Chapter 655: Watching the Battle
Fifty thousand taels of silver, although it is a lot for North Korea, which is unable to make ends meet...... However, you can still get it out by squeezing it.
Besides, there is really no silver, and I can still use Korean ginseng, which the Haw Par Army likes very much......
As for the second condition, for Ren Zu, it couldn't be simpler.
If the Haw Par Army was really so powerful, even the cavalry several times its size could easily wipe it out. Needless to say, Ren Zu also returned to the country as soon as he returned and used all his financial resources to form a new army......
Therefore, for the conditions proposed by Chen Ming, Ren Zu nodded and agreed without thinking about it......
Chen Ming's inference was not wrong, when the eight hundred Houjin cavalry successfully brought back tens of thousands of catties of sea salt and gold and silver finances worth tens of thousands of taels of silver. Huang Taiji's face directly showed an unprecedented relaxed smile.
Huang Taiji, who was in a good mood, added an official to Fan Wencheng and rewarded him with finances, and at the same time, under Fan Wencheng's construction, he did not hesitate to send a second cavalry to continue to plunder deep into Korea......
Not only that, after being encouraged by the first successful raid, Huang Taiji, who was slowly confident, directly increased the number of cavalry participating in the raid from 1,000 to 2,000.
In Huang Taiji's opinion, two thousand iron horsemen will definitely be able to bring back more sea salt......
In this case, he only needs to launch two raids a month to obtain enough sea salt from North Korea to use Houjin......
However, what Huang Taiji didn't expect was that the two thousand Zhenghuang Banner elites he had drawn had not yet attacked. was targeted by the 500 musketeers who stayed in North Korea. And Huang Taiji is destined to be in the hands of the Tiger and Par Army again......
Two thousand high-morale Tartars. Just entered North Korea. He exposed his whereabouts.
At the time when two thousand Tartars were plundering the territory of Korea. 500 musketeers, with the cooperation of 1,000 Korean troops, were building blocking positions on the road through which the Tartars must retreat......
Of course, this line of defense is not different from the blocking positions of later generations, and consists of trenches.
Rather, it consisted of earthen walls five feet high and three feet wide, plus five feet deep. The ditches are one foot wide, staggered and composed......
For the defense line that is slowly forming in front of them, those North Koreans who have been training in cold weapons are not only puzzled.
Because, in their eyes, these earthen walls, which are no higher than their chests, cannot stop the attack of the Tartars at all.
Instead of repairing a few of these earthen walls that do not have much effect, it is better to build a wall directly on the official road, which will penetrate deep into the Houjin Tartars of Korea. Completely blocked in the territory of North Korea.
However, their ideas are wonderful. If you want to achieve it, it is impossible.
Not to mention how long it will take to build a city wall, even if the city wall is completed, whether it can stop them is still a big question. After all, the Tartars are a people who once lived in the mountains...... When the official road is blocked, they can completely bypass these card changes from the mountains......
The only price to pay is that the salt and finances that he has worked so hard to loot in North Korea must be abandoned......
And the defense line that Chen Ming is building does not have these problems......
The Koreans believed that these lines of defense could not hold back the Tartar cavalry, let alone the Houjin Tartars, who boasted of being invincible in the world......
When they saw this line of defense, their first reaction must be that as long as the troops attack with all their might, it will not take long for them to break through this line of defense......
In this case, the Tartars will have a steady stream of attacks on the defensive line.
The five hundred musketeers, protected by these lines, continued to shoot them until they were completely lost, or they retreated......
Of course, these tactics and tactics are not something that ordinary North Korean officers and soldiers can comprehend and know.
Five hundred musketeers, plus hundreds of Korean generals who came to watch the battle at the special request of Ren Zu, finally received the news that the two thousand Golden Tartars had begun to retreat after holding on to this defensive line for two days......
Two thousand tartars, four thousand war horses, plus countless sea salt, grain, finances......
Along the official road of Korea winding through the mountains, all the way to the defense line where the five hundred musketeers were located......
On the battlefield, in the face of the blocking position that suddenly appeared in front of them, they did not know that there were Tartars of the Tiger and Leopard Army hidden behind the earthen wall, and looking at the earthen wall in front of them, which was no more than five feet high, everyone's face showed a smile full of mockery.
In their eyes, an earthen wall of this height had no effect at all, except for a little slowing down their reunion speed.
So, the Tartars, who had this idea, sent a Niu Lu without thinking about it, and killed them on the battlefield with lightning speed......
"There are more than two hundred cavalry, and the Tartars look down on us too much......" The regiment commander Chen Ming, who also flashed a sneer at the corner of his mouth, said with a mocking expression.
Then, he ordered to his subordinates......
"In order to avoid exposing the strength in advance, the main force of the Tartars was scared away...... We can only send a maximum of one musket company, and we can't use artillery yet...... Order, a company of muskets, immediately enter the position and repel the Tartar attack ......"
More than a hundred musketeers rushed to the front line of the scene without the slightest hesitation.
Faced with this situation, all the North Korean generals who were watching the battle believed that the Haw Par Army's actions were not intended to commit suicide.
In their cognitive world, there had never been a pure infantry without even a city wall that could block an attack twice the full force of their own cavalry.
Therefore, as soon as Chen Ming's military order was issued, some North Korean generals couldn't help but speak, hoping that Chen Ming could increase his troops on the front-line battlefield.
However, these Jianyì, without exception, were rejected by the confident Chen Ming.
In Chen Ming's words, today I want to pass this battle and tell these North Korean generals that the combat effectiveness of the firearms unit is far beyond their imagination.
The way the firearms units fought was also beyond their imagination......
Just when the generals of the North Korean army shook their heads at Chen Ming's refusal.
On the battlefield hundreds of steps away, there was already a thunderous sound of the hooves of war horses.
More than 200 Tartar iron horsemen, like a sharp sword that emitted a cold light outward, pierced the area with muskets with no more than 150 troops at an increasing speed.
Three hundred steps, two hundred and fifty steps, two hundred steps......
When the Tartars had rushed through a third of the charge in the blink of an eye, the musketeers behind the first earthen wall, as if they had not seen the cavalry, raised their muskets unmoved, and prepared to shoot......
One hundred and fifty steps...... The mighty Tartar cavalry had just entered the range of muskets, and a burst of gunfire began to sound on the battlefield.
Less than forty muskets, at the same time shot lead bullets forward.
Subsequently, more than a dozen Tartar cavalrymen who were at the forefront of the charge fell from their horses with an incredible face and were shot.
The first round of gunfire had just been fired, and the second, and even the third, rounds of gunfire were fired on the battlefield one after another.
After three rounds of buckshot were fired, the Tartars who fell on the way to the charge were already more than forty people.
Although under the cover of these dead Tartars, the remaining Tartars rushed forward again thirty paces away. However, the musketeers, who had just fired the first round of lead bullets, had reloaded and were ready to shoot......
Gunfire rang out, and a new round of slaughter began on the battlefield again...... (To be continued......) R1292