Chapter 264: The Devil
For the 5,000-strong cavalry of the Tiger and Leopard Army, the loss of 300 men can definitely be called negligible.
So, in the face of the Tartar cavalry who had quickly put away their bows, drew their sabers, and continued to gallop towards them. The cavalry of the Tiger and Par Army, which had been hit by a round of arrows, did not show the slightest sign of panic.
In one hand he holds a fire fold that has already sparked, and in the other hand he holds a grenade with an arquebus with its tail exposed ....
When the mighty Tartar cavalry rushed forty paces in front of everyone, they quickly lit the grenade fire rope. Then, with all his might, he threw it forward...
Thousands of white smoke grenades flew out of the cavalry formation of the Tiger and Panther Army...
After drawing a beautiful arc in the air, with a slight whistling sound, it landed on the battlefield between twenty-five and forty paces in front of the position.
The grenade landed, and the inquired rope, hidden in the wooden handle, also burned to the end, igniting the granular gunpowder inside the grenade case.
A violent explosion sounded on the battlefield, and an orange-red fireball mixed with a large amount of black smoke soared out directly from the impact point and appeared on the battlefield.
As the first explosion sounded, thousands of grenades landed one after another, and they also exploded...
Balls of fire, mixed with black smoke, sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, quickly rising from the ground...
As more and more fireballs appeared on the battlefield, the first thirty paces of the Haw Par Army's position was completely covered by thick fireballs and black smoke.
At this time, the Tartar cavalry, who were galloping on their horses and preparing to give color to the tiger and leopard army with a sharp curse, had not yet reacted from the sudden shock. With a huge inertia. Rush into this firepower belt filled with a storm of death.
The real lethality of a grenade is the fragmentation. In the explosion of hundreds or thousands of grenades, even if a grenade only bursts out of ten fragments, it is tens of thousands of fragments with the smell of death.
Therefore, as soon as the shocked Tatar cavalry rushed into the smoke of gunpowder, fragments of grenades flew on the battlefield, sweeping them from all directions.
I haven't had time to make any preparations, whether it's myself in armor or the war horse under my crotch. It was pierced into a hornet's nest by the fragments of the grenades that flew in. Then, with the despair and unwillingness before death, he fell heavily to the ground.
As more and more Tartar cavalry rushed into the smoke, screaming and falling on the battlefield as corpses. More than 4,000 cavalrymen of the Tiger and Par Army have begun to throw a second round of smoke-filled grenades at the battlefield full of death in front of them.
A violent explosion sounded, and the flying fragments of grenades, like death, began to reap the lives of the Tartars.
Under the obstruction of the smoke of gunpowder, more than 4,000 cavalry officers and soldiers were unable to see the specific losses of the Tartars.
But. For such a long time, not a single Tartar cavalry rushed out of this belt of fire, which was constantly exploding. Tell these cavalry soldiers directly that the firepower belt they have constructed with grenades is more terrible than the lead bullets that have just been fired, and the damage to the Tartars will be even greater.
When the explosions stopped, the screams of the Tartars and the neighing of the horses began to reach the ears of the cavalry of the Tiger and Par Army. In the thick smoke mixed with the thick smell of blood, a few Tatar cavalry with panicked faces finally rushed out.
Immediately after that, more and more Tartar cavalry began to rush out of the smoke with two horrors and black smoke......
At this time, without the orders of their respective generals, the group of recruits, who were gradually adapting to the tense atmosphere of the battlefield, had already used the movements they had practiced for an unknown number of times, and very skillfully pulled out a spear from the horse's back with a cold light from the tip of the gun.
Clenched in his hand, the tip of his spear forward, with all his strength, he threw it at the Tartar cavalry, who was already less than twenty paces away from him.
When he finished throwing, he picked up the second throwing spear and continued to throw it at the Tartar cavalry.
Only at this time did he draw out the saber that had been hanging on his waist, and only held it in his hand, and the blade forward... The whole body is also lying on the back of the horse as much as possible, ready to fight with the Tartar at close range.
Throwing a gun is not a grenade, it also requires a series of preparations such as lighting the fire rope... As long as you hold it in your hand, you can easily throw it out.
In just a few seconds, more than 4,000 cavalry soldiers threw almost 10,000 throwing spears directly forward.
As far as the eye could see, the dense throwing spears that crossed the sky, as if it were raining, with a whistling sound, pierced the Tartar cavalry that rushed out of the smoke of gunpowder.
Under the action of huge inertia, the slender tip of the spear, which was a foot long, easily pierced into the body of the tartar with almost no great effort. What's more, the sharp spear pierced directly into the war horse under the Tartar's crotch, and then, together with the horse and people, fell heavily on the way to the charge...
In this dense rain of guns, almost none of the hundreds of cavalry who rushed out of the smoke of gunpowder first dodged.
Unlucky, there were several throwing spears stuck in a corpse....and the corpse of the Tartar who had fallen off the war horse was directly upside down on the ground, unable to move......
In the first round of musket fire from the Haw Par cavalry, the Tartar cavalry was too dense and lined up. 5,000 lead bullets, almost no bullets, directly caused actual casualties to the Tartar cavalry of more than 1,300 people.
In the next two rounds of grenade rain of the Haw Par Army cavalry, tens of thousands of grenades once again caused actual losses of almost 1,500 people to the Tatar cavalry, who could not hide.
So, when the Tartar cavalry rushed out of the thick smoke of gunpowder from the grenades. Before the start of the war, there were only 5,000 elites, but at this moment, there were only more than 2,000 people in the full battle...
And in the next two rounds of spear throwing, even if ten throwing spears hit one Tartar cavalry, tens of thousands of throwing guns can easily make thousands of Tartar cavalry lose their combat effectiveness in an instant.
Of course, under such a close attack, the hit rate of throwing guns is obviously higher than hitting one Tartar with ten throwing guns.
Therefore, the Tartar cavalry that successfully broke through the rain of spears of the Tiger and Leopard Army was full of calculations, and there were less than a thousand people left.
Not only that, but these 5,000 people were already full of fear for the Haw Par Army in front of them...
Yes, it's fear...
The less than 5,000 cavalry of the Tiger and Par Army in front of them are not the recruits mentioned by the general, but a group of devils, demons who specialize in harvesting their own lives....otherwise, they would not have been able to harvest so many warrior lives in such a short period of time...
Fear is fear, and before they get the order to retreat, all they can do is rush to the cavalry of the Tiger and Par Army, which is still five times their size, with less than a thousand cavalry...
When a close-quarters battle to test the cavalry of the Tiger and Panther Army is about to begin. On the official road about ten miles away from Zuoyun County, a group of 5,000 soldiers who were dressed in the clothes of ordinary people, but knew at a glance that they were soldiers, were rushing on foot to Zuoyun County, where 5,000 musketeers of Tartars were still stationed, under the urging of generals at all levels. (To be continued......)