also a little panicked at this time, he had never experienced this kind of scene, and hurriedly dismounted and followed Fan Tongshi and others to retreat to the broken temple.

Zhang Yuan turned his head to look around, and glanced at a musketeer reloading gunpowder, because the wind was strong in the mountains, the gunpowder was blown away by the wind as soon as it was poured into the fire door, and the rain had not completely stopped, the wind was mixed with small raindrops, and the fire rope was easily wet by the rain.

"Leave fifty musketeers with reckless guns to take advantage of the wagons to shield themselves from the wind and rain to load their ammunition, and when the enemy horsemen gallop nearly a hundred paces, they will set fire to them, and the rest of the musketeers with bird guns will retreat to the temple gate to prepare to release their guns—don't panic, don't panic."

Zhang Yuan did not retreat to Yaowang Temple with Ruan Dacheng, but just jumped off his horse and commanded loudly, the team of musketeers sent by Chen Qianhu in Lianshan Pass was equipped with two kinds of muskets, one is an ordinary arquebus, the effective range is one hundred steps, that is, about one hundred and twenty meters, and the other is Lu Mi Gong, Lu Mi Gong has a slightly longer range than the ordinary bird gun, and the ammunition power is slightly greater, Zhang Yuan let this group of gunners with Lu Mi Gong as the vanguard, this musket team is not equipped with the necessary cannons, flags and horns that sound swans for the official march, so they can only rely on oral orders.

The sound of hooves approached, and Mu Jingyan said anxiously: "My lord." The enemy cavalry was no more than two miles away. It's a moment. The adults hurried back to the temple to take refuge. ”

Zhen Zidan also asked Zhang Yuan to hurry back to the Yaowang Temple, where he can be in command, and the sixty Jinyi guards with knives under his command have already drawn their swords and prepared to meet the enemy.

The merchant of the eunuch Lu, Zhang Rushen, only cared about his thirty carts of goods, and ordered the coachman and his men to drive the cart back to the open space in front of the temple—

Zhang Yuan shouted: "These carriages are not allowed to move, so they are stopped here in order to block the impact of Jiannu's cavalry." ”

Zhang Rushen scratched his ears and cheeks and said: "Lord Zhang, I lost the silver taels of goods, and the villain can't wait for Lu Gong's bus." He glanced at his coachmen and told them to get rid of the car quickly.

The sound of horses' hooves in the back mountain is getting closer and closer. Soon it will turn around the mountain col and gallop away, but this eunuch is still chattering here, Zhang Yuan shouted angrily: "Get out!" With a pout to Ma Kuoqi, Ma Kuoqi, who was tall and tall, stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Rushen's collar and threw it aside.

Zhang Rushen had never seen Zhang Yuanfa such a big fire, and he was frightened, and the two men helped him up from the mud, and retreated to the Yaowang Temple with the other charioteers and men, at this time it was too late to unload the horses that were driving, and a group of cavalry had already turned out of the back mountain and rushed towards this side.

After the rain, the sky is like a wash. The red sun had just risen over Phoenix Mountain in the east, and the cavalry in armor was unusually distinct. It is the armor style of the Nurhachi Eight Banner Soldiers, Mu Jingyan estimated it accurately, this group of cavalry has thirty-two horses, because the road is muddy after the rain, the charging speed is not fast, and those riders can be seen on horseback with bows and arrows-

Fifty musketeers with Lu Mi guns and sixty Jinyi guard captains guarded at the northern foot of Phoenix Mountain with dozens of carriages as a barrier, Zhang Yuan stood on the side of the carriage that was a little behind, the horses of this carriage had been unyoked, and the guards on his side were Ma Kuoqi, Sheba, Hong Ji, Hong Xin and Wang Zongyue, Ma Kuoqi held a white-pole spear, Sheba was a three-foot-long narrow-bladed knife, Hong Ji, Hong Xin, the two Shaolin monks and Wang Zongyue each held a spear in their hands, Wang Zongyue in addition to Taijiquan, especially Jing Taiji gun.

Mu Jingyan leaned a big gun on the edge of the carriage, holding a hemp back bow in his hand, a pot of arrows resting on the wheel, he did not wear a bow and arrow when he set off from the capital, this bow and arrow was borrowed by Mu Jingyan from Ding Baihu in Tangshan, and Keguang first held a long-handled big knife and stood beside Mu Jingyan.

Zhang Yuan also has a knife in his hand, which is Jinyiwei's embroidered spring knife, and the right palm holding the knife at this time is full of sweat, this is the first time he has played against Nurhachi's Eight Banner Soldiers, and he is not nervous and afraid that it is fake-

The enemy cavalry was getting closer and closer, but the speed gradually slowed down, presumably seeing the intercepted carriage here, and the leading cavalry stopped when it was about fifty feet away from this side, and that position was outside the effective range of Lu Mi's gun.

Zhang Yuan said in a deep voice: "Don't be in a hurry to release the guns, wait for them to gallop close to a hundred paces before lighting the fire." "Although the maximum range of the musket reaches 120 meters, these Jurchen cavalry are all armored soldiers, and the distance of 60 to 80 meters can exert the most powerful power of the musket.

