Really.

When the supply convoy disguised as carrying baggage was attacked, the soldiers of the Jurchen tribe rushed closer, and the soldiers were forced to drop their muskets and instead use swords, shields, and spears to hold back the enemy, delaying as long as possible.

Facing the heavy encirclement of the Jurchen soldiers around them, the Ming soldiers inside leaned back to the baggage carts and began to engage in a close-range struggle with the enemy.

Although they could not effectively inflict much damage on the enemy, it was obviously difficult for the soldiers of the Jurchen tribe to inflict too much damage on these soldiers in a short period of time.

In addition, the weapons of these Jurchen soldiers are all knives, and with the cooperation of shields and spears, it is like facing a hedgehog covered in thorns.

They form a circle, and the area where they can attack is very narrow, and the superiority of their strength cannot be translated into actual damage in a short period of time.

After all, with a limited range of attacks, it is impossible to concentrate everyone here.

Only a small number of Jurchen soldiers were allowed to enter the range of the attack.

Faced with this situation, although those Jurchen soldiers wanted to kill all these Ming soldiers who were far less than them in a short period of time, they also knew that it was impossible.

Although this situation is not an irresolvable formation, in this short period of time, there are no tools and weapons that can be used by them, and they can only be surrounded in the middle and helpless.

Although you can kill some of them, after all, as long as you rush in front of the shield, the shield may not be beneficial to anyone.

But now that they have an absolute advantage, there is no need for them to fight to the death with the Ming army in this situation.

It's like if you see a pool of crocodiles in a dry pond, isn't it possible that you want to go up and fight them?

In addition, the ultimate purpose of these people is to obtain food and baggage and cut off the connection between Nuer Gandusi and the Central Plains, so there is no need for them to fight to the death with the Ming army in this situation.

Meanwhile.

Under the command of the Jurchen commander, many soldiers began to pick up dead branches and logs, preparing to set them all on fire and throw them into the Ming army, so that their front would collapse from the inside, so that their numerical superiority could be unfolded.

Although this approach may seem like a child's play, it actually works well.

As long as the ultimate goal can be achieved, any means are good on the battlefield.

Because the battlefield is life and death.

Everything is done to kill the enemy.

However, this method is good and very effective.

However, the time spent in the middle undoubtedly provided a lot of time for the Ming army in the rear.

Just when the situation on the entire battlefield was progressing step by step, the cavalry led by Zhu Zhan Yuan in the rear was galloping on the official road at a rapid pace.

The sound of horses' hooves is constantly approaching the battlefield.

Just when the torches burning on the battlefield had begun to be thrown towards the Ming army's camp, and the Ming army could only resist desperately.

The sound of thousands of troops rushing in the distance gradually attracted the attention of some people.

Just when they turned their heads and looked at the end of the official road in the distance, they saw pieces of Ming Dynasty cavalry, rushing towards the battlefield where they were.

The originally puzzled gaze also turned into shock at the moment of seeing this scene.

Just when they panicked and wanted to shout something.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

Muskets rang out.

Under the attack of this dense musket, countless Jurchen soldiers fell in a pool of blood in an instant.

Countless Jurchen soldiers who were watching a play around the Ming army's baggage squad suddenly realized that something was wrong at this time.

However, when they reacted, the cavalry army led by Na Zhu Zhan had come close in the blink of an eye.

Under those countless muskets, the Jurchen soldiers had no means to fight back.

In an instant, under the fire of these bullets, they fell in pieces.

Blood was pouring out of the wound.

Some even have their heads opened.

In a panic, no matter what kind of order the commander of the Jurchen tribe shouted, the surrounding Jurchen soldiers couldn't hear it, and they all began to rush towards the forest in a swarm.

Especially when they saw the sudden death of these people around them in such an inexplicable situation, it deepened the fear in their hearts.

In their minds, the woods are their safe zone. So the only way to escape is to hide in the woods.

