Chapter 283

The battle quickly entered a state of hand-to-hand combat, relying on the slight numerical advantage brought by long-range sniping, two thousand Ulzhou soldiers were entangled in the cavalry that rushed into the formation, and the fire guns were protected and surrounded by a large number of Ulzhou soldiers, constantly pouring lead sand towards the Tartar soldiers and horses; But the Ulzhou soldiers on the periphery also paid a painful price, where the horse's hooves were stepped, the scimitar was swung high, pieces of flesh and blood flew sideways, and the heads flew into the air with a cavity of blood.

The advantage of the Tartar soldiers on the horse is really not small, the people who sit on horseback all the year round, relying on their unique advantages mercilessly harvest the lives of the Ming army around them, after entering the hand-to-hand combat, the battle losses of both sides are disproportionate, and each Tartar cavalry killed, it will cost the lives of two or three Ming soldiers.

Jiang Bin rode his horse back and forth, his eyes spewing with anger, and he cursed and shouted: "Keep in formation, make a group of three, and cut off the horse's legs." Damn, how do you practice in battle formations on weekdays. ”

However, the Ulzhou soldiers were already remnants, and the basic queue battle had long been messy, and yesterday's big battle had lost too many melee soldiers, and there were many who were good at using bows and arrows, and they could not organize a three-man battle formation to deal with the cavalry anyway.

But Jiang Bin's shouting reminder still worked, once the attack was changed to attacking the war horse, the shape shì immediately got some stability, a long spear pierced into the belly of the horse, and the war horse neighed and fell at the same time, the knight on the horse also had to accept the down-to-earth reality, but lost the flexibility and condescending advantage of the horse, they were not opponents at all in front of the Ming army.

Even if the Ming army was hit hard by the Tartar soldiers on horseback while dealing with the horses, the battle situation between the two sides was basically even, and the number of both sides decreased sharply, just like a pair of chess. Over time, there were only a thousand cavalry left in the first wave of the Tartars, and most of them lost their horses; More than half of the Ming army was also killed, and less than 1,500 of the 2,000 remnants plus 1,000 Shenji battalion firecrackers could now stand on the battlefield.

It was a grinding-style battle, and the Ming army resisted the first wave of attacks with firearms, bows and arrows, and a fierce and fearless force.

However, with the urging horn, the earth began to tremble again, and the bloodied Ming soldiers looked north in fear, a large wave of black and oppressive Tartar cavalry was already dozens of paces away, and the second wave of Tartar cavalry arrived as scheduled.

Facing little resistance, the second wave of Tartar cavalry entered the flock like tigers, joined the warband, quickly took control of the situation, and began a one-sided harvest.

Song Nan was covered in blood in several places, and several times he dodged the fatal blow with the protection of bear skin armor, and the Tartar soldiers who died under Song Nan's hands were also close to double digits; But the second wave of Tartar's charge arrived, and Song Nan understood that he couldn't resist it. The Ulzhou soldiers in front fell like stubbles cutting leeks, and the hope that the first wave of the attack could be defused almost unharmed with powerful long-range firepower was shattered, and the second wave was overwhelmingly unstoppable.

"Brother Jiang, retreat, drag and fight." Song Nan roared.

Jiang Bin spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm and roared hoarsely: "You go, I will live and die with my brothers." ”

Jiang Bin knew very well that Song Nan's retreat order was aimed at the seven or eight hundred Shenji battalion firecrackers who still had mounts, and they could still turn around and release their guns after turning their horses' heads, but for Ulzhou Weibu, the order to evacuate was an empty word to them, they could only face the Tartar cavalry, even if they turned around, they would be pierced by the Tartars' spears from the back of the heart, and then trampled under the feet by the horses' hooves.

Song Nan gritted his teeth and waved his hand, and the firecrackers quickly retreated and broke away, turning around and shooting out a row of lead sand, knocking dozens of Tartar soldiers off their horses; Seeing that Jiang Bin led hundreds of Ulzhou soldiers to fight hard in the encirclement, and the number of people was getting smaller and smaller, Song Nan had to turn his horse's head and rush back, although he knew that this move would cost him his life, but Song Nan still didn't think too much about it.

There were only 300 remnants left in Ulzhou, no one cried in horror, no one complained about the sky, everyone pursed their lips and gritted their teeth to greet the Tartars, and when the Tartars' blades pierced their bodies, they died silently without a sound.

This is their fate, as soldiers, they have to go to the battlefield, and when they go to the battlefield, they have to be ready to die, maybe they also have dreams in their hearts, and they also have infinite imaginations for the future, but at this time, this qiē has disappeared without a trace.

"Brother, why did you come back?" Seeing Song Nan riding his horse back, Jiang Bin sighed.

Song Nan's dark face almost didn't see facial features, and when he grinned and grinned, a row of small white teeth was very eye-catching: "I have already said that if I want to die, I will choose to die with my brothers in Ulzhou, this is my promise." ”

Jiang Bin nodded, and Song Nan marked another label in his mind: bloody.

