Chapter 41: Tartar Fury
"Boom..."Two deafening explosions sounded on the gun position, and the white smoke gushing out from the gun barrel quickly enveloped the gun position, covering Wei Zheng's field of vision.
When Wei Zheng shifted his gaze to the artillery target, that is, the target position composed of hundreds of scarecrows.
The dozen or so scarecrows erected at the front had all been knocked to the ground by the dense lead bullets fired by the Tiger Zun cannon.
At this moment, two more violent explosions reached Wei Zheng's ears from the gun position.
Then, Wei Zheng saw more than a dozen scarecrows on the target position, as if they had been violently pushed by a powerful force, and they all fell to the ground.
When the third round of two cannons reached Wei Zheng's ears, more than half of the hundreds of scarecrows dozens of meters away had fallen.
At this time, a picture of war quickly appeared in Wei Zheng's mind.
When hundreds of Tartar troops roared and rushed towards them, the six Tiger Venerable cannons split into three rounds to fire on the Tartars.
After three rounds of artillery fire, these Tartars will definitely pay very heavy losses.
At this time, if the Tartars retreat, then he will lead the troops in pursuit and kill them one by one.
If these Tartars are not reconciled to defeat and continue to attack themselves. Then, it was greeted by a rain of spears thrown by hundreds of pikemen at the Tartar in unison.
After the baptism of the rain of spears, there must be only a handful of Tartars who can finally rush in front of the spear array. When the time comes, all that remains for the pikemen is to finish the battlefield and clean up the battlefield.
When Wei Zheng reacted from his imagination and shifted his gaze to the gun position again. Including Li Weiguang, the more than 20 people in the artillery platoon were already standing in front of him, waiting for his orders.
After throwing a satisfied smile on everyone, Wei Zheng praised in a firm tone: "Everyone trained very well, I am very satisfied....So, this time, the artillery platoon also participated in the battle..."
"Platoon Commander Li, you immediately lead someone to find Captain Zhao Yun and Zhao, receive 12 horses from Captain Zhao, and transport the Tiger Zun cannon and the corresponding ammunition. Before dark today, the artillery platoon must be ready to go......"
In the dark night, more than 100 soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army and dozens of horses, like ghosts in the night, quietly approached Santun Fort under the personal leadership of the general Wei Zheng.
When the day began to be bright, in order to avoid the various strongholds of the Tartars, the Tiger and Par Army, who did not know how many detours, finally saw a few torches planted by the Tartars on the wall of Santun Fort.
After raising his right fist, he signaled the troops to stop advancing.
Wei Zheng ordered the several platoon commanders who hurried behind him: "Let the brothers hurry up and rest, eat some dry food....wait until dawn, we will start to attack Santun Fort......"
As the sky grew brighter, a dozen Tartar sentries leaned against the battlements with dim-eyed eyes, waiting for the other Tartars to change their guards.
Hundreds of soldiers of the Haw Par Army wearing Ming army uniforms and holding spears suddenly appeared outside Santun Fort.
The hunter-turned-Tartar soon noticed the sudden change outside the fort, and exclaimed loudly to his comrades: "Han people, there are Han people outside the city...... It's the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they are coming to attack us, hurry up and warn Lord Zhangjing, we have been attacked by the Ming Dynasty army......"
More than a dozen Tartars bent their bows and arrows one after another, and prepared for the moment of defense.
The crisp warning bells also began to echo in Santun Fort.
In an instant, Santun Fort, which had just been quiet, became lively. One by one, the tartars, who had not yet been draped neatly, rushed directly to the city with weapons.
Soon, hundreds of Tartars, including Niu Lu Zhangjing, all gathered on the city wall.
Seeing the sudden spear formation of the Ming army outside the fort, these Tartars were indeed taken aback.
However, when they saw that these Ming army pikemen had no follow-up troops, they were just a lone army. Heartfelt worries were immediately overshadowed by arrogance.
Hundreds of Tartars were like wild wolves that had been hungry for a long time, staring at the Ming army's spear array outside the fort with a pair of red eyes, bending their bows and arrows, ready to deal a devastating blow to these Ming troops.
A tooth swinger standing beside Niu Lu Zhang Jing shouted loudly while bending his bow and arrows: "Lord Zhang Jing, these Ming Dynasty people are so arrogant that they dare to take the initiative to attack us....Today we must kill them all, avenge those warriors who died in battle, and use these Ming army heads to wash away the shame that our Niu Lu once suffered on the battlefield..."
