Chapter 1532: Pit Daddy's Cannonball
The Cossack cavalry is too powerful, especially the Cossack cavalry after the Gustav military reform in Russia is even more powerful, whether it is a single soldier's cavalry, or a coordinated battle, or military discipline is better than the Mongolian cavalry.
Although Norbu is also brave, but the Mongolian cavalry under his command is really useless, it is okay to deal with an ordinary army, once it meets a strong enemy, it is not at a level, Norbu led the Mobei cavalry for two days and two nights, and drove more than 300 miles, which was already tired and ruthless, completely relying on a moment of blood bravery, to launch an attack on the Rakshasa soldiers, but this blood courage has already been defeated by the Cossack cavalry, and has lost its sharpness, so it is not the opponent of the Cossack cavalry!
One by one, the Mongol cavalry fell under the sabers of the Cossack cavalry, and Norbu led the cavalry to fight desperately, but could not stop the attack of the Cossack cavalry, and was defeated by Donetsov's cavalry!
At the head of Weihuo City, Duan Xuan had already seen the movement in the south, a Mongolian cavalry was killed from a distance, Duan Xuan was overjoyed, but he didn't be happy for long, he couldn't be happy anymore, thousands of Mongolian cavalry were beaten under the attack of the Cossack cavalry, and it was obvious that they were about to be unable to support it.
"I'm rubbing! What a piece of nonsense this Norbuzhen! Thousands of elite horsemen rode in front of the Cossack cavalry, and in less than half an hour after the battle, they were already beaten by others and had no power to fight back. ”
Duan Xuan shouted angrily.
"My lord, if this continues, Norbu's Mobei cavalry will definitely not be able to support it, do you think we will send troops to help and pick up Norbu?"
Li Yao on the side said to Duan Xuan.
"Sending troops? Do you want to die? ”
Duan Xuan shouted, "After more than six days of fierce fighting, our strength has been directly reduced by more than 2,000 people, and the remaining combatable strength is only a little over 5,000. ”
Now Weihuo City is the strongest fortress on the border line of the Ming Empire, more important than Kulun City, as long as Kulun City is not lost, the Rakshasa soldiers will not dare to cross the Weihuo City unscrupulously, towards the territory of the Ming Empire, this is a nail, nail here, once the Rakshasa soldiers continue to advance to the south or east, the strength of Weihuo City can cut off the back road of the Rakshasa soldiers at any time, and when the time comes, the Rakshasa soldiers will become a source of water, so Cherkov will press all his forces on Weihuo City, desperately attacking.
At this time, the Ming Empire will never be able to bear the consequences of the fall of Weihuo City, once the Rakshasa soldiers go deep into the interior, the Ming Empire is really miserable, you must know that this Rakshasa army has more than 20,000 cavalry, coming and going like the wind, once they enter the interior, it is too difficult to encircle and annihilate them.
"However, if we don't attack, the Mobei cavalry will definitely be defeated by the Cossack cavalry!"
Li Yao said urgently.
"Even if the Mobei cavalry is wiped out today, we must not go out of the city, we must defend it to the death! Well, the artillery of the southern city was ordered to bombard the southern position, and now their battlefield is only six or seven miles away from the city, and our artillery range can barely reach it! ”
Duan Xuan shouted in a deep voice, "As for whether Norbu can get rid of the Cossack cavalry and retreat, it depends on their creation......
Duan Xuan gave an order, more than ten artillery pieces in the southern city launched an artillery bombardment on the Cossack cavalry in the distance, although the distance was too far, but after all, it was able to reach, and a shell fell on the position, which brought a lot of trouble to the Cossack cavalry, and the unlucky Cossack cavalry was hit head-on by a solid bullet, and was directly smashed into meat sauce.
The Cossack cavalry was in a big mess, and they scattered to avoid the artillery fire of the head of the city, and Norbu's Mobei cavalry finally got a chance to breathe, and fought desperately, and finally separated from the Cossack cavalry.
Norbu did not dare to fight, so he led the remnants of the defeated army to run into the distance, and ran for more than thirty miles in one breath before stopping.
In just half an hour of fighting, the 6,000 cavalry suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, and the Cossack cavalry did not have the slightest temper.
"Alas......"
Norbu sighed, the cavalry left by Genghis Khan that dominated the world back then has now fallen to the point of being bullied by others, it is really tragic, fuck, only half an hour of fighting, the Mongolian cavalry has suffered nearly one-third of the troops, how can this battle be fought? The Cossack cavalry even dispatched less than half of its cavalry strength......
"Fuck, when we return to Kulen City, this king must go to the court, no matter what, we must let the court allocate a part of the muskets and artillery for us, there are no muskets and artillery, specially, we are live targets on the battlefield, and people shoot together, so our formation is disrupted......"
Norbu said through gritted teeth.
"Khan, what are we going to do next?"
Durhan on the side asked astringently.
"What can I do? We can only wait here for Lord Guo's main force of Manmeng New Town to come up, our little force rushes up, it's not enough to stuff the teeth between the Rakshasa soldiers, now I'm afraid that Wei Huo City is also crumbling, otherwise, Lord Duan will not send troops to meet us, I hope Lord Guo can catch up in time, otherwise, this time, we will be miserable......"
Norbu is looking forward to Guo Zhen's main force coming up quickly, and Duan Xuan is the same, but where can Guo Zhen's main force pounce so quickly? From Kulun to Weihuo City, the distance is more than 800 miles, even if Guo Zhen travels day and night, it will take ten days at the earliest, after all, most of the troops stationed in Kulun City are infantry, and a march of 60 miles a day is considered fast.
Guo Zhen's main force will not be able to reach Weihuo City in a short time, at least three or five days, and there is no hope of arriving there.
But in the past three or five days, an abnormal thing has killed Wei Huo Cheng!
For six or seven days, almost every day Wei Huo Cheng was using artillery to attack the Rakshasa soldiers, the consumption of shells was really not small, in a few days, Wei Huo Cheng consumed 30,000 shells, Duan Xuan had to use it, and the ammunition that was sent by the imperial court and stored in the ammunition depot was sent before.
Boxes of shells were pushed onto the city!
"Lord Duan, our ammunition has been delivered!"
Quartermaster Duan Biqing said to Duan Xuan.
"Quick, immediately dispatch, prepare to continue the artillery bombardment, and stop the Rakshasa soldiers from approaching!"
Boxes of shells were distributed to the back of the individual guns, and the shells began to be loaded and shelled!
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The cannon sounded, but, to everyone's surprise, no shells flew out, and what flew out was a pile of shrapnel and yellow mud blocks!
"Nima! What a situation! ”