Chapter 124: Kong Youde's Shock
Yu Jiajun's war horses are not gelding, and they maintain a certain wildness, which plays a very important role in their strength on the battlefield, but it also brings some negative effects, that is, these war horses are not very honest, if they do not cooperate well with the rider, it is difficult for the rider to control them.
In addition, the Yu family has a lot of firearms, and firearms are their main weapons on the battlefield, and if there is no specially trained war horse, it is easy to be frightened by the sound of guns and cannons, causing accidents that startle horses.
Therefore, these war horses, during training, will often be lit by the cavalry of the Yu family army, and firecrackers will be set off near them to exercise their adaptability to the sound of explosions, so these war horses have long been adapted to this dense and huge sound of guns, and no war horses appear frightened.
But on the rebel side, it is obvious that the war horses have not undergone such comprehensive training, and during the charge just now, when they were fired by the platoon artillery, some startled horses appeared, and some war horses were frightened, and no longer obeyed the call of the riders, jumping around on the battlefield, or scurrying around without obeying the call, disrupting some enemy formations.
Even individual cavalrymen, because they were caught off guard, were thrown off their horses, and there were not a few who fell to death on the spot, and many rebel cavalry were broken on the spot, lying on the ground either waiting to be trampled to death, or waiting for someone to save them.
But at this time, these people took advantage of it, lying on the ground without being killed by the guns of the Yu family's army, just waiting for the Yu family's army to clean up the battlefield and capture them alive.
When Yu Xiaotian gave the order, the cavalrymen of the two cavalry companies immediately did not say a word, turned over their horses in response to the order, and with a roar, they bypassed the large formation from behind the large formation and chased wildly towards the rebel rout.
At this time, the entire cavalry company, including the war horses, was actually a little tired after a day of fierce fighting, but at this time, their morale reached its peak, and they all cheered loudly, urging the war horses vigorously and chasing the rebels.
Seeing that the cavalry began to dispatch to pursue the enemy, Meng Fei hurriedly ordered to stop firing, and ordered the light infantry of the skirmish company to start breaking away from the battle formation and marching towards the battlefield, taking the initiative to enter the battlefield to clean up the battlefield, seize the enemy's equipment, capture prisoners, collect loot, and collect the war horses that had lost their masters.
The cavalry of the Yu family army was like a dark cloud, swept across the battlefield, and chased the rebels in the past, and this chase was more than ten miles away, until they themselves felt that the war horse was about to lose their strength, and the cavalry company ended the pursuit, holding a large number of prisoners, and began to turn back to the main formation.
In this battle, Chen sometimes brought a total of more than 1,700 rebel cavalry, but only less than 700 people escaped, and the rest were lost on the battlefield, including Chen Shi himself, who was also killed on the spot by Yu's army, and the losses were very heavy.
In this battle, the Yu family army had almost no losses, and they didn't dare to say that the losses were zero, but they were basically negligible, but they successfully annihilated nearly a thousand elite cavalry of the rebels, captured more than 400 people, collected three or four hundred unwounded horses, and captured a large number of enemy armor, and the biggest gain was to kill the rebel general Chen Shishi.
This battle can be described as a real victory, and it is also the most beautiful battle fought by Yu's army after it arrived at the boundary of Laizhou, and this battle is not an encounter with the enemy's weak brigade, but a battle with the rebels' most elite cavalry, and finally won the battle and achieved a great victory.
This time, the morale of the Yu family army has been raised to a new height, although when I came, I heard many people say how powerful the rebels were, which also had a little impact on them, so that some of the generals had a little fear of the rebels in their hearts.
But after this battle, all these fears have been swept away, and the rebels are counting, this sentence has become their mantra, isn't the rebels very bullish? But compared with their Yu family army, it is simply scum, and it is still a very scumbag kind, at this time, there is no one who is still afraid of the rebels, one by one, just waiting for the soldiers to arrive at the city of Laizhou, and then go to clean up the rebels, so that they can really taste the power of the Yu family army.
That night, Yu Xiaotian did not order to continue the march, but immediately set up a large camp on the spot, the camp was filled with a smell of horse meat that night, the rebels' war horses also suffered heavy losses in this battle, were killed and wounded hundreds of war horses, wounded horses are worthless, so they were immediately slaughtered, the meat was pickled, for later consumption.
The dead horses were also collected, skinned and cleaned, and even the internal organs were not wasted, except for some of the horse bones that were boiled into soup, and some of the horse meat was boiled directly, so that the officers and soldiers could eat it for a long time, and the rest could not be eaten for the time being, and they brought a large amount of salt with the army, all of which were salted with large salt, and put into special wooden barrels for storage, which will be eaten by the soldiers for a long time in the future.
