Chapter 736: Shock
"Don't panic, rush forward, as long as you rush into the camp of the Ming army, we will win." Facing the Kansai cavalry, whose charging formation had become a little chaotic, Dogge gritted his teeth and shouted, "Anyone who kills a Ming soldier will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!" ”
The so-called people die for money, birds die for food, in Duoge's view, the best way to inspire the morale of the army is to hang a heavy reward, in Kansai ten taels of silver is a lot of wealth.
This time, the Kwanti army marched eastward, burned and looted in the Beizhili area, and harvested a lot of spoils, so the reward of ten taels of silver was already a piece of cake for the leaders of the seven guards of the Kansai region, if they could defeat the firearms of the Ming army this time, those leaders would rather give a higher reward.
The reason is very simple, don't look at the Kwantan army this time to rob a lot of property, but since Li Yuntian led the Liaodong Ming army into the customs, those belongings have become a mirror, and if they want to take it away, they can only defeat the Ming army.
However, from the current situation, it seems that it is really whimsical to defeat the Ming army, and even the Tatars and Warat have been defeated, and the Kwantan army alone is not the opponent of the Ming army.
Therefore, if they want to take away those belongings, the only chance for the Kansai army is to defeat the firearms troops under Li Yuntian, as long as Li Yuntian fulfills his promise, then they can return to Kansai with those spoils, even if they can't bring it all back, they can find a way to keep some of it, after all, they defeated the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will not embarrass them much.
"Kill them!" At the instigation of Doge, the Kwansai cavalry regained their spirits and rushed to the positions of the musket and artillery battalions with shouts.
Li Yuntian noticed this scene and found that the momentum of the Kansai cavalry was mobilized again, and he couldn't help but shake his head secretly, perhaps only those who have experienced it personally will know the horror of firearms.
Bang, bang, bang......
Then, there was another series of muffled sounds from the artillery battalion, and the white eyes produced by the firing of shells rose in clusters.
After hearing the sound of artillery, Doge's face on the march couldn't help but change, he never expected that the second round of artillery bombardment by the Ming army would be so fast, and at this time, the Kansai cavalry was still more than a mile away from the Ming army's camp.
Subconsciously, Dogge slowed down the speed of his horses, he didn't want to die under this round of shelling by the Ming army.
Boom, when the first shell fell, several cavalrymen who were affected by the explosion screamed and fell off their horses, and were soon overwhelmed by the galloping cavalry behind, leaving no time to wail.
As more and more shells fell to the ground, many of the charging Kansai cavalry were overturned to the ground by the violent explosion, and the scene was full of dirt and blood.
In the face of this round of artillery bombardment by the Ming army, the Kansai cavalry obviously panicked, and scattered to avoid it due to fear, which made the formation in the charge suddenly become chaotic.
"Separate, attack their wings!" Dogg looked at the panicked cavalry around him, and couldn't help but be secretly anxious in his heart, shouting loudly.
Under the shouting orders of officers at all levels, the chaotic formation of the Kansai cavalry finally stabilized, and then split into two and slashed towards the two wings of the musket battalion and the artillery battalion.
Li Yuntian's eyes showed a look of regret, after two rounds of artillery bombardment, he was able to stabilize his position so quickly, it seems that this time the Kansai Seven Guards used elite cavalry, but unfortunately, most of these cavalry may die here.
Although Dog's tactics of attacking the two flanks of the Ming army seemed to avoid the fire of the musket battalion head-on, because Li Yuntian placed the strength of a musket battalion on each flank, the Kwanti cavalry actually did not reduce the firepower of the musket battalion after being divided into two attacks.
Moreover, since the Kansai cavalry had to bypass the musket battalion in front, the distance traveled by the guide zhì was greatly increased.
In this way, not only did the musketeers of the musket battalion be given time to adjust their formation, so that the musketeers on the front were methodically reinforced to both sides, but also sufficient time was given to the artillery battalion for shelling, which was definitely not good news for the Kansai cavalry.
When the third round of artillery fire fell in the middle of the Kansai cavalry charging towards the musket battalion on the left and right, the formation of the Kansai cavalry became extremely chaotic, and the cavalry rushed towards the position of the musket battalion in a chaotic manner.
Bang, bang, bang......
When the Kansai cavalry rushed to a hundred and fifty meters in front of the musket battalion position, the sound of fried beans came from the musket battalion position.
Although this distance has exceeded the effective range of the arquebus of 100 meters, and the lethality of the projectile is not enough to kill people, the charging speed of the Kansai cavalry is very large, which makes the projectile have a very large relative speed against the Kansai cavalry, and it can still kill the Kansai cavalry.
With the sound of gunfire, the Kansai cavalry and horses that rushed to the front were like wheat harvested by a sickle, and a large piece of hula fell down, which made the cavalry behind unable to dodge, and stepped on the cavalry and horses that fell to the ground in front, and the formation was suddenly chaotic.
Because Timur and the senior generals of the Kwanti Army were watching the battle on the hills, they clearly witnessed the scene of the Kwanti cavalry rushing in front of them being shot and falling to the ground, and they were stunned one by one.
In front of the arquebuses firing one after another, the charging Kansai cavalry was like encountering an invisible wall, and they were stubbornly blocked more than a hundred meters in front of the musket battalion, and every step forward seemed very difficult.
Not only the arquebus, but also the artillery of the artillery battalion launched free fire, attacking and adjusting the muzzle to attack the Kwantai cavalry three or four hundred meters away, which made the Kwantong cavalry be bombed to hide in the east and run around, thus effectively relieving the pressure of the musketeers.