Although the 1,000 men led by Zhu Zhan were all equipped with muskets, because this new type of musket still did not change its pattern of changing bullets once a shot, the offensive efficiency in a short period of time was not high.

It was impossible to inflict too much damage on those Jurchen soldiers in a short period of time, especially when they saved people's hearts, and the formation of the entire cavalry was not like the regular musketeers, lined up in a row.

You can pull the trigger of the musket in your hand with impunity.

Therefore, the power of the Ming army's musketeers could not be fully exerted in a short period of time.

In addition, although the two sides reached a distance of shooting and attacking, there was still a distance in the middle, so it was impossible to stop the escape of these Jurchen soldiers in an instant.

could only watch these people continue to flee into the forest, but the cavalry of the Ming army could not continue to pursue.

And this sudden attack, although it left the lives of many soldiers of the Maizhen tribe, the number of people who were actually killed was only more than a hundred.

This time, the number of Jurchen tribes who raided the Ming army's baggage team reached about 1,000 people.

Such casualties are nothing to them.

The reason why there was a subversive change in an instant on the battlefield was entirely because the Ming army's way of fighting with muskets was something they had never seen before.

At the same time, their main task was a surprise attack, and they never thought that they would suddenly be surrounded by so many Ming troops.

Although this battle was over in a short period of time, more than 100 people were killed on the other side.

But for this reason, the Ming army spent too much energy, and even sent a team to use as bait for this purpose.

According to Zhu Zhanji's character, he disdains to do this kind of small business at all.

While he was laying out this plan, how could he not have imagined that the soldiers of the Jurchen tribe would flee into the forest.

"Bang!"

The sound of a musket shot suddenly rang out from the depths of the woods.

At the moment of the gunshot, a soldier of the Jurchen tribe also fell to the ground.

The Jurchen soldiers, who thought they had escaped, felt their scalps tingle for a moment when they saw the people around them suddenly fall to the ground and die.

Especially after the death of this man, they panicked to investigate in the direction from which the voice came, but they could not see anything at all.

Not even the slightest shadow of the enemy was found.

All that came into view was the dense trunks and grass.

Even if they are people who have lived in this environment since childhood, it does not mean that they have the ability to locate everything here.

Nor can they see through the object itself and see everything behind it.

They were once very familiar with this kind of environment, but when they looked at it again, it was as if they had inadvertently stepped into hell.

There is a threat of death at all times.

Knowing that there must be enemies hidden around them, everyone chose to hide themselves for a split second.

This is not just happening here.

On both sides of the official road, it was staged in all directions at the same time.

But as these people suddenly hid their bodies for their own safety, they immediately forced their overall travel speed to reduce to a static state.

And at the same time.

On the official road, Zhu Zhandong, who arrived in a hurry, didn't say any nonsense, but ordered someone to send the wounded back to heal their wounds, and after leaving some people to take care of the war horses, he immediately took the musketeers around him into the woods.

A team of twenty people spread out among each other, not concentrated, and began to enter the woods in a carpet search.

In the process of searching, he did not attack as soon as he discovered the enemy, but chose to hide his own safety, and then notified the other musketeers in the squad to rush to support.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

........

The sound of muskets rang out throughout the woods, not too dense, but never stopped.

And every gunshot basically means the death of a Jurchen soldier.

These Jurchen soldiers never imagined that in this deep mountain and old forest in the northeast, in the area where they relied on hunting, they would one day change from hunters to hunted prey.

And this kind of combat method, which basically has no traces to look for and kills from a distance, forces them to have no means to deal with it.

Not to mention that they couldn't accurately find the Ming soldiers who shot in the complicated environment around them.

Even if they found the location of that person, there were Ming musketeers hidden in all directions, and as soon as they showed up, they were greeted by a bullet.

Combined with the distance in between, it was impossible for them to rush to each other's side in such a short period of time and kill each other with the broadswords in their hands.

This is the dead end!

A plan of slaughter specifically against them!