As soon as Zhang Yuan's words fell, he suddenly heard the Jurchen long-armored army shouting in unison fifty zhang away, urging the crotch mounts to rush towards this side, and then there was a "whoosh" sharp arrow breaking through the air, these Jianzhou cavalry actually took the lead in attacking with bows and arrows outside the range of muskets, Zhang Yuan's intercepted carriage sounded "seize" sound, it was Jiannu's carved arrows shot on the wall of the carriage, most of the arrows hit the driving horses, those horses were grieved and neighed, refused to be quiet, dragged the carriage to break in, Many musketeers and brocade guards who were originally lying behind the carriage were suddenly exposed-

Zhang Yuan shouted: "Kill the horse!" ”

Keguang first swung a long-handled broadsword and slashed to death a horse that was dragging a carriage and running around, Zhen Zidan and other Jinyi guards also quickly killed the struggling wounded horses and stabilized the line, but in such a short time, more than ten musketeers and Jinyi guard captains were killed and wounded by the Jiannu cavalry, and the lethality of the Jiannu cavalry's bows and arrows was really terrifying!

There was a musketeer who saw his comrades fall to the ground with arrows, frightened to the soul, did not wait for Zhang Yuan's order, first lit the fire rope, "bang", the smoke was filled, the fire was fired, but there was no aim at all, this shot did not know where to go, the rest of the musketeers heard this gunshot, and also lit fires and set fire, for a while, the sound of "bang" was endless, and the smoke made Zhang Yuan not see the enemy clearly, and he did not know whether this row of Lu Mi guns had any damage to the Jiannu cavalry, Zhang Yuan shouted: "The musketeers of the front team immediately loaded the ammunition, and the rear team was ready to shoot." ”

The fifty bird-gunned men who were leaning on the temple gate were already in full formation, they were condescending, and they could see more clearly, only to see that the thirty-two horsemen of the Jurchen long-armored army rushed forward with all their strength under the fire of Lu Mi, three of them were shot and fell to the ground, and the rest quickly approached the carriage defense line of the Ming mission.

There was another burst of dense muskets, and the fifty bird gunners in front of the temple gate fired, and they didn't know whether they hit the rider or the horse, this row of bird guns and ammunition were fired, and four more horses fell to the ground in Jiannu, but Zhang Yuan's side and the Jinyi guards and musketeers in front of the temple gate had seven more people who were shot by Jiannu's sharp arrows, and even Ma Kuoqi was also hit by an arrow, fortunately, it was only in the shoulder, and it did not hurt the vital point, and the lethality of Jiannu's bow and arrow was far above the Ming army's firearms.

A hundred paces away, the cavalry charge was only a few breaths away, Lu Mi Gong didn't have time to reload the ammunition again, the galloping hooves were already approaching the carriage defense line, and the "beep" sound of the knife was heard, and the Jiannu cavalry had already put away the bow and arrow, and pulled out the tiger tooth knife-

Mu Jingyan shouted violently, jumped out of the back of the carriage with a big gun in his hand, a Jiannu cavalry was rushing forward, Mu Jingyan's spear was like a dragon out of the water, from the bottom to the top of the fierce to the chest of the long-armored army, this long-armored army riding skills are very good, on the horseback twisted the body, has been avoided, the tiger tooth knife in the hand with the help of the momentum of the mount, obliquely slashed down, unmatched, if this is replaced by a brocade guard or musketeer, under this knife must be a different place, Jiannu's cavalry is not only superb archery, The lethality of the long knife on horseback is also extremely fierce, and the Ming army's defense line is often suppressed by bows and arrows first, and then the cavalry collapses with a charge-

But Mu Jingyan is not an idle person, he has already calculated the way to retreat, and in a quick and dexterous flash, the tiger tooth knife of the Changjia Army couldn't stop the momentum, and rushed over to split the corner of the carriage, Mu Jingyan saw the flaw, the spear in his hand shrank and stabbed, and the poisonous python came out of the hole, picking the Jiannu Changjia Army off the horse.

At this time, the other Jiannu cavalry had also galloped in, and when they saw that this long-armored army was picked off, they were all shocked and exclaimed loudly, Zhang Yuan heard that they were crying "Lord Huerhan", it seems that this Huerhan is the leader of this Jiannu cavalry.

Seeing Mu Jingyan's heroic martial arts, Zhen Zidan was not to be outdone, and also jumped out from behind the carriage, shouting: "Kill the enemy!" "Led the captain of the Jinyi Guard to meet the battle head-on, and the Jiannu cavalry reined in one after another because the leader was killed by Mu Jingyan, and they could no longer swing their swords with the momentum of the war horse-

Zhang Yuan saw that several musketeers in the front row had already loaded their ammunition, and at this time they didn't pay attention to shooting neatly, and shouted: "Let go!" ”

With a few "bangs", several Jiannu cavalry dismounted, the distance was so close, it was too easy to aim, and Jiannu's bow and arrow advantage could not be used at this time, because Mu Jingyan and the Jinyi guards were fighting with them, and they couldn't spare their hands to stretch their bows and arrows.

There are only twenty cavalry left in the Jiannu cavalry now, Mu Jingyan and Zhen Zidan and their Jinyi guards are already three against one, and there are also those musketeers who will release their guns at any time after the carriage, no matter how fierce these Jiannu Changjia troops are, they are also afraid at this time, one of them blew the sharp whistle in his mouth, in the whistle, seven or eight Jiannu did not retreat but advanced, waving their knives and rushing, and suddenly three Jinyi Guard captains were killed, and the whistling cavalry rushed over and suddenly leaned over from the saddle, stretched out his arms and dragged a person underground onto the horse, I want to run away with a horse's head—

The person who these Jiannu cavalry desperately came to capture was Hu Erhan, who was picked off the horse by Mu Jingyan, and he didn't know if he was dead, Mu Jingyan didn't allow them to escape, and at this time, he didn't have time to take the hemp back bow, so he threw the spear in his hand violently, piercing the heart of the Jiannu cavalry who robbed Hu Erhan, and the horse carried the dead body and ran out of seven or eight zhang, and the dead body on the horseback rolled to the ground.

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