Therefore, for the victor's side, war is always an act of profit, and if you win, you will have good food and drink, and you can also be rewarded and meritorious, but if you lose, I'm sorry, you can't eat fart, and you have to take your life.
Different from the elated Yu Jiajun was the mood of Kong Youde's rebels that night, the rebels fell into a state of shock, Kong Youde was very sure that he sent Chen Shi to pursue the cavalry of the Fujian soldiers, in his opinion, even if Chen sometimes killed not only these Fujian cavalry, but at least there would be no trouble.
But who would have thought that Chen was sometimes so arrogant that he took only more than 1,000 cavalry to attack the large array of the Fujian army, and when it was dark, the remnants of his defeated soldiers were able to flee back to the rebel camp and report the news to Kong Youde.
Kong Youde almost vomited blood on the spot, Chen is sometimes a general under his command, and he is quite valued and trusted, and Chen sometimes fights bravely and dares to move forward with his life, which is considered a general he relies on the most.
But he didn't expect that after he sent Chen Shi, it was a farewell, and Chen Shi was so gone, dying in front of the Fujian officers and soldiers.
Kong Youde inquired in detail about the rebel generals who fled back, and in the afternoon they fought with the soldiers and horses led by Yu Xiaotian, and when he heard the description of the whole battle by the rebel generals, Kong Youde was even more stunned.
In his opinion, even if Chen is sometimes killed in battle, the more than 1,000 elite cavalry he led can at least cause considerable damage to the officers and troops under Yu Xiaotian's department, even if they can't defeat these Fujian soldiers, at least they can break their muscles and bones, and then they will not be able to fight again.
However, after listening to the accounts of the soldiers who had fled back, he realized that his idea was ridiculous, and that the soldiers and horses led by Chen sometimes passed by, and they were beaten without even touching the enemy, and hundreds of people, including himself, were on the way to the charge, and those who were beaten by the enemy's artillery turned on their backs and died in front of the battle.
Chen sometimes died, the soldiers and horses led by him naturally collapsed on the spot, and then the officers and soldiers of the Xiaotian Department dispatched the cavalry to start the pursuit, and as a result, the rebel cavalry of the Chen Dynasty was defeated, and was chased by the enemy for more than ten miles, almost annihilated, the loss of nearly 1,000 horses, and the casualties of the soldiers were nearly 1,000 people captured.
It was not until this time that Kong Youde found that he despised Yu Xiaotian and the Fujian official army led by him too much, which Yu Xiaotian's department, from the mouth of the soldiers who fled back, he learned an important situation, that is, these Fujian officers and soldiers were equipped with an excessive number of firearms, even more than the firearms they were equipped with, and more than one or two times.
Moreover, the quality of these guns in the hands of these Fujian officers and soldiers is also very good, the cannons can hit far away, accurately, and quickly, and in large quantities!
And they have a special bird gun in their hands, with a range of up to two or three hundred paces, this bird gun has a very long range, and it hits very accurately, and what is even more terrifying is that this bird gun fires a gun shell, which has a very strong penetrating power, and he examines the body of a rebel cavalryman who died after fleeing from his wounds, and makes people dig out a lead bullet from his wound.
This kind of lead bullet is not round, I can't see what shape it is, because after the lead bullet penetrated the soldier's armor, it entered his body, and it has been strictly deformed, flat and somewhat fragmented, and the wound damage is very strict, and it can also be seen that this kind of gun bullet has a very strong penetrating power, and this soldier who was seriously injured and died wore an iron armor on his body, and the iron armor was pierced on the spot, leaving a round hole.
Therefore, this kind of long-range bird gun in the hands of the Fujian soldiers is very powerful, and it can easily take the life of the enemy general from a hundred steps away, which is simply bad news for him, what kind of bird gun can be so powerful, he can't think of a reason why he wants to break his head.
According to the letter sent by Chen Guangfu to him at that time, in the county seat of Muping, in a village called Xishan Village, there was also such a bird in the hands of the village warriors who practiced the township, which could take people's lives 200 steps away, or even 300 steps away.
At that time, none of them believed that this was true, but they greatly despised Chen Guangfu, and almost Li Jiucheng took Chen Guangfu down and punished him, but fortunately, Chen Guangfu later led his troops east and captured Wendeng County, which exempted him from responsibility.
According to Chen Guangfu at that time, the staff of Xishan Village over there came back from the south, and it is rumored that the kind of bird gun in his hand was bought from the south.
In this way, the news on both sides confirms it, and we can know that somewhere in the south now, there are indeed people who have created this kind of sharp bird gun that can take people's lives two or three hundred steps away, and now it is still mass-produced, which is much more powerful than the ordinary bird gun they have in their hands now.