"Kill all the Ming troops, shame before the snow..."The shout of the tooth swinger immediately caused the other Tartars around him to feel the same way, waving the weapons in their hands and shouting loudly.
When he first saw the hundreds of Ming army spearmen outside the fort, Niu Lu Zhangjing was still wondering if there would be any conspiracy among these Ming troops.
Because, in his impression, even if he has several times the superior force, the timid and demoralized Ming army will not take the initiative to attack the Houjin warriors, let alone the Ming army in front of him, which does not even have a military advantage.
However, when the shouts of his subordinates reached Niu Lu Zhangjing's ears, the doubts in his heart were immediately covered with anger.
This time. All Niu Lu Zhangjing thought about was a series of humiliations brought to him by the Ming army.
If it weren't for the Ming army setting up an ambush on the frontline battlefield, Niu Lu would not have suffered such heavy losses...
If it weren't for that defeat, I wouldn't have been sent to the rear guard without any enemies...
If it weren't for the Ming army, he would be leading his warriors to wantonly plunder in the territory of the Ming Dynasty at this moment......
Thinking of this, the anger from his heart quickly surged into the heart of Tartar Niu Lu Zhang Jing, making him lose his mind step by step.
When the murderous roar of his subordinates reached his ears louder and louder, a firm belief quickly emerged in Niu Lu Zhangjing's mind: "I must take revenge, and the Ming army that brought this qiē bad luck to me outside the fort will ......be ashamed before the snow."
If you want to completely annihilate the Ming army outside the fort, you will be ashamed. Just holding the city wall can only fight a rout battle at most, and the Ming army, which has lost some troops outside the city, may withdraw from the battlefield at any time.
Therefore, for the purpose of completely annihilating all the Ming troops outside the fort, a bold idea quickly came to Niu Lu Zhangjing's mind: take the initiative to attack, concentrate all the remaining main forces of Niu Lu, and completely annihilate these Ming troops outside Santun Fort.
Of course, the attack is an attack, and Niu Lu Zhangjing did not let go of the opportunity to guard the city wall and shoot a large number of Ming attacking troops outside the fort with bows and arrows.
Angry Dantian, he shouted in the loudest voice possible: "Warriors, if it weren't for the Ming army troops outside the fort, we wouldn't have been sent here by the banner master to guard and collect supplies." In order to get back to the front line and loot the food and population we need from the Ming people, we must kill all the Ming troops outside the city, and we will ......be disgraced."
"Kill all the Ming troops, shame ......before the snow," the swing tooth who was standing beside him raised his weapon and shouted loudly.
Then, a deafening roar came out of the mouths of hundreds of Tartars at the same time, deafening.
After nodding his head in satisfaction with his men's high morale for revenge, the Tartar continued to order: "All soldiers are ready for battle. After relying on the city wall to repel an attack by the Ming army, the unarmored infantry followed the troops to stay in Santun Fort, and the rest of the soldiers fought out of Santun Fort with me, and completely annihilated all the Ming soldiers outside Santun Fort, a shame before the snow..."
The Tartar bent his bow and arrows, staring at a pair of red eyes, as if he had spotted his prey, waiting for the best opportunity to attack.
The dense array of spears had already rushed to a position a hundred paces away from the city wall.
Just as a sneer slowly appeared on Tartar's face and released the tight bowstring in his hand, the unexpected happened.
The hundreds of spearmen of the Ming army suddenly conjured hundreds of shields that could defend against the surveillance of bows and arrows. In the blink of an eye, the spear array that was still dense just now was wrapped in shields, tight, like an indestructible huge turtle shell.
Not only that, but through the gap between the shields, spears protrude directly from the turtle's shell. As far as the eye could see, the large tortoise shell turned into a big hedgehog covered in thorns all over its body.
I didn't expect the Ming army to have such a change, Tartar Niu Lu Zhangjing subconsciously ordered: "Release the arrow... Everyone shot arrows together and shot the Ming army attacking us......"
"Buzz... Whoosh..."As soon as the trembling sound of the bowstring sounded, more than fifty arrows flew out of the string with a slight whistle that broke through the air, and flew towards the iron hedgehog that had just formed in the spear array.