"Okay, you and my brother and the six thousand brothers of Ulzhou Wei are on the road together, but they are not lonely." Jiang Bin grinned, it was a blessing to have a brother as a companion when he died.

Song Nan raised his eyebrows, waved his knife and shouted: "Kill!" "Rode up and cut in two a Tartar soldier who had just pulled his spear out of the chest of the Ming army.

"Good skills." Jiang Bin praised. Raising his hand, he pulled out a spear from the ground and stabbed it with a roar, the spear pierced through the chest of a Tartar soldier and lifted him all over, and the tip of the spear stabbed back into the chest of a Tartar soldier, forming a human skewer.

"You're not bad." Song Nan laughed, Jiang Bin was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a loud noise that shook the earth, and a huge mushroom cloud rose up behind the Tartar cavalry, and the ears of the people who were shaking with a huge sound were about to be deaf.

"Boom, boom, boom." There were seven or eight huge explosions in succession in the cavalry group behind the Tartars, and the stumps and severed arms of men and horses flew into the air, and mud and stone and flesh fell all over the sky, like a rainstorm of mud and stone and flesh.

Everyone on the battlefield was stunned, and everyone forgot that they were going to fight to the death, and they all turned their heads to give each other questioning glances.

Song Nan reacted quickly and said with great joy: "This is the heavy artillery of the Shenji Battalion, General Zhankou has arrived, and the reinforcements have arrived." ”

"What General Zhankou?" Jiang Bin was a little confused.

"The heavy artillery equipped with the Shenji Battalion, the muzzle is as big as a lamp, firing huge gunpowder shells, and a large area is bombarded several miles away." Song Nan shouted excitedly.

As if to corroborate Song Nan's words, there was a loud cry from the south, Zhang Lun's evacuated cavalry went and returned like a violent wind, and the flags behind the cavalry were overwhelming, and the sound of neat running almost shook the ground of the valley, that was the nine thousand infantry of the Fenwu Battalion and the Shenji Battalion.

At the front of the ranks, more than a dozen war-drawn black and heavy cast bronze cannons 'General Zhankou' fired cannonballs at the rear of the Tartar cavalry from time to time, and each shell fell into the enemy group and set off a rain of mud and blood, blowing up more than a dozen Tatar cavalrymen, and the power was really terrifying.

"If it's true, then what are you waiting for, kill." Jiang Bin was overjoyed and roared loudly.

The remaining more than 200 remnants of Ulzhou woke up as if in a dream, and one by one they roared all day long like stimulants, and under the leadership of Jiang Bin and Song Nan, they violently launched a counterattack; The stunned Tartar soldiers calmed down and wanted to kill all the more than 200 guys who were not able to measure themselves, but at this time, the horn of withdrawal came from the large battalion in the rear.

The bald man screamed on his horse, but there was nothing he could do, and when the first shell fell into the cavalry, he knew that something was wrong, and the third wave of cavalry he led had just stepped into the battlefield, and a cannonball fell to his side and tossed him and his horse to the ground, and when the guards dug him out of the mud pit, he was surrounded by broken legs and stumps.

This is the artillery fire of the Ming army, bald and fierce can know that this is artillery fire, there are a few of these guys in the cities of Datong Xuanfu, and their own soldiers and horses have also suffered from these giant cannons, this is not a key town pass, the only reason for the heavy artillery is that the main force of the Ming army has arrived, and the wisest choice at the moment is to withdraw the troops quickly.

The horn of withdrawal sounded, the Tatar cavalry turned the horse's head and fled north like a lost dog, the defeat was like a mountain, and the tail of the tens of thousands of Ming soldiers chased and killed, bald and fierce could not think about anything else, and adopted the method of forced evacuation, nearly 10,000 Tatar cavalry relied on their foot power to quickly pull to the gourd-shaped pass of the Great Wall.

But the trouble is that the pass is narrow, the march on weekdays is still too congested, and at this moment the defeat and retreat is even more congested and difficult to pass, tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry are blocked here, retreating at a speed of 2,000 per hour to the grassland at the southern foot of Daqingshan outside the pass; The Ming army brigade chased to the outside of the gourd type of pass, and quickly occupied the peaks on both sides, and the musket and heavy artillery of the Shenji battalion bombarded repeatedly, and the archers under the cover of a large number of infantry fired with all their might, so that the Tartar cavalry suffered a catastrophe.

The Tartar cavalry was not willing to sit back and wait for destruction, and the thousands of cavalry in the rear turned around and fought to the death, but in front of the well-equipped and numerous Ming army, it seemed futile, and the counterattack to the front had been killed by the Ming army's arrows and firearms due to the dense formation, and soon fell into the vast sea of the Ming army after entering hand-to-hand combat.

The battle lasted from mid-afternoon until dusk, and the bald warriors led 5,000 cavalry to withdraw from the pass and fled wildly, while the rest of the Tartar cavalry was wiped out.