Chapter 280 - The First Battle of the Cossacks (11)
"Cossack warriors, kill these Buryats!" At the command of the leader, the Cossacks again urged the war horses.
In the cavalry of the Qing army on the opposite side, facing an enemy almost twice their size, a sense of uneasiness of "hitting a stone with an egg" gradually spread...... Seeing that the army's heart was about to be shaken, a soldier finally burst out with a hearty shout:
"Qing Dynasty warriors, the will to fall into battle! Chinese Ruishi, there is no advance or retreat! ”
So, the next eighty blue-flag cavalrymen shouted in unison:
"Qing Dynasty warriors, the will to fall into battle! Chinese Ruishi, there is no advance or retreat! ”
"Qing Dynasty warriors, the will to fall into battle! Chinese Ruishi, there is no advance or retreat! ”
"Qing Dynasty warriors, the will to fall into battle! Chinese Ruishi, there is no advance or retreat! Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
This sudden increase in momentum was unexpected by the Cossacks, who were half-soldiers, half-civilians, half-officials and half-bandits. They couldn't understand what the other side was shouting, and even wondered even more: Why are these "Buryats" who were only good at rushing and killing like themselves, and who "hit if they can beat it, and run away if they can't beat it", are still so stubborn about sending them to death today, which is obviously at a disadvantage...... But the opponent's aura of seeing death as home, they are very clear.
Suddenly, before the two teams of horse armies came into contact again, the situation on the spiritual battlefield had changed fundamentally......
Where did the Cossacks know that the blue flag of this Niu Lu was the group of soldiers who were waiting for him in front of the Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower after Hongyi left the palace that day to make friends with literati and ink writers in Songzhuzhai and returned to the palace city! At that time, Xiao Xuanye had just finished reviewing the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade, and returned to the palace under the escort of Sony. Before walking through the procession of majestic guards with blue flags, he sat in a sedan chair and chanted this "military slogan" that he had invented, which left a deep impression on Wu Enqi and his men. Therefore, when they are training on weekdays, especially at the critical moment when their momentum is low, they will always shout to cheer each other up and boost morale. [See Chapter 60 - "Father and Son Affection" and Chapter 49 - "Famous Eight Banner Army"]
Today, seeing that they are suffering in numbers, some brothers have indeed begun to look ahead and backward, and I don't know which brother finally remembered the slogan of "majestic mountains and rivers", and hurriedly shouted. Really. After shouting three times in a row. Each of the brethren with the blue flag seems to have become fearless......
"Kill!"
Immediately, the Qing Dynasty Iron Cavalry also urged the war horses, and these eighty cavalrymen, led by a blue dragon flag, launched a charge forward without hesitation! The two sides are moving in the same direction and getting closer and closer. Eight hundred steps...... 500 steps...... 400 steps...... In an instant, it was less than three hundred and fifty steps!
Unexpectedly. Just when the Cossack cavalry began to swing their sabers in circles above their heads again. The "Buryats" on the opposite side, who were originally monolithic, suddenly divided into two teams, the north and the south, as if flowing water had met a rock, and they all stretched out their bows and arrows-
"Whoosh-"
"Whoosh-"
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—"
The Manchurian cavalry's habitual "cavalry archery" skills have finally shown their might! Be honest. The Eight Banners have the best archery skills among the ancient cavalry. Many people compare the Eight Banners with the Mongols, but there is not much comparison, because there are many Mongols in the Eight Banners. The cavalry archery of the Eight Banners inherited many characteristics of Mongolian cavalry archery, such as long-range angular bow shooting, and light sling-line bow shooting at close range, which are the specialties of Mongolian cavalry. However, the Eight Banners made obvious changes to the corner bow, which made the angle bow more powerful and more penetrating, and the range could reach 200 meters. An enemy standing 200 meters away can be accurately shot to death by an Eight Banners soldier with a horned bow, which is the biggest specialty of the Eight Banners.
At this time, the Cossacks had not yet widely popularized muskets, and although bows and arrows were also used, the accuracy was far worse than that of the Eight Banners. Their usual tactics are to go on a rampage and speak with their sabers. It is only when dismounting or chasing the enemy that the slightly thin and short single bow is used. Therefore, when people of later generations mention Cossack cavalry, they often think of their Cossack sabers first, and they never think of how outstanding their bows and arrows will be!