"Alas!" Looking at more and more Guanxi cavalry who fell in a pool of blood, Li Yuntian sighed helplessly, if it wasn't for the fact that he really didn't want to kill here.
Although the Bison River gathered more than 100,000 troops, it was silent at this time, and everyone looked at the battle in the field with a look of astonishment.
It was not so much an engagement as a massacre, and in front of the musketeers and artillerymen, the Kansai cavalry simply had no power to fight back, and could not even touch the musketeers of the musket battalion.
Not only the soldiers of the Kansai Army, but even the soldiers of the Ming Army were shocked by the scene in front of them, although some Ming soldiers participated in the battle of the Tiger Skin Battalion, but at that time they were on the battlefield and did not see the scene of arquebuses and Franc cannons attacking the Mongolian cavalry, and now they are shocked after clearly witnessing the power of arquebuses and Fran cannons.
Finally, the gunfire and artillery fire stopped, and the scene fell into a deathly silence.
A hundred meters in front of the musket camp was littered with the corpses of Kansai cavalry and horses, and the blood flowed from the ground, and the air was filled with a thick smell of blood, which made people shudder.
Under the gaze of the people, more than 100 Kwanti cavalrymen turned their horses and ran in the direction of the Kwansai Army, all with frightened expressions and bloodless faces, they had been frightened by the attack of the musket battalion and the artillery battalion just now and lost the will to fight, and now they just wanted to escape from this terrible place.
"It's a massacre!" Mu Lun looked at the Kansai cavalry who fell in a pool of blood with a solemn expression, and said secretly in his heart, it was hard for him to imagine that the three thousand elite Kansai cavalry had not even seen the face of the Ming army's firearms troops, and they were wiped out by the Ming army's firearms in an instant, except for the slaughter, he really couldn't think of using the second word to describe it.
"Oh~~" After the initial silence, the Ming army camp on the north side of the Bison River erupted in a tsunami-like cheer, warmly celebrating the victory of the musket battalion and the artillery battalion, to be honest, no one expected that the musket battalion and the artillery battalion would achieve a perfect victory.
The soldiers of the Uliangha tribe felt a burst of joy at this time, they were the only one of the three Mongolian soldiers in the Ming army that did not clash with the Ming army under Li Yuntian, so they all felt a little afraid after witnessing the power of the Ming army's firearms unit.
The Kansai army south of the Bison River was enveloped in an atmosphere of fear, the soldiers looked frightened and bloodless, and what happened under their noses before made them suffer a strong visual and psychological impact, easily breaking their psychological defenses, making them lose the courage to fight against the Ming army.
Obviously, even the most elite troops of the Kwantai Army were killed without even a chance to resist in front of the Ming firearms troops, so if they fought with the Ming firearms troops, they would be sent to death in vain.
This is exactly the purpose of Li Yuntian to launch this battle, he wants to defeat the Guanxi army in one fell swoop psychologically, forcing the leaders of the Guanxi Seven Guards to obediently go to the capital to ask Emperor Xuande for their guilt, and it will also make the Guanxi Seven Guards honestly defend the western frontier for the Ming Dynasty in the next few years.
In the cheers of the Ming soldiers, Li Yuntian suddenly felt a chill on his forehead, and when he looked up, small snowflakes fell from the sky, and the first snow of this winter finally fell.
"Back to camp!" Li Yuntian stretched out his hand to take a small snowflake, watched it melt in the palm of his hand, and then gave an order in a deep voice, turned the horse's head and returned to the Ming army camp, today's matter is over, and the next thing is to see how the leader of the Seven Guards of Kansai makes a choice.
Heavy snow fell for a day and a night, the whole Beizhili has become a pink and jade ice and snow world, people often say that the snow is a good year, perhaps this means that Beizhili has bid farewell to the war-torn days, will usher in a happy and beautiful tomorrow.
On the second day after the heavy snow stopped, Timur led the leaders of the Seven Guards of the Guanxi to the camp of the Ming army to meet Li Yuntian, and after careful deliberation, they decided to follow Li Yuntian to the capital to ask Emperor Xuande for his guilt, and severely punish the officers and soldiers of the Guanxi Army who committed crimes in Beizhili, and return the plundered spoils.
The reason why these high-ranking generals of the Kansai Army made this choice was purely helpless, because after the incident on the Bison River, the morale of the Kansai Army was low, and both officers and soldiers had a fear of war.
To tell the truth, there were also people in the Kansai Army who were proud of dying on the battlefield and were not afraid of dying on the battlefield, but no one wanted to lose their lives in vain without even seeing the face of their opponents, and they were sent to death on the battlefield.
Therefore, the senior generals of the Kwantan Army actually had no other way to go, and they had no choice but to mention the mention of Li Yuntian in the big battalion, and if they rashly started a war with the Ming army, they would definitely be defeated with one blow.
Li Yuntian immediately gave Emperor Xuande a recital, and told the senior generals of the Kwantxi Army to go to Beijing to ask for guilt, and he knew very well that for Emperor Xuande, who had lost in the pro-conquest, it was too necessary to use victory to rebuild his former prestige, which was why he wanted to let the senior generals of the Kwantxi Army go to Beijing to ask for guilt.
In order to restore the prestige of Emperor Xuande, Li Yuntian was ready to use the victory he had achieved to build momentum for Emperor Xuande, so as to offset the impact of Emperor Xuande's defeat and ensure the majesty of the great emperor.