Aren't you Jurchen soldiers familiar with this environment of deep mountains and old forests?

Don't you think that if you hide here, you can rely on traps and other messy means to kill the Ming army?

Good!

Then on the battlefield you are most familiar with, you will be completely defeated!

Don't even dare to show your head!

Zhu Zhanji wants to use practical actions to tell these people that the battlefield is never where you live, but your home field.

The battlefield relies on strategy, planning, arranging troops, and strategizing....

If you think that if you live here, the Ming army will do nothing to you, then you are very wrong.

The musketeers are the kings of this era!

It can be applied to any terrain.

This is the difference of the times, and between the two, is the epoch-making difference between the war of the agricultural age and the war of the industrial age.

Any war in which the musketeers have no advantage, or even are wiped out, can only be the incompetence of the commander.

If you give him a nuclear bomb, he can also blow himself up.

As for the environmental terrain, the enemy can take advantage of it, and so can we!

It's like a shield, the enemy rushes in front of you, and it's impossible to say who this shield will help.

And all those who use the deep mountains and old forests to achieve the final victory, the key to victory is not the deep mountains and old forests, but the means of ambush in advance!

Behind it is intelligence, a competition of the speed of information dissemination.

Even in the endless steppe, if you can clearly know that the enemy army will definitely pass over this small hill above your head, then the army will ambush early, make traps and other means.

The results achieved are not necessarily smaller than those in the deep mountains and old forests.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji, who was clear about these underlying logics, did not have any psychological burden from the beginning like other generals when he heard that he had to fight with the Jurchens in the deep mountains and old forests.

At the same time, Zhu Zhanji spent so much energy to make such a show by pretending to be a ghost, not to kill the more than 100 people before, let alone to kill the Jurchen soldiers of about 1,000 people.

After all, what he Zhu Zhanji used for this was a full 5,000 musketeers.

And such a musketeer cavalry killed a full 20,000 Warat cavalry in Mobei and damaged less than 500 troops.

At the same time, killing such a team of 1,000 people will not fundamentally solve the scourge of this time.

Once this kind of trick to lure the enemy is taken out, it must be to uproot the other party.

And now, all this is in Zhu Zhanji's calculations.

Along with these nearly 1,000 Jurchen soldiers, they were trapped here by the musketeers hidden around, although the sudden sound of gunfire was constantly harvesting the lives of those Jurchen soldiers.

But there were still some Jurchen soldiers who quietly escaped from the encirclement of the Ming army.

When they escaped, it was even incredible.

But he didn't think much about it, after all, there were countless soldiers being surrounded in all directions, and it was very possible that the surrounding Ming soldiers did not accidentally find their escape.

Therefore, the first time they escaped, they did not think of attacking the Ming army, because they really didn't dare to guarantee that they would not die here because of such a stupid decision.

After they escaped, the first choice they made was to flee for their lives.

Flee to the lair of their Jurchen tribe stationed in the deep mountains and old forests.

No matter how big this deep mountain forest is, in the final analysis, they must have a large army to garrison.

Knowing that most of the clansmen did not die in the first place, the only way they could think of was to return to the camp and find more soldiers of their own clan to save them.

But their thoughts were obviously calculated by Zhu Zhanji.

Of course, this kind of thinking out of human nature is not difficult to guess.

That's what normal people do.

In this case, it is not enough to choose to turn the situation around on your own instead of running to your home to find support.

But what they don't know is that what Zhu Zhanji wants is that they do it.

Zhu Zhanji, who had not shown his figure since the beginning of this battle, finally came to the edge of this forest under the guidance of a cavalryman in the army.

Beside him were the 40,000 troops brought back from the desert north, and less than 500 musketeers.

At this time, the army was waiting solemnly, waiting for news to come back from the battlefield.

As soon as the news arrived, it was time for their army to move.

And when this army rushed to the battlefield, it was the time of death of these rebellious Jurchen tribesmen!