This sudden change caught the Cossacks, accustomed to charging in the center, by surprise, and the cavalrymen in the center of the cavalry could only watch their flanks go to fight the enemy alone, and they had to choose to continue to charge forward in order to turn their horses around and kill them back as soon as possible. As a result, the numerical superiority of the Cossacks instantly came to naught. Not only that, but in the confrontation in weapons, the Cossacks also fell behind.
In addition to assassination, the Qing army's Yanling knife also has a major advantage of "cutting" - far away, the blade stretched out from the side can let the war horse gallop, and the SLR touches whoever is fatal "cut"! The Cossack sabers, which have a certain arc, are the most powerful to be used to "chop" head-on, but at this time the Qing soldiers are on their side, not directly in front......
After the second round, the number gap between the two sides quickly shrank from almost fifty to less than twenty!
"Cossack warriors, spread out and fill this clearing!" The leading Cossack boss made a-for-tat change of strategy in time to defeat the enemy!
"Kill—"
"Ulla—"
In the third round, both sides were already red-eyed, and there was no need for any agitation, and the two teams collided again.
This time, although the cavalry shooting of the Qing army still had some effect on the Cossacks, it was not as obvious as the first time. At this time, tactics are no longer the key, and the two sides are only competing for the quality of individual soldiers and the quality of will......
While the medieval cavalry duel was taking place in the riverside clearing, Unqi had captured two drunken leaders of the Rakshasas! But the bad news that came with it was that he and his men of less than twenty men had been surrounded by three times the size of his Rakshasa cavalry!
Fortunately, there were hostages in hand, and the Cossacks did not dare to rashly launch a strong attack.
"The Buryats on the other side, you are so bold, how dare you kidnap our captain? Return them quickly, or you won't want to live on this land in the future! ”
A Cossack who acted as an interpreter, after receiving the instructions of his commander, urged his horse forward a few steps, shouting something in Mongolian at Unqi and the others.
It has been several months since he came to Baihar Lake, and Unqi has long understood the Mongolian language of his distant relative, the "Buryats", and naturally he can hear it clearly without an interpreter. It turned out that this group of Rakshasas had regarded their righteous Qing army as a straggler of the Buryats!
"Rakshasa bandits, you hear me clearly! We are not Buryats, but the bannermen of the Great Qing Dynasty! As for whether the Buryats can continue to live here, there is no need for you Rakshasas to worry about it, as subjects of the Qing Dynasty, we will naturally protect them from surviving in their homeland for generations! ”
"What? Who are you? "The translator was a little confused about the situation.
"We are the Blue Flag of Manchuria under the command of the Qing Emperor!" Wu Enqi first reported himself to his family, and then remembered the unified title of the Mongol tribes for the Qing Emperor, and then added: "That is, the soldiers of Bogda Chechen Khan!" ”
"Ah......" The interpreter finally figured it out, and hurriedly turned his horse's head and ran back!
"Hey—go back and tell your leader, surrender quickly, and save your dogs!" Wu Enqi lost no time in shouting again, causing the brothers behind him to laugh with Da Lu, and the tension eased for a while.
"You Buryats, who don't know whether to live or die, weren't you suffering enough from the Pishaw gun back then...... Fast...... Quickly release me, I am a friend of the great Moscow Tsar, I am a noble nobleman...... "Peter? Stroganov was a little sober and lost no time in shouting.
By this time, he had been tied up and sturdy, lying on the horse of a Qing soldier like a hunted reindeer. The dwarf Mongolian horse was too small to be weighted, and Captain Peter was so tall that the grass on the ground could barely hide his head.
"Shut up!" The Qing soldiers carrying him naturally did not understand his Rakshasa bird language, and very impatiently struck Peter on the back with the hilt of his sword. It's not an easy one, Peter? Stroganov's tears of pain flowed out, and "oh oh" cried out.
"Captain Peter, don't worry, my Cossack cavalry will definitely destroy these Buryats!" Behind the unlucky Peter, little Yermak, who was also tied up with five flowers, comforted his chief. Although he ran early, it was a pity that he still ended up.
But seeing that his Cossack cavalry was already close at hand, Yermak Jr. once again "cheered up", convinced that today was nothing more than a false alarm.
Lying on horseback, he had already secretly estimated the strength comparison between the two sides - sixty against twenty, the victory or defeat was decided! But there are more than 100 people under his command, and they should be coming. Add to this the Lithuanians and Rus, and the extermination of these crazy Buryats is definitely not a problem!
(Chapter to be